DIED, On Monday, June 16, 1817, ᎪᎢ THE ROYAL ARSENAL AT WOOLWICH, GENERAL VAUGHAN LLOYD, IN THE EIGHTY-FIRST YEAR OF HIS AGE, After an honourable Service of Sixty-two Years in the Royal Regiment of Artillery. HE was born at Fos y Bleiddiaid, in the upper part of the county of Cardigan, the then ancient family seat of the Lloyds, on the 17th of January, 1736, and began his career in the Royal Artillery before he was 18 years of age. He was the youngest son of John Lloyd, esq., of the above place, who married Mary, daughter of James Phillips, of Penty Park, in the county of Pembroke, esq., a representative in parliament for the county borough of Carmarthen. He was the last that remained of all his brothers and sisters, and was married late in life, but left no family behind him, save an aged widow. He was adjutant to the Royal Artillery during the greater part of the seven-years' war in Germany, and was present in the battle of Minden. He was employed, and greatly distinguished himself, during the whole period of the siege at Gibraltar. He served in the West Indies through DIED, AT EWENNY ABBEY, GLAMORGANSHIRE, ON SECOND JULY, 1817, R. TURBEVILL, ESQ. HE was the eldest brother of the late Sir Thomas Picton; and like the rest of his family, entered into the army when very young. He was a brigade major at the siege of Gibraltar, where he distinguished himself on many important occasions, but his health being much impaired, he was obliged to retire from the service. He was descended by his mother's side from Sir Richard De Turbevill, one of William the Conqueror's twelve knights, who first founded the Abbey, where his posterity have continued during a period of so many centuries. DIED AT LLANDEGAI, CARNARVONSHIRE, JULY, 1817. MR. WILLIAM WILLIAMS, IN HIS EIGHTIETH YEAR, Author of "Observations on the Snowdon Mountains," and of many usefu and amusing publications in the Welsh language. MR. WILLIAMS had been for many years one of the agents for the Penryn estate. He, in 1752, was the humble means of inducing the late Lord Penryn, to "form the wise and benevo"lent resolution of opening a spacious slate quarry" at Cae Braich-y-cein, in the parish of Llandegai. When his health began to decline, the reward of his long and faithful services was a handsome annuity. DIED, DIED, OCTOBER 10th, 1817, AT GLASBURY, IN RADNORSHIRE, IN THE SIXTY-NINTH YEAR OF HIS AGE, JOHN PHILLIPS, HE was upholsterer to the City of London, and many years deputy of Langbourn Ward, and one of the representatives in Common Council for 34 He was likewise a Governor of the Welsh School in Gray's-Inn-Road, and a most years. ESQ. active and strenuous advocate for that charity, for a great length of time; and by his eloquence and capacity had frequently directed the views of his countrymen to their proper point and ultimate benefit. DIED On the 21st June, 1817, AT HIS HOUSE, IN BRUNSWICK-SQUARE, LONDON. IN THE SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR OF HIS AGE. HE followed the profession of physick, in Gracechurchstreet, most successfully for near 50 years; and by his great attention, suavity of manners, experience, and knowledge of diseases incident to a great city; happily succeeded in an eminent degree in arresting their fatal progress, which placed him at the head of his profession. He was well known and highly respected by all the great medical characters in London. mountainous parts of Cardiganshire. About 20 years ago he established a banking-house at Aberystwith in the same county, which is now in a very flourishing state; but a few years ago he had withdrawn himself from that concern. He served the office of high-sheriff for his native county, several years ago, and was about to retire into it all together from public life. He left behind him a widow, He was a native of Tregaron, one son, and four daughters, to a small town in the upper and lament their irreparable loss. DAVID WILLIAMS was born at a village near Cardigan, in 1738, and after receiving the rudiments of education, was placed in a school or college at Carmarthen, preparatory to the dissenting ministry; which profession he entered upon, in obedience to parental authority; but very contrary to his own inclination. His abilities and acquirements even then, appeared of a superior order; but he has often in the latter part of his life, stated to the writer of these lines that he had long considered it as severe misfortune, that the 2 M a most injurious impressions were made upon his youthful and ardent mind by the cold, austere, oppressive, unamiable manner in which the doctrines and duties of religion were disguised in the stern and rigid habits of a severe puritanical master. From this college, he took the office of teacher to a small congregation at Frome, in Somersetshire; and, after a short residence, was removed to a more weighty charge at Exeter. There the eminent abilities and engaging manners of the young preacher opened to him the seductive path of pleasure, |