amiable and Christian virtue, and in possession of the sincere regard and affection of all who knew her, she lived beloved, and died regretted.

Aged 27, Capt. Howel Jones Price, of the Breconshire Local Militia.

At Aberystwith, where he went for the benefit of his health, in his 37th year, Francis Hart Sitwell, esq. of Barmoor castle, Northumberland, brother to the late Sir Sitwell S. bart.

Feb, 19. In Tokenhouse-yard, after a long illness, Mr. John Simpson, merchant.

At Bath, Mrs. Dorothy Rooke, second daughter of the late Henry R. esq. formerly of Edmonton, Middlesex.

Feb. 20. In Little Tower-street, aged 72, Mr. John Jameson.

In Nelson-square, Blackfriars, aged 62, Mrs. Mary Gardner, widow of Mr. H. L. G. formerly bookseller in the Strand.

In Clarges-street, Piccadilly, A. Tower, esq. of Logie, co. Aberdeen.

At Ringwood, Hants, aged 81, Mr. F. Francillon, formerly of Spital-square.

Aged 57, Mr. Carpenter, many years manciple of Lincoln college, Oxford.

At Midsomer Norton, in her 22d year, the wife of Rev. T. Allies.

Feb. 21. In North-st. Westminster, John Hyde, esq. late of the Island of Antigua.

In London, in her 97th year, the Rt. Hon. Lady Mary Bowlby, second daughter of George Brudenell, Earl of Cardigan. She was first married to Richard Powys, esq. of Hintlesham-hall, Suffolk, and after wards to Thomas Bowlby, esq. of Durham, both of whom she survived. She was sister to the late Earl of Cardigan, mother to the Dowager Lady Sidney, and grandmother to the Duchess of Buccleugh, Lord Sidney, Countess of Chatham, and Lady Dinevor.

In Fetter-lane, in his 81st year, Mr. John Stephens, better known by the name of Doctor Stephens, who was perhaps the most eminent Chiropodist of this or any former age. He was a native of Chipstaple in Somersetshire, a younger son of a carpenter, who was a man of some little consequence in his neighbourhood; but, having a large family, his son John determined, at the age of 19, to come to London, and try his fortune. Here luckily he was engaged as an humble assistant to the labours of Mr. Crane, the very eminent Surgeon in Salisbury Court, whom he frequently attended at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was much respected by the medical gentlemen in general, many of whom continued their friendship through life. At that period he acquired a considerable degree of knowledge in the anatomy of the Human Foot, which led him afterwards to the occupation in which he made so conspicuous a figure. His next employ was in the service of a gentleman with

whom he travelled over a considerable part of the kingdom; and for some time he was a Domestic in the respectable family of the Hoods, of Bardon Hall in Leicestershire. In the Mayoralty of George Nelson, esq. in 1765, and again in that of SirRobert Kite, esq. in 1766, Mr. Stephens wore laced cloaths, and fed on custard, and occasionally on turtle and venison, at the Mansion house. This led him to the appointment of messenger at the Magdalen Hospital, which he relinquished for that of Collector of the Street-Toll for the City of London at Temple Bar; to which he united the practice of that profession in which he so much excelled. In all these different capacities, a blunt honesty and strict integrity were his predominant character, He was a steady friend, a loyal subject, and a devout Christian. Few persons were more universally known in the Metropolis: a tall stout man, nearly' six feet high; and uniformly dressed in a blue coat, a scarlet waistcoat with a narrow gold lace, and a white hat; and always with a nosegay in his button-hole.' A portrait of him, a small oval, engraved by Hawkins, from a painting by J. Bow." ring, was published in 1791. A better likeness, however, a painting by Kearsley, is in the possession of Bryant Crowther, esq. the celebrated Surgeon. He lived temperately, smoaked his pipe at home, went to bed early, rose with the lark, and, with the exception of a slight asthma, › enjoyed a robust state of health to the last. His loss will be felt by the feet of many of the most considerable inhabitants of the Cities of London and Westminster; but he had fortunately trained to the profession the daughter of one of his sisters.

Feb. 22. At Bath, aged 63, Richard* Ramsbottom, esq. M. P. for Windsor, 1807; more than 40 years a Liveryman of the Company of Stationers, but better known by his famous Windsor Ale.

