téstate, his estates devolves to his niece, the daughter of the Hon. Bridgeman Simpson.

The Rev. Mr. Morse, vicar of Marton, near Coventry.

July 7. At her house in New King-street, Bath, after a long and painful illness, sincerely regretted by an extensive circle of friends and acquaintance, Mrs. Lucretia Nixon, aged 75, relict of Robert Nixon, Esq. of Devonshire-square, London. Á most sanguinary duel took place lately at Wurtzburg, between the young Baron de Harf, a Canon of the Cathedral, and an officer named Zandt. The cause of quar-` rel was a dispute about a gambling debt. The sabre was the weapon chose, and the fight took place in the apartment of the Prince of Lowenstein, who acted as second to Zandt, and having instigated the quarrel, took pains to euflame the rage of the combatants as seconds on ordinary occasions think themselves bound to take to effect a reconciliation. After sixteen assaults, in which Zandt received two slight, wounds, the combatants seemed disposed to discontinue the conflict; but the Prince cried out that it would be a shame to stop there. The sabres being blunted, were sent to the cutler's to get a new edge; while they waited for them, the combatants abused each other so grossly, that it was decided they should fight till one should be dead on the spot.

At the first succeeding assault, Zandt was once more wounded, but being animated by the voice of the Prince, his vigour redoubled. At length, in the thirtyfirst assault, the young Canon Harf received a thrust which pierced his breast and penetrated deep into his lungs. He died the next day, after suffering the most cruel tortures. Zaudt fled, as well as his second the Prince of Lowenstein, and Kleinemberg the second of the unfortunate Harf.

At Pris M. Anquetil du Perron, a member of the Academy of In

scriptions and of the National Institute. He was a man of specious rather than of solid talents; vain, petulant, and assuming. Sir William Jones sufficiently exposed hig iguorance; for which the self-suffi cient Frenchman treated him with impertinence.

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At Dublin Sir Thomas Leighton, bart. and banker, who was one of the many instances that "Honesty is the best policy." He was early in life an humble trader at Strabane in the north of Ireland, but failing he went to the East Indies as a soldier. Being a man of abilities he rendered himself useful by gaining a knowlege of the Oriental languages. He happened to be in the same prison with General Mat-thews, who previous to his unfortu→ nate catastrophe, entrusted to the care of Mr. Leighton, jewels and property to a vast amount, to be delivered to his family if he should effect his escape; and to insure his zeal and punctuality, he presented him with a considerable sum. ing sometime after employed as an interpreter, he contrived to make his escape. After many adventures he arrived in London and delivered to Mrs. Matthews the letters and property of her husband with which he had been intrusted. By her his fidelity is said to have been rewarded with twenty thousand pounds. He immediately wrote to Ireland to enquire for a beloved wife and child whom he had left behind; and also sent a sum of money to pay his debts. He found that. his wife, whom he had left young, handsome, and unprotected, had by honest industry, supported hersellf and her daughter, then ten years of age, and given her an education superior to her humble means. He now took a handsome house in Dublin, and another in the country; but being of an active turn of mind he embarked the greatest part of his property in a banking-house, in which he was very successful.

The Rev. George Barry, D. D.. aged

aged 57, Minister of Shapinshay, one of the Orkney islands. He was a native of Berwickshire and educated at the University of Edinburgh. He was distinguished as a teacher of youth; and communicated particulars of two parishes to Sir John Sinclair's Statistical account of Scotland. The Society for promoting Christian Knowlege in Scotland, appointed him superintendant of their schools in Orkney. He wrote a history of the Orkney islands in 2 vols. 4to.

"At his seat near Bath, in a very advanced age, Christopher Anstey, Esq. He was the son of the Rev. Dr. Anstey of Trumpington, Cambridgeshire. Of the early life of this ingenious writer, we possess no information, but it is certain that his education was liberal. In 1765 he published but without his name, that truly original and highly entertaining Poem called the Bath guide, in which the author satirized many distinguished persons and prevailing follies, in a keen and pleasing manner. His next piece was a monody on the Marquis of Tavistock, which is of the pathetic kind. Besides these performances he wrote some pieces for Lady Miller's Institution at Bath-Easton, and several epigrams and songs. His son John Anstey, Esq. a barrister at law is the author of a satirical poem of great originality and merit entitled "The Pleader's

Guide."

