in the West Indies, where he was made Lieutenant of a floop of war; and being employed to cut an English merchantman, which had been taken by a French privateer under the guns of the Dutch fettlement of St. Euftatia, and with the connivance of the Governor, out of that harbour, he executed the difficult and dangerous enterprise in fuch a manner, as to produce the most fanguine expectations of his future fervices. In 1745, Lieutenant Howe was with Admiral Vernon in the Downs, but was in a fhort time raifed to the rank of Commander, in the Baltimore floop of war, which joined the fquadron then cruizing on the coaft of Scotland, under the command of Admiral Smith. During this cruize an action took place, in which Captain Howe gave a fine example of perfevering intrepi. dity. The Baltimore, in company with another armed veffel, fell in with two French frigates of 30 guns, with troops and ammunition for the fervice of the Pretender, which the inftantly attacked, by running between them. In the action which followed, Capt. Howe received a wound in his head, which at first appeared to be fatal. He, however, foon difcovered figns of life, and when the neceffary operation was performed, refumed all his former activity, continued the action, if poffible, with redoubled fpirit, and obliged the French fhips, with their prodigious fuperiority in men and metal, to theer off, leaving the Baltimore, at the fame time, in such a thattered condition, as to be wholly difqualified to purfue them. He was, in confequence of this gallant fervice, immediately made Poft Captain, and on the 10th of April, 1746, was appointed to the Triton frigate, and ordered to Libon, where, in confequence of Capt. Holbourne's bad ftate of health, he was transferred to the Rippon, deftined for the Coaft of Guinea. But he foon quitted that itation to join his early patron Admiral Knowles in Jamaica, who appointed him firft Captain of his fhip of 80 guns; and at the conclufion of the war in 1748, he returned in her to England. In March 1750-51, Capt. Howe was appointed to the command of the Guinea ftation, in La Gloire, of 44 guns; when, with his usual spirit and activity, he checked the injurious proceedings of the Dutch Governor-General on the Coaft, and adjusted the difference between the English and Dutch fettlements. At the clofé of the year 1751, he was appointed to the Mary yacht, which was foon exchanged for the Dol. phin frigate, in which he failed to the Streights, where he executed many difficult and important fervices. Here he remained about three years; and soon after, on his return to England, he obtained the command of the Dunkirk of 60 guns, which was among the hips that were commiffioned rom an app cheniion of a rupture with France. This hip was one of the fleet with which Admiral Hofcawen failed to obtruct the paffage of the French fleet into the Gulph of St. Lawrence, when Capt. Howe took the Alcide, a Frenc fhip of 64 guns, off the Coast of Newfoundland. A powerful fleet being prepared, in 1757, under the command of Sir Edward Hawke, to make an attack upon the French coaft, Captain Howe was appointed to the Magnanime, in which thip he battered the fort on the island of Aix till it furrendered. In 1758, he was appointed Commodore of a fmall fquadron, which failed to annoy the enemy on their coafts. This he effected with his ufual fuccefs at St. Malo, where an hundred fail of fhips and feveral magazines were deftroyed; and the heavy gale blowing into shore, which rendered it impracticable for the troops to land, alone prevented the executing a fimilar mifchief in the town and harbour of Cher. bourg. On the 1ft of July he returned to St. Helen's. This expedition was foon followed by another, when Prince Edward, afterwards Duke of York, was entrusted to the care of Commodore Howe, on board his ship the Effex. The feet failed on the ft of Auguft 1758, and on the 6th came to an anchor in the Bay of Cherbourg; the town was taken, and the bafon deftroyed. The Commodore, with his Royal Midshipman on board, next failed to St. Malo, and as his inftructions were to keep the coaft of France in continual alarm, he very effectually obeyed them. The unfuccefsful affair of St. Cas followed. But never was courage, fkill, or humanity, more powerfully or fuccefsfully displayed than on this occafion. He went in perfon in his barge, which was rowed through the thickest fire, to fave the retreating foldiers; the rest of the fleet, infpired by his conduct, followed his example, and at least seven hundred men were preferved, by his exertions, from the fire of the enemy or the fury of the waves. In July, in the fame year (1758), his elder brother, who was ferving his country with equal ardour and heroiím, in America, found