INCIDENTS, PROMOTIONS, BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS, &c. IN LONDON AND MIDDLESEX; With Biographical Accounts of Distinguished Characters. Bulletin of the King's Health. -"His Majesty has passed last month in an uniform state of tranquillity, but his Majesty's disorder continues unaltered." (April 1.) March 30, a most daring attempt was made to steal the crown, in the jewel office, in the Tower, by a woman, meanly dressed, who, under pretext of viewing the regalia, gained admittance, and seized the diadem, by thrusting her arm through the iron bars placed for security. The attempt was, how ever, rendered futile by the circumstance of the crown being much too large to be forced through them, and though it was much bruised by the violence of the grasp, yet none of the jewels were lost. An alarm was instantly given, and the offender secured. She proved to be a milk woman of the name of Margaret Moore, residing in Union-street, Apollo-gardens, and when examined before the magistrates, at Lambeth police office, she assigned as a reason for her conduct, that she thought it a pity so valuable a thing should remain there while half the nation were starving for want of bread. She wished, therefore, to take the whole of what was there, and give it to the poor!" A number of respectable persons came forward, to prove the insanity of the prisoner, on her third examination, and she was immediately discharged. On the 7th of April, Wm. Sawyer was indicted at the Old Bailey sessions, for the wilful murder of Harriet Gaskett, at Lisbon, by shooting her through the head, on the 17th of April, 1814. The prisoner was in the commissariat department of the British army, and the circumstances were of a most singular nature. The deceased went out to Portugal in the month of February, 1814, and lived with an officer in the same department with the prisoner. The latter was also a resident at their house at Campo Major, near Lisbon. An attachment grew up between the deceased and the prisoner, which was the cause of jealousy to his bro ther officer. On the 17th of April, they met at dinner with two or three other officers. Harriet and the prisoner appeared much dejected, and ate nothing. The prisoner particularly appeared in a state of great mental dejection. Towards the evening, he and the deceased walked together in the garden, and the reports of three pistols were heard. On going into the garden, the prisoner and the deceased were both lying on the ground. Harriett Gaskett was quite dead, but the prisoner was not. removed into the house, and soon recovered strength; be then cut his throat, but not fatally. The next day his brother officers He was met, and reduced into writing the statement of the facts, and it was read to the prisoner, who signed it. They collected the facts from report in the neighbourhood, and from what they understood to have passed, They said the prisoner appeared calm and col lected, and understood what was read to him, except one witness, who said, it appeared to him that the prisoner was wholly indifferent to live, and he believed would have signed any thing which had been presented to him. The written statements were then read, in which the prisoner acknowledged he had a criminal intercourse with Harriet Gaskett; that she had promised to live with him, but that her former protector discovering this arrangement, he had made her premise not to live with him, but she added she would die with him. That having made up their minds to die together, they went into the garden, when she drank half a bottle of laudanum, and he took the remainder; that he then at her request shot her through the head, and discharged two other pistols against his own; and that these not succeed. ing, he afterwards cut his throat.-This was the substance of the evidence against him.In his defence, he put in a written paper, in which he stated, he was unable to articu late from the wound in his throat, but that all he remembered of the transaction was, that being in great and extreme agitation of mind, he only recollected being in the gar den, where Harriett had declared she would kill herself, and desired him to die with her. When he convalesced from his wounds, he was told that he had signed some papers, but he had no recollection how, or when he had done it. A great number of officers, some of high rank, spoke most highly of him, as a good tempered and humane capitulated the evidence, the jury retired for young man. The learned judge having re nearly two hours, and then returned a ver dict of Guilty; but strongly recommended him to mercy, as there was no evidence of malice prepense.