1 t inftance of fuffering, and excites too much - In yonder dust—unmark'd for public fame, ving loft the pecuniary affiftance of most if inftances did not abound, among us, of others, continued to fupply the extra wants fimilar atrocity, in those who, on inferior and accommodations of the poor folitary occafions, will make high pretenfions to ftranger, at the expence of more than rol. honour and principle, but who feek every per annum, till her decease. They would opportunity of feducing from the abodes of be the laft to wish that fuch an instance of paternal affection, or of innocent employbenevolence should be publicly mentioned; ment, whatever is the most fair and inex. but it is a tribute due, not lefs to them, than perienced-rioting in its ruin for a fhort to the interefts of fociety. The fame kind, feason, and then committing the greater and much the fame degree, of mental de- crime of abandonment to infamy! The rangement, which the "Tale of Woe" de- theme is unhappily too common to need fcribed, remained with Louifa to the laft, proof, and too mournful to dwell on. The In her general conduct the exhibited the va poor departed Child of Mier, whofe ftorious common evidences of the most confir-ry is here again revived, is too Arong an med infanity; which, in addition to the contraction of her limbs, from her expofure to cold in the open field, and from her future propenfity to remain inactive, rendered her an object of the frongeft pity. But her infanity was uniformly remarkable in this, that, however difordered and childish her affections and refentment, the never could be drawn into any explanation refpecting her family, her connexions, or her country; however affable and unguarded the might fometimes appear, the moment any perfen put a question, directly or indirectly, relative to those topicks, or made any allufion to them, however diftant, she always changed countenance, affumed an air of fufpicion, grew grave, and inflexibly filent or would inftantly touch on fome other fubject. From her accent, the was undoubtedly of German origin; but, though the knew little of English, she avoided converfing in any foreign language. Her manners and occasional movements indicated fuperior rank; and her frequent exclamations of dear papa! and dear mama! in connexion with ideas of equipage and ornaments, led to that conclufion. Many endeavours were ufed, on the Continent, to trace her family, by circulating her defcription and tory in the public prints, but without effect. The mystery of this filence was too remark able, not to confirm the fit opinion of her being a perion above the common claffes, with the additional probability of fo.ne unhappy and treacherous feduction. This latt opinion, from the whole of the diftrefsful evidence, inclufive of the perfonal part which poor Louisa fometimes involuntarily furnished, is not doubted by those who, with the writer of this article, early faw and closely observed her. The conviction, that it is poffible for any man, making pretenfions to honour, or even of diftinction from a brutal nature, fo to betray, and fo to abandon, in a foreign land, youth, beauty, the strongest fenfibility, and perhaps the molt engaging innocence, fills the mind with horror of the deed, and with thame and indignation for the character! Such profligacy, in this inftance, may have been of foreign production. But comparatively happy would it be for this country, alfo, GENT. MAC. March, 1801. Though thou be ranfom'd for eternal day ! W. M. In Worcestershire, James Scawen, efq. only fon of Tho, S. efq. who was brother of Sir Wm. S. formerly of Carshalton, and M. P. for Surrey; the large estates of the family, chiefly in that county, were all fold by tins gentleman. He was chofen a mem» ber of parliament for Surrey in 1774, when he was propofed in oppofition to Sir Jof. Mawbey by a junction of very difcordant interests, effected whilft waiting for Sir Jofeph, who delayed his coming till his para te was ready, as ftated by himself in vol. LVIII. p. 1052. He carried his election by about 250. His mother was daugh ter and fole heir of Lord James Ruffel, from whom he inherited a manfion and eitate at Madwell, in Northamptonshire, which he also fold. - He died a baghelor. A poor woman, named Watts, drowned herself and three of her children (the youngeft of ten) in the lake at Blenheim park. At Stoke Newington, in her 82d year, Mrs. Elizabeth Adderley, widow of Thomas A. efq. of that place, tenor proctor of Doctors Commons, who died Aug. 15. 