ter of the late carl of Eglintoun. A delicate constitution had induced her to try the air of the continent, whence she had just returned.

17th. This night Mrs. Clarke, of the Castle public house at Tooting, feeling herself indisposed, desired to have some water-gruel made. It was then too late to send out for oatmeal; but there was some found in the bar, wrapped up in paper. It was tasted by Mrs. Clark and her husband; it was also examined by her sister and daughter, and they all concluded it was fit for use. Of this oatmeal some water-gruel was made by the daughter. Mrs. C. after taking a little of it, became very ill, and continued so till the following Sunday the 24th, when she died. Her daughter partook of some of the gruel, became ill, but soon got better. Nobody knew the cause of her illness. On the night of Tuesday the 19th, a woman of the name of Gaston sat up with Mrs. C. who, the next morning desired her to take home to her family the remainder of the water-gruel, in which wine and brandy had been mixed. Mrs. Gaston warmed it up, and drank some of it, together with her mother and daughter. The latter soon recovered, but the mother died on the following day. Mrs. Gaston was not expected to recover. On Monday the 25th a coroner's inquest sat on the bodies of Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Gaston senior; when the jury took all possible pains to investigate this most melancholy and mysterious business, but could ascertain nothing. It is supposed that arsenic had been mixed with the oatmeal in question, some time or other, for the purpose of destroying rats; but how it could get into the

bar of Mrs. C.'s house nobody could tell. The affair has excited a great sensation at Tooting.

At Flushing, in Cornwall, in her 32d year, Mrs. Burr, wife of major general B. and daughter of Thomas B. esq. of Berner's-street.

At Edinburgh, the infant son of lord viscount Duncan.

19th. In his 68th year, M. Mestral de St. Saphorin, the Danish ambassador at the court of Vienna, knight of the orders of Danuebrog, of the White Eagle, and of St. Stanislaus.

In the king's mews, Charingcross, in his 60th year, Mr. Frere, thirty years coachman to his majesty; and on the same day, Mr. William Porter, head postillion to his majesty. Both these persons were established in his majesty's service on the same day, and died within a few hours of each other. Their remains were interred in St. Martin's burying ground, the former's pall was held by six royal coachmen, and the latter by six grooms. The whole of their majesty's livery-servants, not on duty, attended in their full dress.

At Flushing, Cornwall, hon. Reginald Cocks, F. R. S. youngest son of lord Somers.

23d. At his seat at Sidmonton, Hants, aged 74, admiral sir Richard Kingsmill, bart. He is succeeded in his title and Hampshire estates by his nephew Robert, son of the late Edward K. esq. of Belfont.

At Muskham-grange, near Newark, the wife of William Dickenson, esq. She was the only surviving child of the late John Kenrick, esq. proprietor of, and M. P for Bletchingly.

25th. In Welbeck-street, Caven

dish-square, Mrs. Faulkner, mother of the late gallant captain F. of the royal navy.

In his 78th year, Lewis Gwynne, esq. of Monachty, co. Cardigan. He lived very private, though possessed of an extensive estate, and accumulated an immense fortune, the bulk of which he has left to the rev. Alban Thomas Jones, of Tulgyn, together with his real estate, except a small part, which he bequeathed to Mr. Edwards, youngest son of D. J. Edwards, esq. of Job's Well, near Caermarthen. He had in his house, when he died, such a quantity of gold that a horse could not carry the weight, to convey it to Tulgyn, about a mile off, and when put on a sledge, it was with difficulty he could draw it there. amount in gold is 100,000!. besides 50,0001. in the stocks. His other legacies are few, and of no great amount. He was generous to the poor, always a friend to the necessitous, and an upright gentleman.

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At his lodgings in Abbey-street, Bath, aged 64, Henry Archbould, esq. late of Jamaica, the last maledescendant of colonel A. who distinguished himself at the conquest of that island, where he afterwards resided, and became a principal proprietor.

After an illness of some weeks, at her house in Manchester-street, Manchester-square, lady Char. Hornby, only daughter of the earl of Derby, by lady E. Hamilton, only daughter of James sixth duke of Hamilton and Brandon, and wife of counsellor Edmund Hornby, whose sister is married to lord Stanley, and who was also first cousin to his wife, being the son of the rev. Mr. Hornby and lady Lucy Stanley, sister to

the earl of Derby; to whom the earl, her ladyship's father, presented the well-known rectory of Winwick, the richest in England, being valued at upwards of 30001. a year. Lady Charlotte's remains were deposited in a vault in Grosvenor chapel, for the present.

