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good fenfe getting the better of her feelings, 
fhe acquiefced in their determination, and re- 
turned to Dropmore. Lord Grenville fearcely 
ever quitted the houfe till the moment his 
noble relative died. The day previous to his 
death, his Lordthip wrote, with his own hand, 
a codicil to his will; in which, in the moft 
particular manner, he defcribed the place 
where he wifhed his body to be buried, and 
aligned his reafons for this extraordinary re- 
queft. He prefaces his wilh by ftating, that 
perfons in general havea ftrong attachment 
to the country which gave them birth, and, 
on their death-bed, ufually defire that their 
remains may be conveyed to their native land, 
however great the diftance, for the purpofe of 
interment. Although it may appear fingular, 
his defire is the very reverfe of this; and he 
begs that his dying requeit may be literally 
fulfilled. §* I with my body. (fays he) to be 
removed, as foon as may be convenient, ta 
a country far distant! to a fpot not near the 
haunts of men; but where the furrounding 
fcenery may fmile upon my remains.” It is 
fituated on the borders of the lake of St. Lam- 
pierre, in the Canton of Berne, in Switzer- 
Jand; and three trees ftind,upon the particu- 
lar fpot. The centre tree he defires may be 
taken up, and, on his body being there depo- 
fited, immediately replaced. ‘* Let no monu- 
ment or fione {he fays) be placed over my 
grave.” At the foot of this tree, his Lord- 
fhip adds, he formerly pafled many hours in 
folitude, contemplating the mutability of hu- 
man affairs. As a compenfation to the pro- 
prietors of the fpot defcribed, he has left the 
fam of rocoi. In another part of his will, 
he defires his relations will not wear mourn- 
ing apparel for him. } 
[ Further particulars relative to the late Duke 
of Roxburgh.— His Grace, in confequence of 
an early difappointment in love, pafied his 
life unmarried. Ke, was a man of tafte, 
amiable manners, and confiderable literary 
curiofity He delighted in the formalities of 
a court-life, was perfonally attached to his 
Provincial Occurrences. 
and at Fleurs. 
(May 1, 
Maiefty, and for many years held a high 
oftenfible employment in the royal houfe- 
hold, unenvied, and without mingling in po- 
litical intrigue. He divided his time between 
his attendance at court, and the rural plea- 
fure of his noble feat of Fleurs, near Kelfo, 
in the moft beautiful and cultivated county 
of Scotland. The environs of Kelfo are to 
a furprifing degree rich, and taftefully orna- 
mented. But nothing in that neighbourhood 
equals the rural beauty of the fcenery round 
Fleurs, which his Grace was continually im- 
proving in every fummer refidence at that 
The favourite and habitwal companion - 
feat. 
of his Grace’s domeftic life was a Mr. Smith, 
who-had been his travelling tutor, and who 
died a few years fince. His Grace collected 
noble libraries, both at his houfe in town, 
He was particularly curious 
in refpeét to books illuftrating the hiftory of 
his own country. For many years not even 
a pamphlet, however fmall, was publifsed in 
Scotland, or with any reference to Scottifh 
hiftory,which did not find a place in the library 
at Fleurs, He was beloved by his domeftics 5 
his old footman, who had been more: than 
forty years in his fervice, and to whom for 
the comfort of his future years he had left - 
by will a competent annuity, furvived him 
but little longer than to attend the rematns 
ef his honoured mafter to the family burial. 
place in Scotland. His Grace was the repre- 
fentative of one of the two great branches of 
the family of Kerrs, which has been for more 
than two hundred years of the greateft emt- 
nence in the fouth of Scotland. The ducak 
dignity was conferfed on his anceftor, in re- 
ward. for his fervices in promoting the union 
between Scotland-and England, His Grace’s 
father and grandfather were, im the firft 
reigns of the houfe of Hanover, entrufted 
with great minifterial power in Scotland. In 
confequence of his Grace’s death without 
heirs of his own body, the fucceffion to his 
honours and eftates falls to a collateral branch 
of the family. | wah 
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NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM+s 
"PRE Agricultural Society for the county 
ef Durham, at their late meeting, held 
at Darlington, adjudged and paid a premium. 
of three guineas to Sir Benry T. Vane, bart. 
for the beft ftallion ror hunters or road- horfes; 
a premium of equal/value.to Mr. T. Chilton, 
of Darlington, torthe beft ftallion for har- 
nefs heries 5 ands one of five guineas to Mr. 
Luke Seymour, of Woodhoufe clofe, near 
Bifhop Aucklend, for the beft bull-—lIt is 
now above twenty years fince this fociety was 
firt eftablifhed, and it is only juftice to add, 
that the aovefociety has been the means of 
_ exciting fuch a laudable {pirit of -emulation ia 
the county, ref{pe@ing the breed of horfes, 
horned-cattle, and fheep, that Durham may 
now vic with any county in the kingdom, for 
its produce inthe above kinds, 4) 
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