April DRURY-LANE. 2. All in the Wrong-Blue Beard. 11. The Hero of the North-Love and Ma- 15. Deaf and Dumb-The Children in the 19. Ditto-Of Age To morrow. 20. Ditto-A Houfe to be Sold. 21. Ditto-Blue Beard. [Stairs. 13. John Bull-The Deferter of Nap'es. 14. Ditto-The Devil to Pay. 15. Ditto-The Spoir'd Child. 16. Ditto-The Intriguing Chambermaid. 13. Abroad and at Home-The Follies of a 17. John Bull-The Lying Valet. [Day. 20. The Man of the Word-Comes. 23. Ditto-Ditto. --25. Dero-Ditto. 22. Ditto-The Doctor and the Apothecary. 23. John Bull--The Flitch of Bacon. 23. Ditto-Blue Beard. 25. Ditto-Ditto. 26. Ditto-The Spoil'd Child. 27. Ditto-Midas. 28. Ditto-Houfe to be Sold. May 2 The Haunted Tower-Vologefe, King June 1. A Bo'd Stroke for a Husband-Lo- 4. The Hero of the North-Deaf Lover. 6. The Road to Rum-The Black Knight; or, Perfidy Punished. . 7. The Stranger-The Devil to Pay. 8. Ad in the Wrong-The Purfe- Black 9. The Rivals-Black Knight. [Knight. 10. Othello-Of Age To-morrow. [Bow. 11. The Confederac - Two Strings to your 13. The Way to Keep H m-Rofint. 14. Ail in the Wrong-rorture's Frolick. 15. Rule aWife and Have a Wife-The Stapdoril COVENT-GARDEN. [wreck. - 1. Tenth Grand Selection of Sacred Mu 2. John Ball-A Divertifement. ~41. Ditto-Ditto. 12. Ditto-The Irith Widow. GENT. MAG. June, 1503. 7. Ditto-The Spoild Child. 11. John Bull-Paul and Virginia. 1. The Haunted Tower-Honeft Thieves. 21. GAZETTE PROMOTIONS. Whiteball ICHARD Earl of Cavan, Rev. Robert Pointer, M. A. rector nå Southhoe, co. Huntingdon, to a prebendal April 10. R majot-general of his Ma: Hall in Lincoln cartier la jeity's forces, permitted to receive and wear the bacge of the order of the Crefcent, tranfmitted to him by the Grand Seignior. St. James's, May 4. William Earl of Mansfield, took the oaths on being ap pointed lord-lieutenant of the thire of Clackmannan, in N. Britain.-Col. Cha. Green, Wm. Bulkeley Hughes, efq and Francis Hartwell, etq knighted. Whiteball, May 5 Joseph Hawker, e'q. Jate Rouge Croix purfuivant of arms, appointed Richmond herald, vice Bigland. Deuning-freet, May 9. Major-gen. Da vid Douglas Wemyls, to be commander of all his Majesty's land forces ferving in the inland of Ceylon. St. James's, May 23. Sir James Pulteney, brt. Lieut.-col. Francis Whitworth, Capt. Robert Bolton, of the royal navy, Rupert George, efq, and Richard Hankey, efq. knighted, as proxies to five of the Knights of the Bath at the late inftallation. Whiteball, May 24. Rev. Edward Bowyer Sparke, D. D. appointed dean of the cathedral church of Bristol, vice Layard, dec. Rev. Wm. Nelfon, D. D. appointed prebendary of the metropolitical church of Canterbury, ce Lynch, dec. Wb.tball, May 28. Rev. Howel Holland Edwards, M. A. appointed a prebendary of the collegiate church of St. Peter, Weftminster, vice Finch, dec.-Rev. Wm. B.ker, LL B. prefented to the vicarage of Stonehouse, co. Gloucester. St. James's, June 1. Right Hon. George Tierney, treaturer of his Majefty's navy, fworn of his Majesty's privy-council. Whitball, June 4. Henry Duke of Be ufort, confirmed in the barony of Bottelourt, and created Baren de Bottetourt. Whiteball, June 14 Richard Brooke de Capel Brooke, of Great Oakley, co. Nort! ampton, and of Ahadoe and Roxborough, c. Cork, eiq; Right Hon. John Stewart, of Athenre, co Tyrone; and the Rev. James Stronger, M. A. of Tynan, co. Armagh, and of Thrnhill, co. Dubin; created har nets of the United Kingdom. Council office, Whitebali, June 17 George Earl of D rcheiter, appointed lord-lieuteran of the county of Dorfet, vice Lord Rivers, dec, tek ile caths thereupon. War othe, Sure 18 His Royal Higi nefs Purce A o phus-Federick, K G. la e lieuten ni general in the Hanoverian fervice, appio red lieutenant-peneral in the army, by commiftion dated Ang, 24, 1798. Rev. Henry Hafted, M.A. Ickworth and Rev. Mr. Fry, elected chaplan to the Rev. Jeba Colman, B A. Eccles St. Hon. and Rev. Thomas Lawrence Dondas, M.A. Harpole R. co. Northampton Rev. James Coward, B. D. Bletchingħa R. co. Oxford, vile Bracken, dec. Rev. Charles Eaton Pizter, Wrath>p'e