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in all its recent discoveries; had the finest taste for drawing and painting, and would frequently take admirable likenesses of persons which struck him from memory. He wrote a hand like copper-plate; and, at a very early period of his life, had made himself master of arithmetic. He was never known to be out of temper; and, though he suffered an illness of ten years, which terminated in a dropsy and bursting of a blood-vessel upon the lungs, he was never once known to repine or be impatient. His wit was brilliant and refined; and his loss will ever be regretted by those who had the happiness to know him.

At Clifton, aged 70, Mrs. M'Cumming, wife of capt. Bryce M'C. to whom she had been 44 years married. She was twice brought to bed at sea; twice lost every thing by shipwreck; and twice on short allowance of provisions and water. She was born in the great earl of Crawford's family, who fought against the Turks both in the Russian and German armies. She had perfect recollection of lady Jane Douglas calling on the countess of Crawford in Brussels, when on her way to Paris to lay in, and the countess at parting wishing her a happy hour. She was in Pensacola during the Douglas cause, or it is probable she might have been called on as a corroborating evidence.

25th. At his house, in Charlesstreet, Berkeley-square, colonel David Woodburne, of the Bengal artillery.

27th. At his house in Grosvenorsquare, after a lingering illness of many months, in his 72d year, being born 1732, Robert Clements, earl, viscount, and baron Leitrim, of Manor Hamilton, co. Leitrim, in

Ireland, and one of the Irish peers in the parliament of the united kingdom. He served in parliament for the county of Donegall till he was created a baron, Sept. 20, 1783; a viscount Dec. 20, 1793; and an earl Oct. 6, 1795. He was ranger of the Phoenix-park, and appointed a governor of the county of Donegall. He married, May 31, 1765, Elizabeth Skeffington, daughter of the late earl of Massareen, and had issue two sons and three daughters. His remains were deposited in the family vault at St. Michan's, Dublin. He is succeeded by his son, Robert lord viscount Clements, M. P. for the county of Leitrim.

At Cork, Mr. O'Brien, the celebrated Irish giant. His body was interred, on the 31st, at the church of St. Finbar; the concourse of people who attended the funeral was so great and so clamorous as to oblige the mayor to have the attendance of several peace-officers. Mr. O'Brien had a small property in the county of Kerry, of about 150l. a year, which had been mortgaged, and to clear which he exhibited himself as a show for some years past.

29th. In his 84th year, James lord Forbes, premier baron of Scotland. He married Catharine, only daughter of sir Robert Innes, of Orton, bart. He is succeeded by his eldest son, the hon. major-gen. James Forbes, of the coldstream regt. of guards, now lord Forbes.

30th. At Bath, having survived the truly inhuman murder of her much-lamented husband 12 months and 7 days, the dowager viscountess Kilwarden.

Lately, at his house in Dublin, Otway Cuffe, earl, viscount, and baron of Desart, in the county of Kilkenny, Ireland. In 1767, on

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the death of his elder brother John, without male issue, his lordship succeeded to the barony of Desart, was created a viscount in 1780, in 1785 an earl. He married in 1785, Anne, eldest dau. to the late earl of Altamont, and sister to the marquis of Sligo, by whom he has one daughter and four sons. The present earl was born Feb. 28, 1788: by his lordship's death, and that of the earl of Leitrim, two vacancies occur in the Irish peers who sit in parlia

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August 3d. At the Black Rock, near Dublin, sir Henry Cavendish, bart. husband to lady Waterpark, and father to the countess of Mountmorris and lady Kilmaine. He is succeeded in title and estates by his eldest son Richard, married to Miss Cooper.

At Corn-hill, in his way to Edinburgh, in his 73d year, of the gout in his stomach, the gallant admiral lord viscount Duncan.

At his son's house, at Segrave, near Loughborough, aged 77, the Rev. Robert Ingram, M. A. vicar of Wormington and Boxted, co. Essex, formerly of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, of which he was some time fellow; B. A. 1719; M. A. 1753. Mr. I. was of the same family which was ennobled, in 1661, by the title of Irwine. He was said to be of an older branch, and nearly allied to the title; and probably was the only surviving male relative in the Ingram line, as the title is now extinct, or in abeyance.

Much and most deservedly respected, John Reilly, esq. of Scarva, co. Down, in Ireland. He had been many years an upright and respectable representative in parliament, and first commissioner for public accompts of that country.

