600 
aged 48, the Rev. Nathaniel Gilbert, vicar of 
Bledlow, Bucks, to which living he succeed- 
ed on the decease of Dr. Davie, master of Ba- 
Tiol College, Oxford, in 1798. He was a na- 
tive of the island of Antigua, and related to 
several families of distinction in this king- 
dom. Some years since he went out chaplain 
to the British settlement of Sierra Leone, and 
on his return to this country was presented by 
Mr. Whitebread to the vicarage of Bledlow, 
where both by precept and example, he ap- 
proved himselfa faithful pastor over the flock 
committed to his charge, as well as a learned, 
eloquent, diligent, and successful minister of 
that gospel, which was his own support 
through various trials which he had to -go 
through in life, and happily afforded a source 
of unfailing consolation under the last strug- 
gies of dissolving nature. 
In Russe! street, of a consumption, in his 
26th year, Mr. Robert Fagg, a respectable 
farmer at Purleigh, in Essex. 
Mr. Thomas Ostell, aged 29, bookseller, 
in Ave Maria-lane, an honest, worthy, and 
industrious man, whose premature death is 
Jamiented by a respectable circle of friends. 
Daniel Bureau, esq. merchant, of Wal- 
brook, and one of the Directors of the Royal 
Exchange Assurance Company. 
In Wimpole-street, Mrs. Stewart, wife of 
Lieutenant-General James S. 
At Windsor, Cope, esg. second cook to 
his Majesty, a person who deserves to be re. 
corded in the annals of literature, as well as 
in those of cookery, for having highly con- 
tributed to the perfection of the immortal 
epic of the Lousiad. A poem which cannot 
faii to be admired as long as the language in 
which it is written, is fully understood. Mr. 
Cope, strongly suspected of having afforded the 
poet every information of the travels and ac- 
tions of the little hero of that piece, under- 
went a formal examination, and not being 
wholly acquitted of the charge, he suffered 
for several years in his culinary preferment, 
before he attained the situation of second cook. 
As his prospects at court have now finally 
closed, the poet has not hesitated to acknow- 
jedge the source which gave birth to that un- 
tivalled production. 
At Fallowden, in Northumberland, the 
Right Hon. Charles Grey, Earl Grey, Viscount 
Howick, and Baron Grey de Howick, a Gene- 
ra] in the Army, Governor of Guernsey, Co- 
lonel of the 3d Regiment of Dragoons, and 
Knight of the military order of the Bath. 
Further particulars will be given in our next. 
At Ipswich, aged 70, Mrs. Clara Reeve, a 
lady of considerable literary talents, and au- 
thor of several works which have been well 
received by the public. Her first publication 
was a translation from the Latin of the fine 
old romance, Barclay’s Argenis, which made 
its appearance in 1772, in four volumes duo- 
decimo, under the title of The Phenix, or 
the History of Polyarchus and Argenis. She 
next wrote, The Champion of Virtue, a Go- 
thic Story, which was published in 1777, 
Deaths i and near London. 
[Jan, 1, 
and in the succeeding year reprinted under,the 
title of, The Old English Baron, a title which 
it hds ever since retained. Mrs. R. afterwards 
wrote, The Two Mentors, a modern story; 
Tne Progress of Romance, through Times, 
Countries, and Manners, which was written in 
a course of interesting evening conversations ; 
she afterwards published, The Exile, or Me= 
moirs of the Count de Cronstadt; the princi- 
pal incidentsof which are borrowed from a no- 
vel byM. d’Arnaud ; The School for Widows, 
a novel; Plan of Education, with Remarks on 
the System of other Writers ; and Memoirs 
of Sir Roger de Clarendon, natural son of 
Edward the Black Prince, with Anecdotes 
of many eminent Persons cf the Fourteenth 
Century. All the writings of Mrs. R. bear 
marks of her having cultivated useful know- 
ledge with considerable success, and also with 
having applied that knowledge with less fri- 
volity and affectation than is frequently to be 
found in the works of female authors. We 
cannot resist introducing the following Letter 
from this lady to a gentleman with whom she 
occasionally corresponded, not only as it shews 
her opinions inrespect to the politics of anevent- 
ful and dangerous period of history, but also 
as giving ashort account of the means where- 
by she was enabled to acquire that strength 
of intellect which induced her to present the 
world with those literary productions that 
Were at all times received with favour and 
approbation. In this letter, it will appear 
that her fears in respect to the corruption of 
which she so strongly complains 2s existing 
in the political system of this country, were 
just then powerfully raised by her having re- 
cently read the effusions of Thomas Paine; 
whose opinions as tending to produce revolu- 
tionary excesses she successfulty combats, yet 
conceding more to expediency in submitting 
to imaginary evils, than to conviction of the 
necessity of change. 
SIR, Ipswich, April 18, 17926 
I received your pacquet by yesterday’s 
coach, and think myself much honouréd by 
the communication. Having an opportunity 
of sending some letters by a friend who goes 
to London to-morrow, £ wiil reply to the con- 
tents of your favour of yesterday. I think 
with you, that Mr. Paine’s writings are dan. 
gerous; that they have a tendency to ex- 
cite not only discontent, but sedition, faction; 
and finally, civil war, in this ence happy 
country. I detest his leveiling principles, 
and I contend for a virtuous and well regu- 
lated subordination. But what is it that ren- 
ders Pain’s writings thus dangerous ? Net his 
absurdities, for those we may justly laugh at. 
It is because, with much fallacy, there is 
blended much truth, and it is not every rea- 
der that can separate them. The English 
constitution is a glosious fabric in-theory ; 
people have admired it in contemplation ; but 
when we presume to investigate it closely, 
we find what is glorious in theory, is not so 
in practice. Can we szy that the parliament 
is a true representation of the three sani 
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