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BUCKS.-Oct. 24. At Westhorpe-house, Maria, wife of Gen. Sir G. Nugent, Bart. She was the seventh daughter of Cortland Skinner, esq. Attorney-general of New Jersey; was married Nov. 15, 1797, and has left three sons and two daughters, of whom the elder is the wife of Sir T. F. Fremantle, Bart.

CHESTER.-Nov. 8. At Chester, the widow of Allen Holford, esq., late of Davenhall-hall.

Lately. Thomas Boden, esq. one of the Aldermen of the Borough of Macclesfield. He has bequeathed to the Macclesfield Dispensary, 500.; to be invested for the choir of the Old Church, 350l.; in aid of a new burial ground, 400.; St. George's Church, Sutton, 100.; the National School, Macclesfield, 100.; the Macclesschools at field Sunday School, 1007.; Lower Withington, 4801.

CUMBERLAND.-Oct. 29. At Whitehaven, John Littledale, esq., Collector of the Customs; brother to Mr. Justice Littledale.

DERBY.-Oct. 13. At Derby, in his 73d year, John Whitehurst, esq., one of the oldest inhabitants, and nephew to John Whitehurst, esq. F. R. S., the celebrated geologist and philosopher.

DEVON.-Oct. 29. At Plymouth, G. Harvey, esq., one of the mathematical masters of Woolwich Academy. He terminated his existence by hanging himself with a silk handkerchief, to a hook in the cellar. Verdict," mental derangement."

Nov. 1. In consequence of being thrown from his gig, Francis Kingdon, esq., town clerk of Great Torrington, coroner and clerk to the magistrates of that division, clerk to the trustees of the turnpike trust, with several minor appointments.

Nov. 3. At Torquay, aged 55, Richard Earle Welby, esq., fifth son of the late Sir William Earle Welby, Bart., of Denton Hall, Lincolnshire. He was for some time an officer in the Life Guards. He married in Oct. 1812, the widow of Henry Penton, esq., M. P. for Winchester.

DORSET.-Sept. 16. At Bridport, in his 69th year, G. L. Roberts, M. D., inventor of the celebrated ointment, the "Poor Man's Friend." He was a member of the Wesleyan Society, and a man of active benevolence.

Sept. 28. At Chardstock, aged 81, Mary, widow of Thos. Langdon, esq., of Chard.

Oct. 19. At Poole, in his 82d year, Joseph White Orchard, esq., for many years an Alderman of that town, and twice Mayor.

Nov. 12. At Hanford House, Henry
Ker Seymer, esq., one of the magistrates
of the county.
DURHAM.—July 3. At Gringle-park,
GENT. MAG. VOL. II.

aged 74, Robert Wharton Myddleton, of Old Park, esq.

ESSEX-Nov. 4. At Langham Lodge, Epping, T. Bridges, esq. late of Stamford

hill.

Nov. 8. At Harwich, aged 65, Susan,
widow of Rev. William Whinfield, B. D.,
Vicar of Ramsay and Dovercourt-cum-
Harwich.
At Little-

GLOUCESTER.-Sept. 11.

dean, aged 77, the widow of Nathaniel Wakeford, esq. of Pamber, near Basingstoke, only dau. of Matthew Lee, esq. of Ebford House, near Exeter.

Oct. 19. At Cheltenham, aged 23, Harriet-Finch, dau. of late J. F. Simpson, esq. of Launde Abbey, Leic.

Oct. 29. At Cheltenham, aged 26, Augusta Burgoyne, second dau. of late S. Chilver, esq. of New Burlington-st.

HANTS.Oct. 31. At Ringwood, aged 26, Mr. W. B. Baldwin, only son of W. Baldwin, esq. solicitor.

Nov. 6. At Southampton, aged 90, Theodora, widow of the Right Hon. Geo. Rose, who died in 1818.

KENT.-Lately. At St. Stephen's, near Canterbury, G. Baker, esq. Recorder of Dover.

Oct. 17. At Liverpool, Mr. William Southgate, Surveyor of his Majesty's Customs at that port. He was assassinated by Norman Welch, a weigher in the same service.