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Feb. 25. At Somers Town aged 83, James Parkinson, esq. the late proprietor of Sir Ashton Lever's museum, formerly exhibited in Leicester House, and disposed of by lottery, under sanction of Parliament, in 1784. Mr. P. had 2 tickets, one of which be had given away, and bythe other became entitled to the prize of this noble collection of Nature and Art. He was born at Shrewsbury, of parents who settled in Ireland in the time of Charles I. and was bred to the bu•* siness of a law-stationer. By indefatigable industry, and the strictest integrity, he became Agent and Receiver to many families of consequence, by whom he was much respected and confided in for his ability and correctness; and among similar ser vices had the good fortune to extricate the affairs of the late Sir Thomas Robinson, bart. from great confusion and embarras ment, to the satisfaction of all parties con

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cerned; forwhich he received a considerable present beyond what he had for his trouble. He was likewise employed by many noblemen and gentlemen in the management and receipt of their estates; and, being an excellent accountant, with the clearest head, was frequently of great use in arranging their concerns, or settling any intricacies or disputes which had arisen. The writer of this had known and employed him above 40 years, and can bear ample testimony to his fidelity and accuracy. Having obtained the prize in the above lottery, he made several attempts to dispose of it for less than one half of what was considered to be its real value, and was long tantalized with expectations from agents of the Queen of Portugal, and from the late Empress of Russia; the latter of whom seemed very desirous of it; but her journey to the South of her dominions interrupted the negotiation, and it was not afterwards renewed. This being, the case, Mr. P. was advised to take it into his own hands; and as the rent of Leicester house was enormous, he was induced to buy a small piece of ground on the Surrey side of Blackfriars-bridge, for the purpose of exhibiting it. This was effected, and it was opened in 1788 or 1789. In the mean time he had taken great pains to study the various branches of Natural History, in which he not only succeeded to a wonderful degree, to the great surprize of his friends, but enriched the collection with many additional and valuable specimens both of Nature and Art, which were mostly disposed of by public auction in 1806; and though from his singular modesty the price of admission was too low, yet he was never heard to utter a complaint, that his success was not so great as his friends thought him deserv ing of. Mr. P. left one daughter and two sons, to whom he gave a good education, and brought up to more useful occupations than he had been tempted, and almost obliged to embrace, when he deviated from his first profession. Never was there a better father, or more deserving man.

Feb.... In High-street, Marylebone, at the advanced age of 107, Mons. Bertrand D. de Lille, who had served Louis XV. 40 years as first valet-de-chambre. After the death of that Monarch, he lived on a small property near Paris, which being at last exhausted, and his pension taken away, he emigrated, and partook of the charity of this country destined to French Emigrants; whilst his acute faculties and a considerable portion of bodily health were preserved to him till within a few weeks of his death.

Lately, After 48 hours great suffering, in consequence of falling into a pit or hole left by the paviours in Red Lionstreet, Holborn, aged 63, Mr. C. Thorn, of Liverpool.

Respected and regretted by an extensive circle of friends, Mr. Stephen Flindá!!, of the Hole in the Wall, Fleet-street. His habits of conviviality, so frequently connected with his calling, in all probability laid the foundation of a long illness ; which, together with the unexpected death of a beloved daughter, the protracted sufferings of a promising son, and other serious domestic griefs, proved at last too weighty for life to sustain. He has left a widow and three children to lament him; the elder, an amiable young lady, he had the satisfaction to see happily wedded a short time before his death.

At Westminster, aged 25, Mr. Richard Herring. A case more calculated to excite sympathy for the widow, or a sigh for the departed, seldom occurs in our annals of the dead: having been but recently united to a discreet and agreeable young female, whose trial of affection was immediately put severely on her, by a disease which mocked all her tenderest care; defied the most salubrious air of different counties, and the skill of experienced physicians: leaving after seven months suffering, a pregnant widow to lament the severity of her fate. He had made arrangements for conducting a considerable trade as a manufacturer of wax and tallow, the process of which he had much shortened by an ingenious method of melting by steam. Even with declining strength the sanguine expectations of youth never forsook him. In listening to his frequent and latest remarks, the writer of this article could never forget the beautiful line of Pope :

'Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die." J. M. F.

In the Charter-house, aged 88, Mr. Geo. Folingsby, formerly a shoemaker in Inner Temple-lane, for nearly half a century. He was supposed to have shod more Lawyers than any man in England. He was a native of the King's County. He married Margaret, the widow of Mr. Withers, formerly a bookseller near Temple Bar; a business which she carried on (as a separate Trader) till her death.

