At Richmond, Rev. Wm. Bewcher, to Mifs Dabadie. Mr. Lawrence, of Ludgatestreet, linen-draper, to Mifs Harriet Jarvis, of Ludgate-ftreet. At Fulham, Rees Goring Thomas, efq. to Mifs Hovel. At St. Mary-le-bone, George Meredeth,: efq. of Harley-place, to Mifs E. G. Saunders, of Oxford-ftreet. At St. John's, Weftminster, Mr. William Hudfon, of Abingdon-ftreet, to Mifs Cotton, of Richmond. William Keating, efq. fon of Colonel Keating, to Mifs Cameron, of En field. At St. George's, Hanover-fquare, Alexander Johnfton, efq. of Chesterfield-ftreet, Mayfair, to Mifs Campbell, daughter of the late Lord Wm. Campbell. At Mary-le-bone Church, the Rev. Rich. Lockwood, of Fifield, Effex, to Mifs Mary Manners Sutton, youngest daughter of the late Lord George Sutton. Admiral John Carter Allen, to Mrs. Freeman, of Devonshireplace. At St. Martin's in the Fields, J. L. Williams, efq. of Lincoln's-inn, to Mifs Davies, eldest daughter of Matthew Davies, efq. of Cardiganfhire. At St. George's, Hanover-fquare, D. S. Dugdale, efq. of Warwickshire, to the Honourable Charlotte Curzon, youngest daughter of Lord Curzon. Died. At Dulwich, Mrs. Palmer, wife of J. Palmer, efq. treasurer of Chrift's hofpital. Ar Lewisham, aged 70, Jofeph Collyer, efq. At Lambeth, Mr. M. Lawrence, late of the Strand. At Newington, aged 29, Mr. W. White, youngest fon of the late B. White, efq. of Fleet-ftreet. In Wimpole-ftreet, Cavendish-square, John Ravel Frye, efq. At Richmond, Philip Palmer, efq. At Chelfea, aged 84, Mrs. Winftanley, mother of general Braithwaite; he was a woman beloved and refpected by all who had the happiness of her acquaintance. At Kensington palace, Mrs. Wefton, relic of the late Robert Wefton, efq. At Hampstead, Sir John Anftruther, bart. In Great Portland-ftreet, Mr. James Balfour. At Egham-hill, Mrs. Bunbury, wife of H. W. Bunbury, efq. In Little St. Helens, Mrs. Hutchinfon, wife of James Hutchinfon, efq. At Chelfea, Mr. William Curtis, author of the Botanical Magazine, and feveral other works. At Whitehall, W. Sleigh, cfq. In Lower Grofvenor-ftreet, James Law rell, efq. At his chambers in Lyon's Inn, Mr. Richard Blackiften. in Bedford-row, Jacob Wilkinfon, efq, At her apartments, Mrs. Crefwell, many years housekeeper to the Treafury. Aged 75, Thomas Brookes, efq. of Cateaton-street. At Blackheath, Mifs Macleod, daughter of Patrick Macleod, efq. of Bread-street. In Thorney-ftreet, Bloomsbury, Henry Turnbull, efq. of the navy. At Greenwich, aged 76, Mrs. Parr. At Lambeth, Mr. Benjamin Lancaster, formerly hop-factor in the Borough. At Kenfington Gravel Pits, Mrs. Simmons, wife of Thomas Simmons, efq. At Putney, Mrs. Mackclerin. Aged 74, Mrs. Ann Dignum, mother of Mr. Dignum, of Drury-lane theatre. In the Strand, Mr. Sael, a refpectable book feller. At Pentonville, aged 17, Mr. John Highmore, fon of the late John Field Highmore. At Hampton Court, in her 85th year, Lady Dowager Dungannon, relict of the late Lord Viscount Dungannon, of the kingdom of Ireland. Aged 65, the Right Honourable Sir James Eyre, Knt. Lord Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas. He was educated at Winchefter fchool, from whence he was removed to St. John's College, Oxford, and having improved the native powers of his mind by a claffical education, he proceeded to the ftudy of the law. His practice at the bar was never very confiderable; but his judicial career was not lefs remarkable from the early period at which it commenced, than illuftrious from the ability with which it was uniformly fupported. In 1762, he was ele&ed Recorder of London, being then in the 28th year of his age. In 1772, he was appointed one of the Barons of the Exchequer, and knighted. On the refignation of Sir John Skynner, in 1787, he was made Chief Baron of the Exchequer; and in 1792 executed the high office of firft commiflioner during the vacancy in the Chancellorship. At this period he was alfo fworn a Member of the Privy Council. His laft promotion was in 1793, when he fucceeded Lord Loughborough as Lord Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas. In Oxford-street, fuddenly, and in the prime of life,-Revely, a celebrated architect, and a man of great attainments in his fcience. He had followed ATHENIAN STUART in his travels through Greece, and refidence at Athens; and had availed himself of all the advantages which might be derived from vifiting the architectural remains in that part of the East. His collections of drawings, which were made during his oriental progrefs, are univerfally