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done the deed, and he would not take that which would frustrate his design. He at length grew insensible, and he was drenched with an emetic when too late. His Attorney stated to the Jury, that he had not been sober one minute these four years, which he attributed to his embarrassments, and he confidered him a maniac. Two of the Jury corrobrated this fact. Verdict-Insanity.

In Bloomsbury-square, P. Prattburn, esq. He put a period to his life, by shooting himself with a pistol through the body. He came to town on a Tuesday from his country residence at Brighton, and when he arrived, seemed much agitated in his mind, and continued to remain so until Friday morning, when he committed the horrid deed; a surgeon was immediately sent for to give him medical assistance, but the spark of life was too nearly extinct to render any whatever. He languished for three hours afterwards, when he died in the greatest agony.

Mr. F. Chalie, wine-merchant, of Mincing-lane. He was sitting on his horse, and inquiring after one that was to be sold, at Mr. Hall's, in Grosvenor-place, when he dropped off in an apoplectic fit, as it is supposed, and died in a few minutes.

At Pentonville, Mrs. Holman, mother of Mr. H. late of Covent garden theatre, 73.

At Ranelagh street, Pimlico, Mrs. Hannah Hubert, relict of the late Mr. Henry H. coalmerchant, of Little Abington-street, Westminster, 81. Her remains were interred in St. John's burial ground, Westminster, attended by her nine disconsolate children; to whom she was most affectionately endeared.

At Highbury Grove, Sophia Alexandrina, fifth daughter of the late Rev. John Urquhart, 17.

At Fulham, aged 73, Nathaniel Kent, esq. an eminent land agent, whose morality, strict integrity, and urbanity of manners, added to a conscientious discharge of his professional duties towards landlord and tenant, had long endeared him to numerous friends and acquaintance in all parts of the kingdom.

At Windsor, November 2d, her Royal Highness the Princess Amelia, the youngest child of their Majesties. She was born August 7th, 1783, and was, from early youth, of a very tender and delicate constitution, being frequently attacked with severe indisposition. In her person she was tall and slender, and her air was most graceful and prepossessing. Illness had impressed its mark on her countenance, and scattered lilies over her cheeks. In her manners she was so mild, elegant, and amiable, as to win every heart. The frequency of her indispositions prevented her from studying as deeply as her elder sisters, yet she cultivated the fine arts with great success. In music and painting she was a proficient. She met with few rivals on the piano forte, and displayed a classical taste, both in her selection and execution of pic

tures. A model of filial piety; her love for her father was revealed in all her actions, and was so tenderly expressed a few days before her death, as to occasion the unfortunate illness under which he still continues to labour. Dignified, though condescending; benevolent, without ostentation; lively, though a prey to sickness, which usually quenches the spirits as well as the health of youth, she was beloved by all those who lived within the sphere of hearing of her virtues. Some symptoms of the illness which terminated her existence, having revealed themselves early, her royal highness tried the effects of sea bathing, and derived much benefit from that practice. Her favourite amusement was that of riding, in which she was conspicuous for her elegance and skill. Exercise, how ever, and all the resources of the medical art, could but delay the fatal hour; her disorder began to gain ground in an alarming manner upwards of two years ago, and when the first jubilee of his Majesty was celebrated, she was lying on the bed of sickness, with but little

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pes of recovery. Towards the middle of last summer, however, she regained strength enough to sit up in her apartments, and to take a short walk into the garden. About a month before her decease, her royal highness was attacked with St. Anthony's fire, which brought on a relapse, which afforded her an opportunity of displaying the noblest Christian faith and fortitude, during weeks of prolonged agony, uncheered by any ray of hope. During the last few days her strength had been rapidly wasting away; and she closed her eyes as in a kindly sleep. It would be injustice to the memory of this excellent princess, to ascribe all her patience and fortitude to the natural frame of her mind, as the habits of devotion to which she had been trained, and led by parental example, and the true principles of religion which regulated the whole of her conduct, strengthened the amiable and gentle qualities of her disposition, and made her submit with meek resignation to the divine will, through the whole of the severe probation which she was to endure in this life to prepare her for a better. The ceremony of her royal highness's funeral took place on the evening of the 13th of November. A solemn silence pervaded Windsor during the whole of the day. All the shops were shut up, and scarcely one individual was

