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friends and society have sustained a 
severe loss in their untimely end ; 
‘mourning; to his barber, 5/. 
_ tailor, 
the two former were in the prime of 
life, and endeared to their nume- 
rous friends by their virtues and 
merits; the latter was in the bloom 
of youth, only 16 years of age, and 
gave the most flattering promises of 
an estimable manhood. 
‘18th. At Oundle, aged 87, Wil- 
liam Walcot, M. D. who acted many 
yearsas a magistrate and deputy- 
lientenant for Northamptonshire. 
He was formerly of Jesus college, 
Cambridge; M. B. 1742, M. D. 
1747. ‘Yo his housekeeper and foot- 
man he has bequeathed 50/, a year 
each ; to his coachman, 20/. a year; 
and 100/. in cash to each of them ; 
to his gardeuer, 200/. ; to his ser- 
- yant-maids, who lately entered his 
10/. and. double 
; to his 
10/,; to his blacksmith, 
10/.; and to several servants who 
had formerly lived with him, 5/. 
each, 
Qist. At Tunbridge-wells, in his 
50th year, sir John Chardin Mus- 
grave, bart. of Eden-hall, co. Cum- 
berland. He is sicevedled by his 
‘eldest son, now a minor. 
23d. Miss Postlethwaite, daughter 
of William P. esq. of Fleckney, co. 
service each 
’ b] 
Leicester. 
At Leith fort, col. W. P. Smith, 
commanding the royal artillery in 
Scotland. 
24th. Samuel Barnes, a soldier 
belonging the 3dregiment of guards, 
who lost his life by falling into the 
‘main sewer in South Moulton-street. 
He was employed, with about 12 
other labourers, to clear away a 
quantity of rubbish formed by the 
bursting of the main sewer in a yard 
‘between South Moulton and Davies-. 
streets, Oxford ~ street. 
It was 
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thought expedient by the foreman of 
Mr. Rowles, the contra¢tor for 
keeping the sewers in repair, to call 
the men from their work in the af- 
ternoon, their situation being dan- 
gerous from the quantity of water 
which inundated the lower parts of 
the houses around them. Afterthe 
workmen had retired, one of them, 
as it appeared, who had drank rather 
freely while at. work, had left his 
jacket, and the debeased went for 
it. Another person went with him; 
and as he was attempting to reach 
with astick the jacket, which was 
on the other side of the sewer, the 
ground gave way, and he was pre- 
cipitated into the torrent of water, 
which was very strong, and about 
six feet indepth. Several persons 
went down the sewer as soon as the 
water had gone off, as far as Elliot’s 
brew-house, Pimlico, from whence 
the shore lies open. The body. was 
found by two of Mr. Elliot’s men, 
on Thursday morning, July 31, 
floating on the water opposite the 
middle of Milbank. Verdict acci- 
dental death. An affecting scene 
followed the inquest, The wife of 
the deceased, a young woman of very 
interesting appearance, with two 
children, and herself again preg- 
nant, followed the corpse of her 
husband to the grave, in front of 
the company of guards to which her 
husbaud belonged. The common 
sewer which crosses Oxford-street, 
near South Moulton and Davies- 
streets, was originally a small stream 
that ran down from Hampstead-hill, 
When Mary-le-bone parish was 
about to be built upon, it was found 
necessary to extend the bed through 
which this small current flowed, 
both in order to form a land-drain 
for the marshy ground, and witha 
view to form a general channel 
through 
