truft-deed was confirmed by Charles II. in the 36th year of his reign, 1684; and the church and church-yard were confecrated by Bishop Compton. By an act of parliament, 1 James II. Dr. Tenifon, vicar of St. Martin's, was conftituted first rector: and the advowfon, after the first avoidance, was vested in the Bishop of London and his fucceffors, and Thomas Lord Jermine, and his heirs for ever; the first rector to be collated by the bishop for the time being, the next by Lord Jermine and his heirs; and after that, two turns to be in the bishop and his fucceffor, and one in the Lord Jermine and his heirs in fucceffion, for all time to come. Dr. Te nifon, the first rector, was promoted to the fee of Lincoln, November 1691, and held the profits of this church feven months by commendam; which though deemed by the Bishop of London to be a fulfilling of his turn, yet by the King's Bench the right of prefentation was adjudged to the King. Dr. Peter Birch, whom the King prefented 1692, was removed, and fucceeded by Dr. William Wake, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury; and he, 1696, by Dr. Charles Trimnell, afterwards Bishop of Winchefter; whofe fucceffor, in 1709, was the well-known and learned Dr. Samuel Clarke, who died 1729. The next rector was Dr. Tyrwhit, (fon-in-law to Bishop Gibfon), who died in 1742, and was fucceeded, we believe, by Dr. John Eaton; however Dr. Nichols immediately preceded the late Dr. Parker.

nent oppofition orator. He had been blind for near 20 years: he held the office of Clerk of the Pells in England, about 15 or 16 years, it having been granted to him during the early part of Mr. Pitt's administration, in order to fave the country the expence of a penfion, which had been previously granted to the colonel, and which was in confequence relinquifhed.

On the 2d inftant, advice reached Berlin, of the death of Prince Henry of Pruffia, brother to Frederick the Great, and grand uncle to the prefent king, at the age of 77. His death was occafioned by a paralytic stroke. Prince Henry greatly diftinguifhed himself in the feven years war, and conftantly retrieved the loffes to which the indifcreet ardour of his brother fubjected him. He used to be often at court, and much confulted, till the treaty of Pilnitz, in 1791, which he difapproved, and was never after looked upon with a favourable eye at court. He was a prince of a philofophic mind, with which he had the happiness of blending a moderation of opinion, that enabled him to live quietly and retired, while all Europe was in a ferment..

The prince's remains were interred on the 5th inftant, in the chapel of the palace of Rheinberg.

On Thursday, August 5, Lord Grofvenor, after an illness of two months. Although his lordship had been ill, his death was unexpected, he appearing in tolerable health, but weakly. By his death, one of the largest properties in the country defcends to his eldest fon, Lord Belgrave, who will go up to the House of Peers, and leave a vacancy in the representation of the House of Commons. The late earl was a great sportsman, and his lofs will be very much regretted on the turf. He was the son of Sir Robert Grofvenor, and the first peer of his family, being raised to that rank in 1761. He was created an

On the 20th ult. in the 76th year of his age, the Right Hon. Ifaac Barrè, Clerk of the Pells, formerly a very emi

1731, and married, in 1764, Henrietta, daughter of Thomas Vernon, by his wife, daughter of the earl of Strafford.

Monday, Auguft 9, the Rev. Dr. Lewes, at his houfe in Sloane Street, after a long illness, which he bore with refignation. He was rector of Whippingham, in the ifle of Wight, worth about 1,500l, to which he was presented

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by the late Lord Chancellor Camden, to whom he was chaplain, as well as the late Lord Chancellor Northington. He was likewife rector of Ewell, in Surry, to which he was prefented by Sir George Glynn, Bart. who had married his fifter. His eftates, worth about 1,000l. per annum, devolve to his brother, Sir Watkin Lewis, who reprefented the city of London in three parliaments.

Laft month, in London, the perfon called by the name of M. de Verdion, well known about the streets of the metropolis, for a great number of years, wearing a little bag wig, and a large cocked hat, and carrying an umbrella. This fingular character died of a cancer in the breaft, being it appears a female, though the always wore a mafculine habit. By papers found in her apartments, it seems he was the natural daughter of a former king of Pruffia, and came to England with Madame Schwellenberg, mistress of the robes to her majefty. It is fomewhat remarkable, that though fhe was in the conftant habit of facrificing very copioufly to Bacchus, the never inadvertently reveal. ed her fex.

At Greenock, Mrs. Elizabeth Gilmour, a maiden lady, in her 81ft year. She died in the fame houfe, nay, in the very room in which she first drew breath; and, during the course of her long life, never, it is believed, flept out of it.