an early grave. That brave and admirable officer was killed in a skirmish between the advanced guard of the French, and the troops commaded by General Abercrombie, in the expedition against Ticonderago. Commodore Howe then fucceeded to the titles and property of his family. In the following year (1759), Lord Howe was employed in the Channel, on board his old fhip the Magnanime; but no opportunity offered to diftinguish himfelf till the month of November, when the French fleet, under Conflans, was defeated. When he was prefented to the King by Sir Edward Hawke on this occafion, his Majefty faid, "Your life, my Lord, has been one continued feries of fervices to your country." In March 1760, he was appointed Colonel of the Chatham divifion of marines; and in September following, he was ordered by Sir Edward Hawke to reduce the French fort on the isle of Dumet, in order to fave the expence of the tranfports employed to carry water for the ufe of the fleet. Lord Howe continued to ferve, 'as occafion required, 1 In quired, in the Channel; and in the fummer of 1762, he removed to the Princess Amelia, of 80 guns, having accepted the command as Captain to his Royal Highnefs the Duke of York, now Rear-Admiral of the Blue, ferving as fecond in command under Sir Edward Hawke, in the Channel. On the 23d of Auguft 1763, his Lordship was appointed to the Board of Admiralty, where he remained till August 1765: He was then made Treasurer of the Navy; and in October 1770, was promoted to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue, and Commander in Chief in the Mediterranean. In March 1775, he was appointed Rear-Admiral of the White; and was foon after chofen to reprefent the borough of Dartmouth in Parliament. In the month of December, in the fame year, he was made Vice-Admiral of the Blue. It was on one of thefe promotions that Lord Hawke, then First Lord of the Admiralty, rofe in the House of Peers, and faid, "I advised his Majefty to make the promotion. I have tried my Lord Howe on important occafions; he never asked me how he was to execute any fervice, but always went and performed it." 1778, France having become a party in the war, the French Admiral D'Estaing appeared, on the 11th of July, in fight of the British fleet, at Sandy Hook, with a confiderable force of line of battle ships, in complete equipment and condition. Moft of the fhips under Lord Howe had been long in fervice, were not well manned, and were not line of battle fhips of the prefent day. The French Admiral, however, remained føven days without making an attack, and by that time Lord Howe had difpofed his inferior force in fuch a manner as to fet him at defiance. On D'Eftaing's leaving the Hook, Lord Howe heard of the critical fituation of Rhode Island, and made every poflible exertion to preferve it. He afterwards acted chiefly on the defenfive. Such a conduct appears to have been required, from the ftate of his fleet, and the particular fituation of the British caufe in America. He, however, contrived to baffle all the defigns of the French Admiral; and may be faid, confidering the difadvantages with which he was furrounded, to have conducted and clofed the campaign with honour. Lord Howe now refigned the command to Admiral Byron; and on his return to England in October, immediately ftruck his flag. In the courfe of this year, he had been advanced to be Vice-Admiral of the White, and fhortly after, to the fame rank in the Red fquadron. On the change of Administration in the year 1782, Lord Howe was raifed to the dignity of a Vifcount of Great Britain, having been previouly advanced to, the rank of Admiral of the Blue. He was then appointed to command the fleet fitted out for the relief of Gibraltar; and he fulfilled the important objects of this expedition. That fortrefs was effectually relieved, the hotile fleet baffled, and dared in vain to battle; and different fquadrons de while tached to their important destinations; the ardent hopes of his country's foes were difappointed. Peace was concluded shortly after Lord Howe's return from performing this important fervice: and in January 1783, he was nominated First Lord of the Admiralty. That office, in the fucceeding April, he refigned to Lord Keppel; but was re-appointed on the 30th of December in the fame year. On the 24th of September 1787, he was advanced to the rank of Admiral of the White; and in July 1788, he finally quitted his ftation at the Admiralty. In the following Auguft he was created an Earl of Great Britain. On the commencement of the prefent war in 1793, Earl Howe accepted the command of the western fquadron, at the particular and perfonal request of his Majefty, and juftified the choice which his Sovereign had made at fuch a perilous