1 Drury-lane, and the house adjoining, were confumed. Owing to the want of party walls, much damage was done to the houfes contiguous. The cutler and his family were not at home at the time of the accident. The caufe of the fire, which broke out in the parlour, has not been difcovered. On the first floor lodged Mrs. Quick, mother of the celebrated comedian, who providentially had infared her property only two days previous in the Sun Fire-of fice. The other fufferers have loft all their effects. Saturday, April 12. to every thing inflammable on which they fell The adjacent chimneys were all on fire, but, through the timely affiftance of buckets of water, no further damage was fustained. The engines before this time had arrived, but still a proper fupply of water could not be procured. Mr. B. appearing, now relieved the minds of the spectators from all further apprehenfion relative to the fafety of himself and family, they having had just time to escape over the tops of the houfes unhurt. The conflagration became fo great as to excite an univerfal alam throughout the neighbourhood: most of the hou es being old, were as inflammable as fouchwood, and the inhabitants knew not whether to bring out their goods into the street, at the risk of being plundered, order thememain. In the intermediate time, waterwas obtained, and applied with built at a great expence, was large, and poffeffed great trade. The lofs to Mr. Baynham, however, is small, having been infured. The principal fufferers were two French gentlemen, who lodged in the first floor; they had lately arrived from Hamburgh, and had only been in the house a fortnight. At the time of this unfortunate affair, one was in the country; the other, as already mentioned, jumped out of the window to preferve his life. They had depofited all their papers and effects in their apartments, no part of which were either faved or infured. The above gentleman, in his moments of distraction, declared, that his lofs alone amounted to 6ool. being the only remains of a large fortun“. These apartments had, till within a fhort time past, been occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Johnston, both of Covent-Garden Theatre. This morning, about 2 o'clock, as the watchman was going his rounds in Great Queen-ftreet, Lincoln's Inn Fields, he was alarmed by a strong smell of burning oil and pitch; following the fcent, he came to the ail and colour-fhop belonging to Mr. Baynham, the corner of Drury-lane and Great ccef but the premifes in which Queen-ftreet. The fire had not extended the fire began could not be saved, nor could beyond the fop; but, foon after he had others be preferved from damage. The fprung his rattle, and knocked at the pri.house, which had been but a few years ago vate door, the whole of the lower premiffes were in flames. It was not till after repeatedly knocking, that he alarmed a gentleman lodging in the first floor, who had no other alternative to preferve his life than jumping out of the window in his shirt; in this he fucceeded, without any other acsident than a flight bruife. The rattles of the watchmen, and the knocking at the door, produced no effect on the fleepers; the dread and horror, which, in confequence, pe.vaded the affombled multitude, can more eafily be felt than described: for, by this time, the fire had extended from the Shop to the fecond floor, and the flames were bursting through the windows. It is impoffible to defcribe the feelings of thofe who witnelfed this awful fpe&acle, and reRected on the fituation of the inmates; for the effect produced from the oil, pitch, and other combustibles, so much exceeded the confl¬gration of a common fire, as to ren ter all attempts to fave any one article ufeefs. Lives only, in the general confterna tion, were objects worthy of confideration, and all hopes of faving them were given p. Mr. B. his family, the other lodgers, and the fervants, were fuppofed to have allen victims, when fuddenly the fervant was feen running from one window to the ther on the attic story, in a state of difraction. A member of one of the voluneer corps, lodging at the next houfe, immediately went to her affiftance on the top f the house, and, at the imminent peril his own life, dragged her through the indow. Still no