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river, opposite to the Horseferry, 

 Milbank, and conveyed it to the 

 Brown Bear public-house, from 

 the description of the person and 

 dress, previously given in public 

 advertisements, he was soon re- 

 cognized. The melancholy fate of 

 Mr. Eden is the more difficult to 

 be accounted for, as in evidence 

 before the coroner's inquest, it ap- 

 peared that there was no symptom 

 of mental derangement in any part 

 of his conduct ; but that to the 

 very hour 'of his leaving home, he 

 was engaged in transacting busi- 

 ness with that precision and punc- 

 tuality for which he wasremarkable. 



AtEdgeworth'stown, in thecen- 

 tre of Ireland, the widow Burnet, 

 aged 116 and upwards. She had 

 been wife to an honest laborious 

 mason, and she was awoman of un- 

 common shrewdness and activity. 

 The winter before last she was 

 seen mounted on a ladder, mend- 

 ing the thatch of her cottage. 

 Though she was thus careful of 

 her worldly goods, she was un- 

 commonly good-natured and cha- 

 ritable. Her mind was never fret- 

 ted by malevolent passions. She 

 was always ready to give or lend 

 what little money she possessed, 

 and she was careful to do these 

 services to her distressed neigh- 

 bours when nowitness was present; 

 so that accident alone discovered 

 some of her good deeds and bad 

 debts. In her habits of diet she 

 was very temperate ; she lived 

 chiefly on potatoes and milk, and 

 stirabout; never drank spirits or 

 beer, but sometimes drank a glass 

 of sweet wine, of which she was 

 fond. She was (like most otlier 

 long-Uved people) an early riser, 

 and took regular but not vio- 

 lent exercise. For the last twenty 

 years of her life she seldom failed 



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to walk from the cottage whereshe 

 lived to Edgeworth's town, a dis- 

 tance of about an English mile, 

 over a rough stony road. She pre- 

 served all her organs of sense to 

 the last ; could hear what was said 

 in a low voice, could distinguish 

 the changesof countenance ofihose 

 to whom she spoke, as she plainly 

 proved by changing her topics of 

 conversation when she found they 

 did not please her auditors; her 

 sense of smell had not failed; the 

 summer before her death she took 

 pleasure, as she said, in the smell 

 of a rose, and shewed that she per- 

 ceived the odour, by asking where 

 it came from, before she saw the 

 flower. Her intellectual faculties 

 were, at this advanced age, acute 

 and vigorous ; she narrated with 

 uncommon clearnessand vivacity ; 

 and it was remarkable of her me- 

 mory, that it was not only reten- 

 tive of things that had passed 

 ninety years ago, but of recent 

 facts and conversations. She had 

 the habit, common to very old 

 people, of continually talking of 

 her approaching death, and yet 

 making preparations for life. She 

 was as eager about the lease or 

 rent of her farm, as if she felt 

 sure of continuing many years to 

 enjoy what she possessed. She 

 was very religious, but her reli- 

 gion was not of a melancholy cast. 

 The following epitaph is inscribed 

 over her tomb. " Here lies, in 

 hopes of a blessed resurrection, 

 the body of Elizabeth Burnet, of 

 Lignageeragh ; born 1693; mar- 

 ried 1733 ; died September 14-, 

 1809, aged 116." 



At Surat, in India, in the prime 

 of lite, captain Henry Young, of 

 his majesty's seventeenth light 

 dragoons, second son of the late 

 bishop of Clonfert. This gallant 



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