matter of curiofity to fee how nearly the deferiptions agree. The article is dated from Cranborne, and runs thus: On the 29th of laft month [Aug. 1738], at five in the afternoon, was feen near this place a furprizing meteor or phænomenon in the sky to the N.E. the fun thising bright. It frat appeared as fire bursting from behind a cloud, out of which iffued a light glowing ball, with a train of flame behind it, which quickly disappeared. The fame was feen at Wells in Somerfetthire, alfo at Tupton in Derbythire, about the fame time, [and, what is ftill more furprizing, to the Eaßward of Reading, in a projectile courfe from S. W. to N. N. E.] It did not come from behind a cloud, for the fky. was quite free from clouds, and the fun fhone very clear. It appeered at first like a cone of fire, which terminated in a fharp point [as it paffed Reading it had the appearance of a round globe about 18 inches in diameter] with a bright nucleus or a ball at its thicker end, which feemed to burst, and go away in a great flame. It was almoft S. E. At Reading and fifteen miles round (about the fame time) an atonifhing noife was heard in the air when it was quite ferene. The crack, which was very fudden and violent, was fucceeded by a rumbling noife for the fpace of a minute. This phenomenon (adds the then Editor of this Magazine), by its defcription from different parts, perfectly agrees with what happened in the month of March 1719, and was very furprizing to the Western parts of England; and is that fort of meteor which naturalifts call DRACO VOLANS, or THE FLYING DRAGON. See vol. VIII. p. 492.

MR. URBAN, Canterbury, Aug. 19. HAPPENING laft night to be in the Oaks, near Chrift-Church-yard, between the hours of nine and ten, I had the pleasure of feeing a very uncommon phænomenon; a firey meteor of a very large fize. Its direction was from N. E. to S. W. its velocity very rapid, leaving a large train of fire behind it. Its light was much greater than that of the moon, and very pale, its duration about two minutes of time. It then burst into feveral parts, each part taking a different direction, and leaving behind them trains of fire like the flars of a sky-rocket. At its burfting it gave a great explofion, which did not reach my ear till five minutes afterwards, confequently, its diftance was about 65 miles: its altitude at bursting was about 45°; the diameter of its fiery head, during its paffage, appeared about the fize of a meridian moon, or about 14 minutes of a degree; therefore its real diameter must have been at least 1400 feet.

We have fimilar accounts from Deal, Dover, Elham, Chilbam, Herne, and other parts of Eaft Kent. J. R.

Canterbury, Aug 22. TO the account which I gave you of the meteor feen by me in the Oaks, I beg leave

to add, that at its burfting it bore from me nearly . E.; and as by the time which elapfed between its burting and the arrival of the found I judged it to be distant about 65 miles, and likewife as its altitude was then 45°, its horizontal diftance and perpendicular height muft have been about 46 miles; confequently, it was at that time nearly over the French coaft, not far from Ambleteufe or Boulogne. But by many ac counts it appears to have been teen alfo in feveral parts of Effex, and from thence to bave paffed along our coaft by Margate, Deal, and Dover. I therefore imagine that it was generated in the atmosphere over the German occan, and as foon as it took fire directed its courte to the S. W. mounting in its paffage, till it arrived at the vimoft limits of the atmosphere, which, by its rarefaction at that time, might have exceeded its mean height, which is generally fuppofed to be 44 miles. That it was very high is e vident by its being feen at places many miles diftant from London and its environs, where many people imagined it to have palfed very near them, but this could have been only an optical deception occafioned by its prodigious magnitude. J. R. Aug. 22.

MR. URBAN,

AS I doubt not your Magazine will be open to receive every well-authenticated account of the beautiful phænomenon which the heavens exhibited on the 18th inft. I fhall endeavour to convey fome idea to your readers of the manner in which it appeared on the way to London between Wakefield and Sheffield, at the distance of more than 250 miles from Deal, where I find it was also seen. At 10 minutes before 9 I perceived a fudden light, refembling the glare of pale lightning, which gradually increased to a moft brilliant refulgence, illuminating the whole atmosphere; when, upon looking out of my chaife, I faw a ball of fire with long train, refembling a fky-rocket, moving with great rapidity from the N. W. to the S. E. in its paffage defcribing a parabola; the duration of its appearance might be a bout 20 feconds, when I loft fight of it. I have been particularly correct in defcribing the direction of its courfe, as I observe the accounts in the papers differ very materially, and I have fince heard that it was feen in this direction at Wifbeach in the Isle of Ely. The evening was cool, and the ground covered with a thick mift. T.S.

