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peared above the task'; cheerful, patient, and perfevering under fatigue, her labour was ever beforehand, and the preferved abundance of leisure for the enjoyments of fociety. She was generous, humane, and charitable in all her dealings. Her accomplishments were not of that glaring kind, which often tempts the poffeffor of them to make a difplay; neither would her natural good fenfe and refined tafte have permitted her to make a fhew of gaudy acquirements. Her affections were all pure and fufceptible; fhe felt keenly the aim of fentiment; received and communicated every fpecies of kindnefs with ardour, and left no attempt to intereft her friendship unrewarded. In literary correfpondence, the force of her mind became more evident: every one who enjoyed this happiness, knows how to value her talents. As a private character, she was beloved by all who knew her. In the relation which her widowed ftate had placed her towards an infant family, he was invaluable. In herself she knew no vice, she had no faults, and her foibles, if he had any, were undifcoverable. She was one of thofe rare human beings, who approached, if she did not in reality attain, the limits of the perfection of our nature. May her orphan family learn the true value of fuch virtues and endowments, and may they ever emulate their mother's excellencies.

The Caiffon lock, erected on the Somerfet canal at Combhay, lately underwent a complete trial before the gentlemen of the committee, and a numerous affembly of fpectators; when the principles of its action and utility were fully established. The defcent of the caiffon, from the upper to the lower level, the paffage of the boat therefrom to the end of the tunnel, its return, and admiffion into the caiffon, and its fubfequent afcent and anchorage, may be regarded as a complete operation, and eft blishes beyond all controverfy, the procefs of an invention which, in point of ingenuity and utility, may be confidered as the greateft difcovery of the prefent age. After the firft experiment, feveral gentlemen, ftruck with the facility and fafety of its operation, went down in the caiffon to a depth of more than 60 feet, and in lik manner returned to the upper level. In fome parts of the machinery, the working was retarded by a few obstacles altogether cafual, and which may easily be obviated in future. However, to remove all doubt and anxiety on the fubje&t, Mr. Weldon, the inventor, has undertaken to pafs through the caiffon lock 1500 ton of goods in 12 hours, with only one man to work the machine, and affiftance of the boatman.

Married.] At Bathford, the rev. John Genger Barnes, M. A. fellow and tutor of Baliol college, Oxford, to Mifs Anna Maria Belcher, daughter of Geoffery Lovett Belcher, efq. of Lovett-hall, near Maidon, Effex.

At Glaftonbury, Mifs Mary Willey, a young lady of genteel fortune, to one of the privates of the Cheshire fupplementary militia. Mr. John Light, of Midgill Farm, to Miss Parfons of Timbury.

At the Quaker's Meeting, at Sidcot, Mr. Self, druggift, of Bristol, to Mifs Tanner, of Woodborough.

At Bath, the hon. and rev. T. S. Twiftle ton, to Mifs Afhe, daughter of Benjamin Athe, efq. formerly in the fervice of the Eaft-India Company. Mr. Chapman, of Rodney Stoke Lodge, to Mifs Joan Saunders Brooks, daughter of Jofeph Brooks, efq. of Conley House, near Wells. H. Brumgatten, efq. to Mifs Brydges. The rev. William Ruch Hallet Churchill, of Dorchefter, to Mifs M. Turner, of Walcott Farm, Bath. Mr. J. Hillman, jun. of Chilton, to Mifs E. Spencer, of this city.

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At Wells, Mr. Oram, of Chilhampton, Wilts, to Mifs Crofs.

At Twerton, near Bath, Mr. Spencer, an opulent farmer of Newton St. Loe, to Mifs Dafter, of the former place.

Died.] At his lodgings in Bath, on the 28th ult. the rev. Jeffe Anker. The fervant had just taken up his breakfast, and was gone to call the landlord, whom his master wished to speak to; but before he had reached the bottom of the stairs, he heard the explofion of a piftol, and inftantly returning to the room, found the unfortunate gentleman weltering in his blood, the ball having entered the right temple. Mr. Anker had refided feveral months in Bath, and was highly efteemed for his affability, and frank and generous behaviour. About 18 months ago he loft his lady, which circumftance he took deeply to heart, and has been inconfolable ever fince. The writer of this article, who has been honoured with his acquaintance many years can teftify, that he has feldom known him pafs an hour without bewailing his lady with the most tender poignancy. To diffipate the gloom which now settled on his mind, he had recourfe to gaming, and is faid to have loft confiderable fums; but not fo as materially to injure his fortune, which was very ample. That he was not impelled to the commiffion of the above rash act by pecuniary diftrefs, was fufficiently evinced by the great amount of cafh, notes, and valuable effects, which he poffeffed at the time of his death. The coroner's jury, from thefe confiderations, returned a verdict of lunacy.— Mr. Anker was a Norwegian of a noble family.

