MARRIAGES AND DEATHS IN AND NEAR LONDON: With Biographical Memoirs of diftinguished Characters recently deceafed. MARRIED. DAVID SCOTT, efq. of Dunninald, Forfarshire, to Mifs Caroline Grindall, of Portland-place. Capt. Stuart, of the 16th Light Dragoons, to Mifs Anfon, fifter to Viscount A. Walter Smythe, efq. of Brambridge, Hants, to Mifs Louifa Boycott, daughter of the late Thomas B, efq. of Rudge, Salop. William Phillimore, efq. of Lincoln's-inn, to Mifs Almeria Thornton, youngest daughter of the late Godfrey T. efq. of Muggahangar, Bedfordshire. Lieut. Col. Read, of the Bengal Eftablishment, to Mifs Reade, only daughter and heiress of the late Thomas R. efq. of Little Stoke, Oxfordshire. The Hon. Col. Parker, of Enfham-hall, Oxfordshire, to Mifs Eliza Wolftenholme, daughter of William W. efq. of Holly-hill, Suffex. At Walthamstow, M. T. Harris, efq. fecond fon of General H. of Belmont, Kent, to Enima, youngest daughter of the late William Money, efq. Dennis O'Leary, efq. of Grosvenor-place, to Mifs Ellen Hutton, daughter of Dr. H. of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. At Newington, William Mordue, efq. of Wallfend, Northumberland, to Mifs Letitia Macnab, of South-place, Kennington. At Sunbury, W. T. Williams, efq. of Charlotte place, Bloomsbury, to Mifs Crawfhay, of Cyfartha, Glamorganshire. Capt. C. Kempthorne Quash, of the Royal Navy, to Mifs Mary Anne Owen, of Norfolkftreet, Strand. John S. Story, efq. of St. Alban's, to Mifs Bridecake, of Craven-street. At Acton, James Wolfe Murray, efq. of Cringlebe, North Britain, to Mifs Isabella Strange, eldest daughter of James S. efq. in the fervice of the Eaft-India Company on the Madras establishment. Mr. Francis Defanges, third fon of William D. efq. of Spitalfields, to Mifs Amelia Kufe, eldeft daughter of George K. efq. of Chi chefter. At Edmonton, James Lonsdale, esq. of Store-ftreet, Bedford-fquare, to Mifs Thornton, of Southgate. DIED. In Berner's-ftreet, in his 46th year, Jobn Opie, efq. Profeffor of Painting in the Royal Academy. A particular account of this eminent artift, will be given in our next Ňumber. Mrs. Blegborough, wife of Henry B. efq. of Richmond, Yorkshire, 71. In Broad-court, Bow-ftreet, Mr. Mark Supple, a native of the fouth of Ireland, and upwards of 25 years a reporter of the debates in parliament for various newspapers. In Hanover-fquare, John Tirel Morin, efq. In James-ftreet, Weftminster, in his 34th year, Mr. Jofeph Francis, a man of great worth, and the most amiable difpofition; and who, it was fondly hoped, would long have been a bleffing to fociety in the station which he occupied, and a fource of happiness to many friends by whom he is deeply lamented. In Cannon-street, in her 45th year, Mrs. Sarah Mucklefton, wife of Mr. Rowland M. She poffeffed and conftantly exemplified truly Christian piety and cheerfulness, and was eminently exemplary in her refignation to the difpenfations of Providence in feafons of perfonal affliction and domestic calamity. Few perfons have adorned the relations of a wife, a mother, and a friend with greater affection, fidelity, and zeal. As in her difpofition and deportment through life fhe had conftantly glorified God and ferved her generation according to his will, fo, in her illness and death, the was eminently fupported and animated by hopes full of glory and immortality. Tenderly as the loved her family and friends, yet the "defired rather to depart and be with Christ," that the might glorify and enjoy him for ever. Her demife has occafioned an irreparable chafm in her family and the circle of her friends. Her remains were interred in Bunhill-fields burying-ground. In Carter-lane, Doctor's-commons, Mr. Kyd Wake, printer, who, in the year 1795, was convicted of infulting his Majesty on his way to the parliament-houfe, and fuffered an imprisonment of five years for it. His death was occafioned by his being crushed between the wheel of a waggon and a poft in Paul's. chain, St. Paul's Church-yard. In Store-street, Bedford fquare, Mrs. Leigh, relict of Gerard L. efq. of Doctors'-commons. At Iflington, Mrs. Ayscough, widow of Mr. William A. of Windfor, 82. In Upper Seymour-freet, Portman-iquare, Lionel Colmore, efq. In Charlotte-street, Portland-place, the youngest daughter of David Sutherland, efq. In Charlotte-ftreet, Fitzroy-fquare, Robert