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Mr. H. conducted himself very libe- 
rally on this occasion, by returning 
a considerable part of the money 
which he had received for the copy- 
right, alledging, that as the piece 
was not successful on the stage, it 
could not be very profitable to 
the bookseller, and should not be 
aloss.  _ 
Ath. At Bath, in her 32d year, 
the wife of the rev. doctor Edwards, 
and niece of Jord chief justice Ellen- 
borough. 
In his Gist year, after a life of 
dissipation and pain, at Newington, 
Surry, the rev. William Collier, 
senior fellow of ‘Trinity college, 
Cambridge, where he was many 
years a public tutor, rector of Or- 
well, co. Cambridge ; Hebrew pro- 
fessor 1771 to 1790. The distresses 
in which he involyed himself com- 
pelled him to leave the university, 
and to publish, by subscription, 
*¢ Poems on several Occasions, with 
translations from Authors in diffe- 
rent Languages; dedicated to Prince 
Wn. of Gloucester ;”’ 2 yols. 12mo. 
1800. 
8th. At Edinburgh, major-ge- 
neral I’. Halket, of the Scots bri- 
gade. 
9th. In Manchester-square, in 
consequence of the sudden death 
of her father, John Chalie, esq. of 
Bedford-square, on the 5th instant, 
the wife of Wm. Garthshore, esq. 
M. P. for Weymonth. 
10th. In an advanced age, in 
Park-place, Mrs. Margaret Pocock, 
sister to the late sir George Pocock, 
12th. In St. James’s-square, 
Bath, Mrs. Jervis, aunt to earl St. 
Vincent. 
14th. At his father’s house, in 
Cavendish-square, aged five years, 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803. 
the youngest son of sir William 
Langham. 
Killed, at the re-taking of the 
lord Nelson Indiaman, by a shot 
from the Bellone French privateer, 
near Ferrol, off the north-west 
coast of Spain, lieut. col. Peter 
M‘Gregor Murray. He was one 
of the heads of the ancient unfortu- 
nate house of M‘Gregor; and, 
about 30 years ago, went out to 
India in the humble capacity of a 
surgeon’s mate. ‘The government, 
seeing that he was a young man of 
spirit, offered him a commission in 
their service, which he accepted ; 
and, by his merit, rose to the rank 
of lieut. col. For many years, he 
held the lucrative employment of 
adjutant-general to the forces in 
India, and is supposed to have ac- 
quired a fortune of 200,000l. 
-16th. In Welbeck-street, Ca- 
vendish-square, after a _ lingering 
illness, aged G4, major-general sir 
John Brathwaite, bart. lately re- 
turned from the coast of Coro- 
mandel, where he long held the 
chief command of the company’s 
army, and received repeated testi- 
monies of the approbation of go- 
vernment, When retiring from this 
distinguished situation, the general 
and field-officers of the army re- 
quested of him to accept the record 
of their esteem, affection, and re- 
spect, in a valuable service of plate, 
which they presented to him. His 
loss will be long deplored by those 
friends who experienced the unde. 
viating sincerity of his regard, as, 
well as by a very numerous circle 
of acquaintance, whom he ever en- 
livened by the most pleasing conver- 
sation, and received with the frank- 
est hospitality. In public life, he | 
was a strict observer of discipline ; 
zealous, 
