Vol. LXXI. p. 1208. Instead of "Mr. Langton married, 1769," r. "1770." The manfion-house is neither "fituated at Spilby," nor is it "supposed to have been built in the beginning of the laft century;" for it is fituated at Langton, near Spilfby, and is fuppofed to have been built in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Mr. L. did not give the rectory of Langton to Dr. Uvedale. Dr. Uvedale was prefented to the rectory in 1762, by the late Mr. Langton's father, who offered the living to Dr. Johnfon; but he objected to taking orders. Mr. L, for fome years, gave up the use of his houfe at Langton to Dr. Uvedale, who, with his family, occupied the whole manfion; and Dr. U. accommodated Mr. L's mother with the use of his parfonage. P. 1215. Mr. Duckett had been employed in the Duke of Newcastle's garden at Clermont, and was, by the Duchefs, after the Duke's decease, appointed to direct a farm the had belonging to a houfe fhe had taken on the fide of the Thames, oppofite to Richmond. "Early in the execution of his truft," fays our correfpondent vol. LX. p. 296, " it occurred to him, that wheat might be sown in equidistant rows in the fame manner that many plants are in gardens. With this view he contrived a plough which cut five drills at equal diftances, the drills being nine inches àfunder. When he had thus drilled the field, he fowed the corn by hand, and found that it fell regularly into the bottoms of the drills, allowing half the quantity of feed ufually fown, The grain being covered with a harrow, it grew regularly in rows. In order to get rid of the weeds which fprang up in the intervals between the rows, be contrived five hoe, on a beam, fo light that a man could draw them; and by this means he cut the weeds. The weeds which came up among the corn he caused to be plucked up by hand; and thus he had the fatisfaction of viewing his crop in beautifal order. Mr Duckett at this time hired Ham farm on the oppofite fide of the Thames on his own account. This farm is of fo light and fandy a foil, that the richness of the manure laid on the land is foon washed through it. This conftant and almoft useless expence of manure ruined the former farmers, who, in order to obtain fome advantage, laid the land down in grass. In this condition Mr. Duckett took poffeffion of the farm. It occurred to him, that if the land was ploughed, laying the fward in the bottom of each furrow, the matted roots of the grafs would not only entangle the prolific Juices of the manure, but would alfo draw down the roots of the corn to that nowenriched pasture, if I may exprefs it fo. Here the roots would alfo be protected from the immediate drying force of winds, and the fcorching heat of the fummer fun. In order to effect this, he contrived a trenching plough, which firft cut off the fward, and laid it flat in the bottom of the tional plough on the fame beam, covered former furrow, and then, with the addiit with a fufficient depth of mould. He then gave it a stirring with a three coultered plough, also of his own invention. The land being thus prepared, e drilled and fowed his corn as already mentioned, and reaped plentiful crops. Before the corn goes into ear the intervals are hoed for the last time, the earth being laid to the roots of the corn, to give greater stability to the items, and thereby prevent their being of effential fervice on another account. It liable to be lodged. This laft hoeing is is about this time that the corn fhoots out the last roots, near the furface of the land; and if the furface is fo hard and dry that thefe roots cannot pierce into it, the plant withers and dies. This lofs happens more frequently than is generally imagined, becaufe few farmers have heard of this caufe. This misfortune never happens on Mr. Duckett's farm, the fward remains busied till he obferves that it no longer has any effect. When, by repeated trials, Mr. Duckett had afcertained the fuccefs of his for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. of improvements, he informed the Society three-coultered plough are now in their what he had done; and his trenching and repofitory, for public inspection: but this having paffed before the Society began to publish their Tranfactions, there is no authentic account of his experiments givent