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in his bed-room, at the New Lon- 

 don inn, where he had anrived on 

 his way to join hisship at PlyniOLith. 

 According to letters found in the 

 pocket of the deceased, love, and 

 a quarrel with his rival, whom he 

 had refused to fight, added to the 

 dread of being deemed guilty of 

 cowardice, induced him to the 

 rash act. The coroner's jury pro- 

 nounced a verdict of felo de se, 

 and on the following day his body 

 was interred according to the form 

 of law in such cases. He bore a 

 very fair character, and was held 

 in the highest e>teem by his bro- 

 ther officers, some of whom, im- 

 mediately on hearing of the fatal 

 disaster, went express from Ply- 

 mouth to Exeter ; but unfortu- 

 nately, the verdict had passed be- 

 fore their arrival, otherwise, we 

 may reasonably suppose, their evi- 

 dence would have occasioned a ma- 

 terial alteration in the opinion of 

 the jurors ; for they testified in the 

 most positive terms, that the de- 

 ceased had for a long time past 

 been much disordered in his mind. 



MAY. 



In the seventy-sixth year of his 

 age, William Havard, esq. of South 

 Lambeth, one of the partners in 

 the city and county bank of Here- 

 ford, a gentleman whose industry, 

 benevolence, integrity, and worth, 

 entitle his memory to more than 

 ordinary notice. Mr. Havard was 

 borninSt.Owen's-street, Hereforr 

 wherehis parents kept asmallshop; 

 and theircircumstances were sore- 

 mote from aflBuence, that when, 

 (like his countryman Whittington) 

 he left his native place to pursue 

 his fortunes in the metropolis, he 

 had not sixpence in in's pocket on 



his arrival in London. From this 

 period, such was the perseverance, 

 ability, and success with which he 

 applied himself to business, that he 

 gradually rose, with increasing 

 honour and esteem, from clerk to 

 partner, in the house of Mr. Jones, 

 M. P. for Devizes, in Mansion- 

 house-street. Thus becoming en- 

 rolled in the first class of British 

 merchants, Mr. Havard was fre- 

 quently consulted in the most diffi- 

 cult and important adjustments of 

 mercantile accounts; and has now 

 bequeathed to five daughters more 

 than 10,000/. each, the fruits of his 

 own exertions and personal indus- 

 try. His house and the hospitalities 

 of his table were not only open to 

 his countrymen in general, but 

 many of his younger friends from 

 Hereford, will gratefully acknow- 

 ledge how materially they have 

 been aided by his powerful inter- 

 est and valuable advice. 



On board his flag-ship, the Ville 

 deParis,admirallordCollingwood, 

 commander-in-chief of the British 

 fleet in the Mediterranean. Worn 

 out with the toils and cares of a 

 sea-'^U'ing life, his lordship expir- 

 ed just as he was about returning 

 home for the recovery of his de- 

 caying health and constitution. 

 Cuthbert Collingwood was born at 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1750; his 

 family is very ancient, and was 

 particularly distinguished in arms, 

 and celebrated by the poets during 

 the wars of the borderers, in the 

 sixteenth centur}-. The tradition- 

 iry songs and tales of those wars 

 made a strong impression on the 

 young mind of our hero, as he 

 sought the field of glory at the 

 very early age of eleven, although 

 not for the same reason which in- 

 duced Nelson at that age to adopt 



