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all the friends of religious liberty and truth. Mr. Calamy, the subject of this brief memoir, who was grandson to Dr. Edmund Calamy just now noticed, was bred to the profession of the Law.

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ing received his education at the Academy
of Warrington, under the care of those
eminent men, Dr. Aikin, Dr.Priestley, Mr.
Seddon, and Mr. Holt, he removed to
Emanuel College, Cambridge; he then
entered the Society of Lincoln's Inn, and
was afterwards called to the Bar.
As a
Counsel, he attended the Courts in West-
minster Hall for several years; but at
length quitted his residence in Lincoln's
Ian Fields; and sought, and found, in the
retirement of the country, that tranquil
lity and quietude which were congenial to
the habits of his mind. In social and
domestic life, he exhibited a consistent
pattern of those mild virtues of humanity
which were calculated to render it respect.
able, useful, and happy. His native ur-
banity and kindness, his obliging temper,
his unassuming and accommodating man-
ners, together with the genuine benevo-
lence, courtesy, and candour, which mark-

REV. COOPER

ed his general deportment, rendered him beloved and respected by those who were best acquainted with his character and the virtues of his heart; as they will ever endear his memory to his amiable family, who are now deploring his loss. Mr. Calamy was for many years, during his residence in the Metropolis, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries,andahighly-respected member of the principal public trusts among the Dissenters; and was concerned in the execution of several private trusts, which were committed to him in consequence of the high estimation in which he was justly held by a numerous circle, of friends, for rectitude, honour, and inte grity. Having been in a declining state of health for several months, he finished his earthly course on Sunday the 12th of May, when no apprehension of immediate danger was entertained by his family; and was interred in a family-vault in the burial-ground attached to the Protestant Dissenting Chapel at Gulliford, near Lympston, in Devonshire, his funeral being attended by his family and several respectable friends. J. J. Lympston.

WILLYAMS.

Bishop of Llandaff, though the latter was about six years his senior. From thence Mr. W. removed to Emanuel College, Cambridge, where he took his degrees. About 1789 he was presented by the Church of Canterbury to the vicarage of Ixning, near Newmarket; and in 1806 he was presented by Sir Egerton Brydges to the rectory of Kingston, near Canterbury; and at the same time, by the Lord Chancellor, to the neighbouring rectory of Litthe Hardres, which he immediately exchanged with Dr. Ingles for the rectory of Stourmouth, in the same diocese,

DEATHS.

1816, AT the Cape of Good Hope, March 6.1 Lieut. gen. James Nicol, of the East India Company's service.

July 17. Died, in Bernard-street, Russell-square, aged 54, the Rev. Cooper Willyams, rector of Kingston and Stourmouth, Kent.-Leaving to an abler and more impartial hand the delineation of Mr. Willyams's moral and intellectual character, the present writer will confine himself to a few dry facts. Mr. W. was known to the publick as author of "The Campaign in the West Indies, under Sir Charles Grey and Sir John Jervis, 1794;" and of "The Voyage up the Mediterranean, 1798;" having been present at the immortal battle of the Nile, as chaplain to Captain Hallowell's ship, the Swiftsure, of which battle he has given the first, the most particular, and the most authentic account. He had early imbibed a love for the sea. His father, Captain John Willyams, was many years the oldest com- April 4. At the Cape of Good Hope, mander of the Navy; and died at Canter- aged 58, Major-Gen. Joseph Baird, brobury, in 1779, aged more than 70. ther of Sir David Baird, bart, G. C. B. grandfather also was a captain in the and K. C. As an officer, he was ever disNavy, and resided at Deal, but was of a guished by his steady zeal and superior Cornish family; being a younger son (or intelligence; and possessed in an eminent grandson, I forget which) of the Wil- degree the happy talent of conciliating the lyams's of Carnanton, in Cornwall. Mr. attachment of all under his command by W. was born in June 1762. His mother his impartiality; as a member of society is yet living in her 90th year, being the his loss will be sincerely and deeply lalast representative of the ancient families mented, from the inflexible integrity of his of Goodier and Dineley, and sister to the character, and the openness and simplitwo last haronets of that name. Mr. W. city of his manners. Every respect was married a daughter of Snell, esq. of shown to his memory by the attendance Cheltenham, by whom he has left two of all the troops in garrison at his funesons and two daughters. He was educatedral. His widow, sister of Lord Riversdale, at Cauterbury school, at the same time with two of her children, a rived from the with Mr. Justice Abbott, and the now Cape on the 3d of July.

