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[Dec. 14 
INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, and DEATHS, tn and nEar LONDON : 
- With Biographical Memoirs of distinguished Characters recently deceased. 
ON “Tuesday, October the S0th, about 
9 o'clock at night, an alarming fire broke 
out in the Cloisters, near St. Bartholomew’s 
Hospital, by which three houses were con- 
sumed, 
The same night, a fire took place at a 
public housein Whitecross-street, City Road. 
A young woman, who slept in the second 
floor, in ber fright, threw herself out of 
the window, and died of the bruises which 
she received. 
A marble slab has lately been erected on 
the Eastern wall of Kensington-church, to 
the memory of Mr. Elphinston, a memoir of 
whose life appeared in our Number for De- 
cember last years The following is the in- 
scription : 
Sacred 
To the Memory of 
JAMES ELPHINSTON,: 
His Mind was ingenuous, 
His Heart was affectionate, 
Elis Manners, though polished, were simple, 
His Integrity was undeviating ; 
He was 
A great Scholar 
And a real Christian. 
Jortio, Franklin, and Jolinsonr, 
Were inthe number of his Friends. 
He was bern at Edinburgh, Nov. 25th, O. S. 
1721, 
He died at Hammersmith, Oct. 8th, 1809. 
And his Remains are deposited near the South 
Wall of this Church-yard, 
In grateful Remembrance of hfs Virtues an 
Affection, ; 
His Widow has caused this Tablet to be en- 
graven. 
The workmen employed to repair the 
church of St. Mary, Aldermanbury, disco- 
vered a few days since the remains of the 
notorious Chancellor Jeffries. A large flat 
stone was removed near the communion-table, 
andin a vault underneath the men found a 
leaden coffin, containing the bodys The 
_toflin did not appear to have suffered much 
decay. It was closed, and a plate remained 
on it, inscribed with the name of Chancellor 
Jeffries. His son and daughter are also bu- 
ricd in the same vault. After the legal 
murders at Taunton, which Jeffries managed 
with so much address, he returned to Lon- 
Jon; and, to avoid the popular fury excited 
by his infamous conduct, disguised himseif in 
the habit of a foreign sailor, with intention 
to escape to Hamburgh; but being discovered 
as he was looking out of a window in a house 
at Wapping, where he had concealed -him- 
_ self, he was seized by the, mob, and almost 
killed. He was finally lodgéa in the Tower 
by the populace, in order that he might be 
broughtto justice; but he died soon after, 
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in consequence of the blows and bruises he 
had received. He had previously resided in 
Aldermanbury, and his body was privately 
interred by his family, The coffin was not 
opened; and after public curiosity had been 
gratified, it was replaced in the vault, and 
the stone fastened over its 
The Temple church, one of the most an- 
cient foundations in London, is at present 
under a thorough repair, The nine marble 
figures of Knights Templars in armour, placed 
in the area of the round tower, supposed 
to be rare pieces of antiquity: are now 
protected frorn injury. Several of the mo- 
numents have been cleaned, and the church 
already presents a new appearance. 
: MARRIED. 
At Putney, Richard Alexander Oswald, 
esq. of Glasgow, to Miss Elizabeth Anderson, 
eldest daughter of the late John A, €sq. of 
Philpot-lane. 
William Douglas Hopkins, esq. of Bethel- 
place, Camberwell, to Miss Irvin, of the 
Crescert, Minories. 
Robert Isherwood, esq. of Doctors’ Com- 
mons, to Ann, only daughter of the Rev. 
John Prower, of Purton, Wilts. ; 
The Rev, Richard Yates, chaplain of 
Chelsea Hospital, to Miss Telfer, only daugh- 
ter of Patrick T. esq. of Gower-stréet, 
Bedford-square. . 
At Stockwell, Anthony Burnley, esq. ta 
Mary Ann, eldest daughter of John Wild, 
esq. . 
At Lambeth, Henry Buckley, esq. of the. 
Lawn, South Lambeth, to Anne, only daugh- 
ter of Samuel Wolfe, esq. of the East India 
house. . 
At Newington-Butts, Mr. Joseph Fuller, 
bookseller, of Charing-cross, to Jane, eldest 
daughter of Mr. Joseph Carter, of Newing- 
ton-place. . 
At Islington, Mr. George Morgan, of 
Ludgate-hiil, te Miss Harrison, of Kensing= 
ton. , : 
By special licence, at the house of Peter 
Free, esq. Baker-treet, Sir Bellingham 
Beginald Graham, bart. to Harriette, third 
daughter of the late George Clark, esq. of 
West Hatch, Essex. 
At Finchly, Charles Robert Neate, esq. of 
Whetstone, tu Frances Augusta, second daugh« 
ter of the late Robert Manners, ésq. 
At Hampton Court, Sir John Fleming 
Leicester, bart. to Georgiana Maria, youngest 
daughter of Col. Cottin. 
At St. Anne’s, Westminster, George 
Skelton, esq. to. Mrs. Mantel], relict, of 
the Rev. Thomas M. rector of Frinthamy 
Surry. 
At Mary-le-bone,’ Capt. Dickinson of the 
12th Light Dragoons, to Miss. Hamilton, of 
Richmonde 