tidings of the other inatvitants could be learnt, and, by this time, was half after two o'clock, when the fire taken full poffeffion of the premifes, denveloped the furrounding neighboured. Sheets of burning oil were thrown to a vaft height, and, in falling, fet fire Wednesday, April 30. A very handfome pump has been erected in the front of the Royal Exchange, over the well lately difcovered in Cornhill. The cafe is of iron, and förms a lofty and very handfome obelisk. It is elegantly painted and decorated with emblematic figures, among which is the plan of a Houfe of Correction, which was built on the ground adjoining the pump in 1282, by Henry Wallis, efq. then Lord Mayor of London. One fide of the pump bears this infcription: "This Well was discovered, much enlarged, and this Pump erected in the year 1799, by the contributions of the Bank of England, the Eaft-India Company, the neighbouring Fire-Offices, together with the Bankers and Traders of the Ward of Cornhill." On the reverfe, thefe words appear: "On this fpot a Well was first mide, and a house of Correction built, by Henry Wallis, Mayor of London, in 1282." Vol. Vol. LXVII. p. 359. An elegant marble tablet in Poets corner, Westminster abbey, is thus infcribed: "Optimo Viro. GULIELMO MASON, A. M. Poetæ, Si quis alius, Culto, cafto, pio, Sacrum. Ob. 7 Apr. 1797, Æt. 72." Vol. LXX. p. 93. Sir John Boyd, bart. was fo created May 20, 1775. He was the fon of Auguftus B. efq. a merchant in London, and of Lewisham, Kent, where his mother died in 1783. Sir John had been twice married; his first lady left a young family, for whofe education he had an amiable and accomplished lady as governefs, whom lie afterwards married. She was fifter of Mrs. Chapone, the celebrated authorefs; and by her he alfo had children. His eldeft fon, John, the prefent baronet, was by his first lady, and married, 1784, Mifs Harley, the youngest of the daughters of the Right Hon. Thomas Harley, alder man of London, by whom he has a numerous family. P. 184. The only daughter of Mr. Jones, of Nayland, was married, Sept. 11, 1781, to Edward Walker, efq. of Overhall, near Gellingthorpe, Effex. P. 186, b. l. 32, r. Creswicke. He was fon of Henry Crefwicke, efq. by Mifs Collins, of Lisbon, a very beautiful woman, who is honoured in the following lines of Capt. Edward Thompson's poem of "Lifbon and Cyntra:" [done; "Your Phoebes are all by Mifs Collins outShe's fweet as the orange flower nurs'd in the fun. [fhe; We have one or two more too as pretty as The fair Mrs. Hunter and dear Charlotte Dee." Mufes' Mirror, 1. 23. Mifs Dee was afterwards the lady of Governor Johnstone. Mr. C. the father, died of the natural finall-pox in 1781, at the age of 25, after being attended at school by the late Dr. Fothergill, for the fame disease, at the age of 10 or 11; and, as his life was infured for having had this disease, under fuch medical care, the infurance was good, although it is certain he afterwards died of it. His widow was inarried to a clergyman, it is believed, of Wefton-Subedge, co. Gloucefter. P. 200, a. l. 51, r. "Pus and Mucus." P. 276, b. l. 30, for Feb. 8, r. Feb. 6. F. 277, 3. 1. 27, for "Mr. Mitchell," r. "Mr. Michell."-In note for "profeffional," r. "profefforial." 14. In Queen Anne-street Eaft, the wife of Capt. Otway, of the royal navy, a dan. 31. In Upper Berkeley-ftreet, the wife of Lieut.-col. Marton, a fon. Lately, at Berlin, the hereditary Princess of Orange, a princess. At Stephen's-green, Dublin, the wife of the Rev. Thomas Quinn, a daughter. At Mayville, in Scotland, Mrs. Cumming, of Logie, a fon. At Bath, the wife of Dr. Gardiner, a fon. The wife of Mr. Kent, farmer and gra zier, of Wavendon, Bucks, three children; a day intervening between the birth of each. The youngest, with Mrs. K. likely to do well. In Somerset-ftreet, Portman-square, Lady Georgina Buckley, a fon. In Portland-place, the wife of D. O. PATTY Okeden, efq. of Critchill, Dorfer, a fon. April I. In Upper Seymour-street, t'e wife of William-Ashby Latham, efq. a ďat. 3. At Market Overton, co. Rutland, the wife of Jas. Raymond Johnstone, efq, a dau. 8. At Tiverton, Devon, Mrs. Befly, a fon 10. In Hereford-ttreet, the wife of John W. Smith, efq. fon of Sir John S. bart. of Sydling house, Dorfet, a fon and heir. II. At Enfield, Middlefex, the wife of Mr. Keating, a fon. 12. At her father's houfe in Arlingtonftreet, the wife of Capt. Yonge, of the 18th light dragoons, a daughter. 