year 1778, one of his parishioners, Mifs Pelloquin, a maiden lady of large fortune and most exemplary piety, bequeathed to the Dean her dwelling-houfe in Queen fquare, Bristol, with a very handfome legacy, as a teftimony of her great efteem for his worth and talents. In the year 1781 the Dean married a lady of the name of Crowe, who refided at Gloucester. It should be recorded to his praife, that though enjoying but very moderate preferment (for to a man of no paternal eftate, or other ecclefiaftical dignity, the Deanery of Gloucefter is no very advantagcous fituation), he has notwithstanding been a liberal benefactor to feveral public inftitutions, and a distinguished patron of merit. The celebrated John Henderfon, of Pembroke College, Oxford, was fent to the Univerfity, and fupported there, at the Dean's expence, when he had no means whatever of gratifying his ardent defire for study. We shall mention another inftance of generofity in this place, which reflects the greatest honour upon the Dean. About the year 1790. he thought of religning his rectory in Bristol, and, without communicating his design to any other perfon, he applied to the Chancellor, in whofe gift it is, for leave to quit it in favour of his curate, a moft deferving man, with a large family. His Lordship was willing enough that he fhould give up the living, but he refufed him the liberty of nominating his fucceffor. On this the Dean refolved to hold the living himfelf, till he could find a fit opportunity to fucceed in his object. After weighing the matter more deliberately, he communicated his wish to his parishioners, and advifed them to draw up a petition to the Chancellor in favour of the curate. This was accordingly done, and figned by all of them, without any exception, either on the part of the diffenters or others. The Chancellor being touched with this teftimony of love between a clergyman and his people, yielded at laft to the application; in confequence of which the Dean cheerfully refigned the living to a fucceffor well qualified to tread in his steps. Since that time he has refided chiefly at Gloucefter, viewing his approaching diffolution with the placid mind of a Chriftian, confcious of having done his duty both to God and Man.

The following is a tolerably correct lift of the Dean's works:

Theological and Controverfial.1. A Sermon, preached before the Governors of the Infirmary of Bristol, 1745. 2. Letters in Behalf of the Naturalization of the Jews. 3. Apology for the Church of England, 1772. 4: Six Sermons, 12mo. 1773. 5. Letter to Dr. Kippis, on his Vindication of the Proteftant Diffenting Minifters. 6. Two Sermons and Four Tracts. 7. View of the Difficulties of the Trinitarian, Arian, and Socinian Syftems, and Seventeen Sermons, 1777.

Political and Commercial.-8. A pamphlet on the Turkey Trade. 9. A brief View of the Advantages and Difadvantages which at

tend a Trade with France., 10. Reflections on the Expediency of Naturalizing foreign Proteftants, and a Letter to a Friend on the fame Subject. 11. The Pleas and Arguments of the Mother Country and the Colonies ftated. 12. A Letter to Mr. Burke. 13. Quere, whether a Connection with, or Separation from, America, would be for national Advantage? 14. Anfwers to Objections against the Separation from America. 15. A Treatise on Civil Government. 16, Cui Bono? 17. Four Letters on national Subjects. 18. Sequel to Sir William Jones on Government. 19. On the Dispute between

Great Britain and Ireland. 20. Several Papers under the Signature of Caffandra, &c. on the Difficulties attendant on an Invafion. 21. A Treatife on Commerce. (Mr. Coxe, in his Life of Sir Robert Walpole, fays that this was printed, but never published.)

Mifcellaneous.-22. Directions for Travellers. 23. Cautions against the Ufe of Spirituous Liquors. 24. A Tract against the Diverfions of Cock-fighting, &c.

At Dublin, Lord Charlemont; a nobleman, on whom, even in times of the most imminent danger, neither turbulence, faction, nor flander, has dared to caft an afperfion. Of his Lordship's early life, a great part was spent abroad, charmed with the arts, the climate, and the language of Italy, it was for many years his favourite refidence. With the rest of the world, however, he was intimately acquainted; as at every court which a young nobleman generally vifits he fpent more than the ufual time. In all he was refpected and beloved; and he has been heard to fay, that when he returned home there was not a country in Europe in which he was not more known, and had not more of thofe connections which fweeten life, than in his native Ireland! His Lordship returned home at about the age of thirty; and his return is faid to have been haftened by a diforder contracted from poifon, adminiftered by the jealoufy of a female. Of this diforder, the malignity had baffled the efficacy of all the . medical fkill which his Lordship found abroad, and it remained for the honour of an Irish physician, if not radically to remove the dif eafe, at least to alleviate its force, and preferve a life which was to be the ornament and pride of his country. The phyfician in queftion was the celebrated Dr. Lucas, a man diftinguished, not more by the fuccefs of his medical exertions in his Lordship's cafe, than by the zeal and energy which he has difplayed as a political writer, and a popular reprefentative. Having thus recovered a moderate fhare of health by the fkill of this Irish patriot, and prefcribed for himself a degree of temperance and strictnefs of regimen which few men would have had the fteadincfs to obferve, his Lordship began to think of an heir. Although accuftomed to view beauty in its moft fafcinating forms amidft the bril liancy of courts, the fplendour of wealth, and the attractions of polished manners, he

