18a3.] Obituary, with Anecdotes, of remarkable Perfons. 38£ 1800. DEATHS. ARLY in the year, at Columbo, in the island of Ceylon, John Ewart, M. D. physician-general of his Majefty's forces in the East Indies, and formerly phyfician at Bath. Nov..... At Mangalore, in the East Indies, aged 84, Brigadier-general John Carnac; a man celebrated in the annals of India, and formerly M. P. for Leominster. 1801. April... At Calcutta, Mrs. Carey, one of the furvivors of thofe who were confined in the Black Hole in 1756, where her husband, mother, and fifter, porished. 18:2. 08. 7. At Brodera, in the Eaft Ind es, Lieut. col. Gray, commander of the 75th regiment. 25. At China, Mr. Wm. Kennedy Skipton, fon of George Crookshank S. efq. of Beech-hill, near Londonderry, Ireland, and late fourth officer of the Royal Charlotte Eaft Indiaman. Dec. 2. The ci-devant Comte de VanderReghen, a man of good fortune and antient nobility at Bruffels, was found hanging in a wood near that city. His body was removed to his country-feat for interment. 7. Henry Bagshaw, efq. late the East India Company's civil fervant at China, who was on his paffage home in the Royal Charlotte Indiaman. 29. At Jamaica, Mr. Thomas Robbins, a gative of Tewkesbury, but many years a refident of St. Mary's parish in that inland. In private life he was much refpected; and, in his public concerns, univerfally fupported the character of a truly Koneft man. He left Jamaica to revifit this (his native) country, on account of ill health; which having in part re-established, he returned back, and, a few days after his arrival, was carried off by the gout in blis head. 1803. Jan. 5. At Cromarty, in Scotland, in his 86th year, Alexander Mackenzie, M. D; who, in the year 1777, communicated to the Royal Society an account (published in the Philofophical Transactions, vol. LXVII. part I.) of a woman, in the thire of Rofs, then aged 30 years, who had lived four years without fallowing the leaft portion of food, or even drink; except that twice, in that time, he took a draught of water. LATELY, at Verapoli, near Cochin, aged 58, the most reverend father in God Don. Fie. Lewis Maria De Jetus, bishop of Verapoli, apoftolic vicar of Malabar, and of the order of Carmelites. At Lisbon, of a confumption, in the In the Mediterranean fea, whither he At Florence, Robert Fitzherbert, efq. fon of the late Thomas F. efq. of Swinnerton→ hall, co. Stafford. At Rome, the celebrated fculptor, Dominique Veronefe. At Metz, aged 105, Elizabeth Adam. She was 78 years the wife of Conrad Preis, who, at the age of 109, furvives her. At Paris, Silvani Marechal, author of good time of 1794 he would have had a At Meaux, aged 88, M. de Barral, formerly bishop of Tieves. This prelate held the fee of Troyes for 30 years, and was fucceeded, 1790, by his nephew, M. LouisMathias de Barral, now bishop of Meaux. In Sackville-ftr. Dublin, Jofeph-Henry Blake, Lord Wallfcourt. He married, 1784, Lady Louifa-Catherine Birmingham, coheirefs of Thomas Earl of Louth and 22d Lord Athenry (upon whose decease, 1793, without iffie-male, the barony beca ne in abeyance between his three daughters, the Lady Elizabeth Duffield, Mary Lady-vifcountess St. Lawrence, and Louifa-Catherine Baronefs Wail court), by whom his Lordship had iffue an only daughter, who mairied the prefent Lord Clonbrock; and, leaving no male-iffue, the title defcends to his nephew, Jofeph Blake, efq. now Lord Wallfcourt. At Dublin, R. Walpole, efq one of the oldest magistrates for the county of Rofcommon. Mrs. Campion, mother of Mrs. Pope, of Drury-lane theatre.-Mr. James Moor, of College-green, bookfeller.-In Stephen-ftreet, aged 66, Thomas Walth, eíq. many years a furveyor of excife there. At Kirkcudbright, in Scotland, in her 91ft year, Mrs. Martin. At Conden, near Dalkeith, Lieut.