by an unknown hand, in the Strand, London, and never yet difcovered; Sir John, fucceffor to his brother; Charles, died young; Catherine, married \firft to Sir William Moore, of Rofcarbery, county of Cork, Bart. by whom he had two fons; fecondly, to Colonel Montgomery; and thirdly, to Brigadier General George Freke: Helena, married to Colonel Daniel Dering, and had flue one fon, who married Mifs Parker, (lifter to the late Countess Dowager of Egmont) and died 1730, leaving by her an only daughter, Catherine.

(2d Baronet.) Sir Philip fucceeded his father, and was born 12th January, 1656, was educated at Cambridge; after which he vifited the feveral foreign courts; and died unmarried 11th September, 1680, and was fucceeded by his brother,

(ad Baronet.) Sir John, born 22d Auguft, 1660, was educated at Oxford; but in 1686 being appointed foreman of the Grand Jury at the Affizes in Cork, and the prifoners being infected with a contagious diftemper, he and others upon the bench with him were fuddenly feized by the noifome fmells that perfpired from them, that he died in a few days. In 1680 he married Catherine, daughter to Sir Edward Dering, of Surrenden, in Kent, Baronet, by whom he had iffue three fons and two daughters, viz. Sir Edward, his fucceffor; Sir John, heir to his brother, created Earl of Egmont; Philip; Mary and Catherine, both died young.

(4th Baronet.) Sir Edward fucceeded his father, was born 30th July, 1682, and died the 9th November, 1691, and was fucceeded by his brother,"

(5th Baronet, and ift Earl.) Sir John, born 12th July, 1683, was educated at Oxford, which he quitted in June, 1701; and having made the tour of England, was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society at nineteen years of age; in 1704, though not of age, was elected for the county of Cork; and in October appointed one of the Privy Council. In July, 1705, he began the grand tour of Europe, which he finished in October, 1707. He was advanced to the Peerage of Ireland by Privy Seal, dated the 4th March, 1714, and by Patent the 21st April, 1715, by the title of Baron Perceval, of Burton, with the limitation of the honour to the heirs male of his father; and his Majefty was pleased to advance him further in the Peerage, he was created by Privy Seal, dated 29th December, and by Patent 25th February, 1722, Viscount Perceval, of Kanturk; and Earl of Egmont, by Privy Seal, the 4th September, and by Patent the 6th November, 1733. His Lordship married 20th June, 1710, Catherine, daughter to Sir Philip Parker à Mor

ley, of Erwarton, in Suffolk, Baronet; and his Lordfhip departed this life the Ift May, 1748, having iffue by her, who died 22d Auguft, 1749, three fons and four daughters, viz.

11t fon, John, the late Earl.

2d, Philip Clarke, born 21st June, 1714, died young,

3d, George, born 28th January, 1721, died young.

ift daughter, Lady Catherine, born 11th January, 1711, and married 14th April, 1733, to Thomas Hanmer, of county of Flint, Efq; M. P. for Caftlerifing, in Norfolk, by whom she had no issue, and died in 1747.

2d, Lady Mary, born 12th May, 1713,

and 3d, Lady Mary, horn 28th December, 1716, both died infants.

4th, Lady Helena, born 14th February, 1717, married the 3d November, 1741, to Sir John Rawdon, Bart. now Earl of Moira, and died 11th June, 1746, by whom the had two daughters, viz. Lady Catherine, married to Jofeph Henry, Efq; and had iffue, but he died in October, 1780; Lady Helena, married to Stephen Moore, the prefent Earl of Mount Catheil, and has iffue

(2d Earl.) John, the fecond Earl, fucceeded his father, and was born 24th February, 1711. He was unanimoufly elected a reprefentative in Parliament for the city of Weftininfter, as he was for Dingle, in Ireland, and was one of the Lords of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales. Оя the 15th February, 1736, he married the Honourable Lady Catherine Cecil, fecond daughter to James, the fifth Earl of Salisbu ry, and had iffue, viz.

ift fon, John James, the prefent Earl. 2d, Cecil Parker, born 19th October, 1739, died 4th March, 1753.

3d, Philip Tufton, born 10th March, 1741, a Captain in the navy.

4th, Edward, born 19th April, 1744, late an officer in the army, married 27th July, 1775, to Mifs Haworth, of Manchefter.

5th, Frederick Auguftus, born 11th Fe bruary, 1749, and died in 1757

Ift daughter, Lady Catherine, born 29th February, 1745, died 23d January, 1749.

