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Surrey, in his 47th year, the right 
hon. William Pitt, first lord of the 
treasury, chancellor of the exche- 
quer, a lord of trade and planta- 
tions, a commissioner for the af- 
fairs of India, constable of Dover 
castle, warden, keeper, and admiral 
of the cinque ports, master of the 
Trinity-house, governor of the Char- 
ter-house, high steward of, and 
M.P. for, the university of Cam- 
bridge, and F.R.S. He was ofa 
delicate constitution, and had long 
been complaining. The _ illness 
which he had in the summer of 
1802 shook him very much; and 
he does not appear to have after- 
wards effectually recovered from it ; 
and that illness which was the im- 
mediate cause of his death originated 
in an extreme debility, brought on 
by excessive anxiety and unweared 
attention to business, By this de- 
bility his whole nervous system was 
soderanged that, for weeks toge- 
ther, he was unable to sleep ; and 
this privation of rest augmented the 
cause, so as to lead to a general 
breaking-up of his constitution, An 
hereditary goutcompleted the whole, 
producing, according to its ordi- 
nary eflect on a debilitated system, 
water in the chest, and such a weak- 
ness of stomach that he could nei- 
fher admit nor retain sustenance. 
The unfortunate issue of the war on 
the continent, no doubt, contri- 
buted largely to hasten his death ; 
and the failure of a plan for the de- 
liverance of Kurope, which hisgenius 
had formed and matured, must have 
been to him asource of great anxiety 
and mortification. By a solemn 
vote of the house of commons (on 
the 27th instant,) he had a public 
funeral and monument in Westmin- 
ster Abbey, at the national ex- 
pence. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
26th, At Paris, in her 70th year, - 
Maria Theresa Reboul, wife of Vieu, 
the senator and painter, She was 
received a member of the former 
academy of painting in 1757. Most 
of her works, which ,are highly 
esteemed, are in the cabinet of the 
emperor of Russia. 
At Autun, aged 63, M. de Fon- 
tanges, archbishop of Autun, and 
formerly archbishop of Toulon. 
The infant son of Mr. Bubb, of 
Martley court co. Gloucester, a re- 
markably fine child, about three 
years old. He fell a victim to the 
negligence of the servant - maid, 
who had put him in the window of 
an upper room, through the case- 
ment of which he fell into the court 
below, and was so dreadfully 
bruised that he almost instantly ex- 
pired. 
29th. In the parish of Cottachy, 
in Scotland, James Gordon, a native 
of the north of Scotland, who had 
lived by begging for a number’of 
years. On searching his house, 
there were found 18/. sterling in 
silver, and 1/, sterling in copper 
coin, wrapped up in old stockings, 
and hid in holes in the wall. 
50th. At his house in Aldersgate. 
street, aged 69, Thomas Skinner, 
esq. alderman of Queenhithe ward, 
to which office he was elected in 
1785, on the decease of alderman 
Bates, who held the office for a short 
period after the death of alderman 
Bull. This very respectable citizen 
was born at Brentford, Jan. 14, 
1737 3; received his education at 
Ealing, and served an apprentice- 
ship to Mr. Williams, an upholder 
in Newgate-street. He used to seem 
happy when relating from what a 
small beginning he raised himself, 
by an honourable course of indus- 
try, to the splendid fortune of which 
he 
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