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horseback, all wearing white scarfs 

 and hafbands. The whole i)ro- 

 ceeded thence, in great solemnity, 

 to the Old Abbey-church at Kil- 

 dare, where his remains, alter the 

 visual ehurcli service was i)erformed 

 by the rector, were finally dej)o- 

 sited in the ancient family vault, ex- 

 actly at half past tour o'clock in 

 the afternoon, amidst the ujifeigned 

 sorrowinijs of thousands of specta- 

 tors. The bells of the cathedral of 

 Christ church, Dublin, chimed muf- 

 fled, night and day, till the inter- 

 ment was over. Itis grace's execu- 

 tors are, his two brothers, lords 

 Henry and Robert Fitzgerald. The 

 guardians appointed for the minor 

 duke, under his grace's will, are, 

 his son-in-law, Mr. Henry, and the 

 hon. Charles-James Fox. 



23d. At f^skgrove, the right, 

 hon. "sir David Rae, bart. cliief jus- 

 tice of Scotland. 



At Inverary-castle, the seat of 

 the duke of Argyle, sir W. Hart, 

 knight of the Polish order af St. 

 Stanislaus. 



26th. At his lodgings, in Jcrmyn^ 

 street, St. James's, IVLijor Lawrence 

 Parsons, of Pem!)roke-pUce, King's 

 County, Ireland, lately oaie of the 

 royal fusileers, and brother to. sir 

 L. Parsons, M. P. lor the said 

 county. 



29th. Mr. George Morland, the 

 celebrated English painter. 



30th. At his house in the pre- 

 cincts of Canterbury, aged 74, sin-i 

 ccrely lamented by those who knew 

 liis worth, W. Go.itling, ciq. capt. 

 ol the invalids in the ro>al areilJery. 

 He had been more than 50 years in 

 the service, was in the action at 

 JMinden, and, among other?, had 

 the thanks of the commander in chief 

 on that memorable day. 



A^uv. 1st. By the accidental dis- 

 1 



charge of a fowling-piece, M?. 

 George ^V'i!iis, eldest son ,of the 

 Rev.'^W. Willis, of Stirling. He 

 Avas amusing himself Avith his gun on 

 board a' vessel in the Forth, near 

 Alloa; had laid it out of his hand 

 upon the deck, and was sitting on 

 the hatches eating a biscuit, and 

 conversing w ith the master, when 

 the motion of the vessel, or some 

 ropes near which the gun lay, made 

 it go off, the contents lodged in his 

 arm and left side, and he almost in- 

 stantly expired. 



2nd. After a few hours illne.ss, at 

 Stock-house, Dorset, John Berke- 

 ley Burland, esq. son and heir of the 

 late judge Burland, and one of the 

 representatives in parliament for 

 Totnes, in Devonshire, colonel of 

 the eastern regiment of Somerset vo- 

 lunteer inlantry, and in the com- 

 mission of the peace lor that coun- 

 ty, of which he was an active and 

 very highly-respected magistrate- 

 He married to his first wife the 

 daughter and sister of the Butlers, 

 successively rectors of Ochford Fifz 

 Paine, who died Feb. 2, 1802-; and 

 to his second, 1804, the relict of 

 Mr. Gordon of Levvestoii, sister to 

 the late sir Skipton Nash, of Bris-. 

 tol. 



At Keynsham,. near Presteign, 

 after a short illness, in her 77th 

 )ear, Susannah dowager-countess 

 of Oxford, relict of Edward third 

 earl, and daughter of William Ar- 

 cher, esq. of Welford, Berks, which 

 county he represented till his death, 

 ] 739. To the poor .she was a libe- 

 ral benefactress, and hor death will 

 long be regretted by every one who. 

 knew her. Her ladyship Mas a li- 

 neal descendant of the ancient fami- 

 ly of the Archers, of Welford, 

 Berks, and aunt, by marriage, to, 

 the present carl o£ Oxford. By her 



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