forty men with two horses, to draw the machine up one side of the street, and down at the other, which is not only to sweep but to collect the dirt in heaps ready to carry away. Such is the state of the private trade to the East Indies, caused by the inauspicious markets, that a large vessel, the Lonach, has arrived in the Channel from Bombay, which she left on the 7th May, in ballast, finding it impossible to obtain any freight at that port, either for Europe or for China. BOTANY BAY.-Among the numerous shipments for the Colony of New South Wales are musical instruments of every de scription, particularly organs, for the newly-erected places of worship, and complete editions of the Messiah, and all the Sacred Oratorios and numerous publications of Choral Psalmody, the inhabitants being very desirous of promoting Divine harmony, Several sharks, about eight feet in length, have recently made their appearance on the Essex coast, a circumstance not remembered by the oldest seaman. There is a new method practised in Paris of joining mirrors so perfectly as to make the seam, or line of junction invisible. By this art mirrors may be extended to an im mense size, at a trifling cost. JULY UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, CLY 1. The following degrees were conferred: Bachelor and Doctor in Divinity.-The Rev. G. Richards, M.A. some time Fellow of Oriel College, and now one of the Vicars of Bampton, in the county of Oxford, Grand Compounder. Doctor in Civil Law.-Wm. Birkett Allen, Fellow of St. John's College, Masters of Arts.- Francis Bruen, Esq. of Christ Church, Grand Compounder; Rev. James Chambers, All Souls' College; Rev. Edw. Thos. Day Hulkes, Geo. Cobb, and Rev. Arthur Benoni Evans, of St. John's College; Rev. Thos Clarke, Brasennose College; Edw. Quin, Magdalen Hall. Bachelors of Arts.-H. Clopton Keogh, Esq. of Christ Church, Grand Compounder: James Worsley and Wm. Bury, Fellows of New College. JULY 3. Monday, Mr. Henry Arthur Woodgate and Mr. William Elliott Marsh, Scholars of St. John's College, were admitted Fellows of that Society. Thursday, Charles Pilkington was admitted Scholar of New College. Yesterday, the following Gentlemen were admitted to degrees :- Master of Arts.-The Rev. William Williams, All Souls' College. Bachelors of Arts.-John Wallis, Exeter College; Joseph Harling, and Henry Ayling, Magdalen Hall. JULY 15. Saturday, June 8, the last day of Act Term, the following degrees were conferred Master of Arts.-Rev. Stephen Hurt Langston, Fellow of Wadham College. Bachelor of Arts.-John Irving, of Worcester College. The whole number of degrees in Act Term was-D.D. five; D.C.L. one; D. Med. one; B D. five; B.C.L. two; B. Med. two; M.A. sixty-one; B.A. seventy-nine; Matriculations, eighty-two.---Regents of the Act: Doctors, 22; Masters, 163. No Prize adjudged to the Senior Bachelors. The Porson prize, for the best translation of a passage from Shakspeare into Greek verse, was on Monday last adjudged to Wm, Henry Fox Talbot, Scholar of Trinity College. The subject is from Macbeth, act I. Scene the last. The Dialogue between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, beginning with, “We will proceed no further," and ending with, “ What the false heart doth know." JULY 7. The Rev. C. J. Blomfield, of Trinity College was on Saturday created D.D. by royal mandate. On Monday, Henry W. Hyde, of Emmanuel College, was admitted B.C L.; and J. Spurgin, of Caius College, Bachelor in Physic. Yesterday the Rev. W. Palgrave Manclarke, of Jesus College, was admitted M.A.; and M. Prendergast, of Pembroke Hall, B.C.L. S. Pope, Esq. B.A. of Emmanuel College, was last week elected a Fellow of that Society. C. Smith, Esq. B.A. of St. Peter's College, was on Saturday last elected a foundation Fellow of that Society. On Tuesday last (being Commencement Day), the following Doctors and Masters of Arts were created: Doctors in Divinity.-The Rev. J. Inman, the Rev. T. Causton, the Rev. R. Roberts, of St. John's College; the Rev. Holt Okes, of C. C. College. Doctor in Civil Law.