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see our Magazine for the same month ) on whose children her fortune now devolves . Her remains were removed to Eltham , Kent , attended by many of her particular and intimate friends , and interred in the family-vault there . Nature , in her endowments , had been very bountiful . To a very superior understanding ,

highly improved , were added beauty and personal accomplishments ; but these qualities form the least part of that for which she was so much and so truly esteemed and admired . Her charity and benevolence were universal ; and an affluent fortune afforded her the meansof relieving thosewhose situations

in life called for succour , pity , and compassion . No person in distress ever applied in vain ; the assistance was ample , immediate , and privately given ; and the objects of her bounty were generally as much pleased with her delicacy as they were satisfied with her liberality .

After a short but painful illness , in liis 7 Sth year , T . Sandby , Esq . Deputy Ranger of Windsor great-park . As an architect he possessed extraordinary talents , although his innate modesty prevented them from being appreciated

as they deserved . One of his last works was a noble design for a bridge at Somerset-House in the Strand . Ofthe Royal Academy he was one of the oldest members ; and , like all truly great artists , so incapable of jealousy , that his advice and application have been many times instrumental in

promoting the advancement of even his competitors . He has left a large family , heirs alone to his humble hopes , that the generosity of Ihe crown , which he has served faithfully for upwards of 50 years , may kindly supply , by its spontaneous bounty , that which his scrupulous probity would never permit him

to amass out of the perquisites and opportunities of his employment . At his house at Walthamstow , Essex , in his Sid year , Anthony Todd , Esq . Secretary to . he General Post Office . He was introduced into the Post Office in 1 . 732 , but was not appointed Secretary till the resignation of Mr . Potts , in

1762 . For some time before his dealh his memory failed him , but he retained his appetile and spirits till the last . His only daughter , Eleanor , married James Earl of Lauderdale in 1782 , when her-father gave her 50 , 000 k 3 per cent .

annuities as a marriage portion ; an . d i . oool . on the birth of each child— - already four sons and three daughters . The principal part of his fortune has devolved on Lady Lauderdale ; his Lordship having received only a legacy of 2000 I . and 120 I . a year . At Tidwell-houfe , Devon , aged 23 ,

the Viscountess Downe , daughter of the late Gen . Scott . Her remains were interred in the family-vault near Edinburgh , after being attended in grand funeral procession through Collyton Rawleigh and Oitery St . Mary , to Honiton , in Devonshire . At Edinburgh , aged 100 , John

Hastie , a Chelsea pensioner . He spent the early part of his life entirely in the . military line , and was at the battle of Sheriffmuir . He retained his faculties to the last , and till the end of last May was able to walk about . He was born in the parish of Dalserf , and , for the last 30 years , has been employed as a

day-labourer in Edinburgh . At his house , in Newman street , ThomasHolcroft , Esq . authorof several dramatic pieces . ( Further particulars in oar next . J On Epping Forest , of a dropsy ,

Nathaniel Dowdmg , Esq . Solicitor to the Commissioners for ihe affairs of taxes , and to ihe New River Company . He was bred a Blackwcll-hall factor ; but , applying himself to the study of . he law , by his interest with Adminisr tration obtained the place of Solicitor to Ihe Tax-olfiice , worth 1000 ! . per

annum ; and , silling fur ? ome other person at the New River board , he , on the death of Mr . Jackson , father of the late Dr . J . canon-residentiary of St . Paul ' s , succeeded him as Solicitor to that company . At Petlangh , county of Suffolk , 0 : which lie was rector , in his 8 3 d year ,

the Rev . William Young , son of Dr . Y . best known to . he world by the name and character of Mr . Abraham Adams , in ' Joseph Andrews . ' He inherited all the simplicity of manners of his father ; and even surpassed him in his unaccountable absence of mind , though he always attributed this-part

of his character to the humour of Harry Fielding , as he called him , with whom he was wo-l . acquainted . At Buxton , county of Derby , the celebrated Professorof"Palmistry , Sieur ll ' ca ' y .

