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Obituary.

Clonmell , Baron Earlsfoote , Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court ofKing's-Bench , one of his Majesty's Privy Council , and patentee clerk of the pleas of the court of Exchequer . At Hereford , at the extraordinary age of 102 , Mrs . Alice Sharpies !; , a maiden lady , and daughter ol" the late

Rev . Mr . Sharpless . She retained the full possession of her mental faculties to the last hour of her life , and walked about till within a few days of her death . At his house in the Lower Green , Bristol , the Rev . James Brown , precentor of Bristol Cathedral , and Lecturer of St . Nicholas . The partiality

of surviving relatives often tempts them to exaggerate the merits of their deceased friends ; but in the present instance there is no room for exaggeration . As a man ho was scrupulously just , and his heart overflowed with the milk of human kindness towards his fellow-creatures . As a minister of the

gospel , his talents aud abilities were fully adequate to Ihe task he undertook , his natural genius being cultivated by an excellent education , and the most studious exertions . Religion in him ivas exemplified , not by gloomy

moroseness , or superstitious bigotry , but by a cheerful devo'ion , and animated piety . He practised faithfully . he doctrines he laboured to inculcate , and preached the gospel of his great Master in its primitive purity . His powers and abilities are loo well known to stand in need of comment . As a companion

he was chearful and affable , of . he most unaffected deportment , and the most conciliating manners . In his domestic circle , he was a dutiful son , a fond . husband , a faithful friend , and a kind master . No man wi . l die more , few so much respected and regretted ; and his friends have to lament his early

decease in the prime of life , when his talents promised to be of the greatest utility io his fellow-creatures . At a small cottage in the parish of Edg barton , at the great age of 93 , W . Oram , who more than 50 years ago keit the Saracen ' s Inn in Edgbartonstr ' eet In the early part of his life he

. was porter to the London carriers at the Red Lion Inn ; and from his uncommon powers in lifting heavy parrels , was esteemed the strongest man in Birmingham . -V Manchester , in extreme

wretchedness , unpitied and detested by man * kind , Thomas Dunn , who suffered two years imprisonment , and stood in the pillory a . Lancaster , for perjury , in swearing against Mr . Walker , and other very respectable characters in Manchester , 011 a charge of conspiring to subvert the government .

At Leeds , aged 27 , Miss Bromby , daughter of the late John Bromby , Esq . and sister of the Vicar of Holy-Trinity church , in Hull . Dr . Esmond , a Lieutenant of Ihe Kildare Yeoman Cavalry , was executed on Carlisle-bridge , pursuant to the sentence of a court-martial , by

whom he was found guilty of having assisted Ihe injurgen's in their attack on Prosperous , a manufacturing village , in the county of Kildare . Of the his-. ory of this gentleman the public know little , nor is there much in it which can interest them . To him life was an unruffled streamdown whose placid

, current he glided , tas . ing every sweet whichimproving fortune , and increasing friends , successful love , and domestic happiness , could offer , until the political tempest thickened round him , and plunged him into ruin ! He was tUe

younger brother of Sir Thomas Esmond , the present head of a very old family in . he county of Wexford , but of which the patrimony had been considerably diminished . He was early apprenticed to a surgeon of eminence , with whom having completed his apprenticeship , he entered into business

for himself . His t ' amilv connections , and an easy elegance of manners , which added considerably lo . he recommendatory influence of a line person , soon procured for him a degree of practice in his profession which enabled him to live in a style of something more than comfort ; but he was not long to depend

on his practice as a surgeon . A lady , possessed of a personal for . une of i 2 , oool . and a considerable landed properly , encouraged his addresses , and accepted his hand . With her he had now , for a considerable time , enjoyed every comfort , and everv pleasure , which such a connection may be

supposed to afford , when the breaking out ofthe insurrection , and the attack on Prosperous , near which he lived , called him to the commission of the crime for which his life has been the forfeit . His conduct at Ihe place of execution

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Obituary.

