1803.] 
Brifcoe, while on & vifit to the Governor Ge- 
neral. ~ 
In the ifland of Antigua, J. Price, efq. 
fon of |. Price, efq. of Stratton-ftreet, Picca- 
dilly, London. ; 
At Albino, near Rome, on the 8th ult. in 
the 73d year of his age, the Right Hono- 
rable Frederick, Bishop of Derry. His Lordihip 
was born at the family feat in Ickworth, 
Suffolk, in the year 1730. . He was the.third 
fon of —4*—- Earl of Briftol, who had 
incurred the difpleature of Mr. Pope, becaufe 
he fometimes amufed himfelf with writing 
verfes, which were thought worthy of repe- 
tition by the wits of thefe days, and many 
of which are deemed worthy of the rank they 
firft held in Dodfley’s Collection, which is no 
{mall proof of their merit. The mother of 
the Bifhup was the daughter of General. Ni- 
cholas Le Peil, a lady as celebrated for her 
beauty, as her Lord was for his eccencricities. 
In addition toa fine form, embellifhed with 
all the advantages of a finifhed education, 
fhe is faid to have had the fineft eyes of any 
woman in her day, which did not efcape 
Voltaire in the following ftanza, which he 
wrote foon afier his arrival in England: 
Hervey would you know the lover, 
‘True love is by filence known, 
In my eyes you'll beft difcover 
All the powers of your own. 
The fubjett of this fketch having entered 
into Holy Orders, was appointed none uf the 
Chaplains in Qrdinary to his Majefty, and 
principal Clerk of the Privy Seal, which 
he refigned in February 1767, upon being 
appointed Bifhop of Cloyne, in iseland, and 
fworn of the Privy Council in tnat King. 
dom On the 3oth of January, 1768, he 
was tranflated to the Bithoprick of Derry, on 
the demife of Dr. Barnard. He married 
Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Jermyn Danvers, 
bart. by whom he has left two fons, George, 
now Earl of Briftol, and Augu&us john; alfo 
two daughters, Mary married February 1766, 
to John Lord Erne, and Elizabeth, married in 
the fame year to John Thomas Foiter, efq 
The citizens of Londonderry had received a 
very unfavourable impreffion of his Lordthip, 
he was reprefented as a haughty high prieft, 
that kept the inferior orders of the clergy at 
an oriental diftance, proud of his high birth, 
and vain’ of his accomplifhments as a gentie- 
man and a fcholar. In a fhort time, how- 
ever, they were agreeably undece'ved. The 
ladies were charmed with his attention and 
politenefs ; the men with his affability, and 
the poor with his well-timed charities, of 
"him it may be truly faid that he was a father 
to the fatherleis, and ‘* defended the caufe 
of the widow.”” The liberality of his reli=- 
gious fentiments infenfibly won the heart of 
the foureft fe& in his diocefe, his hofpitable 
board was daily encircled with clergymen and 
laymen of the etftablifhed church, Roman 
Catholics, and Prefbyterians. In fhort it 
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may be faid, that he brought about a religious 
revolution in the minds of the inhabitants of 
the extenfive bifhoprick of Derry, which has 
encreafed, is encreafing, and it is hoped 
will never be diminithed. He employed a 
number of poor labourers in the cultivation 
of his epifcopal domain, a number of 
Carpenters, mafons, &c. in building — 
and as his tate in archite&ure was al- 
lowed to be correét-—he was followed in that 
line by many gentlemen in the neighbour- 
hood who thro’ his medium became as well 
acquainted with palladies, as fome of our 
merchants are with their ledgers. This flat- 
tered the Bifhop’s pride, I won’t fay his va- 
nity, fo that he ufed to call the gentlemen of 
the county of Londonderry che “* Traétable 
Irifh.’ In all. his improvements either ia 
planting or building,he appears to have had an 
eye to that juitly-admired couplet in Pope : 
+ >Tis ufe alone that fanctifies expence, 
And fplendor borrows ail her rays from 
fenfe.”’ 
Vhe Bithop was peculiarly calculated to win 
the affection of ali around him, he was fond 
of wit, and was witty at will, but it muf be 
obferved in juitice to his memory that he 
never dspped one of his fhafts in gall: he was 
alfo fond of the focial board, but never in- 
dulged bevond the relifh of his glafs. In 
converfation he never touched on any topic 
that might recal any' unpleafant fenfation, or 
lead to any unolealant difcuffion. He was 
the patron of men of letters, and loved to 
beckon modeft merit from the thade. His 
library, which was well ftored with the bet 
writers, was open to every perfon of refpect- 
able character that wifhed to coffult it. In 
his politics he ufed to declare that he was 
bred in the fchool of that ftatefman that 
raifed this country to the proudett acmé of 
pre-eminence—the illuftrious’ Wiirram 
Pirt, Earl of Chatham. ‘The only promi-’ 
nent feature in his political life,was the part,’ 
as unexpected as it was confpicuous, namely, 
he took in the Volunteer Affociation of lre- 
land, one of the brighteft periods in the 
hiftory of that ‘country. At a meeting of 
272 companies of the volunteer army of 
the province of Uliter, by their delegates 
held at Dunganon ia the county of: Tyrone, 
on Monday, September 8, 1733. Gis Lordthip 
attended,and may be {aid to have made his firft 
public appearance as a delegate of the Lon- 
donderry corps of volunteers: He was called 
to the chair but declined, as he was fuddenly 
feized with a fit of the gout, and obliged to 
retire a few moments after his delegated 
powers were verificd. Soon after his return 
to his epifcopal feat, he was prefented with 
an addrefs from a very refpectable body of 
volunteers, called the ** Bill of Rights Bac- 
talion.” ‘The addrefs after complimenting 
his Lordthip on bis zeal and fteadinefs ih the 
caufe of civil and religious liberty, congra- 
tulated his Lordfhip on the diflipation * of 
the 
