Annual Register

22nd. An inquest was this night held at the king's-head, Limehouse, on view of the body of Wm. Locke, esq. a captain in the second regiment of Tower-hamlets militia. After the coroner (Mr. Unwin) had given the jury their charge, they retired to view the body, which presented a sight awfully affecting and picturesque, being wrapped up in the English colours, with the uniform which the deceased wore, and watched by two grenadiers in their regimental dress. The first witness called was captain Bartlett, of the West India Dock volunteers. He stated, that he had frequently seen the deceased on guard at the dock; he had called that evening by accident at the house of Mr. Tobin, where the deceased was spending the evening; at supper he observed him to be a good deal intoxicated, and his voracious manner of eating much surprised him. About the middle of supper he observed the deceased turn pale and faint, and advised he should be taken into the air. He got worse, and medical aid was sent for. Mr. Tobin, of Limehouse, deposed, that the deceased had come to his house with a friend; he had seen him often before, but was not intimate with him. He stated, that he supported him a considerable time on his knee till a surgeon came; that he gradually observed his pulsation diminish, till he was quite gone. The surgeon, Mr. Wedgborough, stated, that he came too late to render any assistance; that life was totally extinct. He believed the deceased did not die of apoplexy, though he could not trace his death to any particular cause. Verdict, died by the visi. tation of God.

23rd. At her apartments at Chelsea, in her 81st year, the celebrated signora Galli. She was some years since a performer of considerable celebrity on the stage of the king's theatre in the Haymarket, and was the last of Handel's scholars; and that celebrated musician composed several of his most favourite airs expressly for her, both in his operas and oratorios, in which she sang with great applause; and appear. ed so lately as the year 1797, at Mr. Ashley's oratorios at Covent-garden theatre. After quitting the stage, she resided as a companion with the unfortunate Miss Ray, and was in company with her at Covent-garden theatre on the evening she was shot by the rev. Mr. Hackman, April 7th, 1779. Being thus deprived of her situation, and not having made any provision for her declining years, she has subsisted entirely on the bounty of her friends, and an annual benefaction from the royal society of musicians.

25th. At the house of the secretary at war, in New Norfolk-street, Mary-la-bonne, col. Hamilton, of Pencaithland.

27th. In her 62nd year, Mrs. F. Glover, who had lived 50 years in the same cottage at Honnington, Suffolk, where she gave suck to that much admired rural poet Robert Bloomfield, author of the 'Farmer's Boy,' &c. which poem was first written with the sole view of pleasing his mother, by the recital of scenes long passed; but by its unprecedented success, on being introduced to the world, he was enabled to contribute much towards the comfort of her declining years; and on hearing of her last illness, with that true filial piety which L13 breathes

breathes throughout all his productions, he went to her from London, and with unwearied patience watched her rapid decay, till death closed a well-spent life.

At Lazarus-hospital, in Hereford, aged upwards of 100, Elizabeth Garrett, who for a long period sold fruit in that city. She was born in the reign of queen Anne, and was found, when but a few days old, at the south-end of the street where she kept her apple-stall, and from this circumstance obtained the name of Street. However, having at an early age, engaged the affections of a barber of the name of Garrett, he married her; and from this circumstance it became a common observation, that Bet had mounted from a Street to a Garrett. She walked out till within a few days of her death, and her faculties were unim. paired to the last. She was carried to her grave by six hair dressers, to each of whom she bequeathed a ra

zor.

In Magherabeg, near Dromore, in Ireland, the self-taught poet, Wil. liam Cunningham; who, while he was a poor weaver-boy, having re. ceived the first rudiments of edu. cation at one of the bishop of Dromore's Sunday schools, had, by read ing such books as he could borrow, made so considerable a progress, that in the autumn of 1800, he presented his lordship with a copy of verses, requesting the loan of books. The bishop, struck with the marks of genius displayed in this poem, rescued him from the loom, and placed him at the dioclesian school of Dromore, where his application was so diligent that, in about two years and a half, he had read the principal Latin and Greek Classics. Being thus qualified to superintend

