way, while filled with people, Corporal Davis, of the 2d Dragoons. A man of the name of Matthews had his thigh broken in two places; and many other perfons were much cut and bruited.

At Barton-upon-Humber, aged 53, Mr. Thomas Goy; a man of the strictest rectitude, and 28 years clerk in the office of Mr. Marris, of that place, attorney.

23. Aged 32, Edmond-James Moody, efq. of the Navy-office, elduft fon of Robert-Sadleir M. efq. commiffioner for victualing his Majefty's Navy.

By fhooting himself, on-board his Majetty's thip Mermaid, at Spithead, Lieut. P. W. Wright, fit lieutenant of that fhip. At Clayton-mills, near Manchefter, the wife of Sebaftian Nath, efq.

At his brother's houfe at Woodbury, J. T. Ceely Trevillian, efq. of Middieney, co. Somerfet.

At Bole, co. Lincoln, in her 75th year, Mrs. Whaley.

At Croydon, Surrey, Mr. Half hide, late of Merton, calico-printer. And, on the 5th in th his fecond fon, Mr. Edward Halfhide, of Tooting, in the fame county. Suddenly, at his houfe in Three Crown court, Borough, in his 60th year, Mr. William Golding.

24. Mr. Frankish, farmer and grazier, of Hackthorne, co. Lincoln.

At Cambridge, after three days illness, aged 20, the Rev. George D. Whittington, LL. B. of St. John's college, fon of W. efq. of Saxmundham, Suffolk.

In her 77th year, the wife of Samuel Bonham, ely. of Great Warley place, Effex. Suddenly, of apoplexy, William Finner, efq. of Millbank-ftreet, Westminster.

At Southampton, Major St. Clair, barrack-matter at Ealing, Middlefex.

At her houfe at Ealing, in her 71ft year, Mrs. Davifon.

At Amersham, Bucks, Mrs. Edmonds, wife of Mr. Jn. E. of the Strand, jeweller. Burnt to death, at his Lordship's country-house, at Coombank, co. Kent, in her 70th year, Lady Frederick Campbell, wife of Lord Frederick Campbell, daughter of Amos Meredith, efq. and fifter of Sir W. Meredith, bart. In 1752 fhe was married to Earl Ferrers, who died unfortunately in 1760, but was divorced from him by Act of Parliament; and, after his death, was married, in 1769, to Ld. Frederick Campbell, brother to the Duke of Argyle. It is conjectured that her Ladyship muft have fat up to read, and fallen asleep. About 4 in the morning, as a labouring man was going to his work, he faw a large fmoke at the house; and, on approaching it, difcovered the left wing to be on fire. He immediately alarmed the family, when they found Lady F. C.'s dreffing-room on fire. Her woman immediately ran to her Lady

fhip's bed-room, adjoining the dreffing+ room, to fearch for her lady, and found the bad not been in bed, and was miffing. It is probable she had fallen in a fit. Her woman left her Ladyship at a quarter be fore 12, in her drefling-room, and in her night-drefs, as was her ufual cuftom. She was found in the ruins, a fhocking spectacle. Her watch was alfo found wound up, and stood still at half past one. Lord Frederick C. was in town at the time, having left Coombank the preceding afternoon. The wing, containing the dreffing-room, a room over and under, is en-. tirely gutted, only the ftone walls remaining. From the great exertions of the neighbouring inhabitants, with an engine from Earl Stanhope's, a party of the Royal Artillery, with an engine from their barracks near Sevenoaks, and an engine from Sevenoaks town, the fire was got under, and the other parts of the house preferved. The door out of the bed-room into the dreifing-room was on fire when her Ladyfhip's woman entered the bed-room; the furniture of the bed was fcorched and finged by the heat to tinder, but not on fire.

