an" Address to the Rational Advocates of the Church of England," and other theological works.

The Right Hon. JOHN MURRAY, Earl of Dunmore, Viscount Fincastle, died at Ramsgate, at the end of May, in his 78th year. He was descended, in the female line, from the Royal House of Stuart, and his ancestors were related to most of the crowned heads in Europe. He married I ady Charlotte Stewart sister of the late Earl of Galloway; and by that marriage has left issue three sons and three daughters: his eldest son George Lord Thurcastle, now Earl of Dunmore, is married to Lady Susan, third daughter of the Duke of Hamilton; one of his daughters, Lady Augusta, was married to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex at Rome, in April 1793, and had a son born Jan. 15, 1794, and a daughter; but, a suit having been instituted in Doctors Commons, by his Majesty's order, the marriage was declared null and void in the following August; and Lady Augusta has since taken the name of D'Ameland. Her children by a recent decree of the Lord Chancellor, are placed under the sole guardianship of Earl Moira. Another daughter of the late Earl, Lady Susan, has been twice married, and has lost both husbands, Mr. Sharpe and Mr. Dew. The other surviving daughter Lady Virginia, was so named at the request of the assembly of Virginia, of which province the Earl her father was governor during the whole of the revolutionary war in America.

J. AMBROSE ECCLES, Esq. who died late in May, has been described, by one who appears to have known him well, as a profound scholar, a perfect gentleman, and an ornament to society. After a regular course of education, in the College of Dublin, he went to the Continent. Here his stay was not long. From France he proceeded to Italy, but ill health limited his tour in that interesting country. From Rome he returned to Florence, where he studied the Italian language with great assiduity and success, under a celebrated professor. But he was soon compelled by the state of his health, to return home. On his way, he paused in London, where he resided some time, associating with some of the eminent literary characters of the day. With the late Dr. Johnson, he boasted no intimacy, but he had met him at Tom Davies's, and paid the most respectful attention to his conversation. Some of his opinions and remarks, which had impressed themselves deeply upon his memory, he used to take pleasure in repeating. Revering Tillotson, he was surprized to hear the doctor call him "a pitiful fellow." But he was

still more astonished to hear him acknowledge, "Iong after he had been employed in preparing his Shakespeare for the public eye, indeed a very short time before it issued from the press, that he had never yet read the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher," vide preface to the plays Lear and Cymbeline, Dab. 1793. During his residence in London, the theatre engaged much of his attention, and his passson for that amusement grew with his years. "He followed the best performers from theatre to theatre, and studied the best dramatic writers." Though an admirer he became a critic. Idolizing Shakespearehe often lamented that his dramas had sutiered in their structure, from the ignorance or carelessness of the first editors. This determined him to attempt a transposition of the scenes, in a few places, from the orier in which they have been handed down by successive editors. "This," he continues in the modest preface to his edition of Lear, "will doubtless be thought by many a hardy innovation, but if it be considered in what a disorderly and neglected state this author's pieces are reported to have been left by him, and how little certainty there is that the scenes have hitherto preserved their original arrangement, the presumption with which this attempt is chargeable, will admit of much extenuation, and it were at least, to be wished that no privilege of alteration more injurious to Shakespeare, had ever been assumed by any of his editors." What he attempted, he has accomplished with great ingenuity and much taste in his editions of the following plays, Lear, and Cymbeline, Dub. 1793, and the Merchant of Venice, Dub. 1803. To each play he assigned a separate volume, containing, not only notes and illustrations of various commentators, with remarks by the editor, but the several critical and historical essays that have appeared at different times, respecting each piece. To Cymbeline he added a new translation of the ninth story of the Second Day of the Decamerone; also an original air, which accompanies the words of the elegy on Fidele's death, composed on purpose for his publication, by Sig. Giardini.As You Like It," was prepared for the press on the same plan, but it sleeps with the editor. Mr. Eccles died at an advanced age, at his beautiful seat Cronie, where he had long resided in elegant hospitality, ministering to the comforts of his surrounding tenantry, and exhibiting in his public and private conduct, in his studies and amusements, a model worthy the imitation of every country gentleman.”

* All these publications appeared anony mously. They were published in London, by Lackington and Allen; and Longman and Rees.

