Anna Bullen, great niece of Queen
Elizabeth. His great-great grandson,
Sir Thomas Newcomen, the eighth Ba-
ronet, died without issue, April 27, 1789,
when the title became extinct; but the
estates devolved to Charlotte Newcomen,
only child and heiress of Charles New-
comen, Esq., and great grand-daughter
of Sir Thomas the sixth Baronet.
life of this amiable lady was made un-
happy by a circumstance growing out
of a barbarous practice of the times, of
which, we regret to say, much still re-
mains. Her family, long settled in the
county of Longford, was one of the most
ancient, honourable, and respectable in
Ireland. The hospitality and goodness
of her immediate ancestors were appealed
to as a proud example of what a kind and
beneficent landlord ought to be. By the
death of her father, Charles, of whom she
was the only child, the estate, which was
a large one, became invested in her.
Her father died when Miss Newcomen
was quite a girl, leaving Mr. Webster,
an old gentleman, an inhabitant of the
town of Longford, her guardian, within
three miles of which one of her family
seats, Carrickglass, is situate. It hap-
pened that there was an humble rustic
party, principally of her own tenantry,
which Miss Newcomen condescended to
grace, and a dance being the principal
amusement of the night, she deigned to
partake of it, and had for her partner a
Mr. Johnstone, a good-looking young
man, the son of an opulent farmer.
some short time after this event, in the
open day, Mr. Johnstone presented him-
self on horseback, with a pillion behind
him, in the public street on the market
day, when filled with people, and as
Miss Newcomen was crossing the street
from the house of Mr. Webster, her
guardian, a friend of Johnstone then sta-
tioned near him seized her round the
waist and attempted to place her on the
pillion behind him. The young lady
screamed and fainted away, the horse
was a spirited one and became restive,
which assisted her against the lawless
effort.
Mr. Webster, the guardian, who was
an eye-witness of the scene, ran out to
rescue her, and as he approached, Mr.
Johnstone's friend, who was armed with
a sword, made a thrust at him, and the
old gentleman fell to the ground. Mr.
Webster, jun. the son, was also on the
spot; he seized a blunderbuss, and con-
ceiving that his father was killed, lodged
the contents in the body of Mr. John-
stone's friend-who expired on the spot.
The old man, however, escaped unhurt.
Fortunately, he had a coat studded with
concave brass buttons, the fashion of the
day, each as large as a crown-piece, and
full as strong, one of which received in
its centre the otherwise fatal thrust of
the unfortunate friend of Mr. Johnstone.
The principal, Mr. Johnstone, it is be-
lieved, suffered death for the offence.
The detestable crime of abduction, un ́
fortunately still prevalent in Ireland,
was at that time so common as to be
considered a venial offence by the lower
orders. Considering the frequency of
the offence, it is not surprising if the fate
of this audacious and aspiring young
man should have excited much sympa-
thy at the time. His friends attempted
to say Miss Newcomen betrayed a par-
tiality for him, but that is not sustained
by a single fact. He was the victim
of his own vanity and presumption. On
the lady herself it had an injurious effect;
she never recovered the shock. The
melancholy catastrophe permanently de-
pressed her spirits. She was afterwards
created Baroness Newcomen of Moss-
town, and advanced to the dignity of
Viscountess Newcomen in 1800, with
limitation to her issue male by her then
husband, the Right Hon. Sir William
Glendowe Newcomen, Bart. of Killes-
ter House, co. Dublin, a Privy Coun-
sellor, &c. who had assumed the name
of Newcomen on her Ladyship's acces-
sion to the family estates.
The late viscount having left no is-
sue, the titles of Viscount and Baron
Newcomen become extinct, being the
twenty-seventh peerage of Ireland which
has failed since the Union in January,
1801. The baronetage is extinct
also.
Lord Newcomen's estates devolve to
his sisters; viz. 1. Jane, married to
Charles-Gordon Ashley, Esq.; 2. Te-
resa, married first to Sir Charles Turner,
Bart. of Kirkleatham, in Yorkshire, and
secondly, to Henry Vansittart, Esq.
nephew of Lord Bexley; 3. Charlotte;
4. Catharine, married Charles Newco-
men, Esq.
