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GENTLEMAN's and LONDON

AGAZINE,

For FEBRUARY

Venus chiding Cupid.

1785.

With an elegant Engraving, in the Manner of Bartolozzi, by an Irifb Artift.

As Beneath a myrtle shade,
S Cupid on a fummer's day
Tir'd with fome idle, am'rous play,
Reclin'd his weary head;

Young Chloe chanc'd that way to reve,
To footh her anxious cares;
Tell gentle echo of her love,

And whisper all her fears.
Surpris'd, the fpy'd the little boy

Hid in the close retreat,
His bow unftrung, his arrows too
Lie scatter'd round his feet.
Then ftraight this vagrant to enfnare,

She rang'd all round the grove,
Pluck'd up the pinks and lillies fair,
And bound the god of love.

Poor Cupid try'd his hands to move,
He try'd, alas in vain ;
Thrice flutter'd with his wings, and ftrove
To break the fragrant chain.
But when he saw her fnowy breaft,
Her lips and sparkling eyes,
Pleas'd there to find fo fweet a neft,
He thus in transport cries;

Another love let Venus gain,

"Tis here I'll fix my fway,
More conquefts then fhall grace my reign,
And gods my pow'r obey.

This known, bright Venus angry grew,
And chid the wanton boy;
If you refort to Chloe's charms,

Your mother's you'll deftroy.
The Hiftory of Jobn Banier, an illuftrious
Hero of the 17th Century.—(From Coxe's
Travels.)

OHN Banier, of an illuftrious Swedish

seiving a very excellent education, made fo Gent. Mag. Feb. 1785.

great proficiency in literature, that Guftavus Adolphus ufed to call him his learned general. Whilft a boy he attracted by his magnanimity the notice of that Monarch, who pronounced him formed for great events, and placed him in the army; where he fignalized himself in fo particular a manner, that, under twenty years of age, he was employed by him in many critical enterprizes, which required no less dexterity than bravery. After the death of Guftavus he fupported, as commander in chief, the luftre of the Swedish arms by a series of victories, which raifed his military character higher than that of any general of the age. He fuftained this reputation undiminished until his death, which carried him off at Halberstadt on the 10th of May, 1641, in the 40th year of his age. Banier was not infenfible of the glory which he had acquired by his great actions, but ufually spoke of them with great modefty. He was accustom ed to say, that he never formed any expedia tion, nor hazarded an action, without the moft reasonable hopes of fuccefs. He was equally feared and beloved by the foldiers, and always infpired them with the most unbounded confidence. At the head of his troops he acted folely from himself, and without de pendence and would rather have refigned the command, than have been directed in his military operations by the orders of the cabinet.

'Why do ye think,' he would fay to his confidents, that Gallas and Picolomini cannot be fuccessful against me, but because they dare not act without the consent of the Imperial Miniftry?' He had the abfolute difpofal of all commiffions, and established in general a regular order of promotion: he was humane to the vanquished enemy, ex

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nerals who in fieges facrifices the lives of their men in order to raife their own military charafter.

A new and correct Peerage of Ireland, compiled from the most approved Authori ties, and illuftrated with the Arms of each noble Family, elegantly engraved.

(Continued from Page 5.). Fitzwilliam, Earl of Fitzwilliam. HE Right Hon. William Fitzwilliam, Earl of Fitzwilliam, Vilcount Miltown, Lord Fitzwilliam, Baron of Lifford, in Ireland, Viscount and Baron of Milton, and Earl Fitzwilliam, in Great Britain, fucceeded his father William, the late and third Earl, 9th Auguft, 1756, was born at Milton 30th May, 1748, and married 11th July, 1770, to the Hon. Lady Charlotte Ponsonby, youngest daughter of the Right Hon. William, the fecond and prefent Earl of Befsborough, (by his wife Lady Caroline, eldest daughter of William, the third Duke of Devonthire) by whom, as yet, he has no iffue. In 1782 be fucceeded his uncle the late Marquis of Rockingham, in his great eftates in England and Ireland.

