Obituary.

¦ sealed , but not signed ; which was owing , as his favourite servant says , to his master leaving-his spectacle ? at home when he went to his solicitor for the purpose of duly executing it , and which he afterwards foigot to do . By this testamentary instrument , in which John Bacon , Esq . of the First Fruits

Oftice , was a residuary-legatee , ihe whole properly was intended to be totally alienated from the channels imo which it has accidentally fallen . The most material sufferers by Mr . J . dying without a will are the Haunter family , of Bettesfield-park , in Flintshire , and Holbrook-hall in Suffolk . Mr . Jennens's

own aunt was mother to William Hanmer , Esq . of the Fenns , lirst cousin of the late Sir Walden Haniner , of Bettesfield and the Fenns ; and his descendants , particularly those residing in Suffolk , have most certainly been in the greatest habits of friendship with Mr . Jennens . The abovementioned

William Hanmer , Esq . married his first cousin , Miss Jennens , of Gopsal , by whom . he had a daughter . Hester , who married Assheton now Lord Curzon , by whom he had a son ( the Hon . Penn Assheton Curzon , M . P . for

Leicestershire , who married Lady Sophia-Charlotte Howe , daughter of Earl Howe , and died Sept . i , 1797 , leaving an infant son , George-August us William Curzon , who was born May 14 , 17 S 8 , and is now heir at law to ail the real estate of Mr Jennens ( which he had possessed for 73 years . ) His !

personaproperty devolves on his cousins , William Lygon , Esq . M . P . ( grandson of Mrs . Hester Hanmer , aunt of the deceased ) , and Mary , relict of William Howard , commonly called Viscount Andover ( eldest son of Henry Bowes Howard , late Earl of Suffolk and Berks ) grand-daughter of Dame

Anne Fisher , aiso aunt of the deceased . Thus his most incalculable wealth emergesiiitoliiree individuals possessing previous fortunes almost immense . On the 29 th Ins remains were interred in the family vault at Acton church , with much funeral pomp . On openingthe vaultthe coffins of his father and

, mother were found ; the former had been buried 73 and the latter 37 years . At yueenborough , Lieutenant John -Sell , of the . Artillery ; a most inde'aiigable Officer , and greatly respected oy all who knew him . Non * knew belter than he the effect and force of

gunpowder . He was a good judge of mechanics , and the inventor of several engines , ice . of great utility in the line of his profession , and which have been approved and rewarded by the Society of Arts and Sciences . 20 . In Brompion-row , Knighfsbridge , John Ash , M . D . F . R . and A . SS . Fellow

of the Royal Collegeof Physicians , formerly Physician to the General Hospital at Birmingham , in which town he was an eminent physician , and where he had considerable property . 2 t . After a lingering illness , Sir James Sanderson , Bart . Alderman of London , and Member , for Hastings .

He was a native of Yorkshire ; sent to town , by his friends , in search of employment ; his first was with a Mr . Goulding , his second with a Mr . Hunter , both hop-factors . He had i good natura ! capacity , and afterwards was engaged as a clerk by Mr . Judd , an eminent hop-factor , near London . Bridge . By assiduity and attention lo business , he gained the favour of his

master , and his person recommending him to a daughter of Mr . Judd ' s , much older than himself , Sanderson became that gentleman ' s partner and son-inlaw ; and when Mr . Judd retired , with a very ample fortune , to Chelmsford , in Essex , he succeeded to the principal share in the businessin whichhad

, , not ambition prompted himto be a . distinguished man , he might have accumulated as large a fortune , and with equal credit , as his predecessor . During tlie riots of s-So , Sanderson was first noticed as a public man . A party of" the Guards had been sent for , to the waterworks

preserve - of London Bridge , and other public buildings : the officers of the corps were provided for with dinners , & c . at the expence ofthe ward , and Alderman Woolridge , with Mr . Sanderson , Mr . Brown , and other common-council men , had the care of providing for their accommodation . Soon alter , a proposal was made to form a volunteer association , for the defence of tlie ward , of wliich Mr . S

( vas nominated Captain ; but this he declined without the King's commission . On ihe , resignation of Lord North , he commenced patriot , and inlisted under the banner of the Whigs , attending the meetings of the societies famous for their exertion in the cause of parliamentary reform , and once or twice was in the chair at a meeting of a society