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guished characters, he warmly espoused the 
cause of his friend, lord John Townsend, in 
his opposition to Lord Hood. Mr, Ward was 
married in 1772, to Miss Eleonora Hucks, a 
Jady distinguished for personal charms and ac- 
complishments, who died in 1800, and by 
whom he had no children. He has for many 
years entertained atthe Willows, the young 
gentlemen from Eton College,’ on their an- 
nual excursion up the Thames on election Sa- 
turday, and he has frequently on those occa- 
sions been bonowred with the company of 
their majesties, and the younger branches of 
the royaltamily. Mr. Ward, aot having left 
any issue, Orany consanguineous relation, he 
has devised the Willows, and all his real and 
personal property to Patrick Crawfurd Bruce, 
esq.of iaplow Lodge, with whom he has for 
Many years been on the most intimate terms 
of friendship. He has also bequeathed up- 
wards of 20,000/. to his friends, confidential 
clerks, and old servants, several of whom 
have been in his service upwards of twenty 
years, a 
In Thornhaughestreet, Oxias Humphrey, 
esq. R.A. 
The Hou. Wiliiam Frederic Eden, eldest son 
of lord Auckland, M. P. for Woodstock, des 
puty teller of the exchequer, and lieutenant- 
colonel of the St. John’s and St. Margaret’s 
volunteers, 26; This gentleman had been 
missing eVer since the evening of January 
19th, and his body was found in the Thames, 
on February 25th. During this interval, 
every possible enquiry was made, and rewards 
eitered for the discovery of him, by his anxious 
_ parents, Onthe last mentioned day, a barge- 
man perceived the body floating in the river, 
opposite to the Horseferry, Milpank, and con- 
veyed it to the Brown Bear public house. 
From the description of his person and dress, 
previously given in public advertisements, he 
was soon recognized, ‘The meiancholy fate 
ot Mr. Eden is the more dilficulc to be-ac- 
counted for, as in evidence before the coro- 
ner’s inquest, it appeared that there was no 
Sympton of mental derangement in any part 
of his conduct; but that co the very hour of 
his leaving home, he was engaged in trans- 
acting business with that precision and punc- 
tuality tor which he was remarkable. The 
jury returned a special verdict of—Found 
drowned in the river, but by what means the 
body came there, there was no evidence before 
the jury. 
Jn Upper Gower-street, Mrs. Caacellor, wife 
ef John C. esq. 
In St. Ann’s Place, Limehouse, Adam Steen- 
‘Mets, esq. 32. 7 
In Lamb’s Conduit street, the infant son 
of Charles H. Hall, esq. 
In Bulstrode-street, Sir Charles Hoare Han- 
Jand, bart. 
- At Chiswick, Drs. Whalley, relict af the 
Rev. William W. rector of Presteign and Len- 
twardine, = 
_-In Wood-street, Westminster, M47, #Jiam 
Hudson, of the Post Otlice. 
, BS 
Deaths in and near London, 
287 
At Greenwich Hospital, Lieutenant William 
Hunter, brother to admiral H. formerly go- 
vernor of New South Wales, 79. 
At the Parsonage-house, Hampstead, Emily 
Sarah, third daughter of the Rev. Samuel 
White, rector of that parish. 
At Brompton, WV. Stockhouse, esq. late of the 
East India Company’s service at Bombay. 
In Cornhill, Wiliam Wallis, esq. 73. 
In St. Paul’s Churcheyard, Robert Smithy 
esq. 69. 
At Finchley, Mr. H. Pouncy, 88. 
In Cumberland-place, Adrs. Rowe. 
Ta Green-street, Grosvenor-square, Yobr 
Simon Harcourt, esq. of the Ankerwyk branch 
of that noble family. : 
In Kingsland-roail, Adr. Fobn Cocke, for- 
merly of Paternoster-row, bookseller, 79. 
In New-street, Hanover-square, Afes. 
Bromfield, widow of the Rev. Mr. B. of Worm- 
will, Dorset. 
In Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, Sir 
R. Burton, one of the senior benchers of the 
society of Gray’s lan,and late M. P. for Wen» 
dover. - ; 
In Lincoln’s Inn Old Square, E. Warren, 
€S@. Oa 
In Devonshire-place, Maria, second daugh. 
ter of foseph Blake, esq. 
At Hendon, Adr. Debenham, 55. 
In James-sireet, Buckingham Gate, Mrs. 
Colguboun, wife of Patrick C. esq. 
in Westminster, the Rew. Edward Fobua 
Herbert, vicar of Ledbury, Herefordshire. 
At Fulham, at the house of her brother, 
W. Sharpe, esq. Mrs. Prozse, relict of George 
P. esq. of Wishem Park, Northampton, 77. 
In Cornhill, Adr. Fobn Coward, one of the 
preachers of the Philadelphian Chapel, Wind. 
mill-street, Finsbury-square; a firm and, 
zealuus supporter of the doctrine of universal 
restoration: a man of a truly philanthropic 
mind, inflexible integricy, and unaffected sin= 
cerity, 
At Clapham Common, the Hon. Henry Ca 
vendish, cousin of lord George C. and of the 
duke of Devonshire, and one of the most 
eminent chemists and natural philusophers 
of the age. He left funded property 
to the amount of one million two hun-- 
¢red thousand pounds; seven hundred thou= 
sand of which are bequeathed tu Lord G- 
Cavendish, two hundred thousand to the eart 
of Besborough, and the remainder in legacies 
te other branches of the Devonshire family. 
He was the most considerable holder of banic 
stock In England. 
. in Park-street, St. James’s, T. Godfrey, esqe 
M.P. fer Hythe. i 
At Fulham, William Sharpe, esq. 81. 
In Little Bell Alley, Co.einan-street, 
dsaac Du Roveray, esq. 
In Conduit-street, Fobn ALecbusius, €5q. 
In Lower Vhames-street, Ars. Simion, wife 
of William S$. esq. 
In George street, Portman-square, Lady 
Field, rélict of Sir C. V. Fo and daughter of 
9i3 Pruncia Head, of Hermitage, Kent, 
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