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Nov. 16. At Spanish-town, Jamaica, in the prime of life, Lionel Jacobs, second son of Mr. J. J. glass-manufacturer, Bristol.

Nov. 20. At Almeida, of a wound at the siege of Burgos, in his 25th year, Capt. W. White, 12th Portuguese reg. eldest son of J. W. esq. of Rock Castle, Ireland. He was wounded in an act of the most laudable kindness: having ordered a soldier to take one of his comrades, who had been wounded, from where he lay, several refusing, he shewed them that he never required a command of his to be obeyed that would expose them more to the Enemy than he was himself: he went to the assistance of his wounded fellowsoldier, and whilst stooping down, received that fatal shot, which deprived his parents of a most excellent son, England of a hero, and his acquaintance of an inestimable friend.

Nov. 27. At Osmington, Mrs. Coates, wife of the Rev. Charles Coates, LL. B. author of the "History of Reading,"

Nov. ... At Ciudad Rodrigo, of a wound received in the retreat from Burgos, Lieut. H. Elwin, 44th foot.

Dec. 8. At the house of his mother, Halls-place, near Charing, in Kent, after a week's violent illness, and two months' disordered health, aged 24, the Rev. John Cecil Tattersall, B. A. of Christchurch, Oxford. Who can do justice to his character? This attempt avows itself imperfect. His mind was comprehensive and perspicuous; his affections warm and sincere. Through extreme aversion to hypocrisy, he was so far from assuming the false appearances of virtue, that much of his real excellence was unseen, whilst he was eager to acknowledge every fault into which he was led. He was an ardent friend; a stranger to feelings of enmity. He lived in good faith towards men, and died with hope in God.

Dec. 8. At sea, on board one of the Russian men of war, aged 33, Mr. Joseph Bream, jun. pilot, of Yarmouth.

Dec. 14. At Belem, T. Rogers, esq. paymaster of the 88th regiment, or Connaught Rangers.

Dec. 18. At Salisbury, whilst on a journey, J. Woollen, esq. of Finthorpe, near Huddersfield, major in the Agbrigg local militia.

In the 25th year of his age, by a cannon-shot, on board the Albacore sloop of war, Lieut. William Harman, (second son of Samuel Harman, esq. of Jermyn-street, St. James's) in the act of cheering his men to be steady and persevere in their duty, in an attack on a

French frigate. We deer it impossible not to pay a tribute of respect to the memory of this deserving young man, cut off in the very prime of his life, heroically performing his duty to his king and country'; and we feel the more pleasure in so doing, being persuaded that the truth alone will be his highest panegyrick. In his public, character as an officer of the British navy, his courage could not be surpassed; and in executing every command of his superiors, he shewed the most prompt obedience and the most intrepid firmness. We cannot better sum up this short account of our young friend, than in the words of his Commanding Officer, Capt. Davies, who, in a letter of condolence to his father, thus speaks of him: "It may afford you a melancholy consolation to know, that there never was an officer more universally regretted by every one to whom he was known than your son William: to me he was every thing, both as my officer and my friend; and I consider his loss as irreparable!"

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Dec. 19. At his uncle's apartments, Greenwich-hospital, beloved and respected, in his 22d year, Lieut. Richard Jenkins Tregent.

Dec. 20. At Wilna, after a few hours illness, George Carpenter, Earl of Tyrconnel. His Lordship was a most gallant and enterprising officer; following the victorious career of the Russian armies as a volunteer. His last letters to his friends were dated the day before his death, and were full of expressions of exultation at the overthrow of the French army. According to his Lordship's estimate, from the instant the French left Smolensko, the average number of human beings found frozen to death on the roads, was 1500 daily! Lord Cathcart in his dispatches,to Lord Castlereagh, dated St. Petersburgh, Dec. 31, says: "It is with deep affliction that I am to announce to your Lordship the death of the Earl of Tyrconnel. His Lordship served with the army under Admiral Tebiehagoff; and his zeal and desire to see every transaction of that army led him to expose himself to cold and fatigue beyond his strength, especially during the pursuit of the French from the Berezyna to Wilna. It appears that a pulmonic complaint had already made a considerable progress, and these exertions brought on the fatal effects of that disease with great rapidity. He first stated himself to be ill on the 11th December, the day of his arrival at Wilna, where he expired on the morning of the 20th of December. His Lordship had the best medical attendance, with every care and attention that could be procured. Field Marshal Prince Kutusoff Smolensko ordered all military honours to be paid to

