INCIDENTS, PROMOTIONS, BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS, &c, IN LONDON AND MIDDLESEX; Windsor Castle, June 3. "The King has passed the last month in tranquillity and comfort, but his Majesty's disorder is not diminished." On the 2nd of May was held the 15th anniversary of the Church Missionary Society. From the report read on the occasion, it appears that the income of the society has advanced from 11,000l., which was the proEduce of the 14th year, to 16,000l., and that E the exertions of the committee are keeping due pace with the augmentation of the funds. The report of the British and Foreign Bible Society, the 11th annual meeting of which was held on the 3rd of May, states that the issue of copies of the Scriptures from March 31, 1814, to March 31, 1815, had been 126,156 Bibles, 123,776 Testaments; making a total issued from the commencement of the institution to that period, of 516,479 Bibles, 718,778 Testaments; in all, 1,235,257 copies, exclusive of a very considerable number circulated at the charge of the society abroad. The total receipts of the year have been 99,8941., of which sum 61,8481. was contributed by auxiliary societies. The expenditure during the same period was 81,0211. and the present obligations of the society, including orders given for Bibles and Testaments, are about 38,000l. Early on the morning of May 12, a destructive fire broke out on the premises of Messrs. Meaburn and Johnston, ship-chandiers, in Narrow-street, Limehouse: the conflagration is supposed to have been occasioned by lightning. For upwards of four hours the flames spread in every direction; and notwithstanding much exertion, burned with unabated fury. From the narrowness of the street, it was impossible to save the buildings on the opposite side; and before the flames could be subdued, 13 houses were consumed. The premises destroyed were used principally in the shipping line. This is the second fire in the same street within six months. The former fire consumed 17 houses. May 23, the first stone of the Southwark Bridge was laid by Admiral Lord Keith, attended by the Committee of Management. Very early in the morning of May 24, a fire broke out in the works of the Gas Company, Dorset-street, Salisbury-square, which in a short time consumed the whole of the newly erected buildings for the supply of gas, and the house attached. The frequent accidents at these establishments, from whatever cause they may arise, are not likely to remove the prejudices which many persons entertain against the new method of illumination. NEW MONTHLY MAG.-No. 18. As the 28th of May, the anniversary of the birth of that immortal statesman the Right Hon. Wm. Pitt, happened this year to fall on a Sunday, the meeting of the Pitt Club to celebrate that event was this year held on the 27th at the City of London Tavern. The attendance was equally numerous and respectable, and comprehended most of his Majesty's ministers. Sir Robert Pecle was in the chair. The cloth being removed, Non nobis Domine was sung. The first toast, The King, was drunk with three times three. The chairman, in rising to introduce the next toast, felt it his duty to remind the company of what they and the nation at large owed to the patriotism of the Prince Regent, which, in his opinion, had been so conspicuously displayed that it ought to live in the annals of the Pitt Club. When it pleased Providence to visit his Majesty with that affliction under which he still labours, the Prince was called upon to assume the functions of royalty, and from his early connections, it was generally supposed a change of men and measures would take place. He, however, on considering the merit, the services, and the popularity of his Majesty's ministers, had, uninfluenced by any one, and solely guided by the impulse of his own mind, made them his own. He then gave The health of the Prince Regent, which was drunk with acclamation. After toasting the other branches of the Royal Family, the chairman proposed The immortal memory of Mr. Pilt. He prefaced this sentiment by remarking that Mr. Pitt had been made an instrument in the hands of Providence, to shield his native land from impending ruin. That disorganisation which had overwhelmed France, had visited England, and had called forth the great powers of Mr. Pitt in a very extraordinary manner. At that crisis, sensible of the awful situation in which the country was placed, by his influence in parliament, and by his almost supernatural eloquence, he raised such a spirit throughout the nation, that the danger was soon at an end, the demon of discord subdued, and security and tranquillity restored. After shortly eulogising the devotion of Mr. Pitt in the cause of his country, he expressed