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co. Armagh, Efq; to Mifs Monroe, niece able, he walked 168 miles every week for of the late right hon. countefs of Ely.thefe five years paft.-In Church-street, 10. Alexander M'Donnell, of Lurgan- Redmond Wade, Efq; aged 79-11. At fireet, Efq; to Mrs. Irwin, of Caftle- Ladiftown, co. Meath, Mrs. Lyons, lady ftreet,-13. At Cork, Wm. Galway, of of Col. Lyons, and aunt to John Monck Mallow, Efq; to Mifs Wight.-Samuel Mafon, Efq;-In London, the hon. lady Hayman, of Clonmell, Efq; to Mifs Sophia Lambert, eldest dau. of the right Eliz. Hayman, dau. of the late John hon. earl of Cavan.-13. In Fleet-street, Hayman, Efq;-18. Mr. Mat. Stritch, Robert Lawless, Efq; formerly an emian eminent merch, to Mifs Kelly.-An- nent woollen-draper in High-street.-At thony Leigh, Efq; to Mifs Morgan, of Worcester, in America, Mr. Rob. Blair, York-street.-Sir Robert Tilfon Deane, a native of this kingdom, aged 91 years. Bart. to Mifs Fitzmaurice, grand dau. He has left 6 fons, 4 daughters, 87 grandand fole heiress of John Fitzmaurice, of children, 106 great grandchildren, and Springfield, co. Limerick, Efq; poffeffed 6 great great grandchildren, in all 209.of a real estate of 3000l. per annum. Mrs. Crofton, lady of Duke Crofton, of the co. Leitrim, Efq;-At his house in

DEATHS.

April 24. IN Pruffia ftreet, M's Reis ly, lady of Henry Stevens Reily, Efq;-At Cork, Capt. Grifley. In the co. Sligo, Daniel Mulleery, in the 127th year of his age. He had fought at the Boyne and Aughrim, and had been wounded in both engagements. He retained his memory and every other faculty in their full perfection to the laft moment of his existence, and was attended to his grave by a numerous train of fons, grandfons, and their iffues; in

Crow-fireet, John Magill, Efq; clerk of

the deliveries in the ordnance office.29. At Cork, John Mitchell, Efq; capt. in the 45th regmt. foot.-At Wexford, the lady of George Morewood, Efq;At his feat at Kilbarry, Co. of Cork, John Garde, Efq;-At Cork, the Rt. Hon. Lady Blayney, Lady of the prefent Lord Blayney, and dau. of Thomas Tipping, Efq;

PROMOTIONS.

ICHARD MOORE, of Derrypark,

amounting to thirty two.-26. At Bof-R Efq; to be a juftice of the peace for

fetftown, near Thurles, Mich. Keating, Efq;-At Limerick, in a duel, John Reynolds, Efq; lieut. in the 45th foot, and fon of the late alderman Geo. Reynolds. -29. At Befborough, John Allen, Efq; -At Mountmelick, Geo. Warren, Efq; -May 1. At his lodgings on George'shill, defervedly lamented for his eminent abilities, that great phyfician and naturalift, doctor John Rutty, one of the people called quakers.-2. The hon. Arthur Dawfon, late one of the barons of his majesty's court of Exchequer. By his death a considerable fortune devolves to his nephew, Arthur Dawson, Efq; an eminent banker of this city.-At Drogheda, Leathum Blacket, Efq;-At Belfaft, Stephen Haven, Esq; one of the burgeffes of that town,-4. Mifs Morgan, only child of Richard Morgan, Efq;-6. At Cork, Tho. Vandeleure, Efq; barrifter at law. At Johnstown, Mrs. Anne Dillon.-8. In Cavendish-street, Geo, Cockburn, Efq; formerly an eminent army agent in this kingdom.-In Britain-ftreet, John Lord, Efq; an eminent merchant of this city.-9. At Liverpool, on her way to Bath, Mrs. Maquay, lady of Geo. Maquay, Efq; of Thomas-street. 10. At Carlingford, Mr. John Smith, aged 101 years; and what is very remark

