Earl of Moira, created Marquis

count.

Major-gen. Sir David Ochterlony, bart. Knight Grand Cross of the Bath.

Lord Combermere, Captaingeneral and Commander-in-chief of Barbadoes.

January.

Having in the Chronicle of the last year inserted from the Irish papers a relation of the death of the Duke of Dorset, which is in some respect erroneous, we here transcribe an authentic account of that melancholy event from a memoir of that lamented and promising young nobleman, published in the Gentleman's Magazine for Sept. 1816.

He had resided in Ireland about a year and a half, when he met with the fatal catastrophe that put an end to his existence. On the 13th of Feb. 1815, he went to pay a visit to his friend and schoolfellow, Lord Powerscourt, meaning to stay from the Monday till the Thursday, on which day he was to return to the Castle for a drawing-room. On the 14th he went out with Lord Powerscourt's harriers, mounted on a well-trained active Irish mare, and accompanied by his Lordship and Mr. Wingfield. Having been out for several hours without finding any thing, they were actually on the, point of returning home, when unfortunately a hare sprang up, and the chase commenced. The hare made for the inclosures on Killiney Hill. They had gone but a short distance, when the Duke, who was an excellent and forward horseman, rode at a wall, which was in fact a more dangerous ob

stacle than it appeared to be. The wall stands on the slope, and from the lower ground what is immediately on the other side cannot be discerned. The wall itself is perhaps no more than three feet and a half in height, and two in breadth; but on the other side there lay a range of large and ponderous stones, which had been rolled there from off the suiface of the adjacent barley-field, that they might not impede the growth of the corn. It would have been safer to scramble over such a fence, than to take it in the stroke. The Duke's mare, however, attempted to cover all at one spring, and cleared the wall; but lighting among the stones on the other side, threw herself headlong, and turning in the air, came with great violence upon her rider, who had not lost his seat; he undermost, with his back on one of the large stones, and she crushing him with all her weight on his chest, and strug gling with all her power to recover her legs. Let the reader but contemplate this situation, and he will not wonder that the accident was fatal, or that the Duke survived it only an hour and half. The mare disentangled herself, and galloped away. The Duke sprang upon his feet, and attempted to follow her, but soon found himself unable to stand, and fell into the arms of Mr. Farrel, who had run to his succour, and

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to whose house he was conveyed. He was laid on a mattress supported by chairs. Lord Powerscourt, in the utmost anxiety and alarm, rode full speed for medical assistance, leaving his brother Mr. Wingfield to pay every attention possible, as he most kindly did, to the Duke. Medical aid, even if it could have been applied immediately, would have been of no use. The injury was too severe to be counteracted by human skill. Life was extinct before any surgeon arrived.

It has been said, that the Duke in his dying moments made use of the expression "I am off:"-he did so; but not, as has been very erroneously supposed, by way of heroic bravado, or in a temper of unseasonable levity, but simply to signify to his attendants, who, in pulling off his boots, had drawn him too forward on the mattress, and jogged one of the chairs out of its place, that he was slipping off, and wanted their aid to help him up into his former position. He was the last person in the world to be guilty of any thing like levity upon any solemn occasion, much less in his dying moments. The fact was, when he used the expression "I am off," he had become very faint and weak, and was glad to save himself the trouble of further utterance Those words were not the last which he pronounced, but he said nothing at all that could be thought allusive to death. One of his young friends, his most constant companion, has often said of him, that he was the most intrepid man he ever knew, and there is no doubt that he met his fate with firmness; but Mr.

Wingfield, who was present and vigilant during the whole melancholy scene, never heard him say a syllable from which it could be inferred that he was conscious of his approaching end. His principal wish was to be left quiet. He died so easy, that the precise moment when he breathed his last could not be ascertained.

The Countess of Bandon, who died on July 7th, 1815, in the 48th year of her age, was distinguished for the excellence of her heart and understanding, and the cultivation of her mind. Her conversation was of a superior cast, and her letters were models of epistolary composition. She displayed her taste and love of knowledge by the formation of a valuable library, by her attachment to botanical and agricultural pursuits, and by the promotion of every laudable undertaking. She lent her aid to many of the most useful establishments of Dublin, as well as to the Cork Institution and the Farming Society of the neighbourhood; whilst the improvements at Castle Bernard, from which she was seldom long absent, and which were directed by her own judgment, were sufficient evidences of its correctness.

The more peculiar distinction of this lady was the Christian grace of charity, in which she truly abounded. By her sole bounty she for many years supported a school for twenty-four young women, now united to the General Female School of Bandon, of which she was the patro ness and foundress, and which is conducted on a scale of enlarged liberality that would do credit to any similar institution in the P 2 United

United Kingdom. From these unceasing exertions of benevolence, she had established such a character that her decease was lamented as a public calamity by rich and poor in the district of her residence, and in which she has left a memory that is likely to be as long and as beneficially remembered, as the good she has done will be durable.

