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not torn, nor could any instrument be 

 found, notwithstanding the strictest 

 search was made. A surgeon of 

 Brentwood examined the body of 

 the deceased, and found the left 

 jugular and windpipe both divided ; 

 there appeared to be throe cuts upon 

 the neck, two of thenx three inches 

 in depth and three in length, but 

 on no other parts of the body 

 •were any marks of violence. The 

 evidence given by Mr. Finch, baker, 

 of Brentwood, before the coroner's 

 jury, V ould almost lead us to doubt, 

 at the tinu^ spoken of, the sanity of 

 the deceased. ]\Ir. Finch was in 

 company with Mr. Pavic on the 

 Thursday and Friday evenings pre- 

 vious to his death, and observed 

 something unusual in his manner, 

 such as being very harsh and cross, 

 and did not take that notice of him 

 which he was accustomed to do. 

 Mr.Fiuch also saw the deceased the 

 morning previous to his death, , 

 when the deceased did not take any 

 notice of him until he spoke to him, 

 ■which was very dificrent from his 

 former conduct. The jury, after 

 spending a considerable time in con- 

 sultation, re-tnrned a verdict of wil- 

 ful murder, against some person or 

 persons unknown. In the pockets 

 of the deceased was" a pocket-book, 

 containing a 21. and six II. notes, 

 a, guinea, and two cases of instru- 

 ments. 



26th. At Paris, the Chevalier 

 D'Azzara, late Spanish ambassador 

 at Rome, and afterwards at Paris. 



29th. At Aberdeen, in her 85th 

 3ear, Mrs Rebecca Ogilvie, widow 

 of the honourable John Forbes, 

 of Pitsligo. 



Lately at Municii, in Bavaria, 

 Count Haslang, very many years 

 ambassador from thence to the court 



of London ; knight of the illustrions 

 order of St. George, and lord high 

 chamberlain of that electorate. 



Feb. 1st. At his scat in Cornwall, 

 in his 77th year, Edward Craggs^ 

 Lord Eliot, Baron Eliot, of St. 

 Germain's, so created Jan. 30th 

 17S4. His lordship in 1789, by 

 the king's permission, took the name 

 and arms of Craggs. He married, 

 1756, Catherine, sole daughter and 

 heiress of Edward Ellison, esq. by 

 whom he had four sons; two of 

 whom dying young, he is succeeded 

 by the third, the hon. John Eliot, 

 M. P. (with his brother, the. hon. 

 William E.j for the borough of 

 Liskeard, co. Cornwall. His lord- 

 ship was receiver-general (for the 

 prince of Wales) of the ducliy of 

 Cornwall, in which he is succeeded 

 by R. B. Sheridan, est]. 



2nd. At Wallacetown, Ayr, 

 aged 110 years and 10 months, Jean 

 George, who was bornatEdinbro'; 

 never had any illness; retained her 

 faculties to the last, and died with- 

 out a struggle. She attended the 

 late carl of Eglintoun in his infancy, 

 and has enjoyed a pension from that 

 noble family ever since. In her 

 47th year she had a son, now 64 

 years old. 



3rd. In New King-street, Bath, 

 aged 86,]Mrs. Anne Catherine Beach, 

 only surviving sister of Thomas B. 

 esq. deceased, formerly attorney- 

 general and chief justice of Ja- 

 maica. 



At his house at Thorpe Lee, Sur- 

 ry, aged 85, Sir Edward Blackett, 

 bart. ofMatson, co. Northumber- 

 land. 



In consequence of the rupture of 

 a blood vessel, the Rev. Henry Cox 

 Mason, M. A. rector of St. Mary, 

 Bermondsey, chaplain to Lord Ons- 

 low, 