a fervent wish that his principles would be perpetuated by the clubs established in his name throughout the empire, which he considered the best means of preserving the stability of the throne and the happiness of the people. The toast was drunk with loud acclamations, which lasted many minutes. In proposing The Prince Regent's Ministers, the chairman observed that they had had great difficulties to contend with VOL. III. E 566 Incidents, &c. in London. and they had subdued those difficulties in a manner glorious to the country, and highly creditable to themselves. Their victories and their moderation alike challenged admiration, and they had had the happiness of placing the English name above that of every other nation. After this toast had been drunk, Lord Liverpool rose and spoke as follows:-"On the part of the Prince Regent's Ministers, I beg to return their warmest thanks for the honour which you have just done them. If their humble efforts have been at all successful in averting any of the dangers with which this country was menaced, that success is to be ascribed to the ́support which it has been their happiness to receive from the country, and mainly to their firm adherence to the principles and policy of Mr. Pitt. There are no circumstances under which I should not be proud to avow this sentiment; but when we consider, that at the moment that I am now addressing you, a new war is about to commence in Europe, which will require the exertion of all the best energies and talents of the country, I am sure you will agree with me that our best chance of success will be found in perseverance in the principles, and in following the example of THAT GREAT MAN, Whom we all loved whilst living, and to whom, now that be is no more, we look back with reverence and gratitude, and still consider as our leader, our instructor, and our guide!" This speech was received with long and reiterated applauses.-Lord Castlereagh, after an appropriate address, proposed the health of the chairman. The health of the Duke of Wellington having been drunk, Mr. Wellesley Pole returned thanks for the honour done to his noble relation. The Duke of Wellington, he observed, had been bred up in the principles of Mr. PITT, who was the first he 'might almost venture to say to foresee that he would one day render important services to his country. The Duke was about to enter upon a new war-he went loaded with the favours of his Sovereign and grateful country; he felt what was due to it for what it had done for him, and he felt on taking his command, what was no inconsiderable gratification to him as an honest man, that the cause in which his sword was on the eve of being drawn WAS A JUST ONE. He (Mr. W. Pole) had lately heard the Duke of Wellington say, with a blush of modesty on his cheek, but with a flash of fire (always attendant on the spirit of enterprise) from his eye, that if the expected war did break out, he doubted not the army under his command would do its duty in a manner that would not disappoint the expectations of his countrymen. The health of Louis XVII. called forth the most enthusiastic acclamations, and white handkerchiefs waved in every part of the room. The venerable Count Lynch, late Mayor of Bourdeaux, returned thanks in French for the manner in which the health [July 1, of his sovereign had been received. He felt that but for the generous exertions of England, Europe would have been subjugated to the yoke of Buonaparte. Happy England! she could protect her own independence, and rescue other nations from oppression. He confidently trusted that, aided by this nation, France would soon recover her liberty, her rights, and her constitution, which were inseparable from the cause of her legitimate monarch, and that she at no distant period would join with the other powers of Europe gratefully to acknowledge the debt she owed to this country-The ministers, when they retired, were greeted, as at their entrance, with loud acclamations: after which, the conviviality of the meeting was continued to a late hour.