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358 Incidents, Marriages and Deaths in and near London. [Nov. 1, 
ipeedy diflolution was arden tly defired by his’ 
friends, to put a ftop to the further progreis 
ef his milery. 
At Enfield, of a pleurify, M. Prevoft, for- 
merly an advecate inthe Parliament of Paris, 
but who had emigrated on the _Revolution, 
and been reduced to teach the French Lan- 
guage in different fchools. ‘He publifhed 
a treatife on the French verbs: and was ge- 
nerally refpected as aa inofienfive, honet 
man. 
Mr. Wright, feedfman of the Strand. In 
his paflage from Boulogne to Dover, he un- 
fortui nately fell overboard and was feen no 
more. He had been talking cheerfully, a few 
minutes previous to the misfortune happen- 
ing, with fome ladies in ‘the cabin; but, 
complained of heat, and that he was fick. 
He then went upon deck, and i is fuppefed 
that, leaning teo far over the fide of the fhip, 
he lok his balance, and went head foremoft 
into the ee 
Mis. Pycroft, wife of James Pycroft, efq. 
of Wanfiead. 
At Clapton, in his 72d year, Baden Powell, 
efq. of Loughton, Effex. 
ts Pedford- fquare, in.the s6th year of her 
age, and 36th of her marriage, Mrs. Lever- 
ton, wife a Mr. Leverton, archite&. 
Aged 63, Mr. Chamberlain, yeoman of 
his Majefty’s chapel at Whitehall. 
In Creat Smith-ftreet, Weftminfter, the 
wife of Richard Pownall, efq. late Hieutenant- 
colonel and captzin iw the firft foot-guards, 
and daughter of David Cafley, ef. librarian 
to the King. 
At Woodford, Mr. Leaver Legg, formerly 
a woollen-dreper in Cornhill; a bufinefs in 
which he fucceeded his father, the late Mr, 
Leaver Lesg, who, in allufion'to his name, 
had affumed ‘* a golden leg” as the enfign 
of his fhop. 
At Walworth in Surrey, aged 62, Richard 
Parkins, efa. 
At her fifter’s houfe in Great Cumberland- 
ftreet, Portman-fguare, after a few hours ill- 
nefs; Mifs Sarah Cardan. 
In Great Queen-ftreet, Lincoln’s-inn-fields, 
in his 73d year, Mr. James Bafire, engraver; 
for above fixty years a diftinguifhed, liberal- 
minded ariif, of fingular ingenuity and in- 
tegrity. 
{ Additional account of John Eddowes, efq. 
of Bridge-ftreet, Blackfriars, late an eminent 
merchant in the city of London. In early 
age he determined-that a country village was 
too limited for the employ of his bufy mind ; 
and in the year 1738 he left his native town, 
Wrexham, in Denbighfhire, with very flight 
recommensgation, and no other profpe& than 
thofe which his fervices, when applied, af- 
forded. Soon after his arrival in the metro- 
polis he placed himfeif with a Hamburg mer- 
ehant of refpeCtability, in whole warehoufe 
prudence. 
and counting-houfe he fo quickly evinced tae 
lents far abaee the fandard of ufual expectation 
from young men, that he happily (as he then 
Felt, and has fince fréquently repeated) ars 
refted the notice of Mr. Thomas Nath, who 
then lived in the Poultry, and with beltrn 
he formed a partnership, sot more memorable 
fy the elevated degree of Credit and fiability 
which their united induftry raifed their 
noufe, than for the folid, wninterrupted 
fie ndfhip, which ftrengthened as it grew, and 
gave to each a power of exercifing benebcerte 
furpafling common benevolence. Afrer the 
lofs of Mr. Pie he profecuted trade till 
the year 1788, when he withdrew from the 
asxiety and hurry of bufinefs, In his retire- 
ment he had leifure for refle@ion on the more 
momentous concerns of human exiftence; and, 
though occupied with appropriate ferioufnefs 
on matters of felf-confideration, he did not 
teafe to céntribute to the wants and welfare 
of thofe who, in the offset of life needed a 
patron and a friend. As foon as his acquire- 
ment of property was deemed adequate, he 
fulfilled his primary care, the grateful cif- 
charge of love and affeétion for his orphaa 
fifers. Their temporal comforts efiected, he 
fought other objeéts to whom to dire his 
bounty; and there are now living very 
many, who can teftify, that, of unprotected 
virtue in the fofterfex, and of honeft dili- 
‘gence in the other, he was the able advocate 
and generous fupporter. His door was open 
to daily diftrefsful -petitions, whofe tale let 
loofe the floodgates of his heart, and the mi- 
ferable drank of the ftream of his charity. 
In larger donations he was bounded but by 
On withdrawing from his laf 
partnerfhip, he prefented the two gentlemen 
whom he guitted with ‘zoool. each. He 
give socol, as his-portion of the voluntary 
contributions 3 and offered, through the me- 
dium of one of the firft ‘magiftrates of the 
city of London, to pay 1oo0l. a *year to Go- 
vernment, for the public ufe, during the war. 
Yho’ he feduloufly avoided all the honours 
phic await a citizen whom Fortune has 
been propitious to, yet he would not avail 
himfeif of a legal exemption on his being no- 
minated fheriff of London, in 17963 for he 
honourably fined in the cuftomary price of 
renunciation, though he might have pleaded 
his age. The wounds of the foldier and fai- 
lor were his own; and his name was always 
feen in the firt lit of every public fubfcrip- 
tion. Many charitable inftitutions, of which 
he was either governor or fubfcriber to, fix 
or feven in number, are humanely thought 
of in his will, being left with a legacy of 
from 1 to 2001. each. He was of manners 
unaflaming, never obtroding himfelf beyond 
the thref rola of private life ; in converlation 
amply competent 5 and, in natural a: 
of intelle& fuperior. ] 
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