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Rev. T. W. Richards, M. A. Seighford V. Staffordshire.

Rev. Stephen Crofts, M. A. St. Mary Stoke R. Ipswich.

Rev. J. Jefferson, Aldham and Wesley RR. both in Essex.

Rev. James Fielden, Kirk Langley R. Derbyshire.

Hon. and Rev. Frederick Curzon, Mickleover V. Derbyshire.

Rev. Daniel Gwilt, M. A. Icklingham St. James and All Saints RR. Suffolk.

Rev. John Smith, Mellom V. Cumberland.

Rev. W. Andrews, M. A, to be domestic chaplain to lord Blayney.

*** The Bishop of St. David's is now the senior prebend of England.

DECEMBER.

9. H. Edwards, esq. to be Hanoverian consul in Sicily.

BREVET.-Lieut.-gen. sir A. Campbell, bart. to have the local rank of general in the East Indies only.

16. N. Nixon, esq. warden of the Fleet, vice J. Eyles, esq. deceased.

19. J. Crawford, esq. to be consul at Maryland, and to reside at Baltimore. MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

9. Borough of Westbury. Sir M. M. Lopez, and P. J. Miles.

19. Berwick. Sir F. Blake, vice St. Paul, deceased.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. J. Blicke, B. D. Wentworth R. in the Isle of Ely.

Rev. J. Dampier, West Wrathing V. Cambridgeshire.

Rev. Augustus B. Henniker, Great and Little Thornham RR. Suffolk.

Rev. J. Harcourt Skrine, Thundersley R. Essex.

Rev. W. French, M. A. to be master of Jesus College.

Rev. P. Gunning, Newton St. Loe R. near Bath.

Rev. J. Savile Ogle, to the new prebend of Durham cathedral.

Rev. J. Brewster, Laughton V. in Lincolnshire.

Rev. George Williams, to be a minor canon of Worcester cathedral.

Rev. Peter Elers, Rishangles R. Suffolk,

Rev. George Pickard, jun, Stauntonupon-Arrow V. Herefordshire.

Hon. and Rev. William Leonard Addington, second son of viscount Sidmouth, Poole R. Wilts.

Rev. G. F. St. John, Manston R. Dorset.

Rev. H. J. Todd, M. A. Settrington R. Yorkshire, vice Gilbert, deceased.

Rev. John Ellis, Cerrig-v-druidion R. Denbighshire.

DEATHS.

DECEMBER 1819.

19. Admiral sir T. Freemantle [see Appendix.]

25. At Ipswich, in his 61st year, Samuel Thorndyke, esq.

27. At Dublin, Professor Von Feinaigle.

On

30. At the Phoenix Park, Dublin, Frances-Thomasine countess Talbot, in her 38th year. Her ladyship's disorder was an inflammation of the bowels. Tuesday her complaint assumed a character of danger, and on Wednesday her excellency's state was such as to preclude the daughter of Charles Lambert, esq. all hope of recovery. Her excellency was and sister of Gustavus Lambert, esq. of Beaupark, in the county of Meath. She was married on the 20th of August, 1800, to the right hon. earl Talbot. Viscount Ingestrie, the heir apparent to the noble house, was born the 11th of July 1802. The remains of the countess, attended by her widowed lord, have been removed to this country for interment.

Aged 94, Mr. John Rowe, about 40 years ago founder of a religious sect at Calverton.

At Tiverton, aged 102, Mr. W. Gammins.

At Greenhills, near Sheffield, aged 88, Mr. John Fox, who has left 100 descendants.

Near Dublin, in her 83rd year, the relict of the notorious Napper Tandy.

JANUARY, 1820.

2. The Rev. Dr. Bingham, vicar of Great Goddestone, 76.

At Erriat, Miss Foulkes, only daughter of lieutenant-colonel Foulkes.

In London, after a long illness, aged 33, James Turner, esq. banker, of Halesworth, Suffolk.

