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where, and at Dundee, the freedom of the burgh was given him. At Aberdeen he dined with the corporation, and made several speeches, explaining the supposed contradiction between his lately expressed opinions of the House of Commons and the House of Lords. At Dunrobin Castle his lordship received a deputation from all the northern burghs; at Elgin all the inhabitants turned out. At Hunt ley and Stonehaven addresses were presented. The freedom of Arbroath and Brechin were presented at the latter place.

INTELLIGENCE FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF

THE COUNTRY.

Tea Ports.-The Lords of the Treasury have approved of the undermentioned ports, for the importation and warehousing of Tea, viz.:-London, Liverpool, Bristol, Hull, Leith, Glasgow, Greenock, PortGlasgow, Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Tea, as well as articles the produce of the East Indies, may be removed, under bond, from the original port of importation, to any warehousing port in the United Kingdom, for the purpose of being warehoused for home consumption, with liberty to pay the duty any time within two years.

Aug. 27.-A sad and melancholy accident happened off Dover. The Castor frigate, on her return from Woolwich (where she had been to escort the Queen) to Portsmouth, ran foul of the Cameleon revenue cutter, Lieutenant John Pratbent commander, about two miles out, a little to the eastward of Shakspeare Cliff, at a quarter past 6 in the morning, whereby 13 persons (including the captain and mate, out of the whole crew of 17) were drowned. The Cameleon cutter was lying-to after her night's cruise, with eight of the crew in their berths, and nine persons on the look-out, a portion of whom were then employed reefing the sails. The pennant was hoisted as a compliment to the frigate; and a few moments after the cutter was run down, and only four persons, two men and two boys, survive. On the 6th of Sept. a Court-martial assembled on board the San Josef at Plymouth, to investigate the circumstances connected with this melancholy affair, Capt. Superintendent Ross, President. The officers on trial were, Captain the Right Hon. John Hay; James M'Cleverty, 2d Lieutenant, officer of the watch; Alexander Weare, master; Robert Hopkins, midshipman of the watch; Thomas Carmichael, signal midshipman; and Joseph Hopkins, yeoman of the signals. On the 8th, the Court-martial concluded by the dismissal, from his Majesty's service, of Lieut. James Johnson M'Cleverty, 2d Lieutenant, and the acquittal of all the other officers, The

Court found that a proper look-out had not been kept.

Sept. 9. Shildon Church was conse. crated by the Bishop of Durham, in the presence of a numerous congregation. An excellent sermon was preached on the occasion, by the Rev. J. Manisty, the incumbent. The ground whereon the church has been built, together with the churchyard, was given by Joshua Smith. son, Esq., of Heighington; and the Bishop of Durham not only subscribed liberally towards the building, but has also

endowed the church.

Sept. 14. The steam corn-mills of the Messrs. Frost, at Chester, which were, perhaps, among the most commodious and complete in the kingdom, were destroyed by fire. Its origin cannot be otherwise accounted for than as proceeding from friction of the machinery. The loss will probably amount to between 5,000!. and 6,000l.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.

A Parliamentary paper just printed gives a very remarkable proof of the rapid increase of the capital of this country within the last thirty years. The paper is "A return showing the amount of capital on which the several rates of legacy duty have been paid in Great Britain, in each year since 1797." From the return the capital on which legacy duty was paid was, in 1797, 1,116,1801; in 1806, 7,039,0311.; in 1814, 27,299,8067.; in 1833, 41,974,429

From a parliamentary paper recently printed, it appears that the declared value of British woollen manufactures exported to various countries during the year 1833 amounted to 6,294,4321. sterling.