-A like tribute of respect was paid by the other Pitt Clubs established in various parts of the kingdom, to the memory of that pilot whose talents, perseverance, and patriotism, enabled his country to weather the most tremendous storm with which the civilized world was ever threatened; and whose principles steadily pursued by his successors cannot fail to lead to results equally glorious to themselves and useful to the nation. On the 3rd of June, the statue of his Majesty, voted by the corporation of the city of London to be erected in Guildhall, was exhi bited for the first time. It is placed at the end of the Great Council Chamber, in a niche of a dark coloured marble. His Majesty is sculptured in his robes, holding the scroll of an address in his left hand. The right is extended, as in the act of returning an answer to an address. It is seven feet high-On the pedestal is the following appropriate inscription : GEORGE THE THIRD, Born and bred a Briton, endeared to a Brave, Free, and Loyal People by his public Virtues, 1993 by his pre-eminent Example, of private Worth in all the Relations of domestic Life, by his uniform Course of unaffected Piety, and entire Submission to the Will of Heaven. The Wisdom and Firmness Devos 90 841 of his Character and Councils enabled him so to apply the Resources of his Empire, so to direct the native Energies of his Subjects that he maintained the dignity of his Crown, preserved inviolate the Constitution in Church #and State, and secured the Commerce and Prosperity of his Dominions, during a long Period of unexampled difficaly, had nearly dissolved the frame, of their undeviating Loyalty, and grateful Egypt. Attachment to the best of Kings, In the Fifty-fifth Year of his Reign. On the same day, June 3, a numerous and respectable meeting of the Subscribers to the British and Foreign System of Education, founded by Mr. Lancaster, took place at the Freemason's Tavern. The reports read by the secretary, Mr. Fox, were highly satisfactory. The establishment of a school in British India, founded by his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, and the general adoption of the system throughout America, France, Germany, &c., were amongst the interesting facts stated in the reports. It was calculated that not less than 250,000 children had been educated in the British empire, and including colonies and foreign parts, about 2,000,000 in organized schools. Amongst the useful resolutions adopted, Mr. Gurney (of Norwich) proposed, that the committee should be recommended to make arrangements to send the children educated in the British System to such places of worship on the Sabbath as may be agreeable to the views of their parents. The business of the meeting being concluded, a handsome collection was made for the Female Establishment, Early in the morning of June 9, a fire broke out in the cellar beneath the tap of the Bell Inn, Wood-street, Cheapside, which extended rapidly to the Commercial Coffeehouse and the warehouses in the rear, which with a great quantity of goods, chiefly hardware, were entirely destroyed. The ostler at the Bell unfortunately perished. A great number of workmen have been of late employed in pulling down the offices and wings of Burlington House, great part of which Lord G. Cavendish is about to rebuild upon a new plan, with a view to greater space in the apartments, The heavy wall of the Court-yard in Piccadilly is to be removed, and a row of handsome houses built in its stead. Streets are also expected to be formed at the sides of the present court-yard. On the nights of the 23rd and 24th June, the metropolis was generally and brilliantly illuminated in honour of the glorious victory achieved by the British arms at Waterloo. Promotions and Appointments.] Lord Gambier to be K. G. C. of the Order of the Bath. རྩི་ ཟླ་༣ཚས་སུ་ས་ Adm. Gould to be K.C.B. Sergeant Runnington to be the Commissioner for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, vice Sergeant Palmer deceased. Major-gen, Sir C. Grant, to be Groom of The Earl of Uxbridge to be Marquis of Anglesey. G. W. Chad. esq., to be Secretary of Legation to the United States of Ameria, Sir H. Lushington, bart., to be Consulgeneral in the kingdom of Naples. Dr. And. Duncan, of Edinburgh, to be one of his Majesty's Physicians Extraordinary. Lieut.-Col. Richard Williams, James Malcolm, J. Archibald Hope, Hew D. Ross, W. O. Hamilton, -- Sir A. Dickson, Sir F. Stovin, Capt. Sir W. Hoste, bart. R.N. Rob. Mends, R‚N. John Sewell, L.L.D. Wm. Coke, esq. Knighted. Ecclesiastical Preferments.] The Hon. and Rev. Mr. Ryder, Dean of Wells, to be Bishop of Gloucester; the Bishop of Hereford to the see of St. Asaph; the Bishop of Gloucester to Hereford, Rev. Theoph, Barnes to the rectory of Stonegrave, York. Rev. G. Chandler to the rectory of Southam, Warwick. Rev. C. B. Barry, to the rectory of Quarley, Wilts. Rev. Jas. Phillott, jun. to the rectory of Stanton Drewe, Somerset. Rev. J. Duncumb, to the vicarage of Mansel Lacey, Hereford. Rev. Edw. Griffin, to the rectory of St. Stephen, Ipswich. :; Rev. Wm. Newcome, to the rectory of Mountford, Norfolk, Rev. Geo, Capper, to the vicarage of Wherstead. Rev, JL, Harding, to the living of Monkleigh, Devon, Rev. H. J. Beaver, to the rectory of Barncombe, Sussex, Rev. W. Spooner, to the vicarage of Chipping Campden, Gloucester. Rev. T. S. Smyth, to the vicarage of St. Austell, Cornwall. Rev. W. B. Wroth, to the living of Elds. borough, Bucks. Rev. Dr. Lamb, to the rectory of Chipping Warden, Notts. Rev. John Munden, to the rectory of English Bicknor, Gloucester. Rev. Caleb Rockett, to the vicarage of Timberscombe, Somerset. Rev. L J. Howell, to the rectory of Penhow, Monmouth. -Rev. J. E. Harington, to the rectory of Chalbury, Dorset. 