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Jersey, In his 28th year, the hon. 

 Arthur Wo]f, second son of the late 

 lord Kilvvarden, who vras barba- 

 rously murdered at Dublin, July 

 23,1803. He was lieutenant-colo- 

 nel of the 70th foot, when, having 

 received a reprimand from the re- 

 riewiiig-general, for some matters in 

 the manoeuvering of the regiment, 

 it obliged him, however relu(5tantly, 

 to retire from the service, when, in 

 the prime of youth, and from for- 

 mer services, he had every hope of 

 ri--ing to a high situation in the 

 army. 



Suddenly, while giving some di- 

 redtions to her servants, Miss Best, 

 of the Antelope inn at Salisbury. — 

 Only a few minutes before this aw- 

 ful event, a gentleman just arrived 

 at the house was congratulating- her 

 on her health lul appearance; and, 

 in reply, she said she felt in better 

 health than she had done for many 

 months. 



In his 19th year, Mr. John 

 Blagden Neale, an under-graduate 

 of Pembroke-college, having taken 

 a sailing-boat, with a boy, from the 

 boat-house at Oxford, was crossed 

 by another boat, and forced by the 

 bowsprit under the water, and 

 drowned. lie had been warned of 

 his danger by the gentleman in the 

 other boat, who jumped in to save 

 him, but without success. The ac- 

 cident arose from Mr. N. not un- 

 derstanding the management of a 

 sail. 



Julij 2d. At his house in Wey- 

 mouth-strect, deeply lamented by 

 the literary world, and all who per- 

 sonally knew him, aged 79, Doctor 

 Patrick Ruvscll, F. 11. S. author of 

 H valuable Treatise on the Plague, 

 founded on his own extensive expe- 

 rience ; of an improved edition of 

 his brother's History of Aleppo ; 



and of other estimable works in na- 

 tural history, a study which he con- 

 tinued to prosecute with indefatiga- 

 ble zeal till almost the last hour of 

 his life. He was a man of learning 

 and wit; spoke the Arabic, which 

 he acquired during a long residence 

 at Aleppo, with the fluency of his 

 molher tongue ; and was of a most 

 friendly and benevolent disposition, 



3d. At Leixlip-castle, near Dub- 

 lin, the hon. Mrs. Cayendish, wife 

 of the hon. George C. and daughter 

 of James Caul field, esq. of the 

 county of Tyrone. 



At Castle-Menzies, lleut.-colonel 

 Archibald Butler, of Pitlochrie. 



5th. Mr. James Wood, clerk of 

 Didsbury church, whose forefathers 

 have been clerks successively, in the 

 same parish, ever since the begin- 

 ning of the reign of queen Elizabeth. 



6th. William Barnes, butcher, 

 of Stanwix, went to bathe in the 

 river Eden, near the Sorceries, 

 where he amused himself for a con- 

 siderable time by swimming. Ha 

 was at last observed to fall upon his 

 back in the v\ ater, and never rose 

 more. Several persons, on being 

 apprised of the accident, immedi- 

 ately went into the water, with the 

 hopes of recovering the body ; two 

 of whom dived from opposite 

 shore?, and, meeting together in the 

 middle of the water, and each sup- 

 posing he had got the drowned 

 man, they seized each other, and 

 rose to the surface of the water, fast 

 locked in each other's arms, to the 

 diversion of the specStators, who, 

 notwithstanding the awefulness of 

 the occasion, could not forbear 

 laughing at their grotesque appear- 

 ance. The body was found next 

 morning. The deceased had two bro- 

 thers, who were also both drowned. 



At his lodgingSj at Chelsea, Mid- 



I i 4 dlesex. 



