DEATHS in the Year 1817. January. On the first of this month died at Berlin the celebrated chemist M. Klaproth. 4. Died in his 77th year Sir Arthur Owen, bart. late adjutantgeneral in the East Indies, and a colonel in the army. 13. Aged above 70, George Harriot, Esq. one of the magistrates of the Thames Police Office. The circumstance of his putting a close to a life of extreme agony is mentioned in our Chronicle. 26. In Grosvenor-place, Curoline Dowager Countess of Buckinghamshire, daughter of William Conolly, Esq. Her ladyship had three sons, all now dead, and one daughter, the present Viscountess Castlereagh. 27. At Bath, in her 85th year, Mrs. Philips, relict of Frederick Philips, Esq. and mother of Lady Strangford. 29. At Blenheim, George the third Duke of Marlborough, aged 78. He married in 1762 Lady Caroline Russell, daughter of John Duke of Bedford, who died in 1811. He lived chiefly as a private nobleman; and after having passed through the offices of Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Oxford, Lord Chamberlain of the Household, and Lord Privy Seal, to which was annexed the Order of the Garter, he quitted public life, and devoted his days to the duties of a private station. His Grace was succeeded by his eldest son, the Marquis of Blandford, who married the daughter of the Earl of Galloway. At Florence Court, Fermanagh, the Countess of Enniskillen, daughter of the late Earl of Uxbridge. At Pisa, the Rt. Hon. Francis North, Earl of Guildford, second son of Frederick Earl of Guildford. He was born in 1761, and succeeded his brother George Augustus in 1802. He married Maria, sixth daughter of the late Thomas Boycott, Esq. of Shropshire. This nobleman inherited the kindness and benevolence of his father, and was distinguished by a brilliancy of wit, seasoned by the most exhilarating cheerfulness. February. 2. General Carleton, aged 85, colonel of the 2d battalion 60th foot, and great uncle to the present Lord Dorchester. 3. At Cambridge, in his 72d year, Sir Isaac Pennington, knt. M.D. and Regius Professor of Physic. 6. The Rt. Hon. Catharine Anne, Lady Glenbervie, eldest daughter of Frederick Earl of Guildford, and sister to the late earl. At Paris, Lady Penelope Shuttleworth Brooke, wife of Sir Joseph Brooke. At Paris, Col. W. Fenwick, commanding engineer at Portsmouth. At Rufford Hall, Lancashire, the Lady of Sir Thomas Dalrymple Hesketh, bart. 8. At Pisa, in Italy, where he he had gone in the hope of improving his health, Francis Horner, Esq. M. P. He was educated at the high school and the university of Edinburgh, where he pursued his studies with unremitting attention; and he was first called to the Scotch bar, and afterwards to that of England. He was first brought into parliament by Lord Henry Petty (since Marquis of Lansdown) his former fellow student; and he afterwards sat in three parliaments: his last seat that of St. Mawes, in Cornwall. After resigning his first employment in the state, that of commissioner for the liquidation of the Carnatic claims, which he might still have retained, he entered the lists as an able debater; and by strict integrity of conduct he fixed a high reputation, even among those members who did not concur with him in his principles. With a strong understand ing, extensive and accurate knowledge, a style of eloquence plain and direct, without a particle of vanity or presumption, he bid fair to attain eminence as a public character, when he was carried off by the merciless inroads of a consumption. In her 89th year, the Dowager Lady Carew. 11. Sir John Palmer, bart. aged 82, who was long a representative in parliament for the county of Leicester, and was distinguished for his faithful discharge of duty in every relation of life. George William Evelyn, Earl of Rothes, one of the sixteen peers of Scotland, and colonel of the Surrey yeomanry. the Hon Sir John Abercromby, M.P. and colonel of the 53d foot. 14. The Hon. Euphemia Stewart, widow of William S. Esq. and sister of the late Earl of Seaforth. 15. Near Dublin, Rear-Admiral Sir Digby Dent. 18. At Ugbrooke Park, the Hon. Robert Clifford, third son of Hugh Lord Clifford. 24. At Hampton-court palace, Lady Henrietta Cecilia Johnston, widow of Lieut.-Col. James J. and daughter of John the first Earl of Delawar. March. 9. In her 75th year, Jane, Countess of Uxbridge, married to the late Earl of Uxbridge in 1767. She was mother to the present Marquis of Anglesey. 13. At Ipswich, Sir William Innes, bart, who was a volunteer in the Life Guards of George II. at the battle of Dettingen, and is supposed to have reached his hundredth year. 18. Charles Combe, M. D. F.R.S. and S. A. aged 74. He was early engaged in the study of the medalic science, which introduced him to the acquaintance of Dr.William Hunter, who had made a large and valuable collection of medals. Of those, two publications were made by Dr. Combe, who planned the finishing of the whole, when the death of Dr. Hunter put an end to the design. He afterwards undertook, in conjunction with the Rev. Henry Homer, a Variorum edition of Horace, which, after the death of the former, he brought through the press in 1793 The 14. At Marseilles, Lieut.