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12. The right honourable lord viscount Townfhend, fucceeded in title and estate by his eldest fon George. May 24, 1723, his lordship was called up by writ to the house of peers, and was one of the gentlemen of the bedchamber to the king. In the fame month he married Audrey, fole heiress of Edward Harrison, efq; late governor of Fort St. George, and by her had iffue four fons and a daughter, viz. 1. George, aged 40, commander in chief at taking Quebec, after the death of general Wolfe. 2. Charles, a member, in the late and prefent parliament, for Harwich. 3. Edward, who died of the fmall-pox. 4. Roger, killed during the laft war in America. 5. Audrey, who died before Ro

ger.

14. The right hon, George Cholmondeley, vifcount Malpas, member for Corfe-castle, colonel of the 65th regiment of foot, and of the Cheshire militia, and eldest fon of the earl of Cholmondeley. At the battle of Fontenoy his lordship ferved as a volunteer, and foon after was made aid-decamp to general Ligonier, and had a company. In the rebellion in 1745, he was made lieut. col. of a regiment raised by his father, and ferved in the laft parliament for Bamber in Suffex. He has left iffue by Hefter, daughter of fir Francis Edwards of Shrewsbury, one fon and one daughter.

15. The only fon of lord Carberry.

16. Sir William Mannock, of = Gifford's Hall, in Suffolk, bart. fucceeded by an only son, now a

minor.

the exchequer, &c. &c. and prefident of the royal fociety, fucceeded in title and estate by his eldest fon, the hon. Thomas vifcount Parker, now earl of Maccleffield. His lordship first married Mary, eldeft daughter of Ralph Lane, efq; by whom he has left two fons; by his fecond wife he has left no iffue.

18. Sir George Hare, bart. of Stow-hall, Norfolk. As he died a bachelor, the title is extinct.

25. The hon. Mrs. Hannah Nevil, aged 96, mother to the late lord Abergavenny.

Lately, Lady Burdett, of York. -The hon. Mrs. Brudenell.-The reverend fir Nath. Edwards, bart. rector of Weybridge, in Surry; the title is extinct.-Sir George Chalmers, bart. in the Eaft-Indies.

April 13. Sir John Freke, of the kingdom of Ireland, bart.

15. The famous marchionefs of Pompadour, in the 43d year of her age.

16. The right honourable Warden Flood, lord chief justice of the king's bench in Ireland.

May 5. Lord Woodhall, a fenator of the college of juftice, in Scotland.

6. The right honourable lord viscount Powerfcourt, of Ireland ; fucceeded by his brother, the honourable Richard Wingfield, now viscount Powerscourt.

13. The right reverend doctor Thomas Ofbaldefton, lord bifhop of London, &c. &c.-the lady of fir Charles Hotham, baronet.

16. Mrs. Smithson, mother of the earl of Northumberland, aged

75.

17. The right hon. the earl of 17. The honourable Robert Macclesfield, one of the tellers of Dormer, efquire, brother of lord

Dormer.

Dormer. The relict of fir George Dunbar, of Edinburgh.

19. The fecond daughter of vifcount Weymouth.

31. Sir Gilbert Elliot, bart. in Scotland.Lady Harry Pawlet, fuddenly, at Bath.

Lately, the relict of fir Francis Curzon, bart.

The right hon. Charles earl of Traquair, fucceeded by his brother the honourable John Stuart, efq; now earl of Traquair.-The right honourable lady Anne Mofeley.The right honourable lady viscountefs Folkeftone.

June 1. The lady of fir Richard Hilton, of Hilton-hall, bart.

23. The honourable lady Anne Fane, eldest daughter of the earl of Weftmoreland.-The right honourable fir John Philipps, fucceeded in title and eftate by his only fon, now fir Richard Philipps, bart.

27. Sir Andrew Mitchel, of Weft Shore, in Scotland, bart.

28. The right hon. lady vifcts. dowager Strangford.

30. Lately, Lady Jane Jenoure, near Dunmow, aged 79.

July 7. Right honourable Thomas lord Holmes, baron of Kilmallock.