The old market in the City, called Honey-lane-market, is about to be removed, and substituted by a large school "for the religious and virtuous education of boys, and for instructing them in the higher branches of literature and all other useful learning." The Corporation have undertaken the task with a zeal which does them credit. John Carpenter, formerly 'Town Clerk, amassed considerable wealth in that office, and testified his sense of obligation to those who appointed him, by bequeathing the rents and profits of bis lands and tenements to the Corpora tion, for the clothing and education of a few boys. Mr. Richard Taylor some time ago represented to the Court of Common Council the propriety of extending the benefits of the charity. The hint was adopted, and it is now determined to apply the profits of the Carpenter estates to the education of a consider able number of children. The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Coun

cilmen are to establish the rules and regulations respecting the number and qualifications of the masters of the school, of the salaries to be paid to them respectively, and of the other officers and servants. The masters are to be elected by the Common Council, and to produce certificates of their qualifications after having been examined by the Professors of divinity, of classical literature, and of mathematics at King's College, and the Professors of the Greek language, literature, and antiquities, and of mathematics, and of natural philosophy and astronomy at the University of London.

The whole of the Royal College of Surgeons, which lately stood in Lincoln's Inn Fields, has been nearly taken down, with the exception of some apartments at the west-end of the back-wall, in Portugal Street. The columns of the portico are still standing alone, the pediment having been removed, and the emblematical ornaments at the top; but they will be used in the new building, which will cost 70,000l. according to the estimate. The anotomical theatre will be on an improved plan, and considerably enlarged; and the new college will have a variety of conveniences necessary for its purposes, in which the old college was deficient, although a very spacious building.

Aug. 28. The inhabitants of the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, proceeded in due form, headed by the beadle, churchwardens, overseers, and other officers of the parish, to take possession of their ancient "Lammas Lands," called the "Lotts," situated at the western extremity of the

parish. It appears, by an accurate map, in the possession of Mr. Faulkner, the historian of the parish, that these lands have been in the uninterrupted possession of the parish from time immemorial, until it was dispossessed of them by the Kensington Canal Company, in the year 1826, who have held them ever since, and shut out the inhabitants, during the last few years, from their common right to graze their cattle upon it, at a certain period of the year. The parish put the case in the hands of Mr. Rogers, of Manchester Buildings, Westminster, the record solicitor, who so successfully recovered for the parish of St. Margaret's, Westminster, the right of assessment on Richmond-terrace and Whitehall-place, and under whose advice they have acted on the present occasion.

Sept. 8. A German, of the name of Steinberg, a whipmaker by trade, residing in Southampton Street, Pentonville, barbarously murdered Ellen Lefevre, with whom he cohabited, and his four children, the eldest but five years old, by cutting their throats, and then terminating his own existence by the same means. On Sunday the 13th all the bodies were interred in the burying ground of St. James's Clerkenwell, where a great concourse of people assembled to witness the solemn occasion. A committee had been appointed to conduct a subscription, in order that the bodies might be decently interred, and some memorial of their unhappy fate might be raised at the public expense.

PROMOTIONS, PREFERMENTS, &c.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

Aug. 1. William Gillon, of West Derby, and of Liverpool, Banker, in memory of Wm. Chadwick, of Handstoke House, to take the name of Chadwick only.

Aug. 20. Knighted, David James Hamilton Dickson, esq. M.D. F.R.S. Physician to the Royal Naval Hospital at Plymouth.

Aug. 22. 36th Foot, Lieut.-Col. Archibald M. Maxwell, h. p. to be Lieut. Col.-59th Foot, Major Francis Fuller to be Lieut.-Col. Capt. Nicholas Hovenden to be Major.-87th Foot, Major-Gen. Sir Tho. Reynell, Eart. and K.C.B. to be Colonel-99th Foot, Major-Gen. Sir Colin Campbell, K.C.B. to be Colonel.

Aug. 30. Samuel William Acres, of Sydenham, Kent, gent. in compliance with the will of his maternal uncle, to take the surname of Little.

Sept. 3. The Right Hon. Arch. Earl of Gosford to be a Member of the Privy Council.

