_ their benefactor. 
render character amiable and life refpectable, 
his death is regretted by all who knew him, 
but efpecially lamented by his friends ; for 
thefe who knew him bett efteemed him moft. 
His profeffion enabled him to exercife hu- 
manity for the beft of purpofes, and the poor 
know not how much they have loft in. this 
His great attainments 
gave him fuperiority, but he never claimed 
it, for his humility was exemplary, He had 
not completed his 32d year, yet had laid 
up larger ftores of knowledge than moft men 
who have arrived at double that.age. In a 
word, he was learned without pride, humane 
without. oftentation, and humble without 
meannefs. To fay more might look like flat- 
tery; but the writer of this, who knew him 
well, is certain it would be unjuft to fay 
lefs. 
At Sparfholt, Thos. Gubbit, efg. 
SOMERSETSHIRE,. 
The committee of the Bath Penitentiary 
have addrefled the public on the clofe.pf the 
firtt year of their inftitution.  ** Convinced, 
{fay they) as the committee are of the ia 
ficulty there may be in determining, with 
certainty, the progrefs of the improvement 
of the heart, or the growth of the religious 
principle in the foul; they are fenfible, 
that it becomes them ta fpeak with diffidence 
on the real moral and religious ftate of the 
fix young women, who are now the objects 
ef their care. But, they have the fatisfaction 
of faying, if apparent piety and devotion; 
if uniform decency of manners and converfa- 
tion; if exemplary -induftry and attention 
in the bufinefs which employs their time 5 
and affetionate refpect co the matron who ' 
fuperintends them ; be fair grounds for conclud- 
ing that conviétion of paf errors, fentiments of 
contrition, and refelution of amendment, have 
a€tually taken place in the minds of the 
penitents; the committee may then aflure 
themfelves, that the blefling of God has 
defeended on their endeavours to befriend 
thefe outcafts of fociety ; and that their wel. 
fare, both temporal and eternal, is likely 
“to be enfured, by the advantages which this 
~afylum has afforded them. Whilft the com- 
mittee perform the painful tafk of reporting 
the death of one of the young women after 
her reception into the Penitentiary; they- 
beg leave to add, that they found confolation 
under the melanchely event, in reflecting on 
the benefits they had been enabled to afturd 
to the unfortunate individual, and on the 
falutary impreflion which her awful example 
evidently produced on the minds of the 
other penitents. They look back with 
fomething more than pleafure on the cir- 
cumftances of their having given fhelter to 
-ahelplefs and devoted female, emaciated by 
‘difeafe, and bowed. down with affliction 5 
of their having foothed the forrows of a 
broken heart, and quieted the agitations of 
a ditturbed confcience of their having re- 
" 
*vived religious imprefions which had beca 
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long forzotten ; s and infpired hopes of mercy 
and pardon, which were of power fuflicient 
to foften the pains of decaying nature, and 
to triumph over the terrors of impending 
diflolution. Fhe exa& economy by which 
the expences of the houfe have been regu- 
lated, will be he& eftimated, by a reference 
to its receipts and dilburfements; and by 
the recolleétion ghat eight females, on an 
average, have been fupported from February, 
1806, to the Boe mt time, for the fum of 
172]. 12s. 11d. 3. the remainder of the ¢o- 
nations and fubfetiptions, which conftituted 
the funds of the infitution, having bees 
difburfed in the purchafe of furniture, and 
in defraying thofe contingent charges, which 
would necelffarily be incurred on the com- 
mencement of fuch an eftaalifhment as the 
Bath Penitentiary, ‘The tetal amount of the 
receipts, from December 20th 1805, te Decem- 
ber 20, 1806, is 5471. 14s. 4d. and the expendi 
ture, the greater portion o which was incurred 
by repairs, furniture, &c. on the firft eftablith. 
ment of the inftitution is 5651. 14s. 6d. 
Married.|. At Bath, Captain Goldfinch, 
of the Oxfordhire Militia, to Mifs Auffing 
daughter of the late Rev. Hugh Williams 4. 
of Barbadoes.—Captain Elwin, of the 44t'a 
regiment, to Mifs M<‘Glathan, only daugk- 
ter of John M‘G, efy. late of Jamaica. 
At Clevedon, Henry Hallam, efq. com- 
mitlioner of ftamps, to Mifs Elton, eldett 
daughter of Sir Abraham FE. 
Died.j At Bath, Rorert Gardiner, efg. 
56.—Mrs. Rodd, wife of Colonel R. of Tre- 
bartha Halil, Cornwall.—Ax the houfe of 
his daughter, the Hon, Mrs. Hewett, Thos, 
trettell, efg — The lady of Wyndharn 
Knatchbull, efy. fifter to. Sir Edward K. - 
At his houfe in Gay-ftreet, at the advanced 
age of 95, Walter Long, efg. ofa very ax- 
cient and retpectable Wiltfhire family. The 
wealth of this gentleman, landed, funded, 
and otherwife, may be juttly termed im- 
menfe, Notwitlftanding his habits were ge- 
nerally fuppofed to be parfimenious, yet on 
numerous occafions he was generous and oX%~ 
tremely liberal. Yo many public and lovaf 
fubfcriptions he contributed with exemplary 
readinefs and fpirit ; and tow ards the rebuild- 
ing of St. James’s church in Bath, he 
gave the fum of S001. About 35 years az, 
on account of his prudentially relinguithins 
an inconfiderate promife of marriage that he 
had made to the accomplithed Mifs Lintey 
(the'‘late Mrs. Sheridan), he was brought on 
the ftage, in the character of Mr. Flint in 
the Maid of Bath, by that unfparing fatir#t, 
Samuel Foate. In bhe Fear 7 64; he ferved 
the office of high’ fheviff for the county si 
Wilts. He was, the following year, a cah- 
-didate to reprefent the city of Bath in Par- 
liament, In oppofition to the late John Smith, 
efq, of Combhay 5 he loft his election by one 
vote only, which vote was atterwards the 
fubjeét of contention in the Honte of Cum- 
mons, where its validity was ultimately o?- 
blithed 
