118200 Additions and Corrections in former Obituaries. [Dec. Vol. LXXII. p. 1163. A plain, neat monument has lately been erected in the church-yard of St. Paul, Covent-garden, with the following infcription: Sacred to the memory of Vol. LXXIII. p. 987. To the memory of Goy. Seton, late Chief of Surat, who died in April laft, a Correfpondent defires to prefent a tribute of unfeigned gratitude, for one of the most inestimable benefits which a man can receive in the perfon of his only child, a youth who has been the fubject of fome poetical effufions of paternal regard inferted in this publication, fent out laft year to India, in the Company's fervice, at the early age of 15, with letters of introduction to many refpectable perfons who have honoured him with the kindest attentions; but nothing could exceed thofe with which he was received by the late worthy Chief. With a degree of affability arifing from the most liberal and difinterested benevolence, he condefcended to take him by the hand and affure him of his favour, and that he would pass no opportunity of ferving him, and doing him every kindness in his power; which he commenced by making him feveral prefents of wine, and other valuable and expenfiye articles, which he could not have afforded to purchafe, not only for his own particular ufe, but in or der to give away, and gain the good-will of others; introduced him to his friends and acquaintance; took every occafion to commend and encourage him; expreffed himself defirous to obtain the earlielt pro motion for him from England; folicited favour for him in India, both at Surat and Bombay; and continued to o fhew him all this countenance and friendship to the laft: for which he can alone be juflly recompenfed in the prefence of that Being whole power and commiffion, "to do good on earth," he hath fo faithfully executed; not only in the inftance now adduced, but (as the relater of it is informed, who never had the honour and happiness of being himfelf acquainted with him) in the conftant tenor of his life; of which the Editor of this publication will undoubtedly be furnished with many other particulars of Similar import. May his furviving family derive that leffing, upon all their affairs and concerns, winch the highest Authority inftructs us the defcendants of fuch a man fhall inherit ! And if any who are dear to them fhall be fent, in early youth, to a toreign country, where they are unconnect ed and unknown, may they experience, from characters equally benevolent, that liberal fupport and countenance which it was his difpofition to bestow [" W. B. On the South wall of the chancel of Wormley church, Herts, is a white marble tablet for Mr. George Hanibal Seton, died April 25, 1711. P. 1031, col. 2, 1. Y5, r. Rev. Mr. P. 1088. Mr. Prior was born in August 1729. His father was for more than 40 years fteward to Sir Jofeph and Sir John Danvers; and, by his ability and integrity, merited and enjoyed their confidence, and the general refpect of all who him. Mr. P. was, at a very early age, rent to the endowed school of Woodhoufe; where his proficiency in learning, and his premature folidity of understanding and conduct, were fo remarkable, that, upon the death of Mr. Boley, the mafter, in 1744*, though he was then only 15 years old, he was, by the truftees, appointed to fucceed him. In converfation with his friends he would fometimes mention, with pleasantry, miftakes which, for the first few years of his acting in this capacity, were often made by perfons who came to the school and queftioned him, as one of the pupils, concerning the mafter; the elevated feat upon which he placed himfelf during the hours of bufinefs, and the other methods which he made ufe of to appear important. The inconveniences, however, which w were ful tained by his immaturity of age were of no long duration, and compenfated by a maturity of intellect, and an unremitted attention to the improvement of his pupils. The fchool was never in a more flourishing state than when under his direction. In this fituation he continued many years, availing himfelf of every opportunity of increafing his knowledge with which books and the converfation of the literary perfons in his neighbourhood could furnish him, and devoting his leisure hours to mufick, in the theory of which, with the affiftance he was able cafually to obtain, he became, in a years, a perfect matter, and attained to great excellence as a performer. Among the literary characters with whom he affociated at this period, the prefent Bishop of Worcefter, at that time the learned and refined Mr. Hurd, rector of Thurcafton, honoured him with