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1789. ‘He was likewise the author 
of some papers in the fifth and sixth 
volumes of ‘¢ Medical Observations 
and Inquiries ;” and was for some 
time physician to the Asylum. His 
wife died in 1790; and, the year 
following, he married Mrs. Beau. 
voir, widow of the rey. Dr. Os- 
mond 8B. Being now in the pos- 
session of a considerable fortune, 
acquired by this marriage, he retired 
from the medical profession, and, 
with his wife, visited, in 1792, the 
continent of Kurope, and remained 
there till 1796, when they obtained 
permission from ‘the directory to 
return home through France. 
About the year 1800 he took pos- 
session of a house (Ednam-house) 
he had just before purchased at 
Kelso, and was on his way from 
thence to London when he was 
taken ill at Buxton, and, after 
a very short illness; died. He was 
a sensible, well-informed man, of 
a mild and friendly disposition, and 
his death is much regretted. 
14th. At Newcastle, aged 81, 
Ninian Walker, who had _ visited 
most parts of the globe, and had 
been engaged in many perilous ad- 
ventures. He was a native of Fife- 
shire ; was pressed in 17453; and, 
on board the Happy Jennet, of 20 
guns, was in pursuit of the pretender 
in most of the creeks of Scotland. 
He afterwards served on board the 
Cambridge man of war eight years, 
without ever being on-shore ; was 
at the capture of Guadaloupe, in 
1758, and at the memorable siege 
of the Havannah, in 1761, when 
the Cambridge lost 125 men in 20 
minutes, before the Moro castle. 
He had the yellow fever, with se- 
yeral others of his ship, and was the 
only one that recovered. At the 
peace he entered inte the merchants’ 
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service, in which he at length got 
lamed ; and then maintained himself 
and his second wife, who was bed- 
ridden for 12 years, by selling 
small wares about the country, re- 
fusing relief from the parish, al- 
though offered it; till at last being 
unable to travel, and reduced to a 
mere skeleton, he was obliged to 
receive some small assistance. 
2ist. At Dresden, in his 76th 
year, his royal highness Francis 
Xavier, prinee-royal of Poland, 
duke of Saxony, and uncle of the 
reigning elector, during whose mi- 
nority he acted as regent of the 
electoral states. 
24th. At Oddingly, county of 
Worcester, of which he was rector, 
the rev. George Parker, He was in 
the habit of going daily to the field 
where he was inhumanly murdered, 
at five in the evening, and driving 
home his cows to be milked; and 
the perpetrator of the wicked deed 
appears to have for some days me- 
ditated his diabolical purpose, by 
repeatedly going there to watch a 
favourable opportanity, as the 
ground behind the hedge, whence the 
fatal shot was fired, was exceedingly 
beaten down, particularly opposite 
astile. It appears, however, that 
after the unfortunate gentleman re- 
ceived the contents of the murder. 
er’s gun, he had resolution enongh 
to pursue the wretch over the hedge 
into the field whence he fired, when 
_the inhuman monster, with the butt- 
end of his musket, completed the 
murder, The marks on the ground 
are still visible in two places, where 
the scull, by the force of the blows, 
had indented the earth. ‘The wad- 
ding of the piece had set fire to the 
poor gentleman’s clothes, and there 
remained on the spot singed rem- 
nants of them, On the culprit’s 
running, 
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