506 ANNUAL 
the name of Wilkinson. He pos- 
sessed property to the amount of 
15G,0001. 
In Holborn, where he had resi- 
ded upwards of 40 years, aged 65, 
Mr. Cornelius Paas, a native of 
Germany, and engraver to his ma- 
jesty. 
During the funeral procession of 
lord Nelson's remains on the river, 
a lady of ihe name of Bayne, related 
to the laie capt. William Bayne, 
who lost his life in the West indies 
under lord Rodney, was so affected 
at the scene, that she fellinto hys- 
tericks, and died in a few minutes. 
‘At Gate-house, Edinburgh, aged 
73, James Davitis, esq. one of the 
oldest inhabitants thereof. He or- 
dered acheese, which he had kept 
for 40 years, to be broken on the 
day of his funeral, 
9th. Carried out of St. Paul’s, in 
eonsequence of having had an apo- 
plectic fit, capt. Richard Whitford, 
who had been many years in the 
Jamaica trade; and, though medi- 
cal assistance was immediately ob- 
tained, both in the cathedral and 
after he had been couveyed home to . 
his apartments in Great Queen- 
street, he died about 12 o’clock at 
night. 
10th. A man named Tattersal, 
well known (by the appellation of 
the doctor) to the visitors of Bright- 
helmstone, where he had long been 
one of the principal male-bathers, 
fell over the Groyne, and was 
drowned, while endeayouring to fill 
a bucket with salt water. 
AtIpswich, aged 73, universally 
respected, Mrs. Anne Mason. She 
was the only daughter of Mr. Na 
thaniel Morris, of Melton Mowbray, 
co. Leicester, where she was born 
in January, 17335 married, at 
Hampstead, in 1777 (after a court- 
REGISTER, 
1806. 
ship of more than a quarter of a — 
century,) to William Mason, of Gar- — 
thorpe, gent. who died, without — 
issue, April 14, 1779. 
11th. Mr. Houghton, shoemaker, 
in the butter-market at Bury St. 
Edmund’s.. He was in apparent 
good health, chopping a faggot, the 
same afternoon, when he accident. 
ally cut oneof his fingers, and, on 
his wife’s expressing a wish to dress 
it, he said, ‘* Never mind, my dear; 
what is this wound compared tolord — 
Nelson’s?”? and immediately fell — 
down in an apoplectic fit, from which 
he never recovered to utter another 
sentence. 
12th. At Cockermouth, aged 61 
years, 51 of which he had been in 
the occupation of a huntsman, Mr. 
George ‘Topping. 
At Cracomb-house, in his 66th 
year, George Perrott, esq. in the 
commission of the peace for the 
county of Worcester, formerly in 
the civil service of the East India 
company at Bombay, and nephew 
of the late hon. George Perrott, 
one of the barons of the exchequer. 
At Hackney, where he had been 
long confined in a state of derange- 
ment, aged* 75, sir Wolstan Dixie, 
bart. of Bosworth, co. Leicester, 
fifth baronet of that family, who 
were thus rewarded for the loyalty 
of sir Wolstan in the civil wars, 
when he gave his majesty, among the 
gentry of the county, 1835/. for 
which he had a warrant fora baro. 
net’s patent, not taken out till after 
the restoration. He dicd in 1682, 
aged SO, and was succeeded by his 
eldest son, sir Beaumont; he by his 
eldest son, sir Wolstan; and he by 
his eldest son of the same name, who 
died in 1766, leaving his only son 
and namesake, the subject of this 
article, born 1737. ; 
15th. In 
