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the poor, and for the hospital at Mile End Old Town, established by the community of Spanish and Portuguese Jews. His liberality and candour allowed himself to grant both his pecuniary assistance and his time in the management and support of several other charities, and those peculiarly formed on the Christian principles of the Established Church of England; among these he was an active member of the Committees of the City of London Lying-in Hospital, and the Workhouse of his parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, in Gray's Inn Lane; and of the Parish-school in Hatton Garden. In the Committee of the Small Pox Hospital at Pancras, he was for many years a very assiduous member, and was never wanting in his assistance to many other institutions of charity; the Indigent Blind in St. George's Fields, the Delivery of poor married Women at their Town Habitations, and others, where his punctuality and correctness afforded the most important help towards their success. His remarks were always tempered with peculiar humility and respect to the Clergy whom he might chance to meet on these occasions; and where they differed from him, he was always more ready to conciliate than to exhibit the least tenacity; and no man knew better how to value or to accord acts of civility. These things are mentioned to shew the candour and liberality of his mind, and to prove that he was truly "an Israelite without guile," and which is further evinced by his having bequeathed legacies to several of them. In his temper he was placid and serene; in his manners conciliatory, cheerful, and hospitable; very susceptible of any attentions, but never to be swayed from what he deemed to be strictly just and correct; in his character respectable; and in his age venerable; as a Jew, conscientiously strict; and as a member of society, upright, benevolent, and honourable.

ROBERT SHUTTLEWORTH, Esq. March 6. Died, at his seat at Gawthorphall, near Padiham, co. Lancaster, in his 32d year, Robert Shuttleworth, esq. He was interred in Padiham Church on that day week, nigh to the mouldering ashes of his ancestors. Mr. S. (had it been the will of Divine Providence to spare him) appeared to be formed for a signal blessing to the neighbourhood of his residence, and the County in general. When a Barrister, he published a very excellent book upon the Justice-Law; and, as a Magistrate, the very great energies of his mind and body were most highly conducive to the peace, order, and happiness of the country. He was Chairman of the Bench at Preston Sessions, and should have been High Sheriff this year: but he begged leave to decline the office, on account of

defective health, occasioned by a rapid consumption, brought on, or at least much increased, by unwearied application and indefatigable industry, so as to defy the skill of the faculty both in town and country. He had only returned from London to Gawthorp on the Wednesday, the day but one preceding his death. In a word, it may be truly said, "that the energies of his mind were too great for his body." He will be long and sincerely lamented by his family, his friends, and connexions. His wife is a daughter of Sir John Marjoribanks, bart. M.P. by whom he had only one child, a daughter. Gawthorp Hall was erected by the celebrated Sir Richard Shuttleworth, Attorney General to Queen Elizabeth, a Serjeant at Law, and Chief Justice of Chester; who married Miss Barton, a Maid of Honour to the Queen: whence Barton Lodge, near Preston, has attached to the family ever since; and the arms, the Boars' Heads, are to this day quartered with their own, the Shuttles. In the Oliverian times, when rank and property were compelled to sail with the current, Richard Shuttleworth, of Gawthorp, esq. and John Starkie, of Huntroyde, esq. were two eminent leading Magistrates for the Hundred of Blackburn; whose names, as Hymeneal Priests, according to the prevalent notions of those times, frequently occur in the Parish Registers of the neighbouring Churches. These two seats, about two miles distant from one another, the former a beautiful specimen of Gothic Architecture, and the latter a modern, extensive, and elegant Chateau, are delineated (by very different pencils, it must be confessed) in the very learned and pious Dr. Whitaker's " History of Whalley."

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MR. WALDRON.