8. The right hon. Will. earl of Bath, lord lieut. and cuftos rot. of the county of Salop, F. R. S. and one of his majesty's moft hon. privy council, aged 82. In July 1742, his lordship was created baron of Heydon, viscount Pulteney, and earl of Bath. As his lordfhip died without iffue, the title is extinct; but his paternal eftate devolves to his brother, lieut. general Harry Pulteney.

11. The right hon. James earl of

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31. Lately, fir Gilbert Elliott, of Stobbs, in Scotland, bart.-Sir John Stewart, of Granthilly, in North Britain, bart.-Sir William Dudley, of Clapton, in Northamptonshire, bart. the title is extinct.-The hon. capt. Sempil, at the Cape of Good Hope. The right hon. viscountefs dowager Mountgarret. The hon. Mrs. Curzon, fifter of lord Scarfdale.Sir Orlando Bridgman, bart.-The right hon. lady Irwin.

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Auguft 3. Her grace the duchess of Leeds, fuddenly, while at dinner, at her feat in Hertfordshire.

11. The lady of the late lord Afton.

15. Lady Anne Dalston, in Yorkshire.

16. The hon. general Otway. 18. The lady of fir John Griffin.

23. The right hon. Henry Bilfon Legge, efq; uncle to the earl of Dartmouth, fome time chancellor of the exchequer, member for the county of Southampton, and F. R. S. at Tunbridge Wells, where he went for the his health.

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26. The hon. Charles Monfon, uncle of lord Monfon.

27. The right hon. Richard Parfons,

Parfons, earl of Rofs in Ireland; the title is extinct.- -The right hon. John lord Belhaven, fucceeded by his brother James, now lord Belhaven.

28. Sir John Barnard, knt. lord mayor of London in the year 1737, and who reprefented that city in fix parliaments, and was fome time honoured with the title of father of the city; all which offices he filled with fo much fatisfaction to his fellow citizens, that they thought proper to exprefs their gratitude by erecting a ftatue to his memory in the Royal Exchange.

Sept. 6. The reigning duke of Saxe-Saalfeld Cobourg, aged 67. 8. Sir Patrick Murray, bart. in Scotland.

11. The lady of fir Thomas Frederick, bart.

18. The right hon. earl Cowper, lord lieut. and cuftos rot. of Hertfordshire. His lordship was the eldest fon of lord chancellor Cowper, and is fucceeded in the title and eftate by his only fon the right hon. George vifc. Fordwich, born in 1738.The lady of fir Thomas Morgan, bart.

21. The right hon. the lady viscountefs Barrington. The lady of fir Charles Buck, bart. at Bath.

27. The right hon. John lord Trevor, F. R. S. fucceeded in title and eftate by his brother, the hon. Robert Trevor Hampden, efq.

30. Lately, Sir William Douglas, of Glenbervie, bart.--The hon. Lewis Erfkine, brother of the earl of Buchan.

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Sir William Hardres, of Hardrescourt, in Kent, bart. the title is extinct. The right hon. lady Fanny Montague, fecond daughter of the earl of Halifax.

October 2. His grace the duke of Devonshire, at the Spa in Ger- . many. His grace was eldest fon of William, the late duke, by Catharine, daughter of John Hofkins. efq; and in March 1748, married the lady Charlotte Boyle, heiress of Richard, late earl of Burlington, by whom he had iffue, I. William, now duke of Devonshire; 2. lord Richard; 3. lord George Henry; and 4. lady Dorothy. His grace, at his deceafe, was lord high treasurer and a privy counfellor of Ireland, governor of the county of Cork, knight of the garter, &c. but fome time before had refigned all his places on the British eftablishment.

5. The right hon. lady Anne Hatton.

12. The lady of fir William Hanham, bart.

26. Lady King, mother of lord Kingston.

31. Lately, Lady Morgan, wife of the member for Herefordshire. -The hon. lady Ramfden, fifter of the late lord Lonfdale, and the laft of that noble family.

November 3. The right hon. earl Paulet, viscount Hinton, lord lieutenant and cuftos ret. of Somerfetfhire, &c. dying a bachelor, he is fucceeded in title and estate by his brother Vere.

