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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1804. 



breathes throughout all his produc- 

 lions, he went to her from London, 

 and with unwearied patience Match- 

 ed her rapid decay, till death closed 

 a well-spent lite. 



At Lazarus-hospital, in Jlereford, 

 aged upwards of 100, Elizabeth 

 Girrett, who for a long period sold 

 fruit in that city. She was born in 

 the reign of queen Anne, and Mas 

 found, when but a few days old, at 

 the south..end of the street Mhere 

 she kept her apple-stall, and from 

 this circumstance obtained the name 

 of Street. However, having at an 

 early age, engaged the affettions of a 

 barber of the name of Garrett, he 

 married her ; and from this circum- 

 stance it became a common obser- 

 vation, that Bet had mounted from 

 a Street to a Garrett. She walked 

 out till within a few days of her 

 death, and her faculties were unim- 

 paired to the last. She was carried 

 to her grave by six hair dr&ssers, to 

 each of whom she bequeathed a ra- 

 zor. 



In Maghcrabcg, near Dromore. in 

 Ireland, the SKlt'-taught poet, WW- 

 liam Cunningham; who, M'hile he 

 was a poor weaver-boy, having re- 

 ceived the first rudiments of edu- 

 cation at One of the bishop of Dro- 

 niore's Sunday schools, had, by read- 

 ing such books as he could borrow, 

 made so considerable a progress, 

 that in the autumn of 1800, he pre- 

 sented his lordship with a cojiy of 

 Terses, requesting the loan of books. 

 The bishop, struck with the marks 

 of genius displayed in this poem, 

 rescued him from the loom, and 

 placed him at the dioclesian school 

 of Dromore, where his application 

 was so diligent thai, in about t"«o 

 years and a half, he had read the 

 principal Latin and Greek Classics. 

 Being thus qualified to superintend 



the education of youth, •which had 

 been the object of his M-ishes, he 

 Mas received, early in ISO 4, as an 

 assistant-teacher in the academy of 

 the rev. Dr. BrHce, of Belfast, 

 Mhere he was distinguished for his 

 diligence and skill in preparing th« 

 boys under his care to be examined 

 before tlio last siunmer vacation. 

 But, by this time, such strong symp- 

 toms of a consumption had appear- 

 ed in his tall, tliin, and slender 

 frame, that he could not any more 

 return to his charge, and his declin- 

 ing health confined him to the house 

 of his poor mother, near the turn- 

 pike-gate between Hillsborough and 

 Dromore, where he continued to 

 experience the kindness of his for- 

 mer patron, and was most gene- 

 rously attended by sir George At- 

 kinson, an eminent physician in ■ 

 Hillsborough ; but his case Mas be- 

 yond the reach of medical aid, and 

 terminated fatally. He was inter- 

 red in Dromore church-yard en the 

 29th, having nearly completed his 

 S>1th year, being born March 19, 

 1781. — Cunningham, though very 

 unlike, iu his bodily frame, to Dr. 

 Goldsmith, who Mas short and not 

 slender, so strongly resembled hira 

 in face, that, Avhcn he stood near 

 the profile of the doctor, his por- 

 trait seemed to have been drawn for 

 him. 



28th. Suddenly, the bishop of 

 Noyon, one of those dignified ec- 

 clesiastics of France who remained 

 attached to the house of Bourbon, 

 and Mas also one of the ancient 

 French nobility. 



At Dyke, co. Lincoln, in conse- 

 quence of a fright experienced on 

 the preceding day from accidentally 

 letting an infant fall out of her 

 arms. Miss Diana Howes, of 

 King's Cliffe, co. Northampton, an 



amiable 



