The following melancholy catastrophe occurred on Friday last:-Mr. Otto, junr. Mr. Shergold, junr. and Mr. Coulson, being shooting near Handcross, attended by Master Edwards, a young gentleman about 15 years of age, and nephew to Brian Edwards, Esq. who having expressed a strong desire to join the day's excursion, was allowed to do so; and about two o'clock in the afternoon Mr. Coulson's gun went off on the half cock, and unhappily shot the young gentleman as he was standing hard by, holding Mr. Otto's gun, whilst he leaped a gate. The whole charge entered his right side, broke two of his ribs, wounded the aorta, and occasioned his immediate death. The coroner's jury, on Saturday, returned their verdict-accidental death. In Stonehouse-lane, Plymouth, a most daring robbery was committed by a soldier, on Mr. Parry, one of the serjeants at mace of that Borough. The villain knocked him down: Mr. Parry got up, and struck him over the nose; but the fellow succeeded in taking away a bundle with his wife's cloak, with which he made off across the marsh; a hue and cry took place, and he was taken the same night in his barracks, and being recognized by Mr. Parry, was fully committed for trial on the following day by the mayor. Another robbery was committed the same night by some persons unknown, in the counting house of the brewery of Messrs. Langmead, Elliot, and Co. The villains cut out two squares of glass and got into the counting-house, rummaged all the desks, and succeeded in carrying off about E. 230 in cash and bank and country bank notes, with some drafts. It is supposed they were concealed in the brewery during the evening. Mr. Sheridan gave a grand harvest home on Tuesday 7th Sept. to the labouring people in the neighbourhood of his beautiful seat at Pollsden. A large tent was erected on the lawn, capable of accommodating 300 persons, who were treated with true English cheer and ancient hospitality, and the industrious and deserving girls of character were rewarded each by an harvest present from their amiable hostess. Kemble is still at Paris, where he has been, in general, received with so much attention, and where there is so much to excite curiosity and surprise, that it is no wonder he should be detained. He proceeds on his journey to Spain in about a week. Barrett, the Greenwich balloonist, is gone to Swansea, and has publicly engaged to ascend from that place yesterday, intending to make a trip to Ireland. People from all parts have flocked into Swansea to see him. BIRTHS. At Montreal, Kent, the Right Hon. Lady Amherst, of a son and heir. Lady Elizabeth Halliday, and the Lady of Southey, the celebrated Poet, of daughters. MARRIED. At St. George's, Hanover-square, Henry Jodrell, of Bayford, Esq. M. P. to Miss Weyland, eldest daughter of John Weyland, Esq. of Woodeaton At Lyme, Wm. Beadon, Esq. of Taunton, nephew of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, to Miss Hammet, daughter of the late John Hammet, Esq. M. P. for that town. At Putney, Robert Dallas, M. P. and one of his Majesty's Counsel, to Miss Justina Davidson, of Bedford-square. By the Lord Bishop of Lincoln, the Most Noble Aubrey Beauclerc, Duke of St. Alban's, to Miss Manners, daughter of Lady Louisa Manners, and sister to Sir William Manners. As soon as the ceremony was performed, the happy pair left town for Hanworth Park, a seat of his Grace's, near London. At Abergele, in North Wales, the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Kirkwall, to the Hon. Miss Anna Maria Blacquiere, eldest daughter of Lord de Blacquiere, DIED. On Monday, 16th Aug. at Barn-hill, Stamford, aged 29, Samuel Jackson Carr, Esq. elder son of the late Rev. Samuel Carr, D. D. Rector of St. Andrew Undershaft, with St. Mary Axe, London, and St. Mary, Finchley; and one of the Prebendaries of St. Paul's. This young gentleman bore an illness of 13 years, during which period he seldom had the use of his limbs, with the utmost resignation, and died with perfectly christian serenity and composure. At Worthing, where he went for the recovery of his health, the Hon. Augustus Philip Monckton, third son of Viscount Galway. In the King's Bench Prison, of a deep decline, M. Bossi, a Musical Professor of eminent talents. At Lisbon, on the 22d July, where he had been on the Staff of the Army in Portugal as aid-de-camp to General Fraser, Captain Simon Fraser, of the 72nd regiment, son of James Fraser, W. S. Edward Hippesley, Esq. of Isleworth, aged 86, one of the Directors of the South Sea Company. At Clapham, in his 57th year, George Griffin Stonestreet, Esq. a Director of the Phonix Fire Office, and the Pelican Life Office. At Leicester, the Rev. Wm. Arnold, D. D. Canon of Windsor, Precenter of Lichfield, and formerly SubPreceptor to the Prince of Wales. At the Curragh, Kildare, at the very advanced age of 108, Mr. Marmaduke Bell, Deputy Ranger or Judge at the 'Curragh for these last fifty years. On the 15th inst. at Warwick Castle, in the 20th year of his age, the Hon. Henry Greville, third son of the Earl of Warwick. At Berlin, Sarti, the celebrated composer, aged 74. Jeffrey Jackson, Esq. at Woodford Bridge, aged 73, formerly a Commander in the service of the East India Company. At West