Obituary.

Lately , af Water-Neivington , in Huntingdonshire , John Kilburn , iiwery reduced circumstances , a person well known to many gentlemen of the turf , as a list-seller , and attendant in the stables at most of the races in the kingdom . —He had undergone various vicissitudes in life ; had been a

horsedealer of some eminence , and in that line travelled into France , and other foreign parts ; returning into England poor , he entered into several militias ; and was at one time a Serjeant in the Huntingdonshire ; but his predilection for' horses and the turf occasioned his getting rid of that situation . At a town

in Bedfordshire , some years ago , he was . according to the turf phrase , quite broke down I It was in harvest ; the week before Richmond races , near which place he was born ; and to reach there in time he hit on the following expedient : he applied to a blacksmith of his acquaintance to stamp on a

padlock the words " Richmond gaol ; " which , with a chain , was fixed lo one of his legs , and he composedly went into a corn field to steep . As he expected , he . was soon apprehended , and taken before a magistrate , who , after some

deliberation , ordered two constables to guard bim in a carriage ! c Richmond , no time being lo be lost , Kilbuui saying he had not been tried , and hoped they would not let him lay till another assizes . Tlie constables'on their arrival at the goal , accosted the keeper with ' Sir , do you know this man ?' -- . - ' Yes ; very wellit is Kilburn

; ; I have known him many years . ' — ' We suppose he has broke out of your gaol , as he has a chain and padlock on his leg with your mark ; is not he a prisoner ' . ' — ' A prisoner ! I never heard any harm of him in my life . ' - — ' Nor , ' says Kilburn , ' have these gentlemenSir ; they have been

, so good as to bring me home out of Bedfordshire , and now 1 will nol give them any further trouble ; I've got the key of the padlock , and I'll not trouble them to unlock it . I thank them for their good usage . " —The distance he thus travelled was about 170 miles . At Thorneyin Cambridgeshirethe

, , following melancholy mortality recently occurred in the family of a farmer , named Cave . On the morning of Tuesday , March zSlb , he attended the remains of his dauglrer to thc grave , and on his return home found bis wife dead . The

circumstance shocked bim to such a degree , as to occasion an illness , which . ' on the Friday following ; put a period to his existence . —A servant boy going to Peterborough for a Physician , was thrown from his horse , and had his thigh brbken ; and another domestic , ivho had been for some weeks ill , died on Monday

follotving . S . At Aston , in Yorkshire , between the age of 70 and So , the Rev . Mr . W . Mason , who has delighted for near a century all admirers of English poetic literature . This gentleman is one of the few authors who is entitled to tbe applause

of the world , as well for the virtues of his heart as for the excellence of his writings . He was the son of a clergyman who had the living of Hull , iii Yorkshire , where our author was born about the year 1726 . He was admitted of St . John's College , Cambridge , ivhere he took his degrees of BAand

MA-. . . .. and his poetical genius in the year 1747 , procured him a fellowship in Pembroke-Hall , which , however , he did not obtain possession of without some litigation In the year 1754 , lle entered into ' holy orders , and ivas patronized by the late :

F . arl of Holdernesse , who procured him a Chaplainship to bis Majesty , and gave him the valuable rectory of Astoiij in Yorkshire , where he chiefly resided till his death , and which he made a delightful retirement . He was also pre centor of York . He married a young lady of a good family and amiable

character , but of a consumptive constitution , which soon deprived him of her at Bristol Wells , as appears by her elegant cpitaphinihatcatlicdr . il . He was the publisher of his friend . Mr . Cray's works , whose genius he estimated with a zeal of enthusiasm . He was author of the dramatic poems of Elfricla ,

Cnraclacus , a Masque called Cupid and Psyche , besides three volumes of poems , many of" which are dramatic . The conniK-ndations bestowed upon Elfrida and Caractaciis in their original form have been seconded by an equal degree of applause since they were adapted to the stage . The first is perhaps

the most finished ; the second , the most striking performance . Lately , At Epsom , the Rev . John Parkluirst . He was tbe author of ist .-A serious and friendly Address to the llev . Mr . John Wesley , in Relation