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1825] OBITUARY.-Mr. Thomas Reid.-Constantine Demetriades. 377

his unwearied alertness in securing from various sources, for his board, a provision adequate to his numerous succession of guests, could not be fairly considered as bearing on it so much the stamp of any selfish indulgence as of an open and liberal hospitality; in the exercise of which be found refreshment and relief from the cares and fatigues of business. His death, generally and extensively regretted as it must be, leaves a chasm in the neighbour hood not easily filled up.

To his successor in his allotments, of whom, indeed, are formed no mean expectations, he might, among his last admonitions in his laconic style, be verita bly imagined to say, "In whatever I have been found to be right, follow me; but, wherever you can, improve on the example."

MR. THOMAS REID.

Aug. 21. At Pentonville, in his 35th year, Mr. Thomas Reid, Surgeon in the Royal Navy. Mr. Reid was born and educated near Dungannon, in the county of Tyrone, Ireland. He was actively employed for many years in various parts of the world, from which he made occasional contributions to the Public Museums of Great Britain. His conversational powers were of the highest rank, and his literary talents of no common order. He was the author of an interesting volume on his Voyages to New South Wales, and of a work entitled "Reid's Travels in Ireland," which excited a strong sensation a few years sine. For liberality of sentiment, correctness of description, and vigour and perspicuity of style, it merits the highest praise. In the circle in which Mr. Reid moved, he was justly admired for candour, manliness, and generosity; and the sor10w excited by his early death is height ened by the recollection of his many acts of steady and uncompromising friendship, and sincere and cordial benevolence.

CONSTANTINE DEMETRIADES. Aug. 27. At his lodgings in St. Peterle Bailey, Oxford, Constantine Demetriades, a person well known under the appellation of the Old Greek. The history of this man is extraordinary, exhibit ing an instance of avarice and superstitiun, rarely, if ever, equalled. He was born at Athens in the year 1754, and, we believe, of parents in au inferior station of life; a circumstance, however, that proved no obstacle to the son's becoming an officer of religion. It was his boast,

* An Oxford Paper says, born in Sept. 1755 at Naupactus, now called Enebert or Lepanto, which gives its name to the Corinthian gulf.

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and an honour of which he was peculiarly peculiarly jealous, that he was "Hieromonachos, or Pappas, consecrated in the five degrees of consecration, in the four patriarchal Greek Churches." He always told those about him that he was induced by the persuasions of Lord Elgin to come to this country, his Lordship representing that he might obtain a sufficient livelihood by becoming a teacher of languages. We suspect, however, that the trade most congeuial to his taste was that of exciting commiseration, and reaping the benefit arising from his miserable appearance and demeanour; and certain it is, though de signated at the Alien Office, and by himself, "a teacher of languages," no one could well be more unequal to that office than Demetriades. He was well acquainted with his own language; and also with Italian, but his knowledge of other languages was very limited. It is clear moreover that he did not relinquish his sacerdotal charge in Greece at the instance of the noble Lord alluded to, for we can trace him to Breslaw in 1795, and find him at Berlin in the following year; and here, we believe, it was that he found out Lord Elgin, and induced his Lordship to bring him to this country. Between 1796 and 1803, he spent some time at Edinburgh. In 1803 he tried his fortune at Newcastle and Durham; the clergy of Durham manifested the greatest commiseration for him, and rais ed a sum of money sufficient to purchase a small annuity. Demetriades, however, had no taste for an annuity, which, if known, would in some measure oblige him to expend his income, and remove all pretensions of want and wretchedness. He contrived, therefore, to get possession of the whole, or a great part of the principal, and bid good-bye to his Durham friends without ceremony. In 1804 and 1805 he divided his time between the counties of Middlesex, Berks, and Buck. ingham, and in 1806 paid his first visit to Oxford. A University was of all places in the world most adapted to a mendicant like Demetriades; for he had no sooner tired out one set of benefactors than another succeeded, and the young men, caught by a few words of Greek, and the abject condition in which this native of a country endeared to them by every classical association, presented himself, rarely refused him assistance. In the summer of 1807, our Pappas" made an excursion to Bath, Bristal, Salisbury, and Winchester; in that of 1809 to Cambridge. By the severest penury and most rigid self-denial, he contrived to scrape together sixpences, shillings, and halfcrowns, to the amount we believe, of nearly if not more than a thousand pounds. He has left all he died possessed

