ber-trees, whether raised in forests, plantations, or nurseries; as well as a general system of the present practice of flower, fruit, and kitchen-gardens. By the Rev. William Hanbury, A.M. Rector of Church Langton, in Leicestershire." "This," says the Historian of the County, "was published for the benefit of the fund (hereafter mentioned); and perhaps a more appropriate compliment cannot be paid to it than the following, with which I was lately honoured in a letter from the Earl Ferrers, who speaks from long experience: "Mr. Hanbury's publication has been much criticized by many: but I can say, from having followed his directions in planting, that the criticism was very unjust."

"With a firmness of mind equal to the benevolence of his heart," adds Mr. Gough, the modern Camden, "Mr. Hanbury seemed in the course of about 20 years, to have brought to the utmost degree of maturity and stability human affairs are capable of, this singular undertaking, of raising from a plantation of all the various trees, plants, &c. the world produces, a yearly fund of near 10,000Z sufficient to relieve the distressed, instruct the ignorant, assist the curious, adorn the parish, and benefit this and the neighbouring county of Rutland, as long as integrity and public spirit subsist in Britain, or dare to defy singularity and ceusure. This generous design claims a place here on a double account. We Antiquaries have great obligations to this liberal founder, who has appropriated a part of this fund to the compiling and publishing a History of every County of England, by a Professor appointed on purpose."

Mr. Hanbury died Feb. 28, 1778, in bis 53d year; and his remains are deposited in a mausoleum built by himself; the inside of which, by his own direction, is of the best stucco, and a bright yellow. The coffin is covered with black velvet, and ornamented with silver furniture; which are to be repaired as often as they become tarnished. On a compartment opposite the door is placed the bust of the founder, and under it these words: "I will not suffer mine eyes to sleep, nor the temples of my head to take rest, until I have found out a place for the temple of the Lord." Psalm cxxxii. 45. On the other side, over the door, is written, "Thou, O Lord, hast heard my desires, and hast given an heritage unto those who fear thy name." Psalm lxi. 5. These compartments are black, and the letters are gold. The inside of the mausoleum is to be kept perfectly clean, and the door set open every morning, excepting in hazy, misty, or rainy weather, in summer by five in the morning till seven in the evening; decreasing in proportion till the winter quarter, when from ten till

three in the afternoon may be found sufficient airing. And a cell is to be built for a woman of irreproachable character, who is to be allowed 2s. 6d. a week to keep it in proper order. The trustees of the Hapbury charity are enjoined to the due observance of the above regulations."

BENJAMIN TRAVERS, ESQ.

April 27, Died, Benjamin Travers, esq. aged 65. Few characters have been more strongly marked than that of the man whose departure from this world is here noticed. Ardour of mind combined with warmth of feeling, independence of thought which disdained to yield to authority, decision in forming resolutions, followed by equal promptitude in action, were its most prominent and conspicuous features; and these must have forced themselves on the observation of all who knew him. But it possessed other qualities which, as is the case with most men, could be remarked only by his intimates and friends. Among these, one of the most striking was an insatiable thirst after knowledge, which the labours and anxieties of a busy commercial life were unable to extinguish, and which he indulged for a few years before his decease with an eagerness and interest by no means common at the period to which he had advanced. Through life he lamented that his early years had not been spent in circumstances more favourable to mental improvement; and, had his mind been nurtured in a soil in which its powers could have been fully expanded, his love of letters would probably have led to attaininents which might have proved a fertile source of benefit to others, as well as of satisfaction to himself. Being destined for business, he engaged in its concerns with that constitutional ardour which went with him into all he did, as though he had beenmoving in the very sphere for which his nature was formed. But a sanguine mind, which saw no obstacle to the completion of its wishes, and which viewed that as certain which to minds of a cooler temperament would at least have appeared but probable, a hastiness of determination in cases that required slow and mature deliberation, and a precipitancy in executing what had once been determined upon, at length plunged him into difficulties, and finally brought on a train of misfortunes, such as will not unusually overtake men whose mental constitution is characterized by the qualities for which he was so remarkably distinguished. This reverse of fortune, however, he bore with firmness and fortitude, though at the same time touched with deep concern for those who had unhappily suffered with him. His character indeed had in it no small portion of