March 1. At his house at Dover, where he had resided more than 30 years, in the 88th year of his age, the Rev. AlexanderJames, B. D. formerly of Christ Church college, Cambridge, rector of Little Campfield in Essex, vicar of Buckland near Dover, and of St. Margaret's at Cliff. He had long used himself to a regular and rather abstemious mode of living, seldom partaking of more than one thing at dinner, and that generally of the plainest food at the table. A long series of good health was the reward of his moderation, for he had enjoyed an uninterrupted, state of health during the greatest part of his life. He was a man of considerable learning, and well versed in the Greek language. Fond

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borne, daughter of the Duke of Leeds; the late Henry Pelham, Colonel in the guards," who married Miss Cobbe, and died leaving two daughters; George, Bishop of Exeter, who married Mary, daughter of Sir R. Ryecroft; Henrietta, married George Earl of Rothes, who died leaving three daughters; Frances, married George Lord Viscount Middleton, and died leaving one daughter; Lucy, married John Lord Sheffield, and died leaving no issue; Lady Amelia Pelham, now living and unmarried.

March 6. At his seat at Meaford, in the parish of Stone, co. Stafford, William Jervis, esq. elder brother of Earl St. Vincent, being son and heir of Swynton Jervis, also of Meaford, barrister at law, who was fifth son of John Jervis, esq. formerly of Darlaston, in the same parish. Mr. William J. died without issue.

March 11. At Chelsea, aged 52, Mrs, Frances Reid. She was one of those whose name, although not destined to fill an ele vated station, ought not to be allowed to pass away as though she had never been. She was distinguished by the most amiable qualities of mind, and filled the trying and laborious situation of a teacher in a female seminary with the greatest credit and usefulness. She so conciliated the esteem and affection of all who knew her, that the circumstance of her becoming independent a short period before her death, imparted the most cordial gratification to all who knew her. Her death is in like manner lamented with no ordinary regret; and the writer of this article, who knew her for a long series of years, feels a melancholy sa. tisfaction in consecrating this tribute to her memory.

March 14. Aged about 60, Ed. Janson flate of Tottenham), a most worthy and benevolent man, of the respectable Society of Friends.

March 16. In Norfolk-street, Strand, in his way to the West of England for the benifit of health, in his 26th year, Mr. John Shipdem, only son of James Shipdem, esq. of Deal, Banker. In the early part of his life he had been afflicted with that common and excruciating complaint, the Stone. When about nine years of age, he was put under the care of Mr. Perry, Surgeon, of London, the proprietor of Adams's Solvent, who attended him occasionally two or three years: the complaint after a considerable

time gave way to the Solvent, and the Stone was gradually decomposed, and came away in the appearance of a thick mucus, with particles of a stony substance intermixed. At about 15 years of age the complaint ceased to exist, and he grew tall, and more healthy than he had been before; but an original want of stamina necessary to the vigour and firmness of a good constitution, was wanting. At the age of about twenty his health by slow degrees appeared to decline, and although every method was adopted that medical wisdom could suggest, he gradually for the last five years declined in health, till he became much emaciated, and when the writer of this saw him some months since, there was every appearance of a speedy dissolution, yet by great care and attention he was kept up (almost by art) until this day, at which time he was attacked by violent spasins in the stomach, which in a few hours terminated his existence, and left a childless father to lament the loss of a son on whom he had bestowed the utmost parental care and affection, as the writer of this article has often been witness to. May Christian fortitude and firmness of mind enable him to bear this stroke of privation= with a manly and becoming fortitude and resignation! S. S.

March 23. In her 76th year, her Royal Highness Augusta, relict of Charles Wil liam Ferdinand Duke of Brunswick, and last surviving sister of our Sovereign. Her Royal Highness had been subject to an asthmatic complaint for some years, which was increased by the epidemic disorder now prevalent, with which she was attacked about two days before; but no alarm was excited till the morning previous to her death. Dr. Baillie left her about six o'clock in the evening, thinking her much better; but a little before nine she was seized with violent spasmodic attacks, and died at half past nine o'clock. Her Royal Highness was confined to her bed only two days. She was born July 31, 1737, married Jan. 17, 1764, the late Duke of Brunswick Wolfenbuttle, by whom she had issue three sons and three daughters.

March 24. At Worcester, of a paralytic attack, Mrs. Sheridan, relict of the late Charles Francis Sheridan, esq. formerly Secretary at War in Ireland, and brother of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan.