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~atStamford, co. Lincoln, under the 
pressure of the most indigent cir. 
He has left an unpro- 
tected ideot daughter, whose only 
inheritance is the poor-house and 
the beneficence of her fellow-crea- 
tures. 
At his seat at Benham, near r New- 
bury, Berks, after an illness of only 
three days, hisserene highness Chris- 
tian-Frederick-Charles - Alexander, 
‘Margrave of Brandenburgh Ans- 
pach, and Bayreuth, duke of 
Prussia, count of Sagn, &c. Sc. born 
February 24th 1736. He was nearly 
nailied to our present royal family, 
his highness’s grandmother, by his 
mother’s side, having been a princess 
of England, and his great aunt was 
queen Caroline, wife to George the 
second. His mother was sister to 
Frederick II. of Prussia. His high- 
ness was married, first, to a princess 
of the house of Saxe- Cobourg, and 
j dividual. 
secondly, in 1791, to Elizabeth, wi- 
dow of the late lord Craven, and 
daughter of the late, and sister of 
the present, earl of Berkeley, who 
survives. him, and by neither of 
whom had he any issue. He chose 
rather to live like a private gentle- 
manin England than to rule as an 
absolute princein Germany. Shortly 
‘after his marriage with lady Craven 
he sold his principality, with all its 
territory, revenue, and inhabitants, 
to the king ef Prussia. Having 
thus relinquished all his power, im- 
portance, ahd rank, he came and 
‘spent the rest of his life in a country 
where he could have but a mere no- 
minal title, without any one civil or 
political privilege. His goodness of 
heart and extreme affability endeared 
him to all ranks of people who knew 
him, cither as a sovereign or an in- 
red, in a sumptuous aud splendid 
His remains were inter- 
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manner, the procession being very ~ 
numerous and grand, in-the church 
of Speen, near Newbury. The Mar- 
gravine, so well known, acquires a 
personal property of near 150,0001. 
sterling by the death of the mar- 
grave. 
7th. At his chambers in Lin- 
coln’s-inn, aged 68, Bennet Combe, 
esq. This Sngalar mae, though 
possessed of large property, ieda 
single life at his chambers in Lin- 
coin’s-inns with two servants, and 
was a constant frequenter of Will’s 
coffee-house, Lincoln’s-inn- fields. 
Sth. At his house at Canonbury, 
Islington, Robert Wilkinson, esq. 
formerly partner in the house of 
Garsed, Meyrick, and Garsed, of 
Goldsmith - strect, Wood - street, 
Cheapside, ribbon weavers. He 
married the only surviving daughter 
of the elder (Jolin) Garsed, who died 
at Canonbury in 1785, leaving the 
bulk of his considerable fortune be- 
tween her and her mother, au ample °' 
share of which Mr. W. acquired by 
this marriage. On the death of 
both the Garseds, he took into part- 
nership Mr. Dowell, who married 
the eldest daughter of the late Mr. 
Longman, bookseller, of Paternos- 
ter-row, to whom he has left the 
stock anda handsome legacy. To 
the Foundling-hospital, of which he 
was a governor, 500/. to the humane 
society 100/.; to the philanthropic 
society 100/.; to the charity-schools | 
of Islington 50/. ; to the widow of a 
brother who died in the East Indies 
200/. per annum ; to two nieces of 
Mr. Garsed 1000/. each ; and lega- 
cies to the sameor half the amount 
tosundry persons; and the residue 
to James Garsed and Joseph Green, ~ 
youngest son of his partner, Mr. 
Green, of Guildford-street, who 
agreeably to his will, has taken 
the 
