i 
1805.) 
her ufual Chriftmas entertainment. Her re- 
mains were depofited in Yor cathedral in the 
vault of the Marquis and his family, a nume~ 
rous train of hertenants and dependants being 
eager to fhew their refpect on the occafion,] 
_ [Further particulars of M. de Conzies, Bifbop 
of Arras, whofe death is noticed at page 73 of 
this Volume. M. de Conzies, was born a 
nobleman, and educated for the prelacy. He 
did equal honour to his rank and to his fta- 
tion. Faithful to his King as to his God, a 
long life was never polluted with a fingle ac- 
tion that did not prove the ftandard merit of 
a good man, and of a fincere Chriftian. The 
loyal, as well as the religious, in imitating his 
conduct, may be fure to pofiefs the efteem 
of their contemporaries, and the admiration 
ef pofterity. That fuch a character fhould 
particularly attract the hatred of Buonaparte 
might juftly be expected. The name of the 
Bifhop of Arras was upon the fame line of 
the fame lift of profcription with that of the 
hero of loyalty, Georges. -The Corfican af- 
faffin, who pierced the hearts of an Enghien, 
Pichegru, and Georges, has long peinted his 
dagger at the bofom of this prelate, who pre- 
ferred poverty, and exile in England to the 
Roman purple and the Parifian archiepifco- 
pacy, both offered -him, in 1801, by the 
Firft Conful of France and the Pontiff of 
Rome. Unalterable in his attachment to 
the Houfe of Bourbon, his Royal Highnefs 
Monfieur, brother to the King of France and 
Navarre, made him one of his principal 
counfellors and confidential advifers ; unpro- 
fitable offices, indeed, for thofe whe, con- 
founding fortune with juftice, regard money 
more than honour, but advantageous to him 
who has a confcience, follows its diétates, 
and feels the honourable difference between 
the difinterefted counfellor of a. Jawful 
Prince and the defpicable accomplice of a 
barbarous Ufurper. The Bifhop of Arras had, 
from nature, a conftitution trong enough to 
refift the ravages of time to the fartheft li- 
mits afigned to the life of man, had not Pro- 
vidence alfe beftowed upon him a mind vir- 
tuous and feeling to the higheit degree. 
The deplorable ftate of Chriftianity, the mif- 
fortunes of his King, and the degradation of 
his country, were the difeafes which de- 
prived the world, prematurely, of one of 
its beft and brighteft ornaments. 
facrilegious coronation of Napoleon the 
Firft, this prelate received his death-blow. 
He furvived but for a few days the news of 
‘the Corfican’s ancintment, and was one of 
the firft victims of this horrible aét, which 
. has opened a tomb for true religion as well 
as for lawitul Monarchy. As, in.health, he 
had been an example of piety and cenftancy, 
during his illnefs he was a model of devo- 
tion aud refignation. He exhorted his coun- 
trymen and jellow-fufferers, hike himfels, wa- 
fortunate wsiles, not to deviate from that glo- 
~Monruuy Mac. No. i27. 
The late M. de Conzies, Bifbop of Arras. 
From the 
fcandalous journey of Pius VII. and the 
285 
rious though painful path they hag dutifully 
and confcientioully entered. He preached 
fubuiifion to the decrees of the Almighty, in 
fhewing the juftice of that noble caufe ta 
which they had facrificed rank, property, 
country, and every thing but their honour. 
He told them never to forget the gratitude 
they owed to Engiand, thould Religion and 
Royalty once more profper in France. His 
conftant prayers were, on his death-bed, 
that Chrift may agam fave his Church in 
France, reftore there the rightful and faith- 
ful to power, and convert, but not punith, 
the undatiful and unbelieving. It is often 
more glorious to deferve than to occupy a 
throne. His Royal Highnefs Monfieur, with 
an hamanity worthy of better times and bet- 
ter fortune, refuled himfelf even the necet= 
fary reft to attend this trufty and affection- 
ate fervant, who had the confolation to 
breathe his laft in the arms of his good and 
generous Prince. Some few moments before 
he fhut his eyes for ever, he preffed the hand 
of Monfieur to his bofom, and, with a faint 
voice, faultered thefe his laft words: ‘* My 
kind Prince, death is terrible to the wicked 
only !’} | 
[ Further particulars of the Reverend Samuel 
Ayjfcough, whofe death was noticed at page 45 
of the laff Volume. Samuel Ayfcough was the 
grandfon of William Ay{fcough, of Notting- 
ham, who firft brought printing into that town 
about 1710, His father, George Ayfcough,: 
fucceeded to the bufinefs of printing, and was 
an eminent fationer in that place upwards of 
forty years. He was much efteemed, and 
allied to fome of the moft refpectable families 
in the county. His mind was of a {pecula- 
tive turn; and, among other purfuits, he 
fancied he could extract gold from the drofs 
of coals. Onthisexperiment he wafted much 
of his property ; after which, about 1762, he 
fettled in a large farm at Great Wigfton in 
Leicefterfhire, where he was unfortunate 
enough to lofe, net only what remamed of 
his own fubfance, but the private fortunes 
of his fon and daughter. His fon, Samuel 
Ayfcough, -was educated in a feminary’ at 
Nottingham, under Mr. Johnfon, and affitted 
his father in his bufinefs, in his experiments, 
and his farms, until the property was gone. 
He then had the care of a mil! on the eftate, 
and worked as a labouring miller for the 
maintenance of his father and fitter, but with 
ill fucce(S; when, by accident, a gentleman 
in Lendon, who was an old fchoolfellow, and 
an intimate friend im ‘early life, hearing of 
his fituation and diftrefs, about the year 1770, 
fent for him to London, new cloathed him, 
and obtained for him at firft the office gf\an 
overlooker of fome paviours in the ftreet; 
aud very fhortly after an employment in 
the Britifh Muteum, as an afliftant in the 
Library under the principal Librarian, at a 
very weekly fmall fipend, At this period, it - 
may be faid, hisfortune fu ftbegauto {mile, and 
Oo promife 
