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compliance with a predileétion of his own, 
fuffered to enter the royal mavy, as a 
midfhipman, at an early age. He was a 
feaman of an extremely adventurous fpirit ; 
and, by his eager choice, had the honour 
to accompany the late Captain Vancouver 
in a part of his voyage round the world — 
By a refractorinefs and difobedience to or- 
ders, the refult rather of a certain peculia- 
rity of temper than of either badnefs of 
heart or want of underftanding, he put 
Vancouver to the neceiflity of treating him 
with a feverity of difcipline which he would 
not endure. He then left the fhip, and re- 
turned home by himfelf. Being employed in 
the navy afterwards, be had the misfor- 
tune to be driven to the rafhnefs of fud- 
denly fhooting for mutiny a gentleman of the 
name cf Peterfon, in a cafe in which a pér- 
fon iefs peculiar and peremptory in termper 
might perhaps have found no occafion to re- 
fort to fo fatalan extremity. The imprudence 
of this act was not acquitted without a ftri& 
trial before a court-martial. His Lordfhip, 
though honourably cleared of the charge 
of murder, did not from that time folicit 
farther employment in the navy. He has 
fince refided chiefly in lodgings in London 3 
and has been diftinguifhed for eccentric bold- 
nefs and intrepidity of fpirit—for many a&s 
of noble, but oddly irregular beneficence— 
- for a love of frolic, and a pafiion for rational 
and icientific purfuits ; at one time for un. 
common dignity, good fenfe, and enlarge- 
ment of fentiments; at another, for unreg. 
forable pofitivenefs ;, withal, for liberality 
of expence, without foolifh vanity, or mad 
profufion ; fothat, on the whole, they who 
ftudied his character with the greatef atten- 
tion, knew not well whether they ought 
mioit to admire his virtues and occafional rec- 
titude of underftanding, or to lament kis 
dangerous eccentricities. 
the evidences of the truth of Chriftianity 
with ne common care, and was at laft, upon 
rational convittion, a believer, He was, at 
the time of his death, earneftly profecuting 
the experimental ftudy of chemiftry, under 
the direction of Mr. Accum, By bringing 
Mir, Horne Tooke into Parliament, for the 
borough of Old Sarum, he afforded occafion 
to Mr. Addington to procure a law to exclude 
men educated for the church out of the Houfe 
of Commons. Hé was engaged. in the duel in 
which he perifhed, by the malicious falfe- 
‘hood of a profligate woman. He-was anxious, 
in his laft agonies, for the pardon of his fins 
from God, and to acquit his antagonitt of all 
Built in the act of his death. The duel was 
fought early on Wednefday morning. He 
lingered in the anguifhof death till Saturday, 
and then expired. The ball, entering ‘the 
breaft, had paffed through the rightlobe of the 
Jungs, divided the {pinal marrow, and lodg- 
_ €d in the fixth dorfal vertebra. He had lived 
Scarce thirty years. 
Deaths in and near London. 
He had confidered 
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Lately, Sames Hare, eff. M.P. eminent 
as a wit, a politician, a claffical fcholar, a 
man of tafte and fafhion; whofe talents, 
as Known to his friends, gave him among 
them the reputation of being one of the 
ableft men of this age. He was, as we have 
been informed, the grandfon of the famous 
Bifhop Hare 3 who was, in his earlier life, 
chaplain to John Churchill, Duke of Marl- 
borough 3, who. wrote, in defence of his pa~_ 
tron, feveral important pamphlets in oppo 
fition——rmpar congreffus Achill-—to the Con- 
duét of the Allies, the Remarks on the Bare 
rier-treaty, and the Examiners of Swift ; 
who diftinguifhed himfelf afterwards by pro- 
pofing a new theory of the meafures of the 
poetry of the Hebrews; and who, giving 
alfo an edition of the Comedies of Terence, 
was, with Pearce, on account of his Longi- 
nus, thus alluded to in the Satire of Young : 
¢¢ When churchmen Scriptures for the Claf. 
fics quit 5 
Polite apoftates from God’s grace to wir.” 
The grandfon was educated at Eaton, 
where the quicknefs and early vigour of his 
genius made him eminent among his fchool- 
fellows, and impreffed upon the minds of 
youths, fince the moft diftinguifhed men of 
their time, a refpe€t for his talents, anda dé- 
light in his fociety, which were never to be 
effaced. He came into the high and fafhion- 
able fociety of. London, and into the bufle 
of political life, about the fame period with 
Mr. Fox, the Earl of Carlifle, and thofe 
contemporaries of the fame ftanding, whofe 
names have been the ofteneft mentioned in 
aflociatien with theirs. He was confidered as 
the very flower and pride of the wits of the 
minority during the American war, and amid 
all the various fubfequent -fortunes of Mr. 
Fox’s party. Even withthe late Mr.Tickell, 
with Mr. Sheridan, and with all the wits of 
the Rolliad, he was efteemed,. for wit, no . 
inferior co-adjutor. - He was an aétive friend 
to the party, in the famous conteft for the 
reprefentation for Weftminfter, and the fub- 
fequent fcrutiny, both fo prolific in exquifite 
jeux defprit. Yet, like the late Mr, Gib- 
bon, he was withheld by fome unaccount- 
able whim or timidity from alpiring to the 
diftin&tion of an orator in Parliament. But 
his talents for bufinefs were ‘in fuch efteem, 
that, if his party had ultimately triumphed, 
he would undoubtedly have obtained eminent 
politicalemployment. He obtained by mare 
riage the affinity of a noble family, He was, 
to the laft, the delight of his friend, and fill 
capable of pouring out the treafures of genu- 
ine wit with native vivacity and eafe. His 
wit was pointed, natural, free from the 
{trainings and vulgarities of falfe tafte, in 
fhort, pure Attic falt. He was much a 
favourite aft Devonfhire Houfe. It is the 
common voice of thofe who knew him, ‘that 
feldom has Engtith fociety loft a maa thac 
was fitter to delight and to adorp it. . 
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