the co. Tipperary.-Rich. Gorges, of Catherine's grove, co. Dublin, Efq; to take and use the furname and bear the arms of Meredyth.-Henry Pilmer, Efq; to be capt. in the 24th foot.-Tho. Ivory, Efq; to be architect to the commiffioners of his majesty's revenue (John Smyth, Efq; deceafed.)-Lieut. general John Irwin, col. of the 57th foot, to be commander in chief of his majesty's forces on this establishment, in the room of the Rt. hon. Lt. general George Auguftus Elliot, refigned.-Major gen. James Johnston, col. of the 9th dragoons, to be col. of the to be col. of the 9th dragoons.—John ift regmt. horfe.-Col. Flower Mocher, Longfield, Efq; to be high fheriff for the co. Cork (Mat. Freeman, Efq; dec.)— The right hon. lieut. general John Irwin, to be one of his majesty's most hon. privy council, and governor of Londonderry and Culmore fort.-Capt. James Allen, of the 57th foot, to be aid de camp to lieut. general Irwin, commander in chief.-James Garden, Efq; to be fecretary to the right hon. lieut. general Irwin.

BANKRUPTS.

CorSTACKPOLE, of the city of Philipstown, King's co. inn-keeper.

Cork, merchant.-Patrick Duffy, of

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Memoirs of SPRANGER BARRY, Efq; With an elegant Engraving of that Gentleman in the Character of Alexander the Great.

ALMOST every incident of the pub- of fupport.

lic and private life of this capital actor is fo well known to the inhabitants of this kingdom, that the writer of these memoirs can scarce flatter himself with being able to lay any thing before the public, in regard to him, that is abfolutely new; he therefore can claim no other merit, than that of affembling together the principal occurrences of both, for the information of pofterity.

Mr. Spranger Barry was born in the parish of St. Werburgh, in Dublin, about the year 1715, and, after having received an educatión suitable to the profeffion for which he was defigned, was bred as a filver-fmith, and fettled in that occupation in Skinner-row in the fame city. For fome time he attached himself pretty closely to bufinefs, and married a young gentlewoman, who brought him a fortune of fifteen hundred pounds. Thus enabled to indulge his natural bent for elegance (being, like the Marc Antony he has fince fo often reprefented, fplendid, generous, and inconfiderate) in about five years after his marriage he failed.

This accident caufed him to reflect on his paft diffipations; but when he had fettled his affairs in the best manner he was able, he found it totally impoffible for him to appear again in bufinefs, and was obliged to feek for fome other means

June, 1775.

As his perfon was very ftriking, his voice perfect melody, and his conceptions very ftrong, he thought he might be able to draw from the theatre, as an actor, more than he had spent in it as an auditor. His first attempt was, for his own benefit on the 2d of March, 1744, when he appeared in the Theatreroyal in Aungier-ftreet, in the character of Othello. Here he started out at once a finished performer. His perfon and his manner, with the delicate fweetness of his voice infpired love in more than Defdemona; and his mafterly performance furprized and charmed a judicious audi❤ ence.

The applause he justly received, with the profits confequent thereon, determined Mr. Barry to make the stage his peculiar province; and from that hour he omitted no opportunity of fecuring that reputation he had acquired, which was ftill encreafed by his performance of Pierre, in Venice Preferved, on the 9th of the fame month, for a second benefit. In this character he alfo fucceeded, but not to that degree he could have wifhed; for, although formed to exprefs manly dignity, it was foon vifible that his forte lay in expreffing the tender paffion of love, for which no actor within this laft century, was ever more naturally adapted; and accordingly, as foon as he could he quitted the manly Pierre for the lovSf

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ing Jaffier, in which character he has been hitherto unrivalled

As a proof that he wished to join the amorous with the heroic, his third character was that of Varanes in the tragedy of Theodofius, which he performed (for a third benefit) April 26.