to the publick. It is very happy, for the benefit of ingenious farmers who wish to be fully inftructed in his practice, that he is ftill living, [1790] and is of a most communicative difpofition; and, as I have not had lately the pleasure of seeing his farms, he may have made other improvements. The prefent of a piece of plate, with an infcriplate Marquis of Rockingham made him a tion on it that does honour to Mr. Duckett and to his lordship. During the course of in March a prefent of what was called thefe experiments, Mr. Duckett received Spring-wheat. He fowed it at the time he received it; it came up well; and, being though fown fo late in the feafon. It did regularly hoed, it yielded a good crop, not all germinate at the fame time, and therefore did not all ripen at the fame time, owing, he fuppofed, to fome injury nowed, the grain that was not ripe was part of it had received. When it was winfmall and thrivelled, which he kept apart for his poultry. Having occafion to fow fome winter tares, he mixed with them fome of the fbrivelled corn, in order to fee whether it would grow. At harveft, he found that the thrivelled grains produced as ftrong tems, and yielded as plump corn, as his common wheat." P. P. 1116. To the lift of Mr. Hurdis's works fhould be added "Lectures on Poetry," printed at his own prefs, and publifhed in numbers, price 2s. 6d. each, but foon difcontinued for want of purchasers. Vol. LXXII. p. 82. Mr. Payne left property to the amount of 300,000l.; and ge mercufly bequeathed to his youngest brother (partner with Cox and Curtis, porter-brewers), who has a family of 11 children, the fum of rool. An eftate, which he had purchafed for 5000l. after the execution of his will, fell to his next brother (with whom he had been at variance many years) as heir-at-law. The executors named in the will, we are informed, refused to act. P. 86. Mr. Lumifden had refided 20 years at Rome, 18 at Paris, and the remainder of his days in his own country, respected, admired, and beloved by his numerous friends, for his amiable qualities as a man, correct taste in the fine arts, and diftinguished talents as a scholar. P. 88. John Vaux, efq. was defcended from an antient and refpectable family in Bedfordshire, of that name. He was born in 1735, and at an early age was placed with his paternal uncle, who at that time kept a refpectable academy at Greenwich; a man no lefs celebrated for his uniform and upright conduct, than for his excellence in penmanship, and was juftly deemed one of the best writers of his day. Under the fostering care of fo able a tutor, the difciple became initiated in the paths of rectitude and found morality. Early in life he discovered a found mind, with many traits of mechanical genius, ever reftless till he had acquired a perfect knowledge of thofe fubjects in which he interested himself. In the correctnefs of his calculations, Mr. V. may be said to have food unrivalled; for few men, perhaps, posfeffed a more perfect knowledge of arithmeric; his tables and folutions are invaJuable, fome of them containing many thousand figures. As a commercial man, his character stood high and unimpeached; and, in the respectable manufactory which •he conducted, was admitted one of its moft fcientific judges. Throughout all his domestic arrangements, we view in him an example and a perfect model of good nefs. A more prominent feature of parent attention and folicitude for the welfare of his family never exifted; and his amiable manners at once ftamped him the gentleman, parent, friend, and pleafing companion. "Here," fays the author of this article, "a tear efcapes, bringing to my recollection the many infances of happiness I have experienced in his That an uncle of Mr. V. was an univerfal penman at that period is an undoubted fact, having feen many of his pieces that were published in his life time; but our correfpondent is not quite certain to his being the mafter of the academy at Greenwich. fociety, and liftened to his obfervations with admiration. Walking with him. one evening laft Summer, the converfation turning on religion, thefe emphatic words fell from his lips," Every man should live to-day, as if he were to die to-mor⚫ row!" His mind was fully ftored with charitable and humane fentiments. In the little Hamlet + where he refided, by his exemplary conduct, he became as it were the guardian of the place; affiduous in inveftigating, and always proud of the opportunity of redreffing the wrongs of the injured; his happiness was never more complete than when giving his advice and affistance to the relief of his fellow-creatures. In hin the poor will experience an irreparable lofs: his foul, which knew no wrong, was religiously alive to those duties enjoined by his Crestor. The conftant remembranee of the excellent religious and moral character of fuch a man will ever live, although he be no more, in the memory of all thofe who had the pleasure of being acquainted with him; and happy would be the fate of mortals, were all men to live and die like him. H.W. P. 90. That remarkable and valuable member of fociety, the late Father O'Lea ry, to the profound scholar added the cheerful companion, and tempered the folemnity of wifdom with the vivacity of wit; and these qualities were fo well mixed up in him, that Mr. Pratt has made use of them in his novel of "Family Secrets," under the character of Father Arthur; the portrait of whom being acknowledged to be a striking likeness of the mind and perfon of the excellent O'Leary, we have great pleasure in copying.-"This diftinguished Friar was defcended from an antient and once-powerful family: in the kingdom of Ireland; but, in the revolu tions of that country, had long been deprived of hereditary property. The perfonal fortune, however, of his parents enabled them to give their fon a private education, and to fend him into foreign countries to extend his knowledge, as the poffibility of further improvement was denied him in his own, through the defpotism of penal laws.-Having completed his ftudies, he difcovered in his mind a strong bias to a religious life, and indulged it by entering into the communion of the Holy Order of St. Francis. On his ordination, he was appointed chaplain to a regiment, but was removed, and forfeited a penfion, because he would not comply with the requifition of a foreign fovereign, to enlift in his fervice the subjects of the king of his own country; a practice which had continued fince the formation of a code of ftatutes which prohibited them from the military + Tower Hamlet, from its contiguity to, generally called Spitalfields. fervice fervice of their own monarch, Father Arthur connected the wifdom of the world with the innocence of paftoral, and even of primitive manners. His benevolence was of the most unaffected kind; his piety fervid and fincere; his manners the most winning and artlefs, anticipating his goodwill and urbanity before he opened his Lips; and when they were opened, his expreffions did but ratify what thofe manners had before enfured. And you had a farther earnest of this in the benign and in effable fmile of a countenance fo little practifed in guile, that it at the fame time invited to confidence, and denoted an impoffibility of your being betrayed. But if his fmile beckoned the worthy to approach, his frown ftruck terror into the heart of the guilty, and made him dread to advance. Sir Guife had more than once felt its potency. His voice was fonorous, hold, and nervous, correfponding with the manly and fterling fente it imparted. He had ftudied with labour, and written with eafe and energy. His reafoning was found, and his love of liberty a steady light, rather than a tranfient blaze; rather the vital principle of an honeft mind, confcious of its rights, than the ravings of a factious fpirit, infected by popular phrenzy. All he faid, and all he did, was genuine, even to his moft trifling fports. Toader will therefore prejudge the zeal of his devotion; it was glowing, without papiftic rage; and earnest, without catholic prejudice. Our refpectable Franciscan dif The what is farther faid of him in the following paffage of the fourth volume: "Such was the blameless prieft, who is known to have long confidered himself as an advocale pleading for the Proteftant in France, and for the Jew in Lifbon, as well as for the Catholic in Ireland; the patriot, whose loyalty is found; the philanthropist, who,' clothing humanity in the robes of eloquence, employed his voice and pen in exhorting mankind to lay afide all religions diftinctions, fince it was equal to the Ifraelite, releafed from bondage, whether his temple was built by Solomon or by Cyrus, provided he had liberty to pray unmolested, and to fleep under his own vine." P.94. Major Winter, who expired while entering the feffions-houfe for the purpofe of giving evidence on the trial of Governor Wall, is ftated in the papers to have been fubpoenaed on the part of the Crown. Such was not the fact; he was called forward by the prifoner, to the great furprise of himfelf and all thofe who were acquainted with the ternis on which thofe gentlemen had lived while at Goree.