At Lynchet minster, in Dorfetfhire, Rev. Mr. Hanham, eldest son of Rev. Sir Jas. H. bart. of Dean's-court, in that county, to Mifs Pike, daughter of the late Lieut. P. of the royal navy, and of Poole.

Rev. Geo. Beet, of Harpole, to Mifs Walker, of Everdon, co. Northampton.

18. John Macnall, efq. clerk to his Majefty's fignet at Edinburgh, to Mifs, Anne Stewart, of London street, eldest daughter of Duncan S. efq. of Ardfheal.

Palmer Hurft, efq. of Walton upon Thames, Surrey, to Mifs Elizabeth Grange, of Hammersmith-terrace.

Mr. Wm. Fox, of Gloucefter, attorney, to Mifs Eleanor Griffin, of New Bond-street.

21. By fpecial licence, at the houfe of the Marquis of Buckingham, Sir Wm. Young, bart, M.P. to Mifs Barbara Talbot, daughter of the late Col. T. and a near relative of the Marchionefs.

22. At Bath, Rev. Richard Woodward, eldeft fon of the Bishop of Cloyne, to Mifs E. Bathoe, fecond daughter of John B. efq. of the Crescent.

Sir Wm. Wake, bart. of Courteen-hall, co, Northampton, to Mifs Gambier, youngest daughter of the late Adm. G.

23. Mr. Edmund Gouldfmith, of Caftleftreet, Falcon fquare, to Mifs Anne Stafford, daughter of Rev. Dr. S. of Chifwell-ft eet. Alfo, Mr. Tho. Lawrance, of Rutland-place, Black-friers, to Mifs Hannah Stafford.

Mr. Beecraft, of Market Deeping, co. Lincoln, to Mifs Bruce, eldest daughter of Rev. Mr. B. of Inglisham, Wilts.

26. Mr. Thomas Swinnerton, of Brotherton-hall, co. Stafford, to Mifs Mary Milbourne, daughter of Lady Martha M.

DEATHS.

1792. T Madras, Andrew Morris,

Aug. 10. A efq, commiffary-general, se

to the army under the Marquis Cornwallis, for the two laft campaigns in India.

Sept. 22. At Dacca, Francis Law, efq. a man in whom many virtues were to be found. Humane and charitable to a degree, his life was not employed in any fordid purpofe. Rich in the treasures of a feeling mind, He knew no good but that of all mankind. No selfish aim infpir'd his great defign, But friendship pure, and charity divine; While to the wrangling fons of noify Strife, He gave th' example of a blameless life. O... On board the Duke of Buccleugh Eaft Indiaman, on his paffage to China, for the recovery of his health, Thomas Timbrill, efq. a writer on the Bombay establishment,

and fecond fon of the late Captain T. in the Eaft India Company's service.

1793. Jan. 18. In the island of Nevis, John Richardfon Herbert, efq. prefident of his Majesty's council in that ifland.

Feb. 16. Mr. John Wood, ftable-keeper in Park-lane. He has left a foni and daughter.

25. Mr. Henry Grove Amory, the youngeft of Dr. Thomas Amory's fons. He was born September 3, 1753. His grammarlearning he received under Mr. Thickneffe, on the foundation at St. Paul's, where he paffed through the fchool with applaufe; but, as he could not, confiftently, receive the benefit of the founder's further bounty, he did not offer himself a candidate for an exhibition to the University. Under Dr. Rees, at the academy at Hoxton, he pursued his ftudies for the miniftry for fome years, much to his own benefit, and to the fatisfaction of the curators of the feminary: but at length he entertained fome doubts about taking on himself the office of a minister, and, to the great regret of his venerable fa ther, he quitted the academy. Fer the laft 20 years he engaged in business in two very respectable houses in the city; during which time he continued to cultivate his mind by great application to polite learning and the fciences. To his friends and intimates he was a welcome gueft; and they were much enlarged within the laft ten years, as he made himself known by engaging in literary fociety. To every converfation he brought a mind ftrong in itfelf, ftored with learning and fcience well digefted. From a knowledge of his ready elocution and logical precifion he was induced, by a learned friend, to enter himself of the Inner Temple, and he began to turn over the law-books with attention, and regularly attended the hall; but, alas! his ill health prevented the purfuit. The fits of epilepfy, which brought him to the grave, followed with lefs intermillion, and much impaired his conftitution. All this he bore with a manly fortitude, and feldom appeared languid among his intimate acquaintance. A few days illnefs overcame him. Shattered by a fucceffion of his fits, a fever feized him, and carried him off, to the deep regret of his afflicted mother, by whom he was most tenderly beloved, and whofe love he returned with the most affectionate duty. As a man, a companion, and a friend, he was justly esteemed by a very numerous acquaintance, who very fincerely lament their lofs. A very few words from Pope define his moral character; he was truly "pius, probus, et

