Cl H IRSOUNET CAL Ei 
shire. The disorder which termi-. 
nated so fatally to this distinguished 
personage was an abscess on the 
liver, the attack of which was first 
perceived about three months since, 
while she sat at the table of the mar- 
quis of Staiford ; and which from 
that period so increased its feverish. 
progress, as eventually to resist all 
the efforts of the first medical skill, 
Her grace was the eldest daughter 
of John earl Spencer; was born 
June 9,1757, and married to Wil- 
Jiam, the present duke of Devon. 
shire, June 6, 1774, by whom she 
_ had issue now living, 1. lady Geor- 
giana, now viscountess Morpeth 3 
%. \ady Elizabeth-Henrietta Caven- 
dish ; and $. the marquis of Hart- 
ington, who was born at Paris in 
1790. ‘The character of her grace is 
not to be classed with any of the or- 
dinary ranks of fashion. Her qua- 
Nitics were of a rare and superior 
Kind. Possessing a mind gracefully 
modelled as her person, she’ had 
Stored it with many useful, as well 
as ornamental endowments. She 
was well read in the history and 
polity of all countries; but the 
Belles Lettres had principally attrac. 
ted her attention, which she has en- 
riched with some compositions of 
“poesy, that demonstrate a fanciful 
‘imagination, and an elegant taste. 
Though forced into female supre- 
Macy by that general admiration 
which a felicitous combination of 
harms had excited, and so long re- 
mained unrivalled, her grace of De- 
vonshire found leisure for the sys- 
tematic exercise of a natural bene- 
yolence, which yielding irresistibly, 
and perhaps too indiscriminately, to 
the supplications of distress, sub- 
jected her to embarrassments that 
the world sometimes imputed. to 
causes less amiable and meritorious, 
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Ina word, she had a heart, which 
the flattering blandishments of fa- 
shion might sometimes beguile, but 
could never corrupt. The prince of 
Wales, who had the highest friend. 
ship and respect for her, when he 
heard of her death, exclaimed, 
** Then we have-lost the mostami. 
able and best-bred woman in Eng. 
Jand!!!? Her remains were inter- 
red, with great funeral pomp, in the 
family-vault at St. Stephen’s church, 
Derby. ‘The hearse was met three 
miles from Derby by the whole 
of the country nobility, and the 
duke’s tenantry residing there, who 
conducted it to the place of inter. 
nent, 
sist. At his house in Curzon. 
Street, May Fair, the right hon. 
George Macartney, earl Macartney, 
vicount Derveck, barom Macartney 
of Lissanouve, in- Ircland, baron 
Macartney of Parkhurst, in Eng- 
land, knight of the military order of 
the bath, knight of the Polish order 
of the white eagle, one of his ma- 
jesty’s privy counsellors in Great - 
Britain and Ireland, custos rotu- 
lorum of the county of Antrim, 
trustee of the linen manufacture for 
Ulster, and late ambassador to the 
court of China. The ear] was born 
in 1737 ; and married, Feb. 1. 1768, 
the lady Jane Stuart, second daugh- 
ter of John earl of Bute, by Mary 
only daughter of Edward Wortley 
Moatague, by lady Mary Pierre. 
point, daughter of Evelyn duke of 
Kingston ; but dying without issue, 
the titles becomeextinct. His lord- 
ship was descended from the ancient 
family of Macartney of Auchinleck, 
in Scotland, who settled in Ireland 
in 1649, though the ancient estate of 
Auchinleck continued unalienated, 
and belonged to the late earl at the 
time of his decease. Ile was educa- 
ied 
