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23. At Newington Butts, Daniel William Stow, efq. of the General Poft-office, to Mifs Harriet Broughton, of Great Ruffel-street.

Sir Ju. Maxwell, bart. of Springfield Caft. in Scotland, to Mifs Gardiner, only daughter of the late Rich. G. efq. of Inglethorpe-hall. 24. At Cheam, Ofborne Barwell, efq. of Abingdon-ftreet, Weftm. to Mifs Sanxey. John Harding, efq. to Mifs Barne, 2d dau. of the late Miles B. efq. of Sotterley, Suff. George Fothergill, efq. of Park-street, to Mifs Whetham, eldest daughter of Tho. W. efq. of Stragenhoe-park, Herts.

At Chelsea, Mr. Geo. Coleman, of Watling-street, filk-weaver, to Mifs Smith, of Overigton, Hants.

At the chapel in the Square, Bath, John Moore, efq. to Mifs Brabazon, of Bath.

John Plumptre, efq. only fon of John P. efq. of Nottinghamshire, formerly M.P. for Nottingham, to Mifs Chatlotte Pemberton, dau. of Rev. Jer. P. of Trumpington, Camb.

25. Tho. Marshall, efq of the Stamp-office, to Mrs. Webber, of Bristol.

26. At St. Martin in the Fields, Mr. Geo. Weiffenborn, of May's buildings, man's mercer, to Mifs Eliz. Capreol, of Hitchin, Herts.

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T Bombay, Mr. T. Allen, late of
Bow Church-yard.

Feb...
April 6. At Bencoolen, Tho. Webb, esq.
Aug. 1. At Bombay, Mr. Jof. Blakeman.
08. 17. In Bengal, Capt. Hen. Graham, of
the 73d regiment.

Nov.... At Arcot, Patrick Pringle, efq. furgeon on the Madras establishment.

Dec. It. In China, aged 38, Mr. Thomas Manley Hulke, of Deal, in Kent, a lieutenant of the royal navy, and first mate of the Queen Eaft India-man.

1788. March 2. Ofapoplexy, Mr. Solomon Gefner, bookfeller at Zurich, in Switzerland, and author of many elegant and admired poems in the German language. He was born at Zurich in 1730; and for feveral years before his death was a member of the. fenate of his native city. He was an admirable landscape painter as well as poet.—Profeffor Meiners, of Goettingen, in his Briefe ueber die Schweiz, (Letters on Switzerland, a work, by the be, of which we fhould be happy to fee an English translation,) speaking of this ingenious man, fays, "His pictures are in general small landscape pieces, which, on the score of invention, compofition, drawing, and colouring, are, in every respect, like his Idyls. In both, Fable, Nature, and Art, are in the happiest manner combined. No piece is a mere imitation of Nature. Mea and buildings are almost always delineated according to Greek ideas; but the rural objects are collected from his own country: and in truth these are fuch as no art or ima. gination can excel. Never have I feen waterfalls and trees fo happily and variously de GENT. MAG. May, 1788.

lineated as by Gefner. The greater part of his pictures are fent to England, where Gefner the painter is perhaps better known than Gefner the poet."-We have just now been informed, by the public prints, that a monument is to be erected to his memory on the Schuffenplaffe, a public walk on the banks of the Limmat, juft without the gates of Zurich. We shall here add a lift of his writings, viz. 1. "Die Nachte, ein Prafaiches Gedicht," (Night, a Poem in Profe,) 8vo, Zurich, 1750-2." Ynkle and Yarico," 8vo, ibid. 17545-3. "Idyllen" (kly!s), 8vo, ibid. 1956, and reprinted in 1760 and 1765; 4. "Der Tod Abels" (the Death of Abel), 8vo, ibid. 1758, and reprinted in 1760 and 1765: of this there is an English tranflation; 5." Daphnis," 8vo, ibid. 1760;-6. "Schriften" (Mifcellanies), in four parts, with vignettes, 8vo, ibid. 1762, 1765, 1767, 1770;7." Evander,a Paftoral Poem;"-8." Ernst," ditto;-9. "Moralifche Erzahlungen und Idyllen" (Moral Tales and Idyls), intended as a fifth part of his Mifcellanies. Several engraved portraits of him are extant.

