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in bank notes, and when searched 

 after he died, his watcb, a small 

 box, with a wedding ring, and some 

 small trinkets, and a marriage li- 

 cence, were found upon him, but 

 101. were missing ; the other 51. 

 were accounted for in the licence 

 and trinkets. He had been a sea- 

 faring man, frequently went the 

 voyage to and from t^io East Indies, 

 and was about 40 years of age. The 

 jury, after consultingnear twohours, 

 brought in a Terdict of lunacy. 



4th. At Bourdeaux, Charlts De 

 la Croix, one of the distinguished 

 revolutionists of France, and the 

 chief uegociator with lord Malmes- 

 bury. lie died prefect of the de- 

 partment ot Gironde. 



In Davies-street, after a long ill- 

 ness, the hon. Mrs. Maitland, wife 

 of col- M. 



At her house in Tunbridge-wclls, 

 Anne, daughter of William Conolly, 

 esq. and sister to Caroline countess 

 of Buckinghamshire, relict of George 

 Byng, esq. late of Wrotham-paik, 

 to whom she was married 1767, and 

 ■who died 1789, and by whom she 

 was motlier of the present M. P. for 

 the county of Middlesex. 



In the house of correction, of a 

 broken heart, James Stewart, the 

 young man recently postillion to 

 lord Cardigan, who was sentenced 

 to 12 months' imprisonment, at the 

 ]ate Westminster sessions, for throw- 

 ing a glass bottle from the two shil- 

 ling gallery into the pit of Dniry- 

 lane theatre, and thereby wounding 

 two women on the Sth of February 

 last. He was in a state of intoxica- 

 tion when he committed the offence, 

 and has been very melancholy ever 

 since his confinement. 



7th. At the hot wells, Bristol, of 

 » decline, aged 22., the hon. Miss 



Ruthven, daughter of lor4 R. the 



oldest baron of Scotland. 



9th. At liis house near Ports^ 

 mouth, major Boisrond, ol the royal 

 marines, son of the late colonel B. 

 who formerly commanded the Porfs- 

 niouth division of that corps. 



IGth. At Windles(one, Miss 

 Eden, fifth daughter of sir John E. 

 bart. 



nth. The imperial field-marshal- 

 lieutenant Schmidt, who had been 

 appointed quarter master-general to 

 the Russian army, died the death of 

 a hero, alter having in a signal man- 

 ner contributed' to the victory of 

 this day, and attacked the enemy in 

 flank and rear. The loss of this of- 

 ficer, who had been in the service 40 

 jears, and, during the last war, ac- 

 quired distinguished reputation, is 

 profoundly felt by his sovereign, by 

 the Russian and Austrian armies, 

 •and by every one wiio respects ex- 

 traordinary merit. His name is Jhis 

 monument. 



12fh. At his house in St. Giles's, 

 Oxford, of a mortification, aged 56, 

 the r(v. Robert Holmes, D. D. 

 rector of Stanton, co. Oxford, canon 

 of Salisbury and Christ-church, and 

 dean of Winchester. He was of 

 New college ; M. A. 1774, B. D. 

 1787 ; D. D. 1789 ; dean of Win- 

 chester 1804. He was appointed 

 professor of poetry in the university 

 of Oxford on the death of Mr.. 

 Warton, 1790. 



14th. At Stockholm, the Cheva- 

 lier de Bouligny, the Spanish am- 

 bassador at that court. 



At Rowberrow, Somerset, Wm. 

 Swymmer, esq. of that place, cap- 

 tain in the eastern battalion of the. 

 Mendip legion. 



16th. At Colchester, aged 17,Iadjr' 

 Susan Montgomery, second daugh- 



