MARRIAGES AND DEATHS IN AND NEAR LONDON. Married.] Mr. James Brandon of Covent Garden Theatre, to Mifs Lucy Mallifon. The Rev. William Gray of Oakingham, Berks, to Mifs Gisborne, of Baker street, Portman fquare. At St. George's, Hanover Square, Mr. T. Cunningham of Gracechurch street, to Mifs Lydia Pringle, daughter of Mr. James Pringle of Belgrave Place, Pimlico.. At St. Mary-le-bonne Church, Lieutenant Colonel Chefter, of the Coldstream regiment of guards, to Mifs Clinton, daughter of the late Sir Henry Clinton, K. B. At St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, Abraham Wood, Efq. of Dartmouth ftréet, to Mifs Fry of Fleet Atreet. Mr., Thomas Deighton of Cateaton ftreet, to Mifs Mary Pocock, of the Terrace, Gray's Inn Lane At St. Mary le Strand, Mr. John Page, of the Strand, to Mifs Sarah Ruttley, of Ta-, vistock row. William Urquhart, Efq. of St. Mary Axe, to Mifs Sarah Tathwel, of Plaistowe in Effex. Archibald Blair, Efq. to Mifs Dixon of Barwell Court. At St. George's, Hanover Square, Sir Henry Wilfon of Chelsea Park, to the Right Hon. Lady F. E. B. Bruce, daughter of the Right Hon. the Earl of Aylesbury. At Paddington, Mr. John Roffey, of Edward treet, Cavendish fquare, to Mifs Downward of Winchester. At Stoke Newington, Mr. T. T. Wetherhead, to Miis Rigby of that place. At Haye's Place, in Kent, the Rev. J. W. Bourke, of Carshalton in Surry, to Mifs Kerr, of Upper Berkeley ftreet, Portman fquare, At Chelfea, T. Pennock, Efq. to Mifs Cartwright, eldest daughter of the late Edward Cartwright, Efq. of Hampstead. At Iflington, the Rev. A. Collett, of Cratfield, Suffolk, to Mifs Ann Curtis, of the former place. At Bromley, Middlefex, William Tennant, Efq; of Little Afton Hall, Staffordshire, to Mifs Debonnaire, of Bromley. At St. Gregory's, Old Fish street, Mr. T. S. Surr, of Billiter lane, Fenchurch street, to Mifs Mary Ann Griffiths, fecond daughter of Captain Griffiths, of Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At St. Luke's, Henry Card, Efq. of Pembroke college, Oxford, to Mifs Bulkely, of South Lambeth. G. W. Groote, Efq. of Dean street, to Mrs. Godfrey, widow of George Godfrey, efq. late of Ringmore Park, Suffex. Died.] After a few days illness, James Sheridan, efq. of Great Ruffel ftreet, Bloomfbury, barrister at law. Aged 66, Mr. John Baskerville of Bishopfgate. ftreet. MONTHLY MAG, NO. L. John Stephenfon, Efq. Mr. Pouncy, engraver, Lambeth. Aged 61, Mr. Serjeant of Green treet, Grofvenor fquare. Mifs Sarah Moale, daughter of Mrs. Moale of the Rainbow coffee-houfe,, King Street, Covent Garden. Mrs. Sarah Ridgeway, widow, of Carpen tens' Hall, London Wall. Mrs. J. Idefon, wife of J. W. Idefon, Efq. of Poland street. In Baker, street, Portman fquare, the Right Hon. Elizabeth Countefs Ferrers, wife of the prefent Earl. Aged 72, Mrs. Burnthwaite, of the Strand. In Charlotte ftreet, Portman place, aged 83, Dr. Johnson. At Hampton Court Palace, aged 15, Mafter Pechel, eldest fon of Major Pechel. At Clapham, aged 83, Mrs. Martha Honnor. At Pentonville, W. T. Reichinburgh, Efq. At Hackney, aged 80, Mrs. Sarah, Till, relict of the late Mr. S. Till, of Walthamstow. At Knightsbridge, Mrs. Ann Burton. At North End, Hampstead, L. Kilham, Efq. of Argyll' ftreet. At Mortlake, aged 73, Henry Shaw, Efq. many years an eminent Sollicitor in the Middle Temple, highly cfteemed for his honefty and integrity. At Aviary Hill, near Eltham, Mrs. Margaret Skinner, wife of Mr. Alderman Skinner. It may be faid, with ftrict propriety of this excellent lady, that her life was fpent in doing good. Neither the allurements of pomp, the force of fashion, nor the deceitfulnefs of wealth, were able to corrupt the fimplicity of her manners, or damp the zealous benevolence and unaffected piety of her heart. Her contempt of oftentation has veiled from the world's eye her many good deeds but in the breafts of her worthy hufband and her amiable family, the virtues of the wife and the mother, will be ever felt her encouraging affability will be remembered by the poorest of her acquaintance, and the memory of