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in detail; proceed we, therefore, towards 
the close of his brief but well-spent life. 
Recommencing his journies into the dis- 
tant parts of the diocese, -his' lordship ar- 
rived at Tanjore on the 25th of March last. 
From that period till the moment of his 
earthly departure, each day was devoted to 
some public office connected with his eccle- 
siastical functions. On the morning of the 
26th (Easter Sunday) his lordship delivered 
an eloquent and impressive sermon on the 
Resurrection, at the mission church of Tan- 
jore; and in the evering he gratified the 
native congregation by pronouncing the 
Apostolic benediction in the Tamul lan- 
guage. On the 27th, his lordship held a 
eonfirmation. On the 28th, he paid a visit 
of ceremony to his Highness the Rajah of 
Tanjore, under the customary honours. 
On the 29th and 30th, he visited and in- 
spected the mission sehools and premises ; 
on the 3lst, he proceeded to Trichinopoly, 
where he arrived on the following day ; on 
the 2d of April (Sunday) he preached twice ; 
and on the 3d, he visited a congregation 
of native christians. On the two last- 
mentioned days his lordship complained of 
head-ache, and was unusually drowsy ; but 
no serious apprehensions were entertained 
by himself or his friends. On his return 
from his visit to thenative congregation on 
Monday, he entered a bath, as was his cus. 
tom. ‘Soon afterwards he was seized with 
apoplexy; and when his servant, alarmed 
at the length of his stay, entered the bath- 
ing-room, he found that life was extinct— 
he had expired in the water. Medical aid 
was immediately procured, but without 
effect. 
When the news of the deceased prelate’s 
death arrived at Fort St. George, his Ex- 
cellency the Governor directed that the 
flag of the garrison should be immediately 
hoisted half-staff high, and continue so dur- 
ing the day; and that forty-six minute 
guns, corresponding with the age of the 
deceased, should be fired from the saluting 
battery. 
THE BISHOP OF CLOYNE. 
The Right Rev. Father in God, Charles 
Mongan Warburton, p.p., Lord Bishop 
of Cloyne, was born about the year 1755. 
—We have seen it stated that the ori- 
ginal name of this prelate was Mongan 
—that he was the son of a poor road-way 
piper in a little village in the north of 
Treland—that he was a Roman Catholic, 
and intended for the priesthood, — that 
while upon the Continent, whither he had 
been sent to study in one of those chari- 
table institutions endowed for the edu- 
cation of Roman Catholic priests, before 
the building of Maynooth College, he 
was thrown by accident into the society of 
the Earl of Moira—and that, obtaining that 
nobleman’s favour, he was induced to 
change his destination from the Roman to 
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the Protestant church... Still under ‘the 
patronage of Lord: Moira, he’ ‘was, “after 
taking holy orders, appointed’ chaplain toa 
regiment in North ‘America; where ohe 
married his first wife, a lady particularly 
recommended by his. woble patron: 6\'Fhat 
lady dying soon afterwards, he married his 
second wife (now his widow), upon which 
occasion he took the name of Warburton. 
Secure in the road to wealth and promo- 
tion, he became Dean of Armagh, ‘after- 
wards Bishop of Limerick, and ultimately 
Bishop of Cioyne. The latter bishoprie, 
the best in the south of Ireland (both as 
to profit and honor), is said to be worth 
£7,000 a-year. At Limerick Dr.Warbur- 
ton was much esteemed for his liberalband 
courteous manners, and his family held 
there the first rank in society.’ His trans- 
lation to the See of Cloyne produced an 
addition of £3,0U0 a-year to his revenue. 
The accumulation of wealth appears ‘to 
have been a grand object with the ‘Bishop. 
At Limerick, from its comparatively gay 
and expensive society, he was not allowed 
to indulge that propensity ; but’ from ‘the 
hour of his arrival at Cloyne, which is'a 
retired situation, he continued rapidly to 
increase his fortune. He is understood to 
have left £12,000 amongst his children, 
three sons and one daughter ; one of whom 
is a Colonel in the army, another a Major, 
another in the Church, and the daughter 
married to Archdeacon Maunsel, at Li- 
merick. About twelve months! ago/'the 
Bishop experienced, in the death ofa’ fa- 
vourite daughter, a calamity from’ the ‘ef- 
fects of which he never fully recovered. 
Miss Selina Warburton, who died of a de- 
cline, brought on, as it is believed, bya mis- 
placed affection, was a particularly amiable 
and benevolent young woman. Her father 
allowed her the interest of £25,000, her 
promised fortune, almost every shilling‘of 
which she expended in relieving the wants 
of the distressed. Her remains were ear- 
ried to the grave amidst the lamentations 
of the numerous objects of her bounty; 
and the whole parish mourned for her as 
for a public benefactress.. That Dr. War- 
burton should have been devotedly attached 
to such a daughter is not surprising. From 
the day of her death he broke in health and 
spirits—his frequent practice was to ‘Visit 
the grave where she rested—his last) in- 
structions were that he should be Jaid by 
her side. About a week before his death 
he came into the church, and paused’ for 
some moments in painful silence over’ the 
last home of the departed. ‘He marked 
out the spot where he was soon to’ lie— 
pointed to it with his finger, exclaiming 
“there! there!” raised his hand ‘tothe 
wall immediately over it, and appeared to 
trace with mournful bitterness of heart, 
the epitaph that would probably record his 
virtues and his honours. He’ then slowly 
passed away, with his eyes directed’ tothe 
earth, as though he had taken a last fare- 