innocuus."

carried him off in a few hours, the Rev. Tho. Watson, who had been 38 years paftor of the Diffenting congregation in that town. He was a native of Kettering, in Northamptonshire, at or near which place he received his grammatical education. In 1744, he was put under the tuition of the excellent Dr. Doddridge, and it may truly be faid, that he was one of the worthieft of his pupils. After he quitted the academy, he was let tled for fome time at Colesford, in Somersetshire. His knowledge was extenfive; and he had a particular fondness and tafte for polite literature, efpecially for poetry. In his fentiments he was liberal, and that liberality was united with the most perfect candour towards thofe who differed from him. In the discharge of his pastoral duty he was conftant, faithful, and affectionate; and his difcourfes were eminently pathetic. His whole cor.duct as a minifter of the gofpel was fuch as to procure him the univerfal respect and regard of his congregas tion, and to render the lofs of him deeply regretted. The efteem he was held in was not confined to his own fociety, or to perfons of his own religious profeffion. In his pri vate character he was amiable in the highest degree. None could exceed him in the tenderness of his affections as a husband and a father. The matrimonial relation had long been diffolved; but he has been furvived by three children, who are powerfully impreffed with a sense of his excellencies, and emulous of imitating his virtues. Benevolence was the characteristic of his foul, and appeared in every circumstance of his life. All who knew him will testify to his fimple and honeft character, to his pious, feeling, and upright mind. In his friendships he was fincere and ardent; and one friend he had, with whom he was invariably and most affectionately connected during a period of fortynine years. That friend (Dr. Kippis) pays this unfeigned teftimony of his efteem and love to his memory, with a humble hope, that their mutual friendship, though now interrupted by death, will not finally be broken, but revive in a better world.

10. Mr. John Cumberland, of Bury St. Edmund, co. Suffolk, in his 68th year; from the effects of an apoplectic fit, which he had a few days before his death. As a gentleman, he poffeffed those folid talents, literary knowledge, and amiable manners, which justly commanded reipect. Although fuperior to moft; yet his communications were familiar, unaffuming, judicious, and interefting, and difcovered a mind neither fettered by party or by prejudice. He was in principle a Difenter, and, from examination and nature reflection, both an admirer of, and an able advocate for, evangelical fentiments, which he ornamented by an exemplary conduct, exercifes of true piety, a liberality becoming the Chriftian temper, and a conviction of the deference due to revealed au

thority. His acquaintance with hiftory, and his obfervations of political subjects, qualified him to form a true eftimate of the general excellence of the British conftitution and government, to which he was zealously attached; his vaft investments in the public fecurities, and his known reluctance to popular fituations, gave a confequence to his endeavours to promote the repeal of the Test Act, and could only proceed from a deliberate confidence, that the constitution needed no political exclufions, which feemed incompatible with general justice or urbanity. In his friendships he was fincere; his benevolence was univerfal; and, if he erred in his acts of charity, it was in teeking to conceal them from obfervation.

