ÆäÀÌÁö À̹ÌÁö
PDF
ePub
[ocr errors]

544

Baron Clinton-General Dalrymple.

terden had his predilections in favour of authority. All official functionaries felt that they might confide in the amplitude of that judicial mantle within whose folds no shelter, that decency permitted, was refused to them. Under the legal' reign of Abbott, the unpaid magistrates of this country had no cause to complain that the Government of the King's Bench was less "paternal" than at any former period. Still his Lordship was a distinguished and very able Judge. Although without much personal dignity, beyond what was inseparable from suavity of manners directed by good sense, Lord Tenterden contrived to keep his Court in admirable order. The most arrogant spirits sunk habitually under his steady and grave rebuke."

BARON CLINTON.

At Florence, on his way to the south of Italy, the Right Hon. Robert Cotton St.

John Trefusis, Baron Clinton. His Lordship was a Colonel in the army, and distinguished himself under the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula, and one of

the Lords of the Bed-chamber. He was born 28th April, 1787, and succeeded to the barony on the demise of his father, 1797. On the 4th of August, 1814, his Lordship married Frances Isabella, eldest daughter of W. S. Poyntz, Esq., of Cowdray Park, Sussex, by whom there is no issue. His Lordship was the 16th Baron Clinton, and the eldest co-heir of the ancient Barony of Say, which has remained in abeyance for several centuries. The Hon. Charles Rodolphus Trefusis, brother to his Lordship, succeeds to his titles and

estates.

JAMES STEPHEN, ESQ.

Mr. Stephen died at Bath, on the 10th October, of a diseased liver. He was in his seventy-fourth year. It is some years since Mr. Stephen retired from the field of politics; but those among us who recollect the busy, eventful period of Perceval's Administration, cannot soon forget the prominent part which Mr. Stephen took in all the Parliamentary warfare of the day. He was descended from a respectable family in the county of Aberdeen, and was born at Poole, in Dorsetshire, and educated at Winchester. Mr. Stephen lost his father, who was also at the bar, in early life: being thus left to his own resources, he went to the West Indies, shortly after the acknowledgment of American independence, and practised in St. Kitts for many years with great success. He here acquired that intimate

Dec. 1,

knowledge of Colonial law for which he was justly celebrated; and, with it, he imbibed that horror of the Colonial system, which led him to become one of its most distinguished opponents. When he returned from St. Kitts, he obtained a very large and lucrative practice in the Cockpit; sharing with the late Chief Jus tice Dallas nearly all the prize appeals that came before the Privy Council. Our commercial readers will recollect how frequently the violation of neutrality led to the capture and condemnation of American vessels. Mr. Stephen was the first to direct public attention to this important subject, in a small pamphlet, entitled "War in Disguise, or the Frauds of the Neutral Flags." It was published anonymously; but it evinced a knowledge of the subject, and an ability of pen, which could not fail to render its author a valuable

auxiliary to the Government of the day; liament for a Government borough. He suggested, and virtually, we believe, arranged, the whole system of Continental blockade, which, for many years, occasioned greater embarrassment to Bonaparte than all the other operations of the war put together. Of this system, Mr. Stephen was the great Parliamentary supporter, as the present Chancellor was its most strenuous opponent in the same arena. Whether it rested upon correct or mistaken commercial principles it matters little now to inquire; but it most unlities of what we may call the neutral beldoubtedly succeeded in checking the hostiligerents, and in augmenting the difficulties of France. It had, too, another effect, which its author had indeed foreseen, but to which he was too high-minded to attach the least importance-it annihilated the whole of that prize appeal business from which his professional income was derived. It was in consideration of this generous and patriotic sacrifice that Mr. Perceval obtained for him the appointment of one of the Masters in Ordinary of the Court of Chancery; having previously offered to make him Attorney-General, or a puisne Judge, which Mr. Stephen declined.

and Mr. Stephen was soon seated in Par

GENERAL DALRYMPLE.

General William Tombes Dalrymple died on the 26th of October, in the 96th year of his age. He entered the navy, at first, very early in life; but his health being considered too delicate for the sea-service, he left that profession, and resumed his studies until the 21st of January, in the year 1756. He entered the army under the immediate protection of General Hedworth Lambton, then commanding the

1832.

Incidents and Ecclesiastical Preferments.

54th (afterwards 52d) regiment of foot, in whose regiment, by an " Army List" of the year 1756, his name appears as youngest ensign. In the year 1789, when Colonel, commanding the Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot at Gibraltar, the General

545

received the appointment of Groom of the Bed-chamber to his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, his present most gracious Majesty, and to the latest hour of his life he retained the esteem and highly distinguished friendship of his Sovereign.

