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iron spear, weighing 60 pounfls, at 

 a mark 20 feet ofl" (and which he ef- 

 fected) tliat he carae by his death, 

 having produced a violent haemor- 

 rhage. 



Suddenly, at Paris, M. Roser, 

 painter. He was feorn in Heidel- 

 berg, in the Palatinate, in 1737. 

 Nature herself had made him a 

 painter. He lirst chose landscapes 

 for the exercise of his art, and had 

 Loutherbcrg for his master. At 

 the age of 27 jears he went to Paris, 

 where he quitted landscape painting, 

 to devote his abilities to the repair- 

 ing of pictures, in which he occupied 

 himself with success till the end of 

 liis life. He has repaired pictures 

 by Corrcgio, Titian, Raphael, and 

 other great masters ; and among the 

 Test Raphael's Virgin of Foligno, 

 ■which was in very bad condition 

 ■when it arrived from Haly. He m as 

 equally modest and disinterested, 

 and the only person who was igno- 

 rant of the value of his talents. He, 

 for his amusement, made copies of 

 several chef d'ceuvres of the Flemish 

 school, in which may be perceived 

 the able imitator and not the ser- 

 vile copyist. 



Feb'. 2d. Aged 70, Thomas 

 Banks, esq. R. A. whose abilities 

 as a sculptor added lusti'e to the 

 arts of his country, and whose cha- 

 racter as a man reflected an honour 

 on human nature. 



At Fingask, in Perthshire, aged 

 S8, sir Stuart Threipiand, bart. 

 senior member of the royal college 

 of physicians of Edinburc^h. 



Sd. In Winchester close, in the 

 prime of life, sir Thomas Rivers 

 Gay, bart. He succeeded his fa- 

 ther, the rev. sir Peter Rivers, pre- 

 bendary of Winchester, 1790. 



4th. At Newport, near Exeter, 

 the hoij, Samuel Mitchell, president 



of his majesty's council at Grenada. 

 He had spent the greatest part of 

 his useful life in (hat island, which, 

 during a period of dangerous revolt, 

 the M isdom of his measures, and the 

 proniptitude with Mhich (hey were 

 executed, prevented from falling 

 into the hands of the French. For 

 this conduct, so highly honourable 

 to his character, he received a vote 

 of thanks from the council, and the 

 grateful tribute of all those who 

 were interested in this important 

 event. 



At New York, the hon. John 

 Sloss Hobart, .judge of the district 

 court of New Vork, and one of the 

 revolutionary judges during the 

 American war. 



3(h. At his house on Ditton 

 common, captain Thomas Geary, 

 of (he royal navy. 



6th. This evening Mrs. Lidderdcl, 

 many years a resident in Windsor 

 castle, and sister to Dr. Jones, 

 bishop of Kihlare, in the momentary 

 absence of her servant, by some 

 means set fire to her cloaths ; by 

 which means she was burnt in so 

 dreadful a manner that she expired 

 about three o'clock in the after- 

 ^noon of the next day. 



7th. At Whershead-lodge, the 

 dowager lady Harland, relict of 

 vice-admiral sirR. Harland, bart. 



8th. John, youngest son of T. 

 Thoroton, esq, M. P. of Flentham- 

 housc, Notts. 



9th. At Stratford-on-Avon, on 

 her way to London, Mrs. Hamilton, 

 wife of Hans Hamilton, esq. M. P. 

 for the county of Dublin, and only 

 daughter of the late alderman Ly- 

 nam, banker of that city. 



At Haverfordwest, Elizabeth, 

 daughter of major-general Gas- 

 coyne, M. P. 



llth. At Bristol Hot wells, 



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