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DEATHS.

1820. IN Montagu-square, Nicholas ElLately. liott, esq.

In the Minories, aged 108, a woman named Mumford.-She retained all her faculties to the last. She was a remarkably intelligent woman, and was much esteemed in the neighbourhood.

Mr. Holmes, the Musician. He was the first performer of his day on the bassoon, and, if he was ever equalled, can never be excelled for science, skill, taste, and expression on that instrument.

In his 87th year, Mr. George Simpkin, of Finedon, who, for more than fifty years, was a regular contributor to several periodical publications, and particularly to the Gentleman's Diary.

Derbyshire.-At his native place, Belper, aged 68, James Harrison, esq. of Hanover-square, London. He was elder brother of the late Mr. Samuel Harrison, the celebrated tenor singer.

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Devonshire.-In one of Dovey's almshouses, Exeter, aged 100, Mary Heath; six months after the death of her sister, Elizabeth Heath, in the same house, aged 103.

Essex. Mr. Joseph Greenwood, one of the Society of Quakers, who lately died at Coggeshall. He bequeathed five pounds to each of the Friendly Societies in that place, of which there are seven in number. This is certainly an act of great liberality, and, we have no doubt, will be productive of much benefit to the individuals by whom it is to be shared; but there is still another trait in the character of Mr. Greenwood, for which he was so justly respected while living, and which so well deserves to be recorded after his death. At a certain part of Mr. Greenwood's life, he met with difficulties, and had occasion to rely upon the liberality of his creditors, who accepted a composition in discharge of their several demands. Some years afterwards, when, by industry, Mr. Greenwood had recovered from his state of adversity, and the sunshine of prosperity beamed down upon his humble endeavours, actuated by that principle which the honest man will ever promote, he called his creditors again together, and paid them not only the deficiency of the first sum, but also the interest upon the

debt.

Hants. Major T. J. Harrison, of the Royal Artillery. He was interred in Portsmouth Garrison Chapel with the military honours due to his rank.

Lincolnshire. At a very advanced age, Mr. Lewis Grummitt, formerly an eminent grazier. It was from au hospitable joke of this worthy man's, that Dr. Goldsmith took the hint of Marlow mistaking the house of Mr. Hardcastle for an inn, in the comedy of She Stoops to Conquer. The

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mitt, late one night, met a commercial traveller, who had mistaken his road, and enquired the way to the nearest inn or public-house. Mr. G. replied, that, as he was a stranger, he would shew him the way to a quiet respectable house of public entertainment for man and horse, and took him to his own residence. The traveller, by the perfect ease and confidence of his manner, showed the success of his host's stratagem; and every thing that he called for was instantly provided for himself and his horse. In the morning he called, in an authoritative tone, for his bill; and the hospitable landlord had all the recompence he desired in the surprise and altered manners of his guest. Many other whimsical acts of kindness are related of him. Shropshire.

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At Shrewsbury, Mr. J. Chambers, said to be the oldest provincial Comedian in the kingdom. He had appeared on the Shrewsbury Stage during the last 30 years. His merits as an actor were inconsiderable; but in private life he was much respected.

Somersetshire. -At Westbury, at an advanced age, Mrs. Franklin, the lineal descendant of the celebrated Dr. Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester, who suffered martyrdom in the reign of Queen Mary.

Aged 87, James York, of Compton Martin. He had been Clerk of the above parish between 60 and 70 years, and had been married to his wife (who survives him) 63 years, and had by her 21 children.

In Green Park Place, Bath, aged 44, Lady Christiana-Elizabeth Keith, daughter of the late Earl of Kintore.

James Parker, esq. Solicitor, of Axbridge. Whilst attending the funeral of a friend at Stock, near Wrington, he was seized with apoplexy, and although me. dical assistance was immediately procured, expired in about an hour and an half.He has left a widow and two sons.

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Newman, relict of the late John Newman, esq. of Dromore House (Cork), and dau. of Sir Richard Cox, bart. of Denmanway.

