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of the lives and moral principles of the 
Brahmins. It is said that he offered to 
appropriate £100,000 to found a college 
in Aberdeen, on an enlarged plan of edu- 
cation, with a reservation on points. of 
religion. To, this, however, the sanction 
of the Legislature could not be procured, 
and the plan was, consequently dropped. 
His property, vested in the funds and 
otherwise, is supposed to be not Jess than 
a million and a half sterling. Whether he 
has left a will is uncertain; if not, as he 
was unmarried, his immense fortune, it is 
understood, will be divided amongst seven 
nephews and nieces; of whom are Lady 
Pole, wife of Sir William Pole; Mr. Fra- 
ser, a gentleman well known at the bar; 
Mr. George Mortimer, a merchant in Lon- 
don; and Mr. James Mortimer, and his 
sisters, residing in the neighbourhood of 
Aberdeen. 
Mr. Farquhar died suddenly of apoplexy, 
at his house in the New-road, opposite the 
Regent’s-park. He had taken an airing 
in his carriage the preceding day; he re- 
turned home about seven in the evening; 
he went to bed at his usual hour, between 
ten and eleven o’clock, in good health ; and 
when the servant took breakfast to him in 
the bed-room at eight o’clock in the morn- 
ing, he appeared to haye died without a 
struggle, for his eyes and mouth were 
closed and his countenance tranquil. His 
remains were interred at St. John’s Wood 
chapel on the 13th of July, attended by 
several of his relatives and a numerous 
body of respectable friends. 
THE MARQUESS OF WATERFORD. 
July 16,—Henry de la Poer Beresford, 
Marquess of Waterford, Earl of Tyrone, 
Baron de la Poer, of Curraghmore, county 
of Waterford, Baron Beresford, county of 
Cayan, in Ireland, Baron Tyrone, of Ha- 
verfordwest, in the peerage of the United 
ingdom a Baronet, K,P., a Privy Coun- 
sellor in Ireland, Colonel of the Waterford 
Militia, Governor of the County of Water- 
ford, a Trustee of the Linen Manufacture, 
&c. was born on the 23d of May 1772. 
His mother was Elizabeth, daughter and 
heiress of Henry Monk, Esq., of Charle- 
ville. His Lordship received his education 
at Oxford. His father having been raised 
from the dignity of Earl of Tyrone to that 
of Marquess of Waterford, in the year 
1789, he assumed the former title. In 
1805 he married Lady Susan Hussey Car- 
penter, only daughter and heiress of George, 
second Earl of Tyreonnel, by whom he 
had a son, his successor, born in 1815, and 
four other children. He succeeded his fa- 
ther in the Marquisate in 1800. His Lord- 
hip was long considered as the leader of 
the aristocratic party in Ireland, and rival 
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his brothers is Archbishop of Armagh, and 
another, M.P. for the county of Water- 
ford, and Comptroller of the King’s House- 
hold, was long at the head of the Irish 
Revenue; and, altogether, the power of 
the family was so great, that they were 
able to contend with Earl. Fitzwilliam, and 
to compel him to quit the Viceroyalty of 
Ireland. His Lordship had been some time 
ill; but his health was considered to be so 
much improved, as to render it safe for him 
to undertake a journey to Buxton. He 
was unable, however, to proceed beyond 
Carmarthen, where, to the deep regret of 
all who knew him—for his disposition was 
of the most excellent and amiable charae- 
ter—he died. 
JOHN BRUCE, ESQ. 
April 16—John Bruce, Esq., of Grange- 
hill and Falkland, F.R.S. of London, 
Edinburgh, and Gottingen, was born about 
the year 1744. He was the heir male and 
representative of the ancient family of 
Bruce of Earl’s Hall, one of the oldest 
cadets of that illustrious house; but he did 
not succeed to the estate of his ancestors, 
which was transferred by marriage into 
another family. He inherited from his 
father only the small property of Grange- 
hill, near Kinghorn, the remains of a larger 
estate which his family acquired by marriage 
with a grand-daughter of the celebrated 
Kirkaldy, of Grange. 
Educated at the University of Edinburgh, 
Mr. Bruce was distinguished by his abilities 
and extensive erudition ; and, at an early 
age, he was appointed professor of logic. 
His lectures on pneumatology were much 
celebrated. During the absence of Dr. 
Adam Ferguson, he was prevailed on at a 
short notice to teach his class of moral 
philosophy; and during the greater part of 
that winter, besides revising, and often re- 
casting his own lectures, it was his custom 
to compose in the evening the Jecture which 
he was to deliver in the class next forenoon, 
The late Lord Melville, to whose family 
Mr. Bruce was distantly related, entrusted 
him with the education of his son, and 
accorded to him his valuable patronage. 
His lordship, in the first instance, obtained 
for him, conjointly with the Jate Sir James 
Hunter Blair, a grant of the reversion of 
the patent of King’s printer and stationer 
for Scotland; an office, howeyer, which 
did not open to them for fifteen or sixteen 
years, Whenat the head of the Board of 
Control, Lord Melville, preparatory to a 
projected regulation in India affairs, em- 
ployed him to draw up an “ Historical. 
View of Plans for the Government of 
British India, and the Regulation of the 
Trade with the East Indies.” Mr. Bruce 
executed his work so ably, that his patron 
procured for him the appointments of 
Keeper of the State Paper Office, Latin 
Secretary to the Secretary of State, and 
Historiographer to the East-India Com- 