JONATHAN FAULKNOR, Esq. Rear Admiral of the Red, who died at Stubbington, near Titchfield, Hants. in February, was the eldest son of the late Admiral Faulknor, whose family claims a pre-eminence in the naval history of the British isles; for, from the close of the seventeenth century, and even previous to that time, it has uniformly adorned the lists of our admiralty.-One of Admiral Faulknor's ancestors, Captain William Faulknor, had the honour of receiving the flag of the renowned Czar Peter, when serving under Sir John Norris, in the Baltic, in the year 1715. The late Rear Admiral Faulknor, advanced to post rank in 1782, and was pro moted to his flag in 1804: by his death his country has lost a gallant and meritorious officer, and his family an excellent husband, father, and friend. No one was more deservedly esteemed in the neighbourhood where the resided generous, hospitable, and benevolent, his name will ever be revered by all who knew him! Rear Admiral Faulknor, married the eldest daughter of Lieut. General Spry, of the marines, by whom he has left three children: his eldest son, Jonathan, has just commenced his career in the British Navy, and is now serving as a midshipman with Admiral Purvis.

JAMES, Earl of Fife, was born at Bamff, in 1729. He was the second son of William, Earl of Fife, by his second wife, Jane, daughter of Sir James Grant, of Grant, Bart. Having an elder brother, who was educated at Westminster, he was intended for the profession of the law, and his first instructor was the celebrated William Guthrie, who after marrying in the family, repaired to London, and became one of the most laborious writers of his day. Meanwhile Mr. Duff repaired to the University of Edinburgh, for the purpose of completing his education, and studying the civil law; but the death of his elder brother, Lord Braco, superceded his intentions, so that he returned home, and became, what in England is termed, a country gentleman. He found his father in possession of a very large fortune, augmented by the produce of considerable properties in the counties of Aberdeen, Moray, and Bamff. During the life of his father, Mr. Duff, now Lord Braco, conceived the outline of a noble plan for the improvement of his patrimonial fortune, which he completed, after the lapse of more than half a century. His model and Mentor on this occasion was the late Earl of Findlater. In conformity to his judgment, which had been ripened by travel and experience, his Lordship began to plant, and ́in the course of a few years, the sides and tops of hills, nearly inaccessible, and hitherto unproductive, began to assume a new aspect.

About the same time, his Lordship became a candidate for the county of Moray, and sat for some years as its representative, in Parliament. In 1760, he married Lady Dorothea Sinclair, sole heiress of Alexander, ninth Earl of Caithness, with whom he received a large fortune; but the nuptials did not take place under happy auspices; and, on the whole, this union proved unfortunate, perhaps, to both parties. In 1763, he succeeded his father, in honours and estate. Soon after this, he purchased Fife house at Whitehall; and expended a very large sum in improving it. Indeed, no nobleman in Great Britain possessed, perhaps, so many seats; for in addition to Duff house, and that already mentioned, he had many others. Delgaty castle, where he occasionally resided, all the floors of which were formed from wood of his own plantations.--Rothemay house, where it appears Mary Queen of Scots had slept situated in a picturesque country; but sequestered from all the world. Innes house, with the adjoining lands, his Lordship purchased from his cousin, Sir James Innes Ker, the twentieth in lineal descent from Bercaldus, whose blood was mingled with that of the Scottish monarchs. Balven

ny castle is situated on the banks of the Devron, and Marr lodge in Aberdeenshire.

During the political ebullition that succeeded the French Revolution, the Earl of Fife supported the measures of the then administration; for which, in 1793, he was created Baron Fife, of the Kingdom of Great Britain; but towards the conclusion of the late war he openly declared his enmity to Mr. Pitt, and ever afterwards sided with the minority, until a change of ministers took place. When Mr. Addington, now Lord Sidmouth, came in, he supported him, and also voted with the Fox and Grenville adıninistration. By this time, however, his evesight began to be affected, and being unable to attend the House of Peers, on account of this, or other infirmities, he gave his proxy to Lord Grenville.

The Earl of Fife died in London, in the 80th year of his age. In person, he was tall, genteel, and had been handsome Although a great economist, he was fond of magnificence, which he indulged in respect to houses, servants, carriages, and horses. But it is as a great planter that this nobleman bids fair to obtain the respect of the present age, and the gratitude of posterity. By a recurrence to the annual volumes of the "Society, for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce," from which he received, two, if not three, gold medals, it will be seen that his labours in this point of view have far surpassed those of any of his contemporaries. He was a frequent, contributor to the work alluded to, and in Vol. XXI. will

be found an account of 100 acres, and 85,500 trees, planted by him in Duff House Park, which comprehends a part of two counties, and five parishes. Notwithstanding the accidental destruction of a large plantation by a neighbour's burning furze, he continued his improvements, and soon increased his woods to 673 acres in his own neighbourhood, containing, 4,000,000 of trees.