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sympathetic and benevolent feeling, which rendered him a pattern of conjugal and parental affection, and which, united with his natural ardour and enthusiasm, formed him to be the sincere and zealous friend. Of the justice of this remark there are living witnesses, who attribute the origin of their worldly prosperity and comfort to his unsolicited and disinterested exertions. Among the subjects which engaged his inquisitive mind, Religion always occupied a primary place; and on this subject he strictly and truly thought for himself, and his reflections led him to entertain the most reverential, and at the same time the most encouraging views of the Divine Being, which were highly consolatory to him in the time of affliction, and on which he reposed with a cheerful and steady confidence for this life, and for the next.-Mr. Travers was formerly an eminent Sugar-bakerin Queenstreet, Cheapside, and in 1806 a candidate to represent the City of London in Parliament.

A. C. MURPHY, ESQ.

May 4. Died, in Lambeth-road, ARTHUR CHARTERS MURPHY, Esq. This respected gentleman was a native of Ireland, but resided in England the greatest part of his life. He had long received the patronage of her Majesty; and for a number of years wrote her Birth-day Ode, which lost nothing by comparison with those on the same occasion for the King by the Poet Laureat. The Queen took Mr. Murphy's only daughter under her patronage in a seminary of her endowment for a limited number of young ladies of good family, whose parents had not been so fortunate as they merited. This seminary was under the direction of the celebrated Mrs. Pausey, in Great Newport-street, London, and in the summer months at Silsoe in Bedfordshire. The writer of this tribute to the memory of the man whose friendship be enjoyed for more than thirty years, had once the grateful satisfaction of seeing the young ladies' performance, just after the Queen and Princesses had inspected them, in Great Newport-street. The pupils were dressed exactly alike; and a more lovely group, or more interesting ex hibition, was never seen. Their needlework was the furniture for a magnificent bed, now in the Queen's Palace. Thus Miss Murphy became an accomplished woman; but here the Royal patronage ended, though her father in vain long hoped to see his daughter placed, for life, in the establishment of one of the Princesses. However, he himself was appointed (for services that might have led him to expect some employ more adequate) Provost Marshal of Senagambia at the time the unfortunate Governor Wall was Go

vernor of that Fort. Mr. Murphy, having then a large family, was allowed to appoint a deputy, and thus avoided being a witness to the enormities committed by his governor. It will be remembered that Wall was executed before Newgate for the murder of Benjamin Armstrong, a soldier under his command, twenty years after the commission of the crime. When Senagambia was restored to the French, Mr. Murphy, together with all the other officers of that government, lost his ap pointment. After several years' application to the then Ministers of the Crown for employment equivalent to that of Provost Marshal, he was appointed Re ceiver of certain taxes in the counties of York and Lincoln, an office of great fatigue and inadequate compensation. His daughter, assisted by her mother, who died a few years ago, retired from London to Doncaster in Yorkshire, and there kept a respectable seminary for the education of young ladies; and none were more capable of conducting such an establishment. The great fatigue of office affected Mr. Murphy's health; and, for tune still unfavourable, he lately returned to London; and, more through grief and disappointment, than numbered years, he expired in his daughter's arms.-Mr. Murphy was a man of superior talents, but never found an opportunity of exercising them to any advantage to him. self. Early in life he entered himself as a Student of Law in the Temple, but, though well qualified, did not offer himself to the Bar. He was a respectable poet, wrote several fugitive pieces, and some volumes; but the serious risk of publication disgusted him many years since, and thus, as in numberless similar cases, cramped the rising genius. Mr. Murphy lost two amiable sons, both promising young men ;-one of them a Lieutenant of Marines, the other a Midshipman in the Navy. A third, and youngest, only remains, now a Major in the Army, who served in the Duke of Wellington's campaigns in Spain, with a credit that ensured his promotion at an early time of life.

MRS. JANETTA NORWEB. Died lately, in the Almshouse at Brigg, Mrs. Janetta Norweb, a woman who had experienced the extreme vicissitudes of fortune, having formerly been present at Court, in the early part of his present Majesty's reign.

[We were favoured, some time ago, with the following interesting particulars of this old lady, drawn up with the bene volent view of interesting the publick in her behalf, by an anonymous Correspondeut, with whose wishes we regret that we were then unable to comply.]

