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The moft defcrving perfons are generally the objcfts of envy. 

 By its malignancy, the officers concerned in this gallant action 

 were neither encouraged nor promoted. Sir Ralph hirafelf, 

 againfl the inclination of his fovereign, was afterwards ftript 

 of all his employments. But thofe fliafts which fbruck him out 

 of thefe, could not wither his laurels. His laurels, thofe ho- 

 nours gained in the fervice of his country, continued to adorn 

 his brows, in their full bloom and vigour, fhone fuperior to the 

 acrimony of the times, attending him in his private as well as 

 public life, and confecrating him to immortal fame. Retired 

 thus, and thus revered, he lived the remainder of his time, 

 about nine years, upon his own eftate, which was very confider- 

 able. He died in January 1707, and was interred in Weftminjler- - 

 Abbey, with a folemnity fuitable to his merit. 



George Dela-val, of Delaval, Efq; had a genius not only for 

 arms, but the cabinet. He was appointed by her Majefty Queen 

 Anne, envoy extraordinary to the King of Portugal, in the room 

 of the Earl of Galivay, whilft he was only a captain of a man of 

 war, on the nth of Oct. 1710, and on the i4th of December fol- 

 lowing, he was fent ambaffador plenipotentiary to the Emperor 

 of Morocco-^ with inftructions to treat for horfes and provisions, 

 for the confederate army in Spain. He was raifed for his fervices 

 to the high rank of admiral. He was killed by a fall from an 

 unruly horfe, as he was riding out to divert himfelf after dinner, 

 near his houfe, June aad 1723. 



Sir Chahner Ogle, Knt. was born at Kirldey by the river Pent, 

 and was a younger brother of the late Dr. Ogle, a phyfician at 

 Nenvcaftle upon Tyne. Being defuned to try his fortune in his 

 majefty's navy, he was very early advanced by his perfonal merit 



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