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G. F. Grand, Esq.-Obituary.

tween his wife and the late Sir Philip Francis took place, for which he brought an action in the Court of Justice at Calcutta, and obtained a verdict, awarding him a considerable sum for damages. In a Memoir of his Life, which he published at the Cape, a few years since, he gives a most circumstantial and minute account of the above affair, and the train of events that arose from it. Various investigations having taken place into the conduct of the East India Company's servants, Mr. Grand was included amongst a number of persons who were displaced from office. After this adverse turn, he returned to Switzerland, where he resided for some time; but not being able to reconcile himself to his situation, he made overtures to his wife for a reconciliation; and, through her interest, obtained from Buonaparte the situation of Counsellor of State to the Batavian Republic at the Cape of Good Hope, and political adviser to the Dutch General Jansen, in which situation he was found at the capture of the Cape by General Sir David Baird. Here his public career being stopped, he was obliged ever after to depend on his relatives for support.

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Aug. 15, AT Madras, Richard Jebb, esq. 1820. LL. D. late of Tapton-grove, co. Derby.

Dec. 4. At his seat, Milbank, co. Kildare, Ireland, in his 84th year, Charles Annesly, of Ballysax, esq. (whose death was slightly noticed in our last volume, p. 572). With him became extinct the eldest branch of the family of Annesly, which had formerly enjoyed the rank and titles of Earl of Anglesea in England, and of Viscount Valentia in Ireland. He possessed that highest nobility which is conferred by a protracted life of undeviating rectitude, and the practice of all Christian virtues-these qualities supplied an unceasing cheerfulness of mind, diffusing happiness to all around, and ensuring to himself the most sincere personal attachment.

Dec... At the Cape of Good Hope, W. E. Rees, esq. Bengal Civil Establishment, Second Judge in the Courts of Sudder Dewannee and Nizamut Adawbut.

She was the daughter of Monsieur Perée, Harbour Master of Port Louis in the Isle of France; and after ber divorce from Mr. Grand, went to France, was introduced to the Court of Buonaparte, and became the confidential friend and companion of the late Empress Josephine.

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1821, Jan. 18. At Steeton-hall, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in his 25th year, Thomas-Charles Garforth, esq. son of the late Thomas Garforth, esq. and nephew of Sir James Graham, of Netherby, co. Cumberland, bart.

Jan. 31. At Rome, in his 72d year, Cardinal Anthony-Maria-Doria Pamphili.

Feb. 8. In Fitzgibbon-street, Mountjoy-square, Dublin, aged 87, A. Worthington, esq. late Secretary to the Board

of Excise.

Feb. 10. At Caerwent, near Chepstow, Monmouthshire, at the great age of 107, Charles King, a labourer. He was a remarkably healthy man, and until the last two years, worked on the road as a stonebreaker.

Major Jas. T. Cowper, Royal Artillery. Feb. 12. At York, aged 68, Francis Constable, esq. of Burton Constable and Wycliffe-hall. Though possessed of an almost princely income, the chief (we may add, the only) enjoyment he found in riches, was to benefit and relieve the wants of others. He has often been heard to bless and praise Divine Providence for giving him not only fellow-creatures. the means, but also the will of serving his He found more difficulty in refusing, than many had in bestowing a favour. Every tale of woe, from whatever distant quarter it came, spoke irresistibly to his heart; and many who knew nothing of him but from his extensive charities, will have to bewail the loss of their common Beuefactor. looked upon himself in the light of a Steward under Divine Providence, and acted through life as such. Sir Thomas Clifford, of Tixal, co. Stafford, bart. succeeds to the property of Burton Constable and Wycliffe-hall.

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At lovercoe, in Glencoe, Donald Mac Donald, esq.

Feb. 13. At Combermere Abbey, in his 20th year, the Hon. R. H. S. Cotton, son of Lord Combermere, by the Lady A. M. Cotton, sister to the Duke of Newcastle.

