3 per cent Confols; Society of poor pious Clergymen 3007.; Orphan Working Ichool 300l.; Hoxton Academy 3001.; Society for pro moting religious Knowledge among the Poor 2001; Coporation of Sons of the Clergy 1501.; Society for Relief of neceffitous Widows and Children of Proteftant Diffenting Minifters 5004.; Lady Huntingdon's College at Chefhunt 10002.; Miffionary Society 20007.; Society for Relief of cafual Poor 1007.; Society called Societus Evangelica 2001.; Society called the Congregational-Society in London 3007. In money: Homerton Academy 2004.; Independent Fund 3007.; Society in Lilypot-lane for Relief of fick Poor at their own Habitations 2007.; London Itinerant Society 1001.; Homerton Itinerant Society 2007.; Tabernacle in Moorfields 1007.; Baptift fund 501.; Lying-in Charity 501.; Prefbyterian fund 30%. And amongst other legacies to her friends, has given to the rev. John Gill, St. Alban's 201.; rev. Mr Reynolds, of Hoxton-fquare, 501.; rev. John Newton, of Coleman-ftreet 501.; rev. Robert Winter, of Iflington, 201.; to two poor pious clergymen 81. each; William Parker, efq. of South Lambert 2001.; Mrs. Rachel Taylor, 501, &c. &c. &c.

12th. The hon. Mrs. Cary, relict of the hon. gen. Cary, and mother of lady Amherst and the late lady Ruffel.

19th. Lady Margery Murray, niece to William the firft earl of Mansfield, and fifter to the late earl. The right hon. H. Yelverton, earl of Suffex, in the 70th year of his age. 21ft. In his 80th year, the rev. Robert Sherrard, earl of Harbo rough. He was born Oct. 1, 1719, fucceeded his brother Feb. 20,

1770, and in 1773 refigned his ec. clefiaftical preferments.

24th. William Seward, cfq. F.R.S. and A. S. S.

In her 81ft year, Elizabeth duchefs-downger of Beaufort, relict of Charles Noel, duke of Beaufort, baronefs Botetourt, and fifter to Norborne lord Botetourt.

At Paris, the celebrated Bean. marchais.

At Paris, in the 64th year of his age, Charles Borda, an eminent mathematician, and one of the authors of the new French fyftem of weights and measures. He was lieutenant du vaisseau de roi under the old French government, and with de la Crene and Pingre made a voyage to America in order to afcertain the utility of certain infiru ments for determining the latitude and longitude. The account of this voyage was published under his infpection, with the title of "Voyage fait par Ordre du Roi en 1771 et 1772, en diverfes parties de l'Europe et de l'Amerique, pour verifier l'Utilite de plufieurs Methodes, et Inftrumens fervant a determiner la Latitude et la Longitude tant du vaiffeau que des Cotes, Ifles, &c. par M. M. Verdun de la Crene, les Chevaliers de Borda, et Pingre," 1778, 2 vol. 4to. He was author alfo of" Defcription et Ulage du Circle de Reflexion," 1737, 4to. and feveral phyfical and mathemati cal memoirs in different journals. He has been fucceeded in the Bureau des Longitude by C. Bourganville.

At Paris, aged 60 years and up: wards, the chevalier St. George, celebrated for fencing and other bodily exercifes.

26th. The rev. Mr. Villette, almoft 30 years chaplain to Newgate; which important office he tuftained,

it may with truth be faid, to the general fatisfaction of the numerous magiftrates under whom he ferved. He has left a widow and 6 children

to lament his death.

At the Cape of Good Hope, colonel Harvey Afton, in a duel. An unfortunate quarrel with his officers induced him to go out on two fucceffive days with the two majors of his regiment. In the fecond duel he fell; major Allan was his antagonist. When the eccentricities and irregularities of this gentleman, while in England, are recollected, his fate will create but little furprise or concern. He appears however to be lefs in fault in this than on fome former occafions.

