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Deaths in and near Loudon. 



[Jan. If 



At Upper Clapton, fftUiam LownJes, ffj. 



At Ely Place, St. George's Fields, Mrs. 

 Cumiiter, uif'e of the Rev. Jofcpli G. 



At his feat at Arhury, in the county of 

 Warwick, Sir Reg: r Newcligate, /lai! UB. Sir 

 Rojjer devoted a long 2nd ulcful life to the 

 fervice of hi'! courr.rv- He was an officer in 

 the WarwicklTiire militia when thit regiment 

 was *r(t cftablilhcd, and long difcharged witii 

 diftinguifiied honor anJ integrity the duties of 

 a mj(j;iftratc ot'thc county. He was for many 

 years one of the rcprcfentatives in parliament 

 for the univerfity of Oxford, to which he his 

 for a long period been 1 liberal benefaftor. He 

 owned one of the fintil eftatcs of coal in the 

 kingdom, and liis cxtenfjve coal-works, near 

 Berifworth, have for a long time been very pro- 

 Judive. He fcveral years ago cut many 

 miles in length of navigable canal through 

 bis collieries and woods, to join the Coventry 

 Canal; by fir the grcateft length of canal, 

 folely belonr;ing to an individaaLin the king- 

 dom. Sir Roger was an adlivc promoter of 

 the Coventry, the Oxford, and Grand Junc- 

 tion Canals, and of the Turnpike-road from 

 Coventry to Lcicefter, which has fo much be- 

 nefited tiiofe parts of the country. He enjoy- 

 ed his facuUici unimpaired almolV to the lall, 

 and was a liberal benefaftor to the poor, par- 

 ticularly in finding them employment. His 

 remains were interred in the family vault at 

 Harcfield, in Middlcfex, where he poflelled a 

 confidcrable eftatc. By his death the title 

 becomes extinft. 



In St. Mary Axe, jfofff>h Dcnijcn, efij. 81, 

 after a long illncl's, which he bore witli great 

 fortitude and refignation. Seiifibleot his gr.i- 

 dual dicline to the grave, he often cxpreilcd liis 

 fnbmilTion to the divine fiifpcnfation thus prc- 

 fented to his mind, and the tliankfulnefs for 

 blellings he had in .1 long courlc of life amply 

 enjoyed. He repeatedly mentioned the tedi- 

 ous indifpofition of one of his parents, and 

 though "he had wiihc-d toi'-alhort, r.ither 

 than a long continued final illnefs," he cheer- 

 fully cxpriffed liinifelf in her words, •' not 

 liiine but thy wiU be done." His intellec- 

 tual powers never fccmcd at any moment to 

 have been impaired j and the day preceding 

 his decenle, in convcrfatioii witli his phyfi- 

 cian, he ohlVrvcd, as a " fourcc of confolation 

 in bodilv .iffliftiun, tint he could review his 

 laft time without repro.ich ; though perlpe.:- 

 tivc was not to be found here," with thefc feri- 

 ous impreilions his ufual cheerful converfatioa 

 <ontinucd, till death dofed his temporal exift- 

 ence, without a pang or a figh. His public 

 tffti'mation may in fome meifure be inferred, 

 iTrom the rcfpettability of his family connec- 

 »i.;ns ; his eldelt daughur being m.irricd to 

 t'he F.avl of Cnnninghdm, and the youngcff to 

 Sir Robei-t Law ley, b.irt. His only fon is re- 

 turned .is the teprrlcntative in pailianicnt for 

 Hull, without hi? fjlicitatioii or attendame. 

 Sachciicumftar.ccs might elevate feme minds, 

 but with thele, and t.epofleflionof an immenfe 

 fgrtune, (faid to amount to nearly a million 



fterling) acquired with un^ieviating integrity^ 

 he ever maintained an unafTuming charafter. 

 At his houfe in Devonfliire Place, Sir &i- 

 cbiird Kirg, bart. admiral of the red. This 

 brave officer wai defcendcd from a rcfpe£lable 

 fffmily, of Bromley in Kent, but was born in 

 Hampfliire in Auguft 1730. It may be li- 

 terally faid that he v.aj " iiurfed on the wave, 

 nnd cradled in- the lloTr.i ;" for before he was 

 eight years old, he entcitd on the toils of that 

 fervicc, of v.'liich he artci wards became fo 

 fplendid an ornament. In 1738 he went to 

 fea with his maternal (incle Commodore Cur- 

 tis Ejrnet; unJer whcfe immediate tuition he 

 firll lervcd in the Mcdli jrrancan, and in 17i t 

 he accompanied him to the Ealt Indies, on 

 his appointment to the chief coniniacd on 

 that Itation. Here Mr. King was employed 

 in much fervice, for which his uncle reward- 

 ed him by a promotion to the rank of lieute- 

 nant, in Febru.:ry 1716, and a few weeks af- 

 terwards a fudjcn indifpofition terminated the 

 commodore's valu.iblc lite. Lieutenant King 

 remained in India, till the conclufion of the 

 w.ir in 1710, when he returned to England. 

 On the re-commencement of hofWitii-3 with 

 Fr.mcc in 1751, he was ap|)ointed lieutenant 

 of the Brillol, one of the fquadron ordered to 

 the Eaft Indies under rear-admiral V/atfon. 

 This fquadron put into the h.irbour of Kinfale 

 in Ireland, w here the Briltol receii(#d fo much 

 damage from a itorm as to be incapable of 

 proceeding ; en which flie was replaced by 

 the Tiger. To that fhip Mr. King was re- 

 moved, but on his arrival in India, he was re- 

 ceived on board the Kent of 7-1 guns, the 

 flag-lhipof the rear-admiral. Here our young 

 ofliccr highly dillincniihed himfclf in 17;>6, 

 in tilt attack and capture of Gerlah tlie capi- 

 tal of Angria, a petty piiatical fovcn-ign ; af. 

 t.r which fervicc the admiral advanced Mr< 

 King to the rank of niaftcr and commander 

 in the Blaze firc-lhip. The fijuadron then 

 failed for Bengal, failed up the Ganges anJ 

 prepared 10 attack the lort of Bu(l>udi,;ia, be- 

 longing to the Nabob Surajih Dowlah who 

 Wiis then at war with liic P^nglilh, and had 

 taken Calcutta. On the 'J9th of December 

 Colonel Clive v.v; . landed with the troops, and 

 in a council of war held on board the Kent, it 

 w.-'s Tcfolved to attempt to carry the fort bv 

 ftorm early the next morning. A body of 

 one hundred feamen was likewife landed to 

 co-operate with Colonel Clive. By a Angu- 

 lar event, however, the fortrefs was taken 

 the fame night. A fc.mian, named Sirachan, 

 belonging to the Kent having drunk tuomucli 

 grog, llroUed, in the dead or the night uiVler 

 the wails of the fort. Perceiving a breach, 

 he entered it, at the fame time giving loui 

 huzzus. Son-.e of his ihip-mates wl.o had 

 lilicwiU: rambled that wav, hearing the fliouts, 

 haftencd to the fi:ot, mounted the breach, and 

 drove from the woiks the Mooriih foldiers by 

 whom Strachan was furioufly attacked. The 

 whole camp was now alarmed ,by the noife, 

 and the foldicri repairing, to the fort, entered 



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