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Shall believe you do, if*you say one other 
“word about your letters, I think I shall be 
tempted to take’you with me, to that other 
and that better world you talk so much 
about; where we shall be united, never, 
never to part; then, indeed, we shall enjoy 
that bliss your cruel parents deny us here ; 
but I fervently hope your letter will be kind, 
and give me ancther solemn vow never to be 
another’s; then Pcan die alone and contented ; 
but if you give me room to suspect that you 
will ever become any one’s wife but mine, 
the thought will be certain death.” 
“¢ Tam contented to die, and fervently do 
T hope you may te able to live, and live 
happy, and sometimes think of me. Ihave 
from my ‘heart and soul forgiven all who have 
injared me, and hope they will grant me 
their forgiveness: I feel not the least re- 
sentment against any ‘one, and I feel I can 
die happy.” 
‘« A short note, containing only the following 
expressions, was found in Mr. Sharp’s pocket, 
after his death :—-** Caroline, Caroline, shame, 
shame tpon you; notone kind Jine at parting, 
cruel, cruel girl, adieu for ever!” But it is 
supposed that on seeing her come at a dis- 
tance, he hastily thrust it into his pocket, 
and. wrdte in pencil the following words, 
which were found lying in the room :—~** I 
eannot live, and feared I shouldsnot have had 
résolution... _Ishall do it with moye compgsur 
than 1 could have possibly expected.” 
The letters written to. Miss Shuckburgh 
were scattered about the room 3 those written 
by her were sealed up under cover directed to 
Sir Stewkley Shuckburgh, and placed in a 
cupboard in the summes-house. The pistol 
with which Mr. Sharp shot Miss Shuckburgh, . 
he threw'to the opposite. end of the room ; 
that with which he destroyed himself lay 
close by his right hand: he had two other 
loaded pistols, one in’ his pocket, and the 
other was placed by ‘the letters in the cup- 
board he “had also six bullets in his pocket. 
The coroners inquest was held the next day, 
and a verdict was returned of Junacy tespec- 
ting Mr. Sharp, and that Miss Shuckburgh 
died by hishand- She was not‘at all disfigured 
by: the’shot, there being no appearance of it 
but the small perforation where the bullet 
penetrated, which was on the ieft side of her 
head. ‘A more angelick corpse was never'seen, 
as in life, so in death, her countenance exhi- 
bited a smile of complacency. Her remains 
were interred in the family vault at Shuck. 
burgh, on Monday the Sd of April. The: 
amiable and virtuous life of this young lady, 
is the only source ‘of Consolation: which her 
distressed family and friends have under this 
- extraordinary and most afflictive occurrence. 
At Chesterfield: Mr. John White, 74. 
At Tackbrook, in the’ 101st’ year cf his 
age, Thomas Smith, ‘esq. His benevolence 
‘to the poor ‘caused hit to be sincerely re- 
gretted by il these who knew him. © He ré- 
tained his faculties to the last'‘momeént, and 
Shropshire—IWorcestershiré. 
[May 1, 
cused to walk twenty miles a-day to superine | 
tend his farmts, and performed that arduous 
task in the week preceding his death. 
At Birmingham, Mr. John Wright. eas 
ward, the youngest sonof Mr. Thomas Webb. _ 
o2Willians Beach, M. D.-—Mr. Richard Pil- | 
cher, attorney. He married a sister of the 
Jate Col. Montresor, of the royal engineers.— 
Mrs, Langscon, 76 —Mr. John Jones.—-Mrs. 
Beardsmore.— Mr. Bartholomew ‘Redfern, 69-~ 
—Mr. W. Styles, many Peer of 
the Royal Hotel. 
At Bulkington, the Rev, Edward ‘Nasba, 
curate of that place. 
At Dudley, Mr. William Rebve: ! 
At Coventry, Mrs. Woodroffe, 76.—Mr. 
Timothy Francis.-Miss Jane Parker. 
At Camphill, Miss Hadley. 
At Stratford upon Avon, Miss bier Kim- 
nell, 25. 
“i SHROPSHIRE. 
Married. ] At Shrewstairy, S. tants 
esq. of London, to Mrs. Crump, relict of the 
Rev. Henry C. late of Leighton;: in this 
county. 
Died.) At Berghill, Mrs. Smith, 88. 
At Newport, Mrs. sani wife of Mr. 
B. surgéon. 
At Shrewsbury, Mr. Rapert Webster. 
ay, Francis Pritchard, 89.—-Mrs. Hughes. —= 
Mrs. Orme, 80; and on the following day her 
brother, Mr. Daniel Powell..-Mr.Davies. 
At Stoke, aged 24, Mr. John Wriglit, son 
of Mr. William W. of the Swan inn,’ His 
death is attributed to having eaten a few 
muscles, shortly after which he was seized 
with violent pains ‘in the abdomen, ‘sickness, 
fever, constipation, and other symptoms, de- 
noting inflammation of the bowels; the most 
able medical men were immediately called in, 
but their efforts were of no avail; he Jan- 
guished three days in great’ pain,” biciet aS 
period of his dissolution. 
At West Coppice; John Sint heaan, esq. 
At Whitchurch, Mr. Ivory, 42> —='Mr. 
Jackson, 35 iF, Price, officer of excise.—= 
Mrs. Edwards.—Mr. Hassal, 70,5002 
At Iscoyd, Mrs. Congreve, 69. 
At the Citadel, near Hawkstone, George 
Downward, esq. many years steward to the 
jate Sir Richard Hill, and, smce‘his' decease, 
to Sir John Hill, bart. He executed the 
charge committed’ to him with ‘the -greatest 
integrity, punctuality, and diligences-and*his 
loss will be severely felt, not only by his 
widow and children, to whom he was an af- 
fectionate husband and indulgent father, but 
also by his émployer, and by alf other’ persons 
with whom he had any transactions.' 
At Market Drayton, Mr. Brazier, ve 
At All Stretton, Moses Luther, esq. 
At prone Mr. Rogers) 2° 
“WORCESTERSHIRE. 
At a méeting of the inliabitants of ‘Wor- 
cester, for the purpose’ uf taking into conside- 
ration the state‘of the childrém of the labour= 
ing class: of slit in that city it Was! res 
solved 
