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30. At Sleaford, in Lincolnshire, in his 64th year, Mr. Cooper, formerly furgeon there.

31. Mrs. Fawcett, wife of Mr. Fawcett, of Covent Garden Theatre.

John Litchfield, efq. of the Council Office, Whitehall, aged 57.

At Trinity College, Cambridge, where he had been on a visit, in his 19th year, Humphrey Parry, efq. lieutenant of the first regi

ment of guards.

Administration, the command of the army and the lieutenant-generalfhip of the ord nance were put into other hands. In 1787 he received another patent of peerage, as Baron Amherit, of Montreal, with the remainder to his nephew, William Pitt Amherst. On the 23d of January 1793, he was again appointed to the command of the army in Great Britain; and, on the 10th of February 1795, the command of the army being given to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, an

William Frafer, efq. of Kilbokie, Scotland, offer of carldom, and the rank of field

aged 74.

Lately, at Dublin, aged 98, Mrs. Gunning, aunt to the late Countess of Coventry and Duchefs of Hamilton.

AUGUST 1. At Twickenham, Mrs. John Dunnage, late of Philpot-lane, London.

2. Mr. John Kinder, jun. of Cheapside. At Montreal, near Seven Oaks, Kent, Jeffrey Lord Amherst, of Holmesdale, knight of the bath, governor of Guernsey, colonel of the regiment of life guards and 60th regiment of foot. He was born the 29th of January 1717, received his first commiffion in the army in 1731, was aid-de-camp to General Ligonier in 1741, and in that character was prefent at the battles of Dettingen, Fontenoy, and Rocoux. He was afterwards made aid-de camp to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, and as fuch was at the battle of Laffeldt, and continued with his Royal Highness to 1756, when he was appointed colonel of the 15th regiment of foot. He was afterwards with the Duke of Cumberland at the battle of Haftenbeck. In 1758 he received orders to return to England, being appointed for the American fervice, and failed from Portsmouth on the 16th of March, as major general, commanding the troops for the fiege of Louifbourg, &c. On the 9th of November the fame year he was appointed commander in chief of his Majefty's forces in North America, governor of Virginia, and colonel in chief of the 60th (or Royal American) regiment of foot, and was afterwards created a knight of the bath. He continued in the command in America to the latter end of 1763, when he returned to England. In 1768 he refigned the command of the 15th and 60th regiments, but was foon afterwards appointed colonel of the 3d regi ment of foot, and alfo of the 60th. In 1771 he was made governor of Guernsey, and the year after was appointed lieutenant-general of the ordnance. In 1776. he was created Baron Amherst, of Holmsdale, in the county of Kent. In 1778 he had the command of the army in England. In 1779 he was made colonel of the second troop of horse grenadier guards. In 1782 he received the gold ftick from the King, when, on the change of the

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marshal, was made to Lord Amherst, who declined accepting them. On the 30th of July 1796, he was promoted to the rank of field-marfhal.

At Hull, aged 45, the Rev. Tho. Clarke, D.D. vicar of the Holy Trinity Church in that town, formerly of Clare-hall, B. A. 1773. M. A. 1776, and D. D. 1797. He married the fifter of William Wilberforce, efq.

Mr. Samuel Holes, farmer and grazier, of Little Carlton, near Newark.

4. At Bath, Peter Drewett, efq. of Colerne, Wilts.

5. Lady Augufta Elizabeth Finch, youngest daughter of Daniel, late Earl of Winchelfea.

Thos. Peter Legh, eíq. of Lyme in Cheshire, M. P. for Newton in Lancashire, and colonel of the Lancashire light dragoons.

At Bedminster, the Rev. Mr. Langharne, affiitant curate at that place, and many years curate at. Newbury, Berks.

At Brighthelmftone, Thomas Emlyn, efq. of John-street, Bedford-row.

At Bedford, William Theed, efq.

6. James Petit Andrews, efq. brother to Sir Jofeph Andrews, bart. and one of the Magiftrates of the Police Office, Queen'sfquare, Weftminster.