her benevolence will long and often draw the tear of gratitude; for her bounty to the poor was limited only by the very extent of her means, and was furpaffed only by the truly Chriftian humility with which it was bestowed. At his house at Peckham, Mr. William Swaine, hop factor, of the Borough: he was well known in his family as a father-in his parish, as the friend to the poor, and to the world at large as the friend of his country. Educated in the principles of the British Conftitution, his conftant with was to preferve that political balance which endears the king to his fubjects, and the subjets to their king. Doubt Ꭰ 1 age. [Douglas Duke of Hamilton, whofe death was mentioned in page 658, was grandfon of James Duke of Hamilton, who died in 1743, aged 41 years, and fon of James Duke of Hamilton, who died in 1758, aged 33 years, and brother of George James Duke of Hamilton, who died in 1769, in the 15th year of his His mother was the celebrated Mifs Gunning, afterwards Duchefs of Argyle. He fucceeded to the title when only 13 years of age; and, after finishing his education, he entered into the army. But, as his noble fortune made the emoluments of that profef-fion unworthy his notice, he only rofe to the rank of captain. The Duke made the tour of Europe under the care of the ingenious Dr. Moore, and foon after his return he married (in 1778) Mifs Elizabeth Burrel, fifter to the Duchefs of Northumberland and Lord Gwydir. While a minor, he was, by his guardians, one of the claimants of the Douglas eftate, against the prefent Lord Douglas, then also a minor. This conteft, well known by the appellation of the great Douglas caufe, afforded ample fcope for the exertion of the abilities of fome of the first lawyers of England and Scotland; and gave room for the rife of feveral others, who may be faid to owe their promotions to the opportunity afforded them for a display of their talents in this caufe. It is well known that the Duke of Hamilton loft the fuit. The Duke, however, established, in his perfon, the right claimed by his ancestors to a feat in the House of Peers of Great Britain, which had been denied to them fince the creation by Queen Anne in 1711. The Dukedom of Brandon being bestowed on a Peer of Scotland, was held to be contrary to the articles of the As Union. But this exclufion, though sanctioned by the opinion of the first lawyers of this century, has, during the prefent adminiftration, been conceived to be erroneous; and, on an application to the Houfe, the Duke was admitted to his feat. This decifion was highly pleafing to the Peers of Scotland, as it has opened to them an accefs to a permanent and hereditary feat in the British Senate. this young nobleman came into life with the advantage of an exalted rank, and an ample fortune, it might have been expected that he would have rendered effential service to his country: but thefe advantages were neglected and facrificed to the degrading and wretched ambition of being one of the first boxers of the age. This vitiated tafte naturally led him into bad company: he contracted, of course, the habits of his affociates, which, in the end, brought him to his grave at the early age of forty-three. Yet to his credit it muit be faid, that, in an age of diffipation and ex-travagance, he had the refolution to keep his fortune not only unincumbered, but even in a ftate of improvement. An attachment which his Grace had formed with a celebrated actress, and the very incorrect life which he otherwife led, induced his Duchefs to fue for a divorce, which the obtained in 1794; and, as he had no children by her, his title and the entailed eftate defcend to his uncle Lord Archibald Hamilton, His Grace was a Knight of the most ancient order of the Thiftle, heritable keeper of the royal palaces of Holy-rood-house and Linlithgow, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Lanerk, and Colonel of a regiment of Fencibles lately raised.] TO CORRESPONDENTS. H. D.'s Letter in Defence of a late celebrated Female is received; but we cannot think it judicious to