1800. Dr. Aylward, many years organist of the collegiate church of St. George, at Windior Mi Mifs Sufannah M'Keller, only daughter of the late Duncan M'K. efq. of Tobago. In her 85th year, Mrs. Elizabeth Victor, of Park-ftreet, Grofvenor-fquare. Mrs. Kennedy, wife of John K. efq. of Charter-house-square. At his apartments in Portman-street, Portman-fquare, in his 39th year, Lieut.Col. Eugene M'Carthy. J. H. Powys, efq. son of Thomas Jeff P. efq. of the Bengal civil ferve. March 1. Mrs. Katharine Mears, the wife of Mr. Tho. M. hell- founder, in Whitechapel. For 5 or 6 years the had been, with pious resignation, declining under the preffure of accumulated difeafes, with fcarcely an interval of health. fome accident communicated to her headdrefs. No perfon was with her in the room, and ere she was aware of her danger, the rest of her cloaths were in flames. In her first furprize, the ran to stifle them with the window-curtains, but without effe&t. Her fervant was at latt alarmed, and called the affittance of Mr. Williams, fungeon, from the house oppofite. Whenhe came in, Mifs R. stood at the door of her apartment, holding the door with one hand, with the other the corner of a cheft of drawers near it. She had feized both with a convulfive grafp, and was in the agonies of death. They could not relax her hold to remove her; but her strength was exhausted by the effort, and she almost immediately funk down and expired. Her limbs were contracted, and her whole frame moft frightfully fcorched. She had lived in the utmost privacy. In Berkeley-fquare, Mrs. Streat field, relict of Thomas S. efq: of Stonehall, Surrey, At Beverley, aged 80, Mr. Thomas El In Rochester row, Tothill-fields, Mr. Jordan Arrow, joiner to his Majesty's Board of Works, and adjutant of the Westminster volunteer can!ry. His remains were intered on the 6th, with great military pomp, in the burying ground of St. John; the proceffion was alfo ho -noured with the attendance of the St. Marlerton, schoolmaster. garet's and St. John's volunteers. His widow was delivered of a daughter on the 13th (fee p. 275). At his houfe in Pimlico, Mr. John Luke, mafter scowerer in his Majesty's kitchen. Mr. Nehemiah Lloyd, a partner in the banking-house of Meff. Taylor and Lloyd, at Birmingham. At Burton-upon-Trent, after a long ill- 2. At Camberwell, Andrew French, efq. Mrs. Buxton, wife of Mr. B. of Wellreet, Hackney. 3. Of the dropfy, Mr. M. Jackson, groom of the Chapel-royal, St. James's, in the gift of the Bishop of London. William Arnold, efq. collector of the cuftoms at Cowes, in the Ifle of Wight, and postmaster of the island. Of a decline, Mifs Knight, only daughter of Mr. Rd. K. grocer, Gracechurch-feet. At Twickenham, Middlesex, George Proctor, efg. of Cleever lodge, Berks. At Edinburgh, Quarter master Evers, of the Scots brigade, adjutant to the Edinburgh recruiting dûtrict. 4. About 2 o'clock this morning hap pened, at No. 10, Charlotte-freet, Portland-place, another dreadful inftance of the extreme danger with which the fashion. able articles of female drefs are worn in any careless fituation by a fire. A gentle man with whom Miss Sarah Riggs had for 17 years lived in habits of the greatest intimacy fupped with her, and had been gone but a very short time, when fire was by In Charles-Street, St. James's fquare, Lady Newhaven, relict of Lord N. sunt to the Earl of Carysfort, and only furviving daugh. and heiress of the late Vifc. Allan. 5. Suddenly, at her lodgings on the Pa rade, Bath, aged 61, Mrs. Price, of Killgwynne, co. Carinarthen. Mr. Voakes, mafter of the commiffioner's yacht at Portsmouth, was this evening unfortunately drowned as he was retorning from conveying fome perfons in his boat to the Common Hard. He has left a wife and 5 children. In the King's Bench prifon, where he had been some time confined for debt, the Rev. John Clotworthy Skeffington, coulin to the Earl of Mifarene. 6. At her father's houfe in Portman-fqu, Lady Harriet Benner, daughter of the Earl of Tankerville, and fifter of Lady Caroline Wrottefley, of Wrottefley, co. Stafford. Her remains were interred in a vault in the parish church of Walton upon-Thames, Surrey. Aged 94, Mr. John Wooldridge, of Billingborough, co. Lincoln. He fuftamed a long illness in darkness for feveral years without repining, and died with the calm. eit refignation. At Wirksworth, co. Derby, in her 81ft year, Mrs. Hurt, late of Alderwalley. At Burton-upon-Tien', William Moreton, gent. At Thorpe, near Haddifcoe, Mr. Thomas Scarle, farmer. 