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a most severe nervous complaint, and who was, for the last four years, deprived of the use of her limbs, and the power of utterance.

At the age of 107, Mr. John Key, of Edgbaston Mill, near Birmingham.

Mrs. Battle, of Mashbury, Essex, in her 88th year; who, at the age of 21, was married to her third husband, and had only one child, and who lived to see that child's daughter a grandmother.

At Ely, Mr. George Apsey, youngest son of William Apsey, esq. of that place. At the age of fourteen years he weighed upwards of 15 stone; and, at the time of his death, being in his 20th year, he weighed upwards of 22 stone. This young man, though of an extraordinary size, and of a gross habit, enjoyed exceedingly good health until within a few hours of his death; which was occasioned by a large piece of wood falling against him, a few weeks since, and which he took no notice of, till a mortification took place, and surgical assistance could be of no avail. Had his life been prolonged a few years, it is likely he would have equalled, if not exceeded, the great Mr. Lambert, in

size.

In Ireland, aged 110, Denis Hampson, the blind bard of Magilligan, of whom so interesting an account is given by Miss Owenson, in The Wild Irish Girl." A few hours before his death, he tuned his harp, in order to have it in readiness to entertain sir H. Bruce's family, who were expected to pass that way in a few days, and who were in the habit of stopping to hear his music; shortly after, however, he felt the approach of death, and, calling his family around him, re

signed his breath without a struggie; being in perfect possession of his faculties to the last moment.

Mrs. Woollen, of Sheffield Park. She had just finished reading a letter, which contained an account of the loss of a ship, on board of which all the crew perished excepting her son, and another boy; when, being suddenly overcome with joy and apprehension, she fell upon the floor, and instantly expired.

At Collercoats, near North Shields, John Ramsay, mariner, aged 115. He served in the capacity of cabin-boy on-board one of the ships in sir George Rooke's squadron, at the taking of Gibral tar, in 1704; and, what is remark. able at so advanced an age, he con tinued to enjoy his faculties to the last, being capable of telling a merry story or singing a good old song until within a short period of his de

cease.

Mrs. Collingwood, of Corby, Lincolnshire. About nine weeks ago she was shockingly burned by her clothes catching fire; since which accident, to the time of her death, she lingered in great pain.

At his house in Grosvenor-place, sir John T. Stanley, bart. of Alderley Park, Cheshire.

At Weymouth, aged 65, the wellknown Old Tom Green, his majes ty's late favourite bathing-guide at that place.

In his 60th year, Dr. Reynolds, of Exeter College, Oxford, and vice-chancellor of the university.

In his 58th year, Mr. David Fordham, a well-known horse dealer, of Cambridge.

At High Holden, Wm. Bourne, aged 87, who had 120 children, grand.children, and great grandQ94

children;

children; eighty-nine of whom survive him.

The rev. Mr. Mutlow, rector of Broad Windsor, Dorsetshire.

In America, Mr. Hatton, late of the Haymarket Theatre.

At Hoddesdon, Herts, Mrs. Boreham, mother of one of the ladies who were murdered there about two months since; her death is ascribed to the wounds she received at that time. See p. 505.]

At Kidwelly, Glamorganshire, in his 78th year, the rev. Mr. Williams, vicar of that place, which he had served 55 years.

Henry Parker, esq. of the Tax Office, Somerset House.

At Huntingdon, Captain Cross, of the Northampton militia.

At Waterford, Robert Dobbyn, esq. recordor and common-councilman of that city.

In Glamorganshire, aged 37, Henry Bingham, esq. barrister at law, Dublin, and brother of lord Clanmorris, of Newbrook, Ireland.

At Great Abingdon, Cambridgeshire, the rev. Andrew Pern, rector of Abingdon and Clay, near Royston, and an active magistrate for the county. He was formerly of St. Peter's college. B.A. 1772. Philip Dundas, esq. governor of Prince of Wales Island.

At Fort Marlborough, capt. Patrick Ramage, of the Lord Keith East-Indiaman,

At Calcutta, capt. Collins, who filled a high diplomatic station at one of the Mahratta courts.

