to whose house he was conveyed. He was laid on a mattress supported by chairs. Lord Powerscourt, in the utmost anxiety and alarm, rode full speed for medical assistance, leaving his brother Mr. Wingfield to pay every attention possible, as he most kindly did, to the Duke. Medical aid, even if it could have been applied immediately, would have been of no use. The injury was too severe to be counteracted by human skill. Life was extinct before any surgeon arrived.

It has been said, that the Duke in his dying moments made use of the expression "I am off:"-he did so; but not, as has been very erroneously supposed, by way of heroic bravado, or in a temper of unseasonable levity; but simply to signify to his attendants, who, in pulling off his boots, had drawn him too forward on the mattress, and jogged one of the chairs out of its place, that he was slipping off, and wanted their aid to help him up into his former position. He was the last person in the world to be guilty of any thing like levity upon any solemn occasion, much less in his dying moments. The fact was, when he used the expression "I am off," he had become very faint and weak, and was glad to save himself the trouble of further utterance. Those words were not the last which he pronounced, but he said nothing at all that could be thought allusive to death. One of his young friends, his most constant companion, has often said of him, that he was the most intrepid man he ever knew, and there is no doubt that he met his fate with firmness; but Mr.

Wingfield, who was present and vigilant during the whole melancholy scene, never heard him say a syllable from which it could be inferred that he was conscious of his approaching end. His principal wish was to be left quiet. He died so easy, that the precise moment when he breathed his last could not be ascertained.

The Countess of Bandon, who died on July 7th, 1815, in the 48th year of her age, was distinguished for the excellence of her heart and understanding, and the cultivation of her mind. Her conversation was of a superior cast, and her letters were models of epistolary composition. She displayed her taste and love of knowledge by the formation of a valuable library, by her attachment to botanical and agricultural pursuits, and by the promotion of every laudable undertaking. lent her aid to many of the most useful establishments of Dublin, as well as to the Cork Institution and the Farming Society of the neighbourhood; whilst the improvements at Castle Bernard, from which she was seldom long absent, and which were directed by her own judgment, were sufficient evidences of its correctness,

She

The more peculiar distinction of this lady was the Christian grace of charity, in which she truly abounded. By her sole bounty she for many years supported a school for twenty-four young women, now united to the General Female School of Bandon, of which she was the patroness and foundress, and which is conducted on a scale of enlarged liberality that would do credit to any similar institution in the P 2 United

United Kingdom. From these unceasing exertions of benevolence, she had established such a character that her decease was lamented as a public calamity by rich and poor in the district of her residence, and in which she has left a memory that is likely to be as long and as beneficially remembered, as the good she has done will be durable.

The susceptibility of her mind was too keen for the bodily frame in which it was enclosed, and her death was accelerated by her feelings for the fate of a much-loved son. One of her sons, the Hon. Francis Bernard, Lieut. of the 9th Dragoons, died in Portugal in the service of his country, on January 24th, 1813, in the 24th year of his age. Another son, the Hon. Henry Boyle Bernard, Cornet of the King's Dragoon Guards, fell gloriously in the battle of Waterloo, in his 18th year.

1. The Right Hon. Lady Penrhyn, widow of Richard Pennant, Lord Penrhyn, and daughter and heiress of General Warburton, of Winnington, Cheshire.

5. Lieut.-gen. Sir Geo. Prevost, late Governor-in-chief and commander of the forces in the British colonies in North America, in his 49th year. He was the son of Major-gen. Prevost, who served under General Wolfe at Quebec. Sir George began his service in the West Indies, where he distinguished himself at St. Vincent, at Dominica, of which he was appointed governor, and at St. Lucia.

In 1808 he obtained the post of Lieut.-governor and commander in Nova Scotia, and in the same year acted as second in command at the capture of Martinique.

He afterwards succeeded General Sir James Craig in the chief command, civil and military, in North America, which he held till his return to England in 1814.

