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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



Elizabeth, only daughter of Henry 

 Monck, esq. by his wife lady Anna- 

 Isabella Bentinck, second daughter 

 of Henry late duke of Portland ; by 

 whom he had issue four sons and fou r 

 daughters. His hrst son, Marcus 

 lordjla Poer, born March 17, 1771, 

 died August 10, 1783. The mar- 

 quis is succeeded by his son, Henry 

 lord la Poer, born in May, 1772, 

 now marquis of Waterford. 



Dec. 5th. At Hamburgh, the 

 count de Schimmelmann, Danish 

 minister. 



7th. Ben jaminRobertson, e.sq. of 

 Stockwell, in Surrey, one of the 

 police magistrates of the borough of 

 Southwark. His remains were in- 

 terred in the family vault atCrutch- 

 ed-friars. The bulk of his fortune 

 (which is near 100,000/.) except a 

 few legacies, he has devised to bo- 

 tanical purposes as a fund. His 

 own garden at Stockwell, it is said, 

 contains exotics, and other rare 

 plants, to .the value of upwards of 

 10,000/. 



19th. Elizabeth countess of Bris- 

 tol (wife of the pi-esent earl of Bris- 

 tol, and bishop of Derry,) and sister 

 to sir Charles Danvers, bart. M. P. 

 for Bury. 



On board his majesty's frigate 

 Doris, of 4.4 guns, in Plymouth- 

 Sound, her captain, Charles Jones, 

 sixth viscoinit Ranelagh, baron 

 Jones, of Navan, in the kingdom 

 of Ireland. He succeeded his fa- 

 ther, Charles Wilkinson, the late 

 viscount, in 1 797 ; and is succeeded 

 by his brother, major Thomas Jones, 

 who is now on duty with his regi- 

 ment, the O'Gth, at Newfoundland. 



26'th. At Creenwich-ho.spital, 

 aged 70, William Locker, esq. 

 lieutenant-governor of that royal in- 

 stitution. 



27th. At Edinburgh, in his 83d 

 j'ear, Hugh Blair, D. D. professor 

 of rhetoric and belles lettres, in that 

 university; fellow of the royal soci- 

 ety of Edinburgh, &c. and author 

 of many popular works on subjects 

 of piety, taste, and morals. 



29th. Sir Joseph Andrewes, bai-t. 



30th. At Hertford, aged 89, the 

 hon. baron Dimsdale, M. D. F. R.S. 

 body physician, and actual counsel- 

 lor of state to her late imperial ma- 

 jesty of all the Russias, whom he 

 inoculated in 17<i8. 



Henry lord baron Donally 



Aged 75, Maurice Dillon, baron 

 Drumreany. 



Lady Mansel. 



Sir George Leonard Staunton, 

 bart. secretary to eaid Macartney in 

 his embassy to China; F.R. S. He 

 was born in Ireland, and became, 

 very early in life, acquainted with 

 lord Macartney, from whom he ex- 

 perienced such a continuance of 

 friendly patronage as essentially 

 contributed to promote his fortune. 

 He was bred to surgery and physic, 

 which he practised for some time ; 

 but, upon going to the West In- 

 dies, he soon exchanged the medi- 

 cal profession for that of the law, 

 and then acted as an attorney. The 

 principal event of his life was his 

 concern in the arrest of general 

 Stewart, in India ; an event in 

 which his presence of mind, spirit, 

 and judgement were eftectually 

 manifested in supporting the go- 

 vernment of his patron. His account 

 of the embassy to China is rather to 

 be considered as a proof of learning 

 and observation than of genius and 

 reflection. The subject itself was 

 highlv interesting, but itis certainly 

 not rendered very much so in the 

 relation. However, it is, on the 



