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therefore, now be considered one of the richest of her sex in the em pire.

2d. At Banchor, in Badenoch, Mr. John Gray, some time messenger at arms. His ideas and manners soared above his station in life. To a majestic and graceful appearance he added those qualities of the mind which excite esteem. He was a friend to the poor, a companion to the gay, an universal philanthropist, kind and benevolent. The following epitaph was composed by himself some years ago:

Poor John Gray ! Here he lies ; Nobody laughs, and nobody cries; Where he's gone, and how he fares, Nobody knows, and nobody cares. 4th. At Aldenham lodge, Herts, of a fit of apoplexy, aged 71, George Mason, esq. well known for his valuable collection of old Eng. lish and foreign literature, and au. thor of "An Essay on Design in Gardening, 1796" vide Gentleman's Magazine (LXVI. 227,) first published in 1768, without his name; and "Appendix to the same;" "A British Freeholder's answer to T. Paine ;" A supplement to Johnson's English dictionary," 4to; " Poems, by Thomas Hoccleve, with a preface, notes, and glossary, 1796," 4to. ibid. (LXVI. 758;) "Life of Richard Earl Howe, 1803," 8vo. bid. (LXXIII. 662,) who purchased Mr. M's paternal estate at Porters, 1772. Mr. M. was eldest son of Mr. M. distiller at Deptford bridge, whose widow re-married Dr. Judd, late Hebrew professor at Oxford. He has left his landed property to his brother's son, and has provided handsomely for a natural daughter.

5th. In Seymour-street, William Brabazon Ponsonby, lord Ponson

by of Imokilly, a privy counsellor in Ireland, a governor of the county of Kilkenny, &c. His lordship was born Sept. 15, 1744; and was much distinguished in the parliament of Ireland, in which he sat for many years as member for the county of Kilkenny, and for his steady adherence to the principles of Mr. Fox. After the union took place, he sat in the imperial parliament for Kil. kenny, until elevated to the English peerage, by the title of baron Ponsonby, of Imokilly, co. Cork. His birth was illustrious, being the grandson of Brabazon earl of Besborough, and eldest son and heir of the right honourable John Ponsonby, speaker of the house of commons in Ireland, by the lady Elizabeth Cavendish, daughter of William third duke of Devonshire. His lordship married, Dec. 20, 1769, Louisa, daughter of the third vis. count Molesworth, by whom he has left issue, 1. John, now lord Ponsonby, of Imokilly, who is married to lady Frances Villiers, sister to the earl of Jersey; 2. Richard, in holy orders; 3. George; 4. Frederick; 5. Mary - Elizabeth, married to Charles Viscount Howick, eldest son of earl Grey. The right hon. George Ponsonby, lord chancellor of Ireland, is his lordship's only brother; the countess of Shannon and lady Lismore are his surviving sisters. He bore his long and very severe illness with the same equanimity that governed all his actions; nor did it forsake him in his last moments. His bed was surrounded by his distressed relatives: viscount and viscountess Howick, the hon. George and Frederick Ponsonby, his lordship's younger sons, and lady Lismore, all of whom sat up with him the preceding night. Aware

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that death was approaching, he took an affectionate leave of each, shook hands with them, and, turning on his pillow, died without a groan. Lady Ponsonby, worn out with fatigue, had been carried out of the room. Until his fatal illness, which commenced about two years since, he was a man of the most active and lively mind, remarkably fond of the chace, and kept the best hunting establishment in Ireland, at his seat, Bishop's Court, co. Kildare, where he lived in the most hospitable and princely style. No man was more beloved by his relatives and friends, as an affectionate husband, a fond father, a kind and most indulgent landlord and master. Nor was his political character less amiable, as a man of strong mind and sound sense; in the many parliaments in which he represented the county of Kilkenny, he never gave a vote his conscience did not approve. His remains were, on the 10th, removed in a hearse and four, towards Holyhead, there to be embarked for Ireland. His lordship's carriage, vis count Howick's and lady Lismore's, followed for some miles. The hon. and rev. Richard Ponsonby, his lordship's second son, who resides on his living in the county of Kildare, attended by two servants, accompanied the hearse.

7th. At Pantglas-house, Carmarthenshire, in her 66th year, Mrs. Alicia Gratiana Jones Llwyd, relict of the late Richard Jones L. esq. barrister at law, and clerk of the peace for the county of Carmarthen; and niece to David L. esq. formerly of Berllandowill, in the same county, and of Castlehowell and Crynfryn, in Cardiganshire.

