ving made a further progress in the favour of a personage just mentioned. It was through his influence, we believe, that he afterwards received a respectable salary, as the nominal editor of a French paper, published in London. About the same time (1805) he undertook the management of a weekly paper, called the British Neptune. While he held the latter engagement, he imprudently criticised, with great severity, the performance of a play which was not acted. The performers justly felt themselves aggrieved, and three or four actions were commenced, but were afterwards compromised. In 1806, having resigned both the French paper and the British Neptune, Mr. Heron embarked in a literary speculation of his own (the Fame newspaper), which failed, and involved him in some serious pecuniary difficulties difficulties which, in all probability, hastened his early dissolution. A few weeks before his death, he is understood to have produced a little volume, intitled, The Comforts of Human Life. 13. Her majesty the empress of Austria, in consequence of a premature delivery of a dead child, on the 7th. She died in her 35th year, having had twelve children; of whom four sons and five daughters are living. According to custom, the body of her imperial majesty was opened on the 14th; on the 15th it publicly lay in state; on the 16th the heart was deposited with great solemnity in the church of the Augustines: the entrails were conveyed, in equal pomp, to the cathedral church, and deposited in the vault: and the same day, at five in the afternoon, the funeral took place in the following order, from the church of the Au gustines to the Capuchins:-1. A ' detachment of cavalry; 2. the poor of the hospital; 3. the religious orders of the town and suburbs; 4. the clergy; 5. the city magistrates; 6. the states of Lower Austria; 7. the counsellors of the aulic and provincial departments, in mourning; 8. the individuals belonging to the court, the ministers, privy counsellors, and other personages of the court, met in the church, as did the knights of the order of the golden fleece and the grand cross of the order of St. Stoken. His royal highness the archduke John, proxy for his majesty, and the other arch dukes, also repaired to the church before the arrival of the procession. -At half-past four, the body was let down from the state-bed, the coffin closed, and placed on the funeral car, to which six horses were harnessed, caparisoned in black. The procession then commenced, and the car was preceded and fol. lowed by many troops of horse and foot soldiers. The different stateofficers went with the procession in carriages. The corpse, on arriving at the church, was placed on a platform, covered with velvet richly em. broidered with gold; and, after receiving the benedictions of the archbishop, was let down into the vault. 14. At Speen, near Newbury, in his 68th year, Thomas Hatt, esq. 15. At Stanmore, Middlesex, George Heming, esq. In his 55th year, colonel Fane, M.P. for Lyme Regis. At Norwich, in his 60th year, James Hudson, esq. banker. He served the office of mayor in 1794. 16. At Southampten, dowager lady Stuart, widow of the late sir Simon Stuart, bart. Aged 72, Edward King, esq. F.R, and and A.SS. author of "Morsels of Criticism," "Munimenta Antiqua," and other works. At Bristol, aged 61, Mungo Forbes, esq. late of the island of Jamaica. 17. In Broad-court, Bow-street, Mr. Mark Supple. He was a native of the south of Ireland, and had been upwards of 25 years a reporter of the debates in parliament. In Cavendish-square, the lady of J. Fanshawe, esq. 18. An inquisition was taken at Harpledown, near Uxbridge, on the body of Andrew G. Mautimer, esq. who put a period to his existence on Friday last, while taking an airing in his carriage. The deceased, who was for many years a merchant in the metropolis, was far advanced in age, and he had been confined by sickness for the last two years, which reduced him, at intervals, to a state of insanity. He had, apparently, in a great measure, recovered, previous to the day of his death; and on that morning he ordered his coach, to take an airing. The coachman had observed the deceased in a reclining posture in the coach, and he supposed him to be sleeping; but on his arrival home, he discovered that the deceased had inflicted a wound in his neck with a pen-knife, which was found by him, and which occasioned his death. He has left no family. Verdict, insanity. At Chigwell, Mr. Robert Denham, surgeon. Lieut. col. M'Creagh, of the 96th regiment of foot. At Schwerm, in Mecklenburgh, the hon. Frances Clifford, eldest sister of lord Clifford. 