revive the fubject; at least, it does not fuit our Mifcellany. The Writer of Remarks on the principal Italian Poets is refpectfully informed, that the Omiffion of a Part of his Srictures on Arifto, and particularly of bis Translation of a long Paffage from that elegant, though certainly unequal and extravagant, Poet, was an exercife of judgment on our parts, and intended to ferve both his reputation and ours. We shall wait his permiffion to continue his paper. A Serious Obferver's answer to Simplicius would certainly have been inferted had it only related to him; but as it involves a controverfy which we have had reason to determine abfolutely to difcontinue, we must decline it. ERRATA In Mr. Lytton's Verses to Sir W. Jones, page 480, Vol. vii. for reeds, line 10, read meads; for fea, line 24, read lea. In Mr. Dyer's Letter, at page 624, instead of " Drama as Pizarro," it ought to be "Dramatist as Kotzebue." At page 665, column 1, Rutland, for Mr. read Mrs, Loakes. PROVINCIAL PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES. NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. At Stockton, as fome hay-makers were at work in a field, they were fuddenly alarmed, by a prodigious whirlwind, which carried many hundred weight of hay to an immenfe perpendicular height. dragoons, to Mifs Lowes. Mr. Richard Sanderfon, of Wetheral, to Mifs M. Watts, of Branthwaite. At Whitehaven, the Rev. George Addifon, formerly of Workington, rector of Great Brickhill, Berks, to Mifs D. Bragg, daughter of Mr. W. Bragg, of Whitehaven. R. Burdon, efq. M. P. has lately let a farm of about 70 acres, near Stockton, upon the following benevolent conditions:-That the tenant fhall conftantly keep at least 10 cows, and fhall retail the milk to the inhabitants of Stockton. A deduction of 201. a year from the rent will be allowed, if the whole of the new milk be retailed unadulterated at or under one half-penny a pint. Married.] At Newcastle, Mr. Wm. El- Nicholson, of the former place. liott, tanner, to Mifs Mary Harrison. Mr. Morland, linen-draper, to Mifs Yellowley. At Penrith, Captain Gorden, of the Princefs Royal's own light dragoons, to Mifs Hannah Moore, of Temple Sowerby. At Workington, Jofeph Wheelwright, efq. of London, to Mifs Hadwen, of the former place. At Gateshead, Thomas Humble, efq. of Newcastle, to Mifs E. Summers, of the former place. At Durham, Mr. John Husband, to Mifs S. Breeding. At Bishop's-Wearmouth, the Rev. Thomas Ramshay, L. L. B. vicar of Brampton, in Cumberland, to Mifs Maling, daughter of J. Maling, efq. of Grainge, near Sunderland. At Stockton-upon-Tees, Mr. G. Bertram, of the George and Dragon-inn, to Mrs. Hutchifon. Died.] At Newcastle, Mifs Jane Manners, daughter of the late Mr. E. Manners, town-marshal. Aged 58, Mr. Alexander Mackenzie, tin-plate worker. Aged 63, Mr. James Kenzell. At Lilburn Tower, Mrs. Collingwood. At Hexham, Mr. George Oxley, gardener and feedfman. Mr. Gilbert Young, bookbinder. At Cornhill, Mr. James Rainforth, innkeeper. At Durham, Mr. Robert Punfhon, late of the Queen's Head-inn. At Sunderland, Mr. Wm. Mafterman, of the Cuftoms. At Stockton, Mr. Robert Lumley. Mr. Wm. Harrison, fail-maker. Mrs. Rowntree, wife of the Rev. Mr. Rowntree, rector of Elton. At Streatlam Caftle, John Collpits, efq. CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND. In the neighbourhood of Whitehaven and Carlifle great damage has been done by the late heavy rains: at the former place the dephth of the rain which fell in the courfe of twelve hours, was two inches. Married.] At Carlisle, Mr. Bald, quarter-mafter in the Princefs Royal's own light At Newton, near Penrith, Mr. Henry Heylin, ironmonger of Penrith, to Mifs L. At St Bee's, Captain Boven, to Mifs Storey, daughter of the late Captain Storey, of Whitehaven. Died.] At Wigton, aged 58, John Matthews, efq. It has wifely been remarked, that the best of times furnish little for the hiftorian; and it is equally true, that the lives of the beft men furnish little for the pen of the biographer. Curiofity can only be gratified by a recital of