peculiar marks of his attention, and, when he was of proper age, figned his teftimo. nials for orders; and his friendship with this diftinguished Prelate continued till his death. The duties of his school being incompatible with a ftated refidence at college, although he entered himself at Emanuel college, Cambridge (not at Chrift's, as ftated in p. 1088) where he took the degree of B. D. in 1772, he only attended the terms neceffary for degrees during his vacations. He was, for about feven years, curate of Woodhoufe and Quorndon, and defervedly admired as a judicious and interefting preacher, and beloved as a faithful and affectionate paftor. In 1762 Mr. P. A * Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. III. p. 113. was 1 lectual energy, and accustomed to keep his faculties always in exercise, he discovered the fources of knowledge for himself, and drank of them with peculiar avidity. Theological controverfy by no means fuited his taste. With a strong fenfe of religion on his mind, he liked to confider it, not fo much a matter of fpeculation as a principle of practice. His attention was directed lefs to thofe points on which Chriftians differ, than to thofe on which they are agreed. Towards the clofe of life, however, from the cbearful views which he took of the divine administration, and from his own benevolence of temper, he was fond of reading works in favour of the doctrine of universal reftitution. If he was an enemy to fuperftition and enthu filfm, he was still more fo to every fpecies of perfecution. With an undeviating affection for the Established Church, he was candid to all, a friend to freedom of enquiry, and felt his mind in sympathy with every pious and fincère Chriftian. With refpect to political opinions, Mr. P. was a Whig of the old fchool; his loyalty could not be exceeded. He was warmly attached to the Conftitution of his country, and not lefs fo for wifhing that its health and vigour may never be impaired. With a high ftandard of intellectual and moral excellence ever before his eyes, he faw clearly his own defects, but feemed to think they did not attach to the character of his friends; and, while he probably thought of them more highly than he ought to think, he entertained too low an opinion of his own attainments. Humility was the characteristic feature of his mind; and, with abilities of the higheft order, both natural and acquired, he was, perhaps, of all men, the leaft obtrusive. Mr. Prior, for the map of Leicestershire, received a premium from the Society for the Ecouragement of Arts. He likewife published, on a reduced fcale, a hunting-map of the fame county. He was alfo the author of an Appendix to the Eton Latin Grammar, without his name; a work of great merit. His children, all of whom are his favi. vors, are, the Rev. John Prior, B. A. perpetual curate of Willefley near Athby; a daughter, married to Mr. Jas. Anftead, of Pentonville; and two daughters unmarried. was, by the recommendation of fome gentlemen who were acquainted with his merit, without any folicitation on his part, appointed, by the late Earl of Huntingdon,, mafter of the grammar-fchool at Afhby. The income arifing from eftates belonging to the fchool was only 60l. a year, although, at the expiration of the leafes, a little before his death, the tenants offered him 600l. a year for their renewal. In 1763 he married Mifs Cox, of Quorndon, with whom he lived in the full enjoyment of all the bleffings of domeftic life for nine years. On the death of the Rev. Mr. Cowper, vicar of Afhby, in 1782, Mr. P. was, by his former patron, the Earl of Huntingdon, whofe perfonal knowledge of him was now a fufficient recommendation, prefented to the vacant vicarage; and, in the year 1792, General Haftings, from fimilar motives, prefented him to that of Packington, which was all the preferment he received, and with which his limited defires were fully gratified. His mild and unaffuming temper, his perfect freedom from ambition, his love of mufick, and his relifh for the calm delights of literature, friendship, and domestic fociety, preferved him from those painful fenfations which arife from difappointed expectations, and rendered his life a fcene of almost uninterrupted enjoyment. The circumftance of an afflictive nature which made the deepest. impreffion on his mind was, the death of Mrs. Prior, which happened in 1774. Supported, however, by the confolations of religion, happy in his children, and poffeffed of fo many internal fources of enjoyment, he in time recovered his wonted tranquil lity, and thewed that he could both fuffer and act as a Chriftian. Mr. Prior, for