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INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, IN AND NEAR LONDON :
With Biographical Memoirs of distinguished Characters recently deceased.

THE premises of Mr. Gillet, printer, in Salisbury-court, Fleet street, were early on Sunday morning, the 29th of July, destroyed by fire, together with the dwelling-house of Mr. Swan, printer, adjoining. Some houses at the back of these buildings in Crown-court and Hanging-sword-alley, were also much damaged, as was the late house of the Vaccine Institution. It is remarkable, that the premises of Mr. Gillet, on the same spot, were destroyed about four years ago; and the present hre is supposed to have been occasioned by some incendiary throwing combustibles into the ware-room, the window of which had been left open to dry the sheets, as the flames were first observed, to issue from thence, though neither fire nor candle had been for some weeks introduced into it, and it had that very evening been inspected by Mr. Gillet himself.

MARRIED.

At the seat of Sir Robert Preston, bart. at Woodford, Lieut.-general Sir David Baird, bart K. B. to Miss Preston Campbell, of Fernton and Lochlane, in the county of Pert

At Woodford, Michael Henry Percival, to Miss Flower, eldest daughter of Sir Charles F. bart.

At Mary le bone Church, the Rev. Richard Hartley, of Newcastle upon-Tyne, to Jane, daughter of N. Bishop, esq. of Gloucester-place, New-road.

At Chelsea Church, Mr. J. T. Nuttige, of Barking, to Miss Louisa Robinson, or Cheyne row, Chelsea.

At St. Ann's, Thomas Canham, esq. of the Middle Temple, to Miss Swainson, of Frith-street,

At Hadley, Mr. James Boyd, jun. of Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square, to Miss Ogilvy, daughter of David Ogilvy, esq. of Cock Foster, Middlesex.

At Mary-ie-bone Church, the Rev. Ed. ward Whitby, to Mary, daughter of the late Benjamin Way, esq. of Denham-place, Bucks.

At St. George's, Hanover-square, Lieut.colonel Pierce, of the Madras establishment, to Miss Lester.

At Finchley, Mr. C. B. Jones, of St. John's street, to Miss M. A. Verrals, of East End, Finchley.

At St. Clement Danes, John Deacon, esq. of Bishopsgate street, to Miss Inwood, of the Strand.

Robert Panthen, jun. esq. of the Inner Temple, to Miss Rosina Burrell,

At Hornsey, Peter Tetrode, esq. of Harlingen, North Holland, to Mr. Oyze, of Muswell-hill.

At Northfeet, Benjamin Sharpe, esq. of Fleet-street, banker, to Anf, eldest daughter MONTHLY MAG. No. 203.

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At Folkstone, James Colquhoun, esq. to Catharine Dacon, daughter of James Deacon, esq. of James-street, Westminster.

At St George's, Hanover square, Evelyn John Shirley, esq of Eatington, to Miss Stanhope, only daughter of Arthur S. esq

The Rev. John Cholmely, second son of the late M. Cholmeley, Easton, Lincolnshire, and brother to Sir Montague Cholmeley, bart. to Selina Eliza, third daughter of R. Pullen, esq. of Great Winchester-street.

At St. George's, Hanover square, James Staveley, esq. of Gray's Inn to Ann Ewbank, daughter of the late John Abraham, esq. of Tottenham.

At Woolwich, Captain J. E. Jones, of the royal artillery, to Luisa, daughter of the late William Smith, esq treasurer of his M.je, ty's Ordnance.

At St. Martin's-in the-Fields, Miss Ann Collins, of Belton-street, Lo. g Acre, to Mr. N. Kinton, of Lamb's Conduit street.

At St. Pancras Church, Andrew Trevor, esq. surgeon of the 334 foot, to Harriet, youngest daughter of Charles Benny, esq. of Howland-s.reet.

At St. George's, Hanover square, Richard Curran, esq. eldest son of the Right Honourable John P Curran, master of the rolls in Ireland, to Miss Wysel, o: York place.

