Egremont, by whom he has left one son and three daughters.

6. At Madras, Vice-Admiral Drury, commander in chief on that station.

8. Near Bristol, in his 88th year, the Right Hon. John, Lord Colville, of Kinross. He passed the early years of his life in military duty, and was present at the expedition against Carthagena in 1740, and at the battles of Fontenoy, Culloden, and Lafeldt. In 1761, being colonel of the Scotch Fuzileers, be served at the siege of Bellisle. On the peace, in 1763, he retired to private life, and on the death of his brother, Alexander, vice-admiral of the white, he succeeded to the title, which is now inherited by his son, a captain in the royal navy.

11. Lady Wilmot, relict of Sir Robert-Mead Wilmot, of Chaddesden, Derbyshire.

14. In his 88th year, Otho Hamilton, Esq. who had passed forty years in the military service of his country, and was lieutenant-colonel of the 59th regiment when he retired.

Augustus-Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton. This nobleman was born in 1735 or 36, and received his academical education at St. Peter's College, in Cambridge. On the death of his grandfather, in 1757, he succeeded to the family honours and estates, and at that period of life indulged himself freely in the gaieties and dissipations common to his rank and fortune. In 1765, he entered into the career of public employment as one of the secretaries of state; which post he resigned in the following year, but was soon after appointed first lord of the trea

sary. Whilst his grace occupied this post, he incurred some severe attacks from Mr. Wilkes, then in the height of popularity, and also from the more formidable writer, Junius, who published a remark. able letter against him, full of the severest invective. These virulent attacks, with a deficiency of support, caused him to resign his office early in 1770; he however accepted that of lord privy seal in 1771, which be retained till 1775. In that year, his decided opposition to Lord North's project of taxing the American colonies, produced an intimation that his services were no longer required; be in consequence resigned his post, and during the whole of the American war acted with the party which resisted all the measures that terminated in the final separation of America from the British empire. On the overthrow of that unfortunate administration, the Duke of Grafton was restored to his office of lord privy seal, which he held but for a short time; and his life afterwards passed entirely in retirement, except when some important occasions called upon him to take his part as a peer in parliament. He was a firm and strenuous opposer of the last and present war with France, and solemnly predicted all the evils which they have brought upon the nation.

His grace, when a minister, had been elected chancellor of the university of Cambridge (an event celebrated by the muse of Gray), and he had an attachment to literature which became that station. With a remaining fondness for the turf and the chace, he allied a passion for collecting valuable

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books; and with advancing years he adopted the more extraordinary taste, for one of his rank and ha bits, of theological inquiry. Into this he entered with a mind so unshackled by system, and so devoted to what he thought the truth, that he openly renounced the creed of the church in which he had been educated, and acceded to that of the modern Unitarians, on whose service, at the chapel in Essexstreet, he was accustomed to attend when in town. He is supposed to have been the author of two pamphlets on these topics; and, in order to encourage scriptural studies, he published, at a considerable expence, an edition of Griesbach's Greek Testament, copies of which he distributed with great liberality. The Duke of Grafton was married first to the daughter of Lord Ravensworth, by whom he had three sons and a daughter. From her he was divorced in 1769, and was soon after united to the daughter of the Rev. Sir Richard Wrottesley, who made him the father of thirteen children. He maintained a very amiable character in domestic life, and employed much of his leisure in the education of his daughters. He is succeeded in his title and estates by his son, George-Henry, Earl of Euston, late representative for the university of Cambridge.

Sir Charles Kent, Bart. of Wordsworth, Yorkshire.

16. In his 95th year, Lieut.Gen. Loftus Tottenham, colonel of the 55th regiment, who had been in the service near eighty years.

18. Andrew Williams, Esq. late physician general and colonel in the East India Company's service at Bengal.

was rewarded with a titular bishopric, and on his return, in 1807, a pension was settled on him by government.

