he very ancient house of yate. Of her cha- 
sacter, itis difficult to speak in adequate terms 
of praise ; but her prayers and her alms have, 
“we doubt not, gone up to the throne of grace, 
and are: there recorded as a memorial of her 
devotion and charity. Herestates at Arling- 
haw, are conveyed to trustees, for the bene- 
fit of her only daughter, now in Sicily, wife 
wf the Chevalier Ferdinand Raibaud Della 
€ainea, of a ncble Italian family. 
_ At Cain’s Cross, near Stroud, Mr. John 
faunders, attorney. 
At Keimerton, Miss Mumford. 
At Cheltenham, P. Evans, esq. of Aber- 
gavenny. 
At Stroud, Mrs. Newman, wife of Mr. N. 
attorney. 
At Cirencester, Mr. Pierce, druggist. 
At his resirence at Painswick, cf an apo- 
plectic seizure, followed’ by two weeks illness, 
Geeply and deservedly lamented by his fa- 
mily and extensive acquaintance, Mr. Daniel 
Roberts, aged 57. This gentleman was the 
son of Mr. Tohn Robevts of Bristol, after- 
ywards of London, by Amelia, second survi- 
ving daughter of Mr. Thomas Daniel, both 
merchants of superior estimation and charac~ 
ter; the second possessing an extensive in- 
@uence in the former city, where the subject 
vof this notice was born, on the 12:h Decem- 
iber, 1753. He was the fourth in lineal de- 
scent from John Roberts, an eminent person- 
age in the early history of the people called 
Quakers ; and the tenth from Hugh Tyndale, 
of Hunts Court, in Nibley, esq. father of the 
eclebrated apostle of the Engtish reforma- 
tion ; these ancestors Ke was often accustomed 
*to contemplate with pleasure, in common 
with several others of. considerable religious 
send scientific merit. His family. cennexions 
searly «levoted him to commercial pursuits, 
-and; while yet in his minority, he sustained 
@ principal share in the superintendanee of 
‘one of the most extensive establishments of 
its kind in Europe. At different periods of 
the American revolution and independence, 
dhe thrice visited that continent ; -the «first 
M#me.in the spring of 1774, on professional 
“engagements, connected with the preceding. 
Here his numerous and réspectable introduc- 
#ions, supported by his’ personal -merits-and 
conciliating manners, acquired him the esteem 
of numerous individuais, in different spheres 
of life, amongst whom were Geveral Wash- 
ington, Dr.’ Franklin, and other distinguished 
tharacters of each party; while his address 
in the management of a very arduous confi- 
‘dence, and his abilities as a ‘merchant, were 
acknowledged, by competent judges, to have 
been in many respects unrivalled. Onda 
similar occasion he was also absent in Aus- 
trian Flanders, In one of his transatlantic 
excursions, he explored, with much: taste and 
gratification, the magnificent scenery of the 
northern provinces. “The vicissitudes. and 
disappointments whiehhe experienced in some 
of the former and following occurrences, -were 
Gloucestershire. 
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frequently great and painful; but his genuine 
principles of sentiment and action, both of a 
religivus and civil nature, remained unslialen 
and uncorrupted; and he retired from the 
ultimate close of his prospects, in consequence 
of events mostly of a national description, 
and independent of his controvl, in the full 
maintenance of hereditary integrity. Not- 
withstanding his varied and active occu- 
pations, he had read much; his library, 
though small, was select and valuable, and 
his conversation and anecdotes, from so many 
different sources, enlivened with preat con- 
stitutional chearfulness, were intelligent and 
agreeable. His talents and general accoms 
plishments, as well of an useful as ornamen- 
tal nature, were otherwise of no common 
rank; and during a subsequent seclusion of 
‘above twenty years, he devoted his principal 
attention, next to the care of his childrens’ 
education, to medical botany and chemistry, ~ 
in which his acquisitions were freely rendered 
subservient to philanthropic and patriotic 
feelings, and though his native liberality was 
often subjected to imposition, it was never 
precluded from exertion by preceding in- 
stances of ingratitude or deceit. His integrity 
hasbeen already adverted to, and his tufn of 
mind was peculiarly independent; but in his 
high sense of religion, benevolence, and su- 
perior energies of domestic attachment, his 
more familiar traits of character were predo- 
minantly conspicuous, his extended andactive, 
but unassuming and private, benefactions may 
long be feelingly remembered by the objects 
of their exertion, and his unifornyanxiety and 
efforts for the improvement and happiness of 
his family, ever anticipated and superceded 
the cold suggestions of sordid policy. Im this 
‘interesting particular, it would indeed be 
difficult to render an adequate. justice .to his 
desert and kindness, and, amid the absence or 
diminution ‘of every other exceHence, these 
alone would-have ufforded.a private source of 
review and acknowledgment, affectionate as 
eternal. His’ theological sentiments were 
comprehensive and sublime, and the latver 
part of his life was assiduously employed ia the 
dissemination of principles calculated to pfo- 
mote the welfare of mankind. He -marricd 
in 1778, Ann, youngest daughter of Mr. Jio- 
nah Thompson, of Nether Compton, Dorset- 
shire,-a gentleman of honourable extraction, 
and distinguished for eminent moral qualities, 
and general acquisition. <n exterior appear- 
ance, Mr. Roberts exceeded the middle height; 
he.was. remarkable for great corporeal, as.well 
as mental activity, and in point of personal 
symmetry, agility, and elegance, he was 
equalled by very few examples, in the earlier 
part of Jife. The delicacy and propriety of 
his external habits were exemplary and can. 
spicuous. His eye was singulaily expressive 
and brilliant, and his countenance, but for a 
severe attack of the natural small pox in ins 
‘fancy, which however seems to have improved 
the orgiaal excellence of -his constitution, 
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