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Obituary.
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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Obituary.
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 .