At Malta, of a decline, in his 22d year, Edward Matthew Gwynne, esq.

At Adams, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, Mr. J. Peters, aged 107. He enjoyed an uncommon share of health, strength, and activity, and was in entire possession of all his faculties until the last moment of his existence.

At Schenectedy (America), Mrs. Elizabeth Cowans, in her 104th year. She read without spectacles till her death, and but two years ago entered the field and mowed grass with the scythe.

At Paris, M. l'Abbe le Chevalier, in his 76th year, formerly royal censor, and author of several classic works.

Lately, at Paris, M. de Breteuil, at an advanced age, and after a long and painful disease. He was the celebrated architect to whom Paris is indebted for one of its principal embellishments, in the demolition of the houses which covered the Pont au Change and obstructed the quay. of Gevies.

SHERIFFS appointed by his Majes ty in Council for the year 1807. [See these in p. 385.]

APPENDIX

APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE.

Address to his Majesty, moved by Mr. Canning (in lieu of that proposed by the Hon. Mr. Lambe, and ultimately carried) in Answer to the Speech from the Throne, Dec. 19, 1806.

"THAT

HAT an humble address be presented to his majesty, to return his majesty the thanks of this house, for the most gracious speech which the lords commissioners have read to us by his majesty's command; to assure his majesty, that it is with increased affection, attachment, and loyalty, that his majesty's faithful commons meet his majesty in this ninth parliament of his majesty's assembling. And that amidst all those evils and pressures of war, and those tremendous and unparalleled successes of a formidable and unrelenting enemy, which render the present crisis peculiarly awful and alarming, the first and most fervent prayer of his majesty's faithful commons is, that it may please Divine Providence to grant to this favoured country the prolonga tion of a life and of a reign, the value and the blessings of which, each succeeding year teaches us more highly to appreciate. And to And to express to his majesty our unshaken determination to stand by his ma jesty throughout all the difficulties and dangers of the times; in de fence of the laws and liberties of

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this realm; in defence of his majes ty's sacred person and government; and of a throne endeared to all classes of his majesty's subjects by the virtues of the sovereign who adorns it. To offer to his majesty our humble and affectionate condolence on that share of the public calamities of Europe which has come home to the personal and domestic feelings of his majesty and his royal family, by the death of that gallant and illustrious prince the late duke of Brunswick, a prince connected by such near alliances with his majesty's royal house, and with the throne of these kingdoms. That while we most sensibly participate in the deep and poignant grief with which his majesty contemplates the issue of the late campaign on the continent, we studiously abstain from suggesting to his majesty, as a topic of consolation, what we well know his majesty's intelligence and magnanimity would disdain to receive as such-the interruption of his majesty's intercourse with the court of Berlin during the last eight months, which precluded his majesty from any knowledge of those counsels by which the war between Prussia and France was so unfortu. nately precipitated. Satisfied as we are of the justice of the original grounds of his majesty's complaints against Prussia, we are yet unable to refrain from deeply deploring

their

their consequences. We are not furnished with any means of judging how far those complaints were capable of being adjusted, without recourse being had to actual hosti. lities; or how far any discussions, which may have taken place subse quently to his majesty's gracious message of the 21st of April, were directed to that object. But we cannot but lament, that the obvious artifice of the common enemy, in making a fraudulent and nominal transfer of his majesty's electoral dominions to the king of Prussia, should have been so far crowned with success, as to have involved his majesty in war with the only state in Europe whose resources were yet unimpaired; and whose arms might, at some happier hour, have been employed with effect in a new confederacy against France; and that the too successful policy of the enemy in amusing this country with an insincere and protracted negociation, should have obtained for France the opportunity of goading Prussia (by unmeasured and accumulated injuries) to that premature, unconcerted, and unassisted effort, which has terminated in the overthrow of that powerful monarchy, and in the complete subjugation of its dominions. We cannot but express our regret, that the policy which appears to have been ultimately adopted towards Prussia should not have been recognised and acted upon until the occasion was gone by; and that his majesty's plenipotentiary should have arrived only in time to be an helpless witness of that prodigious ruin and destruction, which a more timely interposition of his majesty's advice and assistance might possibly have averted or alleviated. To acknow