A party, confifting of three perfons, Mr. Maud, an artist, refiding in the Kent road, his fifter, a little girl eight years old, and a Mr. Seton, had been to Richmond, to fee a relation of the latter gentleman; and on their return in the evening, the little girl, who fat behind the other two perfons, at the ftern of the boat, was amufing herself by putting one hand into the water, and fhe at length, fell overboard, near Putney bridge. The brother, a young man, 22 years of age, inftantly followed into the water, to fave his fifter; and after having dived twice for her, he went down a third time, to rife no more! The little girl was faved by the waterman, who picked her up floating at the ftern of the boat. The deceafed was a young man of promife in his profeffion as a limner,

This night, as fome labourers were returning home through Hyde-park, they difcovered a genteel-dreffed man lying under a tree apparently fleeping; and on one of them attempting, as he fuppofed, to roufe him, he afcertained the body to be a corpfe. On examining it, there appeared to have been a ball through the fide of the head; but very little blood had followed. A piftol was found loaded in a fide pocket. The body was owned by a foreigner; and the unfortunate man, whofe name was Talliet, was a French teacher at a boarding-fchool a few miles to the Weftward of London. He was one of the progeny of a French Noble, who emigrated with his countrymen at the time of the French Revolution. The deceafed has left a good deal of property; and it is fuppofed

fuppofed that a temporary derangement led him to his fad fate.

At Tavistock, after 15 months illnefs, with little intermiffion, Anne, wife of Charles Hall, M. D. physician there, and late of Braunfton, co. Northampton.

25. Mrs. Booth, wife of Frederick B. efq. of New-ftreet, Spring-garden.

AtTiverfall, colliery, Notts, Peter Smith and his fon Samuel. Cleaning the wa ter-way in a pit that has not been worked for fome time, fymptoms of the damp appearing, they came up to the top, when Peter recollecting they had left a spade in the works, his fon returned to fetch it, brought it to the bottom of the shaft, and got into the trunk in order to be drawn up to the top by the father. The latter had fcarcely raifed him from the ground, before the foul air had fo powerful an effect upon the fon, that he fell from the trunk; the father called for affiftance, and, urged on by parental feelings, he infifted upon being immediately let down, in hopes of faving him.

He fell from the trunk in which he was defcending, and both fhared the fame fate. The damp continued fo ftrong, that feveral hours elapfed before the bodies could be got out.

26. At Botley-hall, co. Stafford, Mrs. Catherine Tollet, 'reli&t of Charles T. efq. At Hoddeldon, Herts, Iver M'Millan, efq. late commander of the Eaft India Company's fhip Valentine.

Aged 33, Mr. John Sherriff, jun. cashier in the Customs at Hull.

Thomas Holbeche, efq. of Hill-court, many years an active magiftrate for the County of Worcefter. Mrs. H. died on the 23d.

At the annual wake at Stoke-Edith, co. Hereford, John Jones was killed in a battle with John Bull, of the fame parifh. On the Coroner's Inqueft it appeared that the contest had been previoufly concerted between the parties, and that they shook hands, in token of feeling no malice or refentment towards each other, before they fet to. From this and other circumftances, the Jury returned a verdict of "Chance Medley."

At Edinburgh, after two days illnefs, J. Bedford Turner, efq. of Hotham Carr, co. York, late a heutenant in the 2d Weft York Regiment of Militia.

27. Mfs Shute, daughter of Mrs. S. of Bathwick-Areet, Bath.

At Worcester, aged 66, Mr. John Scott, many years a reputable tradeiman there.

At Teignmouth, Devon, Charles Duinford, efq. barrifter at law.

Aged 68, Mr. William Wright, an opulent farmer, &c. of Linwood, co. Lincoln.

At Springmount, near Mallow, Cork, Mifs Eliza Townshend, daughter of Richard T. fq. M. D..

This evening, Paymafter-ferjeant Mil

ler, of the 3d Regiment of Foot Guards, went into the coffee-room of the Goldencrois, Charing-crofs, and called for fupper; after he had taken it, he ordered a bed, faying he should fleep there, as he was going off in the morning by the Dover coach; and when he went to bed, he defired to be called a fhort time before the Dover coach went off, which was accordingly done; he answered, but did not come out of his bed-room, and the coach went off without him. After breakfaft, when the chambermaid went into his bed-room, for the purpofe of making his bed (fuppofing him to be gone out), the found him fufpended by a sheet, by his neck, from the top of the bedfead. The girl. gave the alarm; he was cut down, and medical affiftance was procured, but in vain. It is fuppofed that an embarraffinent in his regimental accompts was the caufe of the rafl act.