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March Died, in his 75th year, Mr. Francis Godolphin Waldron, an old and respectable member of the Theatrical profession. He belonged to Drury Lane Theatre in the time of Garrick, by whom he was appointed to the charge of the Theatrical Fund. Waldron was for some time manager of the theatres at Windsor and Richmond, and other Provincial companies; and was also prompter at the Little Theatre in the Haymarket. Few men were so well acquainted with the Dramatic Literature of this Country, or possessed so many anecdotes respecting the theatrical history of his own times. He possessed also poetical talents, which, if he had not been occupied in the necessary duties of life, might have enabled him to rise into distinction. He had taste and judgment, which he displayed in several original compositions, as well as in judicious alterations of some old Plays. He had prepared for the Stage an alteration of Massinger's Fatal Dowry, which had received the approbation of the learned Editor of that Author, Mr. Gifford, and which was to have been brought forward. - Rowe took his Fair Penitent from this Play; but it is much below the original. In private life, Mr. Waldron was one of the kindest men that ever existed. Nothing could gratify him more than an opportunity to render services of any description, but particularly of a literary nature, and he was indefatigable in his researches for that purpose. In the humble range of characters assigned to him on the Stage, he always manifested a full knowledge of his author, and sustained the part with judgment, truth, and nature; and, on the whole, was a very worthy and intelligent man. Mr. Waldron carried on the business of a bookseller with reputation for some years in London. He obtained the materials which Mr. Whalley bad collected for an edition of Ben Jonson's Works; and communicated an interesting memoir of Thomas Davies, the bookseller and actor, to Mr. Nichols, who inserted it in his "Literary Anecdotes," and who added "his feeble testimony to the modest unassuming worth of his intelligent friend."

Mr. Waldron published the following works: "The Maid of Kent, Com." 1778, 8vo.-"The Sad Shepherd of Ben Jonson completed," 1783, 8vo. -" The King in the Country, a Drama," 1784, 8vo. "Literary Museum. or Antient and Modern Repository," 1792, 8vo. -" The Biographical Mirror, published by Harding," 1793, 4to.-"Heigho for a Husband, com." 1794, 8vo.-"The Prodigal, a dramatic piece," 1794, 8vo. - "Free Reflections on the supposed Manuscripts of Shakespeare in the possession of Samuel Ireland," 1796, 8vo.-"The Loves of Troilus and Cressida, written by Chaucer, with a commentary by Sir Francis Kynaston, never before published," 1796, 8vo.-" The Virgin Queen, a drama," 1797, 8vo. - "Shaksperian Miscellany," 1802, 4to. He was also author of the following Dramatic pieces which have not been printed :"The Contrast, a farce," 1776.-" The Richmond Heiress, a comedy altered from D'Urfey," 1777.-"Imitation, a comedy," 1783.-" Love and Madness, a dramatic piece," 1795.-" 'Tis a Wise Child knows its own Father, a comedy," 1795.-" Man with Two Wives, dramatic farce," 1798. -"Miker's Maid, comic opera," 1804. His Library, we are informed, will be speedily sold by auction; and we know that it abounds in curious articles relative to the Drama and History of the Stage. The Works of our most eminent Dramatic Writers are enriched by him with ample MS notes and illustrations.

DEATHS.

1817. AT Salisbury-hall, in Shenley, Feb. 18. Herts, aged 37, Capt. Francis Jackson Snell, of the Royal Navy (1806) youngest son of the late William Snell, esq. of that place, who died 27th Dec. last, aged 86.

Feb. 24. In Chester-place, Vauxhallroad, Lambeth, aged 67, Mrs. Mary Holbrooke, relict of the late Bernard Holbrooke, esq. and only daughter of Thomas Jemmitt, esq. of Lambeth. Her remains were deposited in the family vault at Chelsea, co. Middlesex.

Feb. 24. Early in the morning, at the parsonage of St. Mary Stoke, Ipswich, Jane, wife of the Rev. Baily Wallis, D. D. rector of the said parish. She was the youngest of three daughters of the Rev. Venn Eyre, A. M. Lecturer of Lynn Regis, in Norfolk, Chancellor of St Asaph, Archdeacon of Carlisle, Rector of Stamborne and Great Stambridge in Essex, and one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for that county. His Excellency Sir Benjamin Keene, K. B. F. R.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Court of Madrid from his late Majesty, and the Right Rev. Edmund Keene, D. D. late Lord Bishop of Ely, were her maternal uncles. She was a lady of unaffected piety, of a most affable and sweet temper and disposition, and is unfeignedly lamented by all who knew her, especially her disconsolate husband, and her poor neighbours, to whom, without respect of persons, she was a constant and liberal benefactress.

