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emple, aged 76, John Wynne, 

 '■<q. a bencher of the Middle Tcm- 

 ))le, and brother to sir Wm. W. of 

 Doctors Commons. 



At Wickhara, Hants, after a short 

 illness, iu his 38lh year, the rev. 

 George- Andrew Thomas, rector of 

 that place, and of Depttord, Kent, 

 'lebendary of Lichfield, and ne- 

 liew to the late bishop Thomas, of 

 ilochester, av hose works he publish- 

 td, with memoirs of his life, and 

 had just published a sermon of his 



king's recovery, inti- 



own, on the 



ruled, " The Case of Hezekiah." 

 He was of St. John's college, Cam- 

 bridge; B.A. 1789, M.A. 1795. 

 — In a few minutes after hira, his 

 mother-in-law, Mrs. Ford, relict 

 of col. F. who had long resided 

 with him. 



After a long illness, Thomas 

 Hughes Phillips, esq. of Pont-y- 

 Wall, CO. Brecon. 



At Carton, co. Kildare, in Ire- 

 land, aged 56 years, 7 months, and 

 7 days, William Robert Fitzgerald, 

 duke of Leinster, so created in 



1766, 

 K. P. 



St. George, 



marquis of Kildare, and 

 He married Amelia-Olivia 

 only child of the late 

 lord St. George, who died in 1798, 

 leaving a numerous family to regret 

 her loss, of whom the eldest son, 

 Augustus-Frederick, now 13 years 

 of age, and to wliora the Prince of 

 Wales stood sponsor, succeeds to the 

 titles, honours, and estates. His 

 grace's disorder was a stranguary, 

 ,and his sufferings were extremely 

 severe. When told what would pro- 

 bably be the result of his illness, he 

 burst into tears, and exclaimed, 

 ** What will become of my poor 

 men?'' This last attention to the 

 existence and welfare of many inva- 

 lid workmen, whom he had employ- 

 ed from pure compassion, was 



strongly characteristic of his humane 

 heart ; he feared that others, less 

 feeling than himself, would hesitate 

 to employ persons whose incapacity 

 rendered them wnfit for laborious 

 occupations ; and the thoughts of 

 their sufferings when he should be 

 no more, seemed toagi'i.tehim as he 

 quitted this transitory world for one 

 of eternal glory. Although he did 

 not possess those shining abilities 

 that confer instead of receive dig- 

 nity from rank, he was good-tem- 

 pered, good-natured, and affable: a 

 fond father, indulgent landlord, and 

 kind master. The county of Kil- 

 dare never exhibited a greater glo »:m ; 

 the shops in Maynoolh were entirely 

 closed the whole of the 22d, and no 

 business carried on. The town of 

 Leixlip also, and, in fact, all the 

 villages in the vicinity of Kildare, 

 partook of the heartfelt sorrow 

 evinced by the county at large; 

 among tlie rest, 46 poor old men 

 and women, who have experienced 

 his grace's bounty for many years. 

 Every Christmas they were com- 

 pletely cloathed. and in seasons of 

 scarcity they were comfortably fed, 

 and provided with every thing their 

 situation required. At eight o'clock 

 in the morning of the 25th, the fu- 

 neral commenced, which was at once 

 superbly-elegant and awfully-im- 

 pressive. As the procession (con- 

 sisting of all the nobility and gentry 

 in the county) reached ihe avenue 

 of Maynooth, 180 students of the 

 Catholic college at Dublin drew up 

 in two rows, in their academical 

 dresses, and, Mhen tlie boJy had 

 passed through them, walked in the 

 rear two miles, two by two. When 

 the procession reached the Curragh 

 of Kildare, it was joined by 300 

 of his grace's tenantry, and as many 

 other yeomen and tradesmen on 



horseback, 



