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generally read and admired, and has 

 most singularly survived the tempo- 

 rary reign so commonly the lot of 

 similar productions. 



7th. At Landguard fort, capt. 

 Law, an old and distinguished ofti- 

 cer. He served under gen. Wolfe, 

 Monkton, and Townshclid, in Ame- 

 rica, and acted with reputation, as 

 assistant-engineer, at Bellisle and 

 Martinico ; at the memorable assault 

 .at Quebec he headed the gallant 

 party of volunteers which attacked 

 and repulsed gen. Montgomery ; in 

 gen. Carleton's dispatch he is parti- 

 cularly and honourably mentioned. 

 His social qualities, gaiety, plea- 

 santry, and enlivening inofi'cnsive 

 humour, endeared him to all. Mis 

 zeal and exertions in the service of 

 his friends was singularly disinte- 

 rested. His merit alone reCom- 

 Jnended him to lord Cornwallis, who 

 appointed him storekeeper at Land- 

 guard fort, in the year 1795, uhere 

 he lived universally beloved and es- 

 teemed. His remains were interred 

 with military honours, attended by 

 the officers of the garrison. 



8th. Between 5 and 6 o'clock 

 this evening, the servant-girl of Mr. 

 Davis, surgeon and apothecary, of 

 St. Thomas's street, Weymouth, 

 took out the infant daughter of her 

 master for a walk, and remaining 

 out much longer than was expected, 

 several persons went in search of 

 her, M'hen they were both found 

 drowned in some very shallow Ava- 

 ter. In the girl's pocket was found 

 a note, written by herself, request- 

 ing that the child might be interred 

 with her. When the coroner's jury 

 sat, there apjjeared a great number 

 of bruises on the body of the child, 

 supposed to have been received 

 when struggling for life. 



At his £eat at Appledurcombe; in 



the Isle of Wight, in his 54th yedr^ 

 the right lion, sir Richard Worsley, 

 bart. lie is succeeded in title by 

 the rev. Dr. Holmes, of Pidford- 

 hoHse, in the Isle of Wight, now sir 

 Henry Worsley Holmes, bart. He 

 succeeded his father, sir Thomas, in 

 1768; and in 1775 married Sey- 

 mour, one of the daughters and co. 

 heiresses of the late sir John Flem- 

 ing, bart. of Brompton-park, Mid- 

 dlesex, by whom he had one son, 

 Robert Edwin W. who died before 

 liim. By this failure of male-issue, 

 a jointure of 70,0001. reverts to 

 lady Worsley ; and sir Richard 

 leaving no will, his estates and pro- 

 ])erty devolve to his niece, the 

 daughter of the hon. Mr. Bridgman 

 Simpson. He had lived some time 

 past in a state of seclusion at his 

 favourite retreat ; and his death is 

 said to be the effe6l of apoplexy. 

 He was comptroller of his majesty's 

 houshold, governor of the Isle of 

 Wight, represented the borough of 

 Newport in parliament ; had, in the 

 early part of life, made the tour of 

 Europe, and formed a collection of 

 marbles, statues, and other an- 

 tiqnes, engraved and published in 

 two volumes, folio, under the title 

 of " Museum Worsleianum, 17...'' 

 He was the author of " An History 

 of the Isle of Wight, 1781," 4to. 

 with miserable plates by Godfrey* 

 Our readers will recollect the trial, 

 before lord Mansfield, in the court 

 of King's Bench, between this ba- 

 ronet and capt. Bisset, for criminal 

 conversation with the plaintiff's 

 wife, 1782. The family mansion at 

 Appledurcombe underwent a tho- 

 rough repair in the reign of Eliza- 

 beth, and was taken down by sir 

 Robert W, at the beginning of the 

 last century. 



9th. At four o'clock in the af- 



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