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all the powerful influence of a no- 
ble Duke, whose canal was at that 
time the only one that had been 
constru¢ted in this kingdom. ‘The 
Grand. Trunk canal is go miles in 
length; uniting the rivers Trent 
and Mersey; and branches have 
since been made from it to @-. Se- 
v¥ern, to Oxford, and to many other 
parts, and it will also have a com- 
munication with the Grand junc. 
tion canal from Braunsion to Brent- 
ford. 
25th, Of anasthmatical and drop- 
sical complaint, to which he had 
been long subject, the Rev. 
Rich. Southgate. He was of St. 
John’s college, Cambridge, where he 
proceeded B, A. 1749; but took 
no farther degree; elected F. A. S. 
1794: presented, on the death of 
Dr. Halifax, bishop of St. Asaph, 
to the rectory of Warsop, county or 
Nottingham, worth gool. per ann. 
July 1790, by his friend John Gally 
Knight, esquire, to whose father, 
the learned Dr. Gally, he had been 
many years curate; appointed as- 
sistant librarian at the British Mu- 
seum, under Joseph Planta, esq. 
1785; and curate at St. Giles’s in 
the Fields, where his assiduity in 
the reformation of the manners of 
its parishioners of the lowest, most 
wretched, «nd most abardoned 
charaéters, will long be gratefully 
remembered. Innumismatic know. 
ledge jhe stood almost. unrivalled ; 
and the professors of that branch 
of virth have to regret that he did: 
not live te finish his noble design of 
illustrating the Saxon coinage; or 
that his progress in ict (for some 
progress he had made) was retarded 
by his difidence. His knowledge 
of books was good; and he was 
employed by the trustees of the Bri- 
tish Museum in making purchases 
“grand = precession; 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1795. 
of many curious articles. —A report 
was in circulation thar his deark 
had been occasioned. by having 
been il]- treated by some poor Irish. 
men, disyusted.at not having par- 
taken of charity distributed by him 
at.St. Giles’sschurch, and even a 
Grabean elegy, alluding to it, cried 
about the streets: bat, on inquiry, 
we find this to have been erroneous, 
ceeveca: 
P°E BRU ACR OY. 
pe rie This night the $t. Jago Spa- 
“nish register prize cause was 
finally decided in favour of the cap. 
tors. The precise value of this 
ship, retaken in April 1793 from 
the French, is q35,000l. The per. 
sons interested in this decision are, 
Rezr Admiral John Gell, esq. who 
commanded the squadron, and the 
captains, officers, and crews of the 
St. George, of 98 guns, Egmont, 
Edgar, and Ganges, of 74, and 
Phaeton, frigate of 18 guns, which 
last conveyed her sale to Ports- 
mouth, Admiral Lord Hood gets 
fifty thousand. pounds as his share 
oi the St. Jago Spanish register ship, 
sth His Excellency the Torkish 
9" ambassador made his so long 
delayed ‘public entry. The am. 
bassador and his suite, after break- 
fasting with Sir G. Howard, at 
Chelsea Hospital, carte to town in 
the coach in 
which he rode was fhat used by the 
king in going to St, Piui*s ¢athe. 
dral; the state horses were six in 
number, very richly caparisoned ; 
four of them were those sent as a 
present to the king from the Grand 
Seignior ; the other two having died 
on their passage, were supplied by 
two from the King’s stud. The 
ambassador wore a ‘green ee 
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