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of fuch as are bad, and below mediocrity, that walk about therein; nothing but our forrow for what we lofe could equal the admiration we pay to the deceased Baronet. With what increase of affection, with what ineffable transport, we prefs to our bufoms that character whose privation we can never fufficiently lament' And as we descry how little actuates the prefent generation, fave ambition and nonsense, and that all human purfuits feck nothing but for felf-intereft, fraud, peculation, and prostitution; what a bright, charming gleam of fuperiority gently and nobly fpreads itself over the dear me mory of this matchlefs man! Peace to his shade --Of his talents, or the acumen of his wit, it is quite unnecessary to declaim. They stand not in need of the blazonry of any biographer; and as to his literary merit, his "book of Maxims," which bears record of h's knowledge of the human mind, and his other writings, bear fufficient teftimony. Such were his honour and integrity, that it would be difficult for the moralift to prove whether they were innate or adfcititious. If a steady and watchful attention to the wants and interefts of his fellow-creatures in general, or of his countrymen in particular; if his loyalty to the King, his attachment to the EngFish Conftitution, and the laws by which it has been fo long and fo happily fupported; if these be valuable qualities in an honest citizen, then Society has to regret the irreparable lofs of fuch a friend. Like the immortal Howard, and the philanthropic Day, he, instead of pursuing the paths of pleasure, and those that lead to wealth, and the fruition of this world, purfued, from the most beneficent motives, those that lead to the grave. He was a niggard of that exercise that might have fecured his life. His views were folely directed for the benefit of others; he forgot his own. To find out objects for the exercife of his benevolent heart was his fole delight. His love of mankind, and his charity, were unbounded. Whilft his mind was intent upon the police of his country, and his country's reformation, he died moft fincerely lamented; and he may be faid to have died for the fake of others, as he destroyed his health by forming plans for the fupport and happinefs of those who wanted both. A foe to the faftidiousness of modern life, he retired from the great theatre of fashionable vices, though formed, by a refined education, and peculiar natural abilities, to adorn the most brilliant circles, in which he had always been brought up, and exchanged the coil and idleness of the great world for the privacy and tranquility of a rural life; where, for elegance, purity, and fuavity of manners, he lived and died admired, and for true affability and dignity of life and character revered, as well as a bright exemplar of all the milder and more focial virtues. Equanimity, ferenity, and a refignation to the Divine Will, appeared in his features, and pervaded his whole demeanor, to

the very margin of that "awful bourne from whence no traveller returns.”

The occafion of Sir William's retiring from the service of the King, or rather the Court, it is said was a misunderstanding between him and the Lord Chamberlain. He began his fervices at St. James's as a gentleman uher to his Majesty; in which fituation he continued, enjoying the peculiar favour and good opinion of his Royal Mafter till he had attained the feniority to which it has been the custom to annex the dignity of a baronet. The King conferred this honour on him ; and he retired to his patrimonial estate in Derbyshire, coming to town only thofe months he was in waiting by the orderly courfe of duty. Upon a particular occasion of some ceremonial at St. James's, it was necessary for a gentleman usher extraordinary to attend at Court; and the Marquis of Saliibury, in quality and right of his office, ordered the Baronet to town, who pleaded in vain the diftance he was from London, indifpofition, inconvenience, and the expence of the journey for one day's attendance. At the fame time, he said, that another gentleman usher, at the Chamberlain's order, could not fail to do the duty in his room. The Marquis directed a fecond order to be sent to Sir William, commanding his attendance or his refignation. The Baronet immediately took a post chaife, reached the palace in time to perform his duty, and immediately gave-in his refignation.

31. In his 80th year, Mr. Robert Aflett, late fecretary to the Lead Company.

After a long and very afflicting illness, Mrs. Latuffiere, wife of Mr. Lewis L. of Derby.

Mr. Andrews, master of the Crown punchhoufe in Stationers'-court, Ludgate-street. At Cotlon, in Ireland, Mifs Mary-Anne Beaufort, daughter of the Rev. Dr. B.

At Patay, in France, about the latter end of this month (July), M. Fromantel; who had given many proofs of a very fertile mechanical genius, and had formed elliptic compaffes on an excellent conftruction. He was defcended from M. Fromantel, a Dutchman, diftinguished as being the maker of the first pendulum clock ever used in England.

Lately, on his paffage from Grenada, John Castles, efq. late of Baker-ftr. Portman-fq. At Copenhagen, aged 84, General Count d'Ahlefeldt.

