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the eye of Cumberland the dramatist, and of Lord Abingdon. The latter gave him .some instruction in music. Not long after he was engaged by Tate Wilkinson of the York company, who, at first, obliged him to play youthful tragic characters-Romeo, Douglas, and the like; but when Mr. Thomas Knight left the company, Mr. Fawcett made a stipulation with the manager to perform only comic parts, finding himself most applauded in them.

In the York company he remained some time, and made great improvement. While there he married Mrs. Mills, a widow lady, and an actress.

Mr. Fawcett's comic talent becoming known to Mr. Harris of Covent Garden Theatre, that gentleman offered him an engagement, and he accordingly made his first appearance on the London boards Sept. 21st, 1791, as Caleb in "He would be a Soldier." The reception he met with was very promising. He was chiefly called upon to fill the parts at this Theatre which had been left vacant by the death of Edwin, a task which Jack Bannister was at the same time preferred to at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket. Both these actors were possessed of great original merit, which gave them title to distinct admiration. In a very short time Mr. Fawcett ingratiated himself into high favour with the public.

In 1794, when Bannister partly seceded from the Haymarket, he recommended Mr. Fawcett to.the manager as his substitute. Mr. Colman gave him some prominent characters to play, especially in his own comedies, which fitted cap-a-pie; thus author and actor assisted each other up the ladder of fame. Dr. Pangloss in "The Heir at Law," was the most perfect of these assumptions-Fawcett certainly excelled Jack Bannister in the performance of this character. Mr. Colman was so much pleased with it that he dedicated the comedy to him. Trudge was a part in which the palm of merit might be fairly divided between them.

In 1800 he became acting-manager of the Haymarket Theatre, which office he held until 1803, when, in consequence of a new arrangement in the time of opening the Theatre, he was succeeded by Mr. Elliston.

Mr. Fawcett was a member of the Covent Garden Company from the time he first appeared there till his departure from the stage, and for seventeen years he very ably filled the situation of stage-manager. The characters which he made almost entirely his own, and to which we shall always associate his name, were Job

Thornberry in "John Bull;" Sir Harry Beagle in "The Jealous Wife;" Sir Mark Chase in "A Rowland for an Oliver;" Trudge in "Inkle and Yarico;" Jack Arable in " Speculation ;" Dashall in “ The Way to Get Married;" Servitz in "The Exile;" Autolycus in "The Winter's Tale;" The Clown in "Twelfth Night;" Touchstone in "As You Like It;" Parolles in "All's Well that Ends Well;" Casca in “ Julius Caesar;" Caleb Quotem in "The Review;" Dr. Pangloss in the "Heir at Law;" Dr. Ollapod in "The Poor Gentleman;" Rolamo in " Clari;" and that rare old fellow Captain Copp, in "Charles the Second." He also played Falstaff with great ability.

Mr. Fawcett was very choice in his selection of parts, and attempted only those he was likely to play well; hence he always pleased by a constant nearness to perfection. In the Clowns and Fools of Shakspere he was without an equal; indeed there never were more perfect representations of Shakspere's creations; we give them the greatest of all praise by saying that the acting assimilated to an equality with the parts. Mr. Fawcett was an inimitable singer of comic songs; his words were wonderfully rapid, yet distinctly heard, and the vivacity of his spirits was in the highest degree exhilirating. We do not forget, too, what an excellent representative he was of the quick-tempered, warm-hearted old English gentleman. His acting was rough, but full of warmth and feeling.

