summer seasons; was the original Jew in "The Young Quaker," and by his performance of it contributed much to the success of the piece. He was considered as the inventor of these pantomimes "The Gnome," acted at the Haymarket 1788, never printed, and "The Magic Cavern," 8vo. 1785. He was also the author of "The Royal Pedigree of his Majesty George III. from Egbert," 8vo. 1812; and "School for Wits, a New Jest Book," 12mo. 1814. The labours of his profession, while he was able to continue on the Stage, and his infirmities after he left it, prevented him from affording his literary talents due cultivation. In latter years he was an annuitant on the Covent Garden Theatrical Fund.

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1. At Stratton, capt. Robert Smith, in the 89th year of his age. He was at the battles of Minden and Warburgh, and afterwards at Gibraltar, during the memorable siege of that place.

3. At Islington Green, George Sturdy, esq. one of the sworn clerks of the court of Chancery.

4. Of apoplexy, his majesty Ferdinand IVth, king of Naples and the two Sicilies. The Nuncio, the ambassador from Spain, the Austrian minister, and the French chargé d'affaires, were introduced with all the council into the chamber of the king. His majesty was lying on his back, with his mouth open, but his features unaltered; the left hand, which was uncovered, shewed some marks of extravasated blood. The guards at the palace, and other public places, were doubled, as a measure of precaution, but the public tranquillity was not disturbed for a single moment.

He was born Jan. 12, 1751, and ascended the throne Oct. 5, 1759, on his father's becoming king of Spain. He married April 7, 1768, the archduchess Maria Caroline, daughter of Francis I, and aunt to the present emperor of Austria, who died Sept. 7, 1814. He had issue by her, 1. Francis Janvier Josef, duke of Calabria, father of the

duchess de Berri; 2. Maria Christina, married to Charles Felix, king of Sardinia; 3. Maria Amelia, duchess of Orleans; 4. Leopold, prince of Salerno; who married Maria Clementina, daughter of the emperor of Austria.

4. At Richmond, Surrey, aged 73, Adam Bell, esq. late of the victualling department, Deptford. 5. John Sivewright, esq. of Tavistock-square.

Aged 100 years, Ann Paul, of Skiprea, near Brough.

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At Stirling, the rev. Dr. Small. At Richmond Green, Thomas Walmesley, esq. aged 56.

At Smyllan Park, Scotland, sir William Honeyman, of Græmsay, bart.

6. At Stepney Green, Edward Powell, esq. aged 67.

At Ipswich, in his 56th year, Thomas Green, esq. He had been educated for the bar, but was induced by the easiness of his circumstances to withdraw himself from its toils. He was the author of the following works:-"The Micthodion, or a Poetical Olio, London, 1788," 12mo.; "An Examination of the leading Principle of the new System of Morals, as that Principle is stated and applied in Mr. Godwin's Enquiry concerning Political Justice, London, 1798,” 8vo.; second edition 1799; and "Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of Literature, Ipswich, 1810;" 4to.

7. Of apoplexy, Robert Ross, esq. of the Stock Exchange.

In Lowther-street, Whitehaven, aged eighty, Joshua Dixon, M. D. The town of Whitehaven is indebted to him for many improvements necessary to its health and comfort. The Dispensary was the fruit of his exertions; and from its establishment in 1783, up to the day of his death, he acted gratuitously as physician and chief manager. The unfortunate, the poor, the sick, all were ever welcome to counsel, pecuniary assistance, and medical skill. He was the author of a great many useful tracts and essays,

street.

At Newport, in the Isle of Wight, at his mother's, dowager lady Holmes, after a lingering illness, aged 38, sir Leonard Thomas Worsley Holmes, bart. member and recorder for that borough, commandant of the Isle of Wight Yeomanry cavalry, and an acting magistrate for the county of Hants. Such was the respect paid to his memory, that as soon as his death was announced, all the shops and the greater part of the private houses in Newport were closed. He was the eldest son of the rev. sir Henry Worsley Holmes, LL. D. by Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Leonard lord Holmes; born July 1787. On the death of his father, the 8th baronet, April 7, 1811, he succeeded to the title; and June 5, 1813, married Anne daughter of John Delgarno, esq. and niece of Leonard Troughear, lord Holmes (which title became extinct in 1801); by whom he had issue three daughters but no son: in consequence, this ancient baronetcy (one of the earliest creations of James I. in 1611) becomes extinct.

