512 ANNUAL REGIS#®PER, 1806. 
identity of the legatee. Old Dr. Sib- 
thorpe used sometimes to visit her ; 
as also sir Thomas Fowke and Mrs. 
Sturt, the heiress of the families of 
Pitfield of Hoxton and Solomon 
Astley. After the death of her 
husband, she removed to a small 
heuse in Leytonstone, Essex, which 
was one night beset, and plundered 
of every thing valuable, one of the 
robbers, supposed in collusion with 
some of her servants, sitting on her 
bed, and not suffering her to stir. 
In 1779 or 1780, afew years after 
this robbery, she removed to New- 
ington, opposite the west end of Mr. 
Aistlabie’s. premises, in the house 
which was the first resort of the 
celebrated Mr. Howard, when he 
left his old master Mr Newnham, 
grocer,in Watling-street. Here she 
spent the remainder of her life, in a 
secluded sequestered state. Among 
a considerable number of valuable 
trinkets, pearls, and diamonds 
€which she has distributed among 
hey various friends) was an excellent 
winature picture of her husband, in 
2 beautiful white wig, containing 100 
curls, and remembered, by a person 
dead 20 years, to be the faithful 
likeness of the original, when a 
member of Dr. Calamy’s meeting- 
house at Westmister about 1730. 
Aged 73, Mr. Wm. Seaton, of 
Sweepwash farm, Washingborough, 
co. Lincoln. 
6th. At Ormerod-house, Lan- 
cashire, in the bloom of life, Mrs. 
Hargreaves, wife of John H. esq. 
only daugl:ter and sole heiress of 
the late Lawrence Ormerod, of Or- 
merod, esq. by his wife, the only 
daughter of the late Riv, Ashbur- 
nam Legh, of Golburn Parks, sister 
to the late Thomas Peter Legh, esq. 
of Lyme in Cheshire, colonel of the. 
Prince of Wales’s or Lancashire 
regiment of fencible cavalry, and 
M. P. for Newton in the Willows, 
first cousin to the right hon. earl of 
Wilton,in whose regiment Mr. Har- 
greaves Served as a captain during 
the whole of the late war. 
7th. By cutting his throat, Mr. 
Dupree, a poulterer in St. James’s 
market, in a very reputable way of _ 
business. While the servant. maid 
was toasting bread for breakfast in 
the kitchen, he was shaving himself ; 
and, on her leaving the room, he 
perpetrated the shocking act. The 
razor went through the jugular vein, 
and the deceased bled to death. It 
appeared by the testimony of credis 
ble witnesses, that the unfortunate 
man had laboured under fits of me. 
lancholy above two years. 
At Paddington, Mr. Sykes, afar. 
mer, who resided near Stamford, 
Lincolnshire. Having spent the 
evening with a partpat the house of 
a friend, he fell over a banister, in 
his way down stairs, and fractured 
his skull. Verdict accidental death. 
19th, Ather lodgings in Clarges. 
street, Piccadilly, in her 89th year, 
Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, daughter of 
Nicholas Carter, D. D. rector of 
Woodchurch, 1755 ; rectorof Ham, 
1734 ; vicar of ‘Filmanstone, 1730 
—1755 ; curate of Deal chapel from 
1718.to his death, O&. 23, 1774; 
a lady who bas for a long time en. 
joyed a very distinguished pre-emi- 
nence in the literary world. She 
very early in life discovered the su- 
perior cultivation which her mind 
had received from the superinten.~ 
dence of her worthy parent. Her 
only brother, Henry, received his 
classical education from her before 
he went to Canterbury school; 
from which he was admitted of Car. 
pus Christi college, Cambridge ; 
1757 ; and proceeded B, A. 1760, 
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