and important moment. The glorious victory of the first of June foon followed; the fleet, which was one of the most powerful that France had ever equipped for fea, was totally vanquished, and seven ships of the enemy's line were in poffeflion of the conqueror. On the 26th of the fame month, their Majefties, with three of the Princeffes, arrived at Portsmouth, and proceeded the next morning in barges to vifit Lord Howe's fhip, the Queen Charlotte, at Spithead. His Majesty held a Naval Levee on board, and prefented the victorious Admiral with a fword, enriched with diamonds and a gold chain, with the naval medal fufpended from it. The thanks of both houfes of parliament, the freedom of the city of London, and the univerfal acclamations of the nation followed the acknowledgements of the fovereign. In the courfe of the following year, he was appointed General of Marines, on the death of Admiral Forbes; and finally refigned the command of the western squadron in April 1797. On the 2d of June in the fame year, he was invefted with the infignia of the garter. The laft public act of a life employed against the foreign enemies of his country, was exerted to compofe its internal diffentions. It was the lot of Earl Howe to contribute to the restoration of the fleet, which he had conducted to glory on the fea, to loyalty in the harbour. His experience fuggefted the measures to be pursued by government on the alarming mutinies, which in 1797 diftreffed and terrified the nation; while his perfonal exertions powerfully promoted the difperfion of that fpirit, which had, for a time, changed the very nature of British feamen, and greatly helped to recall them to their former career of duty and obedience. In the year 1758, his Lordship married Mary, daughter of Chiverton Hartop, efq. of Welby, in the county of Leicef ter. His iffue by this Lady, is Lady Sophia Charlotte, married to the Hon. Pen Ashton Curzon, eldest fon of Lord Curzon, who is lately dead; Lady Mary Indiana, and Lady Louifa Catharine, married to the prefent Earl of Altamont, of Ireland. At At Hamilton-Palace, his Grace the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon. His Grace was fon to James Duke of Hamilton by Elizabeth, late Duchefs of Argyle; was born 1756, and fucceeded his brother in 1769. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Burrel, efq. and fifter to the prefent Lord Gwydir. Lord Archibald Hamilton, his uncle, fucceeds to the title and eítates. His Grace was Lord Lieutenant of Lanarkshire, and Keeper of the Palaces of Holyroodhoufe and Linlithgow. On Sunday, the 11th of Auguft, at his apartments at Pimlico, in the 40th year of his age, Captain William Skinner, of the marines, a gentleman well known in the literary circles of London, Paris and Rome, and whofe active pen has for feveral years interested the public in a great variety of literary compofitions. He jocofely prided himfelf in being "a man of Kent; but having entered when a youth into the marine fervice he has refided a very small portion of his life in his native county. During the American war he was in active service on the coaft of North America and alfo in the West Indies, and having been captured by one of the enemy's cruizers le fuffered a vigorous imprifonment at Rutland in New England. His fatigue and expofure to variety of climate during this war brought on the nervous debility, which continued through the remainder of his life, and which at length unhappily occafioned his premature death. After the peace of 1783, he refided a confiderable time at Paris, and having refented fome indecorous behaviour, he fuffered the confequence of a lettre de catchet, which was obtained by the influence of the very perfon from whom he had demanded fatisfaction. Having feen and felt the tyranny of the ancient regime, he warmly participated in the general feeling on the deftruction of the Baftile, and naturally affociating with many of the leaders of the patriotic party he became an object of the notice of the British ambasador, and of the watchful fufpicion of the British adminiAration. Conceiving, however, that he did not overstep the bounds of prudence as long as his own government took no oftenfible part against the Revolution, he continued in Paris, and without referve affociated with Manuel, Valadi, Anacharfis Clootz, and other leading patriots; became a member of the Jacobin Club, and on the day of the Grand Federation rather indifcreetly marched in the famous mock proceffion of the Orator of the Human Race, as a reprefentative of the British nation! Refpecting the popular follies of those days he has fince declared himfelf afhamed of the part he was induced to take, he was hurried away at the time by the fublime and eternal