1804.] 
William Lemon, many years head matter of 
the grammar-{thool, Norwich. 
Aged 22, Mifs Roper, daughter of Mr. 
Roper, of Aldby ; furviving her eldeft bro~ 
ther only three weeks, 
At Downham Market, Mr. William Chap- 
man, ‘an eminent tanner and pelt-monger. 
He expired fuddenly, while in the a& of mak- 
ing a contraét in trade. 
Aged 60, Sir William Kemp, bart. of Brif- 
ton, We was riding out, when he feli frem 
his horfe and immediately expired: 
At EafttDereham, Mr. John Sparrow Web- 
fler, aged 43.—-Mifs S. Hey, late of Watton, 
SUFFOLK. 
The.new pavement of the town of Beccles 
is completed; the centre of the ftreets with 
crown pavement, and the foot-paths with 
flag-ftones, which has greatly increafed the 
neatnefs of that place. 
An application is intended to be made to 
Parliament for an aét for deepening, widen- 
ing, and otherwife improving the river Or- 
well, within the liberties of the town of 
Ipfwich. ~ 
MWarried.| Mx. Golding, of Clare, to Mifs 
Smith, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Smith, 
diflenting minifter of Cavendith.—Mr. Shep- 
perd, jun. of Winfton, to Mifs Berry, daugh- 
ter of Mr. Berry, of Debenham.—Mr. Robt. 
Spencer, farmer, of Hartef, to Mifs Byford, 
daughter of Mr. Byford, of Manfon-hall, 
Whepttead.—Mr. Cooke, of Farley-green, 
Stradifhall, to Mifs Brewfter, of Hawkedon. 
—-Mr. Pearfon, to Mifs Gent, both of Sha- 
dingfield, near Beccles. 
At Gretna Green, R. H. Vivian, efqy. ma- 
yor of the 7th lighc dragoons, to’Mifs Eliza 
Chamipion Crefpigny, daughter of the late P. 
C. Cretpigny, efq. of Aldborough. 
Died.| “Aged 70, Mr. Edward Ely, late 
an eminent grocer, of Bury, but who had re- 
tired from bufinefs. 
At Ipfwich, the Rev. Mr. Pilkington, 
diffenting minifter—Mr. G. Clarke, of the 
George, Hadleigh, 
At Watlington, aged 75, Mrs. Sarah Dow- 
fing, reli¢t of the Rev. John Dowfing, 
Jate rector of Middleton, in Norfolk.—H. 
Murrell, gent. of Weft Row, in Mildenhall. 
--Ofatyphus fever, Mr. Abraham Wing, 
‘farmer, of Pakenham, and ftewardtoT. B. 
Evans, Efq.; andthe fame day his wife, Mrs. 
Wing.—Aged 34, the Rev. fofeph Lathbury, 
rector of the parithes of Grejt and Little Li- 
vermere. 
Found dead in his bed at Loweftoffe, of 
which he was vicar, aged 83, the Rev. 
Kobert Potter, of Emanuel college, Cam- 
bridge, B.A. 17413 M.A. 1784, and pre- 
bendar of Norwich. His firft preferment was 
the vicarage of Scarning, Norfolk. Asa claf- 
fic {cholar he was a character of the higheft 
diftinétion. The literary world is highly in- 
debted to him for excellent poetical verfions 
oi the three Greek tragedians. In 1774, he 
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publifhed a volume of poems, moft of which 
had before appeared -feparately. Many of 
them are very pretty compofitions, particus 
larly a beautiful farewell hymn tothe coun. . 
try, in imitation of Spencer. Three years 
afterwards, his tranflation of ZE{chylus made 
its appearance in a quarto volume, and has 
fince been reprinted with the addition of notes, 
in two volumes, 8vo. Of the excellence of 
this tranflation, it is fcarcely poflible to fay 
too much; many of the parts are fo exquifite- 
ly beautiful as to leave us in doubt, whether 
any poet could have accomplithed the taik 
with greater fuccefs. In 1781, he publifh- 
ed his tranflatian of Euripides in quarto; 
and in 1738, that of Sophocles, in the 
fame fize, Thefe laft produétions ave, upon 
the ‘whole, inferior to his firft, yet they 
are both excellent performances, and fu- 
perior to thofe of Dr. Franklin, and Mr. 
Woodhull.  Befides thefe very laborious ” 
works; Mr, Potter publifhed in quarto, in 
1783, © An Enquiry into fome Paflages of 
Dr. Johnfon’s Lives of the Poets ;” in 
1785, in quarto, ** A Tranflation of the 
Oracle concerning Babylon, and the Song of 
Exultation from Ifaiah,” chap. xiii and xiv ; 
and in-z$02, ‘6 A Sermon on the Thankfgiv-~ 
ing forthe Peace.” By his death the repub- 
lic of letters has lof& one of its beft and mot ' 
unafluming ornaments. His manmers were 
fimple, and his life exemplary. He was a 
fcholar of the Old School, and notling tempt- 
ed him to relinquifh divine and polite litera- 
ture. His works are not numerous, but they 
are valuable, and will find their way to pof- 
terity. The only temporary effufion of his 
pen, was a pamphlet in defence of his brother 
poet Mafon, againit the criticifms of fohnion. 
A great portion of his life was dedicated to the 
tranflating of the three Greek tragic poets, to 
whom he is the firft who has done ample juf- 
tice in our language. He had the peculiar fe- 
licity of transfufing their loftinefs, and pre- 
ferving their fimplicity, without running into 
bombaft, or defcending into fervility. His 
tranflations are juftly admired by thofe who 
are weil verfed in the originals, of the charms 
of which they convey the moft gratifying idea 
to the Emglifh reader. It was not till he had 
completed his laft tranflation, that of Soe ° 
phocles, that Mr. Potter obtained -any prefer- * 
ment in the church higher than that of vicar 
of Loweftofe. He had been a {chool-fellow 
of Lord Thurlow, and had conftantly fent his 
publications to that great man without ever 
foliciting a favour from him. On receiving a 
copy of the Sophocles, however, his Lordfhip 
wrote a fhort note to Mr. Potter, acknowledg- 
ing the receipt of his books from time to time, 
and the pleafure they had afforded him, and 
requefting Mr, Potter’s acceptance of a pre- . 
bendal ftall in the cathedral of Norwich, 
which, with his vicarage, rendered him com-- 
fortable during the remainder of a life honour- 
ably devoted to thofe purfuits which beft be- 
come a profound fcholar and a true Chriftian. 
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