470 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804 



7th. At ElberfeW, in Germany, 

 of a scarlet fever, which he caiiglit 

 by attendina; on his lady, who died 

 Feb. 27, sir Francis AVilliaui Sykcs, 

 bart. leaving four infant children. 

 Their remains have been brought to 

 London, and thence conveyed to 

 Basildon park, Berks, whore they 

 were interred in the family rauit. 

 Sir William's father died on the 12th 

 ol January last. 



At Cliiton, John Clootwik, 

 esq, formerly a governor in the 

 Dutch East India Company's sef- 

 vice, and brother-in-law to lord 

 viscount Molesworth. His remains 

 were deposited in the Abbey-church 

 at JJath. near those of his wife. 



In London, John Whitehead, 

 RI. D. an eminent physician ; a ce- 

 lebrated preacher among the people 

 called melhodists ; and author of a 

 Life Ol' the late reverend John Wcs. 

 ley. 



8th. The reiicl of Thomas Char- 

 ter, e^q. of Lynchlield, near Taun. 

 ton, and sister to sir Charles Warre 

 IVIalet, bart. of Willbur) -house, 

 Wilis. 



9th. At her house in IIiII.stre»t, 

 after a long illness of the bursting 

 a blood-vessel in her head, Mrs. 

 Blackwood, relict of Shovel B. esq. 

 maternal grandson of sir Cloudesley 

 Shovel, to whom she was married in 

 17C7, and daughter of William, 

 youngest brother of sir Stephen 

 Theodore Janssen, bart. lord mayor, 

 chamberlain, and representative in 

 parliament of the city of London, 

 who died in 1777. Mr. J. died 

 1 76S, having purchased of the Biug. 

 ley family the manor of Cheshunt 

 Bunnery. Mhich he left to this his 

 hterbyhis first wile ; his daugh- 

 the second was married 1778 

 nel Damer, third son of the 

 i\ ti.f J^vicheiUr, of Came' 



house, Dorsetshire, and only sur- 

 viving brother of the present earl, 

 to whom Cheshunt Nunnery goes by 

 her will ; her house in town to Au- 

 gustus Pechcli, esq. a relation, and 

 receiver-general of the customs ; 

 and a valuable collection of about 

 bO pictures at Cheshunt, made by 

 her husbajul, to her nephew, W. U. 

 Cartwright, esq. of Aynho, knight 

 of the shire for the county of 

 Northampton, on his paying 2,0001. 

 to his two sisters. 



10th. At Brighthebnstone, after 

 a long and painful illness, in his 

 15th yeiir, Henry Ponieroy, only 

 son of lord viscount llarberton. 



In liis 29th year, Thomas Pitt, 

 lord Camelford, only son of Thomas 

 the first lord Camelford, baron of Bo- 

 connoc in Cornwall (so created Jan. 

 5, 1784), and late a lieutenant in 

 the royal navy. He was born Ftb. 

 25, 1775 ; and succeeded to his fa- 

 ther's title and estates in 1793. This 

 very high-spiritt^d young nobleman, 

 we are sorry to state, fell a vidtim 

 to his own impetuosity, by a fatal 

 shot, in one of those rencontres 

 which the modern system of man- 

 ners seems unfortunately to encou- 

 rage ; leaving a fatal example of tho 

 ill eflefts ensuing from that mistaken 

 sense of honour which impels its 

 votaries to at^ls never enough to be 

 cohdemued, and which has deprived 

 the world of many of its greatest 

 ornaments. Lord Camelford was 

 not only inclined to the more en- 

 lightened pursuits of literature, but 

 his chymical researches, and his ta- 

 leuts as a seaman, were worthy of 

 the highest admiration. " Before 

 the fatal meeting, I have been told" 

 (says the rev. William Cockburne, 

 in his " Authentic Account" of his 

 lordship's death), '' that several 

 ©verture* were made to lord Camel- 

 ford 



