1800. } Deaths 
her and a boat lafhed alongfide, whilft the 
fire was raging near him, fo that apparently 
he was precluded from the poflibility of 
efcaping. In this dreadful dilemma he in- 
treated fome of the people, who were getting 
over the {fhip’s fide mto another boat, to cut 
off his arm, that he might join them ; which 
not bemg complied with, he contrived to 
take a penknife from his pocket, and put an 
immediate end to his lite, by cutting his 
throat. 
At Munfter, aced 87, the Cardinal de la 
Rochetoucanlt, Archbifhop of Rouen. ‘This 
prelate, ftill more diftinguifhed by his vir- 
tues, than by his dignities ‘and his high birth, 
was the fenior of the Frenc h, ef pileopacy. 
There now remain only two Siniaals of that 
nation, the Cardinal de Rohan, Bithop of 
Straiburg, and the Cardinal de Laval Mont- 
morency, Bifhop of Metz, and Great Al- 
moner of France, who has retired to Mittau, 
to Louis XVIUT. The province of Norman- 
dy, of which the Cardinal de la Rochefou- 
cault was metropolitan, has at prefent only 
two bifhops out of feven which it formerly 
had. Thofe fill remaining are M. de Bal- 
beuf, Bifhop of orinches: who refides at 
Hampftead, and M. de Pleilis L’Argentre, 
Bithop of Siez, who is 80 years of age, and 
has retired to Muntter. During the fiege of 
Maeftricht, in 1792, by General Miranda, 
the Cardinal de la Rochefoucault was in the 
city : the bombs fell thick round the houfe in 
which he refided, and in the night he remov- 
ed to fleep in another, when a bomb fell on 
that which he had juft quitted, and directly 
on his bed. 
On the 2d of May laft, at Bombay, in the 
37th year of hisage, William Cieaver, elq., 
a barrifter in the Recorder’s Court of that 
prefidency, and eldeft fon of Edward Clea- 
ver, efq., of Nunnington, in Yorkfhire.— 
Mr. Cleaver went out about two years ago, 
in confequence of the eftablifhment of the 
above court, in which he had upon various 
occafions difplayed profeflional talents, by 
which the zealous advocate and nervous ora- 
tor were alike diftinguithed. 
At Madras, Dr. John Ewart, phyfician to 
the Britifh eftablifhment in Ceylon. 
At Spanifh-Town, Jamaica, Mrs. Marga- 
ret M‘Kkenzie, laft furviving daughter of the 
late John Lord Oliphant. 
At Montego-bay, Robert Jackfon, efq., 
one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of 
Judicature. 
At Martinico, Brigadier-General Twenty - 
mian. 
At Venice, the Countefs Lucy Barziza, 
wife of his Excellency the Count Antonio 
Barziza, Patrician of Venice, and only fur- 
viving child of the late John Paradile, efq, 
At Surmam, on the 25th of April, Mr. 
William Ruffell Netcutt, aged 26, only fon 
of the ingenious Mr. W liam Notcutt, linen- 
draper, of Ipfwich. Mr. N.very early eyin- 
eed a quicknels of parts and docility ef dii- 
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pofition which made him admired and re- 
{pected by all who knew him. After receiv” 
mg the ufual courfe of inftruétion” at the 
grammar-fchool at Ipf{wich, he went to the 
diffenting-college at Uackney, with inten- 
tions for the miniftry, which he. afterwards 
declined. He then fettled at Briftol, from 
whence he was induced to make a voyage te 
Surinam, eying in profpect not mercantile 
purfuits alone, but his extentive and enlight- 
ened mind hoped to fatisiy that ardent thirft 
for knowledge which was greatly his charac- 
teriftic. Six days after his arrival at Surt 
nam he was attacked by the yellow-fever, 
which in four days deprived a moft affection- 
ate aid refpectable family of its greateit 
hope. 
Onthe 20th of June, 1860, at Gottingen, 
the venerable patriarch of German mathee 
maticians, Abrabam Gotthelf Kaftner, in his 
8ift year. He was proteffor of mathematics 
and natural philofophy at Gottingen, mem- 
ber of the Roy al Society of the Sciences in 
that city, of the Bruniwick Luneburg Soci- 
ety of “Rural BE conomy, of the Swedith and 
Prufiian Royal Academies, of Sciences, &c., 
&c. All thete titles of henour, however, 
are but faintly exprefiive of the dignified 
eminence to which genius, diligence. and 
tafte, had exalted him. The name of Kat- 
ner will defcend to the lateft pofterity as one 
of the moft learned men of the age he lived 
in, who, to a moft profound knowledge of 
geometry and natural philofophy, united a 
moft extenfive acquaimtance with languages 
and books, a philotophical {pirit, aud a rich 
vein of wit in his epigrams and in his profaic 
writings. 
Ou the 16th of June, at Schwedt, the 
great compofer John Abraham Peter Schulz. 
Tie was born in the Luneburg territory, and 
in his youth attended the Berlin Gymnatiom, 
ftudied mufic under Kernberger, was by Fre- 
derick the Great appointed mufic-director at 
the French theatre at Berlin, and afterwards 
went to Rheinlberg, as chapel-mafter to 
Prince Henry of Pruffia ; and thence with a 
large falary to Copenhagen, as chief chapel- 
matter to the King of Denmark. At an ad- 
vanced age he refigned this place, and ree 
ceived a penfion from the Danihh Court. 
His fongs, his tunes to Uz’s religious lyri¢ 
Rocms: ‘and e{pecially his ‘¢ Athalia,” after 
Zacine, to which, at the defire of Prince 
Henry, he compofed the chorufes, are gene« 
rally known and efteemed in nee He 
wrote on the theory of mutic, in a differtae 
tion in the fecond volume of <6 sae The- 
ory of the Fine-Arts,” and in his work On 
the Influence of Mufic on the Formation of 
the Character of a People. He likewile 
publihed “A Sketch of Mufical Tables,» 
which might be employed im _ theoretical 
works on mufic, where proper types of the 
notes are wanting; and had a_ part of the 
oratorio ** Maria and Johannes” printed as @ 
{pecimen at Copenhagen in 1791. 
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