Catts, efq. late commiffary of the Bengal etablishment, 51. Lieutenant-colonel Bromfield, of Southfield, in Jamaica, fecond brother to Stephen B. efq. of Haflington Mains, Berwickshire. In Cumberland-street, Mrs. Abernethie, wife of John A. esq. At St. James's-palace, the Hon. Frances Tracy, firft bed chamber woman to her Majefty, and only furviving fifter of the late Vilcount T. 93. At her mother's houfe, in Harley-street, in the 12th year of her age, the Hon. Mili Asm Rodney, youngest daughter of Lady R. and fiker to the prefent Lord R. A: At his feat at Stanton Downham, Suffolk, in his 79th year, Charles Sloane, Earl of Cadogan, Vifcount Chelsea, and a Trustee of the British Mufzum. This venerable nobleman was twice married. By his first lady he had fix fons, three of whom died in the fervice of their country. Thomas, who was in the royal navy, was loft in the Glorieux man of war; George, who was in the fervice of the Eaft-, india Company, was killed in India; and Edward, who was a captain in the army, fell a victim to the climate, at St. Lucie. His Lordship's two eldest daughters, by his fecond marriage, are the wives of the Hon. and Rev. Gerald Valerian Wellesley, and the Hon. Henry Wellesley, brother to Marquis Wellefley. His Lordship is fucceeded in his titles and eftates by his fon, Charles Henry Viscount Chelsea, now Earl of Cadogan. In Whitechapel, Mrs. Cuff, wife of Jofeph C. efq. In Queen-square, Anna Maria, third daughter of J. Nailer, efq. In Mortimer-ftreet, Cavendish- fquare, Mrs. Toomfon. mains were depofited on the 28th of March, attended by his relations, two other gentlemen, and the clergy belonging to the Foundling; feveral of the governors meeting the funeral in the chapel to pay their last tributes to a departed and refpected friend The fervice was moft folemnly performed by the Rev. John Lee Martin, rector of St. George the Martyr, Queen-fquare, the children of the hofpital concluding it with a pfalm appropriate to the melancholy occafion. In Westmoreland-ftreet, Mary-le-bone, in her 27th year, Mrs. M Leach, a beautiful but unfortunate young woman, who for upwards of three years performed many of the principal parts in Mr. Collins's company at the theatres of Portimouth, Southampton, Chichester, and Winchester. She joined this company in September, 1802, and had been during that fummer performing at Brighton. She quitted Mr. Collins in the begining of 1806, with expectations which were cruelly Jifappointed. In April, 1806, she went to Waterford in Ireland, where the remained but a fhort time. She tried the theatres of Yong At his chambers in Lincoln's-inn, Walter hall and Trallee While at the latter place, Long, efq. In Gracechurch-ftreet, John Poole Baratty, 47. At the Chapter Coffee-houfe, Paternofterrow, Mifs Elizabeth Brunn. In Harley-street, Lady Alfon, relict of Sir R. A. bart. of Odell, Bedfordshire. At Stamford-hill, Henry George Heintz, efq. eldest son of Elías H. the received an offer from the managers of the Dublin theatre. After fuffering many hardships, in travelling 160 miles in a common Irish car in the depth of winter, being eleven days on the road, fhe arrived at Dublin. Unfortunately, he did not pleafe the Dublin audience; and, after performing three or four times, the gave it up and came to London, with little money and no prospect of any engagement. The vexation produced by thefe and other unfortunate circumstances, brought on a diforder which foon terminated her existence in the prime of life. In Mile-end-road, Francis Newham, efq. 74. At Croom's-hill, Greenwich, Mrs. Allen, 90.-7. Randall, efq. formerly of Queenhithe. At his houfe in Queen's-fquare, Bloombury, deeply lamented by all who knew him, At Brompton, aged 73, Sawrey Gilpin, efq. William George Sibley, efq. treasurer of the R. A. a celebrated painter, particularly of Hon. Eaft-India Company. In his official de- horfes and wild animals. He was defcended partment he invariably difcharged his duty from an ancient family in the county of Cumwith fidelity and affiduity, and in all refpects berland, which has given to the world many with fatisfaction to the company and honour characters justly celebrated for their talents to himself. He was a loyal fubject, and a and virtues. He was born at Carlisle (of which real and true patriot. In