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Srawell, one of the ladies to the 

 princesses Auijusta and Elizabeth ; 

 by whom, and by all who knew her, 

 she is much regretted. She was se- 

 cond daughter of Asheton lord 

 Curzon; married, 1779, to Henry, 

 present and fifth lord Staweil, by 

 whom she had one daughter, INIary, 

 born 1780. 



At the house of Mr. Fox, in 

 Arlington-street, after a long illness, 

 endured with patience and piety, 

 which baffled all the powers of tihe 

 medical art, and rendered ultimately 

 fruitless the constant tciiderness of 

 an attectionate and afflicted family, 

 William Dixon, lord bishop of 

 Downe and Connor nineteen years, 

 having been promoted to it 1785. 

 Dr. D. went through his academic 

 exercises with great credit, and was 

 an excellent scholar. If his natural 

 modesty had not, in a great degree, 

 kept his mind from expanding itself, 

 his understanding and cultivation 

 were capable of great things. No- 

 thing could be executed with more 

 happiness than his ready, eloquent, 

 and energetic answer to the late earl 

 of Clare, in the Irish House of 

 Lords, upon a subject unexpectedly 

 started upon him by that noble per- 

 son. It is hardly possible to con- 

 ceive any man to be more, what is 

 understood by the world, amiable, 

 than (he late bishop of Downe ; and 

 it is assuredly impossible for any 

 man to be more beloved than he was. 

 There was a charm in his ijianners; 

 and the gendeness of his domestic 

 life was exemplified in the discharge 

 of his ecclesiastical and political 

 functions. All religious denomina- 

 tions rcga!rded him with the pro- 

 foundcst admiration. From that 

 poison of social life; from that eter- 

 nal curse upon Ireland, religious in- 

 tolerance; that fatal frenzy, which 



makes that miserable country be 

 devoured, like the pelican, by her 

 own ofi'spring, never was mortal 

 more free than was this virtuous 

 prelate. The rare fortune was his, 

 to be bishop of the diocese in which 

 he was born, and to contradict, in 

 his own person, the popular max- 

 im, '*• that no man can be a prophet 

 in his own country;" for, through- 

 out his district, there was not a man, 

 whatever his mode of faith, who did 

 not revere this admirable person, ex- 

 cepting the remorseless bigot, the 

 disciple of the fire and the faggot, of 

 the whip, the picket, and the tor- 

 ture. The friendship between Mr. 

 Fox and the bishop of Downe be- 

 gan with their studies at Eton; and 

 lasted till the close of the prelate's 

 life. Tliere, too, commenced, and 

 in like manner continued, the bi- 

 shop's indissoluble connexion with 

 most of Mr. Fox's nearest friends, of 

 whom one, and one who bears many 

 resemblances to his departed friend, 

 lord Robert Spencer, is the bishop's 

 executor. He was a cotemporary 

 at Eaton with Mr. Fox, lord Ro- 

 bert Spencer, Mr. Hare, &c. and 

 owed his promotion to the prelacy 

 to the former, being the only bi- 

 shop made under his administra- 

 tion. He married Miss Symmes, a 

 lady every way deserving, from her 

 sweetness of temper, and elegance of 

 manners, of the blessing of such a ^ 

 mate. By her he had six children. 

 Two of his sons are field officers in 

 the army, and the (wo eldest daugh- 

 ters (not long introduced to the po- 

 lite world) are distinguished by the 

 superiority of their mental and per- 

 sonal accomplishments. 



22nd. At Edinburgh, Mrs. Do- 

 rothy Hay, widow of John Hay, 

 esq. of New Mill, and mother to 

 the late marquis of Tweedale. 



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