curacy, Kent, vice Lardner, dec. Rev. Fairfax Franck in, M.A. Wartor V. and Attleborongh R. both co, Norf›ik Rev. John Francklin, M.A. Earthair R. co. No filk. Rev. George Barnwell, M. A. Mileliom R. co. Nerf Jk. Rev. J. Fythe Foord, Cowlam perpe. tual curacy, co. York. Rev. Charks Dalton, M. A. Weft La vington V. Wilt. Rev Thomas Brooke M ms, M. A. S! alfanger R. Norfolk. Rev. J. Forster, M. A. Sandall Purv. R. near D neafter. Rev. James W, M. A. Adwel. R. in the diocese of Oxford. Rev. Roger Freit in Howmɔn, B. A. Shipmeadow R. Norfolk, vice Suckling, Jec. DISPENSATIONS. REV. Allen Fielding, M. A to held St. Crimas and Dumen in the kitan V. together with St. Stephen V both in t. diocefte of Canterbury, vice Gregory, der. Rev. Waham-Plalp Menzies, to reid Frindfbory V. in the docefe of Rochester, with Sotton-Valence R and the cr py of Eath Sutton anotx:ế, in the ductie di Canterbury, Rev. Wm. Panchen, M. A. to h 14 Si, Rev. Joleph H 4', to hold Cheferton V. co. Oxford, with Stapon V. Hanta P 285, b. Louis-Henry-Edward, Cardinal of Rohan Guefnene, fon of Hercules Meriadac and of Louise Gabrielle de Rohn, was born Sept. 23, 1734. He was known from the cradle by the name of Prince Louis. He ftudied, for fome time, at the Codloge du Pleitis, with little diligence, yet with good fuccefs. His aff bility, generofity, and other winning qualities, endeared him to his fellow ftudents. But, with thefe amiable qualities, he had others highly dangerous to himfelf. His undertanding was fubject to an extreme facility of perfuafion and refolution. His temper was light, prefumptuous, and excellively credulous. It was even then to be feared that his very virtues might be abused to his own hurt; and, had it not been for the influence of a leffon equally fevere and falutary, the whole train of his life would only have unfolded thofe qualities of charater. He was deftmed for the profection of a clergyman, not to much by choice, as on account of the great intereft of his family to prefent him to the richest henefices. He studied theology, in preparation for ord is, at the feminary of St. Magloire. From that feminary be made occational hunting excurfions. He was at that time thought, by those who knew him, to be at leaft as fit for the military profeffion as for the ecclefiaftical. He was intended for the bishoprick of Strafburg, which had become in fome fort a cnftomary provifion for the younger fons of the Rohan family. In 1760, he was chofen co-adjutor to his uncle Conftantine, his predecellor in that bishoprick. He was confecrated under the title of Bathop of Canople In 1777 he be. cime grand almoner to the King of France. He obtamed a cardinal's hat in 1778. In 1779 he fucceded to the hithoprick of Strafburg. Hechramed, in 1-80, the abbey of S. Watt. In the charafter of Adminutristor of the Affairs of the Hofpital of the Quiz: Vingts, he was involved in a pake with the Parament. He preva led then in this dipute and in another, which gave to his name much celebrity. Never did any affor at ract more general attention, or intercft public curiofity more deeply, than that of the famous necklace. The hutory of that pr. cel- might be with great propriety intituted, "The Dangers of Bad Company; or, Credulity the Dupe of Intrigue," a romantic ta e, mave lous, yet true. O the day of the decifion, fois perfon faid to a friend of the Cardinal's tint he had been decla ed innocent. "1. nocent !' replied the other; " Call him an innæent! (a fimpleton)" From this æra lens the honourable part of his life; in the fci ol of d.cifiy he became a o ce a new man During his trial he conducted mfest with fig city, oig ty, and courage. 