His

June

June 23. John Francillon, esq. jeweller of Norfolk-street, Strand; a man much esteemed for his amiable manners and conduct through life, and possessed of a superb cabinet of foreign insects, the assiduous labour and cost of many years.

June 26. At her mother's house in the City Road, London, in the bloom of youth, Jannet, eldest daughter of the late Rev. John Urquhart, of Mount Eagle, co. Ross, much and deservedly lamented.

June 27. In his 68th year, at his seat, at Westdean-house, Sussex, most sincerely regretted, the Right Hon. John Peachey Baron Selsey, of Selsey, in Sussex, F.R.S. F. A. S. and F. L. S. He is succeeded in his title and estate by his eldest son, the Hon. Captain Peachey, R. N.

June 28. Near Margate, Mary, wife of Rev. Dr. Lloyd, Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge.

June 30. Aged 59, Joseph Moxon, gent. of Market Bosworth, one of the chief constables for the Hundred of Sparkenhoe, which office he served more than 37 years with the strictest fidelity, and was an ho nest pious man.

At Bath, William Vincent, esq. surgeon, formerly of Sheerness, Kent.

Isaac Broadley, esq. .of Bramingham, co. York.

At New Abbey, Kildare, Lieut.-gen. R. Brereton. He was an officer in his Majesty's service upwards of 50 years, and fell a victim, at last, to a liver complaint, contracted by a residence of 13 years in Tropical climates. He served in the last two campaigus of the American war of 1775; in the West Indies; in the Mediterranean for five years; and was constantly employed in active service, and present at most of the battles since 1793. He particularly distinguished himself at Toulon, in Corsica, and in Holland. He returned to the West Indies in 1803, and was at the last reduction of St. Lucia, where he continued commandant till 1807; when he obtained permission to return to his native country for the recovery of his health. He has left a wife and four infant children unprovided for.

July 2. At Woolwich, Sir John Dyer, Lieut.-Colonel in the Royal Regiment of Artillery, a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, and son of the late Thomas Dyer, of Park-street, Westminster, esq. His death was occasioned, whilst on duty as field-officer of the day, by his endeavours to stop a brother officer's carriage, the horses of which had taken fright (in the absence of the coachman) with a boy on the box, who called on Sir John for assistance. He was struck in the breast by the pole, and the carriage passed over his body; and, notwithstanding all medical aid, he lingered in great agony until 3 o'clock the following mon

ing, leaving a widow and four children to lament their irreparable loss, and his country the loss of a valuable and active officer, who had received various distinctions for his services in the Peninsula during the late war. The remains of this gallant and highly respected officer were, interred at Woolwich, on Wednesday, July. 10, attended by his relatives and friends, and the officers of the corps testified their respect by meeting the body at the church..