5. At Beverley, Mrs. Sinclair, widow of the late Rev. G. Sinclair, A. M. 78.

6. The Abbé Senechal, one of the teachers of the French language at the University of Oxford.

The Rev. W. Hole, of Kertnott, near Barnstaple, a very aged and much respected gentleman. He was found lifeless on the road near bis residence; having fallen from his horse, it is believed, in an apoplectic fit.

7. At the Forest Lodge, Essex, Mrs. Bosanquet, relict of the late Samuel Bosanquet, esq. 75.

At Twickenham, John Taylor, esq. M. P. of New Broad-street, 59.

In Margaret-street, Cavendish square, Dennis Jacob, esq. 83.

9. At Charleston, America, Mrs. Starr Barrett, after fully completing 120 years of an active life. This venerable lady was born in the year 1699, about a year before the death of Charles II. King of Spain-to which country her family had emigrated, at an early period of her life.

10. At Little Syon, the right hon. lady Eliz. Percy.

The hon Mrs. Harley, relict of the late bishop of Hereford, and mother of the earl of Oxford.

12. Mrs. Linley, relict of the late T. Linley, esq. Drury Lane Theatre.

The Rev. Henry Dixey, of Cambridge, 57.

At Bath, Mrs. Holroyd, only surviving sister of the earl of Sheffield, 81.

Edward Browne, esq. of Castlemoyle, county Galway, in Ireland. About three o'clock this day, as he was passing near Horseleap, accompanied by his servant in a gig, he received a shot, which caused his immediate death. He was, it is supposed, mistaken for another person, whose extraordinary zeal in suppressing sedition has lately made him obnoxious to the disaffected peasantry.

14. At Bath, the hon. and Rev. Charles Lindsay, 58.

Mary, countess dowager of Rothes, relict of the late Bennett Langton, esq. 77.

At Bath, the hon. general Lane, 74.

20. Charles Louis Clerisseau, a distinmies, and architect to the empress Cathaguished artist, member of several acaderine II. Died at Paris.

At Bath, Mrs. More, relict of general sir George More.

22. At Sydmouth, Edward, duke of Kent and Strathern, fourth son of our beloved monarch. His royal highness

and married, ou the 29th of May, to Vicwas born the 2nd of November, 1767; toria Maria Louisa, daughter of the late reigning duke of Saxe Coburg, and sister issue, a daughter, named Alexandrina Vicof prince Leopold, by whom he has left pendix.] toria, born May 24, 1819. [See Ap

loke.-Lady Hunloke was the sister of
In Saville-row, the dowager lady Hun-
Mr. Coke of Holkham, and the relict of
sir Henry Hunloke.

tor of Little Massingham, 83.
25. The Rev. Charles Mordaunt, rec-

esq. Russell-square.
Sarah, second daughter of J. S. Salt,

26. The right hon. John Howard, earl
dover, and a general in the army, 82.
of Suffolk and Berkshire, viscount An-

28. At Diss, in Norfolk, T. J. Woodward, a distinguished botanist; although he published nothing himself relative to thering in the second edition of his Bolathe pursuit, he materially assisted Dr. Winical Researches.

29. KING GEORGE THE THIRD. [See History and Appendix.]

31. At Warley Lodge, Essex, Edmund Henry, the second son of the hon. George

Winn.

At Penzance, Harriet Frances, youngest daughter of lady Theodosia Vyner.

At Bath, in his 82nd year, the Rev. Fellow, and Professor of Divinity, of TriDr. James Drought, many years senior nity College, Dublin.

years keeper of the Castle, in Newcastle.Aged 68, Mr. Thomas Ayre, many He was present at the siege of Quebec, and was one of the men at the gun from which the celebrated American general Montgomery received his death wound.

At Exeter, aged 84, captain J Hudson, of the invalids. He served at Martinico,

16. At Maida-hill, Henrietta, widow of in 1756, at Bellisle, in 1761, was woundthe late rear-admiral Brenton, 77.

17. In New Cavendish-street, lieutenant-general James Campbell, 76.

18. In Cavendish-square, the hon, Mrs, Crewe.

ed severely at New York, in 1770, and served at Bunker's Hill, in 1775.

the work-house of St. Ives

Aged 105, John Edwards, a pauper is

Aged 83, Mr, D. Jacob.