10. At Jamaica, John Vernon, efq. diftinguifhed, while living, for his integrity, and at his death for gratitude of heat.

April 6. At Canterbury, Mr. Edw. Engeham, fhoe-maker, one of whose ancestors (Sir Edw. E. of Goodnestone,) ferved the of fice of theriff and was knighted in the reign of King Charles II.

8. At Hawes, co. York, aged 105, John Scarr, a pauper. He could thread a needle without fpectacles, and crack nuts in the latt year of his life, as well as moft young people.

13. At Woodbridge, aged 92, Mrs. S.... grand-mother to the wife of Mr. Loder, printer there. Notwithstanding her advanced age, he has left only 21 lineal defcendants, viz. 4 in the second generation, and 17 in the third. Her remains were interred in the church-yard of St. Nicholas parith, Ipfwich. Mrs. S's grand-father, Mr. Jn. Wade, twice ferved the office of bailiff in the corporation of Ipswich; in whofe time the fine ftatue of Justice was placed upon the Corn Crofs, fo jusly admired by all travellers.

15. Rich. Sail, efq. of the Gen. Poft-office. 16. At Paris, George Le Clerc, Count de Buffon, Lord of Montbart, Marquis of Rougemont, Viscount of Quincy, intendant of the King's gardens and cabinets of natural hiftory, member of the French Academy of Sciences, fellow of the Royal Society of London, and of the Royal and Literary Societies of Berlin, Peterburgh, Bologna, Florence, Edinburgh, Philadelphia, Dijon, &c. was one of the most elegant writers in France, in point of style; a man of uncommon genius, and furprifing eloquence: the most astonishing interpreter of Nature that perhaps ever exifted: he might have faid, Je ne dois qu'à moi feul toute ma renommée.

He

France," fays the Editor of the "Mercure"

(a weekly Magazine), "has been unluckily deprived. within this century, of many excellent writers of real genius, and the brilliant fhoots of the learned age of Lewis XIV.; but the greatest lofs this kingdom ever fuftained is certainly the Count de Buffon's death. He was born on the 7th of September, 1707, and died, after a long and painful illness, on the 16th of April, 1788. Notwithstanding the nature and extent of his works, his application was indefatigable, and his life, even to a few months before his death, conftantly devoted to the fciences. His body, embalmed, was prefented, on the 18th, at St. Medard's church, and conveyed afterwards to Montbard in Burgundy, where this illuftrious writer had requested in his will to be interred, in the fame vault with his wife. His funeral was attended with a pomp rarely beftowed on dignity, opulence, or power. A numerous concourfe of academicians, and perfons diftinguifhed by rank and polite literature, met, in order to pay the fincere hom ge defervedly due to fo great a philofopher. Full 20,000 spectators crowd. ed the streets the hearfe was to país through, and expreffed the fame curiofity as if the ceremony had been for a monarch. Such is the reverence we feel for the learned in general; and I cannot help relating a fhort anecdote, that fully evinces the truth of this affertion; During the laft war, the captains of English privateers, whenever they found in their prizes any boxes addreffed to Count de Buffon (and many were addreffed to him from every part of the world), immediately forwarded them to Paris, without opening them; whereas thofe directed to the King of Spain were generally feized. The crews of cruizing veffels fhewed more refpect to Genius than to Sovereignty.-Count de Buffon was in his perfect fenfes till within a few hours of his diffolution. The very morning of the 15th he ordered fome work to be done in the botanic garden (Jardin du Roi), and remitted the fum of 18,000 livres (750l.) to M. Thorin the gardener, who has contributed very much to embellifh that delightful fpt on the banks of the Seine. At the opening of the corpfe, 57 ftones were found in his bladder, fome as large as a finall bean; 30 of them were chryftalised in a triangular form, and weighed altogether two ounces and fix drams. All his other parts were perfectly found. The brain was found of a fize rather greater than ordinary. The gentlemen of the faculty, who were prefent at the opening of the body, unanimously agreed that he might have been easily cut, and without the leaft danger; but M. de Buffon's conftant doubts of the exinence of fuch an obstruction, and his dreadful apprehenfions for the fuccefs of the operation, made him perfift in letting Nature perform her functions undiftm bed; and he repeatedly faid, he would trust to her. And indeed none could rely fo well on the effects of bounteous Nature as the Count, for

