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Obituary.
OBITUARY .
A T Warsaw , August 41 I 1 , Prince . /• . A . Adam Poninsky , ci-dei-ant treasurer of Ihe crown and grand prior of the order of Malta . His revenue for near 20 years was almost half a million . He had resided some time before his death with a poor peasant , a Sew miles from Warsaw , but expired in the house
of an old servant in the suburbs , who had taken him in out of compassion , and to shield him from the persecution of his creditors . 15 . A gentleman of the name of Watson , who came over in the last fleet from the West Indies , and was recommended as a lodger to Mrs .
Wallace , a child-b . ed-linen warehousekeeper in Pope's Head alley , Cornhill . He slept in her house one night ; and , about eight o'clock the . next morning , a gentleman called to pay him . sixty guineas , and knocked at his door ; but no answer being given , he was sup-.-posed to be asleep . A short time after ,
he was called to breakfast ; but no answer being received , a young man was sent into the room , who found him hanging at the . foot of the bedstead ,
suspended by a rope which had corded , a trunk belonging to a former lodger . He was cut down , medical assistance called in , and he was bled , but without effect . . It appears that he was a native of Leith , in Scotland ; but had early in life settled in Jamaica , and commenced planter ; that , some years since
, a derangement of intellect took place , for which he was se .-u to America , and whence he returned quite recovered . He came to this country now upon business , and with a view of forming new correspondents . It also appears , that , on the 15 th of July , the ship he was in encountered great storm
a in passing the Gulph , and was nearly tinder water , and they expected every moment to go to the bottom ; during which the' deceased was so extremely alarmed , that it operated upon him the remainder , of the vovage , so that at times he did not know what he was
"bout . It did not appear that he had any relations in England . A bill for loool . and various other notes to a considerable amount , were found upon trim .
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19 . The Rev . R . Monkhouse , of Monram , in Lancashire . He stopped on his way from Hull 10 York , at the house of Mr . Wells , at Booth-ferry ; and , as it was early in Ihe evening , took a walk by the river-side , and was not heard of til ! the next morning , when his body was found in the river .
The lining of his hat was torn out and laid at a distance ; nor book or article of any kind . was found upon him lo discover who he was , till , accidentally , a person took out the paperof his watch , and found his name and residence written on the back of it . 21 . At Shaftsburyliv firing the
, contents of a loaded pistol into his mouth , Serjeant Wilson , of the 6 > tf regiment of foot . Few instances have occurred of a more premeditated act of suicide . On the Sunday before ( ihe 19 th ) he borrowed the pistol for the purpose , he said , of firing . at a mark , for a wager with a brother-serjeant .
On Monday morning he bought some bullets at a plumber ' s ; and in the evening he purchased some powder at a grocer ' s , saying jocularly , he was
going 10 fight a duel . About six next morning he said he would take a walk before breakfast ; sat down about a mile from the town , upon a bank , andthere committed the horrid deed . No cause has been assigned for it . He was an unmarried man , about 30 , of cheerful , inild , and amiable manners ,
which he possessed in such a degree as lo he familiarly called ' the goodnatured Serjeant . 24 . At the house of his brother , in V . 'igton , county of Cumberland , in'his 6 S 1 I 1 year , the Rev . Lowther Y-aies , D . D . master of Catherine-hall , Cambridge , and prebend of Norwich ,
annexed to the mastership of Calherim-r hall by OueenAiiiie . He wasadmhted B . A . 1750 ; proceeded M . A . 1754 , B . D . 1774 , and D . D . 1780 . He succeeded Dr . Prescott , as master of the college , in 1779 ; served the office of vice-chancellor of the rmivershy 1779 and 1794 ; ancl was one 0 I 'he conservators of the river Cam . 30 . At Wargrave , Berks , aged 74 , Mr . Robert Piggott . Long had , he established two charity schools for boys
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Obituary.
OBITUARY .
A T Warsaw , August 41 I 1 , Prince . /• . A . Adam Poninsky , ci-dei-ant treasurer of Ihe crown and grand prior of the order of Malta . His revenue for near 20 years was almost half a million . He had resided some time before his death with a poor peasant , a Sew miles from Warsaw , but expired in the house
of an old servant in the suburbs , who had taken him in out of compassion , and to shield him from the persecution of his creditors . 15 . A gentleman of the name of Watson , who came over in the last fleet from the West Indies , and was recommended as a lodger to Mrs .
Wallace , a child-b . ed-linen warehousekeeper in Pope's Head alley , Cornhill . He slept in her house one night ; and , about eight o'clock the . next morning , a gentleman called to pay him . sixty guineas , and knocked at his door ; but no answer being given , he was sup-.-posed to be asleep . A short time after ,
he was called to breakfast ; but no answer being received , a young man was sent into the room , who found him hanging at the . foot of the bedstead ,
suspended by a rope which had corded , a trunk belonging to a former lodger . He was cut down , medical assistance called in , and he was bled , but without effect . . It appears that he was a native of Leith , in Scotland ; but had early in life settled in Jamaica , and commenced planter ; that , some years since
, a derangement of intellect took place , for which he was se .-u to America , and whence he returned quite recovered . He came to this country now upon business , and with a view of forming new correspondents . It also appears , that , on the 15 th of July , the ship he was in encountered great storm
a in passing the Gulph , and was nearly tinder water , and they expected every moment to go to the bottom ; during which the' deceased was so extremely alarmed , that it operated upon him the remainder , of the vovage , so that at times he did not know what he was
"bout . It did not appear that he had any relations in England . A bill for loool . and various other notes to a considerable amount , were found upon trim .
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19 . The Rev . R . Monkhouse , of Monram , in Lancashire . He stopped on his way from Hull 10 York , at the house of Mr . Wells , at Booth-ferry ; and , as it was early in Ihe evening , took a walk by the river-side , and was not heard of til ! the next morning , when his body was found in the river .
The lining of his hat was torn out and laid at a distance ; nor book or article of any kind . was found upon him lo discover who he was , till , accidentally , a person took out the paperof his watch , and found his name and residence written on the back of it . 21 . At Shaftsburyliv firing the
, contents of a loaded pistol into his mouth , Serjeant Wilson , of the 6 > tf regiment of foot . Few instances have occurred of a more premeditated act of suicide . On the Sunday before ( ihe 19 th ) he borrowed the pistol for the purpose , he said , of firing . at a mark , for a wager with a brother-serjeant .
On Monday morning he bought some bullets at a plumber ' s ; and in the evening he purchased some powder at a grocer ' s , saying jocularly , he was
going 10 fight a duel . About six next morning he said he would take a walk before breakfast ; sat down about a mile from the town , upon a bank , andthere committed the horrid deed . No cause has been assigned for it . He was an unmarried man , about 30 , of cheerful , inild , and amiable manners ,
which he possessed in such a degree as lo he familiarly called ' the goodnatured Serjeant . 24 . At the house of his brother , in V . 'igton , county of Cumberland , in'his 6 S 1 I 1 year , the Rev . Lowther Y-aies , D . D . master of Catherine-hall , Cambridge , and prebend of Norwich ,
annexed to the mastership of Calherim-r hall by OueenAiiiie . He wasadmhted B . A . 1750 ; proceeded M . A . 1754 , B . D . 1774 , and D . D . 1780 . He succeeded Dr . Prescott , as master of the college , in 1779 ; served the office of vice-chancellor of the rmivershy 1779 and 1794 ; ancl was one 0 I 'he conservators of the river Cam . 30 . At Wargrave , Berks , aged 74 , Mr . Robert Piggott . Long had , he established two charity schools for boys