-The Governor's body was given to his relations upon their paying 50 guineas to the Philanthropic Society; and his remains were interred in the churchyard of St. Pancras, attended by the perfon in Tottenham Court road at whofe houfe Wall had lodged under the name of Thompfon, and three other perfons. 1802. BIRTHS. T Shenftone, co. Warwick, covered the cloyfter in his drefs and de- Jan 25.A the wife of Jno. Creynton, portment; not that he firft exhibited his gown of cearfe ferge, his cord, or his rofary, but that his out-of fashion fait of fables hung upon him fomewhat monafti. cally; and the latter was ftately and inflexible enough to have characterised the Fellow of one of our colleges. He was nearly fix feet high; a perfect perpendicular, with a kind of rigour in his mufcles that feemed to fuffer from bending; there was, of courfe, a formality in his bows, and this, in fome meafure, extended to his addrefs; but an original vein of humour, and quaint jocularity, rendered him gay with the (prigh ly, in the fame proportion that his more folid powers made him fedate with the grave. It was fercely poffible to meet a perfon fo univerfally acceptable to all ranks of people; his fociety was fought and appreciated by men and women of all perfuafions, and his life, in all its changes, from the monk in his cell to the man of the world, from the focial friend to the folitary reclufe, had been fo unfpotted and blameless, that to boaft an acquaintance with Father Arthur was an honour, and to poffefs that honour without love and veneration impoffible." In a word, this venerable man not only defer ves the character here given of him in the body of the work above quoted, but also efq. a fon. In Buckingham-ftreet, Fitzroy-fqu. Mrs. Menzier, a fon. The wife of Gardner Eggington, efq. of Hall, two fons. 26 In Upper Berkeley-ftree:, the wife of the Rev. Mr. Beville, a fon. 27. At Southgate, the wife of James Da riell, jun. efq, a daughter. 28. In John-Ar. Bedford-row, the wife of Edward Bufh, efq. a daughter, A: Khyde's-hill, near Guildford, the wife of George De Billinghurtt, efq. a daughter. 2). In Harley-ite the wife of Wm. Gore Langton, efq M. P. for the county of Somerfet, a fon. At Kelham-house, the wife of J. C. Gi rardot, a fon. At York, the wife of the Rev. John Preston, of Flatby, a daughter. 30. At Drum-houfe, near Edinburgh, Lady Mary Hay, a daughter. The wife of John Anticy, efq, of Glancelter-place, Portman-fquare, a daughter. Lately, At Acton Reynold Hall, co. Salop, the wife of Andrew Corbet, elq. a daugh. Mrs. King, the lady of the American Minifter, a fon. In Manchester-square, the lady of Sir Henry Lambert, bart. a fon. At Quorn, co. Leicester, the Countess of Sefton, a daughter. 13. In Portland-place, Lord Sinclair, to Mifs Chisholme, only dau. of James C. efq. 14. Mr. Wm. Dempster, of Tower-ftr. to Mifs Eliz. Newby, of Earl-ft. Black-friers. 15. By special licence, Cha. F. Egan, efq. late of the royal artillery, to Mifs Anne The wife of Timothy Tyrrell, efq. City- Boteler, only daughter of John Palmer B. efq. remembrancer, a daughter. Feb. I. In Stanhope-ftreet, the wife of Bamber Gascoyne, efq. of Childwall, a dau. 2. In Manchester-fqu, the wife of Wm. Dawfon, efq. a daughter. 3. The wife of T. Butler, efq. of Hambledon, Hants, à fon. 5. At Edinburgh, the wife of Charles Badham, efq. of London, a daughter. At Hampstead, the wife of Tho. Neave, ely. a fon. 7. At Blackheath, the wife of the Rev. Profeffor, Lloyd, of Cambridge, a daughter. The wife of John Delme, efq. of Cam'shall, Hants, a daughter. 8. At Rofe-castle, the lady of the Bishop of Carlisle, a dangh. being her 13th child. At Chigwell vicarage, in Effex, the wife of the Rev. Thomas Layton, a fʊn. 14. In Weymouth-ftr. the wife of Geo. Dornen, efq. a for. 15. At her father's houfe, the wife of A. C. Sober, efq. a ftill-born daughter. 