John Cust, by whom he had a son, 1771, a daughter, 1772. She died 1779; and he took to his second wife, 1782, the relict of Owen Meyrick, esq. of Dyffrynales, co. Denbigh.

At his house in Ely-place, Dublin, sir Alexander Schomberg, knt. the eldest captain in the royal navy, his commission being dated in 1757. During this extensive period he had the honour of commanding his majesty's yacht the Dorset, stationed in the port of Dublin. He was an experienced and gallant officer, displayed great bravery at the relief of Quebec, and had a thorough knowledge of naval tactics. His remains were interred in St. Peter's church yard, Dublin, attended by his two sons, the rev. George Schomberg, and captain Alexander Schomberg, of the royal navy, as the chief mourners; admirals lord Lecale, Hawkins, Whitshed, sir Chichester Fortescue, captains Lambert Brabazon, and Edward O'Brien, were pall-bearers.

At his house in Great Georgestreet, Westminster, general sir William Fawcett, K. B. colonel of the 3d regiment of dragoon guards, and governor of Chelsea college. He was of a very ancient and respectable family; and born at Shipden hall, near Halifax, in Yorkshire, which, for many centuries, had been in the possession of his ancestors, and is now the property and residence of their lineal descendant. His father dying when he was very young, his education was superintended by an uncle, a very worthy clergyman. He was brought up at a free-school in Lancashire, where he was well grounded in classical learning, and became also remarkable proficient in mathema

tics. He has very frequently been heard to declare, that, from his earliest youth, he always felt the strongest predilection for the army, which his mother and nearest relations constantly endeavoured to dissuade him from; but, finding all their arguments ineffectual, they either bought, or he had an ensigncy given him, in general Oglethorpe's regiment, then in Georgia; but the war being then going on in Flanders, he gave up his ensigncy, and went there as a volunteer, furnished with letters from the late marquis of Rockingham and Mr. Lascelles (afterwards lord Harewood), to the commander and several others of the officers. This step was at the time far from unusual for young men of spirit, of the first rank and fortune, to take.

He entered as a volunteer, but messed with the officers, and was very soon presented with a pair of colours. Some time after he married a lady of good fortune and family, and, at the pressing entreaties of her friends, he most reluctantly resigned his commission; which he had no sooner done, than he felt himself miserable, and his new relations finding that his propensity to a military life was invincible, agreed to his purchasing an ensigncy in the third regiment of guards. Having now obtained the object of his most anxious wishes, he determined to lose no opportunity of qualifying himself for the highest situations in his favourite profession. With this view he paid the most unremitting attention to his duty, and every hour he could command was given up to the study of the French and German languages, in which (by the assistance of his classical learning) he soon became such a proficient as not only

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to understand and write both, gram. matically and elegantly, but to speak them fluently. When he was a lieutenant in the guards, he translated from the French, "The Reveries; or, Memoirs upon the Art of War, by Field-marshal Count Saxe," which was published in 4to. in 1757, and dedicated "To the General Officers." He also translated from the German, "Regula tions for the Prussian Cavalry," which was also published 1757, and dedicated to major-general the earl of Albemarle, colonel of the king's own regiment of dragoons. And he likewise translated from the German, "Regulations for the Prussian Infantry," to which was addel, "The Prussian Tacticks, which was published in 1759, and dedicated to lieutenant-general the earl of Rothes, colonel of the third regiment of foot guards. Having attained the situation of adjutant in the guards, his abilities and uuremitting attention soon became conspicuous; and, on the late general Elliot's being ordered to Germany in the seven years war, he offered to take him as his aid-de-camp, which he gladly accepted. as it gave him an opportunity of gaining that know. ledge which actual service could alone impart. When he served in Germany, his ardour, intrepidity, and attention to all the duties of his situation, were such, that on the death of general Elliot, he had immediately offers both from the late prince Ferdinand, the commander in chief, and the late marquis of Granby, to be appointed aid-decamp. By the advice of a noble earl now dead (who hinted to him that the German war would not last for ever) he accepted, the offer of the latter, after making due ac2

knowledgments for the honour intended him by the former. In this his new situation, his ardour and attention were, if possible, increased, which gained him the friendship of all those attached to lord Granby, particularly of a noble lord (now living, and highly conspicuous both by his rank and talents), who, being fixed upon to bring to England the account of the battle of Warburgh, gave up his appointment to capt. Fawcett; an instance. of generous friendship which he always spoke of with the most heartfelt gratitude. On his arrival in England he was introduced by the then great minister to his late majesty king George the second, who received him most graciously, and not the less so, on his giving the whole account in German. Soon after, he was promoted to a company in the guards, with the rank of lieutenantcolonel in the army, and became military secretary to, and the intimate friend of, lord Granby. His manners were formed with equal strength and softness; and to cool. ness, intrepidity, and extensive military knowledge, he added all the requisite talents of a man of business, and the most persevering assiduity, without the least ostentation. Notwithstanding the most unassum. ing modesty, his abilities were now so generally known, that he was fixed upon as the most proper person to manage and support the interests of his country, in settling many of the concerns of the war in Germany; and by that means necessarily be came known to the great Frederick (that supereminent judge of merit such as his) from whom he afterwards had the most tempting and dazzling offers, which he declined without hesitation, preferring the

