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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804. 



of the present bishop of Bath and 

 "Wells. 



8th. At -her house in Clarges- 

 street, Berkeley-square, in her 74th 

 year, lady Anne Capel, sister to 

 the late and aunt to the present earl 

 of Essex, who comes into the pos- 

 session of Russell farm, near Wat- 

 ford, with most of her ladyship's 

 property, to tiie amount of 40001. 

 per annum. The farm came into 

 the Essex family from the late Earl 

 of Essex's mother, she being daugh- 

 ter of the Duke of Bedford, and 

 •vvas setlk'd, in rigiit of the mother, 

 upon his lordship's two sisters dur- 

 ing their life-time. Hampton-court, 

 in Herefordshire, came to his lord- 

 ship in right of his mother, who, 

 was daughter of sir C. 11. Williams 

 and grand-daughter of lord Co- 

 ningshy. 



10th. At Kingston-upon-Thames, 

 Surrej', in her 12th year, after a 

 long illness, Miss Gabrielle-Mar- 

 tha Johnston, fourth daughter of 

 major-general Johnston, in the 

 service of the East India compa- 

 ny. 



At Whitehall, the hon. JNIiss F. 

 Pclham, last surviving daughter of 

 the right hon. Henry Pelham, bro- 

 ther of the old duke of Newcastle, 

 and sister to the late lady Sondes. 

 Mr. P. was prime minister to his 

 late majesty. Miss P. died very 

 rich ; her seat and estate at Esher, 

 in Surrey, go to her nephew, lord 

 Sondes ; an estate in Essex, to her 

 nephew, the hon. Henry Watson; 

 and a very considerable personal 

 fortune to her nephew, the hon. 

 George Watson. She had, deserv- 

 edly, the character of a truly vir- 

 tuous, humane, and extensively cha- 

 ritJiblc woman. 



11th. At the Hot Wells, Bristol, 

 Charlotte viscountess Bolingbroke. 



In Audley-square, in his 79th 

 year, sir Francis Sykes, bart. M. P. 

 for Wallingford. 



12th. In Saville-row, after an 

 illness of many months, aged 70, 

 her grace Mary-Anne duchess of 

 Ancaster, youngest daughter of the 

 late major Layard, and aunt to the 

 late dean of Bristol, who died last 

 year. She had by the duke one 

 daughter, born in 1771, married to 

 lord Milsington, and died about 

 1800. Her dissolution is universally 

 lamented, especially by those who 

 felt that, as a wife, a mother, a re- 

 lation, or a friend, her conduct was 

 most exemplary. 



17th. At Rosehall, in Scotland, 

 Archibald Douglas, esq. colonel of 

 the late Angusshire fencibles. 



At Pentonvillc, in his 34th year, 

 INIr. Mark Anthony Rcyroux, a na- 

 tivc of Switzerland ; whose irrepa- 

 rable loss to his friends will be to 

 them a source of painful and sincere 

 regret. He was a man of uncom- 

 mon talents and profound learning; 

 and in his moral conduct, and in all 

 the various relations of social life, 

 an exemplary character. It is in 

 contemplation to give the world an 

 ample account of this excellent 

 man, in authentic memoirs of his 

 life and character. 



In Duke-street,Grosvenor square, 

 aged 49, after a few hours illness of 

 an obstruction occasioned by indiges- 

 tion, in consequence of coming to 

 town in wet cloaths, Charlotte 

 Countess-dowager of Talbot, born 

 March 15, 1754, youngest daughter 

 of Wills iirst Marquis of Downshire, 

 by the lady Margaretta Fitzgerald, 

 sister of the late and aunt of the pre- 

 sent Duke of Leinster. Her lady- 

 ship was sister to the late Marquis 

 of Downshire and the Marchioness 

 of Salisbury ; and has left the pre- 

 sent 