Sept. 5. 11th Foot, Brevet Lieut. Col. Cecil Bisshopp to be Major.-16th ditto, Major Adam Gordon Campbell to be Lieut. Col. Capt. S. G. Carter to be Major.--76th ditto, Brevet Lieut.. Col. J. F. Love to be Lieut.-Col.

Sept. 9. Lieut. Col. W. Macbean Geo. Colebrooke to be Lieut.-Governor of the Bahama Islands.

Wm.-James Long, of Bath, Surgeon, in com. pliance with the will of the Rev. James Sugden, to take the surname and arms of Sugden.

Sept. 12. 1st Foot Guards, Lieut. and Capt. John Julius W. Angerstein to be Capt. and Lt.. Col. Staff, Lieut.-Col. John James Snodgrass to be Deputy Quartermaster-general to the Troops serving in Nova Scotia and its dependencies.

Sept. 16. Rt. Hon. Earl of Minto to be K.G.C. Solomon Jacob Levi, of Stockwell, Surrey, gent. to take the name and arms of Waley.

Sept. 17. Knighted, Samuel Raymond Jarvis, of Fair Oak Park, esq. High Sheriff of Hants.

Sept. 19. 65th Foot, Major Henry Senior to be Lieut. Col. Capt. S. Walker to be Major.96th ditto, Major Alex. Cairncross to be Lieut. Col.; Capt. Chas. Brownlow Cumberland to be Major.

Sir George Grey, Bart. to be Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, vice Mr. Lefevre.

Knighted, Samuel Tho. Spry, esq. M. P. of Place, Cornwall, and lieutenant of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms.

Naval Promotions.-Rear-Adm. Sir Graham Hamond, K.C.B. to succeed the late Sir Michael Seymour in the command of the American station. -Rear-Adm. P. Cainpbell, C.B. to be Commander-in-Chief at the Cape of Good Hope and the Western Coast of Africa.-Commanders R.

Oliver, J. J. Onslow, and A. Forbes, to be Cap. tains; Lieut. S. C. Dacres, Royal George yacht, and Lieut. S. P. Pritchard, Commanders.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. T. S. Biddulph, to a Preb. in the Collegiate Church of Brecon.

Rev. J. Griffith to a Preb. in Limerick Cathedral.
Rev. W. R. Beechey, Kilgefin V. Roscommon.
Rev. J. S. Birley, All-Saints P. C. Little Bolton,
co. Lancaster.

Rev. W. H. Bolton, Aughton R. Lancashire.
Rev. J. G. Browne, Hawley R. Somerset.
Rev. J. Delmege, Kilconnel R. Tipperary.
Rev C. D. M. Drake, Huntshaw R. Devon.
Rev. A. Fawkes, Otley V. York.
Rev. J. Foottit, Farnsfield V. Nottingham.
Rev. J. Gratrix, St. James's V. Halifax,
Rev. N. Greene, Ballyclog R. Tyrone.
Rev. W. T. Hadow, Mickleton-cum-Ebrington V.
co. Gloucester.

Rev. P. Hall, Milton-cum-Brigminster R. Wilts.
Rev. J. N. Harrison, Langharne V. co. Carmarth.
Rev. J. C. Hicks, Rangeworthy P. C. co. Glouc.
Rev. R. Hill, Agbalee V. co. Antrim.
Rev. R. Hutton, St. Nicholas V. co. Cornwall.
Rev. J. Jones, Llansadwrn V. co. Anglesea.
Rev. J. Lawson, Buckminster V. co. Leicester.
Rev. C. Lyne, Roach R. Cornwall.

Rev. H. M'Calman, South Knapdale R. co.
Argyle.

Rev. C. Mackenzie, Colnbrook C. Bucks.
Rev. T. Musgrave, Blyth V. co. Nottingham.
Rev. W. R. Nash, Kilbolane V. Cork.
Rev. R. Newman, Coryton R. Devon.

Rev. W. T. Nicholls, Llanfihangel-Aberby thick
P.C. co. Carmarthen.