At Bath, Mr. Barlow, late an eminent merchant in. London. The hon. William William Hewitt, fecond fon of the late Viscount Lifford, late lord chancellor of Ireland. Mrs.

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Eaft. Herbert Sawyer, efq. of Wellington Houfe, in this county, and admiral of the blue fquadron. Alfe Mrs. Davis. In an advanced age, Mr. Poole. Mrs. Harreft. Mr. Cheeseman.

At Shepton Mallet, Mr. James Green.
At Yeovill, Samuel Daniell, banker.

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Married] At Plymouth, Jofeph Martyr, efq. of Greenwich, and one of the coroners for the county of Kent, to Mifs Cobham, daughter of the late T. Cobham, efq. of the Grove, near Plymouth.

At Bridgewater, Mr. C. Trevor, to Mifs Catherine Weatherell, of Bristol.

At Uffculm, Mr. Garnfey, to Mis Hurly.
Died.] At Exeter, Mr. Taylor.

At Plymouth, the rev. F. Goodwin, fellow of Catherine Hall, Cambridge.

At Dawlish, the right hon. Laura, Lady Southampton, one of the ladies of the bedchamber to her royal highness the Princess of Wales. Her ladyfhip was fccond daughter to the hon. Mrs. Keppel.

At Taunton, in his 54th year, major-general Douglas. This officer, after ferving his country 40 years, fell a victim to the fatal effects of the Weft India climate.

Alfo, Mr. Fisher. In his 75th year, Mr. Henry Fysh, of Lynn, in Norfolk.

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connected, by affinity, with the most noble families in England, we behold a melancholy inftance of the inftability of human happiness. He was youngest brother to the present duke of Leinster, and nephew to the duke of Richmond; of his mother he was the favourite fon; and from every branch of the numerous family to which he belonged he experienced the most tender affection. Having finished his juvenile ftudies, it was his lot to arrive at Paris, in his continental tour, at the com-` mencement of the revolution. Smitten with thofe ideas which the refurrection of a great people from the tomb of defpotifm exhibited, he made the caufe of France his own, and entering into their feelings and fympathies, he exulted in their fuccefs, and feared for their depreffion. During the progrefs of the revolution,through fome of its most interesting and warmest ftages, he remained at Paris, and affociated with fome of the prime movers. It was in this fchool of freedom and revolution, that his lordship's strong, fufceptible, and warm mind, received that caft of fentiment which, during the fubfequent, period of his fhort life, influenced the tenor of his conduct. It was here too, if we are rightly informed, that he formed a connexion with a lady nearly related to the ci-devant duke d'Orleans, whofe elegance of mind and manners, and whofe principles fo congenial to his own, formed a fource of domestic happinefs which, in fome degree, compenfated for his fufferings in public life. When his lordfhip returned to his native country, he found little in the state of its people which weakened his deteftation of defpotifm. In parliament, where the advice and influence of his brother, the duke of Leinfter, placed him, he was the bold, though feldom the eloquent, opponent of the ministerial party, and uniformly fupported oppofition in the conteft in which they were then engaged (during the adminiftration of lord Westmoreland) with administration, for those popular meafures, many of which the perfeverance of that body at last extorted, fuch as the Place-bill, Penfion-bill, &c. &c. Lord Edward, indeed, feldom spoke in the house. He had none of the qualities which constitute the orator. His perfon was low; his countenance expreffive of little else than a fimple, bold, and honeft heart; his voice weak, and incapable of variety; his vocabulary rich only in ftrong and unadorned expreffions of, his unbounded love of freedom, and hatred of every fpecies of public or pri vate oppreffion. Of the fimplicity and fearlefs tenor of his parliamentary conduct, a remarkable inftance occurred during the Weftmoreland adminiftration. It was on a night of debate in the Houfe of Commons on one of the popular questions. The argu ments adduced in fupport of the measure were anfwered by an oblique attack on the motives of those who brought it forward; it was infinuated that the men who agitated the public mind with fuch queftions, did not act as

