thropy of difpofition and gentleness of manmers endeared her to all who had the happiness of knowing her. She hore a long ill nefs with refignation and fortitude. An inquest was this night held at the King's Head, Limehoufe, on view of the body of Wm. Locke, efq. a captain in the fecond regiment of Tower Hamlets Militia. After the Coroner (Mr. Unwin) had given the Jury their charge, they retired to view the body, which prefented a fight awefully affecting and picturefque, being wrapped up in the English colours, with the uniform which the deceafed wore, and watched by two grenadiers in their regimental drefs. The first witnefs called was Capt. Bartlett, of the Weft India Dock Volunteers. He ftated, that he had frequently feen the deceafed on guard at the Dock; he had called that evening, by accident, at the house of Mr Tobin, where the deceafed was fpending the evening; at fupper be observed him to be a good deal intoxicated, and his voracious manner of eating much furprised him. About the middle of fupper he obferved the deceafed turn pale and faint, and advifed he fhould be taken into the air. He got worse, and medical aid was fent for. Mr. Tobin, of Limehoufe, depofed, that the deceafed had come to his houfe with a friend; he had feen him often before, but was not intimate with him. He stated, that he supported him a' confiderable time on his knee,till a furgeon came; that he gradually obferved his pulfation diminifh, till he was quite gone. The furgeon, Mr. Wedgborough, ftated, that he came too late to render any affiftance; that life was totally extinct; he believed the deceafed did not die of apoplexy, though he could not trace his death to any particular caufe. Verdiet, Died by the Vifitation of God. 23. At her apartments at Chelfea, in her 81ft year, the celebrated Signora Galla. She was fome years fince a performer of confiderable celebrity on the ftage of the King's theatre in the Hay-market, and was the laft of Handel's fcholars; and that celebrated musician compofed feveral of his mott favourite airs exprefly for her, both in his operas and oratorios, in which the fang with great applaufe; and appeared fo lately as the year 1797 at Mr. Afhley's oratorios at Covent-gurden theatre. After quitting the ftage, the refided as a companion with the unfortunate Mifs Ray, and was in company with her at Covent-garden theatre, on the evening fhe was shot by the Rev. Mr. Hackman, April 7, 1779. Being thus deprived of her fituation, and not having made any provifion for her declining years, fhe has fubfifted entirely on the bounty of her friends, and an annual benefaction from the Royal Society of Muficians. In her 11th year, Mifs Elizabeth Græme Coxe, daughter of Daniel C. efq. of JuhaAreet, Berkeley-fquame. Burnt to death, by her drefs catching fire, the daughter of Mr. Cotterill, of North place, Gray's-inn-lane. Mr. Mofes Haughton, painter, of Afhted, near Birmingham. The amateur of the fine arts will poignantly regret the lofs of this ingenious artist. In the productions of his pencil, which are very numerous, to copy Nature was his principal effay; to delineate her truly, his chiefelt aim. He studied her unerring and variform feature with an af fiduity that hews he was perfectly ac quainted with the importance of his model, and he will he readily acknowledged as one of her moft fuccefsful imitators. His pieces of Dead Game will very long remain a do rable monument of his profeffional genius; they are, probably, little inferior to thofe of the best mafters of the prefent day. At Abroath, Scotland, aged 64, Jn. Ouch terlony, efq. late provoft of that burgh. 24. At her houfe in Belvidere-buildings, Bath, moft fincerely lamented, Mis. A. Dempfter, daughter of the late John D. efq. of Dunnichen, in Scotland; in whom true politeness and genuine Chriftianity were moit happily united. At Bromley, Middlefex, aged 78, Mr. John Burgh, many years a refpectable weaver in Booth-treet, Spital-fields. 