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BROWN. 218 he not only lost his curacy, but soon after his school; nor did we ever hear he was properly remunerated by the family for whom he risked and lost so much. In 1772 Dr. Brown was removed to Elphin, and in 1775 consecrated Arebbisbop of Tuam previous to which period his wife died, and he entered into the connubial state a second time, at the steady age of seventy, choosing for his partner the widow of a Captain Batry, a lady possessed of an agreeable person, higbly accomplished, and who bad attained the age of thirty. The seeming inequality of this match was commented on in the usual agreeable way, and many jokes (which cannot be too much reprobated) passed at the tea tables and other parties of the friends of both sides; amongst which the following bon mot was long recorded The day after the ceremony, several of the bishops and dignified clergy of bis acquaintance, who happened to be in or near Dublin, agreed to go and compliment him on the occasion. The archbishop, who was always a man of high spirits, and which he enjoyed to the last, bore their raillery with great good humour, and retaliated on them in their own way. " Well, but," said the.Bishop of Derry, " though we need not ask you, my lord, how you are, seeing you in sucb high spirits, how does Mrs. Brown bear the hurry of her new situation?'-“ Oh! perfectly well," replied the other; "for I can assure you she had the full benefit of clergy !-"I am heartily sorry for that," said the bishop, looking very gravely; "as you know, my lord, by our laws, she cannot have that benefit a second time." lo He died in his archbishopric in about eight years after his marriage (1782), without issue by his last wife, but leaving several grandchildren, and other relations, bebind bim. His eldest son Edward died a dean, and left several children. His second son Thomas died early, chancellor of the diocese, without a family. His eldest daughter married a dignified clergyiman, and his youngest died unmarried