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street West, on the 14th instant. 
The coffin was very superb; the 
mitre, key, and crosier, and yarious 
ornaments in gold, were placed on 
the top and sides of the outer case, 
which was covered with black cloth. 
The gold plate, containing the arms 
of the deceased, is inscribed : 
“¢ The 
Right Rev. Samuer Horstey, 
Lord Bishop of St. Asaph, 
Died 4th of October, 
1806, 
Aged 73 Years.” 
The following gentlemen attended 
by invitation: the rev. Mr. Giffar- 
diere, rector of Newington; the 
rev. Mr, Dickinson, curate. The 
bishop’s chaplains, viz. the rev. Dr, 
Crawford, the rev. W. Palmer, and 
the rev. W. W. Dakins*, preced- 
ed the corpse into the church ; his 
other domestic chaplain, the rev. 
George Robson, not being in town, 
but resident on_ his living of Chirk 
in Denbighshire, to which, and to 
a stall in the cathedral church of 
St. Asaph, he was collated by the 
late bishop. The chief mourner 
was John Horsley, esq. the bi- 
shop’s brother; the other mourners 
were, W. Palmer, esq. the bishop’s 
brother-in-law, and Mr. J. New- 
* For the last ten years ne person, it is believed, was more in the bishop’s confi- 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
beggin, the husband of the sister 
of the late bishop’s wife. The fol- 
lowing gentlemen of the church of 
Westminster voluntarily attended, 
from motives of the most sincere re. 
spect for the bishop’s memory, Mr. 
Sale, Mr. Nield, Mr. J. Sale, Mr. 
Horsefall, Mr. Gore, and Mr. Mar. 
quet. After aservice and funeral 
anthem sung in Westminster abbey 
onthe solemn occasion, Dr. Busby 
attended at Newington church, and 
played a dirge as the corpse entered. 
The scene was truly solemn, and 
most affecting. Had the time of 
the. bishop’s funeral been more ge- 
nerally known, we believe it would 
have been attended by many persons 
high in office, many literary charac-- 
ters, and many private friends. 
Dr. Horsley was twice married, 
His first wife (who is elegantly com- 
memorated in Newington church) 
was Miss Botham, the daughter of 
his predecessor at Aldbury,by whom 
he had a daughter, who died young, 
and is burried at Newington, and 
one son, the reverend Heneage 
Horsley, who was married, June, 
25, 1801, to Miss Frances Em- 
ma Bourke; and preached a sere 
mon at a general ordination at St. 
Asaph, in September, 1804, He 
was 
dence, not excepting any one of his lordship’s family, than-Mr, Dakins. He tran- 
scribed most of the bishop’s works ‘during that period, and looked over the proofs 
as they came from the press, by the bishop’s own desire. The bishop died at the 
moment when he was about to reward Mr. D’s services; and, since his Lordship’s 
death, the Secretary at St. Asaph has confirmed Mr. D’s expectation, by furnishing 
him with an extract from a letter lately written by the bishop, wherein his lordship 
says, speaking of a living reported then vacant, “ That living has its irrevocable 
destination, and I shall collate my friend before I leave London.” Mr. Dakins 
had the honour to be that friend; for the bishop wrote for information respecting 
the living when he was in his lordship’s house in Charles-street Middlesex Hospital, 
where Mr. D. was his lordship’s constant companion, and where he attended to the 
bishop’s most confidential affairs, Mr. D. loved him as his own father ; and 
he followed, with the bishop’s family, his lordship’s remains to the grave. 