Thefe were all the characters in which Mr. Barry appeared for that feafon; but in the next, which commenced the 11th of October, 1744, (and did not finally clofe till the 5th of Auguft, 1745) he was thoroughly attached to the theatre, and appeared in nine new characters, viz. Macbeth, Lear (for his own benefit, November 26) a principal character in the Patriot, a tragedy, written by Mr. Brooke (in which Mr. Foote alfo performed a capital part) which was acted four nights; Oroonoko; Marc Antony, in Julius Cæfar; Oreftes, in the Diftreft Mother; Henry V. the Earl of Weftmorland, in a new tragedy of that name, written alfo by Mr. Brooke; and Young Bevil in the Confcious Lovers. In the last named character Mr. Barry fhewed he was not tied only to the bufkin, but was qualified to thine equally in genteel comedy.

The next season, which commenced in October, 1745, Mr. Barry was feen in feveral new lights. He performed Bajazet, in Tamerlane; Antony, in All for Love; Juba, in Cato; Torrifmond, in the Spanish Fryar; and Hotfpur, in Henry IV. In December Mr. Garrick arrived in Dublin, and continued in the theatre of Smock-alley till the 26th of April following. He, performing King Lear, Mr. Barry took the part of Edgar: and these two great theatrical conftellations played together the following parts: In the Orphan, Chamont, Mr. Garrick; Caftalio, Mr. Barry.

In the Fair Penitent, Lothario, Mr, Garrick; Altamont, Mr. Barry,

And here we may juftly remark that Mr. Barry was the only actor who ever fet the character of Altamont in a refpectable light.

In Tancred and Sigifmunda, Tancred, Mr. Garrick; Ofmond, Mr. Barry.

In the Diltreft Mother, Oreftes, Mr. Garrick Pyrrhus, Mr. Barry,

And in Jane Shore, Haftings, Mr. Garrick, Dumont Mr. Barry.

The declining ftate of the Irish ftage, with the unbounded licenfe of the gentlemen who would force themfelves behind the scenes, rendered the Dublin theatre no very defirable object; and as Mr. Barry's fame had reached London,

and induced Mr. Fleetwood, the then manager of Drury-lane, to offer him a genteel falary, and a capital cast of parts, he quitted Dublin in September, 1746. His fuccefs in London was even greater than his moft fanguine expectations." He was there allowed to be really capital in all thofe tragic parts which required ftrong fenfibility, and peculiar grace. In genteel comedy he had equal fuccefs. He began the line in Dublin by Young Bevil; in London he extended it by Lord Townly, in the Provok'd Husband, the moft finished character in polite and elegant life, and therefore the hardest to attain without a thorough acquaintance with the beft company; yet Mr. Barry executed it so well that Frederic, Prince of Wales (father to his present majesty) was fo ftruck with Mr. Barry's performance, that, the next day, he politely fent him an offer of the attendance of his royal highness's dancing-mafter; faying, "that, in his opinion, he only wanted the addition of a little MANNER to make him the first Lord Townly in the world."-That manner Mr. Barry foon attained, and amply fulfilled the prince's prediction.

Mr. Barry continued in Drury-lane, not only during the fhort remainder of Mr. Fleetwood's management, but also when Mr. Garrick and Mr. Lacy procured the patent; but in the year 1752, on fome differences between him and the patentees, he went to Covent Garden, where Mr. Rich received him with open arms, and he reigned there fole monarch of tragedy, without any competitor.

In the year 1754, Mifs Noffiter appeared with the utmoft applause in the character of Juliet; and as the owed the greatest part of her fame to the judicious inftructions of Mr. Barry, who performed Romeo, a tender connection commenced between them, and they jointly came to Dublin in 1758, when Mr. Barry and Mr. Woodward were joint managers of the theatre in Crowtreet, which was built chiefly by fubscription; and there the allied powers, with a well chofen band waged war against Mr. Sheridan, the manager of Smock alley, and finally put him to the rout. Some, indeed, thought that this theatrical war was, like most other wars, incited more by ambition than juftice; for impartiality muft own, that it was owing to Mr. Sheridan that the Irish ftage was ever brought to have the leaft pretenfions to decency and regularity:

however

however Crow-ftreet theatre opened on Monday, October 22, 1758, and had great fuccefs.

Here it was that Mifs Noffiter ended her life about the end of the year 1759, and left Mr. Barry's heart vacant.

