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although many found him guilty 

 under various charges, not one 

 individual agreed in convicting 

 him of the whole. The India 

 Company liberally paid a great 

 part of the expence of this tedious 

 process, but his own fortune 

 defrayed the rest. In private 

 hfe he is painted as one of the 

 most amiable of human beings, 

 with a nature " full of the milk of 

 human kindness," and without a 

 tincture of gall in its composition. 

 24. At Sandridge-lodge, Wilts, 

 George Lord Audley, in his 61st 

 year, 



Septemher. 



17- At Uffington-house, near 

 Stamford, Right Hon. Albemarle 

 Bertie, Earl qfLindsey, a General 

 of his Majesty's forces, aged 74. 

 He married in 1809 the daughter 

 of the very Rev. Dr. Layard, 

 dean of Bristol, by whom he left 

 two sons and one daughter. 



27. In Rutland -square, Dublin, 

 Might Hon. William Howard, 

 Earl of fVicklotv, a Privy Coun- 

 sellor of Ireland. He married in 

 1787 Eleanor, the only daughter 

 of the Hon. Francis Caulfield, by 

 whom he had issue three sons and 

 five daughters. He is succeeded 

 by his eldest son, William Lord 

 Clonmore. 



Miss Sarah Sophia Banks, 

 sister of Sir Joseph Banks, aged 

 74. In common with her brother, 

 she was zealous for the study of 

 the sciences and of natural 

 history ; and by the direction of 

 Sir Joseph, such of her collec- 

 tions of books and coins as the 

 British Museum does not already 

 possess, have been presented to 

 that National Institution. 



October. 



3. At Northwick Park, Wor- 

 cestershire, the Right Hon. Lady 

 North-wick, widow of the late, and 

 mother of the present. Lord 

 Northwick. 



19, Near Dublin, in her 56th 

 year, Catherine Baroness Mount 

 'Sandford, widow of Henry the 

 late Baron Mount Sandford. 



29. At Mount Edgecumbe, the 

 Risht Hon. Wm. Richard Viscount 

 Valletort, aged 24. 



November. 



2. The death of Lady Ro- 

 milly, October 29, was parti- 

 cularly unfortunate in throwing 

 her husband. Sir Samuel Romilly, 

 into a condition which plunged 

 him in a paroxysm of grief, 

 whereby he was driven to raise his 

 hand against his own life ; and in 

 about an hour after the deed, he 

 sunk under the stroke, leaving no 

 doubt in the minds of the jury 

 called to enquire into the nature 

 of the act, that it was committed 

 during a state of derangement, 

 over which he had no power. 

 Long brought into public notice 

 as a lawyer of first rate abilities, 

 and placed in a conspicuous 

 station as a member of the House 

 of Commons, in which his virtues 

 shone with peculiar lustre, it 

 could scarcely be supposed that 

 such would have been the termi- 

 nation of his life. But rarely 

 does it happen that human life 

 passes without a struggle; and 

 to meet death with perfect resig- 

 nation may be considered as a 

 peculiar blessing. Having already 

 twice mentioned Sir S. Romilly, 



both 



