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of commerce at Alicant, under Na- hon. John Hamilton Fitzmaurice, vispoleon.

17. At his house, Guildford-street, the Rev. Wm. Tooke, F. R. S. in the 77th year of his age.

18. At his seat at Ballybrack, in the county of Kerry, in his 93rd year, Geoffrey O'Connell, esq. eldest brother to Maurice Baron O'Connell.

At Glasgow, Mr. Professor Young, who was long the ornament of that University. He went to George's Inn, in perfect health, between three and four in the afternoon, to take a warmbath, and upon the servant entering the room, he found him sitting lifeless in the water.

21. At his house, in Hill-street, the earl of Malmesbury, in the 75th year of his age.

The countess dowager of Lincoln, sister to the marquis of Hertford, and mother to the late Viscountess Folkestone.

At his apartments, in Chelsea Col. lege, aged 62, sir John Peshall, bart.

22. At his seat, Desart, county Kilkenny, in his 33rd year, the right hon. John Otway Cuffe, earl of Desart, viscount Castlecuffe, viscount and baron Desart.

At the Priory, near Templemore, Ireland, in his 63rd year, sir John Craven Carden, bart. brother-in-law to lord viscount Haberton, by his first wife; also to lord Rossmore, by his late wife, lady Carden, niece of the countess of Clermont.

At Caen, in Normandy, Wm. Bernard Morland, esq. eldest son of sir S. B. Morland, bt. M. P.

At High Wycombe, aged 75, Richard Bowyer Atkins, esq. fifth son of sir William Bowyer, bart. of Denham Court, Buckinghamshire, brother of sir William and sir George, fourth and fifth baronets, and uncle of sir George, who now inherits the baronetcy.

At Orleans, in France, aged 85, Rich. Tyson, esq. who for many years held the situation of Master of the Ceremonies at the Upper, and previously at the Lower, Rooms of Bath.

Suddenly, in her 59th year, the princess Mary-Anne, sister of the king of Saxony.

23. At his residence, in Hans-place, Knightsbridge, after a few days illness, an inflammation of the intestines, the

count Kirkwall, aged 42.

Aged 79, Richard Thornton, esq. a magistrate for Southwark and the county of Surrey.

24. At French Park (Roscommon), after a severe indisposition of a few hours, Arthur French, esq. M. P.-He had been out hunting on the Wednesday preceding.

Lately, at Magdalen college, Oxford, the Rev. Benjamin Tate, D. D.

28. In the Great Hospital, Bishops. gate-street, in his 82nd year, Mr. Robert Davy, who personated Orpheus, in the grand procession which took place at Norwich, in honour of bishop Blaze, on the 24th of March, 1783.

At Hieres, in the South of France, Wm. Shipley, esq. eldest son to the very reverend the dean of St. Asaph. Mr. Shipley was shooting, attended by a peasant of the place, who also carried a gun. Mr. Shipley had killed a bird, and was getting over a bank to pick it up. The man following with his gun cocked, it unfortunately went off within two or three yards of Mr. Shipley, and

killed him.

In China, the hon. Valentine Gardner, captain of his Majesty's ship Dauntless.

At Riess-lodge, Mrs. Wemyss, wife of William S. Wemyss, esq. of Southdown, and second daughter of sir Benjamin Dunbar, bt. of Hempriggs.

At Ochiltree, in her 100th year, Elizabeth Duncan, who had spent her whole life within about half a mile from the place where she was born.

At her house, in Montrose, lady Carnegie, relict of sir James Carnegie, of Southesk, bt.

At Freeland-house, the right hon. dowager lady Ruthven.

At Inverness, in his 87th year, Alex. Robertson, esq. late collector of Excise.

At the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Mrs. Goddard, the wife of captain Goddard.

At Paris, his excellency, lieutenantgeneral count de Watterstorff, envoy extraordinary, and minister plenipotentiary of his majesty the king of Denmark, to the court of France.

At the residency of Nepaul, Robert Stuart, esq. youngest son of the late sir John Stuart, of Allanbank, bt.

