set was born on the 19th December 1776, the fourth son of Henry fifth Duke of Beaufort, K.G. by Elizabeth daughter of Adm. the Hon. Edward Boscawen. He was appointed Lieut.-Col. in the 5th regt. of Foot, from whence he effected an exchange in the following year into the 4th Dragoons. In April 1809, he embarked for Portugal in command of that regiment, and continued to serve under the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula, until the conclusion of the war; he was present at the battles of Talavera, Busaco, Salamanca, Vittoria, the Pyrenees, Orthes, Toulouse, and other actions of less importance. At Salamanca, the 4th Dragoons, under his command, in conjunction with the 5th Drag. guards, and the 3rd Dragoons, forming the heavy brigade under the late Major-Gen. Le Marchant, made a brilliant and successful attack on a strong body of the enemy's infantry, which was completely defeated with great loss. On this occa sion, two pieces of artillery, and nearly 2,000 prisoners, were captured by the brigade. In July 1810 Lord Edward was appointed Aide-de-camp to the King; and in June, 1813, being promoted to the rank of Major-Gen., received the command of the Hussar brigade, consisting of the 7th, 10th and 15th Hussars, with which he was actively employed in the advance of the army into France in the campaign of 1814. At the battle of Orthes, the Hussar brigade made a successful attack, and captured many prisoners from the enemy in his retreat. For his conduct on these occasions, his Lordship received the thanks of Parliament on his return to England in 1814, was decorated with a cross and one clasp, and appointed a Knight Commander of the Bath, on the enlargement of that Order in January 1815. He also received permission to accept the foreign decorations of the third class of Mariacuirassiers. After the conclusion of peace in 1815, Lord Edward Somerset continued to command the 1st brigade of cavalry in the army of occupation in France; and on the 15th of January 1818, was appointed Col. of the 21st regiment of Light Dragoons. In March, 1836, he was removed from the Colonelcy of the Royal Dragoons to his old regi ment, the 4th Light Dragoons, which he bad commanded in the earlier part of his career in Spain and Portugal.

Lord Edward was frequently employed upon the staff. The last appointment which he held was that of Inspecting General of Cavalry, which the rules of the service compelled him to relinquish upon his promotion to the rank of Lieut.-Gen. He was made Lieut.-Gen. May 27th, 1825; Gen. November 23rd, 1841 and was raised te the grade of a Grand Cross of the Bath, in 1834. His Lordship married October 17th, 1805, the Hon. Louisa Augusta Courtenay, twelfth daughter of William second Viscount Courtenay; and by that lady, who died February 9th, 1823, he had issue five daughters, of whom the second was married in 1840 to Theophilus Clive, esq. and three sons, of whom two are surviving.

3. At Kirby Knowle, the Rev. James Serjeantson, M.A., forty-six years Rector of Kirby Knowle-cum-Bagby.

4. Rev. R. B. Podmore, of Pailton House, Warwickshire, in his 81st year.

8. At Peterborough, aged 86, the Ven. William Strong, D.D., Archdeacon of Northampton, Canon of Peterborough, Rector of Bolingbroke, and Vicar of Billinghay, Lincolnshire, and Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

9. Aged 17, J. Lloyd, second son of the Rev. J. Lloyd Rector of Aughrim union, co. Roscommon; and aged 24, Robert M. Day, second son of Mr. Day, barrister. They were drowned by the upsetting of a small boat while on a pleasure excursion in the harbour of Cove.

12. Of tetanus, brought on by a fall from a pony, at Chapelthorpe Hall, near Wakefield, William Charles Chapple, youngest son of the Hon. Geo. Chapple Norton, of Kettlethorpe Hall, Wakefield, in his 10th year.

14. At his seat in co. Carlow, Walter Blakeney, esq., a Dep.-Lieut. and formerly M.P. for that co. Mr. Blakeney represented Carlow on the liberal interest, in two Parliaments, from 1832 to 1835, when he retired to make way for Mr. M. O'Connell. Mr. Blakeney who was much admired in private life, has left a widow and large family to deplore his loss. He died after an illness of less than five minutes, and an inquest was held upon his body, when a verdict was brought in that he died by the visitation of God.

