where he led the attack against the fort as captain of the Lowestoff, in the most gallant and spirited manner. He likewise, in the command of the Diamond, engaged the La Fee, a French frigate of equal force, and, after a sharp action, compelled her to take refuge under the guns of one of the enemy's batteries at St. Domingo. One trait, amongst many others, deserves ́recording: having, by orders of lord Rodney, reconnoitred the harbour of Curacoa, within a short distance of the forts, he observed two of the enemy's cruisers in the offing, a Dutch frigate and an armed schooner, to which he gave chace, and soon brought them to action, but the schooner made off on receiving a few shot. At this time a Dutch line-of-battle-ship, having slipped her cables in the harbour, was in chace of the Diamond; capt. Parker, however, continued the action until the enemy had struck her colours; he took out some of the prisoners and did not relinquish his capture until several shot from the Dutch line-of-battle-ship went over the Diamond. Lord Rodney expressed great regret that Capt. Parker's account to him should have been so slight as to prevent his stating the circumstances to Government in the high terms it merited. At the commencement of the late war with France he commanded the Blanche frigate, on the Windward Island station; and, upon the capture of St. Lucia, was sent home with dispatches by earl St. Vincent. He next served under earl Howe as captain of the Valiant in the Channel fleet; afterwards as rear-admiral, he served in the same fleet under sir John Colpoys; and lastly with

the rank of vice-admiral, as second in command to admiral Dickson, in the North Seas, till the conclusion of the war. He received the most flattering marks of approbation and esteem from earl Howe; and the earl of St. Vincent, lord Gardner, admiral Cornwallis, sir John Colpoys (his commanders at different times), will unite their willing testi monial of his desert. His ship was always in the best state of discipline, and for this simple reason, there was no needless severity towards the men, no offensive haughtiness to the officers; he supported the dignity of a commander upon deck; and exhibited the easy manners of a gentleman in the cabin; thus did he conciliate the regard of all; they obeyed with the cheerfulness of affection, and were as anxious for his fame as if each individual partook of it. His whole system evinced a comprehensive mind, and a philosophical knowledge of the kind of men he had to command. His courage was of the best sort, as free from rashness as devoid of fear: when a moral duty was to be performed, there was no labour which he would not undertake, no danger that could appal him. He was the early companion and intimate friend of Lord Nelson. When this great man (the hero of Aboukir and Copenhagen) was receiving the meed of well-earned applause at a royal table, he observed (with the generosity which ever accompanies genuine merit), that his successes were owing to his good fortune, which had placed him in those stations; "for," said he, "there are many other officers who would have done as much under similar circumstances, one I will ven. ture to name-Christopher Parker." Ii 4

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His remains were deposited in a vault of his family at St. Margaret's church, Westminster.

29th. In the castle of Bracke, aged 75, the countess Sophia Clementine de Lippe, abbess of Cappel and Lemgo.

In the castle of Wertheim, aged 56, the countess Sophia Carolina de Lowenstein Wertheim; in her youth supposed to be the most beautiful woman in Germany.

Near Bergen-op-zoom, the famous Henry Vander Noot, who acted such a conspicuous part in the Belgic insurrection against the emperor Joseph II.

June 2nd. Of a long and deep decline, in her 52nd year, Frances, wife of Charles Chadwick, esq. of New-hall, co. Warwick, and daughter of the late Richard Green, esq. of Leventhorp, in Yorkshire, by Frances his wife, sister of the late sir Henry Cavendish, of Doveridge, bart. She was buried, on the 8th, in the family-vault at Sutton-Coldfield.

At Egremont-house, Piccadilly, (the town residence of his brotherin-law, James Milnes, esq. in his 45th year, Richard Slater Rich, esq. of Fryston, co. York, M. P. in the last three parliaments for the city of York, and provincial grand master of Free Masons for the province of York.

3d. At Wrotham, Kent, after a lingering illness, aged 33, Lady Maria Elizabeth Moore, daughter of James, late earl of Errol, born April 30, 1771, married June 29, 1795, to the rev. George M. eldest son of the archbishop of Canterbury, and rector of Wrotham.

At Dursley, the rev. James Webster, LL.B. archdeacon of Gloucester, rector of Dursley, and vicar of

Stroud, co. Gloucester, and rector of Much Cowarne, in the diocese of Hereford.

4th. In Upper Brook-street, aged 84, Mrs. Ellerker, widow of the late Eaton Mainwaring E. esq. of Risby, co. York, and mother of the late countess of Leicester.

At Capernochin, in Scotland, sir James Kirkpatrick, bart.

