Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1815-11-29

\ In England, Walter burke, Esq. aged rs, one Of
the oldest Pursers in the English navy--Re was
kinsmar of the illustrious Edmund Burke was
purser OF The Victory in the battle Of trafalgar
and il was 10 his arms that the Immortal Nelson ex
pred Just.before the battle began his Lordsbip
thus addressed him Burke, L expect to see eye.
~ man at his station and II we succeed to-day YOU
aud will go TO sea no more
In the Mediterranean, Midshipman Charles
Downes, Of the Guerrier frigate, brother Of Can't
John Downes, Of the u. 5. Navy.
In DoyerN. H. MehetabIe jenkins. OF Berwick
aged "a and at Elliot Sarah Jenkins, aged 9sS---
both the deceased were members of the society Of
friends, the former having long preached in Great
Britain and America and the latter btv1., her cons
panion in many Jonrnies.-in Boy ok, Wild Iliz.
Hammond, aged ninety -six.--In tD1chester, n, II.
Mrs Rebecca Trcker, also aged ninety-six years.
In Wllbfaham Mr. Rowland Croker. In The eiph-
tieth year his age his mother survives himapd
IS IN her 10isI year.--tn York, Buckley ..merson.
Esq. aged 45.--in Haverhill Mr. Ebenezer Bailey
aged So:
In Cambridge, Mrs Elizabeth Waterhouse, wife
OF Or. benjamin Waterhouse aged 46.
In CAtskiil, N NJ Peleg G P-ck, sge,l f9,
Of Wounds celsed n.a lite < han combat win
ST he died Of CANINE m .dness.
In Bethel, Mrs. Fanny Garter, wife Of Doct.
Timothy Garter, Esq. and daughter of tie late
Ooet. James Freeland, of sutton, us. Among
the many Instances of death, few have more strong
y excited the ensiblities, orwilI be remembered
by society with more lasting grief, than tile death
ot Mrs. Z. rurnised by nature with stroug
Judgment, improved by an early education joined
with remarkable quickness of perception, she y is
qualified to I'll with respect, any station in lie
benevolent and placid in her disposition, amable
IN her manners and unassuminc In her derartment
she always appeared progressing and engaging.
Naturally OF socable aad communicative turn,
she appeared free with all classes. In conversation
she greatly ex-eled---her early reading and geney-
al acquaintance with polite society, made it always
entertaining.
Much as she was esteemed By society in general
and her particular friends and however strongly
they may lament her death, to her family Il must
De vastly more distressing. In her family she
shone with peculiar lustre. Here her worth was
known. She looked well to the ways of her house.
hold. As q wife she was tender and aRectionatc,
as mother kipd and induigent. With regard To
her religious character, she has left good reason
to hope she was the hearty friend of the Saviour.
Ter mind was in early life called to religious SUBJ
lccts but from number Of circumstances. She was
deferred from naklnga public profession Of rei-
sion--tho' her condu I would have honored such
profession, especially Ia her long and distressing
sickness. Eour years she wasted in consumption.
attended by other di treSsmg maIadies, till nature
was exhausted and her life subsided--and appar-
entity without struggle resigned her spirit in O
the hands of God who gave it, on the f4th inst in
the 5Jth year Of her age. The Rev. Daniel Gould
preached solemn and appropriate discourse On the
occasion, from Matt. a. 46
Tn this town., Mrs. HockenhuI, wife of Mr.,
Thomas Hockenhul aged so.