deemed too much to fay, that it has been made the most beautiful fpecimen of the kind existing. So at leaft Lord Orford thought; and he has expreffed his admira tion of it in a note to the later editions of

the "Anecdotes of Painting." A short character of it may also be seen in the third volume of Haited's Kent; which patfage indeed was written by Lord Orford himfelf, and, had it not been deemed neceffory a little to vary and curtail it, to a lapt it to the Hiftorian's plan, would have appeared full more advantageously. Mr. Barrett was perfectly fkilled in the arts, and warmly attached to them; his memory was powerful; and his knowledge of history, Remoirs, and topography, extenfive and exact. He loved books, and made nuinerous and fplendid additions to his father's valuable library. In truth, the defign, the decorations, and the contents, of the library at Lee, as they are peculiar, are in many refects unrivalled. The cabinets too have, among their curious contents, the exquifite original ministere, by Holbein, of Anne of Cleves, to which the engraved print among Houbraken's heads does much injuice. The grounds at Lee, which he delighted in adorning, poffels a character Congenial to the building. His pobfhed maaners, focial habits, integrity, charity, and many amiable virtues, will long be remembered with regret by his friends, and the neighbourhood in which he refided. He died unmarried, and has left his eftates to his great nephew and heir, Thomas Barrett Brydges, a minor at Harrow school, eldeft fon of his niece by Samuel Egerton Brydges, of Denton, efq. on condition of taking his name.

9. At Mis. May's, in Baker-ftreet, Enfield, of a fcarlet and putrid fever, aged 13, Mafter Smith, fon of Mr. S. of Hemel Hempstead, Herts.

On Enfield highway, aged 47, Mr. Lamb, millwright.

At Greenwich, the wife of StephenJohn Maule, eiq.

The wife of the Rev. D. Pennell, vicar of Newark, Notts.

Found dead in a barn near his own dwelling, fuppofed to have died in a fit, aged 65, Mr. William Robinfon, of Bradfton, near Lincoln, farmer.

On the island of Alderney, Peter Le Mefurier, efq. governor thereof, to which he fucceeded on the death of his father, John Le M. efq. in 1793. He was a molt amiable and excellent man; poffeffed great knowledge as an engineer, which his works conftructed in Alderney prove; and died worth ro,ccol. per annum. His fon, just come of age, a major in the 8oth regiment of foot, fucceeds to the government, which is hereditary in the family.

10. After a tedious illness of many years, which he bore with exemplary fortitude

Mr. Edw. Bankart, of Leice@er, hofier. Suddenly, aged 78, Mr. Day, of Geefton, near Ketton, Rutland.

Mr Wm. Ifaacfon, an eminent attorney, of Mildenhall.

12. Suddenly, Mr. William Stutter, of Ahley, co. Cambridge, farmer.

In Charlotte-ftreet, Portland-place, the wife of Mr. Barry, minature-painter. The wife of Benjamin Radcliffe, efq.' of the Stamp office, Somerfet place.

Found dead at a door in Apollo buildings, Eaft-lane, Walworth, Mr. Jn. Tuck, of Walworth common. From certain circumftances he is fuppofed to have died by the inclemency of the weather.

At Eumburgh, Lady R. Bauce, daughter of the late William Earl of Kincardine, and aunt to the prefent Earl of Eigin.

In a very advanced age, the Rev. John Erskine, D.D. one of the minifters of the Old Greyfriers church, Edinburgh.

13. Mr. William Canner, the junior City Marthal, a fituation to which he was elected by the Common Council 1800. Mr. C had rendered material service in completing the prefent fyftem of police in the metropolis; and his zeal and activity as an officer juttly entitled him to the approbation of the magistracy and the publick in general. The caufe to which his death is attributed is fomewhat remarkable. He had been to Queenborough, making enquiries relative to the parties accused of plundering a vetfel wrecked on that coaft, and bad caught a fevere cold. On his retura to town, his duty engaged him in procuring paffages for fome paupers. Among the indigent perfons who applied, one of them was infected with fo loathfome a complaint, that it was neceffary to put him cut of the room in which the Lord Mayor fat. Mr. Canner incautiously remained near this man, and fame time afterwards remarked, that he could not "get the fmell of him out of his nofe." The infection had fe:zed him, and in a very fhort period produced his death. On the 20th, at 1E o'clock, his remains were removed from his houfe, in Wood-ftreet, in military or der, attended by the gentlemen belonging to the different Affociations of Cornbit!, Cripplegate, Walbrook, and Vintry wards, to St. Matthew's church, Friday-freet, and thence to the burial-ground of that parth

in Wood-freet, where three vollies werefired over the grave in which he was interred. At Woolwich, in his 72d year, Thomas Butler, efq. of the Ordnance-office. At Walworth, Surrey, aged 67, the Rev. David Bradberry.