did not feck these qualities in a wife. He married a young lady, the daughter of a provincial clergyman, poffefled of good fenfe, and a most amiable difpofition; therefore, better chofen than if recommended by high birth, riches, or beauty: by this marriage his Lordship has feveral children, the eldest of whom, it is reasonable to hope, will emulate the virtues of his father. From the moment in which Lord Charlemont firft embarked in public life, he has invariably promoted the best interests of the country. He affected not, however, in any inftance, that popularity which follows rather the fhewy and infincere profeffions of the demagogue, than the wife and well-judged measures of him who ferves his country more from a motive of duty than a thirst of fame. With him, patriotifm was a virtue which he practifed for its own fake, and without attention to any confequences, except the approbation of his own mind, and a ftrict attention to the public welfare. The virtues and fervices of Lord Charlemont were neither unobferved nor unrewarded by the public. He was accordingly raifed by the unanimous voice of the people, more fully and faithfully expreffed than it had been on any other occafion, to the most honourable fituation which it was in their power to beftow, that of commander in chief of an army elf-appointed, and felf-paid, confifting of 80,000 freemen, including all the gentry and the nobility of the kingdom. To this command of the Old Volunteer army of Ireland he was for feveral years fucceflively elected; nor did this relation between that extraordinary body of men and his Lordship ceafe until a difference of political opinion had arifen, which induced him to refign. That difference arofe on the queftion of admitting the Catholics to participate in the power of the ftate. The idea was firft broached in an addrefs from the volunteers of Ulfter to his Lordship, at a time when they had been reviewed by him in the neighbourhood of Belfaft. He in very plain, but very polite and respectful terms, expreffed, in his anfwer, his difference of opinion on that question. A difcordance of fentiment, on a point of fuch moment, must have been fatal to that cordiality of affection which had alone reconciled him to the trouble fome, though highly honourable, fituation to which he had been railed: he therefore fhortly afterwards refigned his command. Of a reform in the reprefentation his Lordship has been long a friend, and was among the first of those no. blemen and gentlemen who, when the queftion was agitated, and the great difficulty apfeared to be, how individuals fhould be fatisfied for the annihilation of their property, made an offer of a voluntary furrender of their boroughs to the public. On the queftion of regency, too, he adopted that fide which alone was thought compatible with the independence of Ireland. He was one of thofe who, in oppofition to the partizans of Mr. Pitt, alerted the right of that kingdom to appoint.

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its own regent; and, as they conftituted majority in the two Houfes, they accordingly offered the regency to the heir apparent. In a mind like that of his Lordship, cultivated, vigorous and pure, error is feldom a plant of perennial growth. The opinion which he fo honestly entertained, and fo boldly avowed to the volunteer army of 1784, he feems to have fince changed for thofe of a more liberal complexion, as he has fince fupported the Catholic claim to the elective franchife, which Parliament acceded to in 1796, and became an advocate for what is called catholic emancipation. Of that fyftem of coercion which preceded the late infurrection in Ireland, his Lordship has been uniformly the declared enemy. He, therefore, was one of the very few who fupported Lord Moira in his parliamentary reprobation of these measures, and in recommending thofe of peace and conciliation. Unexceptionable, however, as Lord Charlemont's political conduct has been,` it is not as a politician that he is exclufively entitled to our regard. He is more highly estimable, perhaps, as a man of taste and literature. As a general fcholar he has not left his equal in the Irish Peerage. Poffeffing a refpectable knowledge of the learned languages, he was alfo intimately acquainted with thofe of modern Europe, particularly the Italian, in which he was an adept. To his love of letters Ireland owes, in a great meafure, the establishment of the only literary fociety (except the University) which fhe poffeffes, namely, the Royal Irish Academy, which was incorporated by royal charter in 1786, and of which his Lordship has, fince its foundation, been annually elected prefident. Of this office he difcharged the duties con amore, conftantly attending its meetings, unlefs when ill health prevented, prefiding with a father's care over its concerns, and occafionally contributing to fill the pages of its tranfactions. In thefe volumes his Lordship has published three etlays, which are highly refpectable; one on a contested paffage in Herodotus; another on an ancient cuítom at Meteline, with confiderations on its origin; and a third on the antiquity of the woollen manufacture in Ireland, which he has proved from fome paffages in the Italian poets. Thefe, however, conftitute but a fmall part of what his Lordship has written. To fome of his friends he has fhewn, at various times, materials for larger works, with which it is to be hoped the public will now be favoured. Among the lovers and the judges of the fine arts he held a very conspi. cuous rank. At his houfe in Rutland-fquare, Dublin, was to be seen a most refpectable collection of the great mafters in painting and fculpture, both ancient and modern; and of his tafte in architecture, his temple of Marino, within a couple of miles of the metropolis, is a beautiful specimen.

At the Larches, near Birmingham, in the 58th year of his age, William Withering, M. D. F. R. S. member of the Royal Academy

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At Kendal, Captain P. Jackfon, to Mifs Clark. Mr. J. Chriftian, of London, to Miss Scales, daughter of the late J. Scales, efq. of Ulverston.

