Obituary.

account . The hardships of his imprisonment , and the difficulties he experienced in his escape , it is supposed , occasioned the illness , which so rapidly worked his dissolution . In his passage from the interior of France to Dunkirk , he lay concealed under a heap of straw , in an open caff , three days and three nights ,

in the late severe weather . From Dunkirk , he procured a passage in an American vessel , to England , where he had not been more than a fortnight prior to his death . The account Mr . Alderton gave of the treatment of prisoners in France , destitute of money to purchase indulgenceswas shocking : the

allow-, ance to such , being , he said , only one pound and a half of very bad-bread , and two ounces of pork , per day . Lately , at Haydon , in Essex , the Hon . Mrs . Jane Boscawen , relict of the late Hon . and Rev . Dr . Nicholas Boscawen , prependary of Westminster , who was brother to the deceased

admiral of that name , -and to the late'Lord Falmouth . She was daughter of Woodward , and relict of Hatton , of Stratford-upon-Avon , in the county of Warwick , Esqs . and had by Dr . B . two sons ; Hugh , born n 55 > died

the next year , and Nicholas , born 1 . 756-Feb . 10 . At her house in Upper Grosvenor-street , Mrs . C . Pennant , of whose various virtues and moot active benevolence the affliction of her relations , the regret of a circle of valuable friends , the tears of her domestics , and

of a numerous poor , partakers of her ever bounteous and well-judged generosity , are now the sad , yet sincere and unerring record . 15 . At her house nearHemel Hempsted , Elizabeth , Countess of Marchmont : She survived her husband , who made so distinguished a figure in the opposition

to Sir Robert Walpole , little more than three years . The retirement in which they had been for many years , will prevent their being missed in the circle in which they formerly lived '; but the loss of both will be severely feltby those who could be relieved by their benevolence , and lamented by the few who shared

their society . On Sunday , the , 7 th August last , at the Government House at Madras , the Right Honourable Lady Hobart , wife of the Right Honourable Lord Hobart , Governor of our East India Possessions .

Her Ladyship had long been in a declining state of health ; and had by the advice of her physicians , talfen her passage in the Henry Dundas East Indiaman , to proceed to England . Her Ladyship ' s funeral was attended by nearly the whole of the ladies and gentlemen in the settlement . Her

remains were deposited in St . Mary ' s Church , in Fort St . George . The colours on the Fort and on the shipping were hoisted half mast high , throughout theday . Minute guns were also fired from the King ' s- ships , and the Indiamen in the roads , during the whole of the procession and interment .

Lately the Right Honourable Lady Milsington . Her ladyship ' s remains were interred in ' the family vault of his grace the Duke of Ancaster , 19 . At his house in Pall-Mail in the 74 th year of his age , James Dodsley Esq . the celebrated Bookseller . Latelyat ClayhillsStirlingshire

, , , John Wright , a . common Beggar these thirty years , and has left the following sums , a 50 I . bill , 24 I . in half crowns SI . in half-pence , one guinea note , and one half guinea—in all 83 I . us . 6 d . Lately at her house in St . Jarnessquare , Jemina Marchioness Grey , Baroness Lucas of Crudwell , in the county

of Wilts . Her ladyship was the granddaughter of Henry , last Duke of Kent ; daughter of John , third Earl of Bredalbane , by the said duke ' s eldest daughter Annabel Jemina ; and widow of Philip second Earl of Havdwicke , and by whom she has left two daughters , Annabel , widow of Lord Pohvarth , and Jemina , widow of Lord Grantham ; to the eldest of whom descend the estates belonging to the Duke of Kent , and the title of Baroness Lucas .

On her coflm-plate is inscribed : " The Most Noble Jemina , Marchioness Grey , and Baroness Lucas , of Crudwell ; born October 9 th , O . S . 1 . 712 ; married Ma ) ' 22 d , 1740 , to the Right Hon . Philip Yorke , . 2 d Earl of Hardwicke ;

died January 11 th , 1797 . " Lately in Jermyn street , aged 38 , KenryPclham . esq . brother to the Right lion . Thomas Pelham , secretary to the present Lord Lieutenant of Ireland . He was born July 11 , 17 59 , elected representative for Lewes , and appointed secretary to the LordLieutenant of Ireland in 17 S 2 .