also published separately some miscellaneous pieces.

27. At Paris, where he had long resided, the Rev. Sir Herbert Croft, bart. in his 66th year. He was the author of a great variety of publications, some of which were amusing and popular; as well as of schemes for others of a more solid kind, which were not brought to effect. He will probably be most remembered by his Life of Dr. Young, adopted by Dr. Johnson in his Lives of the English Poets. Sir H. C. succeeded to the baronetage by collateral descent.

29. Charles Philip, Lord Stourton, a Roman Catholic Peer.

Sir John Stuart, bart. of Allanbank.

May.

1. Mrs. Cleaver, wife of the archbishop of Dublin.

2. George Greville, Earl of Warwick and Brooke, aged 70.

4. Lieut. Gen. Sontag, in his 69th year.

5. Dowager Lady Bellhaven and Stenton.

11. Sir T. Lighton, bart. 12. The Lady of Major-Gen. Sir Edward Butler.

14. Barrington Pope Blachford, esq. M. P.

4. At Naples, Sign. Paesiello, celebrated for his writings in music and history, in his 84th year.

6. At Petersburg, Field-marshal Prince Nicholas Sollikoff, aged 83. Dowager Lady Asgill.

8. Lord Frederick Campbell, aged 87, brother of the late Duke of Argyle.

12. Lady Eliz. Tynte, aged 86. 14. Hon. Allan Maconochie, of Meadow-bank, Lord Commissioner of Justiciary, Edinburgh. 15. Ellen, Countess Conyngham, widow of Henry E. Conyngham, aged 97.

16. Lady Pearson, relict of Sir Rich.Pearson, aged 72.

17. Charles Pierrepont, Earl Manvers, in his 69th year.

18. Right Hon. Lady Mary Parker.

In his 82d year, Mr. Thomas Henry, long a much esteemed practitioner of medicine at Manchester. He also obtained great

21. Rt. Hon. Lady Ribblesdale, in her 44th year.

28. At the age of 116, in ColdBath-square, Mrs. Jane Lewson, the widow of a wealthy person, owner of the house she lived in, and as singular in her dress and manner of living, as remarkable for the length of her years.

29. James Hope Johnston, Earl of Hopetoun, aged 75.

quirements, especially in practical chemistry. He was the first who treated philosophically on a subject highly important to the improvement of the cotton manufacture, the employment of mordants in dyeing, and was likewise an early promoter of the new method of bleaching. His character as a man of science, maintained by various writings, obtained for him admission to the Royal

Royal Society, and to several other learned bodies; and he was among the first founders of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, of which he became president. This truly respectable person was not less distinguished by qualities of the heart and mind, which warmly attached to him all his acquaintance, and rendered him in advanced age an object of equal affection and veneration. He retained the capacity of enjoying the best pleasures of life to its very extremity, and sunk without a struggle under the inevitable decay of nature.

60.

22. General Cunningham, aged

Lady Wray, relict of Sir W. U. Wray, bart.

Sir Alex. Mackdonald Lockhart, aged 40.

24. Sir Rob. Staples, bart. Ireland, in his 76th year.

27. John Peachey, Lord Selsey, in his 68th year.

Lately. Lady Diana Fleming, widow of Sir M. le Fleming, bart. Vice-Adm. James Alms.

July.

2. Sir John Dyer, Lieut. Col. of Artillery, whose death was occasioned, whilst on field duty, by endeavouring to stop the carriage of a brother officer whose horses had taken fright in the absence of the coachman. He was struck on the breast by the pole, and the carriage ran over him.

Mary Baroness Nolken, the widow of Baron Nolken, the Swedish plenipotentiary, in her 75th year.

3. Hon. Wm. Augustus Townshend, M. P. for Whitchurch.

Lieut. Gen. the Hon. Sir Brydges Trecothick Henniker, bart. son of the late Lord Henniker.

