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age of 18, under Lord Howe. In the same 
year he was at the capture of Cherbourg 
and the destruction or its naval basin ; and 
in 1759 was in the glorious action on the 
French coast, when Sir Edward Hawke 
defeated Conflans. When Lord Howe, 
who commanded the Magnanime in the 
above action, was selected !:y the Admiral 
to make an attack on that part of the 
French fleet which escaped into the 
river, only one lieutenant and two mid- 
shipmen were taken by his Lordship out of 
his own ship to attend him on that im- 
portant service ;- Mr. Cartwight was one of 
the latter. It was while with his Lordship 
he showed his daring spirit by leaping from 
a 74-gun ship into the sea, as the ship was 
under sail, to save the life of a young gen- 
tleman who had fallen overboard. In 1791, 
Major Cartwright met the friends of free- 
dom at the Crown and Anchor tavern in 
the Strand, on the 14th July, to celebrate 
the anniversary of the fall of the Bastile ; 
and for which the worthy Major received 
so many insults and provocations from the 
Lord Lieutenant, that he was provoked to 
resign the office of Major of the Notting- 
hamshire militia ; but the Deputy-Lieut- 
tenants “ Resolved unanimously, That the 
thanks of this meeting be given to John 
Cartwright, Esq. for his services in the Not- 
tinghamshire Regiment of Militia.” From 
that period the exertions of Major C. have 
been incessant towards obtaining a reform 
in the House of Commons. In the general 
nayal promotion, after the coronation, he was 
advanced to the rank of master and com- 
mander. .He was rather a consistent po- 
litician than an acute or profound thinker. 
He was tenacious of what he conceived to 
be right ; but he could with difficulty be 
brought to co-operate with other people. 
In short, it was necessary to adopt his 
views, and nothing but his views. Times 
and seasons, too, were nothing to him. 
It was of no use to tell him that by adopt- 
ing a certain course at any particular time 
he would injure the cause ; his answer was 
always, “ I never concede any thing to ex- 
pediency.”” His style was peculiar: from his 
stern countenance and his republican air, one 
would haye expected that his manner of 
writing would be plain and unadorned. On 
the contrary, he never perhaps wrote a 
single sentence which did not contain an 
image of some kind or other, Similies spun 
out to a merciless length, and leaving no 
part of the parallel to be supplied by the 
imagination of the reader, found their way 
even into his petitions and resolutions 
At Stoke Newington, Robert Bevill, esq. 
a magistrate of Worship-street, and many 
years Recorder of Lynn. 
At Kingsdown-house, Somerset-street, 
Catherine, wife of Aaron Moody, esq. 
In Rockingham-row, New Kent-road, 
83, Joseph Saxton, esq. 
At Sydenham, 67, Andrew Lawrie, esq. 
of the Adelphi, a Justice of the Peace for 
Westminster and Middlesex. 
Deaths in and near London.—Ecclesiastical Promotions. 
279 
At Brompton, 89, William Palmer, esq. 
a director of Greenwich Hospital, and for- 
merly a commissioner of the navy. 
In Old-street-road, 31, Sarah, wife of the 
Rey. S. Blackburn, a.m. 
In Edwards’s-place, Kensington, 75, J. 
Moore, esq. late of Vale-place, Hammer- 
smith, 
In Bishopgate Within, 27, Mr. Hugh 
Blair Finlay. 
At Brentford, Mrs. Mary Clark. 
At Newington-place, Kennington, Mrs. 
Sarah Dawson. 
In Tavistock-place, Tavistock-square, 65, 
Jesse Gregson, esq. of Moor-house, Hawk- 
hurst, Kent. 
At Lambeth, 74, Isaac Riches, esq. one 
of the Poor Knights of Windsor. He 
served as an officer fifty-four years, and 
during the late war in the barrack-depart- 
ment of the Ordnance Department at 
Woolwich. 
At Tottenham, 78, J. Dobree, esq. 
In Berner’s-street, 66, Dr. Clough. 
At Hastings, 26, Mr. William Richardson, 
of the respectable firm of Messrs. Hether- 
ington, Burn, and Richardson, of Friday- 
street, Cheapside. 
In York-street, Covent-garden, 39, Mr. 
John Henry Bohté, foreign bookseller to the 
King, generally and deservedly lamented. 
In Park-street, Dr. Luby. 
At Depttord, Mr. Edward John Bromley. 
At New Brentford, 84, Mr. Moses Banks. 
At Turnham Green, Mr. David Grant, 
of Picket-street, Temple-bar. The universal 
knowledge and varied talent which evinced 
itself on every subject he discussed, secured 
to him the esteem of a numerous circle of 
scientific friends, who have to regret that 
he did not live to complete a series of me- 
chanical inventions, ‘relative to naval and 
garrison artillery, which had much en- 
gaged his attention. Among the numerous 
subjects which occupied his active mind, 
Mr. Grant made some remarkable im- 
provements in the apparatus and manufac- 
ture of soda, magnesia, Seltzer, and other 
mineral waters, which for several years se- 
cured him a large proportion of the public 
patronage, and the medical world in par- 
ticular, which we trust will be continued 
to his widow and family. 
In Berkeley-square, 75, the Right Hon. 
John Viscount Hampden. He had only en- 
joyed his titles since the 20th of last month, 
-when they devolved to him on the death of 
his brother, and haying died without issue 
he is succeeded in the entailed estates by 
George Earl of Buckinghamshire. 
On the 6th ult. the Right Hon. John Ro- 
per, Lord Teynham. He is succeeded by 
his first cousin, Henry Roper Curzon, esq. 
ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS. 
Rey. W. C. Fetton, to the rectory o 
Cowthorp, Yorkshire. 
Rey. John Overton, M.A. to the perpe- 
tual curacy of Bilton-in- Holderness, 
Rey. 