Rev. W. H. Oldfield, Barnby Moor V. Nottingh,
Rev. J. Pridham, Orby V. co. Lincolnshire.
Rev. T. Stafford, All-Saints R. Suffolk.

Rev. F. Tate, Charing V. Kent.

Rev. E. Turner, Wiggonholt R. Sussex.
Rev. J. V. Vincent, Llanfairfechan R. co. Car-

narvon.

Rcv. J. Woodruff, Upchurch V. Kent.
Rev. W. Wayet, Pinchbeck V. co. Lincoln.
Rev. W. J. Blew, Chaplain to Earl Amherst.
Rev. B. D. Hawkins, Chaplain to Lord Western.
Rev. W. P. Spencer, Chaplain to the Duke of
Buccleuch.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

W. Bond, esq. to be Recorder of Poole.

E. W. W. Pendarves, esq. M.P. to be Recorder of Falmouth.

Dr. W. Cumin, to be Regius Professor of Midwifery in the University of Glasgow. Rev. N. H. Whitworth, to the Head Mastership of Kensington Grammar School.

BIRTHS.

July 15. At Bredsall rectory, Derb. the wife of the Rev. II. R. Crewe, a dau.At Bartonpark, Derb. the wife of Rev. C. E. Cotton, a dau.

Aug. 3. At Weston-super-Marc, the wife of Major W. Godley, a dau.-8. In St. James'ssq. the Lady John Thynne, a son.-22. In Whitehall-place, the wife of J. B. Childers, esq. M.P. a dau.-29. At Ash vicarage, the wife of Rev. C. Forster, a son.-25. At Luffness, N. B. the Right Hon. Lady Henry Kerr, a dau.26. At North bank, Regent's-park, the wife of Deputy Commissary-general Cumming, a

son.

-la Hill-street, Viscountess Encumbe, a dau. -At Little Aston-ball, Staffordshire, the wife of W. Leigh, esq. a dau.- -27. In Park Crescent, the wife of the Hon. Baron Alderson, a son. At Cheltenham, the lady of Sir W. Marjoribanks, Bart, a dau-28. At Edinburgh, the lady of Sir Ralph A. Anstruther, Bart. a son and heir.-29. At Longhope vicarage, the wife of the Rev. Charles Day, a son.-31. At El

vetham, near Hartford-bridge, Lady Charlotte Calthorpe, a dau.

Lately. The lady of the Rev. Sir Henry Rivers,

a son.

Sept. 4. At Windsor, the wife of Col. Milman, Coldstream Guards, a son.-5. The Right Hon. Lady Burghersh, a dau.- In Devonshireplace, the wife of Major Dashwood, a dau.6. At Tichborne, Hants, the Rt. Hon. Lady Arundell, a sou.At Mylor, the wife of Capt. Sainvan, C.B. a son.-7. At Yetminster vicarage, the wife of the Rev. Geo. Fort Cooper, a dẻo.

9. At High Hoyland rectory, Wakefeld, the wife of the Rev. Joseph Birch, B.A. a dao. -At Over Norton, the wife of Lieut. Col. Dawkins, a dau.-13. At Horsemondeo reetory, Kent, the wife of the Rev. J. N. Palmer, a dau.-12. At Bicesta, the Viscountess Chetwynd, a son.-13. At Wanborough vicarage, North Wilts, the wife of the Rev. H. Middleton, a son.-14. The Hon. Mrs. S. Bathurst, a dau. 16. At Bradford Abbas Vicarage, Dorset, the wife of the Rev. R. Grant, a dau.-23. Åt Scarborough, Lady Blackett, a dau.

MARRIAGES.

