Charles Medows Pierrepont-baron Pierrepont and viscount Newark. Charles earl of Liverpool-to bear the arms of Liverpool, together with his family arms, by the express defire of the corporation of Liverpool. Hon. John Rodney-commiffioner of the victualling-office. Marquis Townshend-governor of Jersey. General fir William Fawcett, K. B.-governor of Chelsea Hof. pital. Robert Cullen, esq.-lord of the feffion in Scotland. The prince of Wales colonel of the 10th regiment of dragoons. August 2. Generals John duke of Argyll, Jeffrey lord Amherst, Studholme Hodgson, George marquis Townshend, lord Frederick Cavendish, and Charles duke of Richmond -field-marshals. 20. Robert viscount Caftlereagh -earl of Londonderry. Sept. 1. Hon. Arthur Paget, fecretary of embassy to the court of Madrid. Benjamin Garlike, efq.-fecretary of legation to the court of Berlin. 21. John earl of Chatham--prefident of the council. 30. Earl of Kinnoul, and lord Dupplin, his son-lord Lyon king at arms for Scotland. Oa. 10. General Henry Lawes, earl of Carhampton-commander in chief of the forces in Ireland. Nov. 3. Major-general fir Ralph Abercromby, K. B.-colonel of the 2d regiment of dragroons. Major-general Welbore Ellis Doyle -colonel of the 53d regiment of foot. Major-general Gerard Lakecolonel of the 73d regiment of foot. General lord Adam Gordon-go. vernor of Edinburgh Castle. Lieutenant-general Charles Rainsford-governor of Tinmouth Caftle. 30. John duke of Roxburgh-a privy-counsellor. 30. Lieutenant-colonel Charles Green-governor of Grenada. Dec. 3. Major-general John Graves Simcoe-governor of such parts of St. Domingo as are in the poffeffion of the British. 3. Major-general the honourable Charles Stuart-general in Portugal only. 3. Major-general Simon Frafer -lieutenant-general in Portugal only. many useful and ingenious inventions, and lived to fee, befides other works, five editions of his valuable inftitutes of phyficks. 16. In his 56th year, HenryWilliam Portman, elq. of Bryanftone-place, co. Dorfet; whose large eftates in the weft of England, and in the county of Middlefex comprifing the ground-rents of Portman-fquare, and feveral ftreets in its neighbourhood), devolve to his only fon, Henry Berkley P. efq. M. P. for the city of Wells. Mr. Chas. Leving, bart. Deare. 19. Wm. lord Belhaven. Sir William Burrell, bart. LL D: chancellor to the bishop of Worcefter, 1764; F. R and A. SS, 1754; and commiffioner of excife, 1774. He was third fon of Peter Burrell, efq. of Beckenham, Kent; admitted of St. John's college, Cambridge, where he ftudied the civil law, and proceeded LL.B. 1775, and LL.D.. 1780. He married, April 13, 1773, Sophia, daughter of Charles Raymond, efq. of Valentine-houfe, Effex, who was created a baronet May 3, 1774, with remainder, in default of maleiffue, to William Burrell, efq. of Beckenham, and his heirs-male by Sophia his wife, by whom he has left two fons and two daughters. 1 27. At Limerick, in Ireland, in his 30th year, Samuel Crumpe, M. D. M. R. I. A. He was gifted with talents, and poffeffed of information, that promised to raise him to an high degree of eminence in his profeffion, and in the literary world. He had acquired no small celebrity, as an author, by the publication of "An Inquiry into the Nature and Properties of Opium," and of "An Effay on the best Means of providing Employment for the People; which laft was honoured with a prize-medal by the royal Irith academy, and procured him admiflion among the members of that body. 27. Sophia Maria Jofepha, vifcountess Southwell, of Ireland. 29. Dowager lady Throckmorton. Lately, in his 80th year, Mr. John Fyfield, of Stanbridge, near Romfey, a man of a moft eccentric turn of mind and great fingularity of conduct; the manor of Stanbridgehe inherited from his ancestors, and it had been many generations in his family. He was of a penurious difpofition, yet would scarcely ever fuffer any of the timber on his eftate to be felled, though it abounded with the finest in the country, a great deal of which was yearly perishing; the price of 50 guineas had indeed once tempted him to part with his far famed oak-tree, but he repented of his bargain, and was happy to repurchase it, almost immediately after, at a higher price. All repairs of his manfion were prohibited, as an useless extravagance that would bring him to poverty; and whilft such a fuperfluity of materials as would amply have repaid the expences, and rendered his habitation comfortable, were rotting at his door, he chofe rather to refide in it with the roof open in many places to the heavens, with hardly an apartment that afforded shelter from the weather, and with the joifts and floors rotting with the wet that entered: the out-buildings were in a fimilar state of decay, and their repair was alike