HORACE, an important political and miscellaneous writer, was the son of Francis Twiss, author of a Verbal Index to Shakespeare, and of Frances Kemble, sister to the celebrated Mrs Siddons, and was born in 1786. He was called to the bar by the Society of the Inner Temple on the 28th of July 1811, and he was attached to the Oxford circuit, where he became in a few years one of its most distinguished pleaders. In 1827 he was advanced to the grade of king's counsel. But his literary and political tastes were so strong, that they had the effect of lessening his legal success. From 1807 down until 1844, the booksellers of London were kept busy or idle as the topic took the taste of the times, by the poetical, dramatic, political, and biographical effusions of Horace Twiss. He entered Parliament in 1820 as a member for Wootton Bassett; in 1830 he was elected to represent the borough of Newport; and from 1835 to 1837 he was member for Bridport. During his parliamentary career, he signalized himself greatly as an able speaker and a very judicious legislator. His literary fame now rests almost exclusively on his Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon, 3 vols., 1844; a work which he was prevailed upon to take in hand by the urgent solicitations of the grandson and heir of that distinguished lawyer. Twiss was the life and soul of every social circle he entered. The wit and fun of him, his affable, kind-hearted ways, and his scholarlike breeding, rendered him one of the most fascinating companions that one could meet in all London. He died suddenly of disease of the heart on the 6th of May 1849.