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Obituary.
cause of his death originated in Ihe treatment he received about 18 months since at the barbarous amusement , frequent in that city on his Majesty ' s birth-day , caled making burghers ; at which time , and from the same cause , a gentleman of the roval corps of artillery unfortunately received his death .
¦ At his apartment in Tabernacle-row , a blind beggar , upward , of 70 years of age . i ) n searching the wretched place , upwards of 350 I . were tfiscovered in bank notes , guiiic < is , lin ! figume » s , crowii and half-crown pieces , besides a large quantity of half-pence concealed in various places in his room , and a bond for
the sum of 150 I . more . Latelv , at Bagborough House , in the county of Somerset , in her 17 th year , Miss Anna Maria Freston , eldest daughter of the Rev . Anthony l- ' reston . She went to bed at eight o ' clock apparently labouring under a severe cold , and was found at eleven quite dead . She had been for a long time afflicted ¦ with the broncho ' celc , which , on examination , was found to be the cause of her sudden d ; 'atii .
Mr . J . Newman , farmer , of Stradbrook , Norfolk . He was , abotit three weeks since , bitten in the right hand by a viper ; the part immediately swelled , and in a few days he was seized with a fever and delirium , which occasioned his death . At Hopton Wafers , in Shropshire ,
in his 1061 I 1 year , and to the last moment in the full use of every faculty , the venerable William Hyde . When ' he attended Worcester races in 1797 , the following account of him appeared in the Worcester Herald : ' -In his cottage on the side of the Clee hills he has passed his long and peaceful life . The
same parish which gave him birth ( with a very few exceptions ) has been his bourne . Once , indeed , after the age of 70 , he wandered into Wiltshire to see his sons , and walked on the first day of his journey from his home to Newport , in Gloucestershire , a distance of nearly 50 miles . With a mind neither
debauched nor distracted by vicious or violent passions , nor highly elevated in the pursuits of exalted virtues , he has calmly glided down ihisJong stream of life with few circumstances to ruffle it .
Perhaps , in these dissolute times , the most remarkable circumstance is , that he hved 6 i vears with one wife . ' At his lodgings in Worcester , aged 72 , Samuel Culler , Esq . a native of Dantzic , and formerlv in the banking , house of Sir George Golebrooke arid Co . In the early part of his life he
was as much distinguished for liberality of sen'imeut , urbanity , and elegance of manners , and extensive and polite literature , as he was lately remarkable for a to'al seclusion from the world , and a disregard to all the intercourse and even comforts of society . Aged 8 j , the Rev . Robert Garnham
, rector of Norton and Hargrave , in the county of Suffolk , many years headmaster of the free grammar-school ' at Bury St . Edmund ' s , and formerly of Trinity-college , Cambridge ; B . A . 1737 , M . A . 1747 . ¦ The former of these livings is in -he gift of Peter-house , Cambridge ; the latter , of Mr . "Underwood .
At Paris , aged 101 years and 4 days , Isidore Loltin , formerly ' Scelleur hereditaire de France . ' He was a native of Brienne , in ' the ci-intmt province of
Champagne , and n-. 'ver had the least illness till a short time before his death . On board of his Majesty ' s ship Foudroyant , after nine days illness , Captain Sir Thomas Byard . By his death the country has lost a valuable officer ; who particularly distinguished himself in the action , with the Dutch fleet off the
coast of Holland , on the nth of October , 1597 , in which he commanded the Bedford , of 74 guns . Of a malignant fever , the eldest son ofthe Rev . Mr . Faulkener , lecturer of St . Giles ; Mr . Faulkener himself in two days after ' , and the servant maid on the sixth day . Mr . Faulkener , besides
being lecturer of St . Giles , was minister of Ely Chapel , Ely Place , Holborn . Ke was a methodisiic clergyman , of the Calvinisdc persuasion , was numerously attended , and sustained the character of a pious man . and an exemplary divine . In his lectureship he succeeded the lateMr . Southgateof whose benevolent
, and humane character the biographer of that gentleman has given a particular account , in the life prefixed to his sermons ; anl , since his death , edited by Dr . Gaskin .
N . B . To conclude within the year the various articles which luce been begun and not finished , as well as many articles unavoidabl y omitted , it is intended to add a SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER .
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Obituary.
cause of his death originated in Ihe treatment he received about 18 months since at the barbarous amusement , frequent in that city on his Majesty ' s birth-day , caled making burghers ; at which time , and from the same cause , a gentleman of the roval corps of artillery unfortunately received his death .
¦ At his apartment in Tabernacle-row , a blind beggar , upward , of 70 years of age . i ) n searching the wretched place , upwards of 350 I . were tfiscovered in bank notes , guiiic < is , lin ! figume » s , crowii and half-crown pieces , besides a large quantity of half-pence concealed in various places in his room , and a bond for
the sum of 150 I . more . Latelv , at Bagborough House , in the county of Somerset , in her 17 th year , Miss Anna Maria Freston , eldest daughter of the Rev . Anthony l- ' reston . She went to bed at eight o ' clock apparently labouring under a severe cold , and was found at eleven quite dead . She had been for a long time afflicted ¦ with the broncho ' celc , which , on examination , was found to be the cause of her sudden d ; 'atii .
Mr . J . Newman , farmer , of Stradbrook , Norfolk . He was , abotit three weeks since , bitten in the right hand by a viper ; the part immediately swelled , and in a few days he was seized with a fever and delirium , which occasioned his death . At Hopton Wafers , in Shropshire ,
in his 1061 I 1 year , and to the last moment in the full use of every faculty , the venerable William Hyde . When ' he attended Worcester races in 1797 , the following account of him appeared in the Worcester Herald : ' -In his cottage on the side of the Clee hills he has passed his long and peaceful life . The
same parish which gave him birth ( with a very few exceptions ) has been his bourne . Once , indeed , after the age of 70 , he wandered into Wiltshire to see his sons , and walked on the first day of his journey from his home to Newport , in Gloucestershire , a distance of nearly 50 miles . With a mind neither
debauched nor distracted by vicious or violent passions , nor highly elevated in the pursuits of exalted virtues , he has calmly glided down ihisJong stream of life with few circumstances to ruffle it .
Perhaps , in these dissolute times , the most remarkable circumstance is , that he hved 6 i vears with one wife . ' At his lodgings in Worcester , aged 72 , Samuel Culler , Esq . a native of Dantzic , and formerlv in the banking , house of Sir George Golebrooke arid Co . In the early part of his life he
was as much distinguished for liberality of sen'imeut , urbanity , and elegance of manners , and extensive and polite literature , as he was lately remarkable for a to'al seclusion from the world , and a disregard to all the intercourse and even comforts of society . Aged 8 j , the Rev . Robert Garnham
, rector of Norton and Hargrave , in the county of Suffolk , many years headmaster of the free grammar-school ' at Bury St . Edmund ' s , and formerly of Trinity-college , Cambridge ; B . A . 1737 , M . A . 1747 . ¦ The former of these livings is in -he gift of Peter-house , Cambridge ; the latter , of Mr . "Underwood .
At Paris , aged 101 years and 4 days , Isidore Loltin , formerly ' Scelleur hereditaire de France . ' He was a native of Brienne , in ' the ci-intmt province of
Champagne , and n-. 'ver had the least illness till a short time before his death . On board of his Majesty ' s ship Foudroyant , after nine days illness , Captain Sir Thomas Byard . By his death the country has lost a valuable officer ; who particularly distinguished himself in the action , with the Dutch fleet off the
coast of Holland , on the nth of October , 1597 , in which he commanded the Bedford , of 74 guns . Of a malignant fever , the eldest son ofthe Rev . Mr . Faulkener , lecturer of St . Giles ; Mr . Faulkener himself in two days after ' , and the servant maid on the sixth day . Mr . Faulkener , besides
being lecturer of St . Giles , was minister of Ely Chapel , Ely Place , Holborn . Ke was a methodisiic clergyman , of the Calvinisdc persuasion , was numerously attended , and sustained the character of a pious man . and an exemplary divine . In his lectureship he succeeded the lateMr . Southgateof whose benevolent
, and humane character the biographer of that gentleman has given a particular account , in the life prefixed to his sermons ; anl , since his death , edited by Dr . Gaskin .
N . B . To conclude within the year the various articles which luce been begun and not finished , as well as many articles unavoidabl y omitted , it is intended to add a SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER .