in his office of physician at Chelsea Hospital, that, during many changes in administration, the reversion of the place had been promised to several of the medical friends of the different paymasters of the forces. Looking out of his window one day, the doctor saw a gentleman examining the house and gardens, who, he knew had just got a reversion of the place: he therefore came out to him, and thus accosted tim: ---“Well, sir, 1 see you are examining your house and gardens that are to be; and I will assure you, they are both very pleasant and very convenient; but I must tell you one circumstance ---you are the fifth man that has had the reversion of the place, and I have buried them all! and, what is more (says the doctor, ooking very scientifically at him) there is something in your face, that tells me, I shall bury you too." The event justified the doctor's prediction, as the gentleman died a few years after; and at the time of Dr. Monsey's death, no person had the promise of a reversion. Dr. Monsey, by will, directed that his body should be anatomised, and the skeleton preserved in Chelsea Hospital. MONTAGUE, (EDWARD WORTLEY, Esq.) This celebrated gentleman was remarkable for the uncommon incidents which attended his life, the close of which was equally marked with singularity. He had been early married to a woman, who aspired to a character no higher than that of an industrious washerwoman. As the marriage was solemnized in a frolic, he never deemed her sufficiently the wife

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wife of his bosom to cohabit with her; but she was allowed a maintenance. She lived contented, and was too submissive to be troublesome on account of the conjugal rites. Mr. Montague on the other hand, was a perfect patriarch in his manners, and had wives of almost every nation. When he was with Ali Bey in Egypt, he had his houshold of Egyptian females. At Constantinople the Grecian women had charms to captivate this unsettled wanderer. In Spain, a Spanish brunette in Italy, the olive-complexioned females were solicited to partake the honours of the bridal bed. Mr. Montague was continually shifting the place, and consequently varying the scene; but he never permitted his wives to travel with him, considering them as bad travelling companions, and therefore left them behind him. It happened, however, that intelligence reached his ears of the death of the original Mrs. Montague, the washer-woman. Mr. Montague had no issue by her; and without issue male, a very large estate would revert to the second son of Lord Bute. Wortley, owing the family no obligations, was determined, if possible, to defeat their expectations. He resolved to return to England, and marry.

He acquainted a friend with his intentions, and commissioned that friend to advertise for any young decent woman who might be in a pregnant state. The advertisement was inserted shortly after in one of the morning papers, and consisted of the following words." MATRIMONY.

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A gentleman who hath filled two succeeding seats in parliament, is near sixty years of age, lives in great splendour and hospitality, and, from whom a considerable estate must pass if he dies without issue, hath no objection to marry any widow or single lady, provided the party be of genteel birth, polished manners, and five, six, seven, or eight months gone in her pregnancy. Letters directed to

Brecknock, Esq. at Will's Coffee-house, facing the Admiralty, will be honoured with due attention, secrecy, and every possible mark of respect. Several ladies answered this advertisement; one of whom was selected, as being the most eligible object. She waited with eagerness for the arrival of her expected bridegroom from Venice; but, while he was on his journey, death arrested him in his career. Thus ended the days of Edward Wortley Montague, Esq. a man who had passed through such variegated scenes, that a bare recital of them would savour of the marvellous. From Westminster-school, where he was placed for education, he ran away three several times. He exchanged clothes with a chimney-sweeper, and followed for some time that sooty occupation. He then en

gaged with a fisherman and cried flounders in Rotherhithe. He afterwards sailed as a cabin-boy to Spain, where he had no sooner arrived, than he ran away from the vessel, and hired himself to a driver of mules. After thus vagabondizing it for some time, he was discovered by the consul, who returned him to his friends in England,

by whom he was received with joy equal to that of the Prodigal Son in the gospel. A private tutor was employed to recover those rudiments of learning, which a life of dissipation and vulgarity might have obliterated. He was sent to the West-Indies, where he remained some time, and when he returned to England, acted according to the dignity of his birth, and was chosen a member in two successive parliaments. His expences exceeding his income, he became involved in debt, quitted his native country, and commenced that wandering traveller he continued to the time of his death. Having visited most of the Eastern countries, he contracted a partiality for their manners. He drank little wine, a great deal of coffee; wore a long beard; smoaked much; and even whilst at Venice, he was habited in the Eastern stile. He sat cross-legged, in the Turkish fashion, through choice. With the Hebrew, the Arabic, the Chaldaic, and the Persian languages, he was as well acquainted as with his native tongue. He published several pieces: one on "The rise and fall of the Roman Empire." another," On exploration of the Causes of Earthquakes." He had great natural abilities, and an abundant portion of acquired knowledge.

MONTAGUE, (the Hon, WILLIAM) was the second son of Edward Richard, Viscount Hinchinbrooke, who was eldest son to Edward, third Earl of Sandwich. Having betaken himself to the sea-service, he was appointed a lieutenant in the navy, under Captain Long.

This gentleman observing in him a too gallant spirit, which at times rose to an appearance rather romantic for a moderate and prudent man to display, distinguished him, on all occasions, by the familiar appellation of his dragon. He was successively promoted to be captain of the Mermaid, the Prince Edward, and the Bristol. Hitherto, he does not appear to have had any opportunity of manifesting that natural intrepidity which all who knew him, admit him to have possessed; but in the following year, he commanding the Bristol, as indeed he continued to do during the remainder of the war, he was present with Mr. Anson at the defeat and capture of De la Jonquire's squadron, and contributed all that was possible for him towards the glorious success then obtained. He afterwards, on the 27th of February 1747, captured a very valuaable French Register ship, having on board 360,000 dollars, besides a valuable cargo of cochineal, cocoa, and other commodities. He was snatched from the service at a very early period of his life, on the 10th of February 1757. The whimsical eccentricities which pervaded the general conduct of this gentleman, procured him, both in and out of service, the familiar appellation of Mad Montague. Some of these anecdotes are almost too extravagant for belief, one or two of which we shall venture to relate: In coming up the channel, during the time he commanded the Bristol, he fell in with a very numerous fleet of outward-bound Dutch merchantmen. He fired at several, in order to compel them to bring to, a measure authorised

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