W. B. M.

Dee Side.

[A marine term for those days in which the sailors have no flesh

meat; and is probably derived from the practice of the Banians, a

caste of Hindoos, who entirely abstained from all animal food.]

_General Urmston._--Can any of your correspondents inform me whether a

General Edward Urmston, who married in 1752 Leonora daughter of the

first Earl Bathurst, had any children; or whether he was himself an only

son or child: also when he was born, or when he died? His wife died in

1798 (I believe).

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