16. John Hammet, Esq. M. P for Taunton.

At Duff-house, in advanced years, Alexander, Earl of Fife. His lordship had practised as an advocate; and succeeded to the title only in January, 1800, on the death of his eldest brother, James.

18. At his seat, at Acton Burnell, Shropshire, Sir Edw. Smythe, Bart, aged 53.

26. In his 86th year, Richard Pownall, Esq. formerly a lieutenant-colonel in the army, and brother of the late Governor Pownal.

-. At Buckenham, in Norfolk, Sir James Murray Pulteney, Bart. a general in the army, and colonel of the 18th regiment of foot. His death was the consequence of an explosion of the powder in his flask while shooting, which blew out one of his eyes. Sir James entered the army at an early period, and served with reputation in the American war, particularly at the defence of St. Christopher's. In the last war, he was adjutant-general to the Duke of York in Flanders; and afterwards commanded in an expedition to Ferrol, the event of which subjected him to much censure. He was lately for some time secretary at war. He married the Countess of Bath, who bequeathed to him for life the revenue of the vast Pulteney property, amounting to 50,0001. per annum. He is succeeded in his title and estates by his brother, Gen. Murray.

The lady of Sir William Gibbons, Bart. daughter of Admiral Watson.

May 1. John Smart, Esq. aged 70, an eminent miniature painter.

5. In his 79th year, Robert Mylne, Esq. architect, F.R.S. the builder of Blackfriar's bridge. He was a native of Edinburgh, and, being brought up to the architectural profession, passed several years in Italy. On his return, be offered proposals for the intended bridge at Blackfriars, which were accepted, and the work was commenced in 1761, and completed in 1765, for the exact sum specified in his estimate. He was appointed, in 1762, engineer to the New River Company, which post he held to his death, and is succeeded in it by his son.

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6. Wm. Boscawen, Esq. aged 59, commissioner of the Victuallingoffice and of bankrupts. This gentleman was the son of General George Boscawen, and was educated at Eton and Oxford. He was brought up to the bar, and for some time went the western circuit, and he displayed his attention to the profession by an esteemed work, entitled, "A Treatise of Convictions on Penal Statutes." When appointed to the Victualling-office, he quitted the bar, and being much attached to classical literature, he undertook a translation in verse of all Horace, of which the first volume appeared in 1793, and the second in 1798. This is generally acknowledged to be executed with taste and critical discernment. In 1801 he published a small volume of original poems. He was also a constant contributor to the British Critie. Mr. B. was a person of very amiable and respectable character, and possessed the love and esteem of all who knewhim.

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7. In his 80th year, Richard Cumberland, Esq. an eminent writer, in verse and prose. As Mr. C. has published his own memoirs at length, it will not be necessary here to do more than mark some of its principal incidents. He was the son of Dr. Denison Cumberland (who became bishop of Clonfert, and finally of Kilmore), by a daughter of the celebrated Dr. Bentley, at whose lodge in Trinity college, Cambridge, he was born. Of that college, after an education at Bury and Westminster schools, he was admitted a member; and on leaving the university, was for some time private secretary to Lord Halifax. Having obtained, through his influence, the place of crown-agent for the province of Nova Scotia, he married, in 1758, the daughter of G. Ridge, Esq.; and when Lord Halifax was made lord-lieutenant of Ireland, at the commencement of the present reign, Mr. C. accompanied him as under-secretary. After his return, he obtained an office at the board of trade; and having already exercised his talents in dramatic composition, he engaged in it seriously, and brought out some comedies, which appear ed on the London stage. The most successful of these was "the West Indian," which gave him a place among the distinguished wits and writers of the age. He now became secretary to Lord G. Germaine, minister for the colonial department; and in 1780, conceiving that there was an opening for a separate negociation with the court of Spain, he went with his family to Lisbon, and thence to Aranjuez. The negociation, however, (which was preposteVOL. LIII.

