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Mr. Reading, Mr. Williams, 

 Mr. Bull, Mr. Smith, 



and ten servants, two and two. 



15th. Interred in St. Andrew's 

 church-yard, Dublin, the remains of 

 lady Catharine Stopford, sister to 

 James earl of Courtown. The fune- 

 ral was attended by a great number of 

 noblemen's and gentlemen's carriages. 



At Croydon, Surry, aged 49, 

 Mr. Thomas Levins, many years 

 clerk of the parish church there. — 

 Some few years back, having a nu- 

 merous family, he filled the follow-" 

 ing offices iu Croydon and its neigh- 

 bourhood to maintain them : he 

 •was parish-clerk, barber, and pub- 

 lican ; having many years kept the 

 white horse, on Dubben-hill, near 

 the church ; provided music for 

 dinners, balls, &c. taught the vio- 

 lin, flute, bassoon, French-horn, 

 and psalmody, at home and abroad; 

 was headborough, and burabailitf to 

 the court of conscience, and many 

 years one of the wardens of the 

 royal INIecklenburgh free-mason's 

 lodge, at Croydon. 



16th. In London, after twelve 

 months illness, aged 71, M. de 

 Conzies, bishop of Arras, in France, 

 born a nobleman and educated for 

 the prelacy. He did equal honour 

 to his rank and his station ; faithful 

 to his king as to his God, a long 

 life was never jiolluted by a siiigb 

 aflion which did not prove the 

 standard merit of a good man and a 

 sincere Christian. The loyal, as 

 well as the religious, in imitating 

 his conduct, may be sure to possess 

 the esteem of their contemporaries, 

 and the admiration of posterity. 

 That such a character should parti- 

 cularly attradt the hatred of Bona- 

 parte might justly be expected. — 

 The name of the bishop of Arras 

 v/as upon the same line of the same 



list of proscription with that of the 

 hero of loyalty Georges. The Cor- 

 sican assassin, who pierced the 

 hearts of an Enghien, Pichegru, and 

 Georges, has long pointed his dag- 

 ger at the bosom of this prelate, 

 who preferred poverty and exile in 

 England to the Roman purple and 

 the Parisian arch-episcopacy ; both 

 offered him in 1801, by the first 

 consul of France and the pontiff of 

 Rome. Unalterable in his attach- 

 ment to the house of Bourbon, his 

 royal highness Monsieur, brother 

 to the king of France and Navarre, 

 madtt him one of his principal coun- 

 sellors and confidential advisers ; 

 unprofitable offices iudeed, for those 

 who, confounding fortune with jus- 

 tice, regard mon.y more thaa ho- 

 nour ; but advantageous to him who 

 has a conscience, follows its dic- 

 tates, and feels the honourable dif- 

 ference between the disinterested 

 counsellor of a lawful prince, and 

 the despicable accomplice of a bar- 

 barous usurper. The bishop of 

 Arras had from nature a constitu- 

 tion strong; enough to resist the ra- 

 vages of time to the farthest limits 

 assigned to the life of man, had not 

 Providence also bestowed upon him 

 a mind virtuous and feeling to the 

 highest degree. The deploi-able 

 state of Christianity, the misfor- 

 tunes of his king, and the degrad- 

 ation of his country, were the dis- 

 ease which deprived the W'Orld, 

 jjrematurely, of one of its best and 

 brightest ornaments. From the 

 scandalous journey of Pius VII. 

 and the sacrilegious coronation of 

 Napoleon the first, this prelate re- 

 ccived his death-blow, lie surviv- 

 ed but for a few days the news of 

 the Corsican assassin's and poison- 

 ex's anointment, and was one of the 

 first victims of this horrible aft, 

 L 1 2 whiek 



