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low, founder of the ileaf and dumb 

 school, a celebrated and popular 

 preacher, and author of several ju- 

 dicious, weJI-written, and well-de- 

 livered sermons. He has left a 

 widovr and a numerous family ill 

 provided for. 



6th. This morning, about nine 

 o'clock, captain Fitzgerald, of the 

 marines, came to the Northumber- 

 land coffee-house, where he Mas well 

 known and occasionally lodged, to 

 ask for a bed. On being shewn to 

 his chamber, he desired he might 

 not be disturbed till six in the even- 

 ing, stating that he had been up the 

 whole of the preceding night. 

 When the waiter went to call him 

 at the appointed time, he found the 

 captain, though yet warm, quite 

 dead. A neighbouring surgeon was 

 instantly sent for by the master of 

 the house, who opened an artery, 

 but without effect. The coroner's 

 ■;iry, after a very minute investiga- 

 tion of the circumstances, pronounc- 

 ed a verdit^ of " ]>ied by the visita- 

 Hon of God." lie had dined on 

 the 5th at the Northumberland cof- 

 fee-house, in company with a friend, 

 in apparent health and spirits. He 

 was a native of Ireland, and is sup- 

 posed to have been about 33 years 

 of age. 



9th. At her house in Somerset- 

 «reet, aged 76, after an illness of 

 near three years continuance, which 

 she bore with unexampled fortitude, 

 the hon. Mrs. Rothe, widow of the 

 late count R. lieutenant-general and 

 colonel proprietor of the Irish Te- 

 gimont of his name, in the service 

 of his most Christian majesty. She 

 was the only daughter of Lucius 

 Gary, fifth lord viscount Faulkland, 

 by his second wife Laura Dillon, 

 lister to Henry, eleventh viscount 



Dillon, and io the present archbi- 

 shop of Narbonne. 



11th. At Ballcnecanligj near 

 Dingle, in Ireland, the wife of rear- 

 admiral Morlarty. 



In his 79th year, the reverend 

 Joshua Smith, of Holt, Norfolk, 

 many years reftor of that parish, 

 and vicar of Gorleston, Suffolk. 

 He married Elizabeth, daughter of 

 Dr. Henry Briggs, who was 26 

 years reftor, and chaplain to George , 

 II. and died in 1741, and was suc- 

 ceeded hy another of both his 

 names; on whose death, in 1750, 

 jMr. Smith was presented .by his 

 wife. t, 



13th. Miss O'Hara was seized 

 with a fit in Drnry-lane theatre at 

 nine o'clock of Saturday the 11th. 

 She was taken to Carpmeal's house, 

 in Bow street, where every atten- 

 tion was paid to her. Two medi- 

 cal men, Messrs. Rivers and Hunt, 

 were called, whose aid however was 

 without effect : she expired this 

 morning about four o'clock. She 

 was a beautiful, accomplished wo- 

 man, and had scarcely attained her 

 22nd year. 



15th. At West Woodhay-house, 

 CO. Berks, lady Sloper, relict of sir 

 Robert Sloper, K. B. and youngest 

 daughter of the late lord chief jus- 

 tice Willes. 



At Grantham, co. Lincoln, much 

 lamented, on account of her bene- 

 volence to the poor, Mrs. L. C. 

 Cust, only remaining sister of the 

 late Sir John C. bart. speaker of 

 the house of commons, and aunt to 

 lady Brownlow. 



16th. At Dover, John Smith, esq. 

 elder brother to the general, who, 

 when captain in the guards, and aid- 

 du-camp to the late lord Sackvilfc, 

 by his valouvand ability twice saved 



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