1806.) 
claims to the civic chair. From the period 
of his mayoralty, the declining ftate of his 
health precluded him from taking that active 
part in public affairs which had formerly 
occupied his time. He attended, however, 
feveral of the city committees ; and the grand 
improvements at Snow Hill have been called 
Sxinner-ftreet, in compliment to his. me- 
mory. The lofs of his amiable lady in 1797, 
with whom he enjoyed an uninterrupted 
courfe of domeftic hapoinefs for nearly furty 
years, was an affli@ion which he keenly and 
deeply felt. Withdrawing, therefore, in a 
great degree from the metropolis, the alder- 
man fpent the evening of an a¢tive, ufeful, 
and honourable ‘iie in retirement, at Collier’s 
Wood, near Me:ton, in Surry; where he 
experienced in the unremitting attentions of 
Mifs Skinner, the bef confolation that a pa- 
rent’s age and iniirmity can receive, the 
proofs of filial duty and affe&tion. Befides 
this amiable daughter, Mr. Skinner has left 
four others, all married, and two fons ; 
amung whom he has divided his large for- 
tune, with the fame difcretion and impar- 
tiality which marked every act of his life, 
both public ar Lategrity the mot 
inflexible may Yndeed be confidered as the 
prominent feature in the character of Mr. 
Skinner ; and even his charities, which were 
of great extent, were guided by diferetioa: 
tendernefs never feduced, cowardice never 
baffled his judgment; and if uncommon 
ftrength of intelle¢t and incorrupsible ho- 
nefty of heart combined, may be faid to con- 
ftitute a great and good man, fuch.a man is 
now loft to his relatives, his frienas, and his 
country, for ever, by the death of Alderman 
Skinner. 
[ Further particulars of the late Charles Mar- 
quis and Earl Cornwallis, Vifcount Brome, and 
Baron Cornwallis, K. G. and a bayonet, a 
general in the army, lord lieutenant of the 
Tower Hamlets Militia, conftable of the 
Tower of London, and gevernor-general of 
the Britith fettlements in India, where he 
arrived in July laft. Marquis Cornwallis 
whofe family is very ancient and honourable, 
was born December j31{t. 1738, and feems 
to have been intended trom his cradle for the 
army. He accordingly entered into the fer- 
vice at a very early age; and we find him in 
1758, when only 20 years old, and at a period 
when promotions were lefs rapid than at pre- 
fent, a captain in Col. Crautord’s light in- 
famtry, underthe titleofLord Brome. ‘Three 
years after this he accompanied the Marquis 
ei Granby to the Continent, in the honour- 
able and confidential capacity of one of his 
aids-de-camp, and was of courfe attendant on 
the perfon of that gallant achleman dur- 
ing the campaign. In 1761 he was pro- 
Moted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel of 
the 12th regiment of foot, and we at the 
fame time, find him aifciarging his civil 
duties, by fitting as a reprefentative in Par- 
Nament itor the borough of Eye. On the 
death of his father, who was the sith peer 
Account of the late Marquis Cornwalis. 
fion os the province. 
to the Jerfeys. 
V79 
of his family, in 1762, he of courfe va- 
cated his feat in the Houfe of Commons, and 
appeared in the Houfe of Peers, under the 
title of Earl Cornwallis. In 1765, he was 
nominated one of the Lords of the Bed Cham 
ber, and about the fame time, was honoured 
with the appointment of aid-de-camp to ‘his 
prefent Majefty. In 1766, he was promoted 
to the command of the 33d regiment of foot, 
and two years afterwards, married Mifs Jemi+ 
ma Tulikens Jones, daughter of James Jones, 
efq. With this lady, who brought him two 
children, (a fon and a daughter), he enjoyed 
every felicity the connubial ftate is capable 
of yielding, until he was called on to embark 
with his regiment for America. On this oc- 
cafion Lady Cornwallis, inconfolable at the 
idea of parting with him, aiter urging every 
plea that atfection could iuggeft, applied to his 
uncle, then Archbithop of Canterbury, who, 
at her requeft, procured the king’s leave of 
abfence. But notwithftanding all the fond- 
neis of a hufband, duty preva.led over affsc- 
tion, and a nice fenfe of honour urged her 
dearly beloved lord to forfake her. The fe 
paration was, however, too mu:h for her weak 
nerves to bear; fhe literally fell a prey to 
love, funk beaeath the weight of her griet, 
and died; thus aftording a moft fingular and 
romantic inftance of conjugal afteCtion! 
Shortly aiter his arrival in America, we find 
his lordfhip ferving under Sir Wm. Howe, 
with the rank of major-general, and aéting as 
an able and indefatigable partifan. Having 
landed, in November 1776, on the New Jes- 
fey thore, at the head of a detached corps, 
and found Fort Lee evacuated, he inftantly 
penetrated into the country and took poffef- 
At the end of the cam- 
paign he repaired to New York, with a view 
to embark .or Great Britain; but having re- 
ceived advice of the difaftrous affair of Tren- 
ton, with the unpremeditated gallantry of a 
foldier he decerred his vayaze, and returned 
His lordthip’s firft enterprize 
in 1777,» was an attempt to furprife an Ame- 
rican poft in his neighbourhood, in which he 
in part fucceeded. Soon atter this he received 
orders from General Howe to abandon tie 
Jerieys, and in July he embarked with the 
Englifh commander in chief in the expedition 
to the Chefapeak. in feveral of the fubfe- 
quent events his lerdihip took a very ative 
part. He commanded a confderable body cof 
troops at the paflage of the Brandy-wine, and 
after driving the enemy be ore him, entered 
and took pofleiion of Philadelphia, on the 
24th of September, 1777. From that pc- 
ried until wnen he embarked as a 
L'eutenant-General with Sir Henry Clinton 
tor the fiezge or Charleftown, he feems io 
have had -ew opportunities of fignalizing hime 
fel’, Onthe furrender of the place, the corn 
maad of South Carolina, with about four 
thoufand troops, devolved upon him. Cn 
hearing this, the American General Gates tovk 
pot near Camdeny where he had colleSted about 
taree thoufand fix hundred men. 
ere 
1779> 
Lord Corn= 
Wallis, 
