104. 
lequin could not accomplifh, to the no fmall 
chagrin of that motley gentleman. He per- 
formed at Covent-Garden for about feven 
years previous to his death ; and, from his - 
epen difpofition and honeft bluntnefs, con- 
ciliated the good opinion of all his brother 
performers, by whom his premature death Is 
unanimoufly regretted. 
At his feat at Moor-park, in Hertfordthire, 
Thomas Bates Rous, Efgq. fon of the late 
"Thomas Rous, Efq. for many years chairman 
of the Eaft India company, and one of the 
moft ative members of that body: The late 
Mr. Rous was bred to the fea; and at an 
early age obtained, through his father’s in- 
tereft, the command of a fhip in the Eaft 
India company’s fervice. In this capacity, 
being particularly patronized by the late Lord 
Clive, and indulged with profitable voyages 
by the court of dire€tors, he made a rapid 
fortune, which was foon after increafed by 
-his father’s death. Captain Rous had, prior 
to that event, returned from the fea-fervice, 
fettled in Worcefterfhire, and in 1774 ftood 
a candidate for the city of Worcefter, on the 
minifterial intereft in oppofition to Sir Watkin 
Lewis and a friend, the popular candidates; 
and, after a long and expenfive election, was 
fuccefsful. In parliament he fupported the 
adminifiration of Lord North, and was by his 
Aordthip’s influence brougtit in again for that 
city in 1780. Attached to Lord North, he 
entered warmly into the coalition, and as 
long as he fat in parliament oppofed Mr. Pitt. - 
This conduct loft him the intereft on which 
. he food at Worcefter; and he has not fat in 
parliament fince. Captain Rous not only 
oppofed Mr. Pitt in the houfe, but in a well- 
written pamphlet, entitled ¢¢ Objervatjons on 
gre Comiutation Projeér,” (1786) fpiritedly 
and unantwerably attacked that meafure, 
‘Vhree years afterwards he publifhed another 
pamphlet, entitled ‘¢ Ax Explanation of the 
miftaken Principles on which the Commutation A& 
ds founded.” Thefe performances, as the au- 
‘thor of the ¢* Literary Memoirs of Living 
Charaéters”” juftly obferves, were fuppofed 
to contain the ftrongeft arguments urged gn 
that fide of the queftion. —Captain Rous hay- 
ing for many years lived in the county of 
‘Worcefter refpetted and beloved, fome time 
fince remaved te Moor-parke, whiere he died 
fuddenly. 
On Thurfday, January 3x, at his houfe in 
St. James's s Square, of an abcefs in his fide, 
Francis Ofborne, Duke of Leeds, Marquis of 
See Earl of Danby, Vifcaunt La- 
timer, Baron Olborne and Keveton, and a 
Baronet in England, and Vifcount Dumblaine 
in Scotlaad. The duke was Le in 1751: 
the care of his education was “entrufted to 
the late Dr. Jackfon, who executed the im- 
portant truft fo much to the fatisfaétion of 
the noble family, that both the late duke 
and his father honoured him with their pa- 
gyonage and efteem, ‘To the former he was 
- Marriages and Deaths, in and near London. 
[ Feb. 
indebted for confiderable preferments in the 
church, and fome good appointments for his 
children. The Duke of Leeds very early in 
life entered into the political world. Soon 
after. he became of age, he was introduced 
by family intereft into the houfe of come 
mons, where he took a decided part in fae 
your of Lord North’s adminiftration, and 
againft the claims of the Americans, Dure 
ing his father’s life he was called up to the 
houfe of peers, in 1776, by the title of Baron - 
Ofborne of Kevcton. At the age of 23, his 
grace married Lady Amelia D'Arcy, only 
furviying child of the late Earl of Holder- 
neffe, and in her own right Baroneis Conyers, 
by whom he had two fons; George William 
Frederjc, the prefent Duke of Leeds; and 
Lord Francis. This marriage proving unfor- 
tunate, he was divorced from that lady, by 
act of parliament, in May 1775. in 1777 
the marquis was appointed Chamberlain to 
the Queen, and next year Lord Lieutenant 
and Cuftos Rotulorum of the Weft-Riding of 
York. Poffeffing thefe places, he for a con- 
fiderable time fupported the minifiry; but 
Lord North’s meafures being carried much be- 
yond the priaciples and opinion of the mar- 
quis, he independently voted againftthem, 
and was in confequence deprived cf his lieu- 
tenancy: ftill, however, retaining his poft in 
the queen’s houfehold, which he kept till 
1731, when he refigned it, and was fucceeded 
by the Earl of Aylefbury. When the Rock- 
ingham adminiftration came inte power, in 
1733, they reftored the marquis to his lieute- 
nancy, which he enjoyed till his death. He 
feems, however, to have inclined to the Shel- 
burne party; and when that noble lord came 
into power, and concluded the peace, his lord- 
fhip was one of the moft zealous fupporters of 
it, ‘and moved the addrefs on that fubje€& in the 
houfe of lords. When his friends, or, pro= 
perly fpeaking, thofe with whom he had po- 
litically a€ted, came into power in 1783, his 
lordfhip was appointed ambaflador to France ; 
but was fuperfeded in the appointment before 
he quitted England. When Mr. Pitt came 
into adminiftration, he accepted the place of 
Secretary of State for the foreign depart~ 
ment, in which office he conned eight 
years. In 1786 he was appqinted High- 
Steward of Hull, an honorary poft to which 
no emolument, ne little influence, is at- 
tached ; and, on the death of Lord Godol- 
phin, he as appointed Governor of the 
Scilly Iflands. In 178g his lordfhip married 
his fecond wife, Mifs Anguifh, daughter of 
the Mafter in Chancery of that name; and 
the fame year, by the death of his father, 
became Duke of Leeds. In 3795 he refigned 
his place as fecretary of ftate to Lord Gren- 
ville; and fince that periad he has occa- 
fienally voted with and againft the miniftry. 
Jn private life the duke “has ‘ever been re- 
fpeéted and admired for his elegance, accom 
plifhments, and polite conduct. 
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