Mead's fale, and gave to the British Museum, the head of Homer, which came out of the Arundelian collection, and is believed to have come from the imperial palaces at Conftantinople, where the body was melted in a fire. In abftemioufness and regularity of life, his Lordship was fcarcely ever fur-, paffed by any of his rank and fortune.-The prefent Earl was, fome years fince, much diftinguished in the fashionable circles; the late Earl was more known for his mufical tafte, for his hofpitality in the country, from which he was feldom long abfent, and for his charity. His table at Burleigh was open, once a-week, to all his friends in Stamford;

Manby, efq. of Woodhall, to Mifs Preston, only daughter of Dr. P.

31. At Tottenham, Philip Wakelin, efq. of Walthamstow, lieutenant in the Weft Effex regiment of militia, to Mifs H. Holbrook," only daughter of Wm. H. efq. of Tottenham, and niece to Mr. Holbrook, brewer, of West Ham, with a fortune of 20,000l.

At Lewes, in Suffex, Rev. Mr. Edward Langford, eldest fon of Dr. L. canon of Windfor, and mafter of Eton-college, to Mifs Sophia Herbert, third daughter of Thomas H. efq. of that place.

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to facilitate the intercourfe between which May AT Calcutta, in the Eaft Indies, place and his feat he actually built a cara- II. Lieut. Henry-Patrick Wilfon. van, carrying eight perfons, and employed 08. 1. At Poplar-grove, near Wilmingit in bringing fuch of his vifitors as had not ton, in South Carolina, Thomas Clayton, efq. a carriage of their own. His Lordship's of Potterhill, near Paisley, in Scotland. remains were interred in the family-vault in St. Martin's church, Stamford-Baron. The prefent Earl and Mr. Chaplin attended the corpfe on foot, and were followed by a train of his Lordship's fuperior fervants and domefticks; the whole being conducted, as the late Lord defired, without pomp.

MARRIAGES.
ATELY, Richard Deane, efq. of Pitch-
fords town, to Mifs Maria Ferrall, of
Merrion-fquare, Dublin.

Rev. Mr. Carter, of Baldgrown, co. Clare, to Mifs Wade, of Limerick.

Dec. 14. At Newcastle upon Tyne, Mr. Wm. Gibfon, merchant, to Mifs Hindmarsh, daughter of Mr. John H. merchant.

23. At Trowfe, co. Norfolk, Mr. Richard Young, aged 83, to Mrs. Miller, aged 86. Rev. Mr. Lockett, to Mifs Shelton, both of Worcester.

25. Mr. Oakden, of the Star and Garter inn at Afhborne, co. Derby, to Mifs Wagstaffe, of Snelston.

26. At Hougham, Rev. Anthony Egerton Hammond, to Mifs Charlotte Biggs, dau. of Tho. B. efq. of Maxton, near Dover.

George Boone Roupell, efq. barrifier at law, to Mifs Frances Brone M'Culloch, youngest daughter of the late Robert M'C. efq. of Charlton, in Kent.

At Asfordby, co. Leicester, Mr. T. Bishop, grazier, of Grimfton, to Mifs Marriott, dau. of the late Mr. Gregory M. of Asfordby.

At Bakewell, co. Derby, Mr. Nicholas Broomhead, to Mifs M. Barker, of Baflow.

The Count de Fouchecour, an emigrant nobleman, to Madame de St. Germain, widow, and daugh. of Charles Grant, Viscount de Vaux. The day after the marriage, the Count de F. left England, to join the army under the Earl of Moira.

28. At Ewelme, co. Oxford, Rev. John, Hulfe, fellow of Wadham-college, Oxford, to Mifs Lewanna Lewis, youngest daughter of Rev. James L. late of Salisbury.