-AtTwickenham, aged 65, Mary, wife of Thomas Dickson, esq. of Fulwell Lodge, Twickenham.

10. At Papworth Hall, Cambridge, Charles Madryll Cheere, esq. M. P. for the borough of Cambridge.

-At Worle, Mr. Joseph Bishop, of Banwell, Somersetshire, aged 103 years. He was the father, grandfather, and great-grandfather of 180 children, of whom 115 are living at this period.

At Chelsea, aged 64, Thomas

Smith, esq.

11. Mr. William Stevenson, steward of the earl of Darnley.

12. At Clifton, Caroline Mary, youngest daughter of the late Samuel Peat, esq. of Calcutta.

At his house in Bentinckstreet, George Rankin, esq. 14. John Stone, esq. many years of his majesty's Customs.

In Finsbury-square, John Henry Hecker, esq. in his 77th

year.

At his house, in Upper Gowerstreet, aged 84, George Dance, esq. R. A. F. A. S. and auditor of the royal academy. He was son of George Dance, esq. an eminent architect and clerk of the works of the city of London, who built the present Mansion House in 1739, Shoreditch and St. Luke's churches, &c. and died in 1768; in which year the late Mr. Dance succeeded, by purchase, to his father's office, in which he was succeeded in 1816 by his favourite pupil, William Montague, esq. by appointment of the court of common council. Mr. Dance's youngest brother, was the painter, Nathaniel Dance, who on his marriage with the great Yorkshire heiress Mrs. Dummer, took the name of Holland, and was created a baronet in 1800. He died in 1811. In 1794, Mr. George Dance was elected fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. From 1795 to 1797, he was one of the council of the royal academy; and in 1798 we first find him auditor. Mr. Dance was for some years professor of architecture at the royal academy, but never lectured.

In 1811 appeared the first volume and in 1814 a second, of "A Col

lection of Portraits sketched from the Life, since the year 1793. By George Dance, esq. and engraved in imitation of the Original Drawings, by William Daniell, A. R. A." large folio.

Mr. Dance was the last surviving member of the original forty royal academicians. His remains were interred in the vault of St. Paul's cathedral, in what is called the artists' corner, near to those of sir Christopher Wren, and his late friend Mr. Rennie; an appropriate situation, as he was allied in genius to both of those illustrious ornaments of the country.

15. At Clapham, Joseph Stevens, esq. in the 87th year of his age.

At his seat, Killester, county, Dublin, in his 49th year, the right hon. Thomas Gleadowe Newcomen, viscount Newcomen baron Newcomen of Moss-town, county Longford, a baronet, a governor of the counties of Longford and Mayo, and M. R. I. A. His lordship was born Sept. 18, 1776; succeeded his father, the right hon. sir William Gleadowe Newcomen, in the title of baronet, Aug. 21, 1807; and on the decease of his mother, Charlotte, in her own right viscountess Newcomen, May 16, 1817, to the honours of viscount and baron Newcomen. The late viscount having left no issue, the titles of viscount and baron Newcomen become extinct, being the twenty-seventh peerage of Ireland which has failed since the union in January, 1801. The baronetage is extinct also.

Lord Newcomen's estates devolve to his sisters; viz. 1. Jane, married to Charles Gordon Ashley, esq.; 2. Teresa, married first to sir Charles Turner, bart. of Kirkleatham, in Yorkshire, and secondly, to Henry Vansittart, esq. nephew of lord Bexley; 3. Charlotte; 4. Catharine, married to Charles Newcomen, esq.

His lordship was the chief partner in Newcomen and Co.'s bank, Castle-street, Dublin; which, in consequence of his death, stopped

payment. The whole of the unsettled estates are subject to the debts of the house.

16. At Burwood Park, Surrey, sir John Frederick, bart. lieut.-col. of the 2nd Surrey militia. This family is descended from sir John Frederick, lord mayor of London in 1662. The late baronet was the only surviving son of sir John Frederick, 4th bart. by Susanna, daughter of sir Roger Hudson, of Sunbury, county of Middlesex, knight, who died June 29, 1787; was born March 18, 1749, and succeeded to the title on the death of his father, April 9, 1783. In the parliaments of 1796, 1802, and 1806, he was returned one of the knights of the shire for Surrey. At the general election in 1807, he declined offering himself; when Mr. H. Sumner was returned. The elegant house at Burwood was built by this worthy baronet, in a park, which, with additional purchases made by him, contained 300 acres without any road or foot-path over it, before a late inclosure, by which 150 more were added to it.

