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‘adapted together with the same regularity, 
mneatness, and expedition, which distinguish 
all the operations of their manufactory. 
hose engines are afterwards distributed to 
alt’ parts wf the kinedom by the Birmingham 
etna which communicates with a wet “dock 
belonging to the fuundery. It could scarcely 
be expected that envy would view with in- 
difference such singular merit, and such. un- 
examples suceess. The inventions and im- 
improvements of Messrs. Boulton and Wat 
were first imitated, and then either decried 
er disputed. Reason laboured in Vain to Si- 
Fence the clamours of injustice, and to defeat 
the stratagems of fraud. At lemgth, in the 
xear 1792, a solemn decision of parliament, 
end, about 4he same time, the concurrent 
opinion of the Court of King’s Bénch, forbade 
any further encroachment. The Jast disco- 
‘wery for which Mr. Boulton obtained a pa- 
tent, was the important ** Method of raising 
Water, and other Fluids; an ample descrip- 
tion of which may be found in the nfth an 
sixth volumes of this Magazine. “Whoever 
_tontemplates the merit and utility of a long 
life aevoted to such valuable pursuits, as we 
have here briefly and very imperfectly de- 
ectibed, and recollects, without emotion, that 
the spot on which so much has been done, and 
is still doing ; where hundred¥ of women and 
ch ildren eer earna comfortable subsistence 5 
where log ovdeltct ig Si hy increasing, and 
the means of national prosperity improving in 
proportion, was lately a bleak, swampy, and 
sterile waste, must wafht.understanding to 
comprehend, or sympathy to appreciate, the 
bappiness of his fellow-creatures. To com- 
‘ gnent upen the private character of a genile- 
man in Mr. Boulton’s situation, would be an 
useless task 5 we shall therefore only observe, 
that as his great and expanded mind fornied 
and brought to perfection the wonderfel 
rks we have briefly endeavoured to de- 
scribe, so he felt no greater felicity than that 
of ditlusing happiness toalParound him: For 
a Jung time previous to his decease, he-had 
been-confined to his roam by illness, and his 
dissolution daily expected. His memory will 
ever remain dear to the British nation, whose | 
glory was advanced in proportion to his own 
fame.—W hile -we commemorate those great 
men who have sought their country’s honour 
in the fields of. war, we ought nut to amit 
peying.a just tribute of applause to those who 
have promoted arts, industry, and commerce, 
and diffused plenty and comfort through the 
yeaim, by cultivating science, and applying it 
to the useful arts of peace. He was buried 
on Thursday, 24th August, at Handsworth, 
near Soho. A hearse and nine nioarning 
coaches attended, followed by numerous car- 
-Siages of his friends.” All the beadles in Bir- 
mingham rede on horseback, and kept open 
the way. The corpse, carried by three sets of 
bearers, was followed by 600 workmen, each 
of woe hada silver medal presented to him, 
. stsuck for the occasion: Fe 
a 
Account of the late Lord Harcourt. 
[Oct 1, 
[ Further particulars of George Simon Har= 
court, Earl Harcourt, and Viscount. Nurebanry 
SiFinse death was anncunced at page 511,vol. 27. 
His seeps family is one of the most 
ancient and illustrious in England, tracing it~ 
self from Bernard, a nobleman of the blood- 
royal of Saxony, ‘whose descendant, Robert 
de Harcourt, came over with the congueror. - 
The first of the family who obtained the 
rank of nobility in this country was Simeon, 
afterwards Lord Chancellor Harcourt, who 
“was educated at Pembroke college, Oxford, 
created Baron Harcourt ini71%,and Yiscount 
Harcourt in’ 1721. This nebteman’s son* 
dying during his father’s life, he was suc 
ceeded by his grandson, who was created Earl 
Harcourt in 1749, and who being accidentally - 
drowned in his park at Nuneham_in 1777, 
was succeeded in his titles and estates by his 
eldest.son the late and secondearl. The late 
Lord Harcourt was born August 1, 1736, and 
at the general election in 1761, was returned 
one of the members of parliament for the ho-~ 
roughof St. Alban’s: in 1786 he was éreated 
_ doctor of civil law in the university 9! Oxford ; 
and in 1790 was appointed master of the horse 
to her Majesty, in which office he continued 
to his decease. He married, in- 1765, Eliza- 
beth, daughter of George Venables Vernon, 
Lord Vernon, by whom he has left no issue’ 
The title descends to his brother Wilham, 
now Earl Harcoyrt, a General in the army, 
aud colonel of the sixteenth dragoons, whe 
married, Sept. 3, 1778, Mary, the widow of 
‘Thomas Lockhart, esq. hy whom he has no 
issue. ‘The presumptive heir to the estate 
is the Rev, Sir George Lee, bart. of St. Jokn’ © 
college, Oxiord. 
* The honourable Simon Eaccaare aad’ in 
172°; and was buried at Stanton Harcourt, 
in this county, where a monument is erécted 
to his memory, with the following: epitaph 
by Pope. Dr, Johnson admires the * art/ul 
introduction of the name, which,” continues 
he, ¢ is ioserted with a peculiar felicity.” 
Pope’s vanity is well known, and we have 
here a, specimen of the ‘ peculiar felicity” 
with. which this vanity is indulged, since he 
has taken care that the name of the poet and 
« lov'd friend,” shall be equally conspicugus 
with that of rheupale personage whose vir- 
tucs he endeavours to perpetuate. 
- §¢ To this sad shrisie, whoe® er chou pet 
draw near, 
Here lies the friend most lov’, the son 
most dear : 
Who ne’er knew joy, but- friendship might 
divide, — 
Or gave his father grief, but when he dy’d, 
How vain his reason, eloquence how weak ! 
ir Pope. must tell what Harcourt cannot, 
‘ speaks. ..<: 
Oh, let thy once-lov'd friend inscribe thy 
Stone, 
And with a father’s sorrow mix kis ewn ¥* 
This, 
