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dead. His family by marriage was related to Colonel 

 Montresor of Whitehall, near Faversham, who died in 

 Maidstone Gaol. 



" Sunday , 18th. Matthew Buchinger from Dart- 

 ford called and dined, and said some suspicion 

 had fallen out about Lord Castlereagh/s death, and 

 that a further hearing was to take place yesterday. 

 To-day the Charles Grant, and two other East 

 Indiamen, Lowther and Kelly Castles, arrived off 

 this place. This afternoon, as my daughters were 

 walking down the canal, a man was found drowned, 

 and very likely murdered, having many bruises and 

 cuts about him. He was taken to Chalk for the 

 coroner's inquest to sit on him. He was pulled out 

 of the water by Mr. Jones, my son-in-law, and 

 appeared a navigator or labouring-man, by his 

 Guernsey jacket, in which was Is. 6d. and a farthing. 



" Thursday, 22nd. Heard a death-watch very 

 plainly, which I suppose is one of those small insects 

 called f wood lice/ It was in my bureau. I think 

 they are only heard in warm weather, because I heard 

 one in July, 1818, at the death of Mrs. Pocock. Some 

 think them a beetle ; but I am convinced the wood 

 lice have this power of ticking, which I have proved 

 in two instances. Mr. Pewtress called, and I settled wit h 

 him by a bill at two months. [Wholesale stationer.] 



"Monday, 16th. Went down to the Hope, to the 

 Abberton, Captain Gilpin, to see my son Charles, 

 whom I found well. Squally wind, S.W. He sold 

 his fat for 21 16s. per tierce (five tierces to Mr. 

 Cooper). The ship had three Persian cats on board 

 belonging to General Forbes, who came home in her 

 with Major Frazer, &c. 



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