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that he thanked God he had. never 
been a burthen’ to his country, 
which he had served during a long 
life to the best of his.ability; and 
that he would not condescend to 
accept of a pension or bargain fora 
peerage. He concluded by laying 
his generalship of the marines, to- 
gether with his rank in the navy, 
at the king’s feet, entreating him 
to take both away if they could 
forward his service: and, at the 
same time assuring his majesty, he 
would never prove himself un- 
worthy of the former bonours he 
had received, by ending the rem- 
nant of a long lite as a pensioner, or 
accepting of a peerage obtained by 
political arrangement. is gracious 
Master applauded bis, manly spirit, 
ever after continued him in_ his 
high military honuurs, and, to the 
day of his death, condescended to 
shew him strong marks of his regard. 
11. At her house in Kildare- 
street, Dublin, after a lingering 
illness, in her 90th year, the 
countess dowager of Aldborough. 
' 13. At her house in great Cum. 
berland-street, Jady Bridget Tolle- 
mache, relict of Mr. ‘Toilemache 
{brother to the Earl of Dysart) 
and mother of major Tollemache, 
who lost bis life in the service of 
his country, at the siege of Valen- 
ciennes. Lady Bridget was a 
daughter of chancellor earl North- 
ington, and successively the wife 
of Mr. George Fox Lane and tthe 
hon. Mr. Tollemache, who was a 
Captain in the navy, and fell in an 
unfortunate rencontre at New- 
York, with major-zeneral, then 
captain Pennington of the guards, 
By Mr. Tollemache she had an 
only son, Lionel-Robert, who fell 
honourably in the trenches before 
Valenciennes. Lady Bridget strug- 
gled under this severe stroke nearly 
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two years, with all the fortitude 
that a great mind could call forth, 
and at length expired the victim of 
her parental affections. The cha 
racter of this accomplished woman 
naturally took its various colouring 
from thestrange vicissitudes of her 
fortune. Her mind, however, was 
always elevated and commanding ; 
and, though she sacrificed some. 
what to fashionable life, she ever 
kept aloof from those vices which 
have so long’disgraced it, To a 
Strength of intellect, which> she 
derived from her noble sire, she ad= 
ded a delicacy of imagination and a 
brilhancy of wit peculiar to herself. 
15. Countess of Ludlow. 
17. Suddenly, in Manchester. 
square, the marchioness of Win- 
chester, wife of George Powlett, 
esq. who on the death of the late 
duke of Bolton, succeeded to the 
ttle of marquis of Winchester, 
19. At his house in Lincoln’s- 
inn fields, of a rheumatic fever, 
George Bond, esq. one of bis ma_ 
Jesty’s serjeants at law 5 whose pro- 
fessional eminence was deservedly 
acquired by presevering industry 
in the laborious pursuit of legal 
knowledge. 
Of the gout in his stomach, in 
his 33d year, Mr. Stephen Storace, 
Whose abilities asa composer are 
sufhciently known by those original 
airs in the dramas of ** The Haunted 
Tower,’? “ No Song No Supper,” 
«* My Grandmother,” &c, &c. Few 
men in any province of genius have 
more rapidly ascended to: fame and 
independence. His style of compo- 
sition was formed upon the Itahan 
model ; and, in his airs for many 
voices, and in choral energy, he 
tullowed the musicians of Italy 
with great success, He was distin- 
guished in private lite for shrewd- 
18S, penetration, and knowledge 
of 