Salisbury, Aug. 23. About nine laft Monday evening an uncommon and beautiful meteor fuddenly burit from the elements in the N. E. It remained about half a minute in one flation, affording a tremulous light not unlike the moon emerging from a cloud; then proceeded in a very regular and swif horizontal motion through the Eaft, where, dividing into feveral glowing balls of light, it difappeared.

Mr.

Mr. Amyfs, mafter of the White-horfe inn, five miles from Bury, in the road to Newmarket, was looking out of his groundfloor window, he faw a great light in the horizon, feemingly over Cavenham, and called to his family to come and fee the ftrange light, which kept proceeding flowly directly towards his houfe, looked bluth, and when within a quarter of a mile planly thed inuumerable fars, each of which appeared to have a tail, feeming to pafs directly over his houfe, and, as he thought, only just clear of the chimnies. He ran to a back window, faw it keep on its courfe towards Great Sexham, and judged it might be about three rods (16 or 17 feet) in length. About one minute after he loft fight of it, he plainly heard a loud noife, as of fomething heavy fallen down in the room overhead. He then looked at his watch, and it wanted twenty minutes of ten. He judges that the whole lafted three minutes. The courfe appeared to Mr. Anyfs as from N. W. to S. W. nearly. The profpect from Cavenham to his houfe is extremely open, even to Ely, and far beyond (perhaps to the German ocean); but foon bounded by trees and rifing grounds to the back of it.

Hull, Aug. 23. The firey meteor, which made its appearance in London and its neighbourhood, was vifible to us alfo, and at Leeds, Malton, Whitby, Bridlington, York, &c. about the fame time, with all the apparent circumitances that have been defcribed; it was feen likewife by vellels at fea; one juft come in from Rotterdam faw it off the coal of Holland, and another, juft arrived from Oftend, faw it after she had failed about an hour from that place, all fuppofing that it terminated at fome fmall distance from them. Dr. Goldsmith mentions fuch a globe of fire to have been feen in Bononia, in Italy, in 1676, at above three quarters of an hour after fun-fet. It paffed Weftward with a moft rapid course, and at the rate of not lefs than 160 miles in a minute, and at last food over the Adriatic Sea. In its courfe it croffed over all Italy, and, by computa tion, it could not have been less than 38 miles above the furface of the earth. la the whole line of its courfe, wherever it approached, the inhabitants below could diftinely hear it with a hiffing noife, refembling that of a fire-work-Having paffed away to fea towards Corfica, it was at laft beard to go off with a moft violent explosion, much louder than that of a cannon, and, immediately after, another noife was hend Like the rattling of a cart upon a ftony pave

ment.

Its magnitude, when at Bononia, appeared twice as long as the moon one way, and as broad the other; fo that, confidering its height, it could not have been lefs than a mile and a half long, and half mile broad. The Doctor fuppofes, that from the height it was feen, and there be GENT. MAC, Aug. 1783.

ing no volcano in that quarter of the world froin whence it came, it was more than pros bable that this terrible globe was kindled on fome contrary part of the globe in the Torrid Zone, thofe regions of vapours, and thus rifing above the air, and paffing, in courfe, oppofite to that of the earth's mo tion; in this maner it acquired amazing rapidity: Bat what he fays of that will not hold god in every particular ripeéting the prefent one, as it took a different couffe, and may have been o.cafioned by fome of the vapours iffuing from the volcanoes upon the New Island lately fprong up in the o cean, about nine leagues to the S. W. of Iceland, or perhaps only from that profufe exhalation of vapours occafioned by the exceffive warm and dry weather we have experienced this fummer.

Tu fday 20.