25. At the house of the Secretary at War, in New Norfolk ftreet, Mary-la-Bonne, Col. Hamilton, of Pencaithland. Aged 81, Mr. Lupton, farmer and gra zier, of Belminthorpe, near Stamford. Aged 45, Mrs. Tenney, wife of Mr. T. linen-manufacturer, of Newark, Notts. Mrs. Atwood, wife of Mr. James A. cut. ler,of Northgate-ftreet, Bath. Being Chriftmas day, he had retired to her room to read over the fervice of the day, and was in a very fhort time after found dead. At Frifkney, co. Lincoln, Mr. Gafk, gra zier. He went to church in perfect health, and during fervice was thought, by fome of his neighbours, to have fallen afleep, but, at its conclufion, was found dead. At Hammersmith, Middlefex, Mr. Robert Teefdale, F. L. S. and well known by his refearches in botany. At his houfe at Moydow, co. Longford, in Ireland, aged 79, the Rev. Rob. Beaty, archdeacon and vicar-general of the diocefe of Ardagh. 26. At Hanworth, Middlefex, the Rev. Robert Burd Gabriel, of Worcester college, Oxford, M. A. 1773, B. D. 1781, D. D. 1784; prefented to this rectory by the Duke of St. Alban's in 1778, which was once held by Adam de Brome, founder of Oriel college. Our readers will recollect his unprovoked attack on Profeffor White for his Bampton lectures, under pretence of befriending the filter of Mr. Badcock. See vol. XLIX. pp. 1022, 1023, L. 431. He was proprietor and preacher at the Oc tagon chapel, Bath. ₤1804 Pe804. In his 22d year, Dutton Seaman, efq. of f Mr. Cr the Inner Temple. In his 73d year, Mr. Thomas Eley, of gh, Derby, who, with an ample fortune, reti. red from bufinefs a few years ago. The cly regres . At York-houfe, Batterfea, Surrey, the To the wife of John Reynolds, efg. every pond At his lodgings in Edinburgh, Mr. Tho inciplmas Willoughby, a refpectable performer femi at the Theatre Royal there. 27. At his house in Berners-ftreet, aged Aged 48, William-Walter Yea, efq. of Jn. Robinfor, efq. of Shefford, co. Bėd2. school of Dromore, where his application was fo diligent that, in about two years and a half, he had read the principal Latin and Greek Clafficks. Being thus qualified to fuperintend the education of youth, which had heen the object of his wishes, he was received, early in 1804, as an affiftant. teacher in the academy of the Rev. Dr. Bruce, of Belfaft, where he was dittinguifhed for his diligence and kill in preparing the boys under his care to he examined before the lat Summer vacation. B., hy this time, fach ftrong fymptoms of a confumption had appeared in his call, thin, and fender frame, that he could not any more return to his charge, and his declining health confined him to the houfe of his poor mother, near the turnpike-gate hetween Hillsborough and Dromore, where he continued to experience the kindness of his former patron, and was most generously nattended by Sir George Atkinson, an eminent physician in Hillsborough; hat his cafe was beyon the reach of medical aid, and terminated fatally. He was in'erred in Dromore churchyard on the 29th, having nearly completed his 24th year, heing boru March 19, 1781. Cunningham, though very unlike, in his bodily frame, to Dr. Goldfaith, who was fhort and not fender, fo frengly resembled him in face, that, when he stood near the profile of the Doctor, his portrait feemed to have been drawn for him. His poetical compofitions have often adorned our pages; and we shall refer our readers to vol. LXXI. pp. 1030,. 1125, LXXII. pp, 60, 157, &c. &c. In her 62d year, Mrs. F. Glover, who had lived 50 years in the fame cottage at Honington, Suffolk, where he gave birth to that much-admired rural poet, Robert Bloomfield, author of "The Farmer's Boy," &c. which poem was firft written with the fole view of pleafing his mother, by the recital of scenes long paffed; but, by its unprecedented fuccefs, on being introduced to the world, he was enabled to contribute. much towards the comfort of her declining years; and, on hearing of her laft illness, with that true filial piety which breathes throughout all his productions, he went to her from London; and, with unwearied patience, watched her rapid decay till her death clofed a well-fpent life. At Lazarus hofpital, in Hereford, aged upwards of ico, Elizabeth Garrett, who for a long period fold fruit in that city. She was born in the reign of Queen Anne, and was found, when but a few days old, at the South end of the street where she kept her apple-ftal', and from that circumitance obtained the name of Street. However, having, at an early