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which has opened a tomb for true 

 religion as well as for lawful mo- 

 narchy. As in health he had been 

 an example of piety and constancy, 

 during his illness he was a model of 

 devotion and resignation. He ex- 

 horted his countrymen and fellow- 

 sufferers, like himself, unfortunate 

 exiles, not to deviate from that 

 glorious though painful path of 

 thorns they had dutii'ully and con- 

 scientiously entered. He preached 

 submission to the decrees of the Al- 

 mighty, in shewing the justice of 

 that noble cause to which they had 

 sacrificed rank, property, country, 

 and every thing else except their 

 honour. He told them never to 

 forget the gratitude they owe to 

 England, should religion and royal- 

 ty once more prosper in France. 

 His constant prayers were, on his 

 death-bed, that Christ may again 

 save his church in France, restore 

 there the rightful and faithful to 

 power, and convert, but not punish, 

 the undutiful and unbelieving. It 

 is often more glorious to deserve 

 than to occupy a throne. His royal 

 highness Monsieur, with an huma- 

 nity worthy of better times and bel- 

 ter fortune, refused himself even 

 the necessary rest to attend this 

 trusty and affectionate servant, who 

 had the consolation to breathe his 

 last in the arms of his good and 

 generous prince. Some few mo- 

 ments before he shut his eyes for 

 «ver, he pressed the hand of Mon- 

 sieur to his bosom, and with a faint 

 voice fauUered these his last words : 

 *' My kind prince, death is terrib'o 

 to the wicked only !'' 



16th. At her house in Chester- 

 field-street, May-fair, aged 83, 

 dame Hannah Hales, widow of sir 

 Edward II. bart. of Breamore-house, 

 ijantsv, who died December 1st, 



1800, aged 85. Her remains were 

 interred in the family vault at Wcl- 

 mington, near Dartford. 



At Ashe, in JIampshire, by a fall 

 from her horse, which she survived 

 only 12 hours in a state of insensi- 

 bility, aged 56, Mrs. Lefroy, wife 

 of the rev. John Lefroy, rector of 

 that parish and of Compton, in Sur- 

 ry, and eldest daughter and co-heir 

 of the late Edward Bridges, esq. 

 of Wootton, in Kent, by Jemima 

 daughter and co-heir of William 

 Egerton, LL. D. prebendary of 

 Canterbury, and grandson of John, 

 second earl of Bridgewater, 



19th. At her seat, Hillingdon, 

 house, near Uxbridge, Middlesex, 

 Mary, marchioness of Rockingham. 

 She was daughter and heir of Thos, 

 Bright, esq. of Badsworth, co. 

 York, uncle to Henry Liddell, lord 

 Ravensworth ; and married Feb. 

 Snth, 1752, to Charles second mar- 

 quis of Rockingham, Avho died in 

 17S2. Her remains were conveyed 

 through York in funeral procession 

 to the ralhedral, and deposited in 

 the vault belonging to that ancient 

 family. The corpse was met at the 

 iron gate within the cathedral by 

 the rev. archdeacon Markham and 

 the rev. James Richardson, by 

 V horn the funeral service was read. 

 7 he coffin was covered with crimson 

 velvet, ornamented with rich gilt 

 tire. 



At Holyrood-housc, Edinburgh, 

 the hon. Mary jNIurraj', only daugh- 

 ter of the late loid Edward INIurray, 

 and sister to the hon. and rev. M. 

 Murray, dean of Killaloe, in Ire- 

 land, 



21st. At his house, at Lauries- 

 ton, Edinburgh, in his 77th year, 

 colonel James Riddell, son of sir 

 Walter Riddell, of Riddell, and 

 uncle to sir John Buchanan, knt. 



