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Died.] Near Cullyhackey, Martha Hannah, 
aged 126 years She was born near Dungannon; 
suid she rem-mbered to tave heard the shots 
fired «n an engagement that took place there 
in the year 16905; and that she carried the 
victuals to the masons and carpenters who 
built Cullybackey meeting house in 1727, she 
being then 45 years of age. She was married 
when she wis an old ma:d, never had chil- 
dren, and enjoyed a constant state of good 
health. She was a little woman, measured 
last year four feet seven inches. 
DEATHS ABROAD. 
Of adecline, at the house of .. Mackintosh, 
esq. at Calcutts, Lieutenant E. S. Frissell, of 
the Bombay establishment, for several years 
assistant to Col. Close, the resident at Poonah. 
Mr. F. when almost a stripling, was selec- 
ted from an inferior place in the army, by 
men of great sagacity and experience, to fill 
civil stations of such importance as are very 
seldom, in any country, bestowed on unpa- 
tronized youth. No man who knew him 
will deny that he well justified the choice. 
He had diligently studied the character of 
the inhabitants of India, and he thoroughly 
penetrated into the aits of their statesmen 
and negeciators. He spoke correctly and flu- 
ently the general popular language of this 
country; and he possessed a competent know- 
ledge of the Persian, which has almost cea- 
sed to be an Indian language, which, like 
the French in Europe, has become the dia- 
lect of ministers and courts, and without 
which a negociator scarcely escapes the re- 
proach of vulgarity and ignorance. No part 
of oriental knowledge that is useful or prac- 
tical was neglected by his sound and active 
understanding. He employed himself success- 
fully in applying to the peculiar state of In- 
dia the principles of that important science 
which explains the origin and distribution of 
national wealth. He followed the progress 
of this science, and was familiar with the 
most recent speculations of the economists 
of Europe. He even hoped, from the facts 
which he observed in India, to have illustra- 
ted some of the nost difficult parts; the 
laws.of exchange, the theory of money, and 
the intricate cetails of coinage. But though 
the structure of his mind, as well as the na- 
ture of his occupations, chiefly directed him 
towards those branches_of oriental knowledge 
which are immediately referable to the busi- 
ness of life, he was by no means insensible 
to the allurements of those parts of the li- 
terature of the East, which are chiefly vae 
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-Tuable as objects of liberal curiosity, and 
sources of elegant amusement: but he was 
fearful of devoting to them that large portion 
of time which the study of them exacts, lest 
they might impair his relish for the polite li- 
terature of the West; of which he never 
doubted the superiority, and which he valued 
and cultivated as the literature of that be- 
loved country where he vainly hoped to have 
passed the larger portion of his life. He was 
employed in collecting materials for an 
Abridgment of the Mahratta History, which 
would have furnished the European historians 
with an useful model in the critical examina- 
tion of authorities, in the selection of those 
facts which characterize the moral and poli- 
tical state of a country, and in the successful 
investigation of the causes of its prosperity or 
decay. All his pfojects of usefulness, and 
hopes of enjoyment; have now been cut short 
by an early death. He hag left no memorial 
of what he was, or what he could have done 5 
but he has left friends, some of whomin dis- 
tant times and countries will occasionally de- 
vote a pensive moment to hismemory. ‘They 
will call to mind, with a melancholy plea- 
sure, the excellent talents and endowments 
which have been slightly noticed here. But 
they will reflect mor- often, and with other 
feelings of pleasure, on his modesty and bene~ 
volence, his miid sincerity, his firm friend- 
ship, and inflexible integrity. 
At Baturin, in the Ukraine, aged 61 years, - 
William Statter, esq. a native of Beverley, in 
Yorkshire: than whom a better man in all 
the tenderest relations of life never existed. 
He was as much esteemed for the benevolence 
of his heart, his unaffected modesty, and the 
uncommon suavity of his manners, as he was 
distinguished by his mechanical ingenuity, 
and by his greac ability and inflexible integrity 
in business; by the exercise of which talents” 
he improved the extensive domains which he 
superintended, and thereby increased the im- 
mense revenues of the noble family of Razou- 
mofisky, not only beyond all former exaniple, 
but far beyond expectation. But what to his 
feelings was a more satisfactory consequence 
of his management, was the effect it produced 
in ameliorating the condition of the many 
thousands of peasants under his direction. 
Thus did this excellent man, in a distant re- 
gion, reflect credit upon his native country, 
and endear his memory to all who either lived 
under his influence, or enjoyed the happiness 
of his acquaintance. 
i aot ns EE A 7 ESCO cE an TN 
MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
WE have the pleasure to announce the arrival of. a valuable fleet from Bengal and Ma-. 
‘ dras, consisting of the following ships, under convoy of the Diadem man of war, Rear- 
Admiral Stirlirg, viz.—The Acmirai Gardner, Lord Melviile, Baring, Dover Castle, De- 
yaynes, Tottenham, Union, Marchioness. of Exeter, and the United Kingdom; and in our 
next Report, we shall give the particulars of their cargoes. 
The East India Company have 
decjared for Sale, on the 8th of June, prompt the 24 of September following 3 
2 
Bohea 
