Star.
London, England, 1816-08-05 00:00:00

SINGULAR PETITION.

TO THE RICH F HON. THE SECRETARY AT WAR, a.
Tie Memorial of ELIZABETH HOPKINS, wife 0,
JEREMIAH HOPKINS. Berjeant of the 104u1.
(New Brunswick) Regiment cf Foot.
MOST HOMILY SurwaTa,
That she was born of British parent,/ at Philadelphia, la de
year 1741; has her husband, six sous, and a son in law, vit. Jere.
nisei Hopkins (husband), Samuel Woodward, Timy. Woodward,
Robert Woodward, Nathaniel Woodward, Archibald Woodward_
Nish. Hopkins, (ions), James M'Donough (-on In law), soni,i
his Majesty in the loath; and during the course of her hig,
from her zeal and attachment to her King and country, she bas
encomatered more hardships tban commonly fall to the lot of her
sea. That is the year 1716; being with her first husband, (John
Super), a sajeant of surioesa,on board the brig hunity, tender
to the Roebuck, she was wounded its her left kg, hs.an engage.
meat With titres French vessels; when She Was actually wee*
at the SSA&
That UN marines having been 'Muted dt Cipe May, in Ame-
rica, her husband was takes prisoner by a Captain Plof
the rebel army, war Mud Fort Nied, and sentenced der
death; that by her means he was enabled to escape, with gg
American deserters, to whom she served arms and asnatualtioa,
and an their way to join the army, their party was attacked by
thi enemy's light horse, she was fired at, and wounded in her kit
arm; but, undismayed, took a loaded *clock, that the tebd,
and brought his horse to Philadelphia, (the beadles:tat of tbi
army), which she was permitted to sell to one of General *
Wm. Howell Aid-de-Cansps.
• That alter many fatigues and campaign; her first husband
died, and she married (seined Woodward), a soldier in Calmat
Chambers' corp., was with the troops under the command of
General Campbell,taken at Pensacola, having, however, during
the. siege, served at the guns, and tore her very clothes fwwad-
ding. That having been exchanged at the peace of 1713, bout
attachment to the Royal cause, she embarked on board a tram-
poet with part of Delancey's and Chambers corps, wassbipwruk.
od on Seal island, in the Bay of Fundy, when near three bundled
men, and numbers of the women ant children were lost, that 4ie
si.ffered unparalleled distress, being pregnant, with a child ia hef
anus • remained three day, on the wreck, was taken up with
her lxissband and chUd,by fishermen off Marble Head, and shortly
atter being landed, delivered of three sons, two of whom are in
the 104th, the other dead lastly, that she has had the huneur
of tieing mother of Et children, viz. is tons and four daughters,
seven of the former being alive, and three of the latter.
That Memorialist humbly prays, that you may consider her as
a fit object to some allowance from the Cempassiocate Filed
towards her maintenance in her old age, having lost all her pro-
perty, and as a reward for her lung and faithful service to Lei
King, and as in duty bound, shall eve: pray, c. uorKiss.
Fredericton, New Brunswick, 12th April, 1816.
he subject of this Memorial is a wonderfel oh! woman,
Ruch above seventy, and wus well and hearty at Qeebec tan
muntasAho. la coaliesucnce of her Meoviriai, the obtained a
peuliuo of £lOO a-year.---t be following is anuther in.:ante d
her strunrb of mind : at Fort Erie, the pride of her heart, bet
twins, ; also McDonough, her son-in-law. On Lar.eg the
news, she called her husband and her children round her, gods
them a most animated speech, charged them to be revenged us
the Vanities for their loss; and next time they wen: i..tJ aln
they were cheered awl encouraged by Mammy 1 lopkies, :ye
name she goes by in the regiment j

BIRTHS. -
Tuesday, at Colisford, Oxf..sr.liture, the Lady of Major Ed-
ward Fitzgerald, 60th Regimen., of a daughter.
Thursday, at Camberwell, the Lsdy of the Rev. Edw. Smyth,
of a daughter.

MARRIED.
Saturday, at St. lantes's Crsurzb, Mr. Milligan, jun. to ?ibl
Stifling, youngest daughter of St. Walter rho;, hart.
Rev. J. Li.caland, ot Hantrou, to Fiances, youngest ditogluet
of the late Wm. At :told, fly ot Wight. •
Mo day, the Rev. Kenneth M. R. Tapley, Vicar of Flower,
Northantironshire, to Charlotte, yht.gest daughter of the late
Dr. liorosby, :•aviliast Professor ot iibtronomy.

DIED.

041 Saturday evening, In Albemarle-street, of a rapid decline,
Emily, youngest daughter of the late George Clark, Esq. of West
Hatch, Esse'.
W etinedslay. in Caroline•platet Caroline, the fourth daughter of
Captain Lochner.
Thursday, la Hinde-street,
-
los-illness, the Rev. EdnardDawkiu%, in ldeoeth year.
July Si, suddenly, in the night, after going apparently in good
health to bed, Mr. James Field Osborn, aged 7a years; many of
which be was one of the Fellowship of Pilots, Deal, but Wetly
a superannuated Member of that branch.

after a linguz

luvalithque patrum

From the taunt embrace
Unmanly sons arisea puny race !
MARRIAGE ihould be the foundation of snail
happiness, which is often disturbed through the parties tilt
form the union, nut taking those precautions which would secure
them the enjoyment of that great domestic blessing. Amid 4
the melancholy variety of disorders under which human tiaturti
is known to suffer, there are none mere alarming or more clio
tresidng than those which result front fashionable gaieties, early
dissipation. or solitary intemperance.
Messrs. CU lift IF. and Co. beg to state that the sedulous at-
tention of s practice exclusively directed to the treatment sed
cure of Cal AIN COM VI,AINTS, entitle them to the claim
ot superior acquirement. As regular Surgeons, they oiler a
speedy and pecinavent cure for every stage of that disorder, Mkt.'s
Is contracted in au unguatded moment, and which poisons the
springs ot life and for every class of debility, which is the corm•
quence of juvenile Indiscretions, preventing the Iticurity ot man-
hood, entailing by anticipation, t.n irs unhappy victim all the its
firinities of old age-4hr heady becoming enervated and dna,
dated—the cheeks yellow and btoodiees—and the mind gloomy
and dejected- ?or the result ot their success lu this perecu.
far branch, they refer to that reputation, which, they flatter
themselves, they have acquired, by 30 years experience, ill *
much extended practice. la alight and recent cases of Sypliiiic4
tic CG:nplaints, a perirct cure is completed in the short redod of
two days; and in the most aggravated cases, a proper perseverance
in their plan of treatment iusures to the patient an invigorated
constitution.
Married Women, who have long been disappointed in the,
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such defects are curable by medical skill; and theeen ti.e
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Meters. CURRIE and CO. may be consulted by raticii:s
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tame tor advice aid nsedicloes, thettante will be given or se et to
any pare cf the klagdom.--107, Hato on-faille%

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