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an Essay towards supplying the City of Dublin zvith Water. 

 Castle died at Carton in 175 1, and is buried at Maynooth. 



(3) Theophile Desbrisay, " Captain of Halberdiers of 

 Ireland," b. 1693, married Madelaine, daughter of Colonel 

 Jacques Daubussarques, a Huguenot resident of Portarling- 

 ton. Desbrisay, who was agent for Huguenot regiments, 

 had a military office in Cork hill, and in 1746 resided in 

 Frapper lane. 1 He, who died in 1772, and his wife, were 

 buried in the French Nonconformist cemetery in Stephen's 

 Green. 



(4) James Digges La Touche (son of David Digges La 

 Touche, banker, of Dublin), sided with Charles Lucas, 

 when that patriot started his campaign against the Board of 

 Aldermen. They became opponents, however, when La 

 Touche and he both decided to contest the representation 

 of Dublin in 1745, and Lucas afterwards accused him of 

 trying to injure certain branches of Irish trade. La Touche 

 published Papers concerning the late Disputes between the 

 Commons and Aldermen of Dublin, 1 746 ; and Collections of 

 Cases, &c, and Proceedings in Parliament relating to Insolvent 

 Debtors, Customs and Excises, Admiralty Courts, and the valu- 

 able liberties of the citizens, 1757. 



(5) Bartholomew Mosse was born at Maryborough in 

 1 7 12. In the year 1745 he founded a Hospital for 

 lying-in women in George's lane, which was the first of 

 its kind in the British Islands. The foundation stone of 

 the Rotunda Lying-in Hospital, designed by Castle, was 

 laid in 175 1, and that institution, conducted by Dr. Mosse, 

 was opened in 1 757. Mosse died in 1759. A memoir of 

 him will be found in the Dublin Journal of Medical Science, 

 vol. ii. 



A little later, a seal for the use of the Society was 

 ordered to be prepared, the design to be Minerva with 

 a cornucopia ; motto, Nostri plena laboris? On the 8 th 



1 Now Beresford street (N. King street). 



2 Virgil's sEneid, I. 460. 



