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bourne ; was married, had issue, 
and lived, 1771, in North America. 
He is succeeded by_ his eldest son, 
Charles Wyndham B. captain of the 
37th foot. 
2iste At Cobham-place, in his 
71st. year, sir W. Abdy, bart. a 
captain in the royal navy. He 
succeeded his elder brother, An- 
thony, in 1775. 
» 23d. Lieut. col. Lyde Browne, 
of the 21st foot, who was killed by 
the, rebels in Dublin, has left a wi- 
dow and infant.daughter to deplore 
his loss. Mrs. B. is sister of the late 
gallant captain Edward Riou, of the 
royal navy, who was killed at Co- 
penhagen. 
. Mr. Lee Lewes, the very eminent 
comedian. 
. 24th. Hon. Charlotte Yates, 
wife of Joseph Y. esq. only son of 
the late judge. Yates, and sister to 
lord St. John, of Bletsoe. 
At Cheltenham, after a few days’ 
illness, the lady of major-general sir 
Eccles Nixon, of the Kast-India 
company’s service. 
27th. At his house at Murdos- 
town, gen. James Inglis Hamilton, 
colonel of the 2ist foot or royal 
north fuzileers, 
August 1st. In Queen-strect, 
Westminster, after a week’s. illness, 
in his 58th year, Mr. Wm. Wood- 
fall, whose memory wil! long be 
revered by a very large circle of 
friends, and whose death is an irre- 
parable loss to his family. Mr. W. 
made himself so eminently useful, by 
the employment of his talents as a 
journalist, and by the character and 
distinction which his reports of the 
parliamentary debates acquired, that 
the public will desire to possess the 
history of a person who so long, so 
zealously, and so largely contributed 
to their information. He was early 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803. 
placed by his father under Mr, 
Baldwin, of Paternoster-row, to 
learn the art of printing ; from whose 
house he went back to his father’s 
office, and assisted in the printing: 
and editing of ‘* The Public Adver-: 
tiser.’ He became so warm an 
amateur of the drama, that, to gra- 
tify his penchant for the stage, he 
made an excursion to Scotland, and 
performed several times, for his 
amusement, in the company of Mr. 
Fisher. He used to relate many 
pleasant anecdotes of this jaunt, the 
most fortunate event of which, how- 
ever, because it constituted the fu- 
ture happiness of his life, was his 
marriage with a most amiable wo- 
man, with whom he returned to the 
metropolis, about 1772, and en- 
gaged himself as editor of ‘* The 
London Packet.” From this he 
was called by: the proprietors of 
“¢ The Morning Chronicle,” to the 
double station of printer and editor, 
‘which he filled, with much credit to 
himself, until the year 1789, when he 
commenced a paper, called ‘* The 
Diary,” on his own account. Mr. 
Woodfall had the merit of being the 
first writer who undertook to detail 
the reports of the debates in’ the 
two houses of parliament, on the 
night of the proceedings. Before his 
time, a very short sketch of the de- 
bate was all that the newspapers at~ 
tempted to give on the same night, 
and the more detailed reports were 
deferred to some subsequent day.— 
Blest with a most retentive memory, 
Mr. W. undertook the fatiguing and 
difficult task of giving a detail of the 
proceedings on the same night. 
Without taking a note to assist his — 
memory, without the use of an ama- 
nuensis to ease his labour, he has 
been known to write sixteen cos 
lumns, after having sat in a crowded 
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