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Source: Bell's Weekly Messenger, No. 1781, Sunday, May 16, 1830.

We have just heard of a melancholy case of suicide, committed by the Very Rev. Dean Burgh, nephew of the celebrated Hussy Burgh, who had been many years since a distinguished ornament of the Irish bar, who has for some time past been labouring under mental aberration. As the case will come under the surveillance of the coroner, we refrain from making any further observation for the present. By the death of this gentleman a pension of 1000l. a-year, from the Civil List, reverts to the Crown. This annuity he enjoyed in right of his late father, who was for many years an illustrious Dignitary of the Irish Bench.—Dublin Morning Register.