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among the foremost, if not aftually 

 the first private one, engaged in 

 the East- India trade. It has esta- 

 blished regularly an overland ex- 

 press to and from India ; a measure 

 only occasionally resorted tobyGo- 

 Ternment. Mr. S. had for many 

 years laboured under a disease, the 

 cause of which had baffled the saga- 

 city and skill of the most eminent 

 inedical men in the kingdom. He 

 dirc6ted that his body should be" 

 opened after his death, that the seat 

 and cause of his complaint might be 

 ascertained for the benefit of man- 

 kind ; which was accordingly done 

 by a very eminent surgeon and ana- 

 tomist, Mr. Frye, of Gloucester, 

 when his disease was found to have 

 been a schyrrus in the pylorus. — 

 His remains were interred in the fa- 

 mily vault, in Mary-hi-Bonnc, bury- 

 ing ground, attended by his rela- 

 tions and most intimate connexions 

 and friends ; and condu(!^ed M'ith 

 great solemnity, but in that plain 

 unostentatious manner, so consist- 

 eat with the uniform tenor of his 

 life. 



J. Rooke, esq. of Bigswcar- 

 house, a general of his majesty's 

 forces, colonel of the 38th regiment 

 of foot, and M. P. for the county of 

 Monmouth. He was sporting on 

 the Trellick hills, and had just fired 

 at a bird, when he fell dead from 

 his horse in an apoplexy ! He had 

 represented Monmouthshire in se- 

 veral successive parliaments ; and 

 Blight be truly styled a gentleman of 

 the Old English School, being of an 

 open, social, and most afl'able dispo- 

 sition ; indeed, in the extensive cir- 

 cle of his acquaintance, no character 

 could be more esteemed, or more 

 respeded. 



5th. At Worcester, Capt. Hard- 

 castle, of J3%tb, b« had only arrived 



on that day from Malvern, accom- 

 panied by a friend, with whom he 

 was walking up JBroad-street, when 

 he was taken with an apoplcttic fit, 

 and taken to an inn, where he soon, 

 expired. 



This morning, William Winter- 

 pen, a bricklayer's labourer, was at 

 work repairing the roof of a house 

 in Richmond ; just as he got to the 

 top of the ladder, he fell backwards 

 into a wheelbarrow, and was killed 

 on the spot. The woman, whose 

 house was repairing, dreamed two 

 night previously to tlie accident, that 

 the deceased fell from the top of her 

 house into a wheelbarrow. She 

 told him her dream the next morn- 

 ing, and was continually cautioning 

 him to take care, till the fatal acci- 

 dent happened ; it is rather remark- 

 able that he had used a hod to letch 

 his bricks in till that day, when he 

 got a wheelbarrow. 



Of a locked-jaw, in St. Bartholo- 

 mew's Hospital, in her 33d year, 

 Mrs. Mary Newton, wife of Mr. 

 N. baker of Enfield. On the Sa- 

 turday preceding she had undergone 

 a painful ampiitation of the right 

 thigh, near the hip joint ; which, 

 till the fatal symptom of trismus 

 took place, had every appearance 

 of terminating happily. The ope- 

 ration was performed with great 

 skill, tenderness, and humanity, by 

 Mr. Ramsden, with the assistance 

 of Sir Charles Blicke, Sir James 

 Earlc, Mr. Abernethy, Dr. Sher- 

 win, and Mr. Clark, surgeon of 

 Enfield, and several other gentle- 

 men, whose curiosity had been ex- 

 cited by the singularity of the case. 

 A tumour, intimately connected 

 with a diseased state of the bone (a 

 spiculous kind of exostosis), occu- 

 pying nearly the whole of the 

 tbigh, bad gradually increased; dur. 



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