This vacancy was not long unfilled; the death of Mr. Dancer (one of the performers) left his widow, an actress of reputation, and rifing by a moft rapid progrefs to that fummit of excellence to which the is now arrived. To her Mr. Barry gave the capital parts, and added to them his moft careful and affiduous inftructions; fo that it was obferved the added his fire to her foftness. Their connection began then, and fhe fome time after became Mrs. Barry.

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However great the fuccefs of Crowftreet theatre had been, yet Mr. Barry's profufenefs and Mr. Woodward's parfimony could not agree; an open rupture enfued; they attacked each other in print, and their news paper recriminations made both ridiculous. At length, by the mediation of friends, Mr. Woodward agreed to withdraw his fhare; take fecurity for what he had first advanced (near five thousand pounds) and leave Mr. Barry in quiet poffeffion; whilft he returned to London in 1762, and there fpoke his theatrical recantation, in a penitential prologue, for havingleft London.

From the departure of Mr. Woodward, Mr. Barry enjoyed little fatisfaction, but what he could derive from fchemes of expenfive convivial pleasure; and in 1766, quite tired with ill fuecefs, and quite overwhelmed with debts, he quitted Dublin to Mr. Moffop, rented out his theatre, and returned to London, having fecured an engagement for himfelf and Mrs. Barry at Mr. Foote's fummer theatre in the Hay-market.

In this new fituation he charmed the town with a revival of Othello. The part of Desdemona, which had hitherto been looked upon as very trifling, received fuch new luftre from Mrs. Barry, and her reputation was fo compleatly eftablished by her performance of that part, Belvidera, Rutland, Monimia, &c. in tragedy, and of Lady Townly, Beatrice, and Rofalind in comedy, that Mr. Garrick though it best for his intereft, to forget the difference that had fubfifted between him and Mr. Barry, and engage them both for Drury lane.

Here they continued till about a year fince, when they returned once more to Covent Garden, where they performed last season.

For fome feafons Mr. and Mrs, Barry

have vifited Dublin, as foon as their winter engagements in London were at an end; where, although the heat of the fummer would feem to forbid any great concourfe in a theatre; yet the town has always been eager to be witness of the mafterly performances of them both; and their houfes have been crouded. By this means, by the large profits which they have made in London, and by the prudential plan of economy laid down by Mrs. Barry, profufenefs has been banished from their dwelling, and Mr. Barry has been enabled to get rid of the greateft part of his cumbrous load of debts.

Since Mr. Barry has been declining in years, and has fuffered greatly by the rheumatism in his limbs, his former agility has been on the decline; but he has in great measure compenfated for that deficiency by ftriking into a line of playing wherein it ceases to be a defect, and even becomes characteristic. Evander, in the Grecian Daughter, Lufignan, in Zara, and the rest of the tragic old men are now filled by him with the greatest propriety; and as his voice has not loft any of its mellow harmony, he still continues to please and charm as much as

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Hiftory of the Proceedings of the British Parliament, concluded from Page 299.

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Wednesday, April 26.

HE house went into a Committee of the whole Houfe to confider of his Majefty's meffage delivered on the 12th of April, when Lord North, after giving the Houfe to understand that an augmentation of his Majefty's Civil Lift Revenue was become neceffary, and would come before the Houfe in the form of a feparate propofition, for their confideration in the course of the prefent feffion, moved the three following refolutions, which were reported immediately by Mr. Grey Cooper, Chairman, and agreed to by the House nem. con.

That it appears to this Committee that the Palace, called the Queen's Houfe, be fettled on her Majefty, in lieu of Somerfet. House, in cafe fhe fhall furvive his Majefty.

That, after the determination of fuch fettlement, the faid Palace be annexed and vested in the Crown of Great Britain.

That Somerset-Houfe, which, by an Act of the 2d of his prefent Majelly's reign, was fettled on the Queen, be vetted in his Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, for the purpose of erecting public offices.'

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May

May 2.] The report of the refolutions, from the committee of the whole House appointed to confider of his Majefty's meffage, relating to the fale, and purchase of the Queen's Palace and Somerset-Houfe, was received and agreed to nem. con.

Refolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee, that a fum not exceeding 46,8461. 9s. 3d. be granted to his Majefty, to make good the deficiency of the gold

coin.