14. At Paris, of a decline, the Hon. Temple Luttrell, next brother to Earl Carhampton. By his death without iffue the eftate of Swallow field, in the island of Jamaica, comes to his brother, the Hon. John Olmius, one of the commiffioners of the revenue of excife.

After a long and painful illness, the wife, of Davifon Munton, efq. of Craven-street. After a few days illness, Mrs. Billings, of Southampton-row, Bloomsbury, widow of John B. efq. of Gower-street.

Found dead in his apartments in Somerfet-house, aged 64, Mr. Charles Tweedie, of the Navy Pay-office. It appeared in evidence next day, before the Coroner's fury, that Mr. T. not coming out of his bed-room for a confiderable time after his ufual hour of rifing, and no anfwer could be got when he was called at the door, a fmith was fent for to break open the bed-room door, which being done, on the fmith entering the room, he found Mr. T. lifelefs on the bed, having fhot himself through the head, and the piftol lying near him. It is fuppofed the fatal deed was done when he was dreffing himself at his usual hour of rifing, as he had got fome of his clothes on, and had washed himself. Lord Minto attended, and ftated, that he had known the deceafed for a great number of years, and had been in the habits of intimacy, and for fome time past he had obferved evident fymptoms of derangement; that, on the morning of the fatal deed, the deceafed was to have breakfafted with him, and Sir Walter Farquhar was to have been confulted on his flate. The Jury returned a verdict of Lunacy. The room in which he slept having double doors was the caufe of the report of the piftol not being heard. Mr. Henry Stort, of Lynn, Norfolk. 15. At his houfe in Vauxhall-walk, after an illness of 4 days, Mr. Henry Thomas.

Dropped down, and died inftantly, in the Porough, on his return from the Court of Requests in Southwark, of which he had been many years the fenior officer, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Tolley, who had been attending at the Seffious-houfe in Horfemonger-lane, Southwark, in going home was feized with a fit in King's-felds, and, although every means were used to recover him, he expired in lefs than an hour.

At Bath, Mifs Randell, daughter of the late J. R. efq. of Queenhithe.

At Brompton, aged 85, the relict of the Rev. Thomas Meyley, of Pirton, co. Worc. The wife of Mr. William Innis, engraver, of Gracechurch Breet.

16. The relict of John Hole, efq. furgeon, of Iflington.

Rev. Henry Heathcote, yongeft fon of the late Sir William H. of Hurley, bart. and brother to the Countefs-dowager of Macclesfield, whofe lord prefented him to the rectory of Walton, near Liverpool, where he died. He was of Exeter college, Oxford, M. A. 1759; married, and had feveral children.

At Smyth's-hall, Effex, Charles-Alexander Crickett, efq. M. P. for Ipfwich, a proctor in Doctors Commons, and an eminent banker in the principal towns of Effex and Suffolk.

In Lamb's Conduit ftreet, the wife of Capt. Duning, of the Wiltshire militia.

At her brother's houfe in Great Ruffellfreet, Mifs R. Cumming, of Fairfield, near Glasgow.

Cha. Pafley, efq. of Thavies-inn, Holb. The wife of Mr. Capper, of Ely-place. Interred, in St. Giles's burial ground, a fine girl, fix years of age, named Cokely, She was followed to the grave by eighteen young girls, dreffed in white, hefides fix couple of mourners, emblematical of the innocence of the deceased. She received her death by reading too near the fire, after her parents had gone to bed, and, imprudently, left the child alone, to amufe her felf. Her cloaths having caught fire, the fcreams fo much, perturbed the mother, that he was deprived of the power of adminiftering any aid. The child, confequently, remained in a blaze till fome of the neighbours refcued it from the flames. She lived 48 hours, and then expired in the greatest agonies.

Aged 77, C. J. De Boeck, a native of Bruffels, in Germ. ny. He was naturally attached to the study of painting, and from his infancy difplayed marks of great genius in that art. Being of a volatile difpofition, he fet out on his travels, and went into Italy with no other profpect than what the efforts of his tafte and genius promifed him. There he became acquainted with the works of the most celebrated masters, and foon acquired a perfect knowledge of that art in which he afterwards fo eminently excelled. He thence returned to his native city, where having produced feveral capital pieces, and exercifed his talents fuccefsfully, he refolved to fix his abode in England, and to this end left bis whole collection to the care of a friend. When he had arrived here, and become a little fettled, he thought of difposing of his paintings to advantage, and fent for them; but the perfon in whofe charge he had left them was not to be found, nor was he ever afterward's heard of by the lamented fubject of this article. By this abominable act he was reduced to great diftrefs; and, but for the unceasing exertion of those talents which he was fo happily poffeffed of, his family must have perifhed through want. This misfortune, as well as many others