INCIDENTS, ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS, APPOINTMENTS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

The parish of St. James have resolved upon instituting a strict and impartial inquiry into the amount at which houses are rated, and to assess them in future upon a more equitable principle. Not only is the value of the house to be taken into consideration, but its extent also-the ground it occupies in front and depth is to be measured, and the rate is to be made proportionably. Thus Burlington House, which hitherto was rated at only 8007., has been tried by the new standard, and rated at 4000. The example thus set by St. James's parish is worthy of being followed by other parishes. It is notorious that the palaces of noblemen have been rated much lower than the humble habitations of tradesmen.

Mr. Ballantine's decision, as to the liability of pawnbrokers to make good losses sustained by fire, was confirmed by the Middlesex Magistrates; the Court of King's Bench has, however, taken a different view of the case, and decided that the pawnbroker is not liable.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

The Rev. John Birt, D.D., of Christ Church, Oxford, Master of the King's School, Canterbury, to be Master of the Free Grammar School at Faversham, in Kent.

The Rev. Henry Deane, B.C.L., Fellow of New College, to the Vicarage of Gillingham, Dorset, vacant by the death of Archdeacon Fisher.

The Rev. Richard John Lockwood Maydwell, B.A. to the Vicarage of Southwick, Northamptonshire, vacant by the cession of the Rev. John James.

The Rev. James Deacon to the Vicarage of South Walsham St. Mary, Norfolk.

The Rev. C. B. Cooper, A.M., to the Rectory of Morley St. Botolph, with the Chapel of Morley St. Peter annexed, Norfolk.

The Rev. Uriah Tonkin to the Vicarage of Ury Lefant, vacant by the cession of the Rev. Wm. John Phillpott.

The Rev. William Heberden Carslake to the Rectories of Creacombe and Meshaw.

The Rev. William Powley to the District Chapel of Starcross, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Christopher C. Bartholomew. Dec.-VOL. XXXVI. NO. CXLIV.

The Rev. Arthur Tatham to the Rectory of Bosconnock and Broadoak, vacant by the death of the Rev. Thomas Bennett.

The Rev. William Timothy Napleton to the Perpetual Curacy of Stoke Cannon, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. P. Fisher, D.D.

The Rev. William Stephen Dobson, M.A., to the Head Mastership of the Free Grammar School of Kirkby Lonsdale, vacant by the resignation of his father, the Rev. John Dobson, who held the trust for nearly half a century.

The Rev. A. L. L. Kaye, of Brasennose College, to the Rectory of Thornton-in-Craven.

The Rev. C. Beauchamp Cooper, of University College, Oxford, to the Rectory of Morley, Norfolk, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. Howard.

The Rev. E. Hughes, B.D. Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, to the Rectory of Nutfield, Surrey, vacant by the death of the Rev. E. Sandford.

The Rev. Wm. Turner, M. A. of Christ Church, Oxford, to the Prebendal Stall of Seaford, in that Cathedral, void by the death of the Rev. Dr.

Lettice.

The Rev. C. Matthew, M.A. of Baliol College, Oxford, to the Rectory of Langford, adjoining to Maldon, Essex.

The Rev. Israel Bull, A.M., to the Rectory of Fleet Marston, near Aylesbury, Bucks.

The Rev. E. Brice, Rector of Thorneyburn, to the Perpetual Curacy of Humshaugh, void by the resignation of the Rev. F. Laing; and the Rev. E. Beatty, to the Rectory of Bellingham, both in the county of Durham, void by the resignation of the Rev. J. Davis.

APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS, &c. The King has been graciously pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Sir Stratford Canning, G.C.B., to be his Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of All the Russias.

The King has been graciously pleased to approve of Mr. John Fottrell as Consul at Dublin, and of Mr. Alfred Fox as Consul at Falmouth, for his Majesty the King of the Belgians.

The King has been graciously pleased to appoint the Right Hon. John Lord Ponsonby to be his Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Sublime Ottoman Porte.

The Hon. William Temple to be his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of the Two Sicilies,

3 L

546

Appointments, Promotions, &c.-Marriages.

The Hon. Francis Reginald Forbes to be his Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Saxony.

The Hon. Wm. Thomas Horner Fox Strangways to be Secretary to his Majesty's Embassy at the Court of Vienna.

John Kennedy, Esq., to be Secretary to his Majesty's Legation at the