principles of the first revolution, but he has fince been among the foremost to express his deteftation and horror at the tragical confequences which have arifen from a desertion of thofe first principles, and from the infincerity of Louis XVI, and the league against the republic. He left France on the profpect of hoftilities with his own country, and would gladly have obeyed the call of duty and honour, by entering into active fervice on board of the British fleet. He foon found, however, by his being passed over in fubfequent promotions that he had incurred the difpleasure of his majesty's minis fters; and although fuch a feeling on their part was what he must have expected, yet he was vifibly chagrined, and after various unfuccessful attempts to regain the confidence of the admiralty, he abandoned himself to the most bitter feeling on the injury which he had done himself in his profeffion. He has fince, in a great measure, devoted himself to literature, chiefly as a tranflator from the French, a task for which he was eminently qualified; as a writer of effays, and of papers of wit and humour for the newspapers, and as the occafional editor of fome of them. The readers of the Monthly Magazine have been occafionally indebted to his labours, particularly in the French anecdotes *, in fome original articles relative to the ruins of Herculaneum, on the Philological Researches of M. le Bri gant, on the Fine Arts, &c. &c. As his literary labours were various and confiderable, fo they were proportionably lucrative, and latterly his income from this fource could not have been much fhort of 300l. per annum, independantly of his half-pay as a captain of marines. The preffure of literary business and a fear that he might be ftruck off the half-pay lift, at length, however, increased his nervous irritability and depreffion, in fo violent a degree, as to alarm the most intimate of his friends, one of whom perfuaded him, a few weeks fince, as a remedy, to accompany him in an excurfion into the country. He returned to London on the day which preceded his death, and in the evening fuperintended the publication of a refpectable newfpaper, of which he was the editor. About eleven he returned to his lodgings, and having fat up the whole night, at feven in the morning he difcharged a piftol through his head! The Coroner's Inqueft were fully juf tified in their verdict of infanity, as it was obvious that he had for fome time laboured under an hypochondriacal affection. Of the cultivated understanding, goodness of heart, uprightness of conduct, and gentlemanly demeanour of this lamented and unfortunate man, it is impoffible to fpeak or conceive too highly. His virtues and talents will long live in the memory of his numerous friends; and his untimely and melancholy fate will remain an impreffive proof how little even the best and wifeft of us are at all times in our own power. Suddenly, William Champion, efq. Joint Sheriff of the city of London, and lately elected Alderman of Billingsgate Ward. * Among these the articles of Valadi and Manuel are esteemed his happieft compofitions. At At Ofborn's Hotel in the Adelphi, C. Barber, efq. lately a free-merchant at Calcutta. This gentleman had realised in India a fortune of more than 200,000l.: he arrived in the last fleet, and had been at the hotel only one week. Upon his death bed, he declared, he did not know that he had any relation, and that it was out of his power to name an heir to his great wealth! In Fleet-ftreet, Mrs. Knapp, wife of Mr. Knapp. In the 49th year of his age, Mr. Benjamin Thomas Pouncy, Engraver; a man of the first eminence in his profeffion. He was the brother-in-law, and most distinguished of the difciples of Woollett, with whofe vigour and richness of style he has happily united the freedom and fimplicity of Vivares, and with a maiter's hand and poet's fire," has blended both with his own view of nature. His works, of which the principal are after Wilfon, Farington, and Hearne, will always be admired wherever legitimate art, and true tafte, are not obfcured by falfe glitter fo much the fashion of the day; and the hofpitality of his manners, the liberality of his fentiments, and the goodness of his heart, will long be remembered with regret by thofe who had the happiness of being intimately .known to him. In Edgware-road, the Rev. Dr. Brupfton. In Great Ruffel-ftreet, Bloomsbury, William Burt Corlett, efq. At Addifcombe, near Croydon, Mrs. Brick wood, wife of John Brickwood, efq. At Paddington, aged 27, Mrs. Porter, wife of Stephen Porter, efq. of the MiddleTemple. At Tottenham, aged 64, Mr. Thomas Reeves, colourman, of Holborn-bridge. In Ely-place, Francis Hancrott, efq. deputy treafurer of the Ordnance. In Curzon-street, May