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of to the four patriarchs of the Eastern Greek Church at Constantinople, on condition that they offer up prayers every Saturday and Sunday for 100 years for himself, his father, mother, brothers, and sisters. His executor is a gentleman of respectability at Reading, in whose hands he had deposited money for his funeral expences, which were not to exceed eight pounds; and also for his occasional wants, from which fund he drew with great sparingness and compunction, and only when he was unable to draw on the compassion of others. But for the bumane visits and directions of some gentleman of this place, he would absolutely have been suffocated in filth, for he had no idea of that English virtue called cleanliness.-He had a great antipathy to any portrait being taken of him. This was effected, however, some time since, by stratagem; but he consigned all the parties concerned in the contrivance, more particularly the artist, to perdition, and excommunicated them in the names of all the saints of the Greek Church; which written excommunication he caused to be exhibited in some of the shops of the city of Oxford. He was about five feet high, always wore a long brown great coat, closely buttoned; and half-boots; walked rather stoopingly, with a stick, and had a red blotchy face. An engraving from his portrait has been taken by Mr. Whessell, of Oxford. Whatever he received was laid by, and not one penny, except eighteen pence a week for lodging, was ever expended by him for years. He lived upon the victuals given him by those who, perhaps, had at that moment no money to offer him; and even of late when confined to his bed, no power of remonstrance or persuasion could induce him to expend more than an occasional penny for a roll, or two-pence for a little brown sugar, of which he was immodederately fond, and upon which latterly he chiefly lived. Demetriades was buried in Oxford on Tuesday last, and attended to the grave by his executor and a gentleman of the University, who had taken considerable interest in him.

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Badlesmere, Kent. He was of Trinity Coll. Cambridge, B. A. 1812; M.A. 1816.

At Carrickfergus, the Rev. R. Dobbs, one of the Aldermen and Deputy Mayor of that

town.

At Sheerness, the Rev. J. Fearon, Chaplain of the Dock Yard. He had just left the garrison in Company with Mrs. Fearon, in a gig, and expired in a fit of apoplexy.

Lately. Suddenly, in Northamptonshire, in his 88th year, the Rev. Giles Powell, B. A. 40 years Rector of Acrise, Kent, being presented in 1785 by the King.

Rev. Bernard Smith, M. A. aged 37, Rector of Great Ponton, Lincolnshire. He was of New Coll. Oxford, B.C.L. March 2, 1914, was presented to his living in 1812, by the Prebendary of North Grantham.

At Selby, the Rev. J. Turner, Minister of Barlow, Yorkshire.

Sept. 10. In the 71st year of his age, the Rev. Edward Moon. This gentleman received his academical education at Trinity Coll. Cambridge, where he proceeded to the degree of A. B. in 1777. In 1792, he was presented by Dame H. Prime to the Rectory of Thwaite, in the county of Suffolk; and in 1794, to the Vicarage of Bedingham, in that of Norfolk, at the nomination of the Bishop of Norwich. For many years he officiated as the Curate of Finningham, in Suffolk; but for the last thirty-one years he had been deprived of sight; and although visited with such a heavy calamity, he retained his native cheerfulness, and was often heard to remark, that he considered such persons as were afflicted with deafness, equally as desolate as himself.

Sept. 16. At the Vicarage-house, Tisbury, Wilts, the Rev. Thomas Prevost, D.D. Vicar of that place, and of Rushmere, Suffolk, and Domestic Chaplain to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland. He was educated at Christ Coll. Cambridge, where he proceeded to the degree of B. A. in 1782; and to that of M. A. in 1786. In 1791 he was presented to the Vicarage of Tisbury by John Rogers, gent.; and in 1816 to that of Rushmere, by Andrew Edge, gent.

