the name of Wilkinson. He possessed property to the amount of 150,000l. In Holborn, where he had resided upwards of 40 years, aged 65, Mr. Cornelius Paas, a native of Germany, and engraver to his majesty. During the funeral procession of lord Nelson's remains on the river, a lady of the name of Bayne, related to the late capt. William Bayne, who lost his life in the West Indies under lord Rodney, was so affected at the scene, that she fell into hystericks, and died in a few minutes. At Gate-house, Edinburgh, aged 73, James Davitts, esq. one of the oldest inhabitants thereof. He or dered a cheese, which he had kept for 40 years, to be broken on the day of his funeral. 9th. Carried out of St. Paul's, in consequence of having had an apoplectic fit, capt. Richard Whitford, who had been many years in the Jamaica trade; and, though medical assistance was immediately obtained, both in the cathedral and after he had been conveyed home to his apartments in Great Queenstreet, he died about 12 o'clock at night. 10th. man named Tattersal, well known (by the appellation of the doctor) to the visitors of Bright helmstone, where he had long been one of the principal male-bathers, fell over the Groyue, and was drowned, while endeavouring to fill a bucket with salt water. At Ipswich, aged 73, universally respected, Mrs. Anne Mason. She was the only daughter of Mr. Nathaniel Morris, of Melton Mowbray, co. Leicester, where she was born in January, 1733; married, at Hampstead, in 1777 (after a court ship of more than a quarter of a century,) to William Mason, of Garthorpe, gent. who died, without issue, April 14, 1779. 11th. Mr. Houghton, shoemaker, in the butter-market at Bury St. Edmund's. He was in apparent good health, chopping a faggot, the same afternoon, when he accident. ally cut one of his fingers, and, on his wife's expressing a wish to dress it, he said, "Never mind, my dear; what is this wound compared to lord Nelson's?" and immediately fell down in an apoplectic fit, from which he never recovered to utter another sentence. 12th. At Cockermouth, aged 61 years, 51 of which he had been in the occupation of a huntsman, Mr. George Topping. At Cracomb-house, in his 66th year, George Perrott, esq. in the commission of the peace for the county of Worcester, formerly in the civil service of the East India company at Bombay, and nephew of the late hon. George Perrott, one of the barons of the exchequer. At Hackney, where he had been long confined in a state of derange. ment, aged 75, sir Wolstan Dixie, bart. of Bosworth, co. Leicester, fifth baronet of that family, who were thus rewarded for the loyalty of sir Wolstan in the civil wars, when he gave his majesty, among the gentry of the county, 18351. for which he had a warrant for a baro. net's patent, not taken out till after the restoration. He died in 1682, aged 80, and was succeeded by his eldest son, sir Beaumont; he by his eldest son, sir Wolstan; and he by his eldest son of the same name, who died in 1766, leaving his only son and namesake, the subject of this article, born 1737. 15th. In 15th. In Bond-street, Miss Elizabeth Butler, a young woman of respectability, who resided at Somerstown. She had been at the house of a friend in Hamilton-street, Piccadilly, where she dined and drank tea, and, on her return home, was observed by a gentleman from Harrow leaning against a post, apparently very ill, at the corner of Burlington Garden. Mr. Tibbs, a chemist in Bond-street, was applied to for assistance, but, on examination, she appeared quite dead, having burst a blood-vessel. 16th. At Lisbon, where he went for the recovery of his health, sir John Hales, bart. of Coventry, who succeeded his father, sir Christopher, in 1777; by whose death the title is extinct. 17th. Aged 80, Elizabeth Searle, of Peterborough, widow. In a fit of insanity she got out of her chamber-window and fell into the street, whereby she received so much injury as to cause her death in a few hours. At Fern-house, Wilts, the seat of Thomas Grove, esq. Miss MaryAnne Grove, his fourth daughter, a fine young lady, aged 13. On the 15th, by some accident, her muslin dress caught fire, when there was no one in the apartment with her except a younger sister, who was incapable of assisting her. Terrified by her alarming situation, Miss G. ran out of the house; but, unfortu. nately, no one was at that instant on the spot; and whenshe again entered, and flew to an appartment in which Mr. Bankes of Salisbury was on business, she was entirely enveloped in flames; and though Mr. B. used every exertion, with the assistance of two servants, to extinguish them, and were much burnt, their efforts were unavailing, till her cloaths were nearly consumed. She bore her sufferings with fortitude and resignation till this morning, when she was happily released from them by death. 20th. Mr. Davis of the bank of Messrs. Miles, Vaughan, and co. of Bristol. 