Fair, Jofeph Spilfbury, efq. late of the Cuftom-Houfe. At New Crofs, aged 25, Mifs Warner, daughter of Ifaac Warner, efq. At Fulham, aged 72, Mrs. Heptinfall. In Park-lane, Mr. Luke Davy, of Langford, Norfolk. In Stratton-street, Piccadilly, Mrs. Price, wife of Jofeph Price, efq. In Bofwell-court, Mrs. Durnford, wife of C. Durnford, efq. At Kenfington Gravel-pits, Mrs. Lehcup, wife of Peter Lehcup, efq. In Holborn, Mr. S. Strode. In Dean-street, Soho, aged 85, W. Tod, efq. In Lincoln's-Inn, Mrs. Crofs, wife of P. B. Crofs, efq. In Serle-street, Capt. C. Price of the Navy. IRELAND. Died.] Suddenly, Sir Peter Nugent, bart. of Donore, in the county of Westmeath, Ireland, greatly lamented by his difconfolate family and numerous friends, to whom his virtues so justly endeared him as a fon, brother, hufband, and friend. His benevolence, generofity and charity were unbounded. Sir Peter was born Sept 29, 1746. On the 30th of May, 1785, he married Mary, the eldest daughter of Sir James Hodges, relict of William Rogers, efq. He fucceeded his brother, Sir James Nugent, in his title and eftates in April 1794. The title is extinct. At Dublin, on the 20th June, Dr. Murray, provoft of Trinity College. This gentleman was the father of the Univerfity over which he prefided, as well by length of standing, as by the office which he held. It is now upwards of half a century fince he became a fellow, and within that period he witneffed feveral complete fucceffions of new members in the corporation; by all of them he was beloved and venerated. Love of feclufion, and a devoted attachment to literature, must have been his motives for continuing fo long an academic life: for, by the conftitution of the Dublin college, fcarcely a year paffes in which fome one of its fellows may not go out on a college living;' of courfe he muft many times have rejected what, to others, would have been an alluring opportunity of emerging from the torpitude and strictness of college regimen, into a free enjoyment of the world in eafe and affluence; for the livings in which the college of Dublin provides for its retiring members are rich, none of them less than five or fix hundred pounds per annum, and many of them producing eleven or twelve hundred. Dr. Murray was not, like moft of the other fellows of the Dublin Univer fity, prompted by love to interpret the follows' oath in fuch a manner as to permit at once the keeping of a wife and a fellowfhip. He not only remained in that state of celibacy which fo well correfponds with the duties of a college tutor, but, if one may fafely judge of the progrefs of paffion from extrinfic circumstances, never even in idea violated the laws of the strictest chastity.His plan of life, indeed, almost precluded temptation. He fcarcely ever ventured into the company of any but his near college friends, and even in their fociety very rarely indulged. His time was always fully occupied either by duty or ftudy. He acted with the regularity of mechanifm; and if the doctor possessed such a power as fancy, not a moment was left for the imagination to revel in. Dr. Murray, prior to his elevation to the provoftship, was for many years mathematical lecturer; and in the difcharge of the duty of that office difplayed fingular kill in the very difficult art of teaching.There was a fimplicity, precifion and clearnefs in his method, which conveyed his ideas even on the abstract and difficult fcience of analytics (for it is to that branch the mathematical lecturer in the Univerfity of Dublin is chiefly confined) with the greatest cafe and accuracy, while the comprehenfive and mafterly view which he exhibited of of every part of the fcience which he treated, proved him to poffefs an understanding of the moft vigorous character. It was a diftinguishing feature of the doctor as a lecturer, that he confidered every thing in fcience as of equal value; he would treat as of the fame moment in a demonftration, the most obvious and easy ftep, and the most abstruse and difficult; and would take equal pains to direct a pupil how to draw a line, or copy a diagram, as to guide him through a proof the most difficult and prolix. It is now feveral years fince Dr. Murray compiled the epitome of logic which bears his name, and which is the firft book put into the hands of the ftudents in the University of Dublin. It bears the ftrongest marks of being the production of fuch a mind as his; it difplays the cleareft, most abstracting, and ftrong understanding, and at the fame time that it wears the appearance of being a collection of the moft fimple elements, fcarcely contains a propofition that is not pregnant with profound learning. Though Dr. Murray was for fo many years a fenior fellow of an Univerfity, which has