As the arts of kuaves and tharpers cannot be too frequently expofed, the following fact we hope will have its ufe in guarding ftrangers from the like impofition. A failor, who had just received fome prize-money, walking along the Strand, afked his way of a barrow-woman to Oxford-road,' when a well-dreffed man, within hearing, stepped up to him and faid, he was going to that street and would conduct him. The failor followed, and in St. Martin's lane the pretended guide faid he would just flep to his banker's, and be with him prefently, ufhering him at the fame time into a parlour in a public house where fome of his accomplices were ready placed. They feemed to be diverting themfelves, as mere ftrangers, at what is called biding the Horfe. One puts halfpence under a hat, the other turning his back to the table, gueffes add or even. When they get a firanger in, they have a glass so placed in the cicling that they can fee the hand of the accomplice, who, by doubling up his fingers, is fure to fet his friend right. By this trick they foon ftripped the failor of his cash, and found means to leave him to pay the reckoning, who fending for fome of his mefs-mates to redeem him, they marked the houfe; and as there are generally fome acute ores among them, they naturally concluded that in a few days they thould find fome of the confederates looking out upon the fame lay, and laid their heads together to watch them. As they had judged, fo it happened. One of them appeared, whom the failor feized, and with the affiance of his comrades dragged him to another public houfe, from whence he was carried before a magiftrare, and by him committed to the Counter till he could find bail or repay the money; the latter he chofe to do, as he knew the bail he had to offer would not hear examining.

Wednes by 20.

The following malefactors were carried in three carts from Newgate, and executed at Tyburn, viz. James Grant and Wille

Smith, for breaking open the dwelling houfe of Mr. Jacomb, on Lawrence-Pountneyhill, and fealing a quantity of filver plate; George Adams, alias Peat, for a burglary in the dwelling houfe of Mrs. Harrison, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, and healing fome filver plate, apparel, &c. Thomas Davis, for breaking and entering the chambers of Mr. Handcock, in Staple Inn, and fealing a quantity of wearing apparel; John Bitton, for affaulting William Uther wood on the highway, near Kilburn, and robbing him of a handkerchief and 6s. John Fentum, in company with his brother Benjamin, for affaulting Francis Fenley, on the highway, in Kingfland Road, and robbing him of half a guinea, s. and a pair of buckles; John Morella, for privately stealing in the flop of Mr. Philip Lithby two pair of filver buckles; and Richard Pratt, for perfonating and affuming the name of another Richard Pratt, a feaman on board his Majesty's fhip Pomona, with an intent to receive his prizemoney.

Thursday 21.

Being the birth day of his R. H. Pr. Wm. Henry, who now enters his 19th year. Their Majefty's received the ufual compliments at Windfor.

Friday 22.

Report was made to his Majefly in Coun. cil of the capital convicts, thirteen in number, tried in July laft, when Wm. Wynne Ryland, Jacob Ringrofe Atkins, John Ferdinando Lloyd, James Brown, alias Valley, John Edwards, James Rivers, alias Davis, Wm. Spang, and Thomas Burgess, were ordered for execution. Atkins and Spong have fince been refpited.

James Bowen, for ftealing a box belonging to a club, in which was 261. George Gahagan, far robbing Jane Garrett of a leg of mutton, and half a guinea, and Wm. Smith, for robbing Mary Dell, in Rofemary-lane, of hits and linen, pardoned. Wm. Harpur, for horfe- ftealing, and Edw. Edfon, for robbing (in company with Spang) Jofeph Slinker on the highway, were pardoned, on condition of ferving on board the lighters on the river Thames; the former three years, the latter four years.

Friday 25.

His Majefty in Council has caufed it to be notified, that all grants of land in Nova Scotia, prior to the fl of Jannuary, 1774, that have not been located, are by faid order revoked and made void; and that the Governor or Commander in Chief for his Maefly's Province of Nova Scotia do forbear to Jue any order of furvey or to pass any grant iof

any lot or parcel of land within faid province in pursuance of any order made by his Majefty in Council prior to the faid rit if Jan. 1774.

Tuesday 26.

This morning the man and woman mentio ed in p. 710 were executed in the RoTough near St. George's church. See p. 716.

This afternoon, about five o'clock came on the molt awful and tremendous ftorm of thunder and lightning that has been felt this fummer in or near the metropolis. Two of the claps of thunder were perhaps the leudeft ever heard in this climate; they were preceded by flashes of lightning, one of which truck the South Weft angle of the King's Bench prifon in St. George's Fields; the other, the oppofite angle of the Alylum on the Surrey fide of Westminster Bridge. The concuffion of the air, in confequence of the explofion from each, forced feveral panes of glass out in each building; and upon a computation of time between the flash and the report, it is thought the cloud could not have been more than 150 yards above the buildings. By the fame ftorm a large tree was fplit in St. James's Park; ǝ woman paling by had her cloaths fet on fire, and it was with difficulty fhe could be tript fo as to fave her life. At Blackman Street in the Borough and Newington the people ran out of their houfes frighted, fuppofing the roofs to be tumbling about their head. The force of the lightning took effect on a wooden houfe neat the hatch in

Snow Fields in a very remarkable manner. A frame of glafs-work near a yard fquare was burst out of its place; a large opening was made in a wooden wall; the tiles of the houfe were many of them difplaced, and the whole front from top to bottom rendered a fpectacle worthy of notice. The violence of this form reached, on one fide, as far as Barn Elms, where two trees were stripped of their bark frem top to bottom; and on another to New Crofs, where the lightning furrowed up the ground as with a plough. At Limehouse Hole a fhip's matt was broken in two, and in the Ifle of Dogs the cattle were feemingly much affected. In fhort, nothing like the violence of this topm is remembered in the environs of London.

