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Piymouth with grand military 
honours. 
At Madrid, aged 80, the duke 
de Crillon Mahon, captain-general 
of the Spanish armies. It is cal- 
culated that he had been in 68 
different engagements. He com- 
manded the Spanish armies with 
the greatest success in the war of 
1780, against the English, and in 
that war took the island of Minorca 
from them. After having served 
long in France, his native country, 
at the conclusion of the seven years 
war he passed, with the approbation 
of the French goyernment, into 
the service of Spain, where he ac- 
quired the first military rank. Not 
havingtaken any part in the last 
war of the Spaniards against the 
French, he had a very active share’ 
in the conclusion of the peace 
which terminated it. The title of 
duke of Mahon, destined to -per- 
petuate the remembrance of his 
victories, has passed to the youngest 
of his sons by a third marriage. 
The two eldest sons of the duke de 
Crillon were both members of the 
Constituent assembly of France. 
-At Donauschiz, in his 39th 
year, the reigning prince of Fur- 
stenberg. 
-11. At Madrid, much lamented, 
the right hon. countess of Tra- 
quaire, daughter of the late George 
Ravenscroft, esq. of Spalding, co. 
Lincoln. 
16. At his house in Grosvenor- 
Square, after a long. and painful 
illness, sincerely regretted by all his 
friends, and particularly by those 
of the profession he belonged to, for 
which he had always stood forward 
a zealous advocate and sincere 
friend, field-marshal the rt. bon. 
sir George Howard, k. b. one of 
his majesty’s most honourable privy 
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council, colonel of the first or 
king’s regiment of dragoon guards, 
governor of Jersey, and M.P. for 
Stamford. 
16. In Upper Brook-street, in 
his 69th year, the right hon. Wil- 
liam Gerrard Hamilton, formerly 
secretary in Ireland. By his death 
there lapses an Trish pension of 
2000]. a year ; and the bulk of his 
fortune goes to William Hamilton, . 
esq. of Lincoln’s-inn-fields. He 
was usually denominated single 
speech Hamilton- 
At his seat at Kentchurch, coe 
Hereford, in his 68th year, John 
Scudamore, esq. a few weeks be-~ 
fore elected, for the sixth time, to 
represent the city of Hereford. in 
parliament, by the unanimous 
voice of the citizens. His death 
was occasioned by a cold, caught, 
after hunting in bis park, by the 
too sudden check of perspiration ; 
every effort of the ablest of the fa- 
culty to preserve his life was inef- 
fectual. 
At Paris, the duke de Chatelet, 
This unfortunate peer, after secur- 
ing some part of his property in 
England, returned to France with 
the hope of rescuing more; but, 
before he could attain his object, | 
was discovered, and arrested by 
the deputy on mission in the de. 
partmentde la Somme. He had, 
however, taken such precautions, 
that his emigration could ndt be | 
traced; and might, perhaps, have 
escaped, had not a Jacobin, whose 
brother was cook in an English 
nobleman’s family, produced a let- 
ter, which stated the duke’s. having 
dined with lord on a particu. 
lar day, and even the other com- 
pany who were present, and the 
conversation which passed attable, 
Mons. de Chatelet, surprised, un- 
prepared 
