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•iXii OTCrturncd the ladies, the for- 

 mer of whom was killed on the spot, 

 and the latter had a leg broken. 



In Percy-strcet, in childbed of a 

 daughter, Mrs. Second, a celebrated 

 oratorio and concert-singer. Her 

 professional talents and abilities 

 were well known and admired by 

 the public ; arid in private life she 

 was greatly respected and esteemed. 

 She has left five children. 



This night, at half past 11, two 

 gentlemen passing through Lin- 

 <ioln'3-inn-fields, discovered a well- 

 dressed man leaning against a post, 

 groaning bitterly. He complained 

 of shortness of breath, and added 

 that he had but a few minutes to live. 

 The gentlemen asked his address, 

 and he had just strength to articu- 

 late '< No. 23, Charles-street, Hat- 

 ton-gardon," before he expired. 

 The body was pot into a coach 

 ttithout delay, and conveyed to the 

 house of Rlr. Dale, surgeon, of 

 Charles-street, but all attempts to 

 restore life were fruitless. He was 

 a very respectable mau, named 

 Manly, and resided where he had 

 said ; was a widower, With six chil- 

 dren. 



17th. Suddenly, at Bath, aged SO. 

 Susannah-Louisa, dowager Lady St. 

 John, of Bletsoe, daughter of Peter 

 Simmond, esq. merchant in Win- 

 chester-street, near Broad-street, 

 London, and married to John, Itth 

 lord St. John, 1755, who died 176"7, 

 tt Nice. 



Universally esteemed, at the 

 house of her daughter, lady Moles- 

 worth, in Upper Brook -street, 

 Grosvenor-square, in her 78th year, 

 Mrs. Charity Ourry, relict of Paul 

 Heury (). esq. of (Ive navy, and 

 commissioner of his majesty's dock- 

 yard at IMymouth. She was the 

 ♦laughter of the right hon. George 

 'I'reby, of I'lympton, co, Devon, 



and of Charity his wife, who was* 

 co-heiress of Roger Hole, of Graton 

 and Halwell, in the said county, 

 the last branch of that once nume- 

 rous and respectable family. Her 

 remains, together with those of her 

 grandson, Lewis Montague, infant 

 son of Paul Treby Treby, of Plymp- 

 ton, esq. were deposited in the fa- 

 mily-vault in PlymptOQ church the 

 2d instant. 



18th. At South Lambeth, after 

 long illness, Mrs. Hook, wife of 

 the eminent composer. Her virtues 

 and accomplishments were well 

 known ; as an authoress and an ar- 

 tist, her productions are highly va- 

 lued. 



19th. By cutting his throat in a 

 hackney-coach, which he had takeii 

 from the stand in the Borough, and. 

 ordered to drive to Vauxhall, and 

 thence back again to the Borough, 

 aged about 26, Mr. Thomas Nor- 

 man, a Jew, clerk to Mr Mark 

 Sprott, who had for some time la- 

 boured under a depression of spirits, 

 amounting almost to derangement. 



20th. Lady Bruce, of Stenhouse, 

 in Scotland. 



21st. Found dead in her bed, to 

 which she had retired the night be- 

 fore in perfect health, the lady of 

 sir John Lees, bart. of Black Rock, 

 near Dublin. 



Off Cape Trafalgar, in the ever- 

 memorable engagement between the 

 British fleet, under the command of 

 lord viscount Nelson, and the com- 

 bined fleets of France and Spain, 

 captain Charles William Adair, of 

 the royal marines, who shared the 

 same fate, and on board the same 

 ship, with the noble commander in 

 chief, being struck with a musket- 

 shot which put a period to his life. 

 At an early age, captain A. obtain- 

 ed a commission in the marines, and, 

 from the commencement of his mili- 

 tary 