At St. Mary le-bone Church, Mr Robert Newinan, to Miss Laws, both of Oxfordstreet.

At St. Mary's, Newington, J Hanbury, jun, of Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn, to Miss Sarah Fuller Langton, eldest daughter of Richard Langton, esq. banker, of Lombardstreet.

DIED.

At Hillingdon, at the house of her uncle, Lacey Primatt, esq. Miss Maud.

At Highgate-grove, Miss Ann Minshaw, 13. At Pentonville, Isabella Anna, wife of Mt. George Moxon, and only daughter of W. Mann, esq. late of Syleham Suffolk, 20.

In the Strand, Mrs. Goodwin, wife of Mr. C. bookseller.

At Staines, Mrs. Elizabeth Perkins, relict of John David P. esq. 69.

In Great Prescot-ssreet, Goodman's-fields, Edmund Horrex, esq.

At Upper Ground, Christchurch, Blackfriars, Mr. G. Farquharson, formerly a jeweller and silversmith, in the Strand, 74.

At Putney, Mrs. Pettiward, relict of the late Rev. Dr. P. 86.

At Islington, Daniel Sebbon, esq. 82.

At Harmsworth, Lient.-Col. Hall, late of the 75th regiment, and quarter master-general of his Majesty's troups in India, 57.

In Bedford-row, Wm. Blake, esq. banker.

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At his house in Bear-street, Leicestersquare, where the family had resided for near a century, Mr. Jacob Furnell, currier, 53. As a tradesman, none surpassed him in integrity. With a frame of body extremely teeble, and subject to frequent attacks of the palsy, he possessed strong powers of mind; his literary attainments were considerable; he had read much, and his memory was retentive. Above all, he was a man of sincere and unaffected piety.

At his house in St. James's Palace, William Wybrow, esq. aged 67, first master cook to the king, aiter near fifty-three years honourable and faithful duty to his royal master. He was apprenticed to his majesty when he was Prince George, as was the custom of those days; and, on his majesty succeeding to the throne, he appointed him one of his cooks, and from his good and meritorious conduct, rose to be first cook.

At her house in South-street, Finsbury, Mrs. Rebecca Tomkins.

Neil Steward, late of the Custom House, 87. Joseph Cade, esq. of Garlick-hill, aged 38. At his house, in Eyre street, Hatton Garden, in the 73d year of his age, Mr. Thomas Crucbley. He was one of the very few survi vors who served under the immortal Wolfe, at the memorable battles and taking of Quebec, Louisburgh, and the Havannah.

At his house in Manchester-street, Pierce Bryan, esq. 78.

At his lodgings in Great Russell-street, Major Silvester Ramsay, late of the Honourable East India Company's service.

At Dulwich, aged 77, Mrs. Sarab Hucks, relict of William H. esq. a lady whose loss will be severely felt by the poor, and whose memory will be long cherished with affecsionate regret by her relatives and the select circle of friends who enjoyed the happiness of her society.

The Rev. Richard Cecil, A.M. of an apoplectic fit, late minister of St. John's Chapel, Bedford-row, and vicar of Cobham, in Surry.

General Charles Vernon, 92. He was lieutenant of the Tower, and senior general of his Majesty's forces.

At the Bush Inn, Staines, Thomas Griffith, esq. Solicitor, Bath.

At Hackney-grove, Helen, fifth daughter

of Mr. William Flower.

At Vale-place, Hammersmith, Wm. Tims,

esq.54.

At his house in Earl's court, Thomas Forsyth, esq. of Upper Wimpole-street.

Mrs. Wimbolt, wife of the Rev. Thomas W. of Southgate Chapel.

As Chelsea, Benjamin, second son of Mr. Wright, solicitor, Hyde-street, Bloomsbury,

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In Charlotte-street, Portman place, Lieut. Charies Brown, of the royal navy 55.

In Tavistock-row, Covent Garden, Mrs. Johnstone, wife of Mr. J. of the Drury-lane Company.

