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ANNUAL REG 1ST ETx, 1804. 



tencd wUii great ccrcnioivy in (lie 

 cloister ol" Jlorgo/i. His imperial 

 majesty, ^\]\o had visited the count 

 in his last illness, attended in per- 

 son. 



At Berv.ick, aged 75, Mrs. 

 Margaret Purves, daughter of the 

 late sir William P. bart. of Purves- 

 kall. 



7th. After a long illness, general 

 Anslic, colonel of the 13th regiment 

 of foot, and licut.-gov. of theScilly 

 Islands. 



8th. The infant daughter of John 

 Fonblanque, esq. M. P. for Camel- 

 ford. 



In New Cavendibh-strcet, the se- 

 cond son and youngest child of Re- 

 ginald Pole Carew, esq. M. P. for 

 Fowey. 



At Greenock, aged 37, Mrs. 

 Elizabeth Conyers, wife of sir Ar- 

 chibald Campbell, and daughter of 

 the late sir JS'icholas Conyers, bart. 



10th. At. Paris, in his 74th year, 

 Fran(;ois Ambroise Didot, the cele. 

 brated French printer, leaving two 

 sons, Pierre and Firniin Didot. — 

 The elegant editions published by 

 order of Louis XVI. for the educa- 

 tion of the Dauphin, were the pro- 

 duction of Didot's press, as well as 

 the Theatrical Selcftions by Cor- 

 iicille, the works of Racine, Tele- 

 machus, Tasso's Jerusalem, two 

 suj)crb bibles, and a multiplicity of 

 other inestimable works ; eacli of 

 which, on its publication, has e- 

 Tinced fresh beauties, and made 

 nearer approaches to perfection. At 

 the age of 73, Didot read over five 

 times, and carefully correfted, be- 

 fore it was sent to the press, every 

 sheet of the Stereotype edition of 

 Montaigne, printed by his sons. — 

 About 18 months since he projected 

 an alphabetical index of every siib- 

 \^6t treated upon ia Montaigne's 



Essays. lie had cnllcftcd all hLi 

 materials, at which lie laboured un- 

 ccaiingly ; and perhaps too strict 

 an application to this favouritestudv 

 accelerated the death of this eminent 

 artist. 



At Rothbury, in Northumber- 

 land, sir Krnest Gordon, bart. of 

 Park, CO. fJantf, in North- firi tain. 



On Ham common, ro. Middlesex, 

 Henry -Theophilus Metcalf, esq. 

 youngest son of sir Thomas-ThcO- 

 philus M. bart. 



11th. At Liverpool, aged 23, 

 C^eorgc Dunbar, esq. second son of 

 sir George D. bart. of Mockrum, in 

 North-Britain. 



12th. At Clifton, sir Edward 

 AVilliams, bart. of Llangocd, co. 

 Brecon. 



Aged 8'2, Henry Lee Warner, 

 esq. of Wallingham-abbey, co. 

 Norfolk, one of the niost singular 

 characters of his own or any other 

 times. He was a lineal descendant 

 and representative of the eminent 

 and worthy John Warner, formerly 

 bishop of Rochester (whose large 

 estates he possessed, as well as those 

 of sir James Howe, bart. of Ber- 

 wick, Wilts, and of Henry Lee, 

 esq. of D.me John, in Kent), and 

 v<ho, among other good and great 

 works, built and endowed the col- 

 lege for the benefit of clergymen's 

 widows at Bromley, in Kent, an 

 institution much enlarged since the 

 time of bishop Warner. He was 

 the polite scholar, the complete 

 gentleman, and the sincere friend ; 

 and although from a series of ill- 

 health, and a natural love of retire- 

 ment, he early withdrew from fill- 

 ing those public stations in which, 

 with his ability, fortune, and inte- 

 grity, he would have made a very 

 distinguished figure, yet in private 

 life he was universally rcspcftcd for 