It. At Hawfted, co. Suffolk, in her 22d year, Mifs Lucy Metcalfe, yourge daughter of Chriftopher M. efq. This amiable young lady was fnatched from the world, in the bloom of health and beauty, by an attack which put an end to her life in three days. Her laft will, which was made when the was but 19 years old, and in which, with the greatest compofure, fenfibility, and refign... tion, the gives directions concerning her funeral, and difposes of her fortune, bequeathing to all her near relations and friends various legacies, as teftimonials of her affection, and to the poor of the parish of HawRed 501. (% the refidue of her fortune to be difpofed of in charity to the unfortunate of any place that may come within the knowledge of her executors"), is fuch a compofition of piety, gratitude, love, friendship, generofity, and benevolence, as is rarely to be met with, and most strongly endears her memory to all her furviving and deeply-afflićted family and friends.

12. At Chatham, aged 68, John Nelson, efq. builder, of that dockyard.

At Woodstock, aged 77, Mrs. Harris, wife of Mr. H. taylor; and, on the 14th, aged 80, Mr. Harris. They had been married 55 years.

At Leicester, aged 84, Mr. Blakefley, formerly a fadler in Fenchurch-ftreet, London, where he had refided 64 years. The laft five years of his life he paffed at Leicester. He was related to Mr. Coltman, draper.

At Alderney, in his 76th year, John Le Mefurier, efq. upwards of 40 years governor of that island.

In

13. Mr. Wm. Thrale, of Chifwick, brewer. At High Wycombe, Bucks, univerfally lamented, Ifabella, wife of Samue! Welles, efq. fenior alderman of that borough. her death the furviving relations have sustained an irreparable lofs; and the indigent poor are deprived of a friend whofe liberal hands were ever extended to administer to their neceffities.

14. After a long and painful illness, at Dynevor caftle, co. Carmarthen, Cecil Rice Cardunnel, Baronefs Dynevor in her own right. She was the only daughter of the late William

William Earl Talbot, and grand-daughter of the great Chancellor Talbot; was born in 1735; married, in 1756, the late Right Hon George Rice, treafurer of his Majesty's chambers, and one of his Majesty's most honourable privy council, and knight of the fhire, lord lieutenant, cuftos rotulorum, and colonel of the militia, of Carmarthenshire, and died in 1779. By him he had three fons and three daughters, one of each died before her. The barony of Dynevor, with large eftates in the counties of Carmarthen,' Glamorgan, and Gloucester, defcend to the eldeft fon, the Hon. George Talbot Rice, the prefent M.P. for the county of Ca marthen.

Rev. Thomas Melhuith, vicar of Witheridge, and in the committion of the peace for Devon hire.

At Leefwood, in Flintshire, the Lady of Richard Hill Waring, efq. and daughter and heiress of the late Sir George Wynne, bart. of that place. She was very highly respected by all who knew her, and who truly regarded merit.

15. Rev. William Moore Tomkyns, M.A. fellow of King's college, Cambridge, and vicar of Amwell, Herts; B. A. 1772; M.A. 1775.

At his apartments in the Temple, Rev. Henry John Pemberton, of Trumpington, co. Cambridge, one of the fons of —P. efq. of frumpington, late of Peter-houfe, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. 1774, M.A. 1777. He went to the East Indies as chaplain to one of the fettlements, but returned on account of his health. He was lately curate of King's Langley, Herts; and was univerfally esteemed for the urbanity of

his manners.

In confequence of a wound he received on the 11th, in Park-freet, Dublin, from fome ruffians, who stopped him, and fired at him before he could deliver his purf:, Counsellor Grady. Two of the offenders are taken.

Lady Mageret Watson, wife of Charles W. efq filter of the Earl of Northefk, and fister alfo of the Counters of Hopetoun.

George Thompson, efq. of Stamford, many years colle&tcr of the excife duties, which office he had recently refigned on account of his infirmities.

16. At Mont Didier, in Picardy, M. Carra, painter of the beautiful Pythian Apolio, and other imitative works from the great original, Mazeline. He was of the family of the celebrated M. Carra, who was fecretary to Cardinal Guimene, and who had exercised his pen in fome very interefting events of claffic history.

17. At Hull, aged 88, Mrs. Nichols. At Billingborough, aged 75, Mrs. Andrew. At Newton-Bushel, Mr. Ford, attorney. Alex. Wight, efq. advocate, formerly folisitor-general for Scotland.

