1677. Samuel Bochart, a learned French Protestant divine and
orientalist, died at Caen, aged 68 years.
1802. Died at Guernsey, aged 40, of water in his chest, serjeant Samuel
M‘Donald, of the 93d regiment, commonly known by the name of Big Sam. He
served during the American war with his countrymen, the Sutherland
Fencibles, and afterwards as fugelman in the Royals, till 1791, when he
was taken into the household of his royal highness the prince of Wales,
as lodge-porter at Carlton-house, and remained in that capacity till
1793; he was then appointed a serjeant in the late Sutherland Fencibles,
and continued to act in that corps, and the 93d regiment, formed from
it, till his death.--He was six feet ten inches in height, four feet
round the chest, and well proportioned. He continued active till his
35th year, when he began to decline. His strength was prodigious, but he
was never known to exert it improperly. Several considerable offers were
made to engage him as a public exhibition, all of which he refused, and
always disliked being stared at.