-col. Alexander Baillie, of the 58th foot. At Applegirth, the Rev. Robert Little, minifter of that parish. At Kilymaenllwyd, in the parish of Penbrey, co. Caermarthen, after a short illness, refpected and lamented by a numerous circle of friends and acquaintance, John Rees, efq. His duty as a deputy-lieutenant and magiftrate for that county he difcharged with fidelity; and a fevere lofs is tuftamed in that neighbourhood by his death, where his pacific endeavours were very fuccesful in caufing foes to become friends, and thus avoid many litigations which would otherwife infallibly happen. At Bath, the lady of Sir Jn. Keene, bart. At Ividenley bank, aged ioz, Alice Marland; and, soon afterwards, at Winbury, in Cheshire, aged 105, Anne Edgley. At Hales-Owen, aged 82, in confequence of a paralytic stroke, Mr. Brunton, late of Perry-hill, near Birmingham, nurseryman. At her brother's houfe, near Blackburn, co. Lancaster, aged 22, Mifs Jane Hand, daughter of the late Charles H. efq. of Park-hall, co. Stafford. Aged 31, Philip Bulkeley, efq of Huntley-hall, near Cheadle, co. Stafford. At Counde-hall, Salop, in an advanced age, Henry Crepett Pelham, efq. feveral years a commiffioner of the customs. Mr. Prior, an eminent grazier, of Desford, co. Leicester. Mr. Jofeph Frith, a Quaker; of Sheffield. While in the team grinding-machine, of which he was a partner, he was feized with a dizzinefs in his head, which occafioned his falling amongst the wheels, and being hurled twice round before the works could be flopped. When difengaged he was ftill alive, though his back was broken and mangled in the most hocking manner. When the works were firit erected, Mr. F. ordered a partition to be made to prevent accidents at the identical place where he received his death, which, a few weeks before, he ordered to be removed. Aged 44, Mr. Jn. Wilfon Bartholomew, grazier, of Frietton, near Boften. Aged 84, Mrs. Mary Boardman, wife of Mr. B. and mother of Mr. B. hatter and hofter, of Norwich. She had been married 63 years. Aged 25, the wife of Mr. Sharp, jun. farmer and maktfter, of Gotham, Notts. Rd. Broome, efq. of Alborough, Effex." At Walworth, Surrey, aged 73, Rearadmiral Hudfon. At Walton-on-Thames, Henry Skrine, efq. of Warley, co. Somerfet; author of a work lately published in 8vo, intituled, "A general Account of all the Rivers of Note in Great Britam;" and of different Tours in England Scotland, and Wales. At Cherfey, fuddenly, without previous indifpofition, Mr. Everatt, bricklayer. At Kenningten, in his 65th year, Samfon Colgame Lloyd, efq. formerly a merchant of Rotterdam, and, previous to the Dutch Revolution in 1795, a refident at Ryfwick, near the Hague, where he was diftinguithed by his attachment and loyalty to the House of Orange. After the expulfion of the reigning prince, he came to England, and, remaining in retirement, enjoyed, at the clofe of a long life, thofe confolations which could alone arife from a conviction that his cor duct had been useful to his fellow-creatures, and no less honourable to himself. InCharlotte Atreet, Portland-place, Cæfar Muffoimi, teacher of the Italian language, and author of " Italian Exercises," lately published in 8vo. Wm. Morris, efq. many, years deputy churchwarden of Mary-la-Bonne parish. In Prince's-court, Storey's gate, Wefts minster, Mrs. Marriot. In Lamb's Coffduit-freet, the wife of John Freeman, efq. In Bedford-fr. Bedford-row, Mr. James Good, many years afliftant at Soho-schoo!. Dropped down, while walking along Cornhill, in perfect health, and expired. foon afterwards, Mr. George Vore, of Sutton, in Cheshire, In Duke-ftreet, Weft Smithfield, Mr. William Bafs, beadle to the Royal College of Surgeons. Aged about 58, Mr. Daniel Cuerton, of John-street, Tottenham-court-road, fhoemaker, fuppofed to be the frongest man in England. He was about 5 fee: 6 inches high; rather corpulent, yet could put both his elbows together, take a glafs between them, and drink in that pofition; could contract or fwell himself over the cheft, at a minute's notice, fo as to be the leaft perfon, when measured, in company, or fo extend himself as to meafure more than four of the biggest persons