4. At Paris, of an apoplectic attack, Arthur Annesley Earl of Mountnorris, aged 72.

Richard Watson, D. D. Bishop of Llandaff, aged 79. This eminent prelate was born at Heversham near Kendal, in Westmoreland, where his father, a clergyman, was master of the free grammar school. After domestic instruction, he was entered at Trinity college, Cambridge, where he distinguished himself by assiduous application to his studies. He was elected a fellow in 1760, took the degree of M. A. in 1762, and was elected professor of chemistry in 1764. He became one of the head tutors of the college, and in 1771 obtained the professorship of divinity, to which the valuable rectory of Somersham is annexed. This academical elevation was entirely the result of his industry and talents, and during his residence in the university, no member of it conferred more reputation on that seat of learning than himself. As moderator at academical exercises, he equally displayed his urbanity, and his acuteness, and elegant use of the Latin language. He rendered his chemical lectures highly interesting by clear explanations of the principles of the science as then received, and by ingenious and useful experiments. In the divinity chair he exhibited great extent of research, with a candid and liberal spirit. Of these qualities he gave a signal

Society. These volumes were very favourably received, and are yet perused with advantage, notwithstanding the great change in the theory of the science.

His open and zealous attachment to the political principles of the whigs was probably the cause why, during a long possession of the prelacy, he was never translated from Landaff when the influence of that party had declin

His

Dr. Watson, who published a sermon entitled "The Principles of the Revolution Vindicated," had openly taken his part in the state as well as in the church; and when the Rockingham administration was formed in 1782, he was raised through the recommendation of the Duke of Rutland, to whom he had been tutor at college, to the episcopal bench in the see of Landaff. With this bishopric, the poorest in the kingdom, he was allowed to hold his other preferments, among which was a valuable rectory presented by the Duke of Rutland; and upon the whole, his church emoluments were considerable. He now entirely renounced his chemical pursuits, as a sacrifice to his prelatic dignity; but he collected in five small volumes all his essays and experiments relative to the subject, some of which were papers in the Philosophical Transactions communicated by him as a member of the Royal

His episcopal functions could scarcely be exercised in a see where there was no place of residence for a bishop, yet he delivered and published occasional charges to his clergy. He also continued to give to the world tracts on important subjects, affording matter for literary and political memoirs which would fill an interesting volume. The high regard with which he inspired his academic pupils, was evinced by a considerable accession to his fortune from a bequest of Mr. Luther, of Essex, to whom he had been tutor. He passed the evening of his life chiefly at his seat of Calgarth in Westmorland, where he actively employed himself in rural decorations and agricultural improvements. His manners were simple, with much equality of temper. He left a numerous family.

5. At St. Cloud, near Paris, Mrs. Jordan, a celebrated actress, considered as unrivalled on the English stage for perfect nature with arch simplicity in comic characters. With foibles in her conduct, she possessed a generous and benevolent heart.

7. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, whose character and talents have

for

for a long course of years kept him in the eye of the public as one of the most remarkable persons of his time. He was born in 1751, at or near Dublin, and was the fourth son of Thomas Sheridan, known for his powers of declamation as an actor, and as a successful instructor in elocution. Richard passed the early years of education at Dublin, whence he was removed to Harrow. He appears to have obtained no particular distinction at school, being naturally disposed to indolence, and trusting more to the impulse of genius than the habit of application. His connections naturally familiarized him with the theatre; and the attractions of Miss Linley operated with so much force upon him, that after having won her by a duel, from a rival, he was rewarded with her hand. She quitted the stage on this union; and it does not appear what was Sheridan's plan for maintaining a family, till in 1775 he brought out his pleasant comedy of "The Rivals," at Covent-Garden. Its first reception was like a failure; but by judicious alterations it gained the public favour, and gave the author precedence above the ordinary play-wrights of the time. The "Duenna," which soon followed, obtained a popularity even beyond that of the Beggar's Opera, being performed 75 nights during the season. He now pushed his connexions in fashionable life; and the brilliancy of his wit, with the charms of Mrs. Sheridan's conversation, brought ready visitors to their convivial table. To support this expence, he joined in the purchase of Garrick's share

