Frockeday, M., of the commune of Mercy-en-Bareul, near Lille, France, died 1853, aged 95. He was president of the general assembly of the electors of the Nord, which met on the 4th of September, 1792, at Quesnoy, to send deputies to the National Convention. When the trial of Louis XVI. came on, M. Frockeday delivered an energetic speech from the tribune, one phrase of which raised a tempest against him. "The Convention," he said, "represents an arena of gladiators rather than a meeting of legislators, and if the assembled nation could be present at our deliberations it would drive us out with whips." When the vote was come to, M. Frockeday, under the very poignards of the mountain party, voted against the death of the king; afterwards, for an appeal to the people; and, lastly, for delaying the execution of the warrant. This intrepid course of conduct had well-nigh cost him his life; but he escaped the threatened danger, as by a miracle, and retired from the country. Having outlived all these scenes of turbulence and bloodshed, he was enabled to return and finish his days in peace, having survived most, if not all, his compeers on that memorable occasion.

Francis, Mary, of Clifton, near Nottingham, died 1835, aged 96. Her death was accelerated by the misfortune of a fall, whereby she fractured one of her thigh-bones; the second accident of the kind she had encountered within the space of eighteen months. She left a second husband aged 84 years, and numerous descendants down to the third generation.

Fuller, James, of Eveswell, county of Suffolk, died 1811, aged 101. This gentleman was a member of the Society of Friends. He had, throughout life, followed a course of industry and temperance which had met its reward in almost uninterrupted exemption from those pains and sicknesses to which most men in the decline of life are subject. He left descendants to the number of two hundred and ten persons.

Furness, Elizabeth, widow, of Wigton, N.B., died 1811, aged 105.

Furnish, William, through many years an innkeeper in the city of York, died 1811, aged 100.

The "Pennsylvania Gazette,” of August 9, 1739 (printed by Benjamin Franklin), contained the following paragraph— “We hear from Leamington, Hants, that one Mrs. Mitchell was lately brought to bed there of a daughter, whose greatgreat-grandmother is still living, and has already seen her fifth generation, and all daughters; so that she may take up the distich made on one of the Dalburg family of Basil:

"Rise up, daughter, and go to thy daughter,

For her daughter's daughter hath a daughter.”

She is about ninety-two years of age, in perfect health, has all her senses clear, and is not without hope to see five generations more of her descendants."

Frank (a negro), of Woodstock, Virginia, died 1820, aged 114.

Fitzgerald, The Right Honourable James, of Booters Town, Ireland, died 1837, aged 93. He was called to the Irish bar in 1769. He became a member of the Irish parliament in 1772, and continued to hold his seat till the period of the consummation of the Act of Union. In 1784 he was advanced to the dignity of the king's private sergeant. His eloquence was of the purest style, and the tones of his voice so harmonious, that he was distinguished as the "silver-tongued sergeant."

Fox, Mrs., relict of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, the distinguished statesman and rival of the minister Pitt, died 1842, aged 96.

At the funeral of two children named Falconbridge, at a hamlet near Nottingham, in 1849, were present the great

grandmothers of each parent, one aged 93, and the

other 96.

Freer, Elizabeth, an inmate of the poor-house, Wigston, Leicestershire, died 1820, aged 116. She retained the use of all her faculties, and being of active, industrious habits, continued to take part in performing most of the necessary domestic business of the establishment till within a few days of her decease.

Forbes, Thomas, Esq., formerly a captain in the royal navy, died at Harwich, 1772, aged 102.