-G. Matcham, of St. John's College. Doctors in Physic.-F. Thackery, Esq. of Emmanuel College.; J. Walker, Esq. and J. Warburton, Esq. of Caius College. Masters of Arts.-G. Elwes Corrie, J. A. Bateman, Catharine Hall; Beaupre P. Bell; Owen Davys; T. Wilkinson, T. B. Proctor, D. B. Wells, G. J. Wyatt, Christ College; R. Dawes, Downing College; R. Whitcombe, J. Cooper, J. Guthrie, C. Townley; W. Hildyard, D. Hopkins, R. Butler, G. P. Buxton, J. Daintry, T. Polhill, E. J. Gambier, G. T. Andrews, R. B. Brocklebank, T. G. Hickman, E. Rice, H. J. Rose, E. Harden, D. Nantes, T. Starr, T. H. Hope, C. J. Heathcote, J. Brand, A. B. Wrightson, Trinity College; T. Chevallier, H. Blunt, O. Harvey, T. Jee, J. T. Wharton, R. Gibson, H. Sim, Pembroke Hall; C. R. Francis, E. Rust, T. T. Pattinson, T. Methwold, Caius College; J. Hatchard, W. C. Kendall, E. Vale, T. Steele, Magdalen College (incorp. Dublin); R. Waterfield, Mark Cantis, H. J. Oakes, W. H. W. Gery, R. Chester, J. Carnegie, J. Rawes, J. Burroughes, Emma nuel College; H. H. Hughes, E. C. Kemp, J. F. Roberts, N. Fiott, J. T. Austin, E. Ramsden, G. T. Rudd, R. K. Holder, J. Jones, J. H. Dent, L. B. Foster, L. Ripley, T. R. Brown, R. S. Hurst, G. Jenyns, A. Utterson, S. Martin, A. E. Douce, S. Titiow, F. Smirke, P. W. Yorke, E. Penryhn. T. Schreiber, J. T. Waddington, O. Grimston, H. Fardell, H. Luxmore, T. Margetts, J. Donne, E. Oldfield, St. John's College; N. Every, H. Kirby, T. T. Upwood, C. Paroissien, W. F. Protheroe, Clare Hall; S Brereton, W. Davidson, R. Gell, R. Davis, J. Bartlett, H. Barham, A. Burn, G. L. Yate, Queen's College; N. Cotton, D. Williams, Jesus College; W. Bond, Corpus Christi College; R. Clifton, E. T. Whinfield, St. Peter's College; N. J. Temple, E. Wade, Sydney Sussex College; G. B. Green, G. F. Nicholas, King's College. LA MARRIAGES. ATELY, at Birmingham, Mr. W. Hatton, of Halifax, local preacher in the Wesleyan Methodist connexion, to Mrs. Wrightson, of Birmingham, AUG. 24. Tobias Browne, of Kentish Town, to Ann Edgar, of the same place. 26. At Newcastle, James Moody, Esq. of Queen-square, London, to Miss Mary Priel, of New House, in the county of Glamorgan. Henry Joseph de Silva, Esq. of Devonshire-square, to Louisa, second daughter of Charles Pratt, Esq. of Lewisham-hill, Kent. 27. George Richards, Esq. to Miss Aylmer, only daughter of the late Thomas Aylmer, Esq. 28. Mr. George Augustus Goddard, of Upper Seymour-street, to Rebecca, daughter of Mr. Blount, of Uxbridge. Earl Poulett, to Miss Portman, only daughter of the Hon. Mrs. Portman. 29. Mr. Whitfield, of Lewes, Sussex, to Ann, second daughter of Mr. Norton, of Colebrook-row, Islington. 30. Henry Rush, Esq. of Heckfield, Hants, to Dame Elizabeth Dorothea Cope, widow of the late Sir Denzil Cope. Bart. 31. Thomas Green, Esq. of Slyne, to Henrietta, third daughter of the Right Hon. Sir Henry Russell, Bart. Michael Francis Gordon, of Dulwich Hill, Surrey, to Caroline, fifth daughter of the Rev. John Sweete, of Oxton House, Devon. SEPT. 2. William Kershaw, Esq. of London, to Louisa Charlotte Durand, youngest daughter of the Very Reverend the Dean of Guernsey. Mr. S. Hale, jun, to Miss Fanny Meyer. 3. Capt. Stevenson, of the 6th regiment Dragoon Guards, to Ann, only child of Wm. Palfrey Burrell, Esq. of Newcastleupon-Tyne. Benjamin Shaw, Esq. to Elizabeth Lowe, of Albion place, Blackfriars. 4. Rear-admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart, Letitia, the daughter of Sir William Burroughs, Bart. 5. Thomas Flower Ellis, jun. Esq. to to Susan, only daughter of the late John M'Taggart, Esq. of Ardwall, North Britain. Robert, Morris, Esq. of Batavia, to Eliza, second daughter of the late Samuel Hyslop, Esq. of Camberwell. 9. Mr. Augustus F. Little, of Mortimerstreet, to Jane, daughter of Robert Scratton, Esq. of Southend, Essex, Thomas Hudson, Esq. to Harriet, only daughter of George Bowyer, Esq. At Malvern, Edward Collingwood, Esq. of Dippington Hall, Northumberland, to Arabella, only child of General Calcraft. W. Teanby, Esq. of Old-street, Cityroad, to Miss Maria Fisher, of Berwickstreet, St. James's. II. At Ashton, Warwickshire, Mr. John Wood, of Bishopsgate-street, to Miss Kendrick, daughter of the late John Kendrick, Esq. of Maney House, Sutton Coldfield. 