2d, Lady Catherine, married to Sir Thomas Wynne, created Lord Newborough, in Ireland, and died in July, 1782, leaving iffue one fon, Thomas.

3d, Lady Margaret, died 23d January, 1750.

Her Ladyfhip dying 16th Auguft, 1752, he married, fecondly, 26th January, 1756, Mifs Catherine Compton, daughter to Charles Compton, Efq; and filter to the P 2

late and prefent Earl of Northampton. Her Ladyfhip was created a peerefs 19th May, 1770, to her and her heirs male, by John, Earl of Egmont, by the title of Baronefs Arden, of Lohort Caftle. Her ladyfhip died in 1784, leaving iflue, viz.

Ift fon, Charles George, the prefent Lord Arden, born 1ft October, 1756, M. P. for Launceston, in England, and one of the Lords of the Admiralty.

2d, Spencer, born ft November, 1762. 3d, Henry born 26th June, 1765, died 27th July, 1772.

rft daughter, Lady Mary, born 15th December, 1759, married roth April, 1781, to Andrew Drummond, Efq; 2d, Lady Anne.

3d, Lady Charlotta, died young. 4th, Lady Elizabeth, born 12th December, 1763.

5th, Lady Margaret, born 17th May, 1769.

His Lordship was created a peer of Great Britain the 7th May, 1762, by the title of Lord Lovel and Holland, Baron of Enmore, in the County of Somerfet; and dying the 15th December, 1770, was fucceeded by his eldeft fon,

(3d Earl.) John James, the third and preient Earl.

Titles.] Sir John James Perceval, Earl of Egmont, Vifcount Perceval, of Kanturk, Baron Perceval, of Burton, and Baronet, in Ireland; Lord Lovel and Holland, Baron of Enmore, in England.

Creations.] Baronet, 9th Sept. 1661, 13 Car. 2d; Baron Perceval, of Burton, 21ft April, 1715, 1ft Geo. rft; Viscount Perceval, of Kanturk, 25th Feb. 1722, 9th Geo. Ift; and Earl of Egmont, all in the county of Cork, 6th Nov. 1733, 7th Geo. 2d; and Lord Lovel and Holland, and Baron of Enmore, in England, 7th May, 1762, 2d Geo. 3d.

Arms.] Pearl, on a chief indented ruby, three croffes pattee of the field †.

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The feveral branches of this family have the unufual privilege of bearing fupporters to their arms, as is evident from the enfuing authority, copied from the original entry in the office of Arms, London:

"This is to certify all whom it may concern, that it appears from the ancient feals of this family, and from the ancient paintings in the glafs windows of the house of Wefton, in the county of Somerfet, that the family of Perceval, of the line of Wefton, of which the Earl of Egmont is the chief, have borne and used for fupporters to their arms, two eagles, fable, as depicted and blazoned in a book, marked 3 D. 14, p. 182 and 186, (in the office of Arms,

Creft.] On a wreath, a thifle, proper.

Supporters.] The dexter an antelope, pearl, attired, gorged with a ducal coronet, chained, tufted, and unguled, topaz; the finifter a ftag, diamond, furnished as the dexter, each having in its mouth a thiftle, proper; alfo two black eagles, cach with one wing difplayed, the other behind the fhield.

Motto.] Sub cruce candida-Under the amiable crofs.

Seats.] Charlton, 9 miles from London; Mount Pleafant, 35 miles from London, both in the county of Kent; and at Enmore Manor, in the county of Somerfet, 140 miles from London; Burton House, (burned down in the wars of 1688, by a party of King James's forces, of which the offices only now remain in repair) 90 miles from Dublin; Kanturk Caftle, (a noble pile, of which only the walls are now ftanding) 100 miles from Dublin; both in the county of Cork.

Account of à Tour through the Inle of Man. (Continued from Page 88.)

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Peel, May 4. Arrived here yefterday evening, after having travelled through a country in fome parts bleak and barren, but in others beautifully romantic and fertile. This place is twelve miles from Caftletown, and, for the first fix, there is a fameness in the road and country about it rather tiresome to the eye; but afterwards you gradually defcend into a beautiful valley, winding round a mountain aftonishingly lofty. I was much pleafed with the wild, romantic appearance of the caftle here, as I contemplated it from the road, and I ain now juft returned from visiting it. It is fituated on a fmall infular rock; and the paslage to it may be forded at low water. I was obliged to content iny curiofity with a view of its outside only; for, on attempting to thrust open the door, I perceived feveral large ftones had fallen down, and blocked up the entrance. cathedral makes a part of this castle, and is now difufed on account of its ruinous condition. They together form a most noble pile of ruins, and convey to the mind of the fpectator an idea of the ancient grandeur of thofe great Barons, who reigned over their vaffals with abfolute authority, N T E.

