12 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1794. 



regret by all the lovers of our na- 

 tional antiquities. Mr. Grimm was 

 a native. of Switzerland ; and to a 

 niece, still resident there, he has be- 

 queathed the little fortune which he 

 had vested in the British funds, a-» 

 mounting to about 200I. or 3C0I. 

 and whatever ma}' arise from the sale 

 of his drawings and other personals, 

 by private contract, in which he has 

 given, by will, a preference to Mr. 

 lihodcsand sir William Burrell, with 

 an apology to sir Richard Kaye, 'for 

 whom (says he) I have made so ma- 

 ny drawings, which I shalhicver have 

 it in my power to finish.' His re- 

 mains ware interred in the church- 

 yardofSt. Paul, Coveat-garden, the 

 dean of Lincoln paying the last of- 

 fice to his departed friend. Those 

 who have seen the almost innumer- 

 able subjectsof Mr. Grimm's pencil, 

 in Sussex, Derbyshire, and Notting- 

 hamshire, will earnestly wish that 

 they may be perpetuated by good 

 engravings at the expence of the 

 respective proprietors under whose 

 patronage they were taken, as the 

 Maundy Celebration hasbeen by the 

 then sub-almoner. The last legacy 

 to the public was the views of Cow- 

 dry-house, in its perfect state, pur- 

 chased by the Society of Antiquaries 

 for their " Vetusta Monumcnta."-^ 

 For them, Mr. Grimm, by anticipa- 

 tion, preserved the historical paint- 

 ings on the walls of that noble man- 

 sion ; and for them, he copied the 

 funeral of John Islip, abbot of 

 Westjninstcr, from a roll ascribed 

 to Holbein, in the possession of the 

 dean and chapter of that church. 



Latelv, the celebrated traveller. 

 Major Houghton, who, some years 

 since, left England on a journey of 

 discovery in the interior parts of 

 Africa, and had proceeded a consi- 

 derable way in the object of his 



journey. He was discovered dead 

 in his bed, and although without 

 any visible signs of violence, thftre 

 is much reason to fear he was m.ur- 

 dered by those who attended him 

 for the sake of the little properly ho 

 had about him. 



Aged 6 J, at his residence at Kin J 

 naird, near Falkirk, in Scotland, 

 Jamis Biuce, esq. the well-known 

 Abyssinian fraveller; of whom some 

 biographical nntice will be taken iij, 

 a subsequent part of th'S volume. 



MAY. 



1st. Hamilton Rowan made lita 

 escape from the prison in Dublin in 

 which he was confined ; and William 

 Jackson, a divine of some notoriety 

 in England, with some others, was 

 appiehended for high treason. 



3d. Dublin. Some circumstances 

 of a most alarming tendency and 

 treasonable nature, which have tran-. 

 spired relative to Mr. Rowan since 

 theapprehension of Jackson, are sup- 

 posed to have been the motives that 

 urged the former to attempt a pre- 

 cipitate escape, in which he effec- 

 tually succeeded. Matters, it is said, 

 were so well preconcerted in this 

 business, that Mr. Rowau had a 

 horse in waiting, upon which h» 

 set off immediately for Rush, trom 

 whence he was directly conveyed on 

 board an American vessel, which 

 waited for him off that place, and 

 sailed the instant he came on board. 

 The charge made against Jackson 

 we understand to be, that he has 

 held a correspondence of a criminal 

 nature with several persons who 

 now belong to llie exiscing govern- 

 ment of France, in which treason- 

 able information wjs given to the 

 enemy respecting the force in Great 



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