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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



the riycr, several miles below that 

 place, stripped of all its contents, 

 except a draft for 1001. The body 

 of the unfortunate gentleman was 

 found covered with leaves, early the 

 next morning, in a lane near Min- 

 sterworth, between threo and four 

 miles from Gloucester. 



At Enniskillen, capt. Sir James 

 Rivers, bart. of the 3d .dragoon 

 guards. Whileona shooting party at 

 ]Nixon-halI, in company with cap- 

 tains Fancott and Piatt, of the 50th 

 foot, Sir James's gun unfortunately 

 went ofl', and killed him almost in- 

 stantaneously. 



29th. In Fitzroy-squarc, the hon. 

 Smith Barry, uncle to the present 

 earl of Barrymore. 



At Tunbridge- Wells, the lady of 

 Sir George Buggin, of Great Cum- 

 berland-place, knight. Her re- 

 mains were interred by torch-light, 

 at St. Dunstan's in the East, where 

 a funeral sermon was preached. 



At his seat, Clerk-hill, county 

 of Lancaster, Sir James Whall cy 

 Smythe Gardener, bart. so created 

 Dec. 28, 1782. 



At Tortola, on their passage from 

 St. Vincent to Bristol, ou board the 

 ship Eliza, major Butler, and capt. 

 Wallace, of the 90th foot. 



Lately, his imperial majesty Dcs- 

 salines, emperor of Hayti, and king 

 of St. Domingo. lie is to be suc- 

 ceeded by his imperial highness 

 prince Christophe, who was born a 

 slave on the island of St. Christopher, 

 whence he takes his name. He was 

 a tailor by trade, prior to the year 

 1793, and was the property of a 

 French lady who resided at Cape 

 Francois. He speaks the French 

 language very fluently, and is alto- 

 gether less of the savage than Dessa- 

 liaes. The death of the latter, mray, 

 1 



perhaps, lead to some change in the 

 affairs of St. Domingo. 



At Paris, aged 73, M. Anquetil 

 du Perron, a member of the Ancient 

 Aeademy of Inscriptions and Belles 

 Lettres, and of the National Insti- 

 tute, historiographer to the archives 

 of foreign relations, one of the most 

 celebrated of the literati of Europe. 

 He has left a great number of ma- 

 nuscripts, from which the science he 

 so successfully cultivated will derive 

 new benefit For M. Silvcstre de 

 Sacy, in pronouncing his funeral 

 oration over the tomb of his friend, 

 solemnly renewed the engagement 

 he made with him before his death, 

 to complete the works which he has 

 left unfinished. 



Oct. 1. In consequence of a fall 

 from his horse, on the preceding 

 evening, as he was returning from 

 Droitwich to Worcester, in his 22d 

 year, capt. J. Bird, of the 96th 

 foot. His remains were interred in 

 St. Oswald's burying-ground with 

 military honours, attended by the 

 two regiments of Hereford volun- 

 teers, and all the officers quartered 

 in Worcester, including those of the 

 Loyal Worcester volunteers. 



John Stables, of Horsforth, gent, 

 was this evening found hanging in a 

 barn near his own house. The jury, 

 after examining several witnesses as 

 to the state of mind of the deceased, 

 found a verdict of lunacy. He was 

 brother and heir to Mr. William 

 Stables, who was cruelly murdered 

 in bed, in his house, in the night of 

 the 26th of July last, since which 

 dreadful event the mind of the de- 

 ceased has appeared in a very per- 

 turbed and dejected state. On the 

 morning of his death, Mr. Stables 

 breakfasted with his sister, Mrs. 

 Clark, of Low-hall, Horsforth, with 



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