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which left no doubt but he had very 

 recently been treated in the above 

 inhuman manner, and left for dead 

 by the perpetrators. The unfortu- 

 nate young man languished till the 

 morning of the ^26th, but, being 

 ' speechless all the time, was in course 

 unable to give any account of his 

 murderer. 



Mary Pippct, 80 years of age, 

 was burnt to death at the house of 

 Mr. Middlcton, Great V^inc-street, 

 Piccadilly. She was his aunt, and 

 had been confined to her apartment 

 for above 18 months. iJetween 1 

 and 3 o'clock Mr. M. heard an in- 

 cessant scream up stairs, and, on 

 bis approaching the deceased's room, 

 beard her cry out " Mary ! Mary ! " 

 tiie name of her attendant ; on open- 

 ing the door of her apartment, he 

 was nearly suffocated by smoke that 

 rushed out. Not knowing the cause, 

 he threw up the window, and, when 

 the air was admitted, perceived the 

 deceased sitting at a table, m ith her 

 head reclined, a smoke arising from 

 her as well as the bed and blankets ; 

 he immediately put the mattress on 

 her, and extinguished the fire, and 

 went for ]Mr. Ford, surgeon, of 

 Golden-square, who did not arrive 

 tUI after the death of Mrs. P. who 

 was a most affecting spectacle. It 

 is supposed a spark had flown from 

 the (ire and caught her cloaths. 



29th. Mrs. Bowden, wife of the 

 rev. Richard 13. of Over-Durwin, 

 near Blackburn, co. Lancaster, re- 

 turning from a visit on horseback, 

 passing a small brook, which was 

 much increased by heavy rains, she 

 was forced down the stream, and 

 drowned in siijht of her husband 

 and two sisters. 



At his house in Russcll-sfreet, 

 Bath, the rev. sir James Stronge, 

 hart, of T) nan, iu Arma;;lishiic, and 



Thornhill, co. Dublin, so created 

 in June 14, 1803. 



30th. Much lamented, in St. 

 James's-street, at her daughter's, 

 the duchess of Roxburgh's, aged 6C, 

 Mrs. Bechinne, relict of capt. B. of 

 the rov'al navy, and sister to sir 

 John Smith, bart. of Sydling, co. 

 Dorset, whither her remains were 

 conveyed for interment in the fami- 

 ly vault. 



Lately, at Hackwood park, the 

 hon. Miss Anne Ordc Powlett, 2nd 

 daughter of lord Bolton. 



At Gainsborough, aged 107, 

 Elizabeth BuUard, alias Winfrey^ 

 widow. She remembered Geo. l>t 

 coming to England ; could sew with- 

 out spectacles ; and died without 

 pain, being literally exhausted and 

 worn out. 



At Wolverhampton, co. Stafford, 

 in the 67th year of her age, after a 

 long and painful illness, Catherine 

 Nickins, a maiden lady, daughter 

 of Catherine Nickins, late of Tet- 

 teuhall, in the said count}', who 

 died on the 18th December, 1795, 

 in the 82d year of her age, and the 

 55th of her widowhood. The said 

 Catherine, the mother, before mar- 

 riage, was Catherine Hale, one of 

 the daughters of Gabriel Hale, who 

 was the youngest son of Robert 

 Hale, which Robert Hale was the 

 eldest son of that truly distinguish- 

 ed character sir Matthew Hale, lord 

 chief justice of the king's bench. 

 The said Catherine Nickins, spin- 

 ster, has, by her will, given to the 

 infirmary for the county of Stafford 

 1001. old south sea stock, and 3001. 

 sterling, after her sister Mrs. Ann 

 Mee's decease ; to the Birmingham 

 hospital lOOl. old south sea stock ; 

 to a charity-school, at Tipton, co. 

 Stafford, 1001. old south sea stock, 

 aud 501. sterling after her said sis- 

 ter's 



