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tier marquis Wellington. It is but juftice to obferve, that 
brigadier-gen. Piston received a high character for inte¬ 
grity and good government from fome of the chief pro¬ 
prietors in the island of Trinidad, and from baron de 
Ivfontalembert, general Maitland, and general Grinfield ; 
and previous to that time he had diitinguifhed himfelf in 
the rnotft honourable manner. 
On the 27th of February, 1806, the will of Mr. Pitt 
was proved by D. Adams and W. HuSkiffon, efquires ; 
and is as follows, in three feparate fchedules : “I owe 
fir Walter Farquhar one thoufand guineas, from Oftober 
1S05, as a professional debt. 12,000. with intereft, from 
Oftober 1801, to Mr. Long, Mr. Steele, lord Carrington, 
bifiiop of Lincoln, lord Camden, Mr. Jofeph Smith ; and 
I earneftjy requeft their acceptance of it. I vvifn, if means 
can be found for it, of paying double the wages to all my 
•fervants who were with me at my deceafe. I wifli my 
brother, with the bilhop of Lincoln, to look over my pa¬ 
pers, and to fettle my affairs. 1 owe more than I can leave 
behind me. W. Pitt.” —As this lad circumftance was 
pretty well known, 40,000k had been voted by parliament 
(Feb. 3.) forthe payment of his debts. A monument was 
voted alfo to be erected in Wefttniniter-abbey, which is at 
length completed, and duck lip over theinfide of the wed 
door. Whether the principal figure refembles Mr. Pitt, 
very few perfons can tell; for it is impoffible to didinguifh 
the face except when the fun fhines in a particular di¬ 
rection, which is not for more than-two hours in a day; 
and, as for the attitude, it appears to be addrefiing fome 
perfons over and beyond the top of the organ. 
In the month of March, the public intered was much 
excited by the trial of Richard Patch, who was indifted 
for the murder of Ifaac Blight, a fhip-broker, at Dept¬ 
ford. Although none but circumstantial evidence could be 
produced, he was found guilty. The jury and the public 
were Satisfied with the fentence; yet, had a full confeflion 
of his guilt been wrung from him by the exertions made 
for that purpol'e, his apparent contrition would have en¬ 
titled hint to fome commiferation; but, in the multitude 
which attended his execution, ohly one fentiment, that 
of abhorrence at his guilt, feemed to prevail. He was 
about thirty-eight years of age, and of a fallen difpofition. 
Mr. Blight was his benefactor and friend ; and no rea¬ 
son wherefore he perpetrated the foul deed could be as¬ 
certained. 
The following circumftance is worthy the attention 
of the reader.—In 1724, Mr. Samuel Travers inferted in 
Lis will the following claufe: “I will and bequeath a 
Sufficient fum of money to purchafe and ereft, in St. James’s 
Square, an equeftrian ftatue in brafs to the glorious me¬ 
mory of my mailer, king William the Third.” In the 
Subsequent year (1725) an aft of parliament was palled 
for adorning the laid Square; but the bequeft appears to 
have been totally forgotten, until the money was found 
this year (1806) in the lilt of unclaimed dividends. The 
anatter has been ferioufly taken in hand lince this dis¬ 
covery, and the noble Square has received this its additi¬ 
onal ornament from the well-tried hand of Mr. Bacon. 
The equeftrian ftatue did not, however, meet the general 
approbation ; as Several criticifms appeared in the public 
prints pointing out defefts in this piece of foundery. 
The pen of the historiographer Ihudders in recording 
that, on the 22d of May, the Rev. Mr. Wood, Second mailer 
of St. Paul’s School, put a period to his exiftence by hang¬ 
ing himfelf.—At Brompton, after a Ihort illnefs, died Mr. 
Palmer, aged 44 years. He was a man of uncommon cor¬ 
pulency, and was induced, about three weeks before, to go 
to London, in order to fee that prodigy of bulk and fatneSs, 
Mr. Lambert. Mr. Palmer weighed about twenty-five 
ftone, or 350 pounds; and although five men, of mode¬ 
rate Size, have been buttoned in his waiftcoat, he was com¬ 
paratively of diminutive Size when placed by the fide 
of Lambert. The windows of the room were obliged 
to be taken out in order to admit of the corpfe being 
got out of die houfe j from which to the place of inter- 
DON. 
ment it was carried in a waggon, as tio hearfe could be 
procured which would have been Sufficiently capacious to 
admit the coffin into it. See Lambert, vol. xii. p. 98, 9. 