together, acrofs the chest. When fitting on the ground he could get up, without the aid of his hands, with three full-grown men across his thour!ders and on his back, and dance a hornpipe with them with ease; and could perform many other feats equally incredible def feen. Many hundreds are alive who have feen these things, which he generally did of his own accord, and without profit. Feb. 1. At Grenada, G. Luthington, efq. fon of W. L. efq. of Camden-place, Chif le hurt, Kent. 5. At his hotfe at Green Buth, near Albany, in the ftate of New York, Ame rica, H. Cuyler, efq. 10. On the inland of Bermuda, the 1537 of Vice-admiral Sir Andr. Mitchell, K. B. 23. Mr. Wignell, manager of the Philadelpoia theatre. A thort time before his death he had married Mrs. Merty, formerly Mif. Brunton. (See p. 281.) 28. Suddenly, as he was drinking his coffee in the evening, aged 83, Mr. Samuel Bentley, of Uttoxeter, well known by many poetical productions. Fhis worthy veteran was, for more than half a century, an able fupporter of the poetical depart ment of "The Lady's Diary" and, in 1800, he fent us an Ode" (which accident alone prevented our earlier ufing) on completing his 78th year;" which is given in our present number, p. 359 March... At Broxborne brige, Herts, of an apoplectic fit, Mr. Jeremiah Dixon, coal-merchant, of London. At Hieres, in the South of France, whither the went for the recovery of health, aged 26, Mrs. Fitzgerald, a very beautiful woman. She has left four young children, and died pregnant of a fifth.: March March 3. At Libon, where he went for the benefit of his health, in his 25th year, Hurt Sitwell, efq. youngest brother of Sit. well S. efq. of Kenifhaw, co. Derby. 6. At Windfor, aged 75, Mrs. Palmer, mother of Roger P. efq. of Palmer's-town, in the county of Mayo, and of Rufh-houfe, in the county of Dublin. Aged 102, Mr. Wm. Morris, of North Shields, shipwright. 7. At Ennets, in the parish of Kincardine-O'Niel, in Scotland, in her 105th year, Janet Gaul. Her husband, who died lately, reached his 104th year. 11. This morning, as the King's guard was marching from the parade in St. James's park, a private of the name of Smith, of Col. Stevens's company of the Ift battalion of the 3d regiment of footguards, was feized with a fodden fit of Coughing, broke a blood-velle), and expired inftantly. other poetic works; the last of which, if we mistake not in point of date, was "The Death of Hermann," published at Hamburgh in 1787. His funeral was celebrated on the 220, with extraordinary pomp. At 10 o'clock in the morning a proceffion of 76 coaches, compofed of the fenate, the diplomatic body, the clergy, the profeffors and members of the two gymnafiums, the men of letters, and a number of merchants, repaired to the houfe of the deceased. The body was drawn by four horfes, efcorted by a guard' of honour on horse and foot. After having traverfed the principal streets of Hamburgh, the proceffion moved out by the gate of Altona, and was received at the entrance into that last city by the first pres fident, Stegman, accompanied by the offi cers of government, the profeffors, the clergy of Altona, and the citizens of all claffes. Tee young women, dreffed in white, and carrying crowns and baskets of flowers, preceded the retinue, which, be Elizabeth Davis, a nurse at the London hofpital. Carrying a candle in her hand through one of the paffages of that building increafed by 50 carriages, arrived at ing, a fudden guft of wind drove the blaze against her cloaths, and fet them on fire, and, before the flames could be extinguifhed, the was fo fhockingly burnt as to bccafion her death. Found dead, fuppofed in fits, to which he was fubject, a young man named Rimming ton of Horbling, near Falkingham, Linc. n his 84th year, John Beaty, gent. of Aflackby, formerly, and for many years, an eminent tradefman at Falkingham. At Rugby, co. Warwick, aged 72, the Rev. Chriftopher Moor, vicar of Lilbourn, co. Northampton. Aged 85, Rev. Jofeph Cafberd, 57 years vica of St. Angullin, Bristol, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter; to which the late an of Bristol, Dr. Layard, was on the point of being inducted. He was of Sidney college, Cambr.; B.A. 1713, M.A. 1717. 