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At Roehampton, W. Galley, Efq. 
On the roth, defervedly regretted, Thomas 
Atkinfon, Efq. of Lothbury. 
At Edmonton, Mr. Ps Dacie, Stock-broker, 
ef Walbrook. 
Mrs. Clarke, of Queen Ann-ftreet eaft. 
10. Thomas /itkinfon, Efq. of Lothbury. 
On the sth of Marchy Sis William Chambers, 
furveyor-general of the board of works, iel- 
fow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, 
treafurer of the Royal Academy, and knight 
of the Polar Star, Sweden. He was defcend- 
ed of the ancient family of Chalmers, in 
Scotland, barons of Tartas, in France. His 
grandfather fuffered confiderably in his for- 
tune by fupplying Charles XII, of Sweden, 
with money, &c. which that monarch repaid 
in bafe coin.—Sir William’s father refided 
feveral years in Sweden, to recover his claims 5 
and there Sir William was born, and, at eigh- 
teen vears of age, appointed fupercargo to the 
Swedith Eaft India Company.—-From this 
voyage to China, he brought home the Afiatic 
ftyle of ornament, in tents, temples, moiques, 
_and pagodas.—Thefe ornaments (through the 
intereft of Lord Bute) he was enabled to apply 
in the gardens at Kew.—Patronized by the 
princefs dowager and the king, Mr. Cham- 
bers had much of the fafhionable bufineis of 
the day. Under Burke’s reform, he was ap- 
pointed furveyor-general. Somerfet Houfe 
was worth to him at leaft 20001. a year. His 
Chef d’acuvres are his ftair cafes, particularly 
thofe at Lord Befborough’s, lord Gower’s, and 
the Royal and Antiquarian Societies. The 
terrace behind Sone Houte is a bold effort 
of conception. His defigns for interior ar- 
yangements were excellent. His Treatife on 
Civil Archite€ture alone will immortalize his 
name. In private life, Sir William was hoi 
pitable, kind, and amiable. His fon mar- 
ried Mifs Rodney. Mr. Cotton, Mr. Innis, 
and Mr. Harward, married his beautiful 
daughters. Having been abftemious in his 
youth, Sir William’s conftitution did not 
begin to break till he was feventy years of 
‘age 3——for the laft three years, he has been 
_ kept alive by wine and oxygenated air. His 
. €elebrity will be lafting in the works he has 
left, and, as he was equally fkilled in the 
.. practical and theoretical parts of the arts he 
profeffed, his precepts are as valuable as his 
“works. 
At her houfe, in Great Cumberland-ftreet, 
on the fourteenth inftant, lady Bridget Tolle- 
mache, many years diftinguithed in the baut 
ton. ‘Her ladyihip was the daughter of the 
chancellor earl Northington, and fifter of the 
late earl, lady Wentworth, lady Jane Af- 
ton, Mrs. Luttrell, and the firft lady Deer- 
hurft. The death of Lady Bridget wil! be 
long lamented by her numerous and noble re- 
latives. She was once the mof reigning 
beauty ahd moft celebrated wit in the court 
Circle, Her hufband fell fome years fince in 
@ duel in Amezica; but though the furmounted 
that calamity, the had net sortitude to’ bear 
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DethneChanbors . Tallemiche ss Forbes. f iva 
the lofs of her only fon, Lionel Robert, who 
was killed at the fiege of Valenciennes. —She 
firuggled under this fevere ftroke nearly two 
years, with all the courage that a great mind 
could ¢all forth, and then expired a martyr to 
her parental affeGtions !—The character of this 
accomplifhed woman naturally took its various 
colourings from the ftrange viciffitudes of her 
fortunes ; het mind, however, was always ele- 
vated and commanding, and fhe ever kept 
aloof from the vices which difgrace fathionable 
life. She had a natural propenfity to make 
ethers happy, to alleviate dittrefs, and her 
hand never failed to accompany her heart in 
all its charitable intentions. 
At his houfe in Saville-row, on Thurfday, 
March 10, the Hon. Admiral Sobn Forbes, 
aged $2, remarkable, above all other men, 
for his extenfive and univerfal knowledge of 
naval affairs, having ftudied them, in all their 
branches, with a perfeverance, and obferved 
‘upon them with an acutenels and judgment 
altogether unparalleled. 
In the earlier part of his life, he was pe- 
culiarly noticed as an able, enterpriiing, and 
intreptd officer. He ferved with much repu- 
tation under Sir John Norris ; and was no lefs 
diftinguithed as Captain of the Norfolk, of 8a 
guns, in the a€tion of Matthews and Leftock, 
with the combined fleets of France and Spaing 
when his gallantry contributed in a high degres 
to fave his brave friend, Admiral Matthews, 
whofe fecond he was imthat engagement. Sa 
bright was his honour, and fo-clear his reputa- 
tion in thofe turbulent days, that though his’ 
evidence on the trial of the Admirals went 
wholly again% Admiral Leftock, yet that of 
ficer was often heard to declare, ** that Mr. 
Forbes’s teftimony was given like an Officer 
and a Gentleman.” 
When the warrant for executing Admiral 
Byng was offered for fignature at the Admi- 
ralty Board, Admiral Forbes refufed to fign ir, 
at the fame time humbly laying at his late 
Majefty’s feet his objections... A copy of the 
paper given by the Admiral to his Majefty om 
that oceation, may be feen in Smollet’s Hiftery 
of England, and it is well worthy the attention 
of all men of honour, as it contains, perhaps, 
the beft {pecimen of an upright and independ~ 
ent mind, an honeft and benevolent heart, that 
is to be found in any language. ; 
During a late Adminiftration, it was thougnt 
expedient to offer a Noble Lord, very higp in 
the naval profeffion, and very defervediy a 
favourite of his Scyereign and his country, the 
office of General of the Marines, held by Ad- 
miral Forbes, and fpontaneoufly conferred 
upon him by his Majeity, as a reward for his 
many and long fervices. A meflage was fent - 
by the Minitters, to fay, it would forward the 
King’s fervice if he would refign; and that he | 
‘fhould be no lofer by his accommmedating the 
Government, as they propofed recommending 
it to the King to give him a penfion in fre- 
land of 3000!. pcr annum, and a peerage to 
deicend to his davvhter. “Lo this Admiral 
Forbes 
