Obituary.

successor , he was appointed to the office of judge ; but he died immediately after his arrival at Calcutta . What was the true cause of his death has not yet been ascertained ; but the event was very unfortunate to a large family , that depended upon the attainment of an object which he had long pursued . His

practice in this country was never very considerable ; and as tie had reason to expect the office of judge , ' when a vacancy occurred , he probably never paid inuch attention to it . His abilities were neither mean nor distinguished . He was never very assiduous in his application to business . Having one object

in view , he laboured to attain it , by entering , on all occasions , with ardour , into India politics , and by an uniform support of the measures of administration . His natural disposition was amiable ; and he appears to have been sincerely lamented at Calcutta . On Jan . 13 that the premature age

, of 22 , Mr . John Geo . Cape , a native of the comity of Leicester , late surgeon of the Eari of Oxford East Indiaman . He was a young man of promising genius , and of considerable acquirements . His taste and knowledge in

the fine arts rendered his company highly agreeable . His sprightly manners and amiable disposition render his death a severe affliction to all his relatives and friends . He had lately returned , in the most perfect health , in the Earl of Oxford , to London , and while pursuing his anatomical studies , in the Borough ,

was attacked with aviolentfever , which , in a few days , terminated an existence , the apparent dawn of an active and enterprizing life . On his late passage home from India , the vessel touched at Diamond Harbour , near to which the unfortunate Munro had been carried ofl'by a tyger . It

happened at this time that two adjacent villages were kept in continual alarm by one of these ferocious animals . Mr . Cape , however , and the third mate , Mr . Williamson , engaging a body of the natives to attend them , determined to go in search of him . Soon after they had sallied forthMr . Cape came upon

, him unexpectedly , as he lay basking in the sun in a field of standing rice . The tyger instantly sprung upon them , and a black man , at the side of Mr . Cape , fell a victim to his fury ! alarmed , however , at the noise of the musguets and

the yell of the people , the animal dropped his prey , and faced his assailants ; but after the discharge of a few pieces , he set up a horrid roar , and walked leisurely into the underwood . The poor man had his thigh bone stripped bare with one stroke of his paw , and was so much injured in his head , that

notwithstanding the immediate medical assistance afforded him , he died in a few hours ,. This tyger was considered as one of the largest in size which the natives had seen . In his haunt was found the remains of a bullock whom he had recently destroyed . Latelyat Liecesteraged 6 9 Mr

, , , . John Lewin . He was elected macebeavev to the Corporation in the year 1787 ; which office he filled wilh equal credit to himself and utility to the Corporation , who , though for some years previous to his decease he was incapacitated from attending his public dutythrough illnessgenerously continued

, his salary as a testimony of their approbation of his integrity and worth . Lateiy , in John-street , Bedford-row , Mr 3 . Amy Filmer , sister to Sir John F . bart . Lately , in York Castle , John

Wilkinson , one of the people called Quakers , who , with seven others , was committed to that prison upwards of twelve months ago , under " an exchequer process , for refusing to pay tythes . The prosecution was instituted" at the suit of the Rev . G . Markham , vicar of Carletbn ,, in the county of York , and who

possesses , exclusive of that preferment , a rich benefice in Cheshire . It was partly with a view to relieve these unfortunate sufferers that the benevolent Serjeant A DAIR has brought in his bill , now pending in parliament , for the relief of Quakers ; and we hope the survivers may yet live to profit b

y his philanthropy . Lately Mrs . Hastings , of Lewes , an old widow woman , who lived by herself in a hut , was found therein dead . It is supposed she was seized by a fit , and in her fall upsetting a pailful of water , it flowed about her and occasioned her body to be frozen to the floorin which state

, it was when first discovered . Lately at Newhaven , Mr . Henry Alderton , master of the sloop Lewes , belonging to the above port , and captured some months since , by a French privateer of Brighton , as mentioned in a former .