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1805, } 
her grand-child, fon, and hufband, within 
the fpace of four months ; and two of them 
tuddeuly. 
At his houfe in Piccadilly, Fobn Edward 
Maddscks, ef. He had for fome time been 
fubject to very fevere attacks of the gout, 
HRA that the difeafe affected the brain, 
and at times totally deprived him of his 
fenfes. His brother, who is M.P. for Bol- 
ton, pwid him a morning vwilit, when Mr. 
M. talked very incoherently. A lady was in 
company with the brothers in the drawing- 
room; and, while in convertfation, the de- 
cealed begged to withdraw a few minutes, 
and went down ftatrs. His brother heard 
him open the parlour door; and after an in- 
terval of about two minutes, he followed, 
and knocked at it. No anfwer being re- 
turned, he forced it open, and beheld the 
deceated weltering in blood, with his head 
reclfing on a couch, and his windpipe 
nearly divided with a cale-knife. Surgeon 
Keate was inftantly fent for, who fewed up 
the wound, and remained with the unfortu- 
nate gentleman fix hours, when he expired. 
At the coroner’s inqueft feveral gentlemen 
proved that the deceafed was fubject to fits 
ef delirium, — Verdict, Delirious from difeale 
of the body. The deceated was formerly a 
inember of parliament, and a gentleman of 
the moft diftinguithed qualities of the head 
and heart. His firft marriage was with the 
fifter of the prefent Lord Aucram, by whom 
he has three ‘daughters now living. Aiter 
her death, he married the Hoy. Mifs Cra- 
ven, fiter to the prefent Lord Craven, by 
whom he had two daughters and one fon. 
On the < 
zou-ftreet, May-fuir, the Earl of Macartney. 
He was born in the year 1737, was educated 
as a fellow commoner in Trinity College; 
Dablin, and at that univertfity, he proceeded 
mafter of arts, in the year 1729. When he 
had finifhed his education, a young king was - 
upon the throne, at whofe court it was na- 
tural that a young man of ancient family, 
and with a mind confcious of high talents, 
fhould afpire to be favourably introduce:!. 
ble had that,manly elegance of perfonal form 
and manners which is ever ufeful to procure, 
at a court, the notice without which genius 
might remain unknown, and by confequence 
be incapable to make its way to trutt and ho- 
pour. At court, therefore, it was foon per- 
eeived that he had abilities which would be 
unwife aud unjuft to deny to the public fer- 
vice. The importance of the relations com- 
mercial and political, between Great Britain 
and the empire of Rufiia, the neceflity there 
was to counteract the influence of France at 
the Ruflian court,,and the late commence- 
ment of a female reign, of which the cha- 
racter and policy were to be particularly 
ftudied, made the émbafly from this country 
to Ruilia to be, jut at tliat time, one of thofe 
diplomatic fituations ui which penetration, 
vigilance, dilcretion, and agreeable addrefs 
~ Montury Mas. No. 1g2. 
31% of Maréh, at his houfe in Cur- 
Deaths in and near London. 36] 
were the moft indifpenfibly requifites. The 
fit qualifications were thought by fome of 
the moft difcerning judges of chara¢ter, fuch 
as Lord Holland, i be united in Mr. Na- 
cartney. On ‘the 22d of Auguft 1764, he 
was, therefore, appointed envoy- ledtraordie 
nary to the court of Ruflia. The chief of- 
tenfible diplomatic bufinefs of his miffion 
was, tonegotiate a commercial treaty for the 
herent of the Britith. merchants trading fo 
Raflia. Of the proper interefs of our Ruf- 
fia trade he was well informed : his addrets 
furmounted every difliculty of accefs to the 
emprefs and her minifters; he knew to feize, 
in bufinefs, the ma/iffima tempora fandi; and 
he bad coolnefs and patience to conquer 
every obftacle which might be oppoted to 
his views by the rough pailions or ftickiing 
artifices of others. Within no long time at- 
ter opening this negociation, he procured 
the Rutlian court te agree to a treaty per- 
fe&tly fatisfactory to the wilhes of the Britifh 
merchants at St. Peterfburgh, and fuitable to 
the inftructions which he had received from 
the Government at home. A grateful ad- 
drefs from the merchants of the Britith fac- 
tory at St. Peterfburgh ; the honour of the. 
knighthood of the Polifh order of the White 
Eagle conferred by a monarch who was him- 
felf at once a wan of fafhion, tafte, and 
pleafure, and a man of political talents ; and 
the elevation to the character of ambaffador 
extraordinary and plenipotentiary from the 
Britifh court, in which he finally concluded 
the treaty of commerce; were fome of the 
teftimonies of approbation and refpeét which 
Sir George Macartney merited by his con- 
duct in this diplomatic miflion to the north. 
Thus fuccefsful and diftinguifhed, he return- 
ed to the Britifh court. Other rewards there 
awaited hun, which the hand of love was to 
beftow ; and, on the 1ft of February 1768, 
he became the hufband of Lady Jane Stuart, 
fecond daughter of Joba Earl of Bute. By 
his mafriage he had contracted a relationthip 
to the late Lord Lonfdale, then Sir James 
Lowther; and by that gentleman’s a 
tereft with the cleGtors, he was, in Apri 
1768, cholen one of the reprefentatives < 
the borough of Cockermouth in the partlia- 
ment of Great Britain. His eftates were 
chiefly in Ireland, and, in July 1768, he 
was chofen to repre fent the borough of Ar- 
mach in the Irifh parliament. On the 14 of 
January i769, Sir George Macartney was 
nominated principal fecretary to the pre- 
fent Marquis Townfhend, in the high oifice 
which he then filled, of Lord lieutenant of 
Ireland. In the ditcharge of the functions 
attached to that office, Sir George Macart- 
ney ’s conduét was fo agreeable to his fove> 
reign, that he was nominated, in the month 
of June 1772, to be one of the knights 
companions of the order of the Bath, and 
was inftalled at Weftminfer, by proxy, on 
the 15th day of that month. In October 
1774, he was elected to reprefent the Scot- 
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