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Accident some time ago introduced to me, at the Angel Inn, in Brigg, in the North of Lincolnshire, an unfortunate widow, upwards of 70 years of age, and a pauper in the Poor House at Brigg, where she has been a resident for some years. Her general deportment is so much above that of the usual inmates of a parish workhouse, that I was not surprized to learn she had endeared herself to her companions in the poor-house, nor that she was an occasional visitor with many of the respectable families in Brigg, whose kindness and attention to her she most frankly and feelingly acknowledges. This intercourse leading to a narration of her misfortunes through life, produced such an interesting disclosure of circumstances, that the old lady was advised and prevailed on by some of her zealous friends to write an account of her life; and, under a very laudable impression that it would be doing the old lady an essential service, a subscription was entered into for defraying the expence of publishing her adventures; and such was its success, that had the business been properly managed, it would, no doubt, have been of very considerable advantage to her, but in the sequel I am afraid it has only produced disappointment and chagrin. With the assistance of some of her friends, however, her book was not only written, but published, and entitled " The Memoirs of Janetta, a Tale alas too true;" containing about 260 pages; and, although partaking of the garrulity of old age, and confused and, contradictory in the chronological arrangement of its contents, it is, nevertheless, from the supposition of its being principally founded on facts, a volume that produces considerable interest. Mrs. Norweb, for that is the old lady's name, begins by stating that her maiden name was Scott; that her father, John Scott, esq. was a wealthy merchant resident in the Island of Madeira, where she was born; that, her mother having died in childbed of her, she was, after a year old, sent to England, under the protection of the unfortunate Admiral Byng, who placed her with a Mrs. Stukeley and a Lady Masters, two widow ladies, whom she describes as sisters to the Admiral, then living in Grosvenor-square. At five years old she was sent to a Mrs. Tomlinson's school, a few miles from London, along with Lady Caroline, one of Lord Bute's daughters. The intimacy which appears to have subsisted between Lord Bute's and the Byng Family introduced our Author to a long list of the most honourable acquaintance; and the first few years of her life passed away in the most splendid society; and in the bosom of Lord Bute's family, as well as that of the Byngs, she appears to have

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felt herself at all times an unobtrusive happy inmate. In several parts of her narrative she speaks most feelingly of the motherly attention of the amiable Mrs. Stukeley and Lady Masters towards her, as well as of the kindness of the Bute family; and, as it may naturally be imagined, she mentions many who are now mingled with the dust, as my Lord Bute, Lord Minto, Lord Eglintoun, Sir George Pococke, Admiral Boscawen, Sir James Lowther, Dr. Blair, tutor to the then Duke of York, and his brother Capt. Blair, between whom and our heroine there appears to have been that sort of attachment which (had not the indiscreet zeal of her friends and her own imprudences intervened) would probably have united her to his family. She also mentions Captain Somerset, who, being also brought up by Mrs. Stukeley, was to herself like a brother. Amongst her relations, she acknowledges the kindness of her uncle Walter Scott, and his lady, who was the widow of a Captain Sutherland; as also her uncle and aunt Robert Scott; and speaks also of her cousin James Dewar, of the East India service, the same, I presume, who died about a year or two ago at his residence in Walworth, Having been from an infant brought up at a distance from her father, he appears not to have possessed that natural affection for her which all good fathers have for their children; and in consequence of his coming finally to settle in England with a step-mother, our Author experienced a reverse in her situation, which led to sad and unhappy circumstances. A trifling occurrence at a masquerade, which is well related in her Book, is made the foundation of an unjust accusation against her, for being too intimate with the late Duke of York; and her refusing to marry one whom she disliked, added to the indiscretion of some of her friends in introducing her splendidly at Court, in opposition to her mother-in-law, fanned the flame of her mother's jealousy to such a height, that her father was persuaded to send our Author into banishment at a distance from all her town acquaintance; and in consequence she was stationed with a family of the name of Johnson at a farm in the neighbourhood of Richmond in Yorkshire, where she became acquainted with her husband Norweb, who, being a relation, often visited at the farm-house. Under the persuasion that the was deserted by all her old friends, she was induced to take a trip to Gretna Green, where she married Norweb; an event that not only put the seal upon her former hopes, and finally closed her acquaintance with her former friends and relations, but also was the occasion of Norweb's being disinherited by his family. It appears that Norweb had served his time with a