56S Births, Marriages, and Deaths, in London. Rev. Thos. Dupré, to the living of Willoughby, Lincoln. Rev. R. R. Bailey, to the perpetual curacy of Culpho, Suffolk. Rev. Thos. Barber, to the curacy of Armley, York. Rev. Dr. Forrester to a prebend in Worcester Cathedral. Rev. G. L. Gretton, to the living of Foy, Hereford. Rev. Wm. Evans, to the vicarage of Vowchurch, Hereford. Rev. F. Daubeny, to the rectory of Downham, Cambridge. Rev. R. Carey, to a prebend in York cathedral. Rev. Geo. Holcombe, D. D. to a prebend in Canterbury cathedral. Births.] In Lower Seymour-street, the lady of Sir Thos. Trowbridge, bart., of a son and heir. In Welbeck-street, the lady of the Hon. Major-gen. Bosville, of a daughter. In Portman-square, Viscountess Newark, of a daughter. ! In Mansfield-street, Viscountess Ashbrooke, of a daughter... 1 In Westminster, Margaret Steele, wife of a private soldier in the 1st Guards of four boys, two of whom, with the mother, are living and likely to do well In Berkeley-square, the lady of Henry C. The Countess of Enniskillen, of a son. of a son. ཀན་ཟླ་ནི་རྒྱཟིང་ » In Manchester-square, Lady Charlotte F. Hatton, of a son and heir.. The lady of J. G. Lambton, esq. M. P. of a daughter.♪ In New Burlington-street, the lady of the Hon. Jas. Butler, M. P. of a son, Married.] Mr. Rob. Stevenson, of Camberwell, to Josephine, second daughter of the late Dan. Rubatel, esq, of Hammersmith. E. R. F. Polishon, esq. to Barbara, thirde Vice-admiral Sir G. Martin, to Miss Locke, daughter of the late Wm. L. esq. of Norbury Park, Surrey. P. H. Beckwith, esq. to Elizabeth, daughter of W. M'Gwire, esq. of Clonca Castle. E. F. Bontein, esq. eldest son of Sir Jas. B. to Mary Ann, only daughter of the Hon. Sir Edm. Stanley. Dr. Satterley, of Queen-street, May Fair, to Miss Smith, eldest daughter of Thos. A. S. esq. of Portman-square. Jas. Eversfield, esq. of Catsfield, Sussex, to Miss Crew, eldest daughter of Rob. H. C.. esq. Secretary to the Board of Ordnance. J. W. Lukin, esq. to Mary Amelia, eldest daughter of W. Merry, esq. deputy secretary at war. Sir G. Lowry Cole, K. B. to Lady Frances [July 1, Harris, daughter of the Earl of Malmes- Lord Petre to Frances, eldest daughter of John Tharp, esq. of Chippenham Park, Thos. Lees, esq. of Chaddesley, Woicestershire, to Mary Anne, second daughter of the late Rich. Yaldwyn, esq. of Blackdown House, Sussex. The Rev. Jas. Kevill, to Anne Isabella, only daughter of Somerset Davis, esq. of Croft Castle, Herefordshire. Thos. Clayden, esq. of Little Linton, Cambridge, to Miss Mary Lyles, of Spilbrook, Herts. Jas. Back, esq. to Ann, daughter of the late John Hatfield, esq. banker. At Edmonton, Bertie Ambrosse, esq. of Bombay, to Miss Trail, only daughter of Donald T. esq. of Russell-square. At Kensington, the Rev. Henry Budd, chaplain of Bridewell Hospital, to Jane, 11th daughter of the late Gen. Hale, of the Plantation, Yorkshire, Capt. Edw. King, R. N. to the only child of the late F. Bennett, esq. of Bengal. At Hackney, the Rev. R. M. Austin, of Magdalen College, Cambridge, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of the late Sam. Warren, esq. of Lyme, Dorset. At Islington, John Ellis, esq. of Upper James-street, to Merciana Martha, third daughter of the late John Langton, esg, of Farnham Royal, Bucks. At Hampstead, J. A. Zwinger, esq. of New London-street, to Margaret, daughter of J. Browne, esq. of Brighton. Sir Francis Boynton, bart. to Miss Bucktrout. I Matthew Furst, esq. to Mary, eldest daughter of Mr. Jos. Colborne, architect, of Lymington,ne Sir Thos. Bernard, bart. to Charlotte Matilda, youngest daughter of the late Sir Edw. Hulse, bart.org aa At Paris, in October last, Col. Thornton, of sporting celebrity, to Priscilla, youngest daughter of Rob Duins, esq. formerly of Plymouth Dock-yard♫ Died.] At Pentonville, Sarah, widow of Edw. Field, esq. 77. i In Mansfield-street, Charlotte Amelia, wife of the Rt. Hon. T. Steele, and daughter of the late Gen. Sir Dav. Lindsay, bart. Lieut.