the Turkish empire, together with anew and accurate collection of the Syriac and other antient versions. With his dissertation on the Troad, and observations made during his tour through Lesser Asia, Syria, and Egypt, the public may hope to be gratified. During the short period of his residence at Newcastle, his extreme sufferings, from a painful and distressing malady, prevented his engaging in general intercourse; but the few friends who have had the happiness occasionally to visit him, have seen enough of the extent of his acquirements, the vivacity of his conversation, and the ardour of his literary pursuits, to render the unlooked for event of his death, a subject of their most sincere regret.

[Additions to the account of the Rev, William Gilpin, M. A. sce page 286. He was presented by his pupil, Colonel Mitford, author of the History of Greece, to the vicarage of Boldre. Mr. Gilpin kept for many years a respectable boarding school at Cheam in Surrey, in a house built for the purpose by his predecessor, the Rev. Daniel Sanxay. This establishment he resigned to his youngest son William, who now keeps it.He first attracted notice by his merit as a biographer, beginning in 1753, with the life of his lineal ancestor, the celebrated Bernard Gilpin, commonly called the "Northern Apostle," rector of Houghton-le-Spring, in the county of Durham; a striking instance of the effect of attention and perseverance of an incumbent in the reformation of an extensive parish in the Northern wilds. Mr. W. Gilpin was a successful imitator of his example; and there are not wanting instances, in these modern times, where patient waiting is an incumbent and his wife, has been followed by the same good consequences in Southern parishes; and a conscientious incumbent, therefore, will never despond. This life was followed in 1755 by that of Latimer, which was succeeded by others of Wickliffe, Huss, Jerome of Prague,

and Zisca in1765, and lastly that of Arch. Cranmer in 1784. Upou bis retirement into the country, he took a strong propensity to drawing its various scenery. His other printed works are, 1. Two Visitation Sermons; 2. Lectures on the Church Catechism, 1779, 12mo. reprinted 1792; 3. Exposition of the New Testament, 1790, 4to, and reprinted in 2 vols. 8vo.; 4. Observations relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain, particularly the Highlands of Scotland, 1789, a second edition in 1792; 5. Observations relative chiefly to picturesque beauty made in the year 1772, in several parts of England, particularly in the mountains and lakes of Cumberland and Westmoreland, 1776, 2. vols. 8vo.; 5. Remarks on Forest Scenery, 1791, 2 vols. 8vo.; 6. Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty, Picturesque Travel, and the Art of Sketching Landscape, two editions, 8vo.; 7. Forest Scenery, 2 vols. 8vo. 1791; 8. Essay on Prints, four editions; 9. Observations on the River Wye, and several parts of South Wales, three editions; 10. Picturesque remarks on the Western parts of England, 1798, 8vo.; 11. Sermons to a Country Congre gation, and Hints for Sermons, 1800, 2 vols, 8vo.; 12. Moral Constrast's, or the Power of Religion exemplified under different Charac ters, 1798, 8vo.; 13. Amusements of Clergymen, 1796, 12mo.; 14. Life of John Trueman and Richard Atkins, for the use of servant's halls, farin-houses, and cottages; Account of William Baker.

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Mr. Gilpin having appropriated a collection of his Sketches for the endowment of a parish-school at Boldre, under the inspection of certain of his friends, of which an account may be seen in the second Report of the Society for bettering the condition of the poor; they were sold by auction by Mr. Christie in May, 1802, and produced 1560/

Mr. G's. brother, Sawrey, has long been distinguished as a pain

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ter of animals. He etched a complete set for his brother's forest scenery. Besides these there were several others in the auction. In the removal of effects after the death of Mr. Blamire, who first published Mr. G's. picturesque works, the plates, from which these animals were taken, were irrecoverably lost, To the copy of Mr. G's. three Essays on Picturesque Beauty, &c. were added the drawings whence the prints were etched, and the Remarks given by Sir Joshua Reynolds to Mr. Mason in 1776, on the first Essay, and Sir Joshua's Letter to Mr. G. in 1791. To the Catalogue was annexed the author's account of the principles on which the drawings were executed.