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London) from the time of King Edward Ift. Witnefs our hands, as waiters of the month, this 16th day of April, and in the 13th year of the reign of King George zd, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Annoque Dom. 1740.

Charles Greene, Lancaster.
Richard Mawfon, Portcullis."

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It was in this caftle that Eleanor, Duchefs of Gloucciter, was, by the intrigues of the Duke of Suffolk and Cardinal Beaufort, impribaed, under the pretence of her havme applied to witches to be informed when her husband, who was great uncle to Henry VI. fhould be King. While I ftood gazing at this ruined monument of ancient British magnificence, I obrved an old bearded goat thrufting his head through a hole in one of the towers. The circumftance immediately brought to my mind the following beautiful defeription, in Offian, of the ruins of Balciutha:- I have feen the walls of Balclutha, but they were defolate. The fire had refounded in the halls, and the voice of the people is heard no more. The ftream of Clutha was removed from its place by the fall of the walls. The thiftle hook there its lonely head: the mofs whittled to the wind. The fox looked out from the windows: the ra..k grafs of the wall wayed round his head. Defolate is the dwelling of Moina: filence is in the houfe of her fathers.'

There is fomething extremely melancholy in the appearance of this town, and which, this morning, was particularly heightened by the cloudincfs of the air. By cafting your eyes on the map, you will find it fitu ated about the middle of the western coaft of the island. It commands an extenfive profpect over the fea; and the conftant dafhing of the loud-refounding waves, together with the defolate afpect of the caftle, renders the whole a fcene highly interefting to the penfive fpectator.

A roafted fowl is waiting for me on the table, and, as foon as I have dispatched it, I fall fet out for Ramfay, which is fourteen niles off. The inn, where I am now writing, is a very decent one. I obferve it is customary at the inns in this country for the Landlord and his family to eat at the fame table with their guests, unless they exprefs a defire to be alone. The fervant, when the brought in the tea equipage yefterday after, noon, was followed by her miftrefs, who, having welcomed me to Peel, and gone through the ufual ceremonies of introduc tion, fat herself down at the table, and poured out my tea for me. She told me the had already drank tea herself, and therefore hoped I would difpenfe with her drinking it again. By this you may obferve that it is confidered a breach of good manners to fuffer a gueft to be without company while at his meals. My hoftefs and I had fome converfation upon this cuftom, and, finding I thought it fingular, fhe neither fupped nor breakfafted with me. I must confefs I was Hot forry, as fhe was rather too loquacious for my indolent habit of mind, and her vociferous conversation served more to deprefs than to elevate my fpirits. She is, however,

extremely attentive to ftrangers; and the ambition fhe difcovers of making her house agreeable to me, I ought particularly to acknowledge, as it is at a time when fhe is bufily employed in matters of more importance to herself, and rather diftreffed in the procuring of provifions for the entertainment of the Bishop, and a numerous company, who dine here to-morrow. In truth, I do not remember ever being at an inn where > great pains were taken to please, as at the Liverpool coffee-house in Pcel. Ramjay, May 5.

I arrived at this miferable place about nine o'clock, yefterday evening, after the most delightful ride I ever had in my life. The afternoon was uncommonly ferene and fine, and the country through which I paffed afforded an amazing variety of beautiful landscapes. In fome parts, lofty fertile mountains, fpotted with horses and sheep, hot their heads up into the clouds, and fheltered from the cold air of the fea, the verdant vallies beneath them, which, fprinkled with whitened cottages rifing out of tufts of trees, formed fome of the moft delightful paftoral fcenes I ever behield. The village of Clanwillin particularly attracted my notice. It confifts of about ten or a dozen thatched cottages, feated on the banks of a deep, winding valley, through the middle of which runs murmuring a little ftream. A fpectator cannot contemplate this retreat of fimplicity and peace, without conceiving an idea of the manners of those times when men firft began to form themfeives into focieties. Such as the village of Clanwillin one is inclined to imagine were the towns erected, in the primeval ages of the world, by the first focieties established among mankind.