to be seen in the streets who was not attired

in mourning. The clock had no sooner struck eight than the procession moved from Augusta Lodge. The procession moved slowly to the south entrance of St. George's Chapel, and passed up the middle aisle, when the body being placed on the tressels, the chief mourner placed herself at the head, and the dressers and attendants ranged themselves on the sides. The stalls on each side of the chapel were occupied by his Majesty's ministers, the nobility, and gentry. At the lower

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end of the chapel, those of the royal family present took their stations in their respective stalls. The Prince of Wales sat to the left of the entrance; the Duke of Clarence was seated on his left; the Duke of Cumberland on the left of the Duke of Clarence; and the Duke of Cambridge to the left of the Duke of Cumberland. To the right of the entrance, the Dukes of York, Kent, and Sussex, were seated. The anthem concluded, the funeral service was read by the Dean of Windsor, from the sufferance stall. An appropriate dirge was then sung, and the body was deposited in a temporary vault, where it is to remain till Cardinal Wolsey's Chapel is finished. At the conclusion of the ceremony, Sir Isaac Heard, king-at-arms, pronounced the following words:"Princess Amelia, aged 27, sixth daughter of his Majesty George the Third, King of Great Britain, to whom God grant long life, health, and prosperity." Nothing could be more awfully impressive than the whole of this melancholy spectacle. The whole of the funeral ceremony was over by eleven o'clock, when the procession returned as it went. St. Paul's bell tolled upon this melancholy occasion, from seven till eight o'clock.

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his family, with a contented and gratefulmind. This venerable engraver resigned his life without any pain or struggle, and rather like one insensibly falling into a soft sleep, than by the unerring hand of "the King of Terrors." The vital oil which supplied the lamp of life was exhausted merely by old age. Of the elegant art of English engraving, he first planted the seed, which has risen to such luxuriance and maturity, under the more accomplished hands of our chief engravers, any of whom he would have equalled, had he, in conjunction with his knowledge of drawing and his various taste, been competent to a more powerful production of effect, and to that mechanical dexterity of style and finishing, requisite to perfect the art, such as it is seen in the works of our best engravers.

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At Kentish Town, in his 94th year, Charles Grignion, who flourished in this country, as an historical engraver, upwards of half a century. He had the good fortune to pass a portion of his early youth at Paris, in the study of the celebrated Le Bas; and, though his stay with that artist was but short, yet it was of sufficient duration to enable him to imbibe such sound principles as laid the foundation of a style at once energetic and elegant. Having commenced his career in this school, he could draw as well as engrave; and, as he possessed that rare talent in his art, the power of giving & free and faithful translation of a picture, the quality and cast of his productions were bold and original. His engraving was not an imitation of Audran, of EdeFinck, or of Fry; it was the emanation of a -natively vigorous mind, skilfully directed by a familiar study of the ablest models. His best works not only possess in an eminent degree, whatever constitutes character and expression, as the print he engraved from one of Hogarth's series of election pictures abundantly proves, but they partake of that happy carelessness of execution, which is as much a characteristic beauty in the style of painting or engraving as it is in that of poetry. As Mr. Grignion advanced in life, his pure old fashioned style was superseded by a more imposing, a more finished, but a less intelligent manner. This revolution in engraving threw him into obscurity, and reduced him to pover ty; but a few artists and lovers of art, to whom his virtues and his talents were equally dear, by a prompt and efficient subscription, smoothed the path of his declining age, and enabled him to close his days in the bosom of MONTHLY MAG, No, 206,