none had been fo liberally gratified; on his manly and noble figure the had stamped the outward figns of uncommon intelligence.”— "Four bright lamps," fays a French writer in the " Journal of Paris," "are now totally extinguished in France. They were ful pended in the Temple of Genius; and from the bofom of this kingdem diffused their extenfive light all over the universe. One, af ter having diffipated the clouds that enveloped the causes of the grandeur and decline of the Roman empire, threw a new and fplendid light over the iminenfe volumes of law; with the great Montefquieu this lamp went out. Brilliant and beneficent rays, with due gradations of heat, like the folar ones, issued from the fecond lamp, which gave new charms to the Sciences, and explained them in a clear and feducing manner: the Arts found, in this effulgent light, an amiable and fure guide: Hiftory was taught a quick, steady, and lively march: Poetry all the eclat and fplendour of the celestial mansions whence the fprings: Philofophy appeared clad in the foft attirement of the Graces; and Man felt in his heart stronger emotions of humanity: Voltaire's death extinguished this wonderful lamp. A flame, now devouring like 'those of the Tropics, now foft as the genial rays of blushing Morn; now melancholy, tender, and affecting as the fair beams of the Cynthian Goddess, inflamed the enraptured foul with the holy enthusiasm of Virtue, and caft over Morality the attracting colours of Vouptuousness. The country fm.led with fuch bewitching charms, that man longed to partake of rural toils and fports At the appearance of this powerful flame soon vanished barbarous Prejudice, the origin of Bondage and of Tyranny. The unnatural hackles that confined children were broken with the chains that enthralled the mind; Heaven, and the auguft countenance of the Almighty, frood then confeffed before astonished man, who became good, humane, and happy in the charming vifions of Hope. With Rouffeau's breath the foftering fame abated; but a new ftar, by Nature formed to spread a wondrous light over all her works, began to fhine with a majestic and unparalleled luftre. Its courfe was marked by Pomp, its motion by Harmony, its repote by Serenity. All eyes, even the weakeft, were fond of contemplating it. From its refulgent car it fpread magnificence over the univerfe; and as GoD alfembled, in the narrow space of the ark, all the works of the creation, fo this great luminary re-united, on the verdant banks of the Seine, the animals, the vegetables, and the minerals, that are difperfed in the four quarters of the world. All forms, all colours, all riches, and all instincts, were offered to our eyes, and our intellectual faculties. All things were developed, all things were ennobled, and adorned with fplendour, intereft, or grace. But a fable funeral veil is ípread, alas over this bright

and wonderful ftar. Nature filently mourns her lofs. With Buffon's life ended the fourth lamp; and nothing now remains for his furviving admirers but the fentiment of their lofs, and the defpair of repairing it."- Count de Buffon has left an only fon, whom the French King has appointed a major en fecond in the army. The Count d'Angiviller fucceeds M. de Buffon as intendant of the French King's cabinet of natural history; and M. de la Billadiere is appointed fuperintendant of the King's gardens.

In Dover-street, Piccadilly, after a fhort illness, Capt. Edw. Speke. His death was occafioned by falling down ftairs. His father was formerly a captain in the navy; and himfelf ferved in America during the late war.

18. At Bath, Capt. James Brown, late commander of the Alfred E. India-man.

At Ely, in her 59th year, much lamented, Mrs. Mary Robinson.

19. At Dalfton, of a violent fever, aged 17, Mr. John Biggs, young. fon of Mr. Peter B. and apprentice to a fadler in Exchange-alley. At Paris, the Duke de Fleury.

At Paris, M. Emiliand Ofmont, furgeon. 20. At Paris, after a fhort illnefs, Count de Scarnafis, ambassador extraordinary from his Sardinian Majefty to the Court of France. He was formerly in the fame character at our Court, and refided in Lincolns Inn Fields.

