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5d Dec. 1783, he was chosen fellow 

 of Eton. On the death of Mr. 

 Barnard, 1772, he succeeded to the 

 living of Maple Durham, in Ox- 

 fordshire, for which he resigned the 

 rectory of Walton-upon-Trent, in 

 Derbyshire, to which he had been 

 presented by the marquis of Town- 

 send. He was many years an assist- 

 ant at Eton, and published, in 1793, 

 a translation into Greet verse, of 

 Gray's Elegy in a Country Church- 

 yard. 



Aged 83, lady Hawiins, relict 

 of sir Christopher Hawkins, hart. 



Lady Charlotte Radclyft'e, daugh- 

 ter of the hon. Charles RadclyfFe, 

 by the countess of Newburgh, who 

 tvas a Scotch peeress in her own 

 right. 



The hon. colonel Rawdon, M. P. 

 for the city of Lincoln, bi-other to 

 the earl of Moira, and nephew to 

 the late earl of Huntingdon. In his 

 very illustrious ancestry, he traced, 

 the blood royal of the Plantage- 

 nets. 



The lady of sir Thomas Miller, 

 bart. 



Sir John Menzies, bart. He 

 has left a widow without any issue, 

 lady Charlotte, eldest daughter of 

 the duke of Athol. The title and 

 estate devolve to Robert Menzies, 

 esq. of Edinburgh. 



Philip Wenman, seventh lord 

 viscount Wenman, baron Wen- 

 man, of Kilmaynham, and a ba- 

 ronet. He was born April 18, 

 1742, and was united July 7, 1766", 

 to the lady Eleanora Bertie, fifth 

 daughter of WiUoughby, earl of 

 Abingdon ; but, having no issue, 

 the title is extinct. 



ApriKkh. Right hon. Jas. Stew- 

 art Mackenzie, lord privy seal of 

 Scotland, second brother of John 

 third earl of Bute ; elected M. P. 

 for Argyleshirc, in 1740; Bute, 



1747; burghs of Air, &c. 1754; 

 Ross-shire, I76I ; envoy extraordi- 

 nary to the king of Sweden, 1759- 

 He succeeded to the estate of Rose- 

 liaugh by the entail of his great 

 grandfather, sir George Mackenzie, 

 whose name and arms he took. He 

 married lady Betty Campbell, one 

 of the daughters and co-heiresses 

 of John duke of Ai-gyle. 



At Oldenburgh, in Germany, the 

 right hon. lady Isabella-Henrietta 

 de Ginkell, fourth daughter of the 

 earl of Athlone, and sister of lord 

 Aghrim. Her ladyship was, some 

 time back, united to her relation, 

 baron W. T. de Reede. 



At Perth, Elspet Watson, at 

 the great age of 115. She was born 

 in 1685, in the reign of James II. 

 and is probably the last Scottish 

 subject born in the reign of that 

 prince. She was undoubtedly one 

 of the smallest, or rather shortest 

 women in the three kingdoms. 

 When in the prime of life, she did 

 not exceed two feet nine inches 

 in height. She has not had any 

 other way of living, for many 

 years, but begging her bread from 

 door to door ; and so strong a pre- 

 dilection had she for this way of 

 life, that she went her usual rounds 

 till within a few weeks of her 

 death, although she had more than 

 sol. sterling of ready cash in her 

 possession when she died. 



At Berlin, in his 81st year, the 

 Prussian minister of state, count 

 Blumentlial. He had retired from 

 the greater part of his public func- 

 tions some time, and only retained 

 the inspection of the royal treasury. 



At Vienna, count Nadasti, im- 

 perial field-marshul-licutcnant, and 

 proprietor of a regiment of infantry. 



At Nice, of absolute want, the 

 artist Corbion, master of the cele- 

 brated Viotti. 



