hitherto been chiefly regarded as filling a subsidiary post by his polished raillery and entertaining sarcasm; but in his defence of Mr. Fox's India bill he exhibited powers of argument, and masterly comprehension of an intricate subject, which convinced the hearers that a steady application only was wanting to place him in the first rank of political speakers. This, in the universal opinion of the nation, was attained by him, when, as one of the managers of the prosecution instituted by the House of Commons against Mr. Hastings, he exhibited a copiousness, force, and lustre of eloquence which both parties pronounced as absolutely unequalled within the

remembrance of the auditors. At this time, being again a member of opposition, he is supposed to have exerted a great influence over the councils at Carltonhouse; and he obtained a place in the collection of the revenue of the duchy of Cornwall, which was the only permanent fruit of his political career. He was a firm and consistent opposer of Mr. Pitt's measures; and did not hesitate to encounter all the imputations thrown upon the decreasing band of reformists and advocates of freedom, during the war of the French revolution.

Deeply involved in his circumstances, and suffering in his private character in consequence of his necessities, with a constitution broken by his habits of life, and a debilitated mind, he sunk, the melancholy example of brilliant talents deprived of almost all their value by moral defects, a

12. Vice-adm. Sir Wm. Essington, in his 63d year.

13, Lieut.-general Cliffe.

12. Louisa Lady Bagot. Sir Andrew Bayntun, bart. 15. Joshua Vanneck Lord Huntingfield, in his 71st year. He was created an Irish peer in 1796, and was member of parliament for Dunwich.

17. Lady Susan Clinton, wife of Lieut.-general Sir Henry Clinton, and sister of the Earl of Wemyss.

Lady Rawlinson, relict of Sir Walter R. aged 73.

19. Joseph Huddart, esq. F.R.S. and an elder brother of the Trinityhouse, in his 76th year. This very able and useful person, distinguished as a geographer and mechanist, was born of humble parentage at Allonby, a sea-const village in Cumberland. His father having a share in a fishery established in that place, Joseph was much employed in the small vessels by which it was carried on, and at length he obtained the command of a brig, in which he made frequent trips to different ports. Having a strong turn to mechanics,

mechanics, he employed his leisure in the study of ship-building and astronomy, and without any instruction he built a vessel of which every timber was moulded by his own hands. This he navigated from 1760 to 1773 chiefly in St. George's Channel, making surveys of the ports and roadsteds, the accuracy of which obtained the notice of nautical men, and induced Sir Richard Hotham to recommend his entering into the East India service. He accordingly made a voyage as fourth mate of the York, during which he took valuable surveys on the western coast of Sumatra. After his return he resumed the command of his own vessel, in which he made an annual voyage to America; and at the request of a chart-seller, he completed his survey of St. George's Channel. In 1778 he again sailed to the East Indies as chief mate, and made four voyages in a period of ten years, during which time he completed a survey of the peninsula from Bombay to Coringo. After quitting that service he executed surveys of the Western islands of Scotland; and he was employed by the Trinity-house in 1790, in a survey of that intricate navigation Hasbro' Gatt for the purpose of placing lights. By his labours above-mentioned, he rendered essential service to marine geography, and obtained high reputation in that branch of science. Not less valuable to mariners was his capital improvement in the manufacture of cordage, by means of which an equal distribution is made of the strains on the yarns, thus obviating the former danger of a cable giving way in conse.

quence of the unequal stress upon different component parts. His most ingenious piece of mechanism for this purpose was invented by him with such exactness of conception, that it was rendered perfect at one effort, without a previous model. For this contrivance he obtained a patent, which lay dormant for some time on account of the prejudice of rope-makers in favour of their received method; but the superiority of Captain Huddart's mode was so well established on trial, that his own rope-work, constructed at Limehouse, has proved a very successful concern.

Captain Huddart was a tall erect figure, with a countenance strongly indicating thought, with an expression of placid benevolence corresponding with the amiable simplicity of his character.

28. Sir Chaloner Ogle, bart. senior admiral in the navy, in his 89th year.

Charles Chaplin, esq. M. P. for the county of Lincoln, aged 58.

31. Hon. Mary Bennett, relict of Hon Lieutenant-gen. Bennett.

September.

4. Sir Thos. Miller, bart. M. P. for Portsmouth, in his 81st year. 5. Hon C. Herbert, M. P. for Wilton, aged 72.

6. Robert Morris, esq. M. P. for Gloucester.

Dowager Countess D'Alton. 10. Sam. Osborne, esq. admiral of the blue, aged 62.