At Cape Coast castle, Mr. Geo. L. Luca dou, of the Royal African Company's fervice.

At Cork, Francis Carleton, efq. one of the aldermen of that city, and father of Lord Chief-juftice Carleton.

At Mount Ruby, near Mallow, in Ireland, Ruby M'Carthy, efq.

At Cork, Mr. Rich. Daunt, attorney. At Derby, Mrs. Cooper, relict of Wm. C. efq. collector of excife.

Mrs. Hutchinson, wife of Mr. H. apothecary, of Lynn.

Aged roo, the widow Blake, of Stratford under the Castle, near Salisbury.

Aged

Aged 91, Mrs. Empfon, of Barton uponHumber, co. Lincoln. She retained her faculties till within a few days of her death.

At Robertsbridge, Suffex, aged 89, Wm. Baker, a cordwainer; who had worked 75 years at his business.

At Swalcliffe, co. Oxford, Mrs. Wykham, wife of W. R. W. efq. She was a perfon in whom were united all the amiable qualities of the woman, the endearing ones of the wife, the tender ones of the parent, and the excellent ones of the Chriftian.

At Maidstone, Kent, Mr. Daniel Stuart, hop-merchant.

At Lichfield, Mr. Storer, builder, and one of the aldermen of that city.

At Peplow, co. Worcester, aged 81, Cha. Pigot, efq. many years one of the elder brethren of the Trinity-houfe.

At Colchester, Rev. Wm. Talman, rector of Birch Magna, near that place, in the patronage of the Bishop of London, who prefented him in 1777.

At his apartments in Worcester, of a paralytic stroke, Mr. J. Miller, comedian, many years manager of the theatre of that city, and thofe of Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton.

Dropped down dead as he was coming from Highgate to Kentifh-town, Mr. John Seymour; a perfon well known to the prin cipal bookfellers and literary characters in this metropolis. By uncommon affiduity he had acquired a knowledge of various languages, and might have been highly useful had he been properly patronized; but, whether through the eccentricity of his character, increated by the failure of the chief plans on which he founded his hopes (after having been Literary Companion to an Honourable Senator), he was unfuccefsful in moft of his purfuits; with a hauteur of difpofition, arifing from the confcioufnefs of his fuperiority in knowledge, he existed amid fuch depreffions as would have overwhelmed most minds; and perhaps he often experienced as great hardships as Otway, Savage, Chatter ton, &c. He was the author of a collection of poems, confifting of Spring, &c. published about two years fince, and dedicated, by permition, to her Grace the Duchefs of Devonfhire. He likewife tranflated "The Correfpondence of Two Lovers, Inhabitants of Lyons," published about, the fame time: and lately has been engaged in procuring materials for a general hittory of the polite artists in this country, which bade fair to meet with general acceptance. He had likewife juft Completed the printing of a volume from the French, intituled "Pfycology;" which would prove exceedingly ufeful for schools.-The writer of this article cannot conclude without wishing that thofe characters who have often experienced the value of his labours had exerted their influence in affitting him who fo often affifted them.

On the terrace, in Green-ftreet, Kentish town, Mr. Crode, formerly a counsellor.

At Kentish-town, Mrs. Cooper, wife of Mr. C. printer, in Bov-itreet, and inventor of a species of printers'-ink of peculiar excellence.

Aug. 1. At Chath..m, after a long illness, aged 64, Mr. John Cazeneuve, many years a wine and brandy-merchant there, but had rethed from business.

At Frome, co. Somerset, James Wickham, efq. an eminent attorney.

At Scarborough, aged 72, Rev. George Dodsworth.

At Norwich, in his 60th year, Mr. Christ. mas Chadley.

After a long and painful illness, which he bore without a murmur, and clofed a long and virtuous life in his 74th year, Humphry Sandford, efq. of the Ine, co. Salon. He inherited from his father, half a century ago, one of the compactest estates, and one of the moft beautiful fpots, in this kingdom, being very nearly furrounded by the river Severn. He added confiderably to the value of it, by purchafing the tithes, and by draining one of the largest pieces of water in the county. He is fucceeded in his eftate by his eldest furviving fon, Mr. Folleot Sandford. He has left five daughters, and a fecond fon, Capt. Edward Sandford, who has been 22 years in the East India Company's fervice in Bengal, and now commands a battalion of Sepoys on that establishment, where Mr. Sandford had alfo four nephews, two of whom are returned to England, Major John Scott, M.P. for Stockbridge, and Capt. Jonathan Scott, of Nettley Cottage, in that county; the third, Capt. Richard Scott, who has been 23 years in India, diftinguished himself in the last war in the Carnatic, where he commanded the 26th battalion of Bengal Sepoys, under Sir Eyre Coote, and is now at the head of the fame corps under Earl Cornwallis; the fourth, Lieut. Henry Scott, is fort-adjutant of the garrifon of Chunar. A very remarkable and uncommon inftance of five perfons of one family furviving fo many years military fervice in the Torrid zone. To thofe may be added a fixth, Lieut. Jonathan Scott, the brother of Mr. Scott, of Betton, who is of the fame family.-Mr. Sandford was high sheriff of that county in 1787, when in the 70th year of his age.

