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28. The Rev. Stebbing Shaw, F. S. A. sector of Harttham, Derbyshire, author of the "History and Antiquities of Stafford fhire."

Mr. Conftable, furgeon, of Woodford. Lately, at Datchett, James Haydock, efq. aged 65.

29. In Norton-street, Portman-place, Mr. Samuel Paterion, in his 77th year, well known and respected by the literati of his own and other countries for his extensive knowledge of books in moft languages and fciences, and in his private life revered and esteemed for his focial and domestic virtues. Further particulars of him in our next.

30. Edward Bull, efq. of New Or. mond-street.

31. Mr. B. P. Ludlow, furgeon, of Melksham, near Bath.

Nov. 1. Mr. Paul Agutter, of Aldermanbury.

James Mac Vicker Affleck, M. D. of the island of Jamaica.

3. Sir Walter Vavafour, of Haflewood, Yorkshire, bart.

At Bath, Robert Biffett, efq. of Madeira.

The Rev. J. Towers, rector of Billingborough, aged 9o. It is fingular that there have been only two incumbents on this living for upwards of a century. Mr. T. as well as his predeceffor, having held the fituation upwards of fifty years.

4. At Wickited Hall, in Cheshire, Mrs. Ethelton, wife of the Rev. C. W. Ethelton, rector of Worthenbury. Mrs. Pybus, widow of John Pybus, efq. of Cheam, Surry.

At Prefton, Lancashire, Mr. James Bannerman, late of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, in confequence of a wound he received in the thigh while perform ing in PEROUSE.

5. At Wrexham, Major Gewer, of the marines, brother to Sir Erafmus Gower. In the delirium of a fever he precipitated himself from a two pair of itains window, and was killed on the fpot, At Newmarket, Richard Woodthorp, efq. late affilant infpector of his Ma jetty's troops in the ifland of Jerley.

6. At Camberwell, Mr. John Barrett Corbett, furgeon, late of Brotely, Salop. At Hadley, in her 75th year, Mrs. Monro, relict of the late Dr. Monro.

Lately, the Rev. Dr. Burroughs, fenior fellow of Magdalen College, Cambridge.

7. At Bush Hill, Captain Jofeph Smerfet Briggs, of the royal navy.

8. At Ely, Mrs. Underwood, wife of the Rev. Mr. Underwood, and daughter of the Rev. Dr. Knowles, prebendary of Ely.

9. Mifs Eliza Harris, daughter of Thomas Harris, efq. aged 15 years. The circumstance attending this young Lady's deceafe was particularly affecting. Her anxious parents were affifting her up stairs, not without hopes of her recovery, when the expired in their arms, without a ftruggle, or any obfervable indication of pain.

At Trimley, Suffolk, Captain Beauchamp Newton Cooper, efq. of the eastern regiment of Norfolk militia,

Lately, Robert Winter, efq. of the Pipe Office, aged 75.

11. At Deanis Leate, Dorfetshire, Sir William Lewis Andre, of Bath, bart. Donald Murray, efq. of Southamptonrow, Bloomsbury.

12. Jofeph Hankey, efq. of Poplar.

13. At Windfor, in her 87th year, Mrs. Sumner, reli&t of Dr. John Sumner, provoft of King's College, Cambridge.

Mr. Martin Robinson, of Red Lionftreet, Holborn.

16. William Coney, efq. of Winchefter-place, Pentonville.

Mr. Thomas Pearce, brewer, at Milbank.

18. Mr. Mofes William Staples, late a banker in Cornhill.

19. In the 68th year of his age, after an illness of fix days, Mr. Sewell, bookfeller, of Cornhill, refpe&ted and regretted by all who knew him. If an honelt man's the nobleft work of God," fuch a one was John Sewell, who, with fome harmless eccentricities, poffelfed a mind and fpirit, of which the energy and value could only be duly ellimated by those who were admitted to his fami liar acquaintance. His fhop was the well-known refort of the first mercantile characters in the city, who were ufed there to feel more of the freedom and eafe of their own parlours, than the reftrictions of a house of trade; yet fuch was the effect of long-established method, that, perhaps, in all London, a fhop could not be named, in which to much bufinefs was daily tranfated with fo little bufle or oftentation. Mr. Sewell fucceeded Mr. Brotherton in the fame houfe wherein he died, and in which he had refided 53 years, and was, we believe, the oldeft Bookfeller in London. He pofleffed, besides his profeffional judgment of books, a tolerable knowledge

