W811.) 
‘master of the free-school, and clerk to the 
‘commissioners of taxes for several divisions 
‘of that county. 
At Swansea, Mrs. Oldisworth, wife of the 
Rev. Mr.,O. curate of St. Mary’s, Swansea, 
and daughter of the Rev. Edward Sparkes, 
vicar of Fairford, Glocestershire, 45. —Cap- 
tain Rowe, 63: 
At Groes,.near Denbigh, John Jones, esq. 
4&t Pante Cottage, near Builth, Mr. ‘tho- 
mas Jones, surgeon, iy i 
At (era Mine,,Carnarvon, Mrs. Edwards, 
relict.of Timothy Edwards,.esq. a captain in 
the Royal Nayy,,and mother of Colonel E. 
of WNanthoran,—The..Rev. Mr. Daviesy 
curate of Lauzharne. i 
At Margam, Glamorganshire,. Hopkin 
Liewellyn, 89, 
Aged 22, Mrs. Symes, wife of E.,B: 7S. 
esq. of Brynhafod, near Llansilo, Caermar- 
thenshire, and daughter o; Willam Jemmett, 
esq. late of Little Milton House, Oxtord- 
shire. - 
In the parish of Lanspythi id, Breconshire, 
Thomas Powsll, 80. At the age of 71, he 
married his ‘second wife, by whom he had 
_ five children, all now living: his eldest son 
is fifty nine, and his youngest child is one 
ig old. 
; NORTH: BRITAIN. 
The great undertaking of erecting a light- 
douse on the Bell or: Cape Rock, having been 
completed, and the lanterns lighted up in the 
beginning of February last, the vessel, which 
had been mooréd with mushroom anchors off 
the rock, as a temporary floating’ light, be- 
came no longer usefulin that capacity, and 
was removed to Leith as soon as the weather 
avould permit. 
A4it: July, 1807, and remained stationary. till 
the 114 February last, about three years and 
seven months. Her bottom, it was naturally 
Yo be expected, would be. very foul; byt, in 
this respect, it surpassed any idea that had 
been formed. It presented, indeed, a very 
singuiar spectacle, being completely invested 
with a thick coating of sea-weeds, muscles, 
mollusca, and zoophytes. The larger sea- 
weeds, chiefly Fucus, Digitatus, and F. escu- 
dentus, were in general, from 4 to 5 feet long 
The muscles were of the species called My- 
tilus pellucidus, of a large size, and in the 
most Vigorous state of health, as indicated by 
the. well-marked stria on their shells. In 
general, they measured three inches and a half 
in length, and onedinch in breadth. Some of 
the common.acorn-shell (Ballanus communis) 
were so uncommonly large, that they mea- 
sured an inch and a hair in diameter at the. 
base. Solen minutus was abundant. 
specimens, of the, Doris papiliosa achered to 
" warious parts of the-hulil; with numerous 
small marine vermes of the genera Aphrodia, 
Nereis, Lineus, and others. . By the attention 
of Mr. Stevenson,,, engincer for northern- 
lights;.specimens of all the different vermes, 
shells, and sea-weeds, found on the vessel, 
were preserved, 
North Britein—Deaths Abroad, 
She had been moored on the , 
Many ~ 
499 
Died.] At Fortrose, aged 41, Tohn Watson, 
esq. late of Trelawney, Jamaica, one of the 
magistrates of that burgh, much ree 
spected and lamented. —Mrs. Mann, 84°" + 
At Cromarty, aged 74, Mrs. tinge pull 
~and justly regretted, . > neta 
DEATHS ABROAD. 
At Hazelymphy i in, jamaica, . James ‘Charkes. | 
Lawrence, esq, of Hazelymph and, Saint Ives.” 
He had been a member of the Assembly, and, 
was descended from tjye notable: fenry Law 
Tence, of Saint Ives, i in Huntingdonshire, and 
Saint Margaret’s, in Hertiordsbire, By resident ~ 
of the Coungil of State, and ane.ot. Cropa wel” c 
peers. 
In November, last, at Cawnpore, Qudey f 
Benga}, after a few hours illness, Ziiza, wig - 
of Samuel G, Evans, esq. of the Honourable 
Company’s Establishment,..and. only child 
of the Rev, William Lucas, of Doctors’-Coms - 
mons, Of this amiable lady? s life, the lash, * 
nine years were possed in India ; where; from 
her correct deportment, engaging manners, 
and genuine wit, heightened) by a fascinating 
sprightliness which might be truly, termed ~ 
peculiar. to herself, she was received in the 
first circles with approbation and esteem; but, 
after all, the best praise that can be given her. 
-ia, that which she deserved asa dayghter, g” 
wife, a mother, and a friend. 
At Prince Edward's Island, J. M. “Macdoy 
nald, esq. of Iracadie; a gentleman of very, 
coamdncabla property and literary attain= * 
ments, late captain of the 84th regiment of 
foot. 
In the same island, of an apoplecric ft, Roe 
bert. Hodgson, esq. late of Causeway Foot, 
near Keswick, Cumberland, Speaker of the 
House of Assembly, Clerk of the Lrowns 
Coroner and Prothonotary of the Supreme 
Ceurt. Both of these gentlemen are much 
regretted, especially the latter, whose places 
will, perhaps, never be again so ably filled, 
Cn board his Majesty’s ship Bulwark, on ~ 
her passage from Cadiz, Thomas Fred: erig 
Nicolay, esq. senior staff surgeon of the Bri- 
tish army in the Peninsula. This ‘zealous 
and faithful servant of his king and country 
after a peried of nearly eighteen years active 
service in Egypt, at Copenhagen, in Portu- 
gal, and Spain, gc. &c. fell a victim to the 
efiects of the fever which’ raged ia Cadiz, in 
December last,. having caught the infection 
ia the conscientious discharge of his profes- 
sional duties. As he lived esteemed afd res 
spected, so he dicd, at the early ape of 36 
years, most sincerely and justly regretted by 
all who had an opportunity of knowing I his 
many gublic agd private virtues. 
At Rome, Cardinal Erskine, a younger . : 
son of Colin Erskine, of Cambo, in Fife, ~ 
son of >ir Charles Erskine, of Cambo, baronet, 
His father was a painter, educated tn’ his 
profession at Rome, and married there’a Ro= 
man lady of respectable birth. § He was a man 
of talent, a good scholar, 4 true Scots’ pat * 
tr iot, ‘an honest man, and aj excellent com- 
panion. 
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