26. At Bath, of a mortification in his bowels, Mr. Peter Cazalet, fen. merchant in Austin Friars.

Mrs. Creffwell, relict of the late Cha. C. efq. of the General Poft-office.

At his feat at Bramling, in his 81ft year, Adm. Cha. Knowler, afuperannuated admiral. At Chelfen, Mrs. Tracy, relict of the late Hon. John Atkyns T. of Stanway, co. Gloucefter, and late one of the curfitor barons of the Exchequer.

At Paris, M. Gerbier. He was one of the beft lawyers in France, and the most elo quent orator at the bar. He was born at Rennes, the capital of Bretany, in July, 1725. His voice was reckoned one of the moft harmonious, and the most perfect in its tones, of any of the public fpeakers.

At Callercoate, co. Northumberland, Jas. Mills. He was a filherman, in 1715, st Bamborough, when Lance Earrington took Holy Ifland Cattle, and was in company with the country people raifed in fearch of him. At the age of 82 he married a widow, a fecond wife, and begot three daughters, the eldeft of whom married a fisherman, and has had three children.

27. Mrs. Seddon, wife of Mr. S fen. the famous cabinet-maker in Alderigate-street.

At Barrowby, advanced in years, Mrs. Partons, a widow lady of York, and relict of the late Major P.

At Liffon-green, Paddington, James Melliar, M.D. of North Cadbury, co. Somerset.

At Portimouth, in his 95th year, Mr. Wm. Tattum.

28. Mr. Wm. Lyon, one of the yeomen of his Majesty's body-guards.

Aged 81, Rev. Mr. Cha. Wefley, brother to the celebrated Mr. John W.; the joint founders of the feet called Methodists.

At Granby-row, Dublin, the Right Hon. Baronefs Dillon.

Aged 71, Rev. Mr. Wright, rector of Birkin, co. York.

Aged 87, Mrs. Day, widow, of Deeping St. James, co. Lincoln.

29. At Blandford Park, the feat of the Duke of Beaufort, in his 21ft year, William Evelyn, efq. only fon of Wm. E. efq. of St. Clere, in Kent, M.P. for Hythe, in that county. His death was occafioned by the hurt he received in confequence of a fall from his horfe, as he was hunting fome weeks ago, which was then thought to be only a flight injury to his head. A few days afterwards he appeared tolerably well recovered, and went on a vifit to the Marquis of Worcester; where, over-heating him elf with riding, a pain in his head onfued, and he was obliged to undergo the operation of trepanning, which he furvived only two days.

At Elfmore, co. Gloucester, Rev. Charles Bishop, rector of Elktone and Rudford, and in the commifiion of the peace for that co.

At Chefhunt, Herts, Rev. Tho. Grifin, M.A. fen. fellow of St. John's College, Oxf.

curate of Chefhunt, one of the furrogates of the London diocese, and one of the preachers at Whitehall.

In Berkley-ftreet, Portman fqua. Francis Ritchie Mowat, lieutenant in the navy, fon of Capt. Francis M. of Aberdeen.

30. Mr. Ja. Kilvington, attorney, of Red

Lion-fquare.

Mifs Saxby, only daughter of Wm. S. efq. water-bailiff of London.

Bothway, relict of Mr. Jof. B. formerly At Peterborough, aged near 80, Mrs. grocer there.

Rev. James Dalton, rector of that place; to 31. At Stanmore, Middlefex, aged 74, which he was hand fomely prefented by Geo. Drummond, efq. 1781, (fee vol. LI. p. 444-) having formerly kept an academy there.

At his houfe in St. Martin's Stamford-BaGeo. Pochin, rector of Morcot, co. Rutland, ron, co. Lincoln, advanced in years, the Rev. and Caythorpe, co. Lincoln. He was a getion, greatly revered by his parishioners, and neral philanthropist, of a moft pious difpofevery perfon who knew him, for his extenfive charity and benevolence.

