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Royal Society, and to several 

 other learned bodies ; and he was 

 among the first founders of the 

 Literary and Philosophical So- 

 ciety of Manchester, of wliich he 

 became president. This truly re- 

 spectable person was not less dis- 

 tinguished by qualities of the 

 heart and mind, which warmly 

 attached to him all his acquaint- 

 ance, and rendered him in ad- 

 vanced age an object of equal 

 affection and veneration. He re- 

 tained the capacity of enjoying 

 the best pleasures of life to its 

 very extremity, and sunk without 

 a struggle under the inevitable 

 decay of nature. 



22. General Cunningham, aged 

 GO. 



Lady Wray, relict of Sir W. U. 

 Wray, bart. 



-Sir Alex. Mackdonald Lock hart, 

 aged 40. 



£4. Sir Rob. Staples, bart. Ire- 

 land, in his 76th year. 



27- John Peachey, Lord Selsey, 

 in liis 68th year. 



Lately. Lady Diana Fleming, 

 widow of Sir M. le Fleming, bart. 



Vice-Adm. James Alms. 



July. 



2. Sir John Dyer, Lieut. Col. 

 of Artillen' whose death was oc- 

 casioned, whilst on field duty, 

 by endeavouring to stop the car- 

 riage of a brother officer whose 

 horses had taken fright in tiie ab- 

 sence of the coachman. lie was 

 struck on the breast by the jjole, 

 and the carriage ran over him. 



Mary Baroness Nolken, the wi- 

 dow of iJaron Nolken, the Swedish 

 plenipotentiary, in her 75th year. 



3. Hon. Wm. Augustus foWns- 

 hcnd, M. P. for Whitchurch. 



Lieut. Gen. the Hon. Sir Brydges 

 Trecothick Hennikcr, bart. son of 

 the late Lord Ilenniker. 



4. At Paris, of an apoplectic 

 attack, Arthur Annesley Earl of 

 Mountnorris, aged 72. 



Richard Watson, D. D. Bishop 

 of Llandaff, aged 79. This emi- 

 nent prelate was born at Hever- 

 shani near Kendal, in Westmore- 

 land, where his father, a clergy- 

 man, was master of the free 

 grammar school. After domestic 

 instruction, he was entered at 

 Trinity college, Cambridge, where 

 he distinguished himself by assi- 

 duous application to his studies. 

 He was elected a fellow in 1760, 

 took the degree of M. A. in 1762, 

 and was elected professor of che- 

 mistry in 1764. He became one 

 of the head tutors of the college, 

 and in 1771 obtained the pro- 

 fessorship of divinity, to which 

 the valuable rectory of Somer- 

 sham is annexed. This acade- 

 mical elevation was entirely the 

 result of his industry and talents, 

 and during his residence in the 

 university, no member of it con- 

 ferred more reputation on that 

 seat of learning than himself. As 

 moderator at academical exercises, 

 he equally displayed liis urba- 

 nity, and his acuteiiess, and ele- 

 gant use of the Latin language. 

 He rendered his chemical lec- 

 tures highly interesting by clear 

 explanations of the principles 

 of the science as then received, 

 and by ingenious and useful ex- 

 periments. In the divinity chair 

 he exhibited great extent of re- 

 search, with a candid and liberal 

 spirit. Of these qudities he gave 



a signal 