30. At Waldingfield, George-William

19. In an advanced age, Mr. Theomartyr Crane, grocer, in Trinity-lane, defcended from a good family in Norfolk.

22. At Tobago, John Maxwell, efq. zd fon of the late Wm. M. efq, of Carriden.

30. Aged 72, Mr. Adam Crompton, of Little Lever, co. Lanc. paper-manufacturer. Few men have been more refpected for ftrict integrity, and great generofity of heart. The former was never impeached; and of the latter his neighbours had long and large experience. The following extract of a letter on this fubject, from Dr. Barnes, of the New college at Manchester, first printed in a provincial news-paper, we transcribe from the European Magazine: "You mention the death of Mr. Crompton; and add an honourable testimony to the integrity and generofity of heart which strongly marked his character. That he poffeffed thefe qualities in a very eminent degree, every one who knew him will, I verily believe, bear witness. His integrity was put to the fulleft proof by an employment which certainly offers op. portunity and invitation to deceit, in order to evade the excife duties: but his honour was never impeached,' nor fufpected, for, it was known to be inflexibly firm and pure. Of the generofity of his heart you justly fay, 'his poor neighbours had long and large experience. But there was one inftance of it, which regard to his feelings alone prevented me from giving to the publick long ago, because it deferves to be generally known and recorded. And this is, that he was probably the first perfon in England who formed the plan of a Sunday-fchool, and fupported it at his own charge. This was done in fo fecret a manner, that his own family was at the time ignorant of it, and cannot now, there. fore, fix exactly the year when it was begun. But, from my own knowledge, I can state, that, for several years before the inftitution of Sunday-schools by that good man, Mr. Raikes, of Gloucefter, Mr. Adam Crompton maintained a school of this defcription in Little Lever, under the care of James Heyes, to

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whom he paid a regular falary for teaching poor children, at his own house on that day. I lived, for many years, a near neighbour to this poor man, and admired, what I then thought to be, his difinterested kindness in devoting every Sunday, when by infirmity difabled from attending public worthip, to fo charitable an office. It was not till long after that I discovered the plan and the fupport of it to be the work of Mr. Crompton, who had concealed this, as he wished to do his other charities, even from his nearest friends and relations, among whom I had the honour to be numbered. This circumftance will not be confidered as any diminution to the praise, nor will it leffen the fatisfaction, of the worthy man beforementioned, fince Mr. Raikes did not borrow the hint from hence, or from any other quarter. He, in the generofity of his own foul, did, like Mr. Crompton, conceive and execute the plan; and he has had the noble pleasure of seeing it adopted, extended, and patronised, in fuch a manner as to gratify the warmest feelings of his heart. This fact proves, however, that good men, whose aim is to ferve mankind in the best manner, will naturally fall into the fame train of thought; and it may tend to abate a little of that wonder, which doubtlefs many have felt, that fuch a plan was not fooner thought of by fome of the numerous friends of religion and of mankind. The fame idea has, probably, fuggested itself to others; but, through want of particular circumstances neceffary to encourage and ripen it, has lain in that state in which I acknowledge, with aftonishment, it lay in my own mind, even aiter I had feen it attempted and executed. For though, as I have faid, the inftance here related was, in a manner, under my own eye, for many years, the scheme did not appear to me in half its real magnitude or importance, till the attention of the publick was fo forcibly and fuccessfully excited by Mr. Raikes's admirable inftitution."

Nov.... At Amiens, in France, Michael Bain, efq eldest fon of the late Rev. Mr. B. of Edinburgh. He ferved with diftinguished reputation as an officer in Eliot's light dragoons, during the last German war.

