ter's decease; and legacies to the poor of Tipton, Wolverhampton, and Tettenhall, at the discretion of the minister of each parish, and which is intended to be laid out in the purchase of linsey petticoats for poor widows. On the decease of Mrs. Mee, the distinguished family of Hales will be extinct.

Dec. 1st. At his seat at Berrington, near Leominster, co. Hereford, in his 75th year, the right hon. Thomas Harley, father of the city of London, president of St. Bartholomew's hospital, lord lieutenant of the county of Radnor, one of his majesty's most honourable privy council, and uncle to the earl of Oxford. He was alderman of Portsoken ward, 1761, sheriff 1763, lord mayor 1767.

At his house, the park at Hertingfordbury, Samuel Baker, esq. late M. P. for the county of Hertford, and third son of the late sir W. B. alderman of London.

2nd. At Mount Clere, Roehampton, Surry, in his 85th year, sir John Dick, bart. and knight of the Russian order of St. Alexander Newski, which he received from the late empress of Russia, for his services to her fleet while he was English consul at Leghorn. He was likewise, for several years, one of the commissioners for auditing public accounts. He is said to have died worth upwards of 70,0001. the whole of which he has left in equal divisions to Mr. Carr, Mr. Simons of Carlisle-street, Soho, his apothecary, the rev. Mr. Cleaver, and Dr. Vaughan, his physician, after a reservation of annuities of 1601. per annum each to his housekeeper and the servant who attended his person, and one of 2001. per annum to col. Pley dell, in approba

tion of his attachment to the duke of Gloucester.

At Brithelmstone, in her 5th year, the eldest daughter of the duke of Rutland. Her remains were interred in the family vault at Bottesford, co. Leicester.

3rd. At Bath, the lady of sir Francis Baring, bart.

6th. At his apartments in Devonshire-street, Michael Marcus Lynch, esq. of Mallow, co. Cork, in Ireland, late of the royal north Lincoln regiment of militia, and brother-in-law to the right hon. J. H. Addington.

At his seat, at Kedleston, co. Derby, in his 78th year, Nathaniel Curzon, Lord Scarsdale, a baronet, LL.D. and a vice-president of the Middlesex hospital. He was the eldest son of the late Sir Nathaniel Curzon, bart. whose family came to this country with William the conqueror. We find them seated at Kedleston ever since the reign of Edward the first. This family first represented the county of Derby in parliament, in the second year of the reign of Richard II. and continued to do so, with some intervals, until the twelfth of William III.; from which period they uninterruptedly continued to represent it till the year 1761, when his present majesty was pleased to call the late lord up to the house of peers. His private worth will be long in remembrance and the poor of the surrounding villages will recollect with gratitude his continued benevolence. His exquisite taste for the fine arts is universally known and acknowledged by those of the present age, and his noble mansion at Kedleston will remain a monument of it to posterity. He is succeeded by his eldest son, the hon. Nathaniel

Curzon,

Curzon, who represented the county of Derby in two successive parlia

ments.

8th. At Edinburgh, Miss Charlotte Augusta Colquhoun, daughter of the late Sir George C. bart. of Tillyquhoun.

At her house in Upper Sloanestreet, Lady Caroline Leigh, daughter of Henry Duke of Chandos, by his first wife Lady Mary Bruce, daughter of Charles Earl of Aylesbury; and married to John Leigh, esq. of Addlesthorpe, co. Glouces ter, in 1755.

10th. At Stonehouse, near Plymouth, Miss Elizabeth Langton, daughter of the late Bennet L. esq. of Langton, co. Lincoln, and the dowager countess of Rothes.

11th. Sir Edward Nightingale, bart. of Kneesworth, co. Cambridge. He was only son of Gamaliel N. captain in the royal navy, by Maria, daughter of Peter Clossen, merchant at Hamburgh, who died in 1789. Sir Edward proved his claim to the title, 1797, as heir male of sir Tho. the first baronet. He married Eleanor, daughter and heiress of Robert N. of Kneesworth, his uncle, by whom he had six sons and four daughters.

At his house in Cheapside, aged 86, John Boydell, esq. alderman of Cheap ward; to which he was elected in 1782; sheriff 1785; lord mayor 1790. He attended his duty as alderman at the Old Bailey sessions on the 8th, when it is supposed he caught cold. On the 10th he found himself much indisposed; on the 11th he was pronounced by the physician to be in danger, and the next morning expired without a groan. The history of this worthy alderman affords an extraordinary instance of what a life of spirited VOL. XLVI.

exertions is able to accomplish. It appears almost impossible, that an individual, who began the world in humble circumstances, could have effected so much for the improvement of the arts, and of the national taste. When more than 20, he was put apprentice to a Mr. Tomms, an engraver, at a time when there were no eminent engravers in Eng. land. He saw the necessity of forcing the art of engraving, by stimu lating men of genius with suitable rewards. He himself mentioned, that the first means which enabled him to encourage other engravers, were the profits he derived from the sale of a book of 152 prints, engraved by himself; and he very modestly allowed, that he himself had not at that time arrived at any eminence in the art of engraving, and that those prints are now principally valuable from the comparison of them with the improved state of the art within the last 50 years. With the profits of this book, however, he was enabled to pay very liberally the best engravers then in the coun try, and presented the public with English engravings of the works of the best masters. The encourage. ment he experienced from the public was equal to the spirit and pa triotism of the undertaking, and soon laid the foundation of an ample fortune. The alderman had the satisfaction to see in his life-time the effect of his labours: though he never himself made great progress as an engraver, yet he was the greatest encourager of the art that this country ever saw. The English engravings, which were before con sidered much inferior to those of foreign nations, began from that time to be highly prized; and the exportation of them !