7. At Exmouth, Mr. William Ducarrel, fecond fon of G. G. Ducarrel, efq.

8. At Kentish Town, in his 83d year, Mr. John Noble.

9. At Wandon, in Buckinghamshire, Frances, wife of Lord Charles Fitzroy, only daughter of E. M. Mundy, efq. of Shipley, in Derbyshire, in her 25th year.

11. In Welbeck-ftreet, Cavendish-fquare, Philip Henry, efq. formerly of South Carolina.

Mr. Jofeph Dean, of Hatton-garden, mathematical master of Grey coat Hofpital. John Edwards, efq at Lynn.

Lately, at Bristol Hotwells, William Franks, efq. of Fitzroy-fquare.

12. At Inftow, Devonshire, aged 85, John Sibthorpe, doctor of phyfic, late proteffor of botany at Oxford.

Lately, the Rev. John Huddesford, vicar of Lydd, in Kent.

13. At Laytonstone, Effex, Mr. James Exeter,

Exeter, of Whitechapel, coachmaker, in his 64th year.

14. Mr. Bingley, fen. infurance-broker, of Birchin-lane.

15. Mr. William Wilkins, of Cricklade. ftreet, Cirencester, in his 77th year.

At Southampton, the Rev. William St. John, only furviving fon of the late Sir PauJet St. John, Bart. of Farley, in the county of Hants.

17. Benjamin Harrison, efq. of Lee-place, Kent.

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18. Harvey Redmond Morres, Vifcount and Baron Mountmorres, of the kingdom of Ireland, by his own hands. For fome time paft his Lordship has betrayed fymptoms of uneafinefs. He wrote a letter to Dr. Willis on Thursday, defiring to see him on Friday morning, as he felt himself indifpofed. The Doctor came to his lodgings but a few minutes after he had perpetrated the act. a nobleman of the most extenfive political knowledge and hiftorical information, a liberal pation of literature, and the author of some very useful works, we have to deplore the rash act which has, in him, deprived fociety of an useful and valuable member. He was a ftaunch fupporter of the juft prerogatives of the crown, but a determined enemy, to the measures which have reduced his native country to its prefent deplorable condition. He was the leading champion of his Majefty's rights during the important difcuffions of the celebrated Regency queftion in the Irish Parliament, upon which fubject he wrote at the time feveral very able and much admired effays. His labours and his fervices on that memorable occafion being overlooked by Minifters, he felt himself feverely hurt and neglected. This circumstance, however, by no means operated fo deeply upon his mind as to produce the dreadful catastrophe -which we have now to lament: the immediate cause we believe to be the alarming accounts received by him from Ireland within the laft fortnight of his life. He had, by a courfe of prudence amounting to parfimony, created in fact a very eafy fortune; for from a very small encumbered eftate he is faid to leave a clear 5000l. a year. We understand that he perpetrated the fatal deed with a loaded piftol, the contents of which he fhot completely through his head. He died at ten o'clock in the morning, and is fucceeded in his title by his half-brother, Francis Henry Morres, now Viscount Mountmorres.

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tion for equalizing the Duties upon the Trade between Great Britain and Ireland, 8vo. 1785.

(3) The Danger of the political Balance of Ireland. Tranflated from the French of the King of Sweden, 12mo. 1790. 2d Edition improved, 1791.

(4) A Speech delivered on the 19th of February 1789, in the House of Lords of Ireland, upon the Address to the Prince of Wales, 8vo. 1790

(5) The Hiftory of the principal Tran factions of the Irish Parliament from the Year 1634 to 1666, containing Proceedings of the Lords and Commons during the Administration of the Earl of Strafford and of the first Duke of Ormond: with a Narrative of his Grace's Life, collected from the Papers of Sir Robert Southwell, Knt. Secretary of State in Ireland, and Prefident of the Royal Society. To winch is prefixed a preliminary Difcourfe on the antient Parliaments of that Kingdom, 2 vols. 8vo. 1792.

(6) The Crifis: a Collection of Effays written in the Years 1792 and 1793, upon Toleration, Public Credit, the Elccuve Franchife, in Ireland, the Emancipation of the Irish Catholicks, with other interefting and mifcellaneous Subjects, 8vo. 1794.

