Star.
London, England, 1823-08-30 00:00:00

DIED.

Thursday se'nnight, suddenly, at Stonehouse, Capt. Colvell,
of the 3d Veteran Battalion.
Thursday se'nnight, at Plymouth, after a severe illness, John
Davy, Esq. late a Lieutenant in the 12th Regiment of Foot.
August 26, after a very short illness, aged M, at Easebourn,
near Midhurst, Sussex, the Rev. Samuel Arbon, Perpetual Cu-
rate of that Parish, Rector of I.inch, in the same county, and
late Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford.
Saturday, at Wells (of which Parish he was many years Rec-
tor, and Vicar of Doulting, Somersetshira), the Rev. John lit-
shop, D.D. formerly Fellow of Magdaletr College, Oxford.
August 21, in St. Pancras, after a lingering illness, tbedaugh-
ter of Captain Smith, of the Staff of the Sussex ,Militia. It is
singular that tins Gentleman was but just returned from paying '
the last mournful duties to a little grand-daughter, who had died
whilst on, a visit to his residem.e, When the above event occurred.
In Welbeck-street, aged 75, the Rev. J. F. Browning, D.D.
Rector of Titchwell and Southmere, Norfolk.
Of apoplexy, at St. Martin's, Salop, the Rev. J. W. Bourke,
M.A. Vicar of that parish, and of O.westry.
At Loughtea, Licut. John Mulkern, of the 65th Regiment.
Thursday se'nnight, at his seat, Broomham, Sussex, Sir Wm.
Ashburnham, Bart. in his 85th year.
August 19, at Kirstall Bridge, Yorkshire, the Rev. H. Parker,
curate to the Rev. Robert Gray, of Sunderland.
Of a typhus fever, contracted in the discharge of his clerical
duties, the Rev. Daniel Malone, Roman Catholic Curate of
Drogheda, and late Lecturer on Moral Theology in the College
of Maynooth.
Monday, in Clarges-street, William, the infant son of the
Rev. Charles R. Farmshawe.
June 29, at Quebec, Laughlin Smith, Esq. Seignior of St.
Denis and La Pocatiere. Mr. Smith was a native of Inverness,
Scotland, and is supposed to have been upwards of 100 years of
age. He served as a private in General Wolfe's army at that
taking of Quebec.
Thursday, in Exeter, aged 41, Thomas Osborne, dubbed by
the populace Sir Thomas, distinguished by the singularity of his
person, character, and manners.
Saturday, in his 78th year, Mr. Gocdall, Master of the Cere.
monies of Salisbury, which situation he held upwards of forty
years.
August 22, at Colston Basset, Notts, aged more than sestet
years, Mr. William liareott, alias" Runs Marriott," a Most ex-
traordinary character, and possessed of tonsklerable property.—
He was by trade a shoemaker,and until he was nearly fifty years
of age, was remarkably sober, industrious, and extremely pea*
rious ; so much so, that, with the exception of a passionate fond-
ness for music, and for the encouragement of which he would at
any time subscribe very liberally, he would not have bestowed a
half-penny to save a man's life, but would, according to thecae►
mon adage," skin a flint forl farthing." At the above period
of his life, however, his manners and habits underwent a taw
plete change, and he betook himself to excessive hard drinking;
for several years he regularly sent a man daily to Ilingium,
distance of four miles, for a quart of his favourite exhilars*
*and vivifying beverage, rum, assigning as a reason,thut if he seat
for more at once, be should not be able to confine himself to kr
stinted habit of a daily bottle ; but for a few of the Litter yue
of his life he increased his dose, and latterly, nearly or wine
doubled it, and he uniformly carried a bottle in his pocket if
day, and every night, by way of composing- himself, placed
under his pillow I
Jawtsir Paorturr.—At Richmond (Virginia), cm du Plied-
Mr. Marcus Levi, of the Hebrew Congregation. Heconstandf
wore his beard with great circumspection, and declared himself
a prophet who had many peculiar favours from the Austaalri
amongst which was one that he should not die, hut he remota
as Enoch and Elijah were. Indeed his departure did not wor
to
_partake of any of the pain* of death. As he was retro*
health, iht