1803. | 
2nd left a fum of money which his qosisits 
might have upon application ; and though, 
as he-had an uncle of the name of Hofier, 
formerly in the navy,*there was little doubt 
of his being one of thofe relations 3 yet, con- 
fidering that, at fuch an advanced period of 
life, eafe of mind was preferable to the ex- 
pectation of riches, he could not be prevailed 
on to make any application. 
JRELAND,. 
The immenfe bog of Allen, in this king- 
dom,which contains more than 200,000 acres, 
is, at prefent, in a fair way of being com- 
pletely drained, by a fpacious canal that is 
cutting through the middle of it. 
Died.| Lately at Maynooth college, aged 
54. the Rev: P. Flood, D. D. formerly pro- 
feffor of theology in the univerlity of Paris, 
and joint fuperior of the Ivifh Seminary. 
At Kilbeggan,'in his goth year, while in- 
fpecting the corps of y*om? —, John Caru- 
thers, efq. late major rnegsth regiment 
of foot. 
In Sackville-ftreet, Dublin, Lord Wallf- 
court, one of the Governors of the county of 
Galway. 
In Dublin, of the Influenza, the Lady 
Mayore(s of that city. 
MARRIED ABROAD. 
At New York, Mr, T. Wignell, manager 
of the theatre in Philadelphia, to Mrs. A. 
Merry, formerly Mifs Brunton, of the Thea- 
tre Royal Covent Garden. 
At Lord Whitworth’s Chapel, in Paris, 
Lambton Efte, efqg. to Mifs Smythe, daugh- 
ter of the late Sir Robert Smythe, bart. 
DIED ABROAD. 
At Pulta, in the Ea Indies, on the 29th 
of Auguft laft, Sir Charles William Blunt, 
bart. 
In fuly laft, in the gulph of Perfia, Mr. 
W. Urmftone, commander of a country fhip, 
and late an officer in the Eaft India compa- 
ny’s fervice. 
At Barbadoes, on the 6th of January laft, 
brigadier general Beresford. 
At Chateaudun, in France, on the river 
» Loire, (to which place he repaired fome 
months before his death, on account of ill 
- health), aged 63, P. Rouffel, M. D. author 
of a valuable work, intituled, ** Syfteme 
Phyfique et Moral de la Femme,” publifhed 
in 8vo, at Paris, 1775. Hisrefidence was at 
Paris; but he was always averfe to practife 
as a phyfician, and had difcontinued the func- 
tions of it long fince. He was a man of fin- 
guiar diffidence and mildnefs ‘of manners ; 
much addiéted to a ftudious, retired life. He 
was a member of the National Inftitute, 
Some years before his death he began, and, 
it is hoped, completed, as a fupplement to 
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the work already mentioned, atreatife inti- 
tuled “ Syfteme Phyfique et Moral de l’Hom- 
me,”” 
At Paris, Mademoifelle Clara-Jofeph-Hyp- 
polita-Levris-Delatude Clairon, She was in 
her $1ft year; and though, for a long tirne, 
in an habitual ftate of weaknefs and pain, 
fhe preferved, in her laft moments, a great 
degree of fprightlinefs, and an excellent un- 
cerftanding. | It is only a few months ago, 
that fhe recited a fcene of Phzedra before 
Mr. Kemble, the principal tragic ator in 
England, who admired the expreffion, force, 
and dignity with which this great aétrefs re- 
cited, at fo advanced an age, the fineft verfes 
of Racine. She was buried in the church of 
the parifh (St, Thomas d’Aquinas) in which 
fhe died. 
Aged 80, Julien David Le Roi, member of 
the late Academy of Infcriptions and Belles 
Lettres, and of the National Inftitute, and 
profeffor in the School of Archite&ture at 
Paris. He was the Jaf furviving fon of the 
late Julien Le Roi, the celebrated watch- 
maker at Paris; and diftinguithed himfelf by 
his Travels in Greece, and by his ** Diff€r- 
tations on the Conftruétion of the Ships of the 
Antients.” His remains \were interred at 
Montmartre. The grave-diggers, who intend- 
ed to bury him in the common grave of the 
place, pleaded the feverity of the froft as an 
excufe for not having made‘’a feparate grave 
for him: but his pupils, who attended in a 
confiderable number at his funeral, immedi- 
ately dug a grave for his corpfe ; and intend 
to erect over it a monument to his memory. 
At Abbeville, M. Houard, formerly an ad- 
vocate of the parliament of Paris, and mem- 
ber of the ci-devant Academy of Infcriptions, 
and of the National Inftitute; author of 
<< Remarks on the Text of the antient Laws 
of France, prtferved in the Englifh Cuftoms, 
colleéted by Littleton ; a Treatife on Anglo- 
Norman cuftoms, anda Dictionary of Norman 
law. 
At Lifbon, J. Bulkeley, efq. merchant 
there. He has left a property of 300,000. 
to be equally divided among his family. 
Aifo at Lifbon, Sir John Scott Hales, bart, 
of the goth foot. 
The {cience of aftronomy has experienced 
a fevere lofs in the death of Auguttin Dar- 
quier, Member of the Nationa! Inftitute. He 
was born at Touloufe, November 23, 1718, 
and died the roth of january, 1802. He 
was fortunately led to the ftudy of attronomy 
by a tiatural inclination to it, although ina 
city remote from the capital; he exhibited 
an ardent zeal, which even his great age had 
not abated. oa fince the year 48, he has 
been known, and highly efleemed, by aitro- 
nomers, to whom he was eminently ufeful. 
He purchafed inftruments, eftablifhed an ob- 
fervatory in his own houfe, and printed at his 
own expence two volumes of obfervations. 
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