Nov. 1. At Tunbridge-wells, aged 63, Rosamond, wife of Lieut.-Col. Weller, late of 13th Regt.

Nov. 11. At Bromley, Henrietta,
widow of Richard Wharton, esq. formerly
Joint Secretary of the Treasury, and
M. P. for Durham.

At Ancaster,
LINCOLN.-Sept 19.
aged 80, Elizabeth, widow of Henry de
Wint, M.D. of Stone.

This

MIDDLESEX.-Nov. 15. At Edmonton, General Irénée Francois Marie Delacroix, Baron de Boegard, native of Gravelines. NORFOLK.-At Burnham Market, in his 83d year, Thos. Bolton, esq. gentleman married Susannah, eldest sister of Admiral Lord Nelson; and his son, Thos. Bolton, esq. of Brickworth, the present High Sheriff of Wilts, is heir presumptive to the titles, &c. of the hero of Trafalgar.

At

Mr.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. -Oct. 7.
West Haddon, in his 65th year,
James Parsons, fifth son of the late
Alderman Parsons of Leicester.

At
NORTHUMBERLAND. - Oct. 26.
Grizedale, near Hawkshead, aged 74,
Henry Ainslie, esq. M.D. of Dover st.

Norts-Oct. 25. At Ranby-hall, aged 74, the Most Noble Anna Maria Duchess dowager of Newcastle. Her 40

Grace was the fifth and youngest dau. of William second Earl of Harrington, by Lady Caroline Fitzroy, eldest dau. of Charles 2d Duke of Grafton. She was married Jan. 25, 1782, to Thomas third Duke of Newcastle, who dying in 1795, her Grace remained a widow until 1810, when she was again united in marriage to Lieut.-Gen. Sir Charles Crauford, G. C.B. who died in 1821. Her only surviving child is the present Duke. Her Grace's charities were very extensive, and unlimited to sect, parish, or county.

OXON.-Nov. 9. At Oxford, Grace, youngest sister of the late Dr. Williams, Professor of Botany.

SALOP.-Nov. 28. At Hawn, aged 82, Ann, wife of Matthias Attwood, esq. SOMERSET.-Sept. 22. At Bath, J. F. Gyles, esq. Barrister. He was the author of a compendious Hebrew Grammar, and an Essay on the Proofs of the Truth of Christianity.

Sept. 24. At Bath, Miss Charlotte Bentley, dau. of the late Richard Bentley, esq. and granddaughter of Dr. Bentley, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Oct. 27. At Newton Park, Capt. John Fred. Gore Langton, Coldstream Guards, youngest son of Col. Gore Langton, M. P. for the eastern division of the county.

Oct. 28. In her 88th year, Eleanor, widow of the Rev. George Townsend, Vicar of Ermington and Kingston, Devon, and mother of the late Rev. John Townsend, of St James's, Taunton. Nov. 2. At Walford House, in his 88th year, John Westbrook, esq. STAFFORDSHIRE.-Oct. 30. Aged 67, John Hawkes, esq. of Norton Hall.

SURREY.-Oct. 20. At Kingston-onThames, in his 80th year, Charles Luxmoore, esq. of Red Lion-sq.

Nov. 5. At Shalford, aged 47, Elizabeth, wife of Capt. Pyner, h. p.

SUFFOLK.-Nov. 3. Aged 17, MaryAnne, dau. of the Rev. Edw. Jermyn, rector of Carlton Colvile.

SUSSEX-Nov. 12. At Hastings, Anna-Frances, wife of William Harwood, esq. M. D. last surviving dau. of James Lambert, esq. of Bedford-row.

Nov. 2. At Brighton, Dorothy-Margaret, wife of R. Westmacott, esq. R.A. of South Audley-street.

WARWICK-Oct. 8. At Nuneaton, aged 42, Mary, wife of John Craddock, esq. and dau. of Geo. Greenway, esq. of Attleborough Hall.

WORCESTER.-Oct. 23 At Shiptonon-Stour, in her 99th year, Susanna, widow of William Horniblow, esq. surgeon.