ABROAD.-At Algoa Bay, Mr. Thomas Calton, surgeon, formerly of Nottingham. He went out as a settler.-He has left a widow and five children, who are come home passengers in the Kinnersley Castle transport.

At Guntoor, in the East Indies, William Adamson, esq. of the Civil Service, Madras, son of the late Alexander Adamson, esq. of Bombay.

At Java, aged 27, James Crawford, esq. youngest son of Samuel Crawfurd, esq. of Isla, North Britain.

June 25. At Braybrooke, Northamptonshire, near Market Harborough, aged 65, Mr. John Norman, clerk of that parish. He was a man of strong natural abilities, which had he also possessed prudence, would, doubtless, have advanced him to a much superior station in life, He chiefly followed the occupation of a land-surveyor; but was also an able astronomer and mathematician; and last year published an Almanack, in imitation of the celebrated Francis Moore. In a communication to the Northampton Mercury, in Aug. 1806, he predicted that "the Summer of 1821 would be a very dry one, from the planets Saturn and Jupiter meeting in conjunction in June next in the fiery sign Aries, being the same sign they were in, in the year 1762, which was a remarkably dry summer, such a one as has not happened in England since. The next time of their meeting was in 1782, in the sign Sagittarius, and that was a very wet season. The last time of their meeting was in July 1802, in the sign Virgo, and the latter end of that year was so very dry, that there was a great scarcity of water until the snow fell in winter. Thus it appears how different the seasons are when these two planets meet in different parts of the heavens."

Dec. 12. In Charlotte-street, Portlandplace, the Rev. E. B. Johnson, late of Dulwich College.

In his 77th year, Henry Parry, esq. of Northampton-square.

At Hastings, Elizabeth, daughter of Thos. Dickason, esq. of Montagu-street, Russell-square.

In Berkeley-square, aged 53, Theodore Hen. Broadhead, esq. M. P. for the Borough of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.

At No. 1, Carmarthen-street, Mr. Wm. Toulmin, attorney.

In Leicester - place, Leicester-square. aged 24, in a fit of apoplexy, Mr. Wm, Clifton, surgeon.

At Worcester, aged upwards of 60, Pat. De Courcy, esq. solicitor, a descendant of a branch of the Kinsale family.

At Farningham, aged 85, Bridget, wi

dow of the Rev. Marmaduke Lewis, Rector of Lullingstone, Kent.

Dec. 14. In her 32d year, Mary, wife of Mr. John Gilbert, of High-street, Borough. Aged 59, Mr. Robert Cooke, of St. Bride's-passage, Fleet-street.

In Surrey-street, Strand, aged 55, Chas. Simpson, esq. late of Litchfield.

Mary-Susanna-Penelope, wife of Wm. Dodd, esq. of Judd-place East.

At Morpeth, in his 69th year, John Wilson, esq. of Hepscot, near that place.

At Sidmouth, aged 22, Jas. Buchanan, esq. of Brasenose College, Oxford, and student of Lincoln's-inn.

Dec. 15. In Buchanan-street, Glasgow, in his 79th year, Rob. Thompson, esq.— As a manufacturer, he was among the first, if not the very first, who introduced the cotton manufacture into Glasgow.

Aged 62, John Holt, esq. of Wordsley, near Stourbridge, Worcester.

At Dublin, Colonel Nesbitt.

At Epsom, aged 21, Charles Parish, esq. of Emanuel College, Cambridge.

Dec. 16. Dinah, wife of Mr. James Cull, of the Strand.

In her 51st year, Mary, the wife of Mr. Thomas Hasted, of Threadneedle

street.

At Clifton Wood, Bristol, at an advanced age, Levi Ames, esq.

In his 30th year, George - Mitchell Sawyers, M. A. late of Kilmarnock.

At Torquay, Devonshire, Elizabeth, daughter of Wm. Leaf, esq. of East Dulwich, Peckham Rye, Surrey.

In Queen-square, Westminster, J. Hopkins, M. D. In the course of his practice he attended, as accoucheur, nearly 16,000 females.

