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At Tullamore, Captain Baldwin, of the 
Royal Irifh artillery. 
_ DEATHS ABROAD. 
At Gibraltar, univerfally lamented by his 
friends and brother officers, Lieutenant-colo- 
nel Walter Partridge, of his Majefty’s sth 
regiment of foot.—Lieutenant-colonel Houf- 
ton, of the rifle corps. 
Inthe Eaft Indies, Lieutenant Edward Max- 
well Gilchriftt, of the 26th regiment of na- 
tive infantry, onthe Madras eftablifhment : 
this gentleman, although but 24 years of age, 
was prefent at feven engagements without re- 
ceiving a wound. 
-At Lifbon, the Conde da Lima, prime mi- 
nifter of Portugal—Mr. Harris, of Syden- 
ham Court, Faverfham. 
At St. George’s, in the ifland of Grenada, 
Mr. Edward Yates Smith, of Ardwick, much 
regretted. 
At Demerara, inthe prime of tie, Mr. 
Samuel Martin. 
At Martha Brae, in Jamaica, Mr, Thomas 
Hodgfon, aged 21. 
At Minorca, J. B. Grifdale, efq- lieutenant 
-in thé 17th regiment of foot, much lamented 
by:his brother officers. 
At Martinico, Richard Makron, efq. go- 
vernor of Tobaga. 
At Jamaica, of a decline, aged 25, John 
Gafcoyne Fanfhaw, efq. 
At Port Royal, Lieutenant-colonel Mac- 
kenzie. 
At Trinidad, eg R. Neate, of the 57th 
regiment. 
in Germany, Colonel Swanton. 
At Futty Ghur, Major David Birrell. 
In Fort William, Captain Wm. te 
of the 8th native regiment. 
At Madras, Captain Hood, of his Majefty’ s 
p1ft regiment. 
At Zurich, on the 2nd of January, the ce- 
* Jebrated John Cafpar Lavater, in his 60th 
year, His death was a confequence of fome 
wounds he received from aSwiis foldier, when 
Zurich was‘taken from the Auftrians and 
Ruffians by General Maflena, i in the autumn 
of 1799. At the ftorming of Zurich, by 
Matfiena’s troops, when every thing was in 
the utmof confufion, and the Ruffian general 
himfelf knew not which gate led to the Au- 
ftrian camp, a moment when every prudent 
man kept clofe at home, Lavater rafhly yen-. 
tured out, amid {words and mufkets, and fol- 
giers thirfting for blood, dared his fate, and 
met with his death-wound. This misfortune 
was the more Seige as the man who 
wounded him in the breait was a native of 
Switzerland, on whom Lavater fome years 
before had conferred feyeral benefits. The 
fanaticifm of party animofity fimulated him 
in the heat of aGion to commit this horrid 
crime. He recovered but in appearance from 
his wound, and had a relapfe in confequence 
of attending a fpy to the place of execution, 
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who according te the laws of war was fhot 
by the French ; on this occafion he continued 
above an hour in the openair. His reftlefs 
mind allowed him no repofe, till within afew 
days of his death. He feemed unwilling to 
live in times when the laws and religion of 
his country were overturned, and he died on" 
the laft day of the century, after having heard 
the intelligence of the armiftice fo ruinous to 
the Auftrians. In religion though Lavater 
was a ftumbling block to thoufands, he was 
the idol of tens of thoufands ; and if not al- 
ways a light to the world, was the centre of 
an invifible chyrch, whofe members extend- 
ing from Naples to Copenhagen, never failed 5 ' 
in refpeét to their founder and prophet.’ His 
conftant ftruggle againft evéry kind of tyran- 
ny and iitolermnce, and his undaunted inte~ 
grity, were fuch that he thought no facrifice 
too great to attain thefe objects. He wrote 
three thoufand letters and notes every year, 
befides thofe he diétated to his fecretary. 
For a long time he kept a kind of journal, of 
which above fifty copies were made and fent 
to all his partifans abroad, who diftributed 
them to others. The evangelical morah of 
brotherly love was always the objeét of thefe 
apoftolical epiftles. With a hatred to tyrants 
he began and finifhed his courfe. The ftrong 
conteft in which he, with his friend Fufeli, 
the celebrated Englith painter, engaged when 
a youth, againft the venality of M. Grebel, 
bailiff, of Griininghen, fo as at length to 
brand him with infamy, will never be for- 
gotten. - While every one was trembling un- 
der the late oppreffions of Switzerlind, under 
the French pro- -coifuls, Rapinat, Sebiuinl 
burg, and their affociates, who, protected b 
the dire€tor Rewhel, infulted humanity, La- 
vater wrote his celebrated appeal to the French 
government; and even while the fword of 
death feemed hanging over him, he preached. 
the rights of his country men. Nor did he ceafe 
till he was torn from his congregation 
as a preacher of fedition and diforder. He 
was fent te Schaffaufen, as an hoftage, but 
returned home foon after, without any impe- 
diment, through the French army. Lavater 
was firft appointed preacher to the Orphan- 
houfe, and afterwards, in 1778, deacoh and 
paftor of the principal church of St. Peter, at 
Zurich, and he continued to fill that office 
till his death, ‘labouring fo zealoufly by ex- 
ample and precept, by writing, and by verbal . 
exhortation, that in this refpé&t alfoy and as 
the chief of a fchool of his own, he deferves 
the notice of pofterity. The principal fource 
of his eccentric vifions and marvellous narrae 
tions, which appear in his fermons on the ex=: 
iftence of the devil, and his belief of miracle’ 
from which he, how ever, feteded in the latter 
part of his tie arofe from his deficiency in 
the ancient languages. Yet no one was more 
open to a fenfe of his own weaknefs than.La- 
vater, and no man was more eloquent in res 
sot aa, to the young perfons who con- 
: fantly 