Ferguson, Adam, LL.D., of Peebles, N.B., died 1816, aged 93. Dr. Ferguson was originally designed for the church, but meeting with some opposition to an appointment he was desirous of obtaining, accepted the chaplaincy of the 42nd Highland regiment. In 1757, he resigned this situation, after having held it about five years, during which he was with his regiment at the battle of Fontenoy and the siege of Bergen-op-Zoom. After this he became tutor in the family of the Earl of Bute, and had for his principal pupil the heir of that noble house, afterwards the favourite and prime minister of George III. In 1764, he exchanged this situation for an academic chair in the University of Edinburgh. At the age of sixty-eight, Dr. Ferguson crossed the Alps for the purpose of endeavouring to obtain in the libraries of modern Italy facts and materials for a new edition of his great work, "The History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic." But the events of the French Revolution just then bursting upon Europe, and the war which took place on the part of Great Britain, compelled him to return. The life of Dr. Ferguson is another strong evidence of the advantages of cheerful, sober, abstemious habits of life in helping to resist the natural tendencies of constitutional inferiority. His was at no time what would be termed a good life; but,

well used, it carried him on, as is shown, to nearly a century in extent.

Ferguson, John, farmer, of Auchinbragate, Argyleshire, N.B., died 1786, aged 108.

Faenge,, of Resinea, kingdom of Naples, died 1855, aged 102. At the period of his decease he had all his teeth perfect; and his sight was so clear that he could see almost the smallest objects without the aid of glasses. He lived almost constantly in the country, was very temperate in his habits, indulged but little in sleep, and always abjured the use of physic.

GLYSSON, Dr., physician to Queen Elizabeth, died 1670, aged 100. The aspect of this old gentleman is represented as having been peculiarly venerable and engaging; his hair being long, and almost as white as snow.

Gundy, Mr., of Hyde Park-corner, London, died 1733, aged 116.

Griffin, Richard, of Southwark, died 1735, aged 116. Grasmay, James, a Fleming by birth, died at Presburg, Hungary, 1740, aged 125.

Grindall, Ann, widow, of Crockware, Gloucester, died 1741, aged 104.

Gannett, Mrs., widow, of Wells, Somerset, died 1751, aged 112.

Gordon, Janet, of Aberdeen, N.B., died 1753, aged 101. Grant, Sir Patrick, Bart., of Dalvey, N.B., died 1755, aged 101.

Gay, Ann, of Coomb Hay, near Bath, died 1757, aged 107. Green, Joseph, of Windsor, died 1758, aged 112. He was in full possession of all his natural senses till within two or three days of his decease.

Grant, David, of Kinross, N.B., died 1758, aged 127. He was attended to the grave by 118 of his descendants.

Graham, James, of Poplar, near London, an old man-ofwar gunner, died 1758, aged 102.

Giles, Catherine, of Glenwherry, county of Belfast, Ireland, died 1758, aged 122.

Gonzales, John Laurence, of Madrid, died 1759, aged 118. Goffin, Elizabeth, of Ormeby, St. Margaret, near Yarmouth, died 1760, aged 101. She had entirely lost her sight for nearly thirty years preceding her death.

Gammels, Andrew, of Roxburgh Newton, N. B., died 1794, aged 105. He was a dragoon in the British service during the most part of Queen Anne's wars. Having obtained his discharge, he passed into Scotland, where, through the space of fifty years, he obtained his almost entire subsistence as a sturdy mendicant.

Gangheen, Thomas, near Grosmenna, in the county of Mayo, Ireland, died 1814, aged 112. Though poor, and subjected to a great deal, alike of severe labour and strict privation, he was always cheerful and contented. He had passed one hundred and ten years of his mortal life before he became in any material degree acquainted with sickness; up to which time he was enabled to take a full share with the younger members of his family in all the labours of the field. A memorable circumstance, in his otherwise eventless history, was his appearance in the County Court at the age of one hundred and eight, where, by his clear and intelligent evidence, he fully proved the validity of a survey made in the year 1725, thereby contributing chiefly to the termination of an important law suit.

Gilbert, Jeremy, of Luton, Northamptonshire, died aged 132.

Gillespie, William, of Ruthwell, county of Dumfries, N. B., died 1818, aged 108. He was an out-pensioner of Chelsea, and in his discharge, dated 1763, he was described as being then worn out in the service. He enlisted, when young, in the Enniskillen Dragoons, and served in the

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