Aug. 12. At St. George's, Hanover-sq. W. Brougham, esq. M.P. only brother of the Lord Chancellor, to Emily Frances, only dau. of Sir C. W. Taylor, Bart. of Hollycombe, Sussex.-————— } $_ At Clifton, near Bristol, W. Gibbons, M.D. of Twickenham. to Psyche Emmeline, dau. of Joha King, esq. of Clifton, and niece to the dista guished Maria Edgeworth.-16. At Tavistock. Tho. Lang, esq. of Bristol, to Anna, dau. of Rev. W. Evaus, Park Wood House, near Tavistock. 17. At Corfu, Dr. Connel, Rifle Brigade, to Vera, third dau, of the late Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. Vere Poulett.-18. At Biddenden, Kent, W. Whateley, esq. barrister-at-law, to Eliz. relict of Lord H. S. Churchill.-19. At Cheltenham, the Rev. R. Dixon, Vice Principal of King William's Callege, Isle of Man, to Eliz. eldest dau. of the late T. Willmott, esq. of Sherborue, Dorset.-At Dover, Capt. J. M. Gambier, 53d foot, son of sur J. Gambier, to Helen Fred. dau. of J. C. Locbner, esq. of Enfield, Middlesex.At Cookham, Berks, Fred. Justice, esq. of Newport, Monmouthshire, to Caroline, dau. of the late Col. Robbins, 69th Foot.-23. At Holywell, H. Champion Partridge, esq. to Ethelred Frances, dau. of LieutGen. Birch Reynardson.-At Norwood, the Rev. A. C. Bishop, to Lucy, only dau. of Sir J. and Lady Frances Wedderburne.-26. At Eaton Bishop, Henry Horn, esq. barrister-at-law, to Amelia Anne, eldest dau. of J. S. Gow!land, esq. of Cagebrook, Hereford.-At Littlington, the Rev. Edw. Johnson, to Mary, only dau. of the Rev. T. Scutt, of Clapham House, Sussex.At St. James's, John Court Lett, esq. of Regent street, to Eliz. only dau. of the late Capt. J. Emmerson, of Wells, Norfolk.-27. At Covertry, Wm. Douglas Brisbane, esq. Lieut. R.N. second son of the late Rear-Adm. Sir C. Brisbane, to Elizabeth, dau. of the late John Rvies, esq.-28. At Salisbury, Thomas Tatum, esq. to Louisa Sarah, eldest dau. of W. B. Brod e, esq. M.P.At Trinity Church, Alex. Crombie, esq. barrister-at-law, to Mary Harriett, second dau. of Francis Richardson, esq. of Upper Portland-place.At Norwich, C. Herbert Jenner, second son of Sir Herbert Jenner, to Fanoy, ed dau. of the late J. Hales, esq.-30. At Stafford Tho. Messiter, esq. barrister-at-law, to Marianne Louisa, only child of Sir C. Alston, bart.-—————31. At Gainsborough, W. Metcalf, esq. barrister-atlaw, to Charlotte, second dau. of the late Morehouse Metcalf, esq.

Sept. 1. At Pontefract, the Rev. H. Mills Astley, Rector of Foulsham, Norfolk, to Du cibeca, dau. of Col. W. Gooch.-2. The Rev. Edm. Luttrell Stuart, Rector of Houghton, to E'. dau. of the Rev. J. L. Jackson, lacumbent of Knowle.

OBITUARY.

EARL BATHURST.

July 26. In Arlington-street, aged 72, the Right Hon. Henry Bathurst, third Earl Bathurst, of Bathurst in Sussex (1792), and Baron Bathurst of Battlesdon, co. Bedford (1711), second Baron Apsley, of Apsley, in Sussex (1771); K. G. a Teller of the Exchequer, Clerk of the Crown, an Elder Brother of the Trinity House, D.C.L. F.R. S. F.S. A. &c. &c.

He was born May 22, 1762, the elder son of Henry second Earl Bathurst, and Lord Chancellor of England, by Tryphena, daughter of Thomas Scawen, of Maidwell in Northamptonshire, esq. On his coming of age, a seat in Parliament was provided for him, in the family borough of Cirencester, by the retirement of his uncle James Whitshed, esq. July 9, 1783; and before the close of the same year Lord Apsley was appointed a Commissioner of the Admiralty. In July 1789 he removed to the Treasury, at which board he sat until June 1791.