July 4. At Slaughter's coffee-house, St. Martin's-lane, in bis 22d year, Lieut. Edmund Poulter Duncan, of the 59th Foot, youngest son of the Rev. James Duncan, of West Worldham, Hants. After being. nearly three years in India, in a state of good health, he was seized with the liver complaint, (the disorder so fatal to Europeans in India), and in consequence of the report of the Medical Board at Calcutta, was ordered home: He came by the Minerva from Calcutta, and was so ill that it was with great difficulty that he could be removed from the ship, at Long Reach, the day preceding his death. He was a youth of great promise, was much esteemed and beloved in the regiment, and by all who knew him. From the beginning of his illness to the time of his death, he had strong hopes of recovery, and even of promotion. His aged parents, who were rather too partial to him, can never cease to lament his premature fate, though with unavailing anguish; nor can his next elder brother, Lieutenant Edward Duncan, of the same regiment, (whose name appeared in the Gazette, as a severely wounded lieutenant, at the storming of San Sebastian, Aug. 31, 1813). Their parents' fate has been severe in surviving the greater part of their offspring. Of eight sons only three are alive: the deaths of the two eldest of whom are recorded in our Obituary, Vol. LXXIV. p. 1242, aud Vol. LXXXV. p. 285.

At his house, in Paris, of an apoplectic attack, the Right Hon. Arthur Annesley, Earl of Mountnorris, Viscount Valentia, Baron Mountnorris, of Mountnorris Castle, co. Armagh, Baron Altham, of Altham, co. Cork, and a Baronet, a Privy Counsellor in Ireland, a Governor of the county of Wexford, F. R. S. and F. S. A. The Earl was born Aug. 7, 1744, and on attaining age in 1765, petitioned his Majesty for his writ of summous as Earl of Anglesea and Baron Annesley, as son and heir of Richard, sixth Earl of Anglesea, in England, and seventh Viscount Valentia, in Ireland, by Juliana Donovan. The petition was referred to Sir William de Grey, attorney general, who reported in favour of issuing the writ. Sir William was afterwards directed to re-consider his report, and give his opinion upon such new evidence as should appear: after considering

the

the whole of the evidence, on all sides, Sir William made a second report in fayour of the claimant. The matter was then referred to the House of Lords, when the claim to the Anglesea peerage was disallowed, though defended by Lord Chief Justice Mansfield. The House of Lords of Ireland having then a distinct judicature, the claim to the titles of ViscountValentia, Baron Mountnorris, and Baron Altham, in Ireland, was referred to that assembly; and was finally decided in favour of his lordship, as the undoubted son and heir of Richard, seventh Viscount Valentia in Ireland, sixth Earl of Anglesea in England. He consequently became the eighth Viscount Valentia, and in 1793 was created Earl of Mountnorris. The decision of the claim to the English honours of Earl of Anglesea, &c. remained without any revision of the judgment, notwithstanding the peculiar circumstances of the case. The Earl left issue by his first Countess, Lucy, only daughter of George the celebrated Lord Lyttelton, an only son, George Viscount Valentia, now second Earl of Mountnorris; and two daughters, viz. Lady Juliana Lucy Barry, and Lady Hester Arabella Macleod. By his second Countess, Sarah, daughter of the Rt. hon. Sir Henry Cavendish, bart. by Sarah, Baroness Waterpark, he has left issue one son, Henry; and three daughters, viz. Lady John Somerset, Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster, and Lady Juliana Annesley.

At Calgarth Park, Westmoreland, the Right Reverend and truly Venerable Richard Watson, D. D. Bishop of Landaff; of whom some memoirs shall be given in

our next.

July 5. At Kentish-town, aged 66, Rev. A. Austin, more than 30 years pastor of the Baptist church meeting, Elim place, Fetter-lane.

At Church Hill House, Walthamstow, Frances, widow of the late C. J. Sims, esq. of the Island of Jamaica.

Susan, eldest daughter of Thomas Stone, esq. of Barrow-upon-Soar, co. Leicester.

In her 75th year, Anne Milnes, relict of the Rev. James Andrew Milnes, LL.D. of Newark upon-Trent, Nottinghamshire.

At Exeter, aged 19, Robert, third son of Gen. and Lady Theodosia Bligh, nephew of the Earl of Darnley.

At Margate, the day after his arrival from Africa, having been absent from England 27 years, in his 49th year, E. W. White, esq. late governor in chief of the British Forts and Settlements on the Gold Coast.

