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that gemleman concludes the preface to his work with acknowledging his obligations to Mr . C . by whose munificence he was enabled to carry on the work . Ireland will also feel herself indebted to Mr . C . for the institution of a Society of Antiquaries , in 1780 : consisting of himself as president , Mr . Archdall ,
r , uthor of the Irish Monasticon and Peerage , Mr . O'Connor the disserfator , Col . Valiancey the amazing etymologist . Dr . Ellis , a physician who created a Society of Natural History , Mr . Ledwich , and Mr . Beauford . Things went on very well till Gov . J ? ownaU addressed a letter to them , which Mr . Ledwich
answered in the " Collectanea Hibernia ; " No . XL ; and by the lively , jocular way in which he then wrote , offended Col . V . who expatriated him from his Collectanea , and fronra society which immediately ceased . Had this society held together , we might have expected it to have engraved and illustrated that fund of drawings of Irish antiquities from the time of the Druids to
the Reformation , which Mr . C . was then making at a great expence , which he was ready to communicate to every person whose-pursuits were congenial with his own , and which we hope he has taken some measures to render perpetual ; under the classes of views and plans of castles and abbeys ,
Druidical and Danish remains , drawn by ^ . J . Bartalet and Michael-Angelo Bigari , deceased , G . Beranger , John Fisher , Col . Valiancey , Henry Pelham , Lord Carlow , J . G . Bliers , R . Kendrick , Samuel Hayes , esq , Thomas French , and J . Ralton . Lately at his house ' it ] Stafford-row ,
Pimlico , aged S 9 , Riphard Yate ' s , esq . the celebrated comedian , in which his fame , in the parts of old and grotesque characters especially , was eminently great . He was remarkable for pure and chaste acting tip to the words of his author with a scrupulous attention ; the more remarkable , as performers of" this cast of acting frequently introduce their own humour , with what may be called the Ucentia hislrianica of the drama . He
excelled also in teaching or making an actor , in a higher degree , perhaps , than any one of his time . He was married , first , to a woman who was rich ; secondly , to Miss Anna Maria Graham , who had been introduced to his tuition by Mr . Garrick , and with him she first VOL . VII .
came on the stage at Birmingham . From the admired pen of Mi ' s . Francis Brooke the memoirs of This lady have been recorded ; and we have reason to say , that both on aud off the stage , she deserved the character there given of her . Mr . Y . died suddenly . He had been
very weli , asusual , for some time , and had breakfasted heartily . Having ordered eels for dinner , when , unfortunately , they could not be had , his warm and hasty temper could ill bear the disappointment ; and from anger he worked himself up to vage . His housekeeper , zealous to please him , went out a long
way , and brought some ; ere she returned , exhausted with fatigue of spirits , he had leaned his head upon the table , and she found , him dead . He was born in London . His brother's grandson , Lieut . Yates , of the navy , is his nearest relation , and was partly dependent on himthough his abilities as a
, sea-painter are , we are told , very considerable , and his works have shared the public approbation for some years in the Royal Academy . His . will consists only of some scraps of paper in the possession of Miss Jones his
housekeeper , who had lived with him eight years . He must have died very rich , as Mrs . Y . had realized-8 oocl . He was buried , at his own desire , by his second wife and her father in the chancel of the church at Richmond in Surrey . - Lately Miss Bates . This young la ^ dy , who was universally respected , left
England for Jamaica iu 1793 , and was to have returned this Summer with her brother-in-law , Major Bayley . During her residence in the West Indies she had the happiness to command equal admiration and esteem . In the month of December last , from being heated at a ballshe caught coldwhichsettling
, , , on her lungs , baffled the physical skill of" that island ; but Dr . Edwards , of Spanish-town , advising the air of New York , she embarked for the continent of America , and arrived there on the 10 th of April ; finding her disorder still increase , she took passage for England on the 26 th of the same monthand
, arriving in the Thames , June 3 , was , with much difficulty , conveyed on her bed , to the house of a friend in the Adelphi , where' she languished till the 14 th , and expired in the arms of her sisters . K
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Obituary.
