Henry, on receiving intelligence of the battle of Culloden, return ed to Rome, where, against the disposition of his brother and family, he took orders, and in 1747 was made Cardinal by pope Benedict XIV. and afterwards bishop of Frascati, and Chancellor of the church of St. Peter at Rome.

From that time Cardinal York, which was the name he assumed on his elevation to the purple, devoted himself to the duties of his calling; and seemed to have laid aside all worldly views, till his father's death in 1788, when he had medals struck, on the face of which was his head, with this inscription "Henricus nonus Angliæ Rex"; -on the reverse a city with these words, "Gratia Dei, sed non voluntate hominum." If we are not misinformed, one of these medals is in the possession of his Majesty,

Cardinal York had two rich preferments in France, the abbies of St. Anchin, and St. Amand; and also a considerable pension from the court of Spain, all of which he lost by the Revolution. In order to assist pope Pius VI. in making up the sum required by Buonaparte in 1796, the Cardinal disposed of all the family jewels, and among others, of a ruby, the largest and most perfect known, valued at 50,000l. He then deprived himself of the last means of an independent subsistence, and was reduced to the greatest distress on the expulsion of Pius VI. and his court from Rome Cardinal Borgia, who had been acquainted with Sir John Cox Hippesley in Italy, recommended to him the Cardi

nal's case. Sir John conveyed this letter to Mr. Andrew Stuart, who drew up a memorial, which Mr. Dundas, now lord Melville, presented to his majesty, who immediately granted the yearly pension of 4,000l.

Thus ended, at the age of eighty-two years, the last descendant, in a direct line, of the royal house of Stuart.

Cardinal York had some claim on the generosity of this country independent of his amiable qualities, his constant attentions to Englishmen, and lastly his great misfortunes. An Act of Parliament, still unrepealed, had settled on the queen of James the Second, Mary of Este, the Car. dinal's grandmother, a jointure of 50,000l. While the treaty of Ryswick was depending, it was strongly contended on the part of the French negociators in the name of that princess, that her husband having been deprived by an act of the English legisla ture of all his rights as a king, and being consequently, as a king, dead in law, she was as much entitled to her dowry from the day that event took place, as if her husband had been naturally dead. The English negociators considered the point as too delicate for their interference, and desired that it might be referred to King William himself. This proposal was acceded to, and Marshal Boufflers expressing a wish that the concession of the jointure might be confirmed by at least a secret article of the Treaty, William passionately exclaimed, "What, Marshal, will not my word satisfy you?"——On this Boufflers bowed, and retired in

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full persuasion that he had obtainsufficient security; but on the first demand of payment, Wil liam insisted that the concession had been made upon a condition which had not been performed, while the marshal maintained that the concession was unconditional!

No attempt was made to recover the arrears of the jointure, till 1786, when Charles, the eldest of her grandsons, though he would not act himself, empower ed his natural daughter by Miss Walkinshaw to do so in his name, A case was accordingly made out, stating the claim: and Louis XVI. by a petition which count De Vergennes presented to him, was entreated to recommend it to our king, through his ambas, sador at London. To this application Louis returned this answer "C'est une famille malheureuse; dont je ne veux plus entendre parler." Little thought he how soon the whole Bourbon family would be equally unfortunate.

At Aston, near Bingham in Nottinghamshire, the Rev. Tho. Guilford, curate of Whatton, aud of the consolidated churches of Aston, Thoroton, and Scanington.

The Revd. N. Toke, forty years rector of Barnston in Essex. The Rev. Robert Crowe, M.A. of Burnham, Norfolk.

At Colebrooke, Devon, the Rev. Henry Land.

The Rev. Robert Hodgson, rector of High Hoyland, near Barnsley in Yorkshire.

Burnt to death, at his Lordship's country house at Coom bank in Kent, in her 70th year, the Lady of Lord Frederic Camp

bell; daughter of Amos Meredith, esq, and sister of Sir Wm. Meredith, bart. In 1752, she was married to the unfortunate Earl Ferrers, from whom she obtained a divorce by Act of Parliament and in 1769 she married Lord Frederic Campbell, brother to the duke of Argyle.

It is supposed that her lady. ship must have sat up to read, and fallen asleep. About four in the morning, as a labouring man was going to his work, he saw a large smoke at the house; and on approaching it, discover ed the left wing to be on fire, He immediately alarmed the fa mily, when they found her ladyship's dressing room in flames, Her woman instantly ran to the bedroom, adjoining to the dres sing room, and found that she had not been in bed, and was missing. It is probable that she had fallen in a fit. Her woman left her ladyship at a quarter before 12 in her dressing room, and in her night dress, as was her usual custom, She was found in the ruins, a shocking spectacle. Her watch was also found wound up, and stood still at half past one. Lord Frederic Campbell was in town at the time, hav ing left Coombank the preced, ing afternoon. The wing con taining the dressing room and a room over and under, was entire. ly gutted, only the stone walls remaining. From the great exertions of the neighbouring inha bitants, with an engine from Earl Stanhope's, a party of the Royal Artillery, with an engine from their barracks near Sevenoaks, and an engine from Sevenoaks town, the fire was got under

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