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on the Thames, which were offered to the 
confideration-of Parliament, difplay a very 
comprehenfive knowledge of the various 
branches of his profeffion conneéted with fuch 
an- undertaking. It is faid, that he firit fug- 
gefted the converfion of the Ifle of Dogs te 
that ufe to which itis to be applied. In confe- 
quence of fome flattering expe€tations of being 
employéd to ereét a fuite of buildings at Bath, 
Mr. R. made defigns of great beauty and ele- 
gance, and replete with convenience, fora new 
arrangement of the public baths of that city : 
but this hope was never realifed. Mr. Revely 
was the editor of the pofthumous volume of 
Stuart’s Antiquities of Greece, and was pecu- 
liarly qualified by his local and profeffional 
knowledge for fuch an undertaking. Having 
been a pupil of Sir William Chambers, and 
‘poffefling all thofe fubfequent advantages de- 
rived from travel and refidence in Italy and 
Greece, it might have been fuppofed that he 
had a very fair profpeét of fuccefs in his pro- 
feffion. But Revely was too fincere in the 
declaration of his fentiments, and too farcaftic 
in délivering them to attain popularity. He 
once made a journey to Canterbury with a fet 
of admirable defigns for a county infirmary, 
‘in confequence of an advertifement from the 
corporation of that city, inviting architeéts 
to make propofals for the ereétion of fuch an 
‘edifice. His defigns were approved and ad- 
“mired: but the committee appointed to con- 
du@t the bufinefs, propofed to purchafe the 
‘drawings, and entruft the execution of them 
‘to a.country builder, in order to fave the ex- 
‘pence of an architect. Mr. Revely, who en-. 
tertained a very high opinion of his profeffion, 
was fo much mortified at this propofal, that 
~he warmly obferved, that to commit. a work 
of confequence to a common carpenter when 
an architeét was at hand, would be as injudi- 
cious, as if any one im a cafe of great danger 
fhould apply to an apothecary when he could 
confult a phyfician. Moft unfortunately for 
Revely, the chairman of the committee was 
am apothecary; and the archite&t and his de- 
figns were moft unceremonioufly difmiffed. 
‘Mr. Revely was a man of the ftricteft inte- 
grity, and the little eccentricities of his cha- 
-sa€ter, in no refpe& weakened its main fup- 
porters. 
At his feat at Knole, in Kent, in the §s5th 
vear of his age, John Frederic Sackville, 
Duke of Dorfet.. His grace was the fon of 
the late Lord John Sackville, by a fifter of 
-the prefent Marquis of Stattord, and nephew 
of thelate Duke of Dorfet. Whilft Mr. Sack- 
ville he fat-fome time in parliament for the 
county of Kent, and was called up to the 
Houfe of Peers, in1769, on the death of his 
-uncle. His grace, long known by the fami- 
liar*name of fack Sackville, was for many 
years well known on the cricket grounds as an 
excellent player, Whilft.a member of the 
~ Houle of Commons, and for fome time after 
be fucceeded to the title, he did not occupy 
any plage under government, although dur- 
Account of Thamas Elder, Efg.~ 
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[ Auguf, 
ing the American war he generally fapported 
theadminiftration. Indeed, being little dif- 
pofed to bufinefs his lordfhip empioyed much 
of his time in cricket and galiantry. Onthe 
change of miniftry in 1783 he came into place, 
and during the fhort adminiftration of Lord 
Lanfdowne was appointed captain of the yeo- 
man of the guard; but loft this place again 
when the coalition miniftry came into power. 
The duke voted againft Mr. Fox’s India Bill, 
and was afterwards appointed ambaffador te 
France by Mr. Pitt. While in this capacity 
his grace experienced what would have been a 
very mortifying circumftance to moft other 
men, an almoit total deprivation of diplo- 
matic employment. Mr., now lord Gren- 
ville; Mr. Eden, now lord Auckland; and 
Mr. Craufurd, were fent to tranfact fuch bu= 
finefs and conclude fuch treaties as* were 
thought neceflary. But the duke was no 
ways affected by this apparent flight, except 
as it gave him Jleifure for his pleafures and 
gallantries. When the affairs of France, by 
the breaking out of the revolution, began te 
require great-attention on the partof ouram- 
baffador, the minifter thought proper to re- 
call his grace, having previouily decorated 
him with the ribbon of the order of the gars 
ter 3 and, on his return (1789) confoled him by 
the appointment to the poft of lord fteward 
of his majefty’s houfehold. ~Soon after he 
had the good fortune to obtain in marriage 
Mifs Cope, daeghter of the prefent. lady 
Liverpool by her firft hufband, Sir Jonathan 
Cope, a young lady about half his own age 3 
by her he had one fon and one daughter. 
From the declining ftate of his health, or 
fome. other caufe, his grace refigned the place 
of lord licutenant of the county of Kent, 
with which he had been invefted ever fince 
the death of his uncle ; and lord Romney fuc- 
seeded to the poft. His grace retained his 
office of lord fteward for iome time longer, 
but refigned it previous to his death. 
Dr. Edward Smaliwell, bifhop of Oxford, 
this reverend prelate has been in the road to 
preferment ever fince the year 1766, when he 
was appointed one of the king’s chaplains, in 
which ftation he continued many years, In 
1775 he was appointed one of the canons of 
Chrift Church, from whence he was removed 
in 1783 to the bifhoprick of St. David's, on 
the promotion of Dr. Warren to the fee of 
Bangor, where he continued five years; and 
on the death of Dr. Butler, he was tranflated 
to Oxford. 
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SCOTLAND. 
Thomas Elder, Efg. of Farneth, whofe 
death was announced in our lait Number, 
was Colonel of one of the battalions of Edin- 
burgh Volunteers, Poft-mafter-General for 
Scotland, and late Chief Magiftrate of the 
Scottish Metropolis. 
My. Elder was the fon of refpe€table and 
induftrious parents. He was, in early youth, 
placed with Mr, Hu/band, an eminent wine- — 
merchant 
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