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in all its recent discoveries ; had the 

 finest taste for drawing and paint- 

 ing, and would frequently take ad- 

 mirable likenesses of persons which 

 struck him from memory. He wrote 

 a hand like copper-plate ; and, at 

 a very early period of his life, 

 had made himself master of aritiiracr 

 tic. He was never known to be out 

 of temper ; and, though he suffered 

 an illness of ten years, which ter- 

 minated in a dropsy and bursting of 

 a blood-vessel upon the lungs, he 

 Tvas never once known to repine or 

 be impatient. His wit was brilliant 

 and relincd ; and his loss -will ever 

 be regretted by those who had the 

 happiness to know him. 



At Clifton, aged 70, Mrs. 

 M'Cnmming, wife of capt. Bryce 

 M'C. towhomsheliad been 4 t years 

 married. She was twice brought to 

 bed at sea ; twice lost every thing 

 by shipwreck ; and twice on short 

 allowance of provisions and water. 

 She was born in the great earl of 

 Crawford's fauiily, who fought 

 egainst the Turks both in the Rus. 

 sian and German armies. She had 

 pcrfe(5t recollection of lady Jane 

 Douglas calling on the countess of 

 Crawford in Brussels, when on her 

 way to Paris to lay in, and the 

 countess at parting wishing her a 

 happy hour. She was in Pcnsacola 

 during the Douglas cause, or it is 

 probable she might have been called 

 on as a corroborating evidence. 



25th. At his house, in Charles- 

 street, Berkeley-square, colonel Da- 

 vid Woodburne, of the Bengal ar- 

 tillery. 



27th. At his house in Grosvcnor- 

 square, after a lingering illness of 

 many months, in 'lis 72d year, be- 

 ing born 1732, Robert Clements, 

 earl, viscount, and baron Leitrim, 

 of Manor Jlaniilton, co, LiCitrim, in 



Ireland, and one of the Irislt 

 peers in the parliament of the united 

 kingdom. He served in parliament 

 for the county oi'Donegall till he was 

 created a baron, Sept. 20, 1783 ; a 

 viscount Dec. 20, 1793; and an earl 

 Oct. 6, 1795. He was ranger of 

 the Phoenix-park, and appointed a 

 governor of the county of Donegall. 

 He married, IMay 31, 17G5, Eliza- 

 beth Skeffington, daughter of the 

 late carl of Massarecn, and had is- 

 sue two sons and three daughters. 

 His remains were deposited in the 

 family vault at St. Michan's, Dub- 

 lin. He is succeeded by his son, 

 Robert lord viscount Clements, M. 

 p. for the county of Leitrim. 



At Cork, Mr. O'Brien, the cele- 

 brated Irish giant. His body was 

 interred, on the 31st, at the church 

 of St. Finbar ; the concourse of peo- 

 ple who attended the funeral was so 

 great and so clamorous as to oblige 

 the mayor to have the attendance of 

 several peace. ofhcers. !Mr. O'Brien 

 had a small property in the county 

 of Kerry, of about 1501. a year, 

 which had been mortgaged, and to. 

 clear which he ejihibitcd himself ac 

 a show for some years past, 



29th. In his 84th year, James, 

 lord Forbes, premier baron of Scot- 

 land. He married Catharine,, only 

 daughter of sir Robert Innes, of 

 Orton, bart. He is succeeded by 

 his eldest son, the hon. major-gen. 

 James Forbes, of the coldstreanv 

 regt. of guards, now lord Forbes. 



30th. At Bath, having survived' 

 the truly inhuman murder of her 

 much-lamented husband 12 months 

 and 7 days, the dowager viscountess jfl 

 Kihvarden. ^ 



Lately, at his house in Dublin, 

 Otway Culfe, earl, viscount, and' 

 baron of Desart, in the county of 

 Kilkenny, Ireland, In 1767, on 



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