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LONDON: Article 3
TO CORRESPONDENTS, &c. Article 4
PRICES OF BINDING PER VOUME. Article 4
DESCRIPTION OF EGYPT: WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE EXPEDITION OF BUONAPARTE; Article 5
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AN HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND. Article 17
CURIOUS ACCOUNT OF THE DUMP PHILOSOPHER. Article 19
OPTIMISM, A DREAM. Article 25
INTERVIEW OF CAPTAIN VANCOUVER WITH THE CHIEFS OF NOOTKA SOUND. Article 27
THE FATE OF MEN OF GENIUS Article 29
THE LIFE OF BISHOP WARBURTON. Article 30
DURING THE CONFINEMENT OF LOUIS XVI. KING OF FRANCE. Article 32
EDMUND BURKE. Article 35
Untitled Article 39
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 40
DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLAND OF MAOUNA. Article 44
BARBAROUS ATTACK OF THE NATIVES. Article 45
THE FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY. Article 49
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Article 54
POETRY. Article 60
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 62
PARLIAMENT OF IRELAND. Article 63
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 65
OBITUARY. Article 70
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see our Magazine for the same month ) on whose children her fortune now devolves . Her remains were removed to Eltham , Kent , attended by many of her particular and intimate friends , and interred in the family-vault there . Nature , in her endowments , had been very bountiful . To a very superior understanding ,

highly improved , were added beauty and personal accomplishments ; but these qualities form the least part of that for which she was so much and so truly esteemed and admired . Her charity and benevolence were universal ; and an affluent fortune afforded her the meansof relieving thosewhose situations

in life called for succour , pity , and compassion . No person in distress ever applied in vain ; the assistance was ample , immediate , and privately given ; and the objects of her bounty were generally as much pleased with her delicacy as they were satisfied with her liberality .

After a short but painful illness , in liis 7 Sth year , T . Sandby , Esq . Deputy Ranger of Windsor great-park . As an architect he possessed extraordinary talents , although his innate modesty prevented them from being appreciated

as they deserved . One of his last works was a noble design for a bridge at Somerset-House in the Strand . Ofthe Royal Academy he was one of the oldest members ; and , like all truly great artists , so incapable of jealousy , that his advice and application have been many times instrumental in

promoting the advancement of even his competitors . He has left a large family , heirs alone to his humble hopes , that the generosity of Ihe crown , which he has served faithfully for upwards of 50 years , may kindly supply , by its spontaneous bounty , that which his scrupulous probity would never permit him

to amass out of the perquisites and opportunities of his employment . At his house at Walthamstow , Essex , in his Sid year , Anthony Todd , Esq . Secretary to . he General Post Office . He was introduced into the Post Office in 1 . 732 , but was not appointed Secretary till the resignation of Mr . Potts , in

1762 . For some time before his dealh his memory failed him , but he retained his appetile and spirits till the last . His only daughter , Eleanor , married James Earl of Lauderdale in 1782 , when her-father gave her 50 , 000 k 3 per cent .

annuities as a marriage portion ; an . d i . oool . on the birth of each child— - already four sons and three daughters . The principal part of his fortune has devolved on Lady Lauderdale ; his Lordship having received only a legacy of 2000 I . and 120 I . a year . At Tidwell-houfe , Devon , aged 23 ,

the Viscountess Downe , daughter of the late Gen . Scott . Her remains were interred in the family-vault near Edinburgh , after being attended in grand funeral procession through Collyton Rawleigh and Oitery St . Mary , to Honiton , in Devonshire . At Edinburgh , aged 100 , John

Hastie , a Chelsea pensioner . He spent the early part of his life entirely in the . military line , and was at the battle of Sheriffmuir . He retained his faculties to the last , and till the end of last May was able to walk about . He was born in the parish of Dalserf , and , for the last 30 years , has been employed as a

day-labourer in Edinburgh . At his house , in Newman street , ThomasHolcroft , Esq . authorof several dramatic pieces . ( Further particulars in oar next . J On Epping Forest , of a dropsy ,

Nathaniel Dowdmg , Esq . Solicitor to the Commissioners for ihe affairs of taxes , and to ihe New River Company . He was bred a Blackwcll-hall factor ; but , applying himself to the study of . he law , by his interest with Adminisr tration obtained the place of Solicitor to Ihe Tax-olfiice , worth 1000 ! . per

annum ; and , silling fur ? ome other person at the New River board , he , on the death of Mr . Jackson , father of the late Dr . J . canon-residentiary of St . Paul ' s , succeeded him as Solicitor to that company . At Petlangh , county of Suffolk , 0 : which lie was rector , in his 8 3 d year ,

the Rev . William Young , son of Dr . Y . best known to . he world by the name and character of Mr . Abraham Adams , in ' Joseph Andrews . ' He inherited all the simplicity of manners of his father ; and even surpassed him in his unaccountable absence of mind , though he always attributed this-part

of his character to the humour of Harry Fielding , as he called him , with whom he was wo-l . acquainted . At Buxton , county of Derby , the celebrated Professorof"Palmistry , Sieur ll ' ca ' y .

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