The Sun.
London, England, 1806-02-14 00:00:00

THE L,ITE -LORD 4SOALVEiIS.

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This Noble Peer; WhO'Wa§7gra'rid nephew of the,
great Lord Sommers, .wiis, -brought ep to 'the 'o''':'
the favourite profeosion of. the fainilf, '`and, in the'
early part :of life, travelled - the Western CirenitT
but the whole landed property of the' Cocks family,`'
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by decease of the'represen tativei-of its other branches
having\vested in him, he' gnifted the Bar as -alficra--
tive prefuSsien, .and .was returned. to Parlirannt fbr : •
.the family Borough ..Of:Ryegate, in Surrey:. 'His._ -
:Lordship,: during the. Administration of the .i..ife',
;Lord .North, long held an official situation in the
-/C, ivil-Department of- the Ordnance:.l.:.lfis Merits'and's
fl'arliainentary services were 'reW:aliqed. -by his %,-e-. ',
ireignyfirstivith a--Baroneoge, and afterwards with a::
Peerage. The former . had b6en'S brigiqnfly gr:lnted
to Sir Richard Cocks, of pumbleton,.atid Represen;'
,tative'forit-in .Parliament, (a younger branch of: the
.CaStleditch fattily):',;anno,l66B ;'and, tiiiim the de-
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'cease .01-;Sir nobert.Cocks; the fOurth 'in-descent, in
,1765, the, Dumbleton estates lapsed to the objea of'
our .pr6senrinvestigaiion,-..as. heir general. The title ~
'of Baronet was renewed in hith, September 1.9; -
1772 ;-=and, .On- May 7, 1784, he was farther' ad-
vanced to the Barony of .EveSbani....HiS Lordship's '
retriains were' deposited with those of his 'ancestors,
iat*Eastnot; Iferefordt hire, .on' the t .ith 'inst. Lord
:Samtriers was twice married. 'By his first Lady,
Elizabeth, . sister to thelate Lord Elliot, he has sur-
viving issue, John Sommers, M. P. for Ryegate,.and '
Colonel Commandant Of - the-Yeomanry- Cavalry f0r....
the County of Worcester; and *Harriet.. BY his se-
:cond Lady (who survives-him), Anne; sister td the
Right Hon. Reginald Pole CareW*, and to Admiral
Sir Charles •Morice Pole, Bart; he has left issue,
Philip .Jathes; a Lieutenant-COlopel in the Army;
and .Anna-. Maria; Nivifeof the ReV Philip Yorke, Pre-
bendary of Ely. The'decense of the youngest son,
Reginald,. F.R. S. (a .Gentleman of the Chamber
'to' his cousin, the Earl of Hardwicike, Lord. Lieu-
`tenant of Ireland; and -an'Auditor of. Public ',lc-
e-mints there), waslately announced.
The- Peerage (with the: estates of the value of *
, more ,than- 20,0001. per annum), devolves; to *the
eldest son, 'John Sornmers, which creates a vacancy.
in the Representation for Ryegate. The present '
',;Lord has ..faliOurecl the -Public •With. three Political
.Tragas since the commencement of the French Re-
'i,-e.ltition, on Civil-Libertv—on the Danger of Level-.
:ling .Principles-,--and on: Negotiating With France.—
By his Lady, Margaret; billy • daughter and sole-
'heiress Pf Treadway RussdP.Nash, I).D.- (the Pip;
'vineial Historian of Worcestershire), he has thtee
,sons and one daughter : his eldest son, Charles Ed-
ward, is in the Army; and, by the absence of, hi 4
'senior Officers, a comhiand devOlved to ,him in
Dublin, on toe- niernorable night when Lord KII-.
warden was massacred by -the Rebels.

ICY.R PORTER, the ingenious Artist, is‘gone
to Russia, for the purpose .of painting some of the
,themorahle•aaions in the history of that Country..

MARA is at Moscow, where her musical powers,
which arc said to be in a state of unimpaired exseil
lence, ,are highly admired.