10th. At Altona, in consequence of the wound he had received in the

battle of Auerstadt, on the 14th ult. and its truly disastrous consequen ces, his serene highness WilliamFerdinand duke of Brunswick Lunenburgh, a general in the king of Prussia's service, and K. G. He escaped the pain of knowing the calamities which resulted from the battle, having, from the moment of his wound, been totally insensible to every thing about him. His son, the duke of Brunswick-Oels, who capitulated with general Blucher, and so heroically defended the gate of Lubeck, arrived at his father's house the day after his death. His highness was the companion in arms of the great Frederick, and esteemed a general of the most consummate judgment. On his retreat from his capital, he assumed the title of count of Werdtheim. His horses were sold, on the 13th, by public auction; his jewels, and other effects, on the 15th. His body was opened and embalmed on the 12th. On opening the skull, it was found that the wound would certainly and inevitably prove mortal from the first. His heart is preserved in a silver box. His remains, dressed in the regimentals of the Brunswick dragoons, booted and spurred, with a large Prussian cocked hat, and on the left breast the star and insignia of the British order of the garter, lay in state till the evening of the 18th. The coffin was plain, covered with black velvet. An estafette was sent to Buonaparte, at Berlin, requesting that the duke's remains might be deposited in the family-vault of his ancestors; but nothing can exceed the brutality with which he refused the application. "Tell the duke of Brunswick," said Buonaparte, "that t would rather cede Belgium, would 0.4

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rather renounce the crown of Italy, than allow him, or any of his sons, ever again to set foot within the territory of Brunswick. Let him take his money and jewels, but let him go to England!!" Notwithstanding this brutality, however, in the triumphant Usurper, the name of the duke of Brunswick will be mentioned with honour in the cordatior atas, when the crimes of his successful 'antagonist will be held up to execration. Our gracious sovereign had given orders for apartments in Hampton court palace to be prepared for the reception and asylum of his unfortunate brother-inlaw. His unhappy and much-afflicted consort, as soon as the state of her highness's health will permit, removes to this country.

13th. At Henley-in-Arden, co. Warwick, where, from an unfortunate derangement of mind, it was necessary to confine him, Joseph Weston, a man of lively but misapplied talents, implacable resentment, and strong passions. His skill in music entitled him to be for many years organist of Solihull in the same county, from which an irritable temper occasioned him to be removed. In 1788 he addressed some "Lines to Mr. Green, on visiting his Museum," Gentleman's Maga. zine LVIII. 444; a Sonnet to H. Carey and T. Lister, two "bright buds of Genius," ib. 823: answered ib. 916; a Prologue by him, spoken at Lichfield, ib. 915; which he com. plained had been prematurely pub. lished, ib. 1058; a Sonnet to Miss Seward, ib. 1008; and address spoken at the Theatre at Birmingham, ib. 1106. Our readers will recollect the animated strictures of Miss Seward, on his dislike to Pope's ver

sification in the Preface to his "Woodmen of Arden," 145, in which she compliments him for "his genius and his virtues ;" but adds, that his prejudices are as strong as his talents; ib. 291, 389, 510; defended by him, ib. 680, 875, 971, 1101, LX. 27; Miss Seward's reply, ib. 118; his apology on the death of her, father, ib. 196; his farther answer to Miss S. and to M. F. ib. 386; her reply, ib. 522 ; his farther remarks on the comparative merits of Dryden and Pope, ib. 777, 795; M. F.'s final reply, ib. 905; final reply to M. F. ib. 987; continuation of his defence of the preface to "The Woodmen of Arden,” ib. 1066, 1169; hints to him and to Miss S. LXI. 225, 232; Lines on the sudden Death of Mr. Hucquier, portrait-painter, Gentleman's Magazine, LXXVI. 1052.

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At his seat, Galloway-house, near Dumfries, Scotland, the gout in his stomach, John Stewart earl of Galloway, viscount Garlies, and baron Stewart, knight of the Thistle, and lord lieutenant of Wigtownshire. His lordship first married Charlotte Mary Greville, daughter of the first earl of Warwick; and, secondly, Anne, daughter of the late sir James Dashwood, bart. by whom he had issue eight sons and eight daughters. Six of his lordship's sons are now living, and also six daughters, all married; namely, lady Catherine Graham, the marchioness of Blandford, lady Harriet Spencer Chichester, lady Elizabeth Inge, lady Charlotte Crofton, and lady Caroline Rushout. His lordship is succeeded in his titles and estates by his eldest son, vis. count Garlies, a captain in the royal navy, who is married to a daughter

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of the earl of Uxbridge. His lordship was much devoted to agricultural pursuits, and was long remarkable for his attendance at the opera, where he was generally to be found, when in town, in the pit, close to the orchestra, loud in applause of any favourite performer.

At William Wingfield's, esq. in Montague street, Russell-square, in her 26th year, lady Elizabeth Digby, daughter of the late and sister of the present earl of Digby.