His lordship was the chief partner in
Newcomen and Co.'s bank, Castle-
*The only representatives of the
Newcomen family, now in Ireland, are
descended from the Right Hon. Sir
Thomas Newcomen, Knt., of Sutton,
county of Dublin, a privy counsellor,
&c. who was the illegitimate son of Sir
Thomas, the third baronet, who died in
1642.
street, Dublin; which has, in conse-
quence of his death, stopped payment.
Upon this occasion certain reports were
widely circulated, stating that large sums
of money had been drawn out of the
bank by his lordship or some member
of his family, immediately before his
death. These reports were proved to
be wholly unfounded, the drafts not ex-
ceeding the usual average amount.
The whole of the unsettled estates are
subject to the debts of the house.
It is
supposed his family have little or no pro-
vision, except a sum of 11,000%. for which
he had insured his life, for their exclu-
sive benefit. His lordship was in the
habit of drawing from 5,000l. to 10,000l.
a-year from the concern, on account of
profits-which, it is unnecessary to say,
were not realised. — Gentleman's Maga-
zine.
NEWTON, Thomas, Esq., of New-
gate Street, Aug. 3, at his house on
Clapham Common, of the gout in his
stomach, to which complaint he had
been a martyr for several years, and
which baffled every attempt of the fa-
culty to subdue it. Mr. Newton had
been for many years agent for the news-
papers published in every part of the
kingdom. This kind of agency was
begun upwards of forty years ago by
the late Mr. William Taylor, with whom
Mr. Newton became a partner, and who
created a considerable increase of busi-
ness by a circulation of the advertise-
ments from lottery contractors and other
species of speculation with which the
country has for a series of years been
so abundantly supplied. The success
he met with arose from the correctness
of his accompts and the rectitude of his
dealings, and enabled him, notwith-
standing a multitude of competitors, to
bring up a large family in a most re-
spectable way. Mr. Newton was a na-
tive of Hereford, to which place he was
much attached. He was a man of
strong mind, and whenever the intervals
from his painful disorder would permit,
a pleasant and facetious companion.—
Gentleman's Magazine.
NICOL, Mr. John, at Edinburgh,
in October; aged 70.
Mr. Nicol was
found dead in his bed. He was a ma-
riner, who in 1822 published his "Life
and Adventures." From this work,
we have gleaned the following facts.
He was born in 1755, near Edin-
burgh. His father was by trade a
cooper, a very useful handicraft for a
lad so wholly possessed with the love of
the sea.
In 1769 he was taken to Lon
don, and the voyage seems to have
confirmed his disposition; though his
return to Scotland and apprenticeship
to the business of a cooper retarded its
gratification till 1776, when he entered
on board a vessel at Leith, and sailed
for Canada, where he remained eighteen
months. With this the travel of his
simple story commences, and however
unadornedly told, is extremely interest-
ing.
On leaving this country he embarked
in the Surprise of 28 guns, Capt. Reeves,
and in her took part in the action with
the American ship Jason, Capt. Manly,
of which action he gives a very cha-
racteristic account. After returning to
England, he again took convoy for St.
John's.
His next trip was to the West
Indies, where, sailor-like, he entered
into all the fun on shore; but we cannot
follow him through all his peregrinations.
In 1785 he sailed on a voyage of dis-
covery round the world, in the King
George, Captain Portlock, in company
with the Queen Charlotte, Capt. Dixon.
They staid long among the Sandwich
Islands, and especially at Owyhee, being
the first ships there after the murder of
Captain Cook.
His next remarkable trip was in the
Lady Julian, Captain Aiken, a vessel
which carried out 245 female convicts
to New South Wales.
After all, poverty was the lot of this
man of many strange sights, vicissi-
tudes, and perils. "At one time (he
says) in 1822, after I came home, I lit-
tle thought I should ever require to
apply for a pension; and, therefore,
made no application until I really stood
in need of it.
"I eke out my subsistence in the
best manner I can. Coffee made from
the raspings of bread (which I obtain
from the bakers) twice a day, is my
chief diet. A few potatoes, or any
thing I can obtain with a few pence,
constitute my dinner. My only lux-
ury is tobacco, which I have used these
forty-five years. To beg, I never will
submit. Could I have obtained a small
pension for my past services, I should
then have reached my utmost earthly
wish, and the approach of utter help-
lessness would not haunt me as it
at present does in my solitary home.
Should I be forced to sell it, all I would
obtain could not keep me, and pay for
lodgings for one year; then I must go
to the poor's house, which God in his
mercy forbid. I can look to my death-
bed with resignation, but to the poor's
house I cannot look with composure.