At Sidmouth, Devonshire, whither he had gone for the recovery of his health, the Right Honourable George Legge, Earl of Dartmouth, and Viscount Lewisham. He was called up as a baron to the House of Peers in 1801, during the lifetime of his father, and appointed president of the Board of Controul in the same year. In 1804, he succeeded his father in his titles. He was lord chamberlain to his Majesty, and a knight of the garter; and was born October the 2d, 1755; was educated at Oxford, and obtained the degree of M.A. in 1775. In 1774, he was returned M.P. for the borough of Plymouth; and, in 1780, for Staffordshire; and, two years after was appointed one of the lords of the bedchamber to the Prince of Wales; and, in 1789, lord warden of the Stanneries. In 1783, he was nominated one of the commissioners of Mr. Fox's new Board of Admiralty, who were to be assisted by a subordinate board of nine directors. In the summer of 1807, he resigned the colonelcy of the loyal Birmingham volunteers, on account of ill health. While member for Staffordshire, he supported the coalition administration, and voted for Mr. Fox's India bill. His lordship was a man of the mildest and most amiable manners. He married Frances, sister to the Earl of Aylesford, by whom he had a numerous family. He is succeeded in his title and estates by his son William, Viscount Lewisham, now in his 26th year. The following lines were written on the late earl, by the Earl of Carlisle, when they were boys at Eton school :

"Mild as the dew that whitens yonder plain, Legge shines serenest 'midst your youthful train;

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was a merchant in the Virginia trade, which he began with a very inconsiderable capital; but his rigid honesty and dexterity in business, having recommended him to some great mercantile houses, they adopted his interest, and by liberal loans enabled him to extend the circle of his commerce: from this assistance the house of Earing soon rose to consideration, in a city where wealth and talents for business are estimated at their proper value. With parental fondness Mr. Baring watched over the education of his son, in order to render him a complete man of business, till he was sent to a reputable school under a Mr. Coleman, the author of several mathematical treatises. It was here he acquired the talent for which he was must distinguished; for in calculations made on the spot, admitting of no previous study, he was certainly considered as unequalled. Upon the death of his father he was esteemed a most worthy successor; and the richest houses, and the most wealthy heiresses, at the east-end of the town, considered him as a desirable partner. He at length married the daughter of Mr. Boston, an opulent merchant. Mr. Baring, from a proprietor, having become a director of the East India Company in the year 1784, canvassed the Cornish borough of Grampound, and took his seat in the House of Commons. The nation was then just beginning to recover from the effects of the American revolution, and Mr. Baring had the honour of being consulted by the Premier with respect to the means to be adopted on this occasion. wealth, talents, and activity, augmented his favour and importance with Mr. Pitt's administration He was considered as one of the strongest links of the monied aristrocracy; and was created a baronet in 1793. It is well known that the system of this country, with regard to all its foreign possessions, has ever been that of exclusive monopoly; accordingly, when the whole body of English merchants demanded some participation in the East Indian traffic, Sir Francis came forwardas the advocate of the company. He insisted that their heavy expence and their actual public services composed a debt, to the discharge of which an eternal monopoly of the East India trade would scarcely be sufficient! It is needless to add, that the charter was again renewed; and the relief of the bdoy of English merchants, from what their petition called "oppressive monopoly," was left, like other evils, to the gradual effect of time, or the shock of some revolution. In 1796, upon Sir John Jervis being rewarded with a peerage, and vacating his seat for Chipping Wycombe, Sir Francis Baring was elected for

