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May 6th. Lady of sir Lionel 

 Darell, bart. 



24th. Sir John Hunter Blair. 



At Hamburgh, the duke D'Ai- 

 guillon, in the 38th year of his age. 

 He fell a martyr to the gout. 



At Lingen, Vander Speigel, the 

 former grand pensionary of Hol- 

 land. 



June 3d. At his house, in Ten- 

 terden-street, Hanover-square, by 

 shooting himself with a pistol, sir 

 Godfrey Webster, bart. of Battle 

 Abbey, Sussex. For five or six 

 weeks past, he had betrayed very 

 evident symptoms of a troubled 

 mind, in consequence of ill luck at 

 play ; whereupon the coroner's in- 

 quest brought in a verdict of lu- 

 nacy. He succeeded to the title on 

 the death of his father, sir Christo- 

 pher, 1779, and has left two sons 

 and one daughter by his lady, the 

 daughter and heiress of Mr. Vassal, 

 a rich planter of Jamaica, who, in 

 his absence from Florence, where 

 they resided, on business in England, 

 quitted him, and afterwards, being 

 divorced, was married to lord Hol- 

 land. 



5th. Sir Henry Bridgeman, first 

 lord Bradford, a vice-president of 

 the Welch charity, and LL.D. 

 He was bom 1725 ; and married, 

 1755, Elizabeth Simpson, by whom 

 he had a numerous issue, viz. the 

 survivors are, 1st, Orlando, now 

 lord Bradford, married the honour- 

 able Lucy Byng, daughter of 

 George, lord Torrington ; 2d, John, 

 who has taken the name of Simp- 

 son, married Henrietta, daughter of 

 sir Thomas Worsley, and is a M. P. 

 in the present parliament ; ."Jd, 

 George, rector of Wigan, married 

 to the lady Lucy-Isabel Boyle, 

 daughter of Edmund, seventh earl 



of Cork and Orrery, in Ireland, and 

 lord Boyle, in England. The daugh- 

 ters of lord Bradford were, 1st, 

 Charlotte, wife of Henry Greswold 

 Lewis, of Malvern-haU, Warwick ; 

 2d, Anne, deceased ; 3d, Eliza- 

 beth-Diana, married George, only 

 son of sir Robert Gunning, knight 

 of the bath. The father of Henry, 

 first lord Bradford, was sir Orlando 

 Bridgeman, who married the lady 

 Anne Newport, daughter and co- 

 heiress of Richard Newport, last 

 earl of Bradford. The earl de- 

 ceased 1702 ; the titles became ex- 

 tinct, but the estates devolved on 

 his grandson, sir Henry Bridgeman, 

 son of lady Anne Newport, by sir 

 Orlando, who was raised to the 

 peerage 1797, by the title of baron 

 Bradford, and is now succeeded by 

 his son Orlando, the second lord. 



In his 55th year, at his house in 

 Bedford-square, sir Francis BuUer, 

 bart. one of the judges of the court 

 of common pleas. On the morning 

 of the preceding day, he had visit- 

 ed the lord chancellor and several 

 of his friends ; he returned home to 

 dinner, and afterwards amused him- 

 self for a short time in playing at 

 piquet with his niece, who, ob- 

 serving some change in his counte- 

 nance, which she hinted to him, he 

 acknowledged that he felt himself 

 seized with a degree of langour and 

 faintness ; he was conducted to his 

 chamber, and went to bed; and 

 early the next morning he expired 

 without a groan. He was the se- 

 cond son of James BuUer, esq. who 

 was one of the representatives in 

 parliament for the county of Corn- 

 wall by his second wife, Jane, one 

 of the daughters of Allen, earl Ba- 

 thurst. He was created a baronet 

 in 1789; and is succeeded by his 



