“orfolk—Suffalk. 
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four o’clock in the afternoon, after having 
eaten a temperate meal, he was carried as 
ufual in a fedan-chair to the Bath-houfe. 
He was obferved by the perfons who were 
~ there waiting to fhew great fymptoms of fee- 
blenefs ; but knowing the abfolute averfion 
which he had to receive any thing like unne- 
ceflary attention, they permitted him, after 
he had undrefied himfelf, to retire unaccom- 
panied by any one into the bith-reom. In an 
inftant, however, they were alarmed by 
hearing a noife which plainly indicated a per- 
fon’s falling into the water rather than 
plynging into it in the ufual way ; and upon 
rufhing into the room they found the deceafed 
in the bath, with his face bent down to the 
furface of the water, and his hands firetchea 
wut upon it. Not a moment was loft in tal- 
ing him out, but life was perfe€tly gone. 
Upon examination, no fymptoms of being 
drowned were to be difcovered; fo that no 
doubt is to be entertained. but that he was 
ftruck with an apoplexy, juft at the inftant he 
was about to ftep into the bath, and which, 
without a groan ora itruggle, deprived him of 
exiftence. Phus died this perfon, of whofe 
character the univerfal-regret which his death 
has occafioned amongit thofe to whom he was 
known, cannot fail to afford the moft favour- 
able impreffion. He had been originally bred 
to the fea; and had literally had that fort of 
education in the line, which he was accuf- 
tomed to fay all genuine feamen ought to 
have, namely, ‘enter in at the hawfe-holes, 
and go. out of the cabin windows.”? Whe- 
ther it was from the way in which he was 
early initiated into life, or from conftitutional 
complexion, certain it is that he was never 
Known, in any fituatian whatfoever, ever to 
have hewn the leaf appearance of fear ; and, 
upon fome very trying occafions of the great- 
eft bodily and mental pain, he has been feen 
to act the moft perfe&t foic. Inthe war that 
enjed foon after the commencement vf the 
prefent reigh, he wes employed in the expe- 
ditions both on the coaft of France and in A- 
merica ; and at the taking of Louifburg, he 
particularly engaged, by his zeal in the fer- 
vice, though but ina tranfport, the attention 
‘of the late admiral Bofcawen. He quitted 
the fea nearly twenty-five years ago, fince 
which period he has been very largely en- 
gaged as a fhip-owner, and has carried on the 
bufinefs of a general. merchant, in partner- 
thip with one of his-brothers. - Such was the 
principle of honour by which he was a@u- 
ated, that he was never known, ina fingle 
inftance, ever to have forfeited his word ; and 
in many of the moft important concerns of 
bufinefs, in which thoufands were at ftake, he 
was difpofed rather to truft tothe word of an- 
ether, than to have the fecurity of a legal 
contract; feeming moft perfe€tly to agree 
with Dr. Johnfon, when he fays, ¢¢ there is 
no fatire fo great againft human nature, as a 
deed or a bond. ’=-He was never heard, after 
[ June; 
he left the fea, sor ever Before, (though on 
board of fhip, and was one of the &ricfeft dif- 
plinarians) to {wear_an oath himfelf, nor to 
fuffer one to pafs by unrebuked in any other 
perfon over whom he had any well warranted ~ 
controul. In political opinions he ranked 
with the old whigs, the friends of the Hano- 
verian .fucceffion, and the fupporters of the 
Bill of Rights. En religion ne affociated with 
thofe who are denominated rational difienters, 
but he was the fartheft removed poffible from 
the prefbyterian four. In his manners, in- 
deed, he retained to the laft a great deal of 
the unaffected roughnefs of the Britith tar, 
but mixed with fo much of the genuine mills 
of human kindnefs, that upon all occafions 
where popularity was of ufe, his influence 
amongit the lower orders was very confpicu- 
ous; and in the midi of the hotteft party 
contefts, in which no one-could enter more 
zealoufly, fuch was the general eftimatioa in 
which his charaéter was held, that henever 
made any perfonal enemies. His houfe, 
while his health would permit it, was lite- 
rally an open one, in which his friends, rela- 
tions, and acquaintances, perpetually and 
without any referve partook of his hofpitali- 
ty, feveral of them having appropriate places 
for their pipes in the {mall parlour, where he 
commonly refided, to which they could at any 
time recur for a renewal of the ftories of gra- 
tification. It was underftood by his fervants 
as a fort of general order, that even the cafu- 
al beggar fhould never be turned away from 
his door without alms ; and upon all great 
occafions of public charitable contributions, 
he was always found amongft the mof libe- 
ral. Heaven bleft him with fuccefse-he has: 
left behind him a very confiderable property 
——the greateft partof which he has bequeath- 
ed to his four grandchildren—the fons and 
daughtdrs of Robert Alderfon, barrifter at 
law. 
SUFFOLK. 
A female at Ixworth, was lately deliver- 
ed of a child with two heads. 
A barn, containing 40 coombs of wheat, 
and 20 coombs of barley, belonging ta Mr. S, 
Rivers, of Ttimley, near Ipfwich, was latel 
fet on fire and totally confumed. There is 
great reafon to believe that the above was 
wilfully deftroyed. ; 
On Sunday night the 4th of May, the fhop 
of Mr. George Sugygate,. watch-maker, of 
Halefworth, was breke open and robbed of 
watches and other goods to the amount of 
nearly 30ol. . 
At Chelmsford fair,.on the firft of May, 
promifing two years old cart colts demanded 
from 3ol. to4cl. Derbythire heifers in calf 
from 16 to’20 guineas. Handfome home 
bred cows, with fmall calves, fold at 20l. 
Hertford wether fheep 301. ; Norfolls couples,, 
(lambs very fmall) gol. and. Welth 271. per 
{core. 
Married.} 