At Weiton, Herts, Rev. Jof. Reed, near 57 years vicar of that parifh. His immediate predeceffor in the living held it 64 fucceffive incumbents above 120 years. years; fo that it had been in poflefion of two

At her houfe in Curzon-ftreet, May Fair, after a painful illness, which the bore with Lady Viscountess Fane, relict of Charles Vif→ great refolution, the Right Hon. Sufannah daughter of John Marriott, efq. of Sunning, count F. of the kingdom of Ireland. She was Berks, and Stufton, Suffolk; and was married, ft, in 1726, to Sir Wm. Juxon, bart. of Little Compton, co. Gloucefter, who died S. P. Feb. 3, 1739; 2dly, June 8, 1749, to Viscount Fane, by whom the had no children. Vifcount F. had two fifters, his coheirs; Mary, married to Jerome Baron de Sandwich.-Her Ladyship actually wrote, Salis, and Dorothy, the prefent Countess of printing thofe anecdotes refpecting herself, and fuperintended the prefs while they were which are introduced in the celebrated novel of "Peregrine Pickle;" and which, in beauty of compofition, are fo fuperior to the rest of that work. Dr. Smollett received a very handfome reward for inferting them, but had public eye.-Her life afforded a melancholy no fhare whatever in preparing them for the inftance of the miferies infeparable from a accomplishments; and her indifcretions furmifapplication of fuperior talents and elegant

hed materials for the reprehcntible book alluded to in the "Anecdotes of Mr. Bowyer," p. 366.-To the fate of this lady, Johnion has a beautiful allufion in his Vanity of Human Withes:".

"Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty
And Sedley cars'd the form that pleas'd a
fpring,
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her portrait was intended by Hogarth in his "Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn.”

At Brompton row, Mrs. Johnfon, widow of the late Harry J. efq. of Milton Bryant, co. Bedford.

April 1. In St. John's Square, Mr. Tho. Kent, late druggitt in Alderfgate-street.

In Halfey-court, Blackman-street, Mr. Halliday, formerly an eminent fugar-baker and refiner at Paul's Wharf, in the houfe occupied by the late Sir Barnard Turner.What renders his death more diftreiling is, that his wife lay dead at the time; and four children are totally unprovided for.

4. In Crown-court, Ralph Aldus. efq. attorney at law, formerly of Gray's Inn, and one of the fix gentlemen whom Mr. Macklin profecuted, fome years ago, for a confpiracy against him. This confpiracy began with their hiding him from the stage, when he attempted to perform the character of Macbeth. Mr. Macklin refented this in a manner which part of the audience did not like; and they obliged the managers to difrits him. He afterwards brought his action againft Aldus and five others, which ended in a compromife, Mr. Mackim agree ng to their taking tool. of tickets on his daughter's benefit, rool. on his own, and paying the law cofts. The burden of this fell puncipally on Aldus.

At Framlingham, co. Suffolk, aged 107, Mrs. Anne Butler, a maiden Lely; formerly maid of honour to Queen Anne, and a relation to the Duke of Ormond, on whofe difgrace the retired to the above town.

5. In her 8th year, at the Rev. Dr. Bell's, in Little Dean's-yard, Weʻlaninit. Mrs. Bell, relict of the late Wm. B. eiq, of Greenwich.

Of a fever, aged 16, Mr. John Eland, fon of Mr. B. of Mincing-lane.

In Temple-street, Briftal, Mr. Jof. Ring, potter. He was unfortunately killed by the falling-in of a warehouse; and has left a wife and nine children.

At Enfield, Mr. May, formerly an eminent butcher, but had for fome years retired.

6. At Knightsbridge, Mrs. Skrine, wife of Hen. S. efq. She was delivered of a fon, her first child, a little time before (fee p. 269).

In Greville-street, near Hatton-garden, where the had lived many years with great refpectability, and enjoyed an uncommon fhare of good health and spirits for her age (74), Madame Catherine Rollan.-She was a principal dancer on Covent-garden stage, fo far back as fifty-four years ago; and follow ed that profeflion, by private teaching, to the latt year of her life. She had fo much celebrity in her day, that, having one evening fprained her ancle, no lefs an actor than Quin was ordered by the manager to make an apo logy to the audience for her not appearing in the dance. Quin, who looked upon all dancers as the "mere garnish of the ftage," at first demurred; but being threatened with a GENT. MAG. Apri., 1788.

forfeiture, he growlingly came forward, and in his coarse way thus addreffed the audience: "Ladies and Gentlemen, I am den red by the manager to inform you, that the dance intended for this night is obliged to be postpoued, on account of Mademoiselle Rollan having diflocated her ancle; I wish it had been her neck, the b-ch."

7. At her feat at Campfey Ash, co. Suff. aged 83, Mrs. Eliz. Braham, a maiden lady, who had but a few months furvived an only fifter. Her real eft.rs, which were confiderable in that count,, the has bequeathed to her coufin, Philip-Edward B. efq. governor of Tapanooly, in the inland of Sumatra, the next heir male of her name and family.

