Obituary of confiderable Perfons.-Bill of Mortality, Boreham, co. Norf. and formerly fellow of Bene't coll. Camb. where he was admitted in 1736. 12. At Enfield, in his 79th year, the rev. Mr. Andrew Kinros, many years master of a boarding-fchool in that town, from which he had retired fome years. He had spent the evening with fome of his neighbours, and the next morning was found dead in his bed. Mr. Maffet, mafter of the East India Corr pany's fhipping at Deptford. He was fhot in the be ly by a villain as he was returning home, and with great pain and dif ficulty reached the Black Horse, where he droppe, and expired in the greateft agonies the next evening. At Kensington, Mrs. Fanning, houfekeeper to the war office at Whitehall. At Peterborough, rev. John Image, vicar of St. John Baptift's church there, preacher to the cathedral, and vicar of Exton. 13. Mr. Benjamin Parkes, attorney at law, veftry-clerk of St. Bartholomew the Great, and clerk to the Farriers' company. John Phillips, efq; of Addington, co. Bucks, brother to the late Thomas P. efq; coroner for Middlefex, who died at his houfe Sept. 22. At Melton, Suffolk, univerfally lamented, the rev. Thomas Purvis, rector of that parish. He was fon of Admiral Purvis, and brother to Charles Purvis, efq; of Darfhamhall. His great politeness and affability, joined to a most noble and generous difpofition, endeared him to all ranks of people. He was always ready to ferve the needy, and was particularly attentive to the interests of thofe who folicited his protection. He was a most warm friend, and took particular pleafure in doing acts of kindnefs. His company was much fought for by his acquaintance, being always chearful and agreeable. He had his foes and his faults, because he was a man--but the number of the laft was fmall, and of the first fill fmaller. His lofs will be long regretted by all who knew the worth of his friendship, or enjoyed the honour of his acquaintance. 14. In the Strand, Mr. John Thorn, one of the oldest inhabitants of St. Martin's parith, and harness n aker to the Pr. of Wales. Mr. James Brooks, fen. glais-cutter, Excter-change. 15. At Fulham, after a long and painful ills, Thomas Claridge, efq. In College Green, Briftel, Dr. Wells. On Ham Common, Frederic Buiney, efq; formerly merchant in Philadelphia. At Paris, Sig. Sacchini, the celebrated compofer. the dancing-mafter. 1 911 Mr. Caleb Redford, one of the tellers in the banking-houfe of Martin and Co. Returning home from Northall, in company with his brother and another gentleman, between eleven and twelve o'clock at night, he rode full speed against the wheel of Mr. Woodfall's chaife, by which he was thrown from his horfe, and received fuch a violent fracture in his fcull, that he died the next morning, without recovering his fpeech or fenfes, regretted by his friends and masters, 16. After a long and painful illness, Mrs. Anne Wood, wife of Mr. Tho. W. of Abchurch-Jane, merchant. At Çirencefter, co. Gloc. in the 86th year of his age, Thomas Bush, efq; who had acted in the commiffion of the peace for that county 50 years; he was brother to the rev. W. B. paftor to the Prefbyterian cong egation at Enfield 50 years, who died Sept. 17, 1777, aged 75, and to Samuel B. efq; apothecary, alderman and thrice mayor of Bath, who died March 4, 1784. 19. In Wales, Mrs. Smith, wife of John S. efq; folicitor to the Eaft India Company, and clerk to the Drapers' company, one of the daughters of the late Chauncy Townfend, efq; of London, merchant, and fifter to Mr. Alderman Townfend. 20. At Bath, Humphry Sturt, efq; member in feveral parliaments for the county of Dorfet. He was fon of Sir Anthony Sturt, knt, by a fifter of Humphry Parfors, efq; alderman of London, and nephew of Sir Gerard Napier, bart. of Moor Critchell, co. Wi ts, who left him that estate. He married in 1756 Mary fole daughter and heiress of Charles Pitfield, efq; proprietor of a conliderable eftate at Hoxton, in the parish of St. Leonard Shoreditch, by his wife Dorothy, daughter and heirefs of Solomon Ashley, efq; by whom he had iffue, 1. Humphry Afhley Sturt, now in India, married in 1781 to Mary third daughter of the rev. Edward Woodcock, LL.D. of Bath; 2. Charles, lieutenant in the navy, and M.P. for Brice port; 3. Diana, married to Sir William Milner, bart. of Nun Appleton-hall, co. York; and ten other children. 23. At Brompton, in his 26th year, the rev. John James, B.A. rector of the parishes of Aichurch and Kirkandrews, co. CumberJand, after a tedious illnett, which he bore with the utmoft fortitude, refignation, and piety. Cui pudor, et juftitiæ foror At the fame place and time, Sig. Fabiani, Chriftened. Males 7227 Females 697 S 1419 Females 7001392 Whereof have died under two years old 559 Peck Loaf 25. od. Between 2 and 5 120 50 and 60 101 60 and 70 73 70 and 80 57 80 and 90 90 and 100 101 22 I 10 and 20 116 30 and 40 EACH DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN OCTOBER, 1786. Stock. reduc. confols. 1726 Confol. 774 77 112/ 1134 Bank 13 perCt 3 per Ct Ditto 4 per C5 per Cry Long, Short Ditto India, India, India, S. Sea 1778. Stock. Ann. Bonds. Stock. 