Feb. 25. Died at his house in Castlelane, Westminster, in the 88th year of his age, Mr. Thomas Hatchard, who had resided in and near the said house between sixty and seventy years, and was one of the oldest inhabitants of Westminster, by trade a builder, and several years steward to the late Edward Burnaby Greene, esq. and by his recommendation, superintendant and agent to several other estates. Frotn his fidelity, he acquired (and that most deservedly) the character of a truly honest man. His situation exposed him to know the wants of many deserving poor, to whose welfare he was feelingly alive; and where he could not aid them himself, he was not backward in applications to benevolent persons that readily attended to his recommendations. He was a good husband, and an affectionate father to fourteen children, six of whom survive him, and to whom his example says, "Do thou likewise."

His remains were interred in St. Margaret's Church-yard on the 4th of March, and the funeral service was performed by one of his grandsons.

As a testimony to his character, Capt. P. B. Greene, R. N. son to the late Mr. Greene Greene adverted to, states, in answer to a letter relative to his departure, dated Wickham, Hants:

"My dear Sir,-With the infirmities of nature, under which your worthy father has existed for several years past-to lament his release, either on his own account, or that of his children, would be superfluous, Nevertheless I cannot help feeling for the death of one for whom I have always entertained a very considerable esteem and regard, and whose faith. ful services in my family will never be forgotten. Were I upon the spot, I should have a sincere satisfaction in paying the last tribute of friendship to his memory."

Feb. 26. At Southampton, aged 70, Mrs. Deane, widow of the late John Deane, of Reading, esq. for many years an active magistrate for Berkshire. Mild, benevolent, devout, and charitable in her character and disposition, she is deeply regretted by her numerous friends. She has left four children to mourn her loss: John, now acting as Commissioner with Sir E. Colebrooke, to settle the affairs of the conquered and ceded provinces in Upper India-Anne, widow of the late Capt. Deane of the 24th dragoons, by whom she has two sons and one daughter-Jane, unmarried -and Elizabeth, wife of Dr. Lempriere, of Exeter, by whom she has one daughter, Her second son, Robert, died at Totness, 1806, Captain in the Artillery, leaving one daughter.

Feb. 28. At Norwood, Mr. George Pearce. This gentleman in early life was a chorister of St. Paul's cathedral, and was among the number of pupils educated under Mr. Savage.

March 3. At Haslar, near Gosport, in his 22d year, Joseph Augustus Bell, second son of the late Rev. Robert Barker Bell, formerly Fellow of New College, and Louisa Mynshull Colston, his wife. This excellent young man had served his Majesty faithfully and zealously in the Edinburgh, Union, Iphigenia, and Melville ships of war, and bid fair to realize the fondest wishes of his family, and to prove an ornament to his profession and his country. He returned from the East Indies in January, and passed his examination on the 3d of February, on the evening of which day he was seized with a fever, which terminated fatally on the 3d of March.

Stat sua cuique dies, breve et irreparabile tempus

Omnibus est vitæ ; sed famam extendere factis, Hoc virtutis opus.

March 9. At Wisbech, in Cambridgeshire, of the scarlet fever, aged 11, deeply regretted by her relations and friends, Helen Jenkins Elsdale, eldest daughter of the Rev. Samuel Elsdale, master of the free grammar school at Moulton, near Spalding, Lincolnshire. She was a child

of great promise, and of a most amiable disposition.

March 13. The excellent wife of Mr. George Thompson, of Well's-row, Islington. Aged 40, Peter Mathias, surgeon and apothecary, Mableton - place, Burton Crescent. In the prime of life, in the highest reputation for professional skill, in the receipts of a business exceedingly productive, an attack of disease, as violent as it was sudden, in three days put an end to this man's most valuable life. About twelve years ago he settled himself in this neighbourhood as a practitioner, with little other introduction than his own address and ability. In this very short period of time he had established a connexion, which in extent, in profit, and in respectability, was not perhaps surpassed by any of the same nature, either in town or country. Had his life been spared, had it been protracted to the reasonable limits of human energy and existence; and had his exertions been undiminished, to what fame and fortune he might have attained, it is not easy to calculate. But, cut off as he is in the very start of business, his race of success not more than begun, he has even thus early in life been able to provide for a numerous family. Had he been less solicitous upon their account, had he been less anxious for the cure and well-being of his many patients, who were not only his patients, but his friends; had he been more careful of himself, and less regardful of others, his health would have suffered less perhaps from a constitution naturally susceptible of nervous irritation, and his days might have been prolonged. But had he lived everlastingly, he could not have lived more intensely beloved by all who knew him. In society he was an useful member; in every relation of life he was amiable and honourable; in his own domestic circle he was the pattern of conjugal affection and fidelity, of paternal love and solicitude. In society his place may and will be supplied by others as useful, as amiable, and as honourable, as himself. To his friends and his family his loss is both irreparable and inestimable. His remains were deposited, in the presence of many of his respectable neighbours, who from voluntary feelings of regard had repaired to the place to witness this last solemn act, in the Chancel of the Church of St. Mary Whitechapel, of which parish his brother is rector. One grave will one day, most probably, contain all that is mortal of the two brothers. As in their lives they were "pleasant" to each other, so " in their deaths" they wish to be no longer "divided" than the will of the Almighty shall think fit!