7. Of an apoplectic fit, at his house in Old Burlington-ftreet, Sir John Call, bart. of Whiteford, co. Cornwall, M.P. for the borough of Callington, in the faid county, and F.R. and A. S.S. He was defcended from a respectable family in the county of Cornwall; and upon the clofe of a liberal education, at the age of 18 years, was fent out out to India as an affiftant, and under the patronage of, that great and able mathematician and philofopher, Benjamin Robbins, efq. chief engineer and captain-general of all the artillery in the East India Company's fettlements, who dying in July, 1751, Mr. C. continued in the fervice, ftudying that branch of science with fuch fuccefs, together with a jud cious exertion of it in the various expeditions carried on in the Carnatic under Captain afterwards Lord Clive, Generals Lawrence, Caillaud, and others, that, in the year 1757, he was raised to the rank of colonel and chief engineer of all the coaft of Coromandel; and in 1765, as a farther proof of his fuperior abilities and integrity, the East India Com pany appointed him to a feat in the council of Fort St. George, which, with other fituations of importance, both civil and military, he held, with equal honour to himfelf and advantage to his employers, until the year 1770, when, after a period of arduous and meritorious fervice of 20 years and upwards, he refigned his appointments, and embarked for England, and, in the following year, was chofen high theriff of the county of Cornwall. In March, 1772, he married Philadelphia, third daughter and co-heiress of Wm. Battie, of Great Ruffell ftreer; was created an English baronet in 1791, with remainder to his fons, two of whom, with his lady and four daughters, furvive him. He is fueceeded in ffis title and eftates by his eldest fon, now Sir Wm. Call. To do ample justice to the virtues and good qualities of this amiable man would require explanation as extenfive as that charity, benevolence, and unshaken friendship, which fo uniformly fhone through his truly Chriftian and exemplary life, and will ever live in the remembrance of his numerous family and. friends. At Brompton park, Mifs Simpson, of Bondley, co. Durham, eldeft daughter of the late John S. jun, efq. of that place, by the Right Hon. Lady Ann Simpfon, dau. to the late Thomas Earl of Strathmore. Her kinduefs and benevolence will long be remembered by her friends, and particularly her fervants and dependants in the country. At Briftol hot wells, aged 27, Mr. John Janes Karr, of the houte of Kair, Harper, and Kair, of London. Aged 32, Mr. Wm. Wilfon, liquor merchant, of Hull. 8. At his vicarage-house at Enfield, co. Middlefex, in his 79th year, the Rev. Richard Newbon, B.D. fenior fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. 1744, M.A. 1748; and was, by that fociety, who are patrons of the rectory, prefented to the vicarage 1767; which vicarage having been always annexed to a fellowship of Trinity college, power is given, by the act for inclofing Enfield chace, 1777, to augment it by a farther endowment of 160 acres, parcel of the tithe allotment over and above go acres appropriated to it in lieu of tithes for the allotment to the King and other landholders and parishes commoning on the chace, as the vicar's fhare, an agreement having been previously made with the leffee of the rectory for that purpose. Whenever this augmentation shall have taken place, the acceptance of the vicarage of Enfield by one of the fellows of Trinity college will vacate his fellowship. The vicar has, under the act, a power of granting le fes, not to exceed 21 years, of a specific allotment of 10 acres to the vicar of Enfield and his fuccelf. rs for ever. 9. The body of Charles Champion, a private in the 7th regiment of light dragoons, who had been miffing from the regiment for fome time paft, was taken out of the river Thames at Shepperton, Middlefex, drowned. Mrs. Dodfwerth, wife of the Rev. Fran cis D. vicar of Dodington, Kent. In Arabella-row, Pimlico, Mr. Frith, one of the gentlemen volunteers of the Pimlico Affociation. At his house in Great Ormond-street, aged 71, John Holliday, efq. of Lincoln's inn, barrifter at law, F.R.S. a governor of the Royal Hofpitals of Chrift, Bridewell, and Bethlem, and of the Foundling Hofpital; and an active member of the Society of Arts and Manufactures, for which he had lately drawn up a memoir of the late Owen Salufbury Brereton, efq.; and of which (had