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    ^ ean ThUiel— Jerome D 4 JLalande— Ahb e Edgcworth *—Rcv . S . Barnard- — JMrs . CooSen

    At Tours , in France , JSAN THUREL , aged 108 ; he was a member of the Legion of Honour , was born at Orain , in Burgundy , in 1699 , entered the regiment of Touraine the 17 th of September , 1716 , and served without interruption for the space of 92 years . He received a musket-bail in the neck at the siege of Kehl , in 1733 , and seven sabre Wounds , sir of whi-h were

    observable on his head at the battle of Mmden , in 1759 . He had three brothers killed at Fontenoy , and a son , a veteran and corporal in the same company , killed in 1782 ; there is another who still serves with honour . In 1787 , his regiment was ordered to march to the coast

    to embark ; he performed the whole march on foot , saying , " that as he never travelled in a carriage , he would not tomnience then . ** On the Sth of November , r 787 , he -waspresented to the king and royal family ; he was then ordered a pension of 300 frarics yearly , 200 of ^ which were tb revert to his wife in case

    of his death , and on her decease , 100 francs to each of his children . For some years he ha . s lived as a veteran at Tours . Buonaparte presented him with the Eagle bf the JLegion of Honour , and a pension of 1 , 206 franks . On the removal of the ashes of general Monier , he was . one of the four commissaries named for that

    ceremony , and was then appointed , as the oldest soldier in Europe . To the moment of his death , he preserved his senses and judgment ; and until his last illness , which was but for a few days , he efljoyed good health . April 7 , at Paris ? . ^ ed 75 , M .

    JEROME DE LALANDE , the celebrated Astronomer . By his will he ordered his body to be dissected ,.. and his skeleton to be placed in the museum of Natural History . His friend ^ however , regardless of the injunction , caused him to be interred , and his funeral was attended by most of" the members of the Naional Institute . See p . 317 of the present vol .

    A direction in one respect , similar to the above , was given by Dr . Mounsey , Physician to Chelsea College , who died

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    in 1788 , in his 95 th year . That ingenious and eccentric man left his body to hi * friend Mr . Forster a surgeon , who < l in pursuance of his -will delivered a discourse on its dissection in the Theatre of Guy ' s Hospital . " Afterwards he made hus repdrt of certain " morbid affections to Dr . Heberden , according to the will ^ depositing the parts with these singular appearances in the Museum of Mr . Ciine . " The remains of Dr . M . were then

    interred at Chelsea College , though to" < hew , as he expressed it , " the philosophic cowtempt in which he held all funeral pompj and every species of unnecessary form he had directed that * the remainder of hi * carcase should be put into a hole or crammed into a box with holes and thrown into the Thames . "

    " May Z 2 d , aged 6 z , the ABBE EDGEWORTH who accompanied Louis 16 th to the scaffold . He caught , in visiting the French prisoners at Mitt ace * a fever , which in a few days put a period to hh existence . " -A I ^ atin Epitaph for Abbe E . has been published and " said to be -written by Louis 18 th . "

    " July 7 , Rev . S . BARNARD , Pastor of the Church assembling- at Howard Street Chapel , Sheffield , and formeily Pastor of a large congregation at Hulh As a . preacher and writer his labours have been incessant : for many years he wips one of the most ixseful and popular preachers in the connexion of the late Laidy Huntingdon . " i

    ' * J ty 3 > aged 69 , at Ferney Hill , Gloucestershire , the residence of hdr eldest son , Mrs . COOPER , relict oi the Rev . Dr . Cooper , of Yarmouth . Ani mated by chri-tian principles and supported by Christian hop ' . * , she placid > y expired after a shojt illness and kk the memory of a bright example to her children and her friends . She was the

    author of scve-al publications , some of which were printed many years ago , under tiie titles of c Fanny Meadowsr Daughter - The School for Wivesand the Exemplary Mother . ' She pub- li hed at a later period A Poetical Kpi * - tlc from June Shore to her iriciul . 'lh

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 438, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/42/