ment was a pint of strong beer, which he ufually quaffed twice or thrice a week at the Duke's Dead, at Great Bridge (about a mile from his own houfe), whither he was led by a boy that conftantly attended him. For a long feries of time he had a, ftrong antipathy to the making of a will, confidering it as a prelude to a fpeedy death; but the arguments of his late wife, whofe influence, repreffed or turned into an harmless channel many of his fingularities, and her reprefentatious of the unprovided ftate of his younger children, at length prevailed over his prejudices, and induced him to leave them handfome legacies. With all his oddities he had a heart open to friendship, and has frequently given fubftantial proofs of his regard for those who could indulge him in them. His landed eftates, which are pretty confiderable, go to his eldest fon, and are fuppofed to have fufficient timber on them, in want of felling, to pay the legacies. Feb. 7. At Oxen-heath, Kent, in his 87th year, fir Francis Geary, bart, admiral of the white. He was created a baronet by the title of fir Francis Geary, of Polefden, Surrey, in confequence of his marrying Mifs Bartholomew, a Kentish lady.

9. Viscountefs Llandaff of Ireland.

13. Elizabeth, lady of fir John Smyth, bart. of Sydling St. Nicholas, in Dorfetfhire; by whom the had feveral children, three only furviving her. She was the daughter and fole heirefs of Robert Curtis, efq. of Willfthorpe, co. Lincoln, barrister at law, and niece of Matthew Wyldbore, efq. of Peterborough, member for that city.

Aged 81, his ferene highness Henry-Auguflus, reigning prince of Hohenloe Ingelfingen, chief of the illuftrious houfe of that name. He was born July 11, 1715.

15. Thomas Arthur, vifcount Southwell, of Ireland.

In his 64th year, Mr. Emanuel Elam, of Leeds, formerly a confiderable American merchant, and one of the people called quakers. He had retired from bufinefs feveral years ago, with a fortune of nearly 2co,cool. It was this gentleman and his brother Samuel who were the principal purchasers of the valuable eftate which was fold in October laft, belonging to the marquis of Salibury, near Leeds, for 155,000l. The elder Mr. Theluffon offered 150,000l. and James Armitage, efq. of Hunflet, near Leeds, 154,000l. Mr. Leatham, of Barton, near Malton, and Mr. Dowker, one of the tenants, were the other purchasers.

17. Jas. Macpherson, efq. M.P.

Aged 51, M. Dombey, a celebrated French botanist, who was feveral years employed by the king of Spain, in collecting and defcribing the plants and other natural productions of Peru. After his return from that country he retired to Lyons, and continued to refide there till lately, when he was appointed by the national convention, to undertake another voyage to America, for the purposes of natural hiftory. He accordingly embarked at Breft for Philadelphia; but the fhip he was on board was taken by the English and carried into Antigua, where he died.

At Vienna, in his 77th year, count Trautmansdorff, the emperor's chamberlain.

March 8. Sir Wm.Chambers, knt.

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At Shrewsbury, Lady Knowles, widow of the late admiral fir Charles Knowles, bart.

10. The hon. John Forbes, aged 83, the oldeft officer in the navy, and general of marines. He was appointed poft-captain in 1736, rear admiral in 1747, and admiral in 1758. In 1781 he was appointed admiral of the fleet. le 'was remarkable, above all other men, for his extenfive and univerfal knowledge of naval affairs, having ftudied them in all their branches, with a perfeverance, and obferved upon them with an acuteneis and judgment 'altogether unparalleled. His mind was capable of embracing the greatest and most complicated objects; and, having bent it towards the ftudy of that prefellion of which he was allowed, by the univerfal voice of his contemporaries, to be a principal ornament, he attained fuch a fummit of nautical ikill as rendered him the oracle of all thofe who were molt eminent, whether in the direction of the fleets of this nation, or it the equally arduous task of fuperintending the civil departments of the different branches of the marine. In the earlier part of his life, he was peculiarly noticed as an able, enterprifing, and intrepid officer. He ferved with much reputation under Sir John Norris, and was no lefs diftinguished as captain of the Norfolk, of 80 guns, in the action of Matthews and Leftock with the combined fleets of France and Spain, when his gallantry contributed in a high degree to fave his brave friend admiral Matthews, whofe fecond he was in that engagement. So bright was his honour, and fo clear his reputation in those turbulent days, that though his evidence