he lived one week longer) he would probably have been elected a viceprefident. His extenfive professional knowledge and practice as a conveyancer were well known in the wide circle of his acquaintance, while his biographical memoirs of that luminary of the law, the late Lord Mausfield, his contemporary, and particular friend and patron, will recommend him to the lovers of British biography. (See our vol, LXVII. pp. 673, 771, 1042.) He was author of fome fprightly lines on "a Favourite Bantam," in vol. LXX. p. 1081; and his poem on the British Oak, fuggefted by a noble and antient fpecimen on his own extenfive eftates in Staf fordshire, is reviewed in the prefent vo lume, p. 45; where it is itated from the poem itself, that "the fecond branch or divifion of the British Oak records the marriage of the first Duke of Newcastle with the fole daughter and heir of Wm. Baffet, of Biore, efq. whofe ancestors were for feveral centuries lords of the manors of Cheadle and Cheadle park," as will foon appear in the full pedigree of that family in vol. II. p. 16, of the Hiftory of Stafford fhire; alfo in future under Cheadle. This manor, where the above celebrated tree grows, was in 1767 the property of An Selma provifion for this church in Mr. Bacon's Liber Regis, p. 629, "a donative in the gift of the lord of the fite of Waltham abbey, to which tool. per annum was given and fettled therewith for ever payable out of the eftate of Claverhambury, with a houfe and other good accommodations, by Edw. Denny, Earl of Norwich, in whofe furviving trustees is the appointment of a curate," before which legacy the ftipend was only 81. a year (Morant, 1. 45), can indignation he repreffed, that fuch a provifion fhould be fo unequally divided between a refident and a non-refident minifter, that the former fhould have the fmalleft proportion, and that Mr. C. literally, to the reproach of the Establishment, fhould have been only a curate's curate? To the credit of British humanity, a fubfcription, immediately opened, has been moft handfomely fupported, for the relief of this unfortunate family. 10. At Bath, after a fhort illness, Simon Adams, efq. of Anftey-hall, co. Warwick, and major in the Warwickshire corps of yeomanry cavalry. At Upper Tooting, Surrey, the relict of Peter Brown, efq. Mrs. Yonge, wife of William-John Y.. efq. of St. James's-ftreet, and one of the daughters of the late Humphry Pitt, efq. of Prior's Lee, co. Salop. Aged 52, Mr. John Hutchinfon, of Cot-ist tingham, late of Hull, china-dealer. Aged 70, George Lucas, efq. of St. Martin's, Stamford Baron. II. In Harpur-ftreet, Red Lion fquare, Laurence Crump, efq. Margaret, daughter and fole heiress of Sir [fac Dolins, and relict of John Berney, efq. of Bracon Ath, Norfolk, 12. Aged 3, Mr. Clark, farmer and grazier, of Horbling, co. Lincoln. Mr William Corrie, jun. lace-merchant, of Wellingborough. At Wokingham, Mr. Holton, fhoe-maker; who had 22 children by his first wife, and 16 by his fecond. Rev. Jofeph Eafton, minifter of the Gofpel at Troqueer, in Scotland. At Liverpool, Mr Catharine Nich lfon, relict of the late Rev. R. N. rector of Dudcote, co. Warwick. At his fifter's houfé in Golden-fquare, William Winter Blathwayt, efq lieutenantgeneral of his Majefty's forces, and colonel of the 27h light dragoons. 13. A Elftree, John Rudge, efq fecond fon of the Rev. Benjamin R. LI.B. of New college, Oxford, rector of Thornhaugh, co. Northampton, 33 years, from 1708 to 1741. He married a daughter of the late Dr.Thomas Reeve, phyfician, of London. *See the will in Farmer's Hiftory of Waltham Abbey, Morant's Effex, p. 170 John Guthbun was then curate, as was Bp. Hall 1612, and T. Fuller 1648. Aged Aged 64, Lieut. Robert Love, who had ferved 54 years in the imprefs fervice of the royal navy. Henry Greene, efq. of Rolleston, co. Leicefter, He fucceeded to a confiderable property on the death of his father (fee vol. LXVII. p. 805) in 1797; and fe.ved the office of theriff in 1799. Mr. Ruffell, attorney, of Northampton. Edward Parry, efq. many years a benevolent benefactor to the Welsh Charityfchool, and vice-treasurer thereof. 