May 9th. Countess of Kerry. She was the fecond daughter of the late Peter Daly, efq. of Quanfbury, in the county of Galway, in Ireland; and, upon the deaths of her fifters, the countefs of Louth and viscountefs Kingfland, the inherited the whole of his very great eftates in that and the adjoining counties.

At Cork, fir John Haly, M. D. He received the honour of knighthood from the late duke of Rutland when lord-lieutenant of Ireland.

Hon. John Tufton, M. P. brother of the earl of Thanet.

Hon. Robert M'Queen, lord Braxfield, lord-chief-juftice clerk of Scotland.

Murdered, lieut.-col. Shadwell, of the 25th light dragoons. He was a native of Caftlebar, in Ireland, and, by his merit as a foldier, had rifen from the ranks; he was, a few years fince, adjutant to the prince of Wales's regiment of dragoons; was always deemed a firict difciplinarian; and to an indifcreet zeal feems to have facrificed a life

fitted for higher dutics in his country's fervice.-The following facts. tranfpired before the coroner's inqueft: That the colonel fuppofing two men, going along the Kentif road, near Wrotham, to be deferters, walked up to them, and began to examine them, and, on receiving very impertinent anfwers, collared one of them, and asked him for his furlough; the ruffian replied, "I'll fhew you my furlough and be d-d to you"; and, drawing a piftol from bis pantaloon-pocket, fhot the colonel immediately through the heart: that a farmer, who was fortunately going about one of his fields adjoining the road, with his fowling-piece feeing the colonel fall, and the two men walk haftily off, purfued them to the gate of a wood, when the murderer halted, and began to recharge his piftol in great hafte; whereupon the farmer leveled his gun at his head, and, though it was loaded only with fmall fhot, wounded him fo feverely in his face, that he found no difficulty in fecuring him; that, fome other perfons now coming up, the other man was foon purfued and alfo taken. The verdiet of the jury was wilful murder against both.

20th. Sir John Lambert, bart. of Vatchel, Surrey, who had lately returned from Paris, where he refded many years, as a banker.

June. Other Windfor Hickman, earl of Plymouth, lord Hickman, a vice-prefident of the Welth charity, and F. R. S.; born May 30, 1751; fucceeded his father 1771. His remains were interred in the familyvault at Howel-grange, in the county of Worcester.

Mrs. Herbert, fifter of the earl of Carnarvon, and bedchamber-woman to her majefty..

7th. Of a dropfy, at the houfe of the Spanish conful, Monf. de Lellis, at Triefte, the French princefs Marie Victoire, aunt to Louis XVI. and Louis XVIII.; and born May 3, 1733. She arrived there from Corfu, on the 20th of May. The funeral was celebrated with due ceremony; and the fepulchral monument of her highnefs, in the cathedral church, has an appropriate Latin infcription.

Lady-dowager Dungannon, relict of the late lord viscount Dungannon, of the kingdom of Ireland.

Mr. Samuel Galton, aged near 80. He was formerly a gun-maker of Duddleston, near Birmingham, and had acquired by his bufinefs a fortune of 200,000l.

26th. The right rev. Edward Smallwell, D. D. bifhop of St. David's in 1783; and tranflated thence to Oxford in 1788; canon alfo of Chrift's Charch; and rector of Batf ford in the county of Gloucefter. July 4. Sir John Anftrufher, of Anftruther, bart.

Sir William Lee, bart. of an ancient and diftinguifhed family, in the county of Bucks. He was born in 1726.

In his 65th year, the right hon. fir James Eyre, knt. lord-chief-juftice of the court of common pleas.

At Bristol Hot Wells, of a deep decline, Anthony Morris Storer, efq. of Devonshire-street, and Purley, Berks.

19th, Aged 77, lady Betty Mackenzie, fourth daughter, by his fecond wife, of John, duke of Argyle and Greenwich, and married to James Stuart Mackenzie, fecond fon of James fecond earl of Bute.