2. In the King's Mews, aged 82, Mr. Geo. Shaw, ferjeant-farrier to his Majesty.

At Lechlade, co. Gloucefter, after a long and painful illnefs, Mr. Myers, furgeon.

At Hamburgh, after a few days illness, in her 69th year, her Serene Highness the Du chefs-dowager of Mecklenbourg Schwerin.

At Valenciennes, John Byron, efq. eldest fon of the late Hon. Admiral B. born Feb. 7, 1756. He married Lady Coniers, after her divorce from the prefeut D. of Leeds, 1779.

3. At Huntingdon, in confequence of having been overturned the preceding evening in the York mail-coach, by the hories taking fright at an ass, Mr. Jolm Vowell, jun. an

eming at

eminent ftationer in Leadenhall-street.- Mr. V. had imprudently, at the preceding stage, given a glass of wine to the coachman, in order to induce him to use dispatch. It is remarkable that this driver was at the time under profecution for affulting one of his paffengers, and that the perfon who drove for him fince the accident had his thigh broken by driving against a waggon at the Crown inn at Royston, which pulled the fore-wheels and carriage from the perch, and entangled him among the traces. Mr.V was brought home on the 5th. His only fon died Dec, 24, 1790, and his daughter the 7th of the fame month, both in the prime of life. See p. 657, and vol. LX. pp. 1151, 1154.-His father furvives, upwards of 8 years old.

In her 68th year, Mrs. Way, many years housekeeper to the South-fea Company.

Mr. John A. Bland, of St. James's-ftreet, fword-cutler to his Majesty.

At her house in George-ftreet, Hanoverfquare, in her 59th year, Mrs. Christabella Dayrolles, relict of the late Solomon D. efq. the intimate friend and correfpondent of the famous Earl of Chesterfield; in whofe "Mifcellaneous Works" are many letters to Mrs. D. At Rookby park, near Gretabridge, in the Eaft riding of Yorkshire, which he purchaf ed of the executors of the late Sir Thomas Robinson, Saury Morrit, efq. in his 57th year. He is fucceeded by his fon Christopher.

4. At Woodford-bridge, Effex, Jacob Rigail, efq. of Bath, Ruffia merchant.

At his apartments in that town, Sir John Good, one of the poor knights of Windfor; in which he is fucceeded by Mr. (now Sir John) Smith, a treafury metfenger. The value of this place is about 150l. per annum. 5. Aged 16, Mifs Anne Dyer, daughter of Mr. D. coal-merchant, near Temple-bar.

Suddenly, at the Bull-ian in Bithopsgate ftreet, on his return home from Margate, where he had been for the recovery of his health, Mr. Thoroughgood, fen. an eminent maltfter at Broxbourn, Herts.

6. Aged 33, Mrs. Weston, wife of John Webbe W. efq. of Sutton-place, Surrey. She was niece to the late Sir John Lawfon, of Brough, co. York, and firft coufin to the prefent Baronet of that name.

In Scotland, in his 65th year, Rev. Mervyn Archdall, M.A. a meniber of the Royal Irith Academy, author of the "Monafticon Hibernicum,” 1786, 4to. (of which fee vol. LVI. p. 973), and editor of the new edition of Lodge's Peerage, 179c, in 7 vols. 8vo. (fee vol. LX. p. 142.

Aged upwards of 60, Rev. Mr. Muffon, rector of Baginton, near Coventry.

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7. Suddenly, at his houfe in Sloane-street, B. Jennings, eiq. hufband of the DowagerLady Dudley and Ward. A paralytic stroke had contined him to his houfe about three weeks, and a fecond attack of the diforder carried him off. He was not only the man of balinefs, but a gentleman of exemplary piety.

At Hackney, Mrs. Mary Chitty.