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watchmaker; he therefore fixed himself in that line at Wetherby in Yorkshire; but she not being used to domestic œconomy, and he more fond of shooting than minding his business, their affairs soon became deranged, and they were obliged to remove, when, after living at Selby and other places, they fixed their resi dence at Brigg, where they resided several years; but again failing in business, they left Brigg for Louth, from which place they were finally removed back to Brigg as paupers, where Norweb soon after died. Since the publication of her Book, I am told that Mrs. Norweb has been thrown into considerable distress, by a too scrutinizing inquiry into her acquaint ance with a noble Family, and particularly by inquiring of the late Lady Caroline, who not recollecting Poor Janetta, a slur is therefore thrown upon the veracity of her statement altogether. Now, Mr. Urban, I may be mistaken; but, having been favoured with a perusal of her Book, I must confess myself greatly interested in her behalf; and although her narrative may contain a portion of the fictitious, yet am I very unwilling to conclude that on that account the general tenor of her history should be altogether scouted as an imposition. It is well known, though not perhaps in the neighbourhood of the town of Brigg, that the house of Scott and Co. still exists as one of the principal houses in Madeira, but I do not know any person of the name of Scott amongst the present partmers in the firm; and although Mrs. Norweb's Book is full of anachronisms, yet there are so many particular circumstances so undisguisingly stated, that in my opinion they carry along with them a sort of conviction of their being founded on facts. Certain it is, however, that Mrs. Norweb is an inmate of the poor-house; and that, from her manner, conversation, and conduct, she bas obtained the good will of the many respectable families of the place, whose kindness and attention to her most happily contribute to alleviate the distresses of her present situation. Yours, &c. A TRAVELLER.

taken as a medicine), aged 18, Margaret. Emma, eldest daughter of J. Thomas, esq. surgeon to the forces.

Feb. 18. At Odessa, John Cattley, esq. one of the principal merchants of that place, and only son of the late Stephen Cattley, esq. of Kippax, Yorkshire.

Feb. 28. At Halifax, aged 40, Esther, wife of Dr. Rowlands, surgeon of the Naval Hospital.

March 28. At Foulshiels, Scotland, aged 74, Elseph Hislop, spouse of the late Mungo Park, and mother of Mungo Park the traveller.

April 1. In Cold Harbour, Gosport, aged 80, Mr. Robbins, formerly a baker of that town, but who retired many years since with a competency. He was a very eccentric character, and possessed the utmost confidence in the beneficial effects of quicksilver in almost all cases of indispo sition, from whatever cause arising; of which article he is known to have taken, medicinally, not less than one hundred weight and a half in the last few years.

April 2. In his 42d year, Hon. Thomas Clifford, youngest son of the late Lord Clifford.

April 3. At Howden, in her 39th year, the wife of Mr. Coates, banker, at that place. Sensible of her situation, she be held the approach of death with perfect calmness and resignation; affording in her last moments an affecting instance of fortitude under the most severe sufferings, and an instructive example of meek sub. mission to the Divine decrees,

April 5. In her 61st year, Mrs. Mortlock, relict of John Mortlock, esq. of Cambridge, banker, whom she survived only eleven months. (See our last Volume, Part I. p. 477.)

April 6. Robert Nightingale, esq. of Ot terburn Hall, near Skipton.

In his 20th year, Francis Singleton, third son of J. Bridge, esq. of Blackenham Cottage, near Ipswich, student of St. John's College, Cambridge.

April 9. At Scarborough, Lady Brooke, relict of Sir Arthur Brooke, bart. M. P. and aunt to the late Maj.-gen. Foord Bowes. She sustained a long and severe illness with a fortitude that no pain could subdue; and died, as she had lived through a long life, with the respect and regard of all who knew her.

Mary, second daughter of Rev. Dr. Clutton.

April 10. Aged 22, Charlotte-Anne, wife of Rev. Charles Golding, rector of Crofton near Wakefield, and second dau. of the late Richard Palmer, esq. of Holme Park, Berks.

At Caercady, co Glamorgan, in his 23d year, John Jenkin Jones, esq. captain in the Royal Glamorgan militia, and late of the 20th dragoons; a gentleman highly beloved