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as a 8o!dier in the French service, 

 and served after ward* in Russia, 

 where, by his bravery, he obtained 

 the order of St. George. He made 

 all the reccut campaigns in the 

 Prussian service, and owing to his 

 gallant conduct in the action of 

 Hockleim, obtained the order pow/- 

 le vierite. He was wounded, Se|i- 

 temljcr 20, at the capture of Kaiser- 

 slautcrn, and died, on the 24th, the 

 death of a hero, and a victim to his 

 humanity, in consequence of four 

 wounds. He gave quarter to a 

 Frenchman, but, on turning round, 

 the Frenchman took up his musquet 

 and killed the count in a dastardly 

 and cowardly manner. General Blu- 

 chershe'.vedhimseli equally humane, 

 but had the gojd fortune to bj miss- 

 ed by the man to whom he had just 

 given quarter. 



At Clifton, ner Bristol, in his 

 85 th year, the most reverend Richard 

 Robinson, D. D. lord bishop of Ar- 

 magh, primate of all Ireland, aiid 

 baron Rokeby. He was admitted 

 a king's scholar at Weutminster in 

 1722, elected to Christ Church, Ox- 

 ford, 1726; obtained a prebend at 

 York, 17 . •; and, in 1/31, attended 

 the duke of Dorset, lord lieutenant 

 of Ireland, as his first chaplain, and 

 was the same year promoted to the 

 bisboprick of Killala. Whe.i tlie 

 duke of Bedford was lord-lieutenant 

 of Ireland, he was traislated (in 

 1759) to the united sees of Leigh- 

 lin and Ferns, and (in 17*5l) to 

 Kildare. In 17&, when the duke 

 of Northumberland was lord-lieu- 

 tenant, he was advanced to tiie pri- 

 macy of Ireland, and cfjustitiued 

 lord-almoner ; and, by the duke of 

 Cumberland (then chancellor of the 

 university of Dublin), wasappointtd 

 vicc-chaj^(,gjlor, in which ofhcc he 

 w»s co.ijjjj^gd by the dukes of IJvd- 



fordandGloucester, successive chan- 

 cellors of that university, in 1777> 

 when earl Harcourt was lord-lieur 

 tenant of Ireland, the king was 

 pleased, February 26, to create hi ni 

 baron Rokeby of Arma^^h in the 

 kingdomof Irel -nd, with remainder 

 to Maithew Robiiison,of West Lay* 

 ton, Yorkshire, esq. ; and, in ]7^3» 

 he was appoiiited prelate of the 

 most illustiious ord rof St. Pitrick. 

 In 17S7, he was appuiiiied one of 

 the lords-justices of Ireland, with 

 the lord-chancellor and the speaker 

 of the house of commons. He suc- 

 creded to the title of baronet, on 

 thedeath of his brother, sir William, 

 in 1785. He was the last survivor, 

 in the male line, of ilie ancient far 

 mily of Robinson of Rokeby, uhere 

 the family had re.->ided before the 

 conquest. His grace's real estates, 

 and the title of baron Rokeby, de- 

 scend to Matthew Montague, esq. 

 M, P. To each ol the Mrs. Rot 

 binsons, his nephew, his grace has 

 left 10,0001. He h;is willed his sat 

 at Rokeby-Lodge, in the county 0/ 

 Xjcuth, and whatever laflded pro- 

 perty he possessed in that county, to 

 his nephew, t^.e reverend archdea- 

 CunRobinson (w homhchasappoiut-^ 

 cd one of his executor^), on con- 

 dition that he resides in that king- 

 dom. 



October 17th. At her house, ia 

 Portman-street, Poriman-square, 

 lady Helen Douglas, relict oladmi- 

 ral sir James Douglas, bart. and aunt 

 to the earl oi GIuslovv. 



ISth. At 8o(ulian)pion, lady King, 

 wife of vice admiral su" Rich. King, 

 bart. 



tilst. At his lordship's house, in 

 the Giove, Bath, the couiuess of 

 How th, wife of the earl of Howth, 

 of the kingdv;iu of hvland. 



24th. Houourabli; i\iiis Cathcart, 



li 'i- sister 