I have been a wanderer and the child
of chance all my days: and now only
look for the time when I shall enter my
last ship, and be anchored with a green
turf upon my breast; and I care not
how soon the command is given."
Gentleman's Magazine.
NIGHTINGALE, the Rev. Jo-
seph, Aug. 9, 1824, in his 49th year.
Mr. Nightingale was a native of Chaw-
bert, in Lancashire, and formerly a
Wesleyan minister in the town of Mac-
clesfield. His history is briefly this:
that leaving his obscure situation in that
town, he came to the metropolis, and by
the exertion of his literary talents strug-
gled into notice, and contributed not a
little to the instruction and amusement
of the community. He compiled se-
veral of the volumes of the "Beauties
of England and Wales," and after-
wards published, in 1816, a folio vo-
lume, entitled "English Topography;
or a Series of Historical and Statistical
Descriptions of the several Counties of
England and Wales, accompanied by a
Map of each County. By the Author
of Historical and Descriptive Deline
ations of London and Westminster, the
Counties of Salop, Stafford, Somerset,
&c." In his preface to this work, it is
called his "Twenty-sixth Tour through
the Republic of Letters." In the mean
time, he had seceded from the Wes-
leyans, become an Unitarian, and pub-
lished "A Portraiture of Methodism,"
8vo., 1807; "Two Sermons preached
at Hanover-street and Worship-street
Chapels," 8vo., 1807; "A Portraiture
of Catholicism," Svo., 1812; " Refut-
ation of the Falsehoods and Calumnies
of a recent anonymous Pamphlet, enti-
tled, “A Portraiture of Hypocrisy,"
8vo., 1813. He was of a kind disposi-
tion, lively imagination, and possessed
a cheerfulness that never deserted him
to the last. He suffered long from a
severe disease, during which, and in the
concluding scene, he was well supported
by the hopes and consolations of reli-
gion. He was interred in Bunhill-
fields' burying-ground. Gentleman's
Magazine.
NOEL, Sir Ralph, Bart., of Hal-
naby, county of York, March 19, aged
He was descended from Ralph
Milbanke, cup-bearer to Mary Queen
of Scots, who retired into England, to
avoid the consequences of a fatal duel.
He settled and died at Chirton,
near North Shields, in Northum-
berland, and his great-grandson,
Mark, was created a baronet, Aug. 7,
1661. Sir Ralph was the eldest son of
Sir Ralph Milbanke, the first baronet,
by Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of
John Hedworth, Esq. of Chester-le-
street, Durham. He married, Jan. 9,
1777, the Hon. Lady Judith Noel,
daughter of Edward, first Viscount
Wentworth, by Judith, daughter and
heiress of William Lamb, Esq., of
Farndish, Bedfordshire, and Welles-
borough, county Northampton. The
only offspring of this alliance was Anne-
Isabella, now Dowager Lady Byron,
born May 17, 1792, and married to the
late noble poet, Jan. 2, 1815. The de-
ceased first entered parliament at the
general election in 1790. Both he
and his colleague, Mr. Burden, were
then, for the first time, returned for
the county of Durham, after a memor-
able struggle, in which Sir John Eden,
Bart. proved the unsuccessful candidate.
Mr. Milbanke joined the opposition,
and became one of the supporters of
parliamentary reform. He continued
to represent the county of Durham
during five parliaments, till the disso-
lution in 1812; since that time he has
not sat in the House.
He succeeded to the baronetcy on the
death of his father, Jan. 8, 1793. In
1806, we find him commanding the
Sunderland Volunteers, then consisting
of 500 men. Deserting Halnaby, the
seat of his ancestors, he generally resided
at Seaham, between Darlington and
Durham. He was allowed to be a
man of most elegant manners and con-
ciliatory behaviour.
On May 29, 1815, the royal licence
and authority was granted to Sir Ralph
Milbanke and Judith his wife, to use the
surname and arms of Noel only, pur-
suant to the will of his father-in-law,
Viscount Wentworth.
Dying without male issue, Sir Ralph
Noel is succeeded in his title by his
nephew John, the eldest son of John, his
only brother, now Sir John Milbanke,
Bart.-Gentleman's Magazine.
PARRY, J. H. Esq., from a blow
inflicted in the street.
