CHRONICLE. 
he passed in that long journey. His 
lordship was building, at his seat at 
Ickworth, a villa on the Italian 
model, by Halian architects and ar- 
tists of every class ; to which he had 
appropriated 12,0001. annually, and 
the ornaments of which are so ten- 
_ der and sharp as to require covering 
to preserve them from injury by ex- 
ternal air. As an amateur, con- 
noisseur, and indefatigable protector 
of the fine arts, he died at his post, 
surrounded by artists, whose talents 
his judgment had directed, and 
whose wants his liberality had re- 
lieved. His love of the sciences was 
only surpassed by his loye to his 
_ country, and by his generosity to 
the ai fortunate of every country : 
neither rank nor power escaped his 
resentment, when any illiberal opi- 
nion was thrown out against kng- 
Jand. At dinner with the late king 
of Prussia, and the prince royal of 
Denmark, at Pyrmont, in 1797, he 
boldly said, after the conversation 
about the acta sc ambition of Kugland 
had been changed into enquiries 
about the delicacy of a roasted ca- 
pon, that he did not like neutral 
animals, let them be ever so delicate. 
In 1798, he was arrested by- the 
French in Italy, and confined in the 
castle of Milan; was plundered by 
the republicans of a valuable and 
well-chosen coliection of antiquities, 
E _ which he had purchased with a view 
wy tae 4 
of transmitting to his native coun- 
try ; and was betrayed and cheated 
by many Ltalians, whose benefactor 
he had been. But neither the in- 
justice nor the ingratitude of man- 
kind changed his liberal disposition, 
He no sooner recovered his liberty, 
than new benefactions forced even 
the ungrateful to repent, and the 
unjust to acknowledge his elevated 
mind. The earl of Bristol was one 
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of the greatest English travellers (a 
capacity in which his merits have 
been duly appreciated by the cele- 
brated Martin Sherlock) and there 
is not a country of Europe where 
the distressed have net obtained his 
succour, and the oppressed his pre- 
tection. He may truly be said to 
have clothed the naked, and fed the 
hungry ; and, as osténtation never 
constituted real charity, his left hand 
did not know what his right hand 
distributed. The tears and Jamen- 
tations of widows and orphans have 
discovered his philanthropy, when 
he is no more: and letters from 
Swiss patriots and French emigrants, 
from ltalian catholics, and Germaw 
protestants, prove the noble use his 
lordship made of his fortune, indis- 
criminately, to the poor, the desti- 
tute, and the unprotected of alf 
countries, of all parties, and of aik 
religions. 
At his lordship’s house, in Hert- 
ford-street, aged 4 years, the young~ 
est daughter of lord Bruce. 
12th. At Exeter, in an advanced 
age, Mr. William Jackson, organist 
of the cathedral in that city, and au- 
thor of many deservedly celebrated 
compositions. 
17th. At Acten-burnell, co. Sa- 
lop, the seat of sir Edward Smythe, 
bart. Peter Holford, esq. of Woot- 
ton-hall, co. Warwick, father of 
Jady Smythe. 
At his apartment, at Brixton; 
causeway, Surry, in his 25th year, 
Manners’ Leslie, | esq. 
nephew to lord Newark. 
{n Sackville-street, the lady of sir 
C. Mitchell. 
19th. in the New-road, Mary- 
Ja-bonne, in his 76th year, sir 
Charles Burdett, bart. He suc- 
ceeded, 1760, his brother, Hugh, 
vicar of N ewington, by Sitting- 
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