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Frederick Ponfonby, bis lorddiip's younger 

 fons, and Lady Lifmore, all of" whom fat up 

 with him the preceding night. Aware that 

 death was approaching, he took an affetVion- 

 ate leave of each, fliook hands with them, 

 and, turning on his pillow, died without a 

 groan. Lady Ponfonby, worn out by fatigue 

 and incefTant watching, had been carried out 

 of the room. His lord(l-.ip had juft entered 

 his fixty -third year. He was the eldell 

 fou of the Right Hon. John Ponfonby, young- 

 eft fon of the late Earl of Belborough, and 

 many years Speaker of the Lilh Houfe of 

 Commons, by Lady Elizabeth Cavendifli, 

 daughter of the late Duke of Devonlhire. 

 He was a man of the moft aftive and lively 

 mind, remarkably fond of the cliace, and 

 kept the beft hunting eftablilhment in Ire- 

 land, at his feat, Bilhop's-court, county of 

 Kildare, where he lived in the moft hofpita- 

 ble and princely ftyle. T here was no m.vn 

 more beloved by his relatives and friends j 

 fie was an affeiSionate hulband, the fondeft 

 father, the kindeft and moft indulgent land- 

 lord and matter. Nor was his political cha- 

 racter lefs amiable ; he was a man of Itrong 

 mind and found f«nfe, and in the many par- 

 liaments, in which he reprefented the county 

 of Kilkenny, never gave a vote his confcience 

 did not approve. He was the early and fteady 

 friend of the late Mr. Fox, whofe principles 

 he adopted on every occafion. While Ireland 

 had a parliament of her own, his lordfhip, 

 (then ftlr. Ponfonbj) was one of its moft 

 diftinguifhed members, and was engaged in 

 all the interefting fcenes which have taken 

 ])lace there, for the laft twenty years. At 

 the Union, he ftill continued to reprefent the 

 county of Kilkenny ; till, on the change of 

 adminiftration in February, 1806, he was 

 elevated to tlie dignity of the peerage. In 

 1769, he married the Hon. Louila Molef- 

 worth, daughter of the third Vifcount M., 

 and one of the moft accomplifticd and amiable 

 women of the age, by whom he had feveral 

 chilclrcr,. He has left a daughter, the lady 

 of Vifcount Howick, and four fons, John, 

 now Lord Ponfonby, married to Lady Frances 

 Villiers, daughter to the hte £arl of Jerfey ; 

 the Hon. and Rev. Richard P., who refides 

 at his living in the county of Kildare; and 

 tile Hon. George and Frederick P. The 

 Right Hon. George Ponfonby, the Lord 

 Chancellor of Ireland, is his lordfhip's only 

 brother J the Countefs of Shannon, and Lady 

 Lifmore, are his furviving fifters. 



At his feat, Galloway-houfe, near Dum- 

 fries, of the gout in his ftom.ich, Jchn, Earl 

 bf Calloivay, Vifcount Garlies, and in 1796, 

 created Baron Stewart in Great Britain, 

 Knight of the Thiftle, and Lord Lieutenant 

 of Wigtownrtiire, He fuccecded to the ho- 

 nours and eftatcs of his father in 1773. His 

 ritft wife was Lady Charlotte Mary Grevillc, 

 daughter of the tirft Earl of Warwick, by 

 wliom he had one f«n, who did not long fur- 

 vivc his mother* His lordihip married fe- 

 tondly, Anne, d'au;.'hter of tlie Ute Sir James 

 MoKTHVY M^a. No. iijo. 



Da(hwood, bart., by whom he has had iflue, 

 eight fons and eight daughters; Alexander, 

 who died young ; George Vifcount G.vrlies, 

 married to a daughter of the Earl of Uxbridge ; 

 Levifon, died young; William, a colonel in 

 the army, married to the daughter of the 

 Hon. John Douglas; Charles James ; Mont- 

 gomery Granville John ; Edward Richard, 

 married to a d.iughter of Lord Elelio; James. 

 The daughters weie, Catharine, married to 

 Sir James Graham ; Sufan, married to the 

 Marquis of Blandford ; Harriet, married td 

 Lord Spencer Stanley Chic helter ; Elizabeth, 

 married to W. P. In^e, cfq. ; Georgiana, 

 who died in 1 804 ; Caroline, married to the 

 Hon. and Kev. George Ruihout ; Charlotte, 

 married to Sir Edward Crofton. Of this nu- 

 merous family his lordihip enjoyed the pecu- 

 liar fatisfaclion of hearing this teftimony 

 borne, " tljat all the fons were brave, and ail 

 the daughters viruous." The deceafed no- 

 bleman was much devoted to agricultural pur- 

 fuits, and was long admired for his tafte for 

 mulic. He is fucceeded in his titles ani 

 eftates by his eldeft fon Vifcount Garlics. 



In St. Luke's workhoufe, at the advanced 

 age of 94, Thcmas Trougklan, a painter, re- 

 markable for a wen in his eye. He had been 

 for fome years palt a pauper on the town, and 

 was the laft furviver of the unfortunate crew 

 of the I^fpettor Privateer, which v.s wrick- 

 ed in Tangier Bay, Janv.ary 4. 174.')-6. Of 

 thefe, only 96 were favert f om drowning, 

 and immediately carriel into llavcry up to 

 Fez in Morocco ; where, after fuftering in- 

 credible hardfhips for near live years, 5'2, the 

 whole furviving remainder were redeemed 

 by the bounty of his late Majefty, G.'orgd 

 the Second, from the Morocco Emperor. Oa 

 their return home, they had 51. each, and 

 Mr. Rich, of Coven' Garden, gave them a 

 benefit, as did the proprietor of Sadler's 

 Wells, where they appeared in their iroit 

 chains and collars, as they worked in Havery. 

 The Jews were alfo partkularly generous to 

 them, and gave them cloathing. Troughton 

 publilhed a book, entitled '• Uarbarian Cruel- 

 ty," difplayed with cuts, which he fold by 

 fubfcription in 1731, in which he was afTifted 

 by one Peter Lebau, a fellow fufterer, who 

 died about 'JO years ago. This latter kepB 

 a well known public-houfe, in Spital-fields, 

 with the fign of the Turkiili Slave, in the 

 late Sir Benjamin Truman's trade. 



[Furt'iter pariiculars of Sir IVilfrcd La-wfotlf 

 bart., luhoje death is mmthr.ed nt p. 8.5 of 

 NuiTibcr 146. Sir Wilfred Lawfon, was one of 

 thole eftimable men who, in the calm of do- 

 meftic life, and the enjoyment of private fo- 

 ciety, derive pleafure fiom the dilcharge of 

 their duties. He had not the ambition to 

 ihine upon the turf, or to figure at the gammg- 

 table. But he was deferveJly belovc-<l in hi* 

 own neighbourhood, although a manger t» 

 oftcntatiun and the arts of popularity. Inftead 

 of fpending his time and lortune in the diffipa- 

 tidn of the metropolis, he lived in the old 

 Britilb Ityle upon his eftatcs, giving emplov- 

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