GHRIONICLE ) “ 503. 
At Coltness-house, Edinburgh, 
Miss EF. Steward, daughter of sir J. 
S$. bart. of Goodfrees. 
5th. At her house, in Wim- 
pole-street, aged 86, lady Frances 
Williams Wynn, relict of — sir 
Watkin Williams W. so famed for 
his hospitality, and munificence, 
throughout Wales, 60 years ago.— 
She preserved, by her conciliating 
manners, the high regard of his nu- 
merous friends during her son’s Jong 
minority; and her memory was 
clear, and strength of mind conti- 
nued to the last. 
At Edinburgh, the wife of ma- 
jor-general Ilay Ferrier, niece of 
the late lord justice Clerk. 
6th. At his house, at Sunning, 
near Reading, Berks, aged about 
seventy, admiral sir Thomas Rich, 
bart. 
In Piccadilly, in his 74th year, 
the right hon. sir William Hamil- 
ton, K. B. &c. &c. He died at the 
house of his lady, bought for him, on 
an interruption of his own finances, 
with some jewels, a present to her 
by a foreign princess, who, in a let- 
ter to our own sovereign, praises 
Jady Hamilton, in full gratitude of 
heart, as “* her best friend and pre- 
server! to whom she was indebted, 
certainly, for life, and probably for 
the crown.” Sir William was a 
man of most extraordinary endow- 
ments, and his memory will be dear 
to the literary world, by the indefa- 
tigable exertions which he made 
through life, to add to our stock of 
knowledge and of models in the fine 
arts. His whole life, indeed, was 
devoted to studies connected with 
the arts, and he made every interest 
contribute to the passion of his soul. 
He was foster-brother of his present 
majesty, which laid the foundation 
of that gracious attachment and 
friendship with which he was ho- 
noured by the king, through the 
whole of his public ‘service. By 
that immediate protection, he pro- 
cured the fayourite appointment of 
minister at the court of Naples, 
which he enjoyed, with the unin. 
terrupted approbation of the two 
courts, for 36 years, and which he 
would not exchange for more lucra- 
tive situations. The zealous and 
successful efforts he made, during all 
this time, in bringing to light the 
buried treasures of antiquity, and in 
promoting a just and correct taste 
in the arts, by making known, in 
his works, the specimens of the pure 
and chaste style of the classic wra 
that he had discovered, need not be 
here enumerated. He was equally 
active and successful in the dus 
ties of his appointment, and main- 
tained the harmony of the two 
courts at a period when it re- 
quired all his influence and ad- 
dress to counteract the designs of 
those who had an interest in the 
breach of that amity that so happily 
subsisted. ‘The English nobility and 
gentry, who travelled into Italy, 
speak with the warmest acknowe- 
ledgments of the splendid hospitality 
with which he represented his sove- 
reign. About twelve years ago, he 
married the present lady Hamilton, 
He had a pension of 12001. a year, 
on the Irish establishment, conferred 
on him for his long diplomatic ser. 
vices, which ceases with his exist. 
ence. He hag made his nephew, the 
hon. Charles*Greville (deputy lord 
chamberlain) his sole heir. His es- 
tates near Swansea, which he got by 
a former wife, amount to 5000I. per 
annum ; these he has left charged 
with 7001. per annum, as an annuity 
to the present lady Hamilton, during 
her life. Ilis remains were interred 
at Milford-hayen, in Pembrokeshire. 
His ‘* Observations on Mount Ve. 
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