The town of Ramfay is famous for its bay, which is fo extenfive and commodious that the largest fleets may fafely lie in it during the moft fevere ftorin. The inn here is but an uncomfortable houfe; and the company I was last night obliged to affociate with, upon my arrival, was but ill fuited to thofe enthufiaftic ideas raîfed in my mind by the various beauties of my ride. Think how great was my diffatisfaction when, after having travelled through a country filled with fome of the moit delightful objects in nature, and with a mind elevated to the highest degree of romance by thofe objects, I was crammed into a nafty little parlour, darkened with clouds of fmoke from tobacco, and deafened with half a hundred harsh voices roaring difcordant catches. My romantic ideas immediately vanifhed. But thefe merry Manks were not wholly engaged in finging: fome con verfation paffed, among the various topics of which, that of their being but litt"

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known to the world by their national title was introduced. The abiect was illuftrated by the following fhort story from one of the Company:- A foldier, a native of this ifland, who had loft a limb in the fervice of Britain, applied to a certain Nobleman for a penfion. The Nobleman enquiring what Countryman he was, was answered A Mankiman'- A Mankfman!' exclaimed he to a certain Lord who stood near him; Pray, my Lord, can you inform me to what country the Mankfmen belong, for I really do not recollect ever having heard of them before? On!' replied the other, they are, I fuppofe, the people of one of the petty flates of Germany.'

Douglas, May 6.

The road from Ramfay hither is, I imagine, fomewhat fimilar to the roads in the mountainous parts of Wales. At one time I was exalted into the regions of the clouds, and looked down with contempt upon the little race of man below: at another I was abafed among the inhabitants o mortals, and looked up with veneration to the ele vated fituation of the eagle. Near the village of Laxey I paffed by a Druidical monument, which confifts of eight large ftones raifed perpendicularly round one of a larger fize. Yesterday evening, about fun-fet, I vifited the rock near this town, and fat, for half an hour, contemplating the vast expanfe of water seen from it. Near me a Thepherd lay extended on the turf, and in a profound fleep. His little flock were feeding about him. ***

Liverpool, May

I am, juft this moment, arrived. We have had a very fair paffage; but to me 'fair is foul,' for I have been fick during the whole of it. My head is giddy with the motion of the fhip. The room, the fire, Mrs. S, the cat, the dog, are danc ing the Cheshire round. Priefts, temples, tapers, altars, fwim before my fight.' As foon as I have difpatched this large packet to the office, and quaffed off a bowl of tea, I fhall betake my bones to bed, though it is now the blazing height of noon.-Adieu. On the Public Manners of the Athenians, by

Dr. Thomas Leland.

S public virtue is, in an effential man

Aner, the balls of a democratical government, when this was impaired, their very conftitution must have contributed to hurry on their ruin. The final determination of all public affairs was in the popular assembly; and this affembly was now made up of feveral diftinct factions, which almost always pursued their own particular views and interefts; as to be excufed from personal service in war; from contributing

their fhare in the public expences, or the like. The public leaders, and speakers, perceived, and flattered this weakness. They were the fprings which moved the whole community; the adminiftration was in a great mealure, committed to them; and they had, fome time fince, learned the art of applying it to enriching and aggrandizing themfelves and their families. Many of them were already the pensioners of Philip; and while they earned his pay, at the fame time fecured their own power, and acquired the favour of the people, by flattering their fupinenefs, and recommending pacific meafures, under various plaufible pretences. Sometimes the enemy was too weak, and inconfiderable to be an object of terror to the great fovereigns and arbiters of Greece ; fometimes he was too powerful and formidable; it was rath and impolitic to provoke his refentment; a war was burthenfome and expensive; the balance of power, a romantic. confideration; and the true interest of the fate, to afford to her domestic affairs, and to fequre and improve the advantages of commerce. If fome bold attempt upon their dominions roused them from their infenfibility, then their national pride and va nity dictated the most magnificent and pompous decrees and refolutions: armies were to be raised, and natives fent abroad; but in these magnificent decrees, their courage all evaporated. Affected delays arose e; their love of eafe returned; they fent out fome mercenary troops (for to thofe were their interefts now entrusted), commanded by a general, chofen by cabal and intrigue. He fails out, dreaded and fufpected by their allies, whom he oppreffes and pillages; defpifed by the enemy, whom he takes care to avoid; and when he at laft appears before the place he is appointed to relieve, it is in the hands of the besiegers. Thus, like unfkilful boxers (to ufe the fimilitude of their own orator), they think of defending themfelves when they have already received the blows. And this defence generally proved weak and infufficient, even if exerted feafonably. Their forces then return; their general is brought to trial; and either condemned rafhly for not performing what, with a wretched collection of mercenaries, unaffected by any fentiments of honour or

regard for the public caufe, and unprovided

with pay or provifions, he could not perform; or elfe he screens his cowardice and bad conduct under the protection of a powerful faction, and fo efcapes from public juftice. It is true, that even in this ftate of their degeneracy, fome acts of valour were performed, not unworthy of their early and uncorrupted age; nor did they want able statefmen, or valiant, judicious, and faithful

generals;

"An

Character of Demofthenes.