1. his cx le te ciftingu.lbed limited by truly Christian moceity and rufiga lun. Upon his return to his diocefe, he edified his people with good eximples, and en lightened them with instructions worthy of one of the primitive bishops. He was a member of the Conftituent Assembly, and, in the progrefs of the revolution, more than gained in efteem what he loft in fortune. Attempts were ufed to excite his vengeance against the Court; but he had forgotten his wrongs, and would not debase himfelf by revenge. Retiring to his nar row territories beyond the Rhine, he be came a beneficent father to thofe children of misfortune who were driven thither by the fame storm that had wrecked himself. He died at Ettenheim on the evening of Feb. 17, 1803. Cardinal Rohan was in converfation lively, graceful, amufing, but fuperficial. He was generous from native feeling, and prodigal out of oftentation. There was an air of grandeur and pride in his afpećt, from which one that had not before seen him would fcarcely have expected that gracious politeness and that goodness into which he foftened in converfation. He was the most credulous of men, as is clear from the story of the im poftures with which he was duped by Cagliostro. Pp. 290, 291, Francis Egerton, the late Duke of Bridgwater, was born in the year 1736, and was the fifth fon of Scroop, the first Duke of Bridgwater, by Lady Rachel Ruffel. By the death of his brothers, he fucceeded, on the demife of his father in 1748, to the title and ettares. It is underftood that his Grace, before he came of age, digefted the plans which he afterwards profecuted with fuch fuccefs, and proceeded to put them in execution as foon as he obtained potlethon of his paternal inheritance. Among other estates, the Duke had one at Worley, in Lancashire, rich in co.l-mines; but, owing to the expence of land carriage, it was of inconfiderable value: defirous, therefore, of working thole mines to greater advantage, he projećted a canal from his eitate at Worfi-y to the rich and flourishing town of Manchefter. With this view he applied to the ingenious Mr. Brindley, who had previ ously manstested unusual talents; and that artift, after furveying the ground, pronounced the execution of the work to be practicable. The Dakes next flep was to produce legil tve authority for carrying his plans into effect: h• accordingly cauted a bill to be introduced into Parmament, in the year 1758-9, which met with uncom mon oppofition in its progrefs, though it ultimately pffed both Hostes. Further powers, as well for the pur pole of eff &ing the original defign as for extending the line of navigation, being afterwards found necellery, epplication was agam rude to Perdiment; and they were much more read by obtained than the former. The canal This furnishes an additional proof of lus Grace's judgment. The entire length from Wartley to Manchester is 29 miles : there s not any fall on the whole lire, ex、 pt it Runcorn, into the river Medley, where there are locks which convey the beats very fhort space of time. The whole mat accomplished in abi ut five yest Res the Duke's concern in the Wifey's he was a liberal promoter of that great work, the Grand Truck Navigation, w extends from his own works at Prefigg Brook to the river Trent, rear Derty ; and he was ever ready to ff.lt, with his parliamentary influence, the furthering of any well-digeft & plin. As a fenat e, lim late Duke of Bridgewater did not take a active p it; and was not courtant in attendance on parliamentary fantans, In 1762, however, his name is t- be the divifion, on a mobor to W« »I»W the British troops from Germany, a ×, in the lots of that mine, hejore map tell. When the repeal of the Anes £-9 Stamp Act was agitsed, his Grace was a Areng oppofer of that measure, and sa 1784, when a powerful it wa ested to prevent Mr. Fx' livat canal begins at Worfley Mill, about feven miles from Manchefter, where his Grace cut a bafon capacious enough to hold a'l his boats and a body of water to ferve as a refervoir for his navigation. The canal enters a hill by a fubterraneous pallage of nearly a mile in length, that admits flat-down ninety four feet into the river in a bottomed boats, which are towed along by hand-rails to the coal-werks: this p flige afterwards divides into two; is in fome places cut through the foltd rock, in others arched with brick; and is provided with feveral ar-funt els, cut to the top of the bill. At the entrance, the arch is about fix feet wide, and in