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with him under two other admirals , who were wounded in engagements while he was on board their ships . We doubt not his widow and orphans will receive that recompence from a grateful nation to which their father's merits so justly entitle them . In Newgate , Dublin , where he was

confined for high treason , Oliver Bond , Esq . whose sudden death having excited public attention , we give the particulars of what appeared to the jury who held "the inquest upon the body . The -surgeon-general , Mr . Stewart , surgeon Lake , snrgeon Geoghcgan , and doctor Drennanwere present . The coroner

, , Mr . Alderman Thorpe , having sworn the jury , Catharine Poynton , a prisoner , who first saw ISond dead , deposed , that between five and six o'clock on . Thursda * y morning , September 6 th , she saw him come out of his apartment , which opens into the courtryard , and from which there is a descent of two stepsand

, coming down one , he apparently slipped at one side into a corner , fell on his back , and not seeming afterwards to stir , she alarmed the gaol . Samuel Neilson was next sworn , who was bedfellow with Bond for some time . He

deposed , that the deceased and he dined together the preceding day upon a sheep ' s heart and other food , and afterwards drank , with two other persons , one bottle of wine and no more ; that they afterwardb played several matches of ball in the court-yard , till dusk , and then sat down , with two others , to

drink three half pints of spirits made into punch , which had been lost in the matches ; that Bond , growing hungry , had a siieep ' s heart dressed for his supper , and , not being satisfied with that , ate afterwards of cold mutton ; and that some persons coming into his apartmenthe drank more with them .

, Noilson went to bed about eleven o ' clock , leaving the deceased sitting up ; and , going to sleep , did not see Bond again until between five and six o ' clock in the morning , when he found him lifeless in the place beforermentioned , immediately after he had been by Catharine jpoynton ; butNeilson

peen did not know whether the deceased had or had not been in the bed with him at night ; a vein was breathed in his arm as soon as he was found , by a man named Houndon , in the prison . The surgeons minutely examined the body ,

which was free of marks of injury of any kind ; a cut appearing in the back of the head at the left side ( which it is supposed he got on falling in the yard ) they took the flesh off the part to examine the skull , to see if there were any fracture , and none whatever appeared . Mr . Crawford , an attorney ,

intimated to the coroner that it was the wish of Mrs . Bond that the body should not be opened until next " day : and , other persons applying from her lo the same effect , the surgeons complied , finding there was no necessity fordoing so . In the apartment was a copper teakettle , the handle of which had been

much bent on one side in the night , upon which it was supposed the deceased had fallen , but it left ' no mark whatever upon any part of him . From this it is conjectured , that Bond did not go to bed that night , but sat up sleeping in his cloaths . The report of the surgeons was as

follows;' ' New Prison , Sept . 6 , 179 ? . * On examining the body of Oliver Bond , who died this morning , between five and six o ' clock , we certify that no circumstance appears , which would lead us to believe that his death was

not a natural one . G . Stewart , W . Lake , B . Geoghcgan . " This certificate was also signed by W . Drennan , as physician to Bond . The verdict of the coroner ' s inquest was , * that they believed the deceased had died of an appoplectic fit . ' At St . Alban ' s , aged 8 o , John Kent ,

plumber and glazier , but better known to the lovers of antiquity as the vener rable and intelligent clerk of the abbey , which place he filled near fifty-livq years , being appointed October 26 , 1746 , by the Rev . Jphn Cole , arch ? deacon and rector of St . Alban's , wltp died Sept . 1 , 1754 . ' Tllat m , | y P ious should

divine , that this favourite of his not be displaced by his successors , procured him , in' July , 1754 , a licence under the episcopal seal of Dr . Sherlock , then bishpp of London , through which he maintained his plape in the church . This year his father died . In July 1767 his wife diedaged 45 and

, , , ; his mother , aged 84 . The latter end pf this year , he hecame , and continued , a very active meniberofan independent party , termed Blue ; and , from his sp iff and fortitude during the contest , was called honest John . ' This charaater he

