Account of Felix 
professed bruisers ever since, although the 
science has so far spread into general practice 
as to have become a nuisance in almost every 
other public pUce. Although Mr. McCarthy 
was thus successful in pugilistic feats in Eng¬ 
land, he had in his earlier years a very narrow 
escape in one of those contests with cold irert^ 
■which were then fashionable in France. His 
antagonist was a countryman of his own, 
equally rematkable too, for strength and cou¬ 
rage; they fought till both were disabled by 
loss of blood, and Mr. M'Carthy, who had 
worse wounds, and a greater number of them, 
was left for dead, and remained long withoat 
any hope of recovery. His antagonist fled 
beyond the frontiers of France, and neither 
party knew what had become of the other, 
till after a lapse of twenty years they met 
at a place in the vicinity of Lincoln’s-inn- 
fields, frequented by the lovers of porter and 
fun. After a great deal of staring, a mutual 
T-ecognitlon took place, and a reconciliation, 
the manner of which, with the accompanying 
explanations and relations of the prior and 
subsequent adventures, was very entertaining 
to the friends of both, who immediately coa¬ 
lesced and formed one company for the re¬ 
mainder of the night. The rencontre with 
JMendoza was the last public exhibition of Mr. 
McCarthy’s strength and courage as a cham¬ 
pion. His latter years, passed in the tran¬ 
quillity of private life, exhibited alternate 
vicissitudes of generous, but extravagant and 
thoughtless, hospitality ; and of distress often 
bordering on want, which, however, could 
not subdue his spirit, or destroy his chearful- 
jiess. Mr. M‘Carthy, although he had 
been absent from Ireland for above thirty, 
years, during the earlier part of w'hich he 
resided on the continent, he always retained 
a sincere and ardent afrection for his country. 
He was accordingly sought after by multitudes 
©f his distressed countrymen, with whom he 
never failed to share his purse while he had 
any thing in it, and his heart, when he had 
net. This single trait is itself a summary of 
his character j and if it had in it sometimes 
more of generosity than of discretion, the 
failing arose from so good a principle, that 
his death (which was probably not a little 
hastened by its consequences), will require 
but a little exertion of the charity towards 
human frailty which death naturally 
inspires, to extinguish the blame that in¬ 
discretion may sometimes call forth from 
strict propriety, in the sympathy which his 
known and undeniable good nature must 
find in the kindred feelings of every generous 
heart.] 
In x*j.lbemarle-street, the Right. Hen. Sir 
yoha Afistruther, M. P. for Anstruther, See. 
and holder of some sineieure appointments. 
The ancestor of this gentleman was created a 
baronet in id94. At an early age he himself 
wassentto the University of Glasgow', where 
he completed his studies under Dr. Millar, 
McCarthyf esq, ^9 
the celebrated profe.ssor of humanity. Heing 
destined for the English b.ir, in 1774, Mr. A. 
was admitted of Lincoln’s Inn, and received s 
call in Hilary Term, 1779. He at first dis¬ 
tinguished hin)3elf chiefly in the appeals 
brought from Scotland, to be determined in 
the House of Peers j but, as his family pos- 
fessed considerable influence, he was brought 
into parliament while yet a very yuung man, 
and for a considerable period appears to have 
voted and acted w’ith Mr. Fox. Having ad¬ 
dicted himself to the consideration of the af¬ 
fairs of India, he was appointed a manager 
to conduct the impeachment against Mr, 
Hastings, and opened one of the charges in 
a speech which was greatly applauded. He 
also spoke with considerable cflect on the 
regency bill, the declaratory act, and Mr. 
Pitt’s India bill, all of which he opposed. 
Scon after this (1796-7) Mr. Anstruther 
repaired to Asia, in the character of one of 
the judges of Bengal, and has lately returned 
to this country. Almost immediately after 
his arrival, be was nominated a member of 
the privy council, and lately sat once more 
for a district of Scotch boroughs. In the last 
year he rendered himself obnoxious by a speech 
against Sir F. Bui dett, and had his v\indowj 
broken by the populace. 
In Dean-street, South Audley-square, after 
a long illness, in his 4'2d year, the Her.. 
Charles Bsgenal Hgar, of Llanhydrock House, 
Cornw'all. Mr. Agar was the third and 
youngest son of james the first Lord Viscount 
Clitden, by Lucia, eldest daughter of John 
Martin, esq. and widow of the Hon. Hemy 
Boyle Walsingham, second sen of Henry Earl 
of Shannon. At an early ag;s he v, as sent to 
VVestDiir.ster-Echool; and having been admit- 
ted,,in 1783, a King’s scholar on the founda¬ 
tion, he was, in 1788, elected to a student¬ 
ship at Christ Church, Oxford. During this 
time he was educated entirely under the care 
.and superintendar.ee of his great uncle the 
Right Hon. V/c!bore Ellis,afterwards created 
Lord Mandip j and at these distinguished se¬ 
minaries he imbibed those high sentiments of 
lionour, and that pure and unmixed sincerity, 
which were his great characteristics through 
life. After passing four years at the uni¬ 
versity, and having taken the degree of B. 
A. he entered himself of the Society of 
.Lincoln’s Inn, and was at the usual stand¬ 
ing called to the Bar. Having chosen the 
Chancery line as his department, he for some 
time gave himself up to bis profession with 
very laudable diligence,acquiring, as a young 
man, a competent share of practice, and at¬ 
taining, at an . early period, the situations of 
a Commissioner of Bankrupts, and of Deputy 
Kecorder of Oxford. In November, 1804, hs 
married Miss Hunt, of ].,lanhyd70ck, in the 
county of Cornwall, the JieircsS and reprs- 
sentutive of the laaiily of Roberts, lonneriy 
Earls of Radnor. 
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