At Leipsic, field-marshal prince Charles of Schwartzenberg.

In America, whither he proceeded

about two years since, Abraham Thornton, whose trial for the murder of Mary Ashford, and the singular circumstances arising from the appeal of murder, will be long recollected. This villain's death has been contradicted, but upon doubtful authority.

DECEMBER.

3. At his house on Forrest-hill, near Peckham, in his 70th year, Robert Bissett, esq. F. R. and A. S. one of his majesty's justices of the peace for the county of Surrey.

At Hastings, in her 87th year, the right hon. Frances countess of Clermont, widow of William Henry Fortescue, earl of Clermont, who died without issue in 1806, when the earldom became extinct.

Aged 99, Charles Annesley, esq. late of Ballysax (Kildare). He was nearly connected with all the several branches of the noble family of Annesley.

At the Rhydd, Worcestershire, in her 60th year, the lady of sir Anthony Lechmere, bart.

4. In Ray-street, Clerkenwell, aged 57, Mr. Samuel Rousseau, a learned printer. He served his apprenticeship in the printing-office of Mr. Nichols, the venerable editor of the Gentleman's Magazine. Whilst working as an apprentice and journeyman he taught himself Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, Persian, and Arabic. To these acquirements he added a knowledge of the French, and some of the modern tongues. -He was, for a short time, master of Joy's charity-school in Blackfriars.

6. At Pencraig, Herefordshire, in his 85th year, John Eyles, esq. warden of the Fleet-prison. This gentleman was the oldest officer of all his majesty's courts at Westminster; having been appointed by king George the Second.

8. In Greenwich-park, Maria, second daughter of sir Thomas Lavie, K. C. B. &c.

The right hon. Archibald Colquhoun, lord Register of Scotland, M. P. for the county of Dumbarton.

In the cloisters of Windsor-castle, aged 83, Dr. W. Clarke, formerly an admired singer of sacred music, and a great favourite of his late majesty.

In Merrion-square, Dublin, William Henn, esq. late master in chancery.

At Hartham-house, Wilts, the right hon. Archibald Colquhoun, lord register

of Scotland, and M. P. for the county of
Dumbarton.

After thirty-two hours extreme suffer-
ing with hydrophobia, a young man in
the service of R. Sheriffe, esq. of Diss,
Norfolk. This melancholy catastrophe
is supposed to have arisen from his as-
sisting in washing and cleansing the
wound of a spaniel of his master's, which
had been bitten by a terrier, and which
terrier had been bitten by a mad dog
in August last, and died about a month
since with symptoms of that disorder.
It is conjectured, that the virus found
its way into his circulation through some
scratch or puncture; for the man was
certainly not bitten by the dog. The
distressing picture which the last stages
of the above case exhibited, no language
can describe.

9. In Lower Grosvenor-street, after a long illness, William Tierney Roberts, esq. M. P. for St. Alban's.

10. At Hethel, in his 68th year, sir Thomas Beevor, bart. deputy-lieutenant, justice of the peace, and one of the chairmen of the Quarter Sessions for the county of Norfolk.

11. In Upper Grosvenor-street, Mrs. Graham, relict of the late Thomas Graham, esq. of Kinross and Burleigh, late M. P. for the county of Kinross.

12. At his house, Berkeley-square, Theodore H. Broadhead, esq. M. P. aged 55.

15. Signor Naldi, the celebrated Opera performer; his death was occasioned by the bursting of a new-in. vented self-acting cooking apparatus. The following account of this lamentable Moniteur:-" A terrible accident, which catastrophe is extracted from the happened on Thursday evening, at half

past six o'clock, at the residence of M. Garcia, has plunged into despair the family of M. Naldi, of the Italian theatre royal. This celebrated buffo-performer, having been invited to dine with M. Garcia, immediately on his arrival with his wife and daughter, proceeded to examine the accelerated process of cooking by the self-acting boiler (la marmite autoclave.) By an imprudent and fatal inadvertency, M. Naldi, with the tongs, stopped the valve, and the compression increased the heat to such a degree, that an explosion ensued; the lid of the boiler came in contact with his forehead, completely severed the skull, and stretched him dead at the feet of his daughter. M. Garcia, who was near