on the trial of the admirals went wholly against Admiral Leftock, yet that officer was often heard to declare," that Mr. Forbes's tefiimony was given like an officer and a gentleman." In lord Chatham's war, admiral Forbes was felected as the ableft affiftant the firft lord could have in the management of the Admiralty, and conducted himfelf in a manner highly creditable to his abilities, and eminently ferviceable to his country. When the warrant for executing the unfortunate admiral Byng was offered for fignature at the Admiralty Board, admiral Forbes refufed to fign it, at the fame time humbly laying at his late majefty's feet his objections. A copy of the paper given by the admiral to his majefty on that occafion, may be seen in Smollet's Hiftory of England.

During a late adminiftration i was thought expedient to offer a noble lord, very high in the naval profeffion, and very defervedly a favourite of his fovereign and his country, the office of general of the marines, held by admiral Forbes, and fpontaneously conferred upon him by his majesty as a reward for his many and long fervices. A meffage was fent by the minifters, to fay it would forward the king's fervice if he would refign: and that he fhould be no lofer by his accommodating the government, as they proposed recommending to the king to give him a penfion in Ireland of 3000l. per ann. and a peerage, to defcend to his daughter. To this admiral Forbes fent an immediate answer; he told the minifters, the generalfhip of the marines was a military employment, given him by his majefty as a reward for his fervices;

that he thanked God he had never been a burthen to his country, which he had ferved during a long life to the best of his ability; and that he would not condefcend to accept of a penfion or bargain for a peerage. He concluded by laying his generalfhip of the marines, together with his rank in the navy, at the king's feet, entreating him to take both away if they could forward his fervice; and, at the fame time affuring his majefty, he would never prove himself unworthy of the former honours he had received, by ending the remnant of a long life as a penfioner, or accepting of a peerage obtained by political arrangement. His gracious mafter applauded his manly fpirit, ever after continued him in his high military honours, and, to the day of his death, condescended to thew him strong marks of his regard.

11. At her houfe in Kildareftreet, Dublin, after a lingering illnes, in her 90th year, the countefs-dowager of Aldborough.

13. At her house in Great Cumberland-ftreet, lady Bridget Tolle mache, relict of Mr. Tollemache (brother to the Earl of Dyfart) and mother of major Tollemache, who loft his life in the fervice of his country, at the fiege of Valenciennes. Lady Bridget was a daughter of chancellor earl Northington, and fucceffively the wife of Mr. George Fox Lane and the hon. Mr. Tollemache, who was a captain in the navy, and fell in an unfortunate rencontre at New York, with major-general, then captain. Pennington of the guards. By Mr. Tollemache fhe had an only fon, Lionel-Robert, who fell honourably in the trenches before Valenciennes. Lady Bridget ftruggled under this fevere ftroke nearly

two years, with all the fortitude that a great mind could call forth. and at length expired the victim of her parental affections. The character of this accomplished woman naturally took its various colouring from the ftrange viciffitudes of her fortune. Her mind, however, was always elevated and commanding; and, though the facrificed fomewhat to fashionable life, the ever kept aloof from thofe vices which have fo long difgraced it. To a ftrength of intellect, which the derived from her noble fire, the added a delicacy of imagination, and a brilliancy of wit peculiar to herfelf. 15. Countess of Ludlow.

17. Suddenly, in Manchefterfquare, the marchionefs of Winchefter, wife of George Powlett, efq. who on the death of the late duke of Bolton, fucceeded to the title of marquis of Winchefter.