14. In an advanced age, the Rev. John John Barker, rector of Fakenham with Eufton, Suffolk, in the gift of the Duke of Grafton. At South Collingham, the wife of the Rey, Mr. Todhunter, vicar of that place, Who alfo died on the 21t, to the great and real grief of all who knew the n. At Lisbon, Mifs Macdonald, eldest dau. of the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. At Hamburgh, in his 79th year, Frederick Gottlieb Klopstock, counsellor of the Danish embassy at Hamburgh, and a celebrated German poet. He was born at Quedlinburg, in 1724. His first publication, "Two Qdes," appeared, at Zurich, in 1749; his "Melliah" at Halle, in 1751; his "Ödes and Elegies" (which have fince gone through more than 30 editions) at Darmstadt, in 1771. He was likewife author of "The Death of Adam," "Salomon," and "David," tragedies; and of 5 the burying ground of the village of Ottenten, the place of interment. All the guards of the two cities paid military honours, and the fhips in the harbour hoisted the mourning flag. The proceffion having arrived at the temple, the poem of the Meffiah was placed on the coffin; at this inftant a young man itept out of the crowd, and placed a crown of laurel on' the book, which was open, and the young women of Altona fixed theirs likewife on the coffin. At the fame monent a fublime ftrain of folemn mufick was fent up by more than an hundred performers. During a moment of filence, an individual of the retinue advanced towards the coffin, took up the poem of the Meliah, and read the 12th canto; after which, the coffin was depofited in the grave of his first wife, who had been buried there 30 years before. In his 61st year, at his houfe in Spafields, Clerkenwell, Mr. Robert Bishop. He was, in the former part of his life, in the Norwich crape and bombazeen bufinefs, in Holborn, where he lived in the year 178, at the time that dreadful fpirit of anarchy and confufion broke out, which, it is to be lamented, there have been fome attempts to revive lately, both in London and Sheffield. Mr. Bishop was the firth to turn out, and propofed to his brother-housekeepers to arm them. felves, and learn the military discipline, His propofal was cordially embraced. They formed themfelves into an affociation, and appointed their officers, of whom he was the captain. It is well known of what great ufe they were during the trials and the fubfequent executions that took place at that dreadful time. They continued their exertions till peace was firmly establifhed. Mr. B. continued in business till about 384 Obituary, with Anecdotes, of remarkable Perfons. [Apr. about feven years ago, when he retired In a 16. The wife of Mr. Elverfn, farmer Mr. Martin, landlord of the Horfe and 17. In Paddington-freet, Mr. Wink- In her 70th year, after a few days illness, At her lodgings in Stamford, aged 72, the At his feat at Little Harewood, near Blackbur, co. Lancaster, of a gradual decay of Nature, in the 75th year of his age, John Clayton, efq. one of his Majefty's juftices of the peace and in the lieutenancy for that county. In both these capacities he had a&ted fo long that he had long become the father of the hundred of Blackburn, and for fome time, as the writer of this believes, had been the father of the county. He was major in the regiment of Royal Lancashire Volunteers, raifed during the American war, of which Sir Thomas Egerton, bart. was the lieutenant-colonel-commandant; high fherff for the county in 1778; and commandant of the Loyal Blackburn Affociation pending the late conteft with France. He was the oldeft fon of Thomas Clayton, M. D. of Little Harewood, a manor of which the family have been poffeffed for feveral hundred years. From a female branch of this family defcended that illuftrious