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time for the longeft and moft interefing of 
her journies. This fhe was induced to under- 
take by the declining health of two near rela- 
tions, her mother, the dowager Lady Spencer, 
and her fifterLady Duncannon, now Countefs 
of Befborough. “Paffing through France and 
Swifferland, the fair travellers entered Italy. 
Aifter fpending. fome months in that genial 
elimate, and leaving her noble relatives, who 
intended to proceed to Naples, at the baths of 
Lucca fhe bade farewell to the triple harvefts 
af Lombardy, returning home again through 
Swifferland, and acrois the St. Gothard. The 
poem written by her Grace on the paflage of 
rhat celebrated mountain, and addrefied to her 
children, Is too well known to every reader to 
require any eulogium here Suffice it to fay, 
that it bears the impreffion of talents which 
would have juftified the fair author in afsiring 
to the very firft rank among the votaries of 
the Britith mufe. Eut the not only diftin- 
guifhed herfelf as a warm admirer and profi- 
cient in many of the elegant arts, for which 
the imbibed a frrong tafte, under the infiruGion 
of her accomplifhed mother, but fhe was like- 
wife an invariable'and liberal patronefs of thofe 
who have adorned and cultivated them. It was 
te her that the public were indebted for the ine 
troduction of the Tate celebrated Mrs. Robin- 
fon into notice. Her fervices indeed were al- 
“ways extended to literary merit, and her ge- 
erofity in this particular was fametimes pro- 
ductive of private embarrafiment. Her name 
was always to be feenin every fubfcription for 
he afliftance of indigent genius; and fuch was 
her paffion for benevolence and patioraze of 
this kind, that the often became a dupe tothe 
fraudulent and defiguing. ‘This principle of 
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mative goudnets, ftrenzthened by conftant ha-_ 
Bit, had however gained fuch force, that nel- 
ther her Graceésown frequent bouaty-cteated 
difficulties on the one hand, nor the returns 
of ingratitude, yet more lard to bear, on the 
ether, were ever capable of avating her zeal 
in doing good offices. Few females of the 
prefent day have been’ fo diftinguithed for po- 
Htical attachments as the late: Duchefs of De-- 
vonthirey for Mr. Fox in particular, her in- 
terelt was, efpecially in early life, frequently 
and eflentially exerted. . Her perfon was ele- 
gant, and her face, if not firiétly beautiful, 
was very pleafing, intereffing, and expreilive. 
The high rank which fhe occupied, and the 
admiration which fhe excited, naturally led 
her, im the early part of her marriage, into a 
career of pleafure which the firongeft mind, 
in fuch a fituation, and with fuch temptations, 
could hardly refift, Her manners were of the 
mo? elegant kind, and fhe might well be held 
forth to tae female world as a model of eafy 
@eportment, as well as a leader of fafhion in 
the province of exterior decoratien. Her laft 
3llnefs was fudden, and its progrefs rapid. She 
was ata recent ball given by the Duchefs of 
Gordon, where fhe difplayed her ufual anima- 
flan, but was taken ill foon after fhe reached 
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Account of the lete Haviland Le Mefurier, E/q. 
[May f, 
home—and, after varying fymptoms, none of 
which however promifed a recovery, fhe was 
fo alarmingly indifpofed for the laft two or 
three days as to preclude ail hope. The higher ~ 
ranks difplayed a great anxiety while her 
Grace remained in fuch a threatening fate 5 
and the Prince of Wales, in particular, thewed 
a moft friendly folicituae on the occafion. As 
foon as he heard the melancholy tidings of 
her death, he left town with emotions of fe- 
vere diitrefs. The dowager Countefs of Spen- 
cer, her Grace’s mother, remained with her 
till the lat moment of her life. Her Grace 
was in the 49th year of her age, and her death 
has thrown a cloud over the world of fathion 
that will not foon be difperfed. 
{ Further Particulars of Haviland Le Mefurier, 
ef. whoje death is mentioned at p. 270 of the 
laft number.——He was, born in Guernfey in 
1758, -and received a liberal” education at 
Winchefter fchool. He was during fome 
years, in a mercantile connexion with his ft- 
ther and eldeft brothers, the two late govern- 
ors of Alderney. He married, in 1782, Mis 
Eliza Dobrée, of Guernfey, and foon -after- 
wards removed ta Havre de Grace, where he 
joined the firm of avery confiderable com- 
mercial houfe; thence he ¢ame to England, 
and eftablifhed himfelf as a merchant in Loz- 
don; but, fuffering uader the commercial 
difaiters of the fatal year 1793, he accepted 
of a commifariat commiffion in the Army of 
the Britifh Allies in Flanders, af which Mr. 
“Wation (now Sir Brogix ‘¥.)) pwas- then -‘com- 
miffary-general, He was ioun raifed to the 
afcending progrefiive ‘ranks of ailifiant-com- 
miffary-general, deputy-tommiflary-general, 
and a¢ting-commiflary general; in which ca- 
pacity he attended and provided for the Armies 
in their celebrated retreat through the dif- 
aftrous feverities of a German winter in the 
fevere feafon of 1794-5, with the peculiar 
approbation. of Generals Dundas and Walmo- 
den. Upon his return to England, when our 
troops were withdrawn from the Continent, 
he joined in partuerfhip with his brother, the 
late worthy Alderman; and in the Spring of 
1797, upon the expettation of the threatened 
invafion, he was appointed commiflary-gene- 
ral of the Southern Dittri€ét of England, com-= 
prehending the important Home Counties of 
Surrey, Suflex, and Kent, upon a plan of fup- 
ply by ftationary depots of previfinns, ftores, 
and forage; a plan of the mof excellent, ei 
fective, and economical, ever yet devifed, 
and which was brought forward and perfeéted 
under the immediate approbation of General 
Sir Charles (now Lord) Grey, who com- 
manded the diftri&. In the fummer of 1799 
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the appointment of Commiflary-general of all © 
Englund was firft created in favour of Mr, 
Brook Watfon, which Mr. L. M. conceived to 
be placing him in the fecondary rank, againft 
which he had fpecifically Ripulated; a fpiriretl 
difference arofe; the confequence of whita e. 
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