On the 20th May 1830 Mr. Fawcett took leave of the stage, after performing his favourite character, Captain Copp. His farewell address to the audience was remarkable: we quote the greater part of it. "My trial," said he," has lasted thirty-nine years. Before summing up

it is usual to produce witnesses to character. I have a few, and I trust I may have the advantage of their testimony. The parish clerk and sexton of Windsor, one Caleb Quotem, wishes to say a word or two in my behalf. A learned tutor, an LL. D. and an A.S.S. Dr. Pangloss, has volunteered his services; an honest tradesmen from Penzance in Cornwall, Job Thornberry, believes he can induce you to think favourably of me; a worthy baronet, a great sportsman, though a sad invalid, Sir Mark Chase, would speak; and though last not least, my old friend from Wapping, Captain Copp, presses forward to entreat you to look kindly on me. I have many others, but will not trespass on your patience. And now, ladies and gentlmen, let me drop all as sumption of character; and as myself,

plain John Fawcett, let me from the bottom of my heart thank you for all your kindnesses. I have one great consolation in this trying moment, a gratification I can the more enjoy, because you my kind friends will partake in it: it is the unprecedented compliment which has been paid me by my brothers and sisters of my profession-they throng around me to bid me farewell.... Many of the brightest ornaments of the stage are now waiting to make their bow to you out of regard to an old comrade. Permit me to have the pride and happiness of introducing them, once more return you my grateful acknowledgments for all your kindness, and then make you my last bow."

The curtain drew up and presented the stage crowded with Mr. Fawcett's friends, he shook hands with them, one by one, and many were deeply affected. Miss Foote was moved to tears, and Mrs. Davenport in the excess of feeling could not refrain kissing him. The spectators, too, fully sympathised.

For many years Mr. Fawcett was treasurer of the Covent Garden Theatrical Fund, its best friend and warmest advocate. At the annual dinners of the Charity he made some eloquent and admirable speeches. In private life, as in his public function, he was an upright and honourable character, and fully supported the title of a gentleman. His manners were decidedly rough, but his heart was kind.

The immediate cause of Mr. Fawcett's death was mortification of the foot and leg, brought on by cutting a corn too near the quick. His first wife died in 1797, leaving a daughter. He afterwards married Miss Gawdry, by whom he had a family.

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Mr. Fawcett produced some little pantomimic dramas at Covent Garden and the Haymarket Theatres. Obi, or three-fingered Jack," the chief of these, was for some time very popular.

There are many portraits of Mr. Fawcett in the gallery of the late Charles Mathews; the best is by Clint as Captain Copp in the scene from Charles the Second.

Mr. Fawcett's father and son collected a valuable series of play-bills of Drury Lane and Covent Garden Theatres from 1774 to 1830. This collection was lately in the possession of the late Mr. Charles Mathews, and brought the sum of 32 guineas at the sale of his property.

CLERGY DECEASED.

At Cork, the Rev. George Armstrong, eldest brother of Andrew Armstrong, esq. of Enniskillen.

The Rev. Francis Armstrong, late Curate of Carlow.

In Leeds, aged 40, the Rev. James Crabtree, Assistant Curate of Illingworth, near Halifax. He was the youngest brother of the Rev. Wm. Crabtree, Fellow of Univ. coll. Oxf. and Rector of Checkendon, co. Oxford; entered as an exhibitioner at that college, 1817, and took the degree of M.A. 1821.

The Rev. Dr. Gannew, Fellow of Trinity college, Dublin.

At the Cove of Cork, the Rev. John Gore, Rector of Aghada, co. Cork.

Aged 71, the Rev. John Hunt, Rector of Toem, co. Tipperary.

At Tamworth, aged 38, the Rev. T. P. Lammin, Minister of the Free Grammarschool in that town.

At Milford, aged 27, the Rev. Nathaniel Levett, Curate of Hubberston, co. Pembroke. He entered as a Commoner of Jesus college, Oxford, in 1826; and graduated B. A. 1830, M.A. 1834.

The Rev. Robert Maguire, of St. Patrick's cathedral, Dublin.

Aged 63, the Very Rev. James Mahon, M.A., Dean of Dromore.

Aged 59, the Rev. William Mould, Vicar of Misterton, Notts, Grindley on the Hill, and West Burton, and for 35 years Master of the Free Grammarschool at Misterton. He was formerly Fellow of Peter-house, Camb. where he graduated B.A. 1800 as third Wrangler, M.A. 1803; was presented to Misterton vicarage in 1809 by the Dean and Chapter of York, and to West Burton in 1819 by D. Walters, esq.