About 5 o'clock this afternoon, as Mr. and Mrs. Jones, and their child about 15 months old, of Park-place, Kennington-lane, were coming down the river in a boat with a sail, for their amusement, the boat heaved suddenly to one side, opposite Somerset-house, and the child was thrown from its mother's arms into the river. The father plunged into the river to save it, and, after much exertion, handed it to Mrs. J. into the boat, when, being exhausted, he sunk and disappeared. Mrs. Trotter, wife of Mr. T. of the navy-office, perceived the accident from her window, and ordered that every assistance should be given.— Dr. Stanton, of the Strand, one of the medical assistants of the Humane Society, attended immediately, and succeeded in restoring the child to life. The body of Mr. Jones was not found till Wednesday noon, the 8th, when it was taken up by two watermen at London bridge, through which it was seen to pass by a person from the ballustrades. Mrs. Jones is far advanced in pregnancy.

6th. Aged 70, the Rev. Thomas Twining, of Sidney-college, Cambridge; B. A. 1760, M. A. 1763; rector of White Notley, Essex, in private patronage, 1788, and of St. Mary's, Colchester, to which he was presented by the bishop of London, on the death of Philip Morant, 1770. Sound learning, polite literature, and exquisite taste in all the fine arts, have lost an ornament and defender in the death of this Scholar and wor

thy Divine. His translation of the "Poetics of Aristotle" must convince men of learning of his knowledge of the Greek language, of the wide extent of his classical erudition, of his acute and fair spirit of criticism, and, above all, of his good

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taste, sound judgment, and general reading manifested in his dissertations. Mr. T. was the only son of the eminent tea-merchant of that name, by his first marriage, and intended by his father to succeed him in that house, which he had so well established; but the son, feeling an impulse towards literature and science, entreated his father to let him devote himself to study and a classical education; and, being indulged in his wish, he was matriculated at Cambridge. Mr. T. was contemporary in that university with Gray, Mason, and Bate; and so able a musician, that, besides playing the harpsichord and organ in a masterly manner, he was so excellent a performer on the violin as to lead all the concerts, and even oratorios, that were performed in the university during term time, in which Bate played the organ and harpsichord. His taste in music was enlarged and confirmed by study as well as practice, as few professors knew more of composition, harmonics, and the history of the art and science of music, than this intelligent and polished amateur. Besides his familiar acquaintance with the Greek and Roman classics, his knowledge of modern languages particularly French and Italian, was such as not only to enable him to read but to write those languages with facility and idiomatic accuracy. His friends and correspondents will deplore his loss with no common grief. His conversation and letters, when science and serious subjects were out of the question, were replete with wit, humour, and playfulness. In the performance of his ecclesiastical duties, Mr.T.was exemplary,scarcely allowing himself to be absent from

his parishioners more than a fortnight in a year, during the last 40 years of his life, though, from his learning, accomplishments, pleasing character, and conversation, no man's company was so much sought. During the last 12 or 14 years of his life he was a widower, and has left no progeny. His preferment in the church was inadequate to his learning, piety, and talents. But such was the moderation of his desires, that he neither solicited nor complained. The Colchester living was conferred upon him by the present bishop of London, very much to his honour, without personal acquaintance or powerful recommendation: but, from the modesty of his character, and love of a private life, his profound learning and literary abilities were little known till the publication of his Aristotle.

At Paris, general Reubell.

7th. At his house at Homerton, near Hackney, Timothy Curtis, esq. eldest brother to alderman sir Wm. Curtis, bart. one of the largest men in the kingdom, his weight, some years ago, exceeding 34 stone. Under the medical superintendance of his friends, he reduced himself 10 stone within the last 15 years.

8th. At his house in Hammersmith, aged 70, Robert Macfarlane, esq. His death was occasioned by the bruises he received from a carriage which ran over him, and which he survived only half an hour. He was educated in the university of Edinburgh, and came to London at a very early period of life; and was well known in the literary world as the author of many celebrated productions. The first volume of his History of George III. was published in 1770, the fourth in 1796.

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reprinted with the addition of notes, in two volumes octavo. Of the excellence of this translation it is hardly possible to say too much; many of the parts are so exquisitely beautiful as to leave us in doubt whether any poet could have accomplished the task with greater success. In 1781 he published the first volume of his translation of Euripides, in quarto; and the following year the second; and, 1788, that of Sophocles, in the same size. These last mentioned versions are on the whole inferior to his first production; yet they are each of them excellent performances, and even superior to those of Mr. Wodhull and Dr. Franklin. Besides these very laborious works, Mr. P. published in 4to. 1783, "An Enquiry into some pas sages in Dr. Johnson's Lives of the poets;" and, in 1785, in quarto,

He published the first book of Timora, by way of specimen, in 1796. Mr. M. possessed a retentive memory, and an elegant style of composition, which enabled him to give the world with fidelity, some of the finest speeches in parliament during lord North's administration and the American war; in which laborious duty he was succeeded by the late Mr. Wm. Woodfall. Until within a few years back he kept an excellent seminary at Walthamstow, at which some of the ablest men, now in various professions of the law, church, army, and the mercantile world, received their education. For the two last years, he was engaged in translating into Latin the poems of Ossian, now printing by Mr. Bulmer. His last work, of which he received the first proof sheet only a few hours before he died, is intituled, "An Essay prov-A Translation of the Oracle con"ing the Authenticity of Ossian "and his Poems."