age, engaged the affections of a barber of the name of Garrett, he married her; and from this circumstance it became a common obfèrvation, that Bet had mounted from a Street to a Garret. She walked out till within a few days of her death, and her faculties were unimpaired to the laft. She was conveyed to her grave by fix hair-dreffers, to each of whom the has left a razor. In Magherabeg, near Dromore, in Ireland, the felf-taught poet, William Cun-" ningham; who, while he was a poor weaver-boy, having received the first rudiments of education at one of the Bishop of Dromore's Sunday-fchools, had, by reading fuch books as he could borrow, made fo confiderable a progrefs, that, in the Autumn of 1800, he prefented his Lordship with a copy of verles requesting the loan of hooks. The Riftop, ftruck with the marks of genius difplayed in this poem, refcued him from the loom, and placed him at the diocefan 28. Suddenly, the Bishop of Noyon, one of thofe dignified Ecclefiatticks of France who remained attached to the Houle of Bourbon, and was alfo one of the antient French Nobility. At Dyke, co. Lincoln, in confequence of a fright experienced on the preceding day from accidentally letting an infant fall out of her arms, Mifs Diana Howes, of King's Cliffe, co. Northampton, an amiable young lady, aged only 18. After a most afflicting illness, which the bore with pious refignation, Mrs. Linwood, of Leicester, During the courfe of a long life the performed the various duties of a Chriftian with exemplary piety, and in the exercife of practical benevolence. The genuine purity of her mind, the active kindnefs of her difpofition, and the warm philanthropy of her heart, had long endeared her to a large domestic circle, and to a numerous acquaintance. In her the poor have loft a liberal benefactor, her family an affectionate relation, and fociety a moft valuable member. She was mother of the incomparably ingenious Artift whofe performances in needle-work have heen fo juftly and univerfally admired. See our vol. LXIX. p. 235; LXX. 560; LXXII, 652. 29. Mrs. Dyer, fhop-keeper, of Enfield. At 7 At Illington, Middlefex, in his 73d year, Mr. John Biggerstaff, a very worthy man, near 40 years veftry-clerk of that parish; an office in which a no lefs worthy fon has for fome years been his affociate. In Marlborough-buildings, Bath, after a tedious illness, David Mili, eiq. Aged 98, an antient Ifraelite, known by the name of Old Frankfort, who for many years had lived in Bristol in a very abject ftate, but whofe fituation had been rendered very comfortable from the charitable fund of the New Congregation of Jews fince its eftablishment. In his 49th year, Mr. Litherland, of Liverpool, inventor and patentee of the lever watches, and of an ufeful and ingenious application of helical fprings, to preferve the time of fringed mufical inftruments. At Marston, in his 60th year, Mr. John Dolby; whofe extenfive agricultural concerns procured him a numerous acquaint ance, by whom he is fincerely regretted. Mr. Whitefaith, of Bawtry, co. Lincoln, wine-merchant. Being a captain in the Volunteer corps, he was buried with military honours. At St. Valeri, near Rray, Ireland, in her 79th year, Mrs. Walker. 30. Thomas Gibfon, M D. of Hadleigh, co. Suffolk. In Park-ftreet, Grofvenor-fquare, in his 80th year, Gen. Patrick Tonyn, colonel of the 48th Foot, and late governor of the province of Eaft Florida. At Frensham, Surrey, of which he was rector, aged 49, the Rev. Thomas Mantell. He was admitted a renfioner of Corpus Chrifti college, Cambridge, 1773; B. A. 1777, M.A. 1779, B D. 1788, fellow 1771. He bought the great tithes of Frentham, Elfted, and Sele, of the late Wm. Bishop, efq. which he took in kind with great unpopularity, conteft, and perpetual lofs of fuits, and ferved by curates the three churches. He married Lady Banks, whofe .children by her former hufband were unprovided for, and his own fon was put to fchool to the parith-clerk of Elfted. has alfo left a daughter. From his own father he and other children inherited 3000l. each in gavel kind. He 31. At Enfield, Middlefex, aged 71, Mr. George Fielding, a wealthy butcher. In his 69th year, Mr. Wm. Ofborne, of the Adelphi motel, in the Strand. At