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that borough; and at the general election in 1802, he was again returned for the same place. Sir Francis was esteemed as not less amiable in domestic than in public life. Although of a grave cast of mind, he was not without a relish for social enjoyments, and was, till within a few years past, seldom absent from the parties and entertainments of his friends. The routes of his lady were reckoned among some of the most brilliant in town; but he preferred the tranquil enjoyments of a domestic circle, to those gay, but promiscuous, assemblies. His table was such as became his wealth, and his solid hospitality was perfectly suitable to the opulent character of an English merchant. His talents were of a very superior cast, and highly improved by reading. Few men understood the real interests of trade better; and it may surely be added, few men ever arrived to the highest rank and honour of commercial life with more unsullied integrity. At his death, he was unquestionably the first merchant in Europe; first in knowledge and talents, and first in character and opulence. His name was known and respected in every commercial quarter of the globe; and by the East India company, and other public trading bodies, he was consulted as a man of consummate knowledge and inflexible honour. Throughout his long and respectable life, he acted on those steady principles which seldom fail to raise men to opulence and credit, although they may not always enable them to shine with such superior lustre. One obstruction Sir Francis Baring had to contend with from his earliest days, an incurable deafness. By the usual helps, however, he contrived that this should very little impede his communications, and both in Parliament, and as chairman to the East India company, his opinion was so highly valued, that every pains was taken to prevent the subject in debate from suffering by his infirmity. His private, as well as public life, if faithfully delineated would form a most instructive les son to the mercantile world, and a lesson particularly necessary at a time when so many seem to forget or despise the genuine attributes of an English merchant, and aspire at sudden and unsubstantial wealth and credit, by the paltry speculations of mere fraud and low cunning. On the contrary, the soundest principles and truest policy laid the foundation of Sir Francis Baring's fortune and character, and guided him in all his transactions. In future annals he will rank with the illustrious names of Gresham, Firmin, and Baynard, men who have formed the English cha racter, and to whom English commerce is indebted for its superiority.

PROVINCIAL

PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES, WITH ALL THE MARRIAGES AND DEATHS; Arranged geographically, or in the Order of the Counties, from North to South.

Communications for this Department of the Monthly Magazine, properly au* thenticated, and sent free of Postage, are always thankfully received. Those ar more particularly acceptable which describe the Progress of Local Improvements of any Kind, or which contain Biographical Anecdotes or Facts relative to eminen? or remarkable Characters recently deceased,

NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM.

the Isabella and Nancy, of Dunbar.—Mrs. MARRIED.] At Alnwick, Mr. Robert Ann Barnes.-Mr. G. Allison.

Patterson, to Miss Annett, daughter of

Ralph A. esq.

At Heworth, Mr. Joseph Carr, to Miss Mary Scott, daughter of Mr. George S.

At Newcastle, Mr. Wm. Henzell, to Miss Ann Harrison.-Mr. Wm. Robson, to Miss Eleanor Laing. Mr. Wm. Barnes, to Mrs. Moffit.-Mr. Benjamin Trotter, to Miss I. Fenwick.

At Monkwearmouth, Mr. Barker, to Miss Elizabeth Lee.

At Bridekirk, Mr. Thompson, of Workington, to Miss Harris.

Died.] At Monk wearmouth, the Rev. John Heskitt, rector of that place.

At Snapclose, near Stanhope in Weardale, Miss Bainbridge, 20.

At Billingshield, Miss Stephenson, daughter of Mr. George S. 18.

At Hexham, Thomas Jefferson, surgeon, 35.-Mrs. Ridley, wife of Mr. Thomas R. 45. At Gateshead, suddenly, Mrs. Adamson, 64.-Mrs. Foulthorp, 86.

At Sunderland, Mr. John Belwood, carrier between that place and Stockton. Mr. Isaac Richardson, of Newcastle.

At Newcastle, Mr. John Young.—Mrs. Crozier, 80.—Miss Matthews, daughter of John M. esq.-Mr. Robert Carnaby, 85.Mrs. Harper, wife of Mr. Richard H.-Mrs. Sarah Latimer, 65.—Mrs: Catharine Henzell, widow of Mr. Charles H. 78.—Mr. John Tweddle, 54-Mrs. Eleanor Chicken, 83.Mr. James Davidson, 77.-The Rev. Mr. Armstrong.-Catherine Senhouse, daughter of J. Wood, M.D 9.

At Durham, Mr. Thomas Wilby.

At Calvo, in Abbey Holme, Mrs. Saul. At Berwick, Mr. Henry Smetham, 44. At Whickham, Percival Anthony, youngest son of Paul Fenwick, esq. of Prestwick.

At West Boldon, Mr. Robert Emmerson, teacher of mathematics.

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At Claypeth, Mrs. Elizabeth Wade, wife of Mr. Charles W. 74.

