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gaming, Voltaire relates that he had known an old woman, formerly addicted to play, and extremely indigent, who used to make broth for fome other poor players, for the fake of being permitted to look on.

18. Was held the anniversary meeting of the Sons of the Clergy, at which were prefent the Lord Mayor, Archbishop of Canterbury, Prefident; Lord Chief Baron Skynner, Vice Prefident; Archbishop of York, Bishops of Ely, Rochester, Bath and Wells, Salisbury, Peterborough, Chester, Oxford, Lincoln, Litchfield and Coventry, Glocefter, Bangor, St. David's, and Bristol ;Lords Fortefcue and Monboddo; with many of the Clergy and Gentry. The fermon was preached by the Rev. S. Horsley, Archdeacon of St. Alban's, from Deut. xv. 11. For the poor fhall never cease out of the land, therefore I command thee, faying, thou shalt open toine band wide unto thy brothers, to thy poor, and to thy needy in thy land.

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Extrait of a letter from on board the Dutton
Indiaman, in Calcutta River, Dec. 7.
"Yesterday a melancholy accident hap-
pened to the Montague, Capt. Brettell, lay-
ing about 100 fathom distance from us. One
of the men handing fome live coals in a
fhovel across the fore hatchway, unfortunate-
ly dropped a part into the hold, where it
inftantly fet fire to fome bags of faltpetre,
and in a moment the whole was in fuch a
blaze, that the fhip blew up in feven mi-
nutes.

"The first and fifth mates, with the furgeon's mate, and 30 others, perifhed in the Aames. The third mate was faved by being fent on board our fhip for an engine.

Singular inftances of longevity.-The county gaol of Chefter, at this time, contains three debtors, whofe ages united amount exactly to two hundred and eighty years!—and, what is very extraordinary, in the fame prison there are fix others, whofe ages, collectively, make three hundred and fixty years.!-Several of thefe venerable perfons have been in a ftate of confinement, from three to five years each, and one of them upwards of twelve.

21. John Swinburne, Efq. eldest fun of Sir John Swinburne, Bart. renounced the Errours of the Church of Rome, in the Parish Church of St. Martin in the Fields.

WYNN STAY THEATRE.

[With a Second Engraving of WHEN we gave in our Magazine for

FEBRUARY laft a fpecimen of Mr. BUNBURY'S humorous sketches for the AD. MISSION TICKETS at the THEATRE at WYNNSTAY, We promised to give another in the fame style. That promife we have now

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next month with another Elegant Engraving, from a defign of that Gentleman, in a diffe rent manner, as a proof that his abilities are as confpicuous in the ferious as the comic line.

PREFERMENTS,

HE dignities of Viscount and Earl of the kingdom of Great Britain to the Right Hon. Charles Baron Camden, Prefident of his Majesty's Council, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, ftile, and title of Viscount Bayham of Bayham Abbey *, in the County of Kent, and Earl Camden.

The Hon. Captain Bertie, to the command of a 90 gun fhip, ftationed as a guardship at Blackwall.

Lord Beaulieu, to be High Steward of Windfor, in the room of the Duke of St. Alban's.

Thomas Lord Wallingham, and George

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Charl's Hawkins, Efq. to the office of Serjeant Surgeon to his Majefty.

James Monfon Phillips, gent. to be Rouge Dragon Purfuivant of Arms.

To the Right Hon. George Earl of Lelceitter, Baron Frars of Chartley, &c. and his illue, his Majefty's Licence and Authority to take and ufe the Surname of Ferrars in addition to their paternal Name.

Henry Jones, Gent. to be Surgeon to the Garrison of Grave fend and Tilbury.

T. B. Bayley, Efq. of Hope, near Manchefter, to be Receiver-General of the Duchy

of Lancaster.

*The reafon of Bayham being the fecond title to the Earldom of Camden, is in confequence of a generous act on the part of Mr. Jeffrey, uncle to Mr. Pratt, Lord Camden's fon, in the morning of his marriage to Mifs Molefworth. On that day of feftivity Mr. Jeffrey fent to Mr. Pratt the title-deeds to an estate named Bayham-Abbey, in Suffex, and hence the name of the estate is enrolled as a compliment in the title.

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MARRIAGES,

HE Rev. William Leeves, rector of Wrington, Somersetshire, to Mifs Wathen, youngest daughter of Dr. Wathen. The Rev. Mr. Tomkins, of Bucknell, Worcestershire, to Mifs Green, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Green, of Afhford.

Walter Sneyd, Efq. to Mifs Bagot, eldeft daughter of Lord Bagot.

Sir William Twyfden, Bart. to Mifs Fanny Wynch, of Upper Harley-ftreet.

At Warrington, Thomas Pemberton, M. D. to Mrs. Davies of the fame place.