in the Drury-lane patent, and brought on the stage an altered play of Vanburgh's. In 1777 his dramatic powers were exhibited in their full lustre by the composition of "The School for Scandal," a comedy which, perhaps more than any other of the modern drama, revived the witty age of the English theatre. It was performed with the most complete success, and still commands crowded audiences in its turn of representation as a stock play The "Critic," written upon the model of The Rehearsal, exhibited a very amusing specimen of his talent in humorous satire. Although he derived considerable profit from his productions, and from his share in the theatre, his stile of living always went beyond his resources, his expenses being entirely unrestrained by economy, or by any delicacy in contracting debts which he had no means of discharging. friends who thought highly of his abilities, he was therefore advised to exercise them in the more fertile and extensive field of politics. By his efforts he obtained a seat in parliament for the borough of Stafford, and he closely attached himself to the opposition against the ministry of Lord North. When that was overthrown in 1782, and was succeeded by the Rockingham administration, Sheridan was gratified with the post of undersecretary to Mr. Fox. His friends being shortly unseated by the death of their leader, he lost his place; but when the Shelburne party was defeated by the Coalition, he re-entered the official corps as secretary to the treasury. As a parliamentary orator he had

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hitherto been chiefly regarded as filling a subsidiary post by his polished raillery and entertaining sarcasm; but in his defence of Mr. Fox's India bill he exhibited powers of argument, and masterly comprehension of an intricate subject, which convinced the hearers that a steady application only was wanting to place him in the first rank of political speakers. This, in the universal opinion of the nation, was attained by him, when, as one of the managers of the prosecution instituted by the House of Commons against Mr. Hastings, he exhibited a copiousness, force, and lustre of eloquence which both parties pronounced as absolutely unequalled within the remembrance of the auditors. At this time, being again a member of opposition, he is supposed to have exerted a great influence over the councils at Carltonhouse; and he obtained a place in the collection of the revenue of the duchy of Cornwall, which was the only permanent fruit of his political career. He was a firm and consistent opposer of Mr. Pitt's measures; and did not hesitate to encounter all the imputations thrown upon the decreasing band of reformists and advocates of freedom, during the war of the French revolution.

Deeply involved in his circumstances, and suffering in his private character in consequence of his necessities, with a constitution broken by his habits of life, and a debilitated mind, he sunk, the melancholy example of brilliant talents deprived of almost all their value by moral defects.

12. Vice-adm. Sir Wm. Essington, in his 63d year.

13. Lieut.-general Cliffe.

Rt. Rev. John Skinner, Primate of the Episcopal church in Scotland.

23. Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton, a lady well known to the public by various works devoted to the moral and religious instruction of different ages and classes, and displaying a solid understanding and cultivated taste. She died at Harrowgate after long and patient suffering under sickness, and was greatly regretted by many attached friends.

August.

10. Elizabeth Countess of Bal

carras.

12. Louisa Lady Bagot.
Sir Andrew Bayntun, bart.

15. Joshua Vanneck Lord Huntingfield, in his 1st year. He was created an Irish peer in 1796, and was member of parliament for Dunwich.

17. Lady Susan Clinton, wife of Lieut.-general Sir Henry Clinton, and sister of the Earl of Wemyss.

Lady Rawlinson, relict of Sir Walter R. aged 73.

19. Joseph Huddart, esq. F.R.S. and an elder brother of the Trinityhouse, in his 76th year. This very able and useful person, distinguished as a geographer and mechanist, was born of humble parentage at Allonby, a sea-coast village in Cumberland. His father having a share in a fishery established in that place, Joseph was much employed in the small vessels by which it was carried on, and at length he obtained the command of a brig, in which he made frequent trips to different ports.

Having a strong turn to

mechanics,