1807.] 
Sn the tafte which led him to feleét, and the 
judgment which enabled him to appreciate, 
the literary productions which were, from 
time to time, prefented to him. Although 
frequently folicited, and amply qualified, to 
fill fituations of public truft and refponfibility, 
it is a well known faét, that he uniformly 
declined to accept any office of this kind. It 
need fcarcely be added, that he kept aloof 
from all party difcuffions, and political diffen- 
fions, although diftinguifhed, upon every 
gieat queftion, as a warm friend to the inva- 
luable conftitution of his country. In private 
life, Mr. Bell was humane, charitable, and 
unoftentatious, uniting to a copious fund of 
information and good fenfe, a benevolence of 
heart, and chearfulnefs of temper, peculiarly 
his own. He continued in the active duties 
of his profeflion till within a very fhort pe- 
riod of his death, and preferved his faculties 
unimpaired to the laft. He was one of the 
original promoters of the Society of Bookfellers 
of Edinburgh and Leith, and was the firft 
who filled the fituation of Prefes of that fo- 
ciety, Ata meeting of the committee, held 
on the 29th of September, the fullowing pro- 
pofal was made by Mr. Conftable, the prefent 
Prefes, and unanimoufly approved of ; and 
with it we fhall conclude this fhort fketch of 
the chara¢ter of Mr. Bell: ‘* The fociety 
having recently fuftained a very afflicting lofg 
in the death of one of its oldeft and worthieft 
members, Mr. John Bell, it is propofed 
that, at the next general meeting, all 
the members fhall appear in mourning, asa 
fmall tribute of refpect to the memory of one 
who has, for half a century, held a diftin- 
guifhed place among his brethren, and whofe 
name will never be forgotten while integrity 
and uprightnefs are held in, eftimation among 
men.” 
IRELAND. 
Married.| Jofeph Fox, efy. of Doolifton, 
Meath, to Mifs Frances D’Arcy,of Hydepark, 
Weftmeath. 
AtCavan, Robert Crawford, efg. furveyor 
of Excife, aged 80 years, to Miss Sarah Gra- 
ham, only daughter of the late Francis G. 
efq. aged 15 years. 
At “Limerick, Thomas Swyny, efq. licut. 
in the 25th regt. of foot, to Miss Catherine 
Cecilia Glifan, daughter to William Glifiun, 
efqg. of Fermoy. 
Died.] In Dublin, Lord Carbery, who fuc- 
ceeded to chat title about a year ago. His 
lordfhip was the fifth baron, and has left two 
daughters, the Hon. Mrs, Prefton, and the 
Hon. Mrs. Barry 5 but dying without male 
iffue, the title devolves to his relative Sir 
John Evans Freke.—Alice, Countefs of Wick- 
low, reliét of the late Lord Viscount W. 69. 
—~John Allen, efg. 81. He was one of the 
oldeft merchants in that city, and a. director 
ofthe bank of Ireland, fince the firft efta- 
blifhment. 
Mrs. Walth, wife of the Dean of Dromore. 
_This lady was one of the cu-heireffes of the 
Treland. 
303 
late Theobald Wolfe, efq. and covwfin to the 
late Lord Kilwarden. 
Suddenly, Brice, Earl of Milltown, 72, 
who fueceeded his brother Jofeph, the late 
Earl, November 27th, 1801. He is fucceede 
ed to his title and eftates by his grandfon, 
who entered his 8th year, on the 11th of 
February. This young nobleman is the fon 
of Jofeph Leefon, efq. eldeft fon of the late 
Earl, who died before his father came to the 
title; and Emily, grand-daughter of General 
Douglas. The young, Far) has a brother, 
Henry Talbot, born in 1800; and a fifter 
Cecilia, born in 1801, fhortly. after the death 
of her father. 
Mr. Stewart, a favourite but unfortunate 
fon of Thefpis. With all his failings he 
had alfo a fund of generolity and philans 
thropy which fhould have ob{cured his 
faults from the refearches of his traducers 3 
he was a good fon, and in that capacity de- 
ferves the unqualified praife of thofe who 
knew his conduét to his father. Malignity, 
aided by the indiferetions incident to human 
nature, perverted in a great degree the men- 
tal faculties of poor Stewart; melancholy 
fucceeded violence ; and dumb forgetfulnefs, 
relieved only by incoherent recolle€tion, 
finally clofed the f{cene of this once favoured 
and eftablifhed comedian. He -was about 
35 years of age; and had been a confiderable 
part of that time upon the ftage, but, until 
the produ€tion of O’Keele’s ** Wicklow 
Gold Mines,” did not rife abeve mediocrity 5 
from that period (1794) he diftinguithed 
himfelf in low comedy, and ultimately be- 
came a prominent favourite with the Dublin 
audience. He has left a young widow preg- 
nant (the late Mifs Gri Fiths ) cand two chil- 
dren. 
Ar Beltaft, Mrs. White, wife of Mr. W..of 
the Belfaft theatre ; a woman of moft exem- 
plary conduct and meeknefs of  difpofi- 
tion, which gained and fecured her the love 
and efteem of all who knew her. She was 
one of tke infant pupils of the celebrated 
Garrick, and her father (a Mr. Simpfon, of 
Aberdeen in Scotland, where Mrs) W. has 
left feveral near relations, of the moft re- 
fpeCable families) was Mr. G.’s ‘ailiftane 
and particular fiend. Mr. Garrick brought 
her out in the chara¢ter of Violante, in the 
Wonder! a Woman keeps a Secret, at the 
age of fourteen, with his Don Felix, in waich 
fhe proved very fuccefsful; having, in her 
infant years, performed all the principal chil- 
dren’s parts with that. great man. She con- 
tinued but a fhort timg in the profeflion, when 
fhe was married to Chayles Fleetwood, eq. 
fon of the old patentee of that name of Drv- 
ry-lane theatre, who thortly afer. died ag 
Bengal in the Eaft Indies; where, on his 
arrival, he was inrormed of the deceatfe of his 
wiie’s brother, a fhort time, before at Madras, 
a Captain Joho Simpfon, in the army 
White being defrauded of all the propercy 
left her, which was confiderable both by her 
0q2 brothcg 
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