known to all the lovers of art, and admirers of claffic antiquity. His prinçipal work is the new church at Southampton, which poffeffes great merit as it is; and would have been a very diftinguished monument of his talents, if his original defign had been compleated. His plans for wet-docks 4 E on the Thames, which were offered to the confideration of Parliament, difplay a very comprehenfive knowledge of the various branches of his profeffion connected with fuch an undertaking. It is faid, that he firt fuggefted the converfion of the Ifle of Dogs to that use to which it is to be applied. In confe. quence of fome flattering expectations of being employed to erect a fuite of buildings at Bath, Mr. R. made designs of great beauty and elegance, and replete with convenience, for a new arrangement of the public baths of that city: but this hope was never realifed. Mr. Revely was the editor of the pofthumous volume of Stuart's Antiquities of Greece, and was peculiarly qualified by his local and profeffional knowledge for fuch an undertaking. Having been a pupil of Sir William Chambers, and poffefling all thofe fubfequent advantages derived from travel and refidence in Italy and Greece, it might have been fuppofed that he had a very fair profpect of fuccefs in his profeffion. But Revely was too fincere in the declaration of his fentiments, and too farcaftic in delivering them to attain popularity. He once made a journey to Canterbury with a fet of admirable defigns for a county infirmary, in confequence of an advertisement from the corporation of that city, inviting architects to make propofals for the erection of such an edifice. His defigns were approved and admired: but the committee appointed to conduct the business, propofed to purchase the drawings, and entrust the execution of them to a country builder, in order to fave the expence of an architect. Mr. Revely, who entertained a very high opinion of his profeffion, was so much mortified at this propofal, that he warmly obferved, that to commit a work of confequence to a common carpenter when an architect was at hand, would be as injudicious, as if any one in a cafe of great danger fhould apply to an apothecary when he could confult a phyfician. Moft unfortunately for Revely, the chairman of the committee was an apothecary; and the architect and his defigns were moft unceremoniously difmiffed. Mr. Revely was a man of the ftricteft integrity, and the little eccentricities of his character, in no refpect weakened its main fup porters. At his feat at Knole, in Kent, in the 55th year of his age, John Frederic Sackville, Duke of Dorset. ́ His grace was the fon of the late Lord John Sackville, by a fifter of the prefent Marquis of Stafford, and nephew of the late Duke of Dorfet. Whilft Mr. Sackville he fat fome time in parliament for the County of Kent, and was called up to the Houfe of Peers, in 1769, on the death of his uncle. His grace, long known by the famiJiar name of Jack Sackville, was for many years well known on the cricket grounds as an excellent player. Whilft a member of the House of Commons, and for fome time after be fucceeded to the title, he did not occupy any place under government, although dur were ing the American war he generally fupported the adminiftration. Indeed, being little dif pofed to business his lordship employed much of his time in cricket and gallantry. On the change of miniftry in 1783 he came into place, and during the short adminiftration of Lord Lanfdowne was appointed captain of the yeoman of the guard; but loft this place again when the coalition miniftry came into power. The duke voted against Mr. Fox's India Bill, and was afterwards appointed anbaffador to France by Mr. Pitt. While in this capacity his grace experienced what would have been a very mortifying circumftance to most other men, an almoft total deprivation of diplomatic employment. Mr., now lord Grenville; Mr. Eden, now lord Auckland; and Mr. Craufurd, were fent to tranfact fuch bufinefs and conclude fuch treaties as thought neceffary. But the duke was no ways affected by this apparent flight, except as it gave him leifure for his pleasures and gallantries. When the affairs of France, by the breaking out of the revolution, began to require great attention on the part of our ambaffador, the minifter thought proper to recall his grace, having previously decorated him with the ribbon of the order of the garter; and, on his return (1789) confoled him by the appointment to the post of