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ina trading vessel, and arrived at 
Oporto in January, 1789.7 Mr. 
Murphy conciudes his preface with 
** acknowledging his obligations 
to this gentleman, by whose muni- 
ficence he was enabled to carry on 
his work. The Portuguese have 
too much gratitude not to add their 
acknowledgments to him also for 
having nrade known the merits of 
this immiiable structure. The per- 
son who presented it to the world 
was a private gentleman, a native 
of Ireland, who, induced by no 
other motive than a love of the 
fine arts, and a wish for the ad- 
vancement of science, has ex- 
pended upwards of 10COl. in res- 
cuing this noble edifice from the 
obscurity im whichit has lain con- 
cealed for ages. I have taken the 
liberty to dedicate this work to him, 
in consideration of his exemplary 
liberality, and as an humble testi- 
mony of my everlasting gratitude 
and respect.” To the dedication 
is prefixed a portrait of Mr. 
Conyngham painted by Stuart, 
and engraved by Schiavonetti. 
Mr. Conyngham subscribed for ten 
copies of the work. Ireland will 
feel itself indebted to Mr, Conyng- 
ham for the institution of a Society 
of Antiquaries, in 1780, consisting 
of himself as president, Mr. Arch- 
dall, author of the Irish Monasti- 
corn and Peerage, Mr. O’Connor 
the dissertator, colonel Vallancey 
the etymologist, Dr. Ellis, a phy- 
sician, who ‘created a Society of 
Natural History, Mr. Ledwich, 
and Mr. Beauford. Things went on 
very well ull governor Pownall 
addressed a letter to them, which 
Mr. Ledwich answered in the 
* Collectanea Hibernia,” No. XL; 
and by the lively, jocular way in 
which he then wrote, offended col. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, — 1706. 
Vallency who expatriated him froin 
his Collectanea, and from’ a society 
which immediately ceased. Had 
this society held together, we might © 
have expected it to have engraved 
and illustrated that fund of draw. 
ings of Irish antiquities from the 
time of the Druids to the Reforma- 
tion, which Mr. Conyngham was 
then making at a great expence, 
‘which he was ready to commu- 
hicate to every person whose pur- 
suits were congenial with, his own, 
and which we hope he has taken 
some measures to render perpetual. 
June 6. At her house in Sloane- 
street, Knightsbridge, of a cancer 
in her breast, the countess of Sus 
sex, second wife to the present early 
and daughter of Jn. Vaugan, esq- 
of Bristol. 
In his 70th year the rev- Thomas 
Cole, L, L, B. and vicar of Dulver- 
tun. He was of Queen’s col- 
lege, Cambridge, where he took 
the devree of L. L. B. in 1751. 
He was author of ‘* The arbour, or 
the rural philosopher,” 4to, 1756, 
reprinted. in Dodsley’s collection of 
Poems ; ** Discourses on luxury, in= 
fidelity, and enthusiasm,” 12mo- 
1760, at which time he was 
assistant preacher at St. Paul’s Co- 
vent Garden; and ‘The life of 
Hubert, a narrative, descriptive, 
and didactic poem,” book I. 8vo. 
1795. f 
Of the yellow fever, at sea, on 
board the Majestic, of 74 guns, in: 
which he was coming home from 
the West Indies, two days before 
she made the land, sir John Lafos 
rey, admiral of the blue. He was 
made a post-captain in 1758: a 
rear admiral in 1789 ; a vice admi- 
ral in 1793; a baronet in 1794; 
and an admiral in 1795. On the 
2lst his remains were interred at. 
Plymouth 