Sir John married, in 1783, Mary, youngest daughter and co-heiress of Richard Garth of Morden, esq. and by her (who died December 1794) had issue the present baronet, five other sons, and five daughters.

At Banff, Bathia, wife of George Robinson, esq. late provost of Banff.

17. Aged 29, the rev. Peter Walthall, M. A. rector of Wistaston, Cheshire, eldest son of Peter Walthall, esq. of Darley Dale.

At Tort Pitt, Chatham, captain John Pollock, 5th reg. aged 28.

18. At his house, in Bream'sbuildings, Chancery-lane, in his 54th year, Mr. John Cox, principal in the firm of Cox, Barnett, and Co. copper-plate printers. To the careful superintendance and taste of this gentleman, is owing much of the graphical beauty of many of the splendidly decorated works which have appeared during the last thirty years. In his office were printed

the respect and esteem of his tenantry, and was much beloved by the poorer classes. His lordship was in the habit of residing great part of his time at his seat at Hothfield, in Kent, where he was distinguished for his hospitality and benevolence. He used frequently to visit the markets, particularly the stock-market at Ashford, at which he was accustomed to converse familiarly with several of the butchers attending there. After the death of his countess, lord Thanet ceased to be a regular resident in that county, only coming occasionally to his family seat, and passing much of his time upon the continent, chiefly at Paris. The trial and conviction of lord Thanet, several years ago, in the court of King's-bench, for an assault committed in the court at Maidstone, at the period of the trial of O'Connor, Quigley, and others, and his subsequent imprisonment in the tower of London, are circumstances well known; but it was afterwards understood that his lordship was not the individual who really committed the assault. It is said there was a mistake in the witnesses as to identity, and that his lordship knew who the person was that actually struck the blow, but refused to betray him.

24. At Gravesend, John Brown, esq. of the hon. East India Company's service.

25. At her house in Park-street, in the 81st year of her age, Mrs. Harriot Bagot, last surviving daughter of sir Walter Bagot, bart. of Blothfield, Staffordshire.

At Streatham, aged 85, James Palmer, esq. late treasurer of Christ's hospital, which office he resigned in 1823. He held it 24 years, having been elected in 1799.

26. In Barnsbury-street, Islington, Alexander Tilloch, LL. D., M. R. I. A., M. R. A. S., Munich, M. G. S.; M. A. S., S. S. A., Edinburgh and Perth, M. S. E. I. N., of France, &c. &c.

He was born 28th Feb. 1759, at Glasgow, where his father, Mr.

John Tilloch, who followed the trade of a tobacconist, filled the office of magistrate for many years. Alexander, being designed for business, received in the place of his nativity, an education which in Scotland is so much more accessible than in England. His habits were sedate and thoughtful, apparently arising from a conviction that he knew but little, and had much to learn. On leaving school he was taken to his intended occupation; but his intellectual powers began to expand themselves, and his views were elevated above any thing which a tobacco-warehouse could supply.

Ardent in the pursuit of knowledge, the occult sciences, in early life, at one time attracted much of his attention. When animal magnetism was introduced into this country, it was not without influence on his mind; and he was never disposed to treat judicial astrology with sovereign contempt. But he soon saw the folly of pursuing phantoms, and applied his talents to more useful pursuits.

He conceived that the mode of printing, then in use, was susceptible of considerable improvement. He accordingly hit upon the expedient, when the page was set up in type, of taking off an impression in some soft substance, in its comparatively fluid state, that would harden when exposed to the action of fire, so as to become a mould to receive the metal when in a state of fusion, and form a plate every way correspondent to the page whence the first impression was received. Thus with him was laid the foundation of the stereotype printing. He began his experiments in 1781, and, in 1782, having brought his plates to a state of comparative perfection, flattered himself with many advantages which would result from his successful efforts.

As he was not bred a printer himself, he had recourse to Mr. Foulis, printer of the University of Glasgow, to whom he applied for types to make an experiment in the new