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268 eightieth year, honoured her with an epistle in French on the occasion.

At the end of the second volume of the duke of Wharton's Poems, are five letters from Lady Chudleigh, to the Rev. Mr. Norris, of Bemerton, and to Corinna, i. e. Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas.

She wrote several other things, which, though not printed, are carefully preserved in the family, viz. two tragedies, two operas, and a masque. Some of Lucian's Dialogues, in verse; Satirical Reflections on Saqualia, in imitation of Lucian's Dialogues, with several small poems.

She had been confined to her chamber by the rheumatism, a considerable time before her death, which happened at Ashton, in Devonshire, in the fifty-fifth year of her age.

several years reckoned, not only the first actress in England, but supposed by many to excel the celebrated Mademoiselle Clairon, of the continent; was the daughter of Mr. Arne, an upholsterer, who resided in King-street, Covent-garden, and sister to the celebrated Dr. Arne.

Miss Arne was born 1715. Her education was suitable to a young woman who had then the hopes of a very ample fortune: she made great proficiency in whatever was taught her, having a most remarkably lively genius, and a very tenacious memory; but dancing and music more particularly engaged her attention; and her brother's early eminence in the latter science, enabled him