Mr. Rob. Wharrie, brandy-merch. of Hull. 18. At his houfe in Winchetter, Thomas Voods Knollis Earl of B nbury, Viscount

Wallingford, Baron Knollis of Greys. His Lordship's titles thus originated :-in the first year of King James the Firft, his ancestor Wilham (fon to Sir Francis Knoltis, K. G. and treasurer to Queen Elizabeth) was cre-, ated Baron Knollis; the 14th of the fame month, he was advanced to the title of Vifcount Wallingford; and in the first of Charles I. was created Earl of Banbury. By the death of this nobleman, his titles and eftates devolve on his ouly fon, William Vif count Wallingford, a lieutenant in tie 3d regiment of foot-guards.-The Earls of Banbury have always ftood in the predicament of having a patent for the title, but of being without the writ, which would enable them to fit in parliament, or to be confidere.l as peers. Thus, in commiffions of the peace, and in other formal proceedings, they have been called earls, yet were liable to he sued, in the ordinary forms, as commoners. The late Earl was a most refpectable magiftrate and country gentleman; but his estates were too fmall to permit a town refidence, or to give him the ufual ftate of a nobleman.

This contested title comprehends more curious hiftorical and legal anecdotes (a correfpondent obferves) than any perhaps in our peerage. Soon after the Restoration, Mr. Knolles petitioned the House of Lords, sta:ing that he was the fom of Nicholas Earl of Banbury, whofe precedency had been fo much debated in a former reign; and praying for his writ ex debito juftitiæ. The House of Lords, taking thefe allegations into their confideration, decided that he had no claim to the title, and ordered his name to be erafed from the roll of the peers, upon the ground of illegitimacy. In 1695 this perfon was indicted in the King's Bench, for the murder of one Lawfon, by the ftyle of Charles Knolles, Efq.; but he demurred to their jurifdiction, ftating the said facts, and pleading a misnomer in the indictment. Upon which the Court decided that they could not try him, as the House of Lords had decided the cafe of a title of honour without a reference from the Crown, which was a neceffury requifite to their jurifdiction in those cafes. The great and learned Sir John Holt, the chief justice, involved himself, on this occafion, in the memorable controversy with the House of Lords: but he justified himself amply, by saying that he had acted, in deciding ag init their clums, according to the laws of the land." William Knolles Earl of Banbury and Viscount Wallingford, in 1626, had no iffue by his firft wife. By his fecond, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Earl of Suffolk, according to certificate figned by her, had no issue; but the, after his death, produced, as his, two fons, Edward and Nicholas. Edward was killed in a duel at Calais; and Nicholas affumed the title, but ne ver had fummons to parliament. He had if fue Charles, whofe claims to the peerage were never admittel." Almon's Ex-l'eerage.

At

At his houfe in Dean street, Soho, aged 72, Mr. James Blyth, auctioneer.

19. Ath's apartments in Exeter, after only two days illness, Lyne, efq. fon of the Rev. Dr. L. of Mevagiffey, in Cornwall. He had been for fome fhort time in Exeter, raifing an independent company for the fervice of Government, and had just completed it when he was feized with an illness which put an end to the enjoyment of his patriotic exertions and to his life at the fame time.

20. Aged 67, Mrs. Stephens, of Great Ruffel-ftreet, Bloomsbury.

At Broadcliff, Devon, Mrs. Eliz. Acland, wife of the Rev. Jn. A. vicar of that parish. Very fuddenly, in her 37th year, Mrs. Anne Jeffrey, wife of Mr. Wm. J. of Salifbury, and daughter of the late Mr. John Rickman, of Lewes, in Suffex. She was, by profeffion, a Quaker, but poffeffed a m.nd exalted far above fectarian littleneffes, and all low, partial, fordid views." Affable in her manners, and engaging in her addrefs, The diffused, even among the gay, principles and opinions fitted for the graveft. To the poor the was a liberal and discriminating benefactor; to the rich, an example truly worthy of imitation."

