DEATH OF GENERAL STEIVART.—It is our painful duty to announce,
that accounts have reached town of the death of Major-General Stewart, of Garth, Governor of St. Lucia, at Government House in that island, on the 18th day of December last, after an illness of ten days. In the month of June last he had a severe attack of fever ; and, deaf to the advice of doctors, he took such powerful doses of medicine as overcame the fever in twenty- seven hours. He removed to the salubrious spot, "Pigeon Island," reco- vered rapidly, and was admitted by every one to look as well as he ever did ; but as this was a short distance from the seat of Government, he got tired of it, and returned in November to Government House. Dissensions be- tween some Authorities in the island and the inhabitants, in which he had been urged much to interfere, it is feared, affected his too sensitive mind, and brought on another attack of fever, which proved fatal.—Morning Chronicle.
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