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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1812. 



September. 



1. At the Escurial, of a typhus 

 fever, Major-general Wheattey, 1st 

 guards. 



6. Major-general Robert Bowles, 

 of the Bombay establishment, aged 

 68. 



9. Harriet Countess of Romney, 



19. Sir Thomas Dingley Hail on, 

 bart. of Long-Stanton, county of 

 Cambridge. His death was the con- 

 sequence of being thrown out of a 

 curricle. 



20. The honourable Mrs. Vane, 

 relict of the honourable Charles 

 Vane, of Mount Ida, Norfolk. 



^ Lady Rebecca Peyton, wife of 

 Sir Yelverton Payton, bart. aged 

 87. 



21. Lady Amcotls Ingilby, wife 

 of Sir J. Ingilby, of Riplej'-park, 

 Yorkshire. 



At Bologna, in consequence of a 

 fall from a balloon which had taken 

 fire on being entangled in a tree, 

 M. Zambeccari. 



AtManheim,in consequence ofa 

 similar accident, Bittorf, a mecha- 

 nician. 



23. The Prince of Waldeck, inhis 

 68th year. 



24. Lady Harriet Jane Hay, 4th 

 daughter of James Earl of Errol. 



26. At New-York, of a dropsy 

 brought on by habitual intemper- 

 ance, the celebrated actor, George 

 Frederic Cooke, in his 57th year. He 

 was anativeof BerwickuponTweed, 

 and after having acted for some 

 time at Dublin, was engaged at the 

 theatre in Covent-Garden in 1800. 

 His forcible, though coarse, style 

 of acting was so n^uch admired, 

 that the audiences were willing to 

 pardon his many offences against 

 order and decorum arising from 

 ebriety. He exclusively excelled 

 *» representing characters of deep 



and energetic villany, and in the 

 expression of bitter sarcasm. His 

 manner was entirely his own, and 

 he may be ranked among the small 

 number of original actors. 



SO. Elizabeth, eldest daughter of 

 Lord Sinclair. 



Major-geiieral William Grant, 

 R.A. aged84. He had-distinguisb- 

 ed his zeal and bravery in a service 

 of sixty years. 



The honourable John Astley Ben- 

 nett, youngest son of the Earl of 

 Tankerville, and a captain in the 

 navy. 



Lately, at the storming of Fort 

 Cayetano, Major-general Foord 

 Botvcs. 



On his passage from Calcutta, 

 Major-general Macan. 



October. 



1. The right honourable Lady 

 Helen Dalrymple, relict of Hugh 

 Dalrymple, esq. of Fordell. 



3. At Castlerosse, Kerry, aged 

 58, Valentine Brotun, Earl of Ken- 

 mare. 



4. The Rev. Anthony Hamilton, 

 D.D. rector of Hadhara, Hertford- 

 shire, vicar of St. Martin in the 

 Fields, London, and archdeacon of 

 Colchester, aged 74. 



The Rev. John Bickerto7i Dew- 

 hurst, Hackney, in his 35th year. 

 This excellent person was brought 

 up to the dissenting ministry, but 

 had chiefly employed himself in 

 private tuition, and in the acquisi- 

 tion of learning, of which he pos- 

 sessed a larger share than falls to 

 the lot of many who have obtained 

 much higher distinction in the 

 world. A degree of modesty, bor- 

 dering on diffidence, locked up the 

 stores of his mind in company, un- 

 less particularly called forth ; 

 but no one ever consulted him 



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