At Troppau, in Germany, aged 67, Prince John-Charles, of Lichnoutky, privy-counfelfor and chamberlain to his Imperial Majefty. 22. At Putney, Mrs. Turner, relict of the late Michael T. efq.

At Lincoln, aged 62, Mr. Alderm Bennet. Aged 84, Rob. Leman, efq. of Wickhammarket, co. Suffolk. He ferved the office of high fheriff of that courty in 1744; but for many years paft, though poffeffed of great aminence, lived a totally reclufe life, feeing no company, and being constantly shut up at night in a large houfe, without a fingle fervant to fleep in it. A great quantity of cash was found in the house; which, with the reft of his ample property, is now poffeffed by his daughter, a worthy lady, who has for fome years refided at Bury on an annuity allowed by her father.

At Lancaster, aged 88, Lady Flemming, relict of Sir Wm. F. bart. of Rydal, co. Weftmoreland.

23. At Little Billing, near Northampton, much regretted, in her 27th year, Mrs. Hill, wife of Mr. H, and only daugh. of Rev. Mr. Knight, of Weston Favell, co. Northampton.

At Newcastle, Major March, late of the 79th regiment.

24. In St. John's-lane, Clerkenwell, Mr. Cheltenham, late of Cloth-fair, Weft Smithfield.

John Meadows Theobald, efq. of Henley. He ferved the office of high fheriff of the county of Suffolk in 1787.

At Bristol Hotwells, Mrs. Olive, widow of late Jn, O. efq. of London..

25. At his houfe at Upton, near Romsey, Hants, aged 54, Mr. James Van Rixtel, last furviving fon of the late Mr. V. R. an eminent Dutch merchant of London.

In Bridewell, where he was confined a fecond time as a vagrant, the man known by the name of Old Simon, who for many years has gone about this city covered with rags, clouted fhoes, three old hats upon his head, and his fingers full of brafs rings. On the following day the Coroner's Inqueft fat on his body, and brought in their verdict, Died by the visitation of God.

26. In Effex-ftreet, Strand, aged 70, Geo. Lichfield, efq. many years one of the folicitors of the customs.

At Eufield, after a long and painful confinement, Mrs. Blagrave, widow and fecond wife of Mr. B. formerly an eminent carpenter and timber-merchant, and sister of Mrs. Owen, who died March 17.,

Aged 86, Mr. Wm. Blizard, of Barnes, Surr. 27. John Ridley, efq. clerk of the Western Road at the General Poft-office.

At her house in King's Mead-street, Bath, in her 82d year, Mrs. Cheney, fister of the late Rev. Mr. C. of Weston.

28. In Piccadilly, Sam. Nafkell, efq. for merly a barrister at law.

At Hammersmith, Major Francis Drake, of Lillingstone, Lovell-hall, co. Oxford.

At Drummond Cattle in Scotland, Mifs Jemima-Rachel Drummond, youngest daughter of James D. efq. of Perth.

29. At his feat in Devonshire, Ld. Boringdon, colonel of the Devon militia. His Lordfhip was created a peer in 1784. He mar ried, in 1769, Theresa, fifter of the last Lord Grantham, by whom he had feveral children; he died in 1775. He had been M.P. for De vonshire in three parliaments.

In Highbury-place, Iflington, Roger Hogg, efq. merchant, of Nicholas lane.

Lately, at the German Spa, Count de Rinci. At Corke, Sir Paul Banks, knt. captain in the 20th regiment of foot.

In Scotland, after a lying in, Mrs. Skinner, wife of Lieut. John S. of the Chatham M.rines, and dau. of Capt. Ogilvie, of that corps.

At Nafferton, near Burlington, co. York, Rev. Tho. Bowness, minister of that place. At Elmdon, co. Warwick, aged 98, Abraham Spooner, eiq.

At Hereford, Mrs. Eliz. Bathurst, widow. At Woodbridge, aged 88, Mrs. French, a widow lady.

Rev. Egerton Leigh, retor of Murften, near Sittingbourn, Kent.