6. The Hon. Sir Edw. Crofton, bart. in his 38th year, at Mote Park, co. Roscommon.

At Warsaw, F. Narodsky, a Polish gentleman, at the age of 125. He married a second wife at 92, by whom he had a daughter now living.

8. At Weilburg, the Prince of Nassau Weilburg.

10. The Lady of Gen. Sir Cornelius Cuyler, bart.

10. At an advanced age, Eliz. Dowager Marchioness of Waterford, relict of George De la Poer Beresford, Marquis of Waterford, who died in 1800.

In his 89th year, Henry Harington, M. D. alderman of Bath, eminent as a classical scholar, a man of wit, and a musical composer.

17. John Heath, esq. one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas.

19. Sir Thomas Windsor Hunloke, bart. of Wingerworth, Derbyshire.

20. The Princess of Mecklenburg Schwerin, of the house of Saxe Weimar.

21. The Princess of Nassau Weilburg.

22. Sir Drummond Smith, bart. of Tring Park, Herts.

24. The Hon. Apsley Bathurst, D. C. L. son of the late Earl B.

Dame Eliz. Twisden, relict of Sir John Papillon Twisden, bart.

27. Samuel Viscount Hood, Admiral of the Red, and Governor of Greenwich Hospital, in his 92d vear. He was raised to the peerage

age in 1782 for his distinguished service in the action with De Grasse, where he acted as Rearadmiral in the Barfleur. His latest services at sea were in the Mediterranean in 1793, where he took the naval command at Corsica and Toulon; after which he returned on account of ill health. His lordship was next in seniority to Earl St. Vincent on the list of admirals.

28. In Prussia, Field-marshal Mollendorff, aged 92, supposed to be the oldest general in Europe.

29. Elizabeth Laura, Countess of Waldegrave, in her 56th year.

John Baring, esq. aged 85. He had been M. P. for Exeter for 35 years.

31. Lady Graves, widow of Admiral Sir Thomas Graves.

February.

1. Joshua Viscount Allen, a peer of Ireland, in his 88th year.

Lady Stanley, widow of Sir J. T. Stanley, bart. of Alderley.

3. Sir Hen. Dampier, knt. one of the Justices of the King's Bench, in his 58th year.

Eleanor Viscountess of Wilton, in her 67th year. She was daughter and co-heiress of Sir Ralph Asheton, bart. of Middleton, Lancash.

4. Richard, Viscount Fitzwilliam, of the kingdom of Ireland, in his 71st year. He bequeathed to the University of Cambridge, in which he was educated, a sum of money to build a museum as a repository for all his pictures, prints, books, statues and busts, gems, bronzes, &c.

Robert Hobart, Earl of Buckinghamshire, President of the India

board of Commissioners, and Clerk of the Common Pleas in Ireland. His Lordship's death, in his 56th year, was in consequence of a fall from his horse some time since in St. James's Park.

8. The Countess of St. Vincent, aged 75.

14. Hon. Mrs. Townshend, widow of the Dean of Norwich, in her 85th year.

15. John Peyto Verney, Lord Willoughby de Broke, a Lord of the Bedchamber.

Henry Fawcett, esq. M. P. for Carlisle.

Sir W. Forbes, bart. in his 68th year.

J. Fownes Luttrell, esq. of Dunster Castle, upwards of 40 years M. P. for Minehead, in his 64th year.

Adm. R. M'Douall, in his 87th

year.

17. Lady Slingsby, aged 81, relict of Sir T. Turner Slingsby, bart.

19. Louisa Grace, Duchess of St. Albans, with her infant male son.

21. Lady Charlotte, wife of She Rear-adm. P. C. Durham. was daughter of the late Earl of Elgin and Kincardine.

22. Adam Fergusson, esq. L.L.D. in his 93d year; formerly Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, and author of several esteemed works.

