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be attended only by his housekeeper 

 and man-servant. His body has 

 been opened, and it is ascertained 

 that his death was not occasioned by 

 any decay of the system, but by a 

 gangrene that had formed about tlic 

 heart, which had stopped the circu- 

 lation. 



In South Audlcy-street, aged 86, 

 the hon. Frances Boscawen, relict 

 of admiral B. and mother to the 

 duchess of Beaufort a'.id lord Fal- 

 mouth. She was only daughter of 

 William Evelyn Glauvillc, oscj. of 

 St. Clcrc, in Ightham, Kent ; mar- 

 ried to tlie admiral in December, 

 1742, and had by him three sons 

 and two daughters ; of whom t\^o 

 of the former died, .and tiie young- 

 est,George Evelyn, succeeded to the 

 title of Viscount Falmouth ; and the 

 two daughters, Frances, married to 

 the hon. John Levison Gower.^ bro- 

 ther to earl Gower, and Elizabeth, 

 married to the late duke of Beau- 

 fort. 



28tb. At his house in Bedford- 

 square, aged 53. George Shum, esq. 

 35 years M. P. for Houiton, Devon, 

 and partner in alderman Combe's 

 brewhonse. 



At his scat in the county of An- 

 trim, in Ireland, aged 62; Clotwor- 

 thy Skeffington, earl of Massa- 

 reene, viscount Massareene, and 

 baron of Lough rcagh. He was 

 born Jan. 28th, 1742 ; was admit- 

 ted of Bene't college, Cambridge, 

 1738, with a clergyman named Seth 

 Pollard, fellow of Trinity college, 

 Dublin, for his tutor, butwho really 

 taught him nothing but what him- 

 self delighted in, rowing on the 

 rit(?r down to Ely. He went to 

 f rince on the conclusion of the 

 peace with the late king, where he 

 eontiacted debts which his estates 

 t^re jaoie than «v^ient to dis- 



charge ; but rather than apply hia 

 income to tliis use, he preferred re- 

 maining in prison 25 years, the 

 terra at the expiration of which, by 

 tne then existing laws of France, he 

 would be at liberty, without pay- 

 ment, from every claim, and which 

 term the revolution hastened. He 

 ejected liis escape from the Chate- 

 let, where he Avas long confined, 

 by marrying Mademoiselle Mary 

 Anne Borcier, daughter of the 

 governor, who, with her sister and 

 her husband, became the partners of 

 his (light, and accompanied him to 

 Ireland. Having got out of France 

 with difliculty, being nearly stopped 

 at Calais, in Way 1789, on landing 

 at Dover, he was the first to jump 

 out of the boat, and, falling on his 

 knees, thrice exclaimed, " Godbless 

 this land of liberty !" In his early 

 days he figured very conspicuously 

 in the walks of fashion. When 

 making the grand tour, soon after 

 his coming into possession of his fa- 

 mily titles and estates, his lordship, 

 unfortunately, at Paris, became ac- 

 q'lainted with a native of Tripoli, in 

 Syria, who, from his artful sophis- 

 try, prevailed upon the noble lord to 

 co-operate with him in a plan he had 

 formed of supplying the kingdom 

 of France with salt, to be brought 

 from the coasts of Syria ; and held 

 out such apparent advantages to 

 be derived therefrom, as induced 

 the credulous young nobleman to 

 enter into engagements for the pay- 

 ment of such sums of money as might 

 be necessary for the accomplish- 

 ment of the object. In a very short 

 time after, the Syrian adventurer set 

 sail for Tripoli, and returned tO' 

 Paris in due course of time, with 

 such flattering accounts of the suc- 

 cess of the expedition as led lord 

 Massareeue to plunge himself inta 



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