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Wilkes, doce of the late celebrated John . 
Wilkes, efq. 
In Tufton-ftreet, aged 575 Mr.T. Wapfhott, 
builder. 
At Stanmore, Middlefex, Mifs M. C. An- 
tews, daughter of Mr. Andrews, furgeon. 
In Warwick-fireet, Golden- fquare, Mis. 
Davids, reliG& of C. Davids, efq. — of Bree 
con, South Wales. 
At Bromley, in her 16th year, ‘Mifs Knol- 
man, eldeft daughter of H. W. Knolman, | 
efg. of Efpquene. 
A. Peatt, ef. of Philpot-lane. 
‘Mr. Moore, of ch ete s-court, Leather- 
lane. 
At Batterfea, C. Rivbon efq. 
In his 21 year, Mr. Jones, jun. of Berke- 
ley-fquare. 
At her houfe, in Sion-row, Twickenham, 
aged 73, Mrs. A. Rofbee. 
At Kennington, Mifs Montefiore. Her 
death was occafioned by her drefs having ac- 
cidentally caught fire. 
At Booting, Lieut. Col. Rice, of the Royal 
Navy. 
On the 16th of March, of a typhus fever, 
in the 28th year of his age, Thomas Archi- 
bald Murray, M.D. of Greville-ftreet, a 
Licentiate of the Royal College of Phyficians, 
Phyfician to the Public Difpenfary in Carey- 
ftreet, and Phyfician to the Inftitution for the 
Cure and Prevention of Contagious Fevers tn 
the Metropolis. Dr. Murray was very early 
educated to medicine, under the able inftruc- 
tion of his father, the late Dr. John Murray, 
an eminent phyfician at Norwich. After a 
refidence of three years at Edinburgh, he took 
his degree there-in 1796, and then fettled in 
Norwich. In January 18co, he removed to 
London, and was elected Phyfician to the 
Public Difpenfary. His practice in this ex- 
tenfive charity, gave him, in common with 
many others of the fame profeffion, ample 
opportunities of obferving the evils refulting 
from the crowded ftate of the dwellings of 
the poor, in:cafes of contagious difeafe: -and 
aftera minute inveftigation of the fubjeét, he 
wrote **Remarks on the Situation of the 
Poor in the Metropolis, .as contributing to the 
*Progrefs of Contagious Difeafes, with a Plan 
for Houfes of Recovery.” This was foon af- 
ter publifhed under the aufpices of the Society 
for Bettering the Condition of the Poor; and 
an inftitution upon the plan recommended in 
this publication has been fince eftablifhed, to 
‘which Dr. Murray was chofen’ phyfician. 
The attainments of this excellent man were 
many and varied. To delineate his character 
would be to enumerate every virtue which 
an-adorn the individual, or render fervice to 
the community. For/confummate fxill in 
his profeffion, anda benevolence, a€tive, pure, 
and extenfive, he will long be remembered. 
To this laf divine principle is his premature 
death to beattributed. His profefiional duties 
led him into the receffes of accumulated po- 
verity, defpair, and difeafe,. His exertions 
Dr. Murray Mr. Taac T. bompfeite 
‘tance. 
-benevolent feelings in bencficent aéts. 
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there to reftore to -health the unfortunate 
beings committed to his care, and his anxious 
tender, and unremitting attendance upon them 
undermined a sonfticution naturally delicate, 
and at length, in one of thefe wretched habi- 
tations, he received the contagion which 
‘proved fatal tohim. The deep and heartfelt 
regret occafioned by his lofs is not merely 
that of confanguinity or of partial friendfhip : 
his talents and the fimplicity, yet polithed urb2- 
nity of his manners, placed him near the 
hearts of a large circle of the Jearned and the 
good. 
On the 25th of February, Ifaac Thomp- - 
fon, efg. of Crofs-lane, St. 
Hackney. -To record the death of fuch a mang 
without remark;,would be an example of dege~- 
neracy, which we are unwilling to afcribe to 
the prefent times. It is true, that the great 
events which we have been called to witnefs, 
have inclined us too much of late to attend 
to the brillianf and dazzling in chara@ters of 
great but malignant energy, to allow to pri- 
vate and modeft merit its due’praife. Indivi- 
duals who have had influence on the fate of 
empites, have exclufively attra@ted notice ; 
whilft thofe who have made happy a family, 
or fmall focial circle, have been unobferved. 
But, when the effets of public intoxication 
fhall Kave’paffed away, the ever operating, 
beneficent, and purifying virtues of private 
and anafivening men, will be regarded as 
alone worthy of admiration. Mr, Thompfon 
was botn at Stanger, in Cumberland, where 
his family enjoyed a {mall eftate by imheri- 
He came to London in early life, and, 
by clofe attention to bufinefs, greatly increaf- 
ed his fortune, which enabled him to difplay 
Hav- 
ing never’ been married, he adopted the fe- 
ven children of his younger brother, to whom 
the accidents of life had not afforded the - 
fame means of advancing his fortune; and, 
after giving all of thema good, and fome of 
them a Wheat education, he took them into 
his own houfe, and treated them in all re- 
fpeéts as if they had been his own children, 
‘Although his attention to bufinefs was exact, 
his mind was not of. a charaéter to confine 
itfelf to mercantile operations. On the fub- 
jects moft interefting to the human mind, he 
had thought deeply and read much. Moral 
philofophy, metaphyfics, and religion, he had- 
ftudied attentively 5; and had adopted in the 
former the fyftem of Locke and Hartley, and 
in the latter, that form of Chriftianity which 
has been fo ably defended by Lardner and 
Lindfey. . His parents were Diffenters, and 
worfhipped amongft the Calvinifts: Mr. 
Thompfon finally worfhipped amongft the 
‘Unitarians, whofe fyftem, at once fo conge- 
nial.to the feelings of benevolence, and the 
di€tates of good fenfe, he embraced with ear- 
neftnefs but defended with candour. He was 
anxious to find that true, which every good 
man muft with to be true. During the three 
laft hb of bis life, the vigour of his ah e 
ties 
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