1815.] Marq. of Lothian, Lords Seaforth and Mount Sandford, &c. 75 Newbottle Abbey, a venerable and ancient pile, which recalled the memory of past ages, the magnificence of the monastic institutions, and the former grandeur in which the house of Lothian was accustomed to live in Scotland. In 1777, while a major-general, the marquis was appointed to the command of the 1st regiment of horse guards; in 1782, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general, and in 1796 to that of general. In 1778 and 1784, he was elected one of the sixteen representative peers of Scotland; but uring the agitation of the regency question in 1788 and 9, having voted against the ministry, his Lordship was dismissed from the command of his regiment of guards, and he has not since been returned to parliament. He obtained, however, in 1798, the colonelcy of the 11th light dragoons. His Lordship married, in 1760, Elizabeth Fortescue, daughter of Chichester F. Esq, of Dromisken, in Ireland, and niece, by the mother's side, of Lord Mornington, the grandfather of Marquis Wellesley. By this lady he had issue 1. William, Earl of Ancram, who, in 1793, married Lady Henrietta Hobart (whose marriage with the Earl of Belmore had been dissolved by act of Parliament), by whom he has a family; a d, secondly, in 1806, Henrietta, youngest daughter of the late Duke of Buccleuch. 2. Charles Beauchamp. 3. Mark Robert, a captain in the royal navy, married to the second daughter of the Marquis of Antrim 4. Robert, a captain in the army, married to Miss Roberts, 5. Eliza beth, married, in 1795, the Hon. Evelyn Pierrepoint Dormer, second son of the 8th Lord Dormer. 6. Caroline Sidney. 7. Mary, married in 1788, to the Hon. Gen. St. John, and died 1791. 8. Louisa, married, in 1793, Arthur Atherley, esq.-Since the death of the Marchioness in 1787, his lordship has resided almost entirely in the country; of late years he fixed his abode at Farnham, where he lived in great privacy. The virtues of charity, benevolence, and good-will towards all men, were never more conspicuous than in the character and habits of this nobleman, to whom deserving objects never applied in vain ; but unfortunately his lordship's means were far from being proportioned to the goodness of his heart. In Edinburgh, Francis Humberstone Mackenzie, Lord Seaforth, Baron Mackenzie, of Kintail, in the county of Ross, (so created 1796) F.R.S. F.L.S., a lient.-general in the army, and lord-lieutenant of Rossshire. He was born in 1754, and married Mary, daughter of the Rev. Baptist Proby, uncle to Lord Carysfort, by whom he has issue: William Frederic, his successor; George Levison Boucheret; Francis John; Mary Frederica Elizabeth, married in 1804, to Sir Samuel Hood, bart.; Francis; Catherine; Caroline; Charlotte; Elizabeth; Augusta; Anne, and Helen. His lordship was for several years governor of Barbadoes, from which island he had not long returned to his native country. In Dublin, Henry Moore Sandford, Baron Mount Sandford, of Castlerea, in Roscommon. He was born in 1751, and married in 1780, Catherine, eldest daughter of the Rt. Hon. Silver Oliver, of Castle Oliver, Limerick. As his lordship has died without issue, the title, conterred in 1800, devolves to his next brother, William, who is in holy orders. At Bath, Sir Henry Edwin Stanhope, bart. admiral of the blue. This gentleman, the only son of the late Edwin Francis Stanhope, esq. cousin of the Earl of Chesterfield, and gentleman usher to the Queen, was educated at Winchester College, and afterwards entered at the University of Oxford. He had not been long there, when evincing an unusual activity of mind, he was at the suggestion of the late Earl of Besborough equipped, in 1768, for the naval profession; and, after serving three years on the American station, returned home and took his degree. The breaking out of the American War again called him into active service, on the coast of New England, till, being ordered to go on shore at Newport in quest of some deserters he was taken prisoner by the Americans, and after a close confinement for several