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dcpartmcQts of the fine arts, his 

 opinions were ahva}S judicious and 

 correct. To his exertions while in* 

 Italy, in the early part of his life, 

 which country he visited for the 

 restoration of his health, his Inti- 

 mate friend Mr. Roscoe, and the 

 public at large, are indebted for 

 many of the valuable docnmen'ts in 

 the celebrated History of Lorenzo 

 de Medici ; ia particular, all the 

 unpublished poems of Lorenzo were 

 copied by his own hand from the 

 manuscripts in the Laurentia libra- 

 ry ; services which assisted in laying 

 the foundations of that other work, 

 which ivir. Roscoe has lately given 

 to the world in his Life and Punti- 

 ficafc of Leo the Tenth. During 

 his lingering and hopeless illness, 

 his exertions in the cause of litera- 

 ture were unabated ; the whole of 

 the proof-sheets of Mr. Roscoe's 

 last publication having undergone 

 his critical revision, which is alfec- 

 tionately mentioned by his friend in 

 his preface to the work. 



'22d. At his father's, brigadier, 

 gen. Shawe, at Kingsbridge, De- 

 von, in his 23d year, captain Mus- 

 grave Shawe, of the 88th foot, who 

 was wounded at the storming of Se- 

 ringapatam, in the East Indies. 



At Flcurus, CO. Roxburgh, in his 

 77th year, William Kerr, duke and 

 earl of Roxburgh, marquis of Beau- 

 mont, earl of Kelso, Cessford, and 

 Caverton, viscount Broxmouth, ba- 

 ron Kerr, and baron Bellenden, of 

 Broughton. He married, 1789, 

 Mary, daughter of captain Bechi- 

 noe, of the royal navy, and niece of 

 sir John Smith, of Sydling St. Ni- 

 cholas, CO. Dorset, bart. by whom 

 he has left no issue. By his death, 

 captain Gawler, late of the foot- 

 guards, who last year, by letters 

 patent, took the name of Kerr, 

 succeeds to the wliule estate and to 



the title of baron Bellenden. The Bri- 

 tish evldom and barony of Kerr of 

 Wakefield becomes extinct. His 

 grace, who had not been quite two 

 years in possession of the title and es- 

 tates, never took his seat in the house 

 of lords, was formerly a captain in the 

 guards, and had, from the preceding 

 duke, the slend^-r annuity of 2001. 

 His remains were interred in the 

 family- vault at Bowden. 



23d. At his house near Ports- 

 mouth, rear admiral R. Palliser 

 Cooper, on the superanuated list, 

 who was in his usual good health 

 till within half an tour of his death. 



Mr. Robert Sleath, who kept the 

 turnpike-gate at Worcester when 

 his majesty paid a visitto bp. Hurd, 

 some years ago, and from which 

 circumstance he was ever afterwards 

 called " the man who stopped the 

 king." Impromptu. 



On Wednesday last, old Robert 

 Sleath 

 Pass'd through the turnpike gate of 



death ; 

 To him would death no toll abate 

 Who stopp'd the king at Wor'ster 

 gate. 



24th. At EastKirkby,Mr. John 

 Carter. There were found in his 

 house above 500 guineas, in specie, 

 tied up in small parcels of five guineas 

 each. 



Found murdered, on the road be- 

 tween Stockbridgc and Winchester, 

 about a mile and a half from the 

 former place, Mr. James Wigmore, 

 sen. a respectable farmer at Knoyle, 

 in Hants. He had been to Win- 

 chester with a load of cheese, for 

 the fair, and was returning on 

 horseback the preceding evening, 

 when, it is supposed, he was stop» 

 ped by footpads, an<| that on his re- 

 fusing to deliver his money, they 

 fired at him, a ball having passed 

 thrtfugh hi& body, which;, from its 



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