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31. At Plymouth Dock, in his 

 70th year. Sir John Thomas Duck- 

 worth, bart. admiral of the ^\'hite 

 Squadron, Commander-in-chief on 

 the Plymouth station, and M. P. 

 for New Ronuiey. This admiral, 

 who was the son of a clergyman 

 of a resjjectable family in Devon- 

 shire, fullilled his ddties in the 

 navy with great credit, though the 

 principal service which he per- 

 formed without a superior was a 

 victory over a French squadron of 

 five ships of the line in St. Do- 

 mingo Bay, in 1806". He v.as 

 twice married, and left issue by 

 each of his wives. 



At Twickenham, aged 7», Jt^- 

 countess Howe, widow of William 

 Viscount Howe, and daugliter of 

 the Rt. Hon. William Conolly, of 

 Castle-Town, Ireland. 



September. 



I. InDublin, of a typhus fever, 

 the Hon. Judge Osborne, fourth 

 Justice of the Court of King's 

 Bench in Ireland. 



II. At the Cape of Good Hope, 

 Thomas Sheridan, Esq. eldest son 

 of Richard Brinslcy Sheridan, by 

 his first wife. Miss Linley. He 

 left a widow and several children. 



At Bath, the Rt. Hon. Sir John 

 M'Mahon, bart. a Privy Counsel- 

 lor, and late Kiivate Secretary and 

 Keeper of the Privy-p'use to the 

 Prince Regent. 



IT- In her C7th year, at Ponton 

 House, near Grantham, Ladz/ Kent, 

 reliciof Sir Charles Kent, bart. 



18. In Serjeant's Inn, Fleet 

 Street, WiiliamCliarlcs Wells, M.D. 

 F.R.S. one of the physicians to St. 

 Thomas's Hospital, aged 60. Dr. 

 Wells was a native of Charlestown, 



South Carolina, descended from 

 Scottish parents ; and after amedi- 

 cal education, conducted partly in 

 Charlestown, and partly at Edin- 

 burgh and London, he settled in 

 the latter place for the practice of 

 his jn-ofession. It was a consider- 

 able time before he met with en- 

 couragement; nor indeed does itap- 

 jjcaithat his employment ever rose 

 higher than a competence ; but his 

 turn was chiefly to reading and 

 meditation, and he obtained the 

 character of a perspicuous, vigor- 

 ous, and elegant writer. Of his 

 philosophical works, ILxperiments 

 and Observations on "^Vision, and 

 an esssay upon Dew, are among 

 the most distinguishe d. Almost 

 all his writings upon i nedical sub- 

 jects are contained in the second 

 and third volumes of IVansactions 

 of a society for the p romotion of 

 medical and chiruigucal know- 

 ledge. 



22. In Hanover-S'^uarc, aged 

 72, Sir James^Earl, ? laster of the 

 Uoyal College of Si irgeons, and 

 many years senior su j'geon of St. 

 Bartholomew's IIo.spi tal, rmd sur- 

 geon extraordinary t o his JIajesty 

 and household. Sii' James rose 

 to high distinction as a professional 

 wiiter, and his wo rks giv<3 proof 

 of the result of ac( ;urate observa- 

 tion and exten^ive practic'3. 



2."). At Inierlakf :n, Swi' :zcrland, 

 Lord Melgund, el dest sf )n of the 

 EarlofMinto. , 



October, 



2. In his S.^t'.! year, Alexander 

 Monro, M.D. F.R.S. I'l ofcssor of 

 Medicine, Aniitomy, aiii I Surgery, 

 in the University of I -Edinburgh. 

 Succeeding his father , the cele- 

 brated processor of t aiatoniy in 



Ij 2 Edin- 



