7803.} 
hoped that by acquiring a tafte for internal 
reform, and conttitutional amelioration, ftatef- 
men and men would become lefs apt to di- 
rect their ambitious paffions towards foreign 
encroachment and déftruétive warfare. Sub- 
fequently to the feceffion of the Duke of 
Portland and Mr.Burke from the Whig-club, 
Me. Gurney is betieved to have become a 
fnember ; at leat he adhered in fentiment to 
Mr. Fox throughout that trying period of de- 
fertion, adverfity, and perfecution, which the 
caufe of liberty had to fufter frorn the promo- 
ters of the Antijacobin war. Thefe opinions 
endeared Mr. Gurney to a very confiderable 
portion of his fellow-citizens; who, without 
his confeat, and during his abfence on a jour- 
ney through the north of England, put him 
up for Norwich, in 1796, againft William 
Windham, efq. of Feibrig, then fecretary at 
war. The election took place on the 25th 
of May: Mr, Gurney volled 1076 votes, on 
the whole poll a minority of $3, but among 
the refident voters a majority of 143. About 
this time Mr, Gurney took great pleafure in 
planting “and embellifhing the ef€ate at 
Northrepps, where he ufually pafied the 
fhooting feafon. The lodge or cottage, which 
conceals much accommodation under an ex- 
terior of fimplicity, was built by him after 
the defign of Mr. Wilkin. It commands a 
diftant view of fea through a picturefque and 
_ Wooded glen. In May 1799 Mr. Gurney be- 
came a member of the Society of Antiqua- 
ries; he had much predilection for the line 
of ftudy which fuch annexation indicates. 
He attended more frequently than elfewhere 
at the Odtagon, aplace of werfhip of the Uni- 
tarians, to the fupport of which he was many 
years a fubfcriber- In February 1800 he 
married, for his fecond wife,Mary (the fecond 
daughter of William Cockell, efq. of Attle- 
burgh) who furvives him. He teft-no chil- 
dren by either marriage. He died of an 
anafarcous difeafe on the 24th of February 
¥803, at Coltifiall, in the mantion he had 
lately purchafed, which is now the refidence 
of his widow; and was interred, on the 3d 
ef March, at Norwich, in the burial ground 
contiguous to the Quaker’s meeting in the 
Gildencroft, where his nearer kindred repofe. 
The unufual concourfe of perfons (fays a 
Norwich paper which notices his funeral) 
many of whom had put on mourning for the 
occafion, teftified the univerfality of that 
folemn feeling of regret with which his lofs 
isattended. How fhould it have been other- 
wife? His virtues were as worthy of his fta~ 
tion, as his ftation of his virtues. His enter- 
prife, aifiduity, and judgment had founded, 
and were increafing a {plendid fortune, which 
his focial tafte enjoyed with hofpitable Iux- 
ury. His warm attachment to political 
freedom engaged the regard of the nume- 
rous, end the fympathy of the cultivated, 
claffes of fociety. The known liberality of 
his religious fentiments embraced as brethren 
the men of every perfuafion; but without 
Suffolk.— E exe 
Qui n’eft que jufte, 
391 
detaching him from Chriftian worhhip, or 
from the hope of a future and fuperior exifs 
tence. His beneficence, vaft as his means, 
explored on every fide the haunts of pain and 
want ; patronized eagerly the efforts of 
ventas induftry ; and laid many a iphaadic 
offering on the public altars of charity. 
Confulter la prudence, et fuivre lequité, 
Ce n’eft encore qu’un pas vers l’immortalicé, 
eft dur; qui n’eft que 
fage, eft trifte ; 
Dans d’ autres fentiments l’heroifme confifte. 
Le conquerant eft craint ; le fage ett eftimé; 
Mais le bienfaiteur charme, et lui feul eft 
aimé. | 
SUFFOLK. 
Murried. At Aldboro?, Mr Sneith, to 
Mifs Woodcock: —Mr. W. Turner, farmer, 
of Harling, to Mifs S. Cooke, of Ixworth 
Thorpe, in this county. 
At Bury, Mr. Butcher, taylor, to Maifs 
M. Naomi farman, daughter of Mr, Jarman, 
leather cutter. 
Died.} At Bury, Mrs. Sculzer, mother 
of Mr. Sculzer, baker.—Mrs. Hum, wife of 
Mr. David Hum, formerly a yarn-maker.— 
Mr. A.Bayard,many years a yarn-forterin this 
town.—Mrs. Reach, wife of Mr. Reach, 
carpenter.——Mr. Balls, hair-dreffer. Sa ig 
Trevethan, carpenter.—Mr. H. Leafe, writ- 
ing-mafter.e-Aged 77, Mr. J. Ellis, grocer, 
—Aged 78, Mr. J. Jermyn. 
At Stowmarket, Myr. Coufins, 
chandler, 
At Ipfwich, Capt. W. Hadley, formerly 
of Lynn.—Mrs. Dalton, relict of the late 
Mr. Dalton, of Bury. 
At Sudbury, Mrs. Hayward, 
At Melford, aged 70, H. Lungley, efq, 
At Worlington, Mr. Buck, proprietor of 
the old coach from Lynn to London. 
In his 32f year, Mr. T. Teverfon, farmer 
and malfter, of Wratting Wath, near Ha- 
verhiil.-In an advanced age, Mr Peacock, 
fadier and collar-miker, of Barrow.—The 
Rev. G. Palmer, rector of Ufford.—The 
Rev. J. Barker, reétor of Fakenham, near_ 
Euftcn.—-Mrs. Young, reli&t of the late {. 
Young, efg. of Clare—Aged 75, Mrs M, 
Butcher, of Se. Andrews, Bungay.—Mrs, 
Pearman, of the .Bull Inn, Troston..Tke 
Rev, S. Parlby, of Stokeby Nayland,—Inan 
advanced age, Mr, Etheridge, carpenter, of 
Frefiing field. . 
In Goygh-fquare, London, G, Pyman, 
gent. formerly in this county. 
ESSEX. 
Died.} Mrs. Jackfon, of the Lion-inn, 
Steeple Bumpftead. —__ 
At Yeldhim, in his 68ch year, Mr. R. 
Daiton, formerly of Eve, in Suffotk 
At his father’s houte, in Upper Grofvenor- 
ftreet, aged 23, W. Smyth, efq. eldeft fon of 
Sir W. Smyth, bart, of Fill-hall in this 
county. 
At Wickhambroke, a zed 63, Mr.T, Webby 
of the White-horfe inn; generally efteemed 
as 
tallowe 