At Corbridge, Mrs. Margaret Glazenby, 87. At Bishopwearmouth, Margaret, daughter of Mr. John Mounsey, of Sunderland, 17.→ Mr. Robert Clark, many years agent to the Tyne Bank, 59.

At Blaydon Bourn, Dorothy, wife of Mr. Robert Pattison, 68.

CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND. In the next session of parliament application is intended to be made for Acts for dividing Cockermouth Conmen, and an extensive Common in the parish of Bewcastle, called Bailie Hope. It is obvious that the rapid and great improvement of Cumberland,' with respect to roads, agriculture, &c. is in a great measure owing to the numerous inciosures that have taken place within the last thirty years.

An island made its appearance on the 30th of August last, in the centre of Tarn Wad❤ dlan, near Hesket in the Forest, in Cumber land. It is several yards distance from either side, and has retained its local situation, without the least alteration, ever since. It probable it has arisen from the bottom, as no traces can be found of its separation from the main land.

At a late meeting of the Kendal Agricultural Society, a silver cup was given to Tho mas Strickland Standish, esq. for the best shearling ram, produced by a cross with many of the improved breeds and the Fell-stock, which appeared to be an improvement of the fleece, regard being had to the shape and hardiness of the produce.

Married.] At Whitehaven, Mr. Wilson Perry, solicitor, to Miss Frances Fletcher.Mr. Thomas M'Kee, of Low Hull, to Miss Ann Banten.

At Kirklinton, Mr. Thomas Wilson, of the house of Losh, Wilson, and Bell, New

At Easington, Mrs. Scott, relict of Mr. castle, to Mrs. Fell. James S. of Easington Grange.

On board the Alexander of Newcastle, Mr. James Dood, son of Mr. Wm. D. of the Adelphi, in the parish of Lanchester, Durham. At Darlington, Mr. George Brown.-Harington, son of Mr. Harrington Lee.

At Stockton, Mr. John Phillips, master of

At Wigton, Mr. Joshua Rigg, surgeon, to Mrs. Sanderson.

At Egremont, Mr. Peter Tyson, to Miss Margaret Harrison.

At St. Bees, Mr. John Tydiman, to Miss Ann Davison.

At Bromfield, Mr. Joseph Adamson, of Thorny

Thornby End, to Miss Esther Wiggin; and at the same time, Mr. Joseph Dand, of Monk's Low, to Miss Frances Wiggin, sister of the above lady.

At Carlisle, Mr. Christopher Rabson, of Abbey Lanercost, to Miss Mary Cowan.Mr. John Johnson, of Holm Cultram, to Miss Ann Bowman. Mr. Thomas Bell, of Thursby, to Miss Mary Bailey.

Died.] At Beckermont, Mr. Frances Caddy, 68.

At Allonby, Esther, wife of Mr. John Beeby, 46.

At the Lodge, near Workington, Mr. George Hudson, who, after residing thirty years in the West Indies, had just returned amongst his friends.

At Workington, Captain John Jenkinson, of the ship Bacchus. Mrs. Falcon, wife of Mr. Michael F. and daughter of the late Henry Fawcett, esq.

At Eskat, near Whitehaven, Miss Jane Stainton, daughter of Mr. Thomas S. of that place, in her 26th year. It is remarkable that Mr. Stainton has buried two sons and a daughter within the last three years, all in their twenty-sixth year.

At Sutton, near Wigton, Mr. John Fell, 40.

At Hutton, aged 56, of a pleuretic complaint, the Rev. Solomon Lewthwaite, rector of that parish.

At Dissington, aged 66, the Rev. Timothy Martin, 33 years assistant minister of St. Nicholas Chapel, Whitehaven.

At Crosby, near Maryport, Miss Mary Nicholson, daughter of Mr. John N. 16.

At Lakerigg, near Kendal, Mr. Thomas Gaskell, whose abilities as a bone-setter were universally acknowledged.

At Carlisle, Mrs. Hannah Dixon, 68.Mr. Edward Roads, 44.-Mr. Thomas Ferster, 69.Mrs. Sarah Latimer, 65.Mr. John Simpson, 73.-Frances Turner, 78. Elizabeth Riddley, 71.-Elizabeth, wife of John Greenup, 74.-Mrs, Ann jefferson, 68.