He was born about the year 1787, of
most respectable parents, being the eld-
est son of the Rev. Edward Parry, at
that time incumbent of the parish of
Llanferres, in the diocese of St. Asaph,
and county of Denbigh. After leaving
the university, Mr. Parry entered the
Temple in the year 1806 or 7; and
having served the usual number of terms,
with all his characteristic ardour, he
was finally called to the Bar in the year
1810, immediately after which, he com-
menced his professional labours, with
no common pretensions to a prosperous
course of forensic reputation and emolu-
ment. Mr. Parry was a gentleman of
polished manners, and of high literary
attainments, particularly in all that re-
garded the language, history, and cus-
toms of the Ancient Britons.
He was
the Editor of an interesting work, en-
titled "The Cambro Briton," also of
"The Cambrian Plutarch," and other
publications connected with the Prin-
cipality; and had obtained and had
awarded to him numerous premiums
and other testimonials offered by the
several Welsh Literary Societies, for the
best essays, &c., on subjects relative to
the Welsh language, history, &c. Mr.
Parry was a native of Mold, and con-
nected with several most respectable
families in the Northern Principality;
by whom, as also by all who are ad-
mirers of Ancient British Literature,
his decease will be sincerely lamented
as a private and as a public calamity.
Mr. J. H. Parry was 38 years of age,
and had, on account of his superior ac-
quaintance with Ancient British History,
been appointed, on the recommendation
of the Right Hon. C. W. Williams Wynn,
to superintend that department of the
General National History now com-
piling by order of the legislature. Mr.
Parry was editor of "The Transactions
of the Royal Cambrian Society," two
parts of which have been published, with
copious notes and illustrations from his
pen.-New Monthly Magazine.
PATERSON, Lieutenant-Colonel
Daniel, at the house of his friend, Co-
lonel Dare, on Clewer Green, near
Windsor.
He entered the army nearly 60 years
ago, being appointed ensign in the 30th
Foot, Dec. 13, 1765. He was pro-
moted to a Lieutenancy in that regi-
ment, May 8, 1772; advanced to a Cap-
taincy in the 36th Foot, July 11, 1783;
Major in the army, March 1, 1794; and
Lieutenant-Colonel, January 1, 1798.
He was for a long time Assistant Quar-
ter Master General at the Horse
Guards; and many years (until his re-
tirement) Lieutenant-Governor of Que-
bec.
His first literary production was, in
1771, "A new and accurate Descrip-
tion of all the Direct and Principal
Cross Roads in England and Wales."
In the following year he published" A
Travelling Dictionary, or Alphabetical
Tables of all the Cities, Boroughs, &c.
in England and Wales," 2 vols. 8vo. ;
in 1780 a "Topographical Description
of the Island of Grenada," 4to.; and
in 1785 his "British Itinerary," 2 vols.
8vo. By Lieutenant-Colonel Paterson's
labours alone, the distances of all mili-
tary marches throughout the country
are calculated, and discharged in the
public accounts. His Road-book, which
has attained its sixteenth edition, is in
general use throughout the kingdom.
So retired had its author latterly lived,
that Mr. Mogg, in that last and highly-
improved edition of the work, styles him
"the late Lieutenant-Colonel Pater-
son." Gentleman's Magazine.
PRICE, Mr. Benjamin, in West-
minster. He had been many years
secretary to the Westminster library,
and was well known in the literary
circles of the metropolis. Mr. Price
had at various times been engaged in
contributing to periodical journals, and
occasionally to the obituary of the
Monthly Magazine. About three years
since he attempted to revive the West-
minster library, in Charles-street, St.
James's; but after many fruitless at-
tempts the society was dissolved.
possessed a thorough acquaintance with
modern books, and hence his qualifica-
tions as a librarian were considerable.
He contributed largely to "Public
Characters of all Nations," 3 vols. and
has assisted in the editorship of many
other compilations.-Monthly Mag.
PRIDDEN, the Rev. John, M. A.
F. S. A. April 5, in Fleet-street, in his
68th year. He was the eldest son of
Mr. John Pridden, many years a well-
known and respectable bookseller in
Fleet-street, and was born Jan. 3, 1758.
He received the early part of his edu-
cation in St. Paul's school; and in
1777 was placed at Queen's College,
Oxford: where, highly to his credit, he
pursued his studies with little or no
charge to his father. Having, by the
perusal of every work he could procure
relative to the History of London, ac-
quired a knowledge of the various ex-
hibitions which are at the disposal of
some of the incorporated Livery Com-
panies, he applied for and obtained as
many of them as, together with his ex-
hibition from St. Paul's school, nearly
paid the cost of his College education.