fome time before his death, was afflicted, as he apprehended, with the ftone in a -80 flight degree, which rendered him incapable of taking his ufual exercife of ridmg. In 1800 his friends were apprehenfive of a flight paralytic feizure; after which, he himfelf complained of a partial lofs of his memory; and from this period, though his mind was capable of confiderable exertions, yet his bodily ftrength gradually declined. So anxious, however, was he to fulfil his duty, that he taught school within eight days of his death. He spoke of his diffolution with perfect calronefs, and died, as he had lived, with the chearfulness of a Christian, thankful for the bleffings which he had enjoyed here, and expreffing his firm belief of a future ftate of immortal felicity. Mr. P. was not only an accurate and elegant claffical scholar and found mathematician, but a perfon of refined tafte and extenfive erudition. After he was 60 years of age he acquired fuch a knowledge P. 1098. Mr. Longman ferved his time of Hebrew as to be able to read a chapter at Johnstone's mufick-warehouse, oppofite of the Old Testament in the original with Bow church, Cheapfide. Without the adtolerable facility. Poffeffed of great intelvantage of education, by fuperior fagacity P. 1o89, col. 1, 1. 53. The late Marquis of Stafford was in the 86th year of his age. en P. 1091, col. 1, l. 61. The rectory of Wrotham was held in commendam by Dr. Porteus, whilft bithop of Chefter; but was given up on his fucceeding to the diocese of London. It was afterwards held by Lord George Murray; and now by Mr. Moore, fon of the Archbishop. and and ftrength of intellect, he established a mufical connexion fuperior to any other in Nov. AGEśedidorAIS A Excellency Comte de Ralley, to Europe; and likewife introduced into cele- L BIRTHS. ATELY, at Hythe, in Kent, the wife of Lieut.-col. Sidney Beckwith, adau. Nov.... The wife of the Rev. D. Warren, vicar of Edmonton, a fon. Nov. 12. The wife of James Bradford, efq. of Swindon, Wilts, a daughter. 20. Mrs. Jordan, of Drury-lane theatre, a daughter. 23. The wife of Henry Beft, efq. of Bath, a daughter. Dec. I. In Lower Guildford-ftreet, the wife of Edw. Warren, efq. a ftill-born fon. 3. In Fitzroy-fquare, the wife of William Hazlewood, efq. a fon. 6. The wife of James Brett, efq. of Wimpole-ftreet, a fon. The wife of Charles Thomson, esq. of Ruffell-fquare, a fon. 8. At Marcet, co. Monmouth, the wife of J. Gerrard, efq. a fon. 10. At the Rev. Mr. Garnett's, in the Clofe, Winchefter, the wife of Jas. Blunt, efq. of Nether-Wallop, a daughter. II. At Edinburgh, the wife of Lieut.col. Ainslie, a fon. 12. In Bedford-fquare, the wife of Henry Lufhington, efq. a fon. Hon. Mrs, Warneford, of Warnefordplace, near Highworth, a daughter. 13. The wife of G. Clarke, efq. of Chesterton, a fon. 14. At Mrs. Dallas's, in Upper Fitzroyftreet, Fitzroy-fquare, Mrs. T. Weft, a fon. 16. The wife of John Staniforth, efq. M. P. a fon, In Park-place, St. James's, the wife of Commiffioner Bowen, a daughter. WEL 17. At the parfonage-house at Great Wichington, co. Norfolk, the lady of the Hon. Wm. Fitzroy, a fon. 19. At Carlton, near Norwich, the Hon. Mrs. Petre, a daughter. Near Eton college, the wife of Captain Schomberg, R. N. a fon. 20. In Hertford-ftr. May-fair, the wife of John Dent, efq. M. P. a fon. Wife 24. At Taplow, the Hon. Mrs. Grenfell, fe of Pafcoe G. efq. M. P. a daughter. 25. In Portland-place, Mrs. Stephen Thornton, a fon. 23. church, Effex, his Mademoiselle Adelaide, Princefs of Bourbon, daughter of the Duc de Bourbon, and grand-daughter of the Prince de Condé. 24. At Portfmouth, Major-gen. Lloyd, of the royal artillery, to Mrs. Beaumez, fifter to the lady of Admiral Holloway. 26. John Gordon, efq. of New Ormondftreet, attorney-at-law, to Mrs. Pedder, of Caftle-street, Oxford-road. 28. By fpecial licence, Wm. Churchill, efq. of Henbury, co. Dorfet, to the Countefs of Strafford. 30. At Stoke, near Plymouth, Capt. Richard King, only fon of Admiral Sir Richard K. bart. to the only daughter of Rear-admiral Sir J.T. Duckworth, K. B. Dec. I. At Catton, near Norwich, the Hon. F. P. Irby, fon of Lord. Boston, and captain in the royal navy, to Emily, fecond daughter of the late William Drake, efq. M. P. for Amersham, Bucks. 2. At Birchanger, Effex, Char. Hippaff, efq. of Sion-houfe, in that county, to Catharine, youngest daughter of the Rev. J. 1 M. Bingham, rector of Birchanger.dhga 3. Lieut. col. Darley Griffiths, of the it foot-guards, to Mifs Hankey, of Fetchampark, Surrey. 