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company, fon of Mr. W. Spencer, of Bot- 
tifham, in this county. ee 
At Bourn Hall, G. Webb, efq. an opulent 
We India merchant. 
NORFOLK. 
Married.\)-Mr. H. J. Riches, of Acle, to 
Mifs Worfhip, of Runham-houfle. | 
At Norwich, Mr. J. Warden, hot-prefler, 
to Mifs Quantrell —Capt. T. Kennedy, ad- 
jutant to the ‘loyal Colneis volunteers, to 
Mifs Efther Peyton, youngeft daughter of 
the late K. Peyton, efq. barriiter- 
. At Yarmouth, Capt. R. Welfh, to Mifs 
§. Cooke. 
At Hingham, G. B. Mainwar'ng, efq. to 
Mrs. L, Woodhoufe. 
Died.| At Norwich, aged 62, Mrs. M. 
Dunnell —Aged 34, Mifs Jenney, haber- 
dafher.—In her 39th year, Mrs. M. Gapp, 
reli€t of the late Mr. R. Gapp, lead mer- 
chant.—In his 72d year, Mr. T. Grant. 
_ At Lynn, C. Bayley, efq. a gentleman 
of uncommon benevolence of difpofition, 
although commonly exercifed under the veil 
of fecrecy. 
At Yarmouth, in his 71f year, Mr. Wil- 
liam Goldfmith —Mrs. M. Goodwyn, wife 
of Mr J. Goodwyn, caulker.—In a very rapid 
confumption, in his 22d year, Mr. S. B. San- 
croft. 
At Aylfham, Mr. R. Francis, eldeft fon of 
Mr. Francie. 
At Mattifham, in her g2d year, Mrs. 
Sofley, mother of Mr. Porter. 
At Swafield, near North Walfham, Mr. W, 
Clarke,—Very fuddenly, Mr. Green, farmer, 
of Bracon Afh. 
At Thornham, in his 21ft year, Mr. J 
Dodman, fecond fon of Mr. 4. Dodman, 
farmer —In her 23d year, at Werlingworth, 
Mifs H. Mallett, late of Great Yarmouth. 
—In his 66th year, Mr. J. Fremow, of 
Horsford —Aged 77, Mr. W. Sparroe, fenior, 
of Kenningnal). 
At Spanith Town, ifland of Jamaica, Mr. 
' A. Williams, youngeft fun of Mr. Wil- 
Jiams. . 
At Gimmingham, in his 48th year, W. 
Gooch, efgq. captain of the South Repps vo- 
lunteers. 
At Merton, ip her 27th year, Mrs. M, 
Hinfon, of Hindercley. 
* Athis houfe, in St, Benediét’s ftreet, Nor- 
wich, the Rev. John Bruckner, who was 
born in the fmall ifland of Cadfand, near the 
Belgic frontier, on the laft day of the year 
1726, new ftyle; for the reformed calendar 
was then already received in Flanders. He 
was educated with a view to the theological 
profefien, chiefly at the univerfity of Frane 
ker, whence he paffed to Leyden. There he 
obtained a paftorfpip, and profited by the fo- 
ciety of Hemfterhuis, of Valkenaer, and ef- 
pecially of the elder Scheltens. His literary 
acquirements were eminent: he read the He- 
brew and the Greek 5 he compofed corre@ly, 
and has pyeached with applaufe in four lan- 
Nar folk. 
{Auguft 1, 
guages, Latin, Dutch, French, and Englith. 
In 1752, from commercial motives, went 
into Holland Mr. Columbine, of a French 
refugee family, which had contributed to 
found, and habitually attended, the Walloon 
church at Norwich. By that congregation 
he was entrufted to feek out a fit fucceffor to 
their late paftor, Mr. Valloton, and applied, 
after due enquiry, to Mr. Bruckner, who ac- 
cepted the invitation ; and early in 1763 fet- 
tled as French preacher at Norwich, where 
he officiated during fifty one years with un- 
diminifhed approbation: the liturgy employ- 
ed was of the comprehenfive, not of the dog- 
matic, kind. About the year 1766, Mr 
Bruckner fucceeded alfo to Dr. Van Sarn, as 
minifter of the Dutch church, of which the 
daties gradually became rather nominal than 
real, in proportion as the Dutch families 
died off, and as the cultivation of their lan- 
guage was veglected by the trading world for 
the French. The French tongue Mr. 
Erockrer was aftiduous to difiufe, and gave 
public and private lefions of it for many years~ 
His income was now convenient and progref- 
five. He kept ahorfe and a pointer 5 fer he 
took great pleafure in fhooting. He drew 
occafionally, and has left a good portralt of 
his favourite dog, He cultivated mufic, and 
practifed for his own amufement much on 
the organ. In1767 was printed at Leyden his 
‘© Théorie du Syftéme Animal,” which may 
probably have furnithed to a late writer on 
_ population the germ, the bafis, the ieading 
pofitions, of an eflay defervedly ceiebraced. - 
At leaft, in the feventh and tenth chapters of 
the fecond part, there ismuch anticipation of 
_the fentiments lately evolved and corrobo- 
rated in the writings of Mz. Malthus. This 
work was well tranflated into Englifh, under 
_the title * A Philofophical Survey of the 
Animal Creation,’’ publifhed for Johnfon and 
Payne, in1768. Mr Bruckner was married 
in 1782, to the intelligent Mifs Cooper, of 
Guift, formerly his pupil. In 1790, he pub- 
lithed, under the name Caflander, from his 
_birth-place, thofc ** Criticifms on the Diver= 
fiens of Purley,” which attra@ed fome hof- 
tile flahhes from Mr. Horne Tooke, in his 
fubfequent quarto edition. This pampalet 
difplays a profound and extenfive knowledge 
of the various Gothic dialeéts, and ftates (p. 
16) that the fame theory of prepofitions and 
conjunétions, fo convincingly applied in the 
Epea ptercenta to the northern languages, had 
alio teen taught concerning the Hebrew 
and other dead languages by Schulteus, 
Mr. Wakefiela’s pamphlet a,ainft Social 
Worthip drew from Mr, Bruckner, in 1792; 3 
learned reply. In the preface to thefe 
_£© Thoughts on Public Worthip,” hopes are 
givenof a continuation ftill defiderated by the 
friends of religion. An admirable likenefs 
of the author, painted by Opie, appeared in 
the London exhibition of 1800. Mr. Bruck- 
ner began a didaGiic poem in French verfes 
which had for its object to popularize in 
an otheg 
