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running away, he was observed to be 
in great haste By aman who knew 
him well, who interrogating him as to 
the cause of his speed (as he was a 
remarkable fast runner) and whe- 
ther he was then running a race, 
was answered, ‘* there are two men 
in pursuit of me, but you must not 
say which way I am gone.” The 
person, concluding he was pursued 
by bailiffs, suffered him to pass. 
The suspected murderer, for whose 
apprehension a reward of 100 gui- 
neas is offered, has hitherto eluded 
the vigilance of the police, though 
it is conjectured he is still in the 
neighbourhood. Mr. Parker wasa 
native of Cumberland, in which 
county’ he received his education. 
After quitting school, he resided 
with the late Mr. Fowler, of St. 
John’s academy, in Warwick, for 
several years, as classical assistant. 
In 1793 he was presented, by his 
friend and patron, the duke of 
Norfolk, to the rectory of Odding. 
ley, where he resided till his death. 
He has left a wife and family. 
25th. At Bradford, county of 
York, after a lingering illness, aged 
61, John Hardy, esq. an indulgent 
father, affectionate brother, and 
kind friend. He practised many 
years as an attorney in that town, 
with great reputation ; and about 
six years ago retired from business. 
He had filled the important situa- 
tions of law-agent to the proprie- 
tors of the Aire and Calder naviga- 
tion, and the Leeds and Liverpool 
canal, with great credit to himself, 
and advantage to those undertak- 
ings. ‘ He was a joint proprictor of 
extensiveiron- works, at Low Moor, 
near Bradford. A considerable for- 
tune, thé reward of his industry, 
devolves on his two sons, 
539 
William Gardiner,alieutenant-ge. 
neral in the army, colonel of the 
60th regiment of foot, commander 
of the forces in Nova Scotia, New 
Brunswick, and dependencies, and 
governor of Kinsale ;- second son of 
the right hon. Charles Gardiner, 
and brother of the late lord viscount 
Mountjoy. General Gardiner was 
born Of. 23, 1748, married in 
1777, Mary Wrottesley, youngest 
daughter of the rev. sir Richard 
W. of Wrottesley, county of Staf- 
ford, (by Mary, second daughter 
of John lord Gower, by Evelyn, 
youngest daughter of Evelyn Pier- 
point, duke of Kingston), and sis- 
ter of the duchess of Grafton; by 
whom he had issue, 1. Charles, a 
captain in the army; 2. Gertrude 
Florinda, married, first, Charles 
John Clarke, esq. of Hitchin priory, 
Hertfordshire, and secondly, Charles: 
Manners, esq. of Edmondthorpe- 
hall, county of Leicester; 3. Har- 
riet, married to Robert. Patrick, 
esq. of Ayrshire, Scotland; 4. 
Frances; 5, Mary. 
J. Jones, esq. of the ordnance 
department at Languard Fort, 
Essex. 
July 24, At Stanlake, county of 
Oxford, after a short but severe 
illness, sincerely lamented, and in 
his 49th year, the rev. Arthur Ho- 
mer, D.D. rector of that parish, and 
formerly fellow of Magdalen Col- 
lege, Cambridge, in whose gift the 
living is, and of which he proceeded 
M.A. 1781, B. D. 1790, and D. D. 
1797. 
Suddenly, at her house at Ken- 
sington-Gore, in her 70th year, the 
hon. Mary Leigh, only surviving 
sister and heiress of Edward lord 
Leigh, of Stonleigh-abbey, county 
of Warwick, which title became 
extinct 