Mr. Samuel Vizard, faddle tree maker, of Rupert-ftreet, St. James's. He was killed by being knocked down and run over by a gentleman's carriage in croffing Coventrystreet with fome work in his hand, which he was carrying home to aneighbouring faddler. 29. At his houfe on the Mall at Hammerfmith, aged 60, James Scott, efq. (not John, as mentioned in p. 1151). He was the youngest of the five fons of Mr. Scott, who came to the metropolis from the North, to make his fortune, early in this century; and he fucceeded, in the lucrative and increafing trade of brick-making, fo far as to leave his family not only wealthy, but his example of industry to go by. At one time this family may have been faid to have been

London, as they occupied almost all the brick-grounds around it. The eldest brother, John Scott, efq. lives at North-end, Fulham. His only child is the Lady of Sir John Hales, bart. of the Coventry branch of that antient family; by whom he has a family of many children, and to whom the above Mr. Scott has left much of his very large fortune, and his noble house, with moft excellent gardens, fituated on the middle mall at Hammersmith. The widow and family of William, another brother, live elegantly on the adjoining mall; and among the many legacies to his nephews and nieces are his brick-fields to James Scott, efq. fon of his brother William. Another brother, Thomas Scott, efq. of Shepperton, late M. P. for Bridport, now of Graftonftreet, St. James's, about 12 years ago mar ried the widow of Arnold Nesbitt, who died in 1789. Another brother lives at Kingfland, near Hackney.-Mr. Jas. S. was never married. He was a man of an open and liberal difpofition, being not an oftentatious but a truly generous and good man. alas! who is perfect? He was wont to give too much way to paffion. This, like all other nervous agitations, leaves the conftitution, however ftrong and robust, the worfe for it. Like the late worthy John Hunter (p. 964), though not quite fo fudden, as he furvived the attack of the fit two days, he may be faid to have been carried off by a fit of choler. His death is lamented by all who knew him.

But,

30. At Beaumaris, Wm. Lewis, efq. of Llandifman, in the act of drinking a cup of Welth ale, containing about a wine quart, He made it a rule, called a tumbler maur. every morning of his life, to read fo many chapters in the Bible, and in the evening, as a digeft on of his morning ftudy, to drink full eight gallons of ale. It is calculated that in his life-time he must have drunk a fufficient quantity to float a 74 gun fhip. His fize was attonithing; it is fuppofed the diameter of his body was no less than two yards. He weighed forty ftone. He died in his parlour; a lucky circumstance, as it would have been almoft impoffible to have got him down stairs; as it was, it was found neceffary to have a machine, in form of a crane, to lift him on a carriage, and afterwards to have the fame brought into the church-yard to let him down into his grave. He went by the name of the King of Spain, and his family by the different titles of Prince, Infanta, &c. but from what circumftance we know not.

Lately, on the evening of his arrival at Sierra-Leone, of a putrid fever, contracted by him on shipboard, in the courfe of his paffage from this country, Prince Naimbanna. This amiable young man had been for tome fhort time in England under the protection of the Sierra Leone Comp ny. He poffeffed a good understanding, a difpofition earnest in the purfuit of knowledge, and a great facility

in receiving inftruction. His mental acquirements during his stay in this country were confiderable, and his eafy address and fuavity of manners endeared him to all to whom he was introduced. He had imbibed, and he profeffed to the last moment of his existence, the frongest attachment to the principles of the Proteftant faith, and by his will (made in the beginning of his illness) he earnestly requested his relations to fet their faces against the flave, trade, and to befriend the Sierra-Leone Company to the utmost of their power.

On the coaft of Africa, Mr. George Gibb, furgeon, of the ship Thomas, and brother to Mr. G. furgeor, of Boston, co. Lincoln.

At Calcutta, in the Eaft Indies, Capt. Geo, Hepburn, formerly of Stamford, in the County of Lincoln.

At Lisbon, Capt. S. Haire, of the Lifbon packet, belonging to Hull.

At Howick, in Northumberland, aged 58, of a fuppreffion of urine, after an illness of three weeks, brought on by a fail from his horfe, the Rev. Thomas Wolfe.-The living of Howick is annexed to the archdeaconry of Northumberland, now held by the Rev. Dr. Robert Thorp, rector of Gateshead, Durham; in both which he fucceeded Dr. John Sharp, whofe curate was the late Mr. Wolfe, provincially called and better known by the name of Woofe. About two years ago he married, to his fecond wife, Mifs Bennet, daughter of B. efq. town adjutant of Berwick upon Tweed.

