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At Stafford, Mr. T. Hughes, onty son of 
Mr. H. of the Star inn. 
At West Bromwich, Thomas Blakemore, 
esq. 63.—By a fall from his horse, the Rev. 
John Metcalfe, of Cannoch. 
At Litchfield, Mr. Samuel Wilcock. 
At Burslem, Mrs. Bourne, formerly a re- 
spectable manufacturer at Long Port, in the 
otteries. ; 
WARWICKSHIRE. 
Messrs. Boulton, Watt, and Co. of Soho, 
Birmingham, have executed avery beautiful 
bronze medal, commemorative of the glorious 
victory off Trafalgar. They have struck off 
between 18,000 and 19,000, which are now 
distributing to the seamen engaged in that 
battle, their-widows, or heirs. 
Married} At Coventry, Mr. E. R. Striclk- 
land, chemist and druggist, to Miss Mary Ann 
Butterworth, daughter of Mr. Alderman P. - 
Died} At Birmingham, Mr. Richard 
Southall, 35.—-Mr. James Haywood, 80.— 
Mr. Thomas Varley.<-Mr. Timothy Newton. 
Mrs. Woodcock —-Mr. William Drink- 
water. —Mr. feremiazh Smith, 52,—-Mrs. 
Hatunah Hay.—~Miss Caroline Allen.—Mr. 
Wiliam Fletcher, 74.--Miss Margaret Allen, 
S&—Mr. William Bembridge, 29.—Miss 
Jane Hobbins, 16. : 
At Pinley, near Coventry, Mr, Francis 
Perkins, only son of Mr. Alderman P. 
At Smethwick, Mrs. Sarah Taylor, 64. 
At Sheldon, Mr. George Richards. 
At Warwick, Mrs. Sarah Harris, 77.— 
Mr. William Hopper. 
At Coventry, Mr. James Tysor.—=—Mrs. 
Hanson, wife of Mr. William H. of the 
Griffin. 
At Kenilworth, Miss Burkitt, eldest daugh- 
ter of the Rev. Mr. B. 
At Atherston, John Willday, esq. banker. 
At Ashted, Lieutenant William Surchéll, 
of the royal navy, 68. 
. SHROPSHIRE. 
WMarried.| At Shrewsbury, Robert Jenkins, 
esq. of Chorlton Hilt, to Miss Elizabeth Jen- 
kins, second daughter of the late Richard f. 
esq. of Bicton.—Mr. Bright, to Mrs. Cart- 
wright, of Berwiclc. 
Died.j At Cruck Mecle, Mrs. Warter. 
At Shrewsbury, M. Pierre Francois Pel- 
letier, a native of Meaux, in France, and a 
deacon of the congregation of the oratory. 
He had resided in this town for the last four- 
teen years, and was deservedly esteemed for 
his amiable qualities, as well as for his abi- 
Hities as a French master.—Miss Hannah 
Scoltock, 33.—-Mirs. Mary Davies, 85. 
At Wellington, Mr. Allen Ridding, for- 
merly an eminent surgeon and apothecary. 
At Harton, Mr. Pinches. ; 
At Meole, Mr. Pritchard, 72. 
At High Ercal, Mrs. Robinson. 
At Ludlow, Mr. William Tunstall, 57.— 
Mrs. Sheppard, by whose death terminates 
the ancient name of the Sheppards, of Mid- 
dleton, in this county. | “ 
Waraick—Shropshire. 
[April 2, 
At Shrewsbury, Henry Bevan, esq. 61. In| 
the relative situations of husband, father, and 
friend, he was affectionate, indulgent, sin- 
cere; in every transaction through life he was 
strietly honourable; and whilst magistrate of 
the tewn of Shrewsbury, he was zealous and 
active in the duties of his office. A sound, 
or rather a superior understanding, aided by 
reading and'a retentive memory, rendered 
him an useiul and desirable member Of society, 
which, when in health, he promoted and en- 
joyed. He met his last enemy with the same 
courage and resolution he possessed as a sol- 
diers when fighting in a diftant clime the 
battle of his country; and he died a loyal 
subject, and a goed Christian, This gentle- 
man served many years in India; and at the 
battle of Euxar, an action ef mo small im- 
portance and celebrity, as on it depended the 
British ascendancy in India, being at that time 
a young lieutenant, and second in ¢ommand 
of a battalion of native treops stationed on 
the right of the Ine, perceiving that his 
senior officer hesitated to attack a battery 
placed on an eminence on the enemy’s left, 
which severely galled our army, he spiritedly 
called upon him to do bis duty, or give place 
to thuse that would. The officer retired into 
the rear, and Lieut. Bevan proceeded to storm 
the battery, which he carried with much gal- . 
lantry, and drove the enemy through a vil- 
lage in the rear of it. As ve-action was un- 
precedented, and not to be expected from the 
troops of any of the native powers, Lieutenant 
Bevan could not prevent his sepoys from dis- 
persing in search of plunder; which being 
observed by the commanding officer of the 
enemy’s left, who was well awate of the con- 
sequence of recavering the post, he directed 
a body of choice cavalry to fall on our troops ~ 
In the village, and if possible regain the bate 
tery; in which, proceeding “ith great cele- 
rity, they succeeded, as Lieut. Bevan could 
not draw off his men, and iormin time to 
prevent them, which he used his utmost ene 
deayours to do. in his retreat through the 
village he had a narrow escape of his life; 
he was pursued down a street, with high walls 
on each side of it, and so narrow (as 18 com- 
mon in Ineia) that a horse could not tura in 
it. Previdentially, just as the trooper was on 
the point of trampling him under his horse’s 
feet, asmall breach in the wall presented 
itself, through which he leaped, whilst hig 
enemy was torced to pass en, and being met 
at the end of the lane by some of Lieut. 
Bevan’s sepoys, was killed; there the latter 
soon juined, and stung with his disappointe 
ment, as suon as he could rally his stragglers, 
he led them again to the attack of the bat- 
tery, which he regained, and turned the guns 
of ic onthe enemy. ‘This had no inconside- 
' rable effect in deciding the fortune of the 
day ; and his conduct, in consequence, met 
the applause it justly merited, in the orders 
which the late Sir Hector Munro, who come 
manded our army, issued on the field of 
‘batcle. 
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