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

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10. The hon. John Forbes, aged 82, the oldest 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. He 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 acutenefs and judgment altogether unparalleled. His mind was capable of embracing the greateft and moft complicated objects; and, having bent it towards the fludy of that profeffion of which he was allowed, by the univerfal voice of his contemporaries, to be a principal ornament, he attained fuch a fummit of nautical fkill as rendered him the oracle of all thofe who were moft eminent, whether in the direction of the fleets of this nation, or in the equally arduous tafk 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 fécond he was in that engagement. So bright was his honour, and fo clear his reputation in thofe 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 testimony 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 refused to fign it, at the fame time humbly laying at his late majesty'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 it was thought expedient to offer a noble lord, very high in the naval profeffion, and very deservedly a favourite of his favereign 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 services. A meffage was fent by the minifters, to fay it would forward the king's fervice if he would refign: and that he should 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 descend 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 served 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, condefcended to thew him ftrong marks of his regard.

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

13. At her houfe in Great Cumberland-ftreet, lady Bridget Tollemache, 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 NewYork, 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, she added a delicacy of imagination, and a brilliancy of wit peculiar to herself. 15. Countess of Ludlow.

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

19. At his houfe in Lincoln'sinn fields, of a rheumatic fever, Gorge Bond, efq. one of his majefty's ferjeants at law; whofe profeffional 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, whose 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 ftyle 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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of mankind. His firft compofition for Drury-lane theatre was "The Doctor and Apothecary," which was performed on the day of his death.

19. Sir Hugh Pallifer, bart. admiral of the white.

21. In his 77th year, fir Thomas Rookwood Gage, bart. of Hengrave, co. Suffolk, and of Coldhamhall. He was the eldeft of the two fons of John, fecond fon of fir William Gage, bart. by his wife Elizabeth daughter of Thomas Rookwood, efq. of Coldham-hall. On the death of her father he became fole heiress of all his eftates.

Sir Thomas married, 1747, 1747, Lacy daughter of William Knight, of Kingefby, co. Lincoln, efq. by whom he has iffue a fon, Thomas, his fucceffor, and three daughters. 22. Lady of fir Thomas Parkyns, bart.

25. At Ranelagh the countess of Crequy Canaples, widow of Hugues comte de Crequy Canaples, of Orville, in the province of Artois. She was daughter of Edward Comerford, of Leeds, Yorkshire, M. D.

28. Lady Mildmay

At Berne, in Switzerland, where he had long been retired from motives of œconomy, after confiderable expenditure on parliament-ary elections, and afterwards, by preference of fituation, for health, Spencer Compton, eighth earl of Northampton, in which title he fucceeded his brother, in 1763. He married first Jane, daughter of Henry Lawton, efq. of Northamptonshire, who died in 1767, leaving iffue a fon Charles, born 1760, and a daughter, Frances, born 1758. His fecond lady was Mifs Anne Hougham. His lordfhip was appointed one of the

grooms of his majefty's bedchamber, Nov. 25, 1760; elected recorder of Northampton, Nov. 1. 1763; and conftituted lord-lieutenant and cuftos rotulorum of the county of Northampton, July 19, 1771; and prefident of the General Hofpital and Prefervative Society of the county. He is fucceeded by his only fon, Charles, ninth earl.

Much lamented, the rev. Benjamin Sowden, minifter of the Englifh Epifcopal Church at Amfterdam. He was july esteemed for his learning, his extenfive acquaintance with fcience, and the amiable qualities of his heart. A difcuffion of his father's having written or publifhed lady W. Montague'sletters, which he only poffeffed, may be feen in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. LXIV. His father printed five fermons : 1. on the faft, 1747 ; 2. on the death of the prince of Orange, 1750; 3. at the funeral of the rev. Barthomew Loftus, 1751; 4. Ordination, 1752; 5. on the death of king George II. 1760.

April 3. At the Hague, countefs de Welderen, fifter to lord Howard, and Mrs. Parker, the wife of compte de Welderen, many years minister from Holland to this country.

10. Sir Archibald Edmonstone, bart.

12. At the George inn at Bridgewater, on her way to the Hotwells, aged 19, lady Anne-Maria Montague, daughter of the late and fifter of the prefent duke of Manchefter.

13. At his feat at Whitwell, co, York, aged 31, fir Bellingham Graham, bart. He was fon of the late fir Bellingham, and has a fifter married, abroad, to col. Greville.

16. Suddenly, James, 10th lord

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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 baronefs du Tour, motherin-law to Baron Nagel.

13. At Drumfheugh, near Edinburgh, the hon. James Erikine of Alva, one of the fenators of the College of Justice. He was admitted an advocate, Dec. 4, 1743, appointed one of the barons of the Exchequer, May 27, 1754, and on the 20th May 176. was appointed one of the lords of the feffion, 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 governefs 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 fucceeded 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 lordship.

31. Aged 64, in Harcourt place, Dublin, the rt. hon.. William Burton Conyngham, one of his majefty's most hon. privy council, teller of the exchequer, and one of the commiffioners for executing the office of high treasurer in Ireland, treasurer 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 monastery of Batalha, which Mr. Conyngham had himself vifited, and made fome fketches 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 carneft defire to visit it; and Mr. Conyngham having generously offered him his patronage and fupport, he fet out from Dublin,

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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 The Portuguese have too much gratitude not to add their acknowledments to him alfo for having made known the merits of this inimitable structure. 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 science, has expended upwards of 1000l. 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 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 inftitution of a Society of Antiquaries, in 1780, confifting 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 Pownall 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. Had 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 whose 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, Knighsbridge, of a cancer in her breast, the countefs of Suffex, fecond wife to the present earl, and daughter of Jn. Vaugan, efq. of Briftol.

In his 70th year the rev. Thomas Cole, L. L. B. and vicar of Dulverton. He was of Queen's col lege, 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 Hubert, a narrative, descriptive, and didactic poem," book I. 8vo. 1795.

Of the yellow fever, at sea, on board the Majeftic, of 74 guns, in which he was coming home from the Weft Indies, two days before fhe 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

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