Refolved, &c. that a fum not exceed ing 22,8241. 195. be granted to his Majefty for the extraordinary charges and expences of the Mint, for and during the year 1774.

Refolved, that 12,5781. 149. 9d. be granted to his Majefty, to make good the moneys iffued by his Majelly, in purfuance of Addreffes prefented by this House. Refolved, that 13,000l. be granted for the purposes of repairing, rebuilding, and maintaining his Majelty's forts, caftles, &c. on the coaft of Africa, for the year 1775.

Refolved, that 5000l. be granted to the inhabitants of Barbadoes, to enable them to cleanfe, deepen, and maintain their harbour, and for building docks, keys, &c.

Refolved, that a fum not exceeding 16841. 15s. 10d. be granted to his Majefly, to make good the expences of preventing the fpreading of the diftemper among the horned cattle, during the year

1774.

Wednesday, May 3.] Lord North moved the following refolutions, which were agreed to.

That perfons, who, on the 24th of April laft, were poffeffed of 3 per cent. annuities, fhall be at liberty to accept 881. for every 100l. towards the redemption of 1,000,000l. of the faid Fund or Stocks; one moiety to be paid on or before the 15th of July, and the other moiety on or before the 20th of October next, with intereft to the 5th of July, 1775; and, for every 100l. of fuch fubfcription, fhall receive fix tickets in a lottery, to confift of 60,000 tickets, at 121. 10s. each; and the capital Stock of fuch fubfcription fhall be annihilated. That books fhall be opened at the Bank, the 8th of May, from nine in the morning till fix in the afternoon, for the purpole of receiving the faid fubfcription. No perfon to fubfcribe more than 20,000l. nor less than 100l. and, after the whole is fummed up, the fame to be rateably divided among the fubfcribers, in proporti

to the quantity of Stock fubfcribed

over and above the faid 1,000,000l. of annuities to be fo annihilated,

That, towards raising the Supply, 1,915,5521. 165. 11d. be issued out of the Sinking Fund.

That 1,250,000l, be raised by Loans on Exchequer Bills, to be charged on the firft Aids, to be granted next feffion.

That 15,000l, out of the monies re→ maining in the Exchequer the 5th of April, 1766, the produce of American duties, be applied towards maintaining the forces and garrifons in the Plantations.

That monies paid into the Exchequer after the 5th of April 1775, and before the 5th of April 1776, produce of the duties on the exportation and importation of Gum Senega and Gum Arabic, be applied towards the Supply.'

L. North then obferved, that 3,800,000l. of light or diminifted money had been paid into the Bank, under the firft A&t; that 4,800,000l. had been paid in like manner, under the Royal Proclamation of receiving guineas not under five pennyweights three grains, nor more than fix grains; that it was computed, that, when the fecond Proclamation was iffued for calling in all guineas under full standard, that upwards of 4,000,000l. more would be called in, the whole amounting to about 14,000,000l. and the expence of melting down, receiving, intereft paid to the Bank, gratuities to the country Commiffioners, and recoinage to about 650,000l. that the deficiencies on land and malt were computed at 450,000l. that is, 50,000l. lower than they were the laft year; that the whole of the grants confifted of the land and malt, eftimated at 2,250,000l. the Exchequer Bills 1,250,000l. the profits on a lottery 150,oool, the produce of the Sinking Fund, from the 5th of January to the 5th of April, 886,000l. the three next quarters produce of the faid fund 1,915,3001. which would make the whole of the Sinking Fund 2,800,000l. and mifcellaneous favings, with the unexpected produce of the fale of French prizes, 17,000l. and fales of lands in the ceded iflands. 50,000!. taken together, would amount to 300,000l. while, on the other hand, the fervices were, the Navy, 1,700,000l. the ordnance, 300,000l. the army, 1,600,000l. Exchequer Bills of last year, 1,250,000l. Army Extraordinaries, 270,000l. mifcellaneous deficiencies of grants and coinage, 348,000!. So that, on the whole, the grants would be 6,555,000l. and the fervice voted 5,550,000l. which would leave a furplus of 1,100,000l. excefs of

grants,

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