At St. Cloud,the celebrated and favourite representative muse, Mrs. Dorothea Jordan. She had been seized with an inflammation of the lungs, but the more immediate cause of her death was the rupture

of a blood-vessel in a fit of coughing. She was the daughter of an Irish officer, of the name of Bland, with whom her mother had eloped from the house of her father, a dignified Clergyman, while the Captain was on duty with his regiment in Wales. Necessity compelled the youthful pair, it is said, to have recourse to the stage for support; and the little Dorothea first drew her breath among the Thespiau corps. The father of Mrs. Jordan, Capt. Bland, was of a very respectable family in Ireland, who were also in possession of a genteel income; his embracing the profession of an actor, therefore, tended to widen the breach already made amongst his relatives by his precipitate marriage: these relatives, at length, succeeded in disannulling the marriage; and Mrs. Bland was left with a numerous family, totally dependant on herself for that inadequate support af forded by her profession. To the honour of Mrs. Jordan's filial affection, as she advanced towards womanhood, she nobly resolved to exert all her abilities to assist her unhappy mother; and at a very early age she procured an engagement with Ryder, the Dublin manager, making her first appearance in Phoebe, in As You Like It,' little imagining then that she would fascinate a crowded audience in London by her Rosalind. A natural sense of propriety induced her to take the name of Francis, on her first appearance, in order to avoid wounding the pride of her father's relatives. Daly soon afterwards engaged her for his Theatre, in Crow-street, and her favour with the publick increased; but some improper conduct towards her, on the part of the manager, obliging her to quit Dublin, she joined the Yorkshire company of Tate Wilkinson, at Leeds. The manager asking her what line she wished to engage in, she immediately answered, with that fascinating frankness and vivacity so natural to her, "All!" She was then first introduced, the same night, as Calista in The Fair Penitent, and Lucy in The Virgin Unmasked. Her fame soon became known -the applause she received, in whatever character she undertook, was unbounded: she was applied to by the London managers, and engaged at Drury-lane at four pounds a week. Peggy, in The Country Girl, was her chef d'œuvre, and we despair of ever again witnessing the sterling naïveté with which she performed that character. Her salary, after performing this part, was immediately doubled, then trebled, and two benefits in the season were allowed her. For a very long period, she continued in the highest receipt of any salary before given at Drury-lane. Soon after her engagement in the Metropolis, she lost her mother; but all her relatives have felt the effects of her bounty; for though her maternal fondness certainly first point

ed

ed towards her own numerous family, yet her generosity has been extreme to others.

July 6. At Bath, aged 85, Rev. Thos. Webster, D. D. a member of the Established Church of Sootland, a man of truly unaffected piety, and of real uuostentatious charity.

At Shrewsbury, Rev. T. Goodinge, LL. D. rector of Cound, formerly of St. John's-college, Oxford.

July 7. In Devonshire-street, in his 77th year, Francis Towne, esq. an artist of great eminence as a landscape painter.

In Compton street, Brunswick-square, Eleanor, wife of Richard Addison, esq. solicitor, Staple-inn.

In Sloane-street, in her 31st year, Elizabeth, wife of Francis Lovell, esq.

At Bromley, Middlesex, in his 24th year, George, eldest son of the late Mark Hodgson, esq.

At Camberwell, in her 64th year, Mrs. Sherer, widow of the late John Sherer, esq.

At Belmont Lodge, near Uxbridge, the wife of T. Harris, esq. chief proprietor of Covent Garden Theatre.

At Kensington, in his 65th year, T. Harris, esq.

Sarah, only surviving daughter of Edw. Armitage, esq. of Farnley Hall, Leeds.

July 8. At Hull, near Barnstaple, aged 15, Charles, eldest son of Charles Chichester, esq.

July 9. At Hammersmith, Mrs. Davies, widow of Major A. Davies, of the East India Company's service.

