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in a trading veffel, and arrived at Oporto in January, 1789" Mr. Murphy concludes his preface with acknowledging his obligations to this gentleman, by whofe munificence he was enabled to carry on, his work. The Portuguese have too much gratitude not to add their acknowlediments to him alfo for having made known the merits of this inimitable ftructure. The perfon who prefented it to the world was a private gentleman a native of Ireland, who, induced by no other motive than a love of the fine arts, and a with for the advancement of fcience, has expended upwards of cool. in refcuing this noble edifice from the obfcurity in which it has lain concealed for ages. I have taken the liberty to dedicate this work to him, in confideration of his exemplary liberality, and as an humble teftimony of my everlafting gratitude and refpect." To the dedication is prefixed a portrait of Mr. Conyngham painted by Stuart, and engraved by Schiavonetti.. Mr. Conyngham fubfcribed for ten copies of the werk. Ireland will feel itself indebted to Mr. Conyng ham for the inflitution of a Society of Antiquaries, in 1780, confitting of himself as prefident, Mr. Archdall, author of the Irish Monafticon and Peerage, Mr. O'Connor the differtator, Colonel Vallancey the etymologift, Dr. Ellis, a phyfician, who created a Society of Natural History, Mr. Ledwich, and Mr. Beauford. Things went on very well til governor Pownal addreffed a letter to them, which Mr. Ledwich anfwered in the "Collectanea Hibernia," N°. XL; and by the lively, jocular way in which he then wrote, offended col.

Vallancy who expatriated him from his Collectanea, and from a fociety which immediately ceafed. Fad this fociety held together, we might have expected it to have engraved and illuftrated that fund of drawings of Irish antiquities from the time of the Druids to the Reformation, which Mr. Conyngham was then making at a great expence, which he was ready to communicate to every perfon whofe purfuits were congenial with his own, and which we hope he has taken fome measures to render perpetual,

June 6. At her houfe in Sloaneftreet, Knightbridge, of a cancer in her breast, the countefs of Suffex, fecond wife to the present earl, and daughter of Jn. Vaugan, esq. of Brittol.

In his 70th year the rev. Thomas Cole, L. L. B. and vicar of Dulverton. He was of Queen's college, Cambridge, where he took the degree of L. L. B. in 1751. He was author of "The arbour, or the rural philofopher," 4to. 1756, reprinted in Dodiley's collection of Poems; "Difcourfes on luxury, infidelity, and enthufiafm," 12mo. 1760, at which time he was affiftant preacher at St. Paul's Covent Garden; and "The life of Habert, a narrative, defcriptive, and didactic poem," book I. 8vo. 1795.

Of the yellow fever, at fea, on board the Majeftic, of 74 guns, in which he was coming home from the Weft Indies, two days before the made the land, fir John Laforey, admiral of the blue. He was made a poft-captain in 1758; a rear-admiral in 1789; a vice admiral in 1793; a baronet in 1794; and an admiral in 1795. On the 21ft his remains were interred at

Plymouth

Plymouth with grand military honours.

At Madrid, aged 8o, the duke de Crillon Mahon, captain-general of the Spanish armies. It is calculated that he had been in 63 different engagements. He commanded the Spanish armies with the greatest fuccefs in the war of 1780, against the English, and in that war took the island of Minorca from them. After having ferved long in France, his native country, at the conclufion of the feven years war he paffed, with the approbation of the French government, into the fervice of Spain, where he acquired the first military rank. Not having taken any part in the laft war of the Spaniards against the French, he had a very active flare in the conclufion of the peace which terminated it. The title of duke of Mahon, deftined to perpetuate the remembrance of his victories, has paffed to the youngest of his fons by a third marriage. The two eldeft fons of the duke de Crillon were both members of the conftituent affembly of France.

At Donaufchiz, in his 39th year, the reigning prince of Furfteuberg.

11. At Madrid, much lamented, the right hon. countefs of Traquaire, daughter of the late George Ravenscroft, efq. of Spalding, co. Lincoln.

16. At his houfe in Grofvenorfquare, after a long and painful ilinefs, fincerely regretted by all his friends, and particularly by thofe of the profeffion he belonged to, for which he had always food forward a zealous advocate and fincere friend, field-marshal the rt. hon. fir George Howard, k. b. one of his majesty's moft honorable privy

council, colonel of the first or king's regiment of dragoon-guards, governor of Jersey, and M. P. foər Stamford.

16 In Upper Brook-ftreet, in his 69th year, the right hon. William Gerrard Hamilton, formerly fecretary in Ireland. By his death there lapfes an Irish penfion of 2000l. a year; and the bulk of his fortune goes to William Hamilton, efq. of Lincoln's-inn-fields. He was ufually denominated fingle fpeech Hamilton.

