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partner Sheridan. In the end he sank into imbecility. He died, says 
one account,* on the 18th November, 1795; whilst another 
accountt puts the event on the 19th November, suddenly, in 
Southampton Street, Covent Garden. The obituary notice gives 
us the contemporary opinion that as a musician his works were 
‘not distinguished by any striking marks of original genius, but 
they showed uniformly, taste, feeling, and a full knowledge of the 
musical art. He did not astonish by sublime effects, but his 
compositions always soothed and charmed by delicacy, simplicity and 
tenderness. Two pieces of his music (1) ‘‘ The Royal Merchant,” 
a comic opera; the other “Elegies for Three Voices,” with 
accompaniment for a harpsichord and violoncello, have been 
dated respectively 1768 and 1770. If these supposed dates be 
correct these pieces would have been published during his life at 
Bath, but the dates being only approximate, and there being 
‘no notice of local publishing, this must remain a doubt. His 
publishing seems to have begun in London. His remains, says 
0 e account,f were interred, November zgth, in the vault in Wells 
requiring special notice. The interment, according to the 
cathedral register, was on the 28th, and then again it was not in 
the cloisters but in the cathedral. Strangely enough the 
the east wall of the cloisters, helps actually to confirm this 
It reads :— 
Near this place are deposited the remains of Thomas 
Linley esq. who departed this life November 19 1795 aged 
63, together with those of two of his daughters and his 
granddaughter: Elizabeth Ann wife of R. B. Sheridan, 
esq. Mary ,wife of Richard Tickell esq.: Mary infant 
daughter of the former. 
* European Magazine. + Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 65, p. 973+ 
t Gentlman’s Magazine, p. 1052. 