12. Wm. Brass, Esq. of Wood-street, Cheapside, to Mrs. Elizabeth Pentland, widow of the late Alexander Pentland, Esq. place, Southwark, to Mrs. Martha Prigg, of the Alfred's Head, London-road. 13. George Pocock, Esq. of the Middle Temple, to Frances, daughter of the late Charles Ashwell, Esq. of the island of Grenada. 14. Capt. Albert Goldsmid, of the 12th Royal Lancers, to Caroline, daughter of the late Daniel Birkett, Esq. Charles Ruggs, Esq. to Rebecca, third daughter of the Rev. John Simons, L. L. B. Mr. John King, of Great Tower-street, to Jessy, youngest daughter of Thomas Wick, Esq. of Kennington Green, Mr. Henry Wm. King, to Anne, eldest daughter of the late John Oxley, Esq. of Moorgate. Mr. Gilbert, of Hackney, to Eliza, daughter of William Rankin, Esq. of Lyons, Bocking, Essex. 16. W. H. Poland, Esq. of Islington, to Sophia, daughter of the late Rev. A. G. Poland. Mr. Charles Joseph Hurcombe, of St. Paul's church-yard, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Robert Carter, Esq. of Chig. well. 19. Mr. George Pearce, of Peckham Rye, to Elizabeth, third daughter of Apsley Pellortt, Esq. of the Terrace, Camberwell. Mr. Joseph Nash, to Jane Amelia, daughter of Robert Stevens, Esq. of Edmonton, 20. John Oswald, Esq. of St. Paul's, Deptford, to Martha, eldest daughter of Mr. Christopher Morris, of Belvidere- Joseph Carter, Esq. of the same place. MONTHLY ATELY, at Paris, William Thomas Landiford, Esq, formerly a Major on the Bombay Establishment, Aide-de-Camp to AUG. 16. At Wareham, of the typhus fever, Frances Mary, daughter of the Rev. George Hoston Hyde, aged 13. 18. At his house Gloucester-place, Mr. William Shaw. 21. At Brussels, Lieut.-General Sir Ewen Baillie, Bart, aged 77. At his house at Hendon, William Godwin, Esq. in his 75th year. 23. At Castlesemple-house, in his 67th year, John Harvey, Esq. of Castlesemple. The only son of Thomas Abbott, of Elyplace. 24. In the 97th year of her age, Mrs. Anna Gunsley Keating. 24. At Brant Broughton, Lincoln, the Rev. R. Sutton, Rector of that place. 26. At Park hill, near Croydon, Surry, in his 68th year, Mr. Paul Philip Barraud, of Cornhill, London, whose unblemished integrity, truly christian benevolence, and OBITUARY. conciliating manners, will live in the remembrance of all who had the happiness of his acquaintance. "Honour was bis theme, good will to men his study." 28. At Dulwich, Mrs. Ward, of Fishstreet-hill. Ann, wife of William Rabbath, Esq. of Bedford-street, Bedford-row. 29. At Teddington, Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Vanmorel. Mrs. Steel, wife of James Steel, Esq. of Calvert-street, aged 54. 30. At Old, Northamptonshire, Mrs. Barclay Allardice, wife of Robert Barclay Allardice, Esq. of Ury, Kincardineshire. 31. The Very Rev. William Beaumont Busby, D.D. Dean of Rochester. In Bernard-street, James Wight, Esq. aged 22. At Kentish Town, Major Edward Watkins, of his Majesty's 65th Regiment. In Highbury-place, Mrs. Hog, in the 66th year of her age. At his house Coker-court, Somerset, William Helyar, Esq. SEPT. 1. Thomas Stratton Coles, Esq. of Basinghall-street, At Castle Carey, Somersetshire, John Peyto Verney Lord Willoughby de Broke, aged 59. Mr. Alexander Silver, late of Kenning ton, in the 24th year of his age. 3. At Hastings, in his 72nd year, Joseph Delafield, Esq. of Camden-hill, Kensington. la Montague-square, Margaret Selin Paterson, daughter of John Paterson, Esq. Frances, the wife of the Rev. James Tripp. At Fulham Palace, George Gordon Howley, youngest son of the Bishop of London. Mary Jane, the wife of Mr. Henry Bloxam, of Aldersgate-street. 4 Suddenly, at Peckham Lodge, Timothy Brown, Esq. In his 12th year, Alfred, the fourth son of J. R. Farne, M.D. of Charter-housesquare. 5. At Walford, Herts, Mrs. Ann Masters. Mrs. Jesser, aged 83. Sir Edmund Bacon, Harriet, the wife of Robert Brown, Esq. At Brighton, Harriet Mills, only daughter of E. J. Mills, Esq. 6. James Ferguson, Esq. of Pitfour, M.P. At Leatherhead, in the 74th year of her age, the Hon. Charlotte Beauclerk. 