1800.} 
thirty-nine years; and the knowledge he 
poffefled of the bufinefs of his ftation, will 
occafion his lofs to be much felt. 
Mrs. Martha Graham, of Iflington Road. 
In Somerfet-ftreet, Mrs. Mary Eldin, dau. 
of the late Hon. Baron Eldin, of the Ex- 
chequer, N. Bb. 
Mifs Long, eldeft daughter of Beefton 
Long, Efg. 
At Richmond, aged 77, Mrs. Sarah Way, 
widow of Lewis Way, Efq. and fifter of the 
Countefs Dowager of Northampton. 
In Fitzroy-fquare, aged 26, Mifs Gordon, 
Chriftie, wife of Mr. |. H. Chriftie, of 
Edinburgh, i 
At Mile-End, aged 90, Mr. John Le Souf. 
At Woodford, Mrs. Anderfon, wife of J. 
_Anderfon, Efq. of Philpot-lane. 
Mr. Fifher, principal Oboe player to his 
‘Majefty. He was feized with an apopleétic 
fit, while performing a Solo at the Queen’s 
houfe, and expired foon afterwards. 
In St. Pancras Work-houfe, aged 104, 
Mary Bird; the ate a hearty dinner on the 
day fhe died. 
In Hill-ftreet, Berkeley-fquare, Hugo Mey- 
nell, Efq. celebrated for his fox hunt, at his 
feat at Quorndon, in Leicefterfhire. | His 
death was occafioned by a fall from his horfe, 
while on a hunting party. He was about 
forty years of age, and has left behind him a 
widow, the fifter of the Marchionefs of Hert- 
ford, and fix children. 
Mr. George Garthfhore, partner in the 
banking houfe of Hankey and Co. 
In James-ftreet, Weftminfter, Mrs, Ayrton, 
wife of Dr. Ayrton. 
John Beatfon, Efq. merchant, of Cateaton- 
ftreet. 
Lately at the hotel in Spring Gardens, of 
a paralytic affeCtion, John Macbride, efq. ad- 
miral of the Blue Squadronof his Majefty’s 
fleet. This officer was a native of Jreland, 
and entered very early into the naval fervice, 
for which he has fhewn a conftant afteCtion. 
The <firft dawn of his rifing fame was during 
the feven year’s war, when a lieutenant, and 
sommiandinga cutter ftationed to cruize on the 
coaft of France. He here determined on the 
dangerous attempt to cut fome fhips out of. 
the enemy’s harbour, and having caufed the 
oars of the boats to be muffled, he with a 
chofen bvat’s crew rowed in, and actually 
brought out three of the fhips from under the 
very muzzles of the guns of the French bat- 
teries. For this fervice he was promoted to 
the rank of mafter and commander, and was 
foon after made a poft captain in the royal 
navy. His fame ftood high, and he had in- 
tereft enough to keep the command of a fri- 
gate during the greater part of the enfuing 
peace, on board of which feveral very difin- 
guithed chara&ters of the Englifh navy were 
educated for their profeffion, among others 
the prefent Lerd Chas. Fitzgerald; the duke 
“of Norfolk, &c. his character for difcipline 
inducing many perfons of high rank to put 
their fons under his care. On the occafion 
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of a frigate being difpatched to conduct his 
majefty’s fifter, the late unfortunate queeny 
from that kingdom, to Stadt. - Macbride was 
made choice of for this fervice, and by his 
{pirited conduct, juftified that choice. He 
demanded from the guns of the caftle of Elfi- 
neur where fhe was confined, that refpect due 
to the fifter of his fovereign,which the Danifa, 
court would otherwifeshave withheld. Thro” 
the whole of “the late war, Macbride was ia 
action, he commanded the Bienfaifant, and 
was in her in the ation between Admiral 
Keppel and count d’Orvilliers, and on that 
officer’s trial, much diftinguithed himfelf by 
fome fevere repartees to the queftions of the 
profecutor Pallifer. In the Bienfaifant he, 
captured the Artois, a moft powerful frigate, 
and behaved with great bravery inthe a¢tion 
under Lord Rodney, when he deftroyed Don 
Juan de Langara’s {quadron. Being defirous: 
of more active fervice than a fhip of the line 
afforded, he afked for the command of the 
Artais, the frigate he had taken, and in her 
was fent tothe North Seas, where among othes- 
captures, he took two large Dutch privateers 
and afterwards the Pylades and Oreftes, floops 
in our fervice. In his official account of thefe 
captures, he made ufe of a ludicrous expref- 
fion, that ke had winged the gentry, an expre{- 
fion borrowed from a fport he was fond of, 
cock-fighting. When in the latter part of this 
war, feamen were very much wanted to 
man the fleets, he undertook to raife twenty 
thoufand men in Ireland, and in a great de 
gree fucceeded, but unfortunately, as in moft 
cafes of that kind, was obliged to take all he 
could find in the wilds and jails of Ireland, 
and who afterwards proved the inftigators of 
the mutinies which took place in the fleet 
towards the conclufion of that war. Captain 
Macbride firft married Mifs Harrifon, dauzh- 
ter of the late commodore Harrifon, with 
whom he acquired a good fortune, anda beau- 
tiful feat on the banks of the Tamar. His 
refidence here introduced him to a conneétion 
with the town of Plymouth, andthe freemen 
of that place, to thew their approbation of 
his conduct, eleéted him to reprefent them 
in parliament, for which place he fat that 
feffion, and was not an inaétivemember. He 
brought ina bill forthe relief of the widows 
of warrant officers in the navy, which paffed 
into a law 3 he attempted alfo to procure an- 
other bill for reftri¢ting captains of the havy 
from holding civil employments, but in this 
he failed. He made a very fpirited ftand 
againft the fortification plan of his grace of 
Richmond, and his oppolition to the attempt 
to pafs over fome of the moft deferving offie 
cers of the navy, in a promotion of flag off- 
cers, is highly to be commended. Captain 
Macbride was generally found on the fide of 
Oppofition, and from this circumftance lof 
his ele€tion in 1790, but came in again on a 
vacancy, and continued to fit for Plymouth 
till 1796. In1793, he was promoted to the 
rank of rear admiral; in 1794, of vice admie 
Fab; and in 1796, to be admiral of thg blue ; 
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