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i2nd. An inquest was thi-s night 

 held at the kins^'s-head, Limehouse, 

 on view of the body of Win. Locke, 

 esq. a captain in the second regi- 

 ment of Tower-hamlets militia. Af- 

 ter the coroner (Mr. Unwin) had 

 given the jury their charge, they 

 retired to view the body, which 

 presented a sight awfully allecting 

 and picturesque, being wrapped up 

 in the English colours, with the 

 uniform which the deccised wore, 

 and watched by two grenadiers in 

 tlieir regimental dress. The iirst 

 witness called was captain Bartlett, 

 of the West India Dock volunteers. 

 He stated, that he had frequently 

 seen the deceased on guard at the 

 dock ; he had called that evening 

 by accident at the house of Mr. 

 Tobin, where the deceased was 

 spending the evening ; at supper he 

 observed him to be a good deal in- 

 toxicated, and his voracious manner 

 of eating much surprised him. About 

 the middle of supper he observed 

 the deceased turn pale and faint, 

 and advised he should be taken into 

 the air. lie got worse, and medical 

 aid was sent for. Mr. Tobin, of 

 Limehouse, deposed, that the de- 

 ceased had come to his house with 

 a friend ; he had seen him often 

 before, but was not intimate with 

 him. He stated, that he supported 

 him a considerable time on his knee 

 till a surgeon came ; that he gradu- 

 ally observed his pulsation diminish, 

 till he was quite gone. The surgeon, 

 Mr. Wedgborough, stated, that he 

 came too late to render any assist- 

 ance ; that life was totally extinct. 

 He believed the deceased did not 

 die of apoplexy, though he could 

 not trace his death to any particular 

 Cause. Verdiftj died by the visi- 

 tation of God. 



'iSrd. At her apajtments at Chel- 

 sea, in her 8 1st year, the celebrat- 

 ed sigiiora Galli. She was some 

 years since a performer of consider- 

 able celebrity on the stage of the 

 king's theatre in the Haymarket, 

 and was the last of Handel's scholars ; 

 and that celebrated musician com- 

 posed several of his nio5t favourite 

 airs expressly for her, both in his 

 operas and oratorios, in %vhich she 

 sang with great applause: and appear- 

 ed so lately as the year 1797, at Mr. 

 Ashley's oratorios at Covent-garden 

 theatre. After quitting the stage, 

 she resided as a cotrpanion with the 

 unfortunate Miss Ray, and was ia 

 company with her at Covent-gardea 

 theatre on the evening she was shot 

 by the rev. Mr. Hackman, April 

 7th, 1779. Being thus deprived of 

 her situation, and not having made 

 any provision for her declining years, 

 she has subsisted entirely on the 

 bounty of her friends, and an an- 

 nual benefaction from the royal 

 society of musicians. 



25th. At the house of the secre- , 

 tary at war, in New Norfolk-street, 

 Mary-Ia-bonne, col. Hamilton, of 

 Pencaithlandi 



27tji. In her 62nd year, Mrs. 

 F. Glover, who had lived 50 years 

 in the same cottage at Honnington, 

 SutTblk, where she gave suck to that 

 much admired rural poet Robert 

 Bloomfield, author of the ' Farmer's 

 Boy,' &c. which poem was first 

 written with the sole view of pleas- 

 ing his mother, by the recital of 

 scenes long passed ; but by its un- 

 precedented success, on being in- 

 troduced to the world, he was en- 

 abled to contribute much towards 

 the comfort of her declining years ; 

 and on hearing of her last illness, 

 with that true filial piety which 



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