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rawing- room -window of liis house, 

 li corner of Clargcs-strcet, Pic- 

 a U!ly, he observed a: lady throw 

 herself into the Queen's Basin in 

 the Green-park. He iinineiliately 

 rushed out, accompanied by two of 

 his domestics ; and on his arrival at 

 the basin plunged in, and, after 

 considerable exertion, bore the un- 

 lippy female to the bank, from 

 Y, hence she was conveyed to a pub- 

 c-house, where a surgeon was 

 -Jilt for, and, in a short time, ani- 

 mation was restored. The first words 

 which she uttered were, " Oh ! my 

 children ! my children ! my mother! 

 I have poisoned myself with the 

 contents of the bottle ! " She soon 

 alter fell into convulsions, which 

 5ted for some time. Upon exa- 

 mining her pockets, a four-ounce 

 phial was found in one of them, 

 V, ith some aqua-fortis, supposed to 

 be the phial a servant saw her drink 

 of before she plun2;ed into the wa- 

 ter. Between 5 and 6 o'clock she 

 was removed to Mount-street work- 

 house. The violence of her con- 

 vulsions increased, and she foamed 

 shockingly at the mouth. These 

 symptoms convinced the medical 

 men of her having taken the fatal 

 draught before she jumped into the 

 water ; and at 8 o'clock at night she 

 expired in great agony. Under her 

 left breast there was a large wound, 

 as if caused by a sharp instrument ; 

 also another upon the left thigh, 

 yrhh some violent bruises on the 

 breast, apparently occasioned by 

 blows. The first witness before the 

 coroner's jury was an apprentice to 

 her husband, who deposed, that 

 bis master and mistress did not live 

 happily ; that she had been of a 

 Tery indifferent temper, and was 

 addicted to drinking, and very of- 

 ten in a state of delirium. The 



brother of Mr. Sowcrby deposed 

 nearly to the same efiect. He said, 

 that on the 17th he visited his bro- 

 ther and the deceased : th'it they 

 v.ere then at words, and that they 

 lived unhappily ; he attributed it to 

 her unsettled state of mind, being 

 of a jcalui'.s turn, and sometimes 

 betraying symptoms of phrcnzy, as 

 well as of liquor. The surgeon was 

 clearly of opinion that her death 

 was produced by drinking the con- 

 tents of the phial, being aqua for- 

 ti's, which brought on sufibra''.')n. 

 The jury returned their verdict, Lu- 

 nacy. She appeared to be aboit 

 26 years of age, of a middle stature, 

 and a beautiful woman ; was ele- 

 gantly dressed. She has left three 

 children. Her husband was at the 

 workhouse, but did not attend the 

 jury. 



At Bath, where he took refuge 

 8 years since from the troubi; s of 

 the continent, the venerable Dr. 

 Archibald ]Maclaine, 50 years mi- 

 nister of the English church at the 

 Hague, and well known as the 

 translator of Moshcim's Ecclesias- 

 tical History, the author of Letters 

 to Soame Jenyns, of Sermons, &c. 

 Endeared to a numerous and re- 

 spectable acquaintance, his memo- 

 ry seems the less to require the tri- 

 bute of a public eulogy ; but, in 

 deploring the loss of departed worth, 

 sincerity and friendship may be per- 

 mitted briefly to state its claims to 

 imitation and praise. Suflice it th jn to 

 say, that, in a probationary course of 

 82 years, Dr. Maclainc's superior en- 

 dowments of mind and heart, — his 

 genius, learning, and industry, con- 

 stantly directed by a love of virtue' 

 and truth, by piety and charity, 

 difl'used a beneficial influence over 

 the whole of his professional and 

 domestic sphere. As a scholar, a 



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