15. Robert Neville, esq. High Sheriff of the co. Kilkenny.

16. At Hook Hall, Yorkshire, aged

58, the Rev. James Simpson, Vicar of Swinesfleet.

At the House of his nephew, Mr. Maziere, in Delgany, co. Wicklow, Wm. Curry, esq. one of the Masters in Chancery in Ireland, and formerly M.P. for Armagh. He was born Aug. 16, 1784, the only son of William Curry, esq. He was elected to Parliament for Armagh on the liberal interest in 1837, after a contest, but vacated his seat in May 1840, on accepting the office of a Master in Chancery. Mr. Curry was much esteemed by the bar and the public generally, for his excellent character, both private and professional. To the solicitors, as a body, he gave the most perfect satisfaction, by his industry and talent in his office, from the period of his appointment to the last moment of his attendance.

17. At Strathpeffer, near Dingwall, Ross-shire, of scarlet-fever, Catherine, wife of Charles Edwards, esq., of Darcey, third daughter of John Waterhouse, esq., of Well Head, in her 28th year; and on the 19th, her husband, Charles Edwards, eldest surviving son of Henry Lees Edwards, esq., of Pye Nest, Halifax, Yorkshire, in his 33rd year.

18. At Cambridge, aged 79, the Rev. Charles William Burrell, senior Fellow and President of St. Catharine's Hall.

19. At Bristol, aged 73, the Rev. John Emra, Vicar of St. George's Bristol.

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In Duke-street, St. James's, Capt. Edward Reynolds Sibly, R.N.

20. At Duntsbourn Abbat's Gloucestershire, aged 77, the Rev. Charles Mesman, Rector of that parish.

22. At Kingsdown, near Bristol, aged 62, the Rev. John Ward, Rector of Compton Greenfield, Gloucestershire.

23. Aged 40, Charles Hampden Turner, jun. esq., of Lee-place, Godstone, son of Chas. H. Turner, esq., of Rook's Nest. He was found near his residence, quite dead from the effects of a gunshot wound in the head, which he was supposed to have accidentally received while resting on his gun.

At Dublin, aged 53, the Right Hon. Henry Roper Curzon, fifteenth Lord Teynham (1616). His Lordship was the eldest son of Henry Francis, fourteenth Lord Teynham, by his first wife Bridget, eldest daughter and coheiress of Thomas Hawkins, of Nash Court, co. Kent, esq. He succeeded to the peerage on the death of his father, on the 8th of March last,

At Six-mile-bottom, near Newmarket, aged 96, Mr. Charles Wedge. He was long engaged in various public works, and commissioner for the inclosure of many parishes in Cambridgeshire and adjoining counties, and the extensive drainage of the fens in the neighbourhood of Boston, in the county of Lincoln; and he was the first, by his example, to lead to the improvement of the barren heaths of Cambridgeshire.

24. At the residence of the British Consul at Adalia, in Syria, of brain fever, in the prime of life, the Rev. Edward Thomas Daniell, M.A., of Balliol College, Oxford, late Reader at St. Mark's Chapel, Grosvenor-square.

At Colleton Estate, Barbadoes, aged 26, the Rev. Samuel William Hinkson, late Curate of Farthinghoe, Northamptonshire.

At his house, Bonair, St. Martin's, Guernsey, in his 80th year, Daniel De Lisle Brock, esq., Bailiff of that island. 25. At Portobello, near Edinburgh, Sir James Spittal.

The Rev. Jonathan Skelton Gibson, Curate of Billingham, Durham, formerly of Trinity College, Cambridge, B. D. He committed suicide by hanging himself from an appletree; an act attributed to insanity brought on by severe study. He had preached twice the same day. He was an accomplished classical scholar, and an excellent linguist, and has left a valuable library.