William, and. ons daughter, Donatia. Sir William married Ella, fifter to the Earl of Warren and Surry, and had iffue Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam, who married Agnes, daughter of Roger, Baron of Mitford, and had three fons and five daughters. Sir William, his heir, married Agnes, daughter of Richard, Lord Grey; and had William, his heirs Lord of Emley and Sprotborough, who had fummons to parliament amongst the Barons, 1ft of Edward the third, but not after. He married Maud, daughter of Edmond, Lord Deincourt, and had four fons and five daughters. Sir John, his heir, married Joan, daughter of Sir Adam Reresby, and had issue Sir John, his heir, who married Elizabeth, daughter of the Earl of Huntingdon, and had three fons and four daughters. Sir William, his heir, married Maud, daughter of Lord Cromwell, and had, iffue two fons, Sir John, Lord of Emley, &c. who married Eleanor, daughter and heir to Sir Henry Greene, and had fix fons and one daughter. Sir William, the eldeft, was a Merchant Taylor, and Alderman of London; he was for fome time in the fervice of Cardinal Wolfey, whilft he continued the favourite of King Henry the eighth; but on that Minifter's difgrace he retired to Milton, where the Cardinal found an Afylum, for which Sir William was fummoned before the King, and demanded by him, How he dared to entertain fo great an enemy to the itate? returned in anfwer, That he had not contemptuoufly or wilfully done it, but only becaufe the Cardinal had been his Mafter, and the means of his greatest fortunes. With this anfwer the King was fo well fa tisfied, that faying he himself had too few fuch fervants; he made him a Knight, and one of his Privy Council. He married three wives; by two he had iffue; and was, fucceeded by Sir William, his eldeft fon, who married Anne, daughter of Sir Richard Sapcoats; and was fucceeded by Sir William, his eldest fon, who joined the Earl of Bedford and others in proclaiming Lady Mary Queen of England, on the death of King Edward the fixth, and put themselves in arms to oppofe the Lady Jane Grey, who was foon depofed of her royalty. As foon as the Queen was fettled on the throne, he was appointed Keeper of the Great Seal, and held many other high employments under the Crown. By his means Tyrone was made a county, and divided into eight baronies. He married Anne, daughter of Sir William Sidney, and had two fons and three daughters. Sir William, his heir, married Winifred, daughter of Sir Walter Mildmay, and had illue two fons: Sir William, his eldeft fon, fucceeded, and was

This family of Fitzwilliam is, by fome Genealogists, affirmed to derive its defcent from Thomas (or rather William) FilsGuillaume, Filius Willielmi, Fitz William, coufin in blood to King Edward the Confeffor, by whom he was fent ambassador to William, Duke of Normandy; and that King dying foon after, he remained in Normandy until the year 1066, when he accompanied the Duke in his invafion of England, in quality of Marshal of his army; and fo fignalized himself in the decifive battle of Haftings, that the conqueror, to fhew the fatisfaction he took in his fervices, gave him the fcarf from his own arm, which he wore in that battle, and which remains to this day in the family; by which victory that prince made his way to the throne of England. He married, whilft in Normandy, Emma, (or Mary) daughter and heir to Monfieur Solabinis, of that dutchy, and left Sir William Fitzwilliam his heir; who married Eleanor, daughter and heir of Sir John d'Emmeley, Lord of Emmeley and Sprotborough, in the county of York, and had Sir William Fitzwilliam his heir, who was Lord of the fe places in right of his mother. He married Ifabella, daughter and co-heir of William, Earl of Warren, in Normandy, and of Surry, in England; and by her had Sir William, his heir, Lord of the faid places, and Roger, Lord of the manor of Gretewell, by gift of his uncle, on paying two pair of gilt fpurs every WhitSunday. Sir William, his heir, married Aubrey, daughter and heir of Robert, Lord Lizures, by whom he had one fon, Sir-the first Lord.

(ift Baron.)

Lord of Kerry. He married Grace, daughter to Mc. Murrough Cavenagh, fon of Dermoid, King of Leinfter; and dying in 1280, left two fons, of which

(2d Baron.) Maurice fucceeded, being filed Maurice Fitz Thomas, of Kerry. He married Mary, daughter and heir to Sir John Mc. Cleod, of Galway, by whom he had five fons and four daughters; Grace, married Robert, Lord Percival; Mary, to George, Lord Roche, of Coflea, commonly called the Red Roach; Joan, to William, Lord Barry, of Olethan; Elinor, to John, Lord Roche, by whom she was mother of Blanch, the first Countefs of Kildare.

