2 Be 
3d. Shot himfelf, at his houfe at 
Debbenhall, Effex, Richard Muil- 
man Trench Chifwell, Efq. member 
of parliament for the borough of 
‘Aldor ough, in the county of 
York. This melancholy fuicide 
was occafioned by a chain of un- 
fuccefsful fpeculations on Weft 
India eftates, &c. at the commence- 
ment of the war. Previous to his 
unfortunate entrance into parlia- 
ment, and the conne¢tions thence 
arifing, Mr. Chifwell was confeffed- 
Jy worth near a. million fterling. 
About a year and a half fince, there 
were unfavourable rumours upon 
?Change refpeting his paper credit; 
fince which time his fpirits were 
_ evidently depreffed. On the morn- 
ing of the cataftrophe, he deftroyed 
fome particular papers, and then 
faftening his drefling-room door, 
difcharged a brace of balls from a 
oh through his head. His valet 
earing the report, immediately 
forced open'the door, and found him 
‘expiring. Mr. Chifwell has left a 
wife and an only daughter, now the 
widow of the late Sir Francis Vin- 
cent, Bart..a few years fince am- 
baffador at Venice, by whom fhe had 
one fon, now Sir Richard Vincent 
Bart. an accomplithed youth, about 
feventeen years of age, who was in 
an adjoining room when the fata! 
accident happened. Mr. Chifwell 
’ poffeffed a landed eftate in Effex of 
near 20001. per ann. He has left a 
‘will, in which he makes Mrs. Chif- 
well fole executrix. A coroner’s in- 
queft, compofed of the principal 
gentlemen in that quarter of the 
‘county of Effex, fat.on the bedy a 
few days finee, and, after confider- 
able deliberation, brought in their 
verdi& Lunacy. 
19th. At Bilton, near Rugby, in 
the county of Warwick, Mifs Addi- 
fon, only furviving daughter of the 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1797: 
celebrated Jofeph Addifon, Efq. 
born juft before his death, in 1718, 
by Sarah Countefs-dowager of War- 
wick, daughter of Thomas Dafh- 
wood Efq. alderman of London. 
Mifs Addifon was buried at Bilton, 
on the 10th of March. Many years 
fince fhe made her lJaft will in fa- 
vour of the third fon of Lord Brad- 
ford, who now comes in for her ef- 
tate. There are left at her late houfe 
at Bilton feveral portraits: of Mr. 
Addifon and his friends, with his li- 
brary, which, it is prefumed, con- 
tains many valuable booksand MSS. 
She inherited her father’s memory, 
but none of the difcriminating 
powers of his underftanding: with 
the retentive faculties of Jedediah 
Buxton, fhe was a perfect imbecile. 
She could go on inany part of her 
father’s works, orrepeat the whole, 
but was incapable of fpeaking or 
writing an intelligible fentence. 
At hishoufe in Pall-mall, in his 
74th year, James Dedfley, Efq. ma- 
ny years a very eminent and refpec- 
table bookfeller. He was brother, 
partner, and fucceffor in the bufi- 
nefs of the late ingenious Mr. 
Robert Dodfley. Robert very ear- 
ly invited his brother James (who 
was 22 years younger than himfelf) 
to aflift him in bufinefs. Their fa- 
ther kept the free fchool at Manf- 
field, in the county of Nottingham; 
and, being very much refpected, 
had alfo many other fcholars of 
neighbouring farmers and gentle- 
men. He was a little deformed 
man, and married a young woman 
of 17 at the age of 75, and hada 
child by this union at 78. Befides 
Robert and James, he had many 
other children, Mr. James Dod- 
fley became an a¢tive and ufeful 
partner to his brother; in conjunc- 
‘tion with whem he publifhed many 
‘works of the firft celebrity ; ** Col- 
lection 
