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actions, and lias left a widow and 3 

 children. Every attention that could 

 be shewn to departed worth and 

 brarery was evinced at Deal, where 

 his body was brought on shore, and 

 interred with military honours. — 

 The band of the guards, quartered 

 in Deal barracks, attended, playing 

 solemn music ; a party of marines 

 from the flag-ship preceded the 

 body, with arms reversed. The pall 

 was supported by the six senior 

 lieutenants of gun brigs, and follow- 

 ed by a procession of nearly fifty 

 naval and military officers. 



19th. At her daughter (Mrs. 

 Ord's) house, in Dover-itreet, Mrs. 

 Scott, widow of the late rev. Jtamcs 

 S. and mother of the countess of 

 Oxford. 



William Allen, esq. master of 

 God's Gift college, Dulwich, Surrey, 

 where he had resided upwards of 52 

 years. The college was founded, in 

 16 19, by Edward Alleyn, a come- 

 dian, and keeper of the king's bear- 

 garden, for a master, warden, four 

 follows, (three of whom to be ec- 

 clesiastics, and the other a skilful 

 organist, J six poor old men, six 

 poor old women, and twelve boys. 

 Celibacy is a .une qua non. The 

 revenues are large, and increasing. 

 B}^ th'e statutes, the warden succeeds 

 the master, and takes upon him the 

 office immediately on the master's 

 death; so that there is nosv a va- 

 ciHicy for warden. The founder 

 direfts that both the master and 

 warden shall be of the name of Al- 

 Icn, or Alleyn ; and every person of 

 that name is eligible to becosne a 

 randidate. The cle(Slion is in the 

 live surviving ftUov/s, conjointly 

 with the churchwardens of St. Bo- 

 tolph without, Bishopsgate, St. Giles 

 without, Cripplegate, and St. Sa- 

 viour's, Soufhwark ; who choose 



two persons. Two rolls of paper 

 are then put into a box, and each 

 candidate takes one ; and the per- 

 son Mho takes the paper on which 

 the words " God's Gift" are writ- 

 ten, is the warden ele6lcd. The 

 present fellows are, the late warden, 

 (now master,) the rev. T. J, Smith, 



the rev. Neville Stow, the rev. 



Barry, and Mr. Richard Dowell, 

 (organist) who all reside in the col- 

 lege. 



21st. At Ulverstone, co. Lan- 

 caster, major John Perryn, for- 

 merly captain of the 12th regiment, 

 of foot, and third son of the late sir 

 Richard P. knt. one of the barons 

 of the exchequer. His death was 

 occasioned by being thrown out of 

 his chaise two days before, by whick 

 his leg was fractured, and a mortifi- 

 cation ensued. 



In the prime of life, Mr. Henry 

 Finch, of East Ilanningficld, Essex, 

 farmer. On the 18th he went into 

 a field, where he received a sting in 

 the thigh, which he at first imagined 

 to be caused by a nettle. The 

 wound, however, was soon attended 

 with those symptoms which proved 

 it to be the bite of an adder, and 

 caused death. 



24th. William Garnet, a young 

 man, aged 22, residing at Stanwix, 

 went to balhc in the Eden, Hear to 

 the foot of Petterill ; but the water 

 at that place being of a very unequal 

 depth, he was suddenly precipitated 

 into a place many feet deep. Hi* 

 companion, observing the accidant, 

 immediately reached out to him a 

 stick, which was lying at the wa- 

 ter's edge ; Garnet laid bold of the 

 stick; which, Hieing rotten, broke in 

 his grasp, and the unfortunate 

 youth, after uttering an ejaculation 

 to (he Almighty, was drowned. 

 27th. At Ilili, Dcar Southampton 



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