his remains, and has directed a monument to be erected in the church of the reformed religion. It is but justice to the memory of Lord Tyrconnel to say, that in every situation in which he has been placed since he has been employed under this embassy, he has conducted himself with the utmost zeal and propriety, and had gained the esteem of every body to whom he was known in Sweden and in Russia."

Dec. 21. At St. Alban's, the Rev. Jabez Hirons. (See our last Volume, Part ii. p. 673.) He was born there, July 11, 1728, and had his grammar-learning partly under a respectable clergyman in Leicestershire, partly under the late Dr. Aikin, at Kibworth, in the same county. For academical education he was placed, at Northampton, with Dr. Doddridge. Here he spent five years. In 1751 he succeeded Dr. Clark (whom he had for some time assisted) in the charge of a dissenting congregation in his native town. He was solicited in 1770 to take the superintendance of one at Dudley in Worcestershire. This invitation, however, he declined; and he continued to the day of his death at St. Alban's, where he sustained the pastoral relation for upwards of sixty-one years! During his lengthened life and ministry, it was his lot to witness painful vicissitudes in his neighbourhood and connexions. But his private and his public labours were rendered useful to several -to many who, like him, are now gathered to their fathers, and to some who yet survive. His desire of doing good was particularly gratified, with reference to a large and very interesting class of the rising generation the children of the poor. A valuable charity-school, the oldest, probably, among the Dissenters in the country, is one of the best monuments to his memory. He visited this institution with parental kindness and unwearied zeal. In exciting the thirst of young people for scriptural and other beneficial knowledge, he took great delight, and displayed some felicity. His religious services were serious and devout. In his discourses he aimed at being intelligible and practical. His prayers were solemn, appropriate, pathetic, and have been often noticed for their excellence both by dissenting ministers and by clergymen of the established church. In his literary and intellectual character he was very respectable-far more so indeed than many persons who with shewy parts are destitute of his self-diffidence. His selection of books to be circulated through a reading society of which he was for many years the secretary, never failed of doing credit to his taste and judgment, and of being highly satisfactory to the subscribers; nor will the economy aud success, the attention and courtesy, with

which he exercised this office, be easily forgotten. Of general, and especially of theological and historical knowledge, he possessed no inconsiderable stock. Such was his piety, such his consistent, blameless, and peaceable deportment, and his endeavour to do good to all men, that he was universally esteemed by those who knew him by none more than by his neighbours of the Establishment. How well they appreciated, and how eminently they honoured, his character, was proved beyond dispute, by their attendance on the last duties that were paid to his remains and memory. He was interred, Dec. 29, 1812, in St. Peter's church-yard, in the grave where his excellent consort (the second daughter of his predecessor Dr.Clark) had been deposited in Oct. 1804.

Dec. 27. At Stoke Newington, aged 82, the wife of Robert Tutt, esq.

Dec. 28. In the Poor-house, Epping, aged 111, Thomas Warden.

Dec. 80. At his house in Gower-street, in his 33d year, of a fever, John Payne, esq. Chief Clerk of the Navy office. Raised at an early age, by his ability in, and unremitted attention to, his official duties, to almost the summit of the department in which he served, he had been long employed in bringing to perfection a plan he had formed, under the auspices of the Navy Board, for the better regulation of certain branches of the service under their management, which would have highly benefited the country, and at the same time have raised him, in all probability, to a much higher and more important office than that which he then filled. But never was the uncertainty of the fairest prospects in this life more strongly exemplified. The incessant labour both. of mind and body, which he had for a length of time bestowed upon this object, accompanied by great anxiety for its success, produced that fatal disorder which in one fortnight terminated his valuable life, and deprived the public service of an able, intelligent, and uncorrupt officer; and his family of one who in every relation of domestic life, fulfilled his duties in the most exemplary manner. He has left a widow and three infant sons to deplore his loss; and his surviving parents have, for a fourth time, to lament the death of a worthy and affectionate son. The deaths of three of his brothers, all in the service of their country, are recorded in our Magazine, vols. LXXII. p. 976; LXXV. p. 773; and LXXVII. p. 376.