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of mechanics, particularly of fhip-building, understood the nature and proper ties of timber, and was the founder and most zealous promoter of a Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture. He was alfo the occafion of a moft bereficial improvement being made fome years ago in Cornhill, a place which had fustained prodigicus lofles by conflagrations. Finding that a difficulty of gaining a ready lupply of water was in moft cafes the caufe of the mifchief extending, he conceived the idea of a tank, or refervoir, to be laid under the coach pavement of the ftreet, which, being always kept full of water, is a perpetual and ready refource in cafe of fie happening in that vicinity. In proof of his loyalty and public spirit, we need only fay, that he was one of the firit fupporters, and named on the first Committee, of the Loyal Affociation, at the Crown and Anchor, in 1792, by the operation and influence of which, the Nation was preferved from the ruinous efforts of Republicans and Levellers; and when the Kingdom was alarmed and confounded by the mutiny in our fleets, he drew up, and at his own expence circulated Propofals in detail, for a Marine Voluntary Affociation, for manning in perfon the Channel fleet, the ancient and natural defence of Old England." The object, however, was happily rendered unneceffary by the return of our brave feamen to reafon and their duty. To lay more of Mr. Sewell might feem fuperfluous; to have faid leís, had been injustice to his memory.

DEATHS ABROAD.

APRIL 7. At Madras, LieutenantColonel Sheriff, of the 7th regiment of native cavalry.

In his way from India to Egypt, Thos. Ogilvie, efq. fon of the late Sir John Ogilvie, bart.

OCT. 28. At Amfterdam, a Jew named Levy, who had long been celebrated for his perambulations. He had attained the advanced age of 100 years, two months, and 27 days. He has left 28 children, and 27 grand children. He preferved all his faculties to the latt hour of his life. It is fingular that his mother, Judith David, attained the age of 105 years, two months, and 26 days. Her brother Von Leyden, died upwards of 10 years of age, and in his hundredth year he performed a jourBey on foot from Leyden to Catwick ou the Sea.

ост. 30. At Paris, Monfieur De Calonne, in his 69th year. (See an account of him, with a portrait, in the European Magazine for April 1789, p. 267.)

Count Philip Charles D'Alvensleben, the Pruffian Minister of State, at Berlin. He was born the 12th of December, 1745, at Hanover, where his father was Privy Councillor of War, and where his grandfather had been Minifter of State. His education was in a great measure completed during the courfe of the seven years war. He participated, at Magdebourg, in the leffons of the two Princes of Pruffia, Frederic William II. afterwards his Sovereign, and Frederic Henry Charles, brother to that Monarch.. From that epoch may be dated the friendfhip which he formed with his young friends. After having terminated, in 1770, his ftudies at the Academy of Halie, he dedicated himself to the Bar, and was appointed Referendary to the Chamber of Juftice at Berlin, where he acquired the reputation of a man of bufineis, and great industry.

On the aft of January 1774, he was appointed Gentleman to His Royal Highness Prince Ferdinand. On the 29th of September 1775, he commenced his diplomatic career, being then appointed Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Saxony: he was decorated at the fame time with a Chamberlain's Key. His talents and his perfonal qualities gained him general confidence and esteem, and merited the approbation of his Sovereign, particularly in the War of the Succeffion, during which he was the centre of the Correfpondence between the King and the Allied Court of Saxony, the King's Army, and that of Prince Henry. After having filled, for twelve years, the fituation of Minister at the Court of the Elector of Saxony, the King, Frederic William, confided to him feveral important miffions. He was fent to Paris in 1787. At the commencement of the following year, he was appointed Envoy Extraor dinary, to the Republic of the United Provinces, and at the end of the fame year he came to London in the fame quality. In 1790 he was recalled from England, when the Monarch, full of confidence in his capacity, appointed him, on the 1st of May, 1791, a Mimifter of State, of War, and of the Cabinet; he took upon him the Foreign Department, and was engaged in all the important affairs which have fince

occupied

occupied the attention of that Cabinet. In 1792 he was created a Knight of the Order of the Red Eagle; in 1798, at the Coronation, he alone was created a Knight of the Order of the Black Eagle, and in 1800 was raised to the dignity of Count.

On the 23d of October laft, at Vienna, in the 80th year of his age, General Jerningham, nephew to the late Sir George Jerningham, Bart. of Coffey, in Norfolk. He ferved upwards of 50 years in the Imperial fervice, and was Chamberlain to the Empress Maria Therefa, and to the Emperors Jofeph, Leopold, and Francis.

Lately at Bristol in Pennsylvania, a female Slave named Alice, aged 116 years.

She was born in Philadelphia, of parents who came from Barbadoes, and lived in that City until he was ten years old, when her matter removed her to Dunk's Ferry, in which neighbourhood fhe continued to the end of her days.

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She remembered the ground on which Philadelphia ftands, when it was wilderness, and when the Indians (its chief inhabitants) hunted wild game in the woods, while the panther, the wolf, and the beafts of the foreft, were prowl. ing about the wigwams and cabins in which they lived.

Being a fenfible intelligent woman, and having a good memory, which the retained to the laft, the would often make judicious remarks on the population and improvements of the City and Country; hence her converfation became peculiarly interefting, especially to the immediate defcendants of the first fettlers, of whofe ancestors the often related acceptable anecdotes.