lord fteward of his majesty's houfehold. Soon after he had the good fortune to obtain in marriage Mifs Cope, daughter of the prefent lady Liverpool by her first husband, Sir Jonathan Cope, a young lady about half his own age; by her he had one fon and one daughter. From the declining ftate of his health, or fome other caufe, his grace refigned the place of lord lieutenant of the county of Kent, with which he had been invefted ever fince the death of his uncle; and lard Romney fucceeded to the poft. His grace retained his office of lord fteward for fome time longer, but refigned it previous to his death. In Dr. Edward Smallwell, bishop of Oxford, this reverend prelate has been in the road to preferment ever fince the year 1766, when he was appointed one of the king's chaplains, in which station he continued many years. 1775 he was appointed one of the canons of Christ Church, from whence he was removed in 1783 to the bishoprick of St. David's, on the promotion of Dr. Warren to the fee of Bangor, where he continued five years; and on the death of Dr. Butler, he was tranflated to Oxford. merchant in Edinburgh. By fteady affiduity, activity, fidelity, and expertnefs in bufinefs, he foon recommended himself to the entire confidence of that gentleman. In confequence of this, he was received into partnership with his mafter, obtained his only daughter in marriage; and fucceeded, at laft, to his fortune, and to the whole business of the house. Conducting that bufinefs in a very honour able manner, and being much esteemed among his fellow-citizens, for the worth and ami. ablenefs of his character; he was, in due time, invited to become a member of the City Magiftracy. Manlinefs and candour in the unavoidable contefts of city-politics; great attention to thofe common interefts of the burgh, which were under the care of its magiftrates, and that union of firmness with gentleness, which forms the happy mean between blameable facility and impotent imperiousness, quickly acquired to Mr. ELDER, an extraordinary influence in the Town-Council, and great popularity among every clafs of his fellow-citizens. About the time of the commencement of the prefent 'revolutionary troubles of Europe, Mr. Elder was raifed to the dignity of LordProvost of Edinburgh, the higheft office of city-magiftracy in Scotland. In difcharging its functions, he was confeffed to display, in a more eminent degree than before, all those excellent qualities which had already recommended him to general esteem. He had been in office for the ufual time, and had diftinguished his adminiftration by as many wife and beneficent measures for the regulation of all the city concerns, as were ever crowded within fo short a period. But, fedition, and a fpirit of what was falfely called political reform, beginning to threaten the tran quillity of Edinburgh; it was thought indifpenfibly requifite to the public welfare, to prevail with Mr. Elder again to engage in the very difficult duties of the Chief Magiftracy, Without one violent act of power, without exciting the clamours even of those who might be inclined to fedition, without expofing himfelf to any murmuring 'accufation, as if he had been actuated by felfishness, or a spirit of fervility to Government, he fuccefsfully fupprefied all the outbreakings of fedition, and almost entirely extinguished every latent fpark of its dangerous fires. Even after he went again out of office, that fpecies of firm, yet not outrageous, policy of which he had fet the example, being still maintained, was ftill effectual toward the prefervation of the public tranquillity. Though no longer Chief Magiftrate, Mr. Elder continued to hold, by his abilities and virtues, almoft equal influence in the municipal administration of Edinburgh, as if he had been fill actually Lord-Provost. The example of his prudent political conduct was happily imitated in the other Scottish Burghs. That which might have feemed to wear a fufpicious afpect, if it had been directly enjoined from the ministers of the national government, was received as unquestionably wife and patriotic from a merchant and city magiftrate. The town council of Edinburgh feared to truft their fupreme executive authority, into a diverfity of hands, during the continuance of the prefent war; and for nearly these last ten years, Mr. Elder, and the prefent Lord Provoft, Sir James Stirling, have been alternately chief magiftrates of the Scottish metropolis. In the measure of embodying the volun. teers of