At his house in Bear-street, Leicestersquare, where the family had resided for near a century, Mr. Jacob Furnell, currier, 53. As a tradesman, none surpassed him in integrity. With a frame of body extremely feeble, and subject to frequent attacks of the palsy, he possessed strong powers of mind, his literary attainments were considerable; he had read much, and his memory was retentive. Above all, he was a man of sincere and unaffected piety. At his house in St. James's Palace, William Wybrow, esq. aged 67, first master cook to the king, after near fifty-three years honourable and faithful duty to his royal master. He was apprenticed to his majesty when he was Prince George, as was the custom of those days; and, on his majesty succeeding to the throne, he appointed him one of his cooks, and from his good and meritorious conduct, rose to be first cook. At her house in South-street, Finsbury, Mrs. Rebecca Tomkins. Neil Steward, late of the Custom House, 87. Joseph Cade, esq. of Garlick-hill, aged 38. At his house, in Eyre street, Hatton Garden, in the 73d year of his age, Mr. Thomas Cruchley. He was one of the very few survivors who served under the immortal Wolfe, at the memorable battles and taking of Quebec, Louisburgh, and the Havannah. At his house in Manchester-street, Pierce Bryan, esq. 78. At his lodgings in Great Russell street, Major Silvester Ramsay, late of the Honourable East India Company's service. At Dulwich, aged 77, Mrs. Sarah Hucks, relict of William H. esq. a lady whose loss will be severely felt by the poor, and whose memory will be long cherished with affectionate regret by her relatives and the select circle of friends who enjoyed the happiness of her society. The Rev. Richard Cecil, A.M. of an apo plectic fit, late minister of St. John's Chapel, Bedford-row, and vicar of Cobham, in Surry. General Charles Vernon, 92. He was lieutenant of the Tower, and senior general of his Majesty's forces. At the Bush Inn, Staines, Thomas Griffith, esq. Solicitor, Bath. At Hackney-grove, Helen, fifth daughter of Mr. William Flower. At Vale-place, Haminersmith, Wm. Tims, esq. 54. At his house in Earl's court, Thomas Forsyth, esq. of Upper Wimpole-street. Mrs. Wimbolt, wife of the Rev. Thomas W. of Southgate Chapel. At Chelsea, Benjamin, second son of Mr. Wright, solicitor, Hyde-street, Bloomsbury, 15. In Charlotte-street, Portman-place, Lieut. Charles Brown, of the royal navy, 35. In Tavistock-row, Covent Garden, Mrs. Johnstone, wife of Mr. J. of the Drury-lane Company, Richard Chambers, etq. of Portman place, 76. At Vauxhall Walk, Mrs. Page, wife of He died Mr. Windham, (whose death is mentioned in our Number for July,) was descended from an ancient and highly respectable family in the county of Norfolk, where they had resided for several generations, and possessed a considerable property. His father, William Windham, was one of the most admired characters of his time; and, in 1756, soon after the plan of a National Militia was formed by Mr. Pitt (afterwards Earl of Chatham), this gentleman, in conjunction with the late Marquis Townshend, was extremely zealous and active in promoting and carrying into execution that scheme, which has since proved so salutary to his coun try. On this subject he published one or two very excellent pamphlets. in 1761, leaving his only son, then eleven years old, under the care of the executors of his will, the Rev. Dr. Dampier, then Under Master of Eton-school, and Mr. Gar rick. Mr. Windham was born at Felbrigge hall, the family-seat in Norfolk, in March 1750. He received the early part of his education at Eton, where he continued from 1762 to the autumn of 1766, when he removed to the University of Glasgow, where he resided for about a year in the house of Dr. Anderson, Professor of Natu ral Philosophy, and diligently attended his Lectures, and those of Dr. Robert Simson, Professor of Mathematics, the well-known author of a Treatise on Conic Sections, and of other learned works. Here first probably he became fond of those studies, to which he was ever afterwards strongly addicted.* In September 1767, he became a gentleman commoner of University college in Oxford, Mr. (afterwards sir Robert) Chambers, being his tutor. During his academic course (from 1767 to 1771) he was highly distinguished for his application to various studies, for his love of enterprise, for that frank and graceful address, and that honourable deportment, which gave a lustre to his character through * Mr. W. has left behind him three treatises on mathematical subjects, which he directed, by his will, should be put into the hands of the Bishop of Rochester (Dr. Horsley,) who was then living; adding, that if he should think them of any value, they might be published. + In 1782, he was created M. A. and in 1793, D. C. L. at the Installation of the Duke of Portland; when so high was the admiration of his character, that on his entering the theatre, the whole assembly rose from their seats, and hailed him with loud applause. every period of his life. In 1773, when he was but twenty-three years old, his love of adventure, and his thirst of knowledge, induced him to accompany his friend Constantine Lord Mulgrave, in his voyage towards the North Pole; but he was so harassed with sea-sickness, that he was under the necessity of being landed in Norway, and of wholly abandoning his