The susceptibility of her mind was too keen for the bodily frame in which it was enclosed, and her death was accelerated by her feelings for the fate of a much-loved son. One of her sons, the Hon. Francis Bernard, Lieut. of the 9th Dragoons, died in Portugal in the service of his country, on January 24th, 1813, in the 24th year of his age. Another son, the Hon. Henry Boyle Bernard, Cornet of the King's Dragoon Guards, fell gloriously in the battle of Waterloo, in his 18th year.

1. The Right Hon. Lady Penrhyn, widow of Richard Pennant, Lord Penrhyn, and daughter and heiress of General Warburton, of Winnington, Cheshire.

5. Lieut.-gen. Sir Geo. Prevost, late Governor-in-chief and commander of the forces in the British colonies in North America, in his 49th year. He was the son of Major-gen. Prevost, who served under General Wolfe at Quebec. Sir George began his service in the West Indies, where he distinguished himself at St. Vincent, at Dominica, of which he was appointed governor, and at St. Lucia. In 1808 he obtained the post of Lieut.-governor and commander in Nova Scotia, and in the same year acted as second in command at the capture of Martinique.

He afterwards succeeded General Sir James Craig in the chief command, civil and military, in North America, which he held till his return to England in 1814.

6. The Hon. Sir Edw. Crofton, bart. in his 38th year, at Mote Park, co. Roscommon.

At Warsaw, F. Narodsky, a Polish gentleman, at the age of 125. He married a second wife at 92, by whom he had a daughter now living.

8. At Weilburg, the Prince of Nassau Weilburg.

10. The Lady of Gen. Sir Cornelius Cuyler, bart.

10. At an advanced age, Eliz. Dowager Marchioness of Waterford, relict of George De la Poer Beresford, Marquis of Waterford, who died in 1800.

In his 89th year, Henry Harington, M. D. alderman of Bath, eminent as a classical scholar, a man of wit, and a musical composer.

17. John Heath, esq. one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas.

19. Sir Thomas Windsor Hunloke, bart. of Wingerworth, Derbyshire.

20. The Princess of Mecklenburg Schwerin, of the house of Saxe Weimar.

21. The Princess of Nassau Weilburg.

22. Sir Drummond Smith, bart. of Tring Park, Herts.

24. The Hon. Apsley Bathurst, D. C. L. son of the late Earl B.

Dame Eliz. Twisden, relict of Sir John Papillon Twisden, bart.

27. Samuel Viscount Hood, Admiral of the Red, and Governor of Greenwich Hospital, in his 92d vear. He was raised to the peer

age

age in 1782 for his distinguished service in the action with De Grasse, where he acted as Rearadmiral in the Barfleur. His latest services at sea were in the Mediterranean in 1793, where he took the naval command at Corsica and Toulon; after which he returned on account of ill health. His lordship was next in seniority to Earl St. Vincent on the list of admirals.

28. In Prussia, Field-marshal Mollendorf, aged 92, supposed to be the oldest general in Europe.

29. Elizabeth Laura, Countess of Waldegrave, in her 56th year.

John Baring, esq. aged 85. He had been M. P. for Exeter for 35 years.

31. Lady Graves, widow of Admiral Sir Thomas Graves.

February.

1. Joshua Viscount Allen, a peer of Ireland, in his S8th year.

Lady Stanley, widow of Sir J. T. Stanley, bart. of Alderley.

3. Sir Hen. Dampier, knt. one of the Justices of the King's Bench, in his 58th year.

Eleanor Viscountess of Wilton, in her 67th year. She was daughter and co-heiress of Sir Ralph Asheton, bart. of Middleton, Lancash.

4. Richard, Viscount Fitzwilliam, of the kingdom of Ireland, in his 71st year. He bequeathed to the University of Cambridge, in which he was educated, a sum of money to build a museum as a repository for all his pictures, prints, books, statues and busts, gems, bronzes, &c.

Robert Hobart, Earl of Buckinghamshire, President of the India

board of Commissioners, and Clerk of the Common Pleas in Ireland. His Lordship's death, in his 56th year, was in consequence of a fall from his horse some time since in St. James's Park.

8. The Countess of St. Vincent, aged 75.

14. Hon. Mrs. Townshend, widow of the Dean of Norwich, in her 85th year.

15. John Peyto Verney, Lord Willoughby de Broke, a Lord of the Bedchamber.

Henry Fawcett, esq. M. P. for Carlisle.

Sir IV. Forbes, bart in his 68th year.

J. Fownes Luttrell, esq. of Dunster Castle, upwards of 40 years M. P. for Minehead, in his 64th year.

Adm. R. M'Douall, in his 87th

year.

17. Lady Slingsby, aged 81, relict of Sir T. Turner Slingsby, bart.

19. Louisa Grace, Duchess of St. Albans, with her infant male son.

21. Lady Charlotte, wife of Rear-adm. P. C. Durham. She was daughter of the late Earl of Elgin and Kincardine,

99. Adam Fergusson, esq. L.L.D. in his 93d year; formerly Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, and author of several esteemed works.

In his 90th year, Hon. Henry Nairne, son of Lord Nairne, and a zealous adherent of the house of Stuart.

23. Rev. Sir J. T. Cholmondeley Edwardes, bart. rector of Frodesley, Salop, aged 52.

Hon. Lieut. Charles Turner, drowned