Aged 64, Mrs. Birch, relict of Mr. Birch, farmer, of Framsden, Suffolk, surviving him only nine weeks and four days; what adds to the loss of their survivors is, their having since Jan. 1817, followed to the grave, a sister, brother, brother-in-law, and a niece, all in the prime of life.

At Bury St. Edmund, aged 79, John Watling, gent. formerly of Bacton.

In Dean-street, Soho, Colonel Hamlet Wade, C.B. late of the 2d Battalion of his Majesty's Rifle Brigade. He had served in the Army 21 years.

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Feb. 14. At North Cockerington, near Lowth, aged 100, Mr. Jesse Foster.-He retained his mental faculties entire till the day of his death, and was confined by illness only one day.

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Feb. 15. At Eltham, aged 81, the Rev. Dr. Wilgress, Rector of Rawreth, Essex, and late Reader at the Temple Church.He was formerly Fellow of Pembroke-hall, Camb. B.A. 1762, M.A. 1765, D.D. 1777.

In his 67th year, Mr. Wm. Duncan, jeweller, one of the oldest inhabitants of St. James's, Piccadilly: he possessed a fine taste as a connoisseur and a collector of coins and curiosities of every description.

Feb. 16. At his house, near the Chapel, in the City-road, aged 73, the Rev. Jo seph Benson, formerly of St. Edmund-hall, Oxford, and a distinguished Preacher and Writer, for more than half a century, among the Wesleyan Methodists. His body was interred in the burial-ground belonging to the City-road Chapel. About 120 mourners followed the corpse, consisting of travelling or local Preachers, Stewards of the Wesleyan Societies, &c. Their large Chapel was filled by an audience deeply attentive. The funeral service was read by the Rev. Jabez Bunting, President of the Methodist Conference, and an Address delivered by the Rev. Dr. Adam Clarke, who bore testimony to the great talents, learning, and usefulness of the deceased.

At Haresfield, near Gloucester, the wife of the Rev. Archdeacon Rudge, Chancellor of the Diocese of Hereford.

Feb. 19. In the 41st year of his age, Mr. I. B. Lynch, a surgeon of considerable eminence, and of extensive practice, at Great Dunmow, Essex, leaving an amiable widow and ten children to bemoan the absence of a most tender and affectionate husband and parent. The respectable inhabitants of Great Dunmow, and of those places in its environs where Mr. Lynch practised, have opened a subscription to provide for his orphan children. The widow of George Osbaldeston, esq. of Hutton Bushell Hall, Yorkshire. She was daughter of the late Sir Thos. Head, of Langley Hall, Berkshire, and sister of Sir Walter James, bart.

Feb. 20. At Featherstone Cottage, Turnham Green, the lady of Sir John Carr, of New Norfolk-street.

At Leeds, aged 67, G. Goodman, esq. At his residence at Rigacre, near Hales Owen, in his 80th year, Walter Woodcock, esq. one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the county of Salop.

At Tunbridge Wells, Theodosia Lady Dowager Monson, widow of John, the second Lord Mouson, in the 96th year of her age. She was the daughter of John Maddison, of Harpswell in Lincolnshire, esq.; was married June 23, 1752; and had issue John third Lord Monson, and nine other children. She lived twelve years after her great-grandson, the present Lord, succeeded to the title!

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At Bath, Thos. Macdonald, esq. formerly of Hinde-street, London, late First Commissioner of the Board for deciding on the claims of British subjects upon the American Goverument.

In York-street, Lieut. Gen. Wm. Popham, many years in the East India Company's service.

At the Lodge in Ware Park, aged 80, James Webb; having completed sixty years in the service of the family of that place, as coachman, he carried to his grave the regret of the family, his fellow servants, and all who knew him.

Feb. 22. The Rev. John Grubb, of Presteigne, Radnorshire.

Feb. 23. Alicia Sarah, daughter of Thomas Higgins, esq. of Bryanston-square. At Rome, aged 25, Mr. John Keats, the Poet.

At Rockingham, in Ireland, in bis 88th year, Hon. Colonel King, brother of Edward Earl of Kingston, and uncle to the present Earl.-Colonel King was Governor of the county of Sligo. His charitable donations in the town of Balina alone, are said to have amounted regularly to at least 2000. a year.