On Tuesday the 20th ult. at his family manfion at Caerhun, after a fhort illnefs, much lamented by his afflicted family, and a numerous circle of refpectable friends, the Rev. Hugh Davies Griffith, rector of Llanbedr, and vicar of Caerhun, in the county of Carnarvon. Refident in a portion of the kingdom, where the exploring eye of science has hitherto made little progress, and where nature, though prominent and forbidding in her features, is rich in the requifites of rational existence, he directed the hours, which his duties as a paftor and a magiftrate afforded him, to the improvements of rural life-the inveftigation of local advantages-their capaci ties of general application as focial refources and the acceleration of national intercourse. The abode of his ancestors within the limits of the Roman Conovium, and a vicinity eminently claffical, probably suggested to him that antiquity

had a peculiar claim to his attention; and what he has already done, as well as the outlines for future operations, fufficiently prove that paft times had occafionally engaged his obfervation and reflection. -The different learned bodies, of which he was an useful member, with the general world of intellect and intelligence, have now, unhappily, to regret an event that has arrested in the prime of life the refearches of fcience, and extinguifhed the elucidating powers that might have been exerted with effect in pervading the obscurity of ages.

The Rev. Alfred Sanderfon, Vicar of Afton Blank, Gloucestershire. He was on his way to church, when he fell down and expired inftantly.-In his 33d year, the Rev. Richard D'Aubney, rector of Ibberton, and vicar of Cerne, Dorset, rector of Hardington, and chaplain to the Earl of Weftmoreland. He was a defcendant of the ancient and noble family of the D'Aubneys', who came into England with William the Conqueror; he was a man univerfally refpected.

In July laft, Mrs. Wardell, wife of Mr. John Wardell, butcher. The melancholy circumftances which were the immediate caufe of her untimely diffolution, are peculiarly diftreffing: Mr. W. from too clofe an attention to the gaming table, had involved himself in fome pecuniary embarraffments. A creditor waited on him on Sunday laft, when Mr. W. to fatisfy his demand, gave him a bill of fale of his effects. In the evening of the fame day, the officers attended at his houfe to take poffeffion of the property. The thoughts of future distress had fuch an effect upon the fpirits of Mrs. W. that the retired to bed, and expired the following afternoon at one o'clock. She has left an infant daughter to lament her lofs.

A few days ago, at Roxley, in Hertfordshire, Robert Thew, hiftorical engraver to the Prince of Wales. He was born in Yorkshire, about the year 1758, and was a man of very extraordinary mechanical genius, which had but little cultivation, as his education was almost entirely neglected. He was apprenticed to a cooper, and which trade he afterwards for fome time followed; he then applied himself to the study of optics, and made a very curious camera obfcura, on a new principle, which gained him

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the patronage of the Marquis of Carmarthen, (afterwards Duke of Leeds); at about the age of 28, happening to see an engraver at work, though he had never practifed drawing, he got a copper plate, and engraved an old woman's head, from a painting by Gerard Dowe, which first attempt was fo very extraordinary, that he was appointed hiftorical engraver to the Prince of Wales. He has fince engraved a great number of capital plates from the paintings of Sir J. Reynolds, Shee, Weftall, Smirke, Fufeli, Nothcote, Peters, &c.

In the parish of Chesterton, Oxfordhire, feven children of William Birch, within one week, viz. a boy of fix years of age on the 17th of February, a girl of two on the 18th, a girl of nine years, another of twelve, and a third of fixteen on the 19th; a boy of seven on the 21ft, and another boy of ten on the 23d.

The Rev. William Griffiths, vicar of St. Iffey, near St. Columb; on Saturday morning the 31ft ult, he took his horfe, and faid that he intended to go to Lanherne (a feat of Lord Arundell, about two miles from St. Columb) to fee the nuns, and that if he did not return to St. Iffey to dinner, he should dine at St. Columb, and return home in the evening. On his not returning to St. Iffey as expected, Mrs. Griffiths grew very uneafy, and fent feveral perfons in fearch of him on Saturday night, but in

vain; and on Sunday morning his horfe was found in a field near the cliff at Mawgan, and his whip was stuck up near the cliff. As he had been seen there riding to and fro several times on Satur. day afternoon, it was immediately conjectured that he had fallen over the cliff into the fea. On fearching the cliff, his body was discovered under water, and was drawn up by ropes; but though the cliff was very high and rugged, he did not appear to be much bruifed by the fall; his spurs were found one in each pocket of his coat, and a gold ring in his coat pocket. The coroner, Mr. Hamley of Bodmin) was fent for immediately, and the jury brought in their verdict “ accidental death." He is generally lamented by his parishioners, as well as by every person who knew him in the neighbourhood, and has left a widow and five young children to mourn the loss of an affectionate husband and a tender father. The living of St. Iffey, about 200l. a year is in the gift of the bishop of Exeter.

The lady of the Rev. Thomas Heathcote, rector of Stone in Kent: fhe was the daughter of the late Chief Baron Par ker.

The Rev. Charles Harward, D.D. dean of Exeter.-The Rev. Mr. Tickell, rector of Gawfworth, in Cheshire, and of Eaft Merfea, in Effex.-At Twickenham, Lady dowager Viscountess Clifden, aged 71.-The Rev. R. Pitt, latę of Grosvenor-street.

