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of age, very mean in his appearance, 
and difcourfes in the ftile of a 
quaker. He was committed to 
Tothill-fields Bridewell. 
Lately a cafe was argued and de- 
termined in the ‘court of king’s 
bench, of fome importance to the 
mercantile world. ‘The queftion 
was, ‘* Whether a payment made 
in bank notes can legally be deemed 
a payment made in money?” The 
‘court faid, that the judges had not 
yet gone to the extent of deciding 
that the tender of a debt in bank 
notes was a good tender, unlefs the 
party accepted them as cafh. A 
payment, however, made in bank 
notes might certainly be deemed a 
payment made in money, and might 
be fo ftyled in a deed or other in- 
ftrament by which any fum is ftated 
to be given or paid. Bank notes 
were unqueftionably called money, 
and fo confidered by the world. 
A young woman, of the name of 
Finch, took the fatal refolution of 
putting an end to her prefent ex- 
utence, by fwallowing a quantity 
of arfenic. What renders this moft 
remarkable is, fhe prevailed upon 
the fervant maid of Mr. Huddy, a 
paitry-cook, to accompany her in 
the fatal refolution, .They tock to 
the amount of two ounces between 
them; in confequence of which, 
Mifs Grace Finch ftruggled with 
the drug in violent: convulfions. 
about three hours, and then ex- 
pired. The muaid fervant conti- 
nued in a moft miferable ftate till 
she next morning, when fhe expired 
alfo. 
The ck elebrated Phillidor played 
three games at chefs blindfolded, 
with three different perfons at once: 
two with Dr. Rolet, and Capt. 
Smith, he gained; and tlie thd 
1790- 
with count Bruhl was a drawn 
game. 
Dicp, at Sutton, near Bingham,. 
in the 103d year of her age, Han- 
nah Jenk, a widow of that village, 
who remained her faculties in the 
moft perfect manner till a very fhort 
time previous to her death. 
At Edinburgh, aged upwards of 
80, the celebrated William Cullen, 
M.D. firft phyfician to his majefty 
for Scotland.—Notwithftanding the 
number of years he read letures. 
there, he has not left property 
enough to fupport his daughters. 
His tiiftaken notions of farming 
contributed not a little to reduce 
his income. 
At Iflington, aged 68, John ; 
Hyacinth de Magelhaens, low 
F.R.S. member of many foreign 
academies, formerly an Auguftine 
monk at Lifbon, and great erandfon 
of the celebrated navigator, Ferdi- 
nando M. who gave his name to: 
the ftraight difcovered by him in- 
151g. He was alfo related to the 
jetuit M, who travelled over China 
from 1640 to 1648, till he was car- 
ried to the court at Pekin, where 
he refided zg years, and died in 
1677. He was a ftudious, inge- 
nicus, and learned man, particu- 
larly diftinguifhed among the lite- 
rati in this and other enlight- 
ened countries. for his intimate ac- 
quaintance with moft branches of 
natural philofophy, and no lefs in- 
genious in his experiments therein, 
particularly in mechanics. 
At his houfe in Hereford, 
at the age of 105 years, the 
Rev. William Davies, who took his 
degree of M.A. at Chrift Church, 
Oxford, in 1715. He retained his 
faculties in a great degree till 
within a few years of his death. 
roth. 
MARCH. 