In May 1790 he succeeded the Earl of Hardwicke as one of the Tellers of the Exchequer, of which office he had previously obtained the reversion. In 1793 he was appointed a Commissioner for the affairs of India, and sworn of the Privy Council. He sat at that board until the change of ministry in 1802. He continued to sit for Cirencester until his acression to the Peerage, on the death of his father, Aug. 6, 1794.

On the meeting of the new Parliament in 1796, Earl Bathurst moved the Address to the King. In 1804 he was appointed Master Worker of the Mint; in 1807 he became President of the Board of Trade, and in 1809 his Lordship was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, which he held only from the 11th of October to the 6th of December. On the 11th of June 1812 he was appointed Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, and he discharged the duties of that office for a period of nearly sixteen years. In 1828 he was appointed President of the Council, which high office he retained till the resignation of the Wellington Administration in 1830, since which time he has taken no very prominent part in public affairs.

It is, we believe, regulated by Act of Parliament that the Tellership of the Exchequer shall not be filled up, by which a saving to the public will be derived of 2,7001. per annum. The office of Clerk of the Crown has also become subject, GENT. MAG. VOL. II.

His Lordship was elected a Knight of the Garter in 1817.

In his various public employments, Earl Bathurst was attentive to business, and much esteemed by his party. His talents, though not brilliant, were useful, and he had a competent knowledge of diplomacy; his manners were conciliating, and as a political adversary he conducted himself without asperity. His Lordship was in office when the battle of Waterloo was fought, and was the only civilian invited annually to the military festivals given by the Duke of Wellington in commemoration of that great event.

In the Biographical Peerage 1806, Sir Egerton Brydges made the following remarks on his character:-"He seems too much to have indulged in a life of indolence, for his friends speak of him as a man of very superior talents; of which, however, he has not given the world much opportunity to form a judgment. He is said to be sagacious and sarcastic: full of acute sense and cutting humour."

His health had been gradually declining for some months. His death was unaccompanied by pain; he expired in the bosom of his family, and was perfectly sensible of his approaching dissolution.

His Lordship married April 1, 1789, Georgiana, youngest daughter of Lord George Lennox, and aunt to the present Duke of Richmond. By her Ladyship, who survives him, he had issue five sons and two daughters: 1. the Right Hon. Henry George now Earl Bathurst, D. C. L. and M.P. for Cirencester from 1812 to the present time; his Lordship was born in 1790, and is unmarried; 2. the Hon. William Lennox Bathurst, Clerk to the Privy Council, and Secretary to the Board of Trade, also unmarried; 3. Lady LouisaGeorgiana; 4. the Hon. Seymour-Thomas, a Colonel in the army, who died on the 10th of April last, leaving a son (see p.

in consequence of his death, to the Act passed last session for regulating the offices of the Court of Chancery. It has ceased to be a sinecure, and is converted into an effective office, which can no longer be executed by deputy. The salary also is reduced to an amount which, after payment of the necessary expenses of the establishment, can hardly be estimated beyond 2001. per annum. The Lord Chancellor has appointed his Chief Secretary, Mr. Le Marchant, to the office, but it is understood that the ap pointment is only temporary.

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108); 6. Lady Emily-Charlotte, married in 1825 to Major-general the Hon. Sir F. C. Ponsonby, K. C.B. second son of the Earl of Besborough, and his issue; 7. the Hon, and Rev. Charles Bathurst, Vicar of Limber, Lincolnshire; he was born in 1802, and married in 1830, Lady EmilyCaroline Bertie, youngest daughter of the Earl of Abingdon.