unusual and furprising occurrences, and the powerful feelings of man can only he engaged by the display of great ftrength of character, called into activity by the preffure of great danger, or the folicitation of high gratification. The hero, the ftatefman, he who has aggrandized a country, orlaid one wafte, is pursued by the eager eye of the fpectator, and inquired after with folicitude by all. The ravages of a ftorm or a thunderbolt are contemplated with equal eagerness and wonder; whilft a fertile field, and a cheerful atmosphere, are enjoyed without emotion, and thought of without fenfibility. The father of wisdom, as well as of poetry, well knew that the great and terrible alone intereft mankind, and drew the character of his Achilles accordingly. Johnfon ufed to call history the annals of blood; it is, indeed, little but the annals of crimes, and biography is little more than the record of great talents mifchievously applied. To render a good character interefting, what powers of reprefentation are not neceffary? Gray and Burns, the poets of the heart, were only equal to this difficult task! To name Mr. Matthews, in the circle of his friends, is to apologize for the preceding remarks. Brought up in the navy, he retired on account of ill health at a very early period; he is not therefore intitled to any notice as a public or profeffional character. Soon after his retirement, on the death of an elder brother, he fucceeded to a handfome inheritance, and from that time until his death, he lived upon his paternal eftate at Wigton. He married the fifter of the late Dr. Yeates, mafter of Cathrine Hall, in Cambridge, and by her had many children, of whom three furvive him. 5D 2 In In the private relations of life, he is intitled to praife-to admiration. For, in times like the prefent, when perfonal gratification, show and fplendour, occupy the time and diffipate the fortunes of mot men, ought he not to be admired whofe life is confumed in the offices of friendship, in felf-denying folicitude for the happiness of his family, and in the habitual and cheerful' discharge of all the most painful, as well as the most pleafing, duties of private life? Minds of great enterprize and energy are fitted to rare occafions, as the electric power for the removal of threatening difeafe; minds, like that of Mr. Matthews, conftitute the firft element, of happy, focial existence; like the water and the air we imbibe, they are demanded every moment. The talents of Mr. Matthews, without being of the first order, were of refpectable ftrength; his judgment was folid, his prudence was rare, and every talent he had was devoted to utility. His manners were remarkably polished and eafy; and liad contracted no taint from the habits of early youth, or his affociates in the navy. His temper was extremely mild; he never gave, and he feldom received offence. He was no defpot in his family, his children were his friends, and their affection well repaid his folicitude and tenderness. They now mourn his lofs, and with them all who knew their father. At Carlifle, Mr. Jofeph Patrickson, son of Mr. Patrickfon, brewer. Aged 65, Mrs. Jackfon, formerly of Harker. Aged 64, Mrs. Ann Nelfon. At Whitehaven, aged 77, Mr. Wm. Prefton. Aged 73, Mrs. Thompson, widow of Mr. Wm. Thompson, mafon. Aged 88, Mr. Wm. Smith, formerly of Demefnes. Mrs. Briscoe, widow. Mrs. Hennell, widow of Mr. A Hennell. At Penrith, aged 87, Mrs. Arfcott, fifter of the late Thomas Simpfon, efq. of CarltonHall. At Workington, aged 23, Mr. John Thompfon, fon of Mr. Thompson, mafter of the work-house. At Cockermouth, aged 34, Mifs H. Smithfon. At Kefwick, Mrs. Atkinson, wife of Mr. Atkinson, feedsman. Riding, have been fwept away by the flood. Several grafs meadows have been laid entirely under water; and a very large quantity of new hay has been carried away by the rapidity of the current. Married.] At York, John Ware, efq. of Skirbenbeck, to Mifs C. Wilfon, daughter of the late Rev. T. Ware. Mr. Richardfon, to Mifs Dodfworth. Mr. J. Roche, furgeon of the 13th Light Dragoons, to