, 
ing at Portsmouth, 
near Bury, Suffolk, 
‘At the last general election, 
Sessions he represented them, 
CHRONTIC'L EB. 
of Wartebruch, comprising nearly 
300,000 acres of arable land, are 
indebted to him for their original’ 
settlement. 
At the alms-houses at Skirbeck, 
near Boston, aged 98, John Custe- 
low. . 
Mr. Francis Bissill, of Knipton, 
co. Leicester. Returning home, 
in perfect health, from his friends 
at Redmile, he fell from his horse, 
and died immediately, supposed in 
a fit of apoplexy. 
At Gainsborough, in an advanced 
age, Mrs. Dorothy Fisher, late of 
London. 
Mrs. Berry, wife of the rev. 
Butler B. vicar of Triplow. 
June 4th.. Aged 69, and on the 
anniversary of his birth, sir Charles 
Davers, bart. of Rushbrooke-hall, 
of which 
borough he was the faithful repre- 
sentative during five successive par- 
liaments, elected since the year 1774, 
and his family during the greatest 
part of the period from the revolu- 
tion in 1688, being ever strenuously 
attached to true Whig principles. 
in 
1802, ‘he retired into private life, 
and received the unanimous thanks 
of the corporation for his steady and 
upright conduct during the several 
At 
his own express desire, his remains 
were very privately interred in the 
family-vault at Rushbrooke. ‘The 
title is become extinct. 
Mr. T. Lloyd, second lieutenant 
of the Dreadnoughtman of war, ly- 
accompanied 
some brother-officers to Kingston ; 
where, after taking a few glasses of 
wine, the joke went merrily round, 
_and Mr. L. in the height of good 
humour, wishing his companions to 
_ go with him to the church-yard, as 
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he had a particularly desire to fix on 
a spot where he should like his body 
tobe buried. His wish was complied 
with ; and, after having pointed 
out a spot of ground, all the officers 
returned on board; soon after 
which, Mr, L, was taken ill of a 
pain in his bowels, and went to bed, 
having taken some warm nourish- 
ment. The next morning he was 
found dead in his bed; and the 
body was this day interred in Kings~ 
ton church-yard, agreeably to his 
wishes when alive. 
11th. AtBuxton,aged 70, Andrew 
Douglas, esq. of Ednam-house, in 
Roxburghshire. After a medical 
education at Edinburgh, he was ap- 
pointed, in 1756, a surgeon of 
the royal navy, and served for se. 
veral years with reputation in that 
capacity. Settling, afterwards, as 
a surgeon at Deal, he there married 
Miss Carter, a younger sister ef the 
late Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, of learn. 
ed memory ; and continued to prac- 
tise there till the year 1775, when 
he quitted Deal, and went to Edin- 
burgh, and was admitted to the 
degree of Doctor of Physic in that 
University ; on which occasion he 
defended a thesis, ** De Variolz 
Insitione.” Fixing; soon after 
this, in London, he became a licen- 
tiate of the college of physicians ; 
and for several years was one of the 
physicians of the charity for deli- 
vering poor married women at their 
own habitations. It was in the 
course of his practice at this insti- 
tution that he met with a case which 
he supposed to be an instance of 2 
rupture of the uterus, and which he 
made the subject of a pamphlet 
published in 1785, and enlarged in 
a subsequent edition, under the 
title of ‘* Observations on the Rup- 
ture of the Gravid Uterus,” 8vo. 
1789. He 