that gemleman concludes the preface to his work with acknowledging his obligations to Mr . C . by whose munificence he was enabled to carry on the work . Ireland will also feel herself indebted to Mr . C . for the institution of a Society of Antiquaries , in 1780 : consisting of himself as president , Mr . Archdall ,
r , uthor of the Irish Monasticon and Peerage , Mr . O'Connor the disserfator , Col . Valiancey the amazing etymologist . Dr . Ellis , a physician who created a Society of Natural History , Mr . Ledwich , and Mr . Beauford . Things went on very well till Gov . J ? ownaU addressed a letter to them , which Mr . Ledwich
answered in the " Collectanea Hibernia ; " No . XL ; and by the lively , jocular way in which he then wrote , offended Col . V . who expatriated him from his Collectanea , and fronra society which immediately ceased . Had this society held together , we might have expected it to have engraved and illustrated that fund of drawings of Irish antiquities from the time of the Druids to
the Reformation , which Mr . C . was then making at a great expence , which he was ready to communicate to every person whose-pursuits were congenial with his own , and which we hope he has taken some measures to render perpetual ; under the classes of views and plans of castles and abbeys ,
Druidical and Danish remains , drawn by ^ . J . Bartalet and Michael-Angelo Bigari , deceased , G . Beranger , John Fisher , Col . Valiancey , Henry Pelham , Lord Carlow , J . G . Bliers , R . Kendrick , Samuel Hayes , esq , Thomas French , and J . Ralton . Lately at his house ' it ] Stafford-row ,
Pimlico , aged S 9 , Riphard Yate ' s , esq . the celebrated comedian , in which his fame , in the parts of old and grotesque characters especially , was eminently great . He was remarkable for pure and chaste acting tip to the words of his author with a scrupulous attention ; the more remarkable , as performers of" this cast of acting frequently introduce their own humour , with what may be called the Ucentia hislrianica of the drama . He
excelled also in teaching or making an actor , in a higher degree , perhaps , than any one of his time . He was married , first , to a woman who was rich ; secondly , to Miss Anna Maria Graham , who had been introduced to his tuition by Mr . Garrick , and with him she first VOL . VII .
came on the stage at Birmingham . From the admired pen of Mi ' s . Francis Brooke the memoirs of This lady have been recorded ; and we have reason to say , that both on aud off the stage , she deserved the character there given of her . Mr . Y . died suddenly . He had been
very weli , asusual , for some time , and had breakfasted heartily . Having ordered eels for dinner , when , unfortunately , they could not be had , his warm and hasty temper could ill bear the disappointment ; and from anger he worked himself up to vage . His housekeeper , zealous to please him , went out a long
way , and brought some ; ere she returned , exhausted with fatigue of spirits , he had leaned his head upon the table , and she found , him dead . He was born in London . His brother's grandson , Lieut . Yates , of the navy , is his nearest relation , and was partly dependent on himthough his abilities as a
, sea-painter are , we are told , very considerable , and his works have shared the public approbation for some years in the Royal Academy . His . will consists only of some scraps of paper in the possession of Miss Jones his
housekeeper , who had lived with him eight years . He must have died very rich , as Mrs . Y . had realized-8 oocl . He was buried , at his own desire , by his second wife and her father in the chancel of the church at Richmond in Surrey . - Lately Miss Bates . This young la ^ dy , who was universally respected , left
England for Jamaica iu 1793 , and was to have returned this Summer with her brother-in-law , Major Bayley . During her residence in the West Indies she had the happiness to command equal admiration and esteem . In the month of December last , from being heated at a ballshe caught coldwhichsettling
, , , on her lungs , baffled the physical skill of" that island ; but Dr . Edwards , of Spanish-town , advising the air of New York , she embarked for the continent of America , and arrived there on the 10 th of April ; finding her disorder still increase , she took passage for England on the 26 th of the same monthand
, arriving in the Thames , June 3 , was , with much difficulty , conveyed on her bed , to the house of a friend in the Adelphi , where' she languished till the 14 th , and expired in the arms of her sisters . K