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ed over the monuments of modern 

 degradation; he conversed with 

 lier learned men ; he was enrolled 

 in her academies ; and became al- 

 most naturalized to the country. 

 His memoir on Italian Tragedy, 

 and his Historical Memoirs of the 

 Irish Bards, may be ranked among 

 the best productions of British 

 Literature. 



At his house in Stephen's Green, 

 Dublin, John Law, D. D. Bishop 

 of Elphin, and brother to lord 

 Ellenborough. This truly venera- 

 ble prelate was a man of profound 

 erudition, and his whole life was 

 devoted to the practice of those 

 moral and religious duties which 

 he so forcibly inculcated in his ex- 

 cellent discourses from the pulpit. 

 When he took possession of the see 

 of Killala, and learnt that almost 

 the whole of the population were 

 Roman Catholics, he observed, 

 " that it was a hopeless task to 

 make them protestants, it would 

 answer everypuipose to make them 

 good catholics:" and with this view 

 he got printed, at his own expense, 

 and distributed gratis through the 

 diocese, a new edition of the works 

 of the rev. John Gother, which 

 breathe the piety, and, in plain and 

 iiitelligiblelanguage, inculcate the 

 morality of the Bible. Tlie same 

 liberality of his life, is particu- 

 larly observable in his will. He 

 has left to the rev. James White- 

 law, vicar of St. Catherine's, Dub- 

 lin, .'300/. Of this gentleman his 

 lordship knew nothing but his vir- 

 tues and literary acquirements ; 

 but to such a man as Dr. Law they 

 were the best recommendation. 

 He had previously bestowed upon 

 him the living in the diocese of 

 Elphin, held by the late Dr. Sand- 

 ford; and in his last and tedious 

 eickness, was often heard to ex- 



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press his satisfaction, that he 

 lived to have an opportunity of 

 showing him this mark of his 

 friendship and esteem. To Dr. 

 William iVIagee, senior fellow of 

 Trinity College, Dublin, he has 

 bequeathed a like sum offive hun- 

 dred pounds. This gentleman had 

 also no recommendation but his 

 literary talents. To Dr. Brinkley, 

 professor of astronomy in Trinity 

 College, Dublin, he has bequeath - 

 ed five thousand pounds, with all 

 his books, valued at three thou- 

 sand pounds. His lordship died 

 worth forty-five thousand pounds, 

 and his legacies, including one 

 thousand pounds to his brother, 

 lord Ellenborough, amount in 

 tlie whole, to sixteen thousand 

 pounds. The remaining twenty- 

 nine thousand pounds is bequeath- 

 ed, one-half to his widow, Mrs. 

 Law, and the other half distri- 

 butively between his four brothers 

 and sisters. 



JUNE, 



On tile fifth of June, at Malta> 

 in the twenty-seventh year of Lis 

 age, Mr. Theodore Gallon, second 

 son of Samuel Galton, esq. of 

 Dudson, near Birmingham. He 

 was returning from a long voyage, 

 undertaken from a classical taste, 

 in search of knowledge, to the 

 coasts of the Mediterranean, and 

 particularly to Asia Minor and 

 Greece. He had been daily 

 and impatiently expected by 

 his anxious friends ; and was ac- 

 tually supposed to be on board 

 the vessel that brought the ac- 

 count of his decease. This young 

 man is deeply and most deservedly 

 regretted. Few persons have been 

 so strikingly distinguished for those 

 attractive qualities and graces of 



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