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. At his house, at Lambeth, after a very 
long and painful iIness, which he bore: 
with patience and resignation, David 
Jones, esq. of New Inn, solicitor, whose 
death has caused the deepest regret to the: 
extensive circle of lis acquaintance. 
In Barton-crescent, much regretted by 
all who..knew-him, 638; Join Barniell 
Murphy, esq. formerly of Gray’> Inn, He 
was a devout Christian, a sincere friend, 
and a truly honest man; 
To Portman-square,- 14, Lady Anna 
Maria Pelham Clinton, eldest daughter of 
the Dnke and Duchess of Neweastle. 
_At Ham,76, Margaret, wife of General 
Gordon Forbes. “ 
. James Brownley, es. 48, whose memory 
will long be dear to an extensive cirele in 
the metropolis. His extensive knowledge, : 
the. liveliness of his fancy, the amenity of 
his manners, and his correct, but easy and 
nnaffected elocution, made his society be 
generally courted before he was -emanci- 
pated into manhood. He entered life 
with the most flattermg prospects, but, 
as they were unfortunately clouded by 
severe and frequent disappointments, he 
sought relief for his wounded spirit in 
convivial society, and he speedily shone as 
a luminary of first-order among the wits 
and orators of the club of ‘ Brilliants,’ in 
Chandos-street. In the year 1799, he be- 
came one of the founders of the club of 
‘Eccentries,’ in May’s-buildings, St. Mar- 
tin’s lane, which he occasionally ‘visited 
until within a few weeks of his decease, 
and of which during the period of twenty- 
three years he continued to be the most 
distinguished ornament. Abont the period 
of the establishment of the-Eecentrics, he 
became acquainted with a gentleman con- 
nected with the press; who, after mach 
persuasion, ‘prevailed upon him to accept 
an engagement as a Parliamentary Re- 
porter, and general contributor_to a daily 
paper. It is almost: superfluous to say 
that, in every department of his new pro- 
fession, he stood pre-eminent. It is only 
to be regretted that he should have passed 
the remainder of his life, ontil advanced 
years and severe corporeal infirmities 
compelled. him to desist from his labours, 
in reporting the speeches of men, who, 
with two or three splendid exceptions, 
were very far his inferiors in intellectnal 
attainments and the~ powers of cloguence. 
With one of those exceptions; (we mean tlie 
Tate Mr. R..B. Sheridan,) accident bronght 
him acquainted about the year 1807, and 
an intimate friendship resulted from their 
easnal interview, which terminated only 
with the existence of Mr. Sheridan, They 
frequently spent several days together in 
rural excursions, and Mr. Sheridan was 
often heard to declare that they were the 
happiest days of his life. Mr. Brownley 
was in politics a Whig; and, in religion, a 
Presbyterian of the church of Scotland. 
Deaths in and near London. 
[July 1, 
At his house in Bolton-Row, Edward 
Jerningham, esq. He was the youngest 
son of the late Sir Wittiam Jerningham, 
bart; heir and claimant of the ancient 
barony of Stafford, by Frances, danghter 
of Henry, the twelfth Viscount Dillon of 
Treland: he «married in) 11804 /Emily, 
daughter of the late Nathaniel Middleton, 
esq. by whom he has left four children, 
He was originally educated for, ard called 
to the bar; but, with a disinterestedness 
which characterized him’ through life, 
having aecepted the office of secretary to 
the Board of Byitish Catholics: he de- 
voted himself to his honorary duties so as 
altogether to sacrifice his profession. The 
task which he thus undertook. was oue of 
peculiar delicacy and importance, not 
only as it related to the Catholics, but to 
the whole body of the public. The thanks 
of that body lie repeatedly received ; every 
other mark of their approbation, or tes- 
timony ‘of the grateful sense they enter- 
tainedof his services, he declined aceept- 
ing. In private life: he practised the 
greatest of all virtues, trne, genuine, and 
universal benevolence, from an impulse of 
nature, as wellas from a sense of duty: 
lre entered with generous concern into 
whatever affected the interests of a fellow- 
creature, and never appeared so happy as 
in the performance of some good. Iirhis 
manners he was affable, in his temper 
cheerful, in his affections warm, in bis at- 
tachments ardent and sincere. He is said 
to have néver made an enemy ; and seldom 
made an acquaintance withont gaming a 
friend. To the Catholic body his loss is 
great; to his friends most bitter; to his 
disconsolate’ family irreparable : yet must 
they dwell npon his memory’ with plea- 
sure, and in time feel soothed by the re- 
collections of his worth. 
At Hammersmith, Mrs Earle Drax 
Grosvenor ; she was riding in her carriage 
through Hammersmith, when her groom 
and coachmatt were grossly assaulted by a 
fellow who attempted to get up behind 
the carriage. After a desperate resistance 
he was secured, and conveyed before a 
magistrate, when’ Mrs. Drax Grosvenor 
attended. ‘On'bsing committed for trial, 
he making an affectiig appeal'to her not 
to prosecute him for the offence, on the 
score of humanity to his wife and chil- 
dren; she wished to extend inercy to the 
prisoner, brt the magistrate conld not 
suffer it. ‘The lady was so greatly af- 
fected at the appeal of the prisoner for 
fiercy, that she fell into the arms of one 
of her servants ina fit: she soon became 
cdnvulsed, and by the time that ‘médical 
aid could be obtained, she was a Corpse, 
owing to an ossification of the heart. 
In’ Cavendish square, the Right Hon. 
Horatio WValpole, earl of Orford: (of whom 
biographicalparticalars will be given in our 
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