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fellow-apprentice called him, but re- 
ceived no answer. Not, however, 
suspecting any thing, he sat down to 
dinner; and when he had finished 
it, went up stairs, where he found 
the unfortunate youth suspended by 
a string, which was tied to a beam, 
wrapped ence round his throat, and 
fastened to his thigh. The stool! on 
which he appeared to have stood 
had unluckily slipped, and left him 
suspended without the power of 
untying himself, The body when 
found was still warm, but the means 
used to restore animation were in- 
effectual. It appeared before the 
inquest, that the above apprentice 
and another boy had been trying ex- 
Miles. 
Cambridge; S. T. B. 1784; had 
periments of the same sort on each 
other about three weeks before, till 
one of them was nearly suffocated ; 
and we understand the practice has 
‘not been confined to them. 
10th. At his house in Hertford- 
street, Fitzroy-square, aged 71, the 
rev. Robert-Anthony Bromley, B. 
D. rector of St. Mildred’s, in the 
Poultry, with St. Nicholas Cole 
Abbey united, in the alternate pre- 
sentation of the king and the Mer- 
cers company, who presented in 
1775 ; lecturer of St. John’s, Hack- 
ney, and chaplain to Mr. Sheriff 
He was of Trinity college, 
been preacher to the Foundling hos- 
pital ; and published a sermon on 
frequent communion, Psa. xxxiy. 8, 
1770 ; at the Foundling hospital, 
Job xxix. 30, 1770; another ser- 
mon there, 1774, Eccles, iv. 10; at 
opening achurch and organ, 1774, 
Psa, cxxii. 4; before the humane 
society, 1782, Luke viii. 52. 
16th. In Portman-square, Mary 
countess of Kenmare, eldest daugh- 
ter of Michael Aylmer, esq. of 
565 
Lyons, co. Kildare; and married, 
August 24, 1783, to Valentine earl 
of Kenmare, one of the few noble- 
men of Lreland still adhering to the 
Roman catholic faith. The follow- 
ing is perhaps a correct list : the earl 
of Wexford and Waterford (earl of 
Shrewsbury in England ;) theearl of 
Fingal; the earl of Kenmare; the 
viscount Gormanstown; the vis- 
count Southwell ; the viscount 
Taaffe ; the lord Trimblestown ; and 
the lord French. 
19th. At Farnham, Surrey, being 
onthe road to their house at Win- 
chester, lady Amelia Gamon, wife 
of sir Richard G. bart. M. P. daugh- 
ter of the late and sister of the pre- 
sent duke of Athol. 
Nov. 1st. At Ombersley Court, 
Worcestershire, in her 87th year, 
the right honourable Anna-Maria 
baroness Sandys, widow of the late 
lord Sandys. By the death of this 
lady, all the large possessions of her 
husband have devolved upon his 
niece the marchioness of Down. 
shire, who is the sole heiress, tineat 
descendant, and only remaining 
branch of his lordship’s family, as 
well as of those of the last earl of 
Stirliug, the lord viscount Stirling, 
the celebrated statesman and scholar 
sir William Trumbull, and other 
ancient families. Soon after thede- 
cease of the late much lamented, 
truly noble, and patriotic marquis 
of Bownshire, ‘whose memory will 
long be dear to Ireland, his majesty 
was pleased to revive the title of 
Sandys, by creating the marchioness 
of Downshire baroness of Sandys in 
her own right, with remainder to 
her ladyship’s second son lord 
Arthur Hill, and her three other 
younger sons, and their issue suc. 
cessively. ‘The marehioness may, 
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