his houfe in Porto au-fquare, aged 87, Joshua Ireninger, fq. of Wharwell, near Andover, fuppofed worth 150,001. In his 66th year, Mr. James Chafe, of King-freet, Norwich. At Deeping St. James, co. Linooln, Mr. John Baker. At Reddith's hotel, in his 39th year, George Evans, Baron Carberry, of the kingdom of Ireland, and M. P. for the county of Rutland. In 1792 he married Mils Watfon, daughter of Col. W. who amailed a confiderable fortune in India. The firk baron was created by George I. in 1715. He was confidered the finest man of his day; and the King bestowed this honour on him on account of his extreme beamy and manlineís. The late Lord was truly amiable, and a man of the mildeft and moft gentlemanly manners. About two years fince, his Lordship was hunting on his eftate near Nerthampton, and had the misfortune to burit a blood-veffel, and was confidered at the time in extreme danger. About 15 months ago he broke his arm, which brought on a lingering complaint, confidered by the faculty as a decay of fome internal part. A few weeks fince, his Lordship came to town, and has been under the care of Dr. Bailie and other eminent phyficians, who confidered him fo far recovered as to fanction his return to the country, and Friday, Dec. 28, was the day fixed for his departure with Lady Carberry for his feat in Northamptonshire. Preparatory to the journey, he rode in Hyde park. On the 26th and 27th, Ke was in good fpirits, and faw company each afternoon; but in the morning of the 28th he propofed to Lady Carberry to poftpone their departure till the 31ft, to which the acquiefced. About one o'clock in the morning of the 29th, he was feized with a violent ficknets in his flomach, and rang the hell for his fervant, who immediately attended, and, on finding his Lordship had again burft a blood-veffel, fent for Dr. Bailie, who adminiftered fome medicine which relieved his patient fo much that he fat up, dined, converfed, and was intolerable fpirits; but in the evening of the 30th a relapfe took place, which terminated fatally at nine o'clock in the evening of the 31ft. Dying without iffue, he is fucceeded by his uncle, the Hon. John Evans, of Dublin. His eftates in the counties of Cork and Keriy amounted to 15,000l. a year. All his perfonal property is he queathed to Lady Carberry. His remains were interred in the family-vault at Laxton, co. Northampton. The funeral proceßion was grand, and joined by his Lordship's tenants. GAZETTE PROMOTIONS. Downing-frect, A PPOINTMENT of J. M. Fector, efq. to te vice-contul for the King of the Two Sic lies at Dover, approved by his Majefty. Whitcball, Nov. 6. Gen. Sir Tho. Trigge, K. B. appointed lieutenant-general of the Ordnance of the United Kingdom, vice Gen. Viicount Howe-Liut.-col. James Murray Hadden, appointed furveyor and furveyor-general of the Ordnance, vic Lieut.-gen. Alexander Rofs. Whiteball, Nov. 20. Charles Hope, efq. late his Majefty's advocate of Scotland, appointed his Majesty's juftice clerk in Scot land, nighter of land, vice Sir David Rae, dec.-Sir James le former Montgomery, bart. of Stanhope, advocate Created by Cand prefenter of fignatures, appointed his dered the Majefty's advocate in Scotland, vice Hope. King beat Dublin cafle, Nov. 26. Right Rev. Dr. count of Nathaniel Alexander, bishop of Killaloe The land Kilfenora, tranflated to the united bia man of hopricks of Down and Connor, vice Dr. anly William Dixon, dec.-Rev. Robert TotLord tenham (commonly called Lord Robert Nathan Tottenham), promoted to the bishoprick of urfa Killaloe and Kilfenora, vice Alexander, e time ago e to town, War-office, Dec. I. Lieut.