fime parts of fuflicient bredt to admit of boats paffing each other. Five or fix of those boats, which carry teven tons each, are drawn by one life to Manchester In other places, the canal is carried over public roads by means of . rches; and, where the read is too high, it is gradually lowered, and rics on the oppofite fide. But one of the most arduous works accomplished on this canal, is the aqueduct over the river Irwell, where the canal runs forty feet over the river, and where the barges are feen pailg on the former, and the vellels on the latter in full fail under them. aqueduct begins three miles from Worfley, and is carried for more than two hundred yards over a valley. When the works approached the river, feveral artifts pronounced their completion imr. éticable, and one well. fo far as to call it "building arcaftle in the at." Had the like attorded to the fe opanous, with ut doubt delivered by men of Ballard på i etration, he would have rear qu shed his purpose: but his own fagacity, she tie corticence in the allur.nces of Mr. Brudi y, c'ermined hầm to perfevere; and the .quru over the river Irwell will, for ag 1, remain as a monument of the public spirit of his Grace the late Duke of Bridgewater, and of the rare butie of the art it; while it may alto read a falu ary 1cture on the imbecillity of fun jugn ent and human forefight. This fift work, having been completed in the year 1:50, was opened in the prolence of the Like, many of las friends, abu a voft concurfe of people, with great cere non), rojo.crgs, and exultatun; and his Grace had Defelcty to fee the extraordmary man whom te hd patronized fucceed even bevondt i sexpictations. But the Duke's de'igns were ist confined to this caval; ace rangly, after another applest on so Pak ment, in the year 1761 he ctt ired p wers ("ough not without great opportun) to extend the works from Longford Bridge to the river Mertey; and the fuccefs of this anders krug * It is not us com or for travellers to v be fices of the canal to fati fy their cm ohy by entering the fubterraneous pallages. flig into a law, the Lake was LE thekan. His Grace wr never metr and his celibacy is off rted to bare ha occ fined (though we do not vi fact) by a circumstance which ta, tu? occurred in early life. We unde Para be in fubitatics as folow I The LE be ng on a vifit at a fue us, who was en the eve of marriage, the way to what he was betrothed to k af neytan aud, for eit g her own gr ty fred eng-gemet to archer, n e fy fact fice of her vitae ( Cccurrenice s fold to live w feetgly on les Gi ce's med, a med by in prol'elan rund #fuelty in the fex, a to mired him agairt ever enten of matrimony If this than 4 at ftores a flurking in Patice it w very uncom von 260 g Muzie a great an enlightere, min hei a peculiar incident, into a g fien; and, in thi cafe, a c mid for the luncur of the firpe Cies, we truit and belv, DEANN fuèd in nature and expeints, lu Leclous 11. unwanted. which had also the honour of training his younger friends, Sir William Scott, and the prefent Lord Chancellor; whofe attachment to him, thus commenced almost in infancy, was continued not only without batement, but with much increase, to the very end of his 1 fe. Mr. Chambers, and the Scotts afterwards, went to Oxford without any other preparation than was afforded by this Newcastle fchool He went alfo at an early age, but his abilities foon rendered brm contpicuous; and in July 1754 le was chofen an exhibitioner of Lincoln college. He afterwards became a Fellow of Univerfity college, where he was again united with the Scotts, and with other eminent men, among whom it may fuffice to mention Mr. Plumer, now King's counfel, and the late Sir William Jones. In January 1762, Mr. Chambers was elected, by the University, Vinerian Profellor of the Laws of England; a public teftimony to his abilities, of the strongest ad mott unequivocal nature. In 1766, the Earl of Lichteld, then Chancellor of Oxford, gave him the appointment of Principal of New Inn Hall; which office, as it required no refidence or attendance, he continued