March 14. At Cheltenham, the Rev. Joseph Wells, D.D. F.A.S. of Cowleyplace, near Exeter, and formerly of Halton-house, Bucks, for which county he

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was in the commission of the peace. Dr. Wells was rector of Croughton, in Northamptonshire, and of Ellesborough, in Buckinghamshire: of the latter rectory he was the patron; and on the 22d inst. his remains were deposited there, among his ancestors, and near his first lady, who was daughter of Joseph Burnham, esq. many years Surrogate and Registrar of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham.

At Plymouth, aged 19, Mr. George Grover, son of H. Grover, esq. of Hemel Hempsted, one of the midshipmen of his majesty's ship Impregnable. He was

much beloved and respected. His funeral was attended by all the officers of the ship; and Admiral Lord Exmouth, under whom he had served at Algiers, paid the same honour to his memory.

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March 17. At Oxford, aged 84, after a lingering indisposition, Mr. Richard Rawlins, surgeon, accoucheur, and apothecary, who practised the various branches of his profession in that city and its neighbourhood to a great extent with uncommon ability, humanity, and success, through a period of nearly threescore years: his undeviating rectitude of conduct and friendly deportment gained him the friendship and affection of all ranks. In 1793 he published "A Dissertation on the structure of the Obstetric Forceps, pointing out its defects; and the good effects of several new forms of the Single Curved Blade; with plates." Handsome mention and extracts from this work, translated into latin, were made by Dr. J. Mulder, of Leyden, in 1794, in his Treatise upon the various improvements made upon this Irıstrument since its first discovery.

March 21. In Chapel-street, Grosvenorplace, aged 30, the Hon. Annabella Hawke, sister to the present Peer, and granddaughter of Sir Edward, afterwards Lord Hawke, to whose naval achievements this country is so greatly indebted. It is impossible for those who knew this amiable lady to restrain their wishes from recording her character. If filial piety if an adherence to integrity in every action of a life of anxiety-if resignation to the Divine Will during the protracted period of a fatal complaint if a thorough conviction of the revealed truths of Christianity, and obedience to its precepts, are, as we firmly believe they are, qualifications for a heavenly reward, her loss is not to be deplored. It was her consolation to die in the arms of her affectionate friend, Miss Stacpoole, her constant companion from their early youth.-Miss Hawke was author of the poem of "Babylon," and other works, published in 1811. Her talents, improved by an excellent education, and graced with a knowledge of the modern languages, were dedicated to the cause of Religion, as her life was devoted to its duties.

March 25. At Newport, in the Isle of Wight, much respected, aged 67, Mrs. Hall, who has been in her station a blessing to the world: her house was an asylum for the aged, and a nursery for child

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METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for March, 1818. By W. CARY, Strand. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer.

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21 40 50 41

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36 fair [sleet

23 47 50 40 24 40 49 38 25 42 50 40 26 40 43 36

, 40 stormy ,65 hail storm ,51 stormy ,15 rain

744 49 39 28,72 stormy

842 46 38 29,00 showery

9 37 45 33

10 33 42 32

11 36 48 38

12 34 47 37

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BILL OF MORTALITY, from February 24, to March 24, 1818.

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AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from the Returns ending March 21.

MARITIME COUNTIES.

