ee4 The late Marchionefs of Rockingham. f April ij 
praGttioner diftinguifhed from the vile re- 
tailer of {purious compounds. The fcience 
itfelf has alfo been laid open, fimplified, and 
diffufed; fo that the moft ufeful of all arts, 
hy contituting a branch of general educa- 
tion, will become at once better known and 
more refpected. The offspring of Dr. Bu- 
chan confifted of three children, two of 
whom are ftill alive. - A boy called William, 
who was long and deeply lamented by him, 
died in his infancy. A daughter, Helen, 
and a fon, A P. Buchan, M.D.*-a member 
of the Royal College of Phyficians, London, 
who has pra¢tifed for fome years in_Percy- 
fireet, with great reputation, furvive him.— 
His remains were interred, on Wednefday 
the 6th of March, 1805, in the cloifters of 
Weftminiter Abbey, next to thofe of the ce- 
lebrated Dr. Jebb, Dr. Vincent, the Dean, 
behaved on this occafion with a hberality be- 
coming his character ; and the corpfe, which 
was accompanied by a few refpectable gen- 
tlemen, was interred under that roof which 
gives flelter to al] that is mortal of fo many 
illuftrious Englifhmen, amidft the peals” of 
the choir, and the tears of friends and rela- 
tives. A man who knew him long, and re- 
ipected him greatly, eagerly feizes this op- 
portunity to fcatter a few flowers over his 
tomb ! 
[ Further particulars, hitherto accidentally omit- 
ted, concerning Mary Marchionefs of Rockingham, 
(See Monthly: Magazine for February p. $2.) 
This lady died on the 19th of December laft, 
at Hillingdon-houfe, near Uxbridge, fewiae 
furvived her illuftrious lord 22 years. During 
the 3o years of their union fhe was nolefs the 
friend and confidante of his public than of his 
private life, She was in every refpeét worthy 
of fuch a hufband: The high fenfe of honour, 
the true nobility of charaéter, and incorrupti- 
bility of principle, adorned with the greateit 
fweetnefs and amiablenefs of manners, which 
made him fo révered and beloved by ali whofe 
own characters were not of a contrary caft, 
were equally confpicuous in her. Her beauty 
and accomplifhments, no lefs than the rank 
ef her bufband, rendered her the ornament of 
the firft circles, and her concerts, in which 
the herfelf bore a principal part, were always 
the refort of the moft brilliant and fele& fo- 
ciety. On the deceafe of the Marquis, in 
4752, fhe retired from the world, and after a 
tho:t. time fixed her refidence at Hillingdon, | 
rarely vifiting London, and for fome years paft, 
fcarcely going out of her own grounds. \ Her 
taf excurfion was to Windfor, during the 
_king’s illnefs, when fhe was anxious to fhew 
* Dr. A. P. Buchan is author of an excel- 
lent avd well-written treatife, intitled, 
« Practical .Obfervations concernmg Sea- 
Bathing ; to which are added, Remarks on 
the Warm Bath.” Thole beft acquainted 
with his merits, pronounce him already equal 
ta his father in his bef days. 
‘ 
her attention, like moft of the nobility be 
fides, by a formal enquiry in perfon. This 
fhe was perhaps the lefs iftclined to negle& in 
that hour of general awe and anxiety, left thes. 
fhould feem to harbour a feeling of which fhe 
was Incapable, in confequence of the total ne« 
gle&t the experienced from the court on the i 
death of the Marquis, then prime minifter. } 
In her retreat, at Hillingdon; lady Rock- 
ingham led the only kind of life which could. 
be tolerable after the lofs fhe had fuftained. 
Shut up entirely from promifcuous focietys 
fhe truly-enjoyed the company of a few fele& 
and cultivated friends, in whofe converfation 
upon literature, politics, religion or botany 
her evenings paffed away frequently toa very 
late hour. Her mornings were always her 
own, and were devoted to reading, a folitary 
walk, and a very wide and beneficial attention 
tothe diftreffes of all within her reach. Her 
income, chiefly from her own private fortune,: 
which was 100,000]. was not more than ade~ 
quate to her generous and beneficent, though 
private, mode of living ; nor did her feclifion 
prevent her .receiving the vifits of feveral 
charaéters eminent for literature, or diftin- 
guifhed for rank. His Royal Highnefs the 
Prince of Wales always treated Lady Rocke 
ingham with the higheft refpeét, and fome- 
times honoured her witha vifit. It is need- 
lefs to obferve that her politics were thofe of 
the laftage; thofe which have raifed Britain 
to its glory, and which alone can render any 
people happy, or any ftate profperous and fe- 
cure. Her religion accorded with the leading 
tenets of the church of England ; and as piety 
to God was the main fpring of her a€tions, a 
kindof enthufiaftic veneration for her hufband 
and his fentiments held the next place in her 
mind. Botany had fearcely excited herat- ' 
tention while he lived, but when'the plants, 
drawings, and books, in which he had taken 
fo much delight, were about to be removed 
from her, a with to preferve them foon be 
came a tafte for the fcience itfelf. She afters 
wards much enriched the colleétion of ftove 
“plants, and ftudied them with {cientific care. 
The works of Linnzeus in their original Latin 
were her chief affiftance, and fhe preferred: 
their language to the modern botanical Enge 
lifh. Her greateft favourites were the liliace- 
ous tribe, in which her colle€@tion abounded, 
both in number of fpecimens and variety of 
{pecies. The colle€tion of drawings, begun 
by the Marquis, was much enlarged by her 5 
and fhe was always anxious that any new or 
rare plant, which came to perfection under 
ber aufpices, fhould be perpetuated by the 
pencil, and communicated to the public. A 
weak ftate of health gradually encroached on 4 
all thefe purfuits, and made it fometimes an 
effort even to fee heroldeft friends. Atlength — a 
a dropfy in the cheft terminated her lifeim = 
t 
the moft placid manner, amid the tears of her 
faithful domeftics and* pvor neighbours, for 
whem fhe had juft been bufied in preparing 
i her’ 