months, found means to effect his escape. In 1781, he was promoted to the rank of post-captain, by Admiral Rodney, in the West Indies, and, from 1782 to 1786, commanded the Mercury frigate, on the American station. He then passed some years in retirement, till 1794; and after serving in various ships, but without any opportunity of acquiring military distinction, he was in 1801, promoted to a flag. In 1805, he was appointed to his last professional employment, the command in the river Thames, at the expiration of which, in 1807 he was advanced to the dignity of a baronet of the United Kingdom. He married Peggy, daughter of Francis Malbone, esq. of Newport, Rhode Island, by whom he has left Edwin Francis, his successor, born in 1793, and four daughters. The deceased baronet is said to have retained, through life, a strong relish for literary studies, to which he dedevoted his intervals of leisure. Being desirous of reading the Old Testament in the original, he applied himself to the acquisition of the Hebrew language, and we have been informed," says the Editor of the Naval Chronicle, in the biographical account of him, (vol XV. p. 101)" that he has nearly completed a Bible with the accented pronunciation of the proper names, according to their derivations from the Hebrew and Greek. At Horsham, Sir Bysshe Shelley, bart. of Castle Goring, Sussex. He was born in 1730, and created a baronet in 1806. By his first wife, Mary Catherine, daughter and heiress of the Rev. Theobald Mitchell, of Hors 76 Account of Sir B. Shelley and J. P. Roberdeau, esq. [Feb. 1, ham, he had issue, Helen, married to Robt. Parker, esq. of Maidstone; Mary Catherine, died unmarried; and Timothy his successor in the title, and representative in parliament for New Shoreham, born 1755, and married in 1781, Elizabeth, daughter of Clas. Pilfold, esq. of Effingham, Surrey, by whom He has a family. By his second lady, Sir Bysshe had Ariana,married to Francis Aikin, caq. captain of the 5th Dragoon Guards; John, of Penshurst, who assumed the name of Sydney as heir to his mother, and married Henrietta Frances, 7th daughter of the late Sir Henry Hunloke, bart; Eliza Jane Caroline, married to the Rev. Jos. Harris, of Turville, Bucks; Robert, captain in the West Kent Militia, and three other sons who died young. At Chelsea, John Peter Robeṛdeau, esq. a gentleman whose pen has been successfully devoted both avowedly and anonymously, to various branches of the belles lettres. He was the representative of an honourable French Protestant family of opulence, which came to England in 1685, on account of the persecution authorized by Louis XIV. His father was a considerable silk manufacturer in Spital-fields, where his son was born, in 1754, having four sisters, the youngest of whom was married in 1775, to the late Alderman Le Mesurier. He received a liberal education, and discovered a dawn of literary talents at an early age, but was trained to commercial pursuits, which he not unsuccessfully followed with unsullied reputation and integrity, till 1796, when an inherited and increasing arthritic debility induced him to resort to an early retirement, though with a family of seven children then living by his marriage with a daughter of the late Rev. James Townley many years high master of Merchant Taylor's School. From 1796, he filled for three years the office of resident commissary of army stores in Surrey and Sussex, on the projet of a home staff, arranged by Sir Charles Grey, but abandoned at the close of 1799. Mr. R. had the satisfaction of seeing his three sons forwarded in life, by the affectionate kindness of his brother-in-law, Alderman Le Mesurier, whose liberal patronage, as East India Director, procured Bengal writerships for the two eldest, and for the youngest a commission in the Bengal cavalry, upon his renouncing the hazardous blank-abounding lottery of a naval life, for the luxuries of an upper oriental military career, with its attendant certainty of handsome retirement provision, after a stipulated service. The elder son, Henry, lived to attract considerable notice