7. At Margate, aged 37, Ann Sarah, wife of Mr. George Barber. At Hampstead, aged 17, Frances Ann Spry, second daughter of Mr. Spry, Surgeon, of Charter-house-square. 8. Mr. Rae, of Drury Lane Theatre, in the 39th year of his age. See page 257. Mr. John Palmer, of Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square. Mr. Samuel Richardson, aged 31. Thomas Wynn Williams, aged 33. 9. Sarah, wife of Mr. John Bell, of Frith-street, Soho. James Young, Esq. of West Hill, Battersea Rise, in his 86th year. John Holmes, Esq. aged 72. 10. In his 80th year, John Quantock, Esq. one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, and a Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Sussex, At Hampstead, Lewis Forrester, Esq. aged 47. William Goodall, Esq. of Tottenham. At Youghall, Gurney Barclay, Esq. of Tavistock-street. 11. Rear admiral Sir Home Briggs Pop. ham. He had but recently returned from his command on the Jamaica station, where he lost his daughter and his health. Few men had seen more service, or displayed more talent. He rose entirely by his merit. This gallant Officer was born in Ireland about the year 1762. His father had a numerous family; and, his means being slender, the boys were obliged to seek their fortune in different parts of the globe. Sir Home, who was a younger son, entered the British Navy as a Midshipman, During the American War he attained the rank of Lieutenant. On the return of peace he visited his eldest brother, Major, now General Popham, in India, and having evinced a genius for nautical topography, he was appointed, at the special recommendation of Lord Cornwallis, one of a Committee sent in 1778 to survey New Harbour, in the river Hoogly. He also appears in 1791 to have commanded a country ship. He was afterwards appointed to the command of the Etrusco, an Imperial East Indiaman, which was seised, on her return from Bengal to Ostend, by an English frigate as a prize, on the ground that a considerable portion of the property on board belonged to British subjects. The French Revolution soon afforded an opportunity of again restoring him to his profession, and opening a new road to fame and fortune. The communication between the Duke of York and Nimeguen, when that place was besieged by Pichegru, in 1794, having been cut off, Lieut. Popham proceeded thither from Ostend, and repaired the damage, and thus protracted the fate of the town. For this service he was rewarded in 1795 with the rank first of Master and Commander, and then of a Post Captain in the British Navy. In that year he acted as Naval Agent for the British Transports on the Continent, and under his inspection the British troops which had been serving in Holland, were embarked and escorted to England by the Dædalus and Amphion frigates. In 1798 an armament was prepared in Margate Roads, which sailed under his command on the 14th of May, and appeared off Ostend on the 19th. The troops, under the command of Major-General Coote, having made a descent blew up the sluice gates, but the roughness of the sea prevented them from re-embarking, and they were forced to capitulate. He was next sent to Russia in the Nile frigate, to the Emperor Paul, who had evinced a disposition to join in an attempt to drive the French out of Holland. On this occasion he was to superintend the embarkation of Russian troops in quality of British Commissary. In 1800 he sailed for the East Indies with a small squadron, including the Romney, fifty guns, and three other frigates; and after performing various and valuable services, he returned in the Romney in 1803. In 1802 Sir Home was returned for the borough of Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight. But his own conduct was threatened with Parliamentary inquiry; the Hon. Charles, now Lord Kinnaird, gave notice of his intention to move for a Committee to inquire into the charges adduced in the Report of the Navy Board. An imprest