Mr. John Coulthard, 79-Mr. Nicholas Bailiff, 48.-Jane, wife of Mr. Robert Hodgson, 59.-Elspet Jordon, 80.-Mr. Wm. Melvin, 64-Margaret, daughter of Mr. James Rate, 18.

Kewley, minister of St. Matthew's Chapel in that town.

In his 59th year, James Quirk, esq. of Knockalloe-moar, Isle of Man, a member of the House of Keys.

At Powter How, Keswick, Mr. Joseph
Gibson, 60.

At Patterdale, the Rev. John Bushby, 50.
At Orton, Mr. Robert Teasdale, 59.

At Kirkdale, Mr. John Ainsworth; and a few days before, him John, his only sona aged 12.

At Alston, Mr. John Lee, of Penrith.

YORKSHIRE.

Thirty-four vessels from the port of Hull, were engaged in the whale fistieries last season. The total number of fish taken was 448-210 tons of fins-1257 butts of blubber and 5120 tons of oil.

Married.] At Marton, B., Budd, esq. one of the Justices of the Peace for the North Riding, to Miss M. Clifford.

At Ripon, J. H. Askwith, esq. to Miss Catherine Harrison, daughter of the late Dr. H.

At Kirkleavington, John Tearby, esq. of Poppleton Lodge, near York, to Miss Jolly, of Worsall, near Yarın.

At Whitby, Thomas Weatherall, esq. of Trinity College, Cambridge, to Mary, eldest daughter of Colonel Brown, of Newton House.

At Doncaster, W. J. E. Adlam, esq. of the Royal Fusileers, son of Lieut.-colonel A. to Miss E. H. Birdsall.-James Yorke, esq. of Oundle, Northamptonshire, to Miss Shipton, of Selby-William Moore, esq. of the Breek, eldest son of Colonel M. of Brookwell, to Harriet, youngest daughter of the late Daniel Dyson, esq. of Willow Hall, near Halifax.

Died.] At Darley Mill, near Pately Bridge, Mr. Henry Clint, 97.

At Austwick, Mr. J. Willis, 92.

At Sheffield, Mrs. Goodwin, wife of Mr. John G.-Mr. Thomas Nicholson. Mrs. Calver.-Thomas Oliver, son of Mr. Samuel Harmar, 17-Mr. Jonathan Crosland.-Mise Downs. Mr. Christopher Ibbotson-Mr. John Middleton, 43-Miss Mary Braith

At Kendal, Mrs. Gaskell, wife of Mr. waite, daughter of Mr. George B. Thomas G.-Mr. T. Armistead, 26.

At Penrith, Mrs. Elizabeth Todd, wife of Mr. Isaac T. 61.Ann, wife of Mr. John Ireland, 70.-Mrs. Ann Manham.-Mr. John Henderson, father of Mrs. Blyth, of the Salution inn, 78.-Mary, wife of Mr. Jo siah Wilkinson, 68.-Mrs. Elizabeth Knubly, 76. Mrs. Davison.-Catherine, daugh ter of Mr. Joseph Routledge.

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At Whitehaven, Mr. Josiah Lewthwaite, attorney.-Miss Isabella Scott, 25.-Robert Barrow, esq. master of the Defence revenue cutter, 72-Mr. John Lancaster, 71.

At Douglas, Isle of Man, the Rev. John

At Sowerby, Miss Consett, daughter of the late Peter C. esq. of Brawith,

At Leeds, Mrs. Parkinson, relict of Mr. P surgeon.

At Halifax, Catherine, youngest daughter of Capt. Hawker, of the 15th regiment.

At Barnesley, John Cawood, esq. 90.
At Sutton in Holderness, Mr. James
Moore, 78.

At Richmond, John, only remaining child of Mr. Thomas Smith, bookseller, 19.

At Chapel Allerton, near Leeds, Mary Coape, second daughter of Samuel Hamer Oates, esq. 22.

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