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had retired from business, and ab- 

 stracted himself totally from society. 

 He took some refreslimentat an ad- 

 joiniHg public-house the preci'ding 

 evening, and was then heard to say 

 that he was quite wearied of life. 

 His despondency was so great, that 

 he would not permiteven a domestic 

 to reside in the house with him. He 

 was above 30 years of age. 



At Berlin, aged j3, after a 

 month's illness, Krederica Louisa, 

 dowager queen of Prussia, daughter 

 of the late Landgrave (Louis IX.) 

 of Hesse- Darmstadt. 



At his son's house in Percy-street, 

 Rathbonc-place, aged 76, Wm. Cu- 

 chan, M. D. fellow of the royal 

 college of physicians at Edinburgh, 

 and a character of considerable emi- 

 neucein the medical profession. 



" His >velI-known work, intitii- 

 led Domestic Medicine, is construct- 

 ed on a plan similar to, but more 

 extensive than, that adopted by Dr. 

 Tissot, in his Avis uu Ptiqde. The 

 first edition of it, consisting of above 

 5000 copies, was sold in a corner 

 of Great Britain before another 

 could be gotten ready; and its sub- 

 sequent republication and disper- 

 sion has been very extensive. We 

 have been told that he parted Mith 

 the ropy right to the booksellers 

 f«r 7001. and that the sale of it pro- 

 duces them at least that sum annual- 

 ly. It has drawn upon him the 

 persecution and dislike of the less 

 liberal part of the faculty, while it 

 has made him the idol of nurses and 

 Biidwives; and, when it is consider- 

 ed that the intention of its publica- 

 tion was not to supersede the use of 

 a physician, but to supply his place 

 in situations where medical assistance 

 could not be easily obtained, and to 

 render the medical art more exten- 

 sively beneficial to maaklad, the 



jealousies and fears of the faculty 

 are surely unbecoming the profes. 

 sors of a liberal science. The learn- 

 ed Dr. Duplanil, of Paris, physician 

 to the count d'Artois, published, 

 some years ago, an elegant trausla- 

 tion of this work, in five volumes, 

 with very ingenious and useful notes, 

 which rendered the work so popu- 

 lar on the continent, that it has been 

 translated into all the modern Ian- 

 guages of Europe." 



At Bath, in his 85th year, the 

 hon Thomas Pownall, of Everton- 

 house, CO. of Bedford, F. R. and 

 A.S.S. secretary to the commission- 

 ers for trade and plantations, 1745, 

 formerly lieutenant-governor of 

 New Jersey, 1755, in the room of 

 sir Danvers Osborne, bart. to whom 

 he was secretary ; captain-general 

 and governor in chief of Massa- 

 chusett's Bay, vice William Shirley, 

 1757, where he was succeeded by 

 Fr-ancis Bernard, esq ; and captain- 

 gen, and governor of South Caro- » 

 Una, vice Lyttleton, 1739. 11" was 

 appointed dircctor-general or comp- 

 troller, with the rank of colonel 

 in the army, in Germany, 1762, 

 from which he retired 1763. He 

 formerly represented the borough 

 of Minehead in parliament, where 

 he spoke on the bill for quieting 

 the minds of his majesty's subjects 

 in America ; and on many other 

 occasions distinguished himself in 

 the house of commons, lie was 

 author of several works, held in 

 great esteem. He left directions to 

 be buried in Walcot church, J]a(h, 

 and that he might be laid in an 

 oaken coflin without ornament or 

 inscription ; that eight men should 

 carry him to the grave without any 

 pall ; and that a new suit of cloaths 

 should be given to them of any 

 colour they might like. He was to 



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