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Mr. Bull, Mr. Smith, and ten servants, two and two. 15th. Interred in St. Andrew's church-yard, Dublin, the remains of lady Catharine Stopford, sister to James earl of Courtown. The funeral was attended by a great number of noblemen's and gentlemen's carriages, At Croydon, Surry, aged 49, Mr. Thomas Levins, many years clerk of the parish church there.Some few years back, having a numerous family, he filled the follow. ing offices in Croydon and its neighbourhood to maintain them: he was parish-clerk, barber, and publican; having many years kept the white horse, on Dubben-hill, near the church; provided music for dinners, balls, &c. taught the violin, flute, bassoon, French-horn, and psalmody, at home and abroad; was headborough, and bumbailiff to the court of conscience, and many years one of the wardens of the royal Mecklenburgh free-mason's lodge, at Croydon.

16th. In London, after twelve months illness, aged 71, M. de Conzies, bishop of Arras, in France, born a nobleman and educated for the prelacy. He did equal honour to his rank and his station; faithful to his king as to his God, a long life was never polluted by a single action which did not prove the standard merit of a good man and a sincere Christian. The loyal, as well as the religious, in imitating his conduct, may be sure to possess the esteem of their contemporaries, and the admiration of posterity. That such a character should particularly attract the hatred of Bonaparte might justly be expected. The name of the bishop of Arras was upon the same line of the same

list of proscription with that of the hero of loyalty Georges. The Corsican assassin, who pierced the hearts of an Enghien, Pichegru, and Georges, has long pointed his dagger at the bosom of this prelate, who preferred poverty and exile in England to the Roman purple and the Parisian arch-episcopacy; both offered him in 1801. by the first consul of France and the pontiff of Rome Unalterable in his attachment to the house of Bourbon, his royal highness Monsieur, brother to the king of France and Navarre, made him one of his principal counsellors and confidential advisers; unprofitable offices indeed, for those who, confounding fortune with justice, regard mon y more than honour; but advantageous to him who has a conscience, follows its dictates, and feels the honourable difference between the disinterested counsellor of a lawful prince, and the despicable accomplice of a barbarous usurper. The bishop of Arras had from nature a constitution strong enough to resist the ravages of time to the farthest limits assigned to the life of man, had not Providence also bestowed upon him a mind virtuous and feeling to the highest degree. The deplorable state of Christianity, the misfortunes of his king, and the degradation of his country, were the disease which deprived the world, prematurely, of one of its best and brightest ornaments. From the scandalous journey of Pius VII. and the sacrilegious coronation of Napoleon the first, this prelate received his death-blow. He surviv. ed but for a few days the news of the Corsican assassin's and poisoner's anointment, and was one of the first victims of this horrible act, LI 2

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which has opened a tomb for true religion as well as for lawful monarchy. As in health he had been an example of piety and constancy, during his illness he was a model of devotion and resignation. He exhorted his countrymen and fellowsufferers, like himself, unfortunate exiles, not to deviate from that glorious though painful path of thorns they had dutifully and con. scientiously entered. He preached submission to the decrees of the Almighty, in shewing the justice of that noble cause to which they had sacrificed rank, property, country, and every thing else except their honour. He told them never to forget the gratitude they owe to England, should religion and royal. ty once more prosper in France. His constant prayers were, on his death-bed, that Christ may again save his church in France, restore there the rightful and faithful to power, and convert, but not punish, the undutiful and unbelieving. It is often more glorious to deserve than to occupy a throne. His royal highness Monsieur, with an humanity worthy of better times and better fortune, refused himself even the necessary rest to attend this trusty and affectionate servant, who had the consolation to breathe his last in the arms of his good and generous prince. Some few moments before he shut his eyes for ever, he pressed the hand of Monsieur to his bosom, and with a faint voice faultered these his last words: "My kind prince, death is terrible to the wicked only!"

16th. At her house in Chesterfield-street, May-fair, aged 83, dame Hannah Hales, widow of sir Edward H. bart. of Breamore-house, Ilants, who died December 1st,

1800, aged 85. Her remains were interred in the family vault at Welmington, near, Dartford.

At Ashe, in Hampshire, by a fall from her horse, which she survived only 12 hours in a state of insensibility, aged 56, Mrs. Lefroy, wife of the rev. John Lefroy, rector of that parish and of Compton, in Surry, and eldest daughter and co-heir of the late Edward Bridges, esq. of Wootton, in Kent, by Jemima daughter and co-heir of William Egerton, LL. D. prebendary of Canterbury, and grandson of John, second earl of Bridgewater.

19th. At her seat, Hillingdonhouse, near Uxbridge, Middlesex, Mary, marchioness of Rockingham. She was daughter and heir of Thos. Bright, esq. of Badsworth, co. York, uncle to Henry Liddell, lord Ravensworth; and married Feb, 26th, 1752, to Charles second mar, quis of Rockingham, who died in 1782. Her remains were conveyed through York in funeral procession to the cathedral, and deposited in the vault belonging to that ancient family. The corpse was met at the iron gate within the cathedral by the rev. archdeacon Markham and the rev. James Richardson, by whom the funeral service was read. The coffin was covered with crimson velvet, ornamented with rich gilt tire.

At Holyrood-house, Edinburgh, the hon. Mary Murray, only daughter of the late lord Edward Murray, and sister to the hon. and rev. M. Murray, dean of Killaloe, in Ire

land.

21st. At his house, at Laurieston, Edinburgh, in his 77th year, colonel James Riddell, son of sir Walter Riddell, of Riddell, and uncle to sir John Buchanan, knt.