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Richard Chambers, esq. of Portman place, 76.

At Vauxhall Walk, Mrs Page, wife of Mr. F. P. of the Transport Office.

At Paradise-row, Lambeth, John Parry, esq formerly barrister-at-law.

Mr. Windham, (whose death is mentioned in our Number for July,) was descended from an ancient and highly respectable family in the county of Norfolk, where they had resided for several generations, and possessed a considerable property. His father, William Windham, was one of the most adn:ired characters of his time; and, in 1756, soon after the plan of a National Militia was formed by Mr. Pitt (afterwards Earl of Chatham), this gentleman, in conjunction with the late Marquis Townshend, was extremely zealous and active in promoting and carrying into execution that scheme, which has since proved so salutary to his coun try. On this subject he published one or two very excellent pamphlets. He died in 1761, leaving his only son, then eleven years old, under the care of the executors of his will, the Rev. Dr. Dampier, then Under Master of Eton-school, and Mr. Garrick. Mr. Windham was born at Felbriggehall, the family-seat in Norfolk, in March 1750. He received the early part of his education at Eton, where he continued from 1762 to the autumn of 1766, when he removed to the University of Glasgow, where he resided for about a year in the house of Dr. Anderson, Professor of Natu ral Philosophy, and diligently attended his Lectures, and those of Dr. Robert Simson, Professor of Mathematics, the well-known author of a Treatise on Conic Sections, and of other learned works. Here first probably he became fond of those studies, to which he was ever afterwards strongly addicted. In September 1767, he became a gentleman commoner of University college in Oxford, Mr. (afterwards sir Robert) Chambers, being his tutor. During his academic courset (from 1767 to 1771) he was highly distinguished for his application to various studies, for his love of enterprise, for that frank and graceful address, and that honourable deportment, which gave a lustre to his character through

* Mr. W. has left behind him three treatises on mathematical subjects, which he directed, by his will, should be put into the hands of the Bishop of Rochester (Dr. Horsley,) who was then living; adding, that if ire should think them of any value, they might be published.

In 1782, he was created M.A. and in 1793, D. C. L. at the Installation of the Duke of Portland; when so high was the admiration of his character, that on his entering the theatre, the whole assembly tose from their seats, and hailed him with loud applause.

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every period of his life. In 1773, when he was but twenty-three years old, his love of adventure, and his thirst of knowledge, induced him to accompany his friend Constantine Lord Mulgrave, in his voyage towards the North Pole; but he was so harassed with sea-sickness, that he was under the necessity of being landed in Norway, and of wholly abandoning his purpose. In 1778, he became a Major in the Norfolk Militia, then quartered at Bury in Suffolk, where, by his intrepidity and personal exertion, he quelled a dan gerous mutiny, which had broken out; notwithstanding he was highly beloved by the regiment. On one of the mutineers laying hold of a part of his dress, he felled him to the ground, and put him into confine nent; and, on his comrades afterwards surrounding him, and insisting on the release of the delinquent, he drew his sword, and kept them at bay, till a party of his own company joined and rescued him. Soon afterwards, in consequence of his being obliged to remain for several hours in wet clothes, he was seized with a dangerous bitious fever, which nearly deprived him of his life. In the autumn of that year, partly with a view of restoring his health, he went abroad, and spent the two following years in Switzerland and Italy. Previously to his leaving England, he was chosen a member of the Literary Club, founded by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Dr. Johnson, (who had the greatest esteem for Mr Windham ;) and, notwithstanding his engagements in consequence of his ParAiamentary business, and the important offices which he filled, he was a very frequent attendant at the meetings of that respectable society, (for which he always expressed the highest value,) from 1781 to near the time of his death. So early as the year 1769, when he was at Ox ford, and had not yet attained his twen tieth year, the late Marquis Townshend, then Lord Lieutenant or Ireland, whom he twice visited during his residence in that country, offered him the office of his principal Secretary; but he declined it in a letter which is still extant, and which very forcibly displays that excellent sense, and those honourable sentiments, which afterwards uniformly regulated his conduct. la 1782 he came into Parliament, where he sat for twenty-eight years, at first for

• Of his dauntless courage many instances might be given. In May 1785, he ascended from Moulsey Hurst in a balloon, with Mr. Sadler; and in 1793, having visited the army engaged in the siege of Valenciennes, he surveyed all the works with the most minute attention, in company with Captain (now Colonel) Thornton, and approached so near the enemy, that he was often within the reach of their capnon.

