538- 



Ireland, 



[Jan. 1, 



barrel, ftwertj' ftone) of wheat, telsg part 

 of a parcel of at leafi twenty baneU. 



Died.] At CaftIpCopnell,near Limerick, tlie 

 P.tv. Richard Rcchc, of t!ie Or.ier cf St. 

 Dominick, late of the city cf Cork, fecond 

 fon to the late Sueplicn Roche John, efq. cf 

 the city of Lir/ieiick: he was a gentleman cf 

 great pifty, ard pofl'eil'ed a rooft charitaLIe 

 and huai^ne difpof.tion 



At liis fiat at Walworth, in the North of 

 Jrf!an.i, in his 67th year, the Right Hon. 

 John Btresford, M. F. for the county of 

 WvKerford, uncle to the Marquis of Water- 

 forri, aod a btither-iii-law of Marquis Town- 

 ihctid, a lord of trade and plantations, a 

 commillioner of the King's revenacs, taller 

 of v.inps in the port of Dublin, and a privy 

 courlVUu- in Ireland. He was the ffconj 

 Ion of the late Earl of Tyrone and Baronels 

 Dc Lal'ocr, and biotherto the late Marquis of 

 ■^■Vateiford. He was educated for the bar, 

 and called to it. but foon torfook it for the 

 crighter prcfpfcts u-hith the ferate held out 

 to his view. His family influence having, 

 at an early ppvioJ, procured him a feat in 

 the Houit cf CommooB. he appiitd hicnfclf, 

 with diligence, to the financial department, 

 particularly tiie cuftoms, and was firrt com- 

 niilhoner of the revenue for many years. In 

 piivate life no man was more beloved and 

 eiteemed. His manneis were nleafing and 

 his adijrei'i was elegant. He was a kind maf- 

 ter, a fincere friem!, a good father, and an 

 f^ceiient hufbai.d. At the age of ai he mar- 

 ritii Anne Ccndantia Ligcndej, a French 

 lady,of tne .^^rnily of Ligondcs, of Auvergne, 

 ■wlujfe grandfather, tjii Count tic Ligondts, a 

 gener.!l in the French ar.nv at the battle of 

 JFilenhtim, was taken priioner, and brought 

 to England. Here he mairJed the Couiitefs 

 cf Huntingdon, a relative of the prefent 

 dowager Countefs Moiia, mnther cf the Earl 

 (if Moira. The' couut.-fb haviiig gone to 

 France, took an opportunity to vilit tlie caf. 

 tie of Auvergne, and there found Mademoi- 

 fflle Ligondcs, her young and beautiful rela- 

 tion, preparing to enter a conv.int, as a no- 

 vice, and defined to talie the veil. Her 

 ladyfhip foon difcovered that the lot intended 

 for her fair friend was not her own choice, 

 but that of her father, in conformity with 

 the cuftom which then prevailed an^ong the 

 nobility of France, to er.ricn the elder 

 branches of tlie family by obliging the 

 ycujigtr to enter into relgious crdiirs. The 

 Countcfsof Moifa, aniticus to rcl'cue Madc- 

 mfifelle Lig-cndes from h/i urpieaf<.nt fitua- 

 tion, obtained permiHion for her young 

 t'litnd to accompany hei to Ireland, where 

 h::r )ady(hiu incurred l:!e violent difpleafure 

 of tlie Romau Catholic clergy, for rosbi.-.g 

 the, church of fo fair a prize. Anathemas, 

 denunciations, and intcrJittions, were thun- 

 doicd a^ainlt her ladyihip and her ch.irge. 

 Ir was even feared an attempt would be made 

 tu^arry her eft; ana, for the be'tf r I'f curity, 

 Madeu.oilelle i.igundes wai aliced Uiidci the 



care of Lady Betty Cotbt, who refideJ a^ 

 her fathc-r-inlaw's, the Archbifhop of Dub- 

 lin's pala'je. There Mr. Beresford, who was 

 brother to Lady Betty Cobbe, had frequent 

 opportunities of feeing this beautiful n\i 

 perfecuteJ young lady, and won her affec- 

 tions. Their marriage foon followed ; and 

 the caufe of the Romiffi church thus be- 

 coming hopelefs, the fury of the clergy gra- 

 dually died away. By this amiable lady, 

 whodiedin 1772, Mr. Beresford had four 

 fons and five daughters. Marcus, his eldeft 

 fon, was married to Lady Frances Leefon, 

 daughter to the hrft Earl of Miltoirn, and 

 died at the age of 33 years. He was a lawyer 

 of high elliiiiation, and had attained great 

 praflice at tlie Irilli bar. His fecond fon ia 

 George Dc la Poer, Biihnp of Kilmore, and 

 married to Frances, ('aughter of Gervaife 

 Parker Bu(he, efq. of Kilfane. Third, Joha 

 Claudius, married to Mif'? Menzies, and hte 

 member for tl-.c city of Dublin j and Charles 

 C'cbbe, in holy orders. His eldeft daughter, 

 Catharine, married the late Henry Theophi- 

 lus Clements, brother of the lite Earl of 

 Leitrim. Elizabeth died young. Henrielta- 

 Conftantia, mairied to the iiic Robert Uni- 



acke, efq. and now to Doyne, efq.' 



Jane, ninrried to George, eldeft fon of Sif 

 Hugh Hill, bart. of Londonderry j and Ams •. 

 rintha, unmarried. In 1774, ^'^^- Beits- 

 ford married Mils Barbara Mur.t(;omery, fe- 

 cond daughter vi Sir William Montgomery, 

 bart. and fiftrr to the Marchionefs of Town- 

 fliend, who died in 17S3 ; by v/hom he had 

 five daughters and three fans. 



At Mount Ploalant, near Dublin, Dean 

 Kirwan, tl.e celebrated preacher. His 

 dilorder wasa fever, which carried himoftafter 

 a few days illr.efs The nunr.erous charita- 

 ble inftitotioiis of that cily will long feel 

 and lament his Icfs. Many of them owe 

 their txiilence and profperiry to his unparal- 

 Icle.i exertions, where, regardlcfs cf his in- 

 firm ftatc Of health, to ufe the language of 

 Mr. Grattan, ♦« in feeding the lamp of cha- 

 rity, he almoft cxhaufted the lamp of life." 

 Endowed with talents beyond the common 

 lot of mankind ; gifted with powers of elo- 

 quence which formed as it were an asra ia 

 the annals of pulpit oratory, he devoted thofe 

 talents and that eloquence Co 'he fervice of 

 .his God and of tlie poor. In the caufe of 

 religion, impreiTivc, commanding, over- 

 whfl.Tiing, vice Ihrunk appalled from the 

 refiftiefi torren, and tvsimbkd at its own de- 

 formity. In the caufe of charity, energetic, 

 perfualive, irrefiftible ; he turned the mailer 

 pa.lions at liis will, now roufed with dread, 

 now meltea with compafiionj whilft every 

 bofom glowed with re-animated feeling, ard 

 the fweet iDlluence of benevolence throbbed 

 in every pulfe, and poured fro.-n every eye. 

 The charailer cf his eloquence, howevei, in 

 the opinion of the beft jud^jes, was rather too 

 declamatory: his figures were grand, but at 

 tides rather too dating ; but his manner wa» 

 feividj, 



