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As Bedhampton, Tudor Gsiffiths, efg. for- 
merly banker of Portfnrouth. 
At Purbrook, Mrs. Fietcher, wife of Major 
B. of the artificers, daughter of the late Dr. 
Mudge, of Plymouth, and fifter to Captain 
BL. of his majefty*s thip Phenix. 
At Portfmouth, Captain William Yeo, 
govesnor of Haflar hofpi‘al.— Mrs. Welling, 
$8.— Mr. Cheefeman, 83.—In his 67th year, 
Sirl}. Carter, knight; a character generally and 
most deservedly respected and valued through- 
eut the country, whether considered in a pub- 
Fic or private capacity. His parents were both 
dissenters,and belonging to that denomination 
designated by the term, rational dissenters. His 
Father was a merchant of considerable emi- 
sence, and of invincible integrity in this town: 
stom him he inherited a strong and unshaken 
attachment to those political principles which 
seated the hoyse of Hanover on the throne of 
England. And though under the necessity 
af occasionally conforming, he tfemained 
frm to the principles of dissent from the doc- 
rine and worship of the established church. 
Hie was born on the 16th of December, 
E7413 and in Septemher, 1763). was elected 
39 alderman of this borough. About the year 
1768, or 9, he began to act as a magistrate for 
tbe county 3 and never was there ong who 
zitended to the duties of that important office 
with more assiduity, hapa and zeal, 
fer the interests and hancur of the country, 
fax the accommodation and comfort of his 
neighbours, or the prompt and mild adminis- 
tration of justice co all, At Michaelmas, 
476g, he was chosen to act as chief magistrate 
of the borough for the year. In the summer 
ef 1773, during his second mayoralty, the 
King made his first visit to Portsmouth, 
where he received much greater marks of af- 
fection and loyalty than he had been given to 
expect. Des:rous of making some reiurn to 
his good people of Portsmouth, for their at- 
tentions to him, his Majesty wished to confer 
the honor of knighthood on their mayor; a 
titie, at that time, held in higher estimation 
than, from its repeated proftitution, it now is. 
Of this honor Mr. Carter was not in the least 
ambitious; indeed, so averse from it were 
Mr. and Mrs. Carter, that he declined it. He 
was informed that hig Majesty considered this 
refusal, as proceeding from a disregard, in the 
Carter family, to. the royal favor: this con- 
sideration and the earnest persuasion of his 
friends, induced him to yield a reluctant com- 
pliance : he. was, accordingly, knighted on 
she 22d. of June, 1773. In the summer 
of 1782, his father retired from Portsmouth 
into Sussex, and left the direction of the 
Caiter influence in the Corporation to 
him.* This infuence he invariably used 
with the greatest possible disinterestednefs 
with the nigest sense of Honan, with the 
* The writer of this article purposely 
avoids entering into any account ot the long 
Hampshire. 
[July 1, 
purest principles of independence, and with 
the most scrupulous integrity. Wholly an- 
ambitions, he fought neither to promote his 
own interest, nor the aggrandigement of any 
part of his family. The interests and: wel fare: 
of others were uniformly the objects of hiss 
pursuits. Inthe year 1784, he was appoint~ 
ed Sheriff of the county; which honorable 
office he filled to the entire satisfaction of alk 
parties, and with dignity to himself In the 
years 1782, 6, and g, he was severally elected 
to the chief magistracy of the town, and again 
in 1793: it was during this, his sixth mayors 
alty, that the King made his third and last 
visit. to this port. His Majesty? S person on 
this, as on his former visits, was immediately 
attended by the peace-officers of the Corpora- 
tion; and what few’ military accompanied him 
in his walks, always followed the civil power. 
-——During the mutiny at Spithead, in the 
year 3797, he rendered a very essential sera 
vice to the townand country by his mild, cons 
cillating, and’ patient conduct. The sailors 
having lost three of their comrades, in cons 
Sequence of the resistance made to their going’ 
on board the London, then bearing the flag of 
Admiral Celpoys, wished to bring them inte 
Kingston church- yard, and to carry themin 
procession through the town of Portsmouth, 
This request was positively refused by the gor 
vernor. ‘They applied to Sir Johan Carter to 
grant them their request, who endeavored to 
convince the governor of the propriety and 
necessity of complying with it; declaring thae 
he would be answerable for the peace of the 
town and the orderly conduct of the sailors. 
The governor would not be prevailed. er, and 
prepared for resistance; and resistance, on 
both sides would, most probably, have been 
resorted to,had not the calmness, persewerance, 
and forbearance of Sir John Cartes at length 
compromised the affair, by obtaining permis- 
sion for the sailors to pass through the garrison 
of Portsmouth in procession, but the bodies 
to be landed at the Common Hard in Portsea, 
where the procession was to join them. Fot 
soliciting and obtaining this indulgence to the 
sailors, he was stigmatized aS a jacobin, and 
loaded with many opprobrious epithets by per- 
sons, whose high stations, at least, should 
have taught them better; aod which he, 
though possessing the very ‘* milk of human 
kindness,” was under the necessity of resent= 
ing, by declining all farther intercourse with 
them. So great was Sir John Carter's influ- 
ence over these sailors, that they most scru- 
pulously adhered to the terms he prescribed-to 
them, in their procession to the grave. Two 
of their comrades having becomea *¢ little 
groggy,” after they came on shore, they care- 
_and severe contest between the Carter family 
and the late Lord Sandwich, then first. Lord 
of the Admiralty, as not placing the charac- 
ter of Sir Joha Carter in any new point of 
view. é oe 
Hae fully 