in India, both for official abilities and literary talent, but died in 1808, at the age of 25; which loss, added to that of two elder daughters, in the bloom of maturity, within a little month of each other, followed by that of their mother within the year, confirmed Mr. R. in that sequestered turn of mind and habitudes, which remained a source of regret to all who had partaken of the pleasure of his former more diffused colloquial intercourse. Besides being an unremittingly active, though often incognito, contributor, in verse and prose, to the respectable miscellanies of the day, he was the instigator and leading support of a weekly sheet of much originality, published at Chichester. He was also, in 1805, the father and founder of a considerable Library Society in proprietary shares, at Portsmouth, and which is now in a rapid progress, as honourable to its supporters as attractive to its vicinity. He has produced six dramatic pieces, one at Drury-lane theatre, the others at those of Chichester, Southampton, Portsmouth, and Lewes. One of his dramas," Thermopylæ, or Repulsed Invasion," was an enlargement from Glover's classic poem of Leonidas, and has twice had the good will of Mr. Kemble, for its acceptance as a Drame Ornée upon the London stage. It has been several times represented at Mr. Burney's Naval Academy at Gosport with much splendour; and the giving it to publication, forms a great desideratum for scholastic declamatory exercise, from its being more unexceptionably adapted for youthful study than any one English drama extant, Addison's patriotic dialogue of Cato being adumbrated by a love-plot. He published, in 1802, a volume of " Fugitive Verse and Prose," dedicated to his old schoolfellow, Earl Moira. Its contents evinced much versatility of talent from the depths of pathos to the height of broad humour and sparkling wit: it was flatteringly noticed by public criticism. In 1804, he was nearly the sole author (though a trio was assumed in the title-page as a ruse de guerre) of a poignant, but truly independent satirical poem, with extensive notes, called "Pure old England," but which suffered unmerited martyrdom from private pique against a discovered coadjutor, although his contribution was under three pages! From another Reviewer it received the best (though unmeant) compliment, by his noting, "that the political tenets of the author were undefinable, as all parties were equally held to ridicule !"-We believe Mr. R's declared final poetic effusions are a monodizing tribute to the memory of the heroic but ill-treated commander Sir John Moore, spoken on the Bath stage, where he then resided, and where he was also a contributor to a periodical local satiric sheet called "Le Papillon," professing hostility to the turpitude of that volcano of vice and folly-Bath! The other finale alluded to is "Stanzas of Sorrow,” upon the loss of his hopeful eldest son, which, if circulated beyond the restriction of private distribution, would claim rank with the heart-appealing laments of a Littleton and a Cuthbert Shaw, though of a more elevated tone, and adorned by the sublimest Asiatic mythology. The titles of Mr. R.'s dramas are The Point of Honour, (from PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES, IN THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND, ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY. BEDFORDSHIRE. At the late Bedford sessions it was resolved to apply to parliament for leave to raise money on the county rates for building a new and substantial stone bridge over the Ouse ae Tempsford, on the great north road; the expense of which, with the cause ways and subsidiary flood-bridges, is estimat. ed at 20,000l. The Society for promoting Christian Knowledge are establishing in this county parochial Sunday Schools, agreeably to Dr. Bell's plan. One is completed at Shefford; 70 girls and 70 boys dined on Christmas-day at Chicksand Priory. BERKSHIRE. The clergy in this county and that of Bucks have lately held several meetings for the purpose of forming parochial schools for the instruction of the adult poor, to enable them to read the sacred scriptures. Birth.] At Benham-place, the lady of Anthony Bacon, esq. of a son. Married.] At Abingdon, Mr. Brookes, jun. of Hammersmith, to Miss Shepherd, only daughter of Mr. S. of the Post Office. At Denchworth, Mr. Wm. Phillips, of Oxon, to Ann, youngest daughter of Mr. Frogley, sen. Died.] At Windsor, Mr. Tho. Benfield, chorister, only son of Mr. B one of the clerks of St. George's chapel. - Mr. Hunt, formerly of the Hope inn, Frogmore. At Newbury, John King, esq.