In his 90th year, Hon. Henry Nairne, son of Lord Nairne, and a zealous adherent of the house of

7. Vice-adm. Sir Wm. Mitchel, in his 71st year.

8. Grace, Countess-dowager of Farnham, in her 82d year.

11. Dowager Lady Hamilton, widow of Gen. Sir. R. Hamilton, bart. aged 90.

Albinia, Countess Dowager of Buckinghamshire, and eldest daughter of Lord Vere Bertie, in her 78th year.

Col. Latouche, M. P. for Carlow. Lord Charles Beauchamp Kerr, son of the late Marq. of Lothian. Sir Simeon Stuart, bart.

Sir John Odingsells Leeke, aged 69.

M. Guyton Morveau, the celebrated French chemist, member of the Institute, and ex-member of the Convention, at an advanced age.

April.

1. Eliz Baroness Say and Sele,

14. Mr. W. Walker, aged 49, astronomical lecturer, and inventor of the Eidouranion and Celestina.

2. Rear-adm. Peyton, in his 66th year.

3. Adm. Sam. Cornish, in his

Lady Emily Latouche, wife of Robert L. esq. M. P. and dau. of the first Earl of Clancarty.

4. At Leghorn, J. Pollexfen Bastard, esq. M. P. for Devon. At the Cape of Good Hope, Major-gen. Joseph Baird, aged 58. 7. At Verona, The Empress of Austria, in her 28th year.

1. The Right Hon. Patrick Duigenan, a Privy Counsellor in Ireland, and M. P. for the city of Armagh, aged 81. He was brought

brought up to the Irish bar, and became professor of the civil law in the University of Dublin; but entering into parliament, he chiefly engaged in political life, and, though descended from a Roman Catholic family, distinguished himself by his violent opposition to the Catholic claims. He pub

lished various tracts on Irish politics, and from the places which he obtained, appears to have been regarded as an useful auxiliary in the government of that island.

14. Richard Malone, Lord Sunderlin, of Ireland. After sitting in parliament for two Irish counties, he was raised to the peerage in 1785. The title became extinct at his death.

15. Sir Simon Le Blanc, a Judge of the Court of King's Bench, in his 68th year. He was of high reputation in his legal and judicial capacity.

17. East Apthorp, D. D. Prebendary of Finsbury, in his 84th year. This learned divine was a native of Boston, in New England, whence he was sent for education to Jesus college Cambridge. He returned to America as a missionary, and founded an episcopalian church at Cambridge N. E. He published there several sermons, and having at length quitted his church and returned to England, he engaged, under the sanction of Archb. Secker, in a controversy with Dr. Mayhew of Boston, on the mission of bishops to North America, and on the conduct of the society for propagating the gospel in foreign parts. He was collated by the primate to the vicarage of Croydon, where he diligently performed the duties of a parish priest, and published

a variety of works, among which were "Letters on the prevalence of Christianity before its civil establishment, with Observations on Mr. Gibbon's History of the Decline of the Roman empire." This work is respectably men. tioned by the historian, who, however, speaks of it as only preparatory to a notice of himself. Another of his publications was, "Discourses on the Prophecies," preached at Dr. Warburton's Lecture.

18. Lord Arthur J. Hen. Somerset, M. P. for Monmouth, and brother to the Duke of Beaufort, in his 37th year.

23. Thomas Johnes, esq. of Hafod, M. P. for Cardigan, and Lord-lieut. of the county, aged 67. This gentleman rendered himself well known by his creations of picturesque beauty, and his extensive improvements around his mansion, and by the treasures of art and literature which he collected in it, and which induced him to give to the public translations of Froissart's and Monstrelet's Chronicles, and the travels of Brocquiere and Joinville, illustrated by many curious appendages.

26. Geo. Hardinge, esq. Justice for the counties of Glamorgan, Brecknock, and Radnor, F. R. S. and F. S. A. in his 72d year. He was distinguished for his wit and learning, which last he acquired at Eton and Trinity college, Cambridge; and was much admired both at the bar and from the bench. He largely contributed to the "Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century," with many of the subjects of which he was intimately acquainted.

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