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vember 1793, and had a son born 

 January 15, 1794- ; but a suit was 

 instituted in Doctors' Commons, by 

 his majesty's orders, and the mar- 

 riage was declared null and void in 

 the following August, and lady 

 Augusta has since taken the name 

 of D'Ameland ; another daughter, 

 lady Susan, has been twice mar- 

 ried and has lost both husbands. — 

 Mr. Thorpe, and Mr. Drew ; the 

 other surviving daughter, lady Vir- 

 ginia, was named at the request of 

 the assembly of Virginia, of which 

 province the earl her father was go- 

 vernor, and was certainly the most 

 zealous and active of his majesty's 

 governors during the whole of the 

 revolutionary war. 



French Laurence, Regius Pro- 

 fessor of Civil Law in the Univer- 

 sity of Oxford, Chancellor of that 

 diocese, Judge of the Cinque Ports, 

 and Member of parliament for the 

 city of Peterborough. Dr. Lau- 

 rence received his first education at 

 Bristol ; whence he was removed to 

 the college at Winchester : he then 

 became a member of Corpus Ciiristi 

 college (of which college he was af- 

 terwards fellow), proceeded M.A. 

 June 21, 1781, and was created 

 D.C.L: October 19, 1787; his pro- 

 fessorship he obtained in 1796, on 

 the decease of Dr. Wenman. The 

 active part which he took in the 

 memorable contest for Westmin- 

 ster, in the year 1784, in writing 

 for Mr. Fox, particularly in the op- 

 position newspapers of that period, 

 was the cause of his introduction to 

 public notice ; although his subse- 

 quent literary exertions were of a 

 very diflerent kind, he was the au- 

 thor of many election ballads, which 

 at that time were highly popular 

 with the party. As some recom- 

 pense for his zeal and his services, 



the party patronized tlie publication 

 of the Itolliad, of which he was, 

 indeed, one of the authors as well 

 as the Probationary Odes, and these 

 works proved a source of consider- 

 able emolument to him. Dr. Lau- 

 rence then began to be ambitious of 

 a seat in the House of Commons, 

 and for that purpose, as well, in- 

 deed, as from a high admiration of 

 Mr. 13urke, attached himself parti- 

 cularly to that great ornament of 

 the British senate, by whose inte- 

 rest with Earl Fitzwilliam, the doc- 

 tor was gratified in his desire of par- 

 liamentary honours. From this time 

 he considered himself rather as the 

 adherent of Mr. Burke, than as an 

 implicit follower of the party with 

 which that great man had hitherto 

 acted ; and when the French revo- 

 lution induced Mr. Burke to with- 

 draw himself from Mr. Fox and 

 his friends, who had, as some per- 

 sons thought, so rashly committed 

 themselves in the eyes of mankind, 

 by hailing that dreadful political 

 explosion as an event calculated to 

 promote the happiness of mankind. 

 Dr. Laurence traced the steps of 

 Mr. Burke, and remained inflexibly 

 attached to that gentleman and his 

 principles till the world was de- 

 prived of his great talents. The 

 doctor, however, had for some lime 

 wisely considered, that politics af- 

 forded but an uncertain means of 

 support, and therefore directed his 

 attention to the civil law, and, by 

 his practice in the Ecclesiastical and 

 Admiralty Courts, gradually acquir- 

 ed a considerable fortune. Mr. 

 Burke had indeed derived great 

 advantage from the doctor, during 

 the prosecution of Mr. Hastings, 

 as he was indefatigable in exploring 

 and arranging the documents neces- 

 sary in that arduous and compli- 

 cated 



