Deaths in and near London* 
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|)?r3ons who were immured In what was cal¬ 
led the Rlaclc Hole, at Calcutta. 
Mr. Darnleyy late a performer at the Mar¬ 
gate Theatre : he had expended the whole of 
his property on a pros Itute with uliom he 
■was unfortunately infatuated, who then lea¬ 
ving him for a more favoured paramour, he 
destroyed himself by taking oOO drops of 
laudanum. 
Suddenly, Mr. John Winter, bricklayer, 
&rc. of Brixton place, Surrey. 
In Park-street, the Mrs. Andrew 
Toley. 
At Gattan, aged 18, Frederick Sags, only 
eon of Isaac S. esq. 
Suddenly, at Ripley, Surrey, Mrs. Ann 
Lands, aged 44. 
The Rev. Lewis Mercier, pastor of the 
French Protestant Church in Threadiieedle- 
street. 
'Tryphena Lititb^a, wife of William Sey¬ 
mour, esq. solicitor, Margaret street, Caven« 
dish-square, in the 43d year of her age. 
At Deptford, aged ?£,. G. Ferguson, esq. 
lately head surveyor of shipping to the Hon. 
East India Company, under whom he had 
served nearly 40 years. 
In Jermyn-street, Mrs. Mott, aged 85. 
At her house in town, Mrs. Dymoke, 
aged 77. 
The Rev. Mr. Aston Smith, secretary to 
the Portuguese Ambassador; he was riding 
in Hyde Park, when the horse took fright 
and ran furiously through Grosvenor-gate, 
and Mr, Smith being thrown off unfortu¬ 
nately fractured his skull, and expired the 
next morning. 
Suddenly, at Richmond, George Townsbend 
Ferrars, Marquis Townshend, Earl of Lei¬ 
cester, Viscount and Baron Townshend, Baron 
De Ferrars of Chartley, Baron Bourchier, 
jLovaine, Basset, and Compton; he was born 
,April 18, 1753, and had but recently suc¬ 
ceeded to the Marquisate, but had long ert“ 
joyed the honours of the peerage, having suc¬ 
ceeded his mother as Baron De Ferrars of 
Chartley, so long since as the 14th of Sep¬ 
tember, 1770 ; and being created Earl of the 
county of Leicester the 18th of May, 1784; 
some family affilctions of a peculiar painful 
nature are supposed to have contributed to 
hasten his death. He was president of the 
Society oT Antiquaries, and a trustee of the 
British Museum, and is succeeded in his 
titles and estates by his son George, Earl of 
Leicester, and Baron Chartley. 
Aged 69, at the residence of Sir William 
Skefhngton, hart, in Beaumont-street, Devon- 
shire-place, Catherine Josepha, Lady Ske^ng- 
ton, after a lingering indisposition of five 
years. Few minds were more liberally en¬ 
dowed by nature, or more highly embel- 
iisbed by cultivation. Although perfection 
be not within our reach, yet she certainly 
tr.ad e as near approaches to that state, as 
•ouid bs attained by human, nature, being a 
truly Christian character: it is scarcely re¬ 
quisite to add, that, as a wife, a mother, and 
a friend, few ever yet surpassed her. Si'-’ 
William and his son are inconsolable. 
At Bath, JV.lliam Fawkener, esq. aged 
having filled the office of Secretary to th® 
Board cf Trade, and clerk in ordinary of hia 
Majesty’s most honourable privy council, 
upwaids of 35 years. Mr. Fawkener’s death 
was so sudden, that bis servant had no know¬ 
ledge of his master’s indisposition when he 
went wp at the usual hour to dress him, and 
found that he bad just expired. He has left 
two daughters, remarkable for their personal 
and mental accomplishments, to each of 
whom he has bequeathed a fortune of 
40,0001. 
At Epsom, Eli%aheth, eldest daughter of 
the late A. Bridges, esq. of Ewell, Surrey. 
At his house, the Coach and Horses, Frith® 
street, James Belcher, the famous pugilist; 
by the consequences of his various battles, 
and great irregularity of living, he had re¬ 
duced himself to a most pitiable situation for 
the last eighteen months, and at length fell 
a martyr to indiscretion. 
At Knightsbridge, the Rev. John Gamble^ 
rector of Alphamston, and also of Bradwell 
juxta Mare, in Essex ; the former is in th® 
gift of the Lord Chancellor, the latter is the 
valuable living, the presentment to which, 
on a plea of lapse, caused so ex’raordinary a 
sensation throughout the county about tea 
years ago. The right of presentation, how¬ 
ever, now returns again to its patron, the 
Rev. Bate Dudley, who possesses the ad- 
vowson in fee. 
At her house, in Harpur-street, sincerely 
lamented by her numerous friends and rela¬ 
tions, Mrs. Dodson, relict of Michael Dod¬ 
son, esq.—This lady possessed an excellent 
understarfding, and was exemplary in the 
discharge of all the social and domestic duties. 
She^was the eldest daughter of a most worthy 
father, the late Samuel Hawkes, of Marl¬ 
borough, esq. and grand niece of that truly 
venerable and highly respected character, Sir 
Michael Foster, kt. one of the most intelli¬ 
gent and independent judges that ever sat ia 
the Court of King’s Bench. 
At his residence at the New River Head, 
near Islington, Robert Milne, esq. the cele¬ 
brated architect, planner and construccor of 
Blackfriar’s-bridge, in the 79ch year of his 
age. 
Mr. William Win Stanley Richardson, aged 73, 
a faithful attending member of the Society of 
London College Youths, and a celebrated 
treble-ringer in the intricate and scientific 
metliod of Oxford treble-bob-maximus, 
(twelve in) also a scientific artist with th® 
two trebles in a course of cinques (193 
changes), on the musical twelve hatid bells. 
At his house in Piccadilly, William Ccven* 
dish, Duke of Devar.shire, Marquis of Har- 
riogtgnj Eajiof Deygn^hfirej Baron Cav§i;dish 
