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tunate captain at-.the fatal period of his 
death, and made a bold and vigorous defence 
again the favages in the ifland of Owhyhee. 
in Dublin, Hampden Nicholfon, efq. of 
-Progheda, aged 7o.—Mr. Wilkam Motfop, 
die finker, an artifiof the firft celebrity ; 
feveral of his produétions ornament the ca- 
-binets of the bef conneiffeurs in Eagiand and, 
Areland.—George Home, efq. eldeit-fon of 
-George Latouche: Hume, -efg.—Mis. Toole, 
wife of Dr. Toole —Ayed 76;> Mrs. Kirwan, 
mother of the Rev. Dean Kirwas.—- William 
Newcomb, efg. of -Ballycriftali, Miag’s 
county. 
At Limerick, Arthur Tracy, efq. colleRor 
ef hearth and window-tax fer that city. 
At Bai iycattle, aged 69, Mrs. Mary Boyd 
seh of Hugh Boyd, tq. and fifter te the 
Sate Sir Hugh Hiil, bart. 
At Laymore . near Ballymena, Mr. Wil- 
Nam Simpfon, farmer, aged 34193 four days 
before his death he was walking through his 
farm in his ufaal health: he often faidy that 
he was never fick one hour, that he remem- 
bered 5 alfoy thet he was never intoxicated 
-but twice in his life. He had the perfect 
ule of his upderftandisg to -his death, asd 
he remembered the battle of the Boyne. 
ae iciceieok a near ee ae felf 
while he was a poor weaver-boy, Bete re- 
ceived the firft rudiments of education at one 
ef the Bithop of Drofnore’s funday-fchools, 
hag, by reading fuch books as he could bar- 
row, made fo confiderabie a progrefs, that, in 
the autaimnmof 1200, he prefented his lord- 
fhip with a copy of verfes, requefting the joan 
of books. The ifhop, fruck with the marks 
ef genius difplayed in this poem, refeued him 
from the locm, and placeé@ him at the dio- 
cefan ichool of Lromore, where his applica- 
tion was fo diligent that, in about two yéars 
‘and a half, he had read the principal:Latin 
and Greek claffics. Being thus qualified to 
duperintend the education of youth, which 
_had been the object of his: withes, he was re- 
ceived, early in 1204, as an afliflant-teacher 
ja the academy er the Rev. Dr. Brute, of 
-Belfait, where he was diftinguifhed. for his 
Giligence and {kill in preparing the boys under 
-his caré to be examined before the laft. fum- 
Wner vacation, ~ But, by this time,- fuch 
firong fymptems of a ‘confumption had ap- 
peared in. bis tail, thin, and flender frame, 
that he could not any more return to his 
charge, and his declining health confined him 
to. thé houfe of his poot mother; near the 
turnpixe-gate, between: Hillporough and 
Dromore, where he continued to experience 
the kindsefs of his tormér- patron, and was 
moaft generoufly artenced by Sir George Atkin- 
fon, an eminent phyfician in Hillborough ; 
but his cefe was beyond the reach of medigal 
aid, and terminateu fatally. He was interred 
in Dromore charch-yard,on the 2gth, having 
nearly completed bis sath year, being born 
March Ig, 4731. / Cadainpbags, though 
Deaths Abroad. * 
gation. 
: [March I, 
very -unlike, in: his bodily frame, to Dr. 
Goldfmith, who was fhort and not flender, fe 
flrongly cclataptod him in the face, that, 
when he ftood near the profile of the doftor, 
his portrait feemed to have been drawn fog 
hia. ‘ 
MARRIAGE ABROAD. 
At Madrass in June latt, Charles Farrany 
eq. taptain in the 14th regiment of native 
infantry, to Mifs Elizabeth Oliver, daughter 
of Colonel Oliver, late Governor of Ame 
doyna. 
DEATHS ABROAD. 
At Dover, a town in the State of Dela- 
ware, in America, a black man, named 
Pompey, at the great age of 420 years; he 
remembered Philadelphia when only ten 
houfes were inhabited, and often faid he per- 
fettiy recolleéted. the perfon and manner of 
William P ‘enn, whery in i701, he announced 
the grant of a charter of incorporation -to the 
city, at which time Pompey was feventeen 
years old, and worked at fome of the public 
buildings. 
At Charleftown, South Carolina, aged 46, 
the Rev. Thomas Froft, reétor of St. Philip’s 
church, Never was a man more juftly, 
more univerfally lamented, than this amia- 
ble and excellent minifter df the Gofpel. He 
was vorn at Pulham, in the county of Nor- 
folk, in this kingdom, where his ffter, wife 
of Mr. Browne, furgean, now lives, and 
Went to America in the year 17%5. His 
manners, his abilities, and, above all, the 
{trong recommenvations of his virtues, from 
thofe who were beft qualified to judge of 
them, could not fail to attraét the notice of 
the intelligent veltry of St. Philip’s church, 
aud he was fhortly after invitéd to become 
their minifter. In the difcharge of ‘his pro- 
feilional duties he gave aeaeval fatisfa&tion. 
From the pulpit he inculcated the principles 
of Chriftianity with the mof perfuafive eld- 
‘quence; and his precepts were indelibly im- 
prefied on the minds of his admiriag congre- 
His exertions in the great caufe of 
religion were unremitted, and generally fue- 
ceisful. Often did the tear of fenfibility 
ftart in his eye, expreflive of the fympathy 
of his heart, for he felt the full ferce of the 
fentiments he delivered. No worldly con- 
cern ever prevented his haftening to the houfe 
of affliction, where he was-received as a 
good ange:, adminifiering to the departing . 
fpirit tne laft and facred confolations of reli- 
sion. After the example of his great miaf- 
ter, he fought after, and confideréd it as one 
important part of his honourable funétioa to 
find’out objects of mifery and woe; and the 
hient and grateful fighs of thofe who have 
loit the kind foother of their forrows, will 
afcend as a memorial before God. In juftice 
to his memory, as well as to excite the imi- 
tation of others, it oaght to be recorded, 
that his deportment iz private life correfpond~ 
ed with his public ; and that he daily exni- 
ited, before his family and friends, the 
pious 
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