1815.] Germany Switzerland-Conduct of Murat. north, has been repeatedly announced as near at hand, but for some reason not assigned, he still continued on the 2nd at Paris. It is not impossible that the apprehensions of a counter-revolution may have detained him in that capital, A or that he has secretly determined to make it the theatre of the final conflict on which his future fortunes shall depend. The statement of the arrival of Lucien Buonaparte at Paris, and his appointment to be minister of the interior, given in our last, on the authority of foreign papers, proved to be incorrect. He has since, ho ever, proceeded thither through Switzerland and we should not be surprised to hear that he had accepted some prominent situation under his loving brother. GERMANY. During the past month every part of Germany has exhibited a scene of extraordinary bustle from the passage of troops in all directions to the new crusade against the common enemy of the peace of the worki. Never were the enthusiasm and the antipathy of the Prussians to the French wound up to a higher pitch than at the present moment. As in 1813, the universities and academical institutions are again deserted, and every youth capable of wielding a sword, or handling a musket, flies to share in the satisfaction of chastising France for the yet unavenged sufferings of his country. The gallant Blucher, who is to command them, had on the 3d of May a long interview at Tirlemont with the Duke of Wellington, to concert with him the operations of the approaching campaign. The passage of the Russian troops through Cologne commenced on the 8th of May, whilst another part of their force traverses Silesia and Saxony. Prince Wrede arrived at Manheim on the 6th of May, at which time almost the whole of the Bavarian force had crossed the Rhine. On the part of Austria, the Archduke Charles arrived at Mentz on the 18th of April, and assumed the functions of governor of that important fortress. The troops of that power proceed towards the Rhine, through the kingdom of Wirtemberg. Prince Schwarzenberg was expected at Heilbron on the 10th of May, at which date the head-quarters of the second corps, under the Prince of Hohenzollern, were at Stockach. The intercourse with France along the whole frontier line has been strictly pro 465 hibited, and every thing seems to indicate the speedy commencement of hostilities. SWITZERLAND. The Swiss Confederation, animated by that abhorrence of treason and perfidy which have for ages distinguished its citizens, has peremptorily refused to acknowledge Buonaparte as the sovereign. of France, or to listen to his overtures. In consequence of the assemblage of a considerable French force on the frontiers, the governments of the cantons have called into active service all their troops, which, with those that have withstood all the solicitations of the usurper, and are now returning from France, are calculated to amount to 48,000 men. ITALY. It may be considered as certain, that the precipitation of Murat has lost him that throne which he exerted all the duplicity and artifices of the Buonaparte school to retain. These have been most satisfactorily exposed by Lord Castlereagh, in the House of Commons, on the 3d of April, and by the Austrian declaration of war, published at Vienna on the 12th of the same month. This document clearly proves the concert all along subsisting between Buonaparte and his brother-in-law, whose army was doubtless intended to have been ready to join the former in his expedition. It was on the 26th of February t! at Napoleon quitted Elba, and we find that in the course of the same month Murat had required a passage for his troops through the Austrian provinces in Italy to France. This was of course refused by the cabinet of Vienna. On the news of Buonaparte's escape, the King of Naples renewed his declarations of fidelity to the system of the alliance, but at the same time dispatched an aid-de-camp to France to assure Napoleon of his support. No sooner was it known that the latter had entered Lyons, than Murat formally announced to the court of Rome, that "he considered the cause of Buonaparte as his own," and required a passage for two