CHRON TI -C‘L-E. 
don, whom he married in 1757, 
and who died in 1764, he has left 
issue a sun, Samuel, gentleman- 
commoner of Christ church, Ox- 
ford, and representative of the town 
‘of Bedford in several parliaments 
after his father gave it up, and two 
daughters; the eldest married, in 
34789, to James Gordon, jun. esq. 
of More-park, Herts; the younger 
Emma, to Henry Béauchamp lord 
St. John of Bletso, 1780. Mr. 
Whitbread, married to his second 
wife, 1769, lady Mary, youngest 
daughter of the late earl, and sister 
to the present marquis Cornwallis, 
who died in 1770, in childbed of 
an only daughter, married, in June, 
1795, to capt. George Grey, late 
ofthe Boyne man of war, of 98 
‘guns, third son of sir Charles Grey, 
K. B. and nephew of sir Harry Grey, 
bart. whose sister was married in 
1788 tothe present Mr. Whitbread, 
and by whom he has several children. 
His extensive eStablishments in the 
brewery were long unrivalled, and 
perhaps, to a certain point, remain 
so still, and excited the. envy even 
of a poet (Dr. Walcot) who. spares 
not royalty, though in this instance 
of his satire, he has perpetuated a 
compliment to the sovereign and 
the man of malt by coupling them 
together, Mr. Whitbread’s liberal 
charity will be witnessed by every 
parish where he had property, and 
in the distribution of his private 
benevolence, which is said to have 
‘exceeded 3000). per annum; for 
ho proper application met with a 
Tepulse ; and to his honour let it 
here be recorded, that, several years 
before his death, he settled on St. 
Luke’s hospital for lunaticks a per- 
petual rent-charge of one hundred 
| guineas, payable out of his exten- 
aie premises in Chiswell-street. 
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rs At the Old Bailey, Mary 
sty Nott was capitally convicted, 
for the wilful murder of M. le Mar. 
quis de Gripier de. Moncroe de La- 
val, a French emigrant nobleman, 
on the 29th of May last, at his lodg- 
ings in Monmouth-court, Whit- 
comb-street, of which house she 
had the cdre ; and received sentence 
to be executed on Monday. 
Richard Ludman, Ann 
Rhodes, Eleanor Hughes, and 
Mary Baker, were tried for the 
murder of George Hebner.—This 
murder was committed in King- 
street, Kast Smithfield, in one of 
those obscure receptacles of de- 
bauchery with which this metro- 
polis abounds, The body of the 
deceased was found on the morning 
of Sunday the 22d of May, suspend- 
ed by the neck from a bed-post, 
in a room on the second floor, with 
his hands tied behind his back, 
This unfortunate man was a taylor, 
and had, it seems, been in very 
distressed circumstances, which pro- 
duced a propensity to intoxication ; 
when much in liquor, his widow 
said, he slept so sound, that it was — 
almost impossible to wake him, It 
was proved that the four prisoners 
were in the house (which belonged 
to Eleanor Hughes) on the evening 
of Saturday the 21st,and next morne 
ing. ‘They were seen, and some 
of their conversation heard, by two 
women who lived in an adjoining 
house; this house was separated . 
from that in which the body was 
found by only a lath partition, per- 
forated in several. places, and the 
holes and crevices affording a dis- 
tinét view of almost all the apart« 
ments of the latter. ‘The manner 
in which the hands of the deceased 
were 
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