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tory of Mepal cum Sutton, in this county, on the prefentation of the Dean and

The Bishop of London has been pleafed to appoint the Rev. Samuel Blackall, B. D. and Fellow of Emmanuel college, to be one of the preachers from this Univerfity, at his Majefty's chapel in Whitehall.

The Rev. Henry Shield, M. A. is inftituted to the rectory of Preston, on his own petition, being empowered, by a difpenfation, to hold the fame with the rectory of Stoke-Dry, both in the county of Rutland.

The Rev. William Howorth, mafter of the grammar fchool, Ipfwich, is chofen lecturer of the Tower Church in

that town.

The Rev. William Marth, of Reading, is prefented, by Sir Francis Sykes, Bart

Bart. to the livings of Bafildon and Afhampstead, in Berkshire.

The Lord Bishop of Salisbury has collated the Rev. Herbert Hawes, B. D. chaplain to the Earl of Malmesbury, to the rectory of St. Edmund's, Salisbury, vacant by the ceffion of the late incumbent.

On the 23d of last month was inducted into the rectory of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, the Rev. Henry Cox Mafon, M. A. rendered vacant by the death of the Rev. Thomas Hambly.

The Prince of Wales has been pleafed to appoint the Rev. Robert Phillips, M. A. rector of Great Welnetham, to be one of his Royal Highnefs's chaplains in ordinary.

The Rev. Francis Lee is appointed a chaplain in ordinary to his Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales.

The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland has prefented the elegant chandelier that belonged to the Irish House of Commons, to the Hon. and Rev. Dean Hewitt, for the parish church of St. Andrew, Dublin.

Auguft 13.] The Rev. George Waffe is inftituted to the rectory of Ibberton, in Dorfetfhire, on the prefentation of the Right Hon. Lord Rivers, vacated by the death of the Rev. R. D'Aubeny.

The Bishop of Lincoln has collated the Rev. Mr. Illingworth, rector of Scampton in Lincolnshire, to a prebend of Lincoln, vacated by the death of Mr. Gordon; and the Rev. Mr. Clifton, rector of Eaftwell, in Leicestershire, to a prebend of Lincoln, vacated by the death of Dr. Parker.

The Rev. Thomas Grefley has been prefented by the Lord Chancellor, to the vicarage of Polefworth, in Warwick fhire, vacant by the death of the Rev. W. Norton.

The Rev. Dr. Wingfield is appointed Head Mafter of Westminster School, on the Rev. Dr. Vincent's being promoted to the Deanery of Westminster; and the Rev. Mr. Page, of Christ Church, Oxford, is appointed fecond Mafter, in the room of Dr. Wingfield.

The Rev. Dr. Vincent was on Saturday forenoon inftalled Dean of the Collegiate Church of Westminster; and we moft heartily congratulate the members of that venerable Church on Mr. Ad. dington's difcernment in giving them a

fuperior who has done honour to every fituation he has already filled. If found learning, unaffected piety, and a uniform regard to the moral, focial, and relative duties, are recommendations to ecclefiaftical dignities, furely Dr. Vincent's claims to attention may be ranked in the first class.-It must be acknowledged that Mr. Addington in his various appointments to the great preferments in the church, has fhewn a decided preference to character and abilities.

The Rev. Herbert Hawes, B. D. chaplain to the Earl of Malmesbury, is prefented, by the Lord Chancellor, to the rectory of Millis, in Suffolk.

The Rev. Gerard Andrews, a preacher of deferved celebrity in London, is prefented by the Bishop of London, to the valuable rectory of St. James, Weftminster, vacated by the death of the Rev. Dr. Parker.

Auguft 19.] Saturday laft the Rev. Samuel Routh, B. D. was inftituted to the vicarage of Wicklewood, in Norfolk, on the prefentation of Mrs. E. Vaughan and the Rev. Reginald Heber.

The Rev. Doctor Ridley, Rector of Hambleden, Bucks, is prefented, by the Lord High Chancellor to the valuable living of Whippingham, in the Ifle of Wight, worth 1,500l. per annum, va, cant by the death of Dr. Lewes.

The Right Hon. Lord Sherborne has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Wm. Collett, Vicar of Surlingham, to be one of his Domestic Chaplains.

The Right Hon. George Buffy, Earl of Jerfey, has appointed the Rev. William Money, late of Chrift's College, Vicar of Wiggenhall St. Mary, Norfolk, one of his Lordship's Domestic Chaplains.

The following clergymen have been returned members in convocation for the archdeaconries in the diocese of York, viz. the Rev. Francis Henson, Rector of South Kilvington, and the Rev. James Serjeantfon, Rector of Kirby Knowle, for the archdeaconry of the north riding.

The Rev. John Gilby, Rector of Barmfton, and the Rev. Henry Shepherd, Rector of Branfburton, for the archdeaconry of the eaft riding.