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OBITUARY OF THE MONTH. 
THE EARL OF WHITWORTH. 
T Knowle Park, in the county of Kent, 
in the 65th year of his age, after an ill- 
ness of afew days, the Right Hon. Charles, 
Earl Whitworth, Knight Grand Cross of 
the Bath, Lord of Trade and Plantations, 
High Steward of Stratford-upon- Avon, 
D.C.L. &c. ; some time Lord Lieutenant 
of Ireland, and representative of his late 
Majesty at the Courts, of Warsaw in 1786; 
Russia in 1788; Denmark in 1800; and 
France in 1802; in which latter situation, 
his prompt and dignified repression of the 
intemperate address, in full Court, of the 
Ruler of France, is celebrated throughout 
Europe. The first member of this family 
who was ennobled was Charles, the eldest 
son of Charles Whitworth, esq. of Adbas- 
ton, in the county of Statford, who, after 
filling various important missions abroad, 
was created a Baron of Ireland by George 
I. ; but dying without issue, the title be- 
came extinct, and the late Earl was a 
grandson of a younger brother of the first 
Baron. His Lordship was created Baron 
Whitworth, of Newport Pratt, in the 
county of Galway, in 1800; Viscount 
Whitworth, of Adbaston, in the county 
of Stafford, in 1813; Baron Adbaston, 
and Earl Whitworth, in 1815. In 1801, 
he married Arabella Diana Duchess of 
Dorset, widow of John Frederick, the 
third Duke,’ sister to the Hon. C. C. 
Jenkinson, and has died without issue, so 
that the title becomes extinct. His Lord- 
ship’s loss is universally lamented by his 
neighbours, and especially by the poor, to 
whom he was a sincere, active, and judi- 
cious friend. It was his habit and delight 
to employ, in occupations suited to their 
strength, poor old men and women about 
his house, garden, park, and farm. In 
this useful charity he spent some thousand 
pounds a-year ; and the aids, privately ren- 
dered to objects of compassion in other 
ways, by the Earl and his consort, the 
Duchess of Dorset, were very extensive. 
He was an amiable and kind-hearted man 
in all the relations of private life, and was 
considered by all who knew him one of the 
best examples of an English nobleman. 
BISHOP OF SALISBURY. 
John Fisher, late Bishop of Salisbury, 
was the eldest son of a clergyman of the 
same name, Prebendary of Preston, in the 
church of Sarum, and Rector of Calbourn, 
inthe Isle of Wight. He was born 1748 ; 
educated at St. Paul’s School, and entered 
at St. Peter’s College, Cambridge. In 
1773 he was educated a Fellow of St. John’s 
College in the same University. In 1780 
he was appointed Preceptor to his Royal 
Highness Prince Edward, afterwards Duke 
of Kent. In 1781 he was nominated 
Chaplain to King George III., and in 1786 
a Canon of Windsor. In 1803 he was con- 
secrated Bishop of Exeter. In 1805 ap- 
pointed Preceptor to her Royal Highness 
Princess Charlotte of Wales; and in 1807 
translated to the See of Salisbury, in the 
possession of which he died May 8, 1825, 
aged 77. 
The principal feature in the Bishop’s 
character was the command of his temper. 
Suffering during life under bodily indisposi- 
tion, he was seldom heard to complain, but 
bore pain with a patient smile, well known 
to those about him. He seemed to make 
it his first study that the mind should not 
partake of the irritability of the body. If an 
expression of impatience escaped him, it 
was followed by instant placability ; and a 
restlessness, discovered itself in a manner, 
until by some act of kindness, every un- 
pleasant impression was effaced from the 
mind of the offended party. His anger was 
never proyoked on his own account ; seldom 
stirred, except when he heard the absent 
attacked ; a practice in which he never in- 
dulged himself, nor was able silently to en- 
dure in others; it Yoused him in his most 
placid moods. From pride of place and 
person he was entirely free; and although 
he passed the larger portion of his life in the 
intoxicating air of a Court, was distinguished 
by the personal friendship of his Sovereign, 
and elevated to the highest rank of his pro- 
fession, he preserved uniformly his natural 
character. Mild, quiet, humble, and un- 
assuming, he was ready always to attribute 
his rise to the preference of his Royal 
Patron, rather than to his own deserts. If 
vanity eyer discovered itself, it was when 
he related with honest pride the act of self- 
denial and integrity to which he owed his 
advancement. And this, he used to thank 
God, he had the grace to practise, and the 
King the goodness to appreciate. Of his 
piety and charity it is not meet to speak: 
excepting only this: that his unbounded 
benevolence was at once the ornament and 
fault of his character. He wished:to oblige 
and serve every man that approached him ; 
and by his urbanity and accessibility, led the 
over sanguine to entertain hopes he never 
intended to raise, and which no human 
means ‘could realize. Such a disposition 
was incompatible with the vice of avarice. 
He expended a large portion of the revenue 
of the See in acts of benevolence, and left 
his Bishoprick as he came to it, the master 
only of his private fortune. . 
On Monday last his remains were interred 
with appropriate ceremony in St. George’s 
Chapel, at Windsor. The body was con- 
veyed in a hearse drawn by six horses, capa- 
risoned with purple velvet covering and rich 
plumes of ostrich feathers, with escutcheons 
and armorial bearings. The hearse was 
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