Edinburgh, Mr. Elder took a very, active part. His encouragement contributed greatly to induce his fellow-citizens to enter the volunteer companies. Of one of the battalions he was, with general approbation, appointed colonel. He was indefatigably at tentive to the duties of this command, as to every other public function in which he at any time engaged. As chief magiftrate of the city, he was one of the leading patrons of the University of Edinburgh. Never was the conduct of any Lord Provost more agreeable to the illuftrious profeffors in that famous feminary. He was always careful to treat them with the respect due to their virtues and talents; and to promote the interefts of the inftitution, by every beneficent means which he had it in his power to employ. Of the plan for the erection of a new edifice for the accommodation of the profeflors and their claffes, he was one of the firft authors. He exerted himself with extraordinary activity and public fpirit in promoting the fubfcription to defray the expence of the building; it was not without great uneafinefs, he faw it remain fo long in an unfinished state. It is impoffible for the writer of this to enumerate all thofe inftances in which provost Elder's judgment and care contributed to improve the police, and all the ordinary concerns of the municipal government of the city of Edinburgh; fuffice to fay, that they were both numerous and eminently beneficial; and that they will long occur to obfervation, in almost all that is fignally worthy of notice in that town. He excelled in fupporting the exterior de-.. corums of magiftracy. That hofpitality to illuftrious ftrangers, which is honourable for the magiftracy of fuch a capital as Edinburgh to exercife, was never difplayed in a more becoming manner, than during the provoftship of Mr. Elder. Whatever other functions he had to perform, derived always new advantage from his manner of doing them. Upon a vacancy in the office of poftmastergeneral for Scotland, the qualities which Mr. Elder had fo ufefully exhibited, made it very desirable that he might accept that office. He could not refufe his fervice to the public in a fituation fo honourable. For a few of the last years of his life, he difcharged its duties, and with the fame general approbation which had attended his conduct in every other engagement. 4 E 2 He He was highly virtuous and amiable in private life. A numerous family furvive to lament his lofs. Success in trade, prudent economy, and fome official emoluments, have enabled him to leave them in a condition of refpectable independence. His eldest daughter is the lady of the reverend Dr. Baird, principal of the University of Edinburgh; a gentleman who, to very eminent accomplishments as a scholar and a preacher, joins extraordinary activity in beneficence, and a remarkable and unaffected difplay of that mild gravity and happy propriety of manners, which become his official fituation. Mr. Elder's death has been univerfally lamented by his fellow-citizens; and his obfequies have been celebrated with every honourable teftimony of public forrow. James Burnet, Lord Monboddo, whofe death was announced in our laft Number, was a defcendant from an ancient family in the fhire of Kincardine. He received his education at a Scottish university, at a time when an undistinguishing enthusiasm for all that bore the name of the claffical literature of Greece and Rome, was much more predominant than it is at prefent in Scotland. Choofing to embrace the profeffion of a lawyer, he paffed fuccefsfully through the ordinary courfe of preliminary, juridical ftudies; and was, in due time, received a member of the Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh. From early youth, his application to his literary and juridical ftudies, was feverely diligent. In the year 1767, he obtained a judges' feat, on the bench of the Scottish Court of Seffion; and difcharged the duties of that high office with an affiduity, a patience, a clear intelligence, and an uprightness, which do honour even to juftice herfelf. The courfe of his ftudies led him to attempt the compofition of a work, which might raife his name to diftinction among men of letters. He refolved that his firft work fhould afford, to the confufion and aftonishment of the moderns, a complete vindication of the wifdom and eloquence of his admired ancients. The first volumes of his Origin and Progress of Language, were, in confequence of this refolution, at length given to the public. Thefe volumes