At his feat at Kentchurch, co. Hereford, in his 68th year, John Scudamore, efq. a few weeks before elected, for the fixth time, to reprefent the city of Hereford in parliament, by the unanimous voice of the citizens. His death was occafioned by a cold, caught, after hunting in his park, by the too fudden check of perfpiration; every effort of the ableft of the faculty to preserve his life was inetfectual.

At Paris, the duke de Chatelet. This unfortuate peer, after fecuring fome part of his property in England, returned to France with the hope of refcuing more; but, before he could attain his object, was difcovered, and arrefted by the deputy on million in the department de la Somme. He had, however, taken fuch precautions, that his emigration could not be traced; and might, perhaps, have efcaped, had not a Jacobin, whofe brother was cook in an English nobleman's family, produced a letter, which ftated the duke's having dined with lord - on a particular day, and even the other company who were prefent, and the converfation which paffed at table. Monf. de Chatelet, furprized, un

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prepared for fuch evidence, and unable to refute it, was fent to Paris, and guillotined; and in his fate were involved feveral innocent people, one of them a young English lady, because the happened to be in a houfe where the duke flept one night.

Auguft 2. After a long and painful illness, in his 77th year, at his feat at Pathull, co. Staff. General fir Robert Pigot, bart. He is fucceeded in title and eftate by his eldest fon, lieut. col. George Pigot. 5. At Little Chelfea, lady Gordon, daughter of Thomas Alfop, of Loughborough, gent. and fecond wife of Samuel Philips, of Gerendon-hall, co. Leic. efq. Mr. Philips, who concluded the too fhortlived race of a most respectable and worthy family, March 16, 1774, at the age of 65, left his noble manfion at Gerendon, with an income of 7000l. a year, to his widow; who was afterwards married to Sir Will. Gordon, K. B.; but, on the death of this lady, the eftates defcend, agreeably to the will of Mr. Philips, to Thomas March, efq. of More Critchell, co. Dorfet, his maternal coufin, who has juft obtained the royal licence to affume the furname and arms of Philips, in addition to thofe of March.

Wm. Johnfon Temple, LL. B. of Trinity-hall, Cambridge, 1766, formerly rector of Mamhead, co. Devon, to which he was prefented by the earl of Lifburne, and exchanged it for St. Gluvias. He published "An Effay on the Clergy, their Studies, Recreations, Doctrines, Influence, &c. 1774," 8vo; and wrote the character of Gray, which has had the honour to be adopted both by Mr. Mason and

Dr. Johnfon in their accounts of that poet.

After a long illness, at the Bell inn, Northfield, being then on his way to Abergavenny, in Wales, Sir Jofeph Brooke, bart. of Seaton, in Yorkhire. His brother, Samuel Brooke, efq. of the city of Dublin, fucceeds to the title and eftate. Sir Richard, the late baronet, died in his 38th year, at Norton priory, in Chefhire, March 11, 1795.

At his houfe in Grosvenor-fquare, Wm Drake, of Shardeloes, co. Bucks, efq. lord of the borough, and patron of the rectory of Agmondefham, or Amersham, in that county, LL. D. (William Drake appears as member for that borough in 1661.) He married, Feb. 9, 1747, Mifs Raworth, of Sambroke-court, Bafinghall-street, with

co,000l. She died many years fince. They had iffue, 1. Wm. Drake, LL. D. M. P. for Amerfham, who died May 19, 1795. He married, Feb. 17, 1778, the fole daughter and heirefs of William Huffey, efq. M. P. for Salisbury, by his wife, daughter and co-heirefs (with the wife of Mr. Alderman Kirkman) of Robert Marsh, efq. fome time governor of the bank. She died in about a year, aged 20, without iffue. He married, 2dly, Aug. 21, 1781, Rachael, fole daughter and heirefs of Jeremiah Ives, efq. alderman of Norwich, with 100,000l. She died in a few years, leaving two daughters. 2. Thomas Drake Tyrwhitt, efq. fucceeded his brother as member in the laft parliament for Amersham, and is now re-chofen. He married Mifs Wickham, by whom he has 11 children, and now poffeffes Shardeloes. 3. Rev. John Drake, LL. D. rector of Amerf

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ham, married Mifs Wickham, fifter to the former. 4. Charles Drake Gerrard, efq. chofen with his brother, at the last election, M. P. for Amersham. 5. A daughter, married to the Rev. Mr. Francke, of Suffolk. 6. A daughter, unmarried. Sept. 1. At Brighthelmftone, in the 68th year of his age, the Right Hon. David Murray, earl of Mansfield, prefident of the council, juftice-general of Scotland, keeper of Scone, chancellor of Marefchalcollege, Aberdeen, joint clerk of the court of king's bench, LL. D. and K. T. and formerly a member of the univerfity of Oxford. His lordship was the only fon of lord viscount Stormont (elder brother to that diftinguifhed character the firft earl of Mansfield), and bore that title till his late uncle's death, when he fucceeded to his fortune and the earldom. He had refigned the office of lord juftice general of Scotland, on being appointed lord prefident of the council. His eftates in Scotland do not exceed 6ocol. a year; but the property he inherited from the great earl, and the accumulations arifing from rigid economy in his own pences, are immense. A green ribband becomes vacant by his death; who was, except the duke of Queensberry, the oldeft knight of the most antient order of the thifile. He was educated at Weft minfter fchool, and from the col lege there was elected, in 1744, ftudent of Chrift Church, Oxford. His proficiency in claffical knowledge at both thofe feminaries of learning, and his diftinguithed reputation as a scholar, are well known to his contemporaries. Many of his Latin compofitions fiill remain, and prove his taste and VOL. XXXVIII.

