Obituary.

¦ unguarded at Pans , in their public declarations of -the necessity of a Revolution in Ireland , that they received , from several of their acquaintance , and even from men of their own way of thinking , repealed cautions of the impropriety of their conduct , which might subject them , on their return to

Ireland , lo acharge of treason . After the murderof the unhappy Louis , these two unfortunate men left France , and returned to Ireland , where they found a society ready formed to receive and encourage the doctrines which they imported from France ; and , in Ihe original United Irishmen of Dublin they

could observe no very faint resemblance to their prototypes , the Jacobins of Paris .- . How far they designed to go was , perhaps , not very clear to themselves ; from step to step they proceeded ; from libellous manifestoes issued from Tailors-hall , to the demoniac spirit , wliich dictated the merciless

proclamation found among their papers . 15 . Interred , in . Weston Churchyard , Bath , the remains of Charles Cobbe , Esq . The armed volunteers fired three vollies over his grave , as a

last . mark of respect for their very worthy , much beloved , and much lamented officer . He was 41 years of age ; nephew to the Marquis of Waterford , and Member in the Irish Parliament for the Borough of Swords . Many thousands of people , of all ranks , were present at the funeral . -

21 . At his house in Lincoln ' s-iivnflelds , James Adair , Esq : King ' s Prime Serjeant at Law , M . P . for Higham Ferrers , and Chief Justice of Chester . His death was occasioned by a paralytic stroke , which seized him while walking along Lmcoln's-iiin . He was assisted home by some gentlemen who were

passing by , and died in a few hours . ( A fuller account in our next . ) 22 . At her house at West-end , Hampslead , in her 74 th year , Mrs . Beckford , relict ofthe late Ri ght Hon . William li . Lord Mayor of the City of London , and daughter and at length co-heir of the Hon . George Hamiltonthird son

, of James sixth Earl of Abercorn , lineally . descendedfrom James Hamilton , second Earl of Arran in the . kingdom of Scotland , and Duke of Chatclherault in . France , who was great grandson of King James II . being grandsonof James

Lord Hamilton , by the Princess Man-, , eldest daughter of that Monarch . Shewas born at Wells , 7 th of Jan . 1724-5 , was first the wife of Francis March , Esq . by whom she had a daughter , Elizabeth , the wife ofThomas Hervey , Esq , Colonel in the Guards , son of Tho . Hervey , second son ofthe Earl of

Bristol . She was afterwards married Sth of June , 1756 , to William Beckford , of Fonthill Gifford , in the county of Wilts , Esq . Lord Mayor of London in 176 3 and 1770 , and M . P . for that city ,, grandson of the Honourable Peter Beckford , Lieutenant-governor , and Commander in Chiefof the Island of

Jamaica . Of this marriage the only issue is Willian Beckford , of Fonthill Gifford aforesaid , Esq . some lime Representative in Parliament for the city of Wells . The corpse of this very venerable Lady was conveyed from her late mansion , with pomp suitable to her high

birth , to Fonthill , and deposited in the church there , near the remains of her late husband , in his family vault . 23 . In St . Sepulchre ' s workhoiise , aged 84 , Mr . Jobson , known in all

parts of England , for more than half a century , - as an itinerant puppet-shewman . At Swansea , Glamorganshire , at the very extraordinary age of 110 years , Esther Davies . She possessed the full enjoyment of her faculties till within a few hours of her death .

At Hunt Fold , county of Lancaster , aged 102 , Mr . Richard Hamer , having left a daughter and son-in-law in the same house , whose joint ages make 154 . At his lodgings , in Tottenham-courtroad , Frederick James Messing , a character well known by the name of the

Mad Fidler : he was a musician , by profession , and formerly engaged at the Theatre Royal , Covent Garden ; which he forsook , rind has ever since paraded the metropolis habited in a suit of black with a star , and his head close shaved . He generally called himself a son of Handelwhose monument he visited

, daily , and whose compositions he . performed in the different public houses . His children have for some years been supported and educated by the Royal Society of Musicians , ofyi ' hich he was a member .