ADVERTISEMENT.

IT is neceffary to acquaint the Reader, that the

references in this volume are marked from the laft

elegant London edition of Mr. Sterne's works in ten volumes. Price two Guineas.

ROGER STERNE (grandson to

Archbishop Sterne) Lieutenant in Handafide's regiment, was married to Agnes Hebert, widow of a captain of a good family: her family name was (I believe) Nuttlethough, upon recollection, that was the name of her father-in-law, who was a noted futler in Flanders, in Queen Ann's wars, where my father married his wife's daughter (N. B. he was in debt to him) which was in September 25, 1711, Old Style.This Nuttle had a fon by my grandmother-a

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fine perfon of a man, but a graceless whelp -what became of him I know not-The family (if any left), live now at Clonmel, in the South of Ireland, at which town I was born November 24, 1713, a few days after my mother arrived from Dunkirk.My birth-day was ominous to my poor father, who was, the day after our arrival, with many other brave officers, broke, and fent adrift into the wide world with a wife and two children-the elder of which was Mary; the was born at Lifle in French Flanders, July the tenth, one thousand feven hundred and twelve, Old Style.-This child was moft unfortunate-fhe married one Weemans, in Dublin-who used her most unmercifully-fpent his fubstance, became a bankrupt, and left my poor fister to thift for herself,-which she was able to do but for a few months, for she went to a friend's house in the country, and died of a broken heart. She was a moft beautiful woman-of a fine figure, and deserved a better fate.-The regiment in which my father ferved, being broke, he left Ireland as foon as I was able to be carried, with the reft of his family, and came to the family feat at Elvington, near York, where his mother lived. She was daughter to Sir George Jaques, and an h

we fojourned for above