Essexo 
409 
ISll.] 
of the corporation of Yarmouth? of wl)ich 
body he was a member for sixty years. 
Mr. John Barnard, 54, farmer, of Bures. 
Mri Thomas Gosnall, 67, of East Bergholt. 
Miss Downing, of the Ladies’ Boarding- 
school, Meiford. 
Mr. Samuel Jay, sen. 87, of Cayendish. 
Mr. j. G. Klopfer, of Boxford. 
Mrs. Cawston, 7J, ofBoxton„ 
Mrs. Betts, of Newmarket. 
Thomas Colson, an eccentric chafacter of 
Ipswich, known by the name of Robinson 
Crusoe. This man was originally a wool- 
comber, then a weaver, but the failure of 
that employment induced him to enter the 
Suffolk, militia, and, while vpjartered at Lei¬ 
cester, with his usual ingenuity, he learned 
the trade of stocking weaving, w'hich he af¬ 
terwards followed in this county; but this, 
in Its turn, he quitted, and became a hsher- 
.Tnan on'the river Orwell ; every part of liis 
little vessel, his own workmanship, was a 
curiosity of patchwork, and seemed too crazy 
*o live in fair weather, yet in this leaky 
craft it was his custom, night and day, in 
s'orms and calm, to toil on the Orw'ell for 
fssii. Sulyect to violent ciironie compiaints, 
And his mind somewhat distempered, his 
-•tgure tall and thin, with meagre countenance 
and piercing tdue eyes, he has been aptly de¬ 
scribed. 
With squalid garments round him Hung, 
h nd o’er hi; bending shoulders hung 
A string of perforated stones. 
With knots of elm and horses bones. 
He dreams chat wizards, leagued with hell. 
Have o’er him cast their deadly spell ; 
Though pinching pains bis limbs endure. 
He holds his life by charms secure. 
And wliile he feels the torturing ban, 
No wave can drown the spell-bound man. 
But this security led to his death—drove on 
the ooze by a storm, he was seen and Impor¬ 
tuned to leave his vessel, but refusing, the 
ebb of the tide drew it off the ooze into deep 
■water, when his charm failed, and poor Ro¬ 
binson was drowned 
Miss Mary Jeffs, 29, of Elden. 
ESS EX' 
A fire broke out at three o’clock in the 
fp.orning, on August 16, at Mr. Zachariah 
Pigott’s, Mucking-hall, which entirely con¬ 
sumed a house with twenty one calves, two 
pigs, a large barn> with the produce of twelve 
acre.s of pease, 11.50 fleeces of wool, three 
stacks of hay, and a variety of farming imple¬ 
ments. 
Married John Wriglit, esq. second son 
of the late \nthony Wright, esq. of Weal- 
side, to Henrietta, the eldest daughter of 
Michael Blnunt, esq. 
At Barking, William Stuart, esq. of Wool¬ 
wich, to Miss Eleanor Elizabeth Ward,- of 
Needham. 
Mr. Thomas Nichols, jun. of Chipping On- 
gar, to Miss Betsy Nevill, of Coleshill. 
At Mundon, J, Smith, esq. of Steeple 
Grange, to Miss Williams. 
At Great Wakering,Mr. Sheeby, of Prittle- 
well, surgeon, to Miss Miller. 
Died.~\ At Elmswell, 77,Sir Hervey Smith, 
bart. He was one of the aide-de-camps of 
General Wolf, and one of the last surviving 
officers who was present at the death of that 
hero. 
The Rev. Stephen Forster, of Maldon. 
Mrs Glasse, relict of the .Rev. Dr. Glasse, 
rector of Wanstead, Essex 
Mrs. Amelia Smith, of Colchester, 73. 
Mr. A. Cook, of '^^atfieid Peverell, 90. 
D. Scratton, esq. of Prittlewell, Essex* 
many years in the coinnnssion of the peace 
for tliat county, one of his Majesty’s deputy- 
lieutenants and formerly a major in the west¬ 
ern battalion of Essex militia. 
At Witham, Mrs. Salt, 79, relict of the 
Rev Thomas Salt, rector of Hidersham, and 
vicar of Nazing, 
At Brighton, Miss A. Benzevilie, of 
Woodford, youngest daughter of the late J. 
Benzevilie, esq. 1*5. 
At Writtle Lodge, Elizabeth Juliana, 
eldest daughter of William Fortescue, esq. 
Suddenly, at Witham, whither he was on a 
visit to his friend the Rev. Mr. Newton* 
the Rev. S. Forster, aged 50, dissenting mi¬ 
nister of the independent denomination at 
Malden, in the same county; a man who^ 
through a course of life devoted to the p.rsto- 
ral office, presented a consistency of character 
truly dignified, and exhibited a varied excel¬ 
lence of the most pleasing and attractive kind. 
Sincerity, kindness, and good humour, sat 
upon his countenance; and his deportment 
was most mild and conciliatory. As a preach¬ 
er, he was characterized by an earnestness 
which discovered how near to his heart lay 
the future welfare of his auditors. If with 
one hand he held firmly the gloomy doctrines 
of Calvinism, in the other were grasped Cha¬ 
rity and Liberality, and he could admire virtue 
in whomsoever it appeared. This estimable 
character has lelt benind him an inconsolable 
widow and daughter, a numerous train of 
relatives and friends, and a congregation 
deeply sensible of the loss they have sus¬ 
tained. Buried is he in that best of all mau¬ 
soleums—the bo%om of the grateful a7id the good. 
For him hath Trutli and Friendship dictated 
the following epitaph : ^ 
Ye who can feel when fall the good and wise. 
Destin’d one day to Jive in ki.ndred skies, 
Well may such sympathy become you here. 
Noble the heaving sigh, the gushing tear. 
For here reposes in parental earth, 
A name e’er coupled with superior worth; 
The Christian pastor, lov’d by all his flock ; 
Tlie honest, upright, man ; God’s noblest 
work, 
A tender husband, an indulgent sire ; 
A soul that cherish’d friendship’s sacred fires 
/ 