A long life chiefly directed to this great object, enabled him a little before his death, to complete the planting of about 14,000 acres in all; and so profitable did this be come, even during his own time, that the thinning alone, sold in one year, for £1000. Of late years his Lordship has only planted at the rate of one hundred acres per annum, but he has always made it an invariable rule, to cut down firs, larches, and all other trees which interfered with the more valuable species of close-grained timber.

As an agriculturist on a great scale the Earl of Fife commands attention. He erected no less than five bridges. and planned and formed several roads. He dug a canal from 60 to 68 feet wide, between a lake and the sea, the extent of which was 2,200 yards, while the bank amounted to 3000. By lay ing out the sum of £1,150. he also improved a tract of land, worth only £25 per annum, so as to produce £205 yearly.-Nor ought it to be omitted, that at great expense, and seemingly in direct opposition to nature, he in some measure created a harbour on the borders of the Moray frith. This port, named by him " Macduff's Town," was originally an insignificant little village, containing a few miserable huts; but in consequence of his patronage, a pier was erected for the protection of shipping, and by granting certain privileges to the inhabitants, the place has encreased greatly in extent and importance. It was from hence he shipped the earth and stone, that formed the beautiful terrace to Fife house, on the side of the Thames, as if determined always to reside on Scottish ground.

After living to a patriarchal age, the earl was carried off by a second attack of the stone, and subsequently to his death a very large concretion was extracted. He had no faith in medical men, or medecine; would never submit to any operation; and seemed determined from the first to resist physic and physicians of all kinds.-His will has not given great satisfaction to his heirs; as it was not calculated for the benefit of the present, but of some future generation. Mr. Thellusson appaars to have been his model on this occasion, and he steered as near that landmark, as the late act of Parliament would permit. His body was carried down to Bamffshire, and intombed in a mausoleum, which he himself had erected.

MR. GOUGH.-Richard Gough, Esq. the antiquary.-Richard, son and heir to Harry Gough, Esq. fifth son of Sir Harry Gough, of Perry-hall, Staffordshire, was born October 21, 1735, in a large house in Winchester Street, London, on the scite of the monas. tery of Austin Friars, founded by Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, 1253. He received the first rudiments of Latin under the tuition of Barnewitz, a Courlander, who taught at the same time, the sons of several eminent merchants in the city. On the death of his tutor, he was committed to the instruction of the Rev. Roger Pickering, a very learned dissenting minister: on his death, May 16th, 1775, Mr. Gough finished his Greek studies under Mr. Samuel Dyer, the friend of Johnson, and contemporary literary characters. On the death of his father, he was admitted, July 1752, fellow commoner of Ben'et college, Cambridge, where his relations, Sir Henry Gough and his brother John, had before studied under Dr. Mawson, afterwards Bishop of Chichester and Ely. The college tutor in 1752, was Di. Jobu Barnadiston, afterwards master, who married the widow of the celebrated Dr. Conyers Middleton, and died 1788. His private tutor was the Rev. John Cott, fellow of the house, son to the town-clerk of Lynn, and afterwards rector of Broxted, Essex, where he died in 1781. Under the private tuition of the three excellent scholars before mentioned, Mr. Gough early imbibed a taste for classical literature and antiquities; and it is not to be wondered at, that this connection with a college eminent for producing a succession of British antiquaries, inspired him with a strong propensity, to the study of our national antiquities. Here was first planned the "British Topography," published in 1768, in one 4to volume; improved in two of the same size 1780, and since augmented by a third, ready for the press. From Cambridge he made his first excursion to Croyland and Peterborough; and continued these pursuits every year to various parts of the kingdom, taking notes, which, on his return, were digested into form: these furnished mate rials for a new edition of Camden's Britannia, the result of twenty years excursions. In 1767 he was elected F. S. A. of London; and, by the partiality of the late worthy president, Dr. Milles, Dean of Exeter, was, on the death of Dr. Gregory Sharpe, Master of the Temple, nominated director of the sa me society, 1771; which office he held till December 12, 1797, when he quitted the society. He was chosen F. R. S. 1775; but quitted that society in 1795. He drew up the history of the Society of Antiquaries of London, prefixed to the first volume of their Archeologia, 1770; and in the succeeding