English comedies, with alterations suitable to the genius of the Swedes, which were acted with applause at Stockholm. He had a concern in a periodical paper called the "Argus," printed at Stockholm, but which, owing to the editor meddling imprudently with politics, appears to have been discountenanced. The count married an English lady, second daughter of John Wright, esq. attorney-general of Jamaica, and widow of Elias Deritt, esq. deputy of the great wardrobe under the duke of Montague, by whom he had no issue; the counts of his name in Sweden are his collateral relations. His lady's daughter by Mr. Deritt, accompanying her mother to Sweden, was created countess Gyllenborg, and afterwards married Baron Sparre, on whose death she returned to England, where she died in 1766, and her daughter by the Baron died at Thirske in Yorkshire in 1778.1 Stoever's Life of Linnæus.-Gent. Mag. vol, LI. INDEX TO THE SIXTEENTH VOLUME. Those marked thus * are new. Those marked † are re-written, with additions. |