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became good fubjects. Lord Edward, regardlefs of what is called parliamentary decorum, which very properly forbids the expreffion of any fentiment difrefpectful of the fovereign, or his reprefentative, began his harangue in thefe words: "Mr. fpeaker, I am so far from agreeing with the right hon. member, that I think his excellency the lord-lieute pant is the worft fubject the king has"The house was immediately in an uproar; his words were ordered to be taken down, and the gallery inftantly cleared; three hours paffed in debate, during which his friends ufed every endeavour to perfuade him to explain away or foften his expreffion; to which, at length, after a long and obftinate refufal, he agreed. It was about this time that popular difcontent in Ireland was becoming ferious, The fociety of United Irishmen had been formed, and was fpreading rapidly over Ireland; fhortly afterwards it fell under the difpleafure of government. What his lordship's connexions with that fociety were, or whether he was at all connected with it after it became illegal to be a member of it, we do not pretend to know; ftill lefs can we pretend to fay, whether his lordship was prompted by any zeal for the intereft of his countrymen, to enter into measures inconfiftent with his allegiance to his fovereign; it is certain only, that from that time he became the intimate friend, and almost perpetual companion of Mr. O'Conner, whofe name his enemies have long been in the habit of calumniating with charges of treason. Information on oath, it is however faid, the government in Ireland did receive, that his lordship had committed an act of high treason: a reward of 1000l. was iffued for apprehending him, and, in confequence, he was foon after taken by the two perfons above-mentioned, Swan and Ryan. Whether thefe men acted legally in their manner of arresting him, is a point on which public opinion muft at prefent be fufpended; his lordship certainly refifted; they came upon him in bed; he rofe, feized a dagger, and in the fcuffle which followed, he wounded mortally, Ryan, one of the parties, and received two piftol fhots, which, by the verdict of the jury, (a verdict which merely ftated the facts which were proved before them, without attempting to determine whether the death was murder or not), contributed to his death. After being fecured, he was committed to Newgate; where he languished for a few days, and expired. We could detail the many interefting circumftances which occurred in the interviews that took place in his laft dreary abode, between his lordship and thofe tender connexions whofe lives were bound up in his. But the human mind feels deeply enough at the abstract ftory of a noble youth, furrounded by all the happiness which a fublunary ftate can afford, finking at once into the loweft ftate of human wretchednefstranfmitted in a moment from a palace to a surgeon-from the embraces of a young and beautiful wife, to the arms of death in its most

hideous form! It is unneceffary to heighten the picture! His character, drawn by that great man, Mr. Fox, in a fpeech at a meeting of the Whig club, a few days before his melancholy exit, is, perhaps, the best which can be tranfmitted to pofterity.-On Mr. Fox's health being drank, with deferving enthufiafm, "he rofe, feemingly in much agitation, and fpoke in fo low a tone, that he was but very imperfectly heard. He faid, he felt himself, at the moment, extremely unfit to addrefs an affembly even of his friends. The afflicting fituation in which a near relation of his was involved, (he hoped he should not be confidered as unmanly in faying), affected him so much, that he was unable to say much on every subject. The unfortunate gentleman to whom he alluded, was endeared to him, not duly from the connexion of blood, but from the warmest friendfhip. He had known him from his earliest youth, and more private worth he never knew to exift in any man."

Of the wounds which he received, in apprehending Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Capt. Ryan, of the St. Sepulchre's yeomanry, formerly called Surgeon Ryan, and for fome years previous to his death, acting editor of the Dublin Journal. Of this man, all that it is interefting to the public to know is fhort. The obfcure circumftances of his birth, family, and education, we have been unable to learn; the first information procured of him is, that when he ceafed to be a boy, he became connected in fuch a manner with an apothe cary, as gave a sort of fanction to his fubfequent affumption of the title of furgeon; whether Mr. Ryan entitled himself afterwards to that appellation we know not, but it is certain his practice was not confined to furgery. About the year 1787 he was one of the intimates of the well known John Giffard, formerly an apothecary of Dublin, but principally known as a very active and intelligent agent of adminiftration in Ireland, and whofe zeal in the fervice has been marked, in the most diftinguished manner, at the public meetings of the metropolis, for feveral years back. Shortly afterwards, Mr. Ryan was a note-taker in the Irish Houfe of Lords, while Mr. Giffard, his patron, took care of the more important business in the Commons. For thefe fervices, it is understood, Mr. Giffard was paid by a place in the Dublin customhoufe, worth 600l. per annum; while he fettled with Mr. R. for his fubordinate labours in the common caufe. The Dublin Journal had now become the advocate of government measures; and these two, Mr. Giffard being the principal in the management, are fuppofed to have filled, with fome cafual aids from other quarters, its pages, If an author then is known by his writings, the character of Mr. Ryan may be, in fome meafure, known from the complexion of that print. The friends had now patted fome years in this way, when the time arrived that Mr. R. was to be fomething more than a

