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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



Alban's, and two surviving, single. 

 Mrs. Ellis had one daughter, who 

 has received no share of her grand- 

 father's immense wealth, adequate 

 to her prospects. Mr. FuUer, who 

 never knew what illness was, and 

 divided his time between his count- 

 ing-house and his horse, being re- 

 gularly every day on the road, and 

 having, only within a year or two 

 of his death, consented to be at- 

 tended by a servant just in sight, 

 was suddenly seized with so much 

 weakness, that he, for the first 

 time, felt himself obliged to apply 

 to his servant for assistance, to keep 

 him in the saddle ; and, on reach- 

 ing his house, vras put into his bed, 

 and quitted it only for his cofRn, 

 after a confinement of near a week, 

 sensible to the last hour. What- 

 ever disposition he had made of his 

 property, he totally changed it by 

 a new will, made a little before 

 his death, to which he appointed 

 three executors, with a small com- 

 pensation for their trouble, and by 

 which he bequeathed his immense 

 property to his two surviving 

 daughters. Legacies to old and 

 faithful clerks and servants, who 

 had all fared hard enoujih in his 

 service, or to the poor of any class 

 or rank, we hear not of. Instances 

 of good done by him, in his life, 

 are not generally met with, except 

 the endowment, in 179^, of six 

 alms-houses, in Hoxton ( to which, 

 a few weeks only before he died, 

 the foundation of six others were 

 added), for poor dissenting females 

 of his own persuasion, which was 

 rigid Calvinism, and, to increase the 

 incomes of poor clergy of the 

 establishment and dissenting per- 

 suasion, 10,000/. each. Hard in- 

 vestigation may trace out partial 

 relief in partictUar cases. An adept 



in the science of acquiring money, 

 by the most penurious economy, 

 he is said to have suggested several 

 plans of finance to government, 

 through the channel of the news- 

 papers and anonymous letters. 

 The pleasure of amassing wealth 

 reigned unrivalled in his soul ; and, 

 with the strictest professions of 

 piety, and attendance on religious 

 ordinances, we find ourselves reduc- 

 ed to a painful concurrence, in that 

 axiom of our divine instructor, 

 " How hardly shall they that have 

 riches enter into the khigdom of 

 God !" and with that sentiment of 

 his emphatic apostle, " Ye know 

 that no covetous man, who is an 

 idolator, hath any inheritance in 

 the kingdom of Christ and of God." 

 On March 19. his remains were 

 deposited in Bunhill-fields burial- 

 ground ; but, previous to the inter- 

 ment, his body lay in state, at the 

 banking-house in Lombard-street, 

 in his little parlour closely adjoining 

 to it. The idle vanity of thus ex- 

 posing, in state, the remains of a 

 man who, through the course of a 

 life of extraordi^^iary length, was 

 never known to allow himself the 

 most trifling indulgence, could not 

 escape the observation of the 

 crowds, who witnessed the scene. 

 It was only by the most sordid 

 penuriousness, that Mr. Fuller ac- 

 cumulated one of the largest pro- 

 perties in the kingdom. His exe- 

 cutors are, Mr. Ebenezer Mait- 

 land (bank-director)i of King's-arms 

 Yard ; Mr. Stonard, of Savage- 

 gardens ; and Mr. Thomas Hall, 

 of Watling-street, apothecary. The 

 property, which the late Mr. Fuller 

 left behind him, is calculated at 

 400,000/. of which there is about 

 2000/. a year in land. The will 

 was in his own hand-writing, an4 



