defcended Sir Arthur Forbes of Caftle For bes, in the county of Longford, who by pa- town, county Longford, Bart. and widow of Sir Alexander Stewart, and by her, who died the 8 December, 1714, he had iffue (and his Lordhip died about the year 1695) viz. 14. Arthur, his fucceffor. 2d. Robert, killed at the fiege of Buða, in 1686. 3d. Francis; 4h Patrick, and 5th Thomas, died unmarried. Lady Catharine, only daughter, was married to Arthur, 3d Earl of Donegal; and died 15th June, 1743, leaving iffue 2 fons and 6 daughters. (2d Earl.) Arthur, the fecond Earl, fucceeded his father in the command of -his'regiment, and ferved for the borough of Johntown, in the parliament of 1661. He made a leafe to King William, of the ground on which the barrack of Mullingar is built; and the 21ft July, 1703, he had a pention of 500l. a year, for the life of himself and Queen Anne. He married in October, 1678, Mary, eldelt daughter to Sir George Raw. don of Moira, county Down, Bart. and his Lordship dying 24th Auguft, 1734, having had iffue by her, who died 1 April, 1724, 3 fons and 2 daughters, viz. Ift. Arthur, Lord Forbes, killed in a duel in Flanders, unmarried. 2d. Edward, Lord Forbes, an officer in the army, killed at the battle of Hockitet, in 1704. 3d. George, Lord Forbes, his fucceffor. ift daughter, Lady Jane, married to Major Jolas Champagne of Portarlington, and died the rt May, 4737, leaving fiue the prefent Dean Champagne, who is married and has iffue, the prefent Countels of Uxbridge, and other children. ad, Lady Dorothy, died unmarried, 17th May, 1729. (3d Earl.) George, the 3d Earl, was one of the Privy Council, Captain General and Commander in Chief of the Leeward Carbbee Islands in America, and had leave of abfence from the House of Peers, to attend his government, which he foon after reigned; the 4th May, 1734, he was appoin Rear Admiral of the White, and the 17 cember following, was Rear Admiral of Red; the 30th April, 1736, Vice-Admiral of the Blue, and Commander in Chief of a fquadron defigned for the Weft Indies. In April, 1733, he was appointed Amballador to the Court of Mufcovy; and at his audience of leave, the Czarina, expreffing a great fenfe of his Lordship's merits, presented him with a diamond ring from off her own finger of great value, with her picture, enriched with diamonds, and 6000 rubles in fpecie. He was M. of P. for the boroughs of Air and Irvin, &c. in Scotland; and Governor of the Counties Westmeath and Longford, He He married Mary, eldest daughter to William the ift Lord Viscount Mountjoy, and widow of Phineas Prefton of Ardiailagh, county Meath, Elq. by whom he had fue, two funs and one daughter, viz., 11t. George, his fucceffor. 24. John, Admiral of the Royal Navy, *General of Marines, late a Lord Commiftioner of the Admiralty, and formerly M. of P. for the nanor of Mullingar. He mar-, ried 6th Auguft, 1758, Lidy Mary, 4h daughter of William, 34 Earl of Effex (by h's itt wife Jant, daughter to Henry, Earl of Rocheiter) by whom he has affue, two daug brers; and the died 9th April, 1782. Lady Mary, Snce dead. (4th Ear.) George, the 4th Earl, a Lieutement General in the Amy, and Colouel of The 29 reiment of too; fucceeded his fa. ther, the 3d and late Earl, in 1765. In the year 1749, he reprefented the manor of Mulingar in parliament. He married his coutin Mary, daughter to Arthur Davis of Carrickfergus, Eq. by whom he had iffue, one fon, George Lord Forbes, his fucceffor. ters ; (5th E.) George, the 5th Eait, was one of the Privy Council, Governor of the countv Longford, who by his first Lady, be had George the prefent Earl, and two daughhis Loidship married fecondly, 29th Apl, 1766, Lady Georgina Augufta Berkeley, (who married afterwards the Revd. Mr. Lutie,) eldest daughter of Augustus, the late and 4th Earl of Berkeley, by whom he had leveral children; and his Lordship dying the 15th April, 1780, was fucceeded by his eld: ft fon. (6th Earl,) George, the 6th and prefent Earl. Titles.] Sir George Forbes, Earl and Vilcount Granard, Baion of Clanchugh and Baronet. Creations.] Baronet of Nova Scotia, 26th September, 1628, 3d Car. ft.; Baron Clanehogh, and Vitcount Forbes of Granard, in the county of Longford, 22d No. vember, 1675, 