At Kingston House, Knightsbridge, aged 82, the Most Hon. Richard Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley of Norragh (1799), second Earl of Mornington, Viscount Wellesley of Dengan Castle (1760), and Baron Mornington of Mornington, co. Meath (1746); Baron Wellesley of Wellesley, co. Somerset (1797), K.G., Knight of the Crescent, and of the Lion and Sun, a Privy Coun cillor, Custos Rotulorum of the County of Meath, and D.C.L. The Marquess Wellesley was born in Grafton-street, Dublin, on the 20th June, 1760, the eldest child of Garrett, first Earl of Mornington, by the Hon. Anne Hill Trevor, eldest daughter of Arthur, first Viscount Dungannon. Viscount Wellesley, as he was then called, was at an early age placed at the most celebrated of English schools, Eton College; and in due time, transferred to the University of Oxford. At both those great seats of learning, the embryo statesman

viction, that his true interests would be promoted by an alliance with the Directory of France. This being evident to the Governor-general, he determined to strike an immediate blow, and the army, under General (afterwards Lord Harris), was ordered to invest Seringapatam. The siege lasted a month; the town was taken by assault; the Sultan slain, and his dominions partitioned. The Governor-General was immediately raised a step in the Irish Peerage, when he received the title of Marquess Wellesley. It need hardly be stated, that these memorable results could never have been accomplished, if prodigious exertions had not been made by the Indian government in organising Native, and improving British troops.

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capture of Seringapatam, which had been preceded by the victory achieved at Mallavelly, added at once to the renown of the army, and the anxieties of the Governor-General; but the wisdom of his policy has been as fully recognised as the influence of his success has been extensively experienced. After some deliberation, he justly determined upon restoring the ancient Hindoo race of Sovereigns, the representative of whom was then a child of five years old. A partition of the territory being made, the capital, with the districts on the coast, including the port of Mangalore, was assigned to the East India Company. Compensation was made to some native allies; and the remaining portion of Tippoo's territory was granted to the native Rajah with nominal sovereignty over the whole. So complete was this series of victories, that General Wellesley (Duke of Wellington), in one of his dispatches written at that period, and recently published by Colonel Gurwood, says, that he "only waits to know what countries they are which the Governor-General wishes to take possession of," as if all Asia had quailed under his triumphant dominion. The next efforts of the Noble Marquess were directed to the important objects of enlarging commercial intercourse between India and Europe; in this, however, the naturally jealous spirit of the East India Company opposed itself to his liberal designs, and the attempt was but partially successful. In no respect cooled by this disappointment, he applied himself with untiring energy to the duties of his station, making a viceregal progress through the northern

provinces of India, visiting the Nabobs and native Princes, in the full splendour of Asiatic magnificence, redressing grievances, creating friends and allies, repressing open or concealed enemies, and laying upon a broad basis the foundations of an empire which the potentates of Europe regard with envy, and to which our remotest posterity will look back with astonishment and admiration. In 1801 the Governor-General despatched a considerable force up the Red Sea, to assist in wresting Egypt from the power of the French. He next turned the British arms against the Mahrattas, and, after a sharp struggle, conquered the whole country between the Jumma and the Ganges, compelling Scindiah and the Rajah of Berar to make peace. On these events followed the splendid victory obtained by Major-General Wellesley and the troops under his command at Assaye; and finally, the battle of Lassawarree-which terminated a war not less remarkable for the prudence and wisdom with which it was directed, than for the military achievements by which it was brought to a successful issue. After six or seven years of service in the East, Lord Wellesley naturally became desirous of returning to England; but his services were of such importance in India, that even a change in the Administration at home was not followed by his recall. In consequence of his financial plans, the reve. nue of the Company had been raised from seven millions to upwards of fifteen millions annually, with advantage to commerce, and without injustice to the inhabitants. In the year 1805 he was, at his own request, recalled from the Government of India, and, as might be expected, everything was done in this country by the East India Company, and by the Ministers of the Crown, to mark the deep sense which they enter tained of his splendid services. Nevertheless there were those who thought that his administration had been enor mously expensive, not to say extravagant, and that he was guilty of great injustice to the native powers, particularly to the Nabob of Oude. By his accusers it was forgotten, that the critical circumstances of the time compelled a vast expenditure, and that his conduct towards the Indian princes was justi. fied by their persevering hostility; yet in those days there was a Member of the House of Commons, a Mr. Paull,