Friday 29.

This day William Wynne Ryland, John Lloyd, James Brown, Tho. Burgefs, James Rivers, and John Edwards, were executed at Tyburn, purfuant to their fentence. The gallows was fixed about 50 yards nearer the Park wall than ufual. Juft as the executioner was preparing to do his office, a form of thunder and lightning came on, which occafioned fome delay; but about a quarter before twelve o'clock they were all turned off; and, after hanging the ufual time, were cut down, and delivered to their respective friends. The concourfe of spectators on this occafion was hardly ever exceeded.

This morning a letter was received by the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor, from the Hon. Charles Fox, acquaiuting his Lordship, that the 3d of next month was the day appointed for figning the definitive treaty with their Catholic and Moft Chriftian Majefiies and the United States of America.

The

The mistake in our laft, p. 624, of ftyling B. A's Doctors, mult probably originate from Ds (Dominus) the academical appellation.

Dr. Wheeler, p. 629, was regius profeffor of divinity at Oxford; and author of a curious Latin dial gue (unpublished) fpoken in the Sheldon Theatre July 8, 1773; which we hope to prefent to our readers in a future number. Mr. Arplebee, fee p. 629, was M.A.curate of St. Bride's, and lecturer of St. Margaret, Lothbury. He had also two fmall livings in Hants. On finding himfe'f one day indifpofed in the pulpit, he wound up his difcourfe in the following words: "He is wife enough who knows himself, great enough who maters himself, rich enough who enjoys himself, hath pleasure enough who pleafes hilelf, and is Lappy enough who lives well." In his will is the following whimfical ftipulation: . My body to be dreffed in a flannel wa.ftcoat, infead of a fhirt; an old furtout coat, and breeches without lining or pockets; an old pair of stockjngs; thoes I fhall want none, having done walking; and a worked wig, if one can be go." BIRTHS.

Co. dai of

ton-Hall, co. S afford, and one of the clerks of his Majefty's most honourable privy council, a fon and heir.

June 24. Dutchefs of Courland, a princess. July 30. Countefs of Lincoln, a daughter. Aug. 2. Lady of the Bp. of Gloucester, a dnu. 3. Lady of R. H. Drummond, eiq; a dau. 5. Laay of Col. Joha Minfel, a fon. 7. Her Majesty Qeen CHARLOTTE, a PAINCESS.

Lady of Sir Jar. Grant, bart. a fon.

12. Lady of Alderman Turner of London, fon, at W beach in Cambridgeshire, in their way from the North into Norfolk.

19. Lay of Jer. Milles, fq; a dau. 27. Right hon. Lady Bitton, a son. Counters of Rofeberry, a fun.

MARRIAGES.

Rob. Denfun, cfq; of

wood, near Leeds, to M is Fra. Brooke, young-ft dau. of the late Sir R. B. b. of Norton. A. Quebec, Capt. Colin Campbell, of the 44th reg. to Miis Johnfen, eideft dau, of Gol. Guy J. and piece of Sir John J. bart.

July 15. Major Hooke, to Mifs Bloxham. 29. At York, hon. Grenville Anfon Chetwynd, 3d fon of Ld Vifc. C. to Ms Stapylten, only dau. of the late Hen. S. efq; of Wigbid, Yorkh.

30. Tho. James, efq; of the Mid. Temple, to Mifs James, dau. of Hugh J. efq, of Enfield. At Coldham, Seff. Sir Tho. Gage, bart, to Mifi Maria Fergus.

Aug. 1. Rev. Mr. Seward, of Saint Bury, Gloucestersh, to Mifs Sukey Phillips.

5. At Clifton, Bedfordih. Johnton Wilkinfen, efq; furveyor of the general post-office, to Mife Oiborn, dau. of Rob. O. efq; late comnorer of his Majety's navy.