purpose. In 1778, he became a Major in the Norfolk Militia, then quartered at Bury in Suffolk, where, by his intrepidity and personal exertion, he quelled a dangerous mutiny, which had broken out; notwithstanding he was highly beloved by the regiment. On one of the mutineers laying hold of a part of his dress, he felled him to the ground, and put him into confinement; and, on his comrades afterwards surrounding him, and insisting on the release of the delinquent, he drew his sword, and kept them at bay, till a party of his cwn company joined and rescued him. Soon afterwards, in consequence of his being obliged to remain for several hours in wet clothes, he was seized with a dangerous bilious fever, which nearly deprived him of his life. In the autumn of that year, partly with a view of restoring his health, he went abroad, and spent the two following years in Switzerland and Italy. Previously to his leaving England, he was chosen a member of the Literary Club, founded by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Dr. Johnson, (who had the greatest esteem for Mr. Windham;) and, notwithstanding his engagements in consequence of his Parliamentary business, and the important offices which he filled, he was a very frequent attendant at the meetings of that respectable society, (for which he always expressed the highest value,) from 1781 to near the time of his death. So early as the year 1769, when he was at Oxford, and had not yet attained his twentieth year, the late Marquis Townshend, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whom he twice visited during his residence in that country, offered him the office of his principal Secretary; but he declined it in a letter which is still extant, and which very forcibly displays that excellent sense, and those honourable sentiments, which afterwards uniformly regulated his conduct.. In 1782 he came into Parliament, where he sat for twenty-eight years, at first for * Of his dauntless courage many instances might be given. In May 1785, he ascended from Moulsey Hurst in a balloon, with Mr. Sadler; and in 1793, having visited the army engaged in the siege of Valenciennes, he surveyed all, the works with the most minute attention, in company with Captain (now Colonel) Thornton, and approached so near the enemy, that he was often within the reach of their cannon. Norwich, and afterwards for various boroughs; and he so early distinguished himself in the House of Commons, that he was selected by Mr. Burke in June 1781, to second his motion for a representation to his Majesty on the state of the nation. In the preceding year, he had been appointed principal Secretary to the Earl of Northington, then constituted Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; and in that capacity he visited Dublin in the spring of 1783, and intended to have accompanied his Excellency when he afterwards opened the session of Par liament there in October;* but being prevented by illness, he relinquished his office; and his friend the Hon. Thomas Pelham (now Earl of Chichester,) was appointed Secretary in his room. From the time of his coming into Parliament to the year 1793, he usually voted with the Opposi tion of that day; but he never was what is called a thorough party-man, frequently deviating from those to whom he was in general attached, when, in matters of importance, his conscience directed him to take a different course from them; on which account, his virtues and talents were never rightly appreciated by persons of that description, who frequently on this ground vainly attempted to undervalue him. After the rupture between Mr. Fox and Mr. Burke, in consequence of the French Revolution, Mr. Windham attached himself wholly to the latter, with whom he had for many years lived in the closest intimacy; and of whose genius and virtues he had always the highest admiration. Being, with him, thoroughly convinced of the danger then impending over his country from the measures adopted by certain classes of Englishmen, in consequence of that tremendous convulsion, he did not hesitate to unite with the Duke of Portland, Lord Spencer, and others, in accepting offices under the administration in which Mr. Pitt then presided. On this arrangement Mr. Windham was appointed Secretary at War, with a seat in the Cabinet, an honourable distinction which had never before been an *When about to visit that country in his official capacity, he called on Dr. Johnson and in the course of conversation, lamented that he should be under the necessity of sanctioning practices of which he could not approve. "Don't be afraid, sir," said the Doctor, with a pleasant smile, "you will soon make a very pretty rascal."