the education of youth, which had been the object of his wishes, he was received, early in 1801, as an assistant-teacher in the academy of the rev. Dr. Bruce, of Belfast, where he was distinguished for his diligence and skill in preparing the boys under his care to be examined before the last summer vacation. But, by this time, such strong symptoms of a consumption had appeared in his tall, thin, and slender frame, that he could not any more return to his charge, and his declining health confined him to the house of his poor mother, near the turnpike-gate between Hillsborough and Dromore, where he continued to experience the kindness of his former patron, and was most generously attended by sir George Atkinson, an eminent physician in Hillsborough; but his case was beyond the reach of medical aid, and terminated fatally. He was interred in Dromore church-yard on the 29th, having nearly completed his 24th year, being born March 19, 1781.-Cunningham, though very unlike, in his bodily frame, to Dr. Goldsmith, who was short and not slender, so strongly resembled him in face, that, when he stood near the profile of the doctor, his por trait seemed to have been drawn for him.

28th. Suddenly, the bishop of Noyon, one of those dignified ecclesiastics of France who remained attached to the house of Bourbon, and was also one of the ancient French nobility.

At Dyke, co. Lincoln, in consequence of a fright experienced on the preceding day from accidentally letting an infant fall out of her arms, Miss Diana Howes, of King's Cliffe, co. Northampton, an

amiable

amiable young lady, aged only she acquiesced. About one o'clock

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30th. In Park-street, Grosvenor-square, in his 80th year, gen. Patrick Tonyn, colonel of the 58th foot, and late governor of the province of East Florida.

At Reddish's hotel, in his 39th year, George Evans, Baron Car berry, of the kingdom of Ireland, and M. P. for the county of Rutland. In 1792 he married Miss Watson, daughter of col. W. who amassed a considerable fortune in India. The first baron was created by George I. in 1715. He was considered the finest man of his day; and the king bestowed this honour on him on account of his extreme beauty and manliness. The late lord was truly amiable, and a man of the mildest and most gentlemanly manners. About two years since, his lordship was hunting on his estate near Northampton, and had the misfortune to burst a bloodvessel, and was considered at the time in extreme danger. About 15 months ago he broke his arm, which brought on a lingering complaint, considered by the faculty as a decay of some internal part. A few weeks since, his lordship came to town, and has been under the care of Dr. Bailie and other eminent physicians, who considered him so far recovered as to sanction his return to the country, and Friday, Dec. 28, was the day fixed for his departure with lady Carberry for his seat in Northamptonshire. Preparatory to the journey he rode in Hyde-park. On the 26th and 27th he was in good spirits, and saw company each afternoon; but in the morning of the 28th he proposed to lady Carberry to postpone their departure to the 31st, to which

in the morning of the 29th, he was seized with a violent sickness in his stomach, and rang the bell for his servant, who immediately attended, and, on finding his lordship had again burst a blood-vessel, sent for Dr. Bailie, who administered some medicine, which relieved his patient so much, that he sat up, dined, conversed, and was in tolerable spirits; but in the evening of the 30th a relapse took place, which terminated fatally at nine o'clock in the evening of the 31st. Dying without issue, he is succeeded by his uncle, the hon. John Evans, of Dublin. His estates in the counties of Cork and Kerry amounted to 15,000l. a year. All his personal property is bequeathed to lady Carberry. His remains were interred in the family-vault at Laxton, co. Northampton. The funeral procession was grand, and joined by his lordship's tenants.

Lately, at Barbadoes, in the West Indies, of the yellow fever, lord viscount Proby, commander of the Amelia frigate, of 38 guns, and most of his officers. His lordship's death occasioned a vacancy in parliament for the town of Buckingham.

On board the Carysfort frigate, of the yellow fever, lieut. John Bellamy, of the R. N. son of the late Mr. alderman B. of Leicester. This gallant young man was with lord Duncan, when he defeated the Dutch fleet off Camperdown; had been in much other desperate șer vice; and was promoted entirely for his great personal courage and nautical abilities.