17. The wife of John Blencowe, efq. of Lynn, Norfolk, a daughter. 18. In Guildford-ft eet, the wife of James Mackintosh, efq. a fon. At Bushey-park, Mrs. Jordan, a fon, MARRIAGES. Tthe Lord Juftice Clerk's, late of Paradife-houfe, Henley-upon-Tham. 16. Wm. Smith, efq of Barking, Effex, to Mifs Manley, eldest dau. of John M. elq. of Bloomsbury-square; also, Wm. Lowe, efq. of the Inner Temple, to Miís Eliza Manley,' fecond daughter of the faid John M. efq. 17. At Faversham, the Rev. Tho. Timms, curate of Walmer, co. Kent, to Mrs. Judith Simpfon, widow of the late Major S. and daughter of Rear-admiral Robert Keeler. 18. Richard Webb, efq. of Pall Mall, to Mifs Harriet White, of Plashet, Effex. 23. Rev. Charles Wapshaw, of Salisbury, to Mifs Dyneley, daughter of Robert D. efq. of Bloomsbury-fquare. 24. Harry Bifshopp, efq. el left fon of Col. B. and grandfon of the late old Sir Cecil B. bart. to Mifs Badcock, of Baker.str. Portman-fquare, with a fortune of 50,000 1. DEATHS, 1801. May 11. of the 5th West India regiment, formerly of Glasgow. T Belize, in the Bay of Hon A duras, Lieut. Wm. Gould, June... At Calcutta, Mr. John Wilfon, merchant there, late of Glafgow. Sept... On the island of St. Helena, Nathanael Kennedy, efq. late forekeeper at that fettlement. 22. On the island of Dəminica, the Rev. Jato?? A Edinburgh, James Boyd, efq. David Richie, a native of Perth. He had to Mifs Douglas, eldest daughter of the late Lieut.-gen. D. of the 5th dragoon-guards. Feb. 1. James Morton, M.D. to Mifs Thorpe, both of Huntingdon. 2. Monf. Pugin, of Edward-street, Portman-fquare, to Mifs Catharine Welby, dau, of Wm. W. efq. of Iflington. 3. Mr. Samuel Young, of North Audleyfr. to Mifs Biggs, of Drury-lane Theatre. 4. Edw. Warten, efq. of Guildford-ftr. fon of the late Dr. W. to Mifs Louifa Smith, daughter of Robert S. efq. of BafinghallAtreet. 5. Charles Ker, efq. of Calder Bank, in Lanarkshire, to Mifs Marion Sharp, daughter of Francis S. efq. comptroller of the customs at Leith. 8. James Du Bois, efq. of Alderman'swalk, Moorfields, to Mifs Amelia-Maria Stone, daugh, of Robert S. efq. of Brixtonhoufe, Surrey. 9. At Lewibam, Kent, James Walker, efq. to Mifs Apollonia Larkins. 10. Ifaac D'Ifraeli, efq. of the Adelphi, to Mifs Bafevi, of Billiter-fquare. II. At Havant, Capt. Pritzler, of the zift dragoons, and major of brigade to the forces, to Mifs Newland, daughter of Bingham N. efq. of Rotherfield-paik. been appointed rector of Rofeau, on that ifland, and fell a victim to the climate foon. after his landing to take, poffeffion of his rectoriate. 28. At Fort Haldane, Jamaica, Lieut. Thomas Ponton, fon of Mr. Alex. P. architect at Edinburgh. 08..... At Honduras, Major Vifcher, of the 6th West India regiment. 31. At Montego bay, Jamaica, Dr. Rober Rocheford, and Mr. John Bull. Nov.... At the fame place, aged 103, Mr. John Demeties. At Vere, Jamaica, Mrs, Sufannah Anderfon, wife of the Hon. Thomas A. At Falmouth, Jamaica, Richard Birch, efq. late of Kingston. At her father's pen in Liguanea, Mifs Elizabeth Burke Leigh, youngest daughter, of Thomas L efq. At St. Anne's, in Jamaica, William Merrifield, efq. At St. Jago de la Vega, Lieut. A. Matthews, of the 20th light dragoons.-Dr. Andrew Dawson. I. At Kingston, Jamaica, Lieut. James Cunningham, of the roj al navy. 4. At the fame place, in his 21ft year, Mr. Mr. John Hamilton, eldest fon of John H. efq. lord provost of Glasgow. 5. At Martha Brae, Lieut. Oftman, of the ift battalion 60th foot. Dec. 6. Of the yellow fever, Thomas Mills, efq. fecretary to Rear admiral Montague, commander in chief on the Jamaica tation, and purfer of the Topaze frigate. 13. On the inland of Martinique, Mrs. Mary Woodyear, wife of William W. efq. comptroller of the customs at Fort Royal. 17. At Malta, John Elphinstone, efq. captain of the fleet under the comm. d of Lord Keith, on the Mediterranean ftation. 24. At Bourdeaux, aged 106, M. Dieudonné Gregoire, a furgeon-dentist, born at Mount Libanam. 28. A, Zurich, in Switzerland, John Cafper Ziegler, a young artiff, whose engravings, of claffic fcenery in particular, are well known in this country. 