(3d Baron.) Nicholas, the eldest son, fucceeded, and was knighted in 1312, by John, Lord Offaley, for affifting him to fupprefs the rebellion of the Irish in Munfter. He married Slaney, daughter to Connor O'Brien, Prince of Thomond; and dying 1324, left three fons and fix daughters; Maurice, and John, fucceffive Lords of Kerry; Gerald, a Monk, who died in Italy: Of the daughters, Catherine, married John, Lord Barry, of Hely; Mary, to Sir Robert D'Lacy, Lord of Ivecolyen; Elinor, to Maurice, the 1ft Earl of Defmond; Joan, to Maurice Fitzgerald, the ift Knight of Kerry; Elizabeth, to Sir Otho de Lacy, of Browry; Margaret, to Donald Mc. Carthy, Prince of Desmond.

(4th Baron.) Maurice Fitz Nicholas, the eldeft fon, fucceeded. Having a diftafte to, and a difpute with, Dermoid Oge Mc. Car thy, fon and heir of Mc. Carthy More, he killed him upon the Bench, before the Judge of Affize, at Tralee, in 132; for which he was tried, and attainted by the Parlia ment at Dublin, but was not put to death; yet his family thereby loft their lands in Defmond and Molahiffe. He was afterwards taken prifoner in 1339, by Maurice, Earl of Defmond, for affociating with the Irish, and disturbing the peace, and kept in confinement till he died that year, occafioned by his ftrict diet; and leaving no issue by Honora, daughter to O'Conner, of Kerry, was fucceeded by his brother,

(5th Baron.) John, to whom the Lordfhip being reftored, he was the fifth Lord. He married, by dispensation from the Pope, firft, Honora, daughter to O'Brien, of Thomond, his Mother's great niece; by whom he had a fon Maurice, his fucceffor, and a daughter. He married, fecondly, Elinor, daughter to Garrett Fitz Pierce, of Ballymac-Equim, and by her had two fons and a daughter; and dying at Lixnaw in 1348, was fucceeded by his fon,

(6th Baron.) Maurice, the 6th Baron. He married, firft, Ehzabeth, daughter to Raymond, Lord Canton, and widow of

Maurice, the 2d Earl of Defmond, and by her, who died 1375, he had a fon, John, who died before him, unmarried, in 1364, and a daughter. His Lordthip married, fecondly, Joan, daughter to Gerald, the fourth Earl of Defmond; by whom he had two fons, Patrick and Richard, and one daughter. He died in 1398, and was fuccecded by his fon,

(7th Baron.) Patrick, commonly called Barbatus, the 7th Baron, was killed in the county of Clare in 1410, leaving iffue by Catherine, daughter to Teige Mc. Carthy More, Prince of Desmond, three fons and two daughters; whereof Thomas, the eldeft, fucceeded, and was the

(8th Baron.) Thomas, the 8th Baron, married Honora, daughter of James, the 7th Earl of Deimond, by whom he had three fons and three daughters. Patrick, the cldeft, died before him, and was fucceeded by his fecond fon, Edmond,

(9th Baron.) Edmond, the 9th Baron, who died in 1498, leaving iffue two fons and two daughters, whereof Edmond, the eldeft, fucceeded, and was the

(roth Baron.) Edmond, the roth Baron, married Winifred, daughter of Teige Mc. Mahon, by whom he had four fons, who all enjoyed the title, and five daughters.

(11th Baron.) Edmond, the eldeft, fucceeded, and was the 11th Baron; and by King Henry the 8th, in 1537, was created Baron of Odorney, and Viscount Kilmaule; which titles ceafed with him, he dying in 1541, without iffue male by his wife Catherine, daughter of John, Lord Zouch, of / Codnoure, and was fucceeded by

(12th Baron.) Patrick, his brother, the 12th Baron, who married Slaney, daughter to Murrough, the 1ft Earl of Themond, and had iffue two fons, fucceffive Lords of Kerry; and he dying of a cold he took after hunting, was fucceeded by his eldest fon,

(13th Baron.) Thomas, the 13th Baron, was left a minor, and died in 1549, and was fucceeded by his brother,

(14th Baron.) Edmond, the 14th Baron, who died within a month after his brother, and was fucceeded by his uncle, Gerald, 3d fon of Edmond, the 10th Lord.

(15th Baron.) Gerald, the 15th Baron, married Julia, daughter to Cormac-Oge Mc. Carthy, Lord of Muskerry, but was killed in Desmond in 1550, about a month after he was married; and having no iffue, was fucceeded by his brother,

(16th Baron.) Thomas, the 16th Baron, was 4th fon of Edmond, the 10th Lord; and being bred a foldier in Milan, in Italy, under the Emperors of Germany, for many years before the honour accrued to him, was then in that country; whereupon one Gerald Fitzmaurice, the next heir male appa

rent,