Richard Reynolds, of Bristol, a member of the Society of Friends, in his 81st year. This truly memorable person was long the principal in the concern known by the

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name of the Colebrook Dale Company, in which he raised an ample property, which, in his hands, was the instrument of larger and more diffusive beneficence than can easily be paralleled in any station of life. His charities, unlimited by the distinctions of sect or party, were extended as far as his careful and assiduous enquiries could detect suitable objects, and were commonly distributed without any knowledge of the hand which supplied them, except by the secret agents of his bounty. Such were his modesty and humility, that they would not suffer him to assume merit from what he regarded as an indispensable duty, and he considered himself as the mere steward of the superfluity which Providence had bestowed upon him. At Bristol, where he resided during the latter part of his life, he was regarded as a general good; and the regret inspired by his loss was participated by all ranks and denominations. Besides the honour paid to his memory by a numerous attendance at his funeral, a general meeting of the inhabitants of the city was convened by public advertisement, at which a resolution unanimously passed for instituting a philanthropic association under the title of Reynolds's Commemoration Society.

12. Mrs. Otway, relict of Vice

adm. O.

Sir Wm. Codrington, bart. in his 78th year.

14. General John Leveson Gower, aged 47.

15. Paul Cobb Methuen, esq. of Corsham House, Wilts, which he had decorated with one of the finest collections of pictures in England.

16. Sir James Wright, bart. in his 70th year.

18. Philip d'Auvergne Prince de Bouillon, Vice-adm. of the Red, in his 81st year.

22. In his 87th year, Sir Robert Gunning, bart. formerly minister at the courts of Denmark, Prussia, and Russia.

24. John Manley, esq. Viceadm. of the Red.

29. Lady Susannah Wombwell.

Rev. Wm. Bell, D. D. Senior Prebendary of Westminster, in his 85th year. This learned divine was educated at Magdalen college, Cambridge, in which university he obtained considerable distinction. He became domestic chaplain to the Princess Amelia, aunt to the present King, through whose interest he obtained a prebend of Westminster in 1765, and two years afterwards proceeded S. T. P. by royal mandate. He acquired several other preferments; and made himself known to the public by various publications. That for which he was principally distinguished was "An Attempt to ascertain and illustrate the Authority, Nature, and Design of the Institution of Christ, commonly called the Lord's Supper," 1780, 8vo. In this work he chiefly adopted the opinions of Hoadly on this sacrament; and it produced a letter addressed to him by Dr. Bagot. Dr. Bell followed up the subject by "An Enquiry, whether any doctrine relating to the nature and effects of the Lord's Supper can be justly founded on the doctrine of our Lord recorded in the 6th chapter of the Gospel of St. John," 1790. In 1787 he was the Editor of a curious tract by the late Dr. Cou

rayer,

December.

11. Lady Catharine Murray, widow of W. J. Murray, esq. and daughter of the Earl of Galloway.

Richard Howard Earl of Effingham, in the 69th year of his age.

15. Charles Stanhope, Earl Stanhope, in his 64th year. This nobleman was son to Philip Earl Stanhope, and received a great part of his education at Geneva. He brought thence a warm attachment to the principles of civil and religious liberty, which directed his conduct during his whole life, regardless of all family or party connections, and in modes peculiarly his own; the consequence of which was, that in his parliamentary plans he frequently acted alone, and was not less singular in his language and manners, than in his notions and projects. It is, however, allowed that many of his reforming attempts were turned to useful objects, and they occasionally received support as well from the ministers as the opposition. This was exemplified by their adopting his bill respecting the prohibition of purchasing gold at a price higher than the numerary value of bank notes; and their admission of his proposal for the digest of all the statutes, which was the labour that engaged his last public cares. His knowledge was various and extensive, and his industry indefatigable. He pursued with ardour every thing he undertook, unchecked by disappointment, and regardless of criticism. From a mere boy he exhibited talents for scientific inquiry and mechanical invention, and almost

numberless were the contrivances for improving the useful arts which he laid before the public, and put to the test of experiment. Among those was an important improvement in the printingpress, which has been largely adopted under his name. No one could stand more apart from designs of private interest, either in his political conduct, or his scientilic pursuits; and he appeared to regard perfect independence as more dignified and honourable than high office or court favour. He has been thought hard and unfeeling, and his domestic character may in various points be impeached, but he was a kind landlord, and a liberal benefactor to the poor.

Lord Stanhope was married first to Hester Pitt, eldest daughter to the great Earl of Chatham; and secondly to Louisa, daughter of Henry Grenville, esq. Governor of Barbadoes. When he broke off his political connection with his brother-in-law, Mr. Pitt, his family preferred the patronage of the minister to the paternal roof; which occasioned him to say, that as they had chosen to be saddled on the public purse, they must take the consequences. The result was, that none of them were named in his will, and all his disposable property was bequeathed to eight executors not in the least related to him.

17. In France, in his 36th year, Sir Hen. Hollis Bradford, a knight commander of the Bath, and knight of orders in Russia and the Netherlands.

18. Sir William Peppereli, bart. aged 70.

25. Mary Hallyburton, Countess Dowager