At Milton, near Shipton, co. Oxford, in his 75th year, Mr. John Matthews, one of the people called Quakers, a man who, though he did not enjoy the advantages of a liberal education, poffeffed a liberal mind, and held the dictates of confcience, and the approbation of his Maker, superior to every other confideration. Impreffed with the excellence and benefits of Christianity, the neceffity of holiness, and the infufficiency of faith, his affectionate and ardent folicitude for extending its genuine inflbence, and promoting the best interefts of his fellow-crea tures, will long be remembered with honour to himself, and advantage to others. He enjoyed life's peaceful evening with a fmile, and met the hour of his departure with that itedfast hope and placid refignation which fo eminently diftinguifhes a true Chriftian. He has left behind him a numerous offspring; among whom the ingenious and refpectable Secretary of the Bath Agricultural Society ranks as eldest.

In his 85th year, univerfally lamented,` Prince John-Frederick-Alexander, reigning prince of Wied, &c. director of the College of Counts of Lower Saxony and Weftphalia.

In her 74th year, Mrs. Eliz. Rogers, widow, of Bury St. Edmund's.

In his 65th year, Wm. Preston, esq. of Moreby, in the commiffion of the peace for the Eaft riding of Yorkshire, and treasurer of the Lunatic Afylum at York.

In Jermyn-ftreet, Robert Waddel, efq. of Crawfill, near Linlithgow, in Scotland.

8. Aged 77, Mr. Rob, Brown, many years clerk of the Tylers and Bricklayers Company. Mr. B. was of the clafs of men called oddities. His drefs was fingular-rusty black, with a hat in the old clerical style, and a black wig. Some fuppofed he was a coal-merchant; and a late Bishop of London, feeing him on the steps of St. Paul's church, imagined he was a diftreffed clergyman, and humanely defred one of the vergers to make enquiry into his fituation. Mr. B. had been a fcholar in his youth; and, about thirty years ago, wrote fome periodical papers in affociation with Kelly. He prided himself most in his latter days on his knowledge of heraldry, and the connexions and dependencies of all noble families. A very fine mezzotinto print of him was done many years ago, which, from the fingularity of the drapery, might pafs for the portrait of an antient German Reformer. How he came by the name of Toby (except it arofe from the fignature he used to his papers) is not known, but he lived and died with it.

Aged 67, Mr. George Burley, farmer and brickmaker, of Lampton, near Hounflow.

9. At his house at Clay-hill, Enfield, aged 79, after a lingering illness, occafioned by a paralytic ftroke, Mr. Thomas Wefton, formerly an eminent fnufl-merchant in Coleman-street, one of the people called Quakers, father of M.s. Wright, of Norwich, who died in May lat, and brother of Mr. W, wine

cooper,

cooper, who died 1783. On the 12th inftant, his remains were interred in the burging-ground at Winchmore-hill, near thofe of his wife, who died June 7, 1781, in her 7th year; Mr. Jacob Bell speaking a short time at his grave.

At Downead, co. Gloucester, near Bristol, in his 54th year, Rev. Caleb Evans, D. D. many years prefident of the Baptist Academy, and paftor of the congregation of Protenant Diffenters in Broad-mead, in that city. Though he languished under a very fevere indifpofition for upwards of two months, his death may be pronounced fudden and unexpected. His friends began to flatter themfelves with the hopes of his recovery, when, on the 7th inftant, in the afternoon, a fecond paralytic feizure fuddenly rendered him fpeechless and infenfible; in which state he continued till he expired.-How pleasingly thofe qualities which recommend and endear the hutband, the parent, the Chriftian, the tutor, and the minifter, were combined in him, thofe alone can tell who had the happinefs of being connected with him in thofe capacities. He poffeffed an enlarged and liberal, a benevolent and pious mind: and while thofe individuals and communities with whom he was more particularly connected venerate his memory, and mourn for his death, the fympathy of fociety, wherever he was known, will be excited, and his remove will be confidered as a public lofs. His publications were principally occafional fermons, which are enumerated, from 1771 to 1780, in Cooke's "Hiftorical Register."

10. At Fulham, Mrs. D. Wright, eldest daughter of the late Sir Martin'W.

At his feat at Dean's-court, Wimborne, aged 28, Sir William-Thomas Hanham, bart. The title and estate devolve to his uncle, the Rev. James H. of the Clofe, Salisbury, rector of Winterborn Zelfton, Dorfet.

11. At Finchley, John Singleton, efq. At Leicester, after a long and afflicting illnefs, Mrs. Lewin, wife of Mr. L. mace-bearer.

