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of this rencrable divine during his 

 very long life. While the doctor 

 resided in Russia, 1765, to which 

 the late empress had inyited him 

 the year belore, to superintend the 

 establishment and regulation of se- 

 veral schools intended to be esta- 

 blished by her; he received a letter 

 from a lady in England, recom- 

 mending Dr. Brown, the celebrated 

 author of the Essay of tbe Charac- 

 teristics, to assist him. According- 

 ly, the doctor was invited over, and 

 readily embraced the scheme, which, 

 finding it extended beyond his ideas 

 of the plan, terminated fatally for 

 him. The whole of what passed on 

 this occasion may be seen in the se- 

 cond edition of the Biographia Bri- 

 tannica, art. John Brown, II. 663. 

 On which it may be sufficient to 

 remark, that, however the last 

 transaction may be glossed over by 

 the biographer, little doubt remains 

 that the doctor's frenzy was the ef- 

 fect of vanity, self-conceit, and 

 pride, all disappointed. 



30th. At his house in New Nor- 

 folk-street, Mary-la-Bonne, aged 

 69, NV'clborc Ellis Agar, esq. F. R. 

 S. one of the commissioners of the 

 customs, and dcputy-comraissary- 

 gcneral, next brother of the late vis- 

 count Clifden, and elder brother of 

 viscount Somerton, archbishop of 

 Dublin. His collection of pictures, 

 one of the most valuable in this 

 country, is said to have cost hun 

 more than 20,0001. 



31st. At Dule-castle, Pembroke- 

 shire, in his 29th year, after an ill- 

 ness of a few weeks, John Allen 

 Lloyd, esq. eldest son ofcol. Lloyd, 

 of Mabus, Cardigan, and great ne- 

 phew of general Lloyd, of the ar- 

 tiJIery. 



At Kingsland, co. Dorset, Mr. 



Hood, father of admiral sir Samuol 

 Hood, K. B. 



Nov. 3d, William Clay, mariner, 

 who was found with his throat cut 

 in Grange-court, Carey-street. It 

 appeared before the jury, that the 

 deceased was taken up by the watch- 

 man in Carey-street, who supposed 

 him to be a drunken man, but when 

 conveyed to the watch-house, they 

 discovered his throat cut entirely 

 across, in a dreadful manner. Mr. 

 Crowther, a surgeon, was immedi- 

 ately sent for ; he found the de- 

 ceased in a desperate state, and 

 could only fix his head in such a po- 

 sition as to enable him to articulate 

 a few words ; when he related, that 

 he had been knocked down, and 

 robbed of ten guineas, and after- 

 wards had his throat cut; he also 

 stated, that he had been at the 

 Three Tuns publichouse, in Clare- 

 market, at one o'clock in the morn- 

 ing, drank a pint of porter there, 

 and was returning home when he 

 was attacked. His language then 

 became incoherent, and in four 

 hours after he expired. The pro- 

 prietor of the Three Tuns attended, 

 and stated, that no such description 

 of person had been at his house that 

 night ; and that it was shut up at 

 the hour mentioned. A young wo- 

 man, who was said to be his wife, 

 deposed, that he had been from 

 home since Tuesday the 2Qth ult. 

 and she could not tell what had be. 

 come of him ; he never was accus- 

 tomed <o drink, and conducted him- 

 self always rationally. They had 

 been privately married, for some 

 time, against her father's consent ; 

 but they had lately obtained that, 

 and were io be publicly joined on 

 Thursday the 7th instant. When 

 the deceased left home, he had 151. 



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