INLAND COUNTIES.
Wheat Rye | Barly Oats Beans
s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.
Middlesex 90 449 846 730 948 9 Essex
Surrey
86 442 042 430 248 6 Kent
Hertford 78 452 045 6 30 10 44 4 Sussex
Bedford 83 752 042 628 10 50 8 Suffolk
Huntingdon 82 1100 043 4 25 847 11 Camb.
Northamp, 79 000 042 228 264 4 Norfolk
Rutland 80 000 042 028 049 6 Lincoln
Leicester 82 850 042 428 854 0 York

430 1056

Wheat Rye Barly Oats Beans S. d.s. d. s. d.s. d. s. d. 76 739 040 028 346 9 87 400 043 0286 45 4 87 100 040 927 0500 86 347 1145 628 10 43 7 75 1100 040 423 244 11 81 042 043 229 744 11 74 945 042 824 1045 11 73 049 943 726 860 9 728 1000 (0 132 356 0 8 30 600 0 731 11 00 0 034 300 (0

8 Durham 75 600 044

Nottingham 82 247 647
Derby 80 600 050 931 064 0 Northum. 67 551 741
Stafford 88 000 052 630 564 8 Cumberl. 87 162 847
Salop 88 252 857 937 681 9 Westmor. 89 956 049
Hereford 82 454 4 48 631 860 2 Lancaster 91 1100 000
Worcester 84 400 048 631 450 11 Chester 86 400 060 933 800 0
Warwick 82 500 055 433 863 1 Flint 82 800 053 830 8000
Wilts 81 000 043 832 271 4 Denbigh 81 500 056 527 500 0
Berks
87 1000 041 930 054 8 Anglesea 80 000 049 628 000 0
Oxford 77 600 041 631 055 0 Carnarvon 90 400 048 229 2000
Bucks 81 400 038 629 650 10 Merioneth 95 000 058 334 600 0
Brecon 88 864 055 10 26 800
Montgom. 91 200 054 534 800
Radnor 86 300 048 529 700

0 Cardigan 104 000 050 022 1000 0
0 Pembroke102 200 050-1024 800 0
0 Carmart. 96 200 059 626 1000 0
Glamorgan91 200 053 0 25

Average of England and Wales, per quarter. Gloucester 79 300 047 10 32 84 850 5147 529 554 5 Somerset 91 700 0 49

Average of Scotland, per quarter.

Monm. 88 100 0 50
Devon 81 000 044

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500 0 658 5 000 0578 400 0 000 0 200 0 652 0

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68 4154 241 831 953 0 Cornwall 87 600 046 325

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PRICE OF FLGUR, per Sack, March 16, 75s. to 80s. OATMEAL, per Boll of 140lbs, Avoirdupois, March 21, 34s. 4d. AVERAGE PRICE of SUGAR, March 25, 52s. 34d. per cwt. PRICE OF HOPS, IN THE BOROUGH MARKET, March 16: Keut Bags ... 221. Os. to 124%. 10s. | Sussex Pockets.......23/. Os. to 251. Os. Sussex Ditto .......... 211. Os. to 9:42. Os. Kent Pockets ......... 231. 10s. to 96l. Os.

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Essex Ditto.............241. Os. to 26l. Os.
Farnham Ditto......... 244. Os. to 30l. Os.

AVERAGE PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, March 16:

St. James's, Hay 41.17s. 6d. Straw 21, 15s. 6d. Clover 51. Os.Od. --Whitechapel, Hay 5l. 2s. Od. Straw 21. 17s. Clover 61. 10s.-Smi thfield, Hay 51. 5s. Od. Straw 21. 14s. Clover 61. 10s.

SMITHFIELD, March 116. To sink the Offal-per Stone of 8lbs.

Beef...

Mutton.............

Veal

Pork ...........

........4s. 4d. to is. 4d.
.....5s. 6d. to 6 s. 6d.

5s. Od. to 6. 8d.
5s. Od. to 6. Od.

Lamb......... ..................

......Os. Od. to Os. Od. Head of Cattle at Market March 16; Beasts 2,300. Calves 150. Sheep and Lambs 13,000. Pigs 280.

COALS, March 16: Newcastle 34. 3d. to 44s. 3d. Sunderland 33s. Od. to 38s. Od. TALLOW, per Stone, 8lb. St. James' s 4s.8d. Clare Market Os. Od. Whitechapel 4s. 6d. SOAP, Yellow, 100s. Mottled 110s. Com rd 114s, CANDLES, 12s. 6d. per Doz. Moulds 145.

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