Died.] At Carlisle, Mr. Thomas Irving. At Kendal, aged 88, Mrs. Benson. At Whitehaven, Mr. James Ormston. Aged 16, Mr. Richard Corkhill, fon of Captain W. Corkhill. Mr. John Durham. Mr. William Thompfon. Aged 38, Mrs. Kelfwick, wife of Captain Kelfwick. Mountfey, wife of Mr. Mountfey.

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At Cockermouth, aged 83,' Mr. T. Botton. At Keswick, Mrs. Fisher.

Within a few days of each other, Mrs. Watson, wife of Mr. Watfon, parish clerk; and aged 30, Mifs Watfon, their daughter.

At Woodfide, near Carlifle, Mrs. Lofh, wife of J. Loth, efq. Aged 26, Mr. William Robinfon.

At Mount-Pleafant, near Carlisle, aged 81, Mrs. Hogarth, relict of the late J. Hogarth, efq.

At Mains, near Wigton, aged 68, Mr. John Dand.

At Workington, aged 37, Mr. John Dickinfon. Mrs. Hayfton, wife of Mr. Hayfton. Aged 26, Mifs F. Thompson.

At Parton, near Whitehaven, Mr. Thomas Eilbeeck; and, a few days after, Mrs. Eilbeeck, his wife.

At Newbiggin Hall, near Penrith, aged 57, C. C. Crackenthaop, efq.

YORKSHIRE.

At the late Seffions for the Weft-Riding, held at Leeds, there was not a fingle felon for trial.

The rates of land-carriage to and from York and London have been raised two-pence per ftone, in confequence of a representation made by the carriers to the Magiftrates of the county of the extraordinary high price of hay, corn, &c.

The fhew of cattle at Soulmas fair, held at York the 13th of November, was the thinneft ever remembered.

On the morning of the 10th of November, the corn, oil, and fcribbling mills at Kerkstal, near Leeds, occupied by Mr. Charles Wood, were wholly deftroyed by fire.

Married.] At York, Mr. Skapper, attor ney, to Mifs Benfon. J. Walker, efq. of Leeds, to Mifs Otbie, of Scarborough. Mr. William Batty, to Mifs Heffay..

At Doncafter, Mr. Malatrott, of the White Hart-inn, Workfop, to Mifs Stanuel. At Leeds, Mr. E. Burnett, of Manchefter, to Mifs Sayner. Mr. Reade, merchant, to Mifs Pajey.

At Hull, Enfign Robinson, of the EastSuffolk Militia, to Mifs Ellis.

At Sheffield, Mr. Alderman Goodman, of the Park, to Mifs Shore, daughter of Mr. Shore, banker.

At Beverley, Mr. William Richardfon, mercer, to Mifs Wife, of Meaux, in Hol

"At Halifax, Mr. Hall, of Leeds, merchant, to Mifs Butterfield. Mr. Lord, of Roffendale, to Mifs Oldfield.

At Aislaby, the Rev. J. Petch, of Kirbymoor-fide, to Mifs J. Hayes.

At Otley, Mr. John Cawood, of Leeds, to Mifs Ann Holmes.

At Harewood, Mr. Lightfoot, of Leeds, to Mifs C. Barrett.

At Pocklington, Mr. George Bagley, to Mrs. Rufton.

At Hatfield, J. M. Jenkins, efq. Captain and Adjutant of the Weft-Middlesex Militia, to Mifs Kitfon, daughter of G. Kitfon, efq.

At Tickhill, near Doncafter, Mr. John Hebblewhite, of Hull, woollen-draper, to Mifs Dawfon.

At Sprotbrough, near Doncafter, Mr. John Talbot, of Leeds, to Mifs E. Neville.

At Hutton-Bushel, near Scarborough, Mr. S. Hepper, of Doncaster, hofer, to Mifs A, Elmes.

Died.] At York, Mrs. Coates, relict of the late Mr. George Coates. Aged 32, Mr. Good, coal merchant. Mifs Barwick, daughter of Mr. Barwick, farrier. Aged 60, Mr Thomas Stothard.

At Clifton, near York, aged 82, Mrs. Lund,

At Hull, Mifs Ann Baker, daughter of Mr. Baker, of the Crofs-Keys-inn..

At Beverley, Mrs. Hall, wife of Mr. Halk At Whitly, fuddenly, Mr. Samuel Castle, formerly Adjutant of the Durham Militia. At Killinghall, near Ripley, Mr. John Strother.

At Wetherby, Mr. Place, tobacconist. At Wakefield, Mr. Hill, formerly a linendraper.

At Catwick-in-Holderness, the Rev. Mr. Paul, many years vicar of that place. At Sparrow, near Ripon, Mrs. C. Kettlewell.

At Market-Weighton, aged 68, Mr. A. North.

At Pontefract, Mr. Richard Horncastle, At Squire-Pafture, near Leeds, Mifs Turner, At Huddersfield, Mr. D. Crossland, attorney.