Feb. 14. Aged 18, Wm. Henry, third son of the late Edward Bray, esq. of Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury.

Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Edward Bentley, of Paternoster-row.

At Plymouth, in her 23d year, Jane, youngest daughter of Thomas Hearsey, esq. of Denmark hill.

At her hotel in Paris, aged 85, the Countess of Coislin, formerly one of the attendants upon the person of the Queen of Louis XV. and grand-aunt of the Duchess

of Pie of Bavaria,

Feb. 15. At Gaywood Parsonage, the Rev. Dr. Hutton, rector of Gaywood and Mundesley, and vicar of Stradset, in Norfolk.

At Cosgrove Priory, Northamptonshire, in her 85th year, Mrs. Anne Lowndes.

Feb. 16. In Howland-street, John Tilotson Laycock, esq. only son of the late Rev. Tilotson Laycock, esq. of Lincoln.

At Clapham, Surrey, aged 81, John Prescott, esq.

Feb. 17. In James-street, Westminster, Margaret, daughter of Patrick Colquhoun, esq. LL. D.

Aged 23, Mrs. Caroline Hewlett, widow of the late Mr. J. Hewlett, jun. of Rollsbuildings.

In his 54th year, Edward Gale, esq. af Buxton House, Epping Forest.

Feb. 20. At Sunbury, in her 76th year, Mrs. Baldwin, widow of the late Benjamin Baldwin, esq. of Wokingham, Berks.

Feb. 22. At Camberwell, much respected, Mr. John Walker, late of Paternoster-row, bookseller, and one of the Common Council of the Ward of Farring don Within. Of this gentleman there is a private portrait, taken about 30 years ago, in the character of a Book Auctioneer, a branch of his profession which he long carried on with great respectability.

Feb. 23. At the house of Charles Brooke, esq. Long Ditton, Surrey, Right Hon. Lady Amelia Leslie, second daughter

of the late Earl of Rothes.

Feb. 24. In Paternoster-row, Mr. William Cadwell, surveyor and carpenter, and one of the Common Council of the Ward of Farringdon Within.

Feb. 25. In Bloomsbury-square, aged 65, Francis Gosling, esq. banker; than whom a worthier or more benevolent character scarcely ever existed. He was the son of Sir Francis Gosling, many years Alderman of Farringdon Without.

Officers have, at their own expence, agreed to raise a monument to his memory, expressive of their very great regard and

esteem,

Vol. LXXXVI, Part ii. p. 627. Dr. John Disney was the third and youngest surviving son of John Disney, of winderby, and of the city of Lincoln, esq; was born at Lincola, Sept. 17, 1746; some time rector of Panton, and vicar of Swin derby, in his native county; and chaplain to Dr. Edmund Law, bishop of Carliste. All which preferments he resigned from religious scruples. He succeeded Mr. Lindsey as minister of the Un tarian chapel, in Essex street, London; from which he retired on Mr. Brand Hollis bequeathing him his estates. He married, in 1774, Jane, eldest daughter of the Rev. Francis Blackburne, rector of Richmond, co. York, and archdeacon of Cleveland, whom he had the misfortune to lose in 1809. Dr. Disney has left two sons; John, a barrister at law, and recorder of Bridport, and Algernon, a major in the army; and five daughters.

Dr. Disney was a voluminous author: he published "Four Sermons on Christmas day," 1771; "Thoughts on licensing Alehouses," 1776; Reasons for quitting the Church of England," 1783; "Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Arthur Ashley Sykes, D. D." 1785; Dialogue between a commou Unitarian Christian and an Athanasian," 1784; "The Works Theological, Medical, Political, and Miscellaneous, of John Jebb, M.D. F.R.S. with Memoirs of the Life of the Author," 3 vols. 1787; Discourses on various Subjects; to which are added, Considerations on Pluralities, by Samuel Disney, LL.B. late vicar of Halstead, Essex, with a Preface," 1788; "A Defence of Public Worship, in answer to Gilbert Wakefield, and Paine's Age of Reason, a Sermon," 1792; Memoirs of the Life and Writings of John Jortin, D.D." 1792; "The Book of Common Prayer Reformed, for the use of Unitarian Congregatious," 1792; 2d edit. and "A Collection of Hymns," 1802; "Letters to Vicesimus Kuox, D.D. occasioned by his Redexions on Unitarian Christians, in his Advertisement prefixed to a Volume of Sermons," 1792; "Sermon," vols. I. and II. 1793; vols. IH. and IV. 1816; "The reciprocal Duty of a Christian Minister and a Christian Congregation, a Sermon," 1793; “A Caution to Young Persons against Iofdelity, a Sermon," 1796; "A Sermon preached at the Unitarian Chapel, Essexstreet, on the Death of the Rev. Dr. Priestley," 1804; " Memoirs of Thomas Brand Hollis, esq." 1808, 4to. This was a tri. bute of gratitude and respect to a friend and benefactor, who had bequeathed the principal part of his valuable property to Dr. Disney. "Remarks on the Bishop

of

of Lincoln's Charge to the Clergy of his Diocese in 1812;" "Short Memoir of the late Rev. R. E. Garnham," 1814; "Short Memoir of the late William Hopkins, B.A. Vicar of Bolney, Sussex," 1815. Dr. Disney, also, in 1811, republished "The Life of Sir Michael Foster, by Michael Dodson, esq. his nephew," 8vo. One of his latest literary occupations was a copious pedigree and account of his family, for the improved edition of Hutchins's "History of Dorsetshire." See vol. IV. pp. 389-398.

The interesting united Libraries, ancient Coins, and collection of Medals, Bronzes, and Terra Cottas, of the celebrated Thomas Hollis, and T. Brand Hollis, iucluding the Theological and Political Library of the late Dr. Disney, will be sold by auction this spring, by Mr. Sotheby.

Some particulars of the Life and Death of GEORGE SAMUEL WEGG, Esq.

The late George Samuel Wegg, esq. of Acton, in the county of Middlesex, was born in the parish of St. George, Bloom-bury, in the year 1749, and died at Actou, on the 21st of January, 1817, aged 67. After passing through the usual course of academical education, at Christ's college, Cambridge, he was called to the Bar, aud became, and continued till his death, a bencher of the hon. society of Gray's Inn. He was a truly loyal subject, and firmly attached to the existing constitution both in church and state; an honest and impartial magistrate, fair and upright in all his dealings, and uniformly scrupulous in

a rigid adherence to truth and justice both in principle and practice, and exemplary in a strict, but unostentatious performance of all religious duties public and private. A zealous promoter of charitable institutions, as well by the liberality of his contributions, as by his personal assistance. Of his private charities little more is known than that they were numerous and extensive; he was a kind and indulgent master, a candid, conciliating, benevolent, and hospitable neighbour, a most affectionate brother, and a sincere friend. The blessed effect of a life so spent was most happily and peculiarly exemplified in its termination: in the midst of health, apparently unbroken, and with scarce any perceptible symptoms of the internal disease which soon proved fatal, he received the unexpected information of his immediate danger with a calm composure, which nothing but a constant state of preparation for the last awful change could ever have inspired; and waited for his approaching dissolution with a tranquillity and resignation truly Christian recollecting with humility, but with comfort, his uniform endeavours to discharge his duty, and expressing a confident hope, that through the merits of his Redeemer he may be finally accepted at the throne of grace. After the short interval of three days, exempt from pain both of body and mind, he resigned his breath without a pang or struggle, as if he were sinking into the repose of sleep. Thus terminated a life which every man should try to live, by a death which every man would wish to die. AMICUS.