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Aothing could have produced the ef- 

 fects which were exhibited upon the 

 stomach and brain, but arseiiick^ 

 corrosive sublimate, or some mineral 

 poison. Charles Peck, esq. his 

 royal highness's maitre d'hotel, de- 

 posed, he had been in the habit of 

 visiting the unfortunate gentleman 

 from time to time, until his removal ; 

 he always declared he had been 

 poisoned, and intimated a sort of 

 suspicion that an officer employed 

 under him had been the cause ; but 

 Le observed, shortly after he was 

 seized with the symptoms above 

 described, he had desired the sus- 

 pected party to taste some of the 

 milk ; lie had done so, and was 

 seized with the same symptoms as 

 the deceased. Mr. John Gascoigne, 

 the clerk of his royal hlghness's 

 . Stables, athrmed, the person referred 

 , to by the deceased was of a respect- 

 able and moral character. The 

 jury returned their verdict — wilful 

 rturder agaiast some person or per- 

 sons unknown. 



17th. At Exeter, lady Milner, 

 wife of sir William M. Milner, 

 M. P. for York. 



At Plaistow, Essex, Mrs. Thel- 

 luson, widow of the late Peter T. 

 esq. of Brodsworth, co. York. 



At his house in Grosvenor-sqnare, 

 after a short illness, aged 78, the 

 right hon. sir. Richard Heron, bart. 

 of Newark, co. Nottingham, so 

 created July 25, 1778. He is suc- 

 ceeded by Mr. now sir Robert 

 Heron, bart. of Stubton, co. Lin- 

 coln. 



About four o'clock in the morn- 

 ing, at his palace at Lambeth, after 

 much severe illness, and in his 74th 

 year, the right hon. and right rev. 

 John Moore, D. D. lord archbishop 

 of Canterbury, primate and metro- 

 politan of all JSifgland, a lord of 



trade and plantations, president of 

 the corporation of the sons of the 

 clergy, and of the society for the 

 propagation of the gospel in foreiga 

 parts, a trustee of the British mu- 

 seum, a governor of the charter- 

 house, visitor of All Souls and Mer- 

 ton colleges, Oxford, and one of 

 his majesty's most honourable privy- 

 council. This amiable prelate was 

 a native of the city of Gloucester, 

 where his father was a butcher, 

 and in circumstances that would not 

 permit him to give his son that libe- 

 ral education which he desired and 

 deserved. He was therefore brought 

 np at the free-school of his native 

 city ; and, on account of the docilitj 

 of his behaviour and promising ta- 

 tents, some friends procured him an 

 humble situation in Pembroke col- 

 lege, Oxford, whence he some time 

 afterwards removed toChristChurch, 

 in that university. By some lucky 

 circumstances, wholly without re- 

 quest, or the least expectation of his 

 own, he was recommended to the 

 duke of Marlborough as a private 

 tutor to the marquis of Blandford. 

 But this appointment was not with- 

 out humiliation : the pride of the 

 duchess would not yield to Mr. 

 Moore's filling a seat at the first 

 tabic, and, in consequence, he was 

 degraded to the second. But this 

 mortification did not continue long, 

 as this haughty dame, when she be- 

 came a widow, actually courted the 

 very same tutor to receive her 

 hand ! Mr- Moore declined the ad- 

 vantage of the connexion from a 

 strong principle of honour; and, so 

 sensible was the duke of the gene- 

 rosity of his conduct, that, as the 

 first token of his gratitude, he set- 

 tled an annuity of 4001. upon him, 

 and rapidly obtained for him very 

 Tftluable church preferment. 



Mr. 



