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At Brompton,. Mrs. Rollestan, relict of 
Christopher R. esq. of Watnall, Notts. 
eae eS James’s-squarey Captain Carruthers, 
of the 45d regiment of foot, major of brigade 
to Genera] Crawfurd. : 
In St. James’s Palace, Miss Beauclerk, the 
dldest of the maids of honour to her Majesty. 
At Brentford End, Silas Palmer, esq. 75. 
In Manchester. square, the infant son of 
Henry F. Greville, esq. 
In Bruton-street, the Earl of Orford, of 
Woollerton, Norfolk. His lordship was the 
hephew of the famous Sir Robert Walpole, 
afterwards Earl of Orford. He sat many 
years in the House of Lords as Baron Wal- 
pole, of Woolterton. He married Lady Ra- 
chel Cavendish, daughter of William, third 
Duke of Devonshire, by whom he had seve- 
ral children. On the death of the late Ho- 
race, Earl of Orford, he succeeded to the Ba-, 
rony of Houghton, the Earldom becoming ex- 
tinct; but during the late administr.:tion he 
was created Earl of Orford. His lordship’s 
eldest son, Lord Walpole, (now Earl of Or- 
ford) sat many years as Member for Lynn, 
in which representation there is now a vacan- 
cy; General Walpole, who concluded the 
treaty with the Maroons in Jamaica, who 
was the second to Mr. Tierney in his duel 
with Mr. Pitt, and who was also one of Mr. 
Fox’s secretaries, is the younger son of the 
late earl. His lordship was in his 86th year. 
Solong as true nobility, nobility of mind 
and conduct, no less than of birth and station, 
shall he considered as deserving the best 
regards and esteem of men, so lorg will such 
eharacters as that of the late venerable Earl 
of Orford be had in respectful remembrance 
By no means implicitly assenting to the 
*< world’s false estimate of thing’s, he ap- 
preciated no higher than they deserved the 
gifts of rank and fortune, but used them with 
munificence for honourable and useful purpo- 
sss. Those qualities which are the most 
shining ornaments of elevated station, piety 
without ostentation, liberality of mind, kind 
attention to the wants and wishes of pehiens: 
extended bounty, an hospitality rarely equal- 
Jed in these times, and an independent pub- 
he spirit, were the distinguished features of 
his lordship’s character. He !ived revered 
and happy to an advanced age, with honour 
and integrity inviolate ; and died universally 
lamented, 
At Ramsgate, in his 78th year, the Righr 
Hon. Fohn Murray, Earl of Dunmore, Vis- 
count Fincastle, &c.: his lordship was de- 
scended in the female line from the royal 
house of Stuart, and his ancestors were re- 
lated to most of the crowned heads in Eu- 
rope: he married Lady Charlotte Stewart, 
sister of the late Earl of Calloway, and by 
that marriage has left issue three sons and 
three daughters: his eldest son George, 
Lord Fincastle, now Earl of Dunmore, is 
married to Lady Charlotte, daughter of the 
Buke of Hamilion: one ef his daughters, 
Account of the iate Dr. Laurence. 
[May 1, 
Lady Augusta, was married to his Royal 
Highness the Duke of Sussex, at Rome, in 
November 1793, and had a son born January 
15, 17945; but a suit was instituted in Doc- 
tors Commons, by his Majesty’s order, and 
the marriage was declared null and void in 
the following August, -and Lady Augusta 
has since taken the name of D’Ameland; 
another daughter, Lady Susan, has been . 
twice married, and has lost both husbands. —« 
Mr. Thorpe, and Mr. Drew; the ether sur- 
Vviving daughter, Lady Virginia, was named 
at the request of the assembly of Virginia, of 
which province the earl her father was go- 
vernor, and was certainly the most zealous 
and active of his Majesty’s governors during 
the whole of the revolutionary war. 
French Laurence, Regius Professor of Civil 
Law in the University of Oxford, Chancellor 
of that diocese, Judge of the Cinque Ports, 
and Member of Parliament for the city of 
Peterborough. Dr. Laurence received his 
first education at Bristol; whence he was re- 
moved to the college at Winchester : he ther 
became a member of Corpus Christi college, 
of which college he was afterwards fellow,) 
proceeded M.A. June 21, 1781, and was 
created D.C.L. October 19, 1787: his pro- 
fessorship he obtained in 1796, on the decease 
of Dr. Wenman. The active part which he 
teok in the memorable contest for Westmin- 
ster, inthe year 1784, in writing for Mr. 
Fox, particularly in the opposition newspa- 
pers of that period, was the cause of his in- 
troduction to public notice; although his 
subsequent literary exertions were of a very~ 
diferent kind, he was the author of many. 
election ballads, which at that time were 
highly popular with the party. As some re- 
cormpense for his zeal and his services, the 
party patronized the publicationof the Rolliad, 
of which he was, indeed, one of the authors, 
as well as of The Probationary Odes, and 
these works proved a source of considerable 
emolument to him. Dr. Laurence then be- 
gan to be ambitious of a seat in the House of 
Commons, and for that purpose, as well, in- 
deed, as from a high admiration of Mi. Burke, 
attached himselr particularly to that great’ 
ornament of the British senate, by whose in- 
terest with Earl Fitzwilliam, the doctor was 
gratified in his desire of parliamentary ho. 
nours. From this time he considered him- 
self rather as the adherent of Mr. Burke, 
than as an implicit follower of the party 
with which that great man had hitherto acted ; 
and whea the French revolution induced Mr. 
Burke to withdraw himself from Mr. Fox and 
his friends, who had, as somie persons thought, 
so rashly committed themselves in the eyes 
of mankind, by hailing that dreadful political 
explosion asin event calculated to promote 
the happiness of mankind, Dr. Laurence tra- 
ced the steps of Mr. Burke, and remained 
inflexibly attached to that gentleman and his 
principles till the world were deprived of his 
great talents. The doctor, however, had 
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