been reckoned, perlaps not untruly, one of the most wealthy in Europe, and of which the fenior fellows are estimated to poffefs above 8ool. per annum, and though he lived during the whole of that time with great frugality, having no family and keeping but two fervants, yet he faved no money. It is believed, indeed it is known, that he has caft his bread upon the waters; his charity has been neither oftentatious nor fplendid, but it has been extenfive and ufeful; much of it has had for its objects thofe who were connected with him by blood; but much alfo has been difperfed among thofe who had no claim to his bounty but that which misfortune and poverty had given them. It is among the merits of Lord Fitzwilliam's adminiftration, as Viceroy of Ireland, that he appointed this fingularly learned and virtuous old man to the provoftship of the Univerfity. By doing fo, he has restored to that feminary the bleflings of peace and concord to which it had for fome years been a ftranger. The late provoft, Mr. Hutchinfon, had been what the academicians call an extern; he had not been bred in the college over which he was appointed to prefide. This had been confidered by the Fellows, as an injury as well as an infult to the body, out of which they contended an head for the Univerfity fhould always be appointed. Hence the Fellows and the Provoft were almoft perpetually in a state of hoftility. Under Dr. Murray there exifted the most perfect concord between the head and the members, and all feemed to purfue fincerely that which fhould be the aim of all, the good government of the college, and the improvement of the ftudents in morals and learning. If any inconvenience arofe from the appointment of Dr. Murray to the high office he held, it refulted from his being too little an active man of the world, by which he was the 2 lefs able to counteract and reftrain the agitating and domineering fpirit which will fometimes fhew itfelf in ecclefiaftical as well as other corporations. On the Sunday preceding his death he had complained of a fhivering, but in no alarming degree, and his phyfician only directed him not to go abroad according to his custom on that or the next day. His fhivering abated on the Sunday, and he confidered himself, during the following day, as in his ordinary ftate of health. On the niorning of Tuesday, however, at about two o'clock, he was feized with a violent fpafmodic affection in his ftomach; he was fcarcely able to direct his fervant to go for Dr. Hall, one of the very few unmarried fellows who therefore refide in college. Dr. Hall immediately at. tended him, and found him in a very alarming state indeed. He fent for other alliftance, but before any arrived the Provoft expired in his arms. No man was perhaps ever more fincerely regretted by thofe over whom he was placed than Dr. Murray. In the Univerfity he was looked up to with a degree of respect and affection, which it is not eafy to conceive; nor was there probably a fingle individual within the walls, who did not feel forrow at his death, however likely it might be that his own intereft would be forwarded by the event *. Dr. Murray died at the age of 73. He had been forty-nine years a fellow of college, and four years provoft. On Saturday morning he was interred in the new College-chapel. The fellows and fcholars attended his funeral with fcarfs and hathands; the ftudents without any peculiar drefs. A Latin oration was delivered on the occafion by Dr. Hall, one of the most intimate friends of the deceafed, and the funeral fervice and anthem were performed in a very folemn and affecting manner. Dr. Murray, it is very remarkable, left no will, nor did he indeed leave much property. Though he had been for four years provoft, at an income of nearly 300cl. per annum; and for a great number of years a fenior fellow, at an income which must have exceeded his expences by full 500l. per annum; he yet was not at his death poffeffed of property of any kind to the amount of 4000l.; the furplus of his income having been annu ally distributed in private charity, or beftowed in donations to a number of dependent relatives. What property he did die poffeffed of goes to his brother Dr. Murray, the incumbent of a confiderable church living in the North of Ireland. His library is confidered as the most valuable part of his aflets. It is a large collection of the beft authors in every fcience, and befides fcholaftic books, contains a moft perfect collection of the beft voyages, travels, books of geography, charts, &c. &c. He is fucceded as provost by Dr. Kearney, the late vice-provoft. When one of the Fellows is raifed to a Provoftship, the others are advanced one ftep in feniority, a vacancy of courfe there follows. PROVINCIAL |