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lady Anne Wentworth, eldest daugh- 
ter of William, ear] of Strafford, and 
had issue one son, Thomas, the sub- 
jet of this article, who, on the 
death of the last earl of Stafford, 
succeeded to large property in En- 
gland ; and several daughters, viz. 
Catherine, countess of Ross, who 
died without issue by her husband 
Ralph, earl of Ross. 2d. Frances 
yiscountess Howe, married lord 
Howe, to which title he succeeded 
on the death of his brother, Richard 
carl Howe, but has no issue, 3d. 
Caroline, countess of Buckingham- 
shire, who married in 1770, John 
the second earl of Buckinghamshire, 
and had issue an only daughter, the 
Jady Amelia Hobart, who married 
jn 1797,Robertviscount Castlereagh, 
son of Robert, earl of Londonderry, 
in Ireland. 4th. Anne married 
George Bing. esq. of the noble fa- 
mily of Torrington, and has issue 
George Bing, esq. M.P. for Mid- 
diesex, who, by the late will of his 
uncle, the right hon. Thomas Con- 
nolly, succeeds to the large estates 
of the Connolliecs in Ireland, and 
the magnificent seat at Castletown. 
30th. At her father’s seat, the 
Priory, near Stanmore, co. Mid- 
dlesex, in her 22d year, after a 
short illness, of an inflammation of 
the membrane which lies in the 
wind-pipe, and which very suddenly 
produced suffocation, lady Harriet 
Hamilton, eldest daughter of the 
marquis of Abercorn, She was to 
have been married to the marquis of 
Waterford in a few days; the ar- 
ticles were drawn up, and the live- 
ries made. Possessed of every re- 
quisite to render her beloved by the 
noble lord to whom she was be- 
trothed; her person was beautiful, 
but her mental qualifications were 
eren superior; endowed with a 
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good understanding, she had de- 
voted her time to continued aéts 
of benevolence. The funeral of 
this deservedly-lamented young lady 
took place at 8 o’clock in the morn- 
ing of May 6th. 
Lately, at Placentia, the bishop 
of that see, don J. Gonzales de San 
Pedro, which he had filled 37 years, 
and was a benefactor to the whole 
country. } 
In Frederick-street, Dublin, lady 
Grace Queade, daughter of John, 
first earl of Aldborough, sister to 
the present earl. 
May ist. At her house in Upper 
Seymour-street, lady M. Milbourne, 
At the same hour also, at her house 
in Park-street, Grosvenor-square, 
Mrs. E, Harvey, many years the 
intimate friend of lady Milbourne. 
2d. At Darn-hill, Sir George 
Home, bart. of Blackadder, in 
Scotland, vice-admiral of the blue. 
4th. At his lodgings in Pad. 
dington, Mr. John Joseph Merlin, 
of Prince-street, Hanover-square, 
the very ingenious mechanic. He 
was born in September 1735, at 
St. Peters, in the city of Huy, on 
the river Meuse. He resided six 
years in Paris, and came over with 
the Spanish ambassador-extraordi- 
nary, the count de Fuentes, to his 
house in Soho-square, on the 24th 
of May, 1760. Mr. Merlin, as an 
ingenious mechanic, has been long 
known to the public. He was 
buried at Paddington. 
5th. At Camelford-house, “need 
65, Anne, dowager lady Camelford. 
In the constant exercise of the most. 
amiable qualities of the heart, she’ 
lived universally beloved, and dicd 
as universally lamented. She was 
daughter and co-heir of Pinkney 
Wilkinson, esq. of Burnham, co. 
Norfolk, and married, 1771, to 
Thomas 
