Obituary.

Rome , in the year 1773 , he gained the prize medals given by the academy of St . Luke for the best specimen of historical composition , arid , it is believed , he was , the only Scotsman ( Mr . Gavin Hamilton excepted ) who has ever obtained this , honour . He received the rudiments of his art in the

sicadenjy dt Glasgow , fie was Direc t tor and Master of the academy at Edinburgh for manufactures and improvements . His admirablc . talerits for composition , the trutH with which he delineated nature ; aiid the characteristic inunour that distinguished his pictures ,

drawings , ancl etchings , tire hot exceeded ' by any artist iii Britain , 7 . In consequeBce of ii fall from his horse . the preceding evening , b . y which his skull was fractured aiid his body inuch bruised in different parts , Mr . Francis Goodwin , Surgeon and . Apothecaryof Ashbornein Derbyshire .

, , A few days ago at Boxlcy-house , in kcnt , in the 7 ! 5 th year of . her age , the Honourable Mrs , Marsham , sister of the late Lord Rbhiney . . . . Lately at Manchester ; after a long and painful illness , Robert Dariiey , M . D- late physician to the

Iiifirmafyihere . S . At . the great age of 93 , the well known J j fr . Christopher Pive ' tt , carver ancfe g ilder in York . ' He was formerly in the retinue of his Royal Highness William , Duke of Cumberland : he fought under the Earl of Stair at the battle of Dettinge'ri , and under the

D . ofCumberland at the Battle ofFontenoy , was at the siege of Carlisle and the battle of Culloden : he came to York the latter end of the year 1746 : his habitation having been burnt down , he formed the singular resolution of not lying in a bed , which he had not done for the last 3 8 years of his life :

he . used to sleep upon the floor , or ori a chair with his cloaths on . —Amongst other uncommon articles which com- , posed the furniture of his apartment were a human skull , ( whicli was interred with him ) some old swords and armour , on which he set great value : He retained his faculties to the last :

On being visited a day or two before his death by a respectable neighbour , who , wishing to render his situation more comfortable , proposed to procure him a bed , or mattrass to repose on ; km he would not accept of either ; and

refused all medical assistance , or that of a nurse . He was an ingenious artist , and ah holiest man . ' 9 . Of a long and painful illness , General , Sir RoHert Pigot , bart . in the 7 . 7 th , year of his ; , age , at his seat at Patshuli , in Staffordshire . He is succeeded in title and estate by his eldest

son , Lieutenant Colonel George Pigot . . ,. , _ . ^ . id . Of a parylitic stroke , in the 61 st year of his age ,. greatly regretted by sf . II his friends and acquaintance , Mr . John Rawson , printer ; of Hull . . On board the Princess Amelia , East India ship , within a day's sail of

England , of a complaint in the liver , Mr . Thos . Barker , late surgeon to the Infirmary at Hull . . ' ,,. ' ,, At Scarborough , suddenly , ' whilst walking near the castle , Mr . Huntress Pearson . Lately . was found dead iii his own yardat PickeringMr . Joseph '

Ba-, , ker , an eminent grazier , aged 75 . ii . At Evergreen , in the co . of Cork , at the advanced age of 1 oil , j . M'Carthy . He hacl been married three times , and his children both legitimate ancl il- .

legitimate amounted to the number of seventy-six ; few of whom as may naturally b ' e supposed are ijdvtr living , At liis Kbuse in Piccadilly , much lamented , Richard Bfeckford , Esq . a West India merchant , and late member for Leominster . At his house in St . Giles's square

, Northampton , Piobert Willing , Esq .. Lately of a fever , the Rev . Mr . Field , under Grammar Master of Christ ' s Hospital , and Rector of St : Arine ' s Church , Aldersgate ' -stre ' et . 14 . After a few hours illness , in the 4 th year of his age , Master Griffith . second of

Pare , son Major J . Pare , of Wishford-hoiise , Wilts , a child of uncommon qualities and exquisite beauty , idolized by all who knew him . At . his apartments , in Frith-street ; Mr . Weatheral , formerly an Upholder in the Haymarket . 16 . At Steyning , after an illness of

twenty-four liours , Montgomerie Campbell , Esq .. one of the directors of the East India Company . 20 . At Wormbricige , in Herefordshire , Lady Clive , relict of Sir Edward Clive , late one of his Majesty's Justices of the Court of Common Picas .

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