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By these accidents a, vast fortune came to the
late 111.irl of Bute, who married the daughter
nevertheless, this generous nobleinan,ceded- to his
hi-Other-in-law much knore than he could have

possibly obtained, and 'even more titan ,he could
have claimed, by litigation.
" In 1762 .we find him- at Tnrin ; Avbence hg
Wrote two letters to the Earl of islacelestield,

which were read at the Royal Society, Nov. 25 ;
and afterwards pubjished in. a quarto pamphlet,
intituled' Observations upon a supposed -a.ntique

Bast at Turin.'

.`‘ His next preregination vas into thb East,
where he Was ateomp.anied•by Nathaniel Davison,

Esq. and continued ihere.nearly three years.
September, 1765,-he was performing qua-
rantine at Venice, where he was met by Mr.
Sharpe, whose 'description of him shall be given
below, from Abbe Winkelman's Letters, dated
in the same year. We learn' an anecdote,. not
calculated to erase any unfavourable opinion
which -may have.been entertained of Mr, Monta-
gue : At Alexandria,' says the Abbe, he' got
acquainted with the Danish, Consul, who bad a
very handsome wife. Under various pretences,
he engaged the husband. to go Holland. Some
time after; 4e shewed a feigned letter, Mention-
ing. the Consul's death, and married his wife,
whom be now carries with him, into Syria. Not
long after, the Danish Resident at Constantinople'
received from the Texel advice of the supposed
dead Consul ; 'so that Montague is not safe in any
of the Grand Seignior's dominions.'
" His relation of the journey from Cairo in
Egypt to the Written Mountains in the Desarts
•of%Sinai, in a letter dated from Pisa, Dee. 2,1765,
was read before the Royal Society, March 13,
1766, and publiShed in their Transactions. In
the same learned repository may also be
,found
his New Observations on what is called Pompey's
pillar in Egypt.'
He is also said to have published (but I
knciw,not where) an Explication of the Causes
of Earthquakes.' He had, certainly great na-
tural abilities; 'and a' great
.share of acquired
knowledge.
"In 1766 he was .about to return to-the East;
and in' 1768 it was -stated in the public papers,
that he had been received with uncommon respect
at.COntantinople, ,after passing through Salonica,
and viewing the islands in the Archipelago. ,
" In the beginning' of the:year 1773 he was at
Rosetta, in Egypt, which be quitted in June,,and
was at the Lazaretto off Leghorn in the
,same
month. From -that place he•• Went to Venice,
where he 'stayed above two years ; during which
time (in April, 1774,). he meditated a voyage to
Mecca, and. Medina ; but this probably never took
place, or at least had not- in 1775, on the 25th of
which month, the learned physician, to whom the
letters printed.helow are addressed, thus writes
to Jinn : yOur voyage to Mecca and Medina
I most sincerely wish you health, and :every gra-
tification your curiosity can expect. I shall be
'very glad to see your portrait. I have more than
once visited that representing you Lear the Writ-
ten Mountains.. If we cannot, on account of dis-
tance, see our friends, it-is no small satisfaction
to See their representation. J most heartily 'coin-
cide with you' in your opinion of the activity and
abilities of Lord Sandwich, as First Lord of the:
Admiralty Mr. Clark is sent home with Oinai,
who is now so far acquainted with this country,
-that not long since, and without any person to
attend him, he hired a bOrse,. and rode to Visit
Baron Dimsdale; by, whbrn he was inoculated, at
Hertford. Mr. Mason, whoin the King sent, three
years ago to the Cape of Good Hope, to, collect
plants and seeds for the garden at Kew, is return-
ed with many new-acquisitions. -He' travelled
near 900 'miles to the north of the Cape, and has
. seen more of the interior of Africa than IntS been
hitherto visited by Europeans.'
during his residence at Venice, Mr.sWortlcy
Montague was visited by the Duke of Hainilton
and Dr. Moore, who, has preserved some curious
and interesting partidulars of his personal charac-
ter and-habits of life.
At this period he had become enamoured of
the dresr. and Manners of Arabia; to which he con-
formed to the end of his life. As he 'sat in his
Armenian' dress, squat, after the :Eastern fashion,
to regale himself with sitioaking tobacco and
drinking coffee, he has beeh heard to say, not un-
frequently, "that he.had long since,drank his
full share of wine and strong liquors ; and that be
had never.,once been guilty of a 'small folly in the
whole course of his life.'
" At ,Venice also:he was' visited by Mr. Rom-
ney, the celebrated painter, as .we learn by the
following extract kora his elegant 'biographer,
Mr. Haylcy. •
" After a busy residence of some months at
iktome, -Romney indulged himself with a survey of
Venice; and he chanced to,meet there an eccen-.
tric Character of his own country, with whose sin-
.gularities he was highly 4flitertai.ieti. The learn-
ed.and fanciful travelleP,,Mr. Wortley Montagne,
after his ran4bles in Asia, was at this dine
in 'Venice, with the manners, the habit, and the
magnificence Of a Turk. 'Romney painted an ad-
mirable head of hiin in his Eastern garb, and in