hiftorian and cele brated antiquary Sir William Dugdale (for the particulars of which, fee the Dugdale genealogy in that author's Warwickshire), Major Clayton was a student at Queen's college, Oxford. In 1754 he married Margaret daughter and fole heir of Richard Townley, efq. of Barnfide and Carrhall, near Coln, in the fame county. She died in 1779, leaving iffue, who, have furvived their father, Thomas, Martha, Margaret. The last of thefe is married to James Chew, of Blackburn, M.D. The fecond is fingle; and the first a widower, having married Bury, who died, without iffue, 1789. This Sufan, daughter of Robert Nuttal, efq, of Thomas Clayton, of Barnfide and Carrhall, efq. ferved, as captain of a company, in the above regiment; and, in the late Royal de Wilton, now Earl of Wilton, was firit Lancashire Volunteers, under Lord Grey major and afterwards lieutenant-colonel, Commanding the regiment in Ireland, he obtained the highly-merited praife of the Viceroy, Marquis Cornwallis, for the neatnefs, order, and difcipline of his corps. This gentleman is alfo a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant for the county; in both which offices he is father of the hundred, leys of Barnfide, Monkroyd, and Carrhall, Col. Clayton is reprefentative of the Town leys of Townley, whofe reprefentative is who are a younger branch of the Townftreet, Westminster, that illuftrious adept Charles T. efq. at prefent refiding in Park- * and all the elegant arts, whole confum. in antiquity, claffic lore, polite literature, equalled by his mild urbanity and highlymate proficiency in all which is only ilemen are directly defcended from the po' fhed fuavity of manners. These genfamous "Roger, Conftabularius de Chefter," of that most antient and celebrated family, and the Deans of Whalley, being a branch the Lacies Earls of Lincoln. The imm diate fubject of this memoir had made himself fo generally useful to his country man, and a magntrate, fuch were his eamen, as a friend, a counfellor, a gentlegernefs to ferve his friends, joined to the reípectability of his character, and fuch undertook, that he frequently was ap his energetic exertions in every thing he portant differences, which he happily terminated without the trouble, anxiety, and pointed umpire in the fettlement of im penfioners in the neighbourhood idolized expence of litigation. The old Chelsea him; he was the friend of the poor of all liften to their tale of woe without pervertdenominations; and he could patiently ing justice or warping his integrity. was not only diftinguished as an able, artive, and difcriminating magiftrate, and, during the time of his health, as an attentive military difciplinarian, but as a genticularly excelling in the epiftolary style, of tleman of great vivacity and hilarity, parquick penetration and ready difcernment. An affectionate husband, a tender parent, indulgent master, having fervants born in a warm and zealous friend, and a kind and lofs will be long and feverely regretted by his family even to the third generation, his a numerous, extenfive, moft refpectable, Leeds and Liverpool Canal; for promoting and noble acquaintance. Major Clayton was chairman of the Committee of the the intereft of which, and in his cordial He attachment 가 attachment to the commercial intereft in general, he was a very zeous and powerful advocate. By his influence and reSpectability many obstacles to that grand undertaking were removed, and many local prejudices and impediments taken away, which otherwife would have, and had for a long time, proved a retardation to its completion. So that, in his fuccefsful exertions for this alone, were other praife wanting, the publick in general, and the proprietors in particular, must gratefully acknowledge that he has erected, to the prefervation of his memory, a monument of more extenfive celebrity and greater durability than marble or bronze. 