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maftery in that language. continued through life, notwithftanding his conftant employment in bufinefs, to cultivate at his leifure hours the learned languages, and with fuch diligence, that it is thought he has left few better, or more critical, Greek fcholars behind him. Upon the death of his father, in 1748, which happened not very long after he had finifted his fludies at Oxford, he travelled abroad for several years; and, foon after his return, was elected one of the fixteen peers for Scotland. In 1756, he was appointed envoy to the court of Drefden, and remained at that court during its refidence at Wariaw, and till he was named one of the three ambaffadors for the intended congrefs of Augfbourg. He returned to Eng land in 1762, and the next year was appointed ambaffador to the court of Vienna, where he continued till 1772. In 1772, he was appointed ambaffador to the court of France, where he continued till the war. In 1779, his majefty was graciously pleated to name him fecretary of ftate for the Northern department. He held the feals till the change of adminiftration in 1782; and in 1783 returned into office, with a part of the adminiftration he had acted with before, as prefident of the council. He quitted, with his friends, at the end of the fame year, and again returned with them into power in 1784, in his former fituation of prefident of the council.

His remains were brought in funeral state, and, on the 9th, according to his own exprefs defire, privately interred in the fame vault with his uncle and aunt, the late earl and countess of Mansfield, in F

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the north aifle of Westminsterabbey. Ilis heart is carried to Kumlington, the family feat of his lordship, in the county of Dumfries. On the arrival of the cavalcade at the church, two of the bearers having got the coffin on their fhoulders, the horfes of the hearfe took fright by the preffure of the multitude; by which means, the other men not being prepared, the weight became too preponderant for thofe in front, and the coffin fell with great violence on the ground; the foot part of which bilged, part fell out with a number of the nails and embellishments, and the concufhion was fo great that the leaded receptacle was much hattered, and a quantity of water ilued from it.-His lordfhip was twice married; firt to a Saxon lady, Henrietta, countefs of Bunan, at Wariaw, in 1759, by whom there is now no iffue living but lady Elizabeth, married to Geo. Finch Hatton, efq. in 1785; fecondly, to Louifa, third daughter to the late lord Catheart, in 1776, by whom he has left four fons and a daughter. He is fucceeded in his honours and eftates by his eldest fon, David-William, born March 7, 1777, the pretent earl, who but lately let out on his travels, and is now at the univerfity of Leiptic.

17. Mr. J. W. Dodd, of Drurylane theatre, an excellent actor. He began his theatrical career in the North of England, afterwards was the principal performer on the Norwich ftage, and on 3d October, 1765, appeared the fift time at Drury-lane, in the character of Faddle, in The Foundling. Since that period he had uniformly been engaged at the fame theatre.

21. At Bath, Sir John Danvers,

of Swithland, in the county of Leicester, bart. He has bequeathed his immenfe landed eftates and perfonal property to his only child, the Hon. Mrs. Butler, wife of the Hon. Auguftus Butler (fecond son of the countefs of Lanetborough) who has taken the name of Danvers. Sir John's real eftates in Leicefterfhire and other counties, amount in old rents to near 10,000l. per ann. in which the property of timber is immenfe: the perfonal eftate confits of near 200,cool. in funded money, cash. and bank bills. By a former will, the family of the niale branch of the Danvers were made fole heirs; but this was lately revoked foon after the birth of his daughter's fon.

22. At Fareham, the Right Hon. James Lord Cranfton. His Lordthip was lately appointed governor of Grenada, and was preparing to take his departure for his government.

Rev. and right hon. John, earl of Glencairn.

27. At Edinburgh, in his 76th year, Mr. John Medina, linner, grandíon to fir John Medina, an eminent hiftorical and portrait painter of Scotland, in the latt and beginning of this century. His peculiar talent was the refcuing from decay and ruin fome of the beft collections of pictures in Scotland; a recent inflance of which was afforded in the collection of kings in the palace of Hiolyrood-houfe, the renovation of which will long appear a monument of his merit, if it be merito rious to restore fictitious likeneiles.

08. 6. After a long and fevere illness, lady Dafhwood, the lady of fir Henry Dashwood, bart. of Kirtlington park, co. Oxford, lady of

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