Dec. 17. In her 77th year, the widow of Thomas King, esq. late of Maze-hill, Greenwich.

At Hamble House, near Southampton, Eliza, widow of Edward Taylor, esq.

Aged 72, Mr. Willis Hardham, yeoman. What is remarkable, he was grandfather, uncle, and great-uncle to upwards of 200 persons, who are all living.

In Upper Cadogan-place, Eliza, daughter of the late Harry Verelst, esq. of Astonhall, Yorkshire.

In Albermarle-street, aged 84, Margaret, daughter of the late Wm. Adam, esq. of Blair Adam, in Kinross-shire.

At Southampton, Hants, Henry, son of the late Major Cole, of Twickenham.

In Wigmore-street, Cavendish-square, in her 25th year, Eliza, wife of Mr. James Rorauer.

At Brixton Hill, in his 68th year, Wm. Pugh, esq.

In Lower Grosvenor-street, George Irving, esq. of Broad-street Buildings.

The wife of Mr. J. Hughes, of Drury Lane Theatre, and sister to Mrs. Orger.

Dec. 18.

Dec. 18. At Peckham, Maria, daughter of the late Rev. Martin Ready.

At Acton, Margaret, daughter of Thos. Gainsborough, esq. R. A.

Sophia, wife of Mr. Wm. Bristow, of Brompton.

At Fawley Parsonage, near Southampton, Louisa, daughter of the late Hon. and Right Rev. Brownlow North, Bishop of Winchester.

At Berry, near Gosport, George, son of Captain M'Kinley, R. N.

At Gubbins Park, Herts, the wife of Thomas Kemble, esq.

Dec. 19. Aged 42, Mr. John Pirie, of Gray's Inn-lane.

At Twickenham, in his 80th year, Mr. Howard, formerly of Phipp's Bridge, Mitcham.

Aged 63, John Clarke, esq. of Belle Vue House, Ramsgate, late of Enfield, Middlesex.

At No. 19, Upper Berkeley-street, Portman-square, Mrs. Anne Rous Dottin, widow of the late Sam. Rous. Dottin, a Captain in the 3d Dragoon Guards.

At Knaresborough, aged 83, Mr. Wheelhouse. On the same day, at Knaresborough, aged 83, Mr. Bensor. It is rather remarkable, that the two deaths here recorded were those of two Gentlemen who were born in the same year, lived in the same town, and who died on the same day.

In his 59th year, N. Ashhurst, esq. Town Major of Portsmouth Garrison. His funeral obsequies at the Garrison Chapel, on Friday, presented a scene honourable to his memory: the numerous body of Officers of both Army and Navy (including General Sir George Cooke, K. C. B. and Admiral Sir George Campbell, G. C. B.) was followed by a long train of private friends.

Dec. 20. At Totteridge, Herts, in his 62d year, Rob. Davies, esq. of Southwark.

At his residence in Pentonville, after a long and painful illness, borne with exemplary fortitude and resignation, in his 39th year, John Twemlow, esq. of Checquer-yard.

At Bishopsgate, near Egham, in her 17th year, Barbara - Matilda, sister to Thos. Coventry, esq. of North Cray, Kent, and niece to the Earl of Coventry.

In Marlborough-buildings, Emily-Juliana, daughter of the Hon. J. Browne.

Dec. 21. In his 15th year, John, son of George Frederick Lockley, esq. of Half Moon-street.

At Reading, aged 52, Widows Golding, esq. surgeon.

In her 61st year, the widow of the late W. Hulme, esq. of Gillingham, Kent.

At Bath, Chas. Bacon, esq. of Moor Park, Surrey, and of Grosvenor-place, in that city.

Dec. 22. In his 21st year, Joseph Hibbert Newman, son of Mr. James Newman, of Capworth-street, Leyton, Essex.

In Conduit-street, aged 66, the relict of Wright Thomas Squire, esq. of Peterborough.

At Bishopstrow, Wilts, in his 24th year, the Rev. Edward Montague, youngest son of Admiral Sir George Montague, G.C.B.