In an advance l age, Lady Grierfon, reli& of late Sir Gilb. G. bait. of Lag, in Dumfries.

8. At Bath, about fix o'clock in the morning, the Right Hon. Richard Rigby, M.P. for Taviftock. His illnefs was not of long duratien; its approach was fudden; but from the first, the effects were highly alarming to his friends. His laft complaint was that of a dropfy; in which he was attended by Dr. Harrington. According to the beit calculation we can make, he was about 65 or 66 years of age-Mr. R. made, at a very early age, a contpicuous figure in life. It was not accident that brought him into the higher circles. He was born to a handfome patri mony, Miftley, the feat where he lately refided, once poff Red by the famous Aubrey de Vere, Earl of Oxford; on his accellion to it in 1730 the rent-roll was 1100l. a year.Mr. R's father was a woollen-draper in Pateracitor-row, but being appointed by the South Sea comp ny, under the patronage of Sir John and Sir Jofeph Eyles, their factor under the alliento, or contract, with the Spanish crown, thereby got a large fortune and purchased the citate of Mistley, which his fon has very much enlarged.--Having completed his academical ftudies, he visited the principal courts of Europe during his minority, and re urned to England in the 21ft year of his age; when he was fo licited and prevailed upon to offer himself a candidate for Sudbury, a borough near his own feat, for which place he was returned to Parliament after a violent oppofition. A general election following clofe, he had a second conteft to fupport, which was attended with fimilar circumftances of triumph and expence. About this time he bceame a mem ber of the fafhionable club at White's, where his fortune experienced further difafters. Embarked however in polite life, with every advantage to be derived from strong, manly talents, and a winning addrefs, it is no won der that the leaders of the contending parties of thofe days, were defirous of enrolling him under their respective binners. Frederick Prince of Wales, father of his prefent Majefty. was amongst the foremost to cultivate his acquaintanae; he perfonally invited him

to

to his levees at Leicester-house, and became fo pleased with his fociety, that he gave him an unfolicited promife to make him, on the first vacancy, a gentleman of his royal bedchamber. Such vacancy happening not long after, Mr. R's well-founded expectation was difappointed by a different nomination. He refented this treatment, however, in a manner worthy of him. The Prince himself was hurt on the occafion, and endeavoured to correct the mistake, by the offer of a douceur, as a temporary compenfation: but this was rejected in nearly the following terms: "I fhall never receive pay for a fervice, of which I am not deemed worthy; but rather think it my duty to retire from a court, where honour, I find, has no tie!" He kept his word, and never entered Leicesterhouie fterwards. Soon after this he became attached to John the la'e Duke of Bedford; but his alliance with that illuftrious family, did not arife, as the tale abfurdly goes, from his having protected his Grace from perfonal infults on the courfe at Litchfield races; a circumftance which happened fome years after their first acquaintance. The Duke was early ftruck with the quickness of his parts, and charmed with the franknefs of his manners. Finding that Mr. R. was not a little embarraffed in his affairs, his Grace continued in the most delicate manner to advance him a confiderable loan, not only to difcharge the incumbrances upon his estate, but to refcue him from the aggravated diftrefs of fome annuities, into which his neceffities had juft driven him. Two years after this, being appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Dake thought no perfon fo capable of managing the Irish House of Commons as his friend R. who was accordingly appointed fecretary to the vicegerency. Notwithstanding the turbulent fpirit of the times, the affairs of the fifter kingdom were conducted fo much to the royal fatisfaction, that his Majesty gave Mr. R. a vice treafurerfhip, and foon after the maftership of the rolls (a fine cure place of 4000l. a year), in oppofition to the con tending intereft of the then primate, Stone, who fo ftrongly folicited it for his friend the prime ferjeant, Tifdale. He was further bonoured with a feat in the English privy council. During the Bedford adminiftration, the Irish court was remarkable for its fplendour and hofpitality. Polish gallantry, and unaffected conviviality never failed of drawing votaries to the Caftle; and at this epoch they might boast their peculiar attractions. On the Duke's recall from Ireland, William Duke of Cumberland put himfeif at the head of Mr. Grenville's adminiftration, in alliance with Mr. Pitt and Lord Northington. Mr. R. by fome means found out, that his Highnefs was preffing for the vacant chancellorfhip of Dublin. He therefore inftantly fet off poft for Ireland, waited upon his friend, Dr. Andrews, then provost, got the Duke of Bedford elected chancellor, and brought

