1807.] 
they obtained introdactions to the most dis- 
tinguished personages. Mrs. IX., was admit- 
ted to the toilette of the late unfortunate 
Queen of France, by the particular desire of 
the latter. The appearance of a quaker was 
an extraordinary spectacle to that princess, 
who eagerly enquired concerning their tenets 
and acknowledged that these heretics were, 
at Jeast, philosophers. Mr. K. wroteon 
various subjects, philosophical, theological, 
and poetical. Some of her performances have 
been published with her name, but more ano- 
nymously; and it is said, that she modestly 
retained in manuscript far more than she sub- 
mitted to the public. When urged on these 
subjects, she would reply: *¢Even arts and 
sciences are but evanescent splendid vanities, 
if unaccompanied by the Christian virtues.” 
Mr. Boswell has preserved a conversation be- 
tween Mrs. K. and Dr. Johnson, which 
evinces the powers of her mind, and the li- 
berality of her religious opinions, at the same 
time that it reflects very little honour on 
those of herpowerful, but somewhat bigotted, 
opponent. 
In Bithopfgate-ftreet, 14i/s Thomp/on, an ac- 
complifhed young lady, whofe death was oc- 
cafioned by her clothes taking fire. 
At Lambeth, Mrs. Oakley, wife of R. O, 
At his feat at Afhley-park, Surry, Sir Henry 
Fletcher, bart. of Clea hall, near Wigton, in 
Cumberland. This gentleman was born in 
the year 1727, and was brought up in the 
fervice of the Eaft-India Company, two of 
whofe fhips, the Stormont and Middlefex, he 
fucceflively commanded. On retiring from 
that fervice, Captain Fletcher was chofen a, 
dire€tor of the company, and continued to fill 
that office for eighteen years, except when he 
went out by rotatiun. He entered into par- 
liament, as member for the county of Cum- 
berland, in the year 1768, againft a very pow- 
erful influence. 
he married Mifs Lintot, of Southwater, in 
Suffex, by whom he had two children, a fon 
and a daughter. In parliament he efpoufed 
the fentiments of the oppofition, and on the 
acceilion of that party to power, was rewarded 
for his fupport with a patent of baronetage on 
the 20th of May, i782. In 1783, we find 
him approving: of the ‘treaty of peace with 
France, fo far as,related to the fettlements of 
the Eaft-India Company, but in a cautious and 
guarded manner. When Mr. Fox, in Novera- 
ber of the laft-mentioned years introduced his 
éelebrated India Bill; Sir Henry Fletcher was 
nominated one of the feven commiflioners for 
the affairs of Afia. The circumftances which 
occafioned the rejection of that meafure, are 
too well known to be here repeated. In 1796, 
Sir Henry voted with Mr. Fox for a dirett 
cenfure on minifters, on account of having 
advancedl money to the Emperor and the 
Prince of Condé, without the knowledge or 
MonTuiy Maa. No, 197. 
Deaths in and near London, 
juftly to merit that love. 
In O@ober of the fame year, 
497 
confent of parliament. In 1797, he alfo fup- 
ported Mr. Grey, in his motion for a retorm 
in parliament ; but we do not find his name 
in any of the late divifions. Sir Henry con~ 
tinued to reprefent the county of Cumberland 
till the general eleétion of 1806 5 and in him 
that county has loft an active and faithful 
friend. Without flattery it may be afferted, 
that it has fallen to the lot of few men to be 
more generally beloved, and of (till fewer fo 
The bafis of his 
public charaéter was integrity, as was friend- 
fhip of his private character. The good he 
did was from principle. His manners: were 
aftable and unafluming, perfe@tly charagteriftic 
of the fimplicity and reétitude of his heart. 
To his own family he was mof dear, and to 
his tenants an atteCtionate friend. Uniniu- 
enced by the infinuations of the fycophant, he 
never ceafed to be faithful to his own judg. 
ment, and tothe juftice which prompted it. 
This conduét gained him the efteem of men of 
-underftanding, and caufed him to be looked up 
to with deference in the legiflative affembly 
of the nation. Sir Henry is fucceeded in his 
title by his only fon, of the fame name as 
himfelf. 
At Windsor, the Right Rewerend ‘Fobn 
Douglas, D. D. F.R.S. and A. S. lord bishop 
of Salifbury and chancellor of the order of the 
garter. This distinguished prelate and vete- 
ran in literature was a native of Scotland, and 
was born about the year 1719. His firft edu- 
cation was at Glasgow, from whence he re- 
moved to Baliol College, Oxford, where he 
obtained a fellowship and proceeded to the de- 
gree of master arts, October 14, 1743. He 
accumulated the degrees of bachelor and doc- 
tor in divinity, May 6, 1758. Not long after 
his entering into holy orders he obtained the 
rectory of Eaten Constantine, in Shropshire, 
on the presentation of the Earl of Bradford. 
Mr Douglas was at this time tutor to the 
son ef the Earl of Bath, and therefore resided 
‘but little upon his living. His. firft literary 
adventure was very auspicious. In i747, 
William Lander. a native of Edinburgh, and a 
man of considerable talents and learning, ex- 
cited general attention by publishing through 
the medium of the Gentleman’s. Magazine, 
a paper, to which he: gave the utle of 
‘(an Essay on Milton’s Use and Imitation of — 
the Moderns: the design of which was ta 
prove that our great epic poet had made free 
with the works of some obscure Latin peets of 
modern date in the composition of his immor= 
tal poem of Paradise Loft. Answers were 
given to this essay through the same channel, 
but they failed of their object in vindicating 
the fame of Milton, because none of thern 
pointed out the frauds of which his calumnia- 
tor had been guilty. Flushed with his suc- 
cess, Lander ventured in 1750 to publish his 
Essay at large in. separate fori, in which he 
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