470 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



Frederick Christian Henry, Baron 

 de Tuyll, brother to the countess of 

 Athlone. 



8th. At Canterbury, (of which 

 city he was a native,) ia his 59th 

 year, Mr. John Burnby, attorney 

 at law ; a man of very eccentric 

 character, imprudent, intemperate, 

 ' and, of late years, in distressed cir- 

 cnmstances. lie published, in 1772, 

 in 8vo. " An Historical Descrip- 

 tion of the Cathedral Church of 

 Canterbury ;" reprinted in 178;?, 

 witli corrections and additions by 

 the late rev. John Duncombc. " A 

 Letter to the Overseers of tlie Poor 

 of the Parish of Deal, in Kent, re- 

 specting the great Increase of their 

 Poor Kates, Canterbury, 1778," 

 8vo. " An Adress to the People of 

 England, on the Increase of their 

 Poor Rates, 1800," 8vo. " Sum- 

 mer Amusement ; or, Miscellaneous 

 Poems, 1783," 8vo. His wife, 

 from whom he had for some time 

 been separated, died in 1 786 ; and the 

 youngest of his two sons (Tho. B.) 

 an excellent oflicer, was lost in 

 1801, in the Invincible man of war, 

 of which he was a lieutenant. 



9th. At Florence, in his 76th 

 year, the Abbe Felix Fontana, the 

 celebrated director of the cabinet of 

 natural history, founded by the late 

 emperor Leopold, when grand duke 

 of Tuscany, and author of a Treatise 

 on Poison, in 2 vols. 4to. and other 

 valuable works. He passed some 

 months in London about 1779. He 

 ■was buried close to the coffin of 

 Galileo. 



11th. Lady Fawcett, widow of 

 Dr. George Stinton, chancellor of 

 Lincoln, who died in 1783. Mar- 

 ried to the late lieutenant general sir 

 William Fawcett, K. B. while adju- 

 tant-general, 1786. She has left 

 all she received fioiu the doctor to 



his relations; all from the general to 

 his ; and divided her own fortune 

 between her own relations and thp 

 generals. 



At Batsford, co. Gloucester, of 

 an apoplectic fit, which he survived 

 but a few hours, Philip De la Motte, 

 esq. formerly lieutenant-colonel of 

 the 21st regiment of light dragoons ; 

 and author of an ingenious and va- 

 luable publication, intituled, " The 

 principal, historical, and allusive 

 Arms born by the P'anuHcs of the 

 United Kingdom of Great Britain 

 and Ireland ; with their respective 

 Authorities. Collected by an An. 

 tiquary. With Jiiographical Me- 

 moirs of those to whom they were 

 first assigned, either for Valour, 

 Loyalty, public Services, or on ac- 

 count of memorable Circumstances 

 and Events, corresponding with, 

 and adding Testimony to our Na- 

 tional History ; and a Representa- 

 fion of the Arms on near Two Hun- 

 dred Copper Plates, 1803," 4to. 

 He was a gentleman of the most 

 unaffected modesty ; and possessed 

 a heart alive to every feeling of be- 

 nevolence. 



13th, At his house in Devonshire- 

 place, sir Walter Rawlinson. 



14th. By jumping from a one, 

 horse chaise, this evening. Miss W. 

 Tol'tj daughter of a merchant, who 

 resides in Camdcn-town, with whom 

 slie was returning from Greenwich. 

 The horse became restive in the 

 I>ower Deptford-road, and Mr. T. 

 alighted to ease the bit, when the 

 aiiinial started otl" at full speed. The . 

 young lady dropped the reins, and , 

 made a leap, when her cloaths be- 

 came entangled in the wheel, which ^ 

 passed over her neck, and caused 

 almost instantaneous death. 



1.5th. In Gay-street, Bath, after 

 a long and painful illucssj which she 



bore 