Found dead in his own grounds, Stock, efq. of Beades-hall, Effex.

Dec..... At Alnwick, co. Northumber Jánd, the much-refpected Mr. Abraham Rumney, a native of Appleby, co. We.morland, who had been maiter of the grammar-fchool of that town for more than half a century. He was the elder brother of the Rev. Jofeph R. vicar of Berwick upon Tweed. He has left only one fon, who is a refpectable merchant at Whitehaven; another died fome time ago, an eminent fur. geon in America.

13 At the Grove, near Epping, after a fhort illness, Mrs. Black, wife of Mr. Wm. B. land-furveyor.

Guillotined at Paris, the Duke Du Chatelet. He was born at Saumur, Nov. 20, 1727; had been ambalador from France ta the Courts of Vienna and Lorden; was a favourite of the late Dauphin, great chamberlain to King Staniflaus, knight of the order of the King, fucceffively colonel of the régiment du Roi, and of the French guards, and governor of Toulon. He publithed his genealogy, in one folio volume; in which he derived his defcunt from the House of Auftria. Certain it is, the Duke was the fon of the famous Madame Du Chatelet, whom the writings and amours of Voltaire have rendered to celebrated. He was the laft offspring of his family, and has died without ifiue.

14. At Uppingham, aged 73, Mr. Wm. Wortoff, who, fome years ago, was a confi. derable maltster and farmer at Prefton, in Rutland hire.

16. At Banks, in the parish of Tundergarth, aged 82, John Johnftor, efq.

At his houfe in Solio-fquare, in his 55th year, fincerely lamented by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance, Davidfon Richard Grieve, efq. of Swarlandhall, near Felton, in Northumberland, for which county he was high fheriff in 1788, He was the elder fon of Mr. Richard G. attorney at law in Alnwick, whofe father was from the North, and a school-mafter in that town, being a branch of a family fettled in trade in Berwick upon Tweed, and became opulent, of which was the late Eenjamin G. efq. a confiderable corn-merchant and fhip owner, and his brother James G. efq. for many years poft master of that town, and much refpected-Mr. Richard G. being out of his clerkship, married the widow, and fueceeded to the business and property, of his mafter. Zealous in the purfuits of his profeffion, and having talents, he left, for a place fo remote from the capital, a very confiderable fortune to his children. His eldest daughter was married to Captain John Romer, then of the 31st regiment, now brevet-ma jor of the 1ft battallion of the 60th footMr. G. married, in 1767, an amiable young lady, the daughter of Captain John Botterel', of the royal navy, who furvives him; but the never had any ifue, and therefore it will depend on Mr. Grieve's will to whom the eftate belongs. Mr. Grieve has loft a younger brother, George Greve, efq now in his 45th year, who was a young gentleman of great promife, to whom his father left 20,000). most of which he spent in fearch of popularity. He was bound ap prentice to Peter Thelluffon, efq. merchant in London. Being a man of warmth and vivacity, he was an active member of the Bill of Rights club, to which he was, for a time, fecretary. About this time he was a candidate for the fhrievalty of the city of Londen, in which he was unfuccessful For many years paft he has lived in France, and has employed himself in literary pursuits, fuch as a tranflation of Baron Tott's Me moirs, published here in 1785, and fome other works; and where, we are told, he has long lamented his youthful levities, and now, at Bourdeaux, fighs for the tweets of his native land, and of a virtuous liberty.

18. Mrs. Gregory, wife of Mr. Richard G. of Uppingham.

20. In Norton-feet, Lady Oughton, widow of the late Lieutenant-general Sir James Adolphus Dickinton O. K. B, who died about 12 years ago. He was the immediate defcendant of Sir Adolphus O. bart, of Fetchbrooke, in Warwickshire, M. P. for Coventry, who was created as we have recorded in our vol. VI. p. 552,