6th. At Bath, aged 77, the hon. and reverend Robert Cholmondely, youngest son of George, third earl of Cholmondeley, and great uncle` to George James, fourth and present earl: born Nov. 1, 1727; some time an officer in the army; but after the battle of Dettingen, preferring an ecclesiastical to a military life, entered into holy orders, and was presented by the king, as duke of Lancaster, to the united rectories of St. Andrew, St. Nicolas, and St. Mary, Hertford, and to the rectory of Hertingfordbury, besides which, he enjoyed the place of auditor-general of his majesty's revenues in America till the separation of that country from Great Britain. He married Mary, daughter to Woffington the player, by whom he had issue three sons and four daughters, George-James, born Feb. 22, 1752, first commissioner of the excise. Horace, born in 1753, died young; Robert Francis, born 1756; Harriet, born 1758; Jane Elizabeth, born 1758; Mary, born 1761, which three died infants; and Hester Frances, married to sir William Bellingham, of Bellinghamcastle, Ireland, born in 1763.

9th. Drowned on the coast of Jamaica, Henry Baker, esq. commander of his majesty's brig the Pelican, of 18 guns, and second surviving son of William Baker, esq. of Bayfordbury, in Hertford

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shire, member in the last and preceding parliaments for that county. This young officer, whose merit had raised him at an early age to the Yank he bore in the royal navy, fell a victim to that benevolence of heart and contempt of danger which so strongly characterise the British sailor. The particulars of this disastrous event are detailed in lieut. Foley's letter to admiral Duckworth; suffice it here to say, that captain B. his first lieutenant Mr. Davis, and four seamen, were unhappily lost by their generous and successful, though to themselves fatal, exertions to save from destruction the crew of a foundering Spanish schooner. Captain B.'s elder brother Edward, then a midshipman on board the Leviathan, died at Ja. maica of the yellow fever in April 1796. These two young men, in the opinion of their superior officers, promised to become distinguished in their profession; to their family their loss is irreparable; for never did two sons merit or enjoy a greater share of parental affection and solicitude.

At the seat of lord Frederick Campbell, at Croombank, Kent, Anna Margaretta viscountess Curzon, third lady to Asheton Curzon, created baron Curzon of Penn 1794, and viscount Curzon 1802. She was daughter of Amos Meredith, esq. sister to sir William Meredith; and relict of Barlow Trecothick, esq. in whose right she was, in 1770, lady mayoress of London.

17th. At the marquis's house, in Arlington-street, aged 13 months, lord W. L. Gower, youngest son of the marquis of Stafford.

At Prague, the duchess-dowager of Parma, daughter of the celebrated queen of Hungary, Maria-Theresa;

born Feb. 26, 1746; and married to the late duke of Parma July 19th, 1769.

24th. In Harley-street, aged 83, the hon. lady Sarah Salusbury, of Offley-place, Herts, and of Bransbury, co. Middlesex, widow and relict of sir Thomas S. formerly judge of the high court of admiralty, who died October 28, 1777, aged 65, and was buried in Offley chancel, where is a handsome monument by Nollekins, erected by his lady. Under an old oak, of white marble, is a sarcophagus, of black marble; before which are statues of sir John and his first wife. His second resided at Wilsden, where she was lessee of the prebends of Wilsden and Bloomsbury by purchase, 1788, and had a vault in the church.

The Rev. Thomas Collins, B. D. late second master of Winchestercollege; rector of Graffham and Coombe; a name for ever dear to his contemporary Wickhamists; well known for his literary attainments, and not less loved and respected for his generosity and noble disinterested spirit, than admired for his fortitude and Christian resignation under the severest trials. Within the short space of about 12 months, the venerable old man had lost no less than three of his descendants; his daughter, Charlotte viscountess Bolingbroke, and two of her children, the hon. George and Mary St. John.— He had fixed his residence in Bath since the death of his daughter.

July 1st. At Park-gate, Mrs. Mainwaring, of the Welsh-row, Nantwich, mother of sir Henry Mainwaring Mainwaring, bart. of Over-Peover, in Cheshire.

3d On his estate, about six versts from St. Petersburgh, count Valerian Suboff. His remains were in

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7th. After a long illness, general Anslie, colonel of the 13th regiment of foot, and lieut.-gov. of the Scilly Islands.

8th. The infant daughter of John Fonblanque, esq. M. P. for Camelford.

In New Cavendish-street, the second son and youngest child of Reginald Pole Carew, esq. M. P. for Fowey.

