534 . ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
Our Dean shall be vension, just fresh 
from the plains.” 
He was then a new member of the 
society ; and, supposing him dead, 
the poet goes on : 
“ Here lies the good Dean, re-united to 
ly earth, 
Who mix’d reason with pleasure, and 
wisdom with mirth ; 
Ifhe had any faults, he has left us in 
doubt, 
At least in six weeks I could not find 
7em out; 
Yet some have declar’d, and it can’t be 
deny’d them, 
That slyboots was cursedly cunning to 
hide ’em.” 
At Aberdeen, Mr. Jn. Barnet, 
bookseller. 
8th. Thomas Velley, esq. F. L. S. 
late lieutenant-colonel of the Ox- 
fordshire militia, and longa resident 
in Bath. ‘Travelling in a double- 
bodied stage-coach, between 9 and 
10 o’clock of the night of the 6th, 
it stopped at the Castle-inn, Read- 
ing, and while the coachman was 
gone in to refresh himself, the horses 
set off without him; and Mr. Vel. 
ley, alarmed at his situation, jump- 
ed out, and fell with the back part 
of his head so violently on the 
ground, as to occasion a concussion 
of the brain. He languished in a 
State of insensibility, till this even- 
jog, when heexpired. Mrs. V. on 
her way from Bath, with medical 
assistance for her unfortunate hus- 
band, was stopped by three foot- 
pads on her entrance into Reading 
in a post-chaise, between 11 and 12 
the next night ; but, just as she was 
about to deliver hermoney, a coach 
came up, and the villains made off 
over the fields without effecting their 
purpose, 
At Richmond, Surrey, Edward 
John Astly, esq. formerly colonel 
in the lst regiment of foot-gards, 
and eight years equerry to the late 
duke of Cumberland. He was se- 
second son of the late sir Edward 
A. of Melton-constable, Norfolk. 
10th. InQueen-square, Bloomsbury, 
aged 73, Cornelius Donovan, esq. 
brother-in-law to lady Skeffington 3 
and also related to the Mr. Skef. 
fington, so noted for his dress, 
13th. At Spital,near Chesterfield,in 
his 75th year, the rev. John Bourne, 
M.A. rector of Sutton, and vicar 
of South Wingfield, co. Derby. He 
was born Feb. 14, 1729-30 5 mar- 
ried, first, Anne Blaxidge, who died 
Feb. 15, 1769, s. p. 3 secondly, 
Dec. 18, 1769, Anna-Katharina, — 
only daughter of the late truly-ve~ 
nerable Samuel Pegge, L. L. D. 
rector of Whittington ; by whom 
(who still survives him) he had one 
son, Henry, born 1771, who died 
young, 2. Elizabeth, married to 
Robert Jennings, of Hull, esq. who 
in 1804, died s. p. leaving her a 
widow ; 3. Jane, wife of Benjamin 
Thompson, esq. of Nottingham, 
translator of ‘¢ The German the- 
atre,” by whom she has three chil. 
dren. He was of Peterhouse, 
Cambridge ; B. A. 1754, M. A. 
1757. 
14th. At Ovenden,nearHalifax,aged 
48, John Wheler Collington, esq. 
latea captain iu the 33d foot, in 
which regiment he had served 30 
years. He was twice wounded in 
America, being there with the regi- 
ment nearly the whole of that war, 
His remains were attended to the 
grave by all the officers in the town 
and neighbourhood of Halifax 5 
-and three excellent volleys were 
fired over the grave by a detach. 
ment of the Halifax volunteers. 
At 