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.=_;.tyfe of 6.rf. 6s deallY pro-21that the pit 'n•
ter had stitdied intensely, add s_uceesstally, the
celebrated colouri.F.ts of the Venetian. s.chool.; in
deed; his head of Montague Might easily be mis-
taken' for aVenetiati picture. s It was a-favourite •
ork of -the artist, and he long retained it as a,
study fQr his own use ; but after permitting o',
small print to be taken from it, as a decoration t.O
Seward's Anecdotes, he presented the original to
a friend. He had painted a large copy from it,
Which, with other exquisite portraits by the same
master, is' ranked among the Choicest -modern
ornaments of that magnineent and interesting old
mansion, Warwick Castle. Romney iras so car
tivated 'with the extensive -knoWledge, the live/
spirit, and the fascinating conversation of Wort-
ley Montague, and that -extraordinary traveller
was so pleased with the manual and mental energy.f
of the Artist, that it is probable their acquaint'
ante might have led to the production of inal!Y
pictures, had .not their brief intimacy ended by fi
fatal mischance, which terminated all the projects
of Montague. White Romney was .with him,, be
.happened, in eating a small bird; to wound b 0
throat With a bone : the accident produeed infla-
mation, -and in-the course of a few 'days occasion"
ed his death. Such was the fate of this singalar;
man, 'who had escaped from the manifold petits 01,
roving thriwth the deserts of the East'.
" Of. the accident Which occasioned the death •
of this 'extraordinary person, there can be little
doubt; •but there. appears to be some error in the
,circumstance of Mr. Roinney's 'being present At
the accident, as Mr. Montague survived-it a col-
siderable time. -

"Mr.gonmey, after passing some time atrarnia,
and making a circuitous. route through. Turin,
Lyons, .and Paris, reached London in the' beer
ning of June, 1775. Mr. Montague's W 35
dated in that year;
.N0v.28, and,he lived till tb°
29th of April 1776.• It has been suggested b.Y.*
friend, who had good means of iuforrpation, tOt
he had actually an intention to have returned “)•
this country ; that he had engaged his passage
for Ilarseilles ; that effectual measures were folell
to" satisfy the claims of his crellitorS, and es.al-;
cate him from the immense debt which he llad
principally contracted by gaming, when he 11'
the prospect of succeeding to a very 'opulent
tune; and
.his affairs were finally so settled, Oto
he might have, passed here in case the remainder'
of his life, which, from the vigour of his cow 36-
tutionand salubrity of his regimen, proMised t°
have been a long one." •

It appears from the. French papers that the VP.
has been brought to Fontairibleau. His
was there waited upon by the Duke of Cal-ic)rf
and some of the French Bishops: The object
his journeyis not stated-: biit it is likely that hof
will be cempelled to give his sanction to soave
the decrees of the Council, whose proceedings 1l';61
hitherto been kept secret. Buonaparte intiulatlo
some time ago, that the Pope was henccfoi.th
confider Paris, and not. Rome, as . the centre
Christendom: ,

