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morning, August 20, Mrs. Elizabeth Barnhill, consort of Robert Barnhill, of Philadelphia, merchant.

On Friday, August 28, after an illness of two days, Mrs. Sarah Rodman, wife of Gilbert Rodman, Esq., of Eddington, Bensalem township, Bucks county, and second daughter of the late Richard Gibbs, Esq., of the same place.

At PROVIDENCE, R. I., on Sunday, August 16, aged fifty-nine years, Mrs. Avis Brown, the surviving partner in conjugal relation of the late Nicholas Brown, Esq.

At PORTLAND, Eunice, aged four years and three months, daugh ter of Mr. William S. Quincy. Her death was occasioned by her swal-' lowing a tamarind stone, which stuck in the wind-pipe.

At ELKTON, Cecil county, Maryland, on the fourth of August, Mrs. Mary Hollingsworth, in the eightyseventh year of her age.

At ALEXANDRIA, on the 24th of August, after a lingering illness, doctor James Gillies, who has been a practising physician of great eminence in that town for several years, and for philanthropy by few excelled. On Sunday morning, August 9,' general Lewis Nicolas, a respectable veteran of 1776.

In South Carolina, on the 9th of July, Jane Eliza Dunlap, in the tenth year of her age, eldest daughter of Samuel Dunlap, Esq., of Lancasterville. By her suddenly reaching to the floor for thread, as it is supposed, and, having her needle in such a position, it penetrated into her breast, a little above her heart, leaving nearly one-third of the needle in her breast (the needle about No. 5), which destroyed her in less than one hour after she received the wound. Medical aid was immediately called, but the physician could render her no assistance.

At CHARLESTON, South Carolina, on Friday, August 7, Mr. Thomas Sikes, a native of Ireland, in the ninety-sixth year of his age. He resided in that city about sixty years. This is another evidence that that climate is not so unfavour

able to longevity as it has been represented. Mr. Sikes enjoyed to the end of his long life as uninterrupted a state of good health as generally falls to the lot of men in any country. He was a member of the society of friends, and much respected and esteemed by all who knew him.

Drowned, near Lexington, on Friday evening, July 24, George Bickham, jun., of Philadelphia, only son of George Bickham, Esq., merchant, of that place. On Friday morning, Mr. Bickham and several of his acquaintance went on a visit to the Kentucky River. They had spent the afternoon in exploring the cliffs of the river, near the mouth of Hicman (the object of their 'visit), and in the evening he, with another gentleman, went in to bathe. In attempting to swim across the river, he unfortunately got into a current, which precipitated him over a fish dam a short distance below, and no efforts of his anxious friends could save him. The body, under the direction of the Rev. Mr. Moore and Mr. Blythe, attended by a large number of his friends and acquaint ances, was interred in Lexington. In no instance have we witnessed such universal sympathy as was excited by this lamentable occurrence.

At Sunderland, New Hampshire, July 29th, 1807, a son of Mr. John Rowe, a worthy and promising young man, aged nineteen years, in the prime of life, much respected, and universally lamented. The circumstances of his death are here faithfully stated:

Six weeks before his death, as he was returning to his lodgingsdate in the evening, he was attacked in the street by a mad dog. The young man defended himself with his hands as well as he could; but ununhappily, in the contest the dog wounded him in two of his fingers. Heimmediately entered his lodgings, washed his wounds, squeezing, rubbing, and cleansing them to the bottom in the most prudent manner he could, applying salt and vinegar or spirits. Early next morning he ad

