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Married.} At Colchefter, Mr. aac Bar- 
rett, of Layer Bretton, farmer, to Mifs Su- 
fanozh Brockway, daughter of Mr. William 
Brockway, of the former place.——Captain 
Barham, of the royal marines, to Mifs Hol- 
ton, daughter of Mr. Holton, of Weft Berg- 
holt. 
In London, R. W. Hall, efg. of flford 
Lodge, to Mifs Maitland.—Mr. Philip Nunn, 
of Pattifwick, to Mifs H. Wythe, of Stifted. 
weMr. John Welch, of Nazing-Bury, to Mils 
Green, of Epping-Bury.—Mr. Polter, fur- 
geon, cf Cavendith, to Mifs Sophia Salmon. 
At Littlebury, Mr. Elitha Jeffery, of Elm- 
don, to Mifs Reynolds, of Catmore End. 
Died.} At Chelmsford, Mr. Wm. Stew- 
ard, fon of Mr. John Steward.—Mifs Judith 
Brown, of Kayleigh —Mifs Mary Hodfon, 
eldeft daughter of Mrs. Hodfon, of Halfted. 
e—Mr. John Harnden, of Weft Thurrock. 
At Colchefter, Mrs. Abbott, reli&t of Mr. 
William Abbott. \ 
At Plaiftiow, aged 89, Mr. John James.— 
Mrs. Wollafton, wife of the Rev. Francis 
John Hyde Wollafton, Jackfonian profefior 
in the univerfty of Cambridge, and vicar of 
South Weald, in this county. 
At Leigh, John Tucker, aged 95. He 
was a native of Dorfetthire. He, for feveral 
years, travelled the country as a jobbing gar- 
dener, in which capacity he lived a confider- 
able time at Leigh, till, in 1757, he, with 
fome others of that place, entered as a vo- 
lunteer on board the Terrible privateer, com- 
manded by Captain Death. Tucker was on 
board thet veffel in the engagement with the 
Grand Alexandre, letter of Marque, bound 
to France, from St. Domingo, in which ac- 
tion the Terrible loft 17 of her crew before 
the enemy fruck his flag. A few days after 
this capture the Terrible and her prize fell in 
with the Vengeance privateer, of St. Maloes, 
of 36 guns and 360.men. The Terrible hav- 
ing fent 40 of her hands on board the Alex- 
andre, had only 130 men capable of working 
the fhip, which carried 26 guns of fmali ca- 
libre. With this fuperiority of force the 
Vengeance firft bore down upon the Grand 
Alexandre, which ftruck after a fhort action ; 
and having, with her numerous crew, man- 
ned that veflel, they proceeded jointly to at- 
tack the Terrible. The latter maintained 
this unequal conteft withthe utmoft obftinacy, 
till having loft her captain and officers, and 
only ten men remaining who were not wound- 
ed, of whom Tucker was one, fhe was com- 
-_pelled to ftrike tetheenemy. The event of 
this engagement was no fooner known in 
Englang than a fubfcription was fet ‘on fowt 
at Lloyd’s, for the benefit of the widows of 
thofe who fell in the aétion, as well as to 
reward the furvivors. At the conclufion of 
the war Tucker returned to Leigh, and there 
hired a cottage, to which was attached a gar- 
den, fomewhat lefs thananacre. By his lae 
our he prosygcc. 6 comfortabie fubfiftence, 
Effex. 
[Nov. 1, 
but his premifes falling into the hands of 
another landlord, honeft John was obliged 
to quit them. Fora few cays he bore the 
change with apparent refignation, but in lefs 
than a week the chagrin occafioned by being 
deprived of the fpct, which he had fo long 
labored to improve, preyed upon his mind 
to fuch a degree, that he took to his bed, and 
died, as he himfelf faid of a broken heart. 
Aged 76, the Rev. Thomas Twining, of 
Sidney Coilege, Cambridge, B. A. 17673 
M.A. 17533 retor of White Noticy, Ef- 
fex, 1788, and of St. Mary’s, Calchefter, 
to which he was prefented by the Bifhop 
of London, on the death of Philip Mo- 
rant, in 1770. ‘Sound: learning, polite lites 
rature, and exquifite tafte in ail the fine 
arts, have loft an ornament and a defen- 
der in this accomplifhed fcholar and learned 
divine. Wis tranflation of the Peetics of 
Ariftotle, muft convince men of learning of 
his knowledge of the Greek language, of the 
wide extent of his claffical erudition, of his 
acute and fair fpirit of criticifm, and above 
#il, “of his good tafte, found judgment, and 
general reading, manifefted in his differta- 
tions. Mr. Twining was the enly fon of an 
eminent tea-merchant, by his firft marriage, 
and intended by his father to fucceed him in 
that houfe, which he had fo well eftablithed ; 
but his fon feeling an impulfe towards litera- 
ture and fcience, intreated his father to let 
him devote his youth to ftudy anda claffical 
education; and being indulged in his with, 
he was matriculated at Cambridge. Mr. 
Twining was eontemporary in the Univerfity 
with Gray, Mafon, and Bates; and fo able a 
mufician, that befides playing the harpfichord 
and organ in a mafterly manner, he was fo 
excellent a performer on the violin as to lead 
all the concerts, and even oratorios, that were 
performed in the Univerfity during term- 
time, in which Bates played the organ and 
harpfichord. His tafte in mufic was enlarged, 
and confirmed by ftudy as well as prattice, as 
few profeflors knew more of compofition, har- 
monics, and the hiftory of the art and f{cience 
of mufic, than this intelligent and polithed di- 
littante. Befides his familiar acquaintance: 
with the Greek and Roman claffics, his know=- © 
ledge of modern. languages, particularly 
French and Italian, was fuch ae not only to 
enable him to read, but to write thofe lan- ~ 
guages with facility and idiomatic accuracy. 
His friends and correfpondents will deplore 
His conver- 
his lofs with no common grief. 
fation and letters, when fcience and ferious 
fubjegis were out of the queftion, were replete 
with a wit, humour, .and playfulnefs, fo 
pleafant and original, that we know not his 
prototype. If there is any epiftolary refem- 
blance between his familiar correfpondence. 
and other eminent writers, it is that of Gray,, 
whofe letters are as manly and playful, as his. 
private character was finical and fantaftical. 
Mr. Twining was a widower during the laft 
twetwe or fourteen years of his life, and as K 
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