his hapless friend, was not seriously wounded; the steam scorched all the upper part of his face, and injured the eyes, but not in any dangerous degree. Surgical aid arrived immediately after the explosion; but to M. Naldi all efforts were unavailing; he was no more." 16. At his seat, Hill-house, Rodborough, sir George Onesiphoros Paul, bart.

Louisa, second daughter of the hon. and right Rev. Brownlow North, bishop of Winchester.

At Glasgow, in the 74th year of his age, professor Young, who had filled the chair of Greek professor in that University 46 years.

At Aberdeen, the dowager lady Bannerman, in her 77th year.

At Balcarres, the countess dowager Balcarres, aged 94.

At Edinburgh, the relict of the late lord justice clerk Macqueen.

At Irvine; aged 102, Mr. James Neil, late a ship-master of that port. He had served in the navy 65 years, many of these under Boscawen and Hawke; his faculties were unimpaired to the last.

22. In Pall-Mall, Mary, wife of George Nicol, esq. bookseller to his majesty. This very respectable lady was niece of the first alderman Boydell, and sister of the second.

23. In Fleet-street, where he had been resident upwards of fifty years, Robert Herring, esq. in the 76th year of his age. He was for 34 years one of the representatives in Common Council, and 22 years one of the deputies of the ward of Farringdon Without.

26. At Angers, Charles Viscount Walsh de Serrant, brother to the late viscountess Southwell.

27. At Rome, sir Thomas Gage, bart. of Hengrave-hall, Suffolk.

31. At Boulogne, lady Anne Digby, relict of William Henry Digby, of Ireland, esq. (to whom she was married in 1795), and sister to the earl of Cassillis. She survived her husband only a few weeks.

At Llanvihangel Court, near Abergavenny, Miss Powell, only sister of Hugh Powell, esq. treasurer of St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

At Langholm, Mr. Robert Ker, lineal descendant of George Ker, of Faddowside, a near relation of Robert, first earl of Roxburgh, and one of the heirs entail of that noble dukedom.

At Colerne, aged 19, of a second attack of the small-pox, Samuel Hillier. He was inoculated for the disease 16 years ago, and was slightly pitted.

At Dublin, Mrs. Dunne, relict of the late Francis Dunne, esq. and mother of lieut.-general and colonel Dunne, 7th Dragoon Guards.

At Bishopscourt, county of Kildare, William Ponsonby, esq. only son of the late right hon. George Ponsonby,

Lately, at Sierra Leone, Thoinas Lefevre, esq. holding a distinguished civil situation in that colony.

On his passage from Ceylon, lieut.-col. Napper, of the 83rd regiment.

At Demerara, aged 25, Charles O'Donnel, esq. recorder of that colony.

At Jamaica, the hon. John Hiatt, custos rotulorum, and chief judge of the court of Common Pleas in that island, aged 98.

At Bourdeaux, after a lingering illness of three years and a half, G. Ramsden, esq. late lieutenant-colonel in the Grenadier Guards.

At Bologna, within an hour of each other, George Meek, esq. of Campfield, and his lady.

Distinguished Foreigners, chiefly Literary and Scientific Men, who died in 1820, and are not included in the foregoing Obituary.

Baron de Beauvois, member of the Royal Institute, and a celebrated botanist, who explored the country of Oware, in Africa, a tract whose frightful climate had deterred all preceding travellers from investigating it. Of this he published a Flora. His Agrostologie is a valuable work, of great utility to those who wish to obtain a complete knowledge of grasses. Died at Paris, aged 67.

Thomas Pascal Boulage, author of various literary productions, especially of one on the antiquities of Roman law, entitled "Conclusion sur la Loi des Douze Tables." He has also left behind him a work, published since his death, Les Mystères d'Isis, of which a high opinion is entertained.

