' heart of the hearer. 
“CHRONICLE 
Venice, which occasioned a fever, 
of which she died-after a few days 
illness. Her death is sincerely la- 
mented by the genuine amateurs of 
music in every country. Her talents 
were most uncommon ; since, with- 
out the aid of science, she made an 
impression on her audience which it 
is the perfection, and ought to be 
the object, of science toattain. Her 
voice came purely from the breast ; 
and, by the fullness, sweetness, and 
Simplicity of the tone, excited the 
most powerful sympathy in the 
She had ac- 
quired a very competent fortune by 
her talents, and has left a consider. 
able estate in the vicinity of Bo- 
logna to her children. 
At his brother’s house at Kint- 
bury, co. Berks, Charles Fowles, 
esq. of Kensington-place, barrister 
at Jaw, and major-commandant of 
the Hungerford volunteer corps of 
infantry. 
' 21st. At his house in the Adel- 
phi, aged 76, and very rich, John 
Cator, esq. of Beckenham, Kent. 
In April, 1784, he was elected 
_ M. P. for Ipswich; but a petition 
being presented to the house of 
commons, the election was set aside, 
and the late A. Crickitt, esq. 
ehosen in his stead. 
22d. At his house in Rose-street, 
Edinburgh, in the 83d year of his 
age, the venerable and respected 
Dr. George Chapman, formerly rec- 
tor of the grammar-school of Dum. 
fries, and afterwards of the academy 
of Bamff, both which seminaries he 
advanced to the most flourishing 
state, 
In the gaol of Berwick-upon- 
Tweed, under confinement on mesne 
process for debt, Thomas Smith, 
esq. husband of the justly celebrated 
515 
Mrs. Charlotte Smith, authoress of 
sonnets and other works. 
At the house of Joseph Bonomi, 
esq. artist, in Tichfield-street, Marys 
la-bonne, in consequence of a para~ 
lytic stroke which he had expe. 
rienced about 10 days before, 
James Barry, esq, aneminent paint. 
er. He was born at Cork, and in. 
troduced to the notice of the world 
under the auspices and generous 
patronage of the right hon. Kd. 
mund Burke. After an education 
of considerable length in France 
and Italy, he returned to England, 
In 1772 he published, in reply to 
the celebrated Abbé Winkelman, 
‘¢ An enquiry into the real and ima. 
ginary obstructions to the acquis 
sition of the arts in England.”. The 
Abbé followed Abbé Du Bos and 
president Montesquieu, in giving li. 
mitsto the genius of the English, 
and pretending to point out a cer- 
tain appropriate character of hea- 
viness and want of fancy, deduced 
from certain physical causes. Itis 
a system of clear and manly argu. 
ment, which ably confutes such ig- 
norant and impotent observations 
of foreigners with respect to some 
essential parts of our national cha- 
racter, The principal monument 
of his fame is his series of six pic. 
tures, representing the progress of 
society and civilization among man. 
kind, in the great room of the so. 
ciety for the encouragement of arts, 
manufactures, and commerce, in the 
Adelphi. The occasion of painting 
these pictures was as follows: an 
offer had been made, in 1772, by 
sir Joshua Reynolds and nine other 
eminent painters, including Mr, 
Barry, to adorn the cathedral of St. 
Paul with religious paintings, in the 
manner of the cathedrals of Italy. 
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