4. At the Priory, the feat of the Marquis of Abercorn, Sir Thomas Manners Sutton, folicitor-general to his Majesty, to Miss Copley, fifter of Sir Lionel C. bart. 7. At Sculcoates, Wm. Nelson, efq. merchant, of Hull, to Mifs Leefon, of Beverley. 8. At Manceter, co. War. Walter-Henry Bracebridge, efq. of the 1ft dragoon-guards, to Mifs Bracebridge, daughter of A. B. efq. of Atherstone-hall, co. Warwick. 10. At Enfield, Mr. Griffifon, brewer, at Shadwell, to Mifs Philips, only daughter of Mr. P. of the Chace-fide, Enfield. At Dorking, Surrey, Rev. Sam. Hoole, to Mifs Warneford, 11. Mr. Hargrave, printer, of Knaref borough, co. York, to Mifs C. A. Dick. 12. Capt. J. P. Boys, of Danbury, Essex, to Mifs Harkley, of Blackheath, Kent. 13. At Lambeth palace, the Rev. Philip Monypenny, to Mifs Dering. 15. Francis Whitmarth, efq. barrister, of Lincoln's-inn, to the only daughter of the late Dr. Matthew Powell, physiciangeneral to his Majefty's forces in Jamaica, 16. At Kingston, T. Wheeler, efq. of his Majefty's ordnance-office at Portfmouth, to Mifs Murray. 17. At Portsmouth, Lieut.-col. Defborough, of the R. Marines, to Mifs Vivion. 19. At St. George's, Hanover-square, Capt. Sydenham, son of late Gen. S. military auditor-general at Madras, to Mrs Bunbury. 20. By special licence, Mr. Serjeant Vaughan, to Augufta, fecond daughter of Lord St. Jolin of Bletfoe. 21. Ar 21. Archibald Bruce, M. D. to Mifs White, of Somerset-ftreet, Portman-fqua. 07-22. At Spalding, co. Lincoln, the Rev. George W. Malim, of Higham-Ferrers, in Northamptonshire, to Mifs Jennings. 23. By fpecial licence, James Smith, efq. of Afblyns-hall, Great Berkhamstead, co. Herts, to the eldest daughter of Auguftus Pechell, efq. of the fame place. 25. John Williams, efq. of Dolanog, co. Montgomery, to Mifs Elizabeth Williamss, of Welsh Pool. March 22. DEATHS. Tthe capital of Candy (Cey A Ton), where he was ftationed as joint commiffioner of the ceded diftricts, Jofeph Wright, efq. April.... In Frederick county, in Maryland, Mr. James Marshall, many years an eminent factor, and one of the oldest fettlers from Glafgow in that place, to which he went in 1747. May.... At Ceylon, Gavin Hamilton, efq. deputy paymaster-general of his Majefty's forces, &c. May.. At Candy, in the island of Ceylon, Capt. Paul Carrington, of his Majefty's fervice, brother to Sir Edward C. He fell a victim to the jungle fever, which has prevailed among the troops employed in the late expedition against the King of that place. May 21. At Columbo, in the island of Ceylon, of the fever with which the troops were afflicted after the capture of Candy, Lieut.-col. Burton Gage Barbut, deputyquarter-mafter-general to his Majesty's forces in India, and commander of a detachment in that expedition. June. At Bombay, Capt. Andrew Patton, of the Ocean Eaft Indiaman.-Alfo, aged 42, John Hector Cherry, efq. June 7. At Madras, of a fever, Lieut. Henry-Thomas Cope, youngest fon of Sir Jonathan C. bart. Aug. 16. At St. Helena, Capt. Thomas Bazett, one of the oldeft fervants of the E. India Company, leaving a widow and children to deplore the lofs of a man refpected and beloved throughout the island. Aug. 31. At Bluefields, Weftmoreland parish, Jamaica, Dr. James Oliphant. Sept. 15. Murdered at a plantation near Wariaw, in the inland of Jamaica, Mr. and Mrs. Rudd, by three of their own Negroes. About half paft 7 in the morning, Mr. and Mrs. Rudd, their little boy (about two years of age), and Capt. Read, of the fhip Friends, of London (who had just recovered from a dangerous fickness) fat down to breakfast. About 8, Mr. R. left the table, to go to fome Negroes, who were at work in a wood about 200 yards from the house. He had not left the room many minutes when a fhrieking was heard. Capt. Read and Mrs. Rudd immediately rufhing out of the houfe, the firft object they beheld was two of the Negroes, with bill-hooks in their hands, covered with blood, and running towards them. There could be no doubt as to the horrid act which the villains had juft perpetrated; and Capt. Read having no weapon to defend Mrs. R. and himself with, there appeared no fafety but in flight, if it could be effected. Capt. Read therefore caught Mrs. R. by the arm, whofe fhrieks and lamentations would have pierced the heart of any but the most ferocious favages, and endeavoured to regain the houfe; but weakened as he had been by three months fickness, and agitated by the horrid circumftance which had just taken place (Mrs. R. too was then almost exhaufted with diftrefs and horror) his foot ftruck the ftump of a tree, and he fell ! The inhuman monfters were, by this time, clofe to them; and Capt. Read, in rifing, faw one of them ftrike the fatal blow at the unfortunate lady. There was then no alternative