In Leicester-square, James Stuart Tulke, efq; who, though poffeffed of an eftate of goool. a year, lived with the most avaricious deconomy to the laft. Notwithstanding the extent of the rent of Leicester-fquare, Caftle-street, Green-street, &c. which he poffoffed at the time of his death, his imagination was alarmed from day to day with the dread of want.

Mr. Lane, grocer, in Ball-street, Birmingham. He fell a facrifice to the exceflive fatigue he underwent during the late riots in that town.

12. Much lamented, Mr. Tho. Afhwin, japanner, of Paradife-row, Birmingham. The death of this gentleman (who has left an amiable wife and nine young children to deplore his lofs) was occafioned by a wound he received on the head from one of the rioters, during the unhappy disturbances at that place. And we have to add to this melancholy cata

logue, that a man belonging to a recruitingparty in Birmingham has likewife died, in confequence of the injuries he at that time received.

Vifs Robinfon. While walking in the fields adjoining Long-bank, in Leeds, the was fuddenly feized with an apoplectic fit, and died immediately.

13. Mrs. Partridge, hatter and hofier, in Tavistock-ftreet.

At his lodgings in York, the Rev. John Skelton, late of Brigg, vicar of Goxhill and Thornton-cum-Curtis, all co. Lincoln, and curate of Stockton, near York.

14. At his houfe in Lincoln's-inn-fields, John Exley, eiq. folicitor.

In his 8th year, Samuel Dafh, efq. of Shepherd's-hill, Suffex. His fortune, which was ample, he has left, except fome few le gacies, to his nephew, Wanley Sawbridge, efq. and to that gentleman's father, Mr. Alderman Sawbridge.

At Brompton, near Chatham, aged 48, Mifs Howe, fifter to Capt. H. of the marines, and niece to Philip Stephens, efq. fo cretary to the Admiralty.

15. At his houfe at Enfield, of a violent fever, aged 61, Benj Boddington, efq. an eminent West India merchant, a director of the South-fea Company and of the Million Bank; treasurer and a governor of the City of London Lying-in-hofpital, City-road; a governor of the Small-pox-hofpitals, and of almost every other charitable institution. He was the eldest furviving fon of B. B. efq. who died Sept. 8, 1779; and married, to his first wife, Sarah daughter of Mr. Samuel Richards, merchant of London, who died Jan. 30, 1772, by whom he had iffue two fons, Benjamin and Samuel, of whom Benjamin died in 1770; to his fecond, Amelia daughter of Mr. Hatfield, of Manchefter, who died in 1776, and by whom he had two fons, John, who died in 1778, and Thomas, furviving, and one daughter, Mary, who died in 1776; and to his third, Sept. 6, 1780, Mifs Petrie, eldest daughter of Mr. P. merchant, by whom he had no iffue.-His remains were depofited with thofe of his relatives abovementioned in the family vault in Enfield church on the 24th. His extenfive fortune was not more difplayed in the fplendour of his hofpitality than in the largeness of his beneficence. Diftrefs found no occafion to repeat, a fecond time, its fad tale at his door; and scarcely any of our numerous inftitutions for the relief of human affliction prefented their claims to fociety, but they found in him a liberal fupport. His manners were untainted by pride, and his temper unruffled by afperity. He bore, for many years, a series of illhealth without repining. He felt his gradual decline without a murmur; and though he fuffered extreme agony before his diffolution, yet it was the agony of the body at its feparation from a foul like his. Words will not exprefs his merit; it ftill lives in the re

membrance

membrance of those who enjoyed his fociety, or felt his commiferation.

In Parliament-street, Nottingham, Mr. Tho. Wilkinfon, gent.

At Derby, in her 99th year, Mrs. Bakewell, ironmonger, and daughter of Francis Cockayne, efq. who feveral times ferved the office of mayor of that borough.

At Willetley-hall, aged 65, Tho. Abaey, efq. fan of Sir Tho. A. one of his Majelly's juftices of the Court of Common Pleas (who was killed in 1750 by the gaol diflemper). He has left iffue only one daughter, married to Lieut. col. Haftings. His character was that of a truly refpectable country gentleman. He lived upon his estate at Willefley, the whole lordship of which he owned; was a good husband, a good father, a good master, and a good landlord: fincere and warm in his attachment to his friends, liberal in his benefactions to the poor, and strictly juft in his dealings with all men. It was of this gentleman Mr. ThickneЛfe fpeaks, when he fays, "The comfortal le feat of Mr. Abney fhould be particularly noticed, not only for the house, but the good old man, his fon, and the wife. It is a maifon carrée, has extenfive views each way, but the poffeffor fees no man's land but his own; and all his farm-houfes too are as well formed as his own. An hofpitable table ence covered, and in the comfortable style of our forefathers, made me think myself 150 years back."

