84 Marriages and Deaths in and near Loudon. 
felled 2 fweetnele of difpofition; and aa ur- 
banity of manners, that rendered her an 
object of love to all her friends and ac- 
quaintance. 
In the 79th year of her age, Mrs. Pitt, 
who for 49 years performed with applaufe at 
Covent-Garden Theatre as a comic aétreis. 
In Aunt Deborah, in ** Love in a Village,” 
znd the Nurfe in ** Romeo and Jaliet,”. fhe 
was in. 
‘En Lincoln’s-inn-fields, Mrs. Nicol, mother 
of Sir Tohn Nicol, aged 74, in tonfequence 
_of her cloaths having caught fire a few days 
Previous. 
In Sloane-ftreet, Edward Saundars, efq. 
Jete one of the council at Madras. Mrs. 
Mary Turing, aged 63. 
Sir Paul Pecbell, Bart. - 
in GrofveliorPlace, at avery advanced age, 
Hugh Valence fones, efq. comptroller-general 
of the Cuftoms. 
At his houfe in Clargés- ftreet, Piccadilly, 
the Right Hon. Henry ; Lord Teynham. He 
is facceeded in his title by his only brother, © 
the Hon. John Roper. 
Tn oe St. James’s, Sir William 
Mufgrave, Earonet, Fi. S3cand-# Rss. 
a truftee of the Britith Mufeum, formerly a. 
comtbfifibrer's for his Majefty’s Cuftoms, and 
afterwards an auditor of the Public Accounts, 
jn both which fituations he had exerted him- 
felf with ability and attention; nor was he 
Yefs converfant in the feveral branches of li- 
terature and fciences and though for many 
“years fuffering great infirmities a body, his 
mind ebntinued unihaken; ; 
At Hoxton, Mr. William Theed, fon of 
the late William Theed, efq. formerly an 
eminent merchant at Bedford. He was a 
man of moft unblemifhed character, and of a 
temper remarkably mild. In the early part 
of his life, when the bofom is moft fufcepti- 
ble of the tender paffions, he became ena- 
moured of a young lady the daughter of a 
clergyman, near Bedford, and whom he laved 
with the warmeft enthnfiafm 3_ but from fome 
difagreements ia fettling the preliminaries 
of their marriage between the ‘parents, the 
amatch was unhappily broken off, and all 
further intercourfe between the ipre es for- 
bidden ; a cruel mandate, that was borne by 
the lady with coldnefs and indifference.— 
‘The coldnefs of one whom he fo tenderly 
loved, and the difappointment he experienced 
when his hopes.were in their zenith, had 
fo powerful an effect upen his fpirits, that 
his intelle€ts became difordered ; and he was 
for feveral years at intervals in a ftate of 
infanity, which gaining upon him, he has 
yor thefe laft ten vears been a tMelanchely 
inhabitant of the receptacle for lets at 
Hoxton; where he died. 
At his houfe et Hampttead, aged 65, 
George Steevens, efq. one of the moft va- 
luable members of the literary world, and 
‘Gibbon the Jiftorian. 
[Feb. ty 
the bright ftar in the conftellation of editors 
nd amnotators in which. the names of 
Pope, Theobald, Rowe, Warburton, John- 
fon, Capel, Wakefield, and- Maione, are 
confpicuous. Adorned with a yerfatility of 
talents, Mr. Steevens was eminen pt both by- 
his pen and bis pencil : with the one there was 
nothing he could not com pole, and with the 
other nothing he could not imitate fo clofely, 
as to’ leave a doubt witich was the original, and 
‘which the copy. But his chief excellence 
lay in his critical knowledge. of an author’s 
text, and the beft {pecimen of his, great abili- 
lities is his edition of Shakfpeare, in which 
he has left every competitor far behind him ; 
and even Jonnfon, could not walk by his 
fide. It is to his own indefatigable induftry, 
and the unremitting exertions of his-Printer, 
that we areindebted for the moft perfe& edi- 
tion of our immortal. Bard, thet ever came 
from an Englifh prefs. In preparimg each 
edition of the Shakfpeare, he is known to 
have expended out of his own pocket, from 
one to two hundred pounds, in the purchafe 
of curious and illuftrative books. Mr. Steevens 
was a man of the greatet popleverance in 
every thing he undertook; often conftant, 
but not always confiftent, as he would fome- 
times break off his longeft habits, without 
any oftenfible reafon. He never took a pinch 
of {nuff after he loft his box in &t, Paul's 
Church-yard, though it kad been the caftom 
of his life, and he was much addi€ed to the 
practice, and in the habit of making his me- 
morandums by bits of paper In his box. He 
was ‘rich im books and prints. He bought 
‘largely at Sir Clement Dormer’s, where he 
_got-bis Xenophon, worth 4cl. and upwards, 
for twelve guineas. He had the fecond folio 
of Shakfpeare, with notes, and alterations 
of the fcenes by Charles Ti. in his own 
hand: he never would fit for his pi€ture; 
but had ne obdjeétion to illuftrate his own 
Shak{peare with 1500 portraits of all the 
perfons in the notes and text, of which he 
_could make drawings, or procure engravings. 
He hada happy memory richly ftored, was a 
very pleafant téfte-a-tete companion, commu- 
nicative of his knowledge, but much too 
jealous of other men’s; and his jealoufy 
fometimes evinced itfelf in a way that bor- 
dered upon malevolence. He received his 
claffical education at Kingfton-upon-Thames, 
under the tuition of the Rev. Rd. Wooddefon, 
formerly of Magdelen College, Oxford; and 
father of R. Weoddefen, efg. late Vinerian 
profefior in that univerlity. He was contem- 
‘porary at that fchool, which produced various 
literasy charaters of eminence, with Mr. 
He was afterwards 
admitted a Fellow-Commoner of King’s-Col- 
‘lege in Cambridge.  [ Some additional particu- 
lars relative ro Mr.. Steevens will be given 
int our next. 4 
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