29. At the manfe of Forgue, the Rev. Wm. Dingwall, minifter of Forgue. 1802. Jan 4. Aged 66, the Rev. Henry Gabell, rector of Stanlake, co. Oxford, formerly fellow of Magdalen college, in whose gift the living is, and who prefented him to it on the death of Matthew Horbery. He was also an active magiftrate of the county till his death. His memory has a claim on the esteem of posterity, if the long practice of all that is virtuous in this life entitles a man "to be had in remembrance." 7. At Fellow-hills, Berwickshire, the wife of Thomas Ancrum, éfq. 8. In Hereford ftreet, May-fair, aged 77, Robert Udney, efq a gentleman much diftinguished for his tafte in the fine arts, and ranked with our heft judges of painting, for which beautiful art he had a found tafte, ard poffelled a very fine collection of pictures. He was a man of general information, great liberality, and a very hofpitable difpofition; indeed, he was one of the old breed of true Engrith gentlemen, which feems to be nearly exhausted, and loft amidit the frivoloos vanny and impertinence of the pretent race of our counti y men. At Berkeley, of a consumption, aged 19, Mifs Whitfield; and, on the following day, of the fame complaint, aged 17, her fifter, Mis S. Whitfield; the only children of Mrs. W. of that place. At Glafcow, Mrs. Helen M'Alifter, dau. of the late Baille M‘A. of Ronnachan. 12 Aged 64, Mr. J. Chethero. of Lynn. 13. At Jerfey, the widow. Dr. Heriot. At his Loufe in the parish of Tidenham, co. Gloucetter, in his 70th year, the Rev. William Seyes, M. A. upwards of 30 years vicar of that parish, and of Chepftow, co. Monmouth, perpetual curate of St. Arvan, in Monmouthshire, and in the commiffion of the peace for both counties. He had converfed a few minutes before his death with a neighbour, who paid him a moining-vifit; after whofe departure he retired to his room, where he was found fpeechlefs. Medical aid was immediately called. in, but too late to restore him. Aged 73, Mr. Davies Cox, formerly a grocer in Red Lion ftreet, Barbican; and,' on the 22d, his remains were interred in the centre of the new Methodist meeting at the Chace-fide, Enfield, of which he had been the endower and patron. 14. At Sellinge, co. Kent, in his goth year, Wm. Dawkins, who had followed the bufinefs of a blackfmith in that parish, upwards of 70 years. 16 At Fever ham, Kent, the wife of the Rev Dr. Phillips. 1 18. At Ambicide, the relict of the Rev. Mr. Kuipe. 19. At Kenfington, in his 74th year, Jo Rapalje, efq. late of Long Inland, in the state of New York, America. Mifs Pickerfgill, of Bolton-ft. Piccadilly. In Chifwell-freet, Finsbury-square, Mr. William Ewfters. At her houfe in St. James's-fquare, Bath, Mrs. Frances Lowther, widow of George L. efq. of Lowther-lodge, in Ireland. She was an heiress, and daughter of Chambré Brabazon Ponfonby, efq. of Afh-grove, in the fame kingdom, and grand-daughter of the Hon. Mujr-general Henry Ponsonby, who was killed at the battle of Fontenoy, May 11, 1745, and was brother to the first Earl of Berborough. She is fucceeded in her eftates by her eldest fon, Geo. L. efq. In Mortimer-street, aged 75, the Rev. Jofeph Robert; fee p. 109. William Mills, efq. of Denton-house, near Wheatley, co. Oxford. Rev. Mr. Holt, rector of Finmore, Oxon. At Exeter, the Rev. Henry Harrison, of Wearde, co. Cornwall, formerly a gentle. man-commoner of Trinity college, Oxford. At Coventry, Mrs. Mary Wright, of Hawksbury, the widow, as well of the late Richard Parrott, efq. of Hawksbury, as of the late Chriftopher Wright, efq. and had been a refident in the family-manfon at that place more than 40 years. Her Roperty, as well what he had by Mr. Parrott, as by Mr. Wright, fhe, it is fup. pofed, difpofed of m favour of her filt hufband's nephew, Francis Parrott, esq. Isaving thereout a handsome legacy to her fame hufband's worthy niece, Mifs Parrott. At Pailley, in Scotland, the fpoufe of the Rev. Wm. Ferrier. 20 At Forfar, Mrs. Margaret Campbell, reli&t of John Ure, efq. Jate thenffclerk of Forforhire. At Moffat, the Rev. David Donaldíon, late minister of Wamphray. At Horncastle, aged 82, Mr. Wm. Swal low, many years fuper vitor of excife. At North Elkington, near Leuth, aged 82, M. Richard Smith, who, by 2 wives, was the father of 3ɔ children. Aged 63, the widow Organ, mistress of the |