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that when his master returned that 

 morning, he wrote a letter to his 

 relation, lord Ducie, which he or- 

 dered him to put in the post-office ; 

 that, as he was going down stairs for 

 that purpose, he heard the report of 

 a pistol, and returned into the room, 

 "where he found his master lying on 

 the ground, his skull shattered to 

 pieces, the room covered with blood 

 and brains, and a horse-pistol lying 

 at his side, which he must have pur- 

 chased that morning, as great care 

 was taken that no fire-arms or de- 

 structive weapons should be left in 

 his way, as he was in rather a de- 

 pressed state of mind. By the ex- 

 plosion, and the injury done to the 

 room, there must have been several 

 balls in the pistol : the ceiling was 

 broken ; a ball had passed through 

 a picture, and lodged in the wall ; 



; another went through a pane of 

 glass into the street ; two pieces of 

 the skull, two inclies and a half 



; square, were blown through another 

 pane of glass, to the opposite side of 



j the street. Mr. Heaviside, surgeon, 

 who attended, thought tliat, from 

 the appearance of the heud, he must 



, have placed the ])istol under the 



j right eai . His face was not-the least 

 disfigured ; the skin of the head, 



I with the hair on it, remained. The 

 pieces of skull having passed through 

 it, he must have stood witli his back 

 to the window, of which he had 

 previously drawn the curtain. The 

 jury deliberated above an hour, 

 when they brought in a verdift of 

 lunacy. Mr. C. was a bachelor, and 

 about 60 years of age ; brother to 



I Thomas C of Darn-hall, in Ci'.eshire, 

 esq. and to captain Andrew C. who 

 married a sister of the marcjuis of 



j Bute. 



At Glympton park, co- Oxford, 



Miss Wheate, third daughter of the 

 late sir Thomas W. bart. 



17th. Thomas Poole, esq. of 

 Serjeant's-inn, Fleet-street. About 

 2 o'clock he sent all his clerks and 

 servants out, upon diftercnt mes- 

 sages, except one female servant, 

 w ho remained in the kitchen. One 

 ot the servants, upon his return 

 home, went up stairs, and found Mr. 

 Poole lying dead in a room upon the 

 second door. A pistol was found 

 lying at liis side, and his death ap- 

 peared to have been occasioned by 

 a ball discharged from it, which had 

 entered his mouth, and lodged in 

 his brain. He had betrayed symp- 

 toms of derangement for some time 

 past. 



At the house of her father, sir 

 Philip Stephens, bart. at the Admi- 

 ralty, after having been safely deli- 

 vered o; a daughter on the loth, 

 which died in a few hours, viscoun- 

 tess Ranelagh, wife of Thonias 

 Jones, viscount Ranelagh, county 

 of Wicklow, and baron Jones, of 

 Navan, co. Meath, to -vhom she was 

 nvarried in August last. 



18th. In the Close, Winchester, 

 in her 43d year, Mrs. Arabella St, 

 John, wife of Ambrose St. J. esq. 

 M. p. for Callington, and only 

 daughter of sir James Hanilyn, of 

 Clevelly-court, Devon, 



2lst. In the neighbourhood of 

 Langford, co. Somerset, Mr. C'reedy, 

 adjutmt to the eastern battalion of 

 the Mendip legion, commanded by 

 the right hon. J. H. Addington. — 

 Returning from drill, a few miles 

 distant, late in the evening, his horse 

 started, and threw him on his head, 

 which proved latal in a few hours. 



At her house. No. 3, Grove- 

 street, Bath, of the small (OX, Mrs. 

 Jilizabeth Grace. She had been 



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