Mr.Tho. Sandford, of Witham, in Effex, aged 70, to his maid-servant, 18 years. of age.

The Rev. Hugh Owen, to Mifs Jeffreys, daughter of Edward Jeffreys, Efq. of Shrewsbury.

John Jones, junior, of Llwynor, Esq. to Mifs Stead, of Great James-street.

James Stanley, Efq. of Lincoln's-Inn, to Mifs Cornwall, daughter of John Cornwall, Efq. of Portland-place.

Rev. Dr. Price, rector of Great-Houghton, near Northampton, to Mrs. Hill, of Charlotte-ftreet, Bloomsbury.

John Graves, Efq. Captain in the Royal Navy, to Mifs Elizabeth Sawle, youngest daughter of the late -Sawle, Esq. of Barley-House, near Exeter. At Fakenham, Dr. Pleasance, physician, to Mifs Sepings.

The Rev. Mr. Plumptre, rector of Newton in Cambridgefhire, to Mifs Cross, daughter of Edward Crofs, Efq. of Leverington.

Thomas Parke, Efq. of Great Jamesstreet, to Mifs Hughes, only daughter of the late Admiral Hughes.

Jofeph Cripps, Efq. of Cirencester, to Mils Harrifon, daughter of Benjamin Harrifon, Efq. Treasurer of Guy's Hospital.

N. W. Lewis, Efq. of Broad-street, to Mrs. Young, of Bufh-Hall, Herts.

James Cooper, Efq. of Oxford-ftreet, to Mifs Maria Rogers, of New Bond-street.

At Afton, near Birmingham, Philip Holmes, Efq. of Solihull, batchelor, aged 86, to Mifs Mary Cope, of Grove Park, near Warwick, fpinfter, aged 64, their two ages making exactly 150 years. As this match was made merely for the fake of joining fortunes, for the benefit of the re

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fpective heirs at law, there were great re joicings on the occation by the families on both fides.

The Rev. Thomas Hay, of North-Walfham, Norfolk, to Mifs Bragge, daughter of the late Charles Bragge, Elq, of Cleve Hill, in Glocestershire.

At Dublin, Tho. Lyon, Efq. of Watercastle, nearly related to the Earl of Strathmore, to Mifs Blakeney, fifter and fole heirefs of the late John Blakeney, Elq. Member for Atheny, with a fortune of 800l. per

annum.

Jonathan Peel, Efq. of Church near Blackburn, to Mifs Either Bolton, of Bolton, Lancashire.

Major Chefter, of the 35th Foot, to Mifs Etheldreda Seymour, eldest daughter of Henry Seymour, Efq. late of Hanford, Dorfetfhire.

Francis Twifs, Efq. (fon of the late F. Twifs, Efq. of Norwich) to Mifs Frances Kemble, fifter to Mrs. Siddons.

Jofeph Kirkpatrick, Efq. banker, of the Ifle of Wight, to Mifs Anne Everett, of Heytesbury, Wilts.

The Rev. George Sayer, of Pitt in Kent, to Mifs Wakeley, only daughter of James Wakeley, Efq.

The Rev. Edward Vaughan, re&tor of Freffingfield in Suffolk, to Mifs Bailey, of Oxford.

Mr. Thomas Reid, of St. James's-Square, to Mifs Bolanquet, of York-ftreet, St. James's.

At Lillingftone-Dayrell, Bucks, the Rev. John Dayrell, to Mifs Wilfon, both of the fame place.

H. Edgell, Efq. of Standerwick, near Beckington, to Mifs Eyie, filter to Judge Eyre.

Capt. Carr-Thomas Brackenburgh, of the 54th Regiment, to Mifs Vachell, of Hol les-ftreet, Cavendish-Square.

At Bristol, J. E. Harris, Efq. to Mifs Johanna Hutchinfon, daughter of the late E. Hutchinfon, Efq. Governour of Jamaica.

The Right Hon. George Venables Vernon, Lord Vernon of Kinderton in the county of Chelter, widower, to Miss Jane Georgiana Fauquier, of St. George, Ha nover-Square.

MONTHLY OBITUARY, MAY 1786.

APRIL 18.

T Leaton-Hall, in Staffordshire, James
Mofely, Efq.

20. Thomas Bolton Hodgfon, M. A. Vi«

car of Northleach, and Mafter of the free Grammar-School there.

21. John Trent, Efq. of Charles-freet,

William Hughes, Efq. of Belfhanger, in Kent.

22. In his paffage from the Weft-Indies, R. L. Hicks, Efq. of the Ifland of Nevis:

23. The Rev. Dr. Richard Conyers, Rector of St. Paul's, Deptford. He was ftruck with a paralytick ftroke in the pulpit as he concluded bis fermon.