15. The wife of John Geers Cotterel, efq. colonel of the Herefordfh. militia, a foil. 16. The wife of George Ward, efq. di Soho-square, a fon. 17. At the rectory-house, Hanwell, the wife of Rev. George-Henry Glaffe, a du. 18. At his house in Grofvenor-place, the wife of Col. Calvert, a daughter. At Walworth, Surrey, the wife of Leg nard Aust, efq. a fon. 19 In Upper Brook street, Grosvenorfquare, Lady Bigot, a daughter. The lady of Sir John Sinclair, bart. of Ulbiter, a daughter. 25. At Hadley, Middlefex, the wife of Alexander Duty, efq. a daughter. 29. Mrs. Key, wife of Mr. Thomas K. furgeon, of the Borough, a daughter. March A MARRIAGES. T Lambeth chapel, by the 31. Archbishop of Canterbar, Lord Francis Godolphin Okorne, to the Hon. Elizabeth-Charlot e Eden, daughter of Lord Auckland. April 2. At Lord Sheffield's houfe, is Privy-garden, Col. Lindsay, of the guards, to Lady Charlotte North, daughter of the late Earl of Guildford. 3. The Moft Noble John-James Mar quis of Abercorn, to the Lady Anne Hat ton, eldest daughter of Arthur Earl of Ar ran in Ireland, fifter of Lord Sudley, and relict of the late Henry Hatton, of Great Cleard, in Ireland, M. P. for the borough of Donegal. The ceremony was perform ed by the Rev. Mr. Howley, the Marquis's chaplain, at Lord Sulley's, in Dover-street, who gave her away. The Marchiones's fettlement is 4000l. per annum. Her father, Lord Arran, is a knight of St. Patrick, and refides in Ireland. There were prefent, the Ladies Harriet and Catharine Hamilton, Lord Sudley, Lady Elizabeth Monk, the Counteffes of Befborough and Ely, &c. &c. Lady Catharine Ponfoaby was bride-maid. By fpecial licence, at Netheravon, Wilts, Wilham Gore Langton, efq. M. P. for the Cety of Somerfet, and colonel of the Oxfordthire militia, to Mits Browne, dangh. of the late John B. efq. of S Iperion, co. Glouc. 4. Ai Blatherwick, John Slater Wilkinfon, ef of Bramcote, co Nottingham, to Mifs Margaret O'Brien, third daughter of Henry O'B. efq. 5. Rich. Legte, efq. to M.fs Afgill, dau. of the late Sir Charles A. bart. 6. At Edinburgh, the Hon. Capt. John Ramfy, to Mis Delifle, daughter of the te Philip D. eiq. of Bengal. 7. Sir George Berncy Brograve, bart. to Mifs Emma Whitwell, youngest daughter of Edward W. efq. 8. Lieut. Charles D. Butter, of the Rombay establishment, to Mrs. Page, daugh. of John Phillips,efq of Aldborough park, Effex. 10. At Bermondfey, Geo. Curling, efq. of Milton, to Mifs Moulden, of Rochester. 14. Rev. Mr. Pocock, mafter of the grammar-school at Frome, co. Some fet, to Mifs Margaret Davis. Capt. Frood, of the West London militia, to Mis Lacoste. 15. At Walton, ćo. Warwick, by fpecial licence, Rich. Hippifley, efq. of Lamborne place, Berks, to Mifs Charlotte Mordaunt, daughter of Sir John M. bart. Ar Chippenham, Dr. Arnold, of Doctors Commons, to Mifs Georgiana Awdry, dau. of the late Ambrofe A. efq. of Seend, Wilts. 16. At Guernsey, by special licence, Peter Grut, efq. to Mifs Aane Pollings, daughter of John C. efq. of that island. 17. At Woodford, Effex, Mr.Victor Tho. St. Alban, to Mrs. Frances Edwards, of Paradife-row, Snaresbrook. 19. Mr. Bulger, of the India-house, to Mi's Kirkman, of Judd-place. 20. Lieut. Foster, of the 4th or King's own infantry,to Mifs Sarah Marris, youngest dau.of W. M. éfq of Green-hall, co Lincoln. 24. D. H. Wilfon, efq. of Soho-íquare, to Mifs Foote, daughter of John F. esq. of Charlton-place, Kent. tham, Kent. He was a lieutenant in the 80th regiment, an excellent officer, and the best of fons. June 10. At Barrackpore, in Bengal, Lieut. George Henderson, son of Mr. John H. of Cornbill. In France, Nicolas Henry Jardin, architect, member of the ciderant academy of architecture, and of many other academies. Dear to artists, by his talents, and to his friends by his virtues, having carried the great prize of architecture, at the age of 22 years; he fet out for Rome the 7th of June, 1744. The ferious application with which he profecuted his ftudies, gained him the most diftinguished confideration. At his return from Italy in 1754, he was invited by the King of Denmark, Frederic V. to