28. This evening, as Mr. Anfon, gunfmith, of Lambeth-ftreet, Whitechapel, was getting into a boat at Tower wharf, in company with a friend, he fell into the water and was drowned.

This night, a perfon named Mitchell walked over the Quay-wall at Briftol, and was drowned, leaving a wife and 2 childr.

At her houfe at Clapham, Surrey, Lady Tebbs, relict of Sir Benjamin T. knt.- ›

At Sidmouth, Devon, after a few days illness, the wife of Francis Colman, efq.

Sarah Parker, a well-known unfortunate female, whofe walks at nights used to be in Leicefter-fquare, was burnt to death. About 12 o'clock the retired to her apartment, in Blue Crofs - ftreet, which was a front room on the second floor. Her fereams attracted the notice of fome perfons in the ftreet, who, on looking up to the place where they heard them, beheld the poor unfortunate woman enveloped in flames from Head to foot; her room door, which the had fecured on the infide, was forced open; when he lay on the floor writhing with pain, and her cloaths all burnt off; the flooring had begun to take fire, when, providentially, the watchmen arrived, who ftopped the progrefs of the flames. She was taken to the Middlefex Hofpital, where the foon died.

29. Mrs. Francis, who threw herself out of a two-pair-of-ftairs window in Crown-court, Ruffell-ftreet, Covent-garden. She was more than 70 years old, and of very genteel connexions, but had been in a defponding ftate for fome time paft, and had been feen by a perfon in the oppofite houfe attempting to get out of the front window more than once, wha accordingly gave the alarm. She had every thing very comfortable about her, and money in her pocket.

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At his houfe in St. John's, Southwark, aged 64, Thomas Allen, efq.

At his houfe at Cholfey, Berks, aged 75, Wm.Minfhull,efq. of Afton Clinton, Bucks. 30. In his 58th year, Mr. Jofeph De Boffe, of Gerrard-ftreet, Soho, many years an eminent importer of foreign books; who, as a man of honour and integrity, will be long remembered.

At Alfton, near Kingsbridge, the wife of Abraham Hawkins, efq.

At his feat at Hackwood park, in his 61ft year, much and defervedly lamented, Thomas Lord Bolton, lord lieutenant and cuftos rotulorum of the county of Southampton, and governor and vice-admiral of the Isle of Wight, &c. &c. Upwards of 20 years ago, his Lordship, then the Right Hon. Thomas Orde, was fecretary to the Duke of Rutland, while lord lieutenant of Ireland. He has left two fons, William, now Lord Bolton, and the Hon. Thomas Orde Pawlett, now at Cambridge, purfuing his ftudies.

31. At his houfe at Binfield, Berks, Thomas Robbins, efq.

At Ramfgate, in Kent, Mifs Margaretta Whitcombe, fecond daughter of Samuel W. efq. of Blackheath.

At Denham, Bucks, in his 13th year, Frederick, youngest son of John Drummond, efq. banker, Charing-crofs.

Found drowned in the Welland, Matthew Manton, 43 years parifh-clerk of Market-Deeping, co. Lincoln. He left Weft-Deeping on the preceding night in a ftate of intoxication, and it is fuppofed fell into the river, whence he was unable to extricate himself.

Executed, this morning, at Norwich, pursuant to her fentence for the wilful and hocking murder of her husband, Martha, wife of Samuel Alden, of Attleburgh, co. Norfolk. Before and during her trial, fhe appeared in a moft hardened and depraved ftate; but, after condemnation, the confoffed to have committed the crime in the following manner: "That, on the night of Saturday, July 18, the and her hufband (who was at the time a good deal in liquor) quarreled, and he threatened to beat her. Alden foon after threw himself on the bed; and at that inftant she formed the refolution of destroying him. Accordingly, the ran into the adjoining room, returned with a bill-hook, which the held in both hands, and, striking him on the forehead and throat with her utmoft Arength, inftantly killed him." At the place of execution fhe behaved with becoming decency, and feemed conscious of the enormity of her crime. The Philanthropic Society have taken her infant orphan under their protection; the objection of his being under age was overGENT. MAG. Auguft, 1857

ruled, on account of the peculiarly dreadful circumftances of the cafe. The populace of Attleburgh, in a spirit of abhorrence at her crime and memory, have razed to the ground the house the lived in.