Mifs M. Winship, of Ribey, Lincoln. At Leeds, Mr John Kemplay, writing. mafter, to Mifs M. Finney. Mr. James Robinfon, linen-draper, to Mifs M. Teale. Mr. Wm. Tipping, merchant, to Mifs Froft, of Hedon in Holderness. Mr. S. Sawyer, of Christ-church, Surry, to Mifs Chadwick, of Leeds. Mr. Abraham Rhodes, merchant, ta Mifs Glover, daughter of Mr. S. Glover, of Little Woodhouse, near Leeds. At Doncafter, Mr. B. Boothby, linendraper, to Mifs E. Lightowber. At Scarborough, Mr. B. Ninds, of London, to Mifs Wharton, of the former place. At Houghton le Spring, Lieutenant Colonel Howorth, of the Artillery, to Mifs Thurlow, daughter of the late Bishop of Durham. At Norton, Mr. Fryer, of Scagglethorp, to Mifs Ingleby, of the former place. At Guifeley, near Otley, S. Baynes, M. D of Hull, to Mrs. Jamefon, of Horsforth, near Leeds. At Addle, near Leeds, G. Hathorn, efq. of London, to Mifs Donaldfon, of Bagbie Lodge, daughter of the late J. Donaldfon, efq. of Leeds. At Stagwood Hill, Mr. Johnfon, of Barnfley, furgeon, to Mifs S. Newton, of the former place. At Hull, Lieutenant Keenor, of his Majefty's fhip the Veftal, to Mifs Cant, daugh ter of Mr. W. Cant. At Sherburn, T. L. Fairfax, efq. of Lotherton, to Mifs T. Chaloner, of Lincoln. Died.] At York, aged 72, Mrs. Bird, relict of the late John Bird, efq. of London, diftiller. Aged 57, Mr. Samuel Fowler, hofier, and one of the common-councilmen. In an advanced age, Mrs. Waudby, formerly of Hull. Mr. Henry Macey. Mrs. Hobfon, relict of the late James Hobfon, efq. Aged At Dalfton, near Carlisle, Mrs. Fofter, 81, Mrs. Condon, relict of the late Colonel wife of Mr. Folter. At St. Bee's, Mr. John Moffop. At Stanwix, near Čarlisle, Mrs. Marr. At Dundar, near Carlife, aged 76, Mrs. G. Graham; he has bequeathed a confiderable fortune for the eftablishment of a school in that neighbourhood, and feveral other charitable purposes. YORKSHIRE. On the 17th of September, a most violent ftorm of wind and rain was experienced throughout this county: the canal in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield has received (onfiderable damage; feveral mills and houses Lear Helmfrith, and other places in the West Condon. Aged 30, R. Dodfworth, efq. fon of the late alderman Dodsworth. Mr. C. Smith, flax-dreffer. At Malton, Mr. John Campey, schoolmaster. This remarkable man, for fuch every one muft deem him who could boaft the advantage of his fociety, was born in the vicinity of York, and commenced the profeffion of a teacher, in New Malton, at the early age of 20; in which he fuccefsfully continued (upwards of 20 years) until the time of his death. His mode of inftruction was of that demonftrative kind which prevents the pupil from being a mere mechanical receiver of information; for confidering well the inci pient capacity of children, he foon discovered that the game at Tary requires as much application of mind as would develope the first books of Euclid; and that a child, when primarily and gently initiated into Science, will acquire as great a fondness for geometrical diagrams, as for railing dirt-pyes, or drawing Scotch-hops. A correct English fcholar, and amazingly exact in all the punctilios of pro fody, his language was generally fuch as became the dignity of the preceptor. He was indifputably one of the beft mathematicians in Yorkshire; and his mathematical performances, in the different periodical publications, cannot be furpafied for elegance of fcientific difpofition. He was too, as it may be hence fuppofed, a good natural philofopher, and nicely acquainted with every mathematical property of phyfics. Latin, Greek and French were in the ftore of his knowledgeattainments, yet attaching to them their fole merit, he often wondered how people (having only acquired the mere vehicles of knowledge) could come to fit down with the confequence of literati. Even as a writing-mas fter his abilities were allowed to be beyond competition, and his penmanship was univerfally esteemed of the first-rate excellence, In short, fo various were his acquirements, and fuch was the verfality of his genius, that every thing feemed within the reach of his capacity. His religious opinions were strictly Christian, and we believe that he poffeffed more primitive virtues, than many who are apt to reckon upon unerring fanctity.