9th. Found dead in his bed, at Lowestoft, of which he was vicar, aged 83, the rev. Robert Potter, of Emanuel college, Cambridge, B. A. 1741, M. A. 1788, and prebendary of Norwich. His first preferment was the vicarage of Scarning, Norfolk. He was a character of the highest distinétion as a classical scholar. The literary world is most intrinsically indebted to him for excellent poetical versions of the three Greek tragedians. He published, 1774, an octavo volume of poems, most of which had before appeared separately, many very pretty compositions, particularly a beautiful farewel hymn to the country, in imitation of Spenser. Three years after this, his 'translation of Eschylus made its appearance in a quarto volume, and has since been 2

cerning Babylon, and the Song of Exultation from Isaiah, chap. XIII. and XIV." "A Sermon on the Thanksgiving for the peace, 1802." "In his weightiest character, as translator of the Greek tragedians, we must allow that Mr. P. was of very singular service to the literary world. It was an under. taking which to many would have appeared too great for the life of man; and, considering the success with which so much labour has been accomplished, and the amiable character Mr. P. bears as a member of society, we may well be surprised he had not earlier attracted the notice of those who are able and willing to confer honors and preferments, when they meet with peculiar desert."-Memoirs of living authors, II. 153. By his death the republic of letters has lost one of its best and most unassuming orna

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ments. His manners were simple, and his life exemplary; he was a scholar of the old school, and nothing tempted him to relinquish divine and polite literature. It was not till after he had compleated his last translation, (that of Sophocles,) that Mr. Potter obtained any preferment in the church higher than that of vicar of Lowestoft. He had been a school-fellow of Lord Thur-low, and had constantly sent his publications to that great man with out ever soliciting a single favour from him. On receiving a copy of the Sophocles, however, his lordship wrote a short note to Mr. Potter, acknowledging the receipt of his books from time to time, and the pleasure they had afforded him, and requesting Mr. Potter's acceptance of a prebendal stall in the cathedral of Norwich, which, with his vicarage, rendered him comfortable for the remainder of a life devoted to those pursuits which best become a profound scholar and a true christian. The vicarage of Scarning is a mediety in the gift of the Warner family; the vicarage of Lowestoft in the bishop of Norwich; and the prebend of Norwich in the

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11th. At Shuckburgh park, co. Warwick, aged 53, sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh Evelyn, bart. elected, 1802, for the fifth time, one of the members for the county of Warwick. He succeeded his uncle, sir Charles Shuckburgh, in 1773; and married, first, 1782, Sarah-Johanna, one of the two daughters of John Darker, esq. treasurer of St. Bartholomew's hospital, in London, and many years representative of Leicester in parliament, who dying the year following without issue, sir George

married, secondly, 1785, JuliaAnnabella, one of the two daughters, and at length sole heiress, of James Evelyn, esq. of Felbridge, Surry; on whose death, 1793, sir George took his name, in addition to his own. He has left one daugh

ter, Julia Evelyn Medley, born Oct. 5th, 1791. Sir George was elected F.A.S. 1777, and was also F.R.S. In the Philosophical transactions are the following papers by him :-" Observations made in Savoy, in order to ascertain the height of mountains by means of the barometer, being an examination of M. De Luc's rules delivered in his Recherches sur les Modifications de l' Atmosphere," 1777.-"Comparison between his and colonel Roy's rules for the measurement of heights with the barometer," 1778.-" On the temperature of boiling waters,"1778.

"An account of the equatorial instrument,” 1793.—“ An account of some endeavours to ascertain a standard of weight and measure," 1798.

Mrs. Egerton, wife of William Tatton E. esq. of Tatton park, inCheshire, and only daughter of Thomas Watkinson Payler, esq. of Ileden, Kent. Among the catalogue of unfortunate events, none could produce a more general sensation than the loss of this amiable woman, whose death was occasioned by precipitately jumping from a low chair (in which she was taking her usual airing in the park), in consequence of the horse becoming restive. By the fall she became senseless, and expired without uttering a word. Besides those near and intimate connexions, to whom her loss is irre parable, a numerous acquaintance sincerely share the sorrow which it inflicts and a still more extensive

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