Lately. In Great Stanhope-street, Grace
Countess of Clanbrassil. She became a
widow in 1798, on the death of the last
Earl; see vol. LXVIII. p. 175.

In Park-street, aged 86, Miss Bagot.
In Furnival's-inn, in his 75th year, J.
Sidney, esq. of Hunton, Kent.

Aged 19, the youngest daughter of the
late

late Mr. J. Shipcutt, of Featherstone

buildings.

Suddenly, aged 53, Andrew Whiteman, esq. of Kentish-town, late of the island of Grenada, West Indies.

At his mother's, Tottenham, in his 17th year, Caspar Voght Maccaughey, second son of Mrs. Anne Britania M.

On Richmond-terrace, aged 75, James Allan, esq. of Clifton.

Aged 85, the wife of B. Cole, esq. Oaks, Norwood.

At the Old Lime Pits, Dorking, the wife of Mr. Joseph Peters.

Berks.-Aged 53, Rev. John Perry, minister of the Baptist congregation, Newbury. At Windsor, aged 85, R. Mason, esq. At Windsor, aged 77, J. Williams, esq. At Reading, Brookman, gent. who, according to his desire, was buried in an oak coffin, which he had made four years He called on an previous to his death. undertaker five days before his decease, went with him to the church-yard, and pointed out the spot he meant to be laid under on his return home, he removed his old coffin from its obscurity, and having inspected the proper cleansing of his memento mori, took to his bed, and died the ensuing week.

After a few hours' illness, from eating walnuts, the son of Mr. Wm. Clode, of the White Hart-inn, Windsor.

At East Hanney, aged 85, Mrs. Mary Dewe.

At Lyford, near Wantage, aged 83, Mr. William Belcher.

Cambridgeshire.-At Cambridge, Mr. C. Whiteley, student of Catherine-hall, eldest son of Rev. J. W. of Leeds.

At Upton, near Cambridge, aged 83, Mr. R. Jewett; father of 21 children, grandfather to 75,

Aged 91, Mrs. Oldfield, of Newmarket. Fell from his chair whilst taking a cup of coffee, apparently in good health, and instantly expired, in his 51st year, Mr. E. Morden, farmer; of Papworth Everard.

Cheshire.-At Chester, Rowland Jones, esq. an alderman of that city, distinguished as a magistrate by his uniform zeal and impartiality.

Cornwall.-At Charlestown, a son and daughter of Capt. Banks, one aged 5, and the other 3 years.

At Trelowarren, almost suddenly, aged 35, the amiable and highly respected lady of Sir Vyell Vyvyan, bart.

At Lacock, Mrs. B. Davenport,daughter of the late Dr. D. of Lacock-abbey, Wilts. At Penzance, George Lumsden, esq. of Glasgow.

At Maylor, Mrs. Anne Hoar.

At Truro, the wife of Thomas Nankivell, esq. banker.

Cumberland-At Carlisle, aged 64, R. Waldie, esq.

At Carlisle, Mr. G. Gardner, of Penrith. He had walked to Carlisle to attend the election, and was found dead in his bed the following morning. He was supposed to be the oldest and most skilful angler in the county.

At Carlisle, aged 91, Lydia Hutton,

widow.

At Whitehaven, in her 26th year, Fanny, youngest daughter of the late W. Lewthwaite, esq. of Broad gate.

At Whitehaven, aged 18, the eldest daughter of the late Rev. G. Addison, of Workington.

At Penrith, aged 60, Wm. Hindson, esq.

