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Rh, against the criticisms of Voltaire, has always been highly esteemed. Mrs. Montague's society comprized the most respectable of the literati, in all ranks of life. She wrote the three last Dialogues of the Dead, which were published by Lord Lyttleton, and have been considered as some of the best. Her Letters are highly extolled for their wit and vivacity. In private life, her benevolence was unbounded—one instance of it, that of her annual dinner to the chimney sweepers, a forlorn and unfriended race, deserves to be commemorated.

Mrs. Montague was the eldest daughter of Sir Septimus Robinson, Knt. in East Kent; sister of Lord Rokeby, and of Mrs. Scott, who died in 1795, having written several popular novels.

Monthly Visitor, &c.

Her manners were captivating; she excelled in all the fine accomplishments, and was perfect mistress of the Latin, English, Italian and Spanish languages. She composed a great number of pieces of poetry, which were crowned with success at the Academy des Jeux Floraux. She translated the Odes of Horace, and Pope's|Pope's Eclogues: her other compositions are, Une Ode sur le Printems; une Elégie sur la Conversion de Sainte Madeleine; une Idylle sur la Mort de Mademoiselle de Catelan; une Elégie sur la Coupe d'un Bois. There was also found, after her death, some very elegant poems.

Mrs. Thicknesse.

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