27th Car. 28.; and Earl of Gran 30th December, 1694; 36th of the ns.) Sapphire, three bears heads coup d, pearl, muzzled, ruby. Creit.] On a wreath, a bear paffant, pearl, Gutte de Sang, muzzled, ruby. Supporters.] The dexter, an unicorn erminois the finifter, a dragon with wings expanded, ermine. Motto.] Fax mentis, incendum gloriæ. The torch of the mind, is the faine of glory. Chief Seat.] Cattle Forbes, otherwife Lifbrack, in the county of Longford, two miles from Longford, and fifty-two from Dublin. THE Ginkell, Earl of Athlone. HE Right Honourable Frederick Chriftian, Rynhart de Ginkell, Earl of Athlone, and Baren of Aghrim, who is married, and has feveral children. (Ift Eirl.) Godert de Ginkell, the 1st Earl of Athlone, derived his descent from a very ancient family, in the United Pio. vinces, where he was Baron de Reede, and Ginkell, Baron of Ameronger, Middachier, Livendael, Elf, Stervelt, Roenberg, &c. Knight of the Elephant, Grand Commander of the Teutonic Order, G neral of the Cavalry of the United Provinces, of the Dukedom of Guelder, and County of Zutphen. Being promoted by King William to the poft of L, Gen. of his forces in Iveland, he gave hignal proofs of his courage and conduct, in reducing the kingdom to his Majesty's obedience, as is fully fhewn by the public hifcries of that King's reign. After the battle of the Boyne, and his Majefty's departure from Ireland, General Ginkel, whofe province it was to profecute the wai, b'gan that work by decamping, 6th June 1691, from Mallingar; and fummoning the next day, the garrifon of Ballymore, the Governor whereof, Colonel Ulick Burke, returning an evafive antwer, the General commanded the attack, when two breaches being made, the garnifon furrendered at discretion; after making the place defenfible, he marched towards Athlone, and 20th June, ordered an affault to be made, which the English obeyed with great refolution, and a continued fire, unt.i they came to the breach: after which fuccifs, batteries were raifed against the Inf Town, and on the 30th, about 6 o'clock in the evening, the army intiepidly took the river Shannon, (the itresun being very rapid, and the paffagerendered very difficult by many large ftones) and by an incredible piece of bravery, forced their way through water, fire, and fimoke; and gaining the oppofite bank, were in lefs than half an hour, malters of the town, while the distracted garrifon fled to the army near encamped: St. Ruth their General, fent feveral detachments to difledge the English, who making ufe of their own works and fortifications against them, truck, fuch a terror, that the army decamped that very night. This daring enterprife is hardly to be paralleled in hiftory; the town being gained across a wide and deep river, by 3000 men, in the face of a great army, who were mafters of all the fords by their retrenchments; and, therefore, it was but juftice, that Gen. Ginkel! fhould entail on his family the honour of this atchievement, by the title which was after conterred upon him. On 10th July, he marched from Athlone 1 to Aghrim, and viewing the enemy's camp, found it of very difficult accefs; but confidering, he had now advanced so far, that he muft either force hi paffage by a battle or retreat with lofs, refolved on the former; and upon Sunday the 12th, began the engagement at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, which continued doubtful for fome time, his army lying under very great difadvantages from the bogs and hedges; but General St. Ruth being killed by a cannon ball, the Irish horse drew off upon his fall, and in a hort time, the whole army was driven to the top of Killcommodon Hill, which being exposed to the English fhot, they betook themselves to an open flight, with the lofs of about 7000 men. After this great victory and a few days refreshment, he marched to Galway, which he took the 20th July; and 25th Auguft, reaching Limerick, made himself mafter that very day of Ireton and Cromwell forts; croffed the Shannon by a bridge of boats, 22d September, with ftrong detachments of horse and dragoons, ten battalions of foot, and 14 pieces of cannon; and pushed on the hazardous fiege of Limerick with fuch bravery, that on the 