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he hail gone in the hope of im- 

 proving his health, Francis Horner, 

 Esq. M. P. He was educated at 

 the high school and the university 

 of Edinburgh, where he pursued 

 his studies with unremitting at- 

 tention ; and he was first called to 

 the Scotch bar, and afterwards to 

 that of England. He was first 

 brought into parliament by Lord 

 Henry Petty (since Marquis of 

 Lansdown) his former fellow 

 student; and he afterwards sat 

 in three parliaments : his last 



seat that of St. Mawes, in Corn- 

 wall. After resigning his first 

 employment in the state, that of 

 commissioner for the liquidation 

 of the Carnatic claims, which he 

 might still have retained, he en- 

 tered the lists as an able debater ; 

 and by strict integrity of conduct 

 he fixed a high leputation, even 

 among those members who did 

 not concur with him in his prin- 

 ciples. With a strong understand- 

 ing, extensive and accurate know- 

 ledge, a style of eloquence plain 

 and direct, without a particle of 

 vanity or presumption, he bid fair 

 to attain eminence as a public 

 character, when he was carried off 

 by the merciless inroads of a con- 

 sumption. 



In her S9th year, the Dowager 

 Lnrly Carew. 



1 1 . Sir John Palmer, bart. aged 

 8"2, who was long a representative 

 in parliament for the county of 

 Leicester, and was distinguished 

 for his faithful discharge of duty 

 in every lelation of life. 



George IVilliam Evelyn, Earl of 

 Rothes, one of the sixteen peers 

 of Scotland, and colonel of the 

 Surrey yeomanry. 



14. At Marseilles, Lieut. -gen. 



the Hon Sir John Abercromby, 

 M.P. and colonel of the 53d foot. 



14. The Hon. Euphemia Stewart, 

 widow of William S. Esq. and sis- 

 ter of the late Earl of Seaforth. 



15. Near Dublin, Rear-Admiral 

 Sir Digby Dent. 



18. At Ugbrooke Park, the 

 Hon. Robert Clifford, third son of 

 Hugh Lord Cliftbrd. 



<24. At Hampton-coUrt palace, 

 Lady Henrietta Cecilia Johnston, 

 widow of Lieut.-Col. James J. and 

 daughter of John the first Earl of 

 Delawar. 



March. 



9. In her 75th year, Jane, Coun- 

 tess of Uxbridge, married to the late 

 Earl of Uxbridge in 1767- She 

 was mother to the present Mar- 

 quis of Anglesey. 



13. At Ipswich, -Sir William 

 Lines, bart. who was a volunteer 

 in the Life Guards of George II. 

 at the battle of Dettingen, and is 

 supposed to have reached his hun- 

 dredth year. 



18. Charles Combe, M.D. F.R.S. 

 and S.A. aged 74. He was early 

 eiig;iged in the study of the me- 

 dalic science, which introduced him 

 to tlie acljuaintance of Dr. William 

 Hunter, who had made a large and 

 valuable collection of medals. Of 

 those, two publications were made 

 by Di'. Combe, who planned the 

 finishing of the whole, when the 

 death of Dr. Hunter put an end 

 to the design. He afterwards lui- 

 dertook, in conjunction with the 

 Rev. Henry Homer, a \'ariorum 

 edition of Horace, which, after the 

 death of the former, he brought 

 through the press in 1793 Tiie 

 principal line of the profession fol- 

 lowed 



