52 ANNUAL REG I STE R, 1794. 



Kerle; sir Alexander Hope. ofCran- 

 tnin ; and sir James Hope, of 

 Hopetoun. 



August (ith. Henry, earl Bath- 

 urst. 



At the jal.nce ofTuam, in Ire- 

 land, the right honourable and right 

 reverend Dr. Joseph Dean Bonrke, 

 archbishop of Tunm, primate of 

 Connaught, bishop of Ardagh, and 

 «ar] of Mayo. He was the second 

 son of .Tohn Bonrke, created lord 

 Kaas, of Naas in the county of 

 Kildare, Auerustl, ^7/6: advanced 

 to the difl;nity of a viscount on the 

 J 3th of .January, 1781 . by the title 

 of viscount Mayo, of Monycrower, 

 in that county, and carl of the 

 county of Mayo, 24th June, 1785. 

 Embracing the clerical function, he 

 ■was dean of the diocese of Dro- 

 rao.e, whence he was translated, 

 1772, to the see of Lcighlin and 

 Ferns, and to the archbishopric 

 «f Tuam, with the united bishop- 

 rics of Enachdoen and Avdagh, in 

 1782. His grace succeeded his bro- 

 ther as earl of Mayo, and took his 

 seat as such, January 20th, l/pi ; 

 and was married to Elizabeth, 

 sister of earl Cbnwilliam, in Octo- 

 ber, 1772. The archiepiscopal see 

 is now vacant ; but he is succeeded 

 as earl of Mayo by his son John, 

 viscovint Naas, M. V. for the bo- 

 jouEih of Naas. 



At Corn well-house, aged 36, Ri- 

 chard Burke, esq. M.P. for the bo- 

 Toiigh of Malton, and only sou of 

 the right honourable Edmund 

 Burke, esq. 



In the Middlesex- hospital, Mr, 

 Courtenay, the cekbrated perfor- 

 mer on the bagpipes. He died of 

 a dropsy, which he is snppofed to 

 faav* contracted by lard drinking. 



September. Princess Christi.ina 

 of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, sister K) 

 our most gracious queen. 



5th. Right honourable .Tohn Hcly 

 Hutchinson ; being at one and the 

 same time a privy-counsellor, re^er- 

 sionary secretary, of slate, major of 

 the 4th regiment of horse, provost 

 of Trin'ty-coUege, Dublin, and 

 sea.tcher, packer, and ganger of the 

 port of Strangford. The late eail 

 Guildford made the following re- 

 mark on him : " If England and 

 Ireland were given to this man, he 

 would solicit the isle of Man for a 

 potatoe garden." 



At Padua, thecountess Ernestina 

 Durazzo, daughter to the count de 

 Weissemwolf, bv the countess de 

 Marianna de Palfy. This lady pos- 

 sessed, in an eminent degree, every 

 accomplishment, external and inter- 

 nal, and was, at the age of sixteen, 

 appointed maid of honour and lady 

 of the bed-chamber to her Imperial 

 majesty, Maria Theresa, who deco- 

 rated her with the order of the 

 starry cross, in consequence of her 

 rare merit, and in testimony of her 

 royal esteem. In the year 1752, she 

 was marned to his excellency count 

 James Durazzo, a noble Genoese, 

 at that time envoy-extraordinary 

 from the S. R. of Gtnoa to the 

 Imperial court of Vienna, and who 

 was afterv ards appointed ambassa- 

 dor from the latter court to the 

 S. R. of Venice, in which capa- 

 city he resided upwards of twenty 

 years. 



At Fr.nnkfort, in his 26th year, 

 Universally regretted, for his anJable 

 endowments and military talents, 

 count Furstenbtirg. He was buried 

 there on the 26th, with all the mili- 

 tary honours. He began bis career. 



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