Lately, at Rome, in his 82d year, of a putrid fever, which carried him off in a few days, the Cardinal York, the last of the Stuart Family; of whom a particular account fhall be given in our next.

At Paris, of a decline, M. Perregaux, the celebrated rich banker.

The Lady Richarda Phaire, eldest daughter of Richard Annefley, the fixth Earl of Anglefey, and widow of Robert Phaire, efq. of Temple Shannon, co. Wexford, to whom she was married in July 1761.

In the course of one week, the whole, of the rifing family of Mr. Harding, of Ringan hills, near Brampton, co. Northampton, confifting of two fons and two daughters, were carried off by an infectious fever, introduced by a fervant newly come to the house, who had juft recovered.

At Ofborn's hotel, Adelphi, Strand, Sir James Durno, late conful at Memel, &c.

Mr. J. Fisher, well known in the lottery circles as a fyftemite in chufing out particular numbers to infure, which he fancied food a better chance of becoming prizes than numbers promifcuoufly taken. He thus frequently perfuaded the credulously. avaricious of both fexes to part with their money, in the foolish belief of acquiring great and sudden fortunes.

John Jackson, efq. F. S. A. author of "A Journey over Land from India,” and feveral tracts.

John Corbet, efq. LL. D. of Highamplace, near Hardis-court, Kent. He had no fon; but he had fix daughters, the moft accomplished, handfome, and virtuous, of any in the county: 1. Catherine, fecond wife of Stephen Beckingham; had ifue Charles, Charlotte, and Catherine. 2. Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Denward, clerk. Hafted, in his third folio volume, 1790, p. 734, fays, Mrs. Denward had then lately repaired and adorned the church of Upper Hardrefs, at a confiderable expence. This lady was dead before 1790 (ibid. p. 722). 3. Frances, married to Sir William Hardress, bart, of Hardis-court, near Canterbury, the last of that name and family. He had no children, and left all to his lady; fhe, after his death, from lamenting him, loft her reafon, and was under the tuition of her fifter, Mrs. Denwards the Chancellor allowed her 600l. a year for taking care of her. Lady Hardrefs died, Feb. 23, 1783, at the Rev. Mr. Denward's, at Walmer near Deal. (LIII. 182.) 4. Antonina married Ignatius Geohegan, efq. of Sohofquare, whofe only furviving daughter is

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the prefent Baronefs de Montefquieu; his only fon died in January 1793 (LXIII. 90). 5. Hannah, married William Hougham, of Barton manor. 6.

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Mr. Corbet was a man of a fingular turn of mind, and brought his daughters up acts of humanity and virtue; info-. much that one evening, coming home when they were all dreffed for a ball at Canterbury, he told them that Mrs., a poor woman hard by, was very ill; and that, as the would not live the night out, the wished to see them, to make her laft moments more tranquil; they, without repining or delay, undreffed, and went on this office of humanity, and fate round this poor creature, with their hands clafped in hers, till the was no more; which leffon of mortality, they often faid, afforded them mor retired comfort than all the lively gaiety of an affembly.-The old palace at Hardis-court is now gone to decay. In the time of Henry VIII. he always flept there, in his way to France; and the gates of Calais were brought and depofited there by him. The houfe has been built 600 years; is a lofty old building; the hall very large; the walls thick. Aug..... At Biddlesford, in the Ifle of Wight, Mr. William Fearnfide, of Marfham-fireet, Weftminster.

At Cheltenham, Capt. Richard-Holmes Tidy, of the Royal Navy, fon of the late Rev. Thomas-Holmes T. rector of Redmarfhall, co. Durham.

Mrs. Flower, wife of Mr. James E. of Cheddar, near Wells.

At Colebrooke, Devon, Rev. Hen. Land. At Clifton, Richard Vickris Pryor, efq. Mr. Harvey, an old and refpectable inhabitant of Chipping-Sodbury.

Mrs. Jones, relict of the Rev. Mr. J. rector of Harefcomb, co. Gloucefter.