conftruct a church, all in marble, of the greatest magnificence. His reputation had travelled much fafter than himself, although he loft no time in repairing to that court, On his arrival, the title of Intendant-general of his Danish Majefty's buildings was conferred upon him. It will fuffice to caft an eye upon his work (the greatest part of which is engraved by his own hands) to judge of the quantity, of the variety, and the merit of his productions, during the eighteen years that he refided at Copenhacen. The rare qualities which he poffelfed gave an additional luftre to his talents, and obtained for him new proofs of efteem. Christian VII. the prefent King, would have fixed him in his capital; but, notwithstanding the most prefling folicitations, and all the diftinctions that were of fered him, the love of his country made him return into the bofom of his family. He was born at St. Germain des Noyers in Brie, near to Lagny, the 22d of March, 1720, of parents who are still remembered with veneration throughout that country. He died the 14th Fructidor, the year 7. Bavius Voorda, jurifconful and profetfor of laws in the univerfity of Leyden, a man equally diftinguished for his 1-arning and his virtuous character, died the 21ft of laft Meffidor, aged 70 years. Sept.... At Madras, Cornish Gambier, efq. in the E. I. Company's civil fervice. Nov. .... At the Cape of Good Hope, Lieut. Andrew Aytoun, of his Majesty's fhip Braave. 5. At Madras, in his 21st year, Mr. Thomas Stephen Ware. Dec. 3. At Paris, aged 47, Grefnick, the musician, known by his various compofitions for the theatres of Louvois and Montanfier. He was equally celebrated for the facility of his method, and the fweetnefs of his melody. He has left beT Trincomalé, in the Eaft hind him, an Opera for the Theatre of year, Arts, words of which are from the pea of Madame Viot Bourdie; it is called La Foret de Brame. DEATHS. Robert Hoadly-Athe, fecond son of the 1860. 1800. Jan. 7. At his feat at Ormathwaite, near Kelwick, co. Cumberland, in his 89th year, the great and good William Brownrigg, M.D. F.R.S. To this place he had retired about 20 years fince, withdrawing himself as much from the practice of phyfick as his numerous connexions, his high character, and his friendlinefs of difpofition, would permit him; and purpofing to divide his time and his taste between the romantic fcenery of this delicious fpo, and the profounder refearches into that department of Natural Philofophy which was already confidered as his peculium. As it was Mr. B.'s lot to choose his own profeflion, fo he began his career under the moft aufpicious omens. The medical féience of the univerfity of Leyden was at that day fhining in its highest noon. Albinus in Anatomy, Euler in methematicks, and other great names in the collateral fcrences, thronged round the chair of medicine and chemistry, fo vastly occupied by the clear, the comprehenfive, the ingenious, and indefatigable, the all-accomplished, and the inAtractive Boerhaave. Having made at Leyden a long and happy refidence, and taken an honourable degree, he returned his native country, and, in Whitehaven, married a lady of fingular good fenfe, much information, and great vivacity; of a difpofition moft hofpitable, manners moft polite, of affections the most warm and liberal, and poffeffing an addrefs fo verfatile and fuperior as never failed to charm in whatever circle it was exerted. This was the wife which our philofopher wanted; and upwards of years he continued to fupply the vacancies which abstraction and habitual intenteness of thought occafioned, and to add the polith of good breeding and the relief of good animal fpirits to the folid worth of learned and uf-ful difcourfe. He was author of an inaugural differtation" De Praxi medica incunda," 4to, Lugd. Bat. 1737; of a trealife "On the Art of making Common Salt," pripted at London, in 1748, in vo; which procured for him the additional FR.S.; a book now long out of print, but not out of recollection, fince it is, by foreign chemifts as well as by natives, by M. Chaptal as wet! as by our own Dr. Watson, cried up for its profound va riety of excellence, and lamented for its fcarceness. He alio published "An Enquiry concerning the mineral elastic Spirit contained in the Water