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On the 14th of June, Dr. Efmond, a lieutenant of the Kildare yeoman cavalry, was executed on Carlifie-bridge, pursuant to the fentence of a court-martial, by whom he was found guilty of having affifted the people in their attack on Profperous, a manufacturing village, in the county of Kildare. Of the hiftory of this gentleman the public know little, nor is there much in it which can intereft them. To him life was an unruffled ftream, down whofe placid current le glided, tading every fweet which improving fortune, and increafing friends, fuccefsful lave, and domeftic happiness, could offer, until the political tempeft thickened round him, and plunged him into ruin! He was the younger brother of Sir Thomas Efmond, the prefent head of a very old family in the county of Wexford, but of which the patrimony had been confiderably diminished. Mr. Efmond, however, though a younger brother, was not at any time a diftreffed man. early apprenticed to a furgeon of eminence, with whom having completed his apprenticeship, he entered into bufinefs for himself, His family connexions, and an eafy elegance of manners, which added confiderably to the recommendatory influence of a fine perfon, foon procured for him a degree of practice in his profeffion which enabled him to live in a ftyle of fomething more than comfort; but he was not long to depend on his practice as a furgeon. A lady, poffeffed of a perfonal fortune of 12,000l. and a confiderable landed property, encouraged his addreffes, and accepted his hand. With her he had now, for a confidereble time, enjoyed every comfort, and every pleafure, which fuch a connexion may be fuppofed to afford, when the breaking out of the infurrection, and the attack on Profperous, near which he lived, called him to the commiffion of the crime for which his life has been the forfeit. It is impoffible to conceive, but that Dr. Efmond's first motives to engage in what is called the popular caufe, muft have been honourable and patriotic,-but, in pejus ruere MONTHLY MAG. No. XXXII.

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is the weakness, the misfortune of humani nature. How few can afcertain the precife point at which, in the process of the most laudable principle towards its extreme, virtue begins to be a vice, and wisdom gives place to folly. His conduct at the place of execution, was that of a man neither infenfible to his fituation, nor finking under its horror; he was collected, but he appeared to feel the ferioufnefs of death. By his re-. jection of the comfort derived from clerical affiftance in the last moments of life, he feemed to difbelieve the efficacy of the me chanical appendages of devotion.

Killed, in an action with the infurgents, at Rofs, on the 5th of June, Luke, Baron Mountjoy, a nobleman whofe public conduct made no man his enemy, and whofe private life was embellished by every grace, which tafte, learning, and mild manners, could throw around it. His lordship was not illuftrious by birth. His grandfather was, in the early part of his life, an hired domeftic; but the caprice of fortune left him at his death in poffeffion of a very confiderable fortune; which, by the fuccefsful exertions of his Yon, the father of his lordship, and an affiduous partizan of the Irish court, was yet farther increased. His lordship having fucceeded to the poffeffion of property thus prepared for him by the good fortune and industry of his two ancestors, and having finished his collegiate ftudies at Cambridge, was elected a reprefentative in parlia ment for the county of Dublin, which he continued to reprefent, until he was called to the Houfe of Peers. In no part of his parlia mentary career, did he affect the character of a zealous patriot; and yet, in fome occafions, he exerted himself, on the popular fide, with zeal and ability. Of thefe intermittent efforts for the people, the moft fplendid was that which his lordship made to obtain a fyftem of protecting duties for the manufactures of Ireland. Since the opening of Irish commerce, in the year 1779, this measure had become a great favourite of the public; it had been found, that the mere privilege of exporting! their manufactures could be of little real ufe, while the fuperior skill, industry, and capital, of Great Britain, enabled her to underfel the Irish in their own market; it was therefore defired th: parliament fhould impofe fuch duties on the importation of British manufactures, particularly woollens, as fhould counteract the fuperior advantages which the enjoyed over the Irish manufacturer. By thefe, it was faid, Ireland would be able to stand a competition with the manufacturer of Great Briain, and ultimately avail herself of her many natural, advantages which, without that protection, muft for ever remain ufelefs.

Mr. Gardiner was of this opinion; and after the question had long been agitated, indeed influenced the public mind, he proposed to the houfe of commons a motion declaratory of the neceffity of fuch a system of duties. In the speech by which he prefaced his mo