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Rh Head, with a French privateer of eighteen nine-pounders,six six-pounders, and about two hundred men. The Falcon fought her several glasses; but night coming on,they both lay to, and in the morning renewed the engagement; when the privateer, having lost a great many men, thought proper to sheer off. The Fox man-of-war, oftwenty guns, soon after falling in with the Falcon, immediately gave chace to the privateer, who had not got out of sight; so that we expect shortly to have a good account of her. The captain of the Falcon had his leg shot off above the knee in the engagement; but none of crew were killed, and only two hurt."

The fact probably is, that, he was promoted to the Glasgow immediately on his arrival in port, as a rewardfor his gallantry on the preceding occasion; but did not long survive the wounds he sustained on the event which caused his well-deserved advancement.

HARRIETT CATHERINE BERNARD,

January 19, 1768, and married, February 12, 1784, Francis Bernard, Earl of Bandon, by whom she had eleven children, of whom eight survive her. This lady's excellentqualities threw a lustre on her high descent, and a peculiar brilliancy on her surrounding relatives. In the immediate neighbourhood of Castle Bernard, she will long be gratefully and affectionately remembered for her munificent charities. Her excellent understanding directed her to the most useful pursuits, and in the cultivation of botanical and agricultural knowledge, she was induced to forward many desirable undertakings, and aided most essentially many of the most useful establishments in Dublin, as well as the Cork Institution and Farming
 * Her ladyship was the only daughter of Richard Boyle, second Earl of Shannon, born

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