NearAxminster, Devon, Phoebe Langford. While hay-making in a field, fhe jocofely obferved, that no young man had offered to fave the hay with her; whereupon a man ran after her, faying he would, and, caught her, when they both fell together, with fuch force as to caufe her inftantaneous death, without fpeaking or moving. Aged 78, Mr. John Webster, 30 years fteward to the Earl of Seftoe, at Croxtenhall, near Liverpool.

At Chellefworth-hall, co. Suffolk, the youngest son of Sir Rt. Pocklington, bart. At Lynn, co, Norfolk, aged 65, Mary Walker, an old maid, hung herself. For fome time paft the had thewn much uneafinefs at being obliged to quit a houfe in which he had lived from infancy.

At Cobham, Surrey, Mrs. Sturt, relict of the late Charles S. cfq. of Critchill, co. Dorfet. A few years fince, this lady was one of the moft diftinguished characters in the fashionable circles.

Aug. I. At his apartment in Tottenham Court-road, in his 76th year, Mr.. John Walker, author of "The Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language," and of feveral other works, of acknowledged excellence, on gram'nar and elo-, cution; as a profeffor of which he had, for nearly 40 years, defervedly held the highest reputation, and had amaffed a competent fortune by means equally ho-, nourable to himfelf, and beneficial to thofe in whofe inftruction he had been engaged; but which would have been more ample, had not its accumulation been retarded by his repeated and extenfive charities. He had been honoured with the patronage and friendship of Dr. Johnfon, Mr. Edmund Burke, and many other of the moft diftinguished literary and profeffional characters of the age; who refpected and efteemed him, not more for the critical and profound knowledge on the subject to which he had devoted his enquiries, than for the confcientious adherence to principle, the manly avowal of opinion, and the undeviating rectitude of conduct that marked every stage of his life.

At Hanley, in the Potteries, this evening, three of the fons of Mr. Wilson, a respectable manufacturer in that place, For their amufement, and as a preparation for celebrating the wakes the fucceeding week, they had placed three pieces of fmall cannon in the garden of the elder brother, which they charged with powder and wadding, and disposed at a short distance from each other: when one of the brothers. was in the act of firing the firft piece, the elder, with his infant child in his arms, was in front of the third, and the priming communicated to the others, by which accident the father and child were literally blown to pieces, and in a moment rendered fpectacles too fhocking for Humanity to contemplate, and that in the prefence of their neareft and deareft ties wife, mother, and brothers. Their mangled remains, inclosed in the fame coffin, were depofited in the family-vault, in the prefence of numerous fpectators; and this diftreffing event has caft fuch a gloom on the furrounding neighbourhood, as all the, hilarity attendant on the feafon was not able to dispel.

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At his mother's houfe, in Taunton, aged 21, Lieut. William Sweet, of the Bombay Military Establishment.

2. At Markeaton, co. Derby, in her, 66th year, Elizabeth, wife of F. N. C. Mundy, efq. of that place..

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At Long Benton colliery, aged 87, Mr. Samuel Bortis.

This evening, Mr. Force, of New-streetfquare, near Fleet-ftreet, after attending divine fervice, fuddenly dropped down, and expired at his own door.

3. Suddenly, while walking down Holborn-hill, J. Wright, copper-plate-printer. At his houfe in King-street, Rotherhithe, Mr. John Scarth, ftock-broker.

In his 82d year, James Hutchinfon, efq of Bloomsbury-fquare.

In Grosvenor-ftreet, the Marquis of Granby, infant fon and heir of the Duke and Duchefs of Rutland; born June 26 (fee p. 680); fumptuously chriftened July 28, his Majefty ftanding fponfor by his proxy, Lord St Helen's. The Duke of Montrofe was the other godfather, and Lady Georgiana Cavendish the godmother. The ceremony was performed by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

At St. Andrew's, in Scotland, aged 83, Mr. Alexander Frazer, merchant, and late poft-mafter there.'

4. George Raine, a child four years old, belonging to the Caftle-garth, Newcastle. He was poifoned, by taking laudanum inftead of tincture of rhubarb, which had been by mistake furnished from the hop of a druggift by a carelets boy.

Aaron Martin, waggoner to Meffieurs Acraman and Son, of Briftol. Driving a. waggon to Chew Magna, by fome accident he fell under the wheel, which paffed, over him, and fevered an arm and an ear from his body. He was taken to the Infirmary as fpeedily as poffible, but died on the next day.

