to be tried before Lord Mansfield, thought qualified to be members of fuch an affociation, to meet at his house on the 14th of November laft. To thefe gentlemen he read a difcourfe, containing a view of the principal objects in the Hiftory and Antiquities of Scotland, which required elucidation, and of the regulations to be observed in the propofed fociety; both of which received the unanimous approbation of the members prefent. At a fubfequent meeting, his lordfhip was prevailed on to permit the difcourfe to be printed, that the public might have proper ideas concerning an inftitution fo interefting to the nation. It was then agreed, that a meeting fhould be held on Monday the 14th curt. for the purpose of electing office Mr. Morris's adjourned 18th. motion in the Court of Chancery, to be released from the order of the late Chancellor for his commitment for a contempt, came to a final decifion, after many ingenious arguments and eloquent Speeches, as well by Mr. Morris's council, Meff. Macdonald, Selwyn, and Erskine, as by the counsel against him, who were the Solicitor-gene ral, Mr. Kenyon, and Mr. Jack-bearers. The members accordingfon. The bufinefs lafted four hours, and at the end of it, the Chancellor was pleafed to determine that he would neither fet afide the order nor enforce it: fo Mr. Morris went out of court, and the whole affair is juft as it was before it began. A Society of Antiquaries was inftituted this day at Edinburgh. An affociation of this nature has long been a favourite object of the Earl of Buchan. His lordship communicated the plan he had formed to fome of the most accomplished and refpectable gentlemen in this country, and was happy to find that it not only received their approbation, but excited the ftrongeft wishes to fee an inftitution, which promifed fo much utility to the natition, established on a firm and permanent bafis. Emboldened by this encouragement, his lordship ventured at laft to invite a number of perfons, whom he ly met, and the business of elec- The following is a lift of the Office- "Prefident, the Right Hon. the Earl of Bute; it vice predent, the Right Hon. the Earl of Buchan; zd vice prefident, the Hon. Sir John Dalrymple Hamilton Macgill, Bart. 3d vice predent, John Swinton, of Swinton, Efq; 4th vice prefident, Alexander Wright, Efq; advocate; 5th vice prefident, Wm. Tyler, of Woodhouflee, Efq; treafurer; Sir Wm. Forbes, of Pitfligo, Bart. fecretary; James Cummyng, Efq; keeper of the Lyon Records." DIED, At Carrickfergus, in Ireland, Mr. James O'Brien, aged 114. He ferved as a paymafter ferjeant in the wars in Ireland, in the reign of James II. Near Buxton, Derbyshire, Sam. Fidler, aged 105. He walked from his own houfe to Buxton, within three days of his death, which is upwards of five miles. He has been for three years paft a conftant attendant at St. Anne's Well in Buxton, and was fupported chiefly by the company who reforted there to drink the waters. Mr. Francis Vivares, the celebrated landscape engraver. At his houfe in the Clofe, Salif. bury, in the 72d year of his age, James Harris, Efq; F. R.S.Truftee of the British Mufeum, and member for Christchurch, Hants, which he reprefented in feveral fucceffive parliaments. In the year 1763 he was appointed one of the Lords Commiffioners of the Admiralty, and was foon after removed to the Board of Treafury. In 1774 made Secretary and Comptroller to the Queen, which poft he enjoyed till his death. He was the fon of James Harris, Efq; and the Lady Elizabeth Ashley his wife, third daughter of Anthony, 2d Earl of Shaftefbury, and filter to Anthony, 3d earl, the celebrated author of the Characteristics, whofe elegance and refinement of tafte and manners Mr. Harris inherited. In the theory and practice of mufic he had few equals. He was a native of the Clofe, and educated there under the Rev. Mr. Hele, in the grammar-fchool now kept by the Rev. Mr. Skinner, from whence, in the year 1726, he went to Wadham College, in Oxford. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Clarke, Efq; of Sandford, in So merfetfhire, by whom he had feveral children, three of whom are ftill living, viz. Sir James Harris, K. B. his Majesty's Minister Ples nipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of St. Petersburg. Katharine Gertrude, and Louifa Margaret Harris. The world is indebted to him for feveral very ingenious and learned publications, particularly three treatifes, publifhed in 1745, on Art, Mufic, Painting and Poetry, and Happi nefs. In 1751, he published a fecond volume, called Hermes, or a Philofophical Enquiry concerning Univerfal Grammar. In 1775, his Philofophical Arrangements made their appearance. It is with great pleasure that we learn this gentleman had finished, juft before his death, another ingenious work, entitled Philological Inquiries. His good qualities as a man are well known to a large circle of his friends and acquaintance in this country; and his great abilities as an author acknowledged and efteemed by the literati throughout Europe. In Harpur-ftreet, Dr. John Fothergill, one of the people called Quakers, aged 69. He was born near Richmond, in the county of York, ftudied at Edinburgh, and came to London about the year 1740, without any other patron than his own merit, which brought him rapidly into a moft extenfive practice. He was a fellow of the Royal College of Phyficians at Edinburgh, of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies in London, and a member of other learned as well as medical inftitutions, in this and foreign nations, in which his great reputation as a phyfician is univer fally fally established. The exertion of Died under two years of age 6810 his great abilities was not confined to the practice of medicine and the study of nature, but was unremittingly employed to the promotion of the general good and happinefs of mankind: and as his extenfive knowledge, public fpirit, and many virtues, were not lefs eminent than his medical fkill, he will be defervedly ranked among the illuftrious characters of the prefent age. Near Canterbury, Sir A. Manwaring, aged 96. Near Ellefmere, Shropshire, Mrs. Eliz. Dallafs, aged 103. In Lincoln's-Inn-fields, Dr. Gil Between 2 and 5 and 10 and 20 20 and 30 1421 30 and 40 1833 40 and 50 2215 50 and 60 1890 60 and 70 70 and 80 80 and 90 90 and 100 100 and 7 1715 1183 455 78 bert Kennedy, F. R. S. many years Increafed in the Burials this Year physician to the factory at Lisbon, aged 100. At Barnes, Mr. Maycock, mar. ket-gardener at that place. His death was occafioned by the shock his fpirits received from the torm in October laft, during which he went to the ftables to look after his horfes, attended by his man, who was ftruck down and killed clofe to him by a flash of lightning, and the ftable itfelf forced to a confiderable diftance from its original fituation: and, to complete his alarm, part of the room in which his wife was lying-in (having been delivered but a few days) was torn away by the violence of the ftorm. 97.' Lady of the Hon. Mr. Fane, a daughter. Lady of Right Hon. Charles Townshend, a daughter. Lady of Sir Harry Tralawney, a fon and heir. Lady Bagot, a daughter. Dutchess of Beaufort, a fon. Lady of Right Hon. Thomas Townshend, a fon. Lady of Lord Viscount Mahon, a daughter. Lady of Sir Guy Carleton, K. B. a fon. Lady of Hon. Charles Finch, a fon and heir. The Princess of Afturias, of a prince, Thomas Gage, Efq; only fon Mary Cunliffe, fecond daughter of of Sir Thomas Gage, Bart. Arthur Earl of Arran, to Mifs Underwood. FEBRUAR Y. Richard Aubrey, Efq; youngest fon of Sir Thomas Aubrey, Bart. to Mifs Digby, daughter of the late Hon. Wriothefly Digby. Thomas Grimftone, Efq; of Kilnwick, to Mifs F. Legard, daughter of the late Sir Digby Legard, Bart. At the Cafle, Dublin, Almar Lowry Corry, Efq; to the Right Hon. Lady Harriet Hobart, eldest daughter of the Earl of Buckinghamshire. At Rome, J. Coxe Hippifley, Efq; to Mifs Margaret Stuart, daughter of Sir John Stuart, Bart. of Allenbank. the late Sir Robert Cunliffe, Bart. Rev. Sandford Harcaftle, Rector of Athol in, the county of York, to the Dowager Countefs of Mexborough. Major Vyfe, to Mifs Howard, daughter of Sir George Howard, K. B. Lord Parker, fon to the Earl of Macclesfield, to Mifs Drake, of Amersham. Mifs Catherine Grenville,youngeft fifter of Earl Temple, to Mr. Neville, fon of Richard Aldworth Neville, Efq; of Billingbeare, Berkshire. At Lifbon, the Hon. Robert Walpole, to Mifs Diana Grofett, daughter of Walter Grofett, Efq. Robert Harding, Efq; of Upcott, to Mifs Wrey, fecond daugh ter of Sir Bouchier Wrey, Bart. Earl of Balcarras, to Mifs Dalrymple. Sir William Forbes, Bart. to the Hon. Mifs Sempel. |