Norwich, and afterwards for various bas roughs; and he so early distinguished himself in the House of Commons, that he was selected by Mr Burke in June 1781, to second his motion for a representation to his Majesty on the state of the nation. In the preceding year, he had been appointed principal Secretary to the Earl of Northington, then constituted Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; and in that capacity he visited Dublin in the spring of 1783, and intended to have accompanied his Excellency when he afterwards opened the session of Parliament there in October; but being prevented by illness, he relinquish d his office; and his friend the Hon. Thomas Pelham (now Earl of Chichester,) was appointed Secretary in his room. From the time of his coming into Parliament to the year 1793, he usually voted with the Opposi tion of that day; but he never was what is called a thorough party-man, frequently deviating from those to whom he was in general attached, when, in matters of importance, his conscience directed him to take a different course from them; on which account, his virtues and talents were never rightly appreciated by persons of that description, who frequently on this ground vainly attempted to undervalue him. After the rupture between Mr Fox and Mr. Burke in consequence of the French Revolution, Mr. Windham attached himself wholly to the latter, with whom he had for many years lived in the closest intimacy; and of whose genius and virtues he had always the highest admiration. Being, with him, thoroughly convinced of the danger then impending over his country from the measures adopted by certain classes of Englishmen, in consequence of that tremendous convulsion, he did not hesitate to unite with the Duke of Portland, Lord Spencer, and others, in accepting offices under the administration in which Mr. Pitt then presided. On this arrangement Mr. Windham was appointed Secretary at War, with a seat in the Cabinet, an honourable distinction which had never before been an

When about to visit that country in his oficial capacity, he called on Dr. Johnson; and in the course of conversation, lamented that he should be under the necessity of sanctioning practices of which he could not approve. "Don't be afraid, sir," said the Doctor, with a pleasant smile, "you will soon make a very pretty rascal."-Dr. Johnson in a letter to Dr. Brocklesby, written at Ashbourne, in 1784, says: "Mr. Windham has been here to see me-he came, I think, forty miles out of his way, and staid about a day and a half; perhaps I make the time shorter than it was. Such conversation I shall not have again till I come back to the regions of literature, and there Windham is inter stellas luna minores." EDIT.

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nexed to that office. This station he continued to fill with the highest reputution from that time (1794) till 1801, when he, Lord Spencer, Lord Grenville, and Mr. Pitt, resigned their offices; and shortly afterwards Mr. Addington (now Lord Viscount Sidmouth) was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer and First Lord of the Treasury. On the preliminaries of peace with France being acceded to by that statesman and his coadjutors, in 1801, Mr. Windham made his celebrated speech in Parliament, which was afterwards (April 1802) published, with an Appendix, containing a character of the present usurper of the French throne, which will transmit to posterity the principal flagi. tious passages of his life up to that period, in the most lively colours. On Mr. Adding ton being driven from the helm, in 1805, principally by the battery of Mr. Windham's eloquence, a new administration was again formed by Mr. Pitt, which was dissolved by his death, in 1806; and shortly afterwards, on Lord Grenville's accepting the office of First Lord of the Treasury, Mr. Windham was appointed Secretary of State for the War Department, which he held till his Majesty, in the following year, thought fit to constitute a new administration. During this period he carried into a law his Bill for the limited service of those who enlist in our regular army; a measure which will ever endear his name to the English soldiery. The genius and talents of this illustrious statesman are well known and universally acknowledged. He was unquestionably the most distinguished man of the present time, and not interior, in many respects, to the most admired characters of the age that is just gone by. He had been in his earlier years a very diligent student, and was an excellent Greek and Latin scholar. In his Jer years, like Burke and Johnson, he was an excursive reader, but gathered a great variety of knowledge from different books, and from occasionally mixing, like them, with very various classes and descriptions of тел. His memory was most tenacious. In his Parliamentary speeches his principal object always was to convince the understanding by irrefragible argument, which he at the same time enlivened by a profusion of imagery, drawn sometimes from the most abstruse parts of science, but oftener from the most familiar objects of common life. But what gave a peculiar lustre to whatever he urged, was his known and uniform integrity, and a firm conviction in the breasts of his hearers, that he always uttered the genuine and disinterested sentiments of his heart. His language, both in writing and speaking, was always simple, and he was extremely sond of idiomatic phrases, which he thought greatly contributed to preserve the purity of our language. He surveyed every stject of importance with a philosophic eye, and was thence enabled to discover