26th, hostages were exchanged; and ift October, the Lord Juftices, Sir Char. Porter, and Tho. Lord Coningsby arriving in the camp, the articles were finally concluded on the 3d, for a furrender of the caftles of Limerick, Ross, and Clare, with all other places of ftrength, as yet poffeffed by the Irish: and thus in a few months, by the extraordinary bravery and unwearied expedition of this great General, was accomplished the reduction of the whole kingdom. On the 3d November, he was received in Dublin, with all imaginable refpect from the government and city; and 21ft that month, plendidly entertained by the magistrates, as he was in February following, at MerchantTaylor's Hall, by the city of London; and, to his immortal fame, received the thanks of the House of Commons by their Speaker, 4th January, 1691; to which he returned in anfwer, I acknowledge this diftinguishing honour done me by the Houfe of Commons, which I value above a triumph: the fuccefs of their Majefties' arms in Ireland, was owing to the valour of the English; and I will take care to communicate the vote of this house to the officers, that ferved in Ireland; and always endeavour the profperity of their Majefties and the Government.' And as a reward for his fervices, he had a grant, 13th OЯtober, 1693, of the forfeited eftate of William Dongan, Earl of Limerick, (attainted 16th April, 1691,) containing the saftle, town, and lands of Caftletown; the manor of Kildrough, &c. in the counties of Kildare, Dublin, Carlow, Meath, Kilkenny, Longford, Tipperary, and Queen's 6 County, amounting to 26,480 acres, with feveral houfes in Dublin and many tythes; all which were confirmed by Act of Parliament, th Dec. 1695. And as a further mark of hønour, his Majefty was pleased to create him by Privy Seal, dated at Whitehall, 11th February, and by patent, 4th March, 1691, Earl of Athlone and Baron of Aghrim, with 201. annual creation fee. Being appointed to command the Dutch horfe in Flanders, he attended King William thither in 1692; and 11th Auguft that year, was prefident of the court-martial which condemned the Chevalier de Grandval, for attempting to affaffinate his Majefty, and pronouncing his fentence, the fame was executed on him two days after, in the camp at Lembeck. In 1693, he was at the battle of Landen, where he had a narrow escape of being drowned. In 1696, he burned the magazine of Givet, confifting of all manner of flores to fubfift an army of 100,000 men for three months; and after the fiege of Keyferfivert, commanded in chief the allied army, encamped at Clarinbeck near Cleves, when the Marshal de Boufflers forming a defign to furprize Nimeguen, or at least to beat up the Earl of Athlone's Quarters, and to cut off his communication with the town; his Lordship, receiving advice of that General's march and defign 10th June, retreated to Nimeguen in good order, and defeated the Marshal's purpose, who was much fupe rior in numbers. Prince Naffau Saarbruck dying at Ruremonde in 1702, his Lordship fucceeded him as Veldt-Marfhal of the armies of the States Genera), a command defervedly conferred on him; but he departed this world the 11th February following, at Utrecht, after two days illness. And his lofs, though great in itself, was yet more fo to the States, at a time when the campaign was approaching for his zeal to the public was accompanied with an extraordinary experience, and an uncommon prefence of mind in the most difficult and furprifing cir. cumftances, of which he gave ample testimonies. He left iffue two fons, Godert, his fucceffor; and Heer Harvelt, ois of the chief Nobles of the province of Guela who married Lady Mary de Naffau, elčast furviving daughter of William Henry, the first Earl of Rochford, and had issue. : In (2d Earl.) Godert, the fecond Earl, was Lieutenant General of the Dutch Forces, and Governor of Sluys; and acquired great reputation in the fervice of the States, during the courfe of Queen Anne's wars. 1710, after the fiege and taking of St. Venant upon the river Lys by the Allies; his Lordthip being ordered to command the efcort of a large convoy by that river, was attacked by Mr. de Ravignan, Marial de Camp, who by his thorough knowledge of the coun try, |