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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



tary career, he has been actively 

 engaged in the cause of his country. 

 Endeared by many excellent quali. 

 ties to a numerous and respectable 

 acquaintance, he will long live in 

 their remembrance. The propriety 

 with which he discharged the vari- 

 ous duties of life was exemplarily 

 conspicuous, uniformly displaying 

 the most amiable deportment and 

 instructive example. • In his profes- 

 sional capacity he was zealous, as- 

 siduous, and exact. As a son, a 

 husband, parent, friend, and mas- 

 ter, he was beloved and respected in 

 each walk of life. His mind was 

 cheerful, his manners gentle, and his 

 heart benevolent : he possessed that 

 happy disposition which the wise 

 man ranks among the greatest bles- 

 sings, and which retains little of 

 that baleful inheritance which is 

 supposed to be derived from our 

 first parents. Few men h.ave by 

 their death occasioned a more gene- 

 ral impression of regret and sor- 

 row : as he v.as universally esteem- 

 ed, so is he universally lamented : 

 it may be said he has left the world 

 without an enemy. To his country 

 and to his friends his loss is great 

 indeed; but, alas! how much 

 greater to his poor afflicted widow, 

 whose only consolation Avill be the 

 remembrance of his virtues. This 

 sketch of his character, drawn by 

 one who esteemed and loved him, is 

 presented as a tribute no less due 

 to justice and truth, than to the me- 

 mory of departed friendship and 

 worth. 



In the late glorious action with 

 the combined fleets, lient. W. A. 

 Ram, son of col. Ram, M. P. for 

 the county of Wexford, Ireland. 



A tBallindeen, in Scotland, the seat 

 of lady Wedderburn, lady Kinnaird, 

 havingsurvlvcd the shock occasioned 

 by the death of lord K. only ten days. 



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She was the daughter of the late 

 Griffith Ransom, esq. banker, of 

 Pall Mall. Though the late lord 

 Kinnaird was possessed only of an 

 estate of lOOOl. a year when he 

 married, he died seised of full 

 10,0001. per annum in landed pro- 

 perty alone. The present lord 

 K. is at Vienna, whence he will 

 find some difficulty in returning to 

 England, on account of the positions 

 of the French armies. 



This evening, as Mr. Holt, a 

 quartermaster of the 1st dragoon- 

 guards, who had been to Bright- 

 helmstone on military business, 

 was returning to his station at 

 Arundel, he mistook his road, be- 

 tween the Pad public-house and 

 Lancing, and rode into a deep pool, 

 wherein he was found dead the 

 next day, with his horse alive by 

 his side, having his head only above 

 the water, whence tiie animal was 

 extricated with great difficulty. He 

 has left a wife and two or three 

 children. 



At Ackthorpc, near Louth, co. 

 York, in the prime of life, Mrs. 

 Chattcrton, wife of Robert C. esq. 

 Her death was occasioned by a 

 piece of lighted paper lying on the 

 floor, which, on the 17th, caught 

 her cloaths, and burnt her in so 

 shocking a manner as to render me- 

 dical aid useless. 



Burnt to death, in consequence 

 of his shirt taking fire, while left 

 a few minutes by his mother at play 

 with other children, aged 3 years, a 

 son of Robert Baines, of Candles- 

 by, CO. Lincoln, 



At the house of Robert Holt 

 Leigh, esq. M. P. in Duke-street, 

 Westminster, in his 52d year, Wil- 

 liam Clarke, esq. banker of Liver- 

 pool. As a scholar, his acquire- 

 ments were of the very first order ; 

 and i}« a maa of taste in the various 



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