26th. At Bath, aged 82, the right hon. sir John Skinner, lord chief baron of the exchequer, from which, ill health obliged him to retire; he was also a privy counsellor.

28th. At his house in Cleveland. court, St. James's aged 86, George James Williams, esq. son of the celebrated lawyer, Peere W, esq. and great uncle to the earl of Guildford.

At his seat at Walworth, in the North of Ireland, in his 67th year, the right hon. John Beresford, M. P. for the county of Waterford, uncle to the marquis of Waterford, and brother-in-law of marquis Townsend, a lord of trade and plantations, a commissioner of the king's revenues, taster of wines in the port of Dublin, and a privy counsellor in Ireland. He was a kind master, a sincere friend, a good father, and an excellent husband.

His serene highness Frederick Augustus duke of Brunswick, 2d cousin to his majesty.

Dec. 1st. At the palace, Kilkenney, Hugh Hamilton, D. D. bishop of Ossory, F. R. S. and M. R. I. A. His lordship was born in 1728; was educated at Trinity college, Dublin, where he obtained a fellowship, and was professor of natural history. He afterwards was dean of Armagh; and, in January 1796, bishop of Clonfert; and translated, in January 1799, to the see of Ossory. His writings, in several branches of

science,

science, ranked him among the brightest ornaments of the university of which he was a member; and, from his high character fcr piety, learning, and attention to the duties of his profession, he was promoted without solicitation to the espiscopal dignity.

At Coombe, near Salisbury, in her 73d year, Mrs. Martha Leach Street, late of Dinton, Wilts. She had a great-grand-father, who lived to the age of 104, a grand-father on her side to 109, a great-grand-father on her husband's side to 106, and a grand-father to 98, all of whom were living, with her and her husband's father on the day of her marriage. She died possessed of a considerable estate, with part of the original building (a curious structure), which had been held by her family many centuries.

3d. In the Isle of Man, aged 38, lord Henry Murray, brother to the

duke of Athol.

At her house, in the Close, Salisbury, Mrs. Kirkman, widow of John K. esq. an alderman of London, for which city he was, in 1780, returned one of the representatives in parliament, but died before he took his seat.

In Grosvenor-place, in advanced age, Mrs. Grosvenor, aunt to the present earl G.

9th. At his house at Upper Homerton, near Hackney, county of Middlesex, in his 52d year, Paul Le Mesurier, esq. alderman of Dowgate ward from 1784, sheriff 1786, M. P. for Southwark in two parliaments; lord-mayor 1793, colonel of the honourable artillery company, a director of the honourable EastIndia company, &c. &c.

10th. At Chertsey, Surrey, in his 81st year, Thomas Love, senior master in the royal navy, who lost his leg on board his majesty's ship Prothée, (commanded by the present admiral Buckner,) in the vigorous action of the 12th of April, 1782, under lord Rodney. He was the last of those officers who had received pensions for their services on that memorable day. He has left two sons in the navy: Thomas Love, master, who was lately employed as agent to the commissioners of the Spanish detained ships in the Mediterranean; and lieut. Love, secretary to the honourable admiral Berkeley, commander in chief of the sea fencibles in England, who was standing by the side of his father when he lost his leg.

11th. At his house in Storestreet, Bedford-square, Mr. King,

the comedian. He was born in

1730. His father was a respectable tradesman in Westminster, who gave him a good education, but had intended to bring up his son to his LI

own

own calling. Tom King, however, very early in life, displayed a spirit much above the drudgery of the shop; and, as there was no chance of his rising to distinction in real life, he directed his ambition towards elevation in the mimic world of a theatre. He joined some provincial company long before he had attained his twentieth year, and experienced all the vicissitudes that usually attend the life of a strolling actor. He once walked from Beaconsfield to London and back again the same day, for the purpose of raising a small sum, to purchase what are technically called "properties," essential to iris appearance at night in the character of Richard the Third. The profit of his exertions in this arduous part was three pence halfpenny and some ends of candle. The latter he offered as a tribute of gallantry to some greenroom goddess, of whom he was at that time enamoured. He continued to wear the sock and buskin as the necessities of the various companies to which he belonged for many years might require; and his attachment to tragic characters, for which he was wholly unfit, long prevented his talents from rising to that dis tinétion which he afterwards acquired, and so deservedly continued to possess, on the London stage.He first, however, rose to fame in Dublin, where he had sense enough to discover the real bent of his genius; and, on his second engage. ment upon the London boards, appeared in characters calculated to give full scope to his merit. Mr. K. married, many years ago, a lady who belonged to Drury-lane thea tre, and who has uniformly acted the part of an affectionate wife and a good woman.-At two o'clock in

