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Deaths in and near London. 



Provioiisly to liis appointment abroad, lie 

 jiractised «onie years in tiie Conrt of 

 Chancery, and then published an elaliorate 

 •' Truaiise on the L:iw of Descents.' 



At Hampstead, 89, JoUn Walts, esq. 

 many years depnly-coniptroller ot tlie 

 Post Otficp. 



John Milchell, esq. late of Milk-street, 

 Clieapside. 



At Stockweli, 87, Mrs. Ann Mackiiij, 

 widow of Henry M. e^q. of Streathani. 



In Bridge-street, Soutliwark, 68, li. 

 Pott, esq. 



In Dover-street, 90, Mar^arff, widow of 

 the Hon. General Thomas Gage. 



In Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy- 

 sqnare, 49, Capt. R. Giles, R.N. 



At Oxted, Surrey, Lieut.-Col. Fraiicis 

 William Bellis. 



In Percy-street, .James Harvey, m.d. fel- 

 low of the Collei;e of Physicians. 



At AltVed-honsf, Caniberwell, 42, Vin- 

 cent Wanoslroclit, ll u. author of several 

 school-books in the French lans^nage. 



In St. Jan)es's-palace, the Countess of 

 Harrington, a distinguished coniiier of the 

 last reign. 



In Great George-street, 73, John Fane, 

 esq. M.p. for Oxfordshire. He represent- 

 ed that county in eight successive parlia- 

 ments, and was iu public and private life 

 an amiable man. 



.Sir J. Sinienn, hart, master in Chancery. 

 At Castle Howard, Yorkshire, 70, Mar- 

 pai'et Caroline Countess of Curlisle. She 

 was the second daughter of Granville 

 Leveson Gower, first Marquis of Statford, 

 hy Louisa, daughter of Scroop, Duke of 

 Bridgwater. 



InHarley-street, the hon. MarthaHarkij, 

 eldest daughter of the late Bishop of 

 Hereford, and sister to the Earl of Oxford. 

 At Cheltenham, 73, the Rev. Sir Henry 

 Bale Dudley, hart, rector of Willingham, 

 prebendary of Ely, and a magistrate of 

 Cambridgeshire, i!i:c. one of the most ad- 

 venturous and original characters of his 

 age. He was a native of Chelmsford, 

 where his father, Mr. Bate, who was a 

 clergyman, conlerred on him a classical 

 education, and af'tei wards sent him to col- 

 lege. He commenced his career by 

 writing for the stage, and produced "The 

 Rivals," HHd (he " Blackamore washed 

 "White," while IMr. Garrick conducted 

 Drury Lane Theatre, and, o.' course, be- 

 came acquainted with that gentleman, 

 aud with the theatrical performers of his 

 day. He next appeared as a recruiting 

 oHiccr,at astatiou near Middlesex hospital, 

 ■where his active mana:avre< to promote 

 enlistments excited most public attentiou. 

 The peace of 1T82 depriving him of this 

 employment he adventured in the specu- 

 lation of a newspaper, and brought out 

 the Morning Herald, with all that energy 

 of pobtnig bills, &c., and with humbugs in 



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liveries, which soon conferred on the 

 paper great notoriety. Besides writing 

 articles of wit and humour for his paper, 

 in which he had much talent, he produced 

 "The Woodman," and the "Flitch of 

 Bacon," wherein he fortunately enjoyed 

 the co-operation of Mr. Shield. His p^iper 

 espousing the interests of Caillon House, 

 he was frequently a guest at the table of 

 the prince; and, patronage oti'eriiig in the 

 church, he entered into holy orders, and 

 was soon after placed in the list of the 

 magistracy of the counties of Essex aud 

 Cambridgeshire, still continuing his con- 

 nexion with the newspaper. At liis 

 living, at Bradwell near the sea, he 

 became an agricultural improver, and 

 obtained a premium from the .Society of 

 Arts, for some extensive embankments 

 in a district where the retiring of the sea 

 favoured the operation; and about the' 

 same time he rendered himself very con- ' 

 spicuous as a magistrate, by raisins a line 

 and cry tlirough two counties, in chase of 

 a man, who was charged with damning the ' 

 king; and, as an editor, complimented the 

 Court of Kinii's Bench on the clemency 

 of the sentence on Knld Wake, of five 

 years' solitary confinement, a journeyman' 

 pi inter, wlio had been convicted, on the 

 evidence of Stockdale, of being one of the 

 mob who insulted the king, on his way to 

 the Parliament House. In course of time, 

 our subject was created a baronet, and 

 succeeded the bishop of Chester, as rector 

 of Willingham, in the county of Cambridge. 

 A few years ago he sold his interest in the 

 Morning Herald to its present active pro- 

 pi ieiors, having previously disposed of the 

 English Chronicle and the Courier de I'En- 

 rope which he also established. His connec- 

 tion Willi the prcjs enabled him constantly 

 to keep himself before the public, and his 

 consequent literary influence introduced 

 him to an ext''nsive circle of acquaint- 

 ance. Few mm, therefore, were better 

 known during a period of forty-five years. 

 In political principles, his paper was like 

 harlequin's coat, and therefore held in 

 little e>timation ; yet maintained a circula- 

 tion from the chit-chat and small wit with 

 which it was filled, as well as advertise- 

 ments from the exaggerated reports of its 

 circulation, which, in his time, was seldom 

 half of that which, in more consistent 

 hands, it now enjoys. That he was a man 

 of genius, and of daring and persevering 

 enterprise, it cannot be denied ; but we 

 have seen accounis of him in the news- 

 papers, filled with anachronisms, and giving 

 him credit for patronage of persons who 

 were flourishing before he came into active 

 life. Such mis-statements are unneces- 

 sary ; because theie can be no doubt that 

 he enjoyed many opportunities of being 

 useliil, and doubtless availed himself of 

 many of them. 



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