The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-25 00:00:00

DIED.

Lately, at Papcastle, Cumberland, after an illness of only eigh,t,
days, up to which time he possessed all the vigour of youth, as
92, JOSEPII BIRBECK, Esq. From small beginnings, but by
great industry and care, in the trade of hat-manufacturer, 4t
Cockermouth, the deceased had amassed property to the amount t't
upwards of £lOO,OOl.
. .

On the 28th of October last, on his passage from Bombay to this
port, Captain JAMES A DIELL, of the ship Commerce, of this Wit'
deeply and deservedly regretted by a numerous circle of friends. ,
On the 14th December last, at the residence of the Hon. .1;
Richardson, Bauchampe Estate, St. Lucia, after but a few hours.
illness, PATRICK M'CRACKEN, Esq. He was a native of Straw
raer, in Scotland, and went to that colony about twenty-five year'
ago. He was a planter of the first reputation ; and during NI
abode on that island, had earned .the good-will and respect of al
classes of inhabitants, by whom his death is now much deplored.
On the 2nd instant, aged 46 years, Mr. JOHN HEATON, of Black'
rod, surgeon, eldest son of the late Rev. Heaton, of Clithero.
On the 6th instant, Mr. KENNETH M'KUNE, baker and &Mr'
dealer, Whitechapel.
Same day, after a short illness, aged 86, General DURHAM.
Largo, Scotland. The deceased entered the army as an officer 0f
the Dragoons in 176 g, and has thus been in the service for no less
a space than seventy years.
Same day, at his son's house, London, aged 82, Mr. JAMS'
KNOWLES, author of the new English Dictionary that bears h°
name. He was the father of Mr. Sheridan Knowles, the dramatist'
and first cousin of the late Richard Brinsley Sheridan. At a very
advanced period of life he commenced the above work, the anxiety.
confinement, and labour attendant upon the completing of which
accelerated his dissolution.

On the 7th instant, from a violent attack of scarlet fever, aged 39:
the Baroness de MONCORVO, lady of the Portuguese Minister to
the British Court.

On the 9th instant, aged 26, Mr. ROBERT WHITESIDE. of the
firm of Whitesideand Hughes, spirit-dealers, Great Crosshall-street'
deeply regretted by a large circle of acquaintances.
On the 11th instant, at the house of her son-in-law, Mr. Parker
Horesfield, Stretford, aged 84, Mrs. ELIZABETH KEKsHAW,
formerly of this town.
On the 13th instant, at the advanced age of ;us years, Mr. HAN'
NAH DODGSON, of High-road-well, near Halifax. This venerable
dame has thus lived in the reign of five monarchs in England--
four kings and a queen
Same day, at Paris, Marshal MAISON, in consequence of the
opening of a gun-shot wound received upwards of forty years ago:
The shot had perforated the lungs, and the wound VMS reopened br
a severe cold which the veteran hero of many a well-fought fiebt,
during the ascendancy of the Republic and the Empire, caught in
the beginning of the week.
On the 15th instant, at Harewood-house, Yorkshire, the Countess.
of HAREWOOD. The deceased lady was the eldest daughter r;
the late Sir John Saunders Sebright, Bart. and was married to tb
Earl of Harewood on the 3rd September 1793.
On the 16th instant, at the house of her daughter, Agnes Fleet-
wood, Thornton, aged 86, AGNES KAYE, relict of the late Janie'
Kaye, farmer, formerly of Ince Blundell.
Same day, at Milestown. near Cloonen, at the patriarchal ao
venerable age of 113 years, a poor mendicant, named HUG
.;
HURLEY. lie could particularize the circumstance of, and effec,
caused by, the memorable frost of the year 1739-40. He retainr"
Ills mental faculties perfect until the last hour of his existence'
He was on the foregoing day, busily employed in his eleemosynary
career.
On the 17th instant, aged 6 years, AUGUSTA BROCKSOPP'
youngest daughter of Mr. Brocksopp, Bold-street.
Same day, at Leamington, aged 63, WILLIAM, third Earl 0!
MANSFIELD. His lordship was attended during his illness and a
his death by the Countess, Lord Stormont, the Ladies Murray, the
Hon. General Murray, the Hon. Charles Murray, and the Hon. Ibui
Stanhope. His lordship was Earl of Mansfield in the Peerage )
England, Viscount Stormont and Baron of Scone and Balvaird In
the Peerage of Scotland, a Knight of the Thistle, Lord-lieutenant
of Clackmanshire, Hereditary Keeper of the Royal Palace of Scone'
and a Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies. He is suc-
ceeded to his titles and estatesby his eldest son,Viseount Stormont'
M.P.; try which event a vacancy occurs in the representation
the county of Perth.
Same day, at Ranelagh-place, after a few days' illness, MA R.TII/1'
eldest daughter of the late Mr. THOMAS OLDHAM. of
On the 20th instant, aged 10 years, FANNY, only daughter
B. S. RILEY. Esq. Warbreck-house, Fazakerley.
On the 21st instant, aged 67 years, Mrs. MARY RAVELO'
widow of the late Captain George Raveley.
Same day, at Thornton Hall, Yorkshire, Mr. ORME, of this tovi;')
Same day, aged 27, SARAH HANNAH CARNE, wife of Char:
Frederick Came, Esq. Everton, and daughter of the late Will'''.l
Naylor, Esq. formerly of Wakefield.

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