At Faversham, the Rev. Athelstan Stephens, many years Vicar of Graveney, and Rector of Goodnestone, in Kent.

The Rev. Charles Warre, of Rugby.

The Rev. William Stephenson, Rector of Porley and Lagenhoe, in Essex and Chaplain to Lord St. John.

In his 26th year, the Rev. T. H. D. Hoste, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and eldest son of the Rev. D. loste, of Godwick Hall

At Whitehaven, William Welsh,

aged 101 years. He was a travelling tinker, which occupation he followed till within a few weeks of his death.

Mr. Montolieu, of Brompton, brother to the Banker of that name in Pall Mall.-He was seized with a fit as he was going into Astley's Theatre; medical assistance was procured, but he expired in a quarter of an hour.

Miss Alderson, eldest daughter of J. Alderson, M. D. of Hull. This is the fourth member of that family whose death has happened within these fifteen months- a me ther and three daughters; two of the latter were just in the prime of youth.

In Mohagan, America, Martha, at the great age of 120. She was the widow of Zacara, one of the Nobility of the Mohægan tribe of Judians.

Lately the Rev. David Garrow. He was brother of Dr. William Garrow a physician of Barnet, who died in 1795, and father of Mr. Garrow the eminent counsellor, and now M. P. for Gatton in Surry; and also of Edward G. of Totteridge, many years in the East Indies, and last year sheriff of Hertfordshire; and of two daughters one of whom after her return from India, married Mr. Monk a gentleman farmer of Cheshunt; and the other who lived single with her venerable parent, whom she survived but a short time. The house, at Monken-Hadley, where Mr. Garrow lived and died, is supposed to have had some relation to the abbey at Walden, to which the manor and rectory belong. In some of the rooms there are scripture histories carved over the chimney, and painted on the windows, but both these were of a much later date. Mr. Garrow kept a school for boys, but not first at Hadley, or at least not the same house. When his son the counsellor repeatedly urged his father to give up the school, the old gentle

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man declared that he was bent upon finishing the term of half a century in the employment, which he actually accomplished. Although he was reckoned a disciplinarian in his school, yet the boys loved him, and when arrived at manhood, embraced every opportunity of visiting their old master, who expressed a pleasure in the expectation of seeing his former scholars, with the excep tion of few whom he had instruct ed. The large chamber in the house at Monken-Hadley, where the greatest number slept, was, by his orders kept in the same state, to the day of his death, as when used by the bo His affection for his wife, and regret for her death, led him to visit the room in which she died, every day; but he did not allow that room to be used or opened by any of his family. He felt his own gradual decay; and the loss of memory affected him so much that he avoided society, even that of his old neighbours, and latterly of his relatives, who were unremitting in their respectful attentions to the good old man, who when able to walk out in the village, generally used a long stick, presented to him by one of his family, which he called a Madagascar spear; as he wore his own hair, turned to silver locks, he reminded those who met him of one of the Patriarchs, as described in holy writ, particularly when to his

neighbour's address of salutation, be answered, with a benevolent as well as chearful countenance, "God bless you!" There is a good portrait of him, aged 76, after Romney · in mezzotinto, by Hodges, 1787.

The Rev. Peter Cunningham, (mentioned page 78,) was at dinner with the Chertsey Friendly Society, to whom he had been in the habit of delivering an annual discourse for several years, and while sitting at table, fell back in his chair, and though medical assistance was inmediately procured, he expired a few minutes after being conveyed to his lodgings. He was the son of an old and respectable naval com→ mander, and had in early life, traversed a considerable part of the globe, encountering hardships and perils, capable of appalling any mind, but one possessed of the most undaunted resolution and perseverance. He once suffered shipwreck on which occasion he lost the whole collection of his travels and adventures, and property to a large amount. At the time of his death he laboured under pecuniary cmbarrassments, to liquidate which a generous and unsolicited contribution was made among the neighbouring nobility, and gentry, for which purpose the Hon. C. J. Fox sent fifty guincas, and Sir John St. Aubyn, Bart. a like sum,