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service of his king and country to every other consideration. The many eminent and honourable situations he has since held are too well known, both in England and Germany, to be here mentioned; and the manner in which he performed the duties of his several offices, will long be gratefully remembered by his country as well as every individual who had business to transact with him. The honors paid to his memory by the most exalted characters in this kingdom are perhaps unparalleled, and bear the most ample testimony to his merits. On Saturday the 31st, at half past one, his body was removed from George-street; the hearse was preceded by the horse of the deceased, bearing his sword, &c. &c. &c. followed by the prince of Wales, dukes of Clarence and Kent, lords Jersey, Chesterfield, and Curzon; generals Fox, Sir A. Clarke, Hulse, Garth, Wynne, Burrard, &c. in four royal carriages and six or seven mourning coaches and four. The procession passed along St James's-street, Piccadilly, and Sloan-street. On reaching the northern gate of the college, the corpse was met by the dukes of York and Cambridge, and a great number of general officers. The pall was supported by 8 generals.

27th. At Brompton-grove, Maria Louisa Françoise D'Esparres La Lusan, comptesse de Polastron. Her remains were deposited in a vault in St. Pancras church-yard, with great funeral pomp, the body being first embalmed, and inclosed in a lead coffin, outside of which was a case magnificently covered with crimson velvet, and ornamented with, very great taste and splendour. The funeral was conducted with much elegance and taste, and mov

ed along in the following order: Two mutes, four priests in their robes, two men bearing an urn (in which the heart of the deceased was inclosed), the body with the pall supported by friends of the deceased, eighteen mourners. Among the latter were several relations of the deceased, who was of the house of Bourbon, and dame du palais to the late unfortunate queen of France. The funeral is of a temporary nature, as the remains of the countess are to be removed to Paris after the war, to be interred in the vault of her ancestors.

28th. At Montreal, the hon. William Pitt Amherst, second son of Lord A.

At his house, at Bath, Charles Lord Dormer. He is succeeded by his son the hon. Charles Dormer.

30th. At her house in Wimpolestreet, in an advanced age, Elizabeth, relict of Sir John Peachey, of Westdean, Sussex.

In his 46th year, Sir Clement Brydges Jacob, bart. of Bromley, Kent.

April 1st. In Austin-friars, about one o'clock in the afternoon, after a few hours illness, Mrs. Elizabeth Le Mesurier, wife of Havilland Le M. esq. commissary-general to the army late in Egypt and the Mediter. ranean; leaving to her disconsolate husband, and to six surviving children, the example of amiable manners and of unspotted purity of soul, and the comforts of religious faith.

At the earl of Harborough's, in Leicestershire, Mrs. Monkton, widow of the late hon, Gen. M.

5th. In his 80th year, at Vicar's hill, Boldré, in the New Forest, Hants, to which vicarage he was presented by his pupil, col. Mitford, author of the history of Greece,

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and brother of lord Redesdale, the Reverend William Gilpin, M. A. of Queen's college, Oxford, and also prebendary of Salisbury. He kept for many years a respectable boarding school at Cheam, in Surry, in a house built for the purpose, with rooms 25 feet square, by his predecessor the Reverend Daniel Sanxay. This establishment he resigned to his youngest son William, who yet keeps it. He first attracted notice by his merit as a biographer, beginning, 1753, with the life of his lineal ancestor, the celebrated Bernard Gilpin, commonly called "the northern apostle," rector of Houghton le Spring, co. Durham; a striking instance of the effect of attention and perseverance of an incumbent on the reformation of an extensive parish in the northern wilds. Mr. W. Gilpin was a successful imitator of his example; and there are not wanting instances, in these modern times, where patient waiting in an incumbent and his wife has been followed by the same good consequence in southern parishes; and a conscientious incumbent will never despond. This life was accompanied, 1755, by that of Latimer, and followed by others of John Wicliffe, John Huss, Jerome of Prague, and Zisca, 1765, and archbishop Cranmer, 1784. Upon his retirement into the country, he took a strong propensity to drawing its various scenery. He printed, 1788, two sermons preached at the visitations of the bishop, 1788, and the chancellor of Winchester, 1780. "Lectures on the Church catechism," 1779, 12mo, reprint ed 1792. "Exposition of the New Testament," 1790, reprinted in two volumes 8vo. In the same year, 1790,"Observations rela

