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    Miss IVeivlon . TH < R —3 fr . 7 » Wthtn * —3 £ r . . * £ gerty + * - m Damson , JBsy . Jkf . /\ Mr . S . Barton—Mr % J . Lack . —Capt . J . Macdonnell ,

    battles of Fontenoy , Culloden , and Lafcldt . He was with Wolfe at Quebec , of which place he took possession as commander in chief , on thje death of that lamented general . In 1764 , Lord T . was appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland , tvhere he so conciliated the affections of the natives , that his birth-day has been from that period annually celebrated * in Dublin , He was twice

    married , and has left eight children , beside * the Earl of Leicester , who succeeds him . " In his private character he was livelyunaffected , and convivial . He possessed an acute mind , and enlivened his conversation with that original ^ pleasantry which was so visible in the works of his

    pencil , when he ckose to display it . In the earlier part of his life , he frequently indulged its hum ours , and was an admirable caticaturist even at the time when Hogarth flourished . No one enjoyed life more than the Marquis Townshend .

    JHe suffered indeed some heavy afflictions , but he bore them with resignation ; * and closed a life , protracted beyond the common date ofnian , with the general respect and estimation of his country . " **

    -September 14 th * At Bristol , of a consumption , Miss NEWTON , niece , and only surviving relative of Chatter * ton . For her benefit an edition of his v / orks was lately published by

    subscription . At Maryport , Cumberland , Mr . JO HN WILSON , shoemaker , a man vho , considering his occupation , was possessed of extraordinary accomplishments . He -was well skilled in

    mathematics , a stronomy , and optics . He also excelled in mechanics , so as to make , v .-ith great exactness , various philosophical instruments . All this knowledge was self-acquired , with little or no interruption of his business . He has

    olten sai < i , that he generally worked at his trade , fourteen cr fifteen hours per day , while he was gaizujig the greatest part of his information . He was a clifiident mi ; n , and consequently little known lib a ntan of genins .

    At Moy , county of Clare , Ireland , Mr . THOMAS HAGGERTY , farmer , ric completed his jo ; th year on the 7 . 0 th July la t , and was never seriously iiicij ^ i oicci tiJL a week previous to hio

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    dissolution . He possessed all his facuities in great vigour to the last . In Dublin , RICHARD DAW SON , Esq . M . P . for the county of Monaghan . He had a seat in the Irish parliament , and

    had been returned to all the Imperial parliaments since the Union , of which he was a determined opposer . As a senator , he was an independent assertor of every measure which he conceived would promote the national interest , and was a uniform advocate for catholic

    emancipation , as the only medicine which could heal all the disorders of his native land . October 6 th , at Mill Bank , fcforbury , in the parish of Stotkport , Cheshire , Mr . SAMUEI . BARTON , aged 7 6 years . It may truly be said of him , that he was uniformly pious ,

    benevolent , and just . He was a sincere Christian , a kind husband , and an affectionate father of thirteen children , who grew up to man * s estate , twelve of whom are now living with a widow to lament hi ? loss . He was adissenter , from principle , and buried in the chapel yahi of the dissenting chapel of Dean Row , near " Wimslow . S . B .

    October 10 th . At Hackney , aged J 05 , Mr . JA MES LACK . He had served as a private soldier in the German wars under George I . and 11 . ' attended General Wolfe in his last

    moments at the siege of Quebec , and had been in 15 engagements and a $ skirmishes , and never received a wound . He flattered Rimself , some weeks previous to his dissolution , that he should live to the auge of old Parr .

    October 17 th , at Berwick , aged 2 s > Captain JOHN MACDONNEL . I ,, many years commandant of the late Invalid Corps of that garrison . He was the last survivor of the companions of General Wolfe , at the siege of Quebec , and was the officer who rescued tfcc French commander in chief , Moatcalmv

    when sinking under his wounds , ( of which he afterwards diedj from the fury of an enraged soldiery , roused to-madness by the death of their beloved general . By the papers wluch lie secured in the French general ' s port folio , he rendered to his country an obligation of great national importance . No o /* tlccz oi"Us rank was evermore honoured

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    556 Obituary *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page 556, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/48/