19. In Hollcs-street, John Broomhead, esq. 20. At Aberystwith, Mr. Morgan, solicitor. Robert Andrew, esq. of Harleston Park, Northamptonshire, in his 73d year. 21. At Draper's hall, London, the Rev. G. Walker, late of Wa vertree, in Lancashire, F.R.S. presi dent of the literary society at Manchester, and formerly minister of a congregation of Protestant dissenters at Nottingham. Mr. Walker was born about the year 1734, at Newcastle-upon-Tync, in which town his father was a respectable tradesman. He went very early to the free-school of his native place, then under the care of the rev. Dr. Moises; and, at the age of ten, was sent to his uncle, the rev. Thomas Walker, a dissenting minister, at Durham. In the grammar-school of that city, he acquired the Greek and Latin languages, and was afterwards removed to the university of Edinburgh, where he became a pupil of Dr. Matthew Stewart, the mathematician. He completed his education at the university of Glasgow. His first settlement, as a minister, was at Durham, about the year 1756, as successor to his uncle, who had removed to Leeds. He continued there about seven years, when he accepted an invitation to Yarmouth, where he married in 1772. He soon after removed to Warrington, as a mathematical tutor in the academy at that place. Dissatisfied by the failure of the expectations of emolument which had been holden out to him on his re moval, he left Warrington in the beginning of 1775, for Nottingham, to occupy the station of one of the ministers of the High Pavement meeting. Previously to this he had become a member of the Royal Royal Society; and had. printed, while at Warrington, his Doctrine of the Sphere, a quarto volume, with many plates of a peculiar construction, which cost him much labour. This is considered as being a very complete treatise, and an example of the purest method of geometrical demonstration. Mr. Walker had long been a deep thinker on political subjects; and, in Nottingham, he had a large field for extending the influence of his knowledge and eloquence over public assemblies. During the time of his residence there, which comprehended a period of 24 years, nearly all the petitions which were thence address ed to the king, and to the parlia ment, were the productions of his pen. One of them-the petition for recognizing American independence, made such an impression on the mind of Mr. Burke, as to induce that statesman to declare, that he would rather have been the author of that piece, than of all his own compositions. The death of some of his most intimate friends, and the prospect of extending his usefulness in a different sphere of action, at length induced him to accept the post of theological tutor and superintendant of the dissenting academy at Manchester. By the extent of his knowledge, he was well qualified for such a situation; but by his habitual want of punctuality, and his forgetfulness of engagements, occasioned by the ardour with which he entered into any pre. sent subject of study or discussion, he was unequal to the task. Ulti. mately, the whole burthen of theological, mathematical, and classical tuition fell upon him, and he resigned his office. During his resi. dence at Manchester, he was an active member of the literary and philosophical society of that place; of which, on the deccase of Dr. Perceval, he was chosen president. Mr. Walker's final removal was to the village of Wavertree, near Li. verpool, where his principal employment was, to revise and put in order his various compositions, both printed and manuscript. He had published several single sermons, on particular occasions, while at Nottingham, and had printed two volumes of sermons in 1790; all distinguished by a manly, fervid, and original cast of thought. He had also written An Appeal to the People of England, on the test laws, which is said to have been highly spoken of by the late Mr. Fox. Besides his work on the sphere, he had published the first part of A Treatise on Conic Sections; a performance worthy of his mathematical reputation. Benjamin Booth, esq. many years one of the directors of the EastIndia Company. Suddenly, at Everton, in his 53d year, John Gregson, esq. one of the aldermen of Liverpool. 22. Aged 80, Willoughby Wood, esq. of Thoresby, in Lincolushire, one of his majesty's gentlemen of the privy chamber. At Brighton, aged 75, James Portis, esq. of Gate-street, Lincoln's-Inn-fields. At North Mimms, Hertfordshire, Mrs. Jane Gould, sister of the late Mr. Justice Gould. Laurence Harman Parsons, earl of Ross, one of the representative peers of Ireland. The title descends to the earl's nephew, sir Lawrence Parsons, bart. 23. Mr. Thomas Moore, of Cheap,ide, warehouseman. In his 76th year, John Watts, esq. formerly secretary to the victualling-office. At Llangennech Park, South Wales, Mrs. Vancouver, wife of John Vancouver, esq. 24. Sir James Winter Lake, bart. F.R.S. 25. At Cardulees, in the parish of Dalston, aged 84, Robert Wilson. He has left a son, a grandson, and a great-grandson, all of the name of Robert Wilson, brought up, and now living, in the same house where he died: and there had not been a death in that house for 70 years past. 26. At Highbury, Jacob Wood, esq. of Threadneedle-street, refiner. At Clifton, near Bristol, lady Elizabeth Magenais, daughter of the late earl of Enniskillen. In Upper Charlotte-street, aged 79, Mrs. Hill, relict of the late ad. miral Hill. 27. At Paris, in