14. In Spring-gardens, Henry-Francis, youngest fon of Shaw Lefevre, efq. In St. Stephen's parish, Norwich, aged 25, Mifs Sophia-Anne Goddard, who came forward with fo much fuccefs at Drury lane theatre a few years ago. This lady had obtained confiderable reputation on the Norwich stage; and was fo much improved in theatrical merit, that her talents would, doubtlefs, foon have made their way to a fecure eftablishment on the London boards. Her figure was elegant, her understanding excellent, her manners were amiable, and her character, in all refpects, was highly meritorious. She was in the prime of life, and prom fed, more than any other performer now on the ftage, to fucceed to that line of theatrical characters which were fo admirably fuftained by the prefent Countefs of Derby. At Southampton, in her 27th year, Mrs. Mary Hammond Mathifon, wife of Gu bert M. efq. 15. At Eltham, Kent, in his 89th year, John Pott, efq. (brother of the late Percivall P. (urgeon), late a vinegar-merchant in Caftle-freet, Southwark, and many years an eminent oil-merchant in Gracechurchftreet, London. For feveral years before his death he had loft both his fight and his hearing. He was an excellent man, and a liberal friend to moft of the public charities. He had fo high an opinion of the extenfive utility of the Humane Society as to give ol. to it annually. Death has depri ved this valuable inftirution, within a few months, of many of its most liberal and zealous friends; and therefore its good works plead more strongly for fuppert. At the houfe of his fon-in-law, Mr. Window, at Chelfen, Mr. Samuel Rulder, an eminent printer at Cirencester, au hot of the history of that antient borough, and the county and city of Gloucefter. Having publiched a history of his native town of Ciren cefter, he undertook to publish, 1767, the topographical, ecclefiaftical, biographical, and natural hiftory of Gloucefte: thire, "not a mere republication of Sir Robert Atkyns's work, but great part of it written anew, and brought down to the prefent time, and fo far corrected and improved as the editur, with various affiftauts, was capable of doing, and adorned with new plates of gentlemen's feats, contributed by their owners. The fubfcription price was al. 12s. 6d. just half the original price of Sir Robert's book," and not one-fourth of what it had arisen to. It was to have been published 1771, but did not appear till 1779. From this general hiftory, fold, in 1981, at 31. 38, by the editor at Cirencester, and Meffrs. Evans and Hazle, bookfellers in Gloucefter, the latter extracted the hiftory of the city of Gloucester, 1781, in 8vo, price 6s ” Mr. Barlow, of Ingleton, co. York. In Wigmore-ftreet, Cavendish-fquare, the widow of Gen. Staates Long Morris. At St. James's place, aged 86, Mrs. Planta, mother of Jofeph P. efq. principal librarian of the British Mafeum. 16. Mrs. Hughes, wife of the Rev. Edward H. rector of Shenmington, co. Glouc. In Albemarle-tre-t, aged 77, the Hon. John Bulkeley Coventry Bulkeley, of Bulkeley houfe near Fordingbridge, only brother' of the Earl of Coventry. By ⚫irtue of an' act of parlament he took his additional name of Bulkeley. Mrs. Hooper, an old lady, fitting by the fire-fide at her lodgings in Middle Brookstreet, Winchester, on the 15th, a fpark by fame means caught her cloaths, by which fhe was fo dreadfully burnt that the died this morning in great agonies. 17. Capt. Rennie, of the Invincible (feb p. 272). This hrave but unfortun ve officer diftingu:fhed himfelf at the Helder when a lieutenant; in confequence of which, Admiral Mitchell praised him in his public dispatches, and lie was made post-captain. Since that time, he had been waiting for a fhip. He had just been appointed to the command of the Invincible, and was the firth time putting to fea in her, launching, as he thought, into good fortune. At Plymouth, aged 17, Mr. Norton Jofeph Knatchbull, midshipman of his Majefty's thip Princefs Royal, fecond fon of Sir Edward K. bart. › 18. Mr. Dumelow, fen. of Leicester. Aged 72, Mr. Ceo. Gibson, of Catwick. 19. In Dean's yard, Weltminster, the lady of Sir Richard Cope, bart. D. D. prebendary of Westminster. At Richmond, Surrey, Mr. Robert Grey, an uncommonly skilful mechanick. He had been employed in the Royal obfervatory from the year 1765 and was honoured with the marked attention of his Sovereign. 21. At his house at Walton, of a bilious complami, aged about 59, Mr. John Holt, who had been a refident there upwards of 40 years; whofe name has reflected very high credit on the beginning of each of our Magazines for feveral years back, whilst other parts of it have been enriched from time to time with his remarks under different fignatures. He came at an early age from the neighbourhood of Mottram Longendale in the fame county to the delightful village of Walton, about 3 miles from Liverpool |