Obituary.

and girls ot his parish ( which at length were increased to the number of 20 in each school ) who were annually cloatlied , with a monthly allowance to their parents , adequate to their supposed earnings in farmers service . To the school-master and school mistress a decent salary was assigned , to instruct

the boys , for five years , in reading , writing , and arithmetic , and the girls in reading only , and plain work ; with an extra salary for attending their scholars to church on Sundays and prayer-days . By his will he has assigned to trustees the interest of 6150 I . in the three per cents for the support

of his two schools . Besides the above charitable establishments , and what he lias bequeathed to his only sister , Mrs . Piggott , of Wargrave , he has made a comfortable provision for certain of his poor relations , and given legacies to others , as well as to his old servants and deserving poor neighbours , and to his school-master and school-mistress ; and likewise a guinea to each of his

scholars , to purchase them linen and other necessaries . From the bare recital of the above good deeds , the candid reader will anticipate how worthy that character must have been , how great his self-denial , who not only could entertain such charitable thoughts , but actually put them into execution

( rare example !) in the vigour of his days I Such , at the same lime , was the unaffected simplicity of his manners , such the humility of hisdress , so meek , so mild was his outward deportment , that a stranger , unacquainted with his frugal habits , might naturally , on a transient view , have supposed him to

be rather the object , than the founder , of such an excellent charity . He was interred at Wargrave , September the fourth , attended by a numerous body of his friends and neighbours , as well as the children , itc . of his two schools ; all of whom evinced , by their respectful silence and mournful looks , how sincerely they regretted the loss of so worthy a neighbour and invaluable a

man . September 1 . Found dead in his bed at Liverpool , Edward Holden Pott , Esq . Major in the Westminster regt . of the Middlesex militia . Major P . was in his 33 d or 3 ^ tli year . He was the youngest son ofthe late Percival P . Esq . the celebrated surgeon , whose

abilities as a professional man stand no ' in need of any encomium . He wa * first put to school under the father o * the present Dr . Shaw , of the British Museum . He afterwards went to Eton , where he continued several years , and made a considerable progress in his studies . On leaving Eton he

was placed by his father under Mr . Balfour , a solicitor and clerk to the Surgeons Company . After remaining the usual time with that . gentleman , he practised in one ofthe Inns of Court , where his business soon increased in such a manner as would probably have placed him at the head

of his profession , had not his inclination for arms led him-to embrace a military life . He had , perhaps , as numerous an acquaintance among all the respectable characters which adorn society as any person in the kingdom . In his military profession he was assiduous to a degreeand didgrpat justice to the

, patronage which p laced him in the honourable situation of a field-officer . Major P . had a quick and brilliant understanding , andan excellentmemory ; and , in general knowledge , certainly far surpassed the greater part of

mankind . His situation in life was highly respectable ; but as his father lived inan elegant and liberal manner , and had eight children , it was impossible for him to have been in the enjoyment of a very ample fortune . He has left a mother , inconsolable for his decease ; two brothers , the eldest formerly in

Ihe banking-house ofthe Hon . Richard Walpole ; the second the learned , pious , and exemplary Archdeacon of St . Alban ' s ; and three sisters , all married ; the eldest to Samuel Poll , Esq . late ofthe General Post-office ; the second to Mr . Earle , the surgeon ; and the youngest to Samuel Compton

Cox , Esq . lately from his abilities appointed to the situation of a Welsh judge . Robert Pott , Esq . the Major's eldest brother , died lately in the East Indies ; and his eldest sister ,- who was married to Mr . Frye , is likewise dead since her father ' s decease . Major F . will be much regretted by all his

acquaintance , by whom he was extremely beloved , for the sweetness of his temper , the luminous brilliancy of his mind , and his perfect goodness of heart . By bis own family lie will be lone and deeply lamented ; and- his-