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300 Deaths A broad. 
"took pleasure, as she said, inthe smell of a 
rose, and shewed that she perceived the odour 
by asking where it came from before she saw 
the flower. 
at this advanced age acute and vigorous ; 
she nariated with uncommen clearness and 
vivacity 3 and it was remarkable of her me- 
mory that it was not only retentive of things 
that bad passed ninety years'agey but of recent 
facts and conversations. She had the habit, 
common to very old people, of continually 
talking of her approaching death, and yet 
making preparations for life. She was as 
eager about the lease or the rent of her farm, 
as if she felt sure of continuing many years 
to enjoy what she possessed. She was very 
religious, but her'religion was not of a ime- 
lancholy cast, The following epitaph is 
inscribed over her tomb. «* Here Jies, in hepes 
of a blessed resurrection, the body of Elizabeth 
Burnett, of Lignageeragh, born 1693; 
married 1733; died September 14, 1809, 
aged 116."—To the? last day of her long 
life she preserved ‘the use of her limbs, 
her senses, and her memory, which pos- 
essed the uncommon faculty of retaining 
recent Circuinstances as well as those which 
happened in her youth. Every year added to 
the regard with which she was considered by 
the rich, and by the poor: thus she was a con- 
spicuous example that virtue in humble life, 
can render the possessor as useful, respectable, 
and happy, as it could in the highest situa-. 
ticn. 
DEATHS ABROAD. 
At Surat, in India, in the prime of life, 
eaptain Henry Young, of his majesty’s 17th 
light dragoons, second son of the late bishop 
of Clontert. This galiant officer distinguish- 
ed himself at the siege of Seringapatam, As- 
saye, and Vellore, receiving, 
with the 19th light dragoons at the latter 
place, at the head of his regimént, for most 
meritorious conduct, the thanks of colonel 
Gillespie. In 1800 he returned to this coun- 
ty with his regiment, after an absence of 
eleven years; preferring however an active 
Situation, he exchanged into the 17th light, 
dragoons, then on their way to India, whither’ 
he proceeeded to join them, and on the day of 
his reaching quarters was seized with a fever, 
which, after seventeen days, terrhinated an 
existence honourable to his memory. The 
highest respect was paid to his obsequies, the — 
whole garrison of Surat having ‘attended his 
funeral. 
‘At Araheim, in Holland, Matthys Bade- 
maker, at the great age of 110 years. He 
worked at bis trade, as a shoemaker, until 
the age of 90. He was only once married, 
and kaa no more than two children, both fe- 
males. Both of these however, having 
married, the old man died grandfather to 12 
persons, and great-grandfather to 20, the 
elcest of whom was 21 years of age at the 
time of his decease, He retained his facul- 
\s 
Her intellectual faculties were 
while serving ° 
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ties and health until within three weeks of 
his death. When King Louis visited Arn- 
heim last year, he settled a pension of 400 
guilders on him. 
At Tytrowah, in the Bundlecond country, 
in the East Indies, James Merriman, esq. 
lieutenant, adjutant, and paymaster, in the 
26th native regiment, in the honourable East 
India Company’s service. He was the young- 
est son of Mr. N. Merriman, of Marlborough 5 
and was a gentleman of pleasing manners and 
amiable disposition ; greatly regretted by all 
his officers, and every person who knew him. 
On his passage to Madeira, the Rev. 
Lewis Roberts, the vounger son of an 
opulent merchant settled at Lisbon. He was 
‘born in that city about 1772, and was 
brought up in the persuasion of the church 
of Rome, of which both his parents. were 
communicants. At the proper age he became 
a’ member of a college of celebrity, where > 
he was svon distinguished by the uncommon 
vigour of his mind, the fertility of his genius, 
and the aptitude with which he acquired all 
kinds of erudition, His passion for knowledge 
was unbounded; and he applied himself with 
unwearied zeal in the study of the classics, 
of ethics, of divinity, and all the higher 
branches of science. Having stored his mind 
with these important attainments, he did not 
disdain the lighter pursuits of literature. His- 
tory, poetry, and the belles-lettres, opened a 
wide tield to his imagination; and such was 
the facility with which he acquired the mo- 
dern languages, that before he attained his 
twentieth year, he spoke and wrote with 
equal propriety and elegance ‘the English, 
French, , Portuguese, Spanish, and italian, 
Thus qualified to fill any situation with_cre- 
dit, he*was induced, by the advice of a tutor 
who had early been ‘ntrusted with the care of 
his education, to become a catholic clergy= _ 
man, contrary to the inclinations of his fami- 
ly, who had hoped,that his abilities might be 
displayed in a more active scene of life. His 
exertions in the pulpit “challenged the ap- 
plause of all who heard him3 and while the 
public did justice to his oratoriai abilities, his 
private friends were fot less delighted with 
the charms of his conversation, which was aé 
once amusing from its variety, instructive 
from the infermation it afforded, and interest- 
ing from the simplicity with which it was ex 
pressed. Having established a-high reputa- — 
tion as a preacher and a man of letters at Lis- 
bon, he removed with his father’s family to 
England, and settledin London.. But though 
he “heneetorward resided principally in the 
British metropolis, he took opportunities of 
visitiug Paris, Berlin, and other continental 
capitals, inthe polished circles of which he 
was always an admired anda welcome guest. 
Fond of the pleasures of refined society, for 
which he was particularly calculated by the 
urbanity of his manners, the sweetness of his 
temper, and the brilliancy of a ready but ne- 
c vel 
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