845 pr Old Ann. 1777. Ann. Sunday 2 53s. pr 15 02 22 15 Sunday 90 761 15 03 16 76 17 1504 953 754 18 75 75% 754 76 75 761 754 76 22 15 03 22 مرادی 223 ང་ 94 113 15 04 75 15 04 N, E. Ir the 3 per Cent, Confols, the higheft and lowest Price of each Day is given; in the other Stock the higheft Price only. 942 915 Botanical Hiftory of the Yew Tre 917 ibid. ibid. 918 Vindication of Heron's Letters of Literature 94 04 ibid, 920 925 956 957 ibid. 958 961 Meteorol. Diaries for Dec. 1785, & Nov. 1786 914 Inquiries after Poems by Leonard Welfted 94, ibid. Embellished with Views of a TARTARIAN ORATORY; the Entrance into the famous TUNNEL which joins the THAMES to the SEVERN; a PIO OF LEAD found in SHROPSHIRE; ELIZABETHAN MEDALS; COINS, &c. &c. By SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent. LONDON, Printed by J. NICHOLS, for D. HENRY, late of SAINT JOHN'S GATE. 914 Meteorological Diaries for December, 1785; and November, 1786. 12345678 ag 62233660 +30 NW SW 27 NE fnow, ftill. 3 26 29 10 25 E 28 fnow, ftill. 4 27 29 15 30 E overcaft, fnow lies. 29 14 31 NE clouds and fun, fome fnow lies. NE NE NE OBSERVATIONS. Leaves of weeping willow (falix babylonica) falling; it retains its leaves the latest of any deciduous tree. The weather in the months of November and December hath been hitherto favourable for cattle, as it hath been neither cold nor too wet; and the great quan tity of after-grafs hath much affifted the fcanty produce of hay of laft fummer.-3 Therm. 22 at 6 P. M. freezes within.-4 Therm. 25 in the even.-5 Snow remains on ploughed and dug ground, gone on the grafs.-6 Therm. not higher than 28 the whole day; only 23 at 11 P. M.-7 Freezes in chambers. Therm. 23 at 11 P. M. *N. B. The journal till the 8th was kept at a village 50 miles SW from London; Therm. within door; afterward at the ufual place near London. Therm. abroad. METEOROLOGICAL LABLE for November, 1786. W. CARY Mathematical Inftrument-Maker, oppofite Arundel ftreet, Strand, 20 45 22 23 24 500 78 + 3333 47 39 29, rain 38 42 40 29,7 fair 36 44 39 29,93 fair 37 43 37 29.94 fair 38 39 THE Gentleman's Magazine: For NOVEMBER, 1786. BEING THE FIFTH NUMBER OF VOL. LVI. PART II. *The various Articles we have received on the HOWARDIAN STATUE AND FUND, are neceffarily poftponed for the prefent. See p. 992. *XXX HILE the plan for fettling a colony at Botany Bay is preparing to be carried into execution, the more objections that are made to it the bet ter: Government will, by that means, be enabled to obviate them; to provide for every known want and supposed danger. ***** You have obferved (p. 903,) that the eaftern coaft of New Holland is the least inhabited, and worst cultivated, country in the fouthern hemifphere. To this it has been answered, that the want of cultivation is no proof of the barrennefs of the foil, nor the deficiency of inhabitants a reafon why the natural productions of the climate fhould not be fufficient for the fupport of a greater number: and, as an argument in favour of this affertion, the account that Lieut. Cook gives of Botany-bay is every where cited as an authority by those who, perhaps, never read his voyage. Give me leave, therefore, to lay before your readers the fubftance of what that celebrated navigator has faid upon the fubject. "On the 28th of April (1770), the Indians, ten in number, on the approach of the fhip, ufed many warlike geftures, brandishing their weapons, threatening the mafter, who was fent in the pinnace to found, if he dared to land. Early in the afternoon they anchored on the fouth fhore, and faw an old woman, followed by three children, come out of the wood; fhe was loaded with fire-wood, and each of the children had alfo its little burden; they were prefently joined by four men from four wretched canoes, made of bark, and tied at each end to keep them together. Having made a fire, they fat down to dinner, taking not the leaf notice of the fhip till the boats were man-, ned, when, on a fudden, two of them ftarted up to difpute their landing; and, what fhould put the new fettlers on their guard, though they were but two to forty, ftood till one of them was wounded with fmall fhot, who then only retreated to fetch his target for his bet ter defence; and, returning with double fury, threw his lance, which flew among the thickest of them, but without effect. Being again shot at, they fled among the woods. "On the 29th, ten or twelve of the natives came down, while the waterers were at dinner, and looked at the cafks with great curiofity, bur touched no. thing; neither would they touch any thing that was offered them while in the bay. "On the 30th, a company of 14 or 15 of them advanced towards the wooders with sticks that fhone like a musket; but, after fhouting feveral times, retired again to the woods. "On the 1ft of May, the gentlemen made an excurfion into the country, where they found the foil to be either fwampy or light fand, and the face of the country finely diverfified with wood and lawn. The trees were tall, strait, and without underwood, ftanding at fuch a distance from each other, that the whole country, at least where the fwamps did not render it incapable of cultivation, might be cultivated without cutting down one of them. Be tween |