80 Deaths in and near London [Feb. 1, 
pre-eminent in the circle of his conneftions, 18th of November OS) 1745. His early 
for every thing which renders a man eftima- education, both at fchool and in bufinefs, he 
ble in his family and in fociety. In the one received under the late well-known Mr. 
he was the centre of domeftic order, affe€tion, Fuller, once a fchoolmafter and afterwards 
and happinefs; in the other, his memory a banker in Lombard-ftreet. Into his office’ 
will be cherifhed with high refpe€t and plea- he was introduced when a very young man, 
fure, by the few who enjoyed his acquain- and afterwards, viz. in the year 1771, went 
tance; and with grateful recolle€tion by the inte that of the late Mr. Welch upon his 
many who partook of his extenfive benefi- feparating trom Mr. Fuller, and eftablithing 
cence. It has been obferved by one who the hovfe in Cornhill, into which Mr. Olding 
Enew him intimately, and who is yery capa- 
ble of appreciating his example, that it is 
peculiarly worthy of being exhibited to fur- 
was fometime after received as a partner, 
and continued fo-till his death. His remains 
were interred in the family burying place 
vivors, becaufe it is not like many which are under the diflenters’ meeting-houfe in Butt- 
held up to the admiration of mankind, too lane, Deptford; on which eccafion, an ap- 
far removed from the common fphere to ad- propriate funeral fervice was given with much 
soit of imitation. Whatever indeed, is wor affection, by his long efteemed friend the 
thy of emulation in a found underftanding, Rev. Samuel Palmer, of Hackaey. He was 
early and affiduoufly cultivated by judicious three times married, and has left a widow; 
reading and fele@ fociety; in a mind deeply alfo four furviving children by his fecond 
imbued with the principles, and habitually wife. Whilf they cherith their father’s 
regulated by the influcnce of evangelical re- memory with filial reverence and affection, 
jigion ; evincing its undeviating uprightnefs may they copy his example and enjoy an 
and integrity by an uniform confiftercy of equal portion of the eiteem in which he 
‘conduct, and by the moft engaging franknefs' was held by the wife and good of every de- 
ef demeanour: in a heart warmed with al]. nomination. 
the benevolence of genuine chriftian charity, [ Further account of Sir Robert King mill, 
beth im principle and in fentiment, and ce- Bart. Admiral of the Red, 75.—This gentle- 
Hiyhting in the exercifing of perfonal and man, whofe original name was Price, was the 
focial virtues: in.a word, whatever claims defcendant of a very ancient and refpectable 
eur efteem or imitation in the chara&ter of family long fettled at the town of Belfaft, in 
an honeft and amiable man, dil gent, punc- Iteiand: he was born about the year 173¢. 
tual, confeientious, and liberal in his com- Having from his earlief infancy diiplayed a 
mercial engagements, a tender hufoand, a  predile€tioa in favour of a naval life, he was 
wife and affe€tionate parent and brother, a inculged by his parents in that propenfity, 
kind mafier, a generous fricnd, anda fincere and accordingiy entered at a proper age into 
€hriftian, was really exemplified in the fub- the royal navy.. In the fubordinate zanks of 
3eQt or this account. ‘The appellation of midfhipman and mafter’s mate he conitantly 
Cbrifian he confidered the highet fyle of difpiayed a diligent attention to the duties of 
man, and it would be unjuft equally to his ftation, as well as care, and a conviction 
him, and to the religion which he loved, of the necefiity of it, far ‘beyond what has 
end the profeffion of which he ftudioufly ard generally appeared inthe charatter of youth. 
diligently adorned by his exemplary condu€&t, Such having been the promifing outline and 
mot to acknowledge that his charaéter was 
formed upon the madel of the gofpel__ The 
holy icriptures were the fubje€ of his daily 
and delightful contemplation. With all 
humility and gratitude he received and’ em- 
braced them as revealing the rule of his life, 
the objets of his faith, and the grounds of 
thofe cenfolations and hopes which tupported 
him under the preffure of afli@tion, and in 
the proipe& of death and eternity. That 
habitual reverence for his bible, which he 
had imbibed from. the inftruCtions of his 
@arents, he afterwards maintained on the iffue 
of perfonal and ferious enquiry, and incul- 
cated on all proper occafions in his inter- 
courfe with his children and friends. He 
poiletied conficerable powers of converfation, 
and according tu the obfervation of this ju- 
dicious friend befure alluded to, excelied in 
the art of giving to it a profitable dire@ion, 
. without violating the teelings or awakening 
the prejudices of thofe who were not pre- 
pared for fuch a bias. Mr. Olding was the 
ion of the lateRev. John Olding, of Deptford, 
and was born in the city of Gioucefter en the 
traits of his condudt, he was very defervedly 
appointed a lieutenant on the 2 th of April, 
3756. By an unremitting perfeverance in 
the fame fteps, he eftablifhed his own credit, 
and acquired the efteem, the confidence, and 
tie love of all his fuperiors. After remain- 
ing from the commencement of the war, 
till the beginning of the year 1761, without 
obtaining any advancement, a circumftance 
which he endured not only without muamur, 
but without manife‘ting any other kind of 
impatience than what was produced by the 
hone wifh of diftinguithing himfelf in the 
fervice of his country more confpicuoufly than 
the ftation which he then was in permitted, 
he was at the end of thé month of January 
fent tu fea for the fir& time in an independent 
ftation, as acting commander of the Swallow 
floop of war. His very outfet in life as a 
naval commander, was attended with one of 
thofg fuccefies, which, though trivial in- 
themfelves, are confidered even by perio 
whofe minis foar above fuperttition, 2s omi- 
nous of profperity; at leaft they ferve as incen- 
tives to exertion, Being employed acpuape 
