1805. ] 
At» Market Raifen, Farnery Epworth, efq. 
aged $2, one of the eight proprietors of the 
Sunk Ifland. And, three days afterwards, died 
at the fame place, Mrs. Eliz. Epworth, wife 
of the above gentleman. She was juft three 
Gays younger than ker hufband, and they 
had been niatried nearly fixty years. 
At King’s Cliffe, aged 57, William Law, 
efg an eminent attorney of Stamford. 
At Kirk Ella, aged 57, Jofeph Gofmond, 
efq. formerly of Hull. 
LEICESTERSHIRE. 
Ata meeting of the Leicefter Agricultural 
Society, held at Leicefter, on the 28th of 
December, 2804, the accounts were examin- 
ed, on which a balance of rozl. 8s. 4d. ap- 
peared in favour of the Society. Several pre- 
miums were adjudged to labourers in huf- 
bandry, for having reared families without 
burthen to their parifhes ; to fervants in huf- 
bandry, for long and faithful fervices, and to 
Jabourers. in hufbandry. A premium of five 
guineas was adjudged to Mr. Oldakers, of 
Kirkby, for the beft two-year-old fat wether 
fheep, Mr. liiffe, of Humberftone, exhibited a 
theep of extraordinary fize and fatnefs, but not 
coming within the claffes for premiums no 
bounty was awarded. Mr. Oldalers’s theep was 
ullowed by judges to be as complete a carcafe 
- Of mutton as was ever produced. The total 
weight:alive was two hundred and twenty- 
three pounds. 
Married.| At Leicefter, the Rev. John 
Mills, to Mifs Lornas, daughter of Thomas 
Larnas, gent.—Daniel Farrow, efq captain 
in the Loyal Loughborough volunteer in- 
fantry, to Mifs Farrow, only daughter of the 
Jate John Farrow, gent. of Loughborough.— 
Mr. John Bulftrode, of Worthington, to 
Mifs E. Smith, of Donifthorpe. 
Died.] At Queenborough, Mr. John Sarfon. 
At Barkeftone, in the vale of Belvoir, Mr, 
Anthony Hays, aged 29. 
Mrs. Linweod, of Leicefter, after an affli@t- 
ing illnefs, which the bore with pions refig- 
nation. During the covrfe of a long life, 
the performed the various duties: of a Chrif- 
tian with exemplary piety, and in the exer-~ 
cife of pra€tical benevolence. The genuine 
purity of her mind, the ative kindnefs of 
her difpoGtion, and the warm philanthropy 
of her heart, had long endeared her to a large 
domeftic circle, and to a numerous acouain~ 
tance. In her the poor have lof a liberal 
benctaGrefs, her family an affeétionate rela- 
tive, and fociety a moft valuable member.—— 
Mrs. Linwood was the mother of Mifs Lin- 
wood, fo juftly celebrated for her admirable 
pictures in worfted. ‘lie following beauti- 
ful monody to the memory of that excellent 
woman has been written by one of her grand- 
daughters, Mifs Mary Linwocd :-~ 
At length the fad, the awful fcene is 
clos’d, 
fad Death, with lenient and affuafive hand, 
Tears from the ruthlefs gripe of fell difeate 
Leicefterfhire. 87 
All that was mortal of the friend I mourn. 
She, who, though rack’d by terture’s keeneft 
pans’ : 
Worn by flow wafting to the grave’s dread 
brink, 
Ne’er breath’d one murmur in her year of 
ain, 
Nor, By a derheel {well’d afliGion’s tide. 
Her foul, by fortitude upholden firm, 
F’en as the oak defies the rigid blaft, 
Mecekly purfued her Saviour’s paffive fteps, 
And bow’d inall—fubmiffive to his will. 
Lo! in the narrow houfe, the moald’ring 
s cell, ; 
Where Nature’s faireft works muft feek de- 
2 cay, 
Cold and neyle&ted, Virtue’s daughter lies ! 
That eye——which keenly fought th’ unfeen 
retreat, 
To ftream in pity for each grief-fwoln heart 5 
That hand—whofe ready beon dealt joy toall, 
Save where intrufion might the deed record 5 
That heart-the leading avenue to both, 
Which own’d all living nature for its friend ¢ 
All—-laid beneath a few fhort {pans of earth, 
enied the pow’r to feel, the will to act. 
What fable form is that, which drooping 
hangs 
Tn filent forrow o’er the new-rais’d urn ? 
Tis weeping Virtue, and befide are feen 
Her fifter train, in folemn robes array’d, 
Hoping releafe in vain from memrry’s bitter 
tafk. : 
Well may ye weep : for fuch an angel-mind, 
Ne’er cas’d in human ftruéture fhall ye fee, 
Oh! fhe was trely pious, juft, and good 5 
And every ventle virtue was her own. 
Methinks, e’en now, the fame benignant’ 
fmile 
That play’d in circling dimples o’et her 
cheek, ! 
Sweet as the filv’ry drops which clufi’ring 
hang 
In fmiling belis upon the morning rofe, 
Beams on this tribute to her mem’ry due. 
And fhall that cheering fun-beam of the 
foul, 
The glorious pifture of her fpotlefs mind, 
Shali that be deom’d to moulder Into nought, 
Nor cat behind one tranfitory gleam ? 
Ah! furely ne. 
For now_th’ immortal fpirit, burfting throug!s 
The myftic cloud which veil’d the bright 
afcent, 
Borne on feraphic pinions, foars aloft, 
To claim a juit reward beyond the ikies. 
Where that fame fmile which cheer’d all 
hearts below, 
Shall gleam propitious on the friends the 
lov"d. 
And when fall many a circling year be pat, 
And earth.enchains their captive fouis no 
more, 
Then fhall it dart its Infire o'er the dreary- 
Daze, na 
And greet th’ afcending angel to its blet 
abode; 
At. 
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