March 13. At Flower Place, Surrey, aged 33, the Rev. Henry Walpole Neville, M. A. nephew to the Earl of Abergavenny, Rector of Burgh Apton, Norfolk and Otley, Suffolk. He was the second but eldest surviving son of the Hon Geo. Henry Neville, by Caroline, dau. of the late Hon. Richard Walpole; he was of Magdalen college, Cambridge, and was presented to both his livings by his uncle the Earl of Abergavenny, to Otley in 1831, and to Burgh Apton in 1832. ́ He married in 1833 Frances, youngest dau. of Sir Edmund Bacon, the premier Bart. of England.

March 16. At the manor-house, Stewkley, Bucks, aged 71, the Rev. William Wodley, Vicar of Swanbourne and Perpetual Curate of Soulbury, both in that county, and for many years a magistrate for Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire. He was of Wadham coll. Oxford, M. A. 1789; was presented to Swanbourne (in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor) in 1792; and to Soulbury in 1808, by Lady Lovett.

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April 21. In the 85th year of his age, highly esteemed and respected, the Rev. George Jepson, A.M. of Emman. Coll. Cantab. Prebendary of St. Botolph, in Lincoln Cathedral, installed in 1781, and was Senior Prebendary in England. His father William Jepson, esq. Procuratorgeneral, was Registrar of the Diocese, and Clerk of the Fabric, &c. at Lincoln Cathedral, the Dean and Chapter of which, out of the numerous small livings of which they have the advowson, gave his son (the deceased) the Vicarages of Hainton, Normanby, Glentham, and a Senior Vicarship Choral in Lincoln Cathedral, the Perpetual Curacies of Ashby Puerorum, St. Peter at the Gowts, and St. Botolph in the city of Lincoln, the last in his own presentation as prebendary. He was besides half-pay chaplain to his Majesty's 82d regiment of foot, all which obtained for him the odium, without the value, of a pluralist. His livings did not average 1007. a year each, the half of which always went to a Curate; so that at the most his income amounted to no more than 4007. per annum, for which up to bis 70th year he did three duties every Sunday, and twice a day at the Cathedral every fourth week. He had descended from him in his life-time, children, grandchildren, and great-grand-children, seventy-two persons, equal to the family the patriarch took into Egypt.

DEATHS.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.

Jan... Mrs. A. C. Holbrook, authoress of the Dramatist and Realities and Reflections.

March 15. At the house of his father, in Upper Gower-st. aged 35, Wm. Northage, jun. esq. of Southampton.

March 19. In Great George-st. Westminster, in his 70th year, Alexander Mundell, esq. solicitor.

March 20. In Cadogan-pl. M. E. Fell, esq. late a Captain in the Leicestershire militia, youngest son of the late Rev. Dr. Fell, Rector of Brereton, Cheshire.

March 21. Mr. Joseph Booker, of New Bond-street, bookseller. He had been for twenty-six years General Secretary to the Associated Roman Catholic Charities in London. After a funeral service performed on the 28th in the chapel, St. John's Wood, his body was interred in Paddington churchyard.

March 22. At Connaught-sq. aged eight months, Caroline Mary, infant dau. of Lieut.-Col. the Hon. Edw. Stopford.

March 23. In his 80th year, George Evans Bruce, esq. of Wilton-crescent. Aged 35, Horatio Wightman, esq. seGENT. MAG. VOL. VII.

cond son of the late W. Wightman, esq. of the Inner Temple.

March 25. In Lower Berkeley-st. in her 15th year, the Hon. Maria Louisa Priscilla Fane, eldest daughter of Lord Burghersh.

At Blackheath, aged 78, Capt. George Kempster, late R. Mar.

March 26. Aged 79, Mary Ann, wife of R. Rosser, esq. of Red Lion-sq.

In Oxford-st. aged 23, Elizabeth-Ann, wife of John T. Kelsall, esq. only surviving dau. of the late Rear-Adm. G. H. Stephens.