over the appointment to the great aftonish ment as well as fatisfaction of his Grace This additional mark of his friend's zeal and attachment, made a fuitable impreffion on the Duke's mind; for during the remainder of his life, his Grace never acted in matters of public or private concern, without Mr. R's advice; always returned him for the borough of Tavistock; named him one of his executors and trustees for the present Duke; and at his death left him as a legacy the money he had fo liberally advanced him upon bond. On the acceffion of his prefent Majesty, he was re-fworn of the privy council; and, Jan. 6, 1768, was appointed one of the vicetreaíurers of Ireland, in conjunction with the Hon. James Grenville and the Right Hon. Ifaac Barré; another finecure place, worth 3cool. per year. This place he refigned the fame year, to make room for a better appointment, viz. paymaster of the land forces; a place, by the lowest computation, then valued at 16000l. per annum; and which he held from June 4, 1768, to the Rockingham administration, in 1782; when he, with great manlinefs, founded to the House the annihilation of the American war, and told them, that a new ministry must be formed. So that, for the space of 14 years, he was in poffeffion, by places, of the fum of 20,000l. per an num.-Among the characters of the prefent hour, with whom he was most intimately connected, Lord Thurlow, the Marquis of Stafford, Lord Weymouth, and the Earl of Sandwich, are to be named; and at the head of the many who feel a ferious concern in his death, a most illustrious name is to be placed, his Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales-The firmnefs of Mr. Rigby's character, his friendship, hofpitality, fpirit, and animated converfation, will occafion his name to be long recollectd with regret by all who knew him; the neighbourhood of Miftley-hall will particularly feel his lofs.He never married, but had a natural fon and daughter. His family heir is Fran. Hale, efq. member in two parliaments for the borough of St. Michael in Cornwall, fon of his fifter (he had alfo another fifter never married) by Lieut. Gen. Bernard Hale, fometime chief baron of the exchequer in Ireland, and afterward a puifne baron of the exchequer in England.-The will of Mr. R. was found at his houfe at Miftley, inclosed in feveral other papers of confequence, and depofited in an iron cheft. It difpofes of his property in the following manner: To a natural daughter in Effex, 5000l.; to each of his executors 2000l.; and the remainder, both in real and perfonal estate, to Lieut. Col. Hale, and Mifs Rigby, in nearly equal proportions. The neural child abovementioned, is the only one Mr. R. had living at the time of his decease, and, as he had never brought her forward in life, the legacy bequeathed her is confidered as an ample provifion. Mr. Macnamara of Streatham, and Mr. Cafwell the

member

Obituary of confiderable Perfons; member for Brackley in Hertfordshire, are the executors. So exceedingly referved was he on whatever refpected his private affairs, that although the two preceding gentlemen were upon terms of peculiar intimacy with him, he never communicated his intentions of appointing them has executors. Mittley is by the will to be kept up as the joint refidence of the legatees, his maiden fifter Mrs. Rigby, Mrs. Hale the wife of the general, and his nephew, Mr. Hale.--Mifs R, his fifter, attended him unremittingly in his laft

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her apartments; by which the enjoyed the comforts of life, and the refpect due to her talents, to the laft.-Her character is drawn in a very amiable light in Swift's "Literary Correfpondence;" and it was in confequence of her marriage that Swift wrote that humourous ballad, which is now become almost technical in the nuriery, of "O my kitten, my kitten, and oh! my kitten, my deary."We are happy to correct the above account, by adding that there was no period of Mrs. D's life, in which her income was not competent to all the purposes of an elegant retirement; and, if it had been deficient, fle was aunt to three gentlemen of very amiable character, who, at the Dutchefs of Portland's death, were all in affluent circumstances. Beloved and honoured by them, it was not poffible the fhould ever have known the miferies of a friendlefs and penurious old age. Mrs. D's late brother, Mr. Granville, of Calwick in Staffordshire (a gentleman of large eftate, in which he is fucceeded by one of thofe abovenamed nephews who has taken the name), was too juftly tenacious of the dignity of his family (which is that of Pope's Lord Lanfdown), to have feen his fifter the humble companion to the Duchefs of Portland. She was the chofen friend of that lady, who thought herself the obliged by Mrs D. living with her. Befides the houfe at Windfor fo nobly prefented to her by her Sovereign, Mrs. D. had an handsome houfe in St. James's Place, in which the refided fome part of every year. The royal bounty, about 2ocl. a year, could not have been the fole, or indeed a third part of the fupport of fuch an establishment. His Majefty's goodness to this ever ingenious, venerable being, was, therefore, not charity-it was generofity, which, in every station of life, from the throne down to private opulence, prompts exalted minds to do more than their duty.