of Spa, in Germamy" (Philof. Trauf, voi. L.V.; and, lastly, of a treatise, published in 1771, in 8vo, "On the Means of preventing the Communication of peftilential Contagion." A trip to the fpas of Germany fuggefted to our chemia the idea of analyzing the properties of the Pyrmont springs, and of fame others, and actually lead our faga cious experimentalist into that train of nice and deep difquifition, which term nated in the de-elementizing one of our elements, and fixing is invifible find form in a palpable and visible fubftance. All which Dr. B. has effected, by produ cing the various combinations of gafes and vapours which constitute atmospheric air, and feparating into many forms this longfupposed one and indivifible; whilft he folidified its fluid effence into a hard fab ftance, now hanging up in his study. Whatever rapid genius may claim as his own, that Dr. Brownrigg was the legi mate father of these vast discoveries wa not only known at the time to the Doctor's intimate and domeftic circle, but alfo to the then prefident of the Royal Society, Sir John Pringle; who, when called upon to bestow upon Dr. Priestley the gold me da! for his paper of "Difcoveries of the Nature and Properties of Air," thus critcally observes: "And it is no difparagement to the learned Dr. Priestley, that the vein of these discoveries was hit upon, tad its courfe fuccefsfully followed up, fome years ago, by my very learned, very pene. trating, very industrious, but too medɛt, friend, Dr. Brownrigg." To habits, Ddeed, of too much diffidence, and to the nice a fcrupulofity of tafte, formed, pe haps, in the abfence of keen animal (p rits, the world has to attribute the fewnes of his publications, and the difficul which always impeded his road to me press. Had our Doctor's productions been allowed to make their own way into the world in due time, many a jay would have been plucked of his plume, and another philofopher of the Western hemispher had not been tempted to publish notes and obfervations, which he had taken dow Ormathwaite, and to give them to world without the candid addition of the date of their origin. The writer of t article has grounds for faying, that a gene ral history of the county of Cumberla was one of the Doctor's literary projeds, and that he had made feveral arrange ments fubfervient to fuch an undertaking, particularly in the department of Natur Hiftory. To the Natural Philofope Cumberland is one vaft mine of hidde treasures. The Botanift on the furface, and the Mineralogift below, have an endleis expanfe of refearch before them; whilft the civil hiftory of this long-cut tefted boundary hath differninated every where the most authentic, the beft preferved, monuments of Antiquity of al dates, British, Roman, and Saxon, and rendered this county of uncommon interef both to the Hiftorian and the Antiquary. Cumberland is Turely the ftorebonte for topographic materials; and who better qualified to explore and exhibit them then the Chemift of Ormathwaite in the days of his vigour? But, alas! the good Doctor had either conceived the project at too late a period, or fat brooling over it too long: bis fun had funk fo far below the horizon, that "between the dawning of his project and the final clofing-in of his day was but as a fpan's interval." It is to be hoped that the mines which he must have left, though fcattered, will not be loft; that the disj membra philofophi may be still put together; that idle curiosity nor defigning fciolifm may not be permitted to approach the fanctuary of fcience, nor the rafh band of Ignorance to fweep off the reliques of genius with the befom of deftruction. As a medical practitioner, his works were more numerous, and, if not fo widely celebrated, they were of a character more endearing within the sphere of their utility. The Doctor's fellow ftudents in medicine and co-labourers in philofophy endeavoured much to attract him to the metropolis; but his love of botany and agriculture, his attachment to the relatives and friends of his wife, and his native defire of eafe and learned retirement, induced him to postpone the profpe&t of fame, riches, and honour, in the buftle of the higher circles. What London loft, Whitehaven and Cumberland gained by this refolution; and fcarcely a family