23. At Islington, in his 20th year, Wilson, younger son of Mr. Thomas Evans, late of Middle Soughton, co. Flint; and on the 25th, in London, in his 64th year, Mr. John Evans, uncle to the above.

Feb. 24. At Woolwich, in his 83d year, Lieut. Gen. George Rochfort, Chief Fire Master to the Royal Laboratory.

At the house of her daughter, Mrs. Collins, in Lower Brook-street, Ipswich, Mrs. Jopling, aged 78.

At Bourdeaux, Rob. Harding Evans, esq. editor of the Parliamentary Reports for 1818 and 1819, &c.

Feb. 25. At Mile-end, in her 68th year, Mrs. Anne Knight.

At Worcester, in his 74th year, Admiral West, a great invalid for the last 25

years.

Feb. 26. Mr. John Wightman, many years sexton of the parish of St. Bride; formerly proprietor of the Pro Bono Publico Punch House, Ludgate-hill.

At Wimbledon, the Rev. Henry Edmond Hill, of Guildford, Rector of Fenny Compton, Warwickshire.

In his 66th year, the Rev. Thomas Northcote Toller, 45 years Pastor of the Congregation of Independent Dissenters, of Kettering, Northamptonshire. He was found a lifeless corpse within three minutes after he had left his sitting-room as well as usual.

At Combs, near Stowmarket, Suffolk, much respected, in his 39th year, Edmund Freeman, esq. son of the late Rev. John Freeman, Rector of Creeting All Saints and St. Peter. He had formerly been in

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the East India Company's service, and during the late war was a Captain in the Western Battalion of the Suffolk Militia.

At Eaton, aged 14, of a rheumatic fever, Edmund, eldest son of Edmuud Turnor, of Stoke Rochford, in the county of Lincoln, esq. The following testimony to his virtues, his afflicted parents have bad the satisfaction to receive from the pen of his excellent tutor:-"From the commencement of his Eton life, be had so conducted himself as to merit and gain the regard of every one in any way connected with bim. His exertions in school duties were uniform and successful; and they were recommended by a sweetness of manner that was doubly agreeable, because it proceeded not from want of spirit, but was accompa. nied by all that vivacity and liveliness so suited to his age. The same amiableness of disposition had endeared him to all his companions, of whose deep regret for his untimely fate I have been witness this day. For myself, I can assure you, that had he borne the nearest relationship to me, I could not have more acutely sympathized with the sorrow of his friends. To suggest human motives of resignation under such a loss, would be unavailing; but it is for those who have learut not to be sorry as men without hope for them that sleep in God,' to view the removal of one so innocent and so amiable from the temptations of more advanced life as a blessing, and not as a chastisement."

Feb. 27. In Upper Cadogan-place, the wife of John Charles Herries, esq. and dau. of John Dorrington, esq. Clerk of the Fees of the House of Commons. This amiable lady has left an afflicted husband and six very young children to lament her loss. She had only been confined a few days with her youngest child.

27. At Stratford, in his 66th year, Wm. Manby, esq. a Magistrate and Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Essex.

At Worcester, aged 74, Elizabeth, widow of the late Randolph Marriott, esq. of Lenses, Yorkshire; and March 9, at Paris, in his 51st year, Major-gen. Randolph Marriott, eldest son of the above.

At Ipswich, in her 81st year, Elizabeth, relict of Rev. John Edge, B. A. Rector of Naughton, and Vicar of Rushmere.

Feb. 28. In Portugal-street, in his 87th year, Wm. Mainwaring, esq. many years Member of Parliament, and Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for the County of Middlesex.

In St. Thomas's-square, in his 50th year, Mr. Abraham White, late of the firm of Boak, Stockdale, and White, in Leadenhall-street.

Lately. In the workhouse of St. Giles in the Fields, the Rev. Mr. Platel, formerly of Trinity College, Cambridge, Bachelor of Civil Law, and late Curate of

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Lyss, in Hampshire. He possessed considerable attainments in classical and mathematical knowledge; but, being out of employ during the last three years, he sunk into the most abject distress. His death was occasioned by a wound in the foot, which had been too long neglected before he threw himself on the parish.