17. At his apartments in the Inner Temple, aged 74, Rev. John Boys, vicar of Redbourn, Herts, to which he was prefented by the late Lord Grimston, 1746.

In child-bed, aged only 19, Mrs. Gray, wife of Mr. G. and eldest daughter of the late Mr. Jeremiah Harman.

In Fenchurch-street, John Blake, efq.

In Bell-yard, Gracechurch-ftrect, after a fevere illness, Mrs. Choppin, relict of Mr. C. finith to the East India Company; which bufinefs the carried on with her fon, it having been conducted by the family near a century. She was buried at Tame, co. Oxon.

19. In Sackville-ftreet, Lord Viscount Kilcourfie, fon of the Earl of Cavan.

20. At Salt hill, on his way to the Hotwells, Bristol, Rich. Colville, efq. of Wifbech-hail, co. Cambridge.

At Bakewell, co. Derby, aged 73, after a long and painful illness, Mrs. Her shield.

Of a paralytic stroke, with which he was affected about nine months ago, 4.4. of Great George-ftr. Weitm. Berrow,

21. At Stoke Newington, Mr. Tho. Ridg way, auctioneer.

Jennings, bart.; by whose death the title is 22. At Knightsbridge, Sir Charles Philip

extinct.

Mr. Jn. Hill, marshal of the King's Bench.

GAZETTE FROMOTIONS.

EV. Sam. Weflon, M.A. appointed ct

non and prebendary of Canterbury Ca thedral, i Dr. Rich. Farmer, refigned. Rev. Cha. Fiennes, B.A. appointed pre. bendary of Westminster, vice Dr. Taylor, dec. Rev. Jas. Burton, M.A. appointed reader Hampton Court. and preacher to his Majefty's houthold at

CIVIL PROMOTIONS.

HILIP Goldsworthy, efq. app. equeny Mews, vice Gen. Carpenter, dec. to his Majefty, and c'erk-marthal of the

John Sturges, efq. appointed meffenger to the Knights Companions of the moft noble order of the Bath, vice Rowl. Try on,efq. dec.

R

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

EV. Walter Richards, appointed chaps Rev. John Fox, dec. lain to the garrifon of Sheerness, wice

Rev. James Parkin, Okeford V. co. Devon, vice Rev. Rich. Haydon, dec.

Rev. M. Shephard, B D. Corpus Chrifti Coll. Oxon. admitted D.D.

Tho. Aufon, efq. gentleman commoner of Oriel Coll. Oxon. admitted M.A.

Rev. Jn. Hayter, King's Coll. Camb. M.A, Rev. Cha. Gordon, Trin. Hall, Camb. B.L. Rev. Cha. Markham, M.A. chancellor of the dioc. of York, Besford R. in Holderness. Rev. And. Ewbank, M.A. Londesborough R. co. York,

Rev. Tho. Hindmarsh, Hayton V.co.York, Rev. Rich. Forrest, Helpringham V. York. Rev. Hen. Willis, B.A. Little Sodbury R. co. Gloucefter.

Rev. And. Fountaine Eyre, M.A. ApfKildwick Percy V. co. York. thorp prebendary, in York Cathedral, and

Rev. Mr. Clarke, appointed to the perpe tual curacy of St. John's Chapel in Weardale, vice Rev. Mr. Rotheram, dec.

Micklegate R. in York, vice Rev. Philemon
Rev. Jonas Thompson, B.A. St. Martin's
Marth, M.A. dec.

Rev. Wm. Layton, B.D. Thornton with
Allerthorpe V. and the licenfed curacy of
Barnby-Moor with Fangfois, all in co. York.

Rev. Mr. Mayo, late of Queen's Coll. Oxf. Grammar School, ce Robert Gutch, dec.: appointed upper-mafter of Winborn Free and Mr. Bowle, now a ftudent in Queen's Coll. Oxford, appointed fecond-mafter of the faid School, wice Mayo.

Rev. John Keet, M.A. Bishop's Hatfield R co. Hert ord.

Rev. Horatio Dowfing, North Baribam R. co. Norfolk.

Rev.