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those calamities which proved the 

 banc of the comforts which, from 

 his noble birth, he had a just right 

 to expect. Alter being some years 

 confined in the grand Chatelet at 

 Paris, in a most unpleasant situa- 

 tion to a man of any rank in life, 

 the natural love of liberty so far pre- 

 ' Tailed as to lead his lordship to lay 

 a plan for his escape to his native 

 country ; but the carriage which 

 was waiting for his reception, was 

 kept so long hovering about the 

 prison, that it caused suspicion 

 among the goal-keepers. His lord- 

 ship was apprehended just as he was 

 entering the carriage, and imme- 

 diately sent into a dungeon many 

 feet below the surface of the river 

 Seine, upon which the Chatelet is 

 built. He remained there in such a 

 state of wretchedness that his beard 

 grew to a most immoderate length, 

 and rendered him a striking picture 

 of the vicissitudes of human life. 

 According to the arrangements 

 made by his lordship, the debt would 

 have been paid in the course of two 

 years more. He was married twice 

 at Paris, and afterwards at St. 

 Peter's, Cornhill, Aug. 19, 1789. 

 His lady died at Greenwich, in Oc- 

 tober, 1800. On dissection, part 

 of her lungs were found decayed, 

 and her heart preternaturally en- 

 larged. His lordship is succeeded 

 in titles and estates by the hon. col. 

 Skeffington, his brother. 



Lately, at Paris, aged 78, M. 

 Vcrniquct, architect, known to the 

 public by an excellent plan of that 

 city, the labour of more than ten 

 years. 



March 1st. At his house on 

 Hcrmes.hill, Pentonvillc, after a 

 short illness, aged 80, Francis De 

 Valangin, Rl, D. of Forc-strect, 

 CripplegatCj and liccnciate of the 



college of physicians. He married to 

 his second wife a sister of the wife of 

 the lateMr. Sandford, a brewer, at 

 Newington,Avhobroughthim a hand- 

 some fortune. His daughter, who 

 died about 20 years ago, was deposit- 

 ed in a very handsome tomb in his gar- 

 den at Peutonville, whence she was 

 removed to the family vault in 

 Cripplegate church, where her fa- 

 ther is also deposited. He was au- 

 thor of " A treatise on diet, 1768," 

 8vo. 



At his lodgings in Claypeth, Dur- 

 ham, Mr. George Appleby, brother 

 to the late sir William A. knt. 



At his house in Hill-street, 

 Berkeley-square, aged 81, general 

 Pattison, 



2d. After a few days illness, aged 

 2 years and 6 months, William 

 Douglas Blackett, eldest son of sir 

 W. B. bart. 



3d. At her house in Lower 

 Brook-street, aged 82, Bridget, 

 countess-dowager of Morton, relict 

 of the late James earl of Morton, 

 and daughter of sir John Heath- 

 cote, bart. of Normanton, co. Rut- 

 land. 



5th. At Naples, prince Belvi- 

 dere. 



Interred this day, in the church- 

 yard at Slaugham, Sussex, the re- 

 mains of Mrs. Knowles, who desired 

 that she might be borne to the grave 

 by eight men, to be dressed in neiv 

 black round frocks, with the shoal, 

 der-straps marked in white E. K. 

 (the initials of her name), the day 

 on which she died, and her age, 

 with black neckcloths and black 

 stockings. Tiiis singular request 

 being literally complied with, its 

 novel appeart'ince drew together a 

 great concourse of the country-peo- 

 ple. 



At his estate in Holland, aged 63, 

 H h 3 Frederick 