for Capt. Read, but immediate death, or flight; for there was no affiftance that he could hope for, within a mile. He had ran only a few yards, when the murderers, having completed the fecond bloody bufinefs, purfued him with all their speed. Infenfible to every danger but what might fo naturally be dreaded from the cruelty of his purfuers, he directed his flight towards a plantation, in which feveral friendly Negroes were at work; to gain which (by a wonderful protecting Providence) he hurried, unhurt, down a deep and tremendous precipice, which it is most likely had been untrod by human foot till then. One of the villains continued to chafe him down a part of the mountain; but, perceiving the friendly Negroes had taken the alarm, and were coming to Capt. Read's affiftance, he returned; and, joining his bloody affociates, they all ran into the woods for fhelter; many of the other negroes and whites purfuing them. After a ftrict search of two days, they were apprehended; and, on the first of October, were tried, and executed at Port Antonio, and their heads cut off, and stuck upon poles near the fpot, which had been the fcene of their horrid barbarity. The poor orphanboy, who was thus in a moment deprived of both his parents, was taken from the houfe by Meffrs. John and Jofeph Dixon, who live near the place; and are relations of the deceased. These three remorfeless villains had been purchased only a fhort. time before. The unfortunate victims of their favage ferocity, unparalleled in fome inftances, had refided only a month on the fatal fpot, whither they had removed from Hope Bay; and, as it appears, from va rious accounts, were very greatly refpected by all who knew them. Mr. R. was fon of the late Mr. Rudd, attorney, of Cockermouth and Mrs. R. daughter of the late Mr. Mr. Henry Jackfon, fhip-builder, of White be a Sept.. At Savannah-la-Mar, in Ja maica, Mr. John Lindfay, furgeon, fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His accounts of the Quaffia Polygama, or Bitter Wood, of Jamaica, and of a new fpecies of Jefut's Bark, found in the fame ifland, are inferted in the third volume of the Edinburgh Tranfactions, and in the fifth volume of Dr. Simmons's "Medical Facts and Obfervations." He was author of Alexander D. efq. of Hadley, co. Sept. 24. At Spanish-town, Jamaica, in his 24th year, Mr. Stewart Parfons, son of the late Mr. P. of Drury-lane theatre, He was on the point of leaving the "ifland "to join the 42d regiment in England, 08.8. At Florence, of a catarrhal fever, aged 60, Signor Victor Alfteri, of Aftí, a diftinguished tragic writer. 21. At Brompton, in Kent, aged 77, Elizabeth, relict of the late Mr. Thomas Wefton, of that place, furgeon. Nov..... At St. Bartholomew's, near Sandwich, in Kent, in her 94th year, Mrs. Elizabeth Burton, widow of the late Mr. Caleb B. who died at Sandwich im 1758. In his 85th year, Mr. Stephen Thomas, of Huntingdon. 、།་ Nov. 4. On his paffage from Bengal, Col. Henry Hyndman, of the East India Company's fervice. 7. At Albrighton, in Shropshire, in her 61ft year, after a long illness, which the bore with great fortitude and patience, Mrs. Anne Harwood, fpinster, eldest dau. of the late Sámuel H. efq. of Crickheath, in the faid county, by Mary eldest daugh of Walter Gough, efq. of Oldfallings, co. Staff. 8. At Wrangle, Mr. Benjamin Rinder, a refpectable upland farmer and grazier; and, on the 12th, his wife. At Southwell, Mrs. Mary Twells. II. Mifs Coventry, of Swindon, Wilts, a maiden lady. 12. At Burgh-in-the-Marth, co. Lincoln, Mr. Henry Afhlin, grazier. Aged 56, John Wilkinfon, efq. one of the aldermen of the city of York. He ferved the office of theriff in 1798, and of lord mayor in 1801. 13. Capt. Cole, of the Rofe in June, lying off Swanfea pier. Going on-board his veffel, owing to the darkness of the night, he unfortunately walked over the pier, and was inftantly killed by the fall. A friend, who was with him, fuppofing the tide to be in, immediately leaped over the pier, in hopes of refcuing him from a watery grave; but, unhappily for him, there being no water up, he received fo many Spouts," bruifes that his recovery was very doubtful. illuftrated with plates, in our vol. LI. 559; 14. Aged 23, Mrs. Warren, wife of Mr. Lill. LV. 10253 $94; LVIII. 106. W.attorney, of Uppingham, Rutland. Sept.... Of the yellow fever, on-board his Majefty's thip olus, on the Jamaica Rtation, in the 16th year of his age, Mr. Thomas Dury, midshipman, fécond son of fome ingenious effays "On wo Suddenly, aged 58, the wife of Mr. John Smith, of Braunfton, near Lincoln, farmer. 15. At Sandwich, in Kent, Mr. John Has White, |