At Sandwich, in Kent, Mr. Jn. Kite, one of the jura s, and formerly maiter of the Rofe Inn in that town.

May 1. At Marston, co. Somerset, the feat of the Earl of Corke and Orrery, Jane, Dowager-vifcountefs Galway, reli&ft of the late John Viscount G.

At Brompton, Middlefex, Mrs. Henrietta Maria Meredith.

In Colebrooke-row, Iflington, Mrs. Burder; and, on the 6th, at the fame place, Mr.

B. her husband.

2. In Lamb's Conduit-ftreet, James Beck, efq. lately arrived from Bombay.

Mrs. Windle, wife of Tho. W. jun. efq. of Mile-End.

At Bownham-house, co. Gloucefter, Nathaniel Peach, esq.

3. At fea, on his paffage from St. Helena to England, Capt. Cranstoun, commander of the Chesterfield Eaft India-man.

At Lambeth, Mr. Alex. Eddie, feedfman in the Strand.

5. At Brompton, Cha. Jackson, jun. efq. of the General Poft-office.

Mr. Jarvis Adams, many years veftryclerk of Chrift Church, Newgate-street.

At Stoke Newington, Mr. Jas. Sorel, late a weaver in Spital-fquare, but had retired from business.

6. At Walworth, Mrs. Sufannah Hart, relict of Geo. H. efq. and fifter to the late Sir Robert Kite.

7. At Rotherhithe, Geo. Kettler, efq. merchant in the Turkey trade.

At Hayes, Middlx. aged 79, Mrs. Mary Barnardifton, relict of Arthur B. efq. formerly of Brightwell-hall, co. Suffolk, and mother of Arthur B. the last male heir of that family, who was born 12 days after the death of his father, and died in 1743, in the 6th year of his age. Her remains were interred at Brightwell on the 18th.

8. In Wapping, Mr. Matth. Jerome, fome years fince a captain in the Levant trade.

9. At Houghton, near Dunitable, Thofwihan Brandeeth, efq. in the commiflion of the peace for, and deputy-lieutenant of, the county of Bedford,

In Albemarle-freet, Philip Denoyer, efq. In Gray's Inn, John-Edward Boultflower, efq. one of the fixty clerks of the Court of Chancery.

10. Mrs. Blackburne, wife of the Rev. Francis B. vicar of Brignal, co. York, and fon of the late Archdeacon of Cleiveland.

In Harley-street, Mrs. Wilkinfon, wife of Jn. W. efq. banker in Bond-ftrcet.

11. At Ipfwich, Mrs. Eliz. Pelham, fifter of the late Hen. P. efq. one of the commiffioners for victualling the navy.

At Bath, the Hon. Mr. Radclyffe, fon to the Earl of Derwentwater, and uncle to the prefent Farl of Newburgh.

In High-ftre. Mary-la-Bonne, Mrs. Foley, relict of Wm. F. eiq, of Preftwood, Stafford. At Kenfneton, Mrs. Macpherson.

At Wigfell, Suife, Mrs. Boys, daughter of the late Rd. Hau court, cfq. of the fame place. 12. At Mile End, aged 85, Mr. T. Hodgson. At Hoxton, aned upwards of 105, Mr. Jafper Thomas, formerly merchant of London.

At Walten, aged 102, Mrs. Cath. Haynes. 13. At Swinter, Edw. Cotterell, efq. broC. e'q who was one of the