Oct. 21. At J. Howard Galton's, esq. Radzor-house, near Droitwich, aged 35, Caroline, wife of E. Nicholas Hurt, esq.

of Dorset-sq. dau. of J. Strutt, esq. of Derby.

WILTS.-Oct. 5. At Berwick St. John, aged 87, Hannah, only surviving dau. of late Rev. James Foot, of Bradford.

YORK.-Oct. 31. At Nether Hall Doncaster, aged 77, Hannah, wife of Arthur Mowbray, esq. of Hurworth.

Nov. 7. At Campsall-park, aged 67, Mrs. Pickford, of Acomb, near York, relict of the Rev. Josh. Pickford, and dau. of the late Sir A. Grant, of Moneymusk, Bart.

WALES.-July 12. At Aberystwith, Richard Morgan, esq. fate surgeon R. N. son of the late Incumbent of St. Michael's Chapel, in that town.

July. At Tenby, Jacob Richards, esq. a member of the corporation. The funeral procession was one of the largest ever witnessed in Tenby, and was attended by the Mayor and Common Council.

Sept. 18. At Erwood, Wm. Surman Chambers, esq. formerly of Dripshiil, Worcestershire.

Oct. 5. At Cardiff, Charlotte, second wife and widow of Sir Robert Lynch Blosse, of Gabalva, Glamorganshire, Bart. She was a daughter of John Richards, esq. of Cardiff.`

At Parkwern, near Swansea, aged 59, Jane, wife of Capt. F. Hickey, R. N. Oct. 12. In her 4th year, Augusta, eldest dau. of Robert Biddulph, esq. M. P. for Hereford.

Oct. 14. At Maesgwynne, near Carmarthen, in his 25th year, Stedman Richard Samuel Jones, esq.

ABROAD.-Feb. 26. At Munich, in his 63d year, Alois Senefelder, “inventor of the art of Lithography and Chemical Printing." We intended to have given a memoir of this remarkable person; but are now compelled, from want of space, to refer to an interesting autobiography, accompanied by a portrait, contained in the translation of his " Complete Course of Lectures," published by Ackermann in 1819. April 8. At Versailles, Sir Jonah Barrington, LL.D. and K.C. Of this extraordinary character, we must deter our memoir to our next volume.

July 12. At Chiavenna, in Lombardy, in his 23d year, Richard Vaughan Simpson, esq. BA, of Balliol college, Oxford, son of the late Rev. T. B. Simpson, of Brislington.

July 22. Off the coast of Brazil, aged 17, Richard Stephen Hurt, midshipman of H. M.S. Snake, son of Richard Hurt, esq. of Wirksworth.

July 23. At Lisbon, Alexander Andrade, esq., Portuguese Consul, at Stettin, and formerly of Lancaster.

July 24. Sir Charles J. Peshall, lately his Britannic Majesty's Consul for North Carolina.

Aug 10. At Paris, Caroline, fifth dau. of Sir Anthony Buller, Bart., of Pounds. Aug. 13. At Sierra Leone, aged 50, Octavius Temple, esq. Lieut.- Governor of that island, (which he held only eight months), and son of the late Vicar of Gluvias, Cornwall; leaving a widow and six children.

Aug. 29. At Philadelphia, the wife of G. Robertson, esq. British Consul. Lately. The reigning Duke of Anhalt Bernburg, father of the Princess Frederick of Prussia.

At Frankfort, the Abbé Hennecart, a

French emigrant, who was long editor of the Frankfort French Journal, and on whom Louis XVIII. conferred the Order of the Legion of Honour.

At Thonom, near Geneva, General Dessaix, one of the most distinguished of the officers of Napoleon. He quitted the service of France at the time of the Restoration, and has since constantly refused to acknowledge either that or the present Government.

In America, a German woman, named Betty Brantham, aged 154. When 120 years old she lost her sight, but subsequently recovered it, and during the last 28 years of her life could see as well as in her youth.

ADDITIONS TO OBITUARY.