Both at St. Paul's and at Oxford, he
was distinguished by regularity of con-
duct, and diligent application in his
studies; and the periods of vacation
were constantly passed in pedestrian ex-
cursions, so numerous, that not a single
Cathedral in the kingdom, or any town
particularly worthy notice, was unex-
plored; and having a taste for antiqui-
ties, and a ready pencil, his sketch-books
were filled with accurate drawings of
what appeared to him best worth pre-
serving.
In 1781 he took the degree of B. A.;
and, having been ordained shortly after-
wards, commenced his clerical duties
in 1782, as Afternoon Lecturer of Ta-
vistock Chapel; which in the Novem-
ber of that year he relinquished, on
being elected to the 4th Minor-Canonry
in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul
(which he afterwards, in 1803, ex-
changed for the 6th Minor-Canonry.)
In July 1783 he was presented by
the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's to
the Vicarage of Heybridge juxta Mal-
don in Essex. In the same year he
undertook the Curacy of St. Bride's,
Fleet-street, for a short time as assist-
ant to Mr. Applebee, then far advanced
in years, after whose death Mr. Prid-
den was for about 20 years the diligent
Curate of one of the largest parishes
in London, the Vicar being all the time
non-resident.
For many years, every Sunday in
Lent, he attended in St. Bride's Ves-
try, after the afternoon service, to cate-
chise the children of such of his parish-
ioners as chose to send them for that
purpose; and presented at his own
cost copies of the Common Prayer and
other religious books to the most de-
serving.
In 1785 he was elected a fellow of
the Society of Antiquaries; and the
first fruits of his proficiency in Topo-
graphical research, appeared in a letter
to Mr. Nichols, dated March 1787, ac-
companied by several correct drawings;
which, under the title of "An Appen-
dix to the History of Reculver and
Herne," was printed in the XLVth
Number of the "Bibliotheca Topogra-
phica Britannica." In Number XL. of
the same work, is a neat plate, formed
from his drawings, of Fotheringay
Church, &c.
Mr. Pridden distinguished himself in
1786 as one of the most active promoters
of the subscription for a statue to the
immortal John Howard. The modesty
of the great Philanthropist during his
lifetime refused this honourable dis-
tinction. Part of the subscriptions
were applied to the relief of the prisoners
confined in gaols: and with the rest
a medal was intended to have been
struck. But Mr. Howard's death in-
tervening, all objections to the original
intention vanished; and Mr. Pridden
was the first who suggested the pro-
priety of endeavouring to obtain permis-
sion to erect the statue in St. Paul's.
This application was instantly most
handsomely consented to by the Dean
and Chapter; at the same time inti-
mating, "that no fee should be required
for its admission, and that no monument
should be erected without the design
being first approved of by the Royal
Academy." This circumstance has
since led to the Metropolitan Cathedral
being made the receptacle for the tombs
of our heroes, and of other men eminently
conspicuous for the benefits they have
conferred on their country.
In 1788 he was elected by the Go-
vernors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital
to the Vicarage of Little Wakering in
Essex.
In 1789 he was appointed Domestic
Chaplain to Earl Powlett; and having
taken his degree of M. A. at St. John's
College, Cambridge, was collated, de
novo, to his Vicarage of Heybridge.
In 1795 he was appointed one of the
Priests in Ordinary of His Majesty's
Chapels Royal; and in the same year
was presented by Bishop Horsley to a
Minor-Canonry in the Collegiate Church
of St. Peter, Westminster.
In 1797 he resigned both his Essex
livings on being presented by the Dean
and Chapter of St. Paul's to the Vicar-
age of Caddington in Bedfordshire;
where he resided a considerable portion
of the year, much esteemed as an ex-
cellent parish priest, and had the oppor-
tunity of cultivating a taste he possessed
for planting, by forming a beautiful
grove in a field near his Church. He
also, in 1812, entirely rebuilt the Vicar-
age-house, in which he was his own
architect and surveyor.
His capability for such a task had
before been shown in a work of infinitely
greater magnitude. When the project
for improving Snow-bill and Holborn-
hill was in contemplation, Mr. Pridden,
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