were peruied by critics with fentiments of mingled refpect, ridicule, and indignation. With the philofophical history of language, his plan neceffarily involved that of civility and knowledge. Thofe critics who were partial to modern literature, on account of their ignorance of that of antiquity, or who, though not unacquainted with the more popular of the ancient authors, were, however, ftrangers to the deeper myfteries of Geeek erudition, condemned Lord Monboddo's work with bitter and contemptuous cenfure. The Scottish literati, almoft to a man, declared it to be unworthy of perufal with any other view, than to be amused by its ridiculous abfurdity. No thing, it was faid, but the ftrange abfurdity of his opinions, could have hindered his book from falling dead-born from the prefs. In England, however, its reception was fomewhat lefs unpropitious to the author's hopes. In the late Mr. Harris, of Malmefbury, he found an admirer and literary friend, who was himself deeply verfant in Grecian learning and philofophy, and was exceedingly delighted to meet with one that had culti vated thefe ftudies with equal ardour, and worshipped the excellence of the ancient Greeks, as far above all other excellence. His private life was fpent in the practice of all the focial virtues, and in the enjoyment of much domeftic felicity. He married Mifs Farquharfon, a very amiable woman, by whom he had a fon and two daughters. Although rigidly temperate in his habits of life, he, however, delighted much in the convivial fociety of his friends: and among these he could number almost all the most eminent of thofe who were distinguished in Scotland for virtue, literature, or genuine elegance of converfation and manners. One of thofe who esteemed him the most highly, was the late Lord Gardenitone; a man who, though his propenfities to fenfual pleasure, and his habits of diffipation, were very different from the fanctity of the manners of Monboddo, poffeffed, however, no mean portion of the fame overflowing benignity of difpofition, the fame unimpeachable integrity as a judge, the fame partial fondness for literature and for the fine arts. His fon, a very promifing boy, in whofe education he took great delight, was, indeed, fnatched away from his affections by a premature death: but, when it was too late for forrow and anxiety to avail, the afflicted father ftifled the emotions of nature in his breast, and wound up the energies of his foul to the firmeft tone of Stoical fortitude. He was, in like manner, bereaved of his excellent lady, the object of his dearest tenderness; and he endured the lofs with a fimilar firmnefs, fitted to do honour either to philofophy or to religion. But, In addition to his office, as a judge in the fupreme Civil Court, in Scotland, "an offer was made to him of a feat in the Court of Jufticiary, the fupreme criminal court. though the emoluments of this place would have made a convenient addition to his income, he refufed to accept it; left its bufinefs fhould too much detach him from the purfuit of his favourite ftudies. His patrimonial eftate was fmall, not affording a revenue of more than 300l. a year. Yet he would not raise the rents; would never difmifs a poor old tenant for the fake of any augmentation of emolument offered by a richer ftranger; and, indeed, fhewed no particular folicitude to accomplish any improvement upon his lands,-fave that of having the num ber of perfons who should refide upon them, aş tenants, and be there fuftained by their pro duce duce, to be, if poffible, fuperior to the population of any equal portion of the lands of his neighbours. The vacations of the Court of Seffion afforded him leifure to retire every year, in spring and in autumn, to the country; and he used then to drefs in a ftyle of fimplicity, as if he had been only a plain farmer, and to live among the people upon his cftate with all the kind familiarity and attention of an aged father among his grown-up children. It was there he had the pleasure of receiving Dr. Samuel Johnfon, with his friend James Bofwell, at the time when thefe two gentlemen were upon their well-known journey through the Highlands of Scotland. Johnfon admired nothing in. literature fo much as the difplay of a keen difcrimination of human character, a just apprehenfion of the principles of moral action, and that vigorous common fenfe which is the most happily applicable to the ordinary conduct of life. Monboddo delighted in the refinements, the fubtleties, the abstractions, the