of his divisions through the Papal States. On the refusal of his holiness, he entered the ecclesiastical dominions on the 22d of March, proceeding himself with his main force, of about 35,000 men, from the Marches to the Legations, and on the 30th began hostilities, by an attack on the imperial posts at Cesena, which, according to previous orders, fell back upon ther supports. After an action on the 4th with General Blauchi, on the Panaro, he advanced to 466 Operations of Murat in Italy-America. Modena, and thence to Reggio and In his short and disastrous campaign, Murat by no means relied upon the sword alone. Availing himself of the unpopularity of the Austrian government in some parts of Italy, he issued proclamations, inviting the inhabitants of the whole peninsula to shake off the yoke [June 1, of foreigners, to assert their independ ence, and to send deputies to an Italian Champ de Mai to deliberate upon a new constitution. After the example of Buo naparte, he had, however, anticipated their choice of a head, and appointed himself to be their king; assuming the surname of Italicus, ordering the adop tion of a national cockade, and sammoning all the officers and troops who had belonged to the army of the late kingdom of Italy to join his standard. All his revolutionary manœuvres have, however, failed as completely as his military operations; and so far from receiving countenance and support from the inhabitants of the provinces inte which he advanced, his own ranks were much more thinned by desertion than by the sword. By both he is calculated to have lost not fewer than 10,000 men before he reached Ancona. Whatever course he may now pursue, it is pretty evident, to use an expression of his sententious relative, that Murat has ceased to reign. AMERICA. The government of the United States has determined to equip an expedition, for the purpose of chastising the piratical states of Barbary. The secretary of the navy has recommended, in a letter to the Commissioners of Ways and Means, that, in order to ensure success in this enterprise, the squadron should consist of two 74 gun ships, six frigates, three sloops, and six or eight small armed vessels. He observes on the same occasion, that as the destinies of the nation appear to be intimately connected with her maritime power and superiority, and the creation of a navy is not a work to be quickly performed, it would be advisable to build annually at least one 74 and two frigates. It is asserted that the American commissioners in Europe are engaged in negociating a commercial treaty with Grest Britain. INCIDENTS, PROMOTIONS, BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS, &c. IN LONDON AND MIDDLESEX; With Biographical Accounts of Distinguished Characters. "Windsor Castle, May 6. intended improvements in the Post-office, "HIS Majesty's disorder continues un have presented their report, which has been abated: but his Majesty is in good health, printed. They approve the removal of the and in a cheerful and comfortable state of Post-office to St. Martin's-le-Grand; at the spirits." same time recommending a subsidiary office The Committee appointed to examine the in Lombard-street, or its vicinity, for the 1815.] Incidents, Promotions, Births, Marriages, &c. convenience of the foreign merchants. The expense of the new building is estimated at 150,000l.; the value of the ground, &c, to be purchased at 205,161. The judges being unanimously of opinion that the argument upon certain points reserved in the case of William Sawyer, whose trial at the Old Bailey for murder was detailed in our last number, were not valid, the unhappy man underwent the sentence of the law on the 15th of May. Vice Promotions and Appointments.] adm. Sir Eliab Harvey, Major-gen. Chas. Wale, Rear-adm. Sir Edw. Codrington, Majorgen. Sir Colquhoun Grant-to be Knights Commanders of the Order of the Bath. Col. the Hon. Sir Chas. J. Greville, K.C.B. Major Victor von Arentschild, Thos. Lawrence, esq. Wm. John Struth, esq. Rich. Vaughan, esq. Col. S F. Whittingham, Diggory Forrest, esq.-knighted. Alexander Cockburn, esq. to be envoy extraordinary to the Free and Imperial Hanseatic Towns, and to the Circle of Lower Saxony. The Marquis of Bute to be lord lieutenant of Glamorganshire. 