private life, a ten-city his only furviving brother, Jofeph Dacre der and affectionate husband, a fteady friend to the deferving, kind to the poor, and benevolent to all. An enemy to all oftentation, he was religious without the leaft tincture of bigotry, and ftrictly moral without the affectation of being better than others: throughout life he stood approved in every fenfe of the word a truly good and upright_man. He has bequeathed nearly the whole of his property to his widow, whom he appointed executrix to his will, and his brother executor; and, being defirous to relieve them as much as poffiblesrom perfonal attention to the truft, he added a gentleman of the law to affift them, leaving him a fuitable legacy for the trouble it might occafion him. The late Mr. Sibley had been many years a fellow of the Antiquarian Society, and a governor of Chrift's, and like wife of the Foundling, Hofpitals; under the chapel of which latter charity his reMONTHLY MAG. No. 156, Gilpin, efq. is the prefent mayor), and in early youth, under the inftruction of a most excellent and ingenious father, imbibed, along with his late brother, the Rev. William Gilpin, the tourist, a strong propenfity for the polite arts. This was ripened as he advanced in life, into a confpicuous talent, and enabled him to execute paintings, which are juftly admired for the great truth and fpirit of the compofition, and extreme chaftenets of colouring. His excellence confifted entirely in pourtraying animals, the anatomy of which he was completely converfant with, from the humbleft of the domestic tribe to the roaring wanderers of the woods. He felected thofe in groupes, the admirable imitations of which will confer a lasting celebrity upon his name. Many of his moft capital pictures are in the poffeffion of noblemen and collectors. The Prince of Wales's and the Duke of Hamilton's 3 D Collections collections are both enriched with the productions of his pencil; but, we believe, his chef-d'œuvre is in the poffeflion of Mr. Whitbread. It confifts of a group of tigers, and is a noble and fpirited compofition. He excelled much in giving an expreffion of terrible, but majestic fierceness, to that nobleft of all animals, the lion; fome of his flighter ketches, feudied from the life, give a ftriking reprefentation of the fullen dignity which is the peculiar characteristic of that royal animal. The etchings of cattle, which accompany his brother's defcriptive writings, are his productions. At Plymouth, Lieutenant colonel John Hatfield. He was born on the 14th of February, 1758, at the feat. of his father, the Rev. Leonard Hatfield, Killanure, near Athlone, in the county of Weftmeath, Ireland Early evincing a predilection for an active life, in the year 1755, he became a midshipman in the royal navy; but fhortly after exchanging the naval for military fervice, he received a pair of colours in the 43d regiment of foot; and was a partaker of the glory acquired by the ever to be regretted Wolfe, on the plains of Quebec. During that war, he was engaged in all the most memorable fcenes of victory and conqueft in the western hemisphere, which have fhed fuch luftre on the adminiAtration of the great William Pitt; and towards the conclufion of the conteft, he was dangeroufly wounded at Jamaica, by the falling of a barrack, caufed by the explofion of a maga zine. At the peace that followed this feries of victories, the regiment, returned to England; and previous to the difaftrous war that followed, he rofe to the rank of captain of the grenadiers. The regiment being detached to America on the eve of that war, he was prefent when the first blood was unhappily spilled in that conteft; and during the continuance of it, he was actively employed in a series of arduous fervices, being chiefly both in that and the preceding war attached to the flank companies. Towards the clofe of the war, after the furrender of Charlestown, South Carolina, in confideration of his merit and fervices, and to relieve his conftitution, greatly injured by the latter, he was appointed by Sir Henry Clinton governor of the forts on Sullivan's Inlande, commanding the approach to that town by water, which he held during the war. After the regiment returned to England, his health being much impaired, he petitioned his Majesty for the command