At Greenock, aged 37, Mrs. Elizabeth Conyers, wife of sir Archibald Campbell, and daughter of the late sir Nicholas Conyers, bart. 10th. At Paris, in his 74th year, François Ambroise Didot, the cclebrated French printer, leaving two sons, Pierre and Firmin Didot.The elegant editions published by order of Louis XVI. for the education of the Dauphin, were the production of Didot's press, as well as the Theatrical Selections by Corneille, the works of Racine, Telemachus, Tasso's Jerusalem, two superb bibles, and a multiplicity of other inestimable works; each of which, on its publication, has evinced fresh beauties, and made nearer approaches to perfection. At the age of 73, Didot read over five times, and carefully corrected, before it was sent to the press, every sheet of the Stereotype edition of Montaigne, printed by his sons.-About 18 months since he projected an alphabetical index of every subject treated upon in Montaigne's

Essays. He had collected all his materials, at which he laboured unceasingly; and perhaps too strict an application to this favourite study accelerated the death of this eminent artist.

At Rothbury, in Northumber land, sir Ernest Gordon, bart. of Park, co. Banff, in North-Britain.

On Ham common, co. Middlesex, Henry Theophilus Metcalf, esq. youngest son of sir Thomas-Theophilus M. bart.

11th. At Liverpool, aged 23, George Dunbar, esq. second son of sir George D. bart. of Mockrum, in North-Britain.

12th. At Clifton, sir Edward Williams, bart. of Llangoed, co. Brecon.

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Aged 82, Henry Lee Warner, esq. of Walfingham-abbey, Norfolk, one of the most singular characters of his own or any other times. He was a lineal descendant and representative of the eminent and worthy John Warner, formerly bishop of Rochester (whose large estates he possessed, as well as those of sir James Howe, bart. of Berwick, Wilts, and of Henry Lee, esq. of Dane John, in Kent), and who, among other good and great works, built and endowed the college for the benefit of clergymen's widows at Bromley, in Kent, an institution much enlarged since the time of bishop Warner. He was the polite scholar, the complete gentleman, and the sincere friend; and although from a series of illhealth, and a natural love of retirement, he early withdrew from filling those public stations in which, with his ability, fortune, and integrity, he would have made a very distinguished figure, yet in private life he was universally respected for

his steady adherence to the rules of justice and moderation, and his constant practice of those leading duties of the Christian, humanity and benevolence. In many respects he perpetuated in his family the benevolent qualities of his illustrious ancestor; at the same time his mind was strongly tinctured by peculiarities which separated him from a comparison with almost any other human being. His character, as drawn by Mr. Pratt, in his "Gleanings," we shall extract, as we understand it is not exaggerated: "At the abbey here resides a gentleman in the possession of a once finelywooded domain, of great politeness and urbanity, much reading, of sound understanding, who, nevertheless, has allowed almost every tree, which his domain had to boast, to be deliberately cut down and carried away without so much as making any manner of enquiry after the offenders, or entering into any remonstrance as to their past, present, or future depredations, though this went to the loss of twenty thousand pounds!"—" I suppose," says Mr. Pratt, 66 you would think I must be fibbing, were I to inform you that whoever has a mind to it goes into his stable, saddles or harnesses a horse, and rides or plows with him, brings him home at night, or keeps him a week or a fortnight together, without so much as a question being asked by the 'squire; and, what is worse, they not only steal wheat, barley, and other grain, from the field where it is sheaved, to save themselves the trouble of cutting it, but they are wicked enough to cut off the corn-ears, by whole acres, before they are half ripe." It would exceed our limits to go into the minutiae of this extra

ordinary person, who, with all these peculiarities, was rich in a thousand qualities that do honour to the heart of man. Notwithstanding these deep drawbacks upon his property, Mr. Warner died ex-. tremely rich. His Walfingham and other estates go to his nephew, and other relations of the same family, in and near Norwich; and, with all his shades of character, in which, however, there was no mixture of vice or immorality, he will long be remembered as a man of very tender feelings, a scholar, and a gentleman. His remains were conveyed in a hearse, from his venerable mansion to the parish church of that town for interment, preceded by a number of his tenants on horseback, and followed by several of the most distinguished gentlemen of the neighbourhood in their carriages, and a great concourse of spectators.

At Grotto-house, Margate, in his 16th year, J. P. Oldfield, a youth of most extraordinary genius. At the age of five years and a half, he had a scarlet fever, which brought on him a paralysis of the lower extremities, and debilitated his body for the rest of his life; but his mind presented the finest display of human perfection. Whatever he read he instantly had by heart; his favourite pursuits were mathematics, philosophy, astronomy, geography, history, and painting, in all of which he had made great proficiency. His favourite authors were Locke and Newton; and his retentive faculties were so strong, that he never forgot a single incident with which he had been once acquainted. He could relate every circumstance of Grecian, Roman, and English history; was master of astronomy, and had pursued it up