DIED. 
In Upper Grafton-ftreet, Fitzroy-fquare, 
George Wright, efg. many years a major in 
the fervice of the Kat India Company. 
In Parfon-flreet, Wellclofe-ftquare, Mrs. 
Wackerbarth, wite of George W. cfg. - 
In Ruffel-place, W. Tennant, e/g. of Pale 
Lanarkfhire and Stanmore, Middlefex. 
At Cheltea, W. Ranfom, ef7. 
At Hounllow, ¥. Prefton, cfg. 78. 
At Walthamttow, T. Weather bead, ef. 
In Old Broad ftreet, William Stevens, ef9s 
in King’s-roed, Bedford-row, Hollis Ed- 
wards, e/g. 86. | 
Ip Lower Thornhaugh-ftreet, Mrs. Sandell, 
widow of Mr. Jofeph S., 71. 
At Kenfington Palace, Peggen Hale, e/g. 
banker of Bond-ftreet. 
In Abingdon-ftreet, Mrs. Pownall, widow 
of John P., efq. commiffioner of the cuf- 
toms. 
In Portland-place, Mrs, Berry, relict of 
Samuel B., efq. land-furveyor of the cuftoms, 
and fitter of the late Dr. Plomer, 83.— 
~ James Law, efq. 
In Millman-ftreet, Bedford-row, Mr. 
Francis Bifbop Wells, 33; and a few days af= 
terwards at the fame place, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Wells, his mother, 79. 
In Parliament-ftreet, William Rock, .efg. 77. 
In Park-ftreet, Grofvenor-fquare, Henry 
Sutherland, efg. one of the pages of the pre- 
fence to her Majefty, 87. 
In Poland-ftreet, in confequence of her 
clothes accidentally taking fire, Mrs. Simifon, 
wife of Mr. S. attarney. 
At Stamford-hill, Mr. William Holdfworth, 
formerly of the Bank of England, 69. 
Mr, Samuel Angler, veterinary furgeon, of 
the Edgware-road He had gone out on 
horfeback to St. Alban’s and the adjacent 
places on bufinefs, and was found, not quite 
dead, but fenteledfs, at midnight, by the driver 
of a hay-cart on the Watford-road. His 
head was much bruifed owing in all proba- 
bility to a fall from his horfe. 
At Chelfea, Samuel Wyatt, efg. brother of 
the celebrated architect. 
In Brunfwick-fquare, Mrs. Gooch, wife of 
George G. efq. 
Edward Gilterd, efg. formerly a wholefale 
ftationer in Watling-ftreet 
At Greenwich, at the houfe of her brother- 
in-law, General Borthwick, Mrs. Mary Lind, 
eldeft fifter of the late John L., efg. of Lin- 
coln’s Inn. 
; = Turnham-green, Philip Neill, efg. bar- 
rifter. 
In Hinde-ftreet, Barone/s Dufferin and 
Claneboyne, of the county of Down, Ireland. 
AtEdmonton, aged 38, Adrs. Bigg, wife 
of Mr. B., attorney, of Hatton-ftreet. The 
fate of this lady is fingularly calamitous. A 
few days before, as the was aflifting in truff- 
ing a wild duck, in confequence of her cook 
having abruptly left her, the point of the 
dkewer ran into the bail’ of her thumb, con- 
Montury Mac., No, 154, 
Deaths in and near London. 
-with Uncle Toby. 
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veying with it fome of the putrefied matter 
of the bird, which brought ona mortification 
that terminated in her deatti. 
In Gloucefter-place, New Road, after 
long lingering under a confumption, Francis 
Gould, e/g. principal proprietor of the Opera- 
houfe, in the Hay-market. - He bore an 
amiable charaéter, and is much regretted by 
all who knew him. His acquaintance with 
perfons in fafhionable life was very exten- 
five; during the time he aflifted in conduct- 
ing the affairs of the Opera, it proved ex- 
ceedingly lucrative, and he obtained the ap- 
probation of the nobility and gentry. He 
is fuppofed to have died poffeffed of confi~ 
derable property. He was married a few 
days before his death to Milfs Skedgall, a 
lady to whom he had been attached, and 4 
niece of Mr. Kelly, of the Opera-houfe. 
At Wand{worth, William Walker, ef. 
In Francis-ftreet, Bedford-fquare, Alex- 
ander Watt, cfq. 
In Great George-ftreet, Mrs. Hofier, wife 
of John H. efq. 
Francis William Montagu, fecond fon of 
Matthew M. efq. of Portman fquare, 18. 
At his apartments in the Haymarket, Gee 
neral fobn Reid. This officer, the oldeft in 
the fervice, was in his 87th year. In his 
youth he ferved in the 42d Highland regi- 
ment, the gallant corps who annihilated Na- 
poleon’s foidifant Invinciblesin Egypt. In the 
meridian of his life he was efeemed the bet 
gentleman German-ilute performer in Eng- 
land : he was alfo particularly famed for his 
tafte in the compofition @6f military mufic. 
His marches are fill much admired. It is 
faid he has bequeathed a {um nearly amount- 
ing to 30,0001. to eftablith a fund for the de- 
cayed muficians of Scotland, and their indie 
gent children. By the death of General 
Reid, there is a vacancy in the coloneicy ef 
the 88th regiment. 
At Clapham, William Chivers, efg. This 
gentleman who acquired a confiderable for~ 
tune in the wine trade, had for feveral years 
retired from the hurry of bufinefs intending 
to fpend the remainder of his life in focial 
retirement at an elegant refidence on Clap- 
ham Common. Mr. C., was no mean bota- 
nift, and was pafionately devoted to horti- 
cultural purfuits; in fhort, his garden was 
his hobby-horle ; and by a natural confes 
quence, his gardener was with him as fami- 
liar and as important as Corporal Trim was 
One morning Mr. C. 
took his accuftomed and favourite walk, and 
obferving his gardener employed in digging | 
a piece of ground in which he had previoully 
enjoined hiin not to isiterfere, as he intended 
to devote it tu the reception of fome choice 
and valuable exotics, he remonftrated with 
him, as from mafter and fervant, on this difo~ 
hedience of exprefs directions. The gardener 
returned an infolent reply; upon which Mr. 
C. calmly obferved, “ Well, John, as we ara 
not likely to agree on this fubject, you had 
Aé better 