July11.AtBrixton,suddenly, aged 54,Mr. Heory Garden, late purser of the Marquis Camden Indiaman. This gentleman had made fifteen voyages to the East Indies,

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July 12. In Nottingham-place, in his 63d year, Vice-adm. Sir W. Essington, K.C.B. In Portman-square, Mrs. Hornby, widow of the late Wm. Hornby, esq. formerly governor of Bombay.

At East Sheen Vale, Mortlake, Mrs. Marianne Vias; of whom in our next.

At Bath, aged 23, R. L. Hopkins, youngest son of Wm. Hopkins, esq. of Hanwell, Middlesex.

Aged 67, Wm. Hall, esq. alderman of Beverley.

At St. Pol, France, in consequence of having been overturned in a gig on the 4th inst. Henry Egerton Marsh, brevet major of the Royal Artillery. Being the first captain of the Artillery list, he was upon the eve of being promoted to a full majority, in consequence of the recent death of Lieut.-col. Dyer, same corps.

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July 13. At Aberdeen, in the 34th year of his Episcopate, Rt. Rev. John Skinner, Primate of the Episcopal church in Scotland of whom probably more hereafter.

July 14. In his 66th year, Rev. Sir John Wheate.

July 15. At Lord Bagot's, Blithfield, co. Stafford, Georgiana Mary Sophia, fourth daughter of Walter Sneyd, esq. of Keel, in the same county.

Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Martin, surgeon at Reigate, leaving a husband with five young children, to lament their irreparable loss.

July 23. At Maidstone, in Kent, Wm.. Alexander, esq. of the British Museum; of whom a short Memoir will be given in our next Number.

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BILL OF MORTALITY, from June 21, to July 23, 1816.

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AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from the Returns ending July 20.

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Glamorg. 75 000
Gloucest. 71 300
Somerset 81

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Berks 78 300
Oxford 70 300 027 024 932
Bucks 76 100 031 326 10 32
Brecou 77 400 029 214
Montgom. 69 1044 932 022 100
Radnor 75 700 027 419 8100

Average of England and Wales, per quarter 73 7140 6129 8122 5134

Average of Scotland, per quarter:

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Monmouth84 700 70 2131 0127 6123 3131 4 Devon 84 300 Aggregate Average Prices of the Twelve Ma-Cornwall 88 700 ritime Districts of England and Wales, by Dorset 77 300 which Exportation and Bounty are to be Hants 76 200 028 724 438 0 regulated in Great Britain. .........00 oloo ooo ooo ooo PRICE OF FLOUR, per Sack, July 22, 70s. to 75s. OATMEAL, per Boll of 140lbs. Avoirdupois, July 20, 25s. 7d. AVERAGE PRICE of SUGAR, July 24, 43s. 3 d. per cwt. PRICE OF HOPS, IN THE BOROUGH MARKET, July 22: Kent Bags 31. 10s. to 61. 10s. Kent Pockets Sussex Ditto 31. Os. to 61. Os. Farnham Pockets....104. Os. to 16. Os.

9s. 81. Os.

61. Os. to 91. Sussex Ditto............ 5l. 5s. to Essex Ditto.......... 6/. 10s. to 91. Os.

AVERAGE PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, July 22:

St. James's, Hay 41. 5s. 6d. Straw 2, 14s. Od.---Whitechapel, Hay 51. 8s. Straw 27. 14s, Clover 64. 16s. 6d-Smithfield, Hay 5l. 15s. Od. Straw 21. 14s. Od. Clover 67. 0$. Od.

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COALS, July 22: Newcastle 34s. Od. to 45s. 9d. Sunderland S4s. 6d. to 38s. 6d. SOAP, Yellow, 86s. Mottled 94s. Curd 98s. CANDLES, 10s. 6d. per Doz. Moulds 12s. 04. TALLOW, per Stone, 8lb. St. James's 3s. 1d. Clare Market Os. Od. Whitechapel 3s. 04.

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