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At West End, in the parish of Fewston, Yorkshire, in his 110th year, Mr. John Demaine. The chief amusement of his life was hunting, which he always pursued on foot, and which he continued until within the last five years of his life. He was never known to exchange his clothes, however wet, and never experienced a day's confinement from illness in his life. After he had attained his 100th year, he complained that he was grown old, and could not leap over a style or a ditch with his customary agility.

In his 10th year of the small-pox, Geo. Frederick, son of Mr. Kendrick Collett, of Chancery-lane.-He had been inoculated in his infancy with the cow-pock.

At his house in Basinghall-street, aged 76, Solomon Wadd, esq. an eminent surgeon, having resided there more than half a century, and been a member of the corporation of London upwards of forty years.

FEBRUARY.

1. At Camberwell, the hon. colonel Peter Frye, judge of the superior court of Massachusetts, previous to the revolution, 98.

By an inflammation on the lungs, Joseph Madocks, esq. aged 58. Mr. Madocks was the first amateur actor of his day. His performance of Falstaff was truly excellent. He was long the convivial companion of Frank North, after. wards earl of Guildford.

2. At Dublin, suddenly, Peter Digges La Touche, esq.

Aged 82, James Tillott, gent, of Hasleworth, Suffolk.

3. At Wethersfield, Suffolk, at the house of her son-in-law, the Rev. R. C. Barnard, Elizabeth, relict of the late Cary Elwes, esq. of Isleworth, and mother of R. C. Elwes, esq. of Billing-house, Northamptonshire.

At Bideford, aged 91, Anne, relict of George Buck, esq. of Daddon, Devonshire.

3. The hon. capt. Hiort of the Artil

lery.

At Ingatestone, the Rev. Henry Wells, A. M.

Knight, one of the managers of the Liverpool theatre. This gentleman was the author of several theatrical pieces, of which the most popular is the Turnpike Gale. Died suddenly.

6. In Buckingham-street, Fitzroysquare, Ann Flaxman, wife of John Flaxman, esq. R. A.-This lady was an excel. lent Greek scholar, and it is supposed that the professor has been indebted to her classical taste for the beauty of many of his groupes, and that pure simple spirit by which they are characterized.

7. At White Hill, near Carmarthen, aged 88, Mary Thomas, leaving behind her a husband (to whom she had been married 64 years), five children, twenty grandchildren, and eighteen great grandchildren. She was carried to her grave by four of her grandchildren.

8. At Bithfield, Staffordshire, the right hon. Louisa lady Bagot, 77.

9. In Russell-square, sir Vicary Gibbs, 68, late chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and recorder of Bristol.This eminent lawyer began his career as a popular advocate-he became successively Solicitor and Attorney General was made chief baron of the Exchequer in 1813, and soon after chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, in which dignity he succeeded sir James Mausfield; this office he resigned in 1818.

10. At Berlin, Princess Anne Eliza. beth Louisa, relict of his royal highness prince Ferdinand of Prussia. She was born April 22, 1738. Her father was Frederick William, prince of Prussia, and margrave of Brandenburg, grandson of the Great Elector; and her mother was Sophia Dorothea Maria, daughter of Frederick William I. king of Prussia, and sister of Frederick the Great.

13. H. R. H. the duke of Berry was assassinated at the French Opera Sce antè 42.

14. H. D. Hill, D.D., professor of Greek in the University of St. Andrews, author of Essays on the Government, &c. of the States of Ancient Greece.

At Dublin, aged 68, Leonard Macnally, esq. of the Irish bar. He practised originally at the English bar, but was induced, by the late celebrated Mr. Curran, to transfer his talents to his native country. He was a lawyer of acute mind, and well versed in what is called Crown Law. He was also the author of several dramatic pieces, including the opera of Robin Hood."

