The bursting of a blood-veffel is fuppofed to have been the immediate caufe of his death. At Niagara, in Canada, fir William Erikine, baronet, of Cambo. At Dunlop, in Scotland, the dowager lady Wallace, relict of fir Thomas Wallace, baronet. At his houfe in Greet Queenftreet, Wettminfter, in his 80th year, lieutenant-general John M'Kenzie, colonel-commandant and adjutantgeneral of the marine forces. He commanded the marines at the capture of Belleifle, in 1761, where that corps gained immortal honour by their gallantry and good conduct. The general (then a lieutenant-colonel) was feverely wounded there. At her house in town, by an apoplectic fit, the dowager-counters of Glafgow. Her ladythip was the daughter of George lord Rofs, and was married to the late earl in 1775 At Chelsea college, Elizabeth countefs - dowager of Effingham, daughter of Peter Beckford, efq. of Jamaica. She married, 1. Thomas fecond earl of Effingham; and after his death, 1763, 2. Sir George Howard, K. B. She was one of the ladies of the bed-chamber to her majefty. At his feat at Firle, near Lewes, in Suffex, after a long and painful illness, the right honourable William Hall Gage, vifcount Gage of Castle-ifland in Ireland, and baron Gage of Firle in England; paymafter, 1780, of his majesty's penfions, and F, R. S. K. B. and member of parliament for the cinqueports of Seaford, 1744 and 1754. His lordship married, February 3, 1757, Mifs Gideon, daughter of the late Samplon Gideon, efq. and fifter of the prefent lord Eardley, who died in 1783, and by whom he had no iffue. At Sunnifide, in Scotland, rearadmiral Inglis. At Edinburgh, fir Robert Dalzell, baronet, of Bruns. On board his majefty's fhip Diana, in her paffage from Jamaica to New-York, whither her lady fhip was going for the recovery of her health, Catherine countefs of Effingham, wife of the earl of Effingham, governor of Jamaica, to whom fhe was married in October, 1765. She was daughter of Metcalfe Procter, efq. of Thorpe, near Wakefield, in the county of York, by his first wife, Martha, fifter of the late John Disney, efq. of Lincoln, and was born September 17, 1746. Previous to her ladyship's death, fhe expreffed a wifh, that when dead her body might be opened, which was accordingly done, and the liver found clofely adheing to the right fide; in which fituation it appeared to have been fome time. At his houfe at Snaretbrook, Epping-foreft, rear-admiral John Harrifon, who was firft captain under fir George Pococke, in all the engagements with the French admiral Monfieur d'Aché, and at the taking of the Havannah. At the Hoo, near Welwyn, Herts, lady Georgiana Beauclerk, daughter of the duke of St. Albans. The honourable Thomas Henry Coventry, youngest fon of lord Deerhurft. At Chefter-le-ftreet, fir Blackfton Conyers, baronet, late collector of the cuftoms at the port of Newcastle, and captain in the marines, 1757. He was of a very antient family, feated at Houghton Comeis, and Sockburn, in the county of Durham, foon after the con queft. conqueft. John was first created a baron by Charles I.; and from him was lineally defcended the late baronet, whofe father, fir Ralph, married Jane, only daughter of Ralph Black fton, efq. In Switzerland, the right hon. William lord Craven, lord-lieutenant of the county of Berks. At Donnybrook, near Dublin, the right honourable William lord Chetwynd. At his houfe of Barras, in Scotland, fir William Ogilvie, baronet. November. Bamber Gafcoigne, efq. receiver-general of the cuf toms. On her journey to Southampton, from which place fhe was to embark for the fouth of France, for the recovery of her health, Mifs Percy, daughter of the late duke of Northumberland, and half-fifter to the prefent duke, and to the carl of Beverley. At his houfe in Lower Grofvenor-ftreet, lieutenant-general Francis Smith, colonel of the 11th regiment of foot. the climate, that he folicited the appointment to the government of Jamaica. At his feat at Aldenham, near Bridgnorth, in the county of Salop, in his 80th year, fir Richard Acton, baronet, fourth baronet of the family. He was fheriff in Salop, in 1751, and married, 1744, lady Anne Grey, daughter of the earl of Stamford. The right honourable lord Chetwynd. In Clarges-ftreet, the lady of fir William Wake, baronet, after being fafely delivered of a fon and heir the preceding day. Her death was occafioned by an incurable diforder in.her ftomach, fuppofed of long duration. The reverend John Shirley Fermor, brother-in-law to lord vif count Conyngham. At his feat at Hoddefdon, Herts, fir John Baptift Hicks, baronet, of Beverfton, in the county of Gloucefter. He is fucceeded in title by Howe Hicks, efq. of Whitcombepark, in the county of Gloucester. At her houfe in Epping-foreft, At Bath, fir Henry George Ra Mrs. Harrifon, relict of the late rear-admiral Harrison. At his houfe in Queen-Annefireet, Weftminster, fir Thomas Rumbold, baronet. Mifs Jenkinfon, fifter to lord Hawketbury. At Albyns, Effex, the lady of lieutenant-general fir Robert Boyd, K. B. governor of Gibraltar. Sir William Fagg, baronet. At Jamaica, Thomas Howard, earl of Effingham, lord Howard, governor general of that island, and a colonel in the army. He had been for fome time in a dangerous ftate of health; and it was partly in the hope of amendment from veníworth Liddell, of Durham, baronet. William Dutton Napper, efq. brother to the right honourable lord Shireborn. December. At Grantham, in Lincolnshire, in his 70th year, Francis Cockayne Cuft, efq. member of parliament. Aged 86, Evan Lloyd Vaughan, efq. of Corfygedhl, member of parliament in the two laft and prefent feflions for Merionethfhire North Wales. Of a long illnefs, George third carl of Orford, vifcount