Saturday 19 Dec 1818 (p. 2, col. 6 - p. 3, col. 1) We have this week to announce the death of Lord Ellenborough, which took place at his house in St. James's Square, London, about seven o'clock on the evening of Sunday last. The rapid progress of his malady was such as to leave very faint hope of his recovery, from its commencement. There is little doubt but his Lordship's death was accelerated by the laborious attention which he incessantly paid to the duties of his office: a few short weeks elapsed only, between his resignation and his decease.-Edward LAW, Baron Ellenborough, of Ellenborough, in the County of Cumberland, was the son of the late Bishop of Carlisle. In the year 1786, he was entered of Peter House, Cambridge, and soon distinguished himself by his talents, but his application to study was not very exemplary; he however took his degree with eclat. Upon commencing the study of the Law, he laboured with more steady application, and practised some time as a special pleader. On being called to the Bar, his success was not brilliant. He, however, got into business on the northern circuit, where, it is said, he exercised unbounded controul over the Juries. In Westminster Hall he was more successful with the Court. He derived some advantage, in the commencement of his professional career, from the friendship of Mr. WALLACE, who then stood high at the bar (and whose sister was married to Lord Ellenborough's brother, the late Bishop of Elphin.) Mr. Justice BULLER, it is supposed, also aided his advancement. But, on the other hand, Lord Chief Justice KENYON had taken a strong dislike to him. The most important business in which Mr. LAW was hitherto engaged, was the trial of Warren HASTINGS, and he acquitted himself, as is well known, with great skill, firmness, and talent, in that seven years' war of oratory. After this trial had been brought to a conclusion, his business increased rapidly. He had attained a great accession of reputation. The French Revolution then broke out; State prosecutions were issued, and Mr. LAW was in general retained for the Crown. He had obtained a silk gown several years before: but it was not till the administration of Lord Sidmouth, then Mr. ADDINGTON, that he became a law officer of the Crown. About the end of February, 1801, he was appointed to the office of Attorney-General. The late Mr. PERCEVAL was made Solicitor-General at the same time. On the 2d of March following he took his seat for the first time in the House of Commons; and in April, 1802, still under the influence of the same administration, he was raised to the Chief Justiceship of the King's Bench, and to the Peerage. In Oct. 1782, he married Lady Ellenborough, then Miss TOWRY, and has left seven children-1. Edward, m. December 11, 1813, Octavia STEWART, youngest daughter of Robert, Earl of Londonderry, (by Frances PRATT, sister to John Jefferies, Marquess of Camden, K. G.); 2. Charles-Ewan, m. May 22, 1811, Elizabeth Sophia, sister to Sir Charles Ethelston NIGHTINGALE, of Kneesworth, co. Cambridge, Bart.; 3. Mary; 4. John; 5. Elizabeth; 6. Anne; and 7. a daughter, b. January 11, 1812.-The character of Lord Ellenborough will be variously represented, according to the party who speaks or writes. "His enemies (says a contemporary writer) impute to him an inclination to arbitrary principles. What unconstitutional principle did he ever lay down? The cause of this imputation was his disdain of popularity. He despised it to very scorn. He never garnished the execution of his duty by those flowers and fringes of popular sentiment, meaning nothing, with which other men disguise the good they are doing the people, lest it should bring upon them the obloquy of the populace. He leaned to the side of authority, because the popular was in his time the arrogating party. An absolute Government, or a constitutional one, seeking to become absolute, would have found in him its most dangerous-its most ardent enemy."