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num, by his nephew, captain John- 

 stone, of the Coldstream regiment 

 of guards, son of the late gov. J. 



31st. In Tilnoy-street, in her 

 80th year, Catherine lady Engle- 

 field, mother of sir H. C. E and 

 reli6t of sir Henry, to whom she 

 was married 1751, and by whom 

 she had three sons and two daugh- 

 ters. She was daughter of sir Charles 

 Bucke, hart. 



At St Petersburg, the celebrated 

 princess Garjarin, the beautiful fa- 

 vourite of the late Paul I. Siie was 

 an amiable and accomplished wo- 

 man, to whom the English were un- 

 der the highest obligations for her 

 protection at the time when that 

 Toyal maniac became so enraged 

 against the British. She was the 

 only person who, at that period, 

 had the least control over him, from 

 the unbounded atfe6tion which he 

 bore her. She lay three days in 

 very magnificent state; her coffin 

 •was covered with crimson velvet and 

 funeral devices in massy gold ; the 

 canopy and hangings were decorated 

 with the several imperial orders with 

 •which she had been invested. The 

 state-room was hung throughout 

 •with black cloth and white silk. — 

 The British consul, the hon. Mr. 

 Ponsonby, Mr. secretary Stewart, 

 and five of the toreign ministers, at- 

 tended the funeral. 



At Lulworth-castle, in Shrop- 

 shire, in his 90th year, the rev. 

 Thomas Stanley, great unche to the 

 present sir Thomas S. bart. of Hoo- 

 ton, in Cheshire, ard uncle to Mrs. 

 Weld. A very considerable landed 

 property, in the county of Chester, 

 was bequeathed to him in early life, 

 by his godfather, Mr. Massey, of 

 Puddington, in that county, which, 

 from religions motives, he imme- 

 diately relinciuished, and made over 



to his brother, the late sir John S. 

 bart. 



Almost suddenly, at his lodgings 

 at Clifton, aged 43, major-general 

 Magan, lately in the command of 

 the garrison of Bristol, while in (he 

 a6l of wiping the powder from his 

 face, after having dressed for din- 

 ner : he was seized with a fit, stag- 

 gered into a chair, and there expired 

 in about an hour and a half. 



At Egham, Surrey, the lion, 

 dowager lady Mary Eatte, daugh- 

 ter of the third lord Bellenden, first 

 C(7us;n to the duke of Roxburgh. 



Lately, at Bengal, in the East- 

 India company's civil service, sir 

 Arthur Hesilrige, bart. of Noseley-, 

 hall, in the county of Leicester ; by 

 whose death the (itlo devolves to his 

 uncle, Thomas H. Mnynard, esq. of 

 lloxne-hall, Suffolk, now sir Tho- 

 mas Hcsilrige Maynard, bart. 



At Jamaica, the rev. T. O'Keefc, 

 chaplain to the duke of Clarence, 

 and only son of Mr. O'Kccfc, the 

 celebrated dramatic writer. He was 

 a young gentleman of considerable 

 talents ; and his death is a severe 

 stroke to his aged, blind, distressed, 

 and truly worthy father. 



In Russia, on his estates, general 

 Vonder Pahlen, the favourite of the 

 emperor Paul. 



At Montpelier, of a decay, aged 

 62, baron Hbnipesch, formerly mas- 

 ter of (he grand order of Malta. 



At Gotlingen, John Frederick 

 Gmelin, one of its most laborious 

 and learned professors, who was 

 born at Tubingen, in 1748. He 

 was author of several performances 

 on vegetable physiology and the 

 classification of plants; and likewise 

 published numerous works on the 

 materia medica and chemistry, mi- 

 neralogy, and every part of natural 

 history : one of the Kost celebrated 



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