the 85th year of her age, the right hon. lady Anastasia Stafford Howard, baroness of Stafford, only surviving daughter and heir of William earl of Stafford, who died in 1734. She was sole heir of the body of sir William Howard, viscount Stafford, the only married younger son of the present duke of Norfolk's ancestor, Thomas Howard earl of Arundel. She was also sole heir of the body of that viscount's wife, Mary Stafford baroness of Stafford, and through her, sole heir of the body of Ed. ward the last Stafford duke of Buckingham, hereditary lord high constable of England, who was sole heir of the body of king Edward the IIId, youngest son of Thomas Plantagenet, of Woodstock, duke of Gloucester, and of his wife lady Eleanor Bohun, eldest daughter and co-heir of the late Humphrey Bohun, earl of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton, and lord high constable of England; and whose younger sister was wife of king Henry the IVth, but from whose body there was an entire failure of issue on the death of her grandson king Henry the VIth. Notwithstanding the accumulation of Plan. tagenet, Bohun, and Stafford heir. ship, which became centered in lady Anastasia Stafford Howard, she was disabled by the attainder of her ancestor, the last Stafford duke of Buckingham, in the reign of king Henry the VIIIth, from possessing any of the family digni. ties, except the Stafford barony. She died without having ever been married. Her heir is sir William Jerningham, baronet, whose grandmother was sister of the beforementioned William, earl of Stafford. In consequence of a fall from his horse the preceding day, Mr. Watkins, sadler, Cheltenham. Mrs. Egan, many years wardrobekeeper and principal dress-maker at Covent-garden theatre. John Stone, esq. of Letcombe Regis, Berks. Mr. Alex. Morris, late of Springgarden, attorney-at-law. 29. At Sion End, Middlesex, in his 85th year, John Barber, esq. In Seymour-street, Bath, in his 77th year, Ferdinando Anderdon, esq. At Kingston, Surrey, Mrs. Pierce, widow of the late Captain Pierce, who was lost in the Halsewell Indiaman, in 1786. At Bath, sir H. Dillon Massey. Lately, at Antigua, general Vandeleur. At St. Petersburgh, princess Bariatinsky, riatinsky, formerly the hon. Miss Dutton, second daughter of lord Sherborne. At Windy Hill, Tortola, William Robertson, esq. At Paris, Victor Leopold Berthier, general of division, chief of the staff of the first corps of the grand army, and one of the commanders of Buonaparte's legion of honour. At Verdun, Gideon Newland, esq. of Chichester, who had been detained as a prisoner in France since the commencement of the war. At Kingston, Jamaica, Stewart Bruce, esq. At Madras, George Houstoun, esq. of the civil service. In St. Alban's-street, Charles Lackington, esq. At Newry, Ireland, Hugh O'Hanion, esq. aged 94. At Kirkdale, in Lancashire, in the 91st year of his age, Wm. Pendleton, a waterman, who had fought in the battles of Dettingen, Fontenoy, and Culloden. He has left behind him a widow, aged 92, with whom he lived upwards of 68 years; and what is remarkable, they never had more than one quarrel during the whole time. He supported himself and wife by his own industry, and never experienced any illness till the last, which confined him to his house only one week, and to his bed but one day. At his house, Great Cumberlandplace, aged 67, admiral sir Hyde Parker, of Ben-hall lodge, Suffolk. He was second son of admiral sir H. Parker, bart. who was lost in the Cato in 1782; and brother to sir Harry Parker, bart. of Long Melford, who was knighted for his gallant services in the American war. At Chichester, John Luggens, esq. banker. Mrs. Sarah Ayscough, aged 82, widow of Mr. William Ayscough, late of Windsor, Berks. Miss Elizabeth Brunn, of the Chapter coffee-house, Paternosterrow. In his 76th year, the rev. George Moore, vicar of Heavitree, Devon, canon residentiary of St. Peter's, Exeter, and archdeacon of Corn. wall. At Blackheath, lieut. col. Moorsom, of the royal marines. At Denton, Norfolk, at the age of upwards of 90, after a short confinement, the rev. George Sandby, D.D. rector of that parish in 1750, and chancellor of Norwich in 1768. He was formerly of Merton college, Oxford, where he took the degree of M. A. in 1740. He was afterwards master of Magdalen college, Cambridge, where he took his doctor's degree in 1760, and served the office of vice-chancellor of that university the same year. He was collated to Denton by arch. bishop Herring; that living being in the gift of the archbishop of Canterbury, who must collate one of the fellows, or one who has been fellow, of Merton college. With Dr. Sandby died the oral tradition of the expulsion from Merton col. lege, Oxford, of six fellows, by James II. in 1684, which was the cause of the revolution: he was ordained by Dr. Hough, bishop of Worcester, one of the said six fellows; the bishop died at the age of 92. At Clifton, Elizabeth dowager countess of Mayo, relict of his grace the late archbishop of Tuam, and earl of Mayo. |