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at the feet a smaller one; and be- 

 tween both a square silver plate, 

 with the arms of Camelford en- 

 graved upon it, and the following 

 inscription : 



The Right Honourable 

 Thomas Lord Camelford, 

 died March 10th, 1804, 

 aged 29. 

 The sides of the coffin are superb- 

 ly adorned with silver cherubim, 

 coronets, handles, and a variety of 

 ornaments : at 5 o'clock it was 

 carried to Camelford house, where 

 the body, shrouded in white satin, 

 and laid in a leaden coffin, was 

 placed within it, preparatory to its 

 being deposited, on the 17th, in a 

 vault of St. Anne's church, Soho, 

 there to remain till it can be con- 

 veyed to Berne, in Switzerland, 

 agreeably to his lordship's desire. 

 The day previous to his death, his 

 lordship wrote, with his own hand, 

 a codicil to his w ill ; in which, in 

 the most particular manner, he de- 

 scribed the place where he wished 

 his body to be buried, and assigned 

 his reasons for this apparently ex- 

 traordinary request. He prefaces 

 his wish by stating, that persons in 

 general have a strong attachment to 

 the country which gave them birth, 

 and on their death-bed usually de- 

 sire their remains may be conveyed 

 to their native land, however great 

 the distance, to be interred. Altho' 

 It may appear singular, his desire is 

 the Very reverse of this ; and he begs 

 that his dying request may be fulfilled. 

 " I wish my body (says he) to be 

 removed as soon as may be conve- 

 nient to a country far distant! — to 

 a spot not near the haunts of men ; 

 but where the surrounding scenery 

 may smile upon my remains." It 

 is bituated on the borders of the lake 

 oi Hi. Lampierrc, ia the cai^too of 



Berne ; and three trees stand in tha 

 particular spet. The centre tree he 

 desires may be taken up, and his 

 body being there deposited, imme- 

 diately replaced." ' Let no monu- 

 ment or stone be placed over my 

 grave.' At the foot of this tree, 

 his lordship adds, he formerly passed 

 many solitary hours, contemplating 

 the mutability of human affairs. As 

 a compensation to the proprietors of 

 the spot described, he has left 1,0001. 

 In another part of his will he desires 

 his relations will not go into mourn- 

 ing for him. 



14th. Miss Frances Stackpole 

 Turner, eldest daughter of Sir 

 Gregory Page Turner, bart. 



17th. At Bath, after a lingering 

 illness, James Hare, esq. M. P. for 

 Knaresborough. He married, 1774, 

 the only daughter of the late sir 

 Abraham Hume, bart. sister of the 

 present baronet, by whom he had 

 one daughter. This gentleman, soa 

 of an apothecary at Winchester, so 

 celebrated for convivial wit, was 

 one of the most accomplished men 

 in our days. At Eton began, and 

 at Oxford continued, that intimacy 

 M'hich matured into indissoluble 

 friendship, and lasted to the close 

 of his life, between him and that 

 knot of eminent men who arc thought 

 to be the nearest the heart of Mr. 

 Fox, whose patronage at Eton he 

 repaid by assisting him in his idle 

 hours. A higher idea cannot well 

 be formed of the expectations ex- 

 cited by Mr. H.'s academical exer- 

 cises than was conveyed by Mr.Fox ; 

 who, when, on receiving the praises 

 which his first display in parliament 

 justly called forth, replied, " Wait 

 " till you hear Hare." In all the 

 graces of conversation ; in vivacity, 

 in boundless wit, in social elocution, 

 gaiety of miud, bappiness of allu- 



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