ledge his majesty's goodness in having directed to be laid before us the details of the negociation so long carried on at Paris. We en. tertain the fullest conviction, that the just and moderate sentiments, by which his majesty has proved himself to have been animated in the several preceding negociations for peace with France, have alike actuated his majesty on the late occasion: and while we look with anxious interest for the develope. ment of those circumstances which can have deferred for so long a period that termination of the ne gociation, which it is evident, as well from notorious facts as from the language of his majesty's declaration, the artifices and pretensions of the enemy rendered, from the beginning, almost certain and un. avoidable; we doubt not but we shall see, in the whole course and tenour of the proceedings on the part of his majesty, fresh instances of that desire for peace, and of that sincerity and good faith in the pursuit of it, which have so often been frustrated by the ambition of the French government; as well as fresh proofs of the expediency of adhering to the policy of treating for general peace, and only in conjunction with our allies. That we receive with the utmost satisfaction the assurance of his majesty's unin. terrupted concert and good understanding with the emperor of Russia; trusting, that neither in war nor in negociation, his majesty's councils will be separated from those of our ally, distinguished alike by perseverance and good faith. The continued prosecution of the war being necessarily imposed upon his ma jesty, we rejoice in the assurance that it is intended to prosecute it

with vigour; earnestly imploring his majesty, that no apprehension of embarrassing the conduct of a negociation by acquisitions made during its progress, may ever again be suffered to relax for a moment the military and naval operations of this country. That if we have not the triumph and satisfaction, as in former years of war, of offering to his majesty our congratulations on any signal and decisive victory by sea, we nevertheless reflect, with just pride and acknowledgement, on the several distinguished instances in which the skill, valour, and intrepidity of British officers and seamen have been displayed in their usual lustre, and with their accustomed success, over equal or superior squadrons of the enemy. But we cannot help lamenting, in justice to the naval service, as well as to the interests of the country, that supineness or mismanagement, by which the predatory squadrons of the enemy have been permitted to range, unchecked, among our West-India colonies, and to escape with impunity; and by which our commerce has been exposed to a degree of annoyance highly injurious to the interests and discreditable to the maritime superiority, of Great Britain. With equal sor. row, and with no less astonishment, we have observed those delays and uncertainties, and that apparent perplexity and fluctuation of councils, which have marked the conduct of the war department of the state, which have hitherto prevented the execution of those measures which ministers persuaded the late parliament to enact, and upon which they themselves professed so greatly to rely for the internal defence of the empire; and delays

which have so long confined our expeditions within our own ports, and have rendered the military preparations of this government at once ineffectual to the annoyance of the enemy, and a just ground of dis satisfaction and disappointment to the nation at large. We rejoice in the opportunity of congratulating his majesty on the capture of that valuable and important settlement, the Cape of Good Hope, by those distinguished officers, sir David Baird and sir Home Popham. We have, however, the consolation and gratification of being able to recall his majesty's attention to acquisitions and achievements in the course of the present year, by which, notwithstanding the apparent inactivity of his majesty's present servants, the credit of his majesty's arms, by sea and land, as been sustained in the different quarters of the globe. We congratulate his majesty on the signal advantages obtained by his majesty's arms in the expedition under sir H. Popham, and general Beresford, against the Spanish settlement of Buenos Ayres; advan tages which, if seasonably supported and diligently improved, must be in the highest degree valuable to this country, opening fresh channels of commercial enterprise, and affording new and increasing encouragement to British manufactures and navi. gation; advantages doubly important at a moment when the other markets of the world are attempted to be closed against us. We enter, with heartfelt exultation, into the senti ments so justly expressed by his majesty, on the brilliant victory obtained on the plains of Maida, by his majesty's land forces, under the gallant and able conduct of sir J. Stuart, over a French army supe

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