1602.) 
vare merit and talents. The diftinguifhing 
charatteriftics of his praftice confifted in moft 
faithfully exhibiting the true fpirir and ftyle 
of each matter; a moft minute accuracy, a 
certain polith, and exquifite delicacy of man- 
ner; with the appropriate charaéter given to 
all objeéts, while a mildnefs of tone, and per- 
fee harmony, pervaded the whole piece, ~The 
Cardinal Woilley entering Leicefter Abbey, 
from Weftall, is certainly the greateft effort of 
bis fill, and is, by many of the beft informed 
connoiffeurs and artifts, held to be a firft-rate 
fpecimen in that ftyle of engraving. ‘The 
proprietors have not failed to avail them- 
felves of that -circumftance, a proof impref- 
fion being charged double the price of any 
other in the whole work. 
In London, the perfon called by the name 
of M. De Verdion, well-known about the 
ftreets of the metropolis for a number of 
years paft, generally wearing a little bag-wig, 
anda large cocked hat, and carrying an um- 
brella. This fingular chara@ter died of a 
cancer in the breait, being, it appears, a fe- 
male, though the always wore a mafculine 
habit. According to certain papers found in 
her apartment, fhe was a natural daughter of 
a forr-er King of Pruffia, and came to Eng- 
lane with Madame Schwellenberg, lately de- 
ceafed, miftrefs of the robes to her Majefty. 
It is remarkable, that, though fhe was in the 
conftant habit of facrificing copioufly to Bac- 
chus, the never inadvertently revealed the fe- 
cret of herfex, She wasonce in poffeffion of 
property to the amount of 8000]. which, 
trufting in the hands of a foreign banker, who 
failed, fhe entirely loft. She has fince fub- 
fifted by teaching foreign languages. In her 
lodgings, a number of valuable fuits of 
cloaths have been found, in which fhe ufed, 
till within thefe few years, to attend at 
court, on yala days, in the male chara&er, 
having never been known in any other, fince 
her refidence in this country, except to her 
patronefs ; her external form was, however, 
fuch as almoft to have occafioned a fufpicion 
as to her fex. The enfemble of her figure, 
when decorated in its ufual paraphernalia, 
was fingular and ftriking, if not whimfically 
grotefque. ! 
At his’ houfe in Crown-court, Weftnfin- 
fter, by fhooting himfelf with'a piftol, Mr. 
Lewis Hertzlett, a king’s meflenger. He left 
the fecretary of ftate’s office about half paft 
one o'clock, faying he was going to dinner; 
but he had not been at home many minutes, 
before he went into the back-parlour, where 
he effe&ted his purpofe, by placing the muzzle 
of the piftol to his throat; the bullet went 
through the upper-jaw, and lodged inthe 
fkull. The report’ alarmed his wife and 
daughter, who were in an upper apartment, 
On entering the room, the unhappy man was 
refting his elbow on the table, with his hand 
to his head, when his wife faid,** What is the 
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matter ?” The inftant the had fpoken thofe 
words, he fell off the chair, and died inftan- 
taneoufly. It was not till then that the per- 
ceived the blood, which flowed copioufly from 
his neck, &c. The neighbourhood was 
alarmed by the fervant 3 and, whenafliftance 
came, the wife and her daughter were foun@ 
in convulfion fits.’ With care and affiftance, 
they were foon reftored, and carried into a 
neighbour’s houfe. On fearching the pocke 
ets of the deceafed, a loaded piftol was found. 
A jury was fummoned in the evening, when 
it appeared that he had often been heard to 
fay he would shoot himfelf, and ufe various 
other irrational {fpeeches and aéts, which ine 
duced the jury to bring in a verdi& of dunacy. 
He was upwards of fixty years of age, a na- 
tive of Switzerland, and had filled his place 
many years very refpectably. 
ThomasHarrington,efq. of Waltham-hall, 
Walking in the Green Park, St. 
James’s, between eight and nine o’clock in 
the evening, he fuddenly dropped down ina 
fit of apoplexy, and, in a few minutes after, 
expired in the arms of a gentleman, whofe 
humanity had led him to his affiftance. Mr. 
Harrington was the author of feveral medical 
tracts. With very diftinguifhed talents, he 
pofiefled an uncommon fuavity of manners, 
and benevolence of heart 5 and has left a dif- 
confolate widow, and a large circle of 
friends. 
At her houfe in Welbeck-ftreet, Cavendifh~ 
fquare, the Hon. Jane Parker. This lady 
was of the ancient family of Cefar, in Hert~ 
fordfhire, and had for her firft hufband Sir 
Charles Dormer Cottrell, mafter of the cere- 
monies at St, James’s, to whom fhe bore the 
prefent Sir Clement Dormer Cottrell, and a 
daughter, who died young. Her fecond huf- 
band was the late Hon. Lieutenant-general 
George Lane Parker, brother to the Earl of 
Macclesfield,who died without iffue. Through. 
out the prefent reign, even after the diminu- 
tion of the bloom of youth, thisJady was one 
of the fineft women inthe Britith court; and 
the amiablenefs of her charatter in private 
life did as much honour to her heart and 
principles, as her carriage in the great world 
did to her temper and education. 
[Further Particulars of the late Dr. Mayo, 
whofe death was announced in a former Numbers 
—The late Dr. Mayo was a native of Heree 
ford, and was educated at Brazen-nofe Cole 
lege, Oxford, which prefented him to the 
living of St. George’s. Dr. Mayo was a die 
vine of that clafs,which, though it enjoys not 
all the celebrity that adorned fome others, 
perhaps excels all in real utility, that is to 
fay, he was a good parifh-priei. He was a 
man of great experience in that particular 
branch of his profeffion, having been, for 
fome time, curate of Stratfordele-Bow, then 
ten years curate of Whitechapel, then ten 
years curate of Spitalfields, before he entered 
“s ae upon 