18. At Killichaffie, in Scotland, James Stewart Flemyng, efq. Aged 48, Mrs. Eyre, of the Swan and Talbot inn at Stamford, co. Lincoln. Mrs. Whitehead, of Eafton, near Stamford; and, a few hours after, her daughter, Mrs. Hickling, of Croyland, who had come to attend her mother in her illness. At Great Gonerby, aged 51, the wife of Mr. Eminfon, an opulent farmer. Rev. Sam. Parlby, curate of Stoke-byNayland, where he took young gentlemen to qualify them for the Univerfity, and preached a thanksgiving fermon on Lord Nellon's victory over the French fleet at the Mouth of the Nile, 1799. See our vol. LXIX. p. 142. At his fon's houfe, in his 65th year, Mr. Wm. Hennell, many years a respectable inhabitant of Cambridge; and, on the 20th, in her 15th year, Mifs Louifa Hennell, daughter of Mr. H. and grand-daughter of the above Mr. Wm. H. In Lower Grosvenor-street, the relict of Richard Heber, elq. of Marton-hall, Crayen, in Yorkshire. la Montpelier-place, near the Black Rock, Dublin, James Sweetman, efq. barrifter at law. In attempting to draw the charge of his mufket, it unfortunately went off, and, the contents entering his breaft, he instantly expired. 19. At Chertsey, in her 65th year, after a long and painful confinement, which the bore with the fortitude of a good Chriftian, - Mrs. Hudfon, wife of Sol. H. efq. late of Tichfield-ftreet, leaving behind her an excellent character, Mr. Wm. Rogers, of King-street, Weftminster, upwards of 30 years abroad clerk to Mr. Currie, diftiller. Robert Simmonds, efq. of CharlotteAtreet, Bedford-square. At Bradwell near the Sea, Effex, Mr. G. Keys, an opulent farmer. At Thorney fen, whiltt on a vifit, after a few days illness, the wife of Mr. Houfehold, draper, of Whittlesea. Mr. John Schofield, many years keeper ⚫ of the county gaol at Northampton, GENT. MAG April, 1803. . At North Luffenham, co. Rutland, aged 69, Mrs. Trollope, mother of Sir John T. bart. of Cafwick-house, near Samford, co. Lincoln. A Sibley, co. Lincoln, Mr. Henry Mayhew, furgeon and man-midwife. At Hull, aged 70, Mr. Tho. Fletcher, pawnbroker. At his houfe at Stroud-green, Middlefex, John Blackall, efq. lare of Great Hafeley, co. Oxford, who had ferved the office of theriff for that county, and also for London and Middlesex. 20. In his 82d year, the Hon. JamesEverard Arundel, fetond fon of Henry fixth Baron Arundel of Wardour, by his first wife, Elizabeth-Eleanor, daughter and heir of Baron Everard, of the principality of Liege, one of the barons of the Empire. He married, 1751, Anne, daughter and heir of John Windham, efq of Afhcombe, Wilts, by whom he had James-Everard, who died young, and was buried in Salifbury cathedral; James-Everard, born 1763; Thomas-Raymond, born 1765; Eleanor-Anne, born 1752; Mary-Windham, born 1757; and Catherine-Elizabeth, born 1759, married, 1792, to Geo. Ryves, efq. captain of his Majefty's fhip Agincourt, and eldest fon of the late G. R. efq. of Ranston, Dorfet, by whom she has feveral children. Aged 74, Mrs. Shelton, of Morco', in Rutland hire. After a very long and fevere illness, Mr. Richard Dewey, carpenter, of Witbech. At Loughborough, co. Leicester, much refpected, Mr. Robert Turner, At Sevenoaks, co. Kent, aged 43, Miss Mary Auften. 21, Mifs Brown, of Wisbech. Mr. Tho, Stimfon, farmer, of Emmet!,' In his 78th year, Mr. Samuel Thornton, of the Cultom-house at Wisbech. Aged 61, Mr. Harper, wool taper, of St. Martin's, Stamford Baron. At Moulton-grove farm, near Northampton, Mr. Thomas March. At Theddlethorpe, aged 96, Mr. Thomas Chapinan, miller. At Lisbon, where he went for the recovery of his health, Mr. George Petty, of Lawrence-lane, Cheapfide. 22. In London, Lieut. James Loten, of the royal navy, and an inhabitant of Hull. At his lodgings in Mary-la-Bonne-ftr. R. Mackenzie, etq. At Ringwood, Surrey, W. Smith, efq. A: Hull, aged 63, the wife of Mr. John Etherington. Aged 73, Mr. John Bland, master of the Wheat Sheaf inn at Lincoln. At Chalfont.St. Peter, Bucks, aged 37, Peter Burrell, efq. یاد At Gate houfe, in Galloway, aged 51, Mrs. Elizabeth Birtwhistle; whose concern in |