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1 As Mr. Brandford, of Eftry, was driving. Mrs. Buthel and Mits Hogbin in a cart to Eythorne, near Chatham, the horfe took fright, and the driver foting the reins, he ran with fuch rapidity down a hill, that the females were thrown out, and very feverely bruised. Afiftance was immediately given, and Mrs. Buthel was conveyed to the house of Mr. Giraud, furgeon, where the greateft attention was ineffectually paid to her, as the languished in the most excruciating pain until the morning of the ith, when he expired, leaving a numerous family to lament her. At Cokewell, co. Lincoln, aged 11, after a long indifpofition, Mr. R. Fox.

Of an inflammation in his bowels, which, occafioned his death in 24 hours, aged 20, John Heawood, afiiftant to. Mr. Edgfon, gunfmith, of Stamford, co. Lincoln.

Aged-52, Mr. Walter Watfon, of Grandborough, co. Warwick,

Spencer Perceval Stuart, infant fon of Ferdinand Smyth Stuart, great-grandfon of King Charles the Secon1.

4.At her houfe in York-place, Sarah Cavendish, Baronefs Waterpark in her

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own right. Her Ladyfhip was born in 1737, the only child and heiress of Richard Bradshaw, efq. the lineal defcendant of Lord Prefident Bradshaw; and married, in 1757, the Right Hon. Sir Henry Cavendish, bart.; and by him, who died Auguft 3, 1804, had iffue four fons and four daughters, viz. 1. Sir Richard Cavendish, of Doveridge-hall, in Derbyfhire, now Lord Waterpark, born July 13, 1765; married, August 6, 1789, Juliana eldest daughter and coheirefs of Thomas Cooper, efq. of Mullimaft caftle. George, born Aug. 26, 1766, fecretary to the Treafury; married, Feb. 26, 1803, Letitia-Catherine eldest daughter of James Caulfield, efq. of Stewartftown, co. Tyrone, who died, without iffue, Auguft 3, 1805. 3. Auguftus, born Nov. 17, 1768, late knight of the hire for Carlow, and now member for Honiton, in Devonfhire, and teller of the Exchequer in Ireland, fucceeded to the eftates of his ́ maternal grandfather, and affumed the name and arms of Bradshaw, by the Royal licence, June 2, 1790. He married, Nov. 13, 1796, Mary-Anne, eldeft daughter of St. John Jefferyes, efq. of Blarney caftle, co. Cork, whofe marriage with GeorgeFrederick feventh Earl of Westmeath was. diffolved in the fame year by Act of Parliament. 4. Frederick, born July 7, 1777 ;., married, Oktober 1801, the Lady Eleanor fixth daughter of Arthur Earl of Arran, and fifter of the Marchionefs of Abercorn. 5. Catherine, born Oct, 16, 1758; married the Baron de Ville. 6. Deborah, born May 13, 1762; married, Dec. 20, 1780, Sir Richard Mufgrave, bart. 7. Sarah,, born May 21, 1763; married, Dec. 20, 1793, Arthur Annesley, eighth Viscount Valentia and first Earl of Mountnorris.. 8. Anne, born March 22, 1774; married, July 25, 1793, James Caulfeild Browne, Lord Kilmaine.—The Lady Waterpark, in early life, was one of the moft celebrated leaders of fashion in Dublin. The fecond fancy-ball given in that city was by her Ladyfhip, who appeared as the enchantrefs Fatima, with her four daughters as attendant Sylphs. For fome years the devoted herself to painting, in which fie was an adept, as well as in every other fashionable accomplishment; and, tince Sir Henry's death, lived very retired.Sir Richard Cavendish, the prefent Lord Waterpark, is defcended from a branch of the Dukes of Devonshire; and his anceltors have been feated at Doveridge-hall, in Derbyshire, fince the reign of Eliza-, beth. His Lordship's grandfather, Sir Henry Cavendish, of Doveridge-hall, was created a baronet of England in 1755, and accompanied his relation, William Duke of Devonshire, to Ireland, when his Grace was lord-lieu ènant. By him he

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