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Charles Medows Pierrepont-ba- General lord Adam Gordon-go. vernor of Edinburgh Castle. Lieutenant-general Charles Rains. ford-governor of Tinmouth Caf tle.

ron Pierrepont and viscount Newark. Charles earl of Liverpool-to bear the arms of Liverpool, together with his family arms, by the exprefs defire of the corporation of Liverpool. Hon. John Rodney-commiffioner of the victualling-office.

Marquis Townshend-governor of Jersey.

General fir William Fawcett, K. B.-governor of Chelfea Hof. pital.

Robert Cullen, efq.-lord of the feffion in Scotland.

The prince of Wales colonel of the 10th regiment of dragoons.

August 2. Generals John duke of Argyll, Jeffrey lord Amherst, Studholme Hodgson, George marquis Townshend, lord Frederick Cavendifh, and Charles duke of Richmond -field-marshals.

20. Robert vifcount Caftlereagh -earl of Londonderry.

Sept. 1. Hon. Arthur Paget, fecretary of embaffy to the court of Madrid.

Benjamin Garlike, efq.-secretary of legation to the court of Berlin. 21. John earl of Chatham-prefident of the council.

30. Earl of Kinnoul, and lord Dupplin, his fon-lord Lyon king at arms for Scotland.

08. 10. General Henry Lawes, earl of Carhampton-commander in chief of the forces in Ireland.

Nov. 3. Major-general fir Ralph Abercromby, K, B.-colonel of the zd regiment of dragroons.

Major-general Welbore Ellis Doyle -colonel of the 53d regiment of foot.

Major-general Gerard Lakecolonel of the 73d regiment of foot.

30. John duke of Roxburgh-a privy-counsellor.

30. Lieutenant-colonel Charles Green-governor of Grenada.

Dec. 3. Major-general John Graves Simcoe-governor of fuch parts of St. Domingo as are in the poffeffion of the British.

3. Major-general the honourable Charles Stuart-general in Portugal only.

3. Major-general Simon Frafer lieutenant-general in Portugal

only.

3. Colonel fir James St. Clair Erfkine, bart.-brigadier and adju tant-general in Portugal only.

3. Colonel William Anne Vil. lettes-brigadier-general in Portugal

only.

3. Brevet-major Robert Stuartdeputy adjutant-general and lieutenant-colonel in Portugal only.

Lieutenant-colonel Hildebrand Oakes-quarter-mafter-general, with the rank of colonel in Portugal only.

15. William Elliot-minifter plenipotentiary to the elector palatine, and minifter to the diet of Ratisbon.

DEATHS in the Year 1796.

Jan. 7. Frances viscountess Ken

more.

10. George, lord Harvey.

13. Mr. John Anderfon, F.R.SS. London and Edinburgh, and profeffor of natural philofophy in the univerfity of Glasgow, in the oth year of his age, and 41ft of his profefforship. He was author of

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many useful and ingenious inventions, and lived to fee, befides other works, five editions of his valuable inftitutes of phyficks.

16. In his 56th year, HenryWilliam Portman, eiq. of Bryanftone-place, co. Dorfet; whofe large eftates in the weft of England, and in the county of Middlefex compriting the ground-rents of Portman-fquare, and feveral streets in its neighbourhood), devolve to his only fon, Henry Berkley P. efq. M. P. for the city of Wells. Mr. Chas. Leving, bart. 18. Hon. Robert Fitzmaurice Deare.

19. Wm. lord Belhaven.

Sir William Burrell, bart. LL D. chancellor to the bishop of Worcefter, 1764; F. R and A. SS. 1754; and commiffioner of excife, 1774. He was third fon of Peter Burrell, efq. of Beckenham, Kent admitted of St. John's college, Cambridge, where he ftudied the civil law, and proceeded LL.B. 1775, and LL.D. 1780. He married, April 13, 1773, Sophia, daughter of Charles Raymond, efq. of Valentine-houfe, Effex, who was created a baronet May 3, 1774, with remainder, in default of maleiffue, to William Burrell, efq. of Beckenham, and his heirs-male by Sophia his wife, by whom he has left two fons and two daughters.