At Kirkbride, aged 90, Mr. J. Davison. His two next neighbours died there lately; viz. aged 96, Sarah Farlan; and aged 91, Mary Clark.

At Egremont, Mr. Abraham Brockbank, an eminent builder.

At Sand-hill, aged 98, Mr. Robson. Aged 96, Mr. J. Barnes, of Bolton-bythe-Sands.

Derby. At Chesterfield, Mary, wife of Mr. J. Storrs, one of the society of Friends, who devoted much time in endeavouring to better the condition of the poor.

Aged 98, W. Rooke, esq. of Dronfield, formerly of Kiddle-hall.

Devon. At Exeter, aged 77, Edward Chave, esq. formerly Captain in the East Devon Militia, and Deputy-lieutenant.

At Exeter, at a very advanced age, James Charter, esq. His ill health indu*ced him, about 20 years since, to resign the office of Collector of the Customs of that port, which he had long filled with great credit.

At Exeter, aged 82, Mrs. Martin, relict of J. M. esq.

At Exeter, advanced in years, Mrs. Granger, widow of Rev. Mr. G. formerly rector of Sowton.

At Taunton, aged 82, Mrs. Horndon,
late of Callington, Cornwall, sister of R.
T. Lucas, esq. and of S. L. esq. late of
Baron's Down.

Aged 100, Mrs. Tippen, of Taunton.
At Plymouth, aged 78, G. Gifferena,
esq. many years Secretary to the late
Adm. Graves.

At Plymouth dock, Lieut. Hebron, 38th foot.

Lieut. John Bagnall, of the Marines. At Milbrook, near Plymouth, aged 103, Amos Prince.

At Sidmouth, J. Bakerville, esq. of Woolley, near Bradford, Wilts.

At Exmouth, the wife of J. Butcher, esq. and daughter of Sir T. Champaeys, bart. At Plympton, in her 16th year, Anne, second daughter of Rev. Wm. Hayne. R. Holberton, esq. of Torr-house, near Plympton.

At Ilfracombe, Mr. Courtney, father of Mr. Jas. C. of the Excise-office, Bristol.

At

At St. Nicholas's Island, near Plymouth, aged 88, Barrack Serjeant Durham, much respected in his department. He had been in the army 70 years, and served in Barret's regiment in the memorable battle of Culloden. His afflicted widow, who had been his faithful partner 61 years, took his death so much at heart, that she died four days after his interment, and was buried in the same grave. At Tavistock, Sophia, wife of Frances Willesford, esq.

At his family-seat, Bedford, at an advanced age, John Meddon, esq.

At Ottery St. Mary, Dashwood Bacon, esq. brother of Sir Edmund B. bart.

At South Molton, Mrs. Harris, relict of Rev. Wm. H. of Kenegie, Cornwall, and of Lifton.

Aged 17, Jane, second daughter of Admiral Bury, of Denniton-house.

At an advanced age, Rev. James Bryett, vicar of Salcombe Regis, and rector of Chilfrome, Dorset.

At Whiteway, near Chudleigh, M. E. Parker, esq. brother of the late, and unele of the present, Lord Boringdon.

The daughter of Dr. Metford, of Flukehouse, Taunton.

Henry Herbert, esq. second son of G. H. esq. banker, Plymouth.

Aged 67, Mr. W. Nice, of the Hill farm, Gestingthorp.

The wife of T. Harridge, esq. of Rayleigh.

At Low Leyton, of the hooping-cough, the two daughters of J. Pardoe, esq. Anne, daughter of Rev. W. Fowler, vicar of Matching.

After an illness of three hours, aged 72, J. Day, of Kelvedon, one of the society of Friends.

Near Dedham, aged 56, Mr. Lloyd, Dissenting minister.

Harriet, second daughter of Rev. J. D. Wainwright, M. A. rector of Sturmer. Gloucester-Mrs. Niblett, relict of Samuel N. esq. banker, of Gloucester.

The wife of Mr. Yeates, attorney of Gloucester. She was the only daughter of the late Dr. Crane, and niece of Rev. Dr. Whalley, of Mendip-lodge, Devon.