At Lambeth (by his grace the Archbp. of Canterbury) Marton Eden, efq; his Ma

jefty's envoy extraordinary at the court of Saxony, and brother to Sir John and Sir Rob. E. barts. to Lady Ele. Henley, youngest fitter to the E. of Northington.

David Angier, eg, of Illington, to Mis Bathurst.

At Canterbury cathedral, Tho. Hyle Page, efq; of the corps o cogarer, "to Mifs Wo 3. ward of that city. Knighted on the 22d by his Majesty.]

9. Earl of Eglintoune, to Mifs Twyfden, fit. to Sir Wm. T. b. o: Roydo -Hail, Kent, 12. Sir Geo. Aimy age, bart. of Kirklees, Yo kh. to Mils Harbord, c.deft dau. of Sir H. H bart,

14. Mr. Wa. Richar's, attorney at law, of Penryn, Corow li, o Mifs Suf. Ri bards, of Helftone.

18. At Barnes, in Surrey, Ri Hore, jun. efq; to the hoa. Mifs Lyttelton, dau. of Lord

Westcote.

At the Hague, Alex Cunningham, e'q; to Mifs C. Guinand, cou. of the late Hen. Gefq; of Calcutta.

20. Mr. John Smith, cf St. Ann's-fquare, Manchefe, to Mil H. Grace, ti Hickory. 21. Chrift. Lake, efq; to Mifk Blaiton.

22. Mr. Browell, n.ph. Mark Bell, efq; malt deftiller at Bot.crfea, to Mils Bu ch, only dau. of Mr. J. B. merch.on G. Tower-bill. Theo. Weeb, sq; of Wellclcfe-fquale, to Mifs Labella Spooner.

DEATHS.

LATELY, Y. Kout. Fife, in his oth

year, of Wendon, and many years in the curomillion of the peace for Effex. Rev. Robt. Baynes, R. of Stoneham-Afpail, co. Suffolk.

At Cra hes, in Scotland, Sir Tho. Burnett, bar. of Leys.

Rev. Cha. Recks, R. of Stratford St. Anthony, co. Wilts.

At Winchmore-H., Mr. Delarive, a policy broker, whofe death was accelerated by a run of ill fuccefs in the aly, a heavy lofs in a large cargo of irish provitices returned upon his hands from France, and the dangerous illnefs of a young woman who lived with him, and of whom he was eatingly hond. She forvived him but a day or two, and they were both buried in one era e at Edmonton.

SI Rowland Hill, bart. of Hawkfton-Hall, co. Salop.

At Newcastle, Ralph Bates, efq; who served the office of high her for Norchem. in 1762. John Pugion, efq; of Weit Moulfey, Serrey. At Bath, Mrs. Ditcher, relict of the lite Ph. D. efq, of t at city, and eldest dau. of the late Mr. Richardion, author of Clariffa, c.

At Huntingdon, Ceo. Ruft, efq; fen. alderman of that corporation.

At Appleby, Westmoreland, Mary Worley, aged 105.

At St. Lucar de Barrameda, in Spain, Donna Anna Keyna, aged upwards of 100.

At Rey, Derbyth. Mrs. Mary Warren, youngest dau. of the Late J. 3. W. ciq; of Sta

pleford-Hall, and aunt to the present Sir J. B. W. bart.

June 11. At Aranjuez, the Infant Don Carlos, only fon of his R. H. the Prince of Afturias, in his 4th year.

July 19. At Kidderminster, in his 66th year, the rev. Job Orton, formerly pastor of the dif fenting congregation at Shrewsbury, author of feveral theological publications.

20. At Longford, in Ireland, Alex. Kilpatrick, efq; aged 116 years and fome months. He was formerly colonel of an Irish reg. of foot, and ferved under John D. of Marlborough. 24. Tho. Tynsåle, efq; of South Cerney, in Gloucestersh. one of his Majesty's deputy lieutenants, and captain of the grenadier comrapy of the north attalion of the Gloucefter militia. This gentleman's death was cccafioned by gang into a field to his baymakers, where he fat down, and unfortunately fell afleep upon a hay cock, which gave him a col, a fever enfued, and carried him off in a few days. 26. In Gofwell-street, Mr. Clark, fcalemaker. His death was occafioned by wathing his feet in cold water a few days before.

27. A: Marden, Kent, Mr. Barbara Cle, relict of Edw. C. efq; late of Morden, aged 82. 30. In Harley-fr. the lady of ton, efq;

l'horn

Mr. Dobrey, formerly an orange-merchant in Thames-ftreet.

