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at table. Finding fo much fatisfa¢tion from 
drefs himfelf, he was difpofed to extend this 
fource of amufement to his friends the cats, 
and laced habits were accordingly provided 
for them; and the poor pufles generoufly bore 
the incumbrance they were loaded with, as 
if to make fome atonement to their kind maf- 
ter, for the care he beftowed upon them. 
Thus almoft tot-lly fecluded from the world, 
Mr, King lived for feveral years happy in the 
fociety of his own adorned perfon, his now 
al moft fuperannuated wife, and his cats, and 
admitting but two or three friends, of whom 
the writer of this article was one, now and 
then to fee him; and as he was kindly in- 
dulged in his peculiarities, he was always 
affable and obliging to them. ‘The death of 
his wife was fo fevere a fhock to him, that 
he, the day after, took to his bed, and fur- 
vived her not more than a week. His paf- 
fion, however, for fine clothes forfook him 
not on his death-bed 5 for fuch part of the 
day as he could fit up he was regularly at- 
tired in them. His exit, a piece with the 
reft of his life, was performed with perfe& 
calmnefs and ferenity, and has left a chafm 
in fociety that will be known and felt but by 
two or three intimate friends. Having no 
relations living, Mr. King has left the whole 
of his property to an old fervant, who had 
been his careful and conftant nurfe, accom- 
panied, however, with the moft earnett in- 
junctions to fupport, in a manner fuitable to 
the friendfhip he entertained for them, his 
old friends the puffes. 
At Brentford, in undeferved obfcurity, 
Soepb Payne, ia barrifter at law and LL.B. 
of Queen’s-college, Oxford. In his youth 
he had been a pupil of the celebrated Greek 
{fcholar Dr. Morell, and contributed a fub- 
ordinate aid to the compilation of his Dic- 
tionary of that language. He difplayed fuch 
early fpecimens of vigorous intelledt and fupe- 
rior talents that his relatives, who were refpec- 
table inhabitants of that town, ftrained every 
nerve to give him an academical education, 
preparatory to his entrance into that profef- 
fion in which exerted induftry and abilities 
wil, in general, fecure to their -poffeflor dif- 
tinétion und emolument. In this inftance, 
however, that, unfortunately, happened not 
to be the cafe; for, bleft himfelf with high 
focial fpirits, and furrounded, at his frft en- . 
trance ipto life, by thofe who admired his 
talent for wit and ridicule, of which he pof- 
fefled an uncommon thare, though by no 
Means inattentive to the duties of the pro- 
feffion into which he had entered, it cer- 
tainly never repaid him the expences of hijs 
education, nor realized thofe ardent hopes 
which had been formed of his rapid progrefs 
and final elevatien. A difpute that took 
place between himieif and fome Irifh ftudents 
of the Temple, who had egregioufly offended 
the laws of decorum, at a feftival dinner dur- 
ing the vacation commons, on his complaint 
to the Benchers ever after fufpended, was an 
additional caufe of his want of fuccefs at the 
Fofeph Payne, Efg.—Mrs. Elizabeth Carter. 
[April t, 
bar. He was unjuftly traduced, and obftruct- 
ed in the path of his profetlion: and he left 
the Temple, filled with indignation and dif- 
guft. He retired upon the very {mall here- 
ditary patrimony which he enjoyed, and 
which, it is feared, he lived nearly to con- 
fume, with little profpe€t of any comfortable 
provifion for advancing age. By the kind- 
nefs of that Providence which fuperintends, 
human events he was fnatched fuddenly from 
a world of mifery and misfortune in his 634 
year. His great natural vivacity had fuf- 
tained him through many years of diftrefs, 
which his high fyirit of independence induced 
him to conceal from his friends. But, on the 
morning of his deceafe, he received fome 
unwelcome intelligence of a pecuniary na~ 
ture, which is thought to have given the 
death-ftroke to a heart already nearly broken 
with chagrin and difappointment. He knew 
and felt the fuperior abilities with which he 
was endowed ; and this felf-confidence in 
company fometimes made him appear affum- 
ing and dictatorial, though he was not na- 
turally haughty or ‘overbearing: He was a 
man of unfhaken loyalty to his prince, and 
ever forward to combat the enemies of the 
religion and conftitution of his country. 
He had an inexhauitible fund of humour; 
and, from having a moft retentive memory, 
he abounded in anecdote, and pofleffed a vat 
range of hiftorical information. He was not 
enly a good clailical fcholar, but many of the 
languages of modern Eurepe were familiar 
to him. For the laft twenty years of his life 
he was engaged in a literary work of great, 
arduoufnefs and depth of refearch, of which, 
probably, tne puvlic may hear more when his 
papers have been properly examined and ar- 
ranged. With all thefe good qualities and 
enviable attainments were undoubtedly blend- 
ed fome errors and irregularities; thefe may 
fairly be imputed, in a great degree, to his 
original failure at his fettine out in life. 
At her ledgings in Clarpes; ftreet, Piccadil- 
ly, in her 89th year, Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, 
daughter of Nicolas Carter, D.D. reétor of 
Woodchurch, 17553 rector of Ham, 1734 5 
vicar of Tilmanftone, 1730-17553 
Deal chapel from 1718 to his death, Oct. 23, 
17743 a lady who‘has for a long time enjoy- 
ed a very diftinguifhed pre-eminence in the li- 
terary world. She very early in life difcover- 
ed the fupcrior cultivation which her mind 
‘had. received from the fuperintendance of her 
worthy parent. Her only brother, Henry, 
hie se ohn his clatlical education from her before 
he went to Canterbury ichoel ; fram which he 
was admitted of Corpus Chrifti college, Cam- 
bridge, 17573 anda proceeded B, A. 1760, 
M. A. 17635; and was prefented, by Sir 
George Oxendon, to the relory of Witten- 
ham, ee She has publithed al} the works 
of Epictetus, which aie now extant 3 confift- 
ing of his difcourfes, preferved by Arrian, im 
four books, the Enchiridion, and fragments 5 
tranilated from the original Greek ; with an 
introduction and notes by the tranflator; oné 
volunie, 
curate of 