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vised with doctor Wells of Montague; he prescribed for him, and wrote to me his mode of practice, wishing me to attend upon him: his directions were strictly attended to. The mercurial ungt. was applied, but no ptyalism succeeded, the quantity of ungt. was increased, and persisted in for about five weeks, but no salivation ensued, only his gums and mouth were a little sore, and a bad taste in his mouth; it was then concluded, that although there was no ptyalism, the mercury must have destroyed the poison, and friction was omitted. He then complained of a pain in the shoulder of the wounded side, the wounds having been perfectly healed for some time, which pains were atttributed to taking cold, making a partial rheumatism; applications were made to the pained part, the pain abated and left him; he then, two days before his death, complained of a numbness in the same arm, which increased until it was almost useless, before his death. Two days before his death the air affected him very sensibly, increasing to that degree, that he could not bear any person's approach without symptoms of great uneasiness, and even a person's breathing with his face towards him greatly affected him; taking nothing into his mouth without a kind of shiver, as if from the sense of cold air; in this manner he expressed his feelings, and thus it appeared to the bystand ers; his mind was much agitated though fear of canine madness, and often spoke as if in a state of temporary derangement, but would answer correctly to any question proposed.

He could see water and swallow it as easily as more solid substances, and said the sight of water, of luminous or transparent objects were not offensive, but in his last hours his expressions were that his blood was in a foam, and his eyes felt as if they were balls of fire; the night on which he died the symptoms were like a true phrenzy. Exerting himself to the utmost, sometimes he would propose wrestling with his VOL. VIII. NO. XLVII.

attendants, sometimes would warn them of their danger, for perhaps he should bite them, but after this deranged to the last; he would swallow water, and never refused. Thus ended the scene, and he died miserably.

He complained of no pain in his wounds, no swelling appeared, and they were perfectly smooth, no wandering pains except the shoulder, no unquiet troubled sleep, or frightful dreams, no convulsions or subsultus of the tendons, no trembling at the sight of liquids or pellucid things, no spasms or vomiting, no frothing at the mouth, no efforts to spit at the bystanders, or to bite them, no foaming at the mouth, or gnashing of the teeth, or inclination to do mischief. Is or is not this the hydrophobia? let the public judge.

S. CHURCH.

In England, Elizabeth Clayton, aged sixty. This woman, from an early propensity to masculine employments, had worked as a shipcarpenter at a dock-yard upwards of forty years, and was always in man's apparel; she used to drink, chew tobacco, and keep company only with the workmen; yet she would never enter into the matrimonial state. She was a strong, robust woman, and never permitted any one to insult her with impunity. [A woman, aged about fifty, now works regularly in man's apparel, as a ship-carpenter, at Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is capable and industrious, and can utter an oath, or turn off her grog, with as little ceremony as any of her fellow-labourers.]

Lately, at Kingston, upon Thames, Mrs. Pierce, relict of the late unfortunate captain Pierce, commander of the Haleswell, East Indiaman, in which ship he perished with two daughters, and several other friends, in the year 1786. Perhaps modern history does not afford a more remarkable instance of what human nature can endure than is to be found in the latter part of this lady's life: accustomed to the most elegant and liberal style of life, surrounded by a numerous and engag

ing family, united to a man who occasioned more tears at his loss, perhaps, than any private individual before or since the lamentable fate of the Haleswell: in the midst of this transient scene of bliss did she hear of the beginning of her misery, in the wreck not only of her fortune, but her friends, her children, and her husband, all, all buried in the devouring ocean. Like a true christian did she bear up with unexampled fortitude against her cruel fate,

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which has still continued in its most merciless form to invade her, by the loss of her two sons, the eldest in the most promising situation in India, the youngest commanding the Taunton Castle, East Indiaman, and a short time prior to this her favourite daughter died in child-bed. complete this scene of human misery, for the last twelve months this unfortunate sufferer had been la bouring under a complication of diseases, the anguish of which was in a degree diminished by the calmness she evinced in bending with pious resignation to the will of the Almighty. She has left three most amiable daughters behind her, all married, who, together with the widow of her youngest son, alleviated, by their unremitting assiduity and tenderness, the latter moments of their much lamented relative.

At Liverpool, by a fall from the maintop of his ship, William Hadley, an American seaman.

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WEEKLY REGISTER OF MORTA- Diarhoea,

LITY IN THE CITIES OF PHI-
LADELPHIA, NEW YORK, AND
BALTIMORE.

Health-office, Aug. 1, 1807. Interments, in the city and liberties of Philadelphia, in the week ending the 1st of August.

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