tive chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain, particularly the Highlands of Scotland," 1789; a second edition 1792. Observations relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1772, on several parts of England, particularly in the mountains and lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland,” 1776, 2 volumes 8vo; two succeeding editions: again, 1792, “Remarks on forest scenery," 1791, 2 volumes 8vo. "Essays [three] on picturesque beauty," "Picturesque travel, and the Art of sketching landscape," two editions, 8vo, "Forest scenery," 2 volumes Svo. 1791 and 1794. Essay on prints," 4 editions. "Observations on the river Wye, and several parts of South Wales, &c. relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the summer of the years 1770 and 1782," 1793, 8vo. of which two more editions.--- "Picturesque remarks on the western parts of England," 1798, 8vo. "Sermons to a country congregation; and Hints for sermons," 1800, 2 volumes 8vo. a third 1803. "Moral contrasts; or the power of religion exemplified under different characters," 1798, 8vo.

"Amusements of clergymen," 1796, 12mo. "Life of John Trueman and Richard Atkins, for the use of servants'-halls, farm-houses, and cottages." "Aecount of Wm. Baker."

Mr. G. having appropriated a collection of his sketches for the endowment of a parish school at Boldré, under the inspection of certain of his friends, of which an account may be seen in the second report of the society for bettering the condition of the poor; they were sold by auction by Mr. Christie, in May

principal purchasers were, sir Robert Hervey, Ladies Tankerville, Beauchamp Proctor, Lords Ossulston, and De Blaquiere, Messieurs Vansittart, Locke, Legge, Maitland, Davenport, Forbes, Alexander, Rogers, Dr. Monro, and col. Mitford. Independent of representing Nature not as she really appears, but as Mr. G. conceives she ought to appear, to form picturesque scenery, his language on these subjects, is justly liable to the strong remonstrance of the author of the "Pursuits of Literature," in his Part IV. p. 225 & seq.

Mr. G.'s brother Sawrey has long been distinguished as a painter of animals. He etched a complete set for his brother's Forest Scenery. Besides these there were in the auction several others. In the removal of the effects after the death of Mr. Blamire, who first published Mr. G.'s picturesque works, the plates from which these animals were taken were irrecoverably lost. To the copy of Mr. G.'s three essays on picturesque beauty, &c. were added the drawings whence the prints were etched, and the remarks given by Sir Joshua Reynolds to Mr. Mason 1776, on the first essay, and Sir Joshua's letter to Mr. G. 1791. To the catalogue were annexed the author's account of the principles on which the drawings are executed. 9th. In Berkeley-square, Lord Viscount Bury, eldest son of the earl of Albemarle. His remains were interred in the family vault near Quiddenham-hall, Norfolk. The coffin was covered with grey cloth; and on the plate was the following inscription:

The Right Hon. Wm. Visc. Bury, Died the 9th of April, 1804. aged 11.

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At Geneva, in an advanced age, after a short illness, Mons. Necker, formerly minister of finance, in France. Madame Stael Von Holstein, now residing at Berlin, is his only child, and inherits all her father's property, which is calculated to amount to five millions of livres. Since the death of his wife, in 1796, he regarded lite with disgust, and passed regularly every day some hours by the side of the coffin containing Madame Necker. He desired, in his will, that both their bodies should be buried together in a vineyard on his estate.

11th. In Dean-street, Audleysquare, Mrs. Hales, sister of sir Philip H. bart.

12th. At Dupplin-castle, in Perthshire, after a lingering illness, Robert Auriol Drummond Hay, eighth earl of Kinnoull, viscount Dupplin and baron Hay. He succeeded his father in 1758, having been M. P. for the University of Cambridge in the parliament of 1741, 1747, and 1754, in the two last of which he was chairman of the committee of privileges and elections. In 1741 he was appointed one of the commissioners of the revenue in Ireland; in 1746, one of the commissioners of trade and plantations; in 1754 one of the com missioners of the treasury, and joint paymaster of the forces with the earl of Darlington; in 1757, first lord of trade; and, in 1758, chancellor of the duchy and county palatine of Lancaster, and one of his Majesty's most honourable privy council; in 1759, ambassador to the king of Portugal, at whose

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