of Racine. She was buried in the 
church of the parish (St. Thomas 
d’ Aquinas) in which she died. 
Feb. 3d. At Chester, aged 84, 
Mrs. Conway Hope, widow of 
George Hope, esq. of Hope, and 
the only remaining daughter of the 
late sir Thomas Longueville, bart. 
At Offenbach, in his 68th year, 
the prince of Ysenbourg, he is suc- 
ceeded by his son, prince Charles- 
Frederick-Louis Maurice, of Ysen- 
bourg, commander of the order of 
Malta. 
4th. At Paris, the lady of sir 
Alexander Grant, bart. of Malshan- 
ger, Hants. 
5th. Lieut. col. Frederick Man- 
ners, of the 96th foot, who highly 
distinguished himself in the West 
Indies and in Holland. A favou- 
rite of superior officers, a friend of 
contemporaries, beloved and obeyed 
by his soldiers, not only his family, 
but his. country has in his death suf- 
fered a great loss. 
In his 66th year, after a lingering 
illness, which he supported with pa- 
tient fortitude and pious resignation, 
Mr. John Thorsby, many years 
clerk of St. Martin’s, Leicester, and 
a well-known writer. 
man of strong natural genius, and, 
‘during the vicissitudes of a life re- 
markably chequered, rendered him- 
self conspicuous as a draughtsman 
and topographer. He attempted ma- 
ny expedients for the maintenance 
of a numerous family, few of which 
answered his purpose ; and his last 
‘days would have been shaded with 
penury and disappointment, but for 
the assistance of those friends who 
knew his worth, and justly appre- 
¢iated him as a man of honesty, in- 
tegrity, and merit. Ilis publications 
were, Ist. ‘¢ The Memoirs of the 
‘Town and County of Leicester, 
Vou. XLV. 
CHRONICLE. 
He was a 
497 
1777,” 6 vols. 12mo. 2d. * Select 
Views in Leicestershire, from origi- 
nal drawings, 1789, 4to. 3d. ‘* Sup- 
plementary volume to the Leices- 
tershire Views, containing a series 
of excursions in the year 1790, 
to the villages and places of note 
in the county, 1790,” 4to. 4th. 
«© The History and Antiquities 
of the ancient Town of Leices- 
ter, 1791,” 4to. 5th. ‘+ Letters on 
the Roman Cloaca at Leicester, 
1795,” Svo. 6th. ‘* Thoughts on 
the Provincial Corps raised, and 
new raising in support of the British 
Constitution at this awful Period, 
1795,” Svo. 7th. “ Thoroton’s His- 
tory of N ottinghamshife, republished 
with picturesque and select views of 
seats of the nobility and gentry, 
towns, villages, churches, and ruins, 
1797,” three vols. 4to. 
Gth. ‘The hon. Mrs. Henniker, 
widow of major H. esq.~ second 
son of the late lord Hf. 
7th. Aged 14, William Hill, of 
Lincoln, youngest son of the late 
Mr. Wm. H. innholder. This un- 
fortunate boy, on the 29th of Janu- 
ary, was in a close by the water side, 
in company with another nearly the 
same age, and had a fowling piece 
with them, which, accidentally go- 
ing off, wounded the former in the 
thigh, and ultimately occasioned his 
death. 
9th. At Paris, M. de St. Lam- 
bert ; and, on the 10th, M. de la 
Harpe. Both had been members of 
the French academy, and were also 
members of the second class of the 
national institute. The latter was 
85 years of age, and author of ** an 
ancient and modern Course of Li- 
terature.”’ Previous to his decease, 
he declared he had a firm belief in 
the truth of the christian religion ; 
and solemnly retracted whatever 
c might 
