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vhom he had for some weeks re- 

 sided, and whose house he lett on 

 horseback, with the professed in- 

 tention of riding to Leeds ; but, as 

 •appears from the sequel, he rode 

 only to his own house, which was 

 unoccupied, put up his horse in an 

 out-house, and is supposed to have 

 soon after committed the fatal act, 

 as his body, when discovered in the 

 evening, was perfectly cold ; from 

 which circumstance it is conjectured 

 that he must have been suspended 

 for several hours. He died pos- 

 sessed of freehold property to the 

 amount of upwards of 1701. a-year. 

 The Gazette of Saturday, Oct. 19, 

 announces his majesty's pardon to 

 any person concerned in the murder 

 of Mr. William Stables, of Hors- 

 forth, near Leeds, cloth-manufac- 

 turer (except the person who com- 

 Biitted the murder) who shall disco- 

 ver his accomplice or accomplices ; 

 and a reward of 100 guineas is of- 

 fered to any person making such 

 discovery, by Mr. James Stables of 

 Leeds, fell-monger, and Mr. Wm. 

 Clark of Ilorsforth, farmer, brother 

 and brother-in-law to the deceased; 

 and a farther reward of 100 guineas 

 is also offered by the inhabitants of 

 Horsforth, to be paid on conviction 

 of any one or more of the offenders. 



2nd. At Paris, the senator Ple- 

 ville Pelet, and a vice-admiral of 

 France. 



At Brighthclmstone, in her 45th 

 year, of a decline, which had been 

 of considerable duration, that once 

 popular singer and actress, Mrs. 

 Crouch, whose beauty and talents 

 have been a subject of admiration 

 to every poet and critic for the last 

 five and twenty years. She was a 

 Miss Phillips, the daughter of a so- 

 licitor. At a very early age she 

 displayed such powers of voice, and 



such a natural taste for music, tha* 

 he determined to cultivate the talent* 

 She made her first appearance in her 

 eighteenth year, in the year of the 

 riots, 1780, in the character of 

 Mandane, in the serious opera of 

 " Artaxerxes." Her appearance 

 was that of a meteor; it dazzled, 

 from excess of brilliancy, every 

 spectator ; her success was un- 

 bounded ; she made a sort of epocli 

 in the theatre, and was pursued 

 and idolized by the town. In an 

 evil hour she gave her hand to Mr. 

 Crouch, a midshipman, whose 

 showy person and address won her 

 affections. They were married at 

 Twickenham-church, and in that 

 union she found nothing but misery. 

 With the secret load upon her heart 

 of ill usage at home, she sought for 

 happiness with the most dazzling 

 and illustrious of lovers ; she sepa- 

 rated from her husband on the oc- 

 casion, but made him a provision to 

 which he was not entitled by his 

 conduct. For several years past she 

 has lived with Mr. Kelly the singer. 

 Her remains were interred in Bright- 

 hclmstone church-yard, on the 6th. 

 At Olveston, county of Glou- 

 cester, the infant son of capt. Gas- 

 coigne, R. N. 



4th. At Brompton, in her 72d 

 year, lady Temple, widow of the 

 late Sir Richard Temple, bart. of 

 Kemsey, county of Worcester. 



This afternoon the body of a na- 

 val officer floated on shore near the 

 Martello tower. No. 11, in Peven- 

 sey-bay, on the coast of Sussex. By 

 a commission found in one of his 

 pockets, signed in August last, it 

 appears he was Lieut. Webb Smith, 

 of the Wrangler gun-brig. 



At Cheltenham, David Scott, esq. 



M. P. for the Scotch burghs of St. 



Andrew, Perth, Sec. His house was 



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