-Mr. Budden, 91.. At Manor house, the seat of H. C. Compton, esq. the Rev. S. Berdmore, D. D. 70. At Speenhamland, Miss Appleton. At Wokingham, Mrs. Webb, wife of esq. W. At Lilly-hill, the Hon. General Hervey, a near relation of the Earl of Bristol and Countess of Liverpool, and a pec·liar favourite of his Majesty. The life and fortune of this excellent man were devoted to the discovery and relief of deserving objects. BUCKS. Died.] At Eaton, Mr. Adcock.-Mr. G. Sankey, 85. At Filgrave, the Rev. John Winter, M. A. rector of Tyringham cum Filgrave, and of Exhall, Warwickshire, formerly Fellow of Sidney College, Cambridge, B. A. 1761, M. A. 1767, aged 73. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. Married.] At Cambridge, the Rev. Henry Atlay, Fellow of St John's College in that University, rector of Wakerley, Northamptonshire, and St. George's, Stamford, to Elizabeth, second daughter of the late James Havell, esq. barrister.-Mr. Cambridge, of Basingbourn, to Miss Marshall, sister to Mr. Henry M. At Ely, Mr. John Freeman to Miss Mitchell. At Wisbech, Mr. Benj. Veall, of Boston, to Miss Fyson. Died] At Cambridge, at his apartments in Queen's College, Basil Anthony, only son of B. A. Keck, esq. of Leeds, 21.-Mr. Thos: Soulsby, 45.-Very suddenly, Edw. Gillam, esq. banker, a gentleman highly respected for his integrity, 77. At Wisbech. Mrs. Harrison, wife of Mr. John H. 49.-Mr.Wm. Jackson-Mr.Wm. Gilding. At Stretham, Mr. Jos. Read, 62. At Soham, Mr. Thos. Dobede. At March, Mrs. Matthews, widow, 42.Mr. John Peggs, 68. are CHESHIRE. In the town of Macclesfield only, there near 2,500 children who receive instruction in Sunday Schools established there. A grave, in St. Peter's church, Chester, having been lately opened, the body of a young woman, which had been buried upwards of eighty years, was found quite perfect; her long auburn tresses and placid countenance, presented a most interesting spectacle. Birth.] At Norton Priory, Lady Brooke, of a son and heir. Married.] At Prestbury, Mr. Wm. Morgrite to Miss Ann Knight. At Chester, Mr. John Naylor to Miss Patterson. Mr. Rich. Kent, of Nantwich, to Anne, second daughter of the late Rich Craven, Esq of Stoke Hall. Andrew Clark, jun, esq. of Liverpool, to Sarah, eldest daughter of Mr. Hil, surgeon.-Mr. John Wilson, aged 24, to Miss Betty Clinton (commonly called Lady Clinton), aged 72. Died.] At the Hales Pasture, All Lostock, Mrs. Taylor, 75. At Chester, Miss Rogers, 70.-Mr. John Roberts, salt-merchant.-Mrs. Humphries, many years housekeeper to Col. Barnston.-Ann, only daughter of Mr. Pritchard, taylor and draper. At Bradfield-green, Mr. Jas. Johnson, 81. At Farndon, Chas. Goodwin, esq. 95. At Parkgate, Miss Taylor, sister to Mr. T. brewer, of Tranmere. At Bostock-hall, Thos. France, esq. 54. At Over-Peover, Mr. Thos. Jackson. At Thornton, Rachel, wife of Jos. Williamson, clerk of that parish, and mother of 29 children, 76. [Feb. 1, Duke of Kent, Falmouth packet, to Ann, daughter of Mr. Jos. Carne, of Truro. At St. Martin's, Geo. Jewell, esq. to Mrs. Henry Harcourt, both of East Looe. Died.] A Truro, Mrs. Turner, 91.-The Rev. Wm. Paddon, 24 years the faithful and affectionate pastor of the congregation of Independent Dissenters in that town.—Mr. J. Blight, of the Red Lion Inn. At Bodmin, in childbed, Mrs. Bennett, wife of John B. esq. solicitor.