VOL. I. P. 118.-Dr. Milligan was in his 50th year. This self-taught philosopher was a native of Kirkbean on the Forth of Solway. Only twelve years before his death he was a country shoemaker. Like Gifford and Bloomfield he grew weary of the last and the awl; he then went to Edinburgh, attended the College, became an instructor in his turn, amassed some property, and was distinguished among the learned and polite.

P. 332.-Dean Woodhouse became a widower in 1826. There is the follow ing epitaph to his wife in Lichfield cathedral:- In memory of Mercy, wife of the Very Rev. Dr. Woodhouse, Dean of this Cathedral, who departed this life on the 7th of January 1826, in the 80th year of her age. Her never failing piety towards God will long be remembered within these sacred walls, as will her charity to the poor in every place of her residence." The Dean's daughter, EllenJane, was married first to the Rev. William Robinson, B.C.L. Prebendary of Lichfield, and Rector of Swinnerton and Stoke-upon-Trent, by whom she was mother of two daughters, Ellen-Jane and Marianne (the one drowned and the other burnt to death), the subjects of Chantrey's exquisite figures in Lichfield Cathedral. Mr. Robinson died March 21, 1812, aged 35; and his widow was married secondly to Hugh Dyke Acland, esq., next brother to Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart., by whom she has one son, Hugh.

P. 338. The Rev. Stafford Smith, some time previous to his death, executed a trust deed, whereby he gave one thousand pounds, the interest thereof to be annually expended in coals, flannel, and books, which are to be distributed, at the

discretion of the Trustees, to certain poor in Fladbury and the adjoining hamlets, provided the Parish also contribute a portion of money towards forwarding the same desirable object; in failure of which the interest is to go to the Worcester Infirmary. He bequeathed 1001. to that institution, and 100l. to the Gloucester Infirmary, which were paid by his widow, in full, without deducting the legacy duty.

P. 437. The present Lord Exmouth is the Rt. Hon. Percy-Taylor, second son of the late Lord. His elder son, Edward, died in India.

P. 454.-Lady Lyndhurst died at Paris, not at Boulogne; for Garcy read Garey.

P. 558.-The monument to Dr. Alexander Murray is to be constructed on the Doon rock, a conical eminence of considerable height, within a quarter of a mile of his birth-place, and commanding a view of the vale of Palneur, and the whole eastern coast of Wigtonshire. It will be constructed of granite, and eighty feet in height.

P. 560.-We are told the name of the Rev. Latham Wainewright should be spelled with the e; which orthography is supported by the List of Cambridge Graduates.

P 564-Mr. Page was a Bencher of the Middle, not the Inner Temple.

P. 566.- The Rev. John Davison was the author of the following works:"Some account of a recent work entitled, Elements of General Knowledge' (by Rev. Henry Kett), 2 parts. Oxford, 1803-4. A Sermon preached at St. Mary's, Oxford, March 6, 1817, at the Lent Assizes, before Sir Allan Park and Sir James Burroughs, 4to. Considerations on the Poor Laws, 1817, 8vo. Re

ply to an Article in the Edinb. Review (LXIV.) entitled Parliamentary Inquiry,' to which is subjoined a Letter commented upon in that article, 1820. Discourses on Prophecy, being the substance of twelve Sermons preached in the Chapel of Lincoln's Inn, in the Lecture founded by Warburton, 1824. An Inquiry into the Origin and Intent of Primitive Sacrifice, and the Scripture Evidence respecting it, 1825. Considerations on the Piety, or religious Principle, of conciliatory measures towards Ireland (two parts), one addressed to the Electors of the University of Oxford, 1829. A small Edition of Catullus, printed at Oxford. Mr. Davison was Fellow, and for some time Tutor of Oriel. Lord Liverpool gave him a living in Lincolnshire, which he left for that of Washington, in Durham, his native county. He was then made Prebendary of Worcester, and afterwards held the living of Upton on Severn, where he resided, and where a public subscription has been formed for a monument to his memory. His body was interred in the Lady Chapel of Worcester cathedral. Mr. Davison was a person of very eminent talents, and of acquirements peculiarly recondite and refined.

