1804.) 
houfe in Bond-ftreet, Oxford-road, which 
raged with confiderable fury for fome time, 
before it was extinguifhed, Mrs. Sealey, an 
infirm old lady,.who had been confined to 
her bed-room fome time. She was burnt in 
fuch a dreadful manner as to caufe her almoft 
inftantaneous death. 
Aged 65, Edw. Darby, efg. of Bloxham, 
near Banbury. A few minutes after alight- 
ing from the Oxford-coach in Ludgatee 
fireet, he was feized with a fit of apoplexy, 
and inftantly expired. 
At Brompton, the Rew. C. Graham, re€tor 
of Afton and Wotton, Herts 3 to which living 
he was prefented by Paul Benfield, efq. to 
hold provifionally till one of the Rumbold 
family was capabie of taking it. 
Aged about 50, Mr. Godwin, an eminent 
goldfmith and jeweller in the Strand. Of 
the morning of Feb. 30th, about 8, he went 
into the fquare of Somerfet-houfe, and leap- 
ed down from the railing on the Eaftern fide, 
from a height of nearly go feet. Some 
workmen, who faw him in the aét, took 
him up, and carried him into one of the 
- offices of Somerfet-houfe. His left leg, near 
the ancle, and his thigh, near the hip-bone, 
were broken, and he was otherwife much 
bruifed. Mr. Stanton, the ‘furgeon of the 
houfe, was immediately fent for, and biood- 
ed him, He was juft able to fpeak, and 
' {wallow a little wine and water. He was 
alfo able to tell hissname, and in a few mi- 
nutes expired. He had been for fome days 
in a defponding way. He was a man of éex- 
cellent character, and in good circumftances. 
In Duke-ftreet, Grofvenor-fquare, after a 
few hours ilinefs, of an obftruétion occafioned 
by indigeftion, in confequence of coming to 
town in wet cloaths, Charlotte Counte/s-dowager 
of Talbot, born March 15, 1754, youngelt 
daughter of Wilis, firft Marquis of Down- 
fhire, by the Lady Margaretta Fitzgerald, 
fifter of the late, and aunt of the prefent 
Duke of Leinfter. Her Ladyfhip was fifter 
tothe late Marguis of Downthire, and the 
Marchionefs of Salifbury ; and has left the 
prefent Earl Talbot. and his brother, the 
Hon. Mr. Talbot, her only children. She 
had come to town, from her villa in Cooper’s- 
lane, leading from Potter’s-bar to Northaw, 
for the purpofe of chufing an elegant drefs 
for the Queen’s birth-day. Her excellent 
fenfe, diftinguifhed accomplifhments, and 
amiable manners, were fuch as muft enfure 
latting refpe@ ; and her death will occafion 
general regret. 
peAt Chelfea, Mr. Topner, nearly so0-years 
footman to the King, and the perfon who 
prevented Margaret Nicholfon from hurting 
his Majetty, when fhe.made an attempt on his 
Vife at St.. famés’s garden-gate, in the year 
1786, and for which, though repeatedly ‘fo- 
licited, he refufed to accept any reward. 
At Enfield, after a lingering iilnefs, Mr. 
Pike, rope-maker, in the Curtain-road, oppo- 
_fite the Artillery-ground. ; 
in Spring Gardens, Edward Eliot Craggs, 
Montaty Mac. No.113. _ 
Deaths in and near London. 
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289 
Lord Eliot, Baron Eliot, of St. Germain’s in 
Cornwall, and receiver-general of the Duchy 
of Cornwall. He was born on the eighth of 
July, 17273 was married on the 25th of Sep- 
tember, 1756, to Catherine, daughter and 
heirefs of Edward Ellifon, efq. by whom he 
had iffue, ‘Edward, who died an infant; Ed- 
ward-James, born in the month of July, 
1758, and died in the month of September, 
1797+ He married, on the 21ft of September, 
1785, Lady Harriet Pitt, daughter of Wil- 
liam, Earl of Chatham, by whom he hada 
daughter, born on the 20th of September, 
1786. John, the prefent Lord Eliot, born 
on the 28th of September, 1761, married 
on the 8thof September, 1790, to the Hon. 
Mifs Caroline Yorke, fifter to the prefent 
Earl of Hardwicke—wWilliam, born on the 
if of April, 1766. Richard Eliot, efq. 
his Lordfhip’s father, who ufed to be called 
Port Eliot, the name of his feat, to diftinguith 
him from the Eliots of Scotland, was mars 
ried in March, 1726, to Mifs Harriet Craggs, 
daughter of the Right Hon. James Craggs, 
who was Secretary of State in the reign of 
King George I. by whom he had iffue, 
the late Lord Eliot; alfo Richard, who died 
young—John, who died unmarried—-Anne, 
who married Captain Bonfoy of the navy, 
by whom fhe was left a widow, and had a 
daughter who married the late Earl of Ely, 
Ly whom fhe was left a widow in 1783—Hare 
riet, who married Pendocke Neale, efq. and _ 
died on the 27th of January, 1776—Catha- 
rine, now living unmarried—-Augufta and 
Hefter, who both died infants—Elizabeth, 
married to the prefent Lord Somers, and died 
on the 1ft of January, 17384. The faid 
Richard Eliot died inthe year 1748, and his 
Lady in 1769. The late Lord-came firt into 
Parliament ia the year 1747, for St. Germains, 
for which he was again chofen at the general 
ele&tion in 1754, and again at the general 
election in 1761, and again in 1768, anda 
fifth time in 1774. In the year 1777, he 
was elected member for the cofnty of Corn- 
wall; and in the year 1780 he was again 
elected for the county of Cornwall; and in 
the year 1784 he was created a peer. In the 
‘year 1789, his Lordthip, by his Majefty’s per- 
miffion, took the name and arms of Craggs. 
His father was many years receiver-general 
of the county ef Cornwall, and when he 
died, in 1748, his fon fueceeded him; which 
place he held until his death. When frede- 
tick Prince of Wales died, which was in 
March, 1751, the falary of this place was 
fuppofed to be about two hundred pounds per 
annum 3 in 1754, it was augmented to sool. 
and in the year 1762 it was furcher augment- 
ed; but at this time it is fuppofed to be about 
2o0ol, per annum, His Lordfhip was the 
patron of the boroughs of Lifkeard, Gram- 
pound, and St. Germains, all in Cornwall; 
and had a confiderable intereft in the county 
of Cornwall. In the month of January, 
1760, he was made one of the Lords of 
Trade, in the room of Mr. Rigby, promoted, 
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