rously conducted) entirely failed, and on his return he was neglected and disavowed by the ministry. His residence was thenceforth chiefly at Tunbridge Wells, where he cultivated a select society, and employed himself with great assi duity in composition, so as to become one of the most copious and multifarious writers of his time. If his works were not first rate, they displayed facility. learning, elegance, benevolent and generous sentiment, though with no great moral correctness, and warm attachment to the religion of his country. Their catalogue is too numerous to be here transcribed. They consist of tragedies and comedies, of the latter of which many were successful; of poems, at the head of which is his sacred

heroic, entitled Calvary;" of theological tracts; of novels; and of fugitive and miscellaneous pieces. His “Observer" occupies a respectable place among the English Essayists. His "Memoirs," in two volumes, 4to. afford much entertaining anecdote relative to the literary history of his contemporaries. His pen was at work as long as life permitted him to hold it; for it is to be lamented that his old age was exposed to the discomfort attending narrow and reduced circumstances. A jealousy and irritability of temper seems to have deprived him of the benefit of those friendships which his talents and introductions had enabled him to form. His remains received the honour of interment in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, Dr. Vincent pronouncing a short eulogy over his departed schoolfellow.

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At Keswick, Henry William Bunbury,

Bunbury, Esq. second son of the Rev. Sir William Bunbury, of Mildenhall, Suffolk, and brother to the present Sir Thomas Charles Bunbury, a gentleman well-known by the bumorous productions of his pencil.

14. Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, and F.R.S. in his 1st year. He succeeded to the title in 1771, and in 1786, married the daughter of the late Sir John Webb, Bart. by whom he has left one daughter. The title is inherited by his brother, Cropley Ashley Cooper, one of the representatives for Dorchester.

15. On ship-board at St. Helens, Gen. Rufin, who was wounded and taken prisoner at Barrosa. He was interred at Portsmouth with distinguished funeral honours.

16. Of his wounds at the battle of Albuera, Sir William James Myers, Bart. lieut.-col. of the 7th regiment of foot, aged 27.

20. In his 70th year, William Henry Higden, Esq. formerly of the secretary of state's office for the home department, and who, in the early periods of life, had attended the Earl of Rochford, Sir Robert Ainslie, and the Hon. Mr. Trevor, in their embassies to France, Spain, Turkey and Sardinia.

20. Lady Day, relict of Sir John Day, many years advocategeneral in the supreme court of justice, Bengal.

23. Lady Pelham Clinton, sister to the Duke of Newcastle.

In his 77th year, the Right Hon. Richard Longfield, Viscount Longueville, a privy counsellor, governor of the county of Cork, and one of the representative peers

of Ireland. Dying without issue, the title becomes extinct.

27. At Edinburgh, aged 60, the Right Hon. Henry Dundas, Vis count Melville. This eminent political character was a younger son of the Right Hon. Robert Dundas, president of the Court of Session in Scotland, by a daughter of Sir Willian Gordon, Bart. He received his education in Edinburgh, and was called to the Scotch bar in 1763, where he distinguished himself by a fluent and energetic elocution, and strong argumentative powers. He rose to be successively solici tor-general, and lord-advocate, for Scotland, and keeper of the sig net, after which he quitted the legal for the political career (retaining, however, his place), and entered parliament as representative for Mid-Lothian. Though he was elected in opposition to the ministerial interest, he soon joined the party in power, and was a ftrenuous supporter of all Lord North's measures during the Ame rican war. He was a frequent speaker in parliament, and notwithstanding an ungraceful manner, and a provincial dialect and pronunciation, was listened to as a clear and weighty reasoner. Under the administration of Lord Shelburne he was admitted into the privy-council, and made treasurer of the navy, and he repaid these favours by his firm support of its plans. During the short coalition ministry he was out of place; and he employed all his powers in opposing that India bill which was the cause of its overthrow. When Mr. Pitt succeeded to the post of prime minister, Mr. Dundas was appointed president of the board

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