The Sun.
London, England, 1803-02-14 00:00:00

THE LATE MR. iIUgTER.

IMIONG the many Princely Fortunes which have
been acquired from time to time in the East Indies,
few have exceeded that accumulated by the late joins
HIJI.ITER) Esq. and few ever set out with less
advantages in life. One hundred pounds comprised
the whole of Mr. HUNTER'S wealth at the time of his
quitting England ; yet with that sum, the friends he
made abroiti, and his men perseverance, he managed
jto gain immense wealth. By his Will, it appears he
has bequeathed personal property to his friends(hay..
trig no near- relations livine, to the amount of
too,oool. Insides freehold I ans.enpy hold estases of
great value. 'lo tour daughters of WM. iIo4NBY,
Esq. of Portman-square, three of whom are married,
he has left such a sum as ,shall be sufficient to pur,
chase 60,0001. in the three per Cents. Consols. the
annual produce of , which they are to receive during
their lives ; and after their decease, the principal is
to be divided among their children equally. To
JOHN HUNTER I lORNEY, Esq. one'of his Executors,
he hail bequeathed the yearly
,produce of 25,0001.
3 per Cent. Cqnsols ; and, after his death, the prin-
cipal. to his children. To MARGARET CARPEN-
TER, of South Mimms, to,oool. To his friend
DAVID FELL. toool.s One hundred pounds to a
god-sein ; and his valuable ruby ring to his friend
WILLIAM BENSLEY) Esq. of Berners.street. To
each of his servants named in his Will, and
living with him at the time of his death, small
annuities for life. To his Butler, irsl. per an-
num. A black man and woman, servants, whom
he brought from the East Indies, lie has been parti.
eularly attentive to, perhaps because he knew they
would lac 'destitute of friends when he was gone :
to the woman, he has bequeathed a handsome an.
nuity -for life; and to the man, whom he describes
to be confined At Islington under an imbecility of
mind, he has left 3el. per annum for his main-
tenance. There are besides several other, small'
legacies, enumerated' in the Will, for difFerent
purposes. To 'THOMAS LM E S 1", of Mats;
field-street, Esq. his other Executor, he has de-
vised the whole of his freehold estates, including his
mansion, situate at Gubbins, in Hertfordshire, for
life with remainder to his issue in ; and, in
default of issue, to JOHN HUNTER Homeey, Esq.
and his issue •in like manner. These devises are
on conckition that'the person, fbr the time being„
entitled to the possession of the estates under the'
limitations of the Will; shall, within eighteen months
after he shall become so entitled, obtain a license
to assume the surname of HUNTER only, and iricoes-
porate the family arms with his own. IVlr.HoetaCSny
Is also bequeathed Mr. HUNTER'S excellent dwel-
ling-house Bedford-square, with every thing
belonging thereto, except the plate, which is sped.
fled to be removed to the mansion at Gubbins, anti
there to remain and descend from one heir to an.
other. All his copyhold estates, wheresoever they
are situated, are also devised to Mr. Hoe:smut
and his heirs for ever. •

Mr. Hu NI ER has been very particular in notify-
ing, that after his death, his remains should be de.
posited in his family vault, between his late wife and
daugliter.

Aotoctrmatt.-7ln an Historical. Notice of
Citizen H. F.' GitateitT, lately read before the
National Institute by Citizen Cu vutt, the cele.•
braced. Anatomist, , the . following refleaions are
;made on Agriculture, which may not be unworthy
the notice .of the English Reader :—".The asto.,
nishing variety,of plants and animals which- cloth%
and animate the'surface of the globe, .are composed
of a very, small number of principlei, .. A -clic,
mical analysis reduces almost all ..their parts to a
few combustible substances, chiefly volatile. A
small quantity, of charcoal, some ;mot; and hydro.
gen, combined in various prOportioos with ,each
other, or with oxygen, form, with a lit tfeearth,
the elements of those wonderful ands diversified
beings.. 1 hey derive these principles &pin . the
soil and the atmosphere : plants receive them from
the former by their routs, and from the laitqr:by
their leaves. Animals obtain them already etibo.
rated by the plants ; according as these two king_
dams are more or live, the mass of carlibiiied
elements is more or refs powerful in propoitiarto
that of the three elements. - This proportion is 4114
niiely varied from the itmnense plains of Africa and..
Arabia, where the eye of the traveller never reposes
on the smallest verdure, to fertile valiies of Our tejn.
perate- climateS, where large forests, rich rnea.
dews, and fields covered v!itii corn,.display the be.
neficent influencrof patient industry well direeff.
Agriculture, therefore, is only the art of :tIVV-ziys
producing, in a given space, the greatest possible
quantity of elements, at once combined in • living
SubstanCes." ,

A fow days since, a young Gentleman of the
University of Oxford, going out a shooting, at the
end of the Parks, be put a little powder into his
gun, by way of 'airing the barrel ; after he had so
done, he flung his powder flask behind him, with
half a pound ofpowder in it, as he supposed ; firing
against the wind, the whole of the flash flew to him,
caught the powder flask, and blew it to pieces,
knocked the Gentleman down,
,and a tiolpthat was
by his side, was'instantly. killed -by the brass top of
the flask; the Gentleman 'was not injured, except
that his hair and eye-brows were a little singed.
On Wednesday se'nnight, a most barbarous mur.
der was committed'on the bodies of --- Farrel
(a barony constable) and his wife, at the commons
of Tallagh' in ireland,—Their brains were knock-
ed out, and their sculls 'most dreadfully scattered,
with a heavy blunt instrument., They were etch
tipwards of seventy years old. A young 'man, their
'son, happeped to he in Dublin, or he -would have
shared 'the fate of his unfortunate Rrents, as there
is reason to, suppose him the chief °Wed of 'the
vengeance of these inhuman assahsine. It is rather
singular, that, thimgh they robbed the house of two
case of pistols, a fowling-piece and a sword, they
did nut take any other article although the
young man's watch, anti a pair of new 'leather
breeches, were hanging in the' room, and several
other portable ;trades of more value than the
arms.

Friday, about eleyen• O'elock 4) the forenoln,
the neighbourirod of the Poultry was alarmed by a
loud explosion, occasioned by the bursting of a
still in the laboratory-Of Messrs. H:NNROTT, BUR-
anti' Co. Che Mists. The servants of these
Gentlemen had been distilling nutmeg.water,. and
the furnace becoming overheated, the, head of the
still flew off, with a most violent explosion ; the
skylight of the-laboratory was broken, and seve-
ral panes of glass in the shop-windows, as well as
the 'window-frames, wereshattered to pieces by the
:concussion. The noise and smote occasioned by
this accident drew several fire-engines to the spot,
as well ,as a prodigious crowd, of • spelators ; but
we are happy to state, that no -injury, of conse-
'pence ensued.,