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ter of the late earl of Eglintoun. A 

 delicate constitution had induced her 

 to try the air of the continent, 

 whence she had just returned. 



i7th. This night Mrs. Clarke, of 

 the Castle public house at Tooting, 

 feeling herself indisposed, desired to 

 hare some watcr-gruel made. It 

 was then too late to send out for 

 oatmeal; but there vas some found 

 in the bar, wrapped up in paper. 

 It was tasted by Mrs. Clark and her 

 husband ; it was also examined by 

 her sister and daughter, and they all 

 concluded it was fit for use. Of 

 this oatmeal some water-gruel was 

 made by the daughter. Mrs. C. 

 after taking a little of it, became 

 very ill, and continued so till the 

 following Sunday the 24th, when she 

 died. Her daughter partook of 

 some of the gruel, became ill, but 

 soon got better. Nobody knew 

 the cause of her illness. On the 

 right of Tuesday the 19th, a woman 

 of the name of Gaston sat up with 

 Mrs. C. who, the next morning de- 

 sired her to take home to her family 

 the remainder of the water-gruel, in 

 which wine and brandy had been 

 mixed. Mrs, Gaston warmed it up, 

 and drank some of it, together with 

 her mother and daughter. The lat- 

 ter soon recovered, but the mother 

 died on the following day. Mrs. 

 Gaston vvas not expected to recover. 

 On Monday the 25th a coroner's 

 inquest sat on the bodies of Mrs. 

 Clark r"and Mrs. Gaston senior; 

 when the jury took all possible pains 

 to investigate this most melancholy 

 and mysterious business, but could 

 ascertain nothing. It is supposed 

 that arsenic had been mixed with 

 the oatmeal in question, some time 

 or other, for the purpose of destroy- 

 ing rats; but how it could get into the 



bar of Mrs. C.'s house nobody could 

 tell. The affair has excited a great 

 sensation at Tooting. 



At Flushing, in Cornwall, ia 

 her 32d year, Mrs. Burr, wife of 

 major-general B. and daughter of 

 Thomas B. esq. of Berner's-street. 



At Edinburgh, the infant sou of 

 lord viscount Duncan. 



19th. In his 68th year, M, Mes- 

 tral de St. Saphorin, the Danish am- 

 bassador at the court of Vienna, 

 knight of the orders of Danuebrog, 

 of the White Eagle, and of St. Sta- 

 nislaus. 



In the king's mews, Charing- 

 cross, in his 60th year, Mr. Frere, 

 thirty years coachman to his ma- 

 jesty ; and on the same day, Mr. 

 William Porter, head postillion to 

 his majesty. Both these persons 

 were established in his majesty's 

 service on the same day, and died 

 within a few hours of each other. 

 Their remains were interred in St. 

 Martin's burying ground, the for- 

 mer's pall was held by six royal 

 coachmen, and the latter by six 

 grooms. The whole of their ma- 

 jesty's livery-servants, not on duty, 

 attended in their full dress. 



At Flushing, Cornwall, hon. Re- 

 ginald Cocks, F. R. S. youngest son 

 of lojd Somers. 



23d. At his seat at Sidmonton, 

 Hants, aged 74, admiral sir Richard 

 Kingsmill, bart. He is succeeded in 

 his title and Hampshire estates by 

 his nephew Robert, son of the late 

 Edward K. esq. of Belfont. 



At Muskham-grange, near New- 

 ark, the wife of William Dickenson, 

 esq. She was the only surviving 

 child of the late John Kenrick, esq. 

 proprietor oi, and M. P for Blet- 

 chjngly. 



23th. la Welbeck-streetj Caven- 



