5.0 Biographical Memoirs of Eminent Persons. QMAY, 



the East-Indies, where one of their ances- 1787? Elizabeth Grenville, sister to George, 



tors, William Proby, Esq., was Governor first Marquess of Buckingham, by whom he 



of Fort St. George, Madras. Sir Thomas had three daughters. 



Proby was created a baronet in 1662 ; but, In 1789, his Lordship was elevated to 

 dying without male issue, the title became the dignities of Earl of Carysfort and Vis- 

 extinct. His great nephew, Sir John Proby, count Proby, of the Kingdom of Ireland. 

 K.B., born in 1720, a Lord of the Admi- He sat in the House of Commons till 1001, 

 ralty, a Privy Councillor, &c., was created when he was raised to the English peerage, 

 Baron Carysfort, in 1752. His eldest son, as Baron Carysfort, of Norman Cross, 

 by the Hon. Elizabeth Allen, sister, and Allied to Lord Grenville, in politics, as well 

 co-heiress with her sister Baroness New- as by marriage, his Lordship followed the for- 

 haven, of John, third Viscount Allen, was tunes of that nobleman, and enjoyed several 

 John Joshua, afterwards Earl of Carysfort, places under government. At one period, 

 to whom this sketch refers. he was joint Post-master General ; joint 

 His Lordship was born on the 12th of Keeper of the Rolls in Ireland, in 1789 ; 

 August, 1751. He received the early part Envoy to the Court of Berlin, in 1800 ; 

 of his education at Eton, where he was and Ambassador to the Court of St. Peters - 

 esteemed an excellent scholar, and remark- burgh, in 1801. 



able for his suavity of manners. He after- Although so often in place, Lord Carys- 



wards studied at Trinity College, Cam- fort appears to have been a Parliamentary 



bridge. He married, in 1774, Elizabeth Reformer. He published, in 1780, a letter 



Osborne, only daughter of the Right Hon. to the Huntingdonshire Committee, to shew 



Sir William Osborne, of Newtown, in the the legality, as well as necessity of extend- 



County of Tipperary, Bart., by whom he ing the right of election to the whole body 



had issue, William Allen, Lord Proby, of the people, and of abridging the duration 



Captain R. N., who died at Surinam, in of Parliaments ; Thoughts on the Consti- 



1804 ; John, his successor, present Earl of tution, in 1783 ; and Dramatic and Mis- 



Carysfort, a Major-general in the army ; cellaneous Pieces, 2 vols., 8vo. in 1810. 



Granville Leveson, Post Captain, R. N. ; His Lordship died at his residence, in 



and two daughters. His lady dying in Upper Grosvenor Street, on the 7th of 



1783, Lord Carysfort married, secondly, in April. 



MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



SHOULD the rains continue, in the excess experienced during several past weeks, much 

 damage would ensue, upon cold and wet soils, both to the crops and condition of the 

 fallows ; but the appearance of change gives hope of dry and warm weather, under the 

 beneficial influence of which, at this season, evaporation speedily takes place. The variable 

 state of the atmosphere, has had a very unfavourable effect on the constitutions of invalids, 

 more particularly the aged ; and has caused the usual variety of discolouration in the wheat 

 plant, sickly pale, yellow and brown, of a deep tinge. This variety of colour in the blight 

 has caused a needless, and somewhat ludicrous alarm in the country, as though it were 

 a new case. For a practical exposition of the nature and effects of atmospheric vicissitude 

 on vegetables, recourse should be had to the New Farmer's Calendar. The warm, unsea- 

 sonable weather of February, succeeded by the frosts, harsh, constantly varying tempera- 

 ture, and drought in March, of necessity produced the above morbid appearances in the 

 wheat and grass. But the roots of the wheat, a radical concern, may be presumed yet 

 unaffected ; and a series of warm and genial weather will, no doubt, prove a remedy for 

 the merely external disease. The last year clovers have suffered the greatest damage, 

 being, in many parts, nearly cut off. It is remarkable that the wheats are every where 

 reported to be thickly planted ; indicating, we suppose, that the farmers, in the last autumn, 

 were not sparing of seed ; and that the mischief from vermin was fortunately not so great 

 as had been apprehended. The bottoms of the grass are, also, said to be thick ; and, should 

 a warm May succeed the late rains, a very bulky crop of grass may be expected. In the 

 mean time, there is a full bite of sheep feed. All the spring crops, including barley and 

 tares, are now above ground, remarkably forward, and of a healthy and promising appear- 

 ance. The cold and unfavourable weather, in March, retarding the growth of grass, had 

 one, not very often deemed good, effect : that of aiding those farmers who were over- 

 stocked, in the disposal of their superfluous winter keep. That uncommon inconvenience 

 is now at an end ; and it is to be hoped, that the casualty of a single season will not 

 induce farmers to be slack, in future, with respect to such indispensable provision, in fact, 

 one of the best proofs of good farming. The lands are in a forward state for potatoe plant- 

 ing, which has commenced ; but the great difficulty, lately experienced, in getting rid of 

 this article, at any price, will, no doubt, check that very extensive culture, which has had 

 place during the two or three last seasons. Great quantities of unsaleable potatoes have 

 been given to cart horses, a very washy and unprofitable food for labouring cattle ; and 



