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his appointment was notified to him, Vice- 
Admiral Mitchell repaired on board the Lisy 
of fifty guns. He then vilited thofe parts of 
the coaft in which tranfports had been col- 
lected ; and partly by the zeal of the inhae 
bitants, partly by the fkill agd affiftance of 
the captains and officers of the fea-fencibles, 
embarked the different divifions of the army, 
towards the autumn of 1799, with inconceiy- 
able order and celerity. No fooner was this 
accomplifhed, than he joined Lord Duncan, 
then cruizing in the North Seas, and pro- 
ceeded to accomplifh the objeé of the expedi- 
tion, Having readily obtained pilots, and 
all the neceflary information at the Helder, 
Vice-Admiral Mitchell determined to fail in 
queft of the Dutch fquadron, which he 
threatened to follow ‘* to the walls of 
Amfterdam.” He, at the fame time, con- 
jured the officers and crews to avoid the effu- 
fion of human blood, by an immediate fur- 
render, either to the Britith, or to the Prince 
of Orange, whofe flag they would be permitted 
to.bear. To give greater eftect to his pro- 
ceedings, at five o'clock in the morning of 
August the goth, he formed a line of battle, 
by way of exhibiting the ftrength of the fqua- 
dron under his command. A fignal for action 
having been hoifted, the Englith Vice-Ad- 
miral fet fail; but two fhips and a frigate, in 
confequence of the intricacy of the navigation, 
got aground. Notwithftanding this, he en- 
tered the Mars Diep, and continued his courfe 
in the Vlieter channel along the Texel. Hav- 
ing by this time drawn near to the Dutch 
fleet, then at anchor at the Red Buoy, he 
difpatched Captain Rennie with a letter, con- 
taining a peremptory fummons. ‘The Englifh 
commander at the fame time brought his fqua- 
dron to anchor within fight of the enemy, 
whofe fleet, which had been for fome time in 
a ftate of mutiny, furrendered. This imipor- 
tant acquifition confafted of one fhip of feventy- 
four guns, four of fixty-eight, two of fifty- 
four, two of forty-four guns, a frigate, anda 
floop of war; in all eleven fail. ‘he Dutch 
thips thus reduced without bloodfhed, were 
conducted by Admiral Mitchel! into an Eng- 
hith port, under the efcort or fix fail of British, 
and two Rutan fhips of the line, Admiral 
Dickfon having been left behind, to fuperin- 
tend the embarkation of the troops. Soon ai- 
ter his arrival in England, his Majeity, asa 
diftinguithed mark of his fatisfaction with the 
conduét of ‘the officer wno had won the only 
trophy obtained during this expedition, was 
pleafed to confer upon him the enfigns of the 
order of the Bath. In 1800 we find Sir An- 
drew in the Channel fleet under Lord Brid- 
port, with his flag flying in the Windfor 
Caitle of ninety-eight guns; he afterwards 
ferved under Admiral, Cornwallis, off Brett, 
but no circumftance occurred for the difplay 
ofeither his courage or conduct. Yet upon 
this, as on every other occafion, he had an 
ppportunity of rendering every one on board 
Account of the late Duchefs of Devonfbire. 
3 fas 
happy. Althcugh he well knew how te 
keep up a proper degree of fubordination, he 
lived with his officers in the fame manner as 
a father among his children; and when ob- 
liged to part with them—feveral gentlemen 
educated on his quarter-deck are at this mo- 
ment poft-captains—he could fcarcely refrain 
from tears, Being fond of mufic, he was 
provided with an excellent hand; and all the 
officers, moc on duty, were accuftomed to 
aflemble every evening in the great cabin, to 
enjoy the concert provided for them. In the 
autumn of the fucceeding year, he was in- 
trufted with the command of a divifion of fif- 
teen fail of the line, with which he cruized 
off the coaft of Ireland; and at length, in 
1302, was appointed commander in chief in 
North America, and repaired to Halifax in the 
Leander, of 50 guns. While on this ftation he 
has loft his wife, Lady Mitchell, who had been 
fent to Bermuda for the benefit of her health, 
and died there in 1803. There too the gallant 
Admiral expired, after a fhort illnefs, on the 
26th of February, 1806. The following is 
a lift of his various promotions: He was ap- 
puinted a Captain, Oct. 25, 1778; a Rear- 
Admiral, June 1, 1795 3 Vice-Admiral of 
the White, Feb. 14, 1799; Wice-Admiral of 
the Red, in 1799; and Admiral of the Blue, 
Nov. 9, 1805. 
At Devonthire Houfe, Piccadilly, early on 
the morning of the 30th of March, Georgiana, 
Duchefs of Devon/bire. _Her Grace was the 
eldeit daughter of the late John Earl Ssencer, 
and fifter to the prefent Earl. She was born 
in June 1757, and married to William Ca- 
vendih, the prefent Duke of Devonthire, June 
the sth, 1774. Several years elapfed before 
there was any probability of iffue. At length, 
in 1782, her Grace gave birth to her eldet 
child, Georgiana, the prefent Vifcounteé 
Morpeth, who was followed aiter an interval 
of four-years by a fecond daughter, Lady Hen- 
ri¢tta. Cavendith; and, at the end of four 
more, the was delivered of a fon and heir, Wil- 
liam George Cavendith, Marquis ef Harting- 
ton, born in 1790. Though the cuftom of 
employing mercenary nurfes as fub(titutes for 
indolent’ or unfeeling mothers, had, before 
this period, been long ridiculed and condemn 
ed, ftill however it was but too prevyaleat, 
The eyes of one {ex were opened to the moi 
tender and indifpenfable ofall duties, but yet 
the fanction of a great name was wanting to 
extirpate a vicious and to introduce a falutary 
practice. This was at length efleéted by the. 
example of the Duchefs of Devonthire ; and it 
was referved for that diftinguithed female who 
had for years prefided over the world of faithion, 
tu introduce a practice intimately connected 
with the tendereft duties of maternity. ‘The 
care neceflarily attendant on an increafing fa- 
mily confined the Duclhiefs to Piccadilly, Chit= 
wick, and Chatfworth. She had, however, 
once or twice vifited France, but it was nor 
till the fummer of 1792, that the could And 
time 
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