She remembered William Penn, the proprietor of Pennsylvania, Thomas Story, James Logan, and several other diftinguished characters of that day.

During a fhort vilit which the paid to Philadelphia, laft fall, many refpectable perfons called to fee her, who were all pleafed with her innocent cheerfulnefs, and that dignified deportment, for which (though a Slave and uninftructed) the was ever remarkable.

In obferving the increase of the City, The pointed out the houfe next to the Epifcopal church, to the fouthward in Second-Itreet, as the first brick-building that was erected in it, and it is more than

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probable fhe was right, for it bears evident marks of antiquity. The first church, the faid, was a fmall frame that ftood where the prefent building ftands, the ceiling of which the could reach with her hands from the floor.

She was a worthy Member of the Epifcopal Society, and attended their public worthip as long as the lived. Indeed, fhe was fo zealous to perform this duty, in proper feason, that she has often been met on horfeback, in a full gallop, to church, at the age of 95 years.

The veneration fhe had for the bible, induced her to lament that he was not able to read it; but the deficiency was in part fapplied by the kindness of many of her friends, who, at her requeft, would read it to her, when the would liften with great attention, and often make pertinent remarks.

She was temperate in her living, and fo careful to keep to the truth, that her veracity was never questioned; her honetty alfo was unimpeached, for fuch was her master's confidence in it, that he was trufted at all times, to receive the ferriage money for upwards of forty years.

This extraordinary woman retained her hearing to the end of her life, but her fight began to fail gradually, in her ninety-fixth year, without any other vifible caufe than from old age. At one hundred the became blind, fo that the could not fee the fun at noon day.

Being habituated from her childhood to conftant employment, her last master kindly excufed her from her ufual labour; but he could not be idle, for the afterwards devoted her time to fishing, at which he was very expert, and even at this late period, when her fight had fo entirely left her, he would frequently row herself out into the middle of the ftream, from which the feldom returned without a handfome fupply of fifh for her master's table.

About the one hundred and fecond year of her age, her fight gradually returned, and improved fo far, that the could perceive objects, moving before her, though he could not distinguish perfons.

Before he died, her hair became perfectly white, and the last of her teeth dropt found from her head at the age of

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THE

European Magazine,

For DECEMBER 1802.

[Embellished with, 1. A PORTRAIT of SIR HENRY TROLLOPE. 2. A VIEW of a HINDU TEMPLE; and, 3. A BUST of WARREN HASTINGS, Efg.]

CONTAINING,

creafe and Decrease of different
403
Diteafes, and particularly of the

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Memoirs of Sir Henry Trollope Ellays after the Manner of Goldfmith. Effay XXII.

404

On the Prefervation of Stores on board Ships

406

On Soap Athes as a Manure
Clerical Anecdote

407

ibid.

Remarks on Lycophron's Caffandra 408
Remarks on the late Rev. Samuel

409

Darby's Letter to the Rev. Mr.
T. Warton, on his late Edition
of Milton's Juvenile Poems
Veftiges, collected and recollected,
by Jofeph Moler, Efq. No. VI. 412
Memoirs of Alexander Dalrymple,
Efq. [Concluded]

The Art of Candle-making: A
Fragment

421

424

Some Account of the late Mr. Samuel Paterfon

427

On the Advantages of a Liberal
Education

Directions for preferving Turnips

from Infects

Receipts for making Inks

On Intemperance.

LONDON REVIEW,

Fifcher's Travels in Spain

Guineas an unnecellary and expen-
five Incumbrance on Commerce
A Journal of a Party of Pleasure to
Paris in the Month of Auguft

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ibid.

ibid.

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An Inftance of Literary Imitation ibid. Some Account of a Hindu Temple and a Buft Obfervations on the Silk Trade in general, and its Operation on the Silk Manufacture of the Metropolis. By Jofeph Mofer, Efq. Theatrical Journal; including Cha racter of Jeveral new PerformersMr. Stephen Kemble's Farewell, with an Addrefs, written by Himfelf-Fable and Character of Family Quarrels Dublin Theatricals Addrefs on Opening the new Theatre at Warwick Poetry; including Verfes written by a young Gentleman, on his Sifter's tranfmitting him a Copy of Dr. Cotton's Fire-fide”— Extempore Lines, addreffed to a Friend, on the Birth of a Daughter -Lines on a Brother's Grave, &c. 459 Journal of the Proceedings of the First Seffion of the Second Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Foreign Intelligence Domestic Intelligence

1802

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Price of Stocks.

Heberden's Oblervations on the In

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478

ibid.

Index.

London:

Printed by I. Gold, Shoe-line, Fleet-freet,

FOR THE PROPRIETORS,

AND SOLD BY JAMES ASPerne,
(Succeffor to the late Mr. SEWELL)
No. 32, CORNHILL.

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