deeply the loss of a son who was so endeared to him and to all his family by his virtues, and by the early fame he had acquired in the service of his country.

Lately, At Collingwood Main, near North Shields, a woman of the name of Richardson, aged 104; she retained her faculties and uncommon strength till within a few months ago, when her two grandsons were burnt in the pit, since which time she has rapidly decayed.

At Bayonne, (where he was confined as a prisoner) of the wounds he received at Vittoria, Lieutenant-Colonel Scanlan.

- At Vittoria, of the wounds he received in the battle of the Pyrenees, Lieutenant-Colonel Despard, of the 7th regiment, or Royal Fusileers.

- Lieutenant George Fraser Freeze, of the 59th regiment of foot. His military career was short, but active; as an Ensign, he partook in the perils of the Walcheren expedition; in the memorable battle of Vittoria, as a Lieutenant, his intrepidity was highly conspicuous, and claimed the particular attention of his honourable commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Fane, now no more; and at the storming of St Sebastian, he was mortally wounded, whilst gallantly leading and cheering the brave company he had the honour to command, and which was one of the first that stormed the breach.

-At St Sebastian, of his wounds received while at the head of the grenadier company, 92d regiment, in action with the enemy at the Pass of Roncesvalles, in the Pyrenees, Captain Samuel Bevan, second son of the late Henry Bevan, Esq. of Mil.

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At Paris, at the age of 34 years, Madame Robertson, the female aeronaut.

- On board the Lady Lushington Indiaman, on his passage to England, W. Kinloch, Esq. late of Calcutta. He has left the principal part of his property to Charitable Institutions in Scotland.

At Gloucester, Mr Skerrington, aged 82. His house, known by the name of the Beggar's Opera, or Cripple College, was the lodging house for all kinds of beggars, which he kept for a number of years; he made up from 50 to 60 beds nightly; had 240 pair of sheets, and a like number of blankets, with counterpanes and other furniture to correspond. He died worth £.1500 in the stocks, 70 guineas found in the coal hole, and a peck of silver, which he had secreted from his family during his life.

At Sea, Mr W. Clarke, Captain of the Rebecca privateer, of Folkstone, who, by frequent practice, had acquired the art of throwing the lead with his teeth farther than almost any man could do with his hands; and in his last experiment, from having lost his balance, he fell a sacrifice to his dexterity.

Oct. 16. At sea, having been taken ill at Fernandez Noronha, an island near the equator, after sixteen days severe suffering, which he bore with the greatest composure and resignation, Lieutenant Richard Davies, first of his Majesty's ship Superb, most deeply lamented by all on board.