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and artless simplicity, and to know and to 
love her was the same thing; and yet she 
was but the unfolded blossom of the elder, 
who possessed a warm affection, united with 
a most delicate sensibility, and commanded 
at the same time both your love and your 
respect. She had an uncommon independance 
of mind, and yet was most difident of her 
own opinion, She was reserved without 
pride, and modest without affectation. And 
what is peculiarly calculated to excite the 
tender feelings of sympathy 1 in the untimely 
removal of the elder, is, that she, who was 
soon to. have heen led tothe altar, was unex- 
pectedly followed to the tomb. 
At Stitchcomb, Mr. John Tarrant. 
At Wantage, Thomas. Ansell, esq. 
At Maidenhead, Mrs. Adams, 78. 
At Binfield, William Mackinnen, esq. of 
Antigua, a member of his Majesty’s council 
in that island. 
At Caversham, Mr. James Pearsall, attor- 
ney, of New Windsor, 43. 
At Reading, Mr. Edmund alee 
Mr. William Line, a journey-man cabinet 
maker, 74. . He. was employed at the house 
ef Higgs and Ford for 60 years, during which 
he never was known to ads himself from 
business a single day, to have had ane. holi- 
day, or to have been once disguised in li- 
quor. 
SOMERTSHIRE. 
A very superb building in the Mall at Clif-' 
ton, distinguished after its opulent proprie- 
tor, by the name of the Auriol, is fast ap- 
proaching to completion.. It compr'ses, an 
assembly-room, 100 feet long and nearly 50 
feet wide, having on the inside 16 columns, 
23 feet high, of the Ionic order, supporting 
a dome 30 feet in diameter and 50 fcet above 
the entablature. On either side the large 
room are a card and a tea room, each 30 
feet square, with coved ceilings in the roof. 
In the hotel are twelve sitting-rooms, a bil- 
hard room, and sixty bed-rooms, 
Married.) At Clifton, the Rev. Robert 
Hoare, to Miss Purefoy, daughter of ne 
late William P. esa. 
At Bath, the Rev. E. Neale Wahsieesae 
second son of George V. esq. M.P. to Ann, 
second daughter of Isaac Spooner, esq. of 
Eimdon, Warwickshire. 
At Perrington, Henry Tripp, esq. to Miss 
Dean, niece to John D. esq. of Edinworth. 
At Bristol, Mr. William Edwards of New- 
port, Monmouthshire, to Miss E. Edwards, 
daughter of William E. esq.—Captain Henry 
Harding, of the Royal Caermarthen Fusileers, 
to Mrs. Filewood, relict of Captain James F. 
late of the 23d light dragoons. 
_ Died] At Bristol, Sarah, daughter of the 
late John: Atherton, esq. of Yelton.—Mrs, 
Aldridge, wife of Richard A, esq. 
. At Bath, Mr. Charles Fox, formerly a land- 
Scape and miniature painter of Bristol. ‘Lhis 
gentleman will long be remembered by his 
friends, for his mild and unassuming manners, 
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and considerable literary attainments. He 
was born in the year 1749'at Falmouth, at 
which place-he afterwards kept a bookseller’s 
shop. But the greater part of his property 
being consumed by fire, he was induced to fol- 
low the bent of his inclination for the art of 
landscape and portrait painting, The better 
to qualify himself for his profession, and to 
divert hig mind from the painful recollection 
of his misfortune, he accompanied his bro- 
ther, who was the master of a merchant ves- 
sel, in a voyage to the Baltic. Impelled by 
that enthusiasm which is the characteristic of 
a superior mind, he made a tour, alone and 
on foot, through Sweden, Norway, and part 
of Russia, taking views of the wild and su- 
blime scenery which the Norwegian moun- 
toius, the Kol of Sweden and the lakes and 
forests to the northof the Neva, offer to the 
eye of the enthusiast of Nature: / 
Pine cover’d rocks, 
And mountain forests of ccerael shade, 
And glens and vales, on whose green quietness 
The lingering eye reposes, and fair lakes 
That image the light foliage of the beech. 
Southey. 
Many of Mr. Fox’s acquaintance will remem- 
ber the pleasure they once felt.in beholding 
these beautiful productions of his pencil, and 
in hearing him read the manuscript account of 
his travels. He possessed great facility in the ac- 
quirement of languages, and pursued with much 
success the study of oriental literature. His 
collection of oriental m: :wuscripts, was a’con- 
siderable one, and his poems of Hafiz, Sadi, 
Jami, Auvari, Ferdusi, and others: “> Thira-. 
zian gardens, prodigal of blooms,” would fill 
several volumes. About six years ago, he 
had prepared two volumes of poems form the 
Persian for the press But increasing deb bility 
constitution, disqualified him for the labour 
of publication, and he continued toadd to the 
number of his former translations, until with- 
in a short period of his death. In a‘récent 
letter to the writer of this, he says, ** that 
the many disagreeubles of publication are so 
very Opposite to every inducement of writin, 
that they cast a damp upon each generous 
mind, and destroy poetic sentiment. For 
the hapless author has not only to sustain the 
shock of caustic iliberaiity on the one hand, 
but of talents prostituted to the interests 
of certain tooksellers, who require every thing 
to be depreciated in which they have no copy~ 
right, cn the other.” It is to this opinion of 
the dangers of authorship, that we may attyi- 
bute the circumstance of Mr. Fox ‘having 
written so much, yet published so little. In 
1797, he published a volume of poems, *con- 
taining the Plaints, Consolations, and De- 
lights of Achmed Ardeveili, a Persian Exile,” 
which was weli received. This work evinces 
vigour of thought, beauty of expression, and 
elegance of sentiment. The notes afford much 
information on oriental subjects. in 17992, 
Mr. Fox married Miss Feniers, the daughter of 
a Dutch merchant, who survives him. ‘To 
young 