-gen. the Hon. Henry Fox, having already the local rank On a linger of General in the Mediterranean, to be Gee facut neral in the garrifon of Gibraltar alfo. Ak Whiteball, Dec. 29. Sir Richard Bickerton, bart. rear-idmiral of the Red, permitof Dr. Bited (by his Majefty) to accept and wear who cord the infignia of the Ottoman Imperial order of the Crefcent (of the fuperior degree), tranfmitted him by the Grand Signior, and to add the fame to his famliy arms. ficknes heli tor be ded, and barfta admis d has pa verted, at Whiteball, Dec. 31. Major-gen. George Beckwith, appointed captain-general and governor in chief of the islands of St. Vincent, Bequia, and fuch other islands commonly called the Grenadines as lie to the Northward of Cariacou, in America. CIVIL PROMOTIONS. Mputy-regifter of the archdeacon's Rev. William Aldridge Cockey, B. A. Weft Ogwell R. Devon, vice Neyle, dec. Rev. John R. L'Aus, rector of Bicton, NorthTamerton perpetual curacy, Cornwall. Rev. James Satterthwaite, Whicham R. co. Cumberland. Rev. William Floyer Cornish, Thorn'onWatlafs R. co. York, vice Powley, dec. Rev. John Gatliff, St. Mary R. in Man chefter, vice Rafbotham, dec. Rev. T. Barker, jun. B. A. Thirkleby V. and Kilburn perpetual. curacy, both co. York, vice Thomas Barker, refigned. Rev. Thomas Vere Chute, M. A. Moulton Magna R. Norfolk. Rev. Edward Hamley, LL.B. Cufop R. in the diocese of Hereford. Rev. Mr. King, rector of Nuthurft and Fittleworth, in the diocefe of Chichester, Lympham R. co. Somerset. Rev. Henry Fofter, M. A. elected to St. James's Cur. Clerkenwell, vice Davies, dec. Rev. John Dennis, White Notley R. co. Effex, vice Twining, dec. Rev. Ralph Spofforth, M.A. vicar of How R. Walter Prideaux, appointed de den, Cowthorp R. co. York, vice Martin, dec. Court of Totnes, Devon, vice Hernaman, dec. John Mansfield, efq. appointed receivergeneral of the county of Leicester, vice Chefelden, dec. Mofes Greetham, jun. efq. appointed judge advocate of his Majesty's Fleet, vice Binfteed, dec. Right Hon. Peter Perchard, lord mayor, elected prefident of St. Bartholomew's hofpital, London; and Mr. Alderman Newn ham, elected collector of the orphans' duty on coals in the city of London; both vice Alderman Harley, dec. Mr. William Anderfon, elected principal land fea-coal meter of the City of London, vice Parish, dec. Mr. Thomas Faffon, elected fécond clerk to the Court of Requests, London. Mr. John Dowling, elected principal clerk, and Mr. Samuel Richardfon and Mr. Benjamin Curtis, fecond and third clerks, to the New Coal-market in the city of London; and Mr. John Frere, beadle. 1. The Foundling-Cinderella. 2. The Mountaineers Of AgeTc-money”. 3. Much Ado aboutNothing TheCaravan. 5. She Stoops to Conquer-Cinderella. 6. The Stranger The Devil to Pay. ['s!. 7. Much Ado about Nothing A House o se 8. Pizarro-No Song No Supper. Cor 9. George Barnwell-Cinderella. 10. She Stoops to Conquer-The Deferter. 12. The School for Scandal-Spoil'd Child. 13. The Rivals TheDoctorand Apothecary. 14 The Recruiting Officer-Ric 15. The Soldier's Daughter-Ditto. [de Lion. 16. The Way to Keep Him-The Cinzen. 17. The Provok'd Hufband-Tv: Salon, 19 TheSchoolfo Scandal-The Apprentics. 20. Lovers' Vows-Matrimony. 21. As You Like It-Ditto. 22. Pizarro-Ditto. 23. The Bufy Body-Ditto. 24. Hamlet-Dillo. 26. Ditto-Ditto. 27. She Stoops to Conquer-Dillo 28. She Wou'd and She Wou'd No Patto. 29. The Belle's Stratagem-Ditto. 30. Deaf and Dumb-Ditto. Dec. 1. The By Body-Dito. 3. Hamlet-The Prize. 4. The Belle's Stratagem-Ma rimony. 5. The School for Sc nJl-Cinderella. 6. The Provok'd Husband-M. rimn ¡y. 7. A Bold Stroke for a Wife - Ditto. 8. She Sloops to Congtier-D, La. 10. Douglas-The Citizen. 21. The Blind Bargain-The Irish Mimick RichardtheThird-Raymondand Agnes 30. The Blind Bargain-Paul and Virgini 4. Douglas-The Birth-Day. 5. Lovers' Vows-Honeft Thieves. 11. Ditto-The Midnight Hour. 14. Ditto-Raifing the Wind. 20. The Blind Bargain-A Tale of Mystery. CHRISTENINGS and BURIALS from December 13, 1803, to December 11, 1804. 1237 60 & 70 -11824 70 & 80 1935 80 & 90 - 413 103 1599190 and 100 - 771 792| Mifcarringe Decreased in Burials 4 Mortification 368 Broken Back 17c2 Palpitation of Heart o Broken Limbs 2 Palfy 13 Piles 60 Pleurify 158 Quinfy 8 Scurvy 7 Gravel,Strangury,and Rheumatifm 12 Grief Burften and Rupture 14 Head-ach Chicken Pox Childbed Colds 6 Small Pox 1 Sore Throat I 56 Headmouldshot, Hor-Sores and Ulcers 230 Confumption 3447 Itch Convulsions Cough, and Hooping-Lethargy 622 Exceffive Drinking 20 Executed II Found dead 6 Kil ed by a Boar 1 93 StoppageinStomachro 3115 Leprofy 697 Livergrown 619 Worms Killed themfelves 13 404 Poitoned 2 Cough Cow Pox Cramp Croup 141 Vomiting&loofenefs of Smothered There have been executed in Middlefex and Surrey, 10; of which number 6 only have INDEX |