At Cheltenham, Walter Spurrier, esq. of Walsall, Bedford.

Aged 90, Mrs. Graham, mother of Major G. of Cheltenham.

At Cirencester, Edmund, youngest son of Joseph Cripps, esq.

At Cirencester, aged 81, Mrs. Dibble, a maiden lady.

In his 52d year, John Twinberrow, esq. of Cirencester, many years a faithful

The wife of George Coryndon, esq. of steward to Lord Bathurst. Plymouth, solicitor.

Dorset-Aged 42, C. Fowell, esq.

At Wareham, in her 78th year, Mrs. F. Hyde, widow of Thomas H. esq. of Ame, Dorset.

At Blandford, Robert Scott, esq. Aged 66, Martha, wife of R. Moore, esq. of Sturminster Newton-castle.

At Sturminster-Newton, Bridget Matilda, eldest daughter of the late T. Prideaux, of North Tawton, Devon.

At Folke, Emily, daughter of Rev. R. Frome.

At Sherborne, Miss Winter, eldest daughter of the late Mr. E. W. of Tintinbull.

The wife of William Toogood, esq. of Sherborne.

Durham-Aged 81, Jane,mother of Rev. John Mason, of Sunderland.

At Durham, aged 93, Mr.Thomas Hart, whose father lived to the age of 105.

At Darlington, aged 30, Eliza, wife of John Backhouse, esq. banker.

John Glover, esq. of Staindrop, attorneyat-law.

At Norham Mains, aged 99, Mr. J. Lees

Esser-At Harwich, aged 82, in consequence of a fall, by which she broke her collar-bone, the wife of Capt. W. Haggis.

Aged 80, Mr. H. Johnson, one of the Assistants of the Corporation of Colchester.

Aged 72, William Phillips, esq. an alderman of Colchester.

The wife of Rev. W. Davies, rector of Eastington.

At Fretherne, aged 67, Mr. Geo. Nunn, 45 years in the Clerk of the Cheque'soffice, Portsmouth dock-yard.

At Dursley, aged 82, Mr. Jos. Bruton. Aged 20, Mary Caroline, daughter of C. Evans, esq. of Highgrove.

Of a rapid decline, Louisa, third daughter of Rev. Mr. Halifax, of Standish. At Painswick, aged 86, Mrs. Mary Brocklebank.

Aged 80, Mr. R. Jasper, surgeon, of South Cerney.

At Stapleton, aged 73, Mr. J. Witchell. Hants At Winchester, aged 37, C. Gauntlett, esq.

At Winchester, Mrs. Hudson.

At Andover, Miss Anne Sanders.
At Ashley, near Lymington, John Abel
Walter, esq.

At Southampton, Wm. Lakeland, an officer in the Excise; a very eccentric character. Though worth nearly 40007. in funded property, he lived latterly so abstemiously as to deprive himself of the common necessaries of life. He died intestate, and often observed, that he had no relative in the world, and that his property at his decease should devolve into the hands of Government. Some neighbours, hearing of his deplorable state, a few days before his decease, administered to him the sustenance and necessaries proper for his situation, and occasionally

sent

sent a few bottles of wine, &c. the whole of which they found, after his decease, remaining in the same state as sent.

At Southampton, Mrs. Rouby, relict of the late Dr. R. of Plymouth.

At Milbrook, aged 107, Moses Pring. At Hursley, in her 100th year, Mrs. Pickering.

Herts. At Little Hormead, aged 61, Rev. Thos. Cockshutt, B. D. rector of that parish, and vicar of Long Stanton All Saints, Suffolk.

Hereford.-Mrs. Morgan, relict of Rev. H. M. D. D. late canon residentiary of Hereford Cathedral.

At the Callow, near Hereford, in her 100th year, Hannah Williams; who earned her living by knitting, till within a few days of her death.

At Poolhullock, Thos. Prosser, esq. many years apothecary of St. George's Hospital.

At New Grove, Landinabo, the wife of Rev. J. Hoskins, rector of that parish.