Clonmell , Baron Earlsfoote , Chief Justice of his Majesty's Court ofKing's-Bench , one of his Majesty's Privy Council , and patentee clerk of the pleas of the court of Exchequer . At Hereford , at the extraordinary age of 102 , Mrs . Alice Sharpies !; , a maiden lady , and daughter ol" the late

Rev . Mr . Sharpless . She retained the full possession of her mental faculties to the last hour of her life , and walked about till within a few days of her death . At his house in the Lower Green , Bristol , the Rev . James Brown , precentor of Bristol Cathedral , and Lecturer of St . Nicholas . The partiality

of surviving relatives often tempts them to exaggerate the merits of their deceased friends ; but in the present instance there is no room for exaggeration . As a man ho was scrupulously just , and his heart overflowed with the milk of human kindness towards his fellow-creatures . As a minister of the

gospel , his talents aud abilities were fully adequate to Ihe task he undertook , his natural genius being cultivated by an excellent education , and the most studious exertions . Religion in him ivas exemplified , not by gloomy

moroseness , or superstitious bigotry , but by a cheerful devo'ion , and animated piety . He practised faithfully . he doctrines he laboured to inculcate , and preached the gospel of his great Master in its primitive purity . His powers and abilities are loo well known to stand in need of comment . As a companion

he was chearful and affable , of . he most unaffected deportment , and the most conciliating manners . In his domestic circle , he was a dutiful son , a fond . husband , a faithful friend , and a kind master . No man wi . l die more , few so much respected and regretted ; and his friends have to lament his early

decease in the prime of life , when his talents promised to be of the greatest utility io his fellow-creatures . At a small cottage in the parish of Edg barton , at the great age of 93 , W . Oram , who more than 50 years ago keit the Saracen ' s Inn in Edgbartonstr ' eet In the early part of his life he

. was porter to the London carriers at the Red Lion Inn ; and from his uncommon powers in lifting heavy parrels , was esteemed the strongest man in Birmingham . -V Manchester , in extreme

wretchedness , unpitied and detested by man * kind , Thomas Dunn , who suffered two years imprisonment , and stood in the pillory a . Lancaster , for perjury , in swearing against Mr . Walker , and other very respectable characters in Manchester , 011 a charge of conspiring to subvert the government .

At Leeds , aged 27 , Miss Bromby , daughter of the late John Bromby , Esq . and sister of the Vicar of Holy-Trinity church , in Hull . Dr . Esmond , a Lieutenant of Ihe Kildare Yeoman Cavalry , was executed on Carlisle-bridge , pursuant to the sentence of a court-martial , by

whom he was found guilty of having assisted Ihe injurgen's in their attack on Prosperous , a manufacturing village , in the county of Kildare . Of the his-. ory of this gentleman the public know little , nor is there much in it which can interest them . To him life was an unruffled streamdown whose placid

, current he glided , tas . ing every sweet whichimproving fortune , and increasing friends , successful love , and domestic happiness , could offer , until the political tempest thickened round him , and plunged him into ruin ! He was tUe

younger brother of Sir Thomas Esmond , the present head of a very old family in . he county of Wexford , but of which the patrimony had been considerably diminished . He was early apprenticed to a surgeon of eminence , with whom having completed his apprenticeship , he entered into business

for himself . His t ' amilv connections , and an easy elegance of manners , which added considerably lo . he recommendatory influence of a line person , soon procured for him a degree of practice in his profession which enabled him to live in a style of something more than comfort ; but he was not long to depend

on his practice as a surgeon . A lady , possessed of a personal for . une of i 2 , oool . and a considerable landed properly , encouraged his addresses , and accepted his hand . With her he had now , for a considerable time , enjoyed every comfort , and everv pleasure , which such a connection may be

supposed to afford , when the breaking out ofthe insurrection , and the attack on Prosperous , near which he lived , called him to the commission of the crime for which his life has been the forfeit . His conduct at Ihe place of execution

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