Dec. 23. In his 71st year, the Rev. John Thos. Jordan, B. D. Rector of Hickling, Nottinghamshire, and of Bircholt, Kent, and many years Senior Tutor of Queen's College, Cambridge.

Dec. 24. At Brighton, in her 71st year, the widow of the late John Beale, esq. of Kingston, Surrey.

At New House, near Coventry, John Hopkins, esq. late of Friday-street.

Dec. 26. In her 14th year, AugustaMaria, daughter of Jos. Terry Hone, esq. Barrister-at-Law, of the Middle Temple, and of Gloucester.

In Baker-street, Portman-square, Elizabeth - Mary, daughter of the late B. Booth, esq. and sister to Lady Ford.

Mary, daughter of the late Mr. Pitt, of Somers-place, New-road, near Euston-sq.

Dec. 28. At Belvoir Castle, the Rev. Sir John Thoroton, Resident Chaplain to the Duke of Rutland, and Rector of Bottesford, Leicestershire.

Dec. 29. Mr. John Bennett, Sub-Treasurer of Christ Church, Oxford.

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and his master, finding him so intent on
study, allowed him two or three hours
every day for that purpose. On the 1st
of April, 1764, he went to Aswarby Hall,
the seat of Sir Christopher Whichcote, to
view the great eclipse of the sun, which
was visible on that day, where a number
of Ladies and Gentlemen had assembled
for the purpose; and as he had previously
calculated a type of this eclipse, he pre-
sented the same to the company, shewing
them the manner of its appearance in a
dark room upon a board, and after it was
over, they unanimously declared that his
calculations came nearer the truth than
any given in the Almanacks. A short
time after this period he opened a school
at Basingthorpe, near Grantham, and af
terwards engaged as an usher in a cler-
gyman's boarding-school, at Stilton. He
then settled in Cambridge, where he pro-
posed to reside, in the expectation that he
might derive some advantage in prosecut-
ing his studies, from the meu of science
in the University; but the noise and
bustle of the town not being agreeable to
him, he left Cambridge, and came to re-

side at Royston, where he opened a school
at the age of 23 years, and at this place
continued, as schoolmaster and bookseller,
until the day of his death, which happened
after a short illness, on the 26th of Janu-
ary, 1820, at the age of 76 years, having
enjoyed an uninterrupted state of good
health till his last illness. He had a very
extraordinary genius for astronomy, which
he cultivated through life; for more than
40 years he was a computer of the Nauti
cal Ephemeris. He was greatly esteemed
for his integrity, and modesty, by every
scientific man who was persoually ac
quainted with him, or with whom he had
been connected, particularly by the late
Astronomer Royal (Dr. Maskelyne), who
valued him much, and who, in relation to
the Nautical Ephemeris, was in constant
correspondence with him for nearly half
a century; and also by Dr. Charles Hut-
ton, by whom he was for many years em-
ployed as an assistant in making the cus-
tomary calculations for Moore's and the
other Almanacks published by the Com-
pany of Stationers.

A GENERAL BILL OF ALL THE CHRISTENINGS AND BURIALS,
FROM DECEMBER 14, 1819, TO DECEMBER 12, 1820.

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* There have been

Executed in London and the County of Surrey 38; of which

number 10 only have been reported to be Buried within the Bills of Mortality.

..409

Total of Casualties...250

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INDEX

TO ESSAYS, DISSERTATIONS, and HISTORICAL PASSAGES.