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15. At Camberwell, Cecilia F. M. Keith, daughter of captain sir G. M. Keith, R. N.

16. In Curzon-street, the right hon. Mary Henrietta Erskine.'

At Maldon, in Surrey, in his 69th year, the Rev. Rogers Ruding, B. D.

21. At Hampstead, the hon. John Dimsdale, baron of the Russian empire,

73.

22. In his 29th year, the Rev. T. S. Smith, M. A. and fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, the eldest son of Mr. Daniel Smith of Windsor.

In Manchester-square, sir T. P. Hampson, bart., 51.

Rev. T. S. Smith, of Magdalen College, Oxford.

At Colney Hatch, Stephen Atkinson, esq. 80.

The earl of Leven and Melville, at Melville-house, Fifeshire.

23. M. Greffulh, a peer of France. He had the honour of receiving at a ball in his house the duke of Berri on the very evening of his assassination. His death was in consequence of the shock he experienced on hearing of that dreadful

event.

24. In Lincoln's-inn, J. Read, esq. barrister at law.

At Stockwell, James Wood, esq. formerly of Lombard-street, banker, 86. 25. Mr. Woodmeston, in Albionplace, Blackfriars, 81.

At Cavetown, near Boyle, in the county of Roscommon, the Rev. Arthur Mahon, vicar of Easter Snow and Kelcold in the diocese of Elphin; descended from an ancient and ennobled family.

At Watford, Herts, Mary Day, wife of T. Day, esq. 73.

At Totteridge, in his 96th year, gen,

the hon. sir Alexander Maitland, bart. colonel of the 49th foot.—Sir Alexander was the last surviving servant in the household of Frederick Prince of Wales, father of his late majesty.

At her father-in-law's, sir Wathen Waller, bart. aged 28, the hon. Marianne Curzon, only daughter of the right hon. the baroness Howe.

Aged 94, Mr. Cannon, of Frederickstreet, Portsea. This extraordinary man was never known to eat fish, flesh, or fowl, or to drink any thing stronger than water, excepting tea in the afternoon!

At Lantz, aged 95, Mr. Edw. Blyth, an eminent grazier. Mr. Blyth has purchased upwards of 100,000 tods of wool annually.

MARCH.

2. At Windsor, the Rev. Francis Cole, A. M.

7. At Ipswich, Mrs. Lemaitre, relict of Thomas Lemaitre, esq. of the Middle Temple.

11. In Newman-street, Benjamin West, esq. the venerable President of the Royal Academy, 82.-[See Appendix.]

In Great Surrey-street, Wm. Sims, esq. Collector of Customs, 86.

At Newington, Edmund, youngest son of Dr. Aikin, aged 39, and brother to Arthur and Miss Aikin, author of the Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth. This gentleman has written some professional works.

15. At Newberry, the Rev. J. P. Hewlett, M. A. of Magdalen College, Oxford.

20. In St. Giles's, Norwich, in his 80th year, Mr. Joseph Leonard Monsigny, by birth a Frenchman, and many years in the service of the unfortunate Louis XVI.

holding the post of private secretary till

the death of that monarch.

In Glamorganshire, of a rapid decline, occasioned by the bursting of a blood vessel, Eaton Stannard Barrett, esq. a native of Ireland, and a student of the Middle Temple. He published "All the Talents," a poem, 8vo. 1807; "Woman," a poem, and "The Heroine," a novel; which made the nearest approach to the success of the "Waverly" novels. Mr. Barrett's age was about 35.

At Theobald's, John Collier, M. D. 54 21. D. A. Gompertz, esq. of Great Pres cott-street, 74.

22. Mr. Baize, architect, and member of the Institute of Egypt. This artist produced many exquisite drawings of Egyptian antiquities, which have been

engraved for that magnificent work on Egypt, published by the French government. He was not only a zealous coltivator of his own art, but likewise of poetry, of which he published a volume in 1819.