—Mr. Wm, Pope, a man of very penurious habits. He has bequeathed the interest of all his property after the death of a distant relation to the poor man's box in that town. At Treneague, St. Stephens, Mrs. Bees At Bidston, Mr. Thos. Wilson, many ton, widow of Henry B. esq. of Mawgan. years clerk of that parish, 84. CORNWALL. At the first monthly meeting of the Geological Society of Cornwall, for the present year, was read a very interesting communication from Mr. Chynhalls, of St. Just, in which he gave an account of an instrument termed the Shifting Cartridge, invented by him for the purpose of delivering a measured charge of gunpowder to the bottom holes made for blasting rocks. Two advantages will be derived from this machine-a saying of gunpowder, amounting, according to Mr. Chynball's calculations from experiments, to one quarter of the whole used, and the diminishing the probability of accidents, by preventing any of the powder adhering to the sides of the hole. It was resolved that a number of these instruments should be sent to the principal mines, together with the tamping bars, of metallic alloy, lately brought into notice by Sir Rose Price, bart. The Society is raising a subscription for purchasing a set of rooms, and forming a geological map of the mining districts of this county, to which the Prince Regent, with his usual munificence, has contributed 1051. Birth.] At Camelford, the lady of the Rev. Thos. Warren of a son. Married.] At Veryan, John Gwatkin, esq. in the civil service of the E. I. C. to Charlotte, daughter of the Rev. Js. Trist, of Behan Park. At Falmouth, Lieut. Rob. Snell, R. N. to Mrs. Moon. At St. Columb, Mrs. T. Buckthought to Miss B. Treviton. At Camelford, Mr. H. Hosking to Miss D. Carew. At St. Ives, Mr. J. Kernick, to Miss Leonora Stevens.-Mr. John Thomas, to Miss Phillips. At Padstow, Wm. Mitchell, esq. to Miss Ellis, of Penzance. At Mawgan, the Rev. Thomas Grylls, rector of Cardynham, to Sarah, youngest daughter of Jas. Willyams, esq. of Car nanton. At Kenwyn, Mr. Crosby, master of the At Penzance, Mr. Roscrow, 60.-Miss Ann Brewer.-Mr. John Heath, 84. At Tremail, Mr. Geo. Chapman. At St. Columb, Ann, wife of Mr. Chas. Bennets, farmer, of the market there.-H. Warne, esq. 70. At St. Ives, Mr Geo. Williams. At Falmouth, Mrs. Bullocke, wife of Capt. B. of the Walsingham packet. -On board the General Blucher, R. P. Holbrook, esq. CUMBERLAND. Birth.] At Moor House-hall, the lady of H. Bradburne, esq. of Woodlands, Surrey, of a daughter. Married.] At Woodend, near Gatehouse, Capt. John Gordon, of the sloop Mary of Fleet, to Miss Euphemia M'Neil. At Carlisle, Mr. John Graham, to Miss Mary Marshall.-Mr. Richardson, of Hutton, to Miss Monkhouse, of Middlesceughhall. Mr. C. Watson, eldest son of Mr. W. of Easton, Bowness, to Miss M. Shepherd, only daughter of the Rev. Mr. S. of Mangrisdale. At Loweswater, Mr. Abr, Hetherington, of Cockermouth, to Miss Pearson, of Low Park, near Loweswater. At Haltwhistle, the Rev. Jos. Gillbanks, to Miss Carrick, of High Town. Died.] At Carlisle, Mr. Harrison, 34.Mr. Rob. Moses, 75.-Mr. Thos. Baty, 82. Jean, wife of Mr. Alex, Kirkpatrick, 56.Ann, wife of Mr. Philip Turner, 24.—Mr. Geo. Bell.-Jean, wife of Mr. Wm. Bennett, 46. At Whitehaven, Mr. Scott. At the Grainge, in the parish of Caldbeck, Mr. John Brown, of Thistlebottom, 67. At Workington, Capt. Jos. Tyrrel.-Mary, daughter of Mr. R. Peat, auctioneer. At St. Bees, Mr. Jos. Piper, 46. At Whiteshaws, Mr. J. Richardson, 85. At Linstock, Margaret, wife of Mr. Jas. Lennox, 39. At Parkhead, near Kirkoswald, the Rev. Jas, Scott, congregational minister there, 58. 1815.] Derby-Devon.-Dorset-Durham. 79 At Penrith, Sarah, wife of Mr. John Gib- atd to Admiral Domett. He shot himself in son, 46.