In Portland-pl. Chas. Jas. Vyner, esq. March 27. În Delahay-st. Westminster, aged 24, Georgiana, wife of Charles F. F. Wordsworth, esq. barrister-at-law.

March 28. Aged 22, Charlotte-Elizabeth, fourth dau. of Sir Charles Price, Bart.

In Berkeley-st. Gwynn Gill Vaughan, esq. of Jordanstone, Pemb.

At Balham-hill, London, Mrs. Charlotte Peers, only surviving dau. of the late Charles Peers, esq. of Chislehampton Lodge, Oxfordshire.

March 29. Aged 71, George Vanderzee, esq. F. S. A. First Secondary in the King's Remembrancer's-office.

March 30. At Connaught-pl. Mary widow of the Hon. and Right Rev. G. Pelham, Bishop of Lincoln. She was the 3d dau. of the Rev. Sir Richard Rycroft, Bart. by Penelope, youngest dau. of the Rev. Richard Stonehewer, LL.D. was married Dec. 14, 1792, and left a widow Feb. 7, 1827, without children.

During the performance of service, at the Wesleyan Chapel, Deptford, Lieut. James Sexford, R. N.

Lately. In Langham-place, aged 89, the widow of the Rev. H. Wilder, D.D. of Purley-hall, Berks.

Aged 55, Mary, wife of John Vale, esq. of Hertford-st. May Fair, eldest dau. of the late James Woodward, esq. of Moormill, near St. Alban's.

In Upper Bedford-pl. John Towgood, esq. of the firm of Rogers and Towgood, bankers; and brother-in-law of Samuel Rogers, esq.

April 1. In Lambeth-terrace, in her 75th year, Sarah Gurr, widow of A. Whitehead, esq.

In St. James's-pl. Arthur Mower, M.D. April 2. In Wyndham-place, aged 71, Elizabeth, wife of W. Abbot, esq.

April 3. William Simmons, esq. an Equity draftsman. He was called to the bar, at the Middle Temple, Feb. 9, 1827.

April 5. In Tavistock-pl. aged 85, Thomas Hasker, esq. late Inspector of the Mail Coaches.

April 7. In his 64th year, Mr. William 2 B

Eusebius Andrews, editor of the " Orthodox Journal," &c. He is the third of the London Roman Catholic booksellers who have died within six weeks.

At Notting-hill, aged 83, Ann, widow of J. Champain, esq.

April 8. Aged 68, David Jones, esq. formerly of the Ingrossing Office, House of Commons.

April 10. In South Audley-st. aged 84, the Hon Mrs. Anne Vernon, elder sister of the Archbishop of York.

At Hampstead-heath, on a visit to her son-in-law Mr. Hart Davis, jun. aged 77, Lady Elizabeth- Eleanor, relict of MajorGen. Thomas Dundas, of Fingask, and half-sister to the Earl of Home. She was the only dau. of Alexander the ninth and late Earl by his first wife the Hon. Primrose Elphinstone; was married in 1784, and left a widow in 1794.

April 11. In his 58th year, Jenkin Jones, esq. of Hendon, Managing Director of the Phoenix Fire office, to which he was attached for more than 40 years.

At North-end, Fulham, aged 68, Wm. Jones, esq. many years chief cashier at the Paymaster-general's Office.

At Walworth, at the house of her brother-in-law the Rev. Dr. Ackland, Eliz. abeth Clinton, widow of Chas. Benson, esq. April 12. In Gloucester-st. Queen'ssq. aged 73. Elizabeth, wife of Jerome, Comte de Solages, of Carmaux, Lan. guedoc.

April 16.

16. At Upper Wimpole-street, aged 84, Mrs. Fraser Tytler, widow of the Hon. A. F. Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, one of the Senators of the College of Justice, and one of the Lords Commissioners of Justiciary, in Scotland.

April 18. At Vimiera, Wandsworthroad, aged 70, Amy, relict of the late Edw. H. Bockett, esq. of South Lambeth.

