in a trading vessel, and arrived. at Oporto in January, 1789." Mr. Murphy concludes his preface with " acknowledging his obligatious to this gentleman, by whose munificence he was enabled to carry on his work. The Portuguese have too much gratitude not to add their acknowledgments to him also for having made known the merits of this inimitable structure. The person who presented 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 wish for the advancement of science, has expended upwards of 10001. in rescuing this noble edifice from the obscurity in which it has lain concealed for ages. I have taken the liberty to dedicate this work to him, in consideration of his exemplary liberality, and as an humble testimony of my everlasting gratitude and respect." To the dedication is prefixed a portrait of Mr. Conyngham painted by Stuart, and engraved by Schiavonetti. Mr. Conyngham subscribed for ten copies of the work. Ireland will feel itself indebted to Mr. Conyngham for the institution of a Society of Antiquaries, in 1780, consisting of himself as president, Mr. Archdall, author of the Irish Monasticon and Peerage, Mr. O'Connor the dissertator, colonel Vallancey the etymologist, Dr. Ellis, a physician, who created a Society of Natural History, Mr. Ledwich, and Mr. Beauford. Things went on very well til governor Pownal addressed a letter to them, which Mr. Ledwich answered in the "Collectanea Hibernia," No. XL; and by the lively, jocular way in which he then wrote, offended col.

Vallency who expatriated him from his Collectanea, and from a society which immediately ceased. Had this society held together, we might have expected it to have engraved and illustrated 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 person whose pur suits were congenial with his own, and which we hope he has taken some measures to render perpetual.

June 6. At her house in Sloanestreet, Knightsbridge, of a cancer in her breast, the countess of Sus sex, second wife to the present earl, and daughter of Jn. Vaugan, esq. of Bristol.

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 philosopher," 4to. 1756, reprinted in Dodsley's collection of Poems; "Discourses on luxury, infidelity, and enthusiasm," 12mo' 1760,, at which time he was assistant preacher at St. Paul's Covent Garden; and "The life of Hubert, a narrative, descriptive, and didactic poem," book I. 8vo. 1795.

Of the yellow fever, at sea, on board the Majestic, of 74 guns, in which he was coming home from the West Indies, two days before she made the land, sir John Laforey, admiral of the blue. He was made a post-captain in 1758: a rear admiral in 1789; a vice admiral in 1793; a baronet in 1794; and an admiral in 1795. On the 21st his remains were interred at Plymouth

honours.

At Madrid, aged 80, the duke de Crillon Mahon, captain-general of the Spanish armies. It is calculated that he had been in 68 different engagements. He commanded the Spanish armies with the greatest success in the war of 1780, against the English, and in that war took the island of Minorca from them. After having served long in France, his native country, at the conclusion of the seven years war he passed, with the approbation of the French government, into the service of Spain, where he acquired the first military rank. Not having taken any part in the last war of the Spaniards against the French, he had a very active share in the conclusion of the peace which terminated it. The title of duke of Mahon, destined to perpetuate the remembrance of his victories, has passed to the youngest of his sons by a third marriage. The two eldest sons of the duke de Crillon were both members of the constituent assembly of France.

At Donauschiz, in his 39th year, the reigning prince of Furstenberg.

11. At Madrid, much lamented, the right hon. countess of Traquaire, daughter of the late George Ravenscroft, esq. of Spalding, co.

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16. At his house in Grosvenorsquare, after a long and painful illness, sincerely regretted by all his friends, and particularly by those of the profession he belonged to, for which he had always stood forward a zealous advocate and sincere friend, field-marshal the rt. hon. sir George Howard, k. b. one of his majesty's most honourable privy

16. In Upper Brook-street, in his 69th year, the right hon. William Gerrard Hamilton, formerly secretary in Ireland. By his death there lapses an Irish pension of 2000l. a year; and the bulk of his fortune goes to William Hamilton, esq. of Lincoln's-inn-fields. was usually denominated single speech Hamilton.

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At his seat at Kentchurch, co. Hereford, in his 68th year, John Scudamore, esq. a few weeks before elected, for the sixth time, to represent the city of Hereford in parliament, by the the unanimous voice of the citizens. His death was occasioned by a cold, caught, after hunting in his park, by the too sudden check of perspiration; every effort of the ablest of the faculty to preserve his life was ineffectual.

At Paris, the duke de Chatelet. This unfortunate peer, after securing some part of his property in England, returned to France with the hope of rescuing more; but, before he could attain his object, was discovered, and arrested by the deputy on mission in the department de la Somme. He had, however, taken such precautions, that his emigration could not be traced; and might, perhaps, have escaped, had not a Jacobin, whose brother was cook in an English nobleman's family, produced a letter, which stated the duke's having dined with lord on a particu. lar day, and even the other company who were present, and the conversation which passed attable. Mons. de Chatelet, surprised, un

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prepared for such evidence, and unable to refute it, was sent to Paris, and guillotined; and in his fate were involved several innocent people, one of them a young English lady, because she happened to be in a house where the duke slept one night.