Anne Joseph Bruard, known by several archæological treatises, and by his Essais sur les Effects de la Musique chez les Anciens et chez les Modernes, 8vo. Tours, 1815. In his 33rd year.

M. Colin-de-Bar, author of Histoire de l'Inde Ancienne et Moderne, a work containing a history of Indostan, and treating on its antiquities, geography, political revolutions and institutions, manners, &c. &c.

Dr. J. H. Dambeck, professor of æsthetics at Prague. He is known by his translation of Pope's Essay on Criticism, and was latterly employed on a German version of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis, Tarquin and Lucretia, and Sonnets.

Guillaume Debure, a distinguished bibliographist, born at Paris in 1734, and cousin to the celebrated author of Bibliographie Instructive. Among his own works may be mentioned, Le Catalogue des Livres rares et precieux du Duc de la Vallière, 3 tom. 8vo. Paris, 1783; also, Le Catalogue des Livres rares et precieux de M*** (Camus de Limare). M. Debure has left two sons, worthy successors to his indefatigable labours, and librarians in the royal library at Paris.

J. T. II. des Carrières, author of several publications and elementary works relative to the French language; also, of a History of France, in 2 volumes. Died at Croydon, aged 78.

M. Grivaud-de-la-Vincelle, the author of several archæological works of considerable repute:-1. Antiquités Gauloises et Romaines; 2. Recueil des Monumens Antiques Inedits, Paris, 1817; 3. Arts et Metiers des Anciens. This last work, which was intended to be published in monthly numbers, and to be illustrated with 130 folio plates, commenced in March, 1819. Died at Paris, aged 75.

Thaddeus Hænke.-This distinguished German botanist, a pupil of Jacquin, died in Peru, when on the point of returning to Europe, for the purpose of republishing his Flore des Alpes. In him science has sustained a very material loss, being deprived by his death of a number of curious observations on the life of plants, and the internal action of nature; also, of the fruits of his researches made during a residence of

fifteen years, in the province of Cochabamba, one of the finest and most fertile countries in the world.

M. Lachabeaussière, a French writer of some repute, and author of several dramatic productions, among which is the Opera of Azemia.

Vincenzio Paretti, an Italian sculptor, celebrated for his restorations of antique statues, and well known to collectors and artists. Died at Rome, in the 74th year of his age.

Jean François Sobry, member of several literary societies, and author of a variety of useful publications, among others, Notices elementaire sur les Arts.

M. l'Abée Vinson, author of a didactic poem, entitled, Les Quatre Ages de l'Homme, only the first cantos of which have been published. He was also distinguished by his knowledge of astronomy; and during his emigration in this country, constructed an observatory, where, by means of a particular machine, he demonstrated the system of the

movement of the stars.

Count Volney, the well-known traveller, and author of the celebrated work-the Ruins of Empires. He has bequeathed a sum as a premium for the best essay on the Oriental languages. Died at Paris, aged 85.

Abbé Bernardo Zamagna, a celebrated Hellenist, born at Ragusa, in 1735, where he entered the Society of the Jesuits, and studied belles lettres under Ganich, mathematics under the celebrated Boscovich, and theology under Segovia and Stoppini. For some time he taught rhetoric and philosophy in the Roman College at Sienna; afterwards Greek literature at Milan. His translations into Latin verse of the Odyssey, of Hesiod, of Theocritus, and of Moschus and Bion, are superior to any preceding ones, and established his reputation. He produced likewise some original poems, among which are-The Aerian Navigator, and Echo. The Senate of Ragusa sent him as their deputy to Pius VII.

A GENERAL BILL OF ALL THE CHRISTENINGS AND BURIALS, WITHIN THE BILLS OF MORTALITY, FROM DECEMBER 14, 1819, TO DECEMBER 12, 1820.

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• There have been executed in London and the County of Surrey 38; of which number, 10 only have been reported to be buried within the Bills of Mortality.

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