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ed. While this corps was lying at 
York, the subject of our humble 
narrative, frequently did duty over 
the rebel prisoners there. Amongst 
them was one of the men whom he 
took prisoner, as mentioned before ; 
this man was very remarkable for al- 
ways crying out, when he saw our 
hero, “* Oh! mon, if it had na 
been for you, Id no been here.” 
March 2d. Aged 50, Robert Wat- 
_kin Wynn, esq. of Plasnewydd, 
county of Denbigh. 
At the Pears, near Horton-Shield, 
county of Northumberland, much 
respected, Mrs, John Hunter. The 
manner of her death was truly af- 
_fecting. In the morning she pro- 
posed that the servant, with the rest 
of the family should go to church, 
and that she would, contrary to her 
usual custom, stay at home, and 
make the necessary preparations for 
dinner. Her little boy staid with 
her; and when she was in the act 
of making a pudding, she fell down 
and expired. 
played by the boy was wonderful ; 
and, wher al] his feeble efforts to 
restore his mother had failed, he ran 
out for other assistance, the next 
house being at least half a mile off. 
The poor little fellow has been in a 
most distressed condition ever since ; 
though, at the time, he says, he 
could have done any thing! 
3d. At his house at Greenwich, 
aged 81, Isaiah Millington, esq. 
The spacious iron wharf, with the 
ancieat mansion, now belonging to 
the earl of Ashburnham, and in the 
occupation of. Mr. M. were pur- 
chased, in 1704, of sir Ambrose 
Crowley, alderman of London, and 
was for some time the residence of 
that family. Their great iron- 
works are at Newcastle, where sir 
The fortitude dis-— 
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Ambrose had a colony of 1000 men, 
to make all the anchors for the 
use of government, who allowed 
him to pay them in acoin of his 
own; and he died worth 300,0001. 
Jeaving a sum of money to put out 
apprentices to his trade. This fac- 
tory, under the name of Abraham 
Crowley, occurs in the common- 
council books of Newcastle, at 
Swallwell, in the vicinity of New- 
castle, 1694, which must have be- 
gun at least three years before. 
(Brand’s Newcastle, If. 501.) Mr, 
Lysons (Environs, IIT. 493.) re- 
fers, for an authentic account of it, 
to Hutchinson’s history of Durham. 
At Exeter, aged i7, the hon. 
Miss Trefusis, eldest daughter of the 
late, and sister of the-present, Lord 
Clinton, of Cross, Devon. 
4th, The son of sir Lionel Copley, 
bart. He had ascended the ladder 
of his father’s library, from which 
he fell, and broke his leg in so 
shocking a manner, that the bone 
stuck in the floor. A fever ensued, 
which terminated his life. 
Lieutenant-colonel Bagwell, of ~ 
the 6th dragoon guards, son of John 
B. esq. M. P. for Tipperary, and 
brother to the M.P. for the bo- 
rongh of Clonmeil, in Ireland. 
Riding on a party of pleasure with 
some officers of his acquaintance, 
on the road between Exeter and 
Exmouth, at that part where the 
roads from Clyst and Newcourt join 
that between ‘Topsham and ‘Top- 
sham-bridge, his horse suddenly 
took fright, and, galloping off with 
great fury, threw his rider with such 
force as to fractnre his~scull most 
dreadfully, and kill him on the spot. 
He was in the prime of life, beloved 
aud esteemed by the whole regi- 
ment, and all who knew him. 
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