—Dr. Johnson in a letter to Dr. Brocklesby, written at Ashbourne, in 1781, says: "Mr Wind ham has been here to see me he came, I think, forty miles out of his way, and staid about a day and a half; perhaps I make the time shorter than it was. Such conversation I shall not have again till I come back to the regions of literature, and there Windham is inter stellas luna minores." EDIT. nexed nexed to that office. This station he continued to fill with the highest reputution from that time (1794) till 1801, when he, Lord Spencer, Lord Grenville, and Mr. Pitt, resigned their offices; and shortly afterwards Mr. Addington (now Lord Viscount Sidmouth) was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer and First Lord of the Treasury. On the preliminaries of peace with France being acceded to by that statesman and his coadjutors, in 1801, Mr. Windham made his celebrated speech in Parliament, which was afterwards (April 1802) published, with an Appendix, containing a character of the present usurper of the French throne, which will transmit to posterity the principal flagi. tious passages of his life up to that period, in the most lively colours. On Mr. Addington being driven from the helm, in 1805, principally by the battery of Mr. Windham's eloquence, a new administration was again formed by Mr. Pitt, which was dissolved by his death, in 1806; and shortly afterwards, on Lord Grenville's accepting the office of First Lord of the Treasury, Mr. Windham was appointed Secretary of State for the War Department, which he held till his Majesty, in the following year, thought fit to constitute a new administration. During this period he carried into a law his Bill for the limited service of those who enlist in our regular army; a measure which will ever endear his name to the English soldiery. The genius and talents of this illustrious statesmen are well known and universally acknowledged. He was unquestionably the most distinguished man of the present time, and not in erlor, in many respects, to the most admired characters of the age that is just gone by. He had been in his earlier years a very diligent student, and was an excellent Greek and Latin scholar. In his latter years, like Burke and Johnson, he was an excursive reader, but gathered a great variety of knowledge from different books, and from occasionally mixing, like them, with very various classes and descriptions of men. His memory was most tenacious. In his Parliamentary speeches his principal object always was to convince the understanding by irrefragible argument, which he at the same time enlivened by a profusion of imagery, drawn sometimes from the most abstruse parts of science, but oftener from the most familiar objects of common life, But what gave a peculiar lustre to whatever he urged, was his known and uniform integrity, and a firm conviction in the breasts of his hearers, that he always uttered the genuine and disinterested sentiments of his heart. His language, both in writing and speaking, was always simple, and he was extremely fond of idiomatic phrases, which he thought greatly contributed to preserve the purity of our language. He surveyed every subject of importance with a philosophic eye, and was thence enabled to discover and detect latent mischief, concealed under the plausible appearance of public advantage. Hence all the clamourers for undefined and imaginary liberty, and all those who meditate the subversion of the constitution under the pretext of reform, shrunk from his grasp; and persons of this description were his only enemies. But his dauntless intrepidity, and his noble disdain of vulgar popu larity, held up a shield against their malice; and no fear of consequences ever drove him from that manly and honourable course, which the rectitude and purity of his mind induced him to pursue. As an orator, he was simple, elegant, prompt, and graceful. His genius was so fertile, and his reading so extensive, that there were few subjects on which he could not instruct, amuse, and pursuade. He was frequently (as has justly been observed)" at once entertaining and abstruse, drawing illustrations promiscuously from familiar life, and the recondite parts of science; nor was it unusual to hear him through three adjoining sentences, in the first witty, in the second metaphysical, and in the last scholastic." But his eloquence derived its principal power from the quickness of his apprehension, and the philosophical profundity of his mind. Of this his speech on Mr. Curwen's Bill (May, 1809) is an eminent instance; for it unquestionably cont tains more moral and political wisdom than is found in any similar performance which has appeared since the death of Mr. Burke, and may be placed on the same platform with the most admired productions of that distinguished orator. In private life no man perhaps of any age had a greater number of zealous friends and admirers. In addition to his extraordinary tales and accomplishments, the grace and happiness of his address and manner gave an irresistible charm to his conversation; and few, it is believed, of either sex (for his address to ladies was inimitably elegant and graceful) ever partook of his society without pleasure and admiration, or quitted it without regret. His brilliant imagination, his various knowledge, his acuteness, his good taste, his wit, his dignity of sentiment, and his gentleness of manior (for he never was loud or intemperate) made him universally admired and respected. To crown all these virtues and accomplishments, it may be added, that he fulfilled all the duties of life, the lesser as well as the greatest, with the most scrupulous attention; and was always particularly ardent in vindicating the cause of oppress d merit. But his best eulogy is the general sentiment of surrow which agitated every bosom on the sudden and unexpected stroke which terminated in his death. During the nineteen days of his sickness, his hall was daily visited by several hundred successive enquirers concerning the state of his