5. Lady Lawson, wife of fir Henry Lawfon, bart.

10. The right hon. Fulwar lord Craven, fucceeded in title and estate by his brother William.

13. The right hon. fir Thomas Clarke,

Clarke, knight, mafter of the rolls, and a privy counsellor. He is fuppofed to have died worth 200,000l. of which he has left 30,000l. to St. Luke's hofpital, and the remainder, all to a few small legacies, to the right hon. the earl of Macclesfield.

14. Sir Philip Chetwood, of Oakley, in Shropshire, bart. fucceeded by his eldeft fon, John.

15. The lady of fir Henry Lawfon, bart. Yorkshire.

16. Lady Graham, wife of the late colonel Brown.

30. Lately, Sir John Wynne, of Leefewood, Flint, bart.—Mr. Charles Churchill, the celebrated poet and fatyrift, at Boulogne, on a vifit to Mr. Wilkes.-Mrs. Lowther, fifter of the late earl of Tyrone.

Sir Nathaniel Thorold, of Harmiton, in Lincolnshire, bart.

The princefs Sophia Augufta, fifter of the king of Sweden, priorefs of Quedlinbourg, aged 59.

December 2. The right hon. the lady viscountess Irwin, one of the ladies of the bedchamber to the

princess dowager of Wales.

5. The hon. Mrs. Lowther, mother of the prefent fir James, and of the countefs of Darlington, at Bath.- -Sir John Sinclair, near Dalkeith, Scotland.

8. Her grace the duchess of Roxburgh.

15. Mr. Robert Lloyd, the celebrated poet.

17. The hon. lady Amelia Hotham, niece to the earl of Chefterfield.

18. The right hon. lady Rofs. 19. His doctor George grace Stone, archbishop of Armagh, and primate of all Ireland.

The lady of fir Wm. Owen of Pembrokeshire, bart.-The hon. William, fon of lord Walpole of Wolterton.

28. The right hon. Henry earl of Shannon, viscount Brandon, baron of Caftlemartyr, and one of the lord juftices in Ireland, aged 82.

31. Lately, The celebrared bifhop of Pontoppidan at Copenhagen.Lady Ann Wolfe, aunt to the late general Wolfe.

APPENDIX.

APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE.

Extract from a direction lately given to a jury in Dublin, by a learned judge of the court of King's Bench in Ireland, in an action brought for false impri

sonment.

Cavannah May 15th, 1764. At against Nisi Prius in B. R. Poole. in Ireland, an action of falfe imprisonment; and iffue joined on the plea of Not Guilty.

Part of the judge's direction to the jury.

S to the damages, I muft

In civil actions, therefore, juries ought only to take into confideration the damage fuftained by the party. If they go farther, and, under pretence of giving damages to parties, really fet up to punish public crimes, it is ufurping on the conftitution as to criminal jurifdictions, and muft be attended with bad confequences to the fundamentals and balance of our conftitution ; as indeed is, generally, the cafe of breaking any of the limits which the law hath fettled for the several offices in its adminiftration. I have fometimes known juries fall,

A obferve, that in cafes of it by mistake I prefume, into a

juries to particular perfons, the law hath inftituted civil actions for the recovery of fuch damages as the party has fuftained by the injury; and the quantum of the damage the jury muft determine, upon the circumftances of the evidence.

It often happens, that fuch injuries are involved in, or comprize, crimes of a public nature; but this confideration, as it really is in itfelf, ought to be kept diftinct by juries; and the punishment of the crime, as it affects the public, and as an example to ftop and deter others, belongs to another method of proceeding, viz. a profecution on behalf of the public, under the prerogative of mercy difpenfed by

the crown.

wrong behaviour in this particular; and they have made themfelves cenfors of offences againft public intereft, when the law only appointed them arbitrators for valuing the private lofs of the party.

Therefore, it is expedient to warn you, that this action is not for punishing the ufurpation of a jurifdiction by the court of confcience against law the proceeding for this purpose must be in another method: but you are only to confider what damage the plaintiff has fuftained by this arreft and imprisonment; and upon this point, you are properly to confider his condition in life, and what he hath fuffered in perfon, property, or even fame and cha

racter;

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