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THE LIFE OF OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE BARON NELSON OF THE NILE, &c. &c. &c. Article 4
ON RELIGION, MORALITY, AND GOVERNMENT. Article 6
OBSERVATIONS ON THE CAUSE OF OUR LATE NAVAL VICTORIES. Article 7
REVIEW OF THE THEATRICAL POWERS OF THE LATE MR. JOHN PALMER. Article 10
MONODY. Article 11
THE LIFE OF BISHOP WARBURTON. Article 16
CURIOUS ACCOUNT GIVEN BY THE DUMB PHILOSOPHER. Article 19
THE LIFE OF PRINCE POTEMKIN. Article 25
OPTIMISM: A DREAM. Article 32
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NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION OF BUONAPARTE. Article 38
MEMOIR AND TRIAL OF THE CELEBRATED THEOBALD WOLFE TONE, Article 44
THE FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY. Article 51
SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 55
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with him under two other admirals , who were wounded in engagements while he was on board their ships . We doubt not his widow and orphans will receive that recompence from a grateful nation to which their father's merits so justly entitle them . In Newgate , Dublin , where he was

confined for high treason , Oliver Bond , Esq . whose sudden death having excited public attention , we give the particulars of what appeared to the jury who held "the inquest upon the body . The -surgeon-general , Mr . Stewart , surgeon Lake , snrgeon Geoghcgan , and doctor Drennanwere present . The coroner

, , Mr . Alderman Thorpe , having sworn the jury , Catharine Poynton , a prisoner , who first saw ISond dead , deposed , that between five and six o'clock on . Thursda * y morning , September 6 th , she saw him come out of his apartment , which opens into the courtryard , and from which there is a descent of two stepsand

, coming down one , he apparently slipped at one side into a corner , fell on his back , and not seeming afterwards to stir , she alarmed the gaol . Samuel Neilson was next sworn , who was bedfellow with Bond for some time . He

deposed , that the deceased and he dined together the preceding day upon a sheep ' s heart and other food , and afterwards drank , with two other persons , one bottle of wine and no more ; that they afterwardb played several matches of ball in the court-yard , till dusk , and then sat down , with two others , to

drink three half pints of spirits made into punch , which had been lost in the matches ; that Bond , growing hungry , had a siieep ' s heart dressed for his supper , and , not being satisfied with that , ate afterwards of cold mutton ; and that some persons coming into his apartmenthe drank more with them .

, Noilson went to bed about eleven o ' clock , leaving the deceased sitting up ; and , going to sleep , did not see Bond again until between five and six o ' clock in the morning , when he found him lifeless in the place beforermentioned , immediately after he had been by Catharine jpoynton ; butNeilson

peen did not know whether the deceased had or had not been in the bed with him at night ; a vein was breathed in his arm as soon as he was found , by a man named Houndon , in the prison . The surgeons minutely examined the body ,

which was free of marks of injury of any kind ; a cut appearing in the back of the head at the left side ( which it is supposed he got on falling in the yard ) they took the flesh off the part to examine the skull , to see if there were any fracture , and none whatever appeared . Mr . Crawford , an attorney ,

intimated to the coroner that it was the wish of Mrs . Bond that the body should not be opened until next " day : and , other persons applying from her lo the same effect , the surgeons complied , finding there was no necessity fordoing so . In the apartment was a copper teakettle , the handle of which had been

much bent on one side in the night , upon which it was supposed the deceased had fallen , but it left ' no mark whatever upon any part of him . From this it is conjectured , that Bond did not go to bed that night , but sat up sleeping in his cloaths . The report of the surgeons was as

follows;' ' New Prison , Sept . 6 , 179 ? . * On examining the body of Oliver Bond , who died this morning , between five and six o ' clock , we certify that no circumstance appears , which would lead us to believe that his death was

not a natural one . G . Stewart , W . Lake , B . Geoghcgan . " This certificate was also signed by W . Drennan , as physician to Bond . The verdict of the coroner ' s inquest was , * that they believed the deceased had died of an appoplectic fit . ' At St . Alban ' s , aged 8 o , John Kent ,

plumber and glazier , but better known to the lovers of antiquity as the vener rable and intelligent clerk of the abbey , which place he filled near fifty-livq years , being appointed October 26 , 1746 , by the Rev . Jphn Cole , arch ? deacon and rector of St . Alban's , wltp died Sept . 1 , 1754 . ' Tllat m , | y P ious should

divine , that this favourite of his not be displaced by his successors , procured him , in' July , 1754 , a licence under the episcopal seal of Dr . Sherlock , then bishpp of London , through which he maintained his plape in the church . This year his father died . In July 1767 his wife diedaged 45 and

, , , ; his mother , aged 84 . The latter end pf this year , he hecame , and continued , a very active meniberofan independent party , termed Blue ; and , from his sp iff and fortitude during the contest , was called honest John . ' This charaater he

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