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in Canada, a fociety by the name of Roufti- 
couchs, in imitation of thofe of his na- 
tive country, and in Europe, feveral branches 
of which are:now in exiftence in the United 
_ States: fome of the objets of thefe focieties 
are to obtain and preferve the curiofities of 
nature, to forward the arts and fciences, to 
prattife Olympic games, &c. It was in the 
act of attempting to throw an iron fpear, 
weighing nearly fix hundred pounds, at a 
mark twenty feet diftant, (and which he effe&- 
that he occafioned his death, the exertion 
having produced a violent hzmorrhage. 
In Jamaica, in the prime of life, Captain 
Daniel Holmes, matter of the fhip Endea- 
vour, of London, and brother to the Rev. W. 
Holmes, who alfo died in Jamaica. Exem- 
plary in fulfilling all the relative duties of 
life, the intereft of bis owners he ever held 
facred, and paramount to every perfonal con- 
fideration. Laft war, having the command of 
the Julius Cafar Weft Indiaman, and being 
attacked by a French privateer off the coatt of 
Jamaica, though half his crew were inefiicient 
from ficknefs, and armed with one gun only 
and a few muikets, he oppofed the moft de- 
termined efforts of the enemy, contrived 
more than once to rake him, and, by dint of 
nautical fkill, efcaped into harbour without 
the lofs of afingle man. For his gallantry in 
this a€tion, in which he was wounded, he re- 
ceived the thanks of Lord Balcarras, then 
Governor. . The laft was his 25th voyage. 
At Paris, aged. eighty, M. Latude, well 
known from his imprifonment, during thirty- 
five years, in the caitle of Vincennes, the 
Baftille, and the Bicétre. His health was 
not in the leaft impaired by his long confine- 
ment. It is faid that fome of the defcend- 
ants of Madame de Pompadour endeavoured to 
atone for his fufferings, of which fhe was the 
occafion, by putting him into a trifling bufi- 
nefs, which afforded him fupport. 
At Annapolis, Nova Scotia, General John 
Hoikins Stone, Jate Governor of the State of 
Maryland, At the commencement of the 
American war he aéted as firft captain of the 
celebrated regiment of Smallwood, and after- 
wards highly diftinguifhed himfelf at the 
battles of Long Ifland, White Plains, and 
Prince-town. At the battle of German-~ 
town he received a wound which deprived 
him of a@tivity for the remainder of his life. 
At Gibraltar, in the prime of life, Dr 
William Burd, of the Naval Hofpital; a gen- 
tleman of great profeffional abilities and moft 
amiable private chara€ter. He rendered him- 
felf dear to his friends, and eminently ufeful 
to fociety, by his humane and unremitting 
exertions in adminiftering relief to the dif- 
treffed, and faving the lives of many in that 
garrifon, during the rage of the peftilential 
difeafe, to which he himfelf fell a vitim 
after anillnefs of a few days. 
At New York, the Hon. J. S. Hobart, 
Judge of the Diftri& Court of New York, 
Deaths Abroad. ; 
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and one of the revolutionary Judges during 
the American war. 
At Bofton, aged 65, T. M‘Donough, efq. 
his Majefty’s Conful for the fates of New 
England. 
At Barbadoes, in confequence of wounds 
received in a gallent a@ion near that ifland 
with a large French privateer, which was 
beaten off, Lieutenant J. A. Dietrichfen, of 
the Goth foot, and Lindo, efg. of 
Finfbury-fquare, pailenger on board the Pe- 
nelope Jetterof marque, Captain Robinfen. 
At Frankfort, Kentucky, of an inflamma- 
tion of the brain, General John Caldwell, 
Lieutenant Governor of that consmonwea}th. 
At Nuggur, in the Eaft Indies, Captain 
John Stuart, of the Ron. Eaft India Compa- 
ny’s fervice, and third fon of the late Hon. 
David Stuart. 
At Patna, Major General Fullarton, of 
Skeldon, in the fervice of the Eaft India 
Company. 
On his paflage to India, Dr. George Pat- 
tullc, fon of the late John Pattullo, efq. of 
Balnoufiie. et 
At his efiate in Holland, aged 64, Frederic 
Chriftian Henry Baron de Tuyll, brother of 
the Countefs of Athlone. 
On his paflage from Bengal to Bombay, 
where he intended to embark for his native 
country, was drowned, Colin Anderfon, 
M.D. furgeon of the 75th regiment. He 
had ferved as furgeon in-the army about 
thirty-five years. During the American war 
he accompanied the 1¢th foot tothat’country 3 
and during the twenty-five years of his refis 
dence in India, he has been furgeon to the 
qift, 77th, and 75th regiments, As a pros 
feffional and fcientific man, the fervice could 
not boaft one more able or more humane ; and 
his focial qualities had acquired him univer- 
fal love and efteem. ; 
At Jamaica, the Rev. T. O’Keefe, chap- 
Jain to his Royal Highnefs the Duke of Cla- 
rence, and only fon of Mr O'Keefe, the ce- 
lebrated dramatic writer. He was a young 
gentleman of confiderable talents, and his 
death is a fevere ftroke to his father, and has 
happened at a moft unfortunate crifis, when 
he was preparing for the ftage, under all the 
difadvantages of age, blindnefs, and narrow 
circum{tances, a piece which, in whim and 
drollery, was expected to furpafs all his for- 
mer popular productions. > 
Aged 58, on fervice with a detachment of 
the Company’s troops in the province of Bun= 
delcund, and after an abfence of above forty 
years iy the Eaft Indies, Lieut. Col. Thomas 
Polhili, of the {ft regiment of native infan- 
try, and commander at Prince of Wales’s 
Ifland. He was the eldeft fon of the late. 
David Polhill, efq. one of the Juftices of 
Maidftone. 
At Antigua, Lieutenant G. Johnfon, of 
the 7oth regiment, fon of Captain Johnfon, 
of Violet Bank. . 
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