21. At his houfe in Soho-square, of a paralytic stroke, Robert Pafley, efq. late an eminent merchant at Lisbon.

Edward Hutchins, efq. of Staple-inn. His death was occafioned by the overturning of a carriage in which he was returning from Illington, whereby he had three ribs broke, and his fcull dreadfully fractured.

22. Mr. Phillips, attorney, in partnership with Mr. Shaw, Bridge-street, Blackfriars.

At her houfe in Little Queen-freet, aged 93, Mrs. Harris.

At his brother's feat at Bishop-downgrove, Tunbridge-wells, Lieut.-col. Wm. Yorke, late major in the 69th reg.

At Norwich, aged 73, Rich Ruft, gent. He ferved the office of theriff of that city in the year 1775:

At her houfe in Dover-ftr. Mrs. Dickens, relict of the Rev. Dr. D. archdeacon and prebendary of Durham.

Aged 63, by his horfs fuddenly falling down in Chefhunt-Atreet, Herts, Mr. Curry, of Hoddesdon. He was taken up fenfible, and able to speak, but furvived the accident only two hours, and was buried at Branfield, near Hertford, with his wife.

23. B. H. Stanyford, efq. of Woodford. At his houfe at Kennington, Mr. Edward Hollingshead, many years an eminent factor at Chamberlain's wharf, Southwark.

At Whitehaven, in his 44th year, Arnoldus Jones Skelton, efq. brother-in-law to the Marquis Cornwallis.

24. At her house at Topfham, Devon, Mrs. Paul, mother of the late Mr. P. attor ney, of Exeter.

Mrs. Catherine Barvell, of Lynn, who has bequeathed 3ool. in truff, the interest of

which is annually to be expended in coals to fuch indigent women as do not receive parish relief. Mrs. Leake, fifter to the above lady, left 4051. to apprentice poor children in the fame town.

At Cardiff, John Richards, efq.

25. In Hill-treet, Berkeley-fquare, Lady C. Herbert, wife of Lord H. and daughter of the late well-known Topham Beauclerk, efq. and Lady Diana, fifter of the Duke of Marlborough. Her marriage with Lord Herbert, fou of the Earl of Pembroke, took place in 1789; and her early death is imputed to the fhock which her conftitution received in her first pregnancy. She was eminently endowed with elegant accomplishments, and, by the most amiable feelings, was much endeared to her friends.

At her house in Manchester, Lady Asheton, relict of Sir Ralph A. bart. of Middleton, in Lancashire, and mother of Lady Grey de Wilton, and of Lady Suffield.

26. At Plymouth, in the 7d year of his age, after having been many years fubject to fevere and repeated attacks of the gout, which he bore with the greatest fortitude, John Mudge, M.D. F.R.S.; who, for his kill in the fcience of mechanicks, was no lefs eminent than that of medicine, of which his improvement in the formation of reflecting telescopes, his excellent medical treatifes, long and extenfive practice, bear ample teftimony; but to his private virtues, his focial talents, the quickness and penetration of his judgement, the warmth of his friendship, and the goodness of his heart, those who had the happiness of knowing him beft, best can speak; and long will they have reafon to lament his death. Mr. Mudge was brother to Mr. Thomas M. the celebrated watch-maker, and fon of the Rev. Zachariah M. whose distinguished genius and extenfive learning procured him the friendship of Dr. Johnson.-In this excellent man were combined the heft qualities of the head and the heart. His admirable genius, which fignalized him not only in the various departments of his own profeffion, but in many other walks both of art and fcience, was tempered with the most engaging benevolence and condefcenfion; and his medical practice was combined with so unaffected a fympathy with the miferies he was called to relieve, that his patients felt he was their friend as well as phyfician. In domeftic fcenes his affectionate attentions endeared him to his family; at the fame time that the vigour and brilliancy of his conversation rendered him a very inftructive and delightful companion. His cup of life was but too largely dafhed with the bitterness of pain and forrow; yet, through the natural chearfulnefs of his temper, and the affecting sense he entertained of the truths and duties of religion, he had the happy talent of alleviating his own burdens and thofe of his fympathizing friends, by extracting and enjoying what