-Judgment was respited on certain points of law, reserved to be af gued next term. On the 8th, James Ripley, butler to the Hon. F. Robinson, and three soldiers of the 3rd regt. of guards, were indicted for the wilful murder of Jane Watson, who was mortally wounded before Mr. Robinson's house in Old Burlington-street, on the 7th of March, during the riots. After the exa mination of the witnesses in behalf of the spare any farther trouble, and immediately prosecution, the jury expressed their wish to acquitted all the prisoners. On the 11th, in the same court, Eliza 1815.] Incidents in and near London-Appointments. beth Fenning, lately cook to Messrs Turner, law-stationers, of Chancery-lane, was tried on a charge of administering poison to them and to Mrs. Turner, jun., who was far advanced in pregnancy. It appeared that the prisoner had been in the family about seven weeks, and that her mistress not approving of her conduct had given her warning, but on promises of future good behaviour had agreed to continue her in her service. She had, however, subsequently, observed to the housemaid, that she never should like Mr. and Mrs. Turner, jun., any more. On the 20th of March last she made some dumplings for dinner, of which the family partook; but being almost immediately seized with the most violent sickness, medical aid was obtained, and proper antidotes were successfully administered. The better to skreen herself from suspicion, the prisoner had taken so much of the dumplings as to be slightly affected also. On examining the dish in which they had been mixed, a small quantity of arsenic was discovered, and it was recollected that a paper of that deleterious matter, kept in a drawer to which the prisoner had daily access, had been missing for a fortnight. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty-Death. April 14, a tailor of the name of Waghorn, residing in Roll's-buildings, FetterJane, in a fit of madness, cut the throat of his wife, and afterwards his own, so effectually, that both died in a few minutes. Three children, of tender age, are by this dreadful circumstance left orphans. The little innocents were on the point of falling a sacrifice also, but were rescued by the interference of some of the neighbours. A subscription has been opened by some of their benevolent neighbours for the purpose of providing for them. It is not generally known to the public, that among the numerous institutions of the English Metropolis, there is one expressly devoted to mitigate the calamitics of AuTHORS. This, called the LITERARY FUND, was commenced and founded by Mr. David Williams, who is now nearly so years of age, and who has exerted incessant zeal and assiduity in establishing this very laudable plan. Since its commencement, many deserving objects, both male and female, have obtained pecuniary assistance from this fund and it is a just tribute to its committees to assert, that humanity, secresy, and liberality have always influenced their decisions. It is however a notorious fact, that several cases of real distress have occurred, when the funds of the society have proved inadequate to the wishe- of such committees, and to the claims of the parties. Admitting that "Mercy is mightiest in the mightiest, and blesseth him that gives and him that takes;" we shall find it most proudly and honourably employed in administering to the wants, and mitigating the sufferings of 371 the Sons and Daughters of Genius. Many of these with the most honourable hearts, and keenest sensibilities, are now pining in obscurity; are struggling to appear respectable in society, but in want of food; are employing their pens to amuse, enlighten, and dignify mankind, although at the same time they are suffering by disease, and scarcely able to obtain the common necessaries of life. In behalf of such persons, it gives us much pleasure to observe that the DUKE OF KENT, and several distinguished noblemen and gentlemen are to meet at the Freemasons' Tavern on the 4th of this month, being the anniversary of the foundation of the Literary Fund. Promotions and Appointments.]