467 Rev. Geo. Burdon, to the rectory of Falstone, Northumberland. Birth.] In Sloane-street, the lady of Major-general Sir John Keane, K. C. B. of a son. In Bentinck-street, the lady of General Sir K. A. Howard, of a son. At Uxbridge-house, the Countess of Uxbridge, of a son. On the Adelphi-terrace, the lady of T. G. Lady George Beresford, of a daughter. In Cavendish-square, the lady of Paul In Great Stanhope-street, Lady H. Leveson Gower, of a son. In Hill-street, the Marchioness of Ely, of a son. In Burlington-street, the lady of the Right Hon. F. J. Robinson, of a daughter. In Bishopsgate-street, the lady of John Conquest, M. D. of a son and heir. The Duchess of Rutland, of a son and heir. Married.] The Hon. Mortimer Rodney, to Sarah, eldest daughter of Rob. Withy, Lieut. gen. Sir Jas. Leith to be governor esq. of Buckingham-street. of Barbadoes. W. A. Standert, esq. of Great James Anthony Rosenhagen, esq. to be a comp- street, to Rebecca, second daughter of Benj. troller of army accounts. The Right Hon. Wm. Adam to be Lord Chief Commissioner of the Jury Court in Civil Causes in Scotland. Allan Maconochie, and David Money penny, esquires, to be the other Lords Commissioners of the Jury Court. H. R. H. the Prince Regent has ordered a congé d'elire to pass the great seal, empowering the Dean and Chapter of St. Asaph to elect a bishop to that see, and has recommended the Right Rev. Dr. John Luxmoore, bishop of Hereford, to be elected. Member returned to Parliament.] Granville Venables Vernon, esq. for Aldborough, in the room of Henry Gally Knight, esq. who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. · Ecclesiastical Preferments.] Rev. Thos. Johnes, M. A. archdeacon of Barnstaple, to the rectory of Lezant, Cornwall. Rev. H. Salmon, to the living of Culworth, Northamptonshire. Rev. Herbert Hill, to the rectory of Worting, Wilts. Rev. J. Parsons, to the vicarage of All Saints, Bristol. Rev. Dr. Wollen, vicar of Bridgwater, to the vicarage of Kilton, Somerset. Rev. Fras. Dyson, to the rectory of Minstead, Wilts. Rev. Chas. Palmer, to the perpetual curacy of the oly Trinity, Gloucester. 1 Rev. Wm. Mutlow, to be a minor canon of Gloucester Cathedral. Rev. T. Morgan, rector of Lanvaches, Monmouthshire, to be chaplain to the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar. Bewicke, esq. of New Ormond-street. Capt. Christopher Cole, K. C. B. of the Royal Navy, to Lady Mary Talbot, widow of Thos. Mansell T. esq. and sister of the Earl of Ilchester. Chas. Ward, esq. of the General Postoffice, to Charlotte, youngest daughter of the late Wm. White, esq. of Lambeth. John Cazenove, esq. of Broad-street, to Harriet, daughter of Jas. Gibson, esq. of Hunter-street, Brunswick-square. The Rev. Wm. Everett, fellow of New College, Oxford, and vicar of Romford, to Marianne, daughter of Chas. Dundas, esq. M. P. for Berks. Lieut. H. W. Bailey, R. N. to Maria, second daughter of Mr. John Thompson, of Dublin. Thos. Allen, esq. of Huddersfield, to Mrs. West, of Aldermanbury. Jas. Melville, esq. of Islington, to Hester, daughter of Wm. M. Sellon, esq. of Harlesden-green, Middlesex. John Walter, esq. to Miss Gregory, daughter of the late Rev. Dr. G. vicar of West Ham. Lieut.-col. Campbell, of the 6th Infantry, to Martha Elizabeth, daughter of Mrs. Hig-" genson, of Weymouth-street, Portland-place. Matthew Pickford, esq. to Mrs. Warner, relict of J. P. Warner, esq. Wm. Byrne, esq. of Cleveland-court, to Ellen, third daughter of the late Rich. Hiffernan, esq. of Mallow, Ireland. Capt. Keene, of the 19th Light Dragoons, to Augusta, youngest daughter of J. Fene, esq. M. P. 468 Marriages and Deaths in and near London. Henry Boulton, esq. of South Luffenham, Rutland, to Emma, fourth daughter of Thos. Lane, esq. late of Knuston-hall, Northamp tonshire. Lieut.-col C. Wyndham, 20th Light Dragoons, to Mary, only daughter of the late Wm. Blunt, esq. cf Crabett, Sussex. Wm. P. Johnson, esq. of Walton-house, Cumberland, to Mary, eldest daughter of Sir George Armytage, bart. Sir Geo. Buggin, to Lady Cecilia Gore, sister to the Earl of Arran. Lieut.