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ment of his expectations as to the success of this 

 production, and on the 25th he died of apoplexy.* 



A few months previously to the decease of 

 Mr. Thompson, the town of Hull lost a gentle- 

 man of much unassuming talent, by the death of 

 the Rev. THOMAS BROADLEY, M. A., who was the 

 eldest son of the late Henry Broadley, Esq., an 

 alderman of this borough. Mr. Broadley gained 

 the Norrisian Prize at Cambridge, in three suc- 

 cessive years first in 1805, for his " Essay on the 

 " internal Evidences of the Religion of Moses ;" 

 again in 1806, for his " Essay on the external 

 " Evidences of the Religion of Moses ;" and 

 again in 1807, for his " Essay on the Fulness of 

 " the Time when Christ came into the World." 

 These essays have all been published. 

 Their author died at the age of thirty-seven 

 years, on the 16th of February, 1816. 



The late JOHN WRAY, Esq., who was formerly 



The following account is given of this event by Dibdin, in his Remi- 

 niscences : " A melo-dramatic romance, from the German of Wieland, by 

 my friend B. Thompson, was produced on the 21st, but not with that 

 success we all wished him ; the want of which turned out of most 

 melancholy consequence to his family and all his friends," " On the 

 31st, I was invited to follow my friend Thompson to the grave ; he had 

 for some time undergone several very severe disappointments, and 

 laboured under much depression, when the total, (and to him unexpected) 

 failure of * Oberon's Oath,' seemed quite to subdue him. He had been 

 talking with me of some arrangements respecting the Surrey Theatre, in 

 which it was imagined he could be of use to me ; and, with a view to 

 arrange an engagement, he was to call on me on Sunday the 25th ; on 

 that day he was a corpse ! The Reminiscences of Thomas Dibdin, vol. 2, 

 page 93. 