At his feat at Knowle, Kent, in his 55th year, the right hon. John Frederick Sackville, duke of Dorfet,

earl of Middlefex, baron Buckhurft, in Suffex, and baron Cranfield, of Cranfield, co. Bedford, hereditary high fteward of Stratford-uponAvon, vice-admiral of the coafts, colonel of the west regiment of Kent militia, lord-lieutenant of that county, lord-fteward of his majesty's household, and K. G. He fucceeded his uncle, Jan. 6, 1769, and, in 1790, married Miss Arabella-Diana Cope, daughter of the prefent countefs of Liverpool, by her first marriage with fir Charles Cope. The furviving iffue are, lady Mary Sackville, born July 30, 1792; GeorgeJohn-Frederick, earl of Middlefex, who fucceeds to the title and estates, born Nov. 15, 1793; and lady Elizabeth Sackville, born August 9, 1795. His grace, previous to his fucceeding to the peerage, reprefented the county of Kent. filled the office of ambaffador to France at the commencement of the revolution. On his return, he was invefted with the order of the garter, made lord-steward of his majefty's household, and lord-lieutenant of the county of Kent, which laft fituation he retained till within a fhort period of his death, being fucceeded by lord Romney. He was not diftinguished for mental vigour or literary attainment. At one time his grace was quite the fathion in the annals of gallantry. His remains were interred in the familyvault at Withyam, Suffex.

He

The hon. Mifs Upton, only daughter of lord Templetown.

25th. At Athens, on his travels, of a fever, which terminated fatally in a few days, in his 32d year, John Tweddell, efq. of the Inner Temple, London, B. A. and fellow of Trinity-college, Cambridge; a very diftinguifhed claffical scholar. While

refident

refident in the university, he obtained unprecedented honours by the numerous prizes adjudged to him for his claffical compofitions. Encouraged by Dr. Parr, and other diftinguished scholars, he published 1793, when only twenty-two, a collection of these pieces in an octavo volume, under the title of "Prolufiones juveniles Præmiis Academicis dignatæ." If this volume have a fault, it is the occafional appearance of affectation in the author; as one instance of which, among others, it may be remarked, that his beautiful Latin profe fometimes appears unnatural, and even obfcure, from his efforts to introduce choice phrafes and expreffions which may difplay his learning He had refided abroad near four years, in the course of which he had vifited many different parts of Europe, particularly Ruffia, and the Turkish empire.

Aug 1ft. At Hamilton-palace, Scotland, his grace Douglas Hamilton, duke of Hamilton in Scotland, duke of Brandon in England, duke of Chatelherault in France, marquis of Hamilton, of Clydefdale, and of Douglas, earl of Angus, of Arran, and of Lanerk, lord Macanshire, Polmont, Abernethey, and Aberbrothick, in Scotland, and baron Dutton and Hamilton in England, lord-lieutenant of Lanerkshire, and hereditary keeper of the palaces of Holyroodhouse and Linlithgow. His grace was born July 25, 1756; married April 5, 1778, to Elizabeth daughter of the late Peter Burrell, efq. of Beckenham, Kent, fifter to the duchefs of Northumberland, to the countess of Beverley, and to lord Gwydir, deputy lord chamberlain of England; from this lady he was divorced in February, 1797, at

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her grace's fuit. His grace's father, James, fixth duke of Hamil ton, married, on Feb. 24, 1752, Elizabeth, fecond daughter of John Gunning, efq. of Ireland, (by his wife Bridget, daughter of Theobald lord vifcount Mayo,) by whom he had iffue James George, late duke; Douglas Hamilton, afterwards duke; Elizabeth, married Edward, earl of Derby, and died in 1797. The duke died in 1758; and her grace married fecondly, John, duke of Argyle, then marquis of Lorn, and had iffue. Her grace was created a peerefs of England May 20, 1770, by the title of baronefs Hamilton, of Hameldon, in the county of Leicefter. James George, the seventh duke, fucceeded his father in the title Jan. 17, 1758, and also fucceeded to the titles of marquis of Douglas and earl of Angus, on the death of Archibald laft duke of Douglas, who died without iffue, July 21, 1701. His grace being lineally defcended of William, earl of Selkirk, eldest son, by the second marriage, of William firft marquis of Douglas, and his grace dying unmarried July 7, 1769, was fuc ceeded by his brother, Douglas Hamilton, late duke, whofe death we now commemorate. By the fecond marriage of his mother Élizabeth Gunning duchefs of Hamilton, with the duke of Argyle, his grace was brother to the marquis of Lorn, and nephew to lord Coventry. Her grace died Dec. 30, 1790, when her barony of Hamilton defcended to her fon, the late duke. grace is fucceeded in the English dukedom of Brandon, by lord Archibald Hamilton, his uncle (being fon of the fecond duke of Brandon, by his third duchefs); and the fon of the earl of Derby by his grace's