and detect latent mischief, concealed under the plausible appearance of public advantage. Hence all the clamourers for undefined and imaginary liberty, and all those who meditate the subversion of the constitution under the pretext of reform, shrunk from his grasp; and persons this description were his only enemies. But his dauntless intrepidity, and his noble disdain of vulgar popularity, held up a shield against their malice; and no fear of consequences ever drove him from that manly and honourable course, which the rectitude and purity of his mind induced him to pursue. As an orator, he was simple, elegat, prompt, and graceful. His genius was so fertile, and his reading so extensive, that there were few subjects on which he could not instruct, amuse, and pursuade. He was frequently (as has justly been observed) at once entertaining and abstruse, drawing illustrations promiscuously from familiar life, and the recondite parts of science; nor was it unusual to hear him through three adjoining sentences, in the first witty, in the second metaphysical, and in the last scholastic." But his eloquence derived its principal power from the quickness of his apprehension, and the philosophical profundity of his mind. Of this his speech on Mr. Curwen's Bill (May, 1809) is an eminent instance; for it unquestionably con tains more moral and political wisdom than is found in any similar performance which has appeared since the death of Mr. Burke, and may be placed on the same platform with the most admired productions of that distinguished orator. In private life no man perhaps of any age had a greater number of zealous friends and admirers. In addition to his extraordinary talents and accomplishments, the grace and happiness of his address and manner gave an irresistible charm to his conversation; and few, it is believed, of either sex (for his address to ladies was inimitably elegant and graceful) ever partook of his society without pleasure and admiration, or quitted it without regret. His brilliant imagination, his various knowledge, his acuteness, his good taste, his wit, his dignity of sentiment, and his gentleness of manner (for he never was lond or intemperate) made him universally admired and respected. To crown all these virtues and accomplishments, it may be added, that he fulfilled all the dut es of life, the lesser as well as the greatest, with the most scrupulous attention; and was always particularly ardent in vindicating the cause of oppressed merit. But his best eulogy is the general sentiment of surrow which agitated every bosom on the sudden and unexpected stroke which terminated in his death. During the nineteen days of his sickness, his hall was darily visited by several hundred successive enquirers concerning the state of his health; and that part of r'allmall in which his house was situated, was thronged with carriages filled with ladies,

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whom a similar anxiety brought to his door. Every morning, and also at a late hour every evening, when his physicians and surgeons attended, several apartments in his house were filled with friends, who anxiously waited to receive the latest and most accurate accounts of the progress or abatement of his disorder. This sympathetic feeling extended almost through every class, and even reached the throne, for his Majesty frequently enquired concerning the state of his health, pronouncing on him this high eulogy, that

