1804.] 
who was educating at Wefmintter-fchool, 
have rendered his early death a fubject of pe- 
culiar difrefs to his family, and of very afflict- 
ing regret to all his acquaintance. a 
Mr. Carter, a celebrated compofer of mu- 
fic, and author of many ballads, among which 
were **Q Nanny will thou gang with me.” 
s* Tally ho,” &c. Mr, Carter did not al- 
Ways meet with all the encouragement to 
which his mufical talents might have entitled 
him; and as economy was not amongft the 
virtues which he cultivated moft, he was 
often reduced to thofe ftraits and difficulties 
from which genius and talents can plead no ex- 
emption In one of thofe fcenes of embar- 
raffment his means and refources having been 
exhaufted, he ranfacked the various {pecies 
- of compoflition he had by him, but finding that 
none nor all of them could produce a fingle 
guinea at the mufic-fhops, he hit upon the: 
following expedient for the immediate fupply 
of his moft preffing neceflities. Being well 
acquainted with the charaéter of Handel’s 
manoufcript, he procured an old fkin of parch- 
ment, which he prepared for the purpofe to 
which he meant to turn it, and, imitating as 
clofely as he could the hand-writing, as well 
as the ftyle and manner of the great Mafter, 
he produced in a fhort time a piece, which fo 
well deceived a mufic-feller, that he did not 
hefitate to give twenty guineas for it, and the 
piece pafles amongtt many for the genuine pro- 
duction of Handel to this day, 
Major Lawrewce Parfons, of Pembroke- 
place, King’s county, Ireland, late of the 
royal fuzileers, and brother to Sir Lawrence 
Parfons, member of pailiament for that 
county. 
Lieutenant George Leckie of the royal navy. 
He was obferved walking in Marybone-fields, 
near the few’s-harp, and fhortly after, a waiter 
belonging to the houfe heard the report and 
faw the flath of a piftol, which induced him 
to run to the fpot, where the unhappy man 
had fallen, with his brains literally blown 
out. From the initials marked in his hat, he 
was known by the waiter in the Spring-garden 
Coffee-houfe, where he had dined feveral 
days in fucceffion, and always appeared very 
chearful and generous. It was found that he 
lodged in Percy-ftreet, Rathbone-place. He 
left on a table at his lodgings a paper with 
thefe words, ‘* He who fears death is a cow- 
ard.” Mr. Leckie was introduced into the 
navy by Sir Thomas B. Thompfon, and was 
ferving under the command of that brave of- 
ficer when his leg was thot off. He was 
‘aid-de-camp te Sir Thomas on board the Le- 
ander in the ever memorable battle of the 
Nile, and in the fubfequent aétion between 
the Leander and the Genereux, in which en- 
Ragement his gallantry was fo confpicuous, 
that, upon the reprefentation of his captain, 
he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant by 
Lord Nelfon, under whofe command he was 
Tately ferving on board the Vi€tory in the 
Mediterranean, which defirable fituatioa he 
Marriages and Deaths in and near London, 
451 
was neceffitated to relinquifh only a few 
weeks fince, on account of extreme ill health. 
Aged 60, Mr Harrifon, who had for many 
years kept the White-harfe cellar, in Piccadil- 
ly. He rofe at his houfe, near Brompton, ap- 
parently in good health, and having given 
fome direétions to his fervants, preparatory to 
his going to his eftice in town, he went into 
the garden, where in half an hour he wag 
found dead. 
Mr. Sherwood, partcer in the honfe of 
Greenfide acd Sherwood, corn-faétors, Markk- 
lane. He had gone from his boufe to the 
New Corn- and Seed Exchange, and about ten 
o'clock was tranfaéting bufinefs when he fell 
down in a fit. A momentary confufion took 
place among the crowd of by-ftanders; but he 
was immediately carried home, and though 
every medical aid was expeditioufly admini-~ 
ftered, the vital fpark was found to be ex- 
tinguifhed beyond the power of refufcitation. 
Mr. Sherwood was born at Fritton, in Nor 
folk. Few men were, perhaps, better pre- 
pared than himfelf to meet fuch a fudden and 
awful event, In bufinefs he was aman of the 
ftrifteft integrity, in his friendthips fincere 
and fteady, in all his enjoyments temiperate 
yet aiways delihted with focial and domeftic 
intercourfe. To a ftri& morality he joined 
the faith and hopes of a fineere Chriftian, and 
by his conduét proved to the bufy world, that 
the moft ative exertions in their tem- 
poral employments may always leave time and 
Opportunity for the performance of all the 
important duties of religion. 
In her 56th year, deeply lamented by all 
who knew her worth, Mary the wife of 
Robert Smith, efq of Bafinghall-ftreet, and 
daughter of the late James Bogle French, efq, 
In an age too prone falfely to eftimate female 
charaéter, it is a fource of honourable pride, 
to be enabled to point out, in the fubje& of 
this brief memoir, one, who to a con{cientie 
ous difcharge of every focial and domefticduty, 
added a firm belief in the do@rines of the 
Chriftian faith, and a pratical obfervance of 
its precepts. Her piety to God harmonized 
with her benevolence to her fellow-creatures 5 
a benevolence not wafted in empty profeflions, 
or a round of idle ceremony, but munifefted 
in kine offices, and in a charitable allowance 
for the failings of others. In her intercourfe 
with the world, her condu&t was marked with 
good fenfe, propriety and a ftri€inefs of tem- 
per that rendered her the object of general 
efteem and love. Unfeduced by the allure. 
ments of a diifipated metropolis, fhe fought 
peace and happineis where alone a mind like 
hers could find them, in the bofom of her 
family. Yheir enjoyments were her’s; their 
comforts the oojeét and reward of all her 
care, “Surruunded by friends who efteemed, 
a hufbani1 who loved, and children who ree 
vered her, fhe might in the orcinary courfe 
of nature, have looked forward to lengthened 
years, and have continued to participate in 
the happinefs the conferred, But, alas! a 
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