-The Earl of Clancarty to be a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. Howard Elphinstone, esq. Lieut. Col. of the Royal Engineers, to be a Baronet. Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Abercromby, and Major-Gen. the Hon. Sir C.Colville, Knights Commanders, to be Grand Crosses of the Order of the Bath. Lieut.-gen. Moore Disney) To be Knights The following Officers in the East India Major-gen. Robert Blair, Major-gen. George Wood, Major-gen. Hector Maclean, Major-gen. Thomas Dallas, Col. Robert Barclay. Major-gen. Geo. Townshend Walker, K.C.B. to be Lieut.-governor of Grenada, vice Lieut.-gen. Sir John Stuart, K.B. Lieut.-col. John Campbell-Knighted. Members returned to Parliament.]—Viscount Glerawly, vice C. S. Hawthorn, esq. who has accepted the office of a Commissioner of Excise in Ireland. Robert Frankland, esq. for Thirsk, vice Wm. Frankland, esq. who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. Ecclesi stical Preferments.]—Rev. Chas. Taylor, of the College-school, Hereford, to the vicarage of Long Stanton, Salop. Rev, Henry Gauntlett, to the vicarage of Olney, Bucks. Rev. T. Green, to the perpetual curacy of Hawkhurst, Kent. Rev. John Knight, to the rectory of Pctrockstow, Devon. Rev. J. S. Sergrove, LL.B. of Emmanuel 372 Births, Marriages, and Deaths in and near London. Coll. Cambridge, to be Sunday evening lec- [May 1, second daughter of Edw. Stephenson, esq. of Queen-square. The Rev. Martin Benson, rector of Merstham, Surrey, to Mrs. Aldersey, of Wim Rev. R Fawcett, curate of Armley, to the pole-street. vicarage of Leeds, Yorkshire. Rev. T. H. Gawthorpe, B. D. senior fellow of St. John's Coll. Cambridge, to the rectory of Marston Moretevne, Beds. Rev. John Hudson, M.A. fellow and tutor of Trinity Coll. Cambridge, to the vicarage of Kendal, Westmoreland. Rev. Mr. Clarke, master of the grammarschool, Twyford, to a fellowship of Winchester College. Rev. G. Brown, fellow of Trinity Coll. Cambridge, to be domestic chaplain to the Duke of Sussex. Births.] In Upper Harley-street, the lady of Sir Chas, Colville of a son. At Brompton, the lady of Sir Geo. Cayley of a daughter. In Portland-place, the lady of W. Curtis, esq of a son. In Stratford-place the Duchess of St. Alban's of a son and heir. Married.] John Round, esq. M. P. for Ipswich, to Susan Constantia, eldest daughter of Geo. Caswall, esq. of Sacombe Park, Herts. W. Warren, esq. of Colchester, to Maria, third daughter of the late R, Burrow, esq. of Sterborough Castle, Surrey. M. Vernon, esq. eldest son of the Archbishop of York, to Lady Elizabeth Bingham, eldest daughter of the Earl of Lucan. E C. Laurence, esq. of the E.I.Company's Bengal Civil Service, to Caroline, third daughter of C. Monro, esq. of Chandosstreet, Cavendish-square. Charles Henry Hall, esq. of Cadiz, to Sarah, daughter of the late Thomas Mullett, esq. of Clapham. Henry Charles Hill, esq. ordnance storekeeper at Trinidad, to Mary, youngest daughter of Thes. Windle, esq. of John-street, Bedford-row. Lieut. Thos. Nightingale, R. N. to Miss Glode, of Aske Terrace, City-road. John G. Anthony, esq. of Konigsberg, to Betty Maria, second daughter of Francis H. Tyler, esq. of Bedford-st. Bedford-square Nichs. Tuite Selby, esq. of Acton, to Miss Frances Walmesley, of Hammersmith. The Rev. C. C. Chambers, youngest son of the late Sir Rob. C. to Lillias, third daughter of A. Callendar, esq. of New Cavendish street. Capt. Thos. Bligh, of the Coldstream Guards, to Helen, third daughter of Thomas Patterson, esq. of Upper Seymour-street. The Rev. Rich. Boodle, rector of Radstock, near Bath, to Mary, daughter of Edw. Boodle, esq of Brook-street. At Kensington, James Boggis, esq. major in the West Essex Militia, to Mary Cecilia, At Clapham, Josiah Spode, jun, esq. to Miss Marv Williamson, of Loigport. At Feltham, Major C. R. Farrett, 11th light dragoons, to Charlotte, daughter of the late Wm. Villebois, esq. of Feltham-place, Middlesex. Wm. Thomas Rose, of Lincoln's-inn, to Mary Elizabeth, only daughter of Daniel B. Mathew, esq. Peter Dixon, esq. to Sarah, only