19. At his houfe in Lincoln'sinn fields, of a rheumatic fever, Gorge Bond, efq. one of his majetty's ferjeants at law; whofe profettional eminence was defervedly acquired by perfevering industry in the laborious purfuit of legal knowledge.

Of the gout in his ftomach, in his 33d year, Mr Stephen Storace, whole abilities as a compofer are fufficiently known by thofe original airs in the dramas of " The Haunted Tower," "No Song No Supper,"

My Grandmother," &c. &c. Few men in any province of genius have more rapidly afcended to fame and independence. His fiyle of compofition was formed upon the Italian model; and, in his airs for many voices, and in choral energy, he followed the muficians of Italy with great fuccefs. He was diftinguifhed in private life for threwdnefs, penetration, and knowledge"

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Somerville, one of the fixteen peers for Scotland. He fucceeded his father, James, 1766; and is fucceeded in title and eftates by his nephew, fon of his brother Hugh.

At Aberdeen, in his 77th year, George Campbell, D. D. F. R. S. Edin. late principal and profeffor of divinity in the Marifchal college and univerfity of Aberdeen.

May 3. The right hon. lady Gertrude Cromie.

At Hampton Court Palace, in her 71ft year, Anna Catharina Rumpsfoon Warmen-huyen, dowager baronels du Tour, motherin-law to Baron Nagel.

13. At Drumfheugh, near Edinburgh, the hon. James Erfkine of Alva, one of the fenators of the College of Juftice. He was admitted an advocate, Dec. 4, 1743, appointed one of the barons of the Exchequer, May 27, 1754, and on the 20th May 1761 was appointed one of the lords of the feflion, and took the title of lord Barjarg, which title he afterwards altered to lord Alva.

19. At her houfe in Hertfordftreet, lady Charlotte Finch, eldeft daughter of Daniel feventh earl of Winchelsea and third earl of Nottingham. She formerly enjoyed the place of governels of the royal nursery, with an appointment of 6ool. per annum.

22. At the White Lion inn at Bath, Henry Thomas Cary, vifc. Falkland, and baron Cary in Scotland. He had reached Melkfham, on his way to London, but being too ill to proceed, returned to Bath. He was born in 1766, and fucseeded his grandfather, the late vifcount, in 1785. Dying without iffue, his brother, the hon. Charles John Cary, fucceeds him.

At Chesterfield, aged 48, the hon. Eliz. Horton, eldest fifter of the Earl of Derby, and lady of the rev. Thomas Horton, rector of Bradfworth, co. York.

At Woolwich, Gen. Broome, of the artillery. He rofe from the fituation of a private to the high rank of a general officer, merely by his perfonal merit. He was a captain of artillery at the time of the trial of lord George Sackville, in which he appeared as a principal evidence against his lordflip.

31. Aged 64, in Harcourt place, Dublin, the rt. hon. William Burton Conyngham, one of his majelty's moft hon. privy council, teller of the exchequer, and one of the commiffioners for executing the office of high treasurer in Ireland, treafurer of the Royal Irish Academy, F.A. S. Lond. brother of the late Francis Pierpoint Burton, baron Conyngham (father of the prefent vifcount Conyngham) and nephew of Henry earl Conyngham, in compliance of whofe will he took the name of Conyngham; and uncle to the prefent lord, to whom his eftates devolve. Our readers will recollect him as the munificent patron of Mr. Murphy. in his journey to, and defcription of, the monaftery of Batalha, which Mr. Conyngham had himself vifited, and made fome tketches of, with two other gentlemen who accompanied him in his travels through Portugal, 1783. "Thefe fketches, which are very correct reprefentations of the original, gave Mr. Murphy fo high an idea of that building as to excite in him an earnest defire to vifit it; and.. Mr. Conyngham having generously offered him his patronage and fupport, he fet out from Dublin,