(7) The Letters of Themistocles, 8vo.

1795.

(8) An Hiftorical Differtation upon the Origin, Sufpenfion, and Revival of the Judicature and Independency of the irish Parliament. With a Narrative of the Tranfactions in 1719 relative to the celebrated declaratory Law; extracted from the Papers of the late Lord Egmont, and a Comment on his Lordfhip's Opinion upon the Legislative Union of thefe Kingdoms. To which is added, the ftanding Orders of the Hofe of Lords, 8vo. 1795.

(9) Impartial Reflections on the prefent Crifis, compiled in four Effays-On the Economy of the prefent Stock of Cornthe Affize of Bread-Tithes-and a general Syftem of Inclofures, 8vo. 1796.

19. In the Fleet prifon, the once celebrated Mrs. Cornelly. She was by birth a German, and for many years was a public finger in Italy and Germany. She came to this country between thirty and forty years ago, and being of an enterprizing spirit, poffefling a good understanding, great knowledge of mankind, and fpecious manners, the con trived to raise herself into notice, and obtained the patronage of the fashionable world to all the amusements her taste and fancy fuggefted, For many years her large mansion (entitled Carlisle House) in Soho-square, was the fa❤ vourite region of amusement among the no. bility; and it was fo well contrived for di❤ verfified amusement, that no other public

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entertainments could prevail to rival its attractions.

The first event that fhook her influence was the introduction of an harmonic meeting, 25 a fort of competition with the Opera House. The proprietors of the latter were therefore alarmed; they applied to the magiftrates to fupprefs this novel amufement. Sir John Fielding vigorously interfered in their behalf, took Guadani, the chief finger of Carfifle House, into cuftody, and effectually put a ftop to the whole undertaking. This was a fevere blow to Mrs. Cornelly, because the had been at a confiderable expence to render the plan, if poffible, fuperior in attraction to the Italian Opera; yet, by her concerts, balls, and masquerades, fhe ftill made a confiderable Agure; but her expences were great, and her influence was evidently on the decline, when a fashionable amufement was inftituted among the ladies, entitled The Coterie. The blow, however, that finally crushed her was the Pantheon, the beauty and magnificence of which drew away all whose patronage could give fanétion to a public entertainment.

Her creditors then began to grow clamorous, and the was at length obliged to relinquish the concern, and feek in concealment a refuge from legal profecution.

She remained in obfcurity for many years, under the name of Mrs. Smith; but a year or two ago fhe came forward again—and here our readers will no doubt learn with furprife, not unmixed with rifibility, the ftrange tranfition in her fate; for the who was once a Leader of Fashion, became literally the Superintendant of Affes; for the kept a houfe at Knightsbridge, and was a vender of Affes milk.In this fituation, however, the still retained defire of refuming her former purfuits, and for this purpose ornamented a fuit of rooms, in order to have occafionally a public dejeune for people of fashion.

The manners of the times, however, were changed, and her taste had not adapted itself to the variations of fashion; and after much expence employed in gaudy and frivolous embellishments, fhe was obliged to abandon the fcheme, and feek an afylum from her creditors.

She had a fon and daughter, to whom she gave all the accomplishments of modern education. The fon was tutor to the prefent Lord Pomfret. He was a very amiable man, and an excellent fcholar. He allowed his mother an annuity till his death, which happened a few years ago. The daughter is still alive, and under another name, has long been patronized by some noble families, who knew her mother in better days. The late Lady Cowper left her an annuity, which she at present enjoys, and her musical talents procure her an easy introduction in polite circles.

Such was the fate of the once celebrated Mrs. Cornelly, whose melancholy end holds forth a warning to the imprudent; for with common difcretion the might have closed her life in affluence.

Lately, in the island of Jerfey, Charles D'Auvergne, father of Captain D'Auvergne (Prince of Bouillon) of the Royal Navy.

DEATHS ABROAD.

MAY 28. At Jamaica, Mr. Charles Hall, late of Preston, Lancashire.

