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12, fVilliam Viscount Howe, 

 in his 85th year. He was the 3rd 

 ^on of Emanuel Scrope, Viscount 

 Howe, and at an early age entered 

 into the army, in which he was 

 advanced to the rank of colonel in 

 1762. During the seven years 

 war he served in America under 

 Gen. Wolfe with great reputation, 

 and in 1772 was made Major- 

 General. When the war with the 

 colonies broke out, he was sent to 

 America as Commander-in-chief, 

 to which station he was generally 

 thought to have proved himself un- 

 equal, though undoubtedly brave, 

 and skilful as colonel of a regi- 

 ment. His services were, however, 

 rewarded bj' professional advance- 

 ment and other honours, and in 

 1805 the government of Plymouth 

 was conferred upon him, which he 

 held to his death. He succeeded 

 in 1799 to the Irish peerage held 

 by his brother Richard, which, by 

 his death without issue, becomes 

 extinct. 



16. Rt. Hon. Lady Sinclair. 



18. Miles Peter Andrews, Esq. 

 M. P. author of several dramatic 

 pieces. 



19. Matthew Flinders, captain 

 in the navy, distinguished as a ma- 

 rine discoverer, and circumnavi- 

 gator. His exertions were im- 

 peded, and his health irreparably 

 injured, by a long aid shameful 

 imprisonment at the Isle of Mau- 

 ritius. He just survived to finish 

 the printing of his last voyage to 

 Terra Australia. 



20. Sir Beaumont Dixie, bart. 

 23. Sir Edw. May, bart. M. P. 



for Belfast. 



25. Charles Dibdin, a celebrat- 

 ed writer of humorous songs and 

 comic pieces for the theatre. 



27. R.FlemingWorselei/Hohnes, 

 Esq, M. P. for Newport, 



Lately, Lady Harriet Gordon, 

 daughter of the late Earl of Aber- 

 deen, and widow of Robt. G. Esq. 



Sir Walter Montgomery Cun- 

 ningham, bart. 



Kt. Hon. G. Ogle, Governor of 

 Wexford, aged 75. 



Doivagcr Lady Caher. 



Major-Gen. Douglas, of wounds 

 received before Bayonne. 



August. 



5. Lady Manners. 



F. J. Jackson, Esq. late Envoy 

 Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary 

 to the United States of America, 

 in his 44th year. 



7. The wife of General Wyn- 

 yard. 



8. Hon. Mrs. Laivrence Wal- 

 pole. 



14. EdwardHusseyDelaval,lif,q. 

 F. R. S. author of several learned 

 papers in optics and experimental 

 philosophy, aged 85. 



15. Admiral Skeffington Lut- 

 widge, in his 78th year. 



Kt. Hon. Mary Andalusia, Ba- 

 roness Rendlesham, in her 23rd 

 year. 



IG. The wife of Major-Gen. 

 Thomas Dallas. 



Anne Countess ofDesart, widow 

 of the late, and mother of tlie pre- 

 sent earl. 



17. Sir John Pollen, Bart, in 

 his 7-lth year. 



19. Benjamin Count Rumjbrd, 

 aged C2. This distinguished cha- 

 racter whose name was Thompson, 

 was born in the small town of 

 Romford in New England. He 

 received the assistance of a profes- 

 sor of natural philosophy of the 



