Sept. 14. At Dover, aged 56, Lieut.col. Sir Alexander Allan, bart. of Bakerstreet, Portman-square, one of the Directors of the East. India Company, and late M. P. for Berwick on. Tweed.

At Glassnevin, near Dublin, Capt. Thos. Dix, one of his Majesty's 57th regiment.

At Clay Hill, Eufield, in her 70th year, Mrs. Jones.

At Major-gen. Barton's, in Montaguplace, Montagu-square, the Right Hon. Lady Massey.

In St. Paul's Church-yard, Frances, wife of William Vowler, esq.

Sept. 15. In his 73d year, much re spected, Mr. Josh. Gregory, of Cripplegate. John Robinson, eldest son of John Capel Rose, esq. of Cransley, Northamptonshire. In Upper Harley-street, aged 76, Martin Pearkes, esq.

In her 79th year, Mary, wife of John Henderson, esq. Belgrave-place, Pimlico.

Sept. 16. In his 69th year, Wm. Francis Eld, esq. of Gloucester Terrace, Hoxton.

In his 60th year, Richard Fowell, esq. of Thetford, formerly of Elvedon, Suffolk. At Edmonton, aged 81, the Rev. William Shaw.

At St. Ives, Huntingdonshire, Lieut. John Launcelot Houghton, R. N.

Sept. 17. At Woodbridge, highly re spected, and in the 69th year of her age, Mrs. Loder, the relict of the late Mr. Robert Loder, nearly 40 years printer and bookseller of that town. Mr. L. was the author of the "History of Framlingham, Suffolk," 4to. a work in which he displayed much antiquarian labour and research. He died in 1811. (See vol. LXXXI. f. p. 298.)

Sept. 19. At Great Berkhamstead, in his 67th year, Augustus Pechell, esq. Receiver General of His Majesty's Customs. At Plymouth, R. A. Nelson, esq. Secretary of the Navy Board.

Sept. 29. At Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, aged 80, Mrs. Delamare.

In his 90th year, Mr. William Johnson, formerly an eminent woolstapler of Risby Gate-street, Bury St. Edmund's.

Sept. 22. At Bromley, Kent (where he had gone for medical aid), in his 75th year, John Wheble, esq. of Warwicksquare, a respectable printer and bookseller, and for 16 years a much-respected Representative of the Ward of Farringdon Within in the Court of Common Council. He figured away as far back as the days of "Wilkes and Liberty;" having been in 1771 committed by the House of Commons, but discharged by Wilkes, as Sitting Alderman. He was the projector of "The County Chronicle," a very successful Weekly Paper; and also of “The Sporting Magazine."

Sept. 23. After an illness of nearly eight weeks, in his 27th year, at Welchpool, Montgomeryshire, William Moody, Clerk, eldest son of the Rev. W. Moody, of Bathampton House, Wilts.

***We are happy to contradict the cruel report of the death of the Hon. Capt. Spencer (as mentioned in p. 186). The Earl and Countess Spencer, on the intelligence arriving of their son being safe, had four fine oxen slaughtered, and distributed them, with a large quantity of bread, to the poor round their seat at Althorpe. ·

In answer to an enquiry, we are enabled to state, that the Bourbon Prize-money, and the third payment from the Isle of France, will be in course at the Deputy Treasurer's office, Chelsea Hospital, in January next. It is not expected there will be any further payments for Java, Columbo, or Pondicherry.

The Letter, dated Sept. 6, accompanied by a second Poem, shall be duly forwarded to the gentleman who noticed the former publication.

The Inscription on the Font of Chelmorton Church, co. Derby, is too much obliterated to be decyphered.

A MERCHANT TAYLOR allows E. J. C. page 128, to be correct in his approval of the

"Pointed style for ecclesiastical buildings," and observes, that every person of true taste must accord with him"but so many circumstances tend to militate against its adoption-that the opinions and votes for Parish Churches are grounded exactly on the same foundation as the election of a Lecturer so ably illustrated by Dr. Johnson in his Fugitive Pieces. A course apron round the bowels has a vote for such as well as the scientific traveller, the correct designer, and the man of taste; the plain fact is, that we are not a nation possessing, generally speaking, genuine taste-our public buildings, and the position of them betrays it."

A QUONDAM CHURCH WARDEN (in reply to T. S. p. 206.) observes, "Seats in the Church being fixed to the freehold, the Churchwardens cannot dispose of them alone, nor can the Churchwardens and Rector jointly dispose of them, without the consent of the ordinary; and though such dipositions have been made, yet it has been always presumed that it was so done with the consent and approbation of the Ordinary. But by particular custom the Churchwardens may have the ordering the seats; yet they must shew some particular reason why they are to order the seats, exclusive of the Ordinary; for a general allegation, that they used to repair, which is no more than what they are obliged to by common right, is not sufficient. But as seats are erected for the more convenient attending of divine service, and as the parishioners are at the expence of erecting them and keeping in repair, if any of them be taken away, though they are fixed to the freehold; yet the Churchwardens, and not the Parson, shall bring the action against the wrong doer."

E. says, "6 your Correspondent EREUNETES, p. 102, expresses a wish to see the song of Happy Dick.'-If he will turn to

the Gentleman's Magazine for the year 1796, p. 950, he will there find it :-but I beg leave to inform him that Happy Dick' was the son of Richard Jones, Esq. of Dingestow Court in Monmouthshire; he possessed about six hundred pounds ayear in that parish and neighbourhood. Having lived a gay life he chose at the latter part of it to marry a Miss Milbourne, of Wonastow, a single lady aged sixty, with a fortune of ten thousand pounds. Having taken possession of her property, he is said not to have lived a second day under her roof. Mr. Jones was 6 feet 3 inches high, and well proportioned. The Author's name was Gwynn, second Master of the Free Grammar School in Monmouth. He wrote also some witty lines on Sir C. Hanbury Williams, occasioned by his losing his Order of the Bath.

In the latest Progress made by Queen Elizabeth, in the first week of September 1601, she first visited Sir William Russel at Chiswick; and then Mr. Ambrose Cottinger; who, because he was a Master of Arts, entertained her with a Latin Oration."-CARADOC inquires, if there are any traces of the visit at Chiswick ? and where was the residence of Mr. Cottinger He supposes it was on or near the road from Chiswick to Harefield.

H. HARVEY, of Wickham Skeith, Suffolk, states, that he has prepared a model for representing the manner in which Direction Posts might be seen in the dark, by causing painted letters to give light, in the night time. He says that this transparent property will remain undiminished for several years.

In vol. LXXXVII. p. 446. J. B. who has inserted the Lines upon Brown Willis, the celebrated Antiquary, has introduced them with a remark, that this Jeu d'Esprit is attributed to Richard Lord Viscount Cobham, but observes, that "whether his Lordship were in truth the Author, he does not know." Q. V. would therefore "feel great satisfaction in learning from some authority upon which he could rely, who was the real author of the lines in question? Perhaps some of the members of the noble family could state whether the Lord Cobham were really the writer of the lines which appeared with the name of Dr. Darrell attached to them." Our Correspondent would also be glad to know whether any other published literary effort had been rightfully assigned to the Noble Viscount; not from a motive of mere curiosity, but with the better view of recording the fact in an account of writers who have flourished in the last

century.