24. In Cleveland-row, St. James's, major-general Hamilton.

25. At Bury St. Edmund's, lady Dolben, relic of sir William Dolben, bart. of Turredon Hall, Northamptonshire.

26. In Lower Brook-street, in his 92nd year, Asheton Curzon, viscount and baron Curzon. His lordship's will has been proved by his son, the hon. Rob. Curzon, the sole executor (appointed in a codicil). The personals were sworn under 120,000l.

27. At Hampton Court, aged 86, Mrs. Phillips; and March 2, at the same place, aged 83, Mrs. Joyce Phillips, the only surviving sisters of the right hon. lord Melford.

28. At North End, Hampstead, Thos. Fowe! Buxton, eldest son of C. F. Buxton, esq. M. P.

Dr. R. Dennison, 72.

At Kingston, Surrey, lieutenant-general Gabriel Johnson, of the hon. East India Company's service.

At Gloucester Lodge, George Charles, eldest son of the right hon. George Cauning.

Aged 89, the widow of the late alderman Gill.

Aged 85, Starling Day, esq.

Aged 83, Mrs. Aug. Manners, daughter of the late sir Wm. Manners.

Aged 84, Michael Underwood, esq. M. D.

At Grant's Braes, Agnes Brown, the mother of Burns the Poet, 88.

At Ardfreck, Isle of Sky, Mrs. Macleod, Dowager of Talisker, 91.

At Chateauroux, aged 75, the father of general Bertrand, so well known for his devotion to Napoleon, and his exile. He has left a widow with two children, and a considerable fortune.

At Arklow, Mrs. Nalty, relict of John Nalty, esq. 100.

At Aiglish, county, Killarney, Theodore O'Sullivan, the celebrated Irish Bard, aged 115 years.

At Rome, Sister Fortunee Gioncarelli, of the Urseline Order, in the 109th year of her age.

At Naples, cardinal Carraciolo, bishop of Palestine.

At Santa Le, captain Daniel Florence O'Leary, of the Patriot Red Hussars, and aide-de-camp to general Bolivar.

At Brussels, in his 44th year, Moses Baer Schlesinger, esq. late of Clapham, Surrey.

At Madrid, cardinal Cyprian-y-Valde, Patriarch of the Indes, and grand almoner to the king of Spain. He was born in 1734, and was created a cardinal in 1816.

In Poland, Thaddeus Bogozowski, general of the Order of Jesuits.

APRIL.

1. At Kensington Gore, the very Rev. Isaac Milner, D. D. Dean of Carlisle, President of Queen's college, Cambridge, and Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in that University. The dean was a man of ex

Aged 85, Elizabeth, widow of the late traordinary abilities, and the range of his captain Howorth, R. N.

Aged 95, at Littleport, Ely, Farmer Sindal.

In Green-Park-buildings, Bath, countess Nugent, mother of count Nugent, commander-in-chief of the Neapolitan army.

In Bristol, aged 102, Mrs. Becher. In his 89th year, Mr. Penhallow, the oldest freeman of the borough of Camelford.-Lord Yarmouth gave a dinner to the electors, at which his lordship asked Mr. P. to take a glass of wine with him, which the old gentleman cheerfully assented to; but as he raised the glass to his lips, he fell back in his chair and instantly expired.

At Jamaica, Miss Popham, daughter of sir Home and lady Popham.

At Dumfries, Mrs. Janet M'Naught, relic of the last of the male line of the lairds of Kilwhanity, 104.

enquiries was very extensive; he published some papers in the Philosophical Transactions, and Animadversions on Dr. Haweis' History of the Church of Christ, 8vo. 1800; &c.

At Brompton, in his 42nd year, Dr. Thomas Brown, professor of Moral Philosophy, in the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Brown has left few equals behind him in metaphysical acumen, and in the powers of analysis and generalization. As a poet, he is entitled to no small praise; but as a metaphysician, he dis. played more originality than any one of his contemporaries. Some of his friends were inclined to think that he carried his refinements and generalizations too far. In all the relations of domestic life, Dr. Brown was most exemplary.

Aged 15, Caroline, only daughter of the very Rev. Dr. Busby, Dean of Ro

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