ther to

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14. In Scotland-yard, near Whitehall, aged 78, John Shales Barrington, efq. of Hatfield ** Broad-oak, Effex, and Waltham Cross, Hert», only furviving fon and heir of Charles Shales, goldfmith, at the Vine, in Lombard-street, goldsmith to Q. Anne and K. George 1. and II. by Anne, fole furviving daughter, and at length heiress, of Tho. Barrington, efq. (eldest fon of Sir Jn. B. knt. and bart.) by Lady Anne Rich, eldest dau. and co-heiress of Robert Earl of Warwick. He was nephew to the late Sir Cha. B. bart. and lineally defcended from Barenton, one of the officers of Queen Emma's houfhold, whofe great great grand-son married a grand-daughter of Geoffrey Magna. ville, of Effex, and his fon was the first of the family that fettled on the manor of Barrington-hall, in Hatfield Broad-oak parish, in the beginning of the 13th century. The noble family of Vifcount Barrington, fo created 1720, was allied to Mr. B. by marriage of 13 his great grand-father's third brother, Gobert's fon Francis, with Mrs. Shute, to whose first cousin, John Shute, he left his estate at Badow, co. Effex. Mr. B. began to rebuild Barrington-hall in an handfome manner; but on fome difpute, about tithes, with Trinity College, Cambridge, who are impropri ators, or, as others fay, on a matrimonial difappointment, he gave up the design, and retired to a house at Waltham Crofs, where he paffed a long life in obfcurity. His remains were interred on the 21ft, in great funeral pomp, with his ancestors at Hatfield Broadoak. Dying unmarried, his large property defcends to the fon of Sir Fitzwilliams B. bart. of Swayston, in the Ifle of Wight, third coufin to the late Sir Charles. By an intermarriage of another ancestor of this family with a daughter of Henry Pole Lord Montacute, and grand-daughter to the Earl of Salifbury, they are entitled to bear the royal arms of England. The fon of this ancestor married Joan, dau. of Sir Hen. Cromwell, of Hinchingbrook, grand-fa. to the Protector.

At Kenfington, Jn. Snaith, efq. banker of

London.

At Stockton, Leonard Robinfon, efq. merchant, and a partner in the Durham Bank.

16. In North Audley-street, aged 82, Rachael Baronefs Le Defpencer, fole dau. and at length heiress, of Sir Francis Dashwood, of West Wycombe, Eucks, bart. by his fecond wife Lady Mary Fane, eldest daughter of Vere, 4th Earl of Weftmoreland. She was married in Nov. 1738, to Sir Robert Auften, of Bexley, Kent, bart. who died 7 Oct. 17437 without iffue. Upon the death of John, 7th E. of Westmoreland, the titles of E.of Weftmoreland and Baron of Burghersh descended to Thomas Fane, efq. grandfon of Sir Francis F. third fon of the first Earl; but the barony of Le Defpencer being a barony in fee, was confirmed by the King, 19 April, 1763, to Sir Francis Dashwood, bart. only fon and heir of the aforefaid Sir F. D. and Lady Mary Fane; at whofe death,.. Dec. 1781, without legitimate

Obituary of confiderable Perfons; with Biographical Anecdotes.

regitimate iffue, the title of baronet devolved

to Jn. Dashwood King, efq. eldest fon of the cefirst Sir Francis and his third lady, and that Sad of Baronefs Le Defpencer to Dame Rachael - Auften, who is fucceeded by Sir Thomas Fix Stapleton, of Grey's Court, Oxon, bart. born

in Nov. 1766, fon and heir to Sir T. S. bart. eldest son and heir to Sir William S. bart. by Katharine, fole dau. and heirefs of William Paul, of Bray Wick, Berks, efq. and Lady Katharine Fane, 2d dau. of Vere, Earl of ni Westmoreland, abovementioned.-Her Ladyfhip's remains are depofited at Weft Wycombe, in the family vault erected by her late brother Lord Le Defpencer.

18. In Church-lane, Bath, of an inflammation in his bowels, Hen. Walter, efq. late of the Board of Trade at Bengal.

19. At Chatham, of a confumption, Mr. Dan. Bell, one of the quarter-men of the shipwrights in that dock-yard.

In Queen-ftr. May-Fair, greatly lamented, the reverend, ingenious, and learned Mr. Samuel Badcock, of South-Molton, Devonsh.; of whom fome further particulars shall be given in our next.

At the Hotwells, Bath, Mifs Sproule, eldest daugh. of Andrew S. eiq. of Bath.

20. At his houfe in Lamb's Conduit-ftreet,
in his 80th year, Jofeph Girdler, efq. many
years in the commitlion of the peace for the
county of Middlesex.

At the houfe of his uncle, the Rev. Dr.
Lynch, at Canterbury, aged 28, Charles
Thurlow, efq.