14th. On the evening of the 6th inst. as Mr. W. Went, of Uley, was returning from Gloucester, with his father and some other friends, his horse fell with him at Frocester; by which accident he received so severe a contusion on the head, that, notwithstanding immediate medical assistance was obtained, he lingered senseless till this evening, when he expired.

20th. On St. James's parade, Bath, of which city he had been an inhabitant ever since the year 1729, aged 82, the rev. Michael Pembridge, a minister of the Roman catholic chapel there, and author of several works of earning and piety.

21st. Aged 21, Mr. Arthur Brook, son of Mr. B. sadler in Lewes. Mr. Brook has experienced in his house a succession of mortality which does not often occur in one family, and which few men could have borne with more christian fortitude than himself. Since the year 1803, he has lost his wife, three sons, and three daughters, as follows: Sarah, aged 21; William, 4; Mary, 5; Harriet, 11; Mrs. Brook, 44; Spilsbury-John, 20; and Arthur, as above.

23d. At the seat of Henry Duncombe, esq. at Copgrove, co. York, in consequence of a fall some weeks

before, lady Muncaster, wife of lord M. of Muncaster-house, in the same county.

At Brompton, Mrs. Bigge, widow of the late Thomas-Charles B. esq. of Benton-house, Northumberland.

At his seat at Arbury, co. Warwick, after an illness of less than a week, aged upwards of 88, in the enjoyment of his faculties unimpaired almost to the last, sir Roger Newdigate, bart. many years one of the representatives in parliament for the university of Oxford, to which he has long been a liberal benefactor. He was owner of one of the finest estates of coal in the kingdom; and his extensive coal-works near Bedworth have for a long time been very productive. Ile several years ago cut many miles in length of navigable canal through his collieries and woods, to join the Coventry canal; by far the greatest length of canal, solely belonging to an individual, in the kingdom. He was an active promoter of the Coventry, the Oxford, and Grand Junction canals, and of the turnpike-road from Coventry to Leicester, which has so much benefited those parts of the country. He was also a liberal benefactor to the poor, particularly in finding them employment.

Sir Roger Newdigate possessed a fine estate at Harefield, in Middlesex, where his remains were interred in the family vault on the 5th of December. He was the seventh and youngest son of sir Richard N. bart. by his second lady, Elizabeth, daughter of sir Roger Twisden, bart. Sir Richard died in 1727; and was succeeded in title and estate by his fifth (then the oldest surviv. ing) son, sir Edward Newdigate,

who died 1734, in his 18th year, and was succeeded by his youngest son, Roger, who was at that time" a king's scholar at Westminster school, where, by his own choice, he continued three years, and became a member of University college, Oxford, and made the tour of France and Italy. Soon after his return, he had the honour to be unanimous. ly elected knight of the shire for the county of Middlesex, upon a vacancy by the creation of the right hon. William Pulteney earl of Bath, in 1742; and in 1743 he married Sophia, daughter of Edward Conyers, of Copt-hall, in co. Essex, esq. who, after a long-continued state of ill-health, died in 1774, and was buried at Harefield, where is her monument, a white marble vase, with a female figure in basso relievo recumbent; on the top an angel leaning on an extinguished torch; on the plinth are these lines from Petrarch:

Oxford; and on the 31st of January, 1750, upon a vacancy made by lord Cornbury's being called to the house of peers, he had the high honour to be returned the first upon the poll for a burgess for the university of Oxford. Such is the noble example of independence and untainted purity in elections, set to all electors by that most learned and most respectable body, that to declare, to canvass, to treat, or even to be seen within the limits of the university, during a vacancy, would be, in any candidate, a forfeiture of all favour, and an utter exclusion. By this dis. tinguished conduct, invariably pur. sued, by the honour they confer on the object of their choice, they reflect the highest honour on themselves. Thus honoured was sir Roger Newdigate, not knowing that he was proposed, supported, and elected, till he received a letter from the vice-chancellor by one of the esquire beadles; and in the same manner,

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soever, he was re-elected in 1754, and again in 1761, and in 1768; and for the fifth time in 1774, being then absent in Italy, which he had revisited that summer. On the dissolution of that parliament, in 1780, after 35 years service in parliament, advanced in years and his health affected by a town life, much ill health in his fa. mily, and wishing for repose, he solicited his dismission, and retired from public life. In 1776 he mar ried his second lady, Hester, daughter of Edward Mundy, of Shipley, in Derbyshire, esq. and sister to Edward Miller-Mundy, esq. knight of the shire for that county, who died Sept. 30, 1800. In 1786 he built a vila, in a beautiful situation, which overlooks the valley of the river Colney, within a mile of Uxbridge."

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