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we have only. to.ebferve his con-, 
duct,in relation to Gray, whofe 
enius he eftimated with.a zeal of 
enthufiafm (to borrow an expreflion, 
ofold Fheobald) .“ amounting to 
idolatry.”» Upon the whole, he is 
to be-viewed as a.man,who may be 
ranked with the fupporters of Bri- 
tifh literature and morals. — The. 
appointment of ine four canons- 
refidentiaries of York cathedral ‘is 
in the gift of the Dean, who is 
obliged, by ftatute, to give the Va- 
cant, canonry to the’ firft man he 
fees after the vacancy, capable of 
taking it. Mr. Markham was his 
firft fight on the death of Mr. Ma- 
fon. He married Mary, daughter 
of William Shermon, of Kingfton 
upon Hull, Efq. who died, March 
24th, 1767, in her 28th year, at 
Briftol; in the north aile of which 
cathedral he erected. to her memo- 
ry a neat monument of white mar- 
ble, with the weil-known lines. 
At, Laufanne, in Switzerland,, 
§. A, D. Tiffot, M..D. who, for 
near half a century, enjoyed a very 
extenfive reputation as a phyfician 
and medical writer. He was, one 
of the earlieft, ableft, and moft zea- 
‘lous vindicators of the practice of 
inoculation on the continent of 
Europe. His treatife on this fub- 
ject, “ D’Inoculation juftifice,”’ was 
publifhed in 1754; but the works 
which rendered him the mott po- 
pular were, his ‘¢ duis au Peuple,” 
and his treatifes on the health of 
literary men, and of people of 
fafhion. 
MAY. 
' 2. The Recorder paffed fentence 
of death on Elizabeth O’Connor, for 
privately ftealing in a fhop; James 
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Andrews, for returning from tranf- . 
portation; William Noah, James” 
Barrow, Henry, Butler, John Tull, 
William Ward, and William Smith, 
for houfe-breaking ;, Santuel Chef- 
ter and Thomas Perry, for a high- 
way robbery ;, Jarvis, for privately 
ftealing a quantity of wine; and 
Thomas Bennet, for forgery. —The 
feffions was then adjourned to the 
31it of May. : A 
5th. A melancholy accident Uae 
pened this evening at Plymout 
Two young ladies, daughters of’ 
Mr. Shephard, furgeon, of the dock. 
yard, and another lady of the name 
of Gregg, were playing on one of. 
the fhip’s yards, which was at the 
maft-houfe to be repaired; when 
it gaye way on a fudden, and ‘the’ 
ladies not being able to extricate 
themfelves, rolled over them, which 
occafioned the immediate death of 
the two first, who were moft fhock-+ 
ingly mangled; and the other had 
her leg broken. The eldeft of the 
two fiflers was about the age of fif- 
teen; and the other only in her 
twelfth year, a 
7th. The mutiny was renewed at 
Spithead. The Channel fleet re- 
fufed to put to fea, under the pre- 
text that government did not mean 
to fulfil the promifes held out ‘by 
them to the failors; the delegates 
re-afiembled, and fent a deputation 
to the London, Admiral Colpoys’ 
fhip, at Portfmouth, whom the. Ad- 
miral refufed to admit on board, . 
and enforced .his authority by .or- 
dering the marines to fire into, the 
boat. This conduét was refented 
by the crew of the London, who 
immediately depofed the Admiral, 
ftruck his flag, and hoifted the en- 
fign of defiance. ’ 
This evening, between eight and 
nine o’clock, Mr. Fryer, of South- 
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