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Cambridgeshire. At Thorney, in the Isle of Ely, in his 77th year, the Rev. John Girdlestone, M.A. incumbent Curate of the donative of Thorney Abbey, and formerly of Catherine Hall, Cambridge. He had been for more than fifty years the resident and officiating Minister of his parish.

Devonshire.-At Exeter, aged 82, the Right Hon. Lady Mary Hamilton, great aunt to the Earl of Leven and Melville, and aunt to the present Earl of Northesk.

Dorsetshire.-Aged 101, a woman named Stanley, widow of the late Peter Stanley, well known in the counties of Wilts, Hants, and Dorset, by the designation of King of the Gypsies. She was interred at Piddletown. The concourse of people assembled from the adjacent villages to witness the closing scene of this venerable Queen Dowager of the wandering tribe, was im

mense.

Kent. At Stonehouse, M. Clarke, in the 108th year of her age. She was born at Dundee, in Scotland, and married there about eighty years since. She was at the battle of Fontenoy with her husband, who was afterwards a Serjeant of Invalids. She had 15 children, one of whom is drummajor of the East Devon Militia. She lost two sons at sea, at the time of the great earthquake, and five in the action fought against the French by the fleet under the command of Admiral Keppel. Tea was her constant beverage; and she asserted that she had never drank either beer or spirits.

Lincolnshire.-At Thetford, near Horncastle, in his 65th year, the Rev. John Dymoke, Rector of Brinkhill, Lincolnshire, second son of the late John Dymoke, esq. of the above place, who was the heir at law of the Hon. Lewis Dymoke, of Scrivelsby, who performed the office of Champion to King George III.

Somersetshire,-In Seymour-street, Bath, Wm. Anderson, esq.

Suffolk.-Aged 64, Mr. John Rackham, nearly 43 years bookseller and printer, of Bury, and one of the Burgesses of the Corporation. He had retired to bed in health as good as usual; and in a few minutes afterwards, without uttering a groan, was found to be a corpse.

SCOTLAND.-At Maxwelltown, Mrs. Margaret Wood, relict of Mr. R. Richardson, late farmer of the Moss-side of Dumfries, aged 81. An incident in the life of this worthy old dame deserves especial remembrance:

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membrance: while in (her cradle, a brisk bridegroom came to her father's house to invite him to his wedding; "Rock the cradle," said her mother, "till I gang hen, and get ye a glass: she'll, maybe, be your second wife yet." The then proposed marriage never took place; and after some seventeen years, she became the first wife of the same brisk bridegroom; and, notwithstanding the disparity of their ages, she, to her infinite credit, lived with him in a state of great connubial happiness. ABROAD. In the West Indies, Col. Clarke of the 5th reg. of Foot-he was the oldest man in the regiment.

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March 1. At his house, in Castle-street, Shrewsbury, in his 70th year, John Evans, M.D. late of Ketley in the same county, where he bad very extensive practice for many years.

In Gloucester-place, John Yenn, esq. F.A.S. nearly 40 years Treasurer and a Trustee of the Royal Academy.

In her 63d year, the wife of Mr. Philip Dykes, of Beccles, Suffolk.

March 2. In her 76th year, Joanna, widow of the late John Forbes, esq. of Baker street, Portman-square.

At St. Cloud, near Paris, the widow of the late John Chalie, esq.

March 3. Anna Maria, eldest daughter of Charles Rawdon, esq. of Cumberland-street, Portman square.

At Hackney, Richard Dunn, esq. of Broad-street.

At Torquay, Devonshire, Major G. C. Hicks, late of the 37th regiment, son of J. Hicks, esq. of Plomer Hill, Buckinghamshire.