of an independent company; and foon after was, in confequence of this application, appointed to the garrifon of Plymouth, where he refided in that capacity for many years, until the last alteration in that department, when he retired from the fervice on full pay. On the 19th of March, 1783, he was appointed major in the army; and on the 1st of March, 1794, he rofe to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. From the complaints contracted during the space of thirty years paffed in active fervice, his health for many years was very indifferent, but his navy. 1757 Was appointed enfign in the 45d regiment, and ferved in Nova Scotia against the Acadians and Indians. 1759 At the reduction of Quebec, under General Wolfe. 1760 At the defence of Quebec, under General Murray; and at the reduction of Montreal, and Canada, under Loid Amherst. 1761 At the reduction of Martinique, under 1762 With the light infantry of the army At the taking of the Havannah, under 1763 Dangerously wounded at Jamaica. In Fleet-ftreet, Mr. John Pridden, lately a bookfeller there: one of the many inftances that integrity and perfeverance introduce their attendant votaries to eafe, affluence, and fatisfaction. To animate others to appreciate the value of untullied honour, or bear up against the torrent of itgen oppreflion, a few particulars refpecting the life of this truly worthy man cannot be here omitted. He was born July 20, 1728, at Old Martin-hall, in the parthes of Ellefmere and Whittington, in Shrophire, of very respectable and rather wealthy parents. But his father dying when he was only twelve years old, and his mother marrying again, the object of our remarks foon experienced the most unmerciful and cruel treatment of his step-father. Indeed, the feverity he endured was fo great that he was trequently laid up, and often refcued by his neighbours from the tyrannic grafp of his facner in-law. Nothing could fubdue the inexurule temper or his fofter parent; and the oppreffed youth determined to leave his home, and try his fortune in the metropolis. This happened toon after the breaking out of the French war in 1744, when, having proceeded oa his journey as far as Worcelter, and finding there a hot prefs for foldiers, he did not relith the probability of a military attachment, but adopted what he conceived to be the leaft of two evils, and returned. For this felfdetentive offence he was regularly and fyftematically thrashed every Tuesday and Saturday fur nearly three years, when, unable any longer to endure his unmerited fufferings, he once more bade an eternal adieu to his unpropitions habitation, and arrived in London on the 25th of March, 1748, where he foon found protectors in the late Mr. Nourfe, of the Strand, and Mr. Richard Manby, of Ludgate-hill; the latter of whom he fucceeded in sufiaefs. He married, March 27, 1757, Anne, daughter of Mr. Humphry Gregory, of Twemlow, near Whitchurch, Shropshire, by whom he had fourteen children, nine of whom died young, of the small-pox, and two fons and three daughters now furvive him. His wife died April 1, 1801. The libraries of many very eminent and diftinguished characters paffed through his hands; his offers on purchafing them were liberal; and, being content with fmall profits, he foon found himself fupported by a numerous and refpectable fet of friends, not one of whom ever quitted him. Before the American revolution, his houfe was the rendezvous of the clergy of that country; and when that unfortunate event took place, both his purfe and his table were open to their wants. About twenty-two years ago he became totally blind, but was relieved from that malady by the judicious hand of Baron de Wenzel, and enjoyed his eye-tight to the latt. He was naturally of a weak habit of body; but his extreme temperance and uninterrupted complacency of mind infured to him an almost conftant flow of health and fpirits. To do good was his delight; to comunicate happiness to all he could was his naceafing aim. He was a molt amiable and indulgent parent, a fincere friend, and, in the ftricteft fenfe of the word, an honeft man. The following anecdote ftrikingly evinces the goodness of his heart: Seven years ago, on the failure of his lefs fortunate next door neighbour, he invited him to his house, and relinquished bufiness, to give