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which he met with in the courfe of his life, he bore with a truly Christian patience, never repining at his loffes, but always poffeffing an air of cheerfulness. Having a perfect knowledge of the German, French, and Italian languages, and, befides thefe accomplishments, poffeffing a thorough knowledge of the fcience of mufick, he commenced schoolmatter, and kept a very refpectable academy for fome years at Bethnal Green, with great credit; where he first became acquainted with that family who have fupported him in his latter days. By a fad reverse of fortune, he was obliged to quit this profeffion, when he found a friend in the late Mr. Fairbone, mathematical inftrument maker, of Newftreet, Gough-fquare, who, upwards of 14 years, befides giving him a room in his own houfe, and fupplying him daily from his own table, allowed him a weekly ftipend. This allowance was kindly continued after Mr. F.'s death, Nov. 18, 1801, by his furviving family, who, it is but justice to fay, have used their utmost endeavours to make his faft days comfortable. About a fortnight fince he loft the use of his reason, and continued lingering in this lamentable ftate, a few lucid intervals excepted, till his death.

17. On Croom's-hill, Greenwich, aged 8, Mrs. Olivier, relict of Daniel O. efq. formerly a merchant of London, by whom The had an only fun, for whom she purchafed the vicarage of Clophal, co. Bedford; a daughter, married to Dr. Conybeare, rector of St. Botolph, Bishopfgate; and another to Capt. Eyre.

At Huntingdon, in his 78th year, the Rev. Robert Hodfon, M. A. rector of All Saints, and vicar of St. Mary's, both in that borough, and both in the gift of the Crown, the latter united with St. Benet, held, all of small value, by fequeftration, by the rector of All Saints, which is of itself united to St. John Baptift. He was also vicar of Offord Cluny, in the fame county, in the gift of the Bishop of London; and a prebendary of Lincoln. He was created M. A. 1762, per literas Regius; and father of the Rev. Septimus H. late preacher at the Asylum, and now rector of Thrapston.

At Eaft Horley, Surr. Mifs Eliz. Carrie. At her daughter's (the Hon. Mrs. Damer), in Upper Brook Atreet, Grosvenorfqua. the Countefs-dowager of Aylesbury.

At Hackney, aged 72 years, 50 of which he had spent in the difcharge of his duty, James Webb, eq. accomptant-general of the Excife.

In his 78th year, Henry Cornelifon, efq. of Edward-treet, Portman-fquare.

In his 73d year, Wm. Cole, efq. upwards of 50 years copper-plate-printer to the Bank of England, and 40 years printer to the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Mafons.

At Bath, the relict of Sir John Cumming, of Edinburgh.

18. After being delivered of a ftillborn infant, the wife of Col. Henry Greville, of Hanover-fquare.

In Wimpole-street, the lady of Admiral Sir Peter Parker. Her many virtues and active benevolence are too well known to need any comment, and were fully evinced at the close of a well-fpent life.

At his cottage on the Parade, Carmarthen, aged 78, Stephen Ludlow, efq.

Edw. Greathed, efq. of Udden's House, co. Dorfet. He had spent the preceding day mostly in company, appeared to have no fymptoms of ill health, but was remarkably chearful and pleasant, and retired to reft in the fame happy temper. In the morning Mrs. G. fpoke to him, and, alarmed at length at not obtaining any answer, ftre ched forth her hand, and found him lying by her breathless. He was theriff of Doriet 1795; and, the following year, purchafed the eftate of Mr. Gundry, fon of the Serjeant of that name, who built the houfe 1745, which Mr. Greathed had very much improve.

19. The infant daughter of Mr. Gunning, furgeon, of Clifford-Street.

David Steel, efq. of Little Tower-hill. He was univerfally respected by those who had the pleasure of his acquaintance, and has left a widow and large family to lament the irreparable lofs of an affectionate husband and fond father, in the prime of life. Mr. S. was originally employed in the Navy Office, but quitted his fituation for the study of the law, and practifed for feveral years with repuration as a barrister; he quitted the profeffion on his father's death, and fucceeded him in his bufiness as a book, map, and chart-feller. The lite rary world are under great obligations to him for the very active part which he took as one of the committee for obtaining the repeal of the duty on paper.

20. At her house in Albemarle-freet, aged 97, Mrs. Levy, a rich Jewels. She formerly gave fashionable parties; but within the lat feven years the became a valetudinarian, and, during the latter part of her life, lived in foch a reclufe manner. that even the neighbours did not know her. Her retinue, however, was still retained, and the fame equipage kept up as in her days of splendour. The carriage regularly appeared every morning at the door, though it was feldom used. The last time the appeared in public was at Bath; where her eccentric appearance and behaviour were the topick of conversation daily in the Pump-room and other places. Though he was ufually in town during the fashionable feafon, no one was admitted to fee her; and the fummer was always paffed at hier villa at Richmond, in Surrey. Mrs. Levy died immensely rich; in her banker's

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