and baron Walpole, baron of Houghton, and (from the death of his mother in 1781) baron Clinton and Say. He was grand fon of the firft earl of Orford, prime-minifter of George II. and was born April 1, 1730; and in the late reign enjoyed the places of lord of the bed-chamber, and of lord-lieutenant and cuftos rotulorum of the county of Norfolk, and of the county and city of Norwich; in all which he was continued by his prefent majefty, who appointed him alfo, 1763, ranger and keeper of St. James's and Hyde parks. He was also steward of the corporation of Yarmouth. At Buckland, Berks, in his goth year, fir Rob. Throckmorton, bart. At his feat at Winterdyne, in Worcestershire, fir Edward Winnington, baronet. Sir George Richardfon, baronet, of Abingdon-ftreet, Westminster. In her 88th year, honourable Mrs. Martin, fifter to the right honourable lord Fairfax. At Summer-hill, in the county of Meath, in Ireland (the feat of her husband), the right honourable Elizabeth Ormsby Rowley, vifcounters Langford, of Langfordlodge, and baronefs of Summerhill, in the county of Meath. Her ladyfhip married, on the 31ft of Auguft, 1732, Hercules Langford Rowley, eiq. by whom he had fue three fons and four daughters; viz. Hercules, member of parliament for the county of Antrim; Clotworthy and Arthur, both deceafed; Jane, married to Thomas earl of Bective; Catherine, to Edward Michael lord Longford; Elizabeth, and Maria. She was raised to the peerage of Ireland in 1776, by the titles of viscountess Langford, and baronefs of Summer-hill, with limitations of the honours of viscount and baron to her heirs-male by the right honourable Hercules Langford Rowley; and the is fucceeded in thefe honours by her eldeft and only furviving fon, Hercules, born in October, 1737, and who is yet unmarried. She was the daughter of Clotworthy Upton, efq. member of parliament for Newtown, 1695, and for the county of Antrim, from 1703 to his death, 1725, by Jane, daughter of John Ormtby, efq. At Fern-hill, Windfor-foreft, in her 63d year, lady Mary Knollys, relict of fir Francis Knollys, baronet, and daughter of fir Robert Kendall Cater, of Kempton, in the county of Bedford, She was married in 1756. At Edinburgh, the right honour-” able lady Mary Campbell, relict of Dougal Campbell, efq. of Glenfaddie. SHERIFFS appointed by his Majoy in Council, for the Year 1791. Berkshire. Timothy Hare Earl, of Swallowfield-place, efq. Bedfordshire. F. Pyin, of Hafellhall, efq. Bucks. Sir Robert Batefon Harvey, of Langley-park, baronct. Cumberland, Edmund Lamplugh Irton. of Irton, efq. Cheshire. Charles Watkin John Shakerley, of Somerford, efq. Cambridge and Huntingdon, Geo. Thornhill, of Diddington, efq. Devonshire. Walter Palk, of Marleigh, efq. Dorfetfbire. John Calcraft, of Rempfton, efq. Derbyshire. John Broadhurst, of Fofton, efq. Effex. Donald Cameron, of GreatIlford, efq. Gloucestershire. Rutlandshire. Thomas Woods, the younger, of Brook, efq. Shropshire. Thomas Pardoe, of Fairtree, efq. Somerfetfhire. Abraham Elton, of Whiteftanton, efq. Staffordshire. Moreton Walhouse, of Hatherton, efq. Suffolk. Sir William Rowley, of Stoke, baronet. County of Southampton. Charles Poole, of Woolverton, efq. Surry. Henry Bine, of Carfhalton, efq. Suffex. John Drew, of Chichester, efq. Warwickshire. Charles Palmer, of Ladbrooke, efq. Worcestershire. Henry Wakeman, of Clalmes, efq. APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. Petition of Stockholders to the house of commons against the Bill for appropriating the unclaimed dividends, 25th March, 1791. To the honourable the commons of Great Britain, in parliament affembled. The humble petition of the fubfcribers who are proprietors in the public funds of Great Britain, Humbly fheweth,; THA HAT your petitioners are deeply interested in the public funds of Great Britain. "That your petitioners have invefted their property in thofe funds, with the most perfect reliance on the faith and juftice of parliament, and in full confidence and perfuafion that the legislature of Great Britain would never, without the confent of the proprietors, make any effential alteration, either in Telped to their fecurities, which coufift principally in funds fpecifically appropriated to the payment of their annuities, or in refpect to the mode of their payment, exprefsly ftipulated and delineated in the feveral ftatutes that fix the conditions of the public loans. That your petitioners have feen, with equal concern and aftoithment, a bill brought into parVOL. XXXIII. liament by the right honourable the chancellor of the exchequer; the avowed object of which is to take back five hundred thousand pounds, part of the fums that have been iffed by the exchequer to the governor and company of the bank of England, in purfuance of many acts of parliament; and par ticularly of the confolidated act, paffed in the 28th year of his pres fent majefty, being part of the funds appropriated by law to the payment of the public creditors, and exprefsly declared not to be divertible to any other ufe or purpofe whatever. That the principle of the faid bill appears to your petitioners to have a direct tendency to destroy that confidence which many natives and foreigners have hitherto repoted in the equity and justice of parliament; to violate the public faith folemnly plighted; and by feizing on private property, accurately defcribed, and ftanding as fuch in the books of the bank of England, to excite alarms and apprehenfions of the moft ferious and dangerous nature. That your petitioners wish to be heard by counfel, if it fhall 'ap pear to them to be neceffary; alé though it is a cafe that does not depend on nice and intricate fubtilty, or on a deep knowledge of F tha |