At Ulm, Huber, one of the most celebrated writers in Germany. At Vienna, in his 79th year, L14

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the celebrated musical composer, Haydn,

James Baden, professor of eloquence and the Latin tongue in the university of Copenhagen. His death is a serious loss to the literary world. He began his connection with that institution in 1779; his labours were not confined to the pupils at the National college; he de. voted a great portion of his time to advance the Danish language to its highest state of improvement; and his translation of Tacitus rivals the original for precision, taste, and purity of diction. He also published a German and Danish Diction ary, known to every modern linguist. In the latter years of his life he found himself inadequate to the active duties of his public situation, and retired, but not without an honourable proof of the approba. tion of the Danish government.

At St. Petersburgh, whilst play. ing at billiards, Jarnowick, the celebrated performer on the violin.

At Bantry, in Ireland, of a violent fever, Hamilton White, esq. brother to lord viscount Bantry.

At Stoneville, co. Dublin, in her 20th year, Miss Pratt, only daughter of major-general P.

In Merrion-square, Dublin, John Mercier, esq. of Portarlington, late lieutenant-colonel of the 39th regiment of foot.

In Aungier-street, Dublin, in his 70th year, Lundy Foot, esq. one of the aldermen of that city.

In Dominick-street, Dublin, aged 92, Mrs. Graham, relict of col. G. of Coolmaine, co. Monaghan.

In Tipperary, John Power, esq. col. of the Tipperary militia.

At Egleton-castle, in Scotland, a few hours after his birth, the son and heir of tord Montgomery.

Charles Ferguson, esq. son of the deceased sir J. Ferguson, bart. of Kilkergan, late one of the senators of the college of justice in Scotland.

SHERIFFS appointed by his Majesty in Council for the Year 1804. Bedfordshire. George Edwards, of Henlow, esq.

Berkshire. Richard Mathews, of Wargrave, esq.

Buckinghamshire. James Nield, of Stoke-Hammond, esq. Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, Benjamin Keene, of Wistowlodge, esq.

Cheshire. Sir John Fleming Leicester, of Nether Tabling, bart. Cumberland. John De Whelpdale, of Penrith, esq.

Derbyshire. Sir Henry Every, of Eggington, bart.

Devonshire. Thomas Porter of Rockbear, esq.

Dorsetshire. Robert Williams, of Bridgehead, Little-bridge, esq. Essex. William Palmer, of Nazing, esq. Gloucestershire.

ton,

esq.

Nathaniel Clifof Frampton-upon-Severn,

Herefordshire. Richard Stukely. Fleming, of Dinmore-hill, esq. Hertfordshire. Edward Garrow, of Totteridge, esq. Kent. Shoreham, esq. Leicestershire. Henry Otway, of Stanford-hall, esq.

Sir Walter Stirling, of

Lincolnshire. Robert Viner, of Godby, esq.

Monmouthshire. William Adams Williams, of Llangibby, esq.

Norfolk.

Norfolk. Henry Styleman, of

Snottisham, esq.
Northamptonshire. Charles Tib-
bitts, of Barton Seagrave, esq.
Northumberland. Sir Thomas
Henry Lyddell, of Effington, bart.
Nottinghamshire. Thomas Webb
Edge, of Stretty, esq.
Oxfordshire. John Langston, of
Sarsden-house, esq.

Cotton Thomp

Rutlandshire. son, of Ketton, esq. Shropshire. Robert Burton, of

Longner, esq. Somersetshire. John Rogers, of Yarlington, esq. Staffordshire. Richard Jessar, of West Bromwich, esq. Southampton. Sir Charles Mill, of Mottesfont, bart.

Suffolk. Sir Robert Pocklington, of Chelsworth, knt.

Surry. William Borradaile, of Streatham, esq.

Sussex. John Dennet, of Woodmancott, esq.

Warwickshire. Roger Vaughton, of Sutton-Colfield, esq.

Wiltshire. Wadham Locke, of Rowdford, esq.

Worcestershire. Thomas Holmes, of Beoly, esq.

Yorkshire. James Fox, of Bramham-park, esq.