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Shannon, Viscount Boyle, Baron of Castle- 
Martyr, in Ireland, and Baron of Carleton in 
Evgiand ; also. a Knight of. St Patrick. 
His Loodsivip was born fan. 30,, 1727. He 
was a politician by birth, his ‘ather having 
been Speixer of the Irish Hou e of Commons, 
and the most leading Mint er.al character 
of his day. The late Earl, 
forty-four, mairied the very young, beau- 
titul, and amiab’e Miss, Catharine Ponsonby, 
daughter of the Ja‘ée Rigst:flonourabl > John 
Ponsonby, by Lady Elizabeth,., Caver idish, 
deughter of the third Duke. of Devon- 
Atk with whom he spent an uninter- 
rupted lite o: happiness, and by whom he 
has left two children, the Countess of Ban 
don, and Vistount Bovle, now 
Ssasnon.—Before the Union, no man pos- 
sessed greater parliamentary interest than 
the Earl of Shannon , insomuch that no 
Vice Regent jelt exsy on his throne, until 
he s:cured his Lordship’s friendsiip, who 
Was considered a. sound pelitician, but no 
orator. His health was..always delicate, but 
for some years he bas been confined to his 
seat at Castle Maityr, where he lived in a 
princely styl. surrounded oy bis iumily and 
friznds. 
At Doonadoyle, Limerick, Michiel M‘<Na- 
mara, aged 110. He resiced in the same 
house under Colonel Gough, and his family 
upwards of 70 years. 
At the Episcep+] Castle. of Raphoe, th 
the Rizht Rev. James Hawkins, D, Dp. He 
was promoted te the see of Dremore, in 1755, 
and translated to that of Raphoe, in 1780.) . 
In Dablin, Sit Royle Rx oche, Bart. He 
spent the early part of his }ite in the army. 
Sir Boyle, as an officer, distinzuishea him- 
self in- America, and. particularly at /the 
assault of the Moro Fort, at the Havanna 
Upon, retiring from the army, be obtamed a 
seat In parliament, where he was_a most 
useful; minister's man, ws always in. his 
piace, and could at any moment change the 
temper of the House by a speech iraught 
with good humour, and delivered with so 
much droliery, that the msost angry debate 
has often concluded with peals of laughter. 
It has not been more comiuon, to. attribute 
ether men’s jests to fre Miller, than every 
Trish blunder.to the worthy. baronet In 
his public: situation, as Master of the Ce- 
temonies, at Dublin Castle, he was beloved 
and admired for his politeness and uroanity, 
and in private life there. was net a more 
hencurable gentleman. Se had 
'. ‘Lady- Borrowes, wife. of, Sir, Erasmus 
Eorrowes, bart. of Gilltown, in the county 
ef Kildare.. his truly amiable Lady was 
daughter to the Rev, Dean Champagne, 
and sister to the Countess of Uzbindge, Lady 
Devaux, and Mrs. stepney.—Mr. Charles 
Brown, hookseiler. 
DEATHS ABROAD, 
At Hendutas, beloved and respected. ‘by 
4 
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Deaths Abroad. 
ut the age of 
Earl of 
[Sept. 1, 
all his friends hs sequaintes e, George 
Tompson, \esq.  major- -commandant of the 
mitifia, and many years deputy judge advocate 
at thar a eicinent, jes 
In Switzerland, John Lewis Delolme, 
LL.D. a-citizen of Geneva, and who prac- 
tised as-an advocate in that city. He resided 
some time in England, and gained consiaer- 
able celebrity in this country by his literary 
talents. His first work in the English lan- 
guage was ©* A Parallel between the English 
Constitution, and the former Government of 
Sweden.’ which he published in 1772. In: 
this pamphlet, Delolme presented his readers 
with a view of the Constitution of the Swe- 
dish government, prior to the Revolution, 
which had just thea taken place in that 
country. in order to shew its great difference 
from that of England, and he seemed to ap- 
prehend that the intabitants of this country 
were in the greatest danger of falling wnder 
the power of an ‘aristocracy. 
after this, in 177.5, he pul lished his celebrated 
Treatise, entitled 
England, or an Account of the English Go- 
vernment.” ‘This work had. been: originally 
written by its Author in French, and was 
translated by himself, and. considerably en- 
larged and improved in the English edition« 
The reputation of this book was nota little 
increased by the great character given of “it 
by the. celebrated Junius, who speaks of it 
more than once with high encomiums, and 
recommendes it to the public as a perfor- 
ma ce, deep, solid, and ingenious: Nor .is 
it Junius alone who has aad it in the 
strongest terms. It has been mentioned with 
emibel applause, by some of the most illus-. 
trious members of the British Senate; among 
whom may be reckoned the names of a 
Camden and a Chatham 
tion of this work, Mr. Délolme: observed, 
that it might be deemed presumptuous inva 
man who had passed the greater part of his _ 
life out of England, toattempt a delineation 
of the English governments but to this it’ 
mizht be answered, that though a foreigner 
in fingland, yet as a native of a free country, » 
he was no stranger to those circumstances” 
which constitute or characterize liberty. In 
ike be published - in one volume quarto, 
‘ ‘The History of the Flagellants,”.in whicly 
. proposed to himself the moral instruction » 
of the age, by giviny a strikiog proof of that 
deep sense of justice which exists<in the 
sreasts of all men, and the ente:tainment 
of philosophers and critics hy furnishing them 
with an unusual subject of speculation and 
devate. He produced many authorities ‘to 
prove that the use of flagellation prevailed 
among the ancient heathens, both as°a pu- . 
aptives and criminals,» 
nishment for slaves, 
and as a voluntary act of religion. Voluntary’ 
flagellations began to’ be ceuntenanced by 
men of great eminence, ard to’ come into 
general practice in the eleventh century. Of 
Three years: 
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