gf ANNUAL) REGIS TIER, 1797. 
immediately to. their duty; which 
offer was rejected. 
31. Several hips belonging to 
Admiral Duncan’s fleet, joined the 
mutineers at the Nore. 
The Duke of Wirtemberg has.a 
library at Stutgard, of 100,000 vo- 
lumes. His Serene Highnefs is.a 
great collector of ancient books, 
or, as a French writer terms it, 
~@ la grand fureur des livres anciens. 
He has often travelled in purfuit . 
of them, and gives liberal prices. 
His collection of Bibles is unique ; 
they amount to nine thoufand, all 
different editions, and of all lan- 
guages; and it is fuppofed that 
ftill three thoufand more are 
yet wanting to render it complete. 
his library. contains more. than 
two thoufand volumes printed be- 
fore the year 1500, anda complete 
collection of the memoirs of all fo- 
vereign families and towns. 
30. The gallant General, Kof- , 
ciufko arrived at the river Thames 
.to Lord Coventry 10,0001; to his 
ed by many Polifh officers,, who 
are going with him to America. | 
He is incurably wounded in. the‘ 
on board a Swedith veffel, attend- 
head, has three bayonet-wounds in 
his back, and part of his thigh car- 
ried away by a cannon-fhot; and, 
with the excruciating - torments 
thofe wounds occafion, as he can- 
not. move himfelf, he amufes his 
hours with drawing _landfcapes. 
He {peaks with the moft lively gra- 
titude of the prefent Emperor of 
Ruffia; but he makes great com- 
plaint that his wounds were long 
neglected after he was made pri-~ 
foner, 
21. Drep at his houfe in Ser- 
jeant’s Inn, in his eigl.y-fifth year, 
Thomas Coventry, iq. of North 
Cray-place, near Bexley, in Kent 
(which eftate, of the annual value 
of 14001. he had on the death of 
the Rev. William Hetherington) 
one of the benchers of the Inner 
Temple, and formerly, for many 
years, fub-governor of the South 
Sea Company, .His eftates, which 
are confiderable, defcend to his 
_kinfman, the Earl of Coventry. 
He was. fon of Thomas Coventry, 
Efq. a Ruffia merchant, and young- 
er brother to, William fifth Earl of 
Coventry, father of the prefent 
Lord ; who, confequently, was his 
firft coufin, and to whom and his 
family he has bequeathed a confi- 
derable proportion of his property. 
The following isthe fubftance of 
his will: To his great nephew 
50,0001.. three per cent. ftock, when’ 
he is twenty-four years old, and, 
if he dies under age, to be divided 
between the blind objects of Mr. 
Hetherington’s charity and Chrift’s 
Hofpital; to Lord Deerhurft and 
his feven children 10,000l. each; 
eldeft fon by his prefent lady 
10,000]. and his youngeft fon by 
her, refiduary-legatee; to Mrs. 
Evans, of Queen-fquare, 5001; to 
her brother, Dr. Eyans, prebendary 
of Worcefter, 5001; to three la- 
dies,in Worcefterfhire, 5001. each. 
Mr. Coventry’s remains were in- 
terred in the bencher’s vault at the’ 
Temple church. He was a very 
amiable and beneficent chara¢ter. 
When his friend, Mr. Hethering- 
ton, above mentioned, at his death 
left him his fortune, he faid, 
‘* Why has he done this? I did not 
want it;”? and he inftantly gave the 
legacies and benefactions fo the 
purpofes of the teftator, although 
he might have retained them for 
his life. yas 
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