21st. In Chatham-place, in his 77th year, Peter Perchard, esq. an ancient member of the company of goldsmiths. He was a native of Guernsey; and coming early in life to London, under the patronageof a wealthy uncle, he engaged in the respectable profession of moneyagent for the inhabitants of that island. He was many years in the common council for the ward of Candlewick; and, in 1798, was unanimously elected their alderman, after having served the office of sheriff in 1793. He filled the office of lord mayor last year, with great credit to himself and satisfaction to his fellow-citizens. At Lichfield, in an advanced age, Andrew Newton, esq. brother of the late learned and pious Dr. Thomas Newton, bishop of Bristol. The property of this gentleman, which was considerable, was employed, to a liberal extent, in private acts of charity and beneficence, known only to the immediate objects of his kindness. In a more public and more lasting point of view, the noble institution which he founded some years ago at Lichfield, for the widows of clergymen, and for their unmarried daughters above the age of 50, will sufficiently distinguish his name and perpetuate his memory. He gave, for the purpose above-mentioned, the sum of 20,000l. during his life! 23d. At his house at Putney, Surrey, Surrey, in his 47th year, the right hon. William Pitt, first lord of the treasury, chancellor of the exchequer, a lord of trade and plantations, a commissioner for the affairs of India, constable of Dover castle, warden, keeper, and admiral of the cinque ports, master of the Trinity-house, governor of the Charter house, high steward of, and M. P. for, the university of Cambridge, and F. R. S. He was of a delicate constitution, and had long been complaining. The illness which he had in the summer of 1802 shook him very much; and he does not appear to have after wards effectually recovered from it; and that illness which was the immediate cause of his death originated in an extreme debility, brought on by excessive anxiety and unweared attention to business. By this debility his whole nervous system was so deranged that, for weeks toge ther, he was unable to sleep; and this privation of rest augmented the cause, so as to lead to a general breaking-up of his constitution. An hereditary gout completed the whole, producing, according to its ordinary effect on a debilitated system, water in the chest, and such a weakness of stomach that he couldncither admit nor retain sustenance. The unfortunate issue of the war on the continent, no doubt, contributed largely to hasten his death; and the failure of a plan for the de. liverance of Europe, which his genius had formed and matured, must have been to him a source of great anxiety and mortification. By a solemn vote of the house of commons (on the 27th instant,) he had a public funeral and monument in Westmin. ster Abbey, at the national expence. f 26th. At Paris, in her 70th year, Maria-Theresa Reboul, wife of Vieu, the senator and painter. She was received a member of the former academy of painting in 1757. Most of her works, which are highly esteemed, are in the cabinet of the emperor of Russia. At Autun, aged 63, M. de Fontanges, archbishop of Autun, and formerly archbishop of Toulon. The infant son of Mr. Bubb, of Martley court co. Gloucester, a remarkably fine child, about three years old. He fell a victim to the negligence of the servant - maid, who had put him in the window of an upper room, through the case. ment of which he fell into the court below, and was 'SO dreadfully bruised that he almost instantly expired. 29th. In the parish of Cottachy, in Scotland, James Gordon, a native of the north of Scotland, who had lived by begging for a number of years. On searching his house, there were found 18. sterling in silver, and 17. sterling in copper coin, wrapped up in old, stockings, and hid in holes in the wall. 30th. At his house in Aldersgate. street, aged 69, Thomas Skinner, esq. alderman of Queenhithe ward, to which office he was elected in 1785, on the decease of alderman Bates, who held the office for a short period after the death of alderman Bull. This very respectable citizen was born at Brentford, Jan. 14, 1737; received his education at Ealing, and served an apprenticeship to Mr. Williams, an upholder in Newgate-street. He used to seem happy when relating from what a small beginning he raised himself, by an honourable course of industry, to the splendid fortune of which he he died possessed. In 1757 he vices to the city, and at all times began business for himself in Al- with the most disinterested spirit; dersgate-street, and married an ami- for, though repeatedly urged to take able woman, Miss White, daughter the representation of the city, or to of a gentleman in extensive business. participate in some of their lucrative Mr. S. served the office of sheriff in posts, he always rejected places as 1784, the commencement of Mr. well as titles. He gave the corpo. Pitt's career. On that occasion, ration all the benefit of his able adthough the whig principles of Mr. vice and assistance in the improveSkinner were perfectly well known, ment of their estates, and particuand that his intimate friend Mr. larly of those set apart for charitable Byng, candidate for the county, and purposes; and to him, more than Mr. Sawbridge for the city, were any other member, are they indebtmost violently opposed, Mr. Skin- ed for the improvements that have Ber conducted himself as sheriff with taken place. His company (the such clear integrity as to draw from haberdashers) particularly benefited the enemies of his known opinions by his sagacity, and