1802.] 
Mayor to the various Volunteer Corps. He 
invited their Commanders, as well as the 
Aldermen, &c. to dine with him. The 
horfe-guards efcorted the Heralds back to 
the Heralds’ College, in ‘Doétors’ Commons, 
and proceeded to St, James’s with the 
Knight Marfhal and his men. As they went 
along, they depofited the three maces at Mr. 
Ifherwood’s, on Ludgate-hill. The Lord 
Mayor invited the Heralds to dine with him 
in their tabarts. This they could not do; 
but they went in full drefs. © The illumina- 
tions were never more general; and the effect 
was very ftriking. The fplendour of the 
lights, refletted on the perpetual ftream of 
curious gazers that rolled on through the 
ftreets below, prefented.a very animated 
fcene. We cannot pretend to defcribe the 
effe& of this wide-extended bluze. The 
whole firmament was as it were on fire; and 
by the darknefs of the night, the fplendour of 
the effort to convert night into the brightnefs 
of day wasthe more conf{picuous. The moon 
and ftars were both withdrawn from the 
competition of art to ouftrip their glories, and 
to fuperiede their reign! The difplays more 
particularly to be diftinguifhed were, Mr. 
Otto’s houfe in Portman fquare, which was 
the object of univerfal admiration, and curio- 
fity; the Bank, the Eaft India-houfe, the 
Manfion. houfe, the Phenix-fire Office, Drury~ 
lane Theatre, and Covent Garden Theatre. ° 
| The late Mifs Wilkes, by her laft will, 
dated July 18, 1800, has direéted her houfe 
in Grofvenor-fquare, and her houfe near St. 
Sepuichre’s church, to be fold.—To Jofeph 
Paice, efq. one of her executors, the gives 
all her piétures not otherwife difpofed of ; 
with her houfe in Gracechurch-ftreet, fub- 
ject to an annuity of 2ol. to James Davifon, 
formerly fervant to her mother.—to Mr. 
John Wainewright, and Mr. James Boudon, 
the other executors, tool. each—to Samuel 
Shore, efq. and William Hood, efq. sol. 
each—to her coufin Charles Wilkes, of New 
York, fon of her uncle Ifrael, ail her fettled 
eftates in the counties of Cambridge, Nor- 
folk, Berks, and Bedford, fubje& to rool. 
a year to his father Ifrael for life, and 8ol. 
to his mother fhould the live to be a widow 5 
fubje& alfo to legacies of sol, to his fifler 
Mrs, Simond, and jol. to his brother Mr. 
John De Ponthieu Wilkes—to her coufin 
Lady Baker (wife of Sir Robert Baker, bart. 
of Richmond, and only daughter of Mr. 
Wilkes’s fitter Mrs. Hayley, reHitt of the late 
Alderman Hayiey, and now wife of Mr. 
effrey’s, of America) the filver cup, the 
gift of the City of London to her father, the 
‘pi&ture of her father and herfelf by Zoffany, 
her portrait in crayons by Hoare, all her plate 
and china, and 2o0ool. 3 per Cent. Confols. 
reverfibleto her daughter MaryHayley Baker, 
to whom 15o0o0l. of the like ftock is fepa- 
rately given, with all her diamonds, orna- 
ments, trinkets, fe and her own library, 
Mifs Wilkes’s Will. 
609 
except the Gems of Worledge——to Sir Robert 
Baker, 10001. South-fea ftock—-a handfome 
fum to Mifs Harriet Wilkes, of Kenfington 
Gore, with her father’s gold watch—to her 
coufin, the reli&t of Mr. John Barrett, 
r5sol 3 per Cent Confols. fubjeét to an ane 
nuity of 251. to her uncle Heaton Wilkes, 
efq.—to Mrs. Amelia Arnold (fince dead) 
25001. South-fea ftock for her life :—to the 
Duchefs de Chafiillon 20001. new 5 per Cent. 
Bank ftock—to the Duchefs of Cruffol and 
the Duchefs dela Tremoille (daughters of 
the Duchefs de Chatillon) sol. each, not 
only from perfonal regard, but as a proof cf 
the re{pect and grateful affeétion fhe retained 
for the Duchefs de la Walliere—all the por- 
traits of that family alfo to be given back to 
them—to Mrs. Buller and Mrs. Motte, each, 
for life, 1500]. new § per Cent. ftock—to the 
Rev. Henry Taylor, her farm and lands at 
Royfton, county of Lincoln, and alfo her 
farm and manor of Eythorne-court, in Kent 
—to Mrs. Gordon 201.—to Lady Shuldham a 
row of large pearls—to Mr. H. T. Williams 
60l.—to her refpeéted and dear friends Mr. 
and Mrs. Haftings, the prints and bronzes in 
the eating-parlour—a five-guinea piece to 
Mrs. Trapaud, and two others to the two 
Mifs Meades—Her father’s library, with the 
remaining copies of Catullus and Theophraf- 
tus, to be fold, under Mr, Peter Elmfly’s di- 
rections, of Sloane-ftreet ; the produce (after 
a legacy to himfelf of sol.) to be paid to the 
two fenior aldermen and the chamberlain of 
London, to be applied, at their difcretion, 
towards the relief of the widows and children 
of decayed freemen.—All her manufcripts, 
of whatever kind, the direéts to be faithfully 
delivered to Mr. Elmfly. (In better hands 
this truft could not have been depofited : but 
unfortunately Mr.Elmflynow is no more.) Mr, 
Wilkes’s Life of Himfelf is not forthcom- 
ing, The cover in which it was bound 
remains: but the leaves are ‘complete- 
ly cut out. She gives legacies to all her 
fervants ; 10]. tothe poor of St. George, Hano- 
ver-fquare 5161 to the poor of St.Sepulchre’s; 
defires her executorsto give fomething to the 
poor wherever fhe had eftates ; and requefts 
to be buried with her father in Grofvenor- 
chapel.—-All the remainders of her different 
bequefts (which probably will be confider- 
able) to the Archbifhops of Canterbury and 
York for the time being, in truf for charita- 
ble purpofes. And any thing not fpecificd 
fhe commits tothe difcretion of her executors, ; 
At a late court of common council, tie 
committee of city lands having reported their 
Opinion, that the prayer of Lord Darnley’s 
memorial, requefting the confent of the corpo- 
ration for the eretion of a market on the eatt 
fide of Upper Moorfields, fhould be complied 
with ; the fame, on the queftion being put, 
was refolved in the affirmative, 
By accounts lately laid before the Houfe of 
Commons, it appears, that the average num- 
fent 
