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upon a literary topic without re- 

 ceiving satisfactory information, 

 the result of very extensive read- 

 ing, committed to a most tena- 

 cious memory. In classical litera- 

 ture he was not only elegantly but 

 critically skilled, and his know- 

 ledge inspired respect even in a 

 Porson. If he had lived to com- 

 plete the plan of study he had laid 

 down to himself, he would proba- 

 bly have ranked with the first 

 scholars of the age. The only 

 fruits of his learning which he is 

 known to have given to the public, 

 were the classical and biographical 

 articles in the Annual Review', and 

 a series of papers in the Athe- 

 naeum, containing an account of 

 Greek authors, from Homer to 

 Thuc3'dides. These are distin- 

 guished by good taste, sound erudi- 

 tion, and spirit of candour and li- 

 berality which vvas one of his cha- 

 racteristics. His private character 

 was such as to gain the affection and 

 esteem of all who knew him ; and 

 few men have left the world more 

 eincerely regretted by their friends. 



6. At Keith-hall, Scotland, Wil- 

 liam Keith, Earl of Kintore. 



Major-general Brock, in an ac- 

 tion with the Americans in Upper 

 Canada. 



13. Moolvy Meer Abdool AH, a 

 native of Lucknow, and a professor 

 of Oriental literature in the East- 

 India College near Hertford. 



16. Baroness Dimsdale, Hertford, 

 aged 82. 



At Carlsrhue, the Hereditary 

 Prince of Baden. 



17. James Lind, M.D. F. R. S. 

 late physician at Windsor, aged 78. 



20. TI>e right honourable Hene- 

 age Finch, Earl of Aylesford, in 

 his 62d year. His lordship mar- 

 ried Lady Louisa Thynne, daugli- 



ter of the Marquis of Bath, by 

 whom he had fourteen children. 



21. Lady Jane Mackenzie, daugh- 

 ter of the Jate Earl of Cromarty. 



23. Grace, Countess Dowager of 

 Meath, in her 84th year. 



28. Mrs. Susannah Duncomhe, 

 widow of the late Rev. J. Dun- 

 combe, of Canterbury, joint-trans- 

 lator with his father of the works 

 of Horace. Mrs. Duncombe was 

 the daughter of Mr. Highmore, a 

 portrait painter in London, whose 

 taste in the arts and love of letters 

 she inherited. She was intimately 

 connected with many eminent vo- 

 taries of literature, of both sexes, 

 iii her day, before the death oJ her 

 husband, twenty-six years since ; 

 after which she lived chiefly in re- 

 tirement, highly esteemed and be- 

 loved by her friends and relatives. 

 Of her literarj' effusions none met 

 the public eye except a paper or 

 two in the Adventurer, and some 

 pieces in the Poetical Calendar, and 

 Nichols's Poems. 



Thomas Eagles, esq. collector of 

 the customs at Bristol, a gentle- 

 man of great literary accomplish- 

 ments, and the translator of tlie 

 Deipnosophistae of Aihena:u:?. 



November. 



3. Sir Charles Talbot, bart. of 

 Chart park and Mickleham, Sur- 

 rey, M. P. for Bletchingly. 



4-. Philip St. Martin, Count de 

 Front, ambassador from Sardinia. 



5. Major general Broadhurst, in 

 the East India company's service. 



7- Lieutenant-general Richard 

 England. 



9. At Paris, in a very advanced 

 age, David Sintzheim, grand rabbi, 

 and president of the central con- 

 sistory 



