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circle feel the loss which society 

 sustains. Whether Ave contemplate 

 her youth, her recent marriage, her 

 beautj', her accomplishments, her 

 unaffected and amiable manners, 

 few occurrences in private life could 

 excite a more general interest; while 

 it imports an awful lesson of the 

 uncertainty of life. Her mother 

 was daughter of the late William 

 Hammond, esq. of St. Alba^i's, in 

 Kent, by Charlotte, daughter and 

 co-heir ot William Egcrton, LL.D. 

 great-uncle to her husband. Her 

 grandfather, whose paternal name 

 was Turner, changed his name to 

 Payler, for aii estate in Yorkshire. 

 See Manning's Surry ., I. 171. 



At Clifto^n, Miss Susan Proby, 

 daughter of the dean of Litchlield; ' 

 ■15th. At Edinburgh, George 

 Mattocks, esq. formerly of Covcnt- 

 ;arden theatre, afterwa.ds manager^ 

 >f Liverpool theatre, and lastly stage 

 lanager at Edinburgh. He was 

 ne of the handsomest men and one 

 f the best vocal performers of his 

 me, as weir as a very judicious' 

 •5tor in parts adapted to his talents; 

 nd a worthy, intelligent, social cha- 

 lkier in prh'ate life. Though there 

 re some comedians still living who 

 ive attained a greater age, none 

 f them have been so long upon the 

 age; and therefore, for aconsider- 

 ble time, he has had the appellation 

 f " Father of the drama.'' About 

 ■ 1 years ago, he, as the original 

 •ord Aimworth, married the present 

 ind long celebrated Mrs. Mattocks, 

 .is the original Patty, in Bickerstalf 's 

 pleasant opera of the ' Maid of the 

 Mill ;' and has left a daughter, a 

 very accomplished young lady, mar- 

 ried to a gentleman of the bar. 

 His remains, attended by a number 

 of respeftable friends, and all the 

 theatrical persons in Edinburgh, 

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were interred in the Calton burying- 

 ground. 



17th. In her 29th year, while 

 on a visit at the rev. ]\Ir. Dash- 

 wood's, at Downham, Norfolk, 

 after a few days' illness, Miss Mary 

 KnoUis, eldest daughter of the hon. 

 and rev. Francis K. of Burford, co; 

 Oxford. 



18th. In Great Quebec-street, 

 aged 80, Lady Elizabeth Gallini, 

 Avife of the Chevalier John G. and 

 eldest sister to the late Earl of 

 Abingdon. 



At his house at A6ton, Middle- 

 sex, after a lingering illness, aged 

 72, John W"ay, esq. chief clerk of 

 the court of king's bench, to which 

 he was appointed in 1778. This 

 very lucrative office is in the gift of 

 Lord Ellenborough. The bulk of 

 his fortune he has left to Mr. Lewis 

 W. of Den ham. 



21st. AtSidmouth, Devon, af- 

 ter a lingering illness, the Avife of 

 James Amyatt, esq. M. P. for 

 Southampton. 



At Chapel, Miss Elizabeth Hall, 

 daughter of the late sir James II. bart. 

 of Douglas. 



24th. In Ilarley-street, after a 

 short illness, major-general Ross, 

 M. P. for Horsham. 



In Park-street, after a long ill- 

 ness, aged 75, Elizabeth dowager 

 lady Harrowby, daughter of bishop 

 Terrick, and sister to the lady of 

 Dr. Hamilton ; married to lord II. 

 1762, by whom she had six sons 

 and two daughters. 



25th. In Dublin, aged 82, Mrs: 

 Marsden, relift of the late John 

 Marsden, esq. and mother of the 

 secretary of the admiralty, and of 

 the under secretary of state in Ire- 

 land. 



27th. At her son's house in Soho- 

 squarc, aged 84, Mrs. Sarah Banks, 



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