their estates the most unequivocal approbation. have accordingly been greatly adHe was clected lord mayor at Mi- vanced. In his own profession he chaelmas 1794, and went through the has shewn what wonderful things mayoralty with much honour and may be done by ability and persereputation. Though warmly at- verance. When he began the business tached to the party at that time in of an auctioneer, he was scarcely opposition, he never suffered his po- known. It was thought discreditlitical sentiments to interfere in the able to bring estates or goods to smallest degree with his duty as a sale in the country; but to such magistrate, and purposely refrained a height has it arisen under his from all attendance on public meet- auspicies, that the auction-duty paid ings connected with party during to government last year amounted to his mayoralty. This also was a me- the sum of 300.000l. Mr. Dyke, morable year, on account of the who came to be with him in 1763, state trials, when the ministry, from has for a long time discharged all the their apprehension of riots, were active parts of the business, which most earnest with the lord mayor to allowed him to spend much of his permit a body of regular troops into time at Collier's wood, a beautiful the city to assist the police. Mr. seat, which he purchased, near MerSkinner positively refused, and ton, in Surrey, but which he has shewed them that a vigilant and con- never truly enjoyed since the death stitutional first magistrate of the of his wife, about five years ago. city could, in the most difficult Alderman Skinner was a man of times, preserve its peace by the civil strong natural sense and considerpower alone; and declared, that, able knowledge of the world. He while he sat in the chair, no military conducted a large concern in busiforee should be employed. He ful-ness with much skill and credit; and filled his promise of keeping the has left two sons, one in the firm of peace effectually. As a magistrate, Goodwyn, Skinner, and Thornton he has been indefatigable in his ser- (formerly Parsons's brewhouse,) and the the other in the army; and five daughters, of which one only was unmarried. 30th. At Tarporley, in Cheshire, in a very advanced age, Mrs. Frances Fitzherbert, a lady of exemplary virtue and piety. She was unmarried, and the only surviving sister of the late Richard F. esq. of Somersal-Herbert, in Derbyshire; who was the last representative, in the male line, of the eldest protestant branch of that ancient family; which has been settled in Derbyshire since the beginning of the 12th century, and was allied to the Baronial family of the Fitzherberts of Deane: two of whom made a conspicuous figure in king John's wars; and are amongst the subscribers to Magna Charta. The Fitzherberts of Tissington, in Derbyshire, now represented by sir Henry Fitzherbert, bart. were a younger branch of this family of Somersal-Herbert; from which they separated in the reign of king Henry VI. In his 76th year, at Hatley St. George, co. Cambridge, Thomas Quintin, esq. in the commission of the peace for that county, for which he served the office of high sheriff a few years ago. He was originally of Newcastle, and one of the agents in the glass-works belonging to the late John Williams, esq. whence he went to London, where, by industry and attention, he acquired a fortune of nearly 200,000l. which he has bequeathed to his only son by his first wife, the daughter of the late capt. Whitby, of Newcastle. At his house in St. Andrew's square, Edinburgh, the hon. David Smith, of Methven, one of the senators of the college of justice. 31st. John Sikes, esq. of Little Distaff-lane, sugar-refiner, and one of the common council of Bread. street ward. At Hailsham barracks, major Hansard, of the royal Glamorgan militia. Aged 113, John Tucker, fisher man, at Itching ferry, Southampton; who followed his usual occupation till within a few weeks of his death. Lately, at St Petersburg, count Alexander Woronzoff. This eminent statesman was in the possession of shining talents, and distinguishing pecularities, not generally understood. During the reign of the great Catherine, he was president of the college of commerce; and in this important department evinced a superior knowledge, not only in the trading interest of Russia, but of Europe in general. Assiduous and indefatigable in business, he was easy of access; but could not divest himself of a certain stiffness of deportment, which in the eyes of strangers gave him the appearance of haughtiness. Though ardent in friendship, his enmity was remote from implacability; and amongst his greatest enjoyments he estimated an acci dental meeting with an old acquaintance, to whom he could familiarly discourse of past occurrences. His negociations with lord St. Helen's and lord Whitworth, upon the subject of a commercial treaty, infused a suspicion that he was rather inimical to the interests of this country, a prejudice which was reported to have originated from some personal offence he had formerly experienced during a residence here. This bias, however, by no means operated unfavourably; for when count Woronzoff became chancellor of the empire, and prime minister, under Alexander, his mind rose to its na tural elevation; he discarded all per |