April 19. In Lower Grosvenor-street, the Right Hon. Hester-Elizabeth, dowager Lady Selsey. She was the dau. of Geo. Jennings, esq. by Lady Mary de Burgh, dau. of Michael 10th Earl of Clanricarde, was married in 1784, and left a widow in 1816, having had issue the present Lord Selsey, two other sons and two daughters, of whom the Hon. and Rev. J. W. Peachey and the wife of the Rev. L. V. Vernon are the survivors. Her Ladyship died in consequence of being dreadfully burnt.

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Westbrook, esq. formerly an active magistrate for the county.

April 18. Mrs. Wise, widow of the Rev. Dr. Wise, Vicar of St. Lawrence, Reading.

BUCKS.-April 1. At Salt-bill, aged 81, J. March, esq.

CAMBRIDGE.-April 11. Aged 22, Edward Bryant Burgess, esq. of St. John's coll. Camb. eldest son of the late Edw. Burgess, esq. of Waltham Abbey.

CHESHIRE.-March 10. At Toft-hall, aged 61, Susanna, widow of Ralph Leycester, esq. She was the eldest dau. of the Rev. Egerton Leigh, Archdeacon of Salop, by Theodosia, dau. of Ralph Leycester, esq. was married to her cousin in 1797, and had a numerous family.

CORNWALL.-March 11. At Bodmin, aged 66, William James, esq. Plas Neroyd, land agent. Mr. J. formerly resided in Warwick, and was a native of Henleyin-Arden, where his father practised as an attorney for many years. He was a member of the Geological and other scientific Societies. He was the original projector of the Manchester and Liverpool and other Railways, and may with truth be considered as the father of the railway system, as he surveyed numerous lines at his own expense, at a time when such an innovation was generally ridiculed.

Lately. At Helston, aged 45, George Simon Borlase, esq. F.R.S. a Deputy Lieut. for the county.

DEVON.-March 16. At Newton Abbot, aged 55, Thomas Flamank, esq. formerly of E.I.C.'s Maritime Service, and late one of the feoffees of the parish of Wolborough.

March 17. At Laira House, near Plymouth, in his 22nd year, John, only child of John Johnson, esq. of the Plymouth Granite Works, and one of the present Sheriff's of London.

March 20.

At Exmouth, ElizabethMary, wife of Rear-Adm. Clay.

At Budleigh Salterton, Caroline, wife of the Rev. Wm. Knight, of Steventon Rectory, Hants.

At Ashburton, aged 40, Robert Palk Mogridge, esq. a highly respectable surgeon.

March 26. Aged 80, Thomas Yelverton, esq. of Ven- Ottery Farm.

Lately. At Stoke, aged 76, Lieut.Col. Edward Cornwallis Moncrieffe, late Major of the 3d Royal Veteran Battalion.

At Dawlish, aged 31, after a long and painful illness, James Sheridan, esq. son of the late James Sheridan, esq. M.D. of Dublin.

April 2. At Exeter, aged 81, Mrs. Francis Stephens, sister of the late Rear Adm. Stephens, of Great Ealing.

April 3. At the rectory, Chagford, aged 81, Grace, relict of John Hames, esq. of Croydon, dau. of George Hayter, esq. of Highgate, and niece to the late Thomas Hayter, Bishop of London.

April 12. At Falkedon, aged 74, George Lambert Gorwyn, Gent. one of the oldest and largest agriculturists of the county.

April 20. At Priorton, aged 52, Elias Tremlett, esq.

DORSET.-March 25. At Lyme Regis, aged 64, Caroline, wife of Chas. Marr, esq. DURHAM.-Feb. 20. At his father's residence, Stoneham cottage, near Durham, aged 28, Mr. William Anthony Has tings, second son of Edmund Hastings, esq. late of Alfred-pl. Bedford-sq. This promising young artist had attained a great proficiency in historical and poetical painting, grounded upon a diligent study of anatomical drawing: and had already acquired considerable employment in portraiture, when he was attacked with the illness which, after a lingering continuance of four years, has brought him to a premature grave.