is there of any confideration in that large county which has not on record fome initances of the matterly kill, and of the amiable attentions, of Dr. Brownrigg. His fyft.m of trea ing difeafe formed an epoch in the annals of medical practice; and, as his doctrine and methods were felf-evidently fuperior, when fanctioned by the fuccefs, which feldom fell hort, they furely attached to him thofe who felt their understandings and their health restored by the fame prefcriptions. Convinced and enamoured of the fimplicity of Nature in all her ways, he defpifed the parade and mystery of physical pomp. Truth in a propofition, and virtue in practice, he perfued by the fame methods of rectitude and fimplicity. The poor and the rich had every where fomewhat for which they thanked him; and health feemed only one of the bleffings which he had to difpenfe. By thefe means the Doctor paffed into the fummit of profeffional honour without rival or competitor, without controverfy or detraction, but not without applications and requests from fellow-itudents and followers from diftant parts, from academies, focieties, and univerfities, foreign and domestic, entreating permiffion to enrol his name among the Literati of their respective communities. But literary fame, and even the toils of his profettion, were no antidote to the maladie de pays; and, advanced in years, and increased in honours as he was, no Swifs ever pined more ardently for his native mountains and lakes than Dr. Brownrigg. The intrea ties and folicitudes of the unhealthy, the anxious prayers of a fond wife, might perhaps have retarded, but could not prevent, his departure from Whitehaven, and fole refidence at Ormathwaite. And the excetfes of friendship and forebodings of difeate fell short of the fact, when they fore told the chaẩm in general fociety, the deficiency in public police, the d pravation of manners, and interruption of hofpitality, as well as the difmal void of medical refource, which would be felt throughout this part of the country in the fecetion of this excellent couple. Ormathwaite, remote as it is from the capital, and separated as it feems to be by wilds of common and ranges of mountain, might be a place of retirement, but not of obfcurity, to the Doctor: nothing could feclude him from the friendly enquiries of fome of his furviving contemporaries, nor from the curiofity and attentions of their fucceffors in fc ence. The Doctor was overjoyed to fee his native country berome the object of travel, and the topick of praife and admiration; and obferved with delight the taste for foreign tours cried down, whilst the new, the romantic, and the remote, in our own island, lay unexplored. It gladdened the heart of the veteran herbalist to behold young troops of both fexes ranfacking the fields for botame rarities, and he feemed to congulate with the fpirit of old Boerhaave when he found that chemistry, always acknowledged as the most important, was now coming forth as the mft popular of the fciences. To thefe circumstances of gratification it was a fortonate acceflion, that, at this time, a good fcholar, an amateur of the romantic, and a follower of the Mufes, by reafon of pru dence as well as by choice of affection, vifited the Doctor. He was foliciting fubfcriptions for a day book of Antiquities. He gained his object, and more than his object; for, our Doctor finding the reverend Jefuit to be capable of making a popular book, and not indifpofed to incur the labour for the fake of the reward, laid the plan of the Tour to the Lakes, and eagerly fet Mr. West forward in the execution. The publication of this intls book has anfwered the purposes of all concerned, it has had a great fale; it has fent fhoals of visitors to the neighbourhood of Kefwick; and, though the author (fo it has pleafed Providence) was only allowed a glimple, in profpect, of the faccets of his labours, and, perhaps for the first time in his life, to cherth for a moment the hopes of afluence, the projector of the plan has feen his paffion for the improvement and notoriety of Kefwick gratified: and the village is now become a poft town, a couf terable market for a populous and opulent neigh• bourhood, and an annual fashionable relost for the learned and the ignorant, the rich and |