_with her intimacy. 
282 _ Deaths in and near London. 
wished, by this last tribute of their esteem 
and affection, to consecrate the memory and 
virtues of an honest servant and faithful 
friend. ’ 
At the house of his mother, Lady Saltoun, 
the Hon. Simon Fraser, brother of Lord Sal- 
toun, in the 23d year of his age. He ex- 
pired after a few hours illness, deeply re- 
gretted by his family and numerous con- 
nections, among whom may be mentioned 
a new banking or bill-brokering house in the 
city, of which he was the nominal head. 
Much pitied youth! 
Bring fragrant flowers, the whitest lilies 
bring, 
With all the purple beauties of the Spring; - 
These gifts at least, these honours I'll bestow 
On the dear youth, to please his shade 
below! Pitt. 
_. At Clifton, in the 74th year of her age, 
Elizabeth, Dowager Countess of Cavan, a 
lady remarkable for the variety of her accom- 
plishments, and the extent and solidity of her 
mental endowments. With the greatest refine- 
ment, taste, and elegance of manners, her lady- 
‘ship.combined the most dignified independance 
of mind. tn her character there was nothing 
little, nothing mean or selfish; all within 
Was great, generous, noble, and truly be- 
coming her exalted station. For several 
years she was unable, from bodily infirmity, 
to leave her apartment, yet her almost un- 
remitting sufferings neither impaired the 
cheerfulness of her disposition, the warmth 
of her attachments, the playfulness of her 
Wit, nor her varied powers of conversation, 
which continued to the last at once to charm 
and endear her to the smali circle of friends 
who were so fortunate as to be honoured 
Her remains were in- 
$erred in Bristol cathedral. 
, Aged 76, Rupert Clarke, esg. one of the 
Magistrates of the Police-office, Shadwell, 
and above 50 years in the commission of the 
peace, and a deputy-licutenant for the county 
of Middlesex. : 
Mr.. George. Baker, late of St. Paul’s 
Church-yard. He was born at Hungerford) 
in the county of Berks, in January 1747, 
_ where his. father, the Rev. Thomas Baker, 
{whose worth still survives in the memory 
of the inhabitants,).was vicar nearly thirty 
years. At the age of fourteen he came to 
London, and was placed in the counting- 
house of a West India merchant, whence 
he removed, in 1767, to St. Paul's Church- 
yard, under the patronage of a maternal 
_ aunt, at that time engagid in the business 
of a Jace merchant; which commerce ‘he 
continued till the time of his decease, with 
unimpeached integrity. Early in life he 
shewed a taste for the arts, and after- 
wards became a zealous and liberal,collector 
of drawings and engravings, and of many 
yaluable works of literature, in the choice 
wf which he evinced a most acturate diss 
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crimination. This pursuit engaged much of 
the time that could be spared from business; 
and, together with the society of certain 
eminent artists, formed the chief source of 
his pleasures. In the works of Hogarth; 
Woollet, and Bartolozzi, and in the pub- 
lications which issued from the press at 
Strawberry-hill, his collection can hardly be 
surpassed. : 
At Laytonstone, Mrs. Parsons, widow, 
well known by her literary works. She 
was reduced from a state of affluence to the 
hard necessity of writing to provide for a 
numerous family. She published in 1790, 
** The History of Miss Meredith,” 2 vols. 
12mo.; and wrote also ‘* The Errors of In- 
nocence ;” §* Ellen and Julia;” ** Lucy;” 
** The Voluntary Exile ;” and ‘¢ The Girl 
of the Mountains ;” novels, all of which are 
respectable -performances: and ‘* The In- 
trigues of a Morning,” a farce. f 
In Harley-street, Henry Hope, esg. the 
Most eminent merchant of his time. He 
was descended from a branch of the noble 
family of the same name in Scotland, and 
was born at Boston, in New England, in the 
year 1736. At the age of thirteen he came 
to England to complete his education, and 
in 1754, entered into the house of Gurnell, 
Hoare, and Co. ‘There he remained till 
1760. When making a yisit to his uncles,’ 
who were great merchants in Holland, they 
were so pleased with his amiasle manners 
and disposition, as well as with his talents,’ 
that they engaged him to quit the house in 
London, and become a partner with them in 
Amsterdam. On the death of his uncle, 
Adrian Hope, in 1780, the ie aed 
of the house. devolved upon him, and he 
managed it inso higha style of good con 
duct and liberality, as to draw the attention, 
and ‘raise the admiration, of all Europe. 
Though he constantly refused to take any 
office, yet he was always held in the highest 
consideration by the government; he’ was’ 
visited by all distinguished travellers, evea 
by crowned heads. His acquaintance was 
courted by all ranks of people; at the Ex= 
change he was the chief object of atten- 
tion; the men of business formed’ them- 
selves in a circle round him; and foreign 
ministers pressed forward through’ the crowd 
to speak with him on the financial concerns’ 
of. their réspective countries) The mag- 
nificence of his table, and his general mode> 
of living, were suitable to the splendour of 
his situation. From Holland he made oc- 
casional visits to this country, partly for 
health, and partly to keep up his connexion 
with many friends and eminent persons here ; 
and, particularly, he employed the summer 
of 1786, ina general tour round this island,* 
accompanied by two of his nieces, the 
daughters of his sister, Mrs. Goddard. The. 
eldest of whom married Mr. John Williams 
Hope,son of the Kev. Mr. Williams, of 
Cornwall, who, during the last years of his: 
, residence 
