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assigned for this horrid aft. She 

 was an amiable woman, much re- 

 spe6ted by her neighbours and 

 , friends, and beloved by her husband 

 and children. 



In SaflVon-street, Saffrou-hilf, 

 Martha Winter, who cut her throat 

 with her husband's razor. Those 

 who appeared to give their evidence 

 before the coroner's jury, could 

 gay no more than that the deceased 

 and her husband Jived in the utmost 

 harmony. She had borne him two 

 children, one of whom was about 

 two years of age, and the other only 

 seven weeks. It appeared, that tlie 

 man in whose house thoy lived 

 owed some rent ; and the deceased 

 dreaded that their efl'ects would be 

 seized upon, as she appeared to be 

 ?ery uneasy about it the preceding 

 day. On the morning of the me- 

 lancholy catastrophe, before her 

 husband went out, at half past six, 

 she got up, and put on her petti, 

 coat, tied her ncck-kei chief, then 

 kissed him, and said, " God bless 

 you! God bless you ! I know we 11 

 not be left a bed to sleep on." The 

 husband answered, " Make your- 

 self easy, we shall fare as well as the 

 other lodgers." Me then went to 

 work, and, at his return to break- 

 fast, about half past eiglit, found 

 her stretched on the Iloor, quite dead. 



20th. .\t her house in Merrion- 

 square, Dublin, in her 8&th year, 

 as much regretted now dead, as be- 

 loved while living, the countess 

 dowager of Massarcene. She was 

 the daughter of Henry Eyre, esq. 

 of Derby, and married, in 1711, to 

 viscount Alassarcene, who was 

 created an earl in July 17.56, and 

 died in 1757. Her ladyship had 

 been a most beautiful" woman ; and 

 retained her vivacity and accom- 



plishments to the last. She was 

 charitable in the extreme, and the 

 patroness of merit, however humble 

 the garb. Her only surviving daugh- 

 ter is the countess dowager of Lei- 

 trim. 



24th. In Lamb's Conduit-street, 

 aged 81, the rev. John Skynner, 

 sub-dean of York. 



jMr. Foote, banker, ooe of the 

 firm of Martin and co. Lombard- 

 street, who fell a sacrifice to hi» 

 passion for sailing, and was consi- 

 dered one of our tirst rate amateurs 

 in that science. He had just got a 

 new pleasure-boat built, one of the 

 most elegant of the day, and, ac- 

 companied by his sister and two 

 servants, went, the beginning of the 

 week to Gravesend, to indulge in 

 his favourite amusement. This 

 morning they embarked as usual, 

 and sailed up and down, under the 

 most flattering auspices of wind and 

 weather ; when, on a sudden, a 

 breeze from the land upset the boat, 

 which instantly sunk. Miss Foote 

 was buoyed up by her cloaths, and 

 floated on the water, until she was 

 taken up in a state of insensibility. 

 The servants were also saved. Mr. 

 Foote was a very handsome and ami- 

 able young man, about 28 years of 

 age, and brother to captain Foote of 

 the royal navy. He was very athletic, 

 and considered the best amateur 

 rower on the river. On the even- 

 ing of the 31st, two watermen of 

 Gravesend picked up his drowned 

 body. On Sunday, June 2, about 

 one in the altcrnoon, his boat was 

 found by a gentleman's pleasure- 

 boat, and the mast standing. 



25th. At his house in Gloucester- 

 plate, JNlary-le-IJonne, Sir David 

 Carnegie, bart. of Southcsk, M. P. 

 for the county of Forfar. 



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