ESSEX.-March 15. Elizabeth, wife of the Rev. J. P. Budworth, of High Laver, eldest dau. of the Rev. T. Darby, of Shelley.

March 20. At Little Hedingham, aged 81, Mary, relict of the Rev. John Swaine, formerly of Stretham, in the Isle of Ely, the eldest sister of the late W. F. Finch, esq. of Little Shelford.

March 28. At Westwood-house, near Colchester, Henry James Humphrys, esq. barrister-at-law. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple, June 6, 1824.

April 16. At Snaresbrook-house, aged 86, James Scratton, esq. one of his Majesty's Deputy Lieutenants for the county.

GLOUCESTER.-Feb. 19. At Cirencester, aged 84, William Lawrence, esq.

At Cheltenham, aged 27, the Hon. Letitia Dillon, sister to Lord Clonbrock.

Feb. 22. At Woodhouse, Tockington, John Lewsley Codrington, esq. second son of the late Wm. Codrington, esq. of Wroughton, Wilts.

Feb. 23. At Clifton, Sarah, relict of John Hart, esq formerly banker of Bristol.

March 1. At Clifton, Sophy, wife of Capt. Barry Fox, of Annaghmon, King's County.

March 4. At Cheltenham, aged 65, Ellen Montgomery, wife of James Kershaw, esq. and mother of the Rev. G. W. Kershaw, M. A. of Worcester coll.

March 13. At Tormarton, in her 10th year, Charlotte- Cecilia-Anne-Elizabeth, third dau. of Lord William Somerset.

March 22. Susan, only dau. of Wm. Moncrieffe, M.D. late of Bristol, and sister of the Rev. D. S. Moncrieffe, M.A. Rector of Loxton, Som.

March 24. At Clifton, in his 45th year, Lieut. Nicholas Chapman, R. N. who had for several years commanded one of the St. George's Company's Steam Vessels between Bristol and Dublin.

March 26. At Clifton, Sarah, widow of John Armstrong, M.D. of Russell-sq. London. April 7. At Chipping Sodbury, in her 93d year, Isabella, widow of Rev. Christopher Nicholls, Vicar of Old Sodbury.

April 9. At Oddington House, Miss Reade, eldest surviving dau. of late Sir John Reade, Bart. and sister to Sir J. C. Reade, Bart.

April 20.

At Clifton, Valetta, widow of Capt. Edmund Sparrow, 1st Bombay Cavalry.

HANTS-Feb. 19. At Basingstoke, aged 85, Elizabeth, rel. of Joshua Macklin, and dau. of the late Edm. Moody, esq. of Southampton.

Feb. 25. At Newport, Isle of Wight, aged 71, Robert, the eldest and only surviving brother of Elizabeth Walbridge, the "Dairyman's Daughter," whose menoir, by the Rev. L. Richmond, has been translated into many languages. He was first induced to think seriously from an attendance on the preaching of the Rev. J. Wesley, when on a visit to the island in 1790; and afterwards became a preacher himself in that connexion, and so continued upwards of forty years. He was interred in Arreton church-yard, where also rest the remains of his exemplary sister. Lately. At Botley, Anne, relict of Capt. Dodgin.

At Southampton, John M'Roberts, esq. M D.

Capt.-Lieut. Sims, Royal Marines, by whose death that rank has become extinct.

At Brashfield House, Hants, at an advanced age, W. G. Jennings, esq. an amateur landscape-painter of considerable skill.

March 12. At Newport, I. W. in his 90th year, after a short illness, Sir Rich. Bassett, of the firm of Bassett, Roe, and Blachford. Sir Richard was for more than 40 years a very active magistrate, and retained his faculties to the last.

March 18. At Tichfield, Sarah, wife of Richard Missing, esq. barrister-at-law. March 20. Aged 33, Caroline, wife of the Rev. Wm. Knight, Rector of Steventon, Hants.

In her 70th year, Martha Charlotte,

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