The destruction and temporary disappearance of the 
Key, a noted houfe of bad fame, happened on the 5th of 
June. This houle was a bagnio of a very falhionable kind, 
and the molt frequented of any in the metropolis. The 
following circumftances came out before the coroner’s 
jury, fitting on the body of a gentleman who perilhed 
in the flames. The waiter ftated, that the deceafed, with 
a lady, came to the houfe at twelve at night, on the 4th 
of June; the gentleman appeared to be very much ine¬ 
briated ; and, after having been a Short time in the houfe. 
Supper was Served up in a bed-room. After the cloth had 
been cleared, the gentleman laid he Ihould go ; but the bell 
rang Soon after, lor the chambermaid to affift in undrell- 
ing the lady. The deceafed, on the maid’s entering the 
room, was lying proftrate on the floor, by the bed-fide. 
The chambermaid left the room at a quarter before three 
o’clock ; and, a quarter after three, witnefs heard a violent 
Screaming. He repaired to the landing-place on the fir ft 
floor, where the lady, in her chemife only, was Handing 
with a candle, the bed-room being in one entire blaze. 
She begged of the witnefs to Save the gentleman ; but the 
flames ilfued So rapidly from the room, that he durft not 
attempt to enter. The houfe was divided; and in that 
part where the fire broke out, none but the deceafed and 
his companion Slept, except a domeftic in the attic Story. 
It was fome time before the other part of the houfe caught 
fire; and consequently the other companies had time lor 
flight. 
Jane Devaynes (who ftated her name to be So, but who 
had for Several years been known about the theatres by 
the names of Kemble and Stirling) ftated, that file was 
the lady in company with the deceafed at the Key. Her 
firft acquaintance with him was accidental, on Whit- 
Monday laft; Since which time he had almoft daily viiited 
her, at her apartments in York-ftreet, Marybone. Fie came 
to her fefidence at ten o’clock at night, on the 4th in ft. 
and was then inebriated. He infilled on fending for three 
bottles of wine, one of which was drunk; witnefs had 
put the other two on her Side-board, thinking her com¬ 
panion had had enough. I11 the evening, they took a 
coach, and repaired to the Key, which houfe, the de¬ 
ceafed Said, he was well acquainted with. She then related 
the circumftances of her going to bed, and being alarmed, 
as described by the waiter. Witnefs faid Ihe knew no¬ 
thing of the deceafed’s name, nor where lie lived. He 
had a great deal of paper property about him, which lie 
had Shown to her in the evening. She always considered 
him to be a clergyman. Mrs. Clark (the late lioftefs of the 
Key) only knew the deceafed perfonally. There being no 
further evidence to throw any light upon the Subject, the 
jury returned a verdift of Accidental death .—It lias been, 
lince ftated, and it is feared with too much truth, that the 
gentleman who was thus burnt to death was a Mr. Gar¬ 
ner, who kept an academy in Brompton-row, on the high 
road leading to Fulham. Mr. Garner was a widower, and, 
it is faid, had paid his addreffes to a young lady of conside¬ 
rable pecuniary expeftations; but, meeting with a repulfe, 
it is luppofed that the difappointment aifefted his intel¬ 
lects, as his fubfequent conduft evinced Symptoms of de¬ 
rangement. 
The administration evinced at this period an indefati¬ 
gable attention to correft abufes, remedy evils, and bring 
into the whole fyftem more wholefoine regulations.—Mr. 
Windham distinguished himfelf by introducing a bill foren- 
liiting Soldiers for a limited time only ; an excellent mea- 
fure, but which we lament to fay has Since been rendered 
almoft nugatory. Several other afts were alio pafled 3. 
among which the property-tax bill began to undermine 
the popularity of the new ministers. 
On the 4th of July, a Singular robbery was discovered 
to have been committed in the British Mufeum. A per- 
fon who had been ia the habit of vifiting that place for 
upwards. 
