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Mr. Arthur Fordyce, aged 21. 
At her apartments in Fenchurch-street, 
aged 83, Mrs. Zimmermann, widow of 
Mr. Z. sugar-refiner, 
At Hawthorn-hiil, Berks, in the 91st 
year of his age, Whitshead Keene, esq. 
For further particulars see Wales, p. 288. 
Aged 44, Mr. John Williamson, of Croy- 
den, Surrey. 
At her house, Richmond-hill, Surrey, 
65, Mrs. Jane Delafosse, widow of the 
tate R. M. Delafosse. 
At his house, Chiswick, 74, Skynner 
Woodroffe, esq. 
Aged 20, Edward, eldest son of Mr. 
Cherrill, Newcastle-place, Clerkenwell. 
At Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, 17, after a 
short ‘illness, Elizabeth, daughter of the 
late Stephen Cattley, esq. of Camberwell. 
' W. E. Edwards, third son of Thomas 
Edwards, esq. of Hoddesdon, Herts. 
Donald Stewart, esq. of Mile-Eud-road, 
aged 64. 
At Stoke, near Guildford, aged 90, John 
Fiughes, esq. F 
At East Acton, Middlesex, C. Essex, esq. 
: In Northumberland-street, Strand, 19 
Miss M7. J. Price. 
At Stoke Newington, 27, Mrs. Catherine 
‘99: 
In Pall Mall, 59, Lady Morland, wife 
of Sir S. B. Morland, bart. 
In Poland-street, 47, Mrs. E. M. French, 
wife of J. French, esq. of East Horndon, 
Essex. 
In Gower-street, Alexander Hawthorn, 
esq. formerly of Jamaica. 
In Leigh-street, Burton Crescent, Mrs. 
Frances Maria Abbott. 
In Vauxhall-place, 70, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Jay. 
In Edwardes-street, Kensington, Mr. 
Snow. 
At Paddington, 49, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Hogg. 
In Castle-street, Falcon-square, 73, Mrs. 
Elizabeth Fenn. 
In Upper Thames-street, Mrs. Jacques. 
In Leicester street, Leicester square, 
3), Mrs. Sophia Jones. 
At Tottenham High Cross, 76, Simon 
Wragner, esq. 
At Albany, Surrey, 86, the Rev. W. 
Polhill, many years the respectable rector 
of that place. 
At Adelstone, Surrey, Chas. E. Whit- 
loek, esq. formerly the spiritedand success- 
ful proprietor and mauager of the New- 
eastle and other theatres. He married 
Miss E. Kemble, sister of Mrs. Siddons. 
In the Temple, James Boswell, esq. 
Barrister at Law, and Commissioner of 
Bankrupts. He was the youngest son of the 
companion and author ef “ the Life of Dr. 
Johuson.” Mr. B. edited several editions. 
»He was know and esteemed by an exten- 
sive circle of literary acquaintance ; and to 
Mr. Boswell.—WMr. 
‘outls, {April 1, 
his care Mr. Malone confided the superin- 
tendence of his new edition of Shakespeare, 
which Mr. B. edited in a manner highly 
ditable to himself. 
On Sunday, February 26, at his house in 
Stratton-street, Piccadilly, 87, Thos. Coutts, 
esq. the oldest and most opulent banker in 
London. Mr. Coutts was a native of Scot- 
land, where his father acted as a banker in 
Edinturgh, and placed his eldest son John 
as his agent in London, who began the 
great concern, of which the subject of this 
article was atthe head. A few years after 
John took his youugest brother Thomas 
into partnership, and the house has con- 
tinued to rise gradually to its present state 
of opulence. This house enjoyed a pecu- 
liar advantage, for there was not thena 
banker west of Temple-bar, the house of 
Drummond commencing about the same 
time. From their correctness in business 
aud growing’ reputation, these two houses 
gained a large portion of the nobility and 
gentry residing westward, a business which 
had been previously confined to Messrs. 
Hoares and Goslings. The affairs of 
banking in London was begun by the gold- 
smiths, who having places of safety for 
their own valuable articles, persons were 
induced to send their notes, cash, &e. to 
them for safety, and to draw as they 
wanted. The house of Coutts was never in 
that business. Mr. Thomas Coutts married 
a Mrs. Elizabeth Starkey, who, it seems, 
was his brother’s servant, and this event 
was a temporary cause of shyness between 
them ; which however soon vanished. By 
this lady he had three daughters, the eld- 
est married to Colonel North, eldest son of 
the minister, Lord North, who died Earl of 
Guilford; the second is the widow of the 
late Marquis of Bute, and the youngest 
is the wife of Sir Francis Burdett. On the 
death of his brother, Mr. C. became the 
head of the house, and succeeded to his 
fortune, which enabled him to give to each 
of his daughters 30,0001. on the day of mar- 
riage. Mr. Coutts, although the very soul 
of the banking house, had pariners he 
could confide in, and found time to take 
his three daughters on an excursion to 
Italy, at the time Mr. Burdett, eldest 
brother of Sir Francis, and Lord Montacute 
were on their travels. It was said among 
the English in Italy, that the two travel- 
lers were to have married two of Mr. 
Coutts’s daughters; but the tragieal death 
of those two gentlemen at the falls of 
Schaffhausen put an end to these prospects, 
and one of the daughters has since been 
happily joined in wedlock to the surviv- 
ing brother of Mr. Burdett. Mr. Coutts 
-was for many years in habits of intimacy 
with Mr. Garrick, Mr. Smith, and other 
celebrated theatrical characters; and by 
frequenting the Green Room he became in- 
timate with) the amiable Miss Mellon, to 
whom 