to hold through life. He was now advancing honourably in the practice of the law, and was employed in many remarkable caufes, in which his profedinal abilities were evinced. About the fame period, and probably by the fime means, he attr_cted the notice and biting friendship of the ableit men of the time, many of whofe nimes have fin for bed in well-earned titles of nobilcy. We may mention the Ears Bat murit, Mas. field, Liverpool, and Rofilyo, Lorus Athbarron, Thurow, Ascasand, and A L been ab to which all we may add the A mes of 1-461, Bike, Gold: ini, Garrick, and oders of tat clais, whole judgment of mankind was as accurate as 3s thei ewn talents were confpicuous. A: Oxt rdilo he enjoyed the intimacy of Thurlow, afterwards Bithop of Durham: and has Viner.an Lectures were atten ed by mny papils, who have fince done honur to te profeffion of the law, or to ohet puke fituations. It 15 a trag proof in t his knowledge and talents were liy eltimated at an ea by paried, thi in 178 he was offered the appointment of Atorney-Leucial in Jamaca ; this however, from various confiderations, he thing I proper to decl ne. His age was tnoiy 34. From this time he coutrued me e reer of vas profeilion, and of Ins.ca em cai labouts, tili, m 1773, andthe fa.on of public trult and honour was propose to bim, which he was note eally mates to accept. This was the of S. cod Jade in the Supr me “. 4 jaét engl, the mit chaukusa, Mi, Kupy, at erwards Sir Elijah, being Chief Juftice. On this occafion, the efteem and regard of the University of Oxford for their Vinerian Profeffor was fully evinced; the Convocation allowing three years for the chance of his return, from ill health or any other cauf; during which interval his office was held for him, and his lectures read by a deputy. In India Mr. Chan.bers had a younger brother, Mr. William Chambers, well deferving of his affection, and afterwards highly distinguished for his unriValied knowledge of the Malabar language, and other dialects of Hindoitan; and the profpect of being reunited to this valuable relation certainly was not forgotten among the attractions of this new offer. Immediately before his departure for the Eaft Indies, Mr. Chambers married Mifs Wilton, the only daughter of the celebrated and now venerable Statuary of that name: and his mother, Mrs. Chambers, a woman of uncommon virtues, talents, and accomplishments, undertook the voyage with them, and continued an inmate in their family till her death, which happened in 1782. They failed for India in April 1774, and, the climate not proving unfriendly, the Vimerian protefforthip was in due time refigued. The honour of knighthood was not conferted at the time of his appointment, but, within four years after, was fent out to him, unfolicited, as an exprets mark of Royal approbation. How well his original nomination, and his fubfequent advancement to the office of Chief Juftice, were deterved, it is not necellary here to demonftrate. They who acted with him, or were prefent in any arduous dications, can bear witneis how often his mid but convincing arguments contributed mit effentoliy to the public fervice. Withou taking any violat part in any contentions of ponticks, Sir R. C. was Itady in puriaing the courte which his mature judgment approved; and, in all the struggles that arote, no opponent ever ven ured to minuare a count of his integoty. The unfortunate lots of the Grovenor Exit Indramin, in the year 1773, is but too weil remembered by my tenies. la this pabic calamity, the private thare of S.r R. C. wa dibroprion <tely easy. He loit is elu it in, a prom bug you, then going to Englia Dr coatation, and ti uert in cires mitu ices of the cafe leic bug nation the mit dreactu" materials for tire. In this, as in every other , in p 0,0 ton to the exent, the wad tru. Carati in piety of Sir R. C. ati nded a great exampan; and lie appered a wor hy Don of that excelent national care, which, on i ne occations, Lela na udly det nceaw adv c (5.9) etengu povo STE Tup 117 1,5TR C. wis aly inc: the .. e of Cher jule: and in 1797) |