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1805, ] 
applying himfelf to the practice of the law, 
foon arrived at the head of his profeflion, a 
fituation which he maintained till he was 
called to the chair of the houfe of commons, 
in 177%. On his quitting the chair of the 
houfe of commons, inthe year 1785, he was 
raifed to the peerage, and a penfion of 3oool. 
a year was at the fame time, by the unani- 
mous defire of the houfe, and without any 
folicitation on his part, fettled upon him for 
life. 
At Edmonton, Mis. Adams, wife of Mr 
John A. teacher of ths ~nathematics. The 
charms of a cultivated mind, and a delicate 
fenfibility of foul, with ali thofe attraGtions 
which invite domeftic happinefs, have ftamp- 
ed upon the hearts of her forrawing friends @ 
moft lovely impreffion of the life of this 
lady. Asa wife, how tender! as a mother, 
how affeftionate! as a woman, how exem- 
plary ! i 
At Mr. Bonomi’s houfe, in Titchfield, 
ftreet, where be hadibeen kindly and hofpi- 
tably received, the celebrated artift Fames 
Barry, efq. As his relations were not 
known, and were prefumed to be in Ireland, 
Or in other parts out of England, and his 
houfe was in a ftate of great infecurity and 
dilapidation, a few of his moft intimate 
friends met on the fame evening to confider 
of the beft meafures to be taken for the fafety 
of his property, till a communication of the 
event could be made to his next of kin. It 
was agreed at this meeting, that!ona fubfe- 
quent day, as many of his friends as could 
attend fhould affemble at his houfe, and in- 
fpe& his effeéis.°' Notice of the circum- 
ftance being piven to’ the magiftrates, at 
the Police-office, in Great Marlborough.. 
flreet, a careful fearch was made for a will, 
which has not yet been found, and all his 
manufcript papers, his ‘prints and drawings, 
his celebrated Pandora, his copper-plates, and 
fuch of his paintings as were the moft valu- 
able, were removed to the houfes of fome 
of his friends. The houfe was committed to 
the care of the Police-oflice, and the mof 
effectual fteps have been taken to preferve 
the reft of the property, and to apprize his 
relations of his deceafe.—[ Particulars of bis 
life and character witl be given in our next. ] 
At his houfe at Iflington, atthe advanced 
age of 75, Mr. Peter King. For fome years 
previous to his death, Mr. King. difplayed 
numerous peculiarities in his manner of live 
ing, which, while they were perfeétly inno- 
cent, ferved, by ‘the occupation they aftord- 
ed his mind, to fmooth che path he was tra- 
vellingon to eternity. Mr. K. was born of 
poor, but very reputable parents, at Ham- 
merfmith, and was very early placed out by 
them as fhop-boy to a hatterand hofierin the 
Strand, After having ferved his mafter, 
who was a kind and very indulgent man, for 
f yeral years, with great diligence, credit, 
ari honefty, and having on ell occafions 
{raved himfelf moft perfectly gruft-worthy, 
ames Barry, Lfg.—Mr. Peter King. Q7) 
he, with his mafter’s confent, married a very 
refpectable young woman who lived in the 
neighbourhood, and had. gained his afleéti-_ 
ons. He very foon after, with his mafter’s 
affiftance, and by the help of the fmall for- 
tune he had obtained with his wife, fet up 
in bufinefs for himfelf in Holborn, where, by 
his modeft deportment, frugality, and unre- 
mitting attention to his bufinefs, in which 
he was amply feconded by his worthy fpoufe, 
he in procefs of time acquired a very com- 
fortable competency, which, together with 
the purehafe money for the good-will of his. 
fhop, enabled him to quit his bufinefs, and 
to live at eafe, in decent refpedtability, for 
theiremainder of his days. He retired to 
“Yiington, where he hired a fmall houfe for 
himfelf and wife, never haying had any 
children. Not having the ufual avocations 
to fill up. his time, and the number of his 
acquaintance being rather fcanty, he found 
this new mode of life, though more digni-. 
fied, not altogether fo confiftene with his 
happinefs as he expected it would have been. 
Other amufements failing him, he began, 
foon after his retirement, to beftow unufual 
care upon his drefs. In his y>uth, when it 
was the fafhion to wear laced clothes, he had 
frequently betrayed ftrong marks of admi- 
ration at the happinefs that he conceived 
muft accompany the being fo finely drefied ; 
but the indulging himfelf in this way was 
effe@ually checked by the narrow ftate of 
his finances. In oldage this paffion for drefs, 
as early recolleétions in other people, re- 
turned upon him with redoubled vigour 3 and 
he began, foon after his retirement from bu- 
finefs, to indulge himfeif in fine clothes to 
a mot immaecderate extent. At firft he ufed 
to walk out in the town in his laced clothes: 
but this attraéted the attention of idle boys,. 
who, upon his appearance, gathered in crowds 
about him, to admire what the being with- 
out would, not many years ago, have been 
almoft equally an object of fingularity—his 
laced clothes. He at length found it necef- 
'fary to confine himfelf to his own territos 
ries; preferring to deprive himfelf of his ac- 
cuftomed perambulations, to the parting, for 
a moment, with any of his finery. He wag 
now almoftunceafingly occupied in devifing new 
modes of adorning his perfon, his worthy wite 
never attempting to check this propenfity, but 
‘rather encouraging him in it, feeing how 
gteat was the fatisfaétion he derived fromir, 
and that their finances could bear it without 
inconvenience. Decked in his gold-laced 
clothes, flafhed fleeves, and highly powdered 
perriwig, he walked about his houfe, chang- 
ing his drefs feveral times in the courfe of 
the day. Woile not occupied with his drefs, 
two favourite iom cats were a grand fource 
of amufement to him: thefe had been his 
con(lant and faithful companions for feveral 
years, and were rather looked upon by him 
as friends and equals than as brutes, and had 
regularly affigned them every day their places 
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