health; and that part of railmall in which his house was situated, was thronged with carriages filled with ladies, whom whom a similar anxiety brought to his door, Every morning, and also at a late hour every evening, when his physicians and surgeons attended, several apartments in his house were filled with friends, who anxiously waited to receive the latest and most accurate accounts of the progress or abatement of his disorder. This sympathetic feeling extended almost through every class, and even reached the throne, for his Majesty frequently enquired concerning the state of his health, pronouncing on him this high eulogy, that he was a genuine patriot, and a truly honest man." Of the fatal malady which put an end to his invaluable life, such erroneous accounts have been published in the newspapers, that it may not be improper to give an accurate statement of that most distressful eve t. An idle story has been propagated that the Hon. Frederick North, on his last going abroad, left his Library and MSS. in the care of Mr. Windham, and had requested him to remove his books to Mr. Windham's house in Pall-mall; that he had neglected this charge, and thence had the stronger inducement to exert himself to save them. In all this circumstantial detail there is not one word of truth. The fact is, that on the 8th of last July, Mr. Windham, returning on foot at twelve o'clock at night from the house of a friend, as he passed by the end of Conduit-street, saw a house on fire; and, with the same gallantry of spirit which on a former occasion induced him to exert him. self to save a part of the venerable abbey of Westminster from destruction, he instantly hastened to the spot, with a view to assist the sufferers; and soon observed that the house of Mr. North was not far distant from that which was then on fire. He therefore immediately undertook to save his friend's library, which he knew to be very valuable. With the most strenuous activity he exerted himself for four hours, in the midst of rain and the playing of the fire engines, with such effect that, with the assistance of two or three persons whom he had selected from the crowd assemb ed on this occasion, he saved four paris out of five of the library; and before they could empty the fifth book room, the house took fire. The books were immediately removed, not to Mr. Windham's house, but to the houses of the opposite heighbours, who took great care of them. In removing some heavy volumes he accidentally fell, and suffered a slight contusion on his hip; but it made so little impression on his mind, that, not being apt to complain of any distress belonging to himself, in giving an account of the transaction the next cay, he did not even mention this circumstance, nor for some months did he take notice of it to any friend. When he afterwards did mention it, it was in so slight a manner, that it hardly attracted any attention from those who loved him best. By this accident, however, an indolent insisted Mr. Wind tumour was formed in the part affected. For several months it was attended with no pain whatsoever; yet even in that state he had medical advice, and some slight applica tions were employed, with no great effect. At length, about the beginning of May, the tumour began to increase, and in certain positions of the body, to give him some little pain; and on mentioning these circumstances to a friend, he strongly exhorted him to have the best surgical advice. Accor dingly, on the next day, the 6th of May, Mr. Cline, who had been consulted about two months before, was again called in, to view the part affected; and he then pronounced the tumour to be of such a nature, that Mr. Windham's life might be endangered, if it was not cut out. In consequence of this decision, Mr. Windham acted with the utmost prudence, propriety, and fortitude. He first consulted his own physician, Dr. Blane, who coincided in opinion with Mr. Cline. He then resolved, before he submitted to the operation, to consult six eminent surgeons separately, besides Mr. Cline; Dr. B. having previously given all of them' (except one who, it is believed, was consulted without his knowledge) an accurate account of his constitution and habit of body; and four out of the six thus consulted, were decidedly of the same opinion with Mr. Cline; that is, five were clearly for the operation, and two against it ham, having taken these precautions, acted as every wise man would have done, and resolved to submit to the operation. And so far was he from rashness or precipitation, which have been most untruly imputed to him, that after these opinions were obtained, Dr. Bailie, whose great anatomical skill is universally acknowledged, was also consulted; and he too agreed in opinion with Dr. Blane, and the five surgeons already alluded to. Here therefore was no choice, nor any time for that preparation, which it has been idly supposed was rashly neglected, " from the quickness and vivacity of his decisions." With that manly fortitude which distinguished him through life, he now prepared to submit to the requisite operation; and after making a codicil to his will, he visited his friend and contemporary at Oxford, the Rev. Dr. Fisher, Master of the Charter-House; and as appears from one of his Diaries, received the Sacrament from his hands, Mrs. Fisher being the only other communicant. He bore