At, Breinton, near Hereford, of the scarlet fever, Eliza Anne, widow of James Symonds, esq. and eldest daughter of the late Andrew Hacket, esq. of Moxhullhall.

At Hereford, aged 65, Mrs. Hathaway, relict of R. H. esq.

At Bromyard, aged 87, Rev. Hoel Price, heretofore rector of Evesbach, in that diocese.

Hunts. -Accidentally shot by his brother, whilst on a sporting party, Mr. R. Farey, of Woodhurst; who, only a few months since, was left joint heir with his sister to the fortune of the late Majo Richards, of Brampton

Kent.-At Canterbury, H. Gipps, esq. At St. Lawrence, near Canterbury, aged 71, John Deering, esq.

At Ramsgate, aged 86, Capt. T. Curling.

At Ospringe, the wife of T. Rutton, esq. At East Malling, Amelia, second daughter of John Roffe, esq.

Aged 22, the wife of Mr. Ottaway, solicitor, Staplehurst.

At Wrotham, Mrs. Haddock, relict of the late J. H. esq.

At Cranbrook, aged 82, Mr. Jackson, brother-in-law to the late Mr. Radley, of Canterbury.

Mrs. Lloyd, relict of Rev. Maurice L. vicar of Lenham.

At Westberre, Mrs. M. Williamson, relict of Rev. W. W. rector of that place.

At Shorne, in his 74th year, Mr. John Prebble, sen.

At Charlton, near Dover, aged 99, Mrs. Reynolds.

Lancashire. At Edge-hill, Manchester, John Boultbee, esq. whose works as an artist have long ranked among the first productions of the pencil.

Aged 70, Mr. James Whittle, of Ardwick-place, near Manchester, an eminent architect.

In Manchester, Mr. Kite, well-known as a manager of a company of Equestrians.

Aged 44, much respected, Mr. Wm. Nabb, of Manchester, solicitor.

At Cross Acres Green, near Manchester, aged 53, Mr. W. Hunt.

At Liverpool, Robert Sellar, esq. who had been a merchant there nearly 30 years.

Aged 32, Eliza, wife of W. Hamilton, esq. of Liverpool.

At Liverpool, aged 92, Mrs. Barton. At Ulverston, Mr. Wm. Harrison, an eminent surgeon.

James Cooke, esq. of Salford, solicitor, and Colonel of the Trafford and Hulme Local Militia.

Of a typhus fever, caught in the exercise of his professional duty as apothecary to the Preston Dispensary, Mr. W. Hornby.

At Preston, Mr. Smith; and on Dec. 7, his daughter.

At Everton, aged 36, Mr. P. D. Walmesley, late of Manchester, merchant. Frances Maria, daughter of R. Wilbraham, esq. of Rodehall.

Leicestershire.-The wife of Edw. Hextall, gent. of Leicester.

At Melton Mowbray, aged 77, Mrs. Latham.

Aged 67, Mrs. Linney, of Melton Mowbray.

At Market Bosworth, in her S2d year, Mrs. Catharine Sargeant.

At Barrow, in her 74th year, Mrs. Wright, relict, of the late Mr. Thos. W. and mother of Mrs. Bruce, of Leicester.

Mr. John Johnson, a respectable farmer and grazier, of Branston.

Aged 48, Mr. Wm. Inchley, an eminent horse-dealer, of Great Easton,

At Chater-house, Mrs. Elizabeth Trotter, whose mind, highly gifted by nature, and improved by cultivation, was associated with the most amiable qualities of the heart. Her loss will be long and sincerely lamented. Lincolnshire. At Lincoln, aged 80, T. Hollingworth, esq. formerly of Lynn. At Kelston, aged 65, Mr. R. Parnell. At Long Sutton, R. Delamore, esq. At Alford, in her 101st year, Mrs. F. Gatehouse, widow of Mr. W. G. Customhouse officer. About two years ago, she cut two new teeth, and retained her faculties till within a few hours of her death.

Aged 68, Launcelot Danby, gent. of Risby, who has left 2001, for the benefit of the poor of that parish.

At Somer Castle, the seat of Lady
Wray,

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