Sept. 21. At Boulogne, while bathing in the sea, the Rev. And. Ackworth Edge, B.A. Vicar of Matheringham, Linc. The melancholy death of this excellent and most estimable clergyman has afforded another among the many mournful recurring instances of the danger of bathing on ebbing (especially neap) tides, owing, as is generally supposed, to a rapid under or cross current endangering the most experienced swimmers. Only the Sunday preceding this short but faithful ministry, Mr. E. had addressed a most earnest and impressive discourse in the English church at Boulogne, on the imperious importance of habitual preparation for eternity; and on the Sunday following, the awful event was noticed by Mr. Symons (the resident

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minister) in a discourse applicable to the
most feelingly
circumstances, which was
participated by a serious and attentive con-
gregation. This and some preceding cases of
destruction, arising from the cause above
stated, have given rise to the formation of a
Society (the first set on foot at Boulogue)
for the recovery of persons apparently
drowned; and which the sanction of the
French authorities is now carrying into ef-
fective execution by subscription, and under
the management of the Minister and sub-
scribers of the English Church.

Sept. 22. At Allexton, Leicestershire,
the Rev. Charles Fenwicke, M. A. Curate
of that parish, and Vicar of Slawston, in
that county. The departure of this truly
respected clergyman was awfully sudden, he
had just retired to rest, when he was seized
with an apoplectic fit which carried him off
almost instantaneously. He was of Lincoln
College, Oxford, where he took his degree of
M. A. January 14, 1818. With a mind
highly cultivated by literary attainments he
possessed a heart deeply impressed with the
weighty responsibility of his ministerial cha-
racter and office; and while he pointed out
the way to eternal happiness, the purity,
meekness, and benevolence of his life, pre-
sented a bright example of the sincerity
His
of the doctrines which he taught.
memory will long affectionately be cherished
in the parish which for the last seven years
has been the scene of his faithful and labo-
rious services.

Oct. 11. After a severe illness, in the 50th year of his age, the Rev. Will. Paget, Rector of Gatton, in Surrey, and formerly of Queen's College in the University of Cambridge, A. B.; a gentleman whose information was extensive as it was various. Mr. Paget had travelled much, but with a zeal and anxiety for the acquisition of knowledge, evinced by very few of those who visit foreign climates. How happy was his success, all who had the gratification of meeting him in hours of solid and friendly intercourse can bear ample testimony. To his previous knowledge and reputation as a scholar, a wide circle of acquaintance can give its unanimous evidence. The extent, however, of his acquirements will be duly appreciated only by the most intimate of his friends, so singularly unassuming and placid He was the eldest son of the Rev. W. Paget, Rector of North Wingfield, Derby, who was Chaplain and Secretary to Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney (afterwards Lord Rodney), for many years previous to, and at the time of the ever memorable victory, of the 12th of April, 1782. The deceased married Charlotte, dau. of the Rev. Mr. Deake, who died some years since, without leaving any issue.

were his manners.

DEATHS.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.
Lately. In Charlotte-street, Portland-
place, in his 90th year, H. Hart, esq. many
years an inhabitant of Malta.

Sept. 14. At Clapham, aged 81, Mrs.
Hughes, relict of Wm. Hughes, esq.

At Vauxhall, aged 76, Mrs. Susannah
Blackfriars.
Beet, relict of the late Mr. Benjamin Beet,
of Printing-house-square,
Sept. 15. At the Earl of Egremont's
house in Grosvenor-sq. aged 45, Lady Har-
riet Marsham, 2d daughter of late Earl of
Romney, by Frances Wyndham, dau. of
Charles, 2d Earl of Egremont, by Alicia-
was born April 6, 1780.
Maria, dau. of George Lord Carpenter. She

Sept. 20. Of typhus fever, aged 14,
Richard eldest son of the Rev. Rich. Elliot,

of Devizes.

Sept. 22. In Devonshire-st. Queen-sq.
Henry Edw. Church, esq. upwards of 43
Lord Chancellor.
years Deputy Secretary of Bankrupts to the

At the house of her brother-
Sept. 22.
in-law, Mr. England, Surrey-square, Miss
In Upper Belgrave-place, aged 77, Mr.
Alexander, of Red-hill, Reigate.
T. Williams.

Sept. 23. Aged 81, Mrs. Ware, the wife of Samuel Ware, esq. of Highgate.

Four months after her arrival from India, Sophia, wife of the Rev. J. Bailey, late of Dewsbury, and eldest daughter of the Rev. J. Parking, of the same place.