In Duke-street, Piccadilly, Mr. Alexander Cozens; well known to the lovers of the arts, by his works on the principles of beauty in the human head, on the original compofition of land feapes, &c.

Edward Morley, Efq.

In Newman-street, Mrs. Porten, aged 81. In Rathbone-place Captain Freemantle. Lately, at Twickenham, Charles Eafton, Efq.

24. James Earl of Loudoun, at Loudoun Castle, Ayrshire.

Lately, in the South of France, Thomas Buttall, Efq. of Greek-ftreet, Soho.

Mrs. Beckford, of Bedford-ftreet, Bloomf bury.

At Barnet, in the 100th year of his age, Mr. Job Morifton. He had lived the laft 20 years wholly on vegetable diet, without any other beverage than milk, of which he took one pint every morning at breakfast, and never drank the whole day afterwards.

-Tomlinfon, Efq. lately returned from the East-Indies.

Lately, at Hemsworth, Yorkshire, Rev. Richard Stringer, M. A. aged 89. He had been Matter of the Hospital upwards of 36 years.

26. Mr. Sharpe, Attorney at Law. At Kensington, the Rev. Mr. Stillingfleet Durnford, Mafter of the endowed School at Hinton Amptnes, in Hants.

At Scarborough, Mrs. Hunter, aged 105, who retained her faculties to the last. An hour before the expired, the desired her maiden name (Noel) might be put upon her tomb-ftone, being a defcendant of that family, alfo third coufin to the prefent Duke of Rutland, and third coufin to the Earl of Gainsborough.

27. Henry Peach, Efq. nephew to Lady Lyttelton.

Lately, at Chelmsford, in his 77th year, Anthony Benezet, one of the people called Quakers.

28. William Davifon, Efq. Hamburgh Merchant, and an agent for fupplying his Majefty's dock-yards with timber.

At Rouen in Normandy, John Holker, Efq. Knight of the Order of St. Louis, and Infpector-General of the woollen and cotton manufactories of France. The history of this gentleman is fingular; he was formerly a calenderer at Manchefter, but joining the Pretender in the last rebellion, was taken prifoner at Carlisle. He was confined in Newgate, and would certainly have fuffered for his unfortunate attachment, had not he, together with his companion, escaped from

Newgate By making a breach in the wall; his companion got out first, but Mr. Holker being a very fquare bulky man, the hole was too fmall to admit his efcape. When his companion, who had got down fafe, found Mr. Holker could not follow him, he had the generous refolution to reafcend by the way which he had escaped, determined that if Holker could not get out, be would stay and fhare his fate. They both went to work again, and having enlarged the hole, they both escaped. Holker afterwards remained fix weeks concealed in London, by a woman who kept a green-ftall, although hundreds of pounds were offered for his apprehenfion. He afterwards escaped to France, and ferved with honour in the Irish brigade, till peace deprived him of his pay. Various were the applications made by him to the Crown for pardon, but this he never could obtain. Forced at laft by neceffity, he was induced to attempt the introduction of the Manchester manufactory, at Rouen, in which he but too fuccefsfully fucceeded, to the great detriment of this country. lived to fee the manufactory in its full vigour, and to reap the reward of his inge nuity and industry.

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29. At Ludlow in Shropshire, William Toldervy, Efq.

Lately, at Jarrow Quay, Yorkshire, aged 102, Mrs. Eleanor Railton. She could walk about and read without fpectacles to the day of her death.

30. At Blackheath, Captain Barton, aged 98. He was upwards of 50 years in the Navy.

Lewis Jones, Efq. formerly prothonotary of the Common Pleas.

MAY 1. At Thouloufe, Henry Read, Efq. of Crowood, near Ramsbury, Wiltshire.

At Hornchurch, in Ellex, the Reverend Robert Speed, many years Vicar of that place.

At Edmonton, Sir Evan Lecairne, of the Kingdom of Ireland.

In Gray's Inn, Robert Saltonstall, Efq. Mr. John Bache, of Fortunes, near Watford.

2. At Ringwood, Hants, George Lord Brooke, eldelt Son of the Earl of Warwick, aged 14.

Peter Morrill Bathurst, Efq. eldest Son of the Rev. Mr. Robert Bathurit, of Lanftonhouse, near Winchester.

3. Mr. Robert Collins, late Bookfeller in Pater-nolier Row.

Mr. Jay, fenior, Undertaker of St. John'sStreet.

4. Mifs Coleby, Sempftrefs to the Prin ceffes Royal and Augufta,

At Findon, Rofsthire, Lady Dowager Mackenfie, of Seatwell.

In the Island of Coll, Hugh Maclean, Efq. 5. Near Barnet, Auguft ne Prevolt, Efq. Colonel of the 60th Regiment of Foot and

a Major

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