By the fame.

NERGY and majefty were his peculiar

titled, " D. Paulus Apoftolus in mari quod nunc Venatus finus dicitur naufragus, et Melita Dulmatenfis infulæ poft naufragium hofpes, &c." i. e. Efay in which it is proved that the Shipwreck of St. Paul, mentioned in the 27th and 28th Chapters of the Alts, happened on the Coaft of the Island of Meleda, in Dalmatia, and not on the Coafts of the fle of Malta. By Ignatio Giorgi, a Benedictine of the Congregation of Meleda; with a fhort Treatise on the Dogs of Malta." Published at Venice in 1730.

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work, Father Georgi fhews, I.

Thucydides, the pomp and dignity of Plato, the eafe and elegance, the neatnefs and fimplicity of the Attic writers, he formed a ftyle and manner admirably fitted to his own temper and genius, as well as that of his hearers. His own feverity determined him to the more forcible methods of aftonifhing and terrifying, rather than to the gentle and infinuating art of perfuafion; nor did the circumftances and difpofition of his countrymen admit of any but violent impreffions. As many of thofe to whom he addreffed himself were men of low rank and occupations, his images and expreffions are fometimes familiar: as others of them were themselves eminent in fpeaking, and could readily fee through all the common artifices of oratory, thefe he affects to defpife, appears only folicitous to be underftood; yet, as it were, without defign, raifes the utmoft admiration and delight; fuch delight as arifes from the clearnefs of evidence, and the fulness of conviction. And as all, even the lower part of his hearers, were acquainted with the beauties of poetry, and the force of harmony, he could not admit of any thing rude or negligent; but, with the stricteft attention, laboured those compofitions which appear fo natural and unadorned; they have their ornaments; but thefe are auftere and manly, and fuch as are confiftent with freedom and fincerity. A full and regular feries of diffufive reafoning would have been intolerable to an Athenian affembly. He even contents himself with an imperfect hint; a fentence, a word, even his filence is fome times pregnant with meaning. And this quickness and vehemence flattered a people, who valued themselves upon their acuteness and penetration. The impetuous torrent, that in a moment bears down all before it, the repeated flashes of lightning which fpread univerfal terror, and which the ffrongeft eye dares not encounter, are the images by which the nature of his eloquence has been expreffed.

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tioned, which is in the Adriatic, not far from Ragufa, was alfo called Melita, in the time of St. Luke; and that the ifland of Malta is at a great diftance from what is now called the Adriatic, nor was ever, by any antient writer, fuppofed to extend near fo far. 2. That the tempeftuous wind Euroclydon, (which our author demonftrates to have been not the N. E. (Euro aquilo) but the S. E) muft have driven the fhip not to Malta, but into the Adriatic; and that in the fame manner Acrotatus, a Lacedæmonian, going from Poloponnefus to Sicily, and the Jewifh hiftorian, Jofephus, failing like St. Paul, from Judia to Rome, were both driven into the Adriatic. That the name of Barbarians, twice given to the natives by St. Luke, is extremely applicable to the inhabitants of Illyria, but by no means fo to the Greeks, who inhabited Malta; a circumftance which has embarraffed Lightfoot, Bochart, Cellarius, and all other commentators. 4. That there is no fuch quick-fand as that on which St. Paul's fhip was loft, at Malta, but there are many towards the fouth point of Meleda. At the former, near la cafa di S. Paolo, there is, indeed, a rock, on which it is pretended the veffel ftruck, but this, the history fhews, was not the cafe. A ftill more convincing proof that the apoftle was not at Malta is fuggefted by his having been hit there by a venemous ferpent, as there are none fuch in all that ifland, and even the earth of it is a specific againft the bites of ferpents. And as to St. Paul's having wrought a miracle to deliver that ifland for ever from venemous animals, a miracle of fuch importance would, furely, have been recorded by St. Luke, as well as the cure of Publius, and others, or as the fign which the fhip carried. But, on the contrary, the bite of vipers, is remarkably malignant in Illyria, and particularly in the island of Meleda. To fum up all, Meleda is lefs known than

Malta;