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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



lady, who has to bewail his loss be- 

 fore two moaths of their nuptial 

 happiness had been completed. It 

 is related of his first lady, who was 

 ,of very interesting and engaging 

 manners, that sue; afforded her royal 

 highness the princass of Wales an 

 opportunity of displaying her bene- 

 volence and aflabiiii:y in her way to 

 this country. By some accident her 

 ladyship's cloaths and necessary 

 supplies had been sent off in another 

 vessel. When her royal highness 

 and suite went on board the packet, 

 to take their passage for England, 

 being informed of the rank and si- 

 tuation of her fellow-traveller, her 

 Toyal highness supplied her with 

 cloaths, and paid her ladyship every 

 attention during her passage. 



At Diseworth, co. Leicester, in 

 consequence of being stung by a 

 wasp in a vein on the back of one 

 of his hands, the preceding day, Mr. 

 Sperrcy. 



4th. The day on which she com- 

 pleted her 100th year, Mrs. Gar- 

 rand, relict of the late Mr. G. former- 

 ly a respectable and opulent Lisbon 

 merchant, but the greatest part of 

 ■whose property was swallowed up 

 by the dreadful earthquake which 

 destroyed that city in 1755. On 

 that fatal occasion Mrs. G. was 

 alarmed by a violent shaking of the 

 room, and of the chest of drawers 

 in which she was depositing some of 

 her husband's linen. She instantly 

 fled out of the house, and escaped 

 destruction, after seeing a beloved 

 sou and daughter overwhelmed in 

 that tremendous convulsion. She 

 then returned to England ; and hav- 

 ing soon afterwards lost her hniband, 

 retired to Oulton, near Leeds, 

 where she has ever since resided, and 

 •where she died, retaining her men- 

 tal faculties, unimpaired, to the Jast. 



At Burford bridge, Surrey, aged 

 18, Miss Margaret Fairfax, daugh- 

 ter of rear-admiral sir William 

 George F. 



5th. In the Down.*^, on board the 

 lady Jane Dundas East Indiaman, 

 on his return from Bengal, on ac- 

 count of ill health, George Arbuth- 

 not, esq. late judge at Benares, and 

 many years principal secretary to 

 the hon. E. North, governor of 

 Ceylon. 



7th. AtPimlico, in his 40th year, 

 John Frederick Bernard Gottschcd, 

 esq. late lieutenant-colonel in the 

 60th foot, and inspector of Dutch 

 troops. 



8th. Aged 16, Miss Mary Hurst, 

 daughter of Robert Hurst, esq. 

 M. P. for Shaftesbury. 



gth. At the house of his nephew, 

 John Robley, esq. in Russel-squarc, 

 aged 63, Joseph Robley, esq. late 

 of the island of Tobago, where he 

 had filled the offices of governor and 

 perpetual president, lie was born 

 and educated at Keswick, in Cum- 

 berland ; and first introduced the 

 plough into the West Indies with 

 effect, where, by his superior skill 

 in the management of his planta- 

 tions, he amassed the wealth of 

 30,0001. per annum ; 40,0001. of 

 which he has bequeathed among his 

 relations and friends, and the re- 

 mainder to his aforesaid nephew and 

 heir. 



l©th. In the palace of Haga, at 

 Stockholm, aged two years and nine 

 months, his royal highness Charles 

 Gustavus, grand duke of Finland, 

 second son of their majesties of 

 Sweden. 



12ih. At Mamhead house, in her 

 73d year, Dorothy countess of Lis- 

 burne, relict and second wife of 

 Wilmot earl of Lisburne, in Ireland, 

 She was eldest daughter of John 



Skafto, 