-gen, Wm. Johnstone, late of the 3d Guards. At Brompton, Frances, daughter of the late Alex. Barclay, esq. 27. In Dean-street, Soho, Miss Franklin, eldest daughter of And. F. esq. 21. In York-street, Portman-square, Jobs Dorville, esq. 1815.] Account of Colonel de Charmilly, W. Porter, Esq., &c. In Clarges-street, Martin Dempsey, esq. In Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury, Mr. Wm. Nicholson, well known as the author of various literary works, and many years proprietor and editor of the Philosophical Journal, which was lately incorporated with Tilloch's Philosophical Magazine. [An account of this gentleman would be very acceptable.] On the 10th of June, after an union of 21. years, one of the worthiest of wives and of women, Mary, the beloved wife of Ambrose Pitman, esq. In St. James's-street, after being many years deprived of reason, Mr. Jas. Gillray, the celebrated artist. The Rt. Hon. Lord Torphichen. In Somerset-street, Portman-square, Mrs. At Hampstead, Mrs. Ann Slater, relict of the late Phil. S. esq. At Hampton Wick, Thos, Ryley, esq. 76. At Stepney, the Rev. Geo. Harper, D.D.1 rector of that parish. At Turnham Green, Mr. Greenwood, secretary to the Auction Mart. At Lisson Grove, the Rev. Dr. Calder, 82. ༄』** ས 1 At Islington, R. Holmes, esq. late of St. Martin's le Grand, At Maida Hill, Rich. Prichard, esq. in the East India Company's service. At Ghent, Cal, Peter Francis, Venault de Charmilly, Knight of St. Louis. This gentleman, who possessed property in St. Domingo, was one of those who during the war of the French Revolution, entered into a negotiation with a view to the reduction of that island under the authority of Great Britain. The manner in which he was meno tioned by the late Mr. Bryan Edwards, in his History of St. Domingo, occasioned his publishing a Refutation of that history in a quarto pamphlet in 1797. He afterwards obtained rank in the British army, married an English lady of distinction, and was employed during the war in Spain in an official capacity in the Peninsula. Some severe observons made in the House of Commons, by General Tarleton, relative to his conduct while upon this mission, led to the publication of a pamphlet by him under the title of "Narrative of Transactions in Spain," 8vo. 1810. He had recently obtained permission. of the Prince Regent to offer his services in support of Louis XVIII. At Madras, in the East Indies, Sir Samuel Hood, bart. commander in chief of his Majesty's ships on that station. [An account of 569 this excellent officer shall be given in our next number.] Master King, who had acquired great celebrity in the musical world as one of the finest juvenile singers since the youthful days of Harrison and Bartleman. Donald M'Nab, esq. a native of Atho!, N. B. who had acquired a large fortune by the practice of the law at Calcutta, where he resided 23 years, and whence he returned in August last. In Marchmont-street, Wm. Reeves, esq. the musical composer. In Upper Norton Street, William Porter, esq., an eminent Russia merchant, and lately appointed one of his majesty's commissioners of revenue for Scotland, 74. The virtues and talents of this respectable man will long be remembered, by all who had the happiness of knowing him in public or private life. He was educated at the college of Edinburgh, and in his 22d year was chosen to accompany Dr. Dumaresque from London to Russia; the empress Catherine having requested the aid of two gentlemen of literary taste and talents from Britain, to assist her in forming the imperial academy at Petersburgh. After being some time employed there, Mr. Porter was induced to enter into commercial life, in which he first experienced considerable prosperity, and afterwards adversity and great losses. But his honour and integrity were unblemished, and the just estimation in which he was held, both by his commercial friends, and by many persons of rank with whom he became acquainted in Russia, was strongly evinced by the very respectable appointment which was lately conferred upon him. He was true, faithful, and ardent in friendship, and his intelligent mind rendered his conversation and society peculiarly interesting, while his excellent principles on religious, moral, and political subjects were expressed with all the energy of a virtuous, and patriotic mind. He marriéil in 1797, the sister of the late Joseph Ewart, esq. formerly his Majesty's minister and plenipotentiary at the Court of Berlin. Wednesday, May 3, 1815, John, son of the Rev. S. Steele of Horley, Surrey. Words are almost inadequate to the task of doing justice to the character of this excellent and amiable young man, who had just attained the age of 20; whose temper was forgiving, and whose disposition was mild, generous, and open: though at that early period of life, the love of religion had infused into him the various qualities requisite to adorn the Christian. It is almost superfluous to say this young man had cultivated the esteem of a large circle of acquaintances and friends, and died equally regretted. He has left, a disconsolate family to bewail the loss of a dutiful son, and a beloved and affectionate brother. |