the afternoon of the 20th inst. his remains were removed for interment in the vault of St. Paul's, Covent garden, conveyed in a hearse with four horses, feathers, velvets, &c. and followed by five mourning. coaches and four, with the usual attendants. The mourners were, in the first coach, Messieurs King, Bliss, Dence, and Cobb; second, Moody, Packer, Wroughton, and Pope; third, Palmer, Barrymore, Dowton, and Whitfield; fourth, Powell, Dignum, Waldron, and Wewitzer; fifth, H. Siddons, Wil liam Powell, prompter, Holland, and Maddocks. The inscription on the coffin-plate was simply thus:

Thomas King, died the 11th De cember, 1805, aged 76 years." Let his survivors on the stage imitate his powers and his virtues! He was an admirable actor, and lived and died an honest man.

16th. At Constantinople, aged 73, the sultana Valide, mother of the grand signior.

18th. After a long illness, the right hon. Henry Beauchamp, 11th lord St. John of Bletsoe, F. L. S. Dying without male-issue, he is suc ceeded in title and estate by his brother, the hon. St. Andrew St. John, knight of the shire for the county of Bedford. He succeeded his father 1767; and married, 1780, Emma, second daughter of the late Samuel Whitbread, esq. by whom he had Emma, born 1782; Augusta, born Dec. 2, 1782; married, 1803, John Vaughan, esq. serjeant at law; Margaret, born 1785; Barbara, born 1789.

20th. At Totteridge, Herts, aged 74, the hon. Mrs. Maitland, wife of gen. the honourable Alexan der Maitland, col. of the 40th regi ment of foot.

Killed in a duel, near Liverpool, Edward Brookes, esq. formerly a major in one of the battalions of royal Lancashire militia, by John Bolton, esq. colonel of the first regiment of loyal Liverpool volunteers. About twelve months ago, a' quarrel arose between them on a matter of business; the colonel was chairman of a committee on an affair in which the interests of the major were concerned, and, not haying conducted himself to his satisfaction, the major sent the colonel a challenge. The consequence was, that a meeting was agreed on; but, either from accident or design, the parties did not attend at the time and place appointed. Before a second rendezvous was adjusted, they were taken into custody, and bound over, in a heavy penalty, to keep the peace; after which, their animosity increased daily, each reproaching the other with having informed the officers of justice of their intention to fight, and thereby occasioned the arrest. Before the expiration of the time for which they were bound, it was rumoured that it was the intention of the major to call out the colonel a second time, the moment it was elapsed.This induced the colonel to be before-hand with him; and the very day (Dec. 20) on which they were released from their penalty, the major received an invitation to meet the colonel, at five o'clock, at the outskirts of the town. The major was punctual to the time, and was attended by Mr. Forbes, and the colonel by Mr. Harris. Colonel Bolton's carriage stood at a distance waiting for him. When on the ground, the colonel observed to his opponent, that, "agreeably to the custom of duelling, he believed he

(the major) was entitled to the first fire." This was assented to, and the major fired without effect; the colonel immediately returned it, when the ball penetrated the head of the major, a little above the right. eye, and he fell. Assistance was at hand, and brought to him, but he expired almost instantly. The colonel was attended to his carriage by some of his friends, and drove off; since which, he has not been heard of. Verdict. Wilful Murder.

The hon. John Scott, son of the right hon. the lord chancellor of Great Britain, and M. P. for Boroughbridge; one of the most amiable young men of the age: his manners were engaging, and his talents of a superior order. He had an unfortunate hesitation in his delivery, which would have prevented him from shining in public; but his attainments and judgment made him truly dear to all who knew him.

21. In Hinde-street, Manchester-square, in his 74th year, Robert. Lambert, esq. a commissioner of the royal navy.

At his house in York-place, Mary-la-bonne, Thomas Knox, esq. late a lieutenant-colonel in the first foot-guards.

24th. In Queen-street, Mayfair, Mrs. Bridget Kelly, relict of the late col. K. sister to the late lord Boringdon, and first cousin to earl Powlett.

26th. At Swindon, Wilts, Miss Priscilla Goddard, youngest daughter of Ambrose G. esq. M. P. for Wiltshire.

At Clanville-lodge, Hants, in his 78th year, after a few days illness, gen. Mathew, colonel of the 624 foot, many years governor of Grenada, and commandor in chief in the West Indies.