prohibited. He was totally blind for many of the latter years of his life, when his chief enjoyment ment was a pint of strong beer, which he usually quaffed twice or thrice a week at the Duke's lead, at Great Bridge (about a mile from his own house), whither he was led by a boy that conftantly attended him. For a long feries of time he had a strong antipathy to the making of a will, confidering it as a prelude to a speedy death; but the arguments of his late wife, whose influence, repressed or turned into an harmless channel many of his fingularities, and her representations of the unprovided ftate of his younger children, at length prevailed over his prejudices, and induced him to leave them handsome legacies. With all his oddities he had a heart open to friendship, and has frequently given fubftantial proofs of his regard for those who could indulge him in them. His landed eftates, which are pretty confiderable, go to his eldest son, and are supposed to have fufficient timber on them, in want of felling, to pay the legacies. Feb. 7. At Oxen heath, Kent, in his 87th year, tir Francis Geary, bart. admiral of the white. He was created a baronet by the title of fir Francis Geary, of Polesden, Surrey, in confequence of his marrying Mifs Bartholomew, a Kentifh lady. 9. Viscountess Llandaff of Ireland. 13. Elizabeth, lady of fir John Smyth, bart. of Sydling St. Nicholas, in Dorsetshire; by whom she had feveral children, three only furviving her. She was the daughter and folé heiress of Robert Curtis, efq. of Willsthorpe, co. Lincoln, barrifter at law, and niece of Matthew Wyldbore, efq. of Peterborough, member for that city. Aged 81, his ferene highness Henry-Auguftus, reigning prince of Hohenloe Ingelfingen, chief of the illustrious house of that name. He was born July 11, 1715. 15. Thomas Arthur, viscount Southwell, of Ireland. In his 64th year, Mr. Emanuel Elam, of Leeds, formerly a confiderable American merchant, and one of the people called quakers. He had retired from bufiness several years ago, with a fortune of nearly 200,000l. It was this gentleman and his brother Samuel who were the principal purchasers of the valuable estate which was fold in October last, belonging to the marquis of Salisbury, near Leeds, for 155,000l The elder Mr. Theluffon offered 150,0001. and James Armitage, efq. of Hunf let, near Leeds, 154,000l. Mr. Leatham, of Barton, near Malton, and Mr. Dowker, one of the tenants, were the other purchasers. 17. Jas. Macpherson, efq. M. P. Aged 51, M. Dombey, a celebrated French botanist, who was several years employed by the king of Spain, in collecting and defcribing the plants and other natural productions of Peru. After his return from that country he retired to Lyons, and continued to refide there till lately, when he was appointed by the national convention, to undertake another voyage to America, for the purposes of natural history. He accordingly embarked at Brest for Philadelphia; but the ship he was on board was taken by the English and carried into Antigua, where he died. At Vienna, in his 77th year, count Trautmansdorff, the emperor's chamberlain. March 8. Sir Wm. Cha rWm.Chambers, knt. At At Shrewsbury, Lady Knowles, widow of the late admiral fir Charles Knowles, bart. 10. The hon. John Forbes, aged 82, the oldest officer in the navy, and general of marines. He was appointed poft-captain in 1736, rear admiral in 1747, and admiral in 1758. In 1781 he was appointed admiral of the fleet. He was remarkable, above all other men, for his extenfive and universal knowledge of naval affairs, having studied them in all their branches, with a perfeverance, and observed upon them with an acuteness and judgment altogether unparalleled. His mind was capable of embracing the greatest and moft complicated objects; and, having bent it towards the study of that profeffion of which he was allowed, by the universal voice of his contemporaries, to be a principal ornament, he attained fuch a fummit of nautical skill as rendered him the oracle of all those who were most eminent, whether in the direction of the fleets of this nation, or in the equally arduous task of fuperintending the civil departments of the different branches of the marine. In the earlier part of his life, he was peculiarly noticed as an able, enterprising, and intrepid officer. He served with much reputation under Sir John Norris, and was no less diftinguished as captain of the Norfolk, of 80 guns, in the action of Matthews and Lestock with the combined fleets of France and Spain, when his gallantry contributed in a high degree to save his brave friend admiral Matthews, whose fécond he was in that engagement. So bright was his honour, and so clear his reputation in those turbulent days, that though his evidence on the trial of the admirals