March 4. In Great Surrey-street, Blackfriars Road, in his 82d year, James Hayes, esq. who has left his valuable estates in Suffolk to the Rev. Dr. Tomline, Lord Bishop of Winchester; and also the following sums in Charitable Donations:30004 Stock to Bethlehem Hospital; 10,000l. to Christ's Hospital for annuities of 10%. each to the blind, and 10,0001. for the general use of the Charity; 5000l. to the London Hospital; 5000. to St. Luke's; 5000. to the Deaf and Dumb Charity; 50007. to the School for Indigent Blind; 5000l. to the National Society; 4000l. to the Parish of Barking; 1000%. to Little Ilford, Essex; 1000l. to St. Gabriel's, Fenchurch-street; and 20007, to Christchurch, Surrey, for the benefit of the poor; 5000. for the sick and maimed seamen in the merchants' service; 2007. to the Company of Glass Sellers for its poor; and 1007. to the poor of Allhallows Staining, Mark-lane.

March 5. In Somers Town, at an advanced age, Richard Twiss, esq.-This gentleman has long been known in the literary circles. His first work was,-Travels through Portugal and Spain,"

written at an early period of life, and which excited much notice at the time of its publication. His next Work was, “A Tour through Ireland;" in which he commented so freely on the manners of the ladies, that he excited their resentment, which they displayed in a manner equally whimsical, humorous, and original. He successively published "Anecdotes of Chess," "A Trip to Paris," during the Revolution, and several other works. He unfortunately entered into a speculation of making paper from straw, by which he ruined an ample hereditary fortune.

In Rivers-street, Bath, Elizabeth, widow of Rev. Wm. Cope Hopton, of Canon Frome, Herefordshire, and only daughter of the late Corbyn Morris, esq. Commissioner of the Customs.

March 7. Aged 66, James Goddard, esq. of Rathbone-place. He was taken ill when out walking on Tuesday, and returned home in a coach; from which he was just able to walk into his own house, but was speechless. Mr. Goddard was a celebrated swordsman. Many of our readers may remember that he beat the Chevalier St. George, in a public assault, at the Pantheon, about the year 1784 or 5.

March 8. In his 77th year, John Swale, esq. of Milden ball, Suffolk.

At Birchfield-house, near Birmingham, in his 71st year, Mark Sanders, esq.-In bis loss, his family and friends have much to lament; nor will the public sympathy be withheld from a character of such wellmerited reputation. His benevolence urged him on to benefactions of every kind in the respectable sphere of life in which he moved it was not limited by any narrow calculations, nor was it marked by ostentatious display. The strong feelings of his sensibility, however, he in vain attempted to disguise; they were invariably and immediately excited by cases of distress and misery; and when public utility called for his contributions, they were amply in proportion to the exigencies of the case, and to the fortune he enjoyed. His judgment was uniformly candid, and his urbanity conspicuous and inviting, ever rendering him easy of access to the humble supplicant, or to the well-introduced stranger.

Mary-Sophia, wife of Thomas Wilkinson, esq. of Mansion House-street.

Wm. Soppitt, esq. of Upper Thames-st. In Upper Gower-street, aged 61, Mrs. Ince, widow of the Hon. John Ince, Presi dent of the Island of Barbadoes.

At Bath, aged 62, Wm. Powlett Powlett, esq. of Lanstown-house, in the county of Southampton.

In Rivers-street, Bath, Stephen Ram, esq. of Ramsford (Wexford), and Portswood-lodge, Hants, and one of the Benchers of the Middle Temple.

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March 9. At Shrewsbury, in his 75th year, William Sandford, esq. formerly Captain in the 31st reg. of Foot.

At Yarmouth, aged 85, Sarah, widow of the late Rev. Henry Parish, Rector of Cahir and Dunmore, in Ireland, and Chaplain to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant.

At his house in Chatham-place, in his 69th year, Richard Winstanley, esq. an eminent auctioneer, in Paternoster-row.

At Maidenhead Bridge, Berkshire, in his 81st year, Nich. Pocock, esq. late of Great George-street.

At Stamford-bill, in her 45th year, Elizabeth-Sybilla, wife of Wm. Fry, esq. banker.

