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fented him with a copy of the new edition of 
his ** View of Society, and took great 
pins to promote his interefts --+«« I am hap- 
py to hear (fays he), that your fubfcription 
is fo ample, and fhall rejoice at every piece 
ef good fortune that befalls you ; for you 
are a very great favourite in my family; and 
this is a higher compliment than perhaps you 
are aware of. It includes almoft all the pro- 
fefions, and of courfe is a proof that your 
writings are adapted to various taftes and fitu- 
ations. My youngeft fon, who is at Win- 
chefter fchool, writes to me, that he is tranf- 
lating fome ftanzas of your Ha/fow E’en into 
Latin verfe, for the benefit of his comrades. 
This union of tafte part!y proceeds, no doubt, 
from the cement of Scottifh partiality, with 
which they are all fomewhat tinCured. 
Even your tranflater, who left Scotland too 
early in life for recollection, is not without 
it. I remain, with gfeat fincerity, your obe- 
dient fervant,; J. Moore.” Since his re- 
turn from his third and laft journey to France, 
Br. Moore reraained in the bofom of his 
family, and enjoyed all the pleafuresin which 
ahufband and father could participate, at his 
‘ houfe in Clifford-ftreet. Many-years fince, 
he became happily united with Mifs Simfon, 
the daughter of a gentleman of the fame 
name, who was -Profeflor of Divinity in the 
univerfity of Glafgow. By this lady he had 
a daughter and five fons. 
[The circumftances attending the death of 
S. Turner, efq. announced in our lait, are 
fomewhat fingular: “* On Monday, Decem- 
Ber 2r, about 12 o'clock at night, asa gen- 
tleman was pafling through Churchyard- 
alley, in Fetter-lane, he was obferved, by a 
woman on thé fpot, to make a fudden ftop, 
and, after ftaggeringa fhort way, to fall to 
the ground. On going to his -affiftance, it 
was thought, from the diftortion of his fea~ 
tures, that he was ina fit of apoplexy; but, 
on waiting fome time, and finding that he 
ftill remained in a ftate of infenfibility, far- 
ther help was procured, and it was deemed ne- 
- cefiary to take him in a coach to St. Andrew’s 
watch-houfe, where he remained till about 
feven o'clock in the morning of the 22d, 
and thence conveyed to the workhoufe, in 
Shoe-lane, Holborn, where his pockets were 
fearched, in hopes that fome papers might be 
found about him, to lead to a difcovery of his 
name and place of abode, but not the leaft cir- 
cumftance appeared totrace him. It was then 
thought neceffary to fend for the overfeers of 
the parifh,. in order that proper afiiftance 
might be rendered him, who procured him 
every neceflary attention that humanity could 
fuggeft, or the fituation of the houfe would 
afford, there not being the leaft doubt of his 
being a perfon of refpeCtability, having a gold 
watch in his pocket, a pair of gold fleeve- 
buttons, &c. and his appearance in every other 
refpect indicating the gentleman. On his boots 
being drawn off, that he might be put to bed, 
it was obferved that the name of Captain 
Account of the Death of Mr. Turner. 
| [March 1, 
Turner was written in the infide of one of 
them. This circumftance coming to the” 
knowledge of a perfon in the employ of Mr: ~ 
Whittingham, printer, in Dean-ftreet, Fetter- 
lane, he faid he recolle&ted a gentleman of’ 
that name and defcription, who had written’ 
abook, about two years ago, intitled ** Tur- 
ner’s Embaffy to Thibet,” and that he then 
lived in St. James’s-place. Application was’ 
dire@tly made there, when this information 
proved correét, as his man-fervant had been 
long in fufpenfe waiting the return of his 
matter, «ho was a gentleman of confiderable 
property and’ connexions. His country-feat * 
is in Gloucefterfhire, where he had a valua- 
ble eftate, and likewife confiderable property 
inthe Eaft Indies. One of his fifters is mar-° 
ried toan alderman of Gloucefter, and anothef 
to Profeflor White, of Oxford. Captain Tur-’ 
ner had been inthe fervice of the Baft India 
Company inthe late war in India, where he dif-' 
tinguifhed himfelf at the fiege ofSeringapatam 3 
and had likewife the honour to be appointed on 
the embafly to Tippoo Saib,where he not only 
acquired fame and profit, but eftablithed him- 
felf,'in the opinion of the Company, asa 
perfon of fuperior talents, who appointed 
him'to the head of their embafly to Thibet, 
which furnifhed him with the materials for 
compiling the work above alluded to, and, as 
amark of their approbation and eftéem, voted 
him 500 guineas. During his ftay in India 
e amaffed a large property. One of the firft 
fteps taken by his friends in town, on his 
being difcovered as above, was, ‘to write to” 
his friends in Oxford and Gloucefter, who 
immediately repaired to town, to vifit their 
unfottunate relative. They added tothe me- 
dical aid andadvice of Dr, Marfhall that of Dr. 
Reynolds. ‘The calamity proved to bea ftroke 
of the palfy, which entirely deprived him 
of the ufe of one fide. It was not until the 
morning of the 3oth that he recovered his 
{peech, when he uttered a few words to his 
fervant who conftantly attended him at the. 
workhoufe.\ His friends were very defirous 
to have him removed thence 5 but the phyfi-. 
clans thought it would be attended with d@an- 
gerous confequences, and there he expired on 
the morning of Jan. 2.” 
The late Rev, and much refpected Herbert © 
Mayo, D.D. announced in our Jaft, was rec= 
tor of the parith of St.George, Middlefex, 
and vicar of the parith of Tollefbury, Effex. 
He was born in the month of Otober, 17203 
admitted of Brazen-noieCollege,Oxford, where 
he proceeded M.A. 1745, B.D. 1762, and 
D.D, 1763; and was prefented to the rectory 
of St. George, in 1764, by that Society, of — 
which he was thena fellow, and tothe vica- 
rage of Tollefbury in 1799, by Mr. Ruth, 
the patron. The long and valuable life af 
this worthy member of fociety, will afford 
matter of inftruction to ali the confiderate part 
of mankind, ; 
Citizen, a Chriftian, anda Clergyman, ivatl 
the domeftic and focial relations, -his charac 
tor 
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