530 
sad disaster would have been pre- 
vented., Ata later period, by the 
powder barrels taking fire, while he 
was above in the house, he was, 
with the windows and roof, blown 
into an orehard, and found hanging 
in an apple-tree. [lis scars were 
many, and a very large wound ac- 
companied him to the grave. 
7th. In Harley-street, Caven- 
dish-square, the wife of gen. Ross, 
M. P. 
At her house, at Twickenham, in 
her 79th year, Anne lady Mendip. 
8th. In Yorkshire-place, Kings- 
land-road, the hon. Mrs, Murray, 
only daughter of the late lord John 
M. and wife of col. M. of Banner- 
eross, co. York. 
At Barfield, in Berkshire, aged 
about 75, the rev. Wm. Robinson, 
lately rector of that parish, which he 
resigned to his son about five years 
ago, and formerly of Denton, near 
Canterbury. He was fifth son of 
Matthew R. esq. of West Layton, 
in Yorkshire, and Monk’s Horton, 
in Kent, by Elizabeth, daughter of 
Robert Drake, esq. of Cambridge- 
shire. — His elder brother, Matthew, 
the Jate lord Rokeby, died Novem- 
ber 30, 1800, and he succeeded, by 
his will, to part of his estates in 
Kent, Yorkshire, and Cambridge- 
shire. In 1760, he married Mary, 
only surviving daughter of Adam 
Richardson, gent. and sister and 
heir to Wm. Richardson, esq. of 
Kensington. Mr. Robinson was 
educated at Westminster, at St. 
John’s college, Cambridge, of which 
he was fellow, having proceeded, 
B. A. 1750, M. A. 1754, and 
where he became intimate with the 
poets Gray and Mason, who cor. 
responded with him, and occasion- 
ally visited him at his seat at Den- 
ton. Mr. Robinson’s sisters, Mrs. 
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1803. 
Scott, the widow of George Lewis 
Scott, esq. and Mrs. Montagu, of 
Portman-square, both well known 
in the literary world, died, the for- 
mer in 1795, the latter in 1800.— 
Mr. R. has left a son and two 
daughters, amongst whom his ample 
fortune divides. His son is rector 
of Barfield Coveney, with Maney 
chapel, in Cambridgeshire; and his 
youngest daughter is married to Sa- 
muel Egerton Brydges, esq. of 
Denton, in Kent. 
At Edinburgh, Thomas Pringle, 
esq. vice-admiral of the red. 
12th. At her house, in Sey- 
mour-place, in her 70th year, lady 
Charlotte Tufton, aunt to the pre- 
sent earl of Thanet, who obtains 
20,0001. by herdeath. The house, 
furniture, &c. in Seymour-place, 
are willed to Mrs. Blackwell, an old 
and intimate friend of her ladyship. 
The remainder of her fortune de- 
volves to lady Caroline Barham, 
lord Thanet’s sister, but subject to 
various legacies. The remains of: 
lady Charlotte were interred, with 
great funeral pomp, in the family- 
vault at Rainham, Kent. 
His royal highness prince Frede- 
ric Adolphus, duke of Ostrogothia, 
uncle to the king of Sweden, who 
passed two years at Montpelier, 
for the recovery of his health, and 
lately made a present of a gold 
snufl-box to each of his physicians, 
with 12,000 livres for his perfect 
cure. 
At Rome, in his 51st year, the 
Portuguese ambassador, Alexander 
de Souza. 
14th. In Weymouth-street, aged 
12, Augusta Georgiana, 3d daugh- 
ter of vice-admiral Parker, and 
grand-daughter of admiral sir Peter _ 
P. bart. 
16th, Unfortunately shot and 
stoned 