The body of Earl Bathurst was removed on Saturday Aug. 2 from Arlington-street to Cirencester, where the funeral took place on the Tuesday following. The solemn ceremony was rendered the more affecting and impressive through the circumstance of the body of his Lordship's late son, Colonel the Hon. Seymour Bathurst, who died in London in April last, having been disinterred from the vault in which it was deposited in the new cemetery, on the Harrow-road, and borne to be interred in company with that of his honoured and much-lamented parent. The utmost respect was paid to the memory of his Lordship by the inhabitants of Cirencester.

The remains of the noble earl, and those of his son, lay in state during six hours on Monday, in the hall of the family mansion, and were seen by many thousand persons, several of whom had travelled considerable distances to witness the imposing ceremony.

At the early hour of 6 o'clock on Tuesday morning, the bell of the Abbey Church began to toll, and towards 9, the hour appointed for the funeral, a large body of gentlemen and tenantry, all in deep mourning, amounting to nearly 300, assembled to join the train of mourners. The arrangements having been made, the procession proceeded towards the Abbey church. The corpse of the Hon. Seymour Bathurst preceded that of the Earl. The pall-bearers were Lord Thynne, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Cripps, M. P., Mr. Edward Cripps, Mr. Croome, and Mr. Warner. The chief mourners were his Lordship's three sons-Earl Bathurst the Hon. William Bathurst, and the Hon. and Rev. Charles Bathurst.

THE COUNTESS OF ANTRIM. June 30. In Park-lane, aged 36, the Right Hon. Anne-Catherine Macdonnel, Countess of Antrim, and Viscountess Dunluce, in the peerage of Ireland; mother of the Marchioness of Londonderry, and half-sister to Viscount Dungannon.

Her Ladyship was born Feb. 11, 1778, the elder daughter of Randal-William Marquis and sixth Earl of Antrim, by the Hon. Letitia Morres, daughter of Henry first Viscount Mountmorres, and widow of the Hon. Arthur Trevor (by

whom she had an only child, the present Viscount Dungannon).

On the death of her father, she succeeded to the title already mentioned, which had been created by a patent granted to him in 1785, with remainder to his daughters, and the heirs male of their bodies.

She was first married, April 25, 1799, to Sir Henry Vane-Tempest, Bart. by whom she had an only child, Lady- Frances-Anne-Emily, who became in 1819 the second wife of Charles- William, second and present Marquis of Londonderry. The Countess was left a widow Aug. 1, 1813; and was married secondly, May 27, 1817, to Edmund Phelps, esq.. who in consequence took the name of Macdonnel, and survives her Ladyship.

The titles have devolved on her Ladyship's sister Charlotte, wife of Rear-Adm. Lord Mark Kerr, uncle to the Marquis of Lothian. They have a numerous family; of whom the eldest died on the 28th of July, having borne the title of Lord Dunluce for the brief period of four weeks (see our last number, p. 333).

LORD GLENTWORTH.

Aug. 7. At Killaloe, aged 45, the Rt. Hon. Henry-Hartstonge Pery, Lord Glentworth, eldest son of the Earl of Limerick. This clever but imprudent young nobleman fell a victim to a career of reckless indulgence. Born to an earldom, with a fortune of not less than 40,000l. a-year, and gifted by nature with great natural talents, which were culti vated in no ordinary degree, he commenced life, not only under the most favourable but the most splendid auspices. Notwithstanding, the greatest part of his life, after he became of age, was spent in prison. His father, at various times, gave large sums to free him from difficulties, but unfortunately the Earl's intentions were continually frus trated. It is said that policies of insurance to the amount of 186,0007, were effected on Lord Glentworth's life. During the period of his Lordship's confinement in the Four Courts' Marshalsea, in Dublin, he was involved as defendant in an action respecting the wife of a gentleman who was a prisoner for debt; and, after his release, he suffered incarce. ration in London. Some years ago be was a candidate on the liberal interest for a town in the south of Ireland, but be failed. Could his lordship, who was a man of considerable energy and fine uppearance, have redeemed himself from those habits which paralysed his powers, he might have attained an honourable place, by the force of his natural talents, in the estimation of the country. He

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