Gent. Mag. Apr. 1804. 11. At Hay, in the county of Brecon, aged 33, the Rev. Edward Edwards, Prebendary of the Collegiate Church of Brecon, and Rector of the parishes of Cusop and Whitney, in the county of Hereford, the former of which he held for upwards of half a century; the latter for more than forty years, and the duties of both which he had regularly performed, till within a short time of his disease. With a mind of patriarchal simplicity of manners, and integrity of conduct; his character gained him respect without sceking it. In the discharge of his sacred functions he was exemplary and pious: most kind and affectionate in his domestic intercourse, uniformly zealous in the service of his friends, and benevolently attentive to the wants of his poor neighbours. By all who knew him, his memory will be long loved and revered.

21. At the Parsonage-house, Boscombe, the Rev. Samuel Topping, rector of Blatchington, Essexaged 83.

25. At his house in GroveStreet, Hackney, Henry Handley Norris, Esq. aged 69.

27. At Epsom, Surry, the Rev. Jonathan Boucher, A. M. F. S. A. and vicar of that parish. This truly valuable divine, sound

scholar, and exemplary man, resid ed in North America several years, previous to the separation of the colonies from their mother country. In that arduous situation he combated with honest zeal the principles of rebellious democracy, and preached the duty of obedience in such forcible manner as to bring himself into imminent danger. His sermons preached there in that critical period, were collected and published in an octavo volume, by him, in 1800. Mr. Boucher had been for a considerable time engaged upon an herculean literary undertaking, to which it is to be feared he has fallen a victim. This work he intended to have published in 2 vols. 4to. by subscrip, tion, under the title of " Linguæ Anglicane Veteris Thesaurus; or a Glossary of the Antient English Language, in two parts: the first comprising Provincialisms, or such old words as still exist in the various dialects of the provinces; and the second such archaisms, or old words, as being lost even to the provinces,

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now to be found only in old English and Scotish writers; intended to be a supplement to Dr. Johnson's Dictionary; and in conjunction with that work to exhibit a complete view of the whole English language." By the death of the author the world of letters has lost a work which few are qualified to supply; and the Church a friend, than whom none was more zealous. [In our next we hope to be able to give farther particulars of this estimable man.

28. The Rev. Mr. Hume, prebendary and precentor of Salisbury Cathedral, and vicar of Bremhill, in Wiltshire. He was a gentleman endeared to all who knew him, by the long and constant exercise of the miider virtues, and whose loss is therefore now generally regretted.

May 1. At his house in Privy Gardens, in the 51st year of his age, Henry, Marquis, of Exeter, Lord Burleigh, joint hereditary graud Anoner to the King in fee, and re

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corder of Stamford. His Lordship was married in 1800, to Elizabeth Duchess of Hamilton, relict of the late Duke of Hamilton. The Marquis's eldest son, by a former marriage, succeeds him. The Marquis was making great improve ments at Burleigh, one of the most magnificent edifices in this country. The splendid collection of pictures is attached to the house by the will of his Lordship's predecessor, which by its rigid limitations renders them inalienable.

-7. At Alplington, near Exeter, after a lingering illness, the Rev. Hugh Ellicombe, rector of Bridford, in Devonshire.

Last week was interred in St. Andrews's church yard, Dublin, aged 115 years and 10 months, William Mitchell, a revenue officer, born in Londonderry, on the 1st day of July, 1689. He had been for some time in America, when it belonged to England, and was one of those suffering loyalists who lost his property by the war, on which account he was recommended to an employment in the revenue, by Lord Townshend.

At Clifton, the Hon. and Rev. Dean Hewett, Dean of Cloyne, in Ireland, brother to the present Lord Viscount Lifford, and son of the late Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

12. Found murdered on Cayton Sands, Miss Bell, eldest daughter of Mr. Bell, confectioner of Scarborough.

This young woman was only sixteen years of age, but of a most prepossessing person. The particulars of her dreadful fate are as follows:

On the afternoon preceding the murder, Miss Bell was accosted in. the street, by a private in the York Volunteers (with whom she had some previous acquaintance) who pressed her to take a walk with him in the evening, and to this she unfortunately assented; about nine o'clock in the evening she left her father's house, and to avoid the notice of the family went out at a back door through a neighbour's house, who, when apprized of her intention, attempted to dissuade her from it by assuring her that her lover was a married man. She dis

credited this information and joined him in the street according to appointment; she was soon missed by the family, who chquired anxiously for her in the neighbourhood. As the night advanced, they extended their search through the town during the whole of the night, but without success; about 11 o'clock in the morning, information was received that a female (which proved to be this unfortunate young woman) was found dead on Cayton Sands, about two miles and a half from Scarborough, lying about two yards within the high water mark, her head towards the sea, and in a position which left no doubt of the most brutal attempt having been made upon her chastity. Many shocking bruises appeared on various parts of her body, particularly on the left temple; her nose was greatly swelled, and her chin scratched apparently with finger nails; her clothes were much torn, and upon the whole exhibited every appearance of a dreadful struggle having taken place. A great number of feet marks were discerned upon the sand near the body, but which did not extend either way along the beach. Upon the opening of the body, two surgeons, who attended the Coroner's Inquest, were decidedly of opinion, that Miss Bell's death was occasioned by strangulation, a large quantity of clotted blood being found in her throat. On Saturday the Coroner's Inquest returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against some persons unknown, A private in the York Volunteers, whose name we decline mentioning, was apprehended at Malton, and examined by two of the county Magistrates at Scarborough. the examination, Miss Bell, sister of the deceased, deposed that the prisoner was the same person that addressed her sister in the street, requesting her to walk with him. The brother to the deceased also deposed to his having seen him on the Monday preceding conversing with his sister at his father's door, Mrs. Brown, the neighbour before mentioned, also swore that the prisoner was the person who walked away with the deceased on the pre

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ceding evening. To lessen the weight of this last evidence, another woman who was with her at the time, allowed she could not, owing to the advanced hour of the evening, clearly distinguish his person. The prisoner totally denied having any acquaintance with, or ever being in company with the deceased, except having once spoken to her on the Saturday after the arrival of the corps in Scarborough.

An alibi was also set up and established to the satisfaction of the magistrates; the prisoner was in consequence discharged.

The person who was last seen with her was dressed in a Volunteer uniform. There is also a strong presumption, that he was not a resident of Scarborough, from the circumstance of his being ignorant of the height of the tide at high water, as there was no doubt

but that the murderer intended the body to be washed away by the flowing of the tide, and yet, (as if by providential interposition,) it was so placed, as to disappoint his intention of burying this bloody deed in oblivion; the water having merely wetted her clothes. The approach from Scarborough to the place where the body was found, is very difficult, being over great and uneven rocks, and the country round it is very desolate, well fitted for the perpetration of deeds of blood. It is supposed the unfortunate victim had been seduced to walk thither with her murderer, by a better and more circuitous route, and to return home by this rugged road, where her strong resistance to his brutal designs, ended in her murder, as the professional men who examined the body have certified that no violation was ef

fected.

And here we think it right to observe, that the conduct of this hapless victim, to brutal rage, had always been free from censure;

and except in the single instance which terminated in her death, she was never known to have walked in the night, even with persons of her own sex; and her parents on account of her womanly appearance at so tender an age, were solicitously anxious to prevent her forming any connections which could endanger either her virtue or peace of mind; the atrocious deed has excited at Scarborough, among all ranks of people the greatest horror and indignation.

13th.-In his 85th year, the Rev. Charles Blackstone, eldest brother of the late Judge Blackstone, and for upwards of fifty years fellow of Winchester college.

At Bath, General Massey, Lord Clarina in Ireland, aged 87; a brave, honourable, and honest man. Having been constantly employed in his military profession, he had seen great and arduous service. In the year 1745 he was wounded at the battle of Culloden; was at the head of the grenadiers, who stormed and took the Havannah, where he was again wounded; also at the taking of Martinico. Lord Clarina was one of the last of General Wolfe's companions. He is succeded in his title and estate by his son Colonel Massey, of the Inniskillen regiment.

In Southampton-row, Bloomsbury-square, in the 71st year of his age, Thomas Kynaston,, Esq. of the Grove, Witham, Essex.

24th. At Stilton, the Rev. William White, A. M. rector of Stilton, and archdeacon of Sarum, at the age of 78.

In the 80th year of his age, the Rev. John Gostling, M. A. rector of St. Peter's, and vicar of Holy Cross, Westgate, in the city of Canterbury.

The Rev. Edward Leighton, rector of Cardeston, and of the se-. cond portion of Pontesbury, Shrop shire.