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Shafto, esq. of Whltworth, co. Dur. 

 ham; married to his lordship April 

 ID, 1763, and had by him one son, 

 John, and two daughters. 



13th. At his house in Glouces- 

 ter-place, New Road, Mary-la- 

 Bonne, Philip Rogers Bearcroft, esq. 

 late commissary.general of accounts 

 to the Leeward Island, and one of 

 the commissioners for investigating 

 the accounts of the aimy expendi- 

 ture in the West Indies. 



After a short illness, in the llth 

 year of his age, sir James Tilney 

 Long, bart. son of the lale sir James 

 Tilney, by his second wife, Cathe- 

 rine Windsor, eldest sister of the 

 late earl of Plymouth. The Tilney 

 property, which devolves on the 

 distant branches of the Long family, 

 is said to amount to 25,0001. per an- 

 num, and nearly 300,0001. in the 

 funds. 



IGth. At Derby, after a few days 

 illness, aged 46, Mrs. Archdall, wife 

 of Richard A. esq. M. P. for Dun. 

 dalk, Ireland. 



17th. At Fladong's hotel, in Ox- 

 ford-street, of a violent disorder of 

 the chest and stomach, in his 3 1st 



22d. In the royal arsenal at 

 Woolwich, CO. Kent, Mrs. Phipps, 

 widow of general P. of the royal en- 

 gineers. 



23d. In Tilncy-street, May-fair, 

 aged upwards of 90, deplored by 

 her numerous relations and friends, 

 Mrs. Munstcr, the eldest of three 

 surviving sisters of the late earl Cam- 

 den, relict of colonel Herbert M. 

 lieutenant-governor of Fort St. 

 Phillip's, Minorca. She bore a lin- 

 gering illness with fortitude and un- 

 impaired faculties. 



24th. ]Mr. W. Byrne, of Titch- 

 field-street, Mary-la-Bonne, an en- 

 graver of the first eminence, whose 

 works will prove his best monument. 



26th. At Lime-house, aged 82, 

 without having experienced, until 

 the day of his death, an hours ill- 

 ness, a man named Joyce. From 

 the age of 20 he had been in the 

 daily practice of drinking six pots 

 of porter, but frequently exceeded 

 that allowance. By an estimate 

 lately made by himself it appears 

 that he had drank 32,054 gallons, 

 or nearly 300 buts. 



27th. This afternoon Mr, Col- 



year, colonel the hon. William well, of Newnham, brandy-mer- 



Eardley, second son of lord E. 



20th. In Belfast, Ireland, in his 

 82d year, Edward Hunt, esq. late 

 major in the 39th foot, and since 

 captain of invalids. 



21st. At Escot, Devon, the in- 

 ' fant son of sir John Kennaway, 

 bart. 



At Walthamstow, Essex, the 

 youngest son of Mr. Mildred, 

 banker, of White Hart court, 

 Graccchurch-strcct. Amusing him- 

 self with drawing a boat, he was 

 drowned in a pond in his father's 

 garden, where he was not found till 

 two hours after. The family have 

 since totally quitted the house. 



chant, left Gloucester, on horseback, 

 with a considerable sum of money, 

 intending to return home. On the 

 morning of the 29th his horse was 

 found in the meadow on tiie south 

 side of Over Causeway, adjoining 

 that city, with the stirrups and reins 

 of thte bridle cut oft", a deep cut as if 

 with a sharp instrument, on the near 

 side of the saddle, and the off side 

 ripped, probably by the spur, on 

 Mr. C. being dragged from his 

 horse. The stirrups and one spur 

 were found, at a short distance from 

 each otlier, just beyond the bridge 

 over the Severn at that city ; and 

 Mr. C.'s pocket-book was found in 

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