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refpect of every partys His education was 
clafiical, correct, and elegant; his opinions 
were liberal, and free from prejudice 5. his 
manners. polifhed, and highly infinuating. 
The regrets which will. follow the lols of 
fuch a charaéter, cannot be confined to the 
immediate cirgle of his: own acquaintance 5 
they muft extend to all who are corapetent to 
appreciate worth, and willing to acknowledge 
it. He married, May 3, 1797, Lucy, only 
daughter of the late James Walwyn, efq. 
M. P. for Hereford, and has left by her a fon 
and heir, now in the eighth yeir of bis age. 
His lady died in child-bed, February 24, 1793. 
Mr. Scudamore’s mother was the Mifs Weft- 
comb, whofe interefting letters form part,of 
the Correfpondence of Richardfon, lately pub- 
lifhed by Mrs. Barbauld. 
[ Further particulars of the late Hon. Mrs. 
Bofcawen, whofe death is: mentioned at p. 279 
of this volume.—-She was the only daughter 
of William Evelyn Glanville, efgq: of St. 
Clere, in Ightham, Kent; married to the 
Admiral in December, 1742, and had by-him 
three fons and two daughters; of whom two 
of the former died, and the youngeit, George 
Evelyn, fucceeded to the title of Vifcount 
Falmouth; and the two daughters, Frances 
married to the Hon. John Levifon Gower, 
brother to Earl Gower, and Elizabeth mar- 
ried to the late Duke of Beaufort. -Of this 
lady Mr. Bolwell fays, «* Her manners were 
the moft agreeable, and her converfation the 
beft of any lady with whom he had the hap- 
pinefs of being acquainted... Nor is he fin- 
gular in his opinion, Her mind was culti- 
vated by reading the beft authors and the con- 
verlation of men of letters; and the: ins 
f{cription on her hufband’s monument in Pen- 
kevil church, Cornwall, was compofed by 
her, Of the fpirit of this lady, the follow- 
ing anecdote is related. During the memo- 
rable conteft between Keppel and Pallifer, 
the mob in the istereft of the former ftopped 
before her houfe, and infifted upon its being 
iNuminated. She refitted this demand; and 
putting her head out of the window, ex- 
claimed, ‘* Why fhould { light for the man 
who did not engage the French, when my 
bufoand beat them? Rofedale, at the en- 
trance of Richmond from Kew, her ladythip’s 
property, devolves to her fon, the Earl of 
Falmouth, it was formerly occupied by 
Thomfon, the author of The Seafons, who 
was interredin Richmond church. The table 
he wrote on, his chair, and cane, are ftill 
preferved in the houfe. Her remains were 
interred with due folemnity in the vault 
which contains thofe of the gallant admiral, 
at St. Michael-Penkevil church, near Truro. 
[ Farther particulars of the late Earl of Maf- 
fareene, whofe death is noticed at p. 306 of this 
wolume.——T he Earl of Maffareene, in his early 
_ days; figured very confpicuoufly in the walks 
of fathion. When making the grand tour, 
foon after his coming into poffetfion of his 
r family titles and eftates, his Lordthip unfor- 
Marriages and Deaths in and near Londen. 
399 
tunately at Paris became acquainted with a 
native of Tripoli in Syria, who, from his 
artful fophiftry, prevailed upon the noble 
Lord to co-operate with him/in“a plan he had 
formed of fupplying the kingdom of France 
with the article of falt, to be brought from 
the coats of Syria; and held out fuch appa- 
rent advantages to be derived from it, as Ine 
duced the credulous young nobleman to en= 
ter intu engagements for the payment of fuch 
fums of money as might be neceflary for the 
accomplithment of the object. In a very 
fhort time after, the Syrian adventurer fet 
fail. for Tripoli; and returned to Paris, in 
due courfe of time, with fuch flattering ac- 
eounts of the fuccefs of the expedition, as 
led Lord Maffareene to plunge himfelf into 
thofe calamities which proved the bane of the 
comforts which, from his noble birth he had 
a juft right! to expect. After being fome 
years confined inthe Grand Chatelet at Paris, 
in a moft unpleafant fituation to a man of 
any rank in life, the natural love of liberty 
fo far prevailed as to lead his Lordthip to lay 
aplan for his efcape to his native country 3 
but the carriage which was waiting for his 
reception was kept fo long hovering about the 
prifon that it caufed fufpicion among the 
gaol-keepers. His Lordthip was apprehended 
juft as he was entering the carriage, and im- 
mediately fent into a dungeon many feet be~ 
fow the furface-of the river Seine, upon 
which the Chatelet is built. . He remained 
there in fuch a ftate of wretchednefs that his 
beard grew to a moft immoderate length, and 
rendered him -a ftriking picture of the vicif- 
fitudes of human life. He was married twice 
at Paris, and afterwards at St. Peter's, Corn- 
hill, Aug. 19, 1789. His lady died: ‘at 
Greenwich, in Oéteber, 180. 
[Further particulars of Mifs Mary Maliit, 
whofe death is mentioned in wal. 17, p. 30%.—— 
She was born in the year 17%0, at Lowettoft. 
Her parents are people who derive more re- 
{pect from the decency of their manners. and 
their integrity than from their flation in 
life. Mr. Mallitt, who is a taylor and fhop-~ 
keeper, gave his daughter fuch an education 
as he confidered fuitable to her fituatfon. 
When eleven years old fhe was fent to a 
{chool at Norwich, where, while at play 
with fome of her companions, fhe receivedia 
blow on her breaft, which is fuppofed to 
have taid the foundation of thofe complaints, 
which at length carried her off, in the bloom 
of life. From this time, fhe began to devote 
a great portion of her leifure to ftudy, read- 
,ing the bef authors fhe could procure, and ‘ 
was particularly fond cof correfponding with 
her female acquaintances. Her genius now 
‘began to aflume a chara@ter which indicated 
the poffefiion of talents confiderably above 
mediocrity; but it was not till about the 
year 1799 that her uncammon thirft of know- _ 
ledge fo clearly manifefted itfelf, Though ~ 
three out of the four remaining years of her 
life were pafled in confinement by ficknets, 
a - yee: 
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