him the opportunity of keeping on the fpot: his kind intentions met with fuccefs; and he frequently exprefled the pleasure he felt at feeing his friend profper under his roof. In Great Cumberland-place, Sir Hyde Parker, admiral of the red, the fecund fon of Vice-Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, baronet. He entered into the naval fervice. of his country when very young, under the aufpices of his father; and after having ferved as a petty officer on board the Squirrel, was removed into the Brilliant; in which he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, on the 25th of January, 1758. From this fhip he accompanied his father, in the fame capacity, on board the Norfolk, then under orders for the East Indies, and having arrived there, was very rapidly promoted to the rank of Post-Captain, by commiflion bearing date July 18ta, 1763. The thip he took the command of on this occafion is faid, by Mr. Hardy, to have been the Beilaine, though no, fuch thip appears on the lift of the royal navy. From this period till the year 1775 the naval. annals are filent concerning him; in the. latter year, we find him appointed to the Phoenix, in which he proceeded to North America, where he diftinguiined himself in Various petty encounters, particularly, when having, on the 9th of October, 1776, been detached with the Roebuck and Tartar under his orders, he forced a paffage, above the American works at Jefry's Hook, on York Inland. For his conduct on this occafion, his Majesty was pleased to confer on him the honour of knighthood. Though Sir Hyde continued in active fervice in the fame feas for the two fucceeding years, nothing particu larly interesting occurred, and the Phenix being in want of a complete repair, he returned in her to England about the beginning of the year 1779. Sir Hyde ftill retained the command of the fame hip in which he was ordered at the clofe of the year to Jamaica. He failed in the month of December, in company with Sir George, afterwards Lord Rodney, who was destined for Gibraltar. Sir Hyde having parted company, proceeded with the convoy, which had been configned to ms charge, to the place of his destination, and having feen it fare into port, continued to cruife in thole feas with confiderable fuccefs, till the month of October, when a tremen-. dous hurricane, which then laid waste almost the whole of the islands in that quarter of the world, proved fatal to the Phenix. She was wrecked on the island of Cuba, aster having received the greateft injury during the tempeft: of the crew, twenty were unfortunately washed overboard with the main maft; all the emainder, together with Sir Hyde, amounting to two hundred and forty perfons, reached 3D 2 the the fhore in fafety. In this difaftrous and trying fituation, the abilities of the commander fhone confpicuously; by his exhortations the furvivors were animated to use every exertion for their prefervation, not only from their immediate evils, but from thofe they might naturally apprehend. They were caft on a thore in the poffeffion of their enemies; where Sir Hyde Parker, with indefatigable industry, caufed a temporary fortification to be erected, and having procured fome cannon, together with ammunition, from the wreck, caufed them to be mounted in the best manner he could, fo as to command the approach. He had alfo the precaution to fend off immediately his first lieutenant, Mr. Archer, in one of the fhip's boats, to Jamaica, for affiftance, and had the good fortune, in feven days after the lofs of the fhip, to be relieved from his anxiety for his brave companions in diftrefs, by the arrival of weffels which conveyed them in fafety to Montego Bay. Soon after this difafter, Sir Hyde arrived in England, and was appointed to the Goliath, of feventy-four guns, a fhip then under equipment for the Channel fervice. In this command he accompanied Lord Howe, in September, 1782, on the expedition for the relief of Gibraltar, and in the partial encounter which took place on that occafion between the British fleet and the combined armament of France and Spain, led the van, and had four men killed, with one of his lieutenants, and the master, together with fourteen feamen or marines, wounded. Peace taking place foon after this period, Sir Hyde returned to England in the Goliath, and