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the 8th inft. Mrs. A. Page. Her death was 
haftened by the lofs of two of her fons in the 
fervice of their country. 
In Upper Seymour-ftreet, Mrs. Colmore, 
widow of the late Charles Colmore, efq. 
In Kingfland-place, aged 86, George 
Cooper, efq. many years deputy of Bridge- 
Ward, and one of the court of affiftants of 
the goldfmith’s company. 
Of afever, Mr. Benjamin Tennant, whcte- 
fale tea-dealer, in Mark-lane. 
in Cornhill, at an advanced age, Mrs. 
A. MM. Lege. 
‘At Sommer’s Place, Mifs Harriot Blund- 
ftone, daughter of the late Mr. Blundftone, 
of Falmouth. 
After afew hours i!lnefs, Mis. Fenwick, 
wife of Mr. John Fenwick, of Millbank- 
flreet, Weftminfter. 
In Canonbury-lane, Iflington; in her 36th 
year, Mrs. Negus, widow of the late rev. 
’ Dr. Negus, reétor of Rotherhithe; She-has 
bequeathed the bulk of her fortune to chari- 
table ufes. 
At his lodgings in Tottenham Court Road, 
Frederick John Meffing, well-known by the 
name of the Mad Fidler. He was a mufician 
by profeffion, and had formerly an engage- 
Ment at Covent-Garden theatre, which he 
forfook, and has ever fince paraded the metro- 
polis in a fuit of black, with a ftar, and his 
head clofe fiaved. 
Slandel, whofe compofitions he performed in 
the different public-houfes, and made a daily 
practice of vifititg his tomb. His thildren 
have for fome Years been fupported by the 
_Yoyal fociety of muficians, of which he was 
a member, and froma which he received every 
neceflary afliftance during his laft illnefs. 
In Coleman-ftreet, Mr. John Pollard, 
Warehoufeman. 
In Harley-ftreet, the lady of William. 
Tennant, efq. of Little Afton Hall, Stafford- 
fhire, ie 
In Weymouth-ftreét, Mrs. Stuart, mother 
of brigadier-general Stuart, now ferving on’ 
the Britith ftaff in Portugal. 
In Southampton-ftreet, Covent Garden, 
Mrs. Lifies, Mitchell. 
In Southampton-ftreet, Bloomfbury-fquare, 
Mrs. Elizabeth Hagan. 
At Clapton, Wm. Lynes, efq. 
In Broad-court, -Bow-ftreet, Mrs. Ann 
Coombes, wife of Mr. Coombes, of Covent- 
Garden theatre. 
At Epping Foreft, Mifs Davis, of Milman- 
fireet, Bedford-Row. 
At Great Stanmores Mr. Dennis Dwyer, 
Many years mafter of the Academy in that 
Village. * 
At Croydon, after a few days illnefs, the 
ron. Robert Walpole. He was the fecond 
fon of Horatio Walpole, the younger bro- 
ther of Sir Robert Walpole, firft earl of Or- 
ford. The father, Horatio, was, during his 
brother’s adminiftration, employed in many 
important negociations and embafiies. So well 
Marriages and Deaths, in and near London. 
fpeCting this gentleman, 
He called himfelf a fon of 
‘ Aug.] 
did his efforts fucceed in afcertaining the then 
great objet of European politics, the balance 
of power, that he was generally called the 
Balance Mafter of Europe. An anecdote re- 
has lately appeared 
in Mr. Cox’s ¢ Life of Sir R-bert Walpole,” 
highly to this gentleman’s credit. After he 
had affured the court to which he was fent, 
that a certain meafure would be purived, the 
court of London changed ‘their condu€t, and 
Mr. Walpole, with great fpirit, defired to be ° 
recalied, as he could not fupport meafures 
oppofite to thefe he had pledged his honour, 
his country would purfue. His fon Robert, 
of whom we now fpeak, was bred to the dip- 
lematic line, and was the Englifi envoy at 
the court of Portugal for many years, where 
he acquitted himfelf with credit. Early in 
life he was appointed one of the clerks extra- 
ordinary to the privy council, and was at his 
deceafe, head clerk of that board. Mr. Wal- 
pole, in 1780, married a Mifs Grofett, by 
whom he had two fons, and the dying in 
1784, he married, fecondly, Sophia, daugh- 
ter of Richard Sturt, efq. who died in 1795. 
At her hufband’s feat, in Devonfhire, in 
the bloom of youth, Lady Down, wife of 
Lord Down, fon of the Earlof Moray. Her 
ladyfhip was one of the daughters of the late 
Major-general Scott, and confequently, fifter 
of the Marchionefs of ‘Titchfield.. The ge- 
neral left to the marchionefs the bulk of his 
fortune; and 50,0001. to this lady and his 
other daughters; but as the marriage of his 
favourite child could not take place agreeably 
to the tenor of the will, we are informed, a 
compromife was entered into by Lady Titch- 
field, by which a very confiderable addition, 
in point of fortune, accrued to Lord Down. 
[The late Serjeant Adair, whofe death we 
noticed at page 64, of the laft Magazine, 
was the fon of Mr. Adair, an eminent army 
agent, and being defigned for the law, was 
entered of the fociety of Lincoln’s Inn, and 
in duetime called to the bar. He was, for a 
very confiderable time, a barrifter, before he 
acquired any great portion of bufinefs, al- 
though he was confefledly a man of talents, 
had confiderable knowledge of his profeffion, 
and at the bar always delivered himfelf with 
great propriety. During she political conteft 
in the beginning of the prefent reign, Mr. 
Adair’s name appeared, greatly to his honour, 
asa junior council on the popular fide. Mr. 
Adair finding he did not fucceed in bufinefs, in 
due time at the King’s Bench bar, was called 
(in 1774) to the degree of Serjeant at law. 
Still, however, he made no great progrefs, till 
after the death of Serjeant Glynn, when he 
became candidate for the office of Recorder of 
London, together with\the late. Mr. How- 
arth; Adair in the popular, and Howarth in . 
the minifterial intereft. It was a hard con 
teft; Mr. Adair was, however, the fuccefs- 
ful candidate, having the votes of thirteen 
aldermen, and his antagonift twelve. The 
wfual falary of this office is only 4ol.a yor 
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