See Mr. Nichols's Leicester

thire Collections, p. 1235.

At Ridge, Herts, in her 73d year, Mrs. Eliz. Whalley, relict of Rev. Rob. W. vicar of that place.

At his apartments in Featherstone-buildbuildings, in his 67th year, James Leake, efq. of Dedham, Effex, one of the court of affift ants of the Stationers Company, one of the commiffioners of the lottery, and formerly a patentee of Covent-garden Theatre.

At his houfe in Plymouth dock, after a tedious indifpofition, Fenton Griffiths, efq. captain in the Portfmouth divifion of marines. The lofs of this brave and worthy officer is afcribed to the unwholfomeness of the climate of St. Lucia, which proved fatal to many of our best troops while in garrifon there during the late war. His corple was interred with military honours, attended by his brother officers and foldiers.

16. At Mear's-Afhby, co. Northampton, in her 88th year, Mrs. Frances Thornton, relict of Tho. T. efq. of Brockhall.

At Great Mallow, in Ireland, Right Hon. Dowager Baronefs Maffey.

17. At Wanstead, Effex, Mrs. Thurlow, widow of the late Bishop of Durham. This lady died, in the ftriéteft fenfe of the word, of a broken heart. During the long hopeless ilinefs of the Bithop, the exhibited the most conftant proofs of conjugal affection and tendernefs, and was continually abforbed in grief; and though, from the report of his phyficians, he had time fufficient to prepare

herfelf for the awful stroke of his Lordship's diffolution, no fooner did that period arrive, than fhe became a prey to the soft agonizing forrow, which very thortly brought on a diforder that terminated her life.

James Sutherland, efq. late judge-advocate of the Court of Admiralty at Minorca.While the King was paffing from the Queen's houfe to the levee at St. James's, about one o'clock in the afternoon, this unfortunate gentleman placed himself clofe to the rails of the Green park, and thot himself in the breaft with a piftol, in the hearing, and almoft in the prefence, of his Majesty. A green filk purfe, containing two pence in halfpence and a fixpence, a fnuff-box, and a white pocket-handkerchief, were all that were found in his pockets. The body was conveyed to St. Martin's workhoufe; and the coroner's inqueft was taken at the BarnMenfe, a public houfe in St. Martin's-lane, where, after a fitting of four hours, the jury humanely brought in a verdict of Lunacy. His remains were privately and decently interred in the church-yard of St. Martin in the Fields, about feven o'clock in the evening of the 19th, followed to the grave by his nephews, Meilrs. M. and J. Cowper, as chief mourners, and by Simon Fraser, efq. Henry Nettleship, efq. G. Ward, efq. R. Ward, efq. Mr. N. B. Harrifon, and Mr. H. S. Woodfall, intimate friends of the deceafed. Mr. S. has left a wife and four children; two fons, one a captain-lieutenant in the 25th regiment, the other on the establishment in India, and two daughters, who now refide, with their mother, in Union-str. Westminster. When he thot himfelf he held a letter in his hand, addreffed "To the Coroner who fhall take an Inqueft on James Sutherland," and which contained a short statement of his cafe, a let ter to the King, and an extract of one which he fent fome time ago to Mr. Pitt; all of which, with a character of him, and verfes to his memory, must be deferred till our next.

In Kennington-lane, Vauxhall, the Hon. Ifabella Scott, widow of the Hon. John S. only brother to the Earl of Deloraine. She was Mifs Young, a celebrated finger, and married to him in 1757.

18. After a lingering illness of near two years and a half, on her way to Southampton, whither he was going to embark for Lifbon, Mifs Craufurd, eldest daughter of Sir Alex. C. bart.

At Stokelley, in Derbyshire, aged 83, Mrs. Anna-Maria Nicholfon, mother of the celebrated Margaret N. who, in a paroxyfm of infanity, made an attempt upon the life of our beloved Sovereign. The old woman, in almost her last moments, bewailed the fate of her unhappy daughter, who had always been

her favourite child.

21. In his 66th year, Tho. Coare, efq. of Reading, formerly of Newgate-street, wine and brandy-merchant, but had retired with a competent fortune.

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