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Jccount of the late Mr. Kingl 



[Jan. 1, 



At C!iifwick, Mfi. Trcbcck, wife of the 

 Rev. Mr. T. 



At Chelfca, Mr. H. S rFhodfall, many 

 years printer of a party Newfpaper, callid 

 the Public AdvertifcT, in which firft appeared 

 the celebrated letters of Junius, with the 

 author of which he had however no perfftnal 

 knowledge, and relative to whom he was con- 

 fcqupntly un<ible to give any intelligible or 

 contirtent account. 



In Pall Mall, the RAj. Dr. mjJlmore, late 

 fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and 

 reftor of Lawford, EiTex. 



At Peterborough Houfe, Fulharo, Join 

 Meyr'ick, efq. 



At Box Moor, aged 70, Mr. Jchn Alman, 

 formerly a celebrated bookftller of Piccadillyj 

 the author of the l,ife of Lord Chatham, 

 of Anecdotes, Biographical and Hiilorical, of 

 the Life oi Wilkes, and of fcveral Pamphlets 

 of great celebrity in their day. A particular 

 accvHt of Mr. Altnon -will be gi-ven in our next 

 Number. 



Mr. Samuel Marriott^ one of the bridge- 

 marters of the city of London. 



At her houfe in Manchefter-ftrcet, Wan- 

 chelier-fquare, the hon LadyChertotte Hcrrly, 

 or,ly daughter of the Earl of Derby, by Lady 

 Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of James, the 

 fixth duke of H.imilton and Brandon, and 

 wife of Edmund H. efq. 



At Paddington, Robert D'Oyley Bignell, efq. 

 of Litchborougii, Northamptoiilhire. 



At his houfe in Bedford-fqu^re, in his 6gth 

 year, Thomas Smith, efq. late of Grove- 

 houfe, Tottenham. He was a gentleman of 

 real integrity of charatter and benevolence of 

 heart, accompanied with modeft and unaf- 

 fuming manners. Though in the pofTeffion 

 of an ample fortune, he wifely preferred the 

 rational amufements and flriking comforts of 

 retirement to tlie tumult, fplendour, and dif- 

 lipation of a great city. Mr. S. was remark- 

 able for equanimity and gentler.efs of difpo- 

 fition, which the path he chole was well 

 calculated to prelervc. Though hofpitable 

 in the extreme, he was himl'elf a rigid ob- 

 ferver of temperance and regularity, which 

 he knew were highly conducive both to the 

 hnppinefs and extenfion of life. His name 

 ■was Duck, but he took that of Smith for a 

 fortune wl.ich was left to him. His remains 

 were interred ( vitii tlm.e of his wife, i8c2, 

 ■and two children, a fun, 1793, and a daugh- 

 ter, 1795) in the family-vault of the Lords 

 Colcraine, and other lords oi" the m-aner of 

 Tottenham, under the veiiry of vhatcliurch, 

 ■where are now twenty-lour coffins, of which 

 about half belong to that noble family (in- 

 cludmg Alderman 'lovvnfend and his wife, 

 their reprcfentative). Mr. Smith had laft 

 lummer fold this manor to Alderman Sir Wil- 

 liam Curtis. 



At his houfe in Store-ftrcet, Bedford-fquare, 

 Mr. King, the comcdi.in. Ke was born 

 in 1730. His father was a refpcftablc 

 tr.idcfman in Wtitminilcr, who gave him 



a good education, but had intended to brin^ 

 up his fon to his own calling. Tom King, 

 however, very early in life, difplayed a fpi- 

 rit much above the drudgery of the (hop, 

 and as there was no chance of his rifing 

 to diflinttion in real life, he direfted his 

 ambition towards elevation in the mimic 

 ■w^orld of a theatre. He joined fome provin- 

 cial company long before he had attained his 

 twentieth year, and experienced all the vi- 

 cillitudes that ufually attend the life of a 

 flrolling aclor. He once walked from Bea- 

 constield to London and back again the fame 

 day, for the purpofe of raifing a fmall fum to 

 purchafe wh.it are technically called pro- 

 perties, efl'ential to his appearance at night 

 in the cii.arafter of Richard the Third. Tha 

 profit of his exertions in this arduous part v/as 

 ikree-pcnce hulf-finnyy and fome e>idr of ejndle.. 

 — The latter he offered as a tribute of gal- 

 lantry to fome green-room goddefs of whom 

 he was at that time enamoured. He conti- 

 nued to wear the fock and bufkin as the ne- 

 cefhties of the various companies to which he 

 belonged for many years might require, and 

 his attachment to tragic chararters, for which 

 he was wholly unfit, long prevented his ta- 

 lents from rifmg to that dilUniSion which he 

 afterwards acquired, and fo defervedly con- 

 tinued to poffefs on the London flage. He { 

 (irft, however, rofe to fame in Dublin, where 

 he had fenfe enough to difcover the real bent 

 of his genius j and on his fecond engagement 

 upon the London boards, app- ared in charac- 

 ters calculated to give full (cope to his merit. 

 The churlifh feverity of Churchill could not 

 deny that he diftinguifhed himfelf in Bras?, 

 by which the poet did not merely intend to 

 particularize the part in The Confederacy, 

 but all parts that required an aftive intrepid 

 fpirit. In bucks, impudent 'fervants, fopj, 

 and all brifk and airy charafters, he was long 

 without any fuperior on the ftage excepting 

 Woodward, who drew more deeply from the 

 (lores of human nacure, and was much fu- 

 perior in reprefenting what Johnfon calls 

 " the furface of manners." The charafter, 

 however, that confirmed the reputation of 

 King was Lord Ogleby, which was chiefly 

 inftrumental in giving popularity to one of 

 the heft written modern comedies of the 

 Englifh Itage. Woodward ventured to try 

 this character after him, but could not wrelt 

 the palm from King in the opinion of tha 

 public, though many excellent judges of the 

 tin-.e faid that Woodward difplayed more of 

 the real old n'jbUiihiii than his more popular 

 prtdeceflor. It is by no means neceffary to 

 ent-T into a detail of King's merits as an 

 atlor, fince they are fo well known to the 

 world at large. It may, however, be faid, 

 that ip dry farcaftic liumour no man could do 

 more juftice to his author. He was acquainted 

 with human life, and always founded his 

 acti.qj upoii what he law of original charadlcrs. 

 Wiicn lie had once determined upon the maa- 

 iici in which he fhould perform a part, he 

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