ABU BEER, anecdote of 397.
Accidents, by the wheel of a machine 77.
by drowning 81. by boats upsetting 94.
174. an affray 173. thunder storms 173,
175. falling of walls 176, 461. an ava-
lanche 265. Margate steam-packet
268. a vault falling in 461. falling
into a well 558. explosion of a self-
acting boiler 573

Ackworth, account of 302

Ackworth Church, tablets in 386
Adam, Robert, talents of 38

Adultery, divorce for 461

Africa, intelligence from 76, 172, 365,
630. state of religion in 292
Agriculture, Board of 424. depressed
state of 558

Alcibiades, anecdote of 34. bust of at
Paris 216

Aldermen of London, loyal address of 560
Alexander the Great, anecdotes of 34, 303
All Souls' College, Oxford, account of 203
Amen, remark on 482

America, intelligence from 76, 172, 267,
365,460, 557. President's Message 557
Ancient Anecdotes, from Valerius Maxi-

mus 33, 303, 402. remark on 482
Andrews, Henry, memoir of 639
Anecdotal Literature, progress406,503,589
Anecdotes, miscellaneous 397
Anim, the Arabian, anecdote of 398
Anne, Queen, anecdote of 399
Antigenidas, anecdote of 34
Antiochus the Great, anecdote of 304
Arabic Language, utility of 535
Architecture, Metropolitan, progress of 38
Archytas, of Tarentum, anecdote of 304
Arms, can illegitimate children bear? 2
Artist, self-taught 304

Ascension, Isle of, colossal statues in 158
Ashbridge, Rev. John, memoir of 635
Ashington, co. Somerset, account of 17,
113, 209

Asia, intelligence from 172, 365, 459,557
Asiatic Languages, study of 348
Asperne, James, death of 473
Astronomical Society, proceedings of 544
Athenæum of Paris, state of 622
Augustus Cæsar, anecdotes of 398
Aulus Gellius, curious extract from 210
Austria, Emperor of, letter of 629
Avenel family, inquiry about 482
Bacchante, bust of, at Paris 133
Bacchus, statue of, at Paris 134
Bacchus, Indian, statue of, at Paris 215
Bacon, Sir E. death and character 276
Bagnara, in Italy, notice of 105
Baker, Hannah, assumed penury of 631
Baliol College, Oxford, account of 204
GENT. MAG. Suppl, XC. PART II.

Ball, John, token of 510

Ballads, sold at immense price 155
Bank Notes, circulation of 81
Bank Notes, New, description of 81. on
the completion of 559

Bank of England, meeting of Proprie-
tors, 270

Banks, Sir Joseph, memoir of 86. origi-
nal letter of 99. will of 381
Baptism, on administering of 307
Baptismal Names, remarks on 112
Barkham, Sir Edward, notice of 390

Barritt, T. death of 470

Barter, remarks on 495

Beavers, colony of, account of 364
Beaulieu Abbey, Refectory described 489
Beauty, remarks on 325

Bees, management of 228. profit of 229
Benefices, right of presentation to 35
Bennet, Bp. Letter to Mr. Polwhele 104.

death and memoir 184. character 185
Bergami, Bartolomeo, acc. of 74
Berrow, Rev. C. inquiry respecting 386
Bible, on received translation 111, 219
Bible Society, Report of 291
Bingen, visit to 594

Birmingham, commercial distress of 268
Bishops, hints to 388

Blamire, Miss, poetry of, noticed 16
Blanc, Mont, expedition to 265
Blenheim House, account of 584
Boats, new invented 352, 447
Boethius, Gruninger's edition of 218
Boleyn, Anne, creation of to a Marchio-
ness 32. letter to Henry VIII. ib.
Bonaparte, Louis, marriage of 535
Bonaparte, Napoleon, policy of 153. fa-
mily of 339. anecdotes of 340
Borde, Andrew, notice of 409
Boscobel House, noticed 608
Botanical Importations 44
Bouflers, Stanislas, memoir of 56
Bourbon Prize Money, distribution 290
Bowles, John, marble tablet to 305
Bowles's edition of Pope 488
Braddock, General, anecdote of 399
Braganza, family of, account of their

accession to the Portuguese throne 195
Brazen Nose College, account of 204
Brazils, description of 195. intelligence
from 630

Brighton, encroachments of the sea at 558
Britain, Great, statistical view of 626
British Institution, inquiry by a member

after engraving of West's Picture 194
Brooke, George, epitaph on 608
Brookes, T. singular character of 378
Browne, Hawkins, genius of 308, 311
Brydges, family of, noticed 2, 231, 324

Buckle,

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