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second in command of the fleet 

 under Lord Duncan in the North 

 Seas, where he distinguished him- 

 self in the Monarch, in the defeat 

 of the Dutch fleet, and for his 

 gallant conduct was created a 

 Baronet, and received the thanks 

 of both Houses of Parliament. 



January, 1818. 



1. In Duke-street, St. James's, 

 in his 56th year, Count Zenobio, 

 descended from the first family 

 among the noblesse in Europe. 

 As a man of fashion and gallantry 

 he took the lead at Versailles, 

 when uflder the ancient regime. 



9. At York, aged 88, the 

 Dowager Lady Vavasour, a lineal 

 descendant of the ancient family 

 of Vavasour, of Spaldington, 

 Yorkshire. 



10. Of the gout in his stomach, 

 Lieid. -General Floyd, Colonel of 

 the 8th dragoons, and Governor 

 of Gravesend and Tilbury. 



27. John James Hamilton, Mar- 

 quis of Abercorn, in his 64th year. 



29. Sir Claude Chamj}ion de 

 Crespigny, Bart, aged S3. 



February. 



1. Died at his seat of Ampt- 

 hill Park, co. Bedford, in his 73rd 

 year, The Right Hon. John Fitz- 

 patrick. Earl of Upper Ossory in 

 the English Peerage, and the same, 

 together loith Baron Gotvran, in 

 Ireland. He was educated at 

 Eton and Oxford ; and married 

 the Hon. Anne Liddell, only 

 child and heiress of Henry Lord 

 Ravensworth, in 1769, by whom 

 he had two daughters. His Lord- 

 ship was uniformly and highly 

 esteemed, and hi? death will long 



be felt by a numerous tenantry, 

 both in England and Ireland. 

 His remains were interred in the 

 family vault in Bedfordshire, the 

 Marquis of Lansdowne, and 

 Lord Holland, both children of 

 his two sisters, attending the 

 funeral. His valuable estates in 

 Ireland are left to his two 

 daughters. 



2. Thomas Cogan, M. D. after 

 nearly completing his 82nd year. 

 This distinguished person was 

 born at Rowel, in Northampton, 

 and passed two or three years at 

 the school of Mr. (afterwards 

 Dr.) Aikin, of whom he always 

 spoke in terms of great respect. 

 His first profession was that of a 

 Dissenting Minister, which he 

 in part pursued in Holland, 

 where he married Miss Green, 

 daughter of a merchant in Am- 

 sterdam. In this place he first 

 directed the attention of his 

 countrymen to the possibihty of 

 recovering persons apparently 

 drowned ; and for this purpose 

 he translated the memoirs of the 

 Society established at Amster- 

 dam for that benevolent purpose. 

 Returning at that time to Eng- 

 land, he joined Dr. Hawes in 

 instituting the Royal Humane 

 Society, which was afterwards 

 the parent of several others. Mr. 

 Cogan, it is to be observed, 

 changed his profession, for physic, 

 and studied at Leyden, where he 

 took the degree of M. D. He 

 returned to Holland in 1780, 

 where he resigned his new pro- 

 fession ; and visiting Germany 

 he wrote his entertaining tour 

 upon the Rhine. Revisiting 

 England, he devoted his time 

 chiefly to the study of Moral 

 Philosophy, in which he obtained 



great 