he was a genuine patriot, and a truly honest man." Of the fatal malady which put an end to his invaluable life, such erroneous accounts baze been published in the newspapers, that it may not be improper to give an accurate statement of that most distressful evet. An idle story has been propagated that the Hon. Frederick North, on his last go ng abroad, left his Library and MSS. in the care of Mr. Windham, and had requested him to remove his books to Mr. Windham's house in Pall mall; that he had neglected this charge, and thence had the stronger inducement to exert himself to save them. In all this circumstantial detail there is not one word of truth. The fact is, that on the 8th of last July, Mr. Windham, returning on foot at twelve o'clock at night from the house of a friend, as he passed by the end of Conduit-street, saw a house on fire; and, with the same gallantry of spirit which on a former occasion induced him to exert himself to save a part of the venerable abbey of Westminster from destruction, he instantly hastened to the spot, with a view to assist the sufferers; and soon observed that the house of Mr. North was not far distant from that which was then on fire. He therefore, immediately undertook to save his friend's library, which he knew to be very valuable. With the most strenuous activity he exerted Kimself for four hours, in the midst of rain and the playing of the fire engines, with such effect that, with the assistance of two or three persons whom he had selected from the crowd ass-mbed on this occasion, he saved four parts out of five of the library; and before they could empty the fifth book-room, the house took fire. The books were immediately removed, not to Mr. Windham's house, but to the houses of the opposite neighbours, who took great care of them. In removing some heavy volumes he accidentally fell, and suffered a slight contusion on his hip; but it made so little impression on his mind, that, not being apt to complain of any distress belonging to himself, in giving an account of the transaction the next cay, he did not even mention this circumstance, nor for some months did he take notice of it to any friend. When he afterwards did mention it, it was in so slight a manner, that it hardly attracted any atten tion from those who loved him best. By this accident, however, an indolent insisted

tumour was formed in the part affected.
For several months it was attended with no
pain whatsoever; yet even in that state he
had medical advice, and some slight applica
tions were employed, with no great effect.
At length, about the beginning of May, the
tumour began to increase, and in certain
positions of the body, to give him some little
pain; and on mentioning these circum.
stances to a friend, he strongly exhorted him
to have the best surgical advice. Accor
dingly, on the next day, the 6th of May, Mr.
Cline, who had been consulted about two
months before, was again called in, to view
the part affected; and he then pronounced
the tumour to be of such a nature, that Mr.
Windham's life might be endangered, if it
was not cut out. In consequence of this
decision, Mr. Windham acted with the
utmost prudence, propriety, and fortitude.
He first consulted his own physician, Dr.
Blane, who coincided in opinion with Mr.
Cline. He then resolved, before he sub-
mitted to the operation, to consult six emi-
nent surgeons separately, besides Mr. Cline;
Dr. B. having previously given all of them'
(except one who, it is believed, was con-
sulted without his knowledge) an accurate
account of his constitution and habit of body;
and four out of the six thus consulted, were
decidedly of the same opinion with Mr.
Cline; that is, five were clearly for the
operation, and two against it. Mr. Wind-
ham, having taken these precautions, acted
as every wise man would have done, and
resolved to submit to the operation. And so
far was he from rashness or precipitation,
which have been most untruly imputed to
him, that after these opinions were obtained,
Dr. Bailie, whose great anatomical skill is
universally acknowledged, was also con-
sulted; and he too agreed in opinion with
Dr. Blane, and the five surgeons already
alluded to. Here therefore was no choice,
nor any time for that preparation, which it
has been idly supposed was rashly neglected,
"from the quickness and vivacity of his
decisions." With that manly fortitude
which distinguished him through life, he
now prepared to submit to the requisite ope-
ration; and after making a codicil to his will,
he visited his friend and contemporary at
Oxford, the Rev. Dr. Fisher, Master of the
Charter-House; and as appears from one of
his Diaries, received the Sacrament from his
hands, Mrs Fisher being the only other
communicant. He bore the operation with
the most heroic fortitude; and even when
the pain was most exquisite, exhibited a vivid
proof of the strength of his mind, by a play-
ful allusion to the language of the vulgar
in similar situations. With the most kind
and anxious tenderness he had taken care
that Mrs. Windham, who was in the country
at this time, should not have the slightest
suspicion of what was going on; nor was
she apprised of the operation, till, on her

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