again failed to Gibraltar on the 14th of October, 1785. On his fecond return from thence, the Goliath was ftationed as a guard-ship at Portsmouth, and he retained the command of her during the ufual period. On the apprehended rupture with France in the year 1787, Sir Hyde was appointed to the Orion, of feventy-four guns; but the point in difpute being foon adjusted, the Orion was put out of commission, and Sir Hyde became unemploy. ed. He continued in retirement from the fervice till the month of May, 1790, when he received the command of the Bruniwick, of feventy four guns, on the profpect of a rupture with Spain; but this form foon fubfiding like the preceding, Sir Hyde again refigned his command. Hoftilities having commenced against France in the year 1793, Sir Hyde was, on the 1st of February, promoted to the rank of rear-admiral of the white, and accepted the ftation of firft captain to Lord Hood, who was appointed chief in command in the Mediterranean; he accordingly proceeded thither in the Victory, from which fhip he fome time afterwards removed into the St. George, and hoisted his flag as commander of a fquadron. On the 12th of April, 1794, he was advanced to be rear-admiral of the red, and on the 4th of June following, to be vice-admiral of the blue. Not long after he had been raised to the latter rank, he was prefent at the partial encounter with the French fleet, in which engagement the Ca Ira, of eighty guns, and the Cenfeur, of feventyfour, became prizes to Admiral (fince Lord) Hotham, who had fucceeded to the command in the Mediterranean On the 1st of June, 1795, Sir Hyde was further advanced to be vice-admiral of the red. No other very remarkable occurrence happened during his fervice in thofe feas, except a fecond fkirnih with the French fquaeron, on the 13th of July, in which l'Alcide, of leventy-four guns, furrendered, but was afterwards unfortunately blown up. Sir Hyde returned to England in the year 1796, and was very foon afterwards appointed to the Jamaica ftation, where, by the judicious arrangement of his cruifers, be mot materially annoyed the trade of the enemy Having remained there three years he returned to England, and was almost immediately appointed to a coms and in the Channel fleet. Nothing interesting occurred in this fpecies of fervice, neither are there any further particulars worth noticing till his appointment to the chief command of the fleet destined for the Baltic, on which occation he hoifted his flag on board the London. After the conclufion of the treaty, which the me morable engagement at Copenhagen produced, Sir Hyde ftruck his flag, fince which time he has not occupied any active fituation in the naval fervice of his country. On the 14th of February, 1799, he was raised to the rank of admiral of the blue fquadron; he was further promoted to be admiral of the white on the 23d of April, 1804; and, laftly, un the 9th of November, 1805, tu the fame rank in the red fquadron. Edward Eawards, efq. R A.-This gentleman was born in the parish of St Anne, Soho, in the year 1737. He had no confiderable advantage from a regular claffical education, being at first intended for a genteel mechanical employment, as best fuited to the limited means and profpects of his family; from whom, if he did not inherit for tune, he more happily derived an indepen dent spirit, which dignified his thoughts and actions through life. He fo availed himself, however, of opportunities, that he foon became well founded in general grammar of principles of language, and particularly the knowledge of the French tongue, m which he was thought to have acquired nearly the vernacular pronunciation. His weakly frame determined the figure of his body; and in proportion as this more and more manifested deformity, fo did the powers of his mind feemingly augment. Notwithstanding the many examples of this kind, befides that of the illuftrions Pope, it does not appear tha phyfiologifts have offered any thing explana tory or hypothetical on the fubject. Mar montel gives an account of a gentleman (M. Vauvenargue) whofe defect in fymmetry of body was amply compenfated by Ins extraur dinary mental endowments. Very early, however, Mr. Edwards thewed figns of a dif pofition favourable to the Sifter Arts That a predifpofition of mind exifts more ut leta |