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blithed. He poffeffed a comprehenfive mind 
and found judgment, which continued to the 
Jaft perfe&t and unimpaired. To the verge of 
life he felt anxioufly ‘warm to the fituation of 
Europe, its politics, interefts, and embarraff- 
ments ; and poffeifed a perfect knowledge of 
every prominent character now 2€ing on that 
great and gloomy theatre: but he never once 
defpaired of the continent furmounting its 
difficulties ; of the fafety of England he did 
not entertainafear. Asa fcholar, Mr. Long 
might be placed in a fuperior clafs ; he was 
generally well read, and was aliowed, by per- 
fons of acknowledged tafe and learning, to 
repeat the Odes of his favourite Horace in 
the true fpirit of that infpired poet ; and that 
with the cleareft recollection, to the lat 
month of his very long lite. His private cha- 
rities were extenfive and unoftentatious ; fo 
that "his death will be proportionably regret- 
ted. . Not many years fince, he renewed the 
leafes of moft of his tenants at their old 
rents, though the eftate had, by a fair efti- 
mation, rifenin value upwards of 100,000lL. 
‘In early life, Mr. Long entered largely into 
the fathionable world, and partook of its va- 
rious pleafures, but never fo far as to ingure 
his conftitution ; and though poffefling a large 
fund of wit, it was fo tempered with good 
humour, that it was never known to hart 
the feelings of a friend, or wound the repu- 
tation of an individual. Though fuch a cha- 
raéter may have pofieffed fome errors that 
imperfect human nature is ever fubject to, 
yet before fo many acknowledged excellencies 
they will fade away and be forgotten; but 
his fleady patrioti{m, his private charities, 
and public munificence, will be long held in 
grateful and affectionate remembrance. His 
gemains were interred in the family vault at 
Whatton, near Melkfham, Wilts. Mr. L. 
has left very few perfonal legacies ; he hav- 
ing outlived a great number of friends, to 
whom in former wills he had beftowed hand- 
fome tokens of his refpeét. The intereft of 
property to the amount of upwards of 200,0001. 
in the funds, and in the banks, together with 
the produce of his vaft eftates, are bequeathed 
to his fifter during her life. ‘The money is 
to be laid out in land, and added to the other 
eftates ; the whole annual income of which, 
at her deceafe, is to be equally divided be- 
tween R. Long, efg. M. P. for Wilts; his 
brother, John Long, efq. of Melkfham ; and 
Daniel Jones, efg., for their refpeCtive lives ; 
then to go to the two furvivors, and after- 
wards tothe laft furvivor. At the demife of 
thofe three gentlemen, it is to concentre in 
the eldeft fon of R. Long, efq. or other male 
heir. 
DORSETSHIRE. 
Died.| At Weymouth, Mrs. Harvey, wife of 
Mr. John H. of the Library. —Mrs. Palmer, 
wife of John Palmer, efg. M.P. 
At Dorchefter, T. Beach, efq. many years 
@n eminent portrait-painter, of Bath, 68. 
hig was a native of Milton-Abbey, a village, 
DorsetshiremDevonshires 
{March I ; 
fince converted into the noble manfion of 
the Earl of Dorchefter. From his earlieft 
years, Mr. Beach evinced a ftrong defire to 
be an artift; and under the patronage of 
the Dorchefter family, he became a pupil to 
Sir Jothua Reynolds, in the year 1760. 
How well he fucceeded under that great 
matter, his works, which, in the neighbour- 
hood of Bath, are-very numerous, will fully 
teftify ; the pi€tures which he painted about 
twenty years ago were certainly executed 
in the happiett periods of his pencils though 
a late performance, a portrait of Dr. Harring- 
ton (from which an excellent mezzotinte 
has been engraved), muft be equally ad- 
mired. His moft celebratéd work is a large 
picture of the domeftics in the fervice of the 
late H. H. Coxe, efq. of Penmore. This 
picture is now in the poffeffion of Sir J. C. 
Hippefley, of Stoneafton. No one can con- 
template this performance, without hefitat- 
‘ing which moft to prefer, the hand of the 
matter or the pupil. To Mr. B.’s profeflional 
excellence, we’ muft add that no man ever 
pofleffed a more friendly and benevolent. dif- 
pofition; he was a good feholar, and ex- 
emplary in the exercife of religion and cha+ 
rity; yet no man more enjoyed the focial 
circle, or more contributed to its mirth. 
DEVONSHIRE. 
At the laft court of governors of the Afy- 
lum for Lunatics, held at Exeter, the re- 
port made was, 15 patients difcharged cured, 
15 out on trial with their friends, 32 in the 
houfe, of whom 12% are much recovered. 
The meeting clofed with an addrefs to the 
public, in which we find the following very 
important obfervation :—=‘* We cannot refrain. 
from anxioufly endeavouring to imprefs on 
the public mind, that infanity fo far from 
being incurable by fcientific and medical 
treatment, as many have unfortunately 
thought, is, perhaps, gf all maladies the 
moft eafily and certainly removed, if attempt- 
ed on its firft appearance, or in its early ftages. 
In this inftitution, no one recent cafe has 
failed to raceive a fpeedy cure. But pfo- 
bably there is not any difeafe incident to 
humanity, in -which neglect or delay is at- 
tended with fo ferious difadvantage and mif- 
chief; fince in fuch cafes, even feclufion 
' from the world, and the moft judicious treat- 
‘ment do not always fucceed, and never with- 
out long perfeverance.” 
Died.| At Plymouth, Lieut.-Colonel 
Hatfield, 70. He diftinguifhed himfelf on 
feveral occafions during the late American 
war, aS commanding officer of the 43d and 
45th grenadiers, and was, in the trueft fenfe 
of the word, a foldier’s friend. 
At Norton-houfe, near Dartmouth, Thomas 
Bond, efg. His death will be greatly lament- 
ed by all who had the happinefs of his ac- 
quaintance, and molt feverely felt by the poor 
in that neighbourhood, to whofe neceflities he 
has for many years moft liberally contribut~ 
ed, Ee was a polite and accomplithed gentle= 
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