* His morals were far from all defpicableness, and his general conduct was fo amiable, fo tranquilly peaceable and upright, that he obtained univerfal refpe&t; and, but for one departure from rectitude (as in the most eminent men fome inconfiftencies appear), cenfure might have held her peace:-In the warmth of youth, early becoming a follower of that Ignis-fatuus, commonly known by the glittering name of focial intercourfe, he fell a lamentable facrifice to its deceitful allurements. However, as we perceive feveral traits in the worthy character before us beckoning for our admiration, it perhaps is our duty to throw a veil over one imperfection of fuch frequent contingence, and to regard, it merely that we may avoid the vortex of its influence. It is certainly a well-founded obfervation, * In the most excruciating moments of his laft illness, not a murmur efcaped his lips, and fo completely maiter was he of ftoical firmness; that only a few days before his death he fuftained the amputation of a toe, and a confiderable part of one of his feet. On the fame day, being tenderly interrogated how he felt himfelf-with a fmile upon his countenance, he emphatically replied Certainly much better; inafmuch as I have loft a difeafed part of this worthlefs boay; and Government fhould fend fuch as I am to fight the defperate French, men that could literally bear catting into inch-pieces." that where our defires prompt us the most, there we are the leaft guarded; and so it unfortunately happens, that in the fociety of our gay and light-hearted companion's we think not of referve, but abforbed in the ardent purfuit of immediate pleafure, our forefight and reflection forfake us; and thus imperceptibly, time after time, are the admoni→ tions of prudence fhamefully vanquished by the fortif ἢ πίθι, ἢ άπιθι of the friends and affociates of our care-killing hours-till at last completely unnerved, we are left, defpoiled, and deftitute of every fober refolution. only refort thither for the fake of company." Ah! curfed bait, which has charmed thoufands of virtuous hufbands and fathers into the oblivious pool which has ruined the happinefs of fo many joyful families, and wrested from innocent little ones their fufficiency of raiment and food! Ah baneful fource! from whence proceeded a difeafe that fapped the vigour of a robuft conftitution, and which fnatched inglorioufly from the world and his friends this valuable man. W. H. HULL ACADEMY. At Leeds, aged 76, Mr. Jofeph Leach; he was more than 20 years head master of the Free Grammar School at Keighly, and lately a private teacher of the learned languages at Leeds. Mr. the common-council of that place. Mr. Dunderdale, merchant, and one of Denton, liquor-merchant. Mr. Arnold, cloth-worker. Mifs Kitchingman. Mrs. Brooke, wife of Mr. Brooke, merchant. At Whitby, Mrs. Hunter, wife of Mr. C. Hunter, attorney. At Wakefield, aged 64, Mr. John Earnfhaw. At Lofcoe Grange, the Rev. Mr. Holdf worth, vicar of Norminton, near Pontefract. At Scarborough, aged 79, Ed. Lodge, efq. of Willow Hall, near Halifax. At Pontefract, Mr. Burton; he was killed by a fall from his horfe. Mrs. Barocliffe. Mr. J. Simpfon, brandy-merchant. At Swinton, near Rotherham, aged 93, Mr. M. Wilfon. At Richmond, aged 86, Mrs. Blackburne, relict of the late Rev. F. Blackburne, archdeacon of Cleveland. At Conistone, near Hull, Mrs. Wright, wife of Mr. Wright, of Ganftead; she was accidentally fhot in the leg by her husband, which occafioned her death in a few hours. At Cawood, at an advanced age, Mr. James Weightman; he had been long eminent for his great skill and fuccefs in treating fractures and diflocations of the bones. At Melfonby, near Richmond, the Rev. S. Squire, jun. M. A. and Fellow of Univerfity College, Oxford; he was fon of the late R. Squire, efq. of Cononley, in Craven. At |
