Wand the fine arts. 
: CHRONICLE. 
quire from medicine. Whenever a 
real appearance of want and poverty 
came within her knowledge, she ne- 
ver failed to change the scene of mi- 
sery for health, comfort, and hap- 
piness. Her ladyship’s humanity 
was continually directed towards the 
relief of private individuals in dif- 
ferent parts of the kingdom, as well 
as those in her own neighbourhood, 
whom she established in their cot- 
tages, and supplied with all that 
could render them happy. ‘The only 
return she required from these de- 
_ pendents on her charity, for the 
comforis they enjoyed, was, their 
regular attendance on every Sunday 
at the parish-church, where she also 
was accustomed to visit regularly. 
The countess had enjoyed the estate 
of Burton-Pynsent since the death 
of the late earl. She erected upon 
it, at the expence of 2500l. in the 
park, an obelisk to the memory of 
the patriotic donor, the late sir 
Thomas Pynsent. 
At Trinidad, Henry Swinburne, 
esq. the celebrated traveller, young- 
est son of the late sir John S. bart. 
of Capheaton, in Northumberland, 
the long-established seat of that an- 
cient roman catholic family. He was 
educated at Scorton school, in York- 
shire, and afterwards studied at Pa- 
ris, Bourdeaux, and in the Royal 
Academy at Turin. He made the 
usual tour of Italy; and, in 1774, 
travelled with his lady on the con- 
tinent, for the express purpose of 
indulging their taste for antiquities 
He spent six 
years in France, Spain, Italy, and 
Germany ; formed an intimacy with. 
some of the most celebrated literati 
of those countries, and received some 
signal marks of esteem from the so- 
vereigns of the courts he visited. 
Vox. XLY. 
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On his return to England he retired 
to his seat at Hamsterley, in the 
bishopric of Durham, which thence- 
forth became his principal residence. 
He published his travels in Spain in 
a quarto volume, 1779; four years 
after, vol. I. of his travels in the 
Two Sicilies; and a 2d. two years 
after. Both these works have been 
reprinted in octavo, the first in two, 
the other in four volumes, with im- 
provements. 
MAY. 
9d. A new table of rates, by 
which the fares of watermen are re-~ 
gulated, has been at length made 
out by the court of aldermen, under 
the authority of four members of the 
privy council, and began to take 
place this day. All persons hiring 
boats will now know what they 
are to pay; and watermen can no 
louger, with impunity, refuse to 
take a fare when called upon; be- 
cause they are obliged, under a pe- 
nalty of 40s. to carry, in their hats, 
badges containing the number of 
their beats. 
5th. A most extraordinary for- 
gery was practised in the city. At 
an early hour in the morning, a man 
delivered a letter at the Mansion- 
house, which, he said he had brought 
from lord Hawkesbury, secretary of 
state, and requested it to be delivered 
immediately ; it was accordingly 
given to his lordshipp.and soon af- 
ter, the following literal copy ap- 
peared in front of the Mansion- 
house: 
‘¢ Lord Hawkesbury presents his 
compliments to the lord mayor, and 
has the honor to acquaint his lord- 
ship, that the negociation between 
Ce this 