daughter of the late Wm. Eldridge, esq. of Kennington-place. Geo Lovell, esq. eldest son of the Rev. Benj. L. of Ash, Surrey, to Ann Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Capt. Fras. Drummond, of Sloane-street. Lord Edw. O'Brien, to Miss Methuen, youngest daughter of P. C. Methuen, esq. M. P. Rev. Thos. Mills, third son of 'Thos. Mesq. of Great Saxham-hall, Suffolk, to Anne, youngest daughter of Nath. Barnardiston, esq. of the Rye's Lodge, Essex, and Staven į der Park, Suffolk. W. Shean, esq. of Elm Grove, near Portsmouth, to Anne Maria, eldest daughter of the late George Shum, esq. of Bedford. square. At Chelsea, Lieut. James Holbrook, R. N. \ to Miss Eliz. Tabart. A. R. Sidebottom, esq. of Slcane-street, to Miss Beverley, of Piccadilly. W. Brearley, esq. of the Middle Temple, to Mary, fourth daughter of the late John Shutt, esq. Died.] In Queen-street, May-fair, Mrs. Porteus, relict of the late Dr. P. bishop of London. In Grafton-street, Mrs. Walpole, relict of Richard W. esq. of Freethorpe, Norfolk, daughter of the late Sir l'enj. Hammet. In West-square, Harriot, second daughter of G. Wardale, esq. of Wisbech, 26. In Old Palace-yard, Mrs. Cooper, wife of Henry C. esq. clerk to the house of lords, 62. Mr. Henry Parry, of the firm of Black and Parry, booksellers, Leadenhall-street, 47. In Finsbury-square, Edmund Stack, esq. In Beaumont-street, Lieut-col. Wm. Bestty, late major of the 64th, and lieut.-col. of the 12th Portuguese infantry. The Rev. Wm. Conybeare, D. D. rector of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, formerly of Christ Church College, Oxford, 76. In Church-street, Soho, Mary, wife of E. Cork, esq. of Hythe, Kent. At Pentonville, Jas. Dinwiddie, esq. who accompanied Lord Macartney in his embassy to China. In Greenfield-street, Chas. Wilmet, 58. 1815.] Account of Rev. Dr. Hey, Lady Fitzgerald, Sir W. Young, &c. 373 In Henrietta-st. Brunswick-square, And. Jos. Carrighan, esq. formerly of Stamford, Lincoln, 77. In Upper Titchfield-street, Capt. J. H. Hutchinson, of the 75th regt, nephew to the Earl of Donoughmore. In Charlotte-street, Bedford-square, Rich. Hilton, esq. 55. In Harley place, Lieut.-gen. Vigors, of the E. I Company's service. In Carey street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, Mr. Serjeant Palmer, Judge of the Insolvent Debtors' Court. At Kensington, F. Thomson, esq. At Southwell-green, Anne, wife of J. G. Schweitzer, esq. 27. At Twickenham Lodge, G. Thackeray, esq. 46. At Maida Vale, Mary, wife of Griffith Jones, esq. of Priory-house, Cardigan. At Chelsea, Henrietta, wife of Mr. Henry Waither, and second daughter of the late Rev. E. P. Petit, of Wymondham, Norfolk. At Little Ealing, Lady Wright. At Camberwell, Mrs. Pratt, of Caldbeck, Cumberland, relict of Capt. P. of the North York Militia, and mother of the late Captain Geo. P. of the royal navy, who perished in H. M S. Anacreon, in Feb. 1814, on the passage between Corunna and Lisbon. In Seymour-street, Mary-le bone, John Hey, D. D. 80. He was formerly fellow and tutor of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and first Norrisian Professor of Divinity in that university, to which office he was elected in 1780, and which he resigned in 1795. He was also rector of Passenham, Northamptonshire, and Calverton, Bucks, two contiguous livings, which, on account of his advanced age, he had resigned some time previously to his decease. Besides se.. veral single sermons, he published a "Poetical Essay on Redemption," 1763; and "Lectures in Divinity, delivered in the University of Cambridge," 4 vols. 8vo. 17961798. In Charles-street, Berkeley-square, Lady Mary Fitzgerald, 89. Her death was occasioned by her clothes accidentally taking fire, by which she received so much injury, that she survived only till the morning of the day following the accident. Her ladyship was daughter of the eldest son of the first Earl of Hervey, who was created a peer by the title of paron Hervey, of Ickworth, and died in the life-time of his father; when his Majesty George II. was pleased to grant by warrant to his daughters the same precedency as the daughters of an earl. She was sister to the last three earls of Bristol, and aunt to the present earl, the Countess of Liverpool, the Duchess of Devonshire, and