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1817 , June 25 , at Paris , at the age of B 2 , Jean Etienne Hardouin , the translator of Young's Night Thoughts into French verse . He also paraphrased Fenelon ' s Telemachus ; translated the fragment of the 91 st book of Livy , discovered by Paul Jacques Burns , in the MSS . Library of the Vatican ; and published a collection of Anacreon ' s Poems in the original Greek text , with a Glossary , and translations into Latin prose and verse , and French prose and verse .
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these arrangements , he ordered the oI 3 woman that attended him to go to a certain nook , and bring * out £ 9 to be appropriated to defray the funeral charges . He told her , at the same time , not to he grieved , for he had not forgotten her in his will . In a few hours afterwards , in the full exercise of his mental powers , but in the most
excruciating agonies , fie expired . A neighbour and a man of business were immediately sent for to examine and seal up his effects . The first thing they found was a bag-, containing large silver pieces , such as crowns , half-crowns and dollars , to a large amount : in a corner was secreted , amongst a vast quantity of musty rag-s , a
great number of guineas and seven shilling pieces . In his trunk was found a bond for £ 300 , and other bonds and securities to a very considerable amount * In all , wt heard , the property amounted to £ 900 . His will was found among some old paper , leaving to his housekeeper £ 20 , and the rest of his property to be divided among *
his distant relations . As it required some time to give his relatives intimation of hi « death , and to make preparations for his funeral , he lay in state four days , during which period , the place where he was resembled more an Irish wake , than a deserted room where the Scots lock up their dead . The invitations to his funeral were most
singular . Persons were not asked individually , but whole families ; so that , except a few relatives dressed in black , his obsequies were attended by tradesmen in their working- clothes , bare-footed boys and girls , an immense crowd of tattered beg * g * ars ;
to the aged among whom he left sixpence , and to the younger threepence . After the interment , this motley group retired to a large barn fitted up for the purpose , where a scene of profusion and inebriety was exhibited almost without a parallel .- — ( Glasgow Courier . )
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— 30 , at Athens , of a fever , brought on fey fatigue , in the ardent pursuit of knowledge , and rendered fatal by the extreme heat , Mr . Benjamin Gott , second sou of Benjamin Gott , Esq . of Leeds . This excellent young man was endowed with
virtues and talents which eminently qualified him for an exalted rank in both public and private life . He died the day after he had completed his 24 th year , and his remains were deposited in the temple of Theseus , close by those of the celebrated Tweddell .
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July 17 , in Glen-street , Kilmarnock ^ William Stevenson , aged 87 . He was originally from Dunlop , and bred a mason ; V > ut during many of the latter years of his life he wandered about as a common beggar . Thirty years ag-o , he and , his wife Separated upon these strauge conditions , that the first that proposed an agreement
# hould forfeit £ 100 . This singular pair never met again , and it is not now known whether the heroine yet lives * Stevenson was much afflicted , during- the last two years of his life , with the stone . As his disease increased , he was fully aware of his approaching dissolution ; and for this event he made the following extraordinary
preparation : —He sent for a baker and ordered twelve dozen of burial cakes , and ft great profusion of sugar biscuit ; together xvith a corresponding quantity of wine and « pirituous liquors . He next sent for the joiner , and ordered a coffin decently iiiounted , with particular instructions that the wood should be quite dry , and the joints firm and impervious to the water .
The grave-dig-ger was next sent for , and asked i / he thought he could get a place to put him in after he was dead . The spot fixed upon was in the church-yard of Riccarton , a village about half a mile distant . He enjoined the sexton to be sure and make his grave roomy and in a dry jind comfortable corner ; and he mig-ht rest assured tha { he would be well rewarded fmr hi * care and trouble . Having- made
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In August ^ at Birmingham , about 65 years of age , the Rev . George Watson , late Dissenting minister of Daventry . " was a native of Kettering in Northamptonshire , of reputable parents , and was
employed for some time as a mechanic ; p * being of a serious turn of mind , and wishing " to be a Christian minister , his friends sent him to the Rev . Mr . ( afterwards Dr . ) Adding-ton , of Market-Harborough , who , at that time , kept a flourishing boardingschool in that town . " From thence he
removed , in 1773 , to the Dissenting * academy at Daventry , then under the care of that strict , disciplinarian , very studious and aW « tutor * Dr . Caleb A * hworth . After & >* -
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1817, page 624, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2469/page/52/
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