Sept. 25. At Turnham-green, aged 76, Mrs. Elizabeth Hector, of Gower-street, Bedford-square, widow.

Aged 81, Thos. Wallis, esq. of Long-acre, and Camden-street, Camden-town.

Sept. 27. In Kensington-square, aged 74, Major John Samuel Torriano.

Sept. 28. At Clapham-common, aged 36, Harriott, wife of Joseph P. Toulmin, of Lombard-street, banker.

Diana, the wife of Dr. P. M. Latham, of Lower Grosvenor-street, and youngest dau. of the Hon. Major Gen Chetwynd Stapylton.

Mrs. Catherine Sibley, of Bernard-street, widow of the late George Sibley, esq.

Mary, wife of Benjamin Bailey, esq. of Dalby-terrace, aged 37,

Oct. 1. In Upper Belgrave-place, aged 63, Henry Elliot, esq.

Oct. 2. Aged 19, George Wicke, 2d son of Emanuel Goodhart, esq. of Langleypark, Kent.

In Burlington-street, the infant son of Lieut.-col. Cavendish.

Oct. 4. In Wimpole-street, aged 35, Anne, wife of Captain C. S. J. Hawtayne, R. N. dau. of late Commiss. C. Hope.

Oct. 6. Lady Richards, relict of the late Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer.

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Oct. 10. In Norton-street, aged 75, Jane, the wife of Rob. Sadleir Moody, esq.

David Lewis, esq. of the New Inn, St. Clement Danes, solicitor, and many years connected with the Exchequer Office, Somerset House.

Oct. 12. At Vauxhall, after a long and painful illness, aged 54, Mary, relict of Mr. H.J. Tymms, who died in 1818. She survived her eldest sister, the wife of Thomas Scott, esq. banker, only one month; see p.

285.

Oct. 13. In Southampton-row, Russellsquare, aged 72, Theodore Hunt, esq.

At Prospect-place, Edgware-road, Wm. Hanson Dearsly, esq. of Shinfield, Berks.

Oct. 14. At his house at Hampstead, after a very short illness, in his 78th year, beloved and respected by all who knew him, John Baker, esq.

In the New Kent-road, aged 74, James Longman, esq. formerly of the Bank of England.

Aged 26, Sarah, second dau. of J. D. Potter, esq. of Ponder's-end.

Oct. 16. At St. John's Wood, aged 61, Wm. M'Gillivray, esq. of Peine-au Ghael, in the Isle of Mull, and lately of Montreal, in Canada.

Oct. 17. After a long and painful illness, Miss Fell Harwood Curteis, of Devonsh-pl.

In Portman-square, Mr. Samuel Jacob, 47 years steward to the late Earl and Countess Dowager Harcourt.

Oct. 19. Aged 25, Susan, wife of Mr. Edward Bailey, of Holborn. During a moment of delirium, caused by an inflammation of the brain, she took a quantity of sulphuric acid, which caused immediate dissolution.

At Woolwich, aged 73. Mrs. Bonnycastle, widow of the late Professor Bonnycastle, of the Royal Military Academy. She was the daughter of Mr. Newell, many years Master of the famous Jerusalem tavern at Clerkenwell; whose relict was re-married to David Henry, esq. formerly Proprietor and Printer of this Magazine.

Oct. 22. At Pentonville, aged 28, Fanny Catherine, only daughter of the late J. P. Le Jeune, esq. of Chelsea.

The Lady Margaret Wildman, wife of Capt. Wildman, 7th Hussars, and dau. of the Earl of Wemyss and March.

Oct. 23. At Cheyne-walk, Chelsea, after a lingering illness, Miss Barbara Baldwin, formerly of York.

Oct. 24. In his 29th year, Mr. George Moulton, wholesale stationer, of Pilgrim-st. Ludgate-hill.

BERKS.-Oct. 14. At Windsor Castle, aged 21, Augusta, the second and youngest dau. of Mr. Wyatville.

Oct. 20. At Whitmore Lodge, Sunning Hill, aged 20, Charlotte, wife of Robert Mangles, esq. and third dau. of Vice-adm. Donnelly.

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CAMBRIDGESHIRE.-Oct. 3. At George Starkins Wallis's, Esq. Meldreth, aged 56, Mr. James M Whinnie, late of the Strand. CHESHIRE.-Oct. 7. At the house of a friend, Bellow Hill, Cheshire, Wm. Shone, esq. of Guildford-street, Russell-square. DERBYSHIRE. Oct. 26. Aged 85, E. Beard, of Derby, relict of the Rev. Thomas Beard, M. A.

DEVONSHIRE.-Sept. 24. At Highfield Cottage, near Woodbury, Devon, aged 75, Francis Bateman. Dashwood, esq.

Sept. 27. At Bridestowe, aged 56, Caroline, wife of the Rev. C. Luxmoore.

Oct. 4. At Longford House, Exmouth, Dr. Wm. Paget. He was on the Medical Staff of the Army under the immortal Wolfe, and the late Marq. Townshend, in America.

DORSET.-Lately. Aged 80, Mrs. Rebecca Chapman, of Grimstone.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE.-Sept. 26. At Clifton, Mrs. Porter, widow of Bp. of Clogher.

Sept. 30. After a long illness, on Dowry Parade, Bristol, aged 52, John Bowle, esq. of Gomeldon.

Oct. 8. At Staverton, near Cheltenham, the wife of Lieut. Amiell, R. N.

Oct. 16. At St. Michael's Hill, Bristol, Mary, relict of the late Dr. Dimsdale.

HANTS.-Sept. 20. At Ryde, Isle of Wight, Sarah, wife of W. S. Jones, esq. of the Crown Office, and of Caroline-place, Guildford-street.

Sept. 23. Harriet, relict of the late Mr. Bradley, of Romsey, and third dau. of the late Rev. Henry Hawes, Rector of Ditteridge, and Little Langford.

Oct. 2. At Southampton, aged 51, Harriet, wife of Robert Wightman, esq. M. D. Oct. 3. At Millbrook, aged 87, Mary, the wife of Capt. Wm. Ewen.

Oct. 4. At Southampton, aged 65, Richard Higginson, esq. of Bath. HERTFORD.-Sept. 30. At Totteridge, aged 66, Margaret, wife of Thomas Atkinson, esq. of Bedford-pl. Russell-sq.

KENT.-Sept. 13. At Sevenoaks, Benj. Marene, esq. a Magistrate and Dep.-Lieut. for the county.

Sept. 27. At Fairlawn, the wife of Edmund Yates, esq.

Oct. 2. At Ramsgate, aged 74, Mrs. John Udny, of Portugal-st. Grosvenor-sq.

Oct. 12. At Margate, aged 69, Mrs. Eliz. Leach, relict of the late John Leach, esq. formerly of Stamford-hill, Middlesex.

LANCASHIRE.-Oct. 8. At Liverpool, a few days after her accouchement, Mrs. Aldridge, a very clever actress, and for many years a member of the Manchester and Liverpool Theatrical Corps.

Oct. 9. At Everton, aged 70, Samuel Johnson, esq.

LEICESTERSHIRE.-Oct. 1. Edwyn Andrew Burnaby, esq. of Baggrave Hall. He was the eldest son of the late truly venerable

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and very learned Archdeacon Burnaby; one of the gentlemen of His Majesty's Privy Chamber; and a Magistrate and DeputyLieut. for the county of Leicester.

Oct. 3. At Leicester, aged 86, Mr. Thomas Clarke, upwards of 46 years the servant of John Pares, esq.

MIDDLESEX.-Oct. 1. At Kilburn, Mrs. Mary Page, aged 85, sister to late G. Harrison, Clarencieux King at Arms, esq. Her remains were interred in the family vault at Hendon, Middlesex.

Oct. 15. At Burrough's Hill, Hendon, Mary Carpenter, the infant dau. of Mr. and the Rt. Hon. Lady Mary Willis.

Oct. 16. At his residence, Ealing, aged 71, Richard Gray, esq.

NORFOLK.-Oct. 9.