He

was a very finished scholar, a learned Divine, and a most sound and acute reasoner. To this he added a fine imagination, and a style forcible, idiomatic, and elegant. His volume of sermons preached at the Warburtonian Lecture, is distinguished for the ingenuity of the reasoning, and the beauty of the language. The seventh discourse, on the Divine Foreknowledge, is a masterpiece of subtle and convincing logic. The little tract on the Poor Laws is far superior to most writ ings on the same subject, for the solidity of the arguments, the happiness of the illustrations, and the excellence of the style. We may say indeed of Mr. Davison, as was said of Conyers Middleton, -Literæ fuerunt illi non bæ vulgares, et quotidiana; sed uberrimæ, et maxime exquisitæ. He was indeed a very admirable scholar, and a person of extensive inquiry, and powerful understanding. He was at Oxford contemporary with the present Bishop of Llandaff, and of the same college.

P. 657. At the Bridgewater Sessions a motion was made, and unanimously carried, that a monument be raised to the memory of the late J. Phelips, esq., and that a subscription, to defray the expense thereof, be immediately commenced, in sums of not less than 10s. and not exceeding 51.

P. 665.-The Rev. William Forster,

Rector of Ayston, had also been Rector of Thiselton for sixty-three years. Both livings are in the patronage of George Fludyer, esq., to whom he has left the bulk of his large fortune.

P. 669.-The following is an extract from the will of the late William Watson, esq. F.S. A. :-"Whereas in the course of my life I have had (undeserving as I feel of such marks of regard), the satisfaction of receiving certain very friendly tokens of respect from those with whom I had the pleasure of acting in public life, one of which is a handsome sword, presented to me by the officers of the Wisbech Volunteer Regiment of Infantry, which I had the honour to command as Lieut. Col. Commandant, in the year 1808; and the other is a splendid golden cup, presented to me in the year 1819; both of which I give to my wife for her life, and after her decease, I give the same sword and cup to the capital burgesses of Wisbech in their corporate capacity, to be preserved amongst their valuables, as a mark of my respect to the inhabitants of the town where I received such ecurtesies:" and be directs that his trustees shall, after his wife's decease, raise out of his personal estate, "the sum of one thousand pounds, either towards forming a fund to establish a Dispensary within the town of Wisbech Saint Peter, for the benefit of the poor inhabitants thereof, or in case such institution shall be already established before such sum of one thousand pounds shall become payable, then that the same shall be paid in aid of the funds then raised for such benevolent purpose."

Mr.

VOL. II. p. 106.-John Fuller, esq., of Rosehill, was the only son of the Rev. Henry Fuller, of Stonham, Harts, who was younger brother of John Fuler, esq., of Brightling, who died in 1775, and of Rose Fuller, esq. M.P., of Brightling, who died in 1777. Their father's name was John, not Thomas. The wife of the Rev. Henry Fuller, and mother of the late John Fuller, esq., was Frances, dau. of Thomas Fuller, esq., of Cutfield, another branch of the family. Fuller was an only son: he had two sisters, Elizabeth, the wife of Sir John Palmer Acland, Bart., and Frances, wife of the Rev. George Lewis. The family of Fuller-Elliott - Drake (see the Ba ronetage), to whom Mr. Fuller has lett his West India estates, are descended from his uncle Thomas Fuller, esq the fourth son of John Fuller, of Brightling, who died in 1745, by Elizabeth, eldest daughter and coheir of Fulke Rose, esq.

P. 221.-Major Francis C. Crotty (not Crofty), was Major of his Majesty's 39th foot, quartered at Bangalore in Madras, whence he lately returned by the ship Wellington. He attained the rank of Major in 1832.

P. 314. The vault of the Lawley family is at Hints, near Lichfield, where Lord Wenlock's body was followed to the grave by his brothers Sir Francis Lawley, Bart., and P. Beilby Thompson, esq., M.P. The name of the mansion is Canwell.

