SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH.—This distinguished orator and writer died at his
house in Langham Place, on Wednesday morning, in his sixty- seventh year. He had been indisposed for some time. The Times says, the fatal event was accelerated by an acrident. About the beginning of March, Sir James, 1% Idle at dinner, attempted to swallow a portion of the breast Of a boiled chicken ; but the morsel remained in his throat, and gave rise to very distressing symptoms. At the end of two days, the obstruction was removed by an emetic ; and it wit-, found to consist of the flesh of the chicken, with a portion of thin bone, upwards of an inch in length, embedded in its centre, and projecting at one side in a sittvp point. The vrfeets of this accident completely unsettled his general health. 1:,• af::•rwards laboured wider increasing debility, and occasional attacks of Severe palms in his
shoulders, and limbs.
A few days before he died, symptoms of delirium :Appeared, which medical treatment removed, but left his constitution iii too weak a con- dition to combat the remains of the disease. Sir .Taics was native of Inverness-shire. Ile studied first at Aberdeen, and aftc.rwanis at Edin- burgh, where he took a degree in medicine. He wrote at twenty-five the Vindicia Gallica,, in reply to Burke's work. He delivered lectures at Lincoln's Inn on the Law of Nature and Nations. his next step to fame was his defence of Pelltier. He was afterwards offered an appointment of Recorder of Bombay, and lived ten years in India. His subsequent career is familiar to the public.
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