Green, Hants, General Sir Robert Sloper. At Castle Thorpe, Bucks, Mrs. Mary Savage, in the 102d year of her age; and also, at Hampton-in-Arden, Warwickshire, Mrs. Reynolds, aged 104. They both retained their faculties till the hour of their deaths, and could see to read without spectacles. At Buxton, in the 56th year of his age, the Right Hon. Henry Thomas Fox Strangways, Earl of Ilchester, Lord Ilchester and Stavordale, Baron Strangways, of Woodford Strangways, in Dorsetshire, and of Redlinch, in Somersetshire. His Lordship is succeeded in his titles and estates by his son, Henry Stephen, Lord Stavordale, now Earl of 1lchester. At Paris, Mr. Bianchi, the celebrated performer on the violin, in the 27th year of his age. In the 66th year of his age, the Rev. John Bell, rector of St. Crux, Pavement, and St. Margate, Walmgate, and curate of the perpetual curacy of St. Sampson, all in York, and master of the grammar school, en dowed by the late William Haughton, Esq. also in that city. The Portrait of Mrs. Litchfield not being in sufficient readiness for this Number, we have presented our Readers with that of Miss POPE; the former will appear in No. LXXXV. Intended for our next, if possible. Lines to a Young Woman, by Mr. GEORGE BLOOMFIELD. A Syllabus of the Stoic Philosophy, by the same. New System of Heraldry, No. V. froin Churchill's Rosciad. The following are reserved for insertion at the first convenient opportunity. REJECTED. The Epigrams by J. T. P. and PHILO; Sonnet to Higeia, by The characters to which EPHEBUS (Leeds) has appropriated Mottos, are toa local for our purpose; and, for the same reason, we cannot judge of the suitableness of their application. The letters of an OBSERVING LOUNGER (Plymouth) and an AMATEUR (Glasgow) are under consideration. PERCIVAL'S Extracts will be acceptable. LITERARY NOTICES. A small volume of poems will shortly appear, containing an Essay on War, in blank verse, and Honington Green, &c. in rhyme, written by Mr. Nathaniel Bloomfield, brother to the author of the Farmer's Boy. Also, a sixth edition of Mr. Pratt's Foreign "Gleanings," through Wales, Holland, and Westphalia; and likewise the third, which is to be the closing volume of the Gleanings in England, with new editions of volumes the 1st and 2nd, the whole printed in a uniform manner, so as to accommodate the public with complete sets of the whole work, in six volumes, or of the foreign and domestic divisions separately. ASTRONOMICAL NOTICE, which was received too late to be inserted in its proper place. On the 9th Nov. a little before sun-rise (being 8 D. 18 H. 29 M. Astr. T.) Mercury will enter (according to the Nant. Alm.) 14 min. S. of the Sun's Centre, and go off 34 min. N. The Transit ends at Noon. There being of late fewer Spots on that Hemisphere of the Sun which will then present itself, than on the side now turned to us, it may be less difficult to distinguish Mercury from one of them. He will appear like a small one, and the quickness of his Motion will be one very good mean of ascertaining him. An Opera-Glass, with a compound Sun-Glass to give a white Image of the Sun, will be the best for the Observation. MONTHLY MIRROR, FOR OCTOBER, 1802. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MISS POPE. With a Portrait.. MISS POPE is the daughter of a creditable tradesman, who resided in the neighbourhood of Drury-Lane theatre. Of the manner in which she passed the period of infancy we have no knowledge. Her regular debût took place on the Drury-Lane stage, on the 27th of Oct. 1759, in the character of Corinna, in the Confederacy; but she had before appeared, while a child, in Miss in her Teens, Lethe, Lilliput, &c. Churchill Her reception was equal to her warmest hopes, and in a very short time she established her fame as an actress of the first order. Mrs, Clive was among the foremost to notice and encourage the exertions of Miss Pope, who had paid particular attention to the performances of that favourite child of humour, and at her death was acknowledged by the public as her legitimate successor. does justice to Miss Pope's early merit in the following lines. With all the native vigour of sixteen, Among the merry troop conspicuous seen, See lively Pope advance in jig, and trip Corinna, Cherry, Honey-combe, and Snip; Not without art, but yet to nature true, She charms the town with humour just, yet new: The fatal time when Clive shall be no more. The Rosciad appeared in 1761, and from that time down to the present day, Miss Pope has, uninterruptedly, maintained her rank in [Drury Lane theatre, where she never appears without a welcome of applause from the audience; and continuing in full possession of her powers, always succeeds in gaining the approbation of every sound critic, and genuine admirer of the comic Muse. By the prudent management of a good salary, Miss Pope has acquired a handsome independence, the just reward of her talents and industry; but what is still more to her credit, her private character has been so uniformly unexceptionable that even the scandal of a theatre has never ventured to cast a stain upon it. We sincerely hope that the day is far distant which will deprive the stage of so distinguished an ornament. |