bus, the younger, exclusively, their executors, administrators, and assigns, but upon trust; nevertheless, that the said Edmund Antrobus, the younger, or the survivors or survivor of them, his executors, administrators, or assigns, shall and do, whenever they and he shall be thereto required by the executors of or acting under my will for the time being, assign, transfer, and pay, such, and so many, and such parts, of the said mortgage-debts, or principal sums of money, stock in the Public or Government funds or annuities, Bank stock, East India stock, and South Sea annuities, respectively, as at the time of my decease shall be my own property, and be set apart by them as such, unto or into the names of the executors, named and appointed by my said will, or the survivors or survivor of them, or the executors or administrators of such survivor, upon trust, and for the use and benefit of my dear wife, Harriot Coutts, her executors, administrators, and assigns, as in my said will is expressed, touching or concerning the same: Provided always, that, in the mean time, and from time to time, until such assignment and transfer, as aforesaid, shall be made, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Sir Edmund Antrobus, Coutts Trotter, Edward Marjoribanks, and Edmund Antrobus, the younger, and the survivors and survivor of them, and the executors or administrators of such survivor on their or his own proper authority, and at their or his discretion, to call in, recover, and receive, all or any of the said last mentioned mortgage-debts, or principal sums, and to sign and give receipts and discharges for the same, as fully and effectually as I could have done if living; and upon trust that the said Sir Edmund Antrobus, Coutts Trotter, Edward Marjoribanks, and Edmund Antrobus, the younger, and the survivors and survivor of them, his executors, administrators, and assigns, shall and do hold or stand possessed of and assign, transfer, pay, apply, and dispose, of such and so many and such parts of the aforesaid mortgage-debts, or principal sums of money, stock in the Public or Government funds or annuities, Bank stock, East India stock, and South Sea annuities, respectively, as at the time of my decease shall be secured to or vested in me, or standing in my name as the sole or surviving trustee thereof for any person or persons, or for any pur poses whatsoever, upon trust for and for the benefit of the person or persons beneficially entitled thereto, or interested therein, under or by virtue of the trusts created or declared, and then subsisting of, upon, or concerning, the same respectively; and I do hereby constitute the said Sir Edmund Antrobus, Coutts Trotter, Edward Marjoribanks, and Edmund Antrobus, the younger, the sole executors of my will, as to, for, and concerning all the mortgage-debts, or principal sums of money, and the securities for the same stock in the Public or Government funds or annuities, Bank stock, and East India stock, and South Sea annuities, bequeathed to them exclusively by this my codicil, as aforesaid, any thing to the contrary contained in my said will notwithstanding, and in all other respects I do hereby ratify and confirm my said will. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty. Signed, sealed, published, and declared, by the said Thomas Coutts, the testator, as and for a codicil to his last will and testament, in the presence of us who, in his presence, at his request, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses. WILLIAM LOXHAM FARRER, WILLIAM MATTHEW COULTHURST, Proved, at London, with a codicil, the 20th of March, 1822, before the worshipful John Dobson, Doctor of Laws and Surrogate, by the oaths of Harriot Coutts, widow, the relict, Sir Edmund Antrobus, Baronet, Sir Coutts Trotter, Baronet, heretofore Coutts Trotter, Esquire, Edward Marjoribanks, Esquire, and Edmund Antrobus, the younger, Esquire, five of the executors named in the said will and codicil, to whom administration was granted, (that is to say,) to the said Sir Edmund Antrobus, Sir Coutts Trotter, Edward Marjoribanks, and Edmund Antrobus, the younger, so far as concerns all such mortgage-debts, or principal sums of money and the securities for the same, stock in the Public or Government funds, or annuities, Bank stock, East India stock, and South Sea annuities, whatsoever, which, at the time of his, the testator's death, may have been secured to him by way of mortgage, and standing or invested in his name either in his own right, and as his property, or as the sole or surviving trustee thereof, for any other person or persons, or for any purpose whatsoever, and interest and dividends now due, and to become due on the same; and to the said Harriot Coutts, Sir Edmund Antrobus, Sir Coutts Trotter, Edward Marjoribanks, and Edmund Antrobus, the younger, so far as concerns all other the testator's personal estate and effects whatsoever, they having been first sworn duly to administer; power reserved of granting a probate of the said will and codicil to William Adam, the younger, Andrew Dickie, Thomas Atkinson, and John Parkinson, Esq., the other executors named in the will as to all the testator's personal estate and effects whatsoever, except so far as concerns all such mortgage-debts, or principal sums of money; and the securities for the same stock in the Public or Government funds, or annuities, Bank stock, East India stock, South Sea annuities, whatsoever, which, at the time of the testator's death, may have been secured to him by way of mortgage, and standing or invested in his name either in his own right and as his own property, or as the sole or surviving trustee thereof for any other person or persons, or for any purpose whatsoever, and interest and dividends now due and to grow due on the same when they shall apply for the same, Deputy NATH. GOSTLING, Registers GEO. JENNER, Sworn under 600,000l. within the Province of Canterbury. Examined March 24. 1822. N.B. By the term " within the Province of Canterbury," it is to be understood that the testator died possessed of further property, either in funds or other securities in foreign countries, to what amount we cannot say, but we presume it is to a very large amount. The highest charge for a stamp on a probate, or letters of administration, with a will annexed, is 15,000l., which answers for 1,000,000%., and upwards. Mr. Coutts's will being sworn under 600,000l. paid a stamp-duty of 7,500l. If such a property had passed to Mr. Coutts's daughters, there would have been a legacy-duty of 17. per cent.; to his brothers, or sisters, or their descendants, 37. per cent.; or to any legatee, a stranger in blood to the deceased, a duty of 10. per cent. which would have amounted to 60,000%. 8 કું No. XII. MRS. GARRICK. THERE are few persons whose span of life has been extended so long as that of the venerable subject of the present memoir, from whose private history something instructive and interesting might not be obtained. An account of the life of Mrs. Garrick, therefore, connected as she was, during a great portion of her existence, with some of the most important characters of which this country can boast, can hardly fail of proving acceptable to our readers; indeed, if it were possible to obtain full and authentic particulars of her biography, from the period of her first acquaintance with her incomparable husband and his friends, to the day of his death, and her subsequent retirement from society, they would afford materials for one of the most amusing volumes in the whole range of necrological history; and would include anecdotes of more celebrated individuals, than ever before figured in the biography of a private and unlettered person. If we have not been enabled to collect as much as might have been collected on the subject, we trust it will be found that the notices we have gleaned of Mrs. Garrick, from various sources, are by no means scanty or unamusing. Mrs. Garrick was born at Vienna, on the 29th February, 1724-5; and, as appears, by the registry of her baptism, in the cathedral church of St. Stephen, was the second of the three children of Mr. Johann Veigel, a respectable inhabitant of that city, and of Eva Maria, his wife. From the intimacy of her father with M. Hilferding, a celebrated maître de ballet, of that period, the superior talent which Mademoiselle Veigel possessed, was discovered; and her friends were, in |