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young officer, of a very respectable 
fatnily in Ireland, and had only just 
attained his 17th year. He and 
tieut. Butler belonged lately to the 
same regiment ; but, from a serious 
disagreement which took place be- 
tween them, the commander in chief 
ordered them to be placed in dif- 
ferent corps. On their mecting at 
Nottingham, however, the embers 
ef animosity rekindled, and the un- 
happy result has proved the loss to 
society of a valuable ard much-re- 
spected young member. 
Burnt to death,-Mrs. Gooch, of 
Sloane-square, mother to the lady 
of the bishop of Bath and Wells, 
2d. At Cawthorne, near Barn- 
sley, in her 18th year, Martha Mel- 
lor, who was shot by Samuel Ibbot- 
son, a boy 12 years old. Having 
gone into the house where the girl 
was, he took upa gun, but was de- 
sired to lay it down immediately, 
which he did ; but shortly afterwards 
took it up again, and, seeing the girl 
in another room, said he would 
shoot her, which, shocking to relate! 
he immediately did. Verdict, man- 
slaughter; He was committed to 
York castie. 
At Drogheda, in Ireland, Miss 
Brunton, of Dublin, a handsome 
young lady; who was on a visit to 
capt. Gooden, of the Sligo militia. 
She got up in her sleep, went to the 
window of her bed-room, which was 
two stories high, threw up the sash, 
fell into tle street, and was almost 
immediately taken up lifeless. Be- 
fore she reached the ground, she fell 
on the top of ashop-window under 
her room, and then sereamed so vio- 
lently as to awaken capt. Gooden, 
Tt is conjectured thatat that moment 
ashe awoke, and recovered her senses 
enly to know that she was then 
about to lese her life. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
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3d. In Stanhope - street, May- 
fair, after a short illness, lady Van- 
deput, widow of sir George V. who 
died in 1784, and who was famous 
for his contest for Westminster in 
1748. 
At afarm-house in the parish of 
St Dogmell, co. Pembroke, Joshua 
Lewis, farmer. A quarrel arose be» 
tween him and John Owens, master 
of a trading vessel from Cardigao, 
respecting a young woman; blows 
followed ; and Lewis was wounded 
with a knife in six different parts of 
his body, which shortly occasioned 
his death. 
4th. At Clifton, near Bristol, 
Mrs. Barbara ‘Turvile, wife of 
Francis Fortescue T. esq. of Hus- 
band Bosworth-hall, co. Leicester. 
She was daughter of Charles Talbot 
(brother to George the last earl of 
Shaftesbury, ) and was married April 
9, 1780. 
Rev. Matthew Thompson, rector 
of Bradfield and Mistley, Essex, and 
in the commission of the peace for 
that county. Ile was invited, with 
a party, to dine with col. Rigby, at 
Mistley ; when the company were 
informed that dinner was ready, Mr. 
Thompson, in the act of rising to go 
into the dining-room, fell down, and 
expired immediately, leaving a wife 
and eleven children. 
Drowned, alongside the Victory, 
at Chatham, while endeavouring to 
get hold of a lighter, a serjeant of 
marines, belonging to that ship, and 
a waterman, named Jn. Eldon. The 
Serjeant missed his hold, and caught 
the waterman by the collar ; but the 
tide running very strong, they both 
disappeared before assistance could 
arrive, ; 
Aged 65, Mr. Samuel Patch, for= 
merly judge-advocate at Jamaica, 
but who had for some time resided 
at 
