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full of anecdote, and with a turn 
for satirical humour that rendered 
him a very amusing companion. 
In Salter’s Hall-court, Cannon- 
street, aged 76, Gilbert Thompson, 
M. D. a quaker physician of great 
integrity ; mild and unassuming ; 
and possessed of no inconsiderable 
learning and professional skill. He 
was the friend of the late dodtor 
John Fothergill, whose life he pub- 
lished ; and for several years was 
secretary of the Medical Society, 
(Jong since dissolved), to which 
the public are indebted for that ex- 
cellent work, intituled, ‘* Medical 
Observations and Enquiries.” A 
short time before his death, Dr. T. 
published, in 8vo. ‘* Seleét 'Trans- 
lations from Homer and Horace, 
with original Poems.” 
At Paris, the hon. Mrs. Cecil, 
mother of the marquis of Exeter. 
She was a foreign lady, “Charlotte 
Gonier, married to the hon. Mr. C. 
in 1753. 
4th. At Raphoe, in Ireland, 
Mrs. Hawkins, lady of the bishop 
of Raphoe. 
5th.. At Thoulouse, aged 106, 
Margaret le Clerque, formerly a nun 
of the convent of St. Clare, in that 
city. She had been a perfeét beauty 
in her youth. Her hair continued 
to her death of the finest jet black, 
and scarcely a wrinkle deformed her 
countenance ; but'she had been con- 
fined to her bed many ycars, and, 
for the last two, was totally deaf. 
Tier father, Peter L. C. was footman 
to Louis XIV. who used to take a 
great deal of notice of her when 
she was a child, and oftentimes 
dandled heron his knees. When 
she was twelve years old, her father, 
who was a native of Castres, took 
her with him to Toulouse, and 
ANNUAL REGISTER, | 1803. 
placed her as a pensioner in the | 
convent, in which she afterwards, 
at the age of twenty, took the 
veil. 
Sth. At his seat at Lee, in the 
parish of Ickham, near Canterbury, 
Kent, aged 59, after a lingering ill- 
ness, of a dropsy of the chest, ‘Tho- 
mas Barrett, esq. He was great- 
grandson of sir Paul Barret, of Lee, 
serjeant-at-law, recorder of Canter 
bury, and M. P. for New Romney, 
knighted by Charles II. at White- 
hall, Aug. 7, 1683. Mis father, 
Thomas Barrett, esq. who died 
about 1757, was a well-known col- 
lector, and possessed many valuable 
pictures and curiosities, to which 
his son made material additions. In 
1773, on the death of Sir Thomas 
Hales, Mr. Barrett, was eleéted 
M. P. for Dover, after one. of the 
most violent contests ever known, 
with the present Mr. Trevanion. 
At the general election, the next 
year, his love of quiet induced him 
to decline again entering the lists. 
About 1783, he began to alter and 
new-model his house at Lee in the 
gothic style, under the direétion of 
Mr. James Wyatt; and it will 
scarcely be deemed too much to say, 
that it has been made the most 
beautiful specimen of the kind ex- 
isting. So, at least, lord Orford 
thought; and he has expressed his 
admiration of it in a note to the 
later editions of the ‘* Anecdotes 
of Painting.” A short charaéter of 
it may also be seen in the third vol. 
of Hasted’s Kent; which passage, 
indeed, was written by lord Orford 
himself; and, had it not been deemed 
necessary a little to vary and curtail 
it, to adapt it to the’ historian’s 
plan, would have appeared still 
more advantageously. Mr. Barret 
was 
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