-gen. principal line of the profession fol lowed lowed by Dr. Combe was that of midwifery, in which he obtained considerable success. 31. Right Hon. Lady Francis Douglas, wife of Hon. John D. April. 3. In his 18th year, the Hon. James Stanley, son of the Earl and Countess of Derby. 7. In Ireland Lady Sarah Price, wife to Sir Nicholas P. and sister of the Marquis Camden. 10. Lady Curtis, relict of the late Adm. Sir Roger Curtis, bart. 11. In his 60th year, the Rev. William Beloe, rector of Allhallows, London Wall, &c. and the author of numerous works, of which the principal was a translation of He rodotus. He was also joint proprietor with Mr. Nares, of the British Critick. 15. At Bath, in his 73d year, Right Hon. Sir A. Thomson, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Exchequer. 18. The Right Hon. Thomas Carmichael, Earl of Hyndford, in his 60th year. 24. In his 77th year, Sir Thomas Maynard Hesilrige bart. 28. In Berners Street, in his 61st year, Sir Jacob Henry Astley, bart. many years M. P. for Norfolk. May. 1. Right Hon. Lady Edward O'Bryen, at Clifton, near Bristol. At Aston Hall, Yorksh. Right Hon. Lady Mary Foljambe, relict of Francis Ferrand F. Esq. and sister to the present Earl of Scarborough. 16. At Bath, The Right Hon. Charlotte Newcomen, Viscountess wife to Lieut.-Gen. Sir H. Cosby. 24. At Clifton, Lady Cosby, 27. At Great Melton Hall, Norfolk, aged 86, Sir John Lombe, bart. 29. In Grosvenor Square, the Countess Dowager of Leitrim. Saunders, M.D. F. R. S. & F.S.A. At Enfield, aged 74, William senior physician to Guy's Hospublished by this respectable pracpital. The professional treatises titioner were the following: Treatise on Mercury in Venereal Cases; An Answer to Geach and Alcock on the Devonshire Colic; Observationes de Antimonio; A Treatise on the Red Peruvian Bark; A Treatise on the Mephitic Acid; Diseases of the Liver; Oratio HarOn the Structure, Economy, and vei, Instituto habita in Theatro Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis; On the Chemical Hisof the most celebrated Mineral tory and Medical Powers of some Waters, with Practical Remarks on Aqueous Regimen, to which are added Observations on the Use of Cold and Warm Bathing; On the Hepatitis of India. June. 13. At Edgeworth's Town, Ireland, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. aged 74. He was formerly a mem a member of the Irish Parliament, Commons, and was called to the in which he distinguished himself by a warm attachment to the interests of Ireland, and a zealous opposition to what he regarded as the abuses of the administration. He employed his leisure time in perfecting several mechanical inventions, and in reducing to a science the construction of wheel carriages and roads; and he was likewise the author of many valuable papers in the transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, and other Dublin societies. He also wrote several occasional pieces in different branches of literature; and took much pleasure in cultivating the genius of his admirable daughter, Miss Edgeworth, whom he joined in some of her compositions. Mr. Edgeworth was married a fourth time, and left his wife a widow with a young family. 16. At Knowsley, Right Hon. Lady Stanley. 27. Lady Suttie, wife of Sir James Suttie, Bart. 30. At Dover, the Rev. John Lyon, Minister of St. Mary the Virgin in Dover, who distinguish ed himself by his writings on the subject of Electricity, in which he became a strenuous advocate for the permeability of glass to electricity. He also composed a History of Dover, with a short account of the Cinque Ports. . bar of that country in 1780. From the Rockingham administration he obtained the lucrative office in, 1782, of first counsel to the Commissioners of the Revenue; and he was soon after introduced to the Irish Parliament, but did not attempt to distinguish himself there till he was removed from his office in 1788 by the Marquis of Buckingham, Lord Lieutenant. Mr. Ponsonby then acted with vigour in the opposition, till the accession of his friends to power raised him to the dignity of Chancellor of Ireland in 1806. This post he again lost on the removal of himself and his friends from the administration; and from that time he has been considered as a leader of opposition in the House of Commons. His language and manners were those of a gentleman; and disdaining a flowery or figurative diction, he only aimed at stating arguments fully and forcibly, in which he often succeeded: He was married in 1781 to Lady Mary Butler, eldest daughter of the second Earl of Belvedere, by whom he left several children. 9. At Brighton, in her 87th year, Lady Ann Murray, sister to the late Earl of Mansfield. 10. At Northumberland House, in his 75th year, Hugh, Duke of Northumberland. His Grace suc At Dresden, Werner, the cele- ceeded his father Hugh, the late brated mineralogist. July. 8. In his 63d year, the Right Hon. George Ponsonby, M. P. for Wicklow. He, was second son to the Speaker of the Irish House of VOL. LIX. Duke, 1786. He married in 1762 Lady Ann Stuart, third daughter of John Earl of Bute, by whom he had no issue, and the marriage was dissolved by act of Parliament in 1779. In the same year he married Frances Julia Burrell, third daughter of Peter L Burrell, |