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| Date transcribed | 2017-07-26 | | Transcribed by | Ainslie and Roley Sharpe | | Comment | Asiatic Annual Register 1803
Births, Marriages & Deaths transcribed from the Asiatic Annual Register for 1803, Vol. 5. Covering the period May 1802 to May 1803.
Events are listed by month reported; some took place the previous month |
 | Surname | Mackay | | | First name | James | | | Title | Esq | | | Year | 1803 | | | Month | April | | | Location | Bengal  | | | Volume | 11 | | | Page No | 159 | | | Full Text | At Bengal, at his own house, on the circular road, James Mackay, Esq. late assessor of houses at this presidency, after a painful illness of some weeks continuance, which the deceased supported with the fortitude of a man and the resignation of a good christian. Beside considerable literacy attainments as a classical scholar, the deceased was endowed with a large portion of urbanity, taste, and good sense as a gentleman, whose retired habits could not however conceal his quiet inoffensive manners and warm heart from the observation and esteem of his immediate neighbours and friends. Mr Mackay's death ought to impress every reflecting mind with the fallacy and uncertainty of all sublunary hapiness, for no reasonable mortal could enjoy a greater share of health and prosperity than he did but a short month ago. In fact, the defunct may be said to have died in the vigour, if not rhe prime of manhood, and in the lap of that fortune, which, had his days been prolonged by Providence, must have very soon have enabled him to retire to his native home, there to enjoy that otium dignitate, which an upright life and well-directed talents in India had so richly deserved. On melancholy occasions like the present, circumstances otherwise trivial in themselves assume a momentary importance; and among these a very striking one is evident in the case of Mr. M. for some years past; no pains nor expense had been spared to decorate the elegant garden house which he possessed, and had fitted up in the neatest style. A spot of ground near him, on which he had for a length of time placed a longing eye as a purchaser in vain, seems within this month passed to have fallen at last into his possession, when he, alas! hath just gone ""to that undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns,"" sincerely regretted by those friends who knew and duly appreciated his worth. |
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