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brother and hufband, was neceffitated to re- 
turn again to the ftage, where fhe has ex- 
perienced many viciffitudes with Mr. White, 
to whom fhe had been married fixteen years. 
At the fame place, William Sinclair, 
efy. Poffeffed of an aftive mind, the ftaple 
trade of the country was Seuduied by him 
on an enlarged fcale, with that fuccefs 
which unremitting application, dire€ted by 
the foundeft talents, naturally produces. In 
the profecution of his defigns, he appeared to 
derive as much fatisfaction fromthe employ- 
ment and comfort afforded to the numerous 
body of people under him, as from aay “pre- 
fent emolument With increafing opulence, 
his liberality kept pace ; for his hand was not 
only open to individual difrefs, but to the 
fupport of every public inititution, to the ad- 
vancement of every relative, to the encou- 
ragement of the indufry of every acquaint- 
ance. In his manner at home, where the 
heart is beft developed, were blended the 
father, brother, and friend, 
the domeftic circle has feldom: prefented a 
more perfeét fcene of chearful innocence, 
confidence, and love. 
Alfo at Belfaft, William Preftos, efq. bare 
riter at law; he was a gentleman of mild, 
and benevolent manners, and an excellent 
claffic Scholar. His works as a poet are well 
known and admired for their elegant tafte, 
and refined feelings. 
At Chilcomb, Killarney, Mifs S, Lynn, 
youngeft daughter of Adam Loftus L , efg. 
At Newmarket, 
Curran, mother a the Right Hon. 
Philpot Curran, mafter of the rolls. 
At Limerick, the Right Rev. Dr. Michael 
Peter M‘Mahon, titular Bithop of Killaloe, 
aged 97. / 
At Drehadarfna, county of Limerick, Anne 
Meade, at the advanced age of 117. 
DEATHS ABROAD. 
At Peteriburg, on the Sd: of June iaft, in 
the 77tn year of his age, M. Bachmeifter, 
Member of the Imperial Academy of Sci- 
ences. Hehas leit a confiderable number of 
masufcripts, to the care of Mr. Euflo, who 
will felect thefe fit for the public. A cata- 
jogue of his works is inierted in Meufel’s 
Cat alogue of the Authors of Germany. - 
ohn 
At Kici, Doctor Henfler, one of the mot 
diftinguifhed members of the’ Univerfity in ~ 
that city. He was author of many !earned 
works: the mof iftingnifhed of which are, 
his refearches on the Origin of Sivhilis. The 
Prince Regent of Denmark has purchafed for 
the 
this learned phy fician. 
At Saxe Weimar, Charles Gore, efg. for~ 
mcrly of Southampton, but for many years 
years pafl refident. at Veimar. He has left 
two children; Emily, his eldef&t- furviving 
daughter, now at_ Weimar; and A 
ager Countefs Cowper, now at Florence, mo- 
‘ther of the prefent. Karl, and of the Hon.” 
Spencer Cowper. 
Deaths Abroad. 
infomuch that | 
:, lutionary war. 
county of Cork, Mrs. — 
Danifh Admiralty, the valuubie: library of 
nna, Dow- ° 
[April 1, 
At Colchefier, Conne&icut, in America, 
Mr. Hezekiah Kilbourn, aged~77 years. 
We cafe of this man has hitherto been un- 
precedented in that country. Until he was 
fifty years of age, he fuppoited thofe Chriftian 
virtues which add dignity to an intelligent 
and elevated mind. He then, by degrees,” 
became infane; three. years elapfed; it was 
found neceflary, for his family’s fafety, to 
confine him in chains. In this Situation he 
remained twenty-five years, when he imbibed 
an idea that he fhould be poifoned to death ; 
he accordingly refufed to take food of any 
kind (tobacco and water excepted), and, 
ftrange to tell, he fafted 62 days. He thea, 
by the folicitations of his attendants, with a 
voracious appetite, received into his ftomach 
one large table {poon full of milk, and again 
refufed fuftenance. He furvived two days 
atter taking the milk, when death cloied the 
melancholy {cene. 
At Bofton, America, Mr. Thomas Parker, 
aged 505; an aétive naval officer in the revo- 
The following ts an extraét 
from his log book: & Firft part of the voy= 
age, pleafant, with fine breezes and free 
winds—all fail fet—fpoke many veflels in 
want of provifions—fupplied them freely— 
Middle paflage—-Weather yariable—thort of 
provilions={poke feveral of the above veffels 
our fupply had enabled to refit—made fignals 
of diftrefs—they up helm and bore away—= 
Latter part—-Boifterous, with contrary winds. 
Current of adverfity fetting hard to leeward. 
Toward the end of the paflage cleared up: 
with the quadrant of honefty , had an obfer- 
vation; corrected and made up my reckon- 
ing, and, after a paflage of fifty years; came 
to in Mortality Road, with the calm unruf- 
fied furface ef the ocean of Eternity in 
view.” 
At Calabar, in the Eaft Indies, in ‘the 
32d year of his age, Captain Smyth, of the 
56th regiment, laft furviving fon of the late 
James Smyth, efq. attorney at law, of Nor- 
wich, After ferving in all the campaigns of ~ 
Flanders and Holland, under General Coote — 
at Oftend, in Ireland at the battle of Vinegar 
Hill, in Gibralta during the mutiny, with, 
Abercromby in Egypt, when he gained a 
medal; and after having gallantly ferved his 
country in fourteen general actions, he was 
doomed to fall in the prime of life, a vidim 
to a malignant fever ina foreign land. 
At Vellore, in the Eaft Indies, Lieutenant- 
colonel James M‘Kerras, eldeft fon of the 
late Mr. ‘Andrew M‘Kerras, merchant ja 
Leith, aad brother to the late Major William 
NM‘Kerras, of the corps of Royal Engineers, 
who was killed in the fervice of his country, 
in the memorzble expeditign to Egypt, under 
the gallant Sir Ralph Abercromby. - Colonel 
M<‘merras had ferved in India upwards of 28 
years, with much credit to himfelf and ho- 
nour to his EOnEEys and was much refpeéted - 
asa ileady, active, and humane offices. f 
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