August 2. After a long and painful illness, in his 77th year, at his seat at Patshull, co. Staff. General sir Robert Pigot, bart. He is succeeded in title and estate by his eldest son, lieut. col. George Pigot.

5. At Little Chelsea, lady Gordon, daughter of Thomas Alsop, of Loughborough, gent. and second wife of Samuel Philips, of Gerendon-hall, co. Leic. esq. Mr. Philips, who concluded the too short lived race of a most respectable and worthy family, March 16, 1774, at the age of 65, left his noble mansion at Gerendon, with an income of 70001. a year, to his widow; who was afterwards married to Sir Will. Gordon, K. B; but, on the death of this lady, the estates descend, agreeably to the will of Mr. Philips, to Thomas March, esq. of More Critchell, co. Dorset, his maternal cousin, who has just obtained the royal licence to assume the surname and arms of Philips, in addition to those of March.

Wm. Johnson Temple, LL. B. of Trinity-hall, Cambridge, 1766, formerly rector of Mamhead, co. Devon, to which he was presented by the earl of Lisburne, and exchanged it for St. Gluvias. He published "An Essay 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. Johnson 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 Joseph Brooke, bart, of Seaton, in Yorkshire. His brother, Samuel Brooke, esq. of the city of Dublin, succeeds to the title and estate. Sir Richard, the late baronet, died in his 38th year, at Norton priory, in Cheshire, March 11, 1795.

At his house in Grosvenor-square, Wm. Drake, of Shardeloes, co. Bucks, esq. lord of the borough, and patron of the rectory of Agmon desham, or Amersham, in that county, LL. D. (William Drake appears as member for that borough in 1661.) He married, Feb. 9, 1747, Miss Raworth, of Sam. broke-court, Basinghall-street, with 100,000. She died many years since. They had issue, 1. Wm. Drake, LL. D. M. P. for Amorsham, who died May 19, 1795. He married, Feb. 17, 1778, the sole daughter and heiress of William Hussey, esq. M. P. for Salisbury; by his wife, daughter and co-heiress (with the wife of Mr. Alderman Kirkman) of Robert Marsh, esq. some time governor of the bank. She died in about a year, aged 20, without issue. He mar ried, 2dly, Aug. 21, 1781, Rachael, sole daughter and heiress of Jeremiah Ives, esq. alderman of Norwich, with 100,000l. She died in a few years, leaving two daugh ters. 2. Thomas Drake Tyrwhitt, esq. succeeded his brother as member in the last parliament for Amer sham, and is now re-chosen. He married Miss Wickham, by whom he has 11 children, and now pos sesses Shardeloes. 3. Rev. John Drake, LL. D. rector of Amer

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ham, married Miss Wickham, sister to the former. 4. Charles Drake Gerrard, esq. chosen 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 Brighthelmstone, in the 68th year of his age, the Right Hon. David Murray, earl of Mans field, president of the council, justice-general of Scotland, keeper of Scone, chancellor of Mareschal college, Aberdeen, joint clerk of the court of king's bench, LL. D. and K. T. and formerly a member of the university of Oxford. His lordship was the only son of lord Tiscount Stormont (elder brother to that distinguished character the first earl of Mansfield), and bore that title till his late uncle's death, when he succeeded to his fortune and the earldom. He had resigned the office of lord justice general of Scotland, on being appointed lord president of the council. His estates in Scotland do not exceed 6000l. a year; but the property be inherited from the great earl, and the accumulations arising from rigid œconomy in his own expences, are immense. A green ribband becomes vacant by his death; who was, except the duke of Queensbury, the oldest knight of the most ancient order of the thistle. He was educated at West minster school, and from the col lege there was elected, in 1744, student of Christ-church, Oxford. His proficiency in classical know ledge at both those seminaries of learning, and his distinguished reputation as a scholar, are well known to his contemporaries. Many of his Latin compositions still remain, and prove his taste and VOL. XXXVII.

mastery in that language. He continued through life, notwithstanding his constant employment in business, to cultivate at his leisure hours the learned languages, and with such diligence, that it is thought he has left few better, or more critical, Greek scholars behind him. Upon the death of his father, in 1748, which happened not very long after he had finished his studies at Oxford, he travelled abroad for several years; and, soon after his return, was elected one of the sixteen peers for Scotland. In 1756, he was appointed envoy to the court of Dresden, and remained at that court during its residence at Warsaw, and till be was named one of the three ambassadors for the intended congress of Augsbourg. He returned to Eng land in 1762, and the next year was appointed ambassador to the court of Vienna, where he continued till 1772. In 1772, he was appointed ambassador to the court of France, where he continued till the war. In 1779, his majesty was graciously pleased to name him secretary of state for the northern department. He held seals till the change of administration in 1782; and in 1783 returned into office, with a part of the add ministration he had acted with be fore, as president of the council. He quitted, with his friends, at the end of the same year, and again returned with them into power in 1784, in his former situation of president of the council.

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His remains were brought in funeral state, and, on the 9th, according to his own express desire, pri vately interred in the same vault with his uncle and aunt, the late earl and countess of Mansfield, in F

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