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 CHICHESTER 467 appearanee on the 95th of September, 1802, in the eha- racters of " Sir Benjamih Dove in the "Brothers," and “ Lazarillo," in "Two Strings to your Bow," and was re- ceived with great applause. He afterwards became manager of the Swansea and Monmouth theatres, and died at the latter place, of dropsy on the brain, on the 1eth of February, 1819 Such was Andrew Cherry, a man who underweht every variety of disappointment and misery, for the pleasure of being conspieuous : his life, though little else but a record of folly, however, will not be utterly useless to mankind, if but one of those eountless individuals-the would-be Richard's and Hamlet's, pause ere they sacritice the sun- niest hours of their lives, making a compact with the " juggling fiend, that keeps the word of promise to their eat, and breaks it to their hope." As an author, Cherry is fully deserving of the epithet, ingenious, as he contrived to produce á comedy (The Sol- dier's Daughter) which ran for thirty-seven nights, at a time when the public taste was not very degraded. He wrote altogether ten dramatic pieces, the titles of which are to be found in the Biographia Dramatica. ARTHUR CHICHESTER, EARL F DoNEGAL, was the eldest son of Edward, Viscount Chichester and was born on the 16th January, 1606. In 1627 he succeeded Lord Valentia in his troop of horse, and after the decease of his father, was appointed governor of Carrickfergus for life. At this place he resided when the first tidings of the rebellion were brought to him, on Saturday, 93rd Oetober, 1641, about ten o'clock at night. He immediately by fires and alarm-drams raised the country, and distributing the arms and ammunition among those who came to Carriekfergus, he left the castle under the care of Captain Roger Lyndon, and marched with aboût three hundred borse and foot to Belfast, where he received a reinforcemént. On the 27th he joined the