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period. Inthe year 1776, he was elected a 
member of Parliament for the county of 
Hereford, which he reprefented in five fuc- 
ceffive Parliaments, till in 1802 he addreffed 
a letter to- his conftituents, ftating, that age 
and infirmities baving rendered him incapable 
of difcharging the important duties entrufted 
to him, he was induced to refign the honovr- 
able office with which they had inveited him. 
From that period, he withdrew entirely from 
public life; and after having performed the” 
duties of a good and attive citizen, fought 
repofe in the tranquillity of retirement, and 
enjoyed that felf approbation, with which the 
good only can be acquainted. He met death 
with the calmnefs and hopes of a Chriftian, 
admired by his friends, and deeply lamented 
by all. 
At Brentfo:d Butts, aged 73, 7. H. Ewin, 
EL. D. He was aman of good education 
and confiderable talenis; had feen niuch of 
the world; and viewed mankind with keen 
obfervation. He had a retentive memory, 
and an inexhauttible fund of interefting anec- 
dote, which he frequently enlivened by ori- 
ginal and farcaftic humour. With the fci- 
ences he was imperfe€tly acquainted; but he 
was much attached to the polire arts, parti- 
cularly painting and fculpture, in which he 
had great tafte. Tis manners were eafy, and 
his temper chearful; which, with his exten- 
five knowledge and communicative difpofi- 
tion, rendered him an agreeable companion. 
Being frugal and economical in all his habits, 
he was generally confidered as extremely 
avaricious ; though inftances might be ad 
duced in which he d.fplayed the utmeft libe- 
rality and generofiry. He has been accufed 
of little artifices and mercenary pra¢tices in- 
compatible with mora} feeling and virtuous 
principles; but theré is reafon to beli=ve that 
this part of his ch:raéter, and not this alone, 
has been mifconceived by fome, and mifrepre- 
fented by others. He was remarkably tem- 
perate and abftemious, aad fcrupled net openly 
to cenfure thof2 who indulged in the luxuries 
of the table. Having himfelf no rclith for 
convivial fcenes, and not abounding in what 
is called hofpitadity, he did not poflefs fome of 
the ufual means of conciliating the econ opi- 
nion of his neighbours. His unpopul2 arity 
was alfo increafed by his ftri€& attertion to 
the adminiftration of parochial concerns ; in 
which, being quick to diicern, and fevere to 
condemn, every fpecies of idlenefs and impo- 
Huon, he unavoidably created many enemies, 
and became particularly obnoxious to the 
lower orders of people. Hence ftories have 
been circulated and obtained credit, which 
would not for a moment have been believed 
of any other man.—From all thefe circum- 
ftances, it was not to be expeéted that he 
fhould be held in general eftimation; yet 
candour muft allow that he poffeffed many 
good qualities: and, for his failings, de mor- 
tuis nil nifi bonum ese fuppofed to have 
left property to the amount of more than one 
Marriages and Deaths in and near London. 
(Jan. 1, 
hundred thovfand pounds; the bulk of which 
he has divided between his fifter, (who is a 
moft amiable woman) and the family of his 
nephew, a very worthy and refpe€table cha- 
racter. 
At the very advanced age of 104, Mr. 
Thomas Whittmgton, of Hillingdon. He re- 
tained all his faculties as well to the very 
lait hour 2s ever he had them at any other 
period of his life, and could walk a diftance 
of two or three miles with perfe&t eafe. His 
long life was rencered remarkable by his con- 
ftant attachment to drinking; but he never 
had any other liquor than gin, of which he 
daily drank two or three glaffes till within a 
fortnight of his death. He was born in the 
reign of King William, and had a moft per- 
fect recollection of the perfon of Queen 
Anne, of whom he often fpoke, In the re- 
bellion of 1715, he was employed in convey- 
ing troops ae baggage from Uxbridge to 
Londuee 
lingdon church-yard, near his father’s, who 
died, about forty years ago, exaétly at the 
fame age. 
Aged 74, Abraham Winterbottom, efg. an 
eminent attor Bey in Threadneedle ftreet, At 
the clofe of a iong andi irreproachable life, he 
funk under the infirmities of ill health and 
the lofs of his wife, one of the two fifters of 
M-. Paulhan, fegar-baker, of London, who 
had herfelf lingered under the confinement 
of long iilnefs and blindnefs, and by whom 
he had no ifiue. By this and other privations, 
left almof alone in the world, he had not the 
fortitude of mind to prevent him from termi- 
nating his life by a piftol, at his houfe at High- 
bury-place, Iflington. He was fecretary and 
folicitor to the Magdalen Charity, and foiicitor 
to the South Sea. Company. He died pof- 
fefled of an ample fortune Mrs. Winter- 
botiom died Jan 1, 17973 and, at the fame 
time, died Mr. 
Winterbottom. H- was nephew of Thomas 
Winterbottom, alderman of London, who 
died in nis mayoralty, June 4, 752 "Eats 
mother was fifter to tne late Mr. Serjeant 
Whitaker, whofe fon, the Rev. E. W. Whit- 
aker, reétor of St Milidred’s and AH Saints, 
Canterbury, author of feveral fermons and 
differtations on Prophecy and the Apocalypfe, 
anJ his fifer, were his neareft relations. 
At his houfe in Cheapide, im the 86th 
year of his age, Mr. Alderman Boydell. OF 
the heroes who bave laid wafte cities, and. 
deiolated empires, we have high coloured 
ealogiums, ‘Their coutem poraries gaze at 
them with that fort of admiration with which 
they contemplate a comet, or a cataract ; and 
the brilliancy of their appearance dazzling 
the-common eye, renders it blind to the de- 
ftructive confequences of their progrefs, 
‘Thus, a ian whofe memoir is written in 
blood, and whole memory ought to be held 
in deteftation, is crowned with laurel 
wreaths, and his name enfhrined in the page 
of hittory. What acontraft to fuch a cha- 
racter 
” 
His remains were interred in Hil- . 
Heylin, partner with Mr. | 
