£70 



Marriage! and Deaths in and near London. [OiSt. 1, 



Sir J. "8. Riddel, barf, to Lady Frances 

 Maxshani, eldest daughter of the Earl of 



Ronme.v. 



Franiis Frceli"g, esq. of the General 

 Post Oiiice, to Mi'^s Rivtrs, eldest daugh- 

 ter of the laie Sir Peter Rivers Gay, bart. 



At Liiiiehouse, James Clemiisoii, esq. 

 of Wormwoo'.l-sircet, Biihopsgate, to Mios 

 Glass, of Higbgate. 



R. .lames, e q. of Lamb's-conduit- 

 stieet, to Mi:S Spence, of Hanover-.square. 

 DIED. 



Thomas Tvgh, esq. aged 5?, late clerk of the 

 papers for ihe Poultry Com; ter, and several 

 years c^eputy second;:ry for the same. He 

 was ^Vvorniiitoihe former office in July 1775. 



Mrs. T)\pka:a Birch, widow of Mr. Lucas 

 B.«fCcrnhi!l, 77. 



At Piichmond, the Hoik Mrs. Leather, sis- 

 ter to the i";uchess of Bolton, 



At IwicKeiiham, Toomas .Imyand, esq. one 

 of the c!ir<ctors of the bank, 4.'. 



In London-street, Fiizroy-square, Cap- 

 tein John SlukeUy Somerset, of the royal 

 ravy. 



In Chelsea College, Bobert Szvlfield, a 

 pensioner, 10^, and j^braham Moss, 106; brth 

 cf V. honi retained their faculties to the 

 lust. 



At his lodgings in Great Portland-street, 

 James Sha-u, esq. 



In Arundel-itree', Strand, Mrs. Warren, 

 vifa cf Mr. W. tailor. Seizinjj tlie oppor- 

 tunity when her servant and'children uhere 

 up stairs, she bolted herself in Ihe kilchen, 

 and nearly severed her head from her- bcdy 

 Vviih a razor. The servant soon returning 

 alarmed her mas er, who broke oprn the 

 door, and found his wife weltering in her 

 blood Vvithout any appearance cf life. Two 

 6urg«ons were sent for, but they lould be 

 ef r.o service. Mrs. W. always appeared 

 to live on the happiest terms with her fa- 

 mily, and seldom tviiiced the least symp- 

 toms ol insanity. 



At Wydlbrd, Herts, the Rev. Peter Ha- 

 moi.d, rector of VV'ydford and South Mimms, 

 and one of the ciiaplains to his Roval High- 

 uess the Prince ot Wales. 



At the house cf John Robley, esq. Pius- 

 «ell-sqiiare, Jostpb Rcbley, esq. late of the 

 island of Tobago. 



At Finchley, Rcberl Jennings, esq. chief 

 clerk to Lord Grenvllle, and auditor of his 

 Alajestv's E.\c^equer. 



At her mother's house at Wandsworth, 

 J/;".i^ Xiilier, late of Drury-larie Theatre. 

 , i,\ CifciO", W. A/. 22 years afternoon pieach- 

 erofSt. Saviour's, Southwark, several years 

 curate <:l St. Magnus, London-bridge, and 

 c'lapliiin to the Scmlhuaik Volunteers, 50. 



At Kentish-town, T. bray, esq. laie of 

 Percy-sireet. 



At his icdgirgs in C;eat Portland-street, 

 £. Vmgeraid, esq. of New Park, in the 

 ccuntv of v\ e.\.lord. 



. In South-street, Scuth -Audley -street, 

 I^-;q!} Irasir, ejq. 



At iier nu.thbr's house in Paternoster- 

 rovf, M'-s. Mo^re, wife of Mr. M. of Apothe- 

 tary'b ludl. 



Mr. ilal.iban, schoolmaster to the charity 

 ch loieii ot it. Ceovge's, Hanover-sqi-are. 

 Ijc le.iied to re^t at niglu in pt-rftct health, 

 ai'd vt.is f^ui;d dead iti his bed the iie&t 

 ni^r;.ii.i;-. 



At Islington, Riiberl Careless, esq. 67. 



On the »th of May last, at her house at 

 Hampitead, Middlesex, aged 65, Mary 

 MatHialen Jilaquiere, eldest daughter n{ the 

 late Stephen Guyon, esq. and widow of 

 John Peter Blaquiere, efq. both of that 

 place. And oq the evening of the sama 

 day, at the same house, aged 60, Ann Re- 

 becca Grant, sister to the above, and widow 

 of Captain Lodovick Grant, of Knork- 

 andow, in the county of Murray, North 

 iJritain. Mrs. blaquiere had been for six- 

 teen years afflicted with' a palsy, which had 

 impaired lier speech, and deprived her of 

 the perfect use of her limbs. Her dissolu- 

 tion was therefore gradual, and had been 

 longexpected. At the timeof her death, Mrs, 

 Grant, who for the liist two years, had re- 

 sided with her, was app;irently in good 

 health; but jhe was shortly after attacked 

 with an iipoplexy, winch in a few hours 

 terminated her existence. The remains of 

 the two sisters were deposited at the same 

 tin\e in the parish cl.urch. Mrs. Bla- 

 quiere died possessed of a large fortune, 

 of which twenty one thousand pounds 

 devolve by her death, upon the issue 

 of Lord de Blaquiere, agreeably to the 

 will of her -late husband, who was re- 

 lated to his lordship. She had about as 

 much more at her own disposal; which, 

 having no children, she h;is equally divided 

 among ihe different branches of her family. 

 Towards the close of her life, an unprin- 

 cipled plan was concerted to get possession 

 ot her properly, by taking advantage of the 

 imbecility of mind, consequent upon her 

 disease, to inveigle her into a marriage: 

 but it was happily frustrated by her rela- 

 tives, when on ihe eve of execution. The 

 calamity under which she had so long 

 laboured, was sensibly felt by the whole 

 circle of her friends and neighbours; for" 

 she had been the promoter of eery thing 

 that was gay and festive, in the social vil- 

 lage in which she resided. In the younger 

 part of her life, her extreme vivacity was 

 considered by the graver part of her ac- 

 quaintance, as partaking of levity, and Sub- 

 jected her to much undeserved censure, 

 So far was her temper from being soured 

 by her misfortune, that she had no higher 

 grat.ficatioii, than seeing the young and the 

 healthy enjoy these pleasures, in which she 

 had orce taken the lead, but in which she > 

 could no longer participate. In her man- 

 ners, there was a degree of politeness and 

 urbanity, which, in the midst of her in- 

 firmities, never entirely torsook her; for, 

 when her utterance was scarcely intelli- 

 gible, and her whole frame nearly helpless, 

 the well-bred woman was still discoverable. 

 The prominent feature in the character 

 of Mrs. Grant, was a blunt sincerity, in- 

 ccn^pntible with the more polished man- 

 ners that distinguished her sister, and car- 

 ried ti' an extent, not always consistent 

 with discretion; for whether her senti- 

 iTieiits of others were favourable or ailverse, 

 she was equally in the h ijit of betrayin.er 

 then.. Open and ur.susp.ctinp, as well 

 as generous in her natuie, she \vas too in- 

 discriminate in her friendships, and had 

 son etimes cause to repent the precipitate 

 confidence she placed in persons with whosp 

 pnijciples and coiiducl silje was not sufti- 

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