-Mrs. Eliz. Cannon, 79. At Hensingham, Mrs. Gray, widow, 83. On his passage from the Baltic, Capt. Wm. Thornburn, of the brig Fisher, of Maryport. At Bow, near Carlisle, Lydia, wife of John Parker, esq. 81. A singular circumstance attending the family of this lady was, that her father's name was John Norman, as was also that of her husband, till he changed it for Parker, and that the name of John Nor. man is borne by her son, grandson, and great grandson: the four last of whom survive her. DERBYSHIRE. Died.] At Tibshelf, Jonathan Wheeldon, labourer, in his 102d year. At Hartington, the Rev. B. Hope, 20 years vicar of that parish. At Derby, Mr. Rich, Bassano, 64. At Wood Linkens, near Codnor, Mrs. Kirkland, wife of Mr. K. of Wollaton, Notts, 64. At Long Eaton, Mr. Clifford, of the Bell Inn, 53. At Willington, Mrs. Dethick, widow. DEVONSHIRE. Several farms in this county, as also in Cornwall and Somerset, have lately been let upon lease at a corn rent; the landlord and tenant being agreed that when wheat is at the average price of 8s. per bushel at the market where the produce of the farm is sold, the annual rent of the farm shall be (suppose) 300l.; then as wheat may increase or decrease in price, the rent shall suffer a proportionate increase or diminution, having the limits of 12s. as a maximum, and 6s. as a minimum, above or below which no alteration takes place in the rent, which thus vibrates between 2251. and 4501. The annual average to be struck by the regular and fair prices of the named market, taken four times a year. Birth.] At Plymouth, Mrs. Langdon, of two girls, Married.] At Plymouth, And. Pinwill, esq. to Jane, youngest daughter of the late Mr. Edw. Lang.-Mr. Jas. Jacks to Jemima, daughter of Capt. Bell.-Mr. Symons, navyagent, to Miss Mordecai.- Mr. Chubb, surgeon, Millbrook, to Miss Jeffery. At Exeter, Mr. J. Isbell, surgeon, of Stonehouse, to Miss Moore.-Mr. R. Swansborough, of London, to Emma, second daughter of the late R. Chamberlain, esq. At Heavitree, the Rev. Walter Kitson, of Denbury, to Mary, eldest daughter of the late John Jones, esq. Died.] At Plymouth, Mrs. Henry Hughes, the favourite actress of the theatre of that town, 35.-Mrs. Leach, wife of Capt. L. R. N.-Mrs. Collins, wife of Mr. C. purser, R. N.-Mrs. Buchan, wife of Mr. B. ironmonger.-Mr. John Tobin, late acting stew a fit of insanity.-Mr. Brown, assistantsurgeon at the Dock-yard.-Sam. Carpenter, esq. of the Inner Temple, barrister at law, and a commissioner of appeals in the excise. Near Plymouth, Mr. Norman M'Leod, son of the late Capt. M'L. of the island of Tobago, 21. At Alphington, the Rev. B. Pering, rector of the united parishes of St. Mary Arches and St. Olave, Exeter. At Barnstaple, Lieut.-col. Cockburn, 98. At Tracey house, Huniton, Louisa, youngest child of H. B. Lott, esq. At Sidmouth, W. L. Oxenham, esq. of Newhouse, $4. His very extensive estates in this county devolve to his nephew, John Acland, esq. of Fairfield, Somersetshire. At Mamhead cottage, Mary Ann, wife of N. M. Moore, esq. of Garway, Co. Ty rone, Ireland. At Exeter, Mr. Coffin, statuary, 90.Capt. Hoskis, R. N.—J. Pinhey, esq. an alderman, and one of the eight justices of peace for the city, for which he served the office of chief magistrate in 1792 and 1803. -Mr. G. N. Balle.-Capt. Hotchkis, on the superannuated list of post-captains. At Dawlish, Mrs. Prowse, relict of the Rev. Mr. P. vicar of that parish, 97. At Teignmouth, Mrs. Pidsley, relict of John P. esq. of Rydon, 70. At Tavistock, Mr. Bridgman, attorney, late of Dartmouth. At Primley-hill house, Eleanor, wife of the Rev. Finny Belfield, jun. and eldest daughter of Mr. Alderman Daniel, Bristol. DORSETSHIRE. Married.] The Rev. Dav. Williams, of Sherborne, to Miss Hawker, daughter of the late Edw. H. esq. R. N. Died.] At Blandford, James Brine, esq. admiral of the white, father of Captains August and James Brine, R. N. At Osmington, R. T. Wood, esq. DURHAM. Among the literary curiosities in the libra ry of the cathedral of Durham, is a copy of Magna Charta, dated 19th November, 1216; another, dated 14th of February, 1224, (from these Judge Blackstone made his collection;) a manuscript copy of the Bible, in 4 vols. folio, 600 years old: and Bede's five books of History, of the same date. Married.] At Seaham, Lord Byron, to Miss Milbanke, sole daughter and heiress of Sir Ralph M. bart. At South Shields, Mr. Christopher, of Stockton, bookseller, to Mrs. Brown, late of Durham. At Darlington, Mr. John Stamper, of Brasterton mill, to Miss Petch. At Craike, Mr. George Rymer, teacher of mathematics, to Ann, eldest daughter of Benj. Wardman, esq. At Bishopwearmouth, Thos. Wilkinson, |