At Lichfield, aged 60, Serjeant Sarjant of
the Grenadier Company in the Staffordshire
Militia, formerly of the Regulars; much
efteemed by all who knew him. He was
one of the few who escaped unwounded at
Banker's-hill. The following anecdote re-
fpecting him, and which reflects fo much
honour on the character of a general officer,
deferves to be recorded, As the regiments
was marching off the parade at Waterdown-
camp to the field to exercife, Gen. Frafer,
who was the commander in chief, called out,
"Step out, old Serjeant." The Serjeant,
who was uncommonly tall, being apprehen-
five that by fo doing he thould throw the
battalion-men into diforder, though the gre
nadiers might keep up with him, and piqued
for the honour of the regiment, which stood
very high in the fcale of military eftimation,
ventured to destroy the command, by pre-
tending not to hear it; upon which the Ge-
neral repeated it with the addition of a me-
nace, that if he did not ftep out, he would
order the men to tread upon his heels. The
Serjeant, howover, rather chofe to run the
hazard of any confequences to himself from
his perfeverance, than of the leaft difgrace
which might befall the regiment. The Ge-
neral, probably imagining his command
would now be obeyed, directed his obferva-
tions elfewhere; bar the poor Serjeant was
extremely mortified at this public rebuke,
and his chagrin appeared fo ftrongly marked

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in his countenance, that his captain, who was witness to the whole affair, mentioned it to the earl of Uxbridge, then lord Paget, reft of the officers, was engaged to dine with and colonel of the regiment; who, with the the General that day, and who gave him him to make him a reparation as public as fuch a character of the Serjeant, as induced day when the camp broke up, the regiments the rebuke had been. Accordingly, on the being all drawn out, the general called out to him, "Serjeant Sarjant;" and when he came up to him, took a filver-mounted fabre from his belt, and faid, "You will accept of this, and wear it for my fake, as a token of the great opinion I entertain of you as a foldier, and a non-commiffioned ofgift, turning to lord Paget, faid, "This fabre ficer;" and then, to enhance the value of the is not agreeable to the Staffordshire uniform; the old gentleman leave to wear it whenever and therefore, I beg your lordship will give he pleases;" to which his lordship aflented, It would be an act of injuftice to his noble patron, not to mention, that when he quitted the command of the regiment foon after, he directed the Serjeant to draw upon him anfcabbard were placed acrofs each other on nually for twenty guineas. The fabre and its his comin, at his funeral, which was celebrated with the ufual military honours. He has bequeathed it to one of the brothers of his Captain, who is an officer in America.

21. In Conduit-ftreet, after a long illness, death two very good livings become vacant: Rev. Dr. Pye, prebend of Rochefer.-By his the rectory of Odell in Bedfordshire, worth family; and that of Tickmarth in Northamp 500l. per annum, in the gift of the Alfton tonshire, worth nearly 70cl. a year, in the gift of Mr. Powys, M.P. for the latter county.

At Kendal, aged 77, Mr. Sam. Gawthrop. 22. In Harley-street, aged not quite 19, the Right Hon. Anne-Elizabeth, the lady of Lord Mulgrave of the kingdom of Ireland. Cholmley, eiq. of Howfham and Whitby, in She was the youngest daughter of Nathaniel Yorkshire, by Henrietta-Katharine, his 2d (fee vol. LVII. p. 547), and was delivered a wife. Lady M. was married June 20, 1787 furvives.-The death of this beautiful and acfew days before her death of a daughter, who fected the noble Lord, that, it is faid, he is complished young Lady has fo much afnot only incapable of attending to any public bufinefs, but fecludes himself from his moft intimate acquaintance. It is a lofs feing within the circle of her friends. verely felt by all who had the felicity of be

23. At her houfe at Stratford-grove, Effex, late Job M. eiq. and mother of the prefent. advanced in years, Mrs. Mathews, relict of the

24. At Enfield, aged 70, of a dropfy, Mrs. Benwell, relict of Mr. B. many years steward to the Duke of Marlborough. Her fortune devolves to Mr. Hillier, linen-draper in Chandos-ftreet.

28. At

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