At Ditchingham, in her 106th year, Mrs. Hannah Want. Throughout her long life she enjoyed a state of uninterrupted health, and retained her memory and perception to the end with a clearness truly astonishing. Till the day previous to her decease she was not confined to her bed; and on the anniversary of her 105th birth-day entertained a party of her relatives, who visited her to celebrate it. She lived to see a numerous progeny to the 5th generation, and at her death there were living, children, grand-children, great grandchildren, and great-great-grand-children, to the number of 121.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, June 4. At Great Houghton, aged 16, Frances, dau. of Thos. Smith, esq.

Sept. 6. Thomas Shillingford, esq. whose patriotism raised a considerable portion of the Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry, in which he was appointed Captain of a Troop by the Mayor of Buckingham.

Sept. 9. Aged 55, James Miller Adams, esq. second son of the late John Adams, esq. of Welton Manor, Northamptonshire.

Sept. 23. At Rushton Hall, Barbara Maria, second dau. of the late Hon. Wm. Cockayne, of Rushton Hall.

Oct. 9. At Oundle, Mrs. Sarah, relict of Thos. Hunt, esq. of Wavenhoe House, and

of Oundle.

Oct. 16. At Towcester, aged 22, Catherine, wife of Henry Burt, solicitor, and only surviving dau. of Thomas Smith, esq. of Great Houghton.

SOMERSETSHIRE.-Sept. 19. At Bath, Mrs. Eliz. Bulcock, only dau. of the late James Bulcock, esq. formerly of Dulwich. Sept. 25. At Bath, Mr. T. Broadhurst. Oct. 1. At Bath, aged 23, Geo. Ashton Vade, esq.

Oct. 7. At Bath, Lætitia Cecilia, relict of the late John Bull, esq. of Kingston, Jamaica.

SUFFOLK.-Sept. 6. At Ditchingham Lodge, in his 82d year, Col. James Capper, formerly of the East India Company's service, and Comptroller-General of the Army and

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Sept. 9. At Aldeburgh, in her 76th year, the wife of John Tempest, esq. and only surviving sister of Henry the late Duke of Buccleugh and Queensbury, and grandchild of the great Duke of Argyle.

Sept. 15. At Woodbridge, in her 85th year, Mrs. Wall, sister of the late T. Wall, of the E. I. Company's service.

Sept. 17. In Friar's Road, Ipswich, after a protracted illness, Mary, wife of John Carter, gent. late of Coney Weston.

At his seat, Crow Hall, George Read,

esq.

Sept. 26. At Bury St. Edmund's, Dorcas, relict of John Medlicott, esq. late of Moor Town, co. Kildare.

Sept. 26. At Ipswich, after a long and severe affliction, in her 48th year, Mary Eliz. youngest dau. of the late Rev. And. Grant, Rector of Tattingstone, and of Tro

ston.

Sept. 29. In his 28th year, Thomas, son of the late Rev. T. Kerrich, Rector of Horningsheath.

Oct. 5. At Stratford Lodge, aged 28, Frances, wife of Harcourt Firmin, esq. and only dau. of James Pulbam, esq. of Woodbridge.

SURREY.-Sept. 17. At his seat, Hampton-lodge, Edward-Beeston Long, esq. Sept. 19. At Croydon, aged 73, Mrs. Mary Lewen.

Aged 81, Edward Knipe, esq. of Hookfield Grove, Epsom.

Sept. 21. At Worthing, aged 26, Mary Eliz. Marg. fourth dau. of Walter Boyd, of Plaistow-lodge, esq. M.P.

Sept. 26. At Epsom, aged 41, Wm. Haygarth, esq. of Langham-place, eldest son of Dr. Haygarth, of Bath.

Sept. 29. At Croydon, aged 19, Sophia, eldest dau. of the Rev. J. L. Chirol, one of his Majesty's Chaplains, St. James's Palace.

Oct. 16. At her uncle's house, Mitcham Green, Mary-Anne, eldest dau. of the late O. W. Bartley, M. D.

Oct. 17. At Norwood-hill, in her 45th year, the wife of Mr. George Bacchus.

SUSSEX.-Oct. 17. At Lewes, Winifred, dau. of John Hoper, esq.

WARWICKSHIRE.-Aug. 15. At Leamington, the Rt. Hon. Lady-Elizabeth Heathcote, Lady of Rich.-Edinsor Heathcote, esq. of Longton-hall, co. Stafford, to whom shs

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