At her house at Dulwich, in her 85th year, Mrs. North, widow of the late Percival North, esq. of Bridge-street, Blackfriars (of whom see vol. LXXXVIII. i. 281). Perhaps there is no instance in which two persons had, during more than half a century, adorned the connubia! state, or filled up their station in society with more honour to themselves, or more satisfaction to the very extensive circle in which they associated. - Mrs. North was possessed of a well-informed mind and steady judgment. Her disposition was friendly and open-hearted—of quick sensibility, which never restrained her in any opportunity of doing good; of temper cheerful, and of penetration always quick sighted, and of mauners hospitable and social; - her house and table were open to men of letters, as well as to general acquaintance, and those who participated in her domestic affections, felt the consolations of her regard, and the value of her friendship was enhauced by a tenderness, which rather exemplified her paternal love! These qualities she enjoyed and practised until the last few days of her life-in which, after indisposition, she gradually sunk out of life, into, it is hoped, a blessed immortality. She, with her late worthy husband, were among the first of the Unitarian congregation formed by the late Rev. Theophilus Lindsay, at Essex-bouse, in 1774, and continued therein during the subsequent ministries of Rev. Dr. Disdey, and the present Rev. Thos. Belsham. But their friends and associates were not limited to persons of their own religious persuasion. Their regards were like those of other good Christians, extended to all, and were never betrayed into the exclusive principle, far too prevalent at this time, of denying salvation to any other than to those of their own persuasion: their high example to society, for undeviating integrity, for religious life, and for the cheerful enjoyment of the blessings granted to them, of which they were both babitually grateful, have left an indelible veneration and esteem for their charac

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ters, which sanctified the tears that followed them to their grave.

March 10. At his house in Highburyplace, Islington, after a short illness of three days, John Burgass, esq. many years a partner in the firm of Hopkins, Lincolne, Burgass, and Hopkins, tallow merchants and soap boilers, in Barbican.

Aged 65, in Abbey Church-yard, Bath, Mr. Wm. Meyler, the Proprietor of "The Bath Herald," and one of the Magistrates and senior Common Councilmen of that city. He was a clever writer of small pieces of Poetry, and published in 1806, a volume of "Poetical Amusements."

March 11. In the Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, in the 86th year of her age, Mrs. Rowland, relict of the Rev. John Rowland.

At Swanswick, near Bath, the wife of Edward Clarke, esq. and sister of the late Sir George Prevost, bart.

March 12. At Bath, Catherine, wife of the Hon. and Rev. James St. Leger.

At Exmouth, Mary, wife of Capt. T. Young, R.N. third daughter of the late Sir Wm. Jeynes, of Gloucester.

March 13. In his 83d year, John Hunter, esq. Vice Admiral of the Red. He entered the naval service at an early period of life, and served under three successive Sovereigns. In 1786 he was appointed Captain of his Majesty's ship Sirius, and formed in conjunction with the late Governor Phillip, the first settlement of New South Wales. In 1794, whilst serving as a Supernumerary Captain in the Queen Charlotte, with his friend and patron the late Lord Howe, he was appointed Governor in Chief of that Colony.

March 15. In Hart-street, Bloomsbury, in his 84th year, Daniel Beaumont, esq. descended from the antient and respectable family of the Beaumonts of Whitley in Yorkshire. He was the son of an eminent apothecary in Henrietta-street, Covent garden; and younger brother of the late John Beaumont, esq. many years the much-respected Registrar of the Royal Humane Society, who died in 1814 (see vol. LXXXIV. ii. p. 497).-This gentleman had been for a great number of years the confidential and faithful Steward of the town estates of their Graces the Dukes of Bedford; and has died, in a ripe old age, deeply regretted by a very numerous circle of friends.

Catherine Anne, wife of the Rev. T. F. Green, Rector of Graveley, Herts.

March 16. In Stratford-place, Lieut.col. P. Douglas, late of the Hon. East India Company's Service, on the Bengal Establishment.

March 17. At Clapham Common, in her 82d year, Frances, wife of Mr. John Grenside, of Mark-laue.

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