27. At Limerick, in Ireland, in his 30th year, Samuel Crumpe, M. D. M. R. I. A. He was gifted with talents, and poffeffed of information, that promifed to raise him to an high degree of eminence in his profeflion, and in the literary world. He had acquired no fmall celebrity, as an author, by the publication of "An Inquiry into the Nature and Properties of Opium," and

of "An Effay on the best Means of providing Employment for the People; which laft was honoured with a prize-medal by the royal Irith academy, and procured him admiflion among the members of that body.

27. Sophia Maria Josepha, vifcountels Southwell, of Ireland. 29. Dowager lady Throckmorton. Lately, in his 80th year, Mr. John Fyfield, of Stanbridge, near Romfey, a man of a moft eccentric turn of mind and great fingularity of conduct; the manor of Stanbridge he inherited from his ancestors, and it had been many generations in his family. He was of a penurious difpofition, yet would fcarcely ever fuffer any of the timber on his ef tate to be felled, though it abounded with the fineft in the country, a great deal of which was yearly perithing; the price of 50 guineas had indeed once tempted him to part with his far famed oak-tree, but he repented of his bargain, and was happy to repurchase it, almoft immediately after, at a higher price. All repairs of his manfion were prohibited, as an useless extravagance that would bring him to poverty; and whilft fuch a fuperfluity of materials as would amply have repaid the expences, and rendered his habitation comfortable, were rotting at his door, he chofe rather to refide in it with the roof open in many places to the heavens, with hardly an apartment that afforded fhelter from the weather, and with the joifts and floors rotting with the wet that entered: the out-buildings were in a fimilar ftate of decay, and their repair was alike prohibited. He was totally blind for many of the latter years of his life, when his chief enjoy

ment

ment was a pint of ftrong beer, which he ufually quaffed twice or thrice a week at the Duke's lead, at Great Bridge (about a mile from his own houfe), whither he was led by a boy that confiantly attended him. For a long ferics of time he had a ftrong antipathy to the making of a will, confidering it as a prelude to a speedy death; but the arguments of his late wife, whofe influence, repreffed or turned into an harmless channel many of his fingularities, and her reprefentations 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 thofe 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, tir 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 Kentifh lady.

9. Viscountess Llandaff of Ireland.

13. Elizabeth, lady of fir John Smyth, bart. of Sydling St. Nicholas, in Dorfetfhire; by whom she had feveral children, three only furviving her. She was the daughter and fole heiress 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-Auguftus, 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 200,cool. It was this gentleman and his brother Samuel who were the principal purchafers of the valuable eftate which was fold in October latt, belonging to the marquis of Salisbury, near Leeds, for 155,000l The elder Mr. Theluffon offered 156,000l. and James Armitage, efq. of Hunf let, near Leeds, 154,000l. Mr. Leatham, of Barton, near Malton, and Mr. Dowker, one of the tenants, were the other purchafers.

17. Jas. Macpherfon, 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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two years, with all the fortitude that a great mind could call forth. and at length expired the victim of her parental affections. The cha racter of this accomplithed womsa naturally took its various colouring from the ftrange viciffitudes of ber fortune. Her mind, however, was always elevated and commanding s and, though the facrificed fome what to fathionable life, the ever kept aloof from thote vices which have to long difgraced it. To a firength of intellect, which the s he derived from her noble fire, the added a delicacy of imagination, and a brilliancy of wit peculiar to herself. 15. Countess of Ludlow,

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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 Winchetter,

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

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compoter are hofe original The Haunted ng No Supper," ner," &c. &c. Few ovince of genius have

y afcended to fame and ence. His ftyle of compowas formed upon the Italian del; and, in his airs for many oices, and in choral energy, he followed the muficians of Italy with great fuccefs. He was diftinrug- guifhed in private life for threwdearly nefs, penetration, and knowledge

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