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better retire to the houfe, receive your 
wages, and go about your bufinefs!’"” The 
inhuman gardener immediately raifed’ his 
fpade and ftruck his defencelefS matter fo 
violent a blow between the right cheek and 
eye, that the infrument penetrated confider- 
ably intothe head. ‘The gardener then raz 
off towards Clapham, and fome time after- 
wards Mr. C. was accidentally difcovered by > 
his fervant, bleeding profufely on the ground. 
Mr. Railton, aneighbour to:Mr. C., inftantly 
difpatched an exprefs to the_public office, 
Bow-freet. Mr. Graham-difpatched Rivett 
and Miller, two very active officers ma pott - 
_chaife for the purpofe of fecuring the delin- 
‘quent; but, previoufly to their arrival at 
Clapham, tie: had lieen apprehended, and 
conveyed to\Union Hall, m the borough. 
The requiliteuivettigation was entered upon, 
daring which the mayiftrates were informed 
by the fargeon, that after languifhing three 
hours, Mr. ©. was dead! The gardener 1s 
fully committed te take his trial for the mur- 
der. 
In Queen-ftreet; Edgware-road, Mr. IV2/- 
fam Taplin, veterinary furgeon, well known 
for his publicatious on fubjeéts connected 
with his profeilion. In 1788 appeared the 
firt volume of ‘* The gentleman’s Stable Di- 
rectory,” which was followed by a fecond. 
In 1796 he pablithed, ‘*A Compendiam of 
Praétical and Experimenta! Farriery,” in an 
o¢tavo volume. Thefe books have been fa- 
vourably received notwithfanding the fome- 
what pompous aud infiated manner of. the 
author, which is but ill-adapted to the infor- 
mation of perfons for whom they were de- 
figned. They are however likely tobe of ge- 
néeral urility. The laft avowed publication 
of Mr. f. was his ‘*Sporting Dictionary,” in 
two octave volumes which appeared about 
the vear i804. He was we believe the edi- 
tor of the ‘* Sportfman’s Cabinet,” a tplea- 
did work in twe volumes, royal quarto, cun- 
taining a hiftory and defcription of the vari- 
ous fpecies of the canine racé. About two 
years fince family affliction began to impair 
his faculties, and troim that period his health 
gradually declined. 
At Wimbledon, Sir Stephen Lufbington, bast. 
This gentleman was the third fon of .the 
Rev. Dr. Henry L., formerly vicar of Fatt 
Bourne, Suffex. His father having a nume- 
rous family, determined to fend Stephen 
abroad to pufa his fortune, and he accord- 
ingly repaired: to the Eaft Indies in the civil 
fervice of the company. Here we believe he 
had the misfortune to be one of the unhappy 
captives, who, on the taking o7 Calcutta by 
the nabob of Bengal were confined during the 
deftrnuttive nightof the 20th of June, 17.36, in 
the Black Hole, where 125 out of 146 pe- 
tifaed. If we: are not miinformed it was 
this gentleman who is mentioned by Mr. 
Holwell in his account of what paffed on that 
horrid night, in the fotlowing words :——“* One 
of my miferable companions, on the right of 
Deaths in and near London. — 
[March ¥, 
me obferved, that I allayed my thir by 
fucking uy fhirt-fleeve; and _thereupor 
robbed me ftronr time to time of a confidera~: 
ble part of my ftore’; though alter 1 detected 
hm, I] had ever the addreis to begin on that 
fleeve firt,' when I thought my refervoirs 
were fulliciently replenithed; and our mouths 
and netes often met in the conteit. This 
plunderer, 1 afterwards found, was a young 
gentleman im the fervice, Mr. L., one of the 
few wlio furvived, and fince afured me fhat 
he believed he owed his life-to the many 
comfortable draughts he had from- my 
fleeves.”—=-Atter this narrow efcape he con~ 
tinued to refide for many years in Afia, 
where he proved more fortunate than his 
elder brother, who, with many other Englifh 
fubjeéts was put to death by the Nabob— 
Coflim Ah Cawn, at Patna. Bring this pe- 
tind he held feveral high and confidential 
fittiations, and at length returned to his na- 
tive country, where he married Mifs Boldero, 
_ the eldeft daughter of John B., efq. of Afhen- 
den Hall, in Hertlordthire, and an eminent 
banker in the city of London, by whom he ~ 
had a numerous family of ten children, five 
fons and five daughters. He was created a 
barenet in 1791, and fat im feveral “parlia- 
ments, having been elected for Helfton in - 
1790, St. Michael’s in 2796, and Penrhyn in 
1302. Sir Stephen has alfo for many years 
aéted as a direttor of the Eat India Com- - 
pany, and occupied both the chairs at the | ~ 
India-houle. . In 1790 when the queftion re- 
lative to, the abatement ef the impeachment 
of Mr. Haftings was agitated, Sir Stephen, ~ 
who was then chairman of the court of di- 
rectors, bore teftimony to the merits of the | 
adminiftration of the late governor general. 
Of late he has not taken an ative part in’ 
public affairs. For many years Sit Stephen had ~ 
been afflicted with the gout, but experienced 
no uncommon change of health, tila few 
days previous to his diflolution. 
Fokhn Hayman Packer, of Drury-lane thea- 
tre, was born March 21, 1730, in the Strand, - 
and ferved ‘his time to his father, a fadler, in 
Glats-houfe- ftreet. 
ftage at Neweattle, in 1754, under the name 
of Hayman, and firft played m London in 
1758, at Covent Garden in the parts of John- 
fon inthe Rebearfal, and of the Frenchman 
in Lethe. 
tember that year, Selim. in the Mourning 
Bride; and aiterwards performed Cateiby in 
Richard ILE. with Garrick, and continued to 
perform in almoft every piece wherein Gar- 
rick appeared till he quitted the ftage, im - 
1776. Mr. Packer for more than fifteen 
years had but forty fhillings weekly, for 
twelve years he had three pounds, then four. 
He could read {mall print by moonlight, and 
never ufed glafles but to-fee diftaut objects, 
and it was the reward of his temperaace that 
he. never loft a tooth. He kept a journal of 
his life from the day he left his father’s 
houfe till his death; and a book in which he — 
entered. 
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He appeared on the 
He played at Drury-lane in Sep- > 