His

fifter

fifter fucceeds to the dukedom of Hamilton, it being an honour in fee.

4th. At his houfe in Dublin, in his 71ft year, the right hon. James Caulfield, earl of Charlemont, vifcount Caulfeild, baron Caulfeild of Charlemont, knight of the moft illuftrious order of St. Patrick, a member of his majesty's most honourable privy council, governor of the county of Armagh, prefident of the royal Irish academy, fellow of the royal and antiquarian focieties in London, and LL. D. He was born Auguft 18, 1728, and from June, 1746, to July, 1754, purfued his travels in foreign countries. In July, 1754, he was created LL. D. appointed governor of the county of Armagh, and member of the privy council in Ireland. October 7, fame year, he took his feat in the houfe of lords, as fourth viscount Charlemont; and, by patent 23d December, 1763, was advanced to the title of earl. His lordship married, July 2d, 1768, Mary, daughter of Thomas Hickman, of Clare, efq. (a defcendant of the noble family of Windfor Hickman, vifcount Windfor, which family have now the title of earl of Plymouth); and hath left iffue by her ladyfhip, one daughter, lady Elizabeth Caulfeild, born Dec. 13, 1773, and three fons, Francis William, lord Caulfeild, now earl of Charlemont, born Jan. 3, 1775; James Thomas, born Aug. 1, 1776; and Henry, born July 29, 1779. His lordship was the eighth nobleman of this illuftrious houfe of Charlemont.

Sir Peter Nugent, bart. of Weft Meath, Ireland.

5th. In his 3d year, the right hon. Richard Howe, earl and vifcount Howe, of Langar, in Nor

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thamptonshire, vifcount Howe and baron Clenawley, in Ireland. He fucceeded his brother George Auguftus, the late vifcount, July 5, 1758.

Lady Anne Heathcote, daughter of the rev. Mr. Tollet, of Westminfter, and relict of the late fir Tho mas H. of Hurley, Hants, baronet, which laft died an infant.

Frederick Thomas Wentworth, earl of Strafford, vifcount Wentworth, baron Stainborough, and baron of Raby, New March, and Overfley, and a baronet. He was born 1730; fucceeded his coufin William, the late earl, in 1791. His lordship came to the White Lion inn, Nottingham, where he fupped, and went to bed in perfect health. On the next morning he was found dead.

Maj. general Wm. Rob. Fielding, lord vifcount Fielding. He was born June 15, 1763, and married, April 26, 1791, to Mifs Powis.

Charles Townfhend, efq. of Chiflehurst, in Kent, fecond fon of the hon. Thomas T. one of his majesty's tellers of the exchequer, and M. P. for the univerfity of Cambridge, by Albinia, the daughter of the hon. col. John Selwyn, and brother to lord viscount Sydney.

Lady Williams, relict of fir Booth Williams.

10th. William Champion, efq. joint fheriff of the city of London, and alderman of Billingsgate ward.

At Ofborn's hotel, in the Adelphi, Cha. Barber, efq. late a free merchant at Calcutta, and chief partner in the well-known house of Barber, Palmer, and Co. the bufinefs of which, for fome years, is fuppofed to have cleared 30,0001. a year. He had realized in India a fortune certainly of upwards of

200,000%