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At Mildenhall, Mr. Benjamin Bird. 
At Weybread, Benjamin Cotton, gent. 56. 
At Lavenham, Mrs. Mudd, wife of John 
“MM. esq. 
’~ At Stowmarket, Miss King, bookseller.— 
Mrs, Jackson, formerly of the King’s Head 
ann. 
At Ipswich, Mrs. Fowler relict of Mr. J. 
¥, 87.—Mrs. Ransome. 
At Linstead Parva, Hustings Wilkinson, 
gent. 59. 
At Saxham Cottage, Willsam Dawson, 
esq. 71. 
At Lowestoft, (the place of his birth), 
Mr. Richard Powles, merchant of London. 
Mr. Powles was born of parents whose 
exertions, though exemplary, scarcely af- 
forded them the means of bestowing on 
their offspring any education, so that at an 
early age, deprived by death of his father, 
young P. was obliged to assist the endeavours 
ef his mother to provide their daily bread. 
His ingenuity in sketching figures being no- 
ticed, he was taken into a manufactory, then 
flourishing in Lowestofte, to be one of the 
painters of their china-wares, where he con- 
tinued till grown up; in which time he had 
obtained the aftection of an amiable towns- 
woman. His maternal uncle, established as 
a merchant at Elsineur, in Denmark, remem- 
bering his assiduity, sent for him to fill a situ- © 
ation in his house. He went over, and after 
about three years, finding the business quite 
qual to his expectations, ‘he returned to Eng- 
‘land; and marrying the object “of his early 
_ choice, took her back with him to the house 
of. his uncle, where they continued about five 
years, when finding the business decline con- 
Siderably, he came again to his “native land, 
and was immediately engaged by a Thercantile 
house of rising respectability, in London, by 
some of whose firm he had been long be- 
friended, He continued here improving in 
their esteem, for more than nine years, when 
bis unremitted and faithful services were re- 
warded by 2sharein the firm. About’ this 
time, symptoms of iil health arising princi- 
pally from indigestion, appeared to affect his 
constitution; the: consequence, no doubt, of 
his uncommon sedentary application: and 
though medical skill, assisted by a frame un- 
injured, protracted existence for more than 
four years, still the disease gained visibly 
twpon him, and he was induced as a last resort 
totry his native air. ‘That resort was too Jate. 
Afler enduring exquisite pain for ten weeks, 
Death, in the prime of life aud usefulness, put 
2 period to his sufferings. It was abserved as a 
thing singular, that his ‘uncle before mention- 
ed » aud himself, should, after such long. ab- 
sence, “yeturn to the town of their birth, and 
each live but exactly ten weeks after their ar- 
rival, Ina letter from Eisineur to the his- 
fotian of Lowestoite, Mr. P. gave a view and 
gescriptiun of the celebrated Tycho Brahe’s 
eoservatoty, which was published in the Gen- 
tlemian’ S Magazine in the year 1790. He 
E ffex——Kent. 
[Feb. ¥, 
next year published a View of Lowestoff; 
and on his settlement in London devoted 
most of his leisure to his favourite amuse- 
ment of painting. The pieces ‘possessed by 
his numerous friends in chalks, crayons, wa- 
ter colours, and oil, preve him to have been 
an artist of no mean stamp. Nor were his 
talents confined entirely to what was agree- 
able; for when Sir Hyde Parker, accompanied 
by the renowned and lamented Nelson, were 
fitting out to attack the Danish line of de- 
fence before Copenhagen, Mr. P. from the 
observations he had made during his residence 
at Elsineur, delineated two charts, which 
were presented tothe admirals, of the sands, 
depth of water, &c.. near that city, which 
proved eminently useful ; ; and the writer has 
reason to believe that the best prints pub- 
lished on that occasion in London were origi- 
nally sketched by him. In private life the 
mildness of his disposition was peculiarly 
pleasing; and as a husband, father, and 
friend, we trust he is equalled by many, 
though we believe he was exceeded by none. 
In business he was much respected; and asa 
real Christian, the first pleasure of his mind 
was to promote and establish the hap, .ness 
of all within his sphere. By his sorrowing 
widew he had nine sons, only four of whom 
survive him. ¢¢ Tread lightly on his ashes 
ye men of feeling, for he was your brother, 
and ye men of genius, for he was your kins- 
man.” : 
ESSEX. 
Married.| At Colchester, Mr. P. Fry, J june 
solicitor, of Uxbridge, Somersetshire, to Miss 
R.,Male, daughter of the late Rev. Samuel 
M. rector of Wishaw, Warwickshire. 
Died.] Mrs. Lewis, relict of the Rev. 
John L. late rector of Sandon. . 
At Bridge-house, Great Dunmow, Went- 
worth Bradbury, esq. - 
At Cressing, Mr. Isaac Raven, 65. 
At Great Saling, Mr. G. Francis Browner, 
At South house, Mrs. Goodeve, 39. 
At Lutchingdon, near Maldon, the Rev. 
Jacob Patterson, formerly of St. John’s 
college, Cambridge, B.A. 1791, M.A 1794. 
At Braintree, Mr. Joseph Tracey, cae som 
of Mr. T. of the Falcon inn. 
At Dunmow, Mrs. Scruby. 
At Finchingfield, Mrs. Cracknell, 73. 
At St. Osyth, Miss Mary M. Quilter, 54. 
KENT. 
A subscription has been opened at Canter- 
bury, for the purpose of establishing a free 
ae in that city, on the plan recommended 
by Mir. Joseph Lancaster, 
Married.| At Faversham, Wiliam Samuel 
Currey, esq. major of the 54th regiment, to 
Miss Anna Maria Tappenden, daughter of 
James T. esq. 
At Beckenham, John Spalding, esq. of 
Hill-street, Berkely-square, London, to Miss 
Mary Anne, daughter of the late Thomas 
Eden, esq. Of Wimbledon, and niece of lord 
Auckland. * 
At 
