1799.) 
PUBLIC 
Stock-Exchange, 
PPHERE has ‘been very little bufinefs 
tranfaéted here during the laft moath. 
As foon as the intelligence of the failure of 
the négotiation for peace was known, 
Stocks fell 2 per cent. A much greater 
depreffion muft neceffarily take place, as 
well on that, account, as the additional 
Stock which will be brought*to market 
early in January. 
‘ Bank SrocK was on Saturday, the 
Deaths in London; &c, Alderman Pickett. 
9 
FUNDS. 
Dec. 26, 1796. 
24th ult. at 144. 
5 PER CENT. ANN. fhut. 
4 PER CENT. CONs. have fluétuated 
between 73 and 74, and were on Saturday, 
the-24th ult. at 74. : : 
3 PER CENT. CONS. fhut.—Price for 
the opening on Saturday la(t was «5. 
ENGLISH LOTTERY TICKETS have 
fell confiderably. —Price on Saturday laft 
12) 2S. 
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Deaths in and near London, 
AFTER a lingering illnefs, Mrs. Reynolds, 
wife of capt. Reynolds, of Durham-houfe, 
near Chelfea College. The lofs of her eldeft 
_ fon, who died captain of a troop in the Weft 
Indies, made too deep an imprefiion on her 
mind to be removed by any confolation, not- 
withftanding the moft endearing and filial en- 
deavours of the remaining part of her family. 
Mrs Anne Compton, wife of Mr. J. Comp- 
con, of Charlotte-ftreet, Portland-place. 
At Somer’s Town, aged 30, James Ban- 
nerman, efq. Member of Council, and Gover- 
nor of James Fort, America. 
At Lambeth, aged 86, Mr. Ufborn, Father 
of the Vintners’ Company. 
_ Mr. W. Browne, attomey, of Kirby-ftreet, 
Hatton-garden. 
On Tower-hill, Mrs. Gordon, wife of Cofmo 
Gordon, efq. 
The reverend John Bree, rector of Mark’s 
Tay, in the county of Effex. 
At Edgware-road, Mifs M. A. Hanrott, 
daughter of Mr. Hanrott, in the Poultry, a 
child in years, but mature in knowledge, from 
the earlieft and moft extraordinary propenfity 
for inveitigation, her manners were meek and 
gentle, and evinced fuch principles of innate 
voodnefs, as rendered her defervedly an object 
of admiration and affeétion, with all who knew 
and have to lament her lofs. 
The youngeft daughter of James Graham, 
efq. of Lincoln’s-inn-fields, in the eighth year 
of her age. ; 
After a tedious indifpofition, the right rey. 
Dr. William Buller, Lord Bifhop of Exeter. 
Several fevere domeftic difpenfations weighed 
down this excellent prelate, and are confidered 
as a primary caufe of his diffolution. Befides 
the gallant Colonel Buller, who was flain on the 
Continent, he has loft two fons by confumption. 
Jofeph Waring, efq. timber-merchant, Lam- 
beth. 
At Hommerton, Mrs. Elizabeth Martin. 
In Charlotte-ftreet, Portland-place, aged 73, 
John Wede, efg. youngeft fon of the late neld- 
marihall Wade, 
with Biographical Memoirs. 
At Ponder’s-end, Thomas Fuller, efg. banker 
of Lombard-fireet. 
Mrs. Pye, wife of Henry James Pye, efq. 
late member for the county of Berks. 
Aged $7, Mrs. Annefley, mother of Francis 
Annefley, efq. M P. for Reading. 
At Liffon-ftreet, Paddington, Jofeph Saund- 
ers, efq. aged 72. . 
Mrs. Grindall, wife of Mr. Grindall, diftiller, 
of Broad-{treet, Bloomfbury. 
On Saturday the 17th, at his houfe in Wey- 
mouth-ftreet, univerfally lamented, William 
Pickett, efq. alderman of Cornhill Ward, in 
the city of London. He was born in 1736, at 
Stoke Newington, where his father was a fhop- 
keeper. He ferved his apprenticefhip to Mr. 
Hunter, an eminent gold{mith and banker in 
Lombard-ftreet. In partnerfhip with. Mr, 
Theed, he fucceeded to the well-eftablithed 
bufinefs of Mr. Hurt, on Ludgate-hill; and 
the concern was for many years carried on under 
the firm of Theed and Pickett. In 1782 he 
was elected alderman of Cornhill Ward, witk 
no applications on his part; it being an invaria~ 
ble maxim with him, that votesin popular elec- 
tions fhould be unfolicited, and uninfluenceds 
About the fame time he declined bufinefs in 
favour of Mr. Rundell, whom he had taken for 
a partner : to which ftep he was principally in- 
duced by the idea that his bufinefs would inter- 
fere with his public duty as an alderman. The 
principle that private intereft ought to be facri- 
ficed to public good, was, indeed, what go- 
verned him through life, and he purfued it to a 
degree that bordered on enthufiafm. In this 
inftance his condu& was the more remarkable, 
as a trade eftablifhed in the fame houfe for half 
a century would have required little exertion on 
his part, in addition to that of an adtive and 
intelligent partner, During feveral years the 
alderman ftrenuoufly laboured in the Common 
Council to obtain its fanétion to a very ufeful 
and favourite fcheme of his—-that of widening 
and improving the avenyes to the city at Tem.. 
ple-bar and Snow-hill. At length his repeated 
motions fucceeded ; and in confequence of an 
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