-col. Sir Gregory Way, to Marianne, daughter of John Weyland, esq. of Woodeaton, Oxfordshire. Mr. Rich. Webster, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Wm. Thomas, esq. of St. Helen's. Thos. Thoroton, esq. of Flintham House, Notts, to Anne Catherine, daughter of the late James Whyte, esq. of Pilton House, Devon. [June 1, late Thos. Owen, esq. of Glasalt, Carmar then. In Caroline-place, Guildford-street, Wm. Harrison, esq. F. R. S, son and assistant to the celebrated discoverer of the method of ascertaining the longitude at sea, and subse quently in the commission of the peace for the counties of Monmouth and Middlesex, 87. In Charles street, Berkeley-square, Gen, Stewart, colonel of the 724 regt. At Islington, Jas M yor, esq. At Kensington Gore, Mrs. Jane Tenbroeke, 69. Mrs. Carteret, widow of the late Admiral C., and only sister of Sir John Silvester, hart. In Seymour-place, Bryanstone-square, Stephen Harris, esq. late of Bath, and formerly of Tipperah, Bengal In Finsbury-square, Mrs. Brooks, wife of Stephen B. esq 80. At Brentford, suddenly, Elizabeth, daugh Francis, second son of the late Sir Robert Lawley, bart. to Mary Anne, eldest daughter of the late Mrs. Trimmer.-James Cornter of George Talbot, esq., of Guitin, Gloucestershire. At Islington, Wm. Cattley, esq. to Hannah, daughter of the late John Garratt, esq. of Newington-green. At Edmonton, Lieut.-col. Sir Victor von Arentschild, to Dorothea Henrietta, daughter of Quarles Harris, esq. of Bourne-grove, Southgate. Died.] In Hertford-street, Alex. Douglas, esq. son of the late Wm. D. esq. of Bengal, 27. In Wimpole-street, Lady Clerke, wife of the Rev. Sir Wm. C. bart. of Bury, Lancashire. In Cannon-street-road, St. George's in the East, Capt. Thomas Ramsey, many years in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company, 57. In Great Queen-street, H. G. Deacon, esq. Mr. Wm. Bates Smith, a gentleman of considerable literary acquirements, and eminent for his researches in law, heraldry, &c. In Montague-street, Clement Kinnersley, sq. of Loxley Park, Staffordshire, and Sutson Hall, Derbyshire, 68. By his death, the Earl of Ormonde, in right of his Countess, comes into the immediate possession of all her large family estates in Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Kent, amounting to about 15,000l. per annum, which her ladyship derives from her maternal uncle Godfrey Bagnall Clarke, formerly of Sutton Hall, in the county of Derby. In Harley-street, James, youngest son of Jos. Latour, esq. Jas. Richards, esq. commander in the royal navy, and late of H. M. S. Namur, 50. In Golden-square, Jas. Seton Karr, esq. of Kippelaw, Roxburghshire. wallis, only chile of Mr. James Trimmer. At Blackheath, Capt. Thomas Webster, a very old commander in the Jamaica trade. At Haling Cottage, Ellen, youngest daugh ter of Mr. J. S. Winstanley, of Paternoster IOW. 80. At Greenwich, Thosas Masterson, esq. On Laurence-Pountney-hill, Wm.Thomp son, esq. In Wood-street, Spital-fields, Mr. John Gilson, surgeon. At Lambeth, the Rev. Mr.T. Methuen, a minister of the church of Scotland. In Dean-street, Soho, Mrs. Willett, relit of Ralph W. esq. of Morley, Dorset, 69. In Nottingham-street, the Rev. Thomas Fountaine, one of his majesty's chaplains in ordinary, prebendary of Worcester, vicar of Bromsgrove, and prebendary of Terringtos, Herefordshire. In York-place, Caroline, fourth daughter of the Rev. Dr. Strachey, 31. In Upper Norton-street, Mr. Jas. Smith, sculptor, 43. As an artist, he was first introduced to public notice by his successful competition to execute the monument erected by the city of London, in Guildhall, in memory of the late Lord Nelson. In Harpur-street, Jos. Kirkup, esq. 53. In Crescent-place, Tavistock-square, Sarah Anne, eldest daughter of Joshua Margery, esq. In Great Charlotte-street, Blackfriars, Thus, Maynard, esq. 54. He put an end to his life by hanging himself in the absence of his family. On Spring Garden Terrace, Mrs. Bicknell, wife of Chas. B. esq. solicitor to the Admiralty. At Little Cullands, near Southgate, Thes. At Brompton, Susanna, daughter of the Tibb, esq. 1815.3 Account of Sir J. Ingilby, Mr. A. Fuller, Mr. R. Smirke. In Harpur-street, Joseph Kirkup, esq. 53. At Kennington-green, John