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three hundred pounds in the hands 

 of Mr. Walter Cook, W. S. agent 

 for the College, but he died before 

 the necessary deeds were finished, 

 and he left them to be executed by 

 his trustees. 



In Spanish Town, Jamaica, Eliz. 

 Haywood, a free black woman, at 

 the very advanced age of 130 years. 

 She was a grown girl at the time of 

 the earthquake which destroyed 

 Port Royal, in 1692, and remem- 

 bers having gone with her mother 

 fora load of thewreck which drifted 

 ashore on the beach near Port 

 Henderson on that occasion. She 

 was a native of the island, and in 

 her youth belonged to Dr. Char- 

 nock, of the above town. 



On board the Mary transport, on 

 his passage home from Corunna, 

 lieut.-col. Symes of his majesty's 

 76th regiment, formerly ambassa- 

 dor to the kingdom of Ava, and au- 

 thor of an interesting and valuable 

 account of that country. 



In the harbour of Gijon, in Spain, 

 the hon.capt. Herbert, of the royal 

 navy, second son of the earl of Car- 

 narvon. He was going on shore 

 from the Swallow sloop, with Mr. 

 Creed, son of Thomas Creed, esq. 

 navy agent; but just as they were 

 on the bar, a violent surf broke 

 over them, filled the boat, and 

 plunged the whole into the sea. — 

 The greater part, by taking iiold of 

 the boat, kept tiiemselves above 

 water, and supported themselves on 

 oarsandplanksjtill the boats, which 

 immediately put off from the shore, 

 picked them up. Unfortunately, 

 however, they were unable to save 

 capt. Herbert and Mr. Creed, who 

 sunkbefore they arrived. These two 

 gentlemen went out for the purpose 

 of visiting the country. Captain 

 Herbcrtwas a gentleman of respect- 



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able literary talents, and had lately 

 published a volume of poems, trans- 

 lated from the northern languages. 

 He married miss Byng, daughter 

 of the hon. John Byng, and sister 

 to capt. Byng, of his majesty's ship 

 Belliqueux. His body was picked 

 up a few days after the fatal acci- 

 dent; by the Unicorn, frigate, and 

 interred at Gijon, with military ho- 

 nours, on the 23rd of September 

 last; most of the English there, 

 and many Portuguese of the first 

 respectability, attended the funeral. 

 The body of Mr. Creed has also 

 been picked up and buried with due 

 solemnity. 



Atthelodge.Villiers' walk, Adel- 

 phi, Mr.HughHew6on,S5. Hewas 

 a man of no mean celebrity, tlwugh 

 no funeral escutcheons adorn- 

 ed his hearse, or heir expectant 

 graced his obsequies. He was no 

 less a personage than the identical 

 Hugh Strap, whom Dr. Smollett has 

 rendered so conspicuously interest- 

 ing in his Life and Adventures of 

 Roderick Random, and for upwards 

 of 40 years had kept a hair-dres- 

 ser's shop in the parish of St. Mar- 

 tin's in the Fields. He was a very 

 intelhgent man, and took dehght 

 in recounting the adventures of his 

 early hfe. He spoke with pleasure 

 of the time he passed in the ser- 

 vice of the doctor, and it was his 

 pride as well as boast, to say that 

 he had been educated in the same 

 seminary with so learned and dis- 

 tinguished a character. His shop 

 was hung round with Latin quota- 

 tions, and he would frequently point 

 out to his customers and acquaint- 

 ances the several scenes in Rode^^ 

 rick Random, relating to himself, 

 which had their foundation, not in 

 the doctor's inventive fancy, but in 

 truth and reahty. Tiie meeting in 



a barber's 