the operation with the most heroic fortitude; and even when the pain was most exquisite, exhibited a vivid proof of the strength of his mind, by a playful allusion to the language of the vulgar in similar situations. With the most kind and anxious tenderness he had taken care that Mrs. Windham, who was in the country at this time, should not have the slightest suspicion of what was going on; nor was she apprised of the operation, till, on her arrival arrival in town on the 18th of May, she was informed that it had beeen successfully performed on the preceding day. But, unhappily, very soon afterwards appearances were such as gave very little ground for hope. A morbid ichor appeared, attended with a general inflammation, and with two abscesses; and the wound never suppurated. A fever ensued, of course; but it was idle to suppose that this was the malady which proved fatal, it being merely symptomatic: and equally unfounded is the current opinion, that Mr. Windham's most-valuable life was sacrificed to this operation; for the tumour itself was found to be of a schirrous nature, and fully justifies the decision that was made; and the state of his whole frame shews that his death was owing to a morbid habit, and not to the operation. Had it been deferred for a month longer, it would still have been necessary; it would have been performed at a less proper time, and have been attended, meanwhile, with the most distressful circumstances. Having never been guilty of excesses in his youth, and having all his life been extremely moderate both in eating and the use of wine, that his constitution should have been thus suddenly undermined, is most extraordinary. several days previous to his death, he seemed to entertain little hope of life, submitting to Divine Providence with perfect calmness and resignation. On the night preceding his decease, on the attending surgeon, Mr. Lynn, placing him in the most favourable situation for sleep, he said, "I thank you; this is the last trouble I shall give you :" he For then fell into a doze or stupor, and the next morning (June 4) he expired with so little pain, that it was scarcely perceived when he drew his last breath. Great as his loss is to his country and to his friends, it is some consolation that he died in the full maturity of his fame, and has left behind him an imperishable reputation. In 1798 Mr. Windham married Cecilia, the third daughter of the late Commodore Forrest,* a lady whose virtues are above all praise, and whose attainments, joined with the most amiable manners and sweetest disposition, rendered her a suitable companion for one of the most distinguished characters of his time. With what happiness their union was attended, may appear from his will, by which he has devised to Mrs. W. the whole of his estate for her life, amounting to above £6000. a-year, with remainder to Captain Lukin, (the eldest son of the Rev. Dr. Lukin, Dean of Wells, and Mr. Windham's half-brother,) and the heirs male of his body. His remains were removed from his house in Pall-mall, June 8, for the family-vault at Felbrigge, attended by his nephew, Robert Lukin, esq. and Edmund Byng, esq. nephew to Mrs. W. The ceremony was conducted in the most private and unostentatious manner, agreeably to Mr. Windham's express desire. * Who, with the Dreadnought, Edinburgh, and Augusta, beat five sail of the line and three French frigates, off Cape François, and who died May 24, 1770, whilst com mander in chief at Jamaica. EDIT. PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES, Arranged geographically, or in the Order of the Counties, from North to South. Communications for this Department of the Monthly Magazine, properly authenticated, and sent free of Postage, are always thankfully received. Those are more particularly acceptable which describe the Progress of Local Improvements of any Kind, or which contain Biographical Anecdotes or Facts relative to eminent or remarkable Characters recently deceased. NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. ON Monday, the 23d inst. an adjourned quarter sessions of the peace for the county of Northumberland, was held at Newcastle, for the purpose of laying the foundation-stone of the new Courts of Justice for the county, at present building here. About eleven o'clock Earl Percy, and a great number of county gentlemen, were received by the right worshipful the Corporation of Newcastle, at the Merchants Court; from whence, after partaking of a slight refreshment, they walked in order of procession to the scite of the intended building, in the Castle Garth. The stone, with a brass plate, upon which was engraven an appropriate inscription, was laid by the noble earl; and the Duke of Nor thumberland, with a liberality worthy his Grace, has given a donation of 30001. to assist in the erection of the building. Permission has been obtained to hold the trials, at the ensuing assizes for the county of Northumberland, in Saint Nicholas' Church, in Newcastle; and the preparations for the courts are already in a state of forwardness. Married.] At Brancepeth, the Rev. John Berresford, eldest son of the Hon. and Rev. his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Fuam, to Miss Horsley, only daughter and heiress of Robert Horsley, esq. late of Bolam, in Northumberland, deceased. The Hon. C. C. Jenkinson, to Miss Julia |