22. At Port-au-Prince, St. Domingo, Lieutenant Thos. Farrel, of Colonel Dillon's regiment of Irish brigade.

Nov. 4. At Dinapore, in the East Indies, Lieut. Colonel Bruce, of the Bengal Artillery. At Jamaica, Mr. Toulfon, late furgeon at Cockermouth.

MARCH. At the Cape of Good Hope, Lieut. Alexander Simpfon, of his Majefty's fhip Crefcent.

JUNE 14. At Naffau, New Providence, Governor Forbes.

ERRATUM.

BY a mistake which we shall not trouble our readers with explaining the caufe of, fome part of the impreffion of our laft Magazine had a wrong account of the place where the Cathedral of Burgos ftands, we therefore intreat fuch of our readers as may poffefs that erroneous account will correct it by the following:

"BURGOS is a small Town, very ill-built, very dirty, and containing only one fquare, furrounded with wretched houses. Its Cathedral and the Archiepifcopal Palace are the only ed:fices that deferve attention. They are both Gothic, and both huge enough; the Cathedral efpecially, which contains fourteen or fifteen chapels, and a facrifty very grandly adorned. It would require a volume to register the riches that fome of those chapels contain. In the middle of the church there is an inclosed fanctuary, made after the manner of the holy chapel at Loretto, which was built long after the church, as one may fee by the ftyle of its architecture, which is of the Corinthian order. That fanctuary contains a miraculous crucifix, or Chrifto, as they call it there; yet not quite fo miraculous as another that is in the church of the Auguftines In the church of the Trinitarians there is a third, miraculous likewife. Without the town there are fome public walks, very pleasant, as they overlook a romantic landscape, beautified by the rapid and noisy river Arlanzon, which is crossed over by a stone bridge very well built," BARRETTI'S TRAVELS.

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European Magazine,

For

SEPTEMBER

1797.

[ Embellished with, 1. A MEDALLION of WILLIAM BECKFORD, Esq. of FONTHILL. And, 2. A VIEW of CARISBROOK CASTLE, ISLE of WIGHT.]

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A Defcription of the Villa of Mr. Horace Walpole, youngest Son of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, at Strawberry Hil, near Twickenham, Middlesex, 170 Memoirs illuftrating the History of Jacobinifm [Concluded],

Three Memorials on French Affairs, written in the Years 1791, 1792, and 1793. By the late Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke,

The Hiftory of the Reign of George the Third, King of Great Britain, &c. from the Conclufion of the Seventh Seffion of the Sixteenth Parliament in 1790, to the End of the Sixth Seffion of the Seventeenth Parliament of Great Britain in 1796,

The Roles; or, King Henry the Sixth; an Hiftorical Tragedy, represented at Reading School, O&tober 15, 16, and 17, 1795. Compiled chiefly from Shakspeare,

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Theatrical Journal; including Fable and Character of "The Irish Tar," Poetry; including The Ant and the Bee -Sonnet, written in the Grounds adjoining to Berkeley Cattle-Sonnet, on Revifiting Cheltenham Spring-Stanzas to a Friend, written from a reclufe Part of the Country, anno 1797--Sonnet to the River Eden-Sonnet to a young Lady labouring under a fevere Illness-Lines from a Gentleman to his Wife, on the Birth of a Child-Sonnet to a ruinous Caftle on the Sea.fhoreOn Cloe, playing on the Lute-Lines to the Memory of the late Mr. Jofeph Dean, Mathematician, of Hatton Gar. den-Sonnet to Religion-and Lines, by Lord Orford,

Account of the New Comet,

Droffiana. Number XCVI. Anecdotes,&c.

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State Paper,

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Journal of the Proceedings of the First
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Foreign Intelligence, from the London

Gazettes, &c. &c.

Domestic Intelligence,

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Marriages,

Outlines of an Attempt to establish a just and regular Equivalent for the Labour

Monthly Obituary,

Prices of Stocks.

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LONDON:

Printed for J. SEWELL, Cornhill,
and J. DE BRETT, Piccadilly.

VOL. XXXII. SEPT. 1797.

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