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family vault, at High Wycombe, 

 Bucks. 



8th. Aged 89, Richard Small- 

 broke, esq. LL. D. chancellor of the 

 diocese of Lichfield, he was the se- 

 cond son of the bishop of that name, 

 ■who tilled this church with his fa- 

 mily and relations. 



At his house in Ludlow, county 

 €f Salop, aged 60, Charles John- 

 stone, esq. only brother to Sir R. 

 B. Johnstone, bart. of Hackness, 

 county of York, and half brother 

 to the late marquis of Annandale. 



9th. At Weimar, of a nervous 

 fever, the celebrated German Poet, 

 Frederick Schiller, born at Lud- 

 wigsburg, in the duchy of Wirtem- 

 "berg, Nov. 10, 1759. He has left 

 s widow and four child reu, under 

 age, the Duke of Weimar has un- 

 dertaken to provide for them. 



In Somers Town, near Pancras, 

 suddenly, count de Boittrieul, a 

 French emigrant. He was taken 

 ill with a bowel complaint while 

 eating his supper, and immediately 

 retired to bed, attended by a man 

 servant, who, on entering the cham- 

 ber very early in the morning, found 

 bis master dead, with his feet on the 

 floor, and the upper part of his bo- 

 dy leaning on the bid. lie was an 

 aged man, had been a distinguished 

 favourite at the court of the late 

 king of France, and had suflered 

 long imprisonment id that country, 

 •under the tyranny of Robespierre, 

 whence he at last escaped iu an open 

 boat from Dieppe. 



14th. At his house on Sloane ter- 

 race, Chelsea, aged 46, Robert Bis- 

 set, LL.D. well known as a literary 

 chara(5^er. Ch;igrin, under embar- 

 rassed circumstances, is thought to 

 have broken his heart. He was 

 master of an academy iu Sloane- 

 street, Chelsea, and published, 



" Sketch of Democracy, 1796," 

 8vo ; " Life of Edmund Burke, 

 comprehending an impartial Ac- 

 count of his Literary and Political 

 Efl'orts, and a Sketch of the Con- 

 duct and Character of his most 

 eminent Associates, Coadjutors, and 

 Opponents, 1798," 8vo. " The 

 former of these, a work of considera- 

 ble literary merit, contains a review 

 of all the democratical states of an- 

 tiquity ; and asserts, from the tes- 

 timony of experience, that democra- 

 cy is a pernicious government. As 

 the biographer of Mr. Burke, Dr. B. 

 is respe6table and as yet unrivalled. 

 He has taken extraordinary pains to 

 prove the consistency of that great 

 character ; and, where success is 

 probably beyond the reach of hu- 

 man powers, who shall wonder at 

 his* failure ? To Dr. B. the public 

 is also indebted for an edition of the 

 Spectator, with illustrative notes 

 and very ingenious lives of the au- 

 thors, in 8 vols. 8vo. 1796." New- 

 Memoirs of Living Authors. 



13th. The wile of Mr. Mattyoar, 

 an eminent market gardener, resid- 

 ing at Fulham, county of Middle- 

 sex. Mr. M. went to London early 

 in the morning on business, and 

 parted from his wife on alfectionate 

 terms, and she afterwards break- 

 fasted with her children, without 

 shewi))g any symptoms of a dis- 

 tressed or deranged mind. Imme- 

 diately after breakfast the unhappy 

 woman retired to one of the out- 

 houses, and cut her throat in so 

 shocking a manner, as to occasion 

 almost instant death. About a mi- 

 nute or two after leaving the house 

 she was discovered in this dreadful 

 situation by a servant, who imme- 

 diately gave an alarm, and caused 

 medical aid to be procured, but in 

 Tain. No cause whatever can be 



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