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bedchamber women to her majesty. 
She died in her 75th year, sin- 
cerely regretted by every one who 
knew her. 
In Somer’s Town, after a te- 
dious illness, of a dropsy, Mr. Sedg- 
wick, singer of Drury-lane theatre. 
11th. Suddenly, at Felixton, in 
Suffolk, at an advanced age, lady 
Fludyer, relict of the late sir Sa- 
muel F. of Leigh, in Kent, bart. 
and alderman of London. She was 
daughter of the hon. James Brude~ 
nell, 
. At his seat at Badminton, co. 
Gloucester, of the gout in his sto. 
mach, in his 59th year, the most 
noble Henry Somerset, duke of 
Beaufort, marquis and earl of Wor- 
cester, earl of Glamorgan, viscount 
Grosmont, baron Herbert, lord of 
Ragland, Chepstow, and Gower, 
baron Beaufort, af Caldecot Castle, 
baron Bettetourt (to which he suc- 
ceeded on the death of his mother, 
April 8, 1799), lord-lieutenant and 
custos rotulorum of the counties of 
Monmouth and Brecknock, and 
K. G. He was born O¢t. 16, 
1744; and was married April 2, 
1766, to Elizabeth, youngest daugh- 
ter of the late admiral Boscawen, 
and sister to George Evelyn, vis- 
count Falmouth, by whom he has 
left eight sons and three daughters ; 
the eldest of whom, Henry-Charles, 
marquis of Worcester, and M. P. 
for Gloucestershire, succeeds him in 
his titles and estates. His grace 
will be very much lamented by his 
family, his friends, his neighbours, 
and his numerous tenantry, in the 
counties of Gloucester and Mon- 
mouth, He maintained the dignity 
of his station rather by the noble 
simplicity of his manners, and his 
provincial hospitality, than by at-. 
tentions to exterior splendour and 
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display of fashion.. It was not t¢ 
his taste, nor did it suit with his 
fancy, to solicit notice by any of 
those attraétions at which the public. 
gaze with temporary admiration, 
Grosvenor-square was not disturbed 
by his festivities ; but at Badminton. 
and 'Troy-house every visitor felt 
the honour of his reception, and) 
was delighted with the satisfaétion 
that accompanied it. In politics he 
supported a tranquil, dignified in- 
dependence. He never engaged in 
the ranks of opposition; and the 
support he generally gave to his ma-' 
Jesty’s ministers could never be justly 
attributed to any motives, but such 
as were perfectly consistent with 
the integrity which distinguished 
his honourable life. His remains 
were, on the 20th, interred in the 
family-vault at Badminton. 
12th. Miss Jane Lyon, fourth 
daughter of the late hon. Thomas L,- 
of Hilton, Durham. 
14th. At Canterbury, William 
Scott, esq. of the ancient family of 
Baliol Scotts, late of Scotts-hall, in 
Kent. A long account of the fa- 
mily, who traced their descent from 
the Baliols, kings of Scotland, 
may be found in Hasted’s History of 
Kent. 
_ At her house in Gay-street, Bath, 
viscountess Northland, wife of lord 
viscount Northland, of Ireland. 
18th. At his hantona in Westmin- 
ster, aged 94, capt. Thomas Bas- 
ton, of the Royal Invalids.. He 
was the oldest officer in his ma- 
jesty’s service, and formerly of the 
Coldstream regiment of foot-guards, 
in which he lost an arm, at the battle 
of Fentenoy, 1745. 
19th. At Barbadoes, vide ta 
the yellow-fever, general William 
Grinfield,, commander of the treops 
in the Leeward Islands, who sur- 
rived 