affectations of literature; and in comparifon with thefe, defpifed the groffnefs of modern tafte, and of common affairs. Johnfon thought learning and fcience to be little valuable, except fo far as they could be made fubfervient to the purpofes of living ufefully and happily with the world upon its own terms. Monhoddo's favourite fcience taught him to look down with contempt upon all fublunary, and efpecially upon all modern things; and to fit life to literature and philofophy, not literature and philofophy to life. James Bofwell, therefore, in carrying Johnson to vifit Monboddo, probably thought of pitting them one against another, as two game.cocks, and promifed himself much fport from the colloquial conteft which he expected to enfue between them. But Monboddo was too hofpitable and courteous to enter into keen contention with a ftranger in his own house. There was much talk between them, but no angry controverly, no exafperation of that diflike for each others well known peculiarities with which they had met. Johnfon, it is true, ftill continued to think Lord Monboddo, what he called a prig in literature. a To unfold and to vindicate the principles of the Grecian philofophy more fully than could be conveniently done in his book on the Origin and Progrefs of Language, Lord Monboado engaged in the compofition of work under the title of Ancient Metaphyfics. On his vifits to London, Lord Monboddo met with fo many more men of profound erudition than he had opportunity to converfe with at the places of his ordinary refidence, that a journey to the capital became a very favourite amufement of his periods of vacation from the bufinefs of the court to which he belonged. For a while, he accustomed him felf to make this journey once a year. A carriage, a vehicle that was not in common ufe among the ancients, he confidered as an engine of effeminacy and floth, which it was difgraceful for a man to make use of in travelling. To be dragged at the tail of a horie, instead of mounting upon his back,―seemed, in his eyes, to be a truly ludicrous degradation of the genuine dignity of human nature. In all his journies, therefore, between E-linburgh and London, he was wont to ride on horieback, with a fingle fervant attending him. He continued this practice, without finding it too fatiguing for his ftrength, till he was between eighty and ninety years of age. Within thefe few years, on his return from a laft vifit, which he made on purpose to take leave before his death of all his old friends in London, he became exceedingly ill upon the road, was unable to proceed, and had he not been overtaken by a Scottish friend, who prevailed with him to travel for the remainder of the way in a carriage, he might perhaps have actually perished by the way fide, or breathed his laft in fome dirty inn. From that time he never again attempted an equeftrian journey to London. A conftitution of body naturally framed to wear well and last long, was ftrengthened to Lord Monboddo by exercife, guarded by temperance, and by a tenor of mind too firm to be deeply broken in upon by those paflions which confume the principles of life. In the country he always ufed the exercises of walking in the open air and of riding. The cold bath is a mean of preferving the health, to which he had recourfe in all his feafons, amid every feverity of the weather, under every inconvenience of indifpofition or bufi nefs, with a perfeverance invincible. He was accustomed, alike in winter and in fummer, to rife from bed at a very early hour in the morning, and, without lofs of time, to betake himself to ftudy or wholefome exercife. It is faid, that he has even found the use of what he calls the air-bath, or the practice of occafionally walking about, for fome minutes, naked, in a room filled with fresh and cool air, to be highly falutary. His eldest daughter became, many years fince, the wife of Kirkpatrick Wilkinson, eiq. a gentleman who holds a refpectable of fice in the Court of Seffion. His fecond daughter, a most amiable and beautiful young lady, died about fix years fince of a confumption, a difeafe that, in Scotland, proves too often fatal to the lovelieft and moft promifing among the fair and the young. Neither his philofophy, nor the neceffary torpor of the feelings of extreme old age, could hinder Lord Monboddo from being very deeply afflicted by to grievous a lofs. From that time he began to droop exceedingly in his health and fpirits to the period of his death. PROVINCIAL |