gI9o 
application from the Common Council to Parli- 
ment, an Ac paffed in 1795 for raifing the 
fum of 100,000l. in order to carry thofe pur- 
pofes into execution. A commencement has 
already been made in the work ; and from the 
benefit the public will experience when it is 
completed, there is no doubt that the alder- 
man’s name will be gratefully remembered by 
potterity. In 1790 he ferved the office of 
Lord Mayor with much reputation ; and in the 
fame year he offered himfelf at the general 
election as a candidate to reprefent the city of 
London in Parliament. Firmly adhering to his 
conftitutional principle of not opening houfes, 
or canvafling for votes, it is lefs wonderful that 
he did not fucceed againft lefs {crupulous candi- 
dates, than that he fhould have been honoured 
by the free fuffrages of 1064 independent citi- 
zens, And it is truly honourable to his cha- 
racter, and to the rifing fpirit of the eleétors, 
that on a renewed attempt, conducted on the 
fame principles, in June laft, the number of 
votes in his favour amounted to 2795, almott 
triple of thofe at the former ele@tion. Alder- 
man Pickett married Mifs Pratten, neice of 
Mr. Prentice, an opulent feedfman in Thames- 
fireet ; a.great part of whofe property would 
certainly have devolved to him, had he fhewn 
himfelf a fufficient lover of wealth. By this 
lady he had feveral children; of whom one 
fon and two daughters grew up to years of ma- 
turity. In the year 1781 the eldeft daughter 
loft her life in a moft fhocking manner, by the 
accident of her drefs taking fire, in the fight of 
her father, and as fhe was in the aét of roling 
up his hair by the fire-fide. The particular cir- 
cumitances of this melancholy event greatly in- 
terefted the public at the time; and the icene 
muft have made an indelible impreffion on the 
mind of an affectionate parent. It is recorded 
on the family tomb in the church-yard of Stoke 
Newington, in an infcription drawn up by the 
Alderman himfelf, which we have copied en- 
tire in a note below*. A few months ago, in- 
telligence was received of the capture in the 
Eaft Indies of the Txiton Indiaman.—(Sce 

* On the Top: 
Near this place lyeth the body of Mr. Wil- 
liam Pickett, formerly of this parith, who died 
February 19, 1745, aged 43 years: alfo Anne 
his wife, who died March 22, 1750, aged 42 
years : and likewife William, Thomas, ~and 
Tabitha, children of the above, who died in 
their infancy, 
This tomb was erected by William Pickett, 
of London, goldfmith, only furviving offspring 
of the above William and Anne, on the melan- 
choly death of his daughter Elizabeth: and 
alfo in memory of five other children, viz. 
Thomas, Thomas, Anne, Edward, and Georges 
who died in their infancy. ; 
On the South Side: 
’ A teftimony of refpect from greatly affi@ed 
parents: in memory of Elizabeth Pickett, 
fpinfter, who died December 11, 1-81, aged 
23 years, 
Deaths iw and near London. 
[Dec 
Monthly Mag. for June laft.) Among the per- 
fons who being ondeck, fell vi&tims to the firft 
fury of the enemy, was Lieutenant Pickett, 
only fon of the Alderman, at the age of 37. 
He had been in the Company’s fervice 15 or 16 
years ; and thathe had not attained higher pre- 
ferment was chiefly to be attributed to the no- 
tions of independence entertained by his father ; 
who, though on terms of intimacy with mot 
of the Directors, would never afk a favour in 
behalf of his fon, left it might lay him under 
an obligation which would fhackle his public 
conduét. To add to the fum of his domeftic 
afflictions, he loft his lady but two months be- 
fore his own death. His charaéter is fuffici- 
ently difplayed in the preceding a-ecdotes, to 
render it unneceffary to add more than that he 
was fincerely attached to religion ; and that in 
his politics, he ferupuloufly avoided all con- 
nections with party as fuch, affuming no name, 
following no leader, but ating on every oc- 
cafion as he thought the merits of that particu- 
lar cafe demanded. On the Saturday after his 
death, his remains were removed in great fune- 
ral pomp from his houfe near Portland-place 
through the city to Stoke Newington. The 
bells of St. Dunftan’s, St. Bride’s, St. Martin’s, 
Bow, St.Michael’s, and St. Peter’s, Cornhill, 
tolled as the proceffion paffed. It was attended 
by the city officers, and by a moft refpeétable 
number of aldermen, and other gentlemen. 
On Monday the 19th, Lord ¥ohn Cavendiff, 
by a ftroke of the apoplexy. He was the fon 
of the fourth, and uncle of the prefent, Duke 
of Devonihire. Through life, till the late 
alarm, and the confequent difunion of his 
friends, he was, in politics, attached to the 
Whig intereft ; and, on various occafions, acted 
the part of a zealous and virtuous patriot. In 
the Whig Adminiftration fermed under the 
Marquis of Rockingham, in 1765, he was ap- 
pointed one of the Lords of the Treafury. 
During the fatal American war, he conftantly 
voted in oppofition to the meafures of the 
Miniftry——-On the 8th of March, 17$2, 
immediately before the refignation of Lord 
North, his Lordfhip made the famous motion, 
that the American war and the diftreffed fitua- 
tion of the country at that time, was occafioned 
pa 
At the Weft End: 
This much-lamented young perfon expired in 
confequence of her clothes taking fire the pre- 
ceding evening. —~ 
: Lower, on the Bafe: 
Reader, if ever you fhould witnefs fuch an 
affecting fcene, recolleét that the only method 
to extinguith the fame is, to ftiile it by an im- 
mediate covering. 
: On the North Side > 
So unaffacted, fo cempos’d a mind, 
So firm, yet foft, fo ftrong, yet fo sefin’d ; 
Heav’n, as pure gold, by flaming tortures tried: 
The angel bore them, but the mortal died. 
<it the Haff End: 
Not a {parrow fallg on the giouad without cur 
Heaven’y Fathor, 
by 
