181.) 
did constitute a very respectable and extras 
ordinary man, characterized the other. Soon 
after the military depot was erected in the 
- Westgate-street, Bury, in which considerable 
quantities of gunpowder are of course lodged, 
he was the principal of three according to 
whose plans and suggestions general Robinson, 
who had the command of the district, ordered 
a conductor to be erected, for the security 
both of the magazine and of the town. It 
eught not to be omitted, that when the re. 
turn of the comet of 1661 was expected in 
the winter of 1789, he constructed an astro- 
nemical machine for representing its heleocen- 
tric and geocentric places, according to the 
time of the year when it should become vi- 
sible; with a scale of parts to measure its 
distance from the sun and earth, during the 
expected visible part of its orbit. Few per- 
sons who had paid any attention to experi- 
mental philosophy, ever visited Bury within 
these last twenty years or more, without cal- 
ling on Mr. Mills. No man could be more 
naturally unaffected and unassuming in his 
conversation: though not correct in his lan- 
guage, he had been too attentive to facts and 
experiments, for inferences.to be drawn from 
them, to find time for attaining to an equal 
exactness in words. He was exceedingly clear 
in his ideas. In politics he was a friend to 
peace, freedom, and humanity, to a reform 
in the representation, and to the abplition-of 
the slave trade. Tis imperfect and hasty 
sketch may seem to give some idea of a man 
whose memory well merits to be preserved, 
and who is among the examples what natural 
sevens and persevering application is capable 
of performing. —Cape/ Lofft. 
‘At Ealing, Mrs. Trimmer, so universally 
and so justly celebrated and esteemed for her 
humerous and excellent publications, and in~ 
Gessant exertions in the cause of religion and 
humanity, and more especially by her endea- 
yours to secure tothe poor the blessing of a 
christian education. She was tht only daugh= 
ter of the late Joshua Kirby, esa. designer 
In perspective to their Majesties, and was 
born in Ipswich. | 
"At Bury, in his 89th year, George Prety- 
man, esq. one of the capital burgesses 
of the corporation of Bury, aud who twice 
served the office of alderman or chief ma- 
gistrate, viz. in the year 1773 and 1788. 
This venerable gentleman (who retained his 
faculties till w.thin a few weeks of his de- 
ease) was father to the present Lord Bishop 
of Lincoln, and was greatly esteemed for his 
cheerfulness of temper, by a numerous circle 
of friends, during a residence of nearly 70 
years in the town of Bury.—Mr. Samuel 
Lambert, 90.—Miss Mary Hockley, a maiden 
lady, 86.—Mrs. Plaice, wife of Mr. P. for- 
merly of the King’s Head [nn. 
At Woodbridge, Mrs. Backett, wife of 
Wn, B. esq. and daughter of Wm. Norris, 
esq. of Ipswich. 
At Drinsktone, Mrs. Owén. 
Essex—K ent. 
“been discovered. 
91 
At Crandley Hall, Eye, Sarah, youngest 
daughter of Mr. T. French, 18. 
At Thurlow, Mrs. Gardner. 
At Benhall, Mrs. Orford, 52. 
At Lowestoft, Miss Lockwood, daughter of 
the Rev. Mr. L. vicar of that place, 11, 
At Denston, Mr, Richard Everard, 76. 
At Ipswich, Mrs. Ann Pilkington, relict of 
the Rev. James P. 
At Bawdsey, Mr. Thurston Whimper, of 
Alderton Hall. In consequenee of the hurri- 
cane that prevailed on the 10th of November, 
and the high tide that followed, a vessel had 
come on shore and was wrecked. About 
seven o'clock in the evening, Mr. W. and 
another gentleman, went down to the beach, 
for the purpose of rendering any assistance ia 
their power upon the occasion. Too much 
engaged by the humane object which they 
had in view, they remained on the shore till 
the tide, which was unusually high, came in, 
and, beating over the beach in a tremendous 
manner, and in some places making breaches 
in it, impeded their retreat. The other gen- 
tleman, by the strength and spirit of his 
herse, escaped, though very narrowly, with 
his life; but Mr. Whimper’s horse stumbled, 
and afterwards came down in one of the 
breaches, and dismounted him. Being un- 
able to swim, he could not reach the wall,, 
though at a few yards distamce only, bat was 
Jost between that and the beach; and thus 
fell asacrifice, in the prime of life, and full 
enjoyment of health, to the benevolent de- 
sign of affording aid to his fellow-creatures, 
suffering under the afflicting circumstances of 
shipwreck. His body was found next morning,, 
ESSEX. 
Married] At Ballingdon, Mr. David Ed-, 
wards, to Maria, second daughter of Mr. John 
Sparrow. 
Died.] At Stubbers, Wm. Russell, esq. 56. 
At Great Baddow, Matthew, eldest son of | 
the Rey. A. Longmore, vicar of that parish, 
17. . 
KENT. 
December 14th, about six in the morning, 
in consequence of the late heavy falls of rain, 
a great part of the cliff at Dover, near Guild- 
ford Battery, gave way, and buried M.s. 
Poole, wife of the foreman of the orduauce 
carpenters, her five young children, and 
niece : these unfortunate persons were asleep 
in their beds when the accident happened, 
and had no opportunity to escape, as the crash 
was momentary. Mr. Poole was just leaving 
his house at the melancholy juncture, and 
escaped with life, though considerably 
bruised from the rolling of the stones. The’ 
bodies of Mrs. Poole and her children have 
been found, but that of her niece has not yet 
In the night between the 
V5cth and 16th, another tremendous fall took 
place in Snargate-street, where several 
houses sustained considerable injury, but no 
lives 