HATTON-GARDE N .—Saturday, zlliam If ecrt4'
apprehended by Read and Son, officers, 31n1c.
brought up, and underwent a second exarairiatioOlt
standing charged with the murder of Mar
Heath, his wife when all the witnesses were bol,
over to give evidence, and the prisoner was-.'-'4J .
committed for trial.
Elizabeth , Baden , apprehended by iTaricoel°
the officer, was brought up, and underwent 1-1.550
cond examination, charged with being a c0,..711,',,,c/
vender of counterfeit coin resembling dollar-
The prisoner was. convicted by the MaOtratti,;:
in 1501. agreeable, to Act of Parliament `.Ol
fault of which, to,be committed to the

Correction to hard labour for a limited time

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• MARRIED. , e
On Thnrgday evening, by .s-,rcial license, at St. Ue,,,,;11'
Church, the Right I-Ton. Lord W M ayole, to:ary, eldest d,io-
ter of the late William Fawliener, i zq. Cietk of his
Privy Council. ' 111°
The saute day, Mr. W. Beclf6rd, of Walworth, to MispXll
nth Westfalell,.second daughter of the late kieurY Nest
Esq. of Stratford-green. si?`f
The .114;v:Cliarles Prowett, nephew to the -liishan ge,
wich, to Cecilia, /oungest daughter of Sir William Is,lol'- -
Bart. Staffordshire.
•
Lately, W. P. Cruise, Esq. eldest son of Richard .Ced
E•sq, of -Ralloodnithe,ln the county of Meath
.younget daughter of the late' ir John Meridyth, "
Newton. k

. , . .
•- • .
. .
. " DIED.
(fin the. tBth inst. at Baaworth-Hause. in the C0,1,131e;
Nortlinutherland; Ralph William Grey. Esq.. in the-57L' ••
...
of-his age. .. • • - •
' . ' titer'
The same day, at Hastiuci;s, where he had gonefor -,•roal
eavy of his health, 'James Smith, Eq. of • the I(ing.
GO
nThursday., last, .in Connaught-place, Miss Ch3,eitl
Jehrns,. in the 91st year of her age, si,cuitd di:tughter„ltY'
Rev': tleurgel Jll ey'lli) of. BOttiSilatil-Hall, in, the C°'''' •
Cambridge. .. , ' - ' Pt°
Suddenly, on 'Thursday sennight, in Dublin, 'SIT'
°Toner, Kut. of Cork.' b • e 0°
On his p',ss•ige. to England,. Major John Blair, of 1,..,f,,,e1
East-India Company's Service, on the MaD dras Tstahli"'Wel
" o
and eldest son of the late itey-r.Blair,Pre'i_iendary ,
- . •
• rnidster. . • pe:
' On Malay last, at her house in Wimpol -.s.!..reet, dee ~,ro
deservedly lamented by her afflicted family and oSttg
friectuls, Mrs. Cotton., widow of ALL late Alexander,
i„o,
Esq. of Cheverells; Herts. -
On Saturday, Mrs. Morant, of• Upper Seyincut-Stecti
man •sqnaKe .- ' ' ' X e"e%
• A few days tigo,. the. infant daughter of Itientenaot
Chattipaghe, at,his 111311 ,7t! in Portnian=street. . 7iff''''
At 'Wexford, in the 74th year of his mere, Dr. Jacob; ef j
.of that Borough more than thirty thuet'in the cotirse' t
life. ' al, i"'fi
_ On the 3,1 of FebruarY last, at 'Calcutta, Beng .13 0
.87th year Of her age, Mrs. Frances Johnson, the, oldO'f 1,11
resident in Asia. 'She was, grandmother of the
.Earl ° ,P
pool, and mother of Ed-a'ard Watts,. Esq.. of Handsl°P
in Berkshire, and of Mrs. Poyntz Rickets-
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