Grant, esq. formerly of Copthall-court, and Lime-street. Wm. Wilkins, esq. builder, of Cambridge, and patentee of the Theatre Royal, Norwich. In Parliament-street, at the Bishop of Pe terborough's, Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Jos. Parsons, rector of Holwell, Beds. In Cavendish-square, the Dowager Countess of Pembroke, 68. In Albany, Benj. Garlike, esq. formerly minister at the court of Berlin. John Fleming, M. D. He received the first rudiments of his education at Douai, in Flanders, from whence he proceeded to the university of Edinburgh, where he took the degree of Doctor of Physic. He was a scholar at once elegant and profound; few, if any, of his class-fellows, and some of them are the most eminent men of the present day, were more intimately acquainted with all the beauties of the classical authors, particularly of the Latin, in which language he wrote with great purity and ease. He possessed fine taste and fancy; and though we know not that he ever published any work, he contributed powerfully to the success of many of the most distinguished journals of the metropolis. In Great Cumberland-place, Sir Simon Rich. B. Taylor, bart. In Soho-square, very suddenly, Mr. W. H. Lurin, well known as a dealer in classical books, and many years in the same line at Cambridge. In John-street, Bedford-row, Allatson Burgh, esq. one of the secondaries of the Pipe Office, 74. At Lincoln, suddenly, in the 58th year of his age, Sir John Ingilby, of Ripley Park, in the county of York, and Kettlethorpe, in Lincolnshire, bart, one of his majesty's justices of the peace and deputy-lieutenants for the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was attacked with a fit on his way to Lincoln, and died at the White Hart Inn soon after his arrival.He formerly represented the borough of East Retford in parliament; was high sheriff of Yorkshire in 1782; and during the last 36 years of his life, discharged the important duties of a magistrate with a degree of activity, zeal, and intelligence, which will render his death an irreparable loss to the public.He married Elizabeth, the only child and heiress of Sir Wharton Amcotts, bart. and is succeeded in his extensive estates by his only surviving son, now Sir Wm. Ingilby, bart. At Kettering, Northamptonshire, Mr. Andrew Fuller, pastor of the Baptist church at Kettering, and secretary to the Baptist missionary society, in the 62d year of his age, and 41st of his ministry. Although he was not favoured with a liberal education (which he always regretted), the talents bestowed on him, cultivated with diligence, compensated in a great degree the want of those advantages which it might have conferred. The NEW MONTHLY MAG.-No. 17, 469 singular acuteness and success with which 1806. At Brampton, Cumberland, Mr. Richard Smirke, of Upper Fitzroy-street, eldest son of R. Smirke, esq. R. A. and brother of the celebrated architect. He expired at the early age of 36, after a short illness, occasioned by a violent cold, caught from sitting some hours on the ground, then in a humid state (probably after perspiring profusely), while he was ardently occupied in drawing and copying the antique inscriptions on the rocks adjacent to the river Gelt. Early in life he discovered a brilliant genius, united to a solid understanding; and by indefatigable assiduity, the horizon of his mental perception and intelligent powers exhibited in manhood an enlargement and expansion, where lively traits of interesting knowledge were happily pourtrayed. He had made uncommon proficiency in historical painting; and all his productions in that beautiful art, discovered a maturity of judgment, combined with a chasteness of style and classical purity of taste, that uniformly distinguishes native ge nius, improved by judicious cultivation. He delighted in the study of chemistry, and his laborious private studies, devoted to that science, produced an extensive and accurate acquaintance with it in all its modern discoveries and improvements. He was an elegant classical scholar, and the latter part of his life appears to have been principally applied to historical researches in British antiquities. 3 Q VOL. III, |