Star.
London, England, 1815-12-18 00:00:00

I. DEXTH OF THE DUKE OF NORTJLK.

Saturday morning, at nine o'clock, in his 70th
year, after an illness of some n: ,uths continuance,
which he bore with the tireatest fortitude and resig-
nation, died at his house in St. James's-square, the
Most Noble Citation Flowann, Duke of NoRFoLK,
Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England,
Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Baron Fitz-Alan, Mut
slavers, Clun, and Oswaldestre ; Premier Peer and
Chief of the Noble Family of Howard ; Lord Lieu-
tenant and Custos Rotnlorurn of the County of Sus-
sex, and Colonel of its Militia ; High Steward of the
Cities of Gloucester and Hereford, and President of
the Society for the Encouragement of Arts and Ma-
nufactures, F.R.S. and F.A.S. &c. &c.
His Grace is succeeded in his titles, hereditary ho-
nours, and principal estates, by litzuziaap EDWARD
HoWARD, Esq. of Fornham, in the county of Suffolk.
The late Duke was a desceulant, in the fourth de-
gree, him CHARLES HOWARD, the fourth son of
HENRY FREDERICK HOWARD, Ear) of ARUNDEL, who
lived in the reign of CHARLES I. Mr. Howann de.
scends, in the same degree, from Bentraen,a younger
son of that Earl, who was the great grandson of
THONAS HOWARD, Duke of NORFOLK, beheaded and
attainted on account of Many, Queen of Scots, in the
feign of Queen EI.IZASETH. The Dukedom of Nor-
folk, and other henours, were restored to the family
by the reversal o' that attainder in the year 1661.
The late Duke of NORFOLK (only son of the Duke
Cuant.r.s). was born 18th of March, 1740.. He was
twice married; first to Miss MARIAN CtiPTINGER, of
Ballyvolane, in Irelan 1, an heiress, who died without
leaving issue, 28th gay, 1768; and, secondly. to
the Hon. FRANCES SOUDAIWIRE, ai...) an heiress, thu
only daughter and heir of JAttus Viscpunt SEFDA•
HORS., by whom" he had nq issue.
His Grace, who assumed the titled Earl of
&RITE during his lather's life time, was educated
partly at home under a private tutor, and partly in
France ; he, however, renounced the errors of the
Church of Rome," obtained a seat in Parliament,
and took an active part, in conjunction with the late
Mr. Fox, who then beaded the Opposition, against
the American war.
In 1788 he wits appointed a Lord of the Treasury,
when the Duke of PORTLAND wag first Commissioner
and Lord J. CAVENDISH Chancellor of the Exche-
quer. in the following year the University of Oxford
was pleased to create him Doctor of Civil Law, and
be succeeded to the family honours and estates in
August, 1786.
In consequence of a certain pan of the Noble Duke':
political conduct in an early prriod of the revolu-
lionary war, iti; Majesty's then Government deemed
it proper to remove his Grace from the Lieutenancy
of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and from the com-
mand of that corps of Militia; but he was appointed
to the Lieutenancy of Sussex, and the Coloitelcy of
the Susses Militis, oct the demise of the late Duke of
RIIMOND, in 1800.
The parliamentary conduct of the late Duke of
Nsperout, since his accession to the Peerage, has been
that of a perfectly independent Senator; though ge-
nerally leaning to the politics of the Opposition, he
supported his lvlansves Government on every im-
portant question where he thought that its conduct
was deserving of approbation. HO was uniterruly
the strenuous advocate of a pacific system.
The Duke of Nonyout possessed a plurality of
some of the finest country seats in the kingdom ; first,
the ancient baronial residence of the HilWAttn family,
Arundel Castle, by tenure of which the girldom of
Arundel is conferred. This noble gothic mansion
has been of late years much re-edified and embel-
lished, and was, a very few months since, the scene
of some princely entertainments, in which the gor-
geous exuberance of true old English hospitality was
chastened and refined by the graces of modern ele-
gance. Secondly, the magnificent modern structure
of Worksop Mador House, in the county of Notting-
ham, which is erected in the midst of as extensive
and beautifully, picturesque park, •and to which
it attached upwards of one thousand acres of wood-
land, mostly planted by the late Duke. Thirdly,
the venerable residence of the family of SCUDS.
Kong, Holme Lacy, in Herefordshire, which contains a
valuable selection of the works of VANDYKI, JANSEII,
and jimmy, and is enriched with the entiisite car-
vings of GIBBONS. This mansion and property, in'
which the Duchess of NO/WOLK lone lived 111 a stain
of seclusion, in consequence of occasional mental de.
rangement, reverts, we believe, to another line. Be-
sides these, his Grace was proprietor of the beautiful
Gothic villa, Graystoke Castle, in the centre of the
tbmantie lake scenery in Cumberland ; and of Shef-
field Manor, a very ancient seat, fimed in historic
tote, which had been for some yews very little fre-
quented by his Grace.

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