Ag 1. Suddenly, at the White Horfe in Fet er-lane, in his 73d year, after a journey from Chatham that af ernoon in apparent good health, Mr. John Hick, attorney at law, of Rochefter.

In Chandos-r. Cavendish-fqu. right hon. La Vifc. Hereford, premier vifcount of England. His lordship is fucceeded in his titles and eftates by his only brother, the hon. Geo. Devereux, now Ld Vifc. Hereford.

Mr. John Benford, of Oxford, aged 77. Having walked to the head of Port Meadow, in order to angle, he was found dead near the Toll-bridge, with his fishing-rod in his hand.

At Woodbridge, Suffolk, Fra. Carter, efq; F. S. A. and author of ' A Journey from "Malaga to Gibraltar, 1776, 2 vols. 8vo. with plates, fold feparately; reprinted in 2 vols. 1778, with the plates in erted. The many coins engraved in this work were from the collection of the celebrated Spanish medallift Flores, wh fe (abinet Mr. Carter had purchafed on his death, and difpofed of the duplicates to Dr. Hunter. He had juft completed (and had aftually printed the first sheet of) An historical and critical account of early "printed Spanish Bocks;" in which, to ufe his own words, his intent was, " to write an biftorical and critical account of the most early printed volumes in the Spanish language, which have fallen into my poffeffion during thirty years dil gently collecting them, both in Spain, in France, and England. Of the lives of the authors he proposes to give a fummary account, with occafional fpecimens of the style and manner of their writings, and frictures on the

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ftaté and progress of learning and poetry, from the days of John II. king of Caßille down to the prefent age: to appearance an humble and eafy task, but which will be found in the execution to require no small labour, judgement, and experience, and be evidently of great advantage to thofe who wish to enrich their libraries with the best Spanish works, and be informed of the reputation, merit, and rank, each author bolds in the literary world."

2. Upon Clerkenwell-Green, Mr. Coker, many years a goldfmith in Clerkenwell-clofe. In Oxford-freet, Soultzer, efq; who lofing, during the riots in 1780, an ingenious treatife on Bucolic poetry, which had never been published, and fome other valuable MSS, was never afterwards chearful. He was a defcendant of the late famous Soultzer, phyfician to the Duke of Saxe Gotha

3. At Stratford, Effex, Mrs. Snee, azed 83. After a fhort illness, James Price, M. D. F. R.S. of Guildford, well known by his expe riments on mercury, filver, and gold. See vol. LII. p. 487.

At Hat on, Shropfh. Moreland Slaney, efq; 4. Right hun. dowager Lady Hawley.

In St. Thoma 's hofpital, Elisha Cook, who was robbed by fome women of the town, and afterwards thrown out of a window, in the Mint; and on the following day the coroner's inqueft fat on his body for leven hours, and poftponed the examination of the other witnefles be ng 17 in number. It fiifhed on Thursday night, after nine hours more examination of the other witnelles, and brought in their verdi&, Wilful Murder by Persons unknown. See p. 714.

5. At Chefhunt, Herts, Mr. Twyford, aged 74, who many years kept the Queen's head tavern in Pater-nofter-row, but, having as quired a competency, had retired.

6. At Bristol, in his 78th year, Wm. Dow. kins, efq; formerly a Greenland captain.

7. In Southampton-ftreet, Bloomsbury, T. Llewellin, LL.D.

At Wefton, near Bath, aged 75, rev. John Jas. Majendie, D. D. canon of Windfar, prebendary of Salisbury, and V. of Stoke Prior, co. Worcester. Dr. M. by birth an Englishman, was the fon of a respectable clergyman of Exeter, where he was born in 1709; was early in life intended for orders; and received thofe of deacon July 4, 1731, from Bp. Smalbroke, and thofe of priest May 23, 1733, from Bp. Gibson. His father came from France at the clofe of the laft century, after the impolitic repeal of the edict of Nantz; and fuch was the attachment of the late Dr. M. to the remains of that refpectable body, who, for the fake of religion, left their country, eftates, and every worldly confideration, that he held himfelf bound to afford them all the fupport in his power; and having very early in 1 fe been appointed one of the preachers of the Royal French chapel in the Savoy, he never would refign what feemed to him fo honourable an emp oy, but continued in it 52 years; and re mained minifter of that congregation to the

day