was laid on his pay and half-pay, and the charges *For Portrait and Memoir, vide Oct. respecting the expenses of the Romney 1815, Vol. LXVIII. were to be laid before the Commissioners of Inquiry into Naval Abuses. A sudden change of Administration released him from this danger, and brought him into employment. Through the patronage of Lord Melville he was appointed to the command of the Antelope. He was afterwards appointed to the superintendence of a scheme for destroying a fleet by means uever before heard of. The experiment was Judicrously termed the Catamaran Expedi tion; aad two vessels were very effectually destroyed by it off Boulogne, in 1804. An attack on a larger scale was afterwards attempted at Fort Rouge, which disappointed public expectation. The Select Committee appointed to investigate the charges before mentioned, made two Reports, which wholly acquittted him. The next services which brought this enterprising Officer before the public are sufficiently known to relieve us from the necessity of detailing them. His reputation, though clouded for a while by suspicions of mismanagement with regard to stores and repairs (we allude to his adventures in the river Plate, and their consequences) was happily cleared to the gratification of the public no less than himself. Sir Home lately accepted the command of the West India station. The appointment, in fact, equal to a second acquittal in regard to the vast sums which he was accused of having embezzled under charges for repairs and stores, that commaud having been generally bestowed for the purpose of repairing the indigence which enterprising Commanders might have incurred in the course of long services. We have little room for it, or we might specify more particularly some of the many advantages derived to the service from his skill and zeal. The organisation of Sea and River Fencibles has been mentioned already. His telegraphic improvements were no less conspicuous for professional ability and excellence. Perhaps Sir Home has not left one Officer behind of his own age who has seen more service, or been employed in more important affairs, of 11. Jane, eldest daughter of Mr. Proctor, Compton-terrace, Islington. 12. At Kentish Town, Thomas Layton, Esq. in the 85th year of his age. In Grosvenor-square, Richard Thompson, Esq. of Eserick, Yorkshire. 13. At Southampton, Sir Francis Holburne, Bart. 14. Frances, the wife of William Vowler, Esq. At Major General Barton's, Montagueplace, Montague-square, the Right Hoo. Lady Massey. 15. In the 79th year of her age, Mary, wife of Mr. John Henderson, of Belgrave, place, Pimlico. Mr. Joshua Gregory, of Cripplegate. 16. At Hoxton, W. F. Eld, Esq. At Edmouton, the Rev. William Shaw, aged 68. 17. In Harley-street, Philip Cipriani, Esq. one of the Chief Clerks of the Trea sury. He was the eldest son of the cele brated artist, whose works are characterized by grace, elegance, and beauty. This gentlemen preserved an hereditary taste for the Fine Arts, as well as for musical excellence. At Shiprods near Henfield, Sussex, in his 73d year, Joseph Holden, Esq. In Doughty-street, Mrs. Richardson, aged 78. 18. Aged 20, Maria, eldest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Povah, of Burton Crescent, At Buckenham, in the 85th year of his age, Mr. John Boosey, formerly of Kingstreet, Cheapside. At Tunbridge Wells, Robert Butcher, Esq. Mrs. Margaret Tyers Fry, wife of Henry Sampson Fry, Esq. of Hampton Bishop, in the County of Hereford. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO CORRESPONDENTS. WBritannicus, entitled, " INNOCENT WE cannot insert the letter sent us by OR GUILTY," because (we speak indifferently) the ends of justice can never be answered by rash and intemperate appeals. At the same time we cordially reciprocate his concluding sentiment, answering to the observation of lago, "Good name, in man or woman, dear, my Lord, Is the immediate jewel of our souls. Who steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name, Robs me of that, which not enriches him, And makes me pour indeed." |