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street Chelsea,after afew daysillness, 
in his 48th year, sir Richard Ford, 
knt. chief magistrate of the Bow- 
street Police-office, also of the Po- 
lice of the county of Middlesex, and 
acting magistrate for the secretary 
of state’s office ; to the former of 
which he was appointed about six 
years ago, on the resignation of sir 
William Addington. He was taken 
illon the 79th of April; but was 
not confined to his bed, till the 
28th. His disorder was a fever ; 
and his medical friends did not con- 
sider him in imminent danger till 
the ist instant, when his disorder 
took a very unfavourable turn. 
His remains were interred at St. 
Luke’s, Chelsea, en the 10th. 
4th. Athis house in Brompton- 
tow, Chelsea, Mr. T. Collins, of 
the theatre royal Drary-lane, a fa- 
yourite performer, and a very pro- 
mising genius in his line of acting. 
He was the son of Mr. C. proprie- 
tor of the theatres at Portsmouth, 
Southampton, &c. and at an early 
age was placed under Mr Brooks, 
leader of the orchestras at the thea- 
tre royal, Bath, and at Vauxhall, 
for three years, and then enlisted in 
the dramatic corps. Mr. Cherry, 
author of ** The Soldiers Daughter,” 
on making Mr. Collins a present of 
his own likeness, wrote upon the 
back of the portrait the following 
lines : 
“ Honest Tim, when this you view, 
Remember who created you. 
Not man, nor mertal, sage or saint, 
Hath made you, Tim, but nature, 
+) Quaint.” 
Mrs, C. died March 6. 
5th. While sitting in his chair, pre- 
paring to receive some fricnds, the 
members of a book society, of 
which he was secretary, in his 61st 
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year, John Burton, esq. clerk of 
the survey in his majesty’s dock. 
yard at Chatham, in Kent; and 
author of a valuable work intituled 
*¢ Lectures on female education and 
manners,” printed at the Rochester 
press in 1793, in two volumes, 8yo, 
which has since gone through a se- 
cond edition. 
This day a duel was fought in 
Foster avenue, Dublin, between two 
young gentlemen of the Barrack. 
office. there, and intimate friends, 
upon occasion of a tayern-quarrel 
the preceding evening. Qn the first 
fire, at the distance of 11 paces, 
both parties fell; the one, Mr. Ro- 
gers, received a bal! through his 
heart, and of course died instantly ; 
the other, Mr. Long, was shot 
through both his thighs, and is also 
since dead. 
8th. At Melksham, Wilts,where she 
had some time resided, Mrs. Anne 
Yearsley, well known in the poe. 
tical world asa self-instructed vo- 
tary of the muses, under the name 
of ‘* The milkwoman of Bristol.’ 
She possessed an extraordinary de- 
gree of genius, and au extensive and 
rare information and abilities, sel. . 
dom found in the obscure path of 
life in which she originally moved. 
1ith. At Enfield Chace-side, aged 
73,John Buckley,formerly a watch. 
maker in London. He was the 
, last of the followers of Muggleton. 
‘¢ The Muggletonians were the fol. 
lowers of Ludovic Muggleton, a 
journeyman-tailor, who, with his 
companion Reeves (a person of 
equal obscurity), set up for great 
prophets in the turbulent times of 
Cromwell. They pretended to 
absolve or condemn whom: they - 
* pleased ; and gave out that they 
were the two last witnesses spoken 
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