the Earl of Mulgrave. She married George Fitzgerald, esq. of the kingdom of Ireland, and was mother of the well-known George Robert Fitzgerald, who, about thirty years ago, was hanged for murder; but through the deli cate attention of her friends, the circumstances of his ignominious ead were never known to her ladyship. In Oxford-street, Edward Morris, esq. one of the Masters in Chancery, formerly fellow of Peter. House, Cambridge, and some years. representative in parliament of the borough of Newport, Cornwall, for which he was elected in 1803, and again in 1807. He was the son of a respectable medical practitioner, and brought up to the law. In 1805, he married Mary, third daughter of Lord Erskine, whom he has left with a family of four infant daughters. He was the author of some successful dramatic works-The Adventurers, a farce, 1790; and two comedies, False Colours, 1793, and The Secret, 1799, being the productions of his pen. In Tobago, Sir Wm. Young, bart. governor of that island, F. R. S. and F. S, A.His father, the first baronet, was lieutenantgovernor of Dominica, where he possessed considerable estates; and his mother was the daughter of Dr. Brook Taylor, secretary to the Royal Society. Sir William was born in 1742, and succeeded his father, who died in the West Indies in 1788. He first obtained a seat in parliament, in 1784, for the borough of St. Mawes, for which he was reelected in 1790, 1796, and 1802, and was returned for Buckingham in 1506. In the following year, he was appointed governor of Tobago, where he has ever since resided.— He was the author of several interesting works. In 1777, he published "The Spirit of Athens," 8vo. which, after nine years study and revision, he reprinted with the title of "The History of Athens, politically and philosophically considered." In 1783 appeared a pamphlet from his pen on Gilbert's projected amendment of the Poor Laws, which was followed by the "Rights of Englishmen,"-"A Letter to Mr. Pitt on the Subject of Poor and Work-houses,”-“ A Speech on the Slave Trade," delivered in the House of Commons in 1791. To the abolition of that traffic, Sir William, as might be expected of a proprietor of West India estates, was a decided enemy. He also prefixed a brief memoir of Bryan Edwards to the posthumous edition of the works of that gentleman, and a life of his respectable progenitor Dr. Brook Taylor, to his Contemplatio Philosophica. The last production of his pen was "The West India Common Place Book," a work containing a vast fund of information relative to the poli tical economy and commerce of the British colonies in that quarter of the globe. He married, în July 1777, Sarah, daughter of Charles Laurence, esq. by whom he had four sons and two daughters; and after the death of that lady, took for his second wife, in 1793, Barbara, daughter of Richard Talbot, esq. of Malahide Castle, in Ireland, by whom he had no issue. In Piccadilly, Sir Willoughby Aston, bart. 374 Account of Lord Wentworth, Mr. Ellis, &c. 66. He succeeded his father in August, 1772, and in December of the same year, married Jane, daughter of the last earl of Northington. Leaving no issue, this ancient baronetage, conferred in 1628, becomes extinct. At Nice, in Italy, whither he went for the recovery of his health, Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, bart, of Hawarden Castle, Flintshire. He was the posthumous and only child of the Rev. Sir Stephen G. born in May 1780, and married in 1806, the Hon. Mary Neville, second daughter of Lord Braybrooke, by whom he has left two sons and two daughters. In Edward-street, Portman-square, Thos. Noel, Viscount and Baron Wentworth, many years a lord of his majesty's bedchamber. His Lordship was son of the first viscount, born 1745, and educated at Brazennose College, Oxford, where he obtained the degree of M. A. 1766, and D. C. L. in 1793. In the following year, he was elected representative of the county of Leicester, and a few months afterwards, succeeded to the family honours and estates by the demise of his father. In February 1788, he married Mary, Countess Ligonier, daughter of the Lord Chancellor Northington, and widow of Earl Ligonier. Having died without issue, the viscounty is extinct, but the barony descends to his