went wholly against Admiral Lestock, yet that officer was often heard to declare, "that Mr. Forbes's testimony was given like an officer and a gentleman." In lord Chatham's war, admiral Forbes was selected as the ablest assistant the first lord could have in the management of the Admiralty, and conducted himself in a manner highly creditable to his abilities, and eminently ferviceable to his country. When the warrant for executing the unfortunate admiral Byng was offered for fignature at the Admiralty Board, admiral Forbes refused to sign it, at the same time humbly laying at his late majesty's feet his objections. A copy of the paper given by the admiral to his majesty on that occafion, may be seen in Smollet's History of England. During a late administration it was thought expedient to offer a noble lord, very high in the naval profession, and very deservedly a favourite of his fovereign and his country, the office of general of the marines, held by admiral Forbes, and spontaneously conferred upon him by his majesty as a reward for his many and long services. A message was sent by the ministers, to say it would forward the king's service if he would resign: and that he should be no lofer by his accommodating the government, as they proposed recommending to the king to give him a pension in Ireland of 30001. per ann. and a peerage, to descend to his daughter. To this admiral Forbes sent an immediate answer; he told the ministers, the generalship of the marines was a military employment, given him by his majesty as a reward for his services; that he thanked God he had never been a burthen to his country, which he had served during a long life to the best of his ability; and that he would not condescend to accept of a penfion or bargain for a peerage. He concluded by laying his generalship of the marines, together with his rank in the navy, at the king's feet, entreating him to take both away if they could forward his service; and, at the same time assuring his majesty, he would never prove himself unworthy of the former honours he had received, by ending the remnant of a long life as a penfioner, or accepting of a peerage obtained by political arrangement. His gracious master applauded his manly spirit, ever after continued him in his high military honours, and, to the day of his death, condescended to shew him strong marks of his regard. 11. At her house in Kildarestreet, Dublin, after a lingering illness, in her goth year, the countess-dowager of Aldborough. 13. At her house in Great Cumberland-ftreet, lady Bridget Tollemache, relict of Mr. Tollemache (brother to the Earl of Dysart) and mother of major Tollemache, who lost his life in the service of his country, at the fiege of Valenciennes. Lady Bridget was a daughter of chancellor earl Northington, and successively the wife of Mr. George Fox Lane and the hon. Mr. Tollemache, who was a captain in the navy, and fell in an unfortunate rencontre at NewYork, with major-general, then captain, Pennington of the guards. By Mr. Tollemache she had an only fon, Lionel-Robert, who fell honourably in the trenches before Valenciennes. Lady Bridget struggled under this severe stroke nearly two years, with all the fortitude that a great mind could call forth, and at length expired the victim of her parental affections. The character of this accomplished woman naturally took its various colouring from the strange viciffitudes of her fortune. Her mind, however, was always elevated and commanding; and, though the facrificed somewhat to fashionable life, the ever kept aloof from those vices which have so long disgraced it. To a strength of intellect, which the derived from her noble fire, she added a delicacy of imagination, and a brilliancy of wit peculiar to herself. 15. Countess of Ludlow. 17. Suddenly, in Manchestersquare, the marchioness of Winchester, wife of George Powlett, esq. who on the death of the late duke of Bolton, succeeded to the title of marquis of Winchester. 19. At his house in Lincoln'sinn fields, of a rheumatic fever, Gorge Bond, efq. one of his majesty's serjeants at law; whose profeffional eminence was deservedly acquired by persevering industry in the laborious pursuit of legal knowledge. Of the gout in his stomach, in his 33d year, Mr Stephen Storace, whose abilities as a composer are sufficiently known by those original airs in the dramas of "The Haunted Tower," "No Song No Supper," "My Grandmother," &c. &c. Few men in any province of genius have more rapidly afcended to fame and independence. His style of composition was formed upon the Italian model; and, in his airs for many voices, and in choral energy, he followed the musicians of Italy with great success. He was diftinguished in private life for threwdness, penetration, and knowledge of |