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service of his king and country to 

 every other consideration. The 

 many eminent and honourable situ- 

 ations he has since held are too well 

 known, both in England and Ger- 

 many, to be liere mentioned ; and 

 the ui.aauer in which he performed 

 the duties of his several oiiices, -will 

 long be gratefully remembered by 

 his country as well as every indivi- 

 dual who had business to transact 

 with him. The honors paid to his 

 memory by the most exalted charac- 

 ters in this kingdom are perhaps un- 

 paralleled, and bear the tcost ample 

 testimony to his merits. On Saturday 

 the 31st, at half past one, his body 

 was removed from George-street; the 

 hearse was preceded by the horse 

 of the deceased, bearing his sword, 

 &c. &c. &c. followed by the prince 

 of Wales, dukes of Clarence and 

 •Kent, lords Jersey, Cliesterfield, 

 and Curzon ; generals Fox, Sir A. 

 Clarke, Ilulse, Garth, Wynne, Bur- 

 rard, &c. in four royal carriages 

 and six or seven mourning coaches 

 and four. The procession passed 

 along St James's-street, Piccadilly, 

 a,nd Sloan-street. On reaching the 

 northern gate of the college, the 

 corpse was met by the dukes of 

 York and Cambridge, and a great 

 number of general officers. The 

 pall was supported by 8 generals. 



27th. At Brompton-grove, Maria 

 Louisa Fran^oise D'Esparres La 

 Lusan, comptesse de Polastron. Her 

 remains were deposited in a vault 

 in St. Pancras church-yard, with 

 great funeral pomp, the body being 

 first embalmed, and inclosed in a 

 lead coffin, outside of which was 

 a case magnificently covered with 

 crimson velvet, and ornamented with 

 very great taste and splendour. 

 The funeral was conducted with 

 much elegance .ind (aste, aad mor« 



ed along in the following order: 

 Two mutes, four priests in their 

 "tobes, two men bearing an urn (in 

 which the heart of the deceased was 

 inclosed), the body with the pall 

 supported by friends of the deceas- 

 ed, eighteen mourners. Among the 

 latter were several relations of the 

 deceased, who was of the house of 

 Bourbon, and dame du palais to the 

 late unfortunate queen of France. 

 The funeral is of a temporary na- 

 ture, as the remains of the countess 

 are to be removed to Paris after the 

 war, to be interred in the vault of 

 her ancestors. 



28th. At Montreal, the hon. 

 William Pitt Amherst, second son of 

 Lord A. 



At his house, at Bath, Charles 

 Lord Dormer. He is succeeded by 

 his son the hon. Charles Dormer. 



30th. At her house in Wimpole- 

 street, in an advanced age, Eliza- 

 beth, relict of Sir John Peachey, of 

 Westdean, Sussex. 



In his 46th year. Sir Clement 

 Brydges Jacob, bart. of Bromley, 

 Kent. 



^pi'il 1st. In Austin-friars, about 

 one o'clock in the afternoon, after 

 a few hours illness, Mrs. Elizabeth 

 Le IVIesurier, wife of Havilland Le 

 M. esq, commissary-general to the 

 array late in Egypt and the Mediter- 

 ranean : leaving to her disconsolate 

 husband, and to six surviving chil- 

 dren, the example of amialile man- 

 ners and of unspotted purity of soul, 

 and the comforts of religious faith. 



At the carl of Harborough's, in 

 Leicestershire, Mrs. Monkton, wi- 

 dow of the late hon. Gen. M. 



5th. In his 80th j'ear, at Vicar's 

 hill, Bold re, in the New Forest, 

 Hants, to which vicarage he was 

 presented by his pupil, col. Mit- 

 I'ord, author of the history of Greece, 



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