sister, Lady Milbanke, whose daughter, Lady Byron, is now the presumptive heir to it. A baronetcy, which was in the family before the peerage was conferred, goes to the heir of the late Rev. Dr. John Noel, Dean of Salisbury, and it is presumed that the estates must follow it, unless the entail has been cut off. In Connaught-place, aged 60, George Ellis, esq. an elegant scholar, and intimate friend of the late Right Hon. Wm. Pitt. His "Specimens of the early English Poets," originally published in an 8vo. volume in 1790, and increased to three volumes in 1801; and his "Specimens of English Metrical Romances," likewise in three volumes, are valuable proofs of his taste, judgment, and learning. He had been employed for some time previous to his decease on a life of the late Mr. Windham, to accompany some works by that statesman. In Dover-street, Piccadilly, Wm. Domeier, M. D. physician to the Duke of Sussex, 52. He was a native of Sweden, and some years since resident in Malta, where he had the superintendance of the Botanical Garden at La Valetta. On his return to England, he published, in 1810, an 8vo. volume, entitled, "Observations on the Climate, Manners, and amusements of Malta." in Boswell-court, Carey-street, Bryan Crowther, esq. member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, and surgeon to Bridewell and Bethlem Hospitals. He was the author of two professional works, entitled-" Observations on the Disease of the [May 1, Joints called White Swelling, with some Remarks on Scrofulous Abcesses," 8vo. 1797; second edition 1808; and " Practical Remarks on Insanity, with a Commentary on Dissections of the Brains of Maniacs," 8vo. 1811. In Somers Town, Mr. James Peller Malcolm, F.S.A. author of Londinium Redivi vum; or, An Ancient History and Modern Description of London, and many other useful works. Mr. Malcolm had, for nearly three years past, laboured under the severest pain from a complication of disorders, originating in a white swelling of the knee; which from its first attack entirely deprived him of the use of his limb, and of the power of essentially benefiting himself and family. By degrees his complaint gained strength, and, baffling the best medical aid, at length caused his death. This event, which had long been foreseen by Mr. Malcolm, would have been looked forward to with tranquil hope, as the termination of his misery, had he not been destined to endure, in addition to bodily affliction, the acutest mental anguish, as he thought of leaving behind him, totally unprovided for, objects more dear to him than life itself-a very aged mother, whom he had nearly all his life wholly sup ported, and an affectionate wife, who had doubly endeared herself by a most assiduous attendance on him during his long and painful confinement. The unavoidable expenses attendant on his illness have entirely exhausted the little property Mr. Malcolm bad acquired, by the most persevering exertion of his talents as a writer and an engraver, for the last 25 years; during which period he honourably supported himself and family, and published several works, which, though not productive of much emolument to their author, have been credible alike to his head and heart. Even during his long illness the energies of his active mind never forsook him; and he patiently continued to exercise his pen in useful pursuits, amidst the acute pain, till within the last few weeks, when he became incapable of the least exertion. His latest literary occupation was a copious Index to six portions of the "History of Lei cestershire," just published; on completing which labour he thus addressed Mr. Nichols: "The Almighty has been so merciful to me as to enable me to complete your Index; and thus have been fulfilled your benevolent intentions towards myself and family. Surely never was an Index completed under an equal continuance of pain; but it was a kind of refuge and solace against affliction; and often has it turned away the severest pangs." -The mother of Mr. Malcolm is an American gentlewoman, of highly respectable connexions on that Continent, whom she disobliged by selling her little patrimony, to enable her only son to come to England with a view of studying historical painting under his great countryman the present President |