P. 323.-We have received a letter from Robert Oliver Jones, esq., of Fonmon Castle, stating that the writer of the memoir of the late Robert Jones, esq., has fallen into an error in stating that Col. John Jones, the Regicide, was a brother to Col. Philip Jones (Mr. Jones's ancestor); they were not related.

P. 432.--The will of Sir R. Wilmot, Bart., was proved in the Prerogative Court on the 22d Oct. The present Baronet, the Right Hon. Sir Robert Wilmot Horton, Governor of Ceylon, succeeds to the Osmaston and Weston estates, in Derbyshire, and becomes possessor of the valuable collection of paintings at Osmaston. The beautiful villa at Great Malvern, recently purchased by the late Baronet, devolves upon Lady Wilmot.

The personalities, amounting to 100,000l., together with a considerable sum in foreign securities, will be divided amongst the late Baronet's four younger children.

P. 437.-Mr. Thomas Law was the author of a Sketch of some late arrangements, and a view of the rising resources in Bengal, 1792, 8vo., and an Answer to Mr. Prinsep's Observations on the Mocurrary System, 1794, 8vo.

P. 439.-It is not the Rev. R. W. Povah who is a Minor Canon of St. Paul's, but the Rev. John V. Povah, who is also one of his Majesty's Priests in ordinary.

P. 549. The will of the late Mr. Coleridge is dated Highgate, Sept. 17, 1829.

He bequeaths to Joseph Henry Green, of Lincoln's Inn-fields, surgeon, all his books, manuscripts, and effects upon trust, to invest the produce in the public funds, and pay the dividends to his wife, Sarah Coleridge, and after her death, to his daughter, Sara Coleridge, she being unmarried. If married, the dividends to be equally divided between his three children-Hartley Coleridge, the Rev. Derwent Coleridge, and the aforesaid Sara Coleridge; each to bequeath the third part of the principal, after the death of the last survivor, according to his or

her pleasure. Mr. Green to have the
option of purchasing the books at such
price as he shall himself determine, in-
asmuch as their chief value will be de-
pendent on his possession of them; but
should be think it expedient to publish
any of the notes or writings made in
them, or any other manuscripts or letters,
the proceeds to be subject to the same
trusts as the personal estate. His pictures
and engravings in the house of "his dear
friends, James and Ann Gilman" (my
more than friends, the guardians of my
health, happiness, and interests, during
the fourteen years of my life that I have
enjoyed the proofs of their constant,
zealous, and disinterested affection as an
inmate and member of their family), I
give and bequeath to Ann Gillman, the
wife of my dear friend, my love for
whom, and my sense of her unremitted
goodness and never-wearied kindness to
me, I hope and humbly trust will follow
me as a part of my abiding being into that
state into which I hope to rise, through
the merits and mediation and by the effi-
cacious power of the Son of God incar-
nate in the blessed Jesus, whom I believe
in my heart, and confess with my mouth,
to have been from everlasting the Way
and the Truth, and to have become man,
that for fallen and sinful men he might be
the resurrection and the life. And fur-
ther, I hereby tell my children Hartley,
Derwent, and Sara, that I have but little
to leave them; but I hope and indeed
confidently believe, that they will regard
it as a part of their inheritance, when I
thus bequeath to them my affection and
gratitude to Mr. and Mrs. Gillman-and
to the dear friend, the companion, part-
ner, and helpmate of my worthiest studies,
Mr. Joseph Henry Green. Further to
Mr. Gillman, as the most expressive way
in which I can only mark my relation to
him, and in remembrance of a great and
good man, revered by us both, I leave the
manuscript volume lettered Arist. Manu-
script-Birds, Acharnians, Knights, pre-
sented to me by my dear friend and
patron, the Rt. Hon. John Hookman
Frere, who of all the men that I have
had the means of knowing, during my
life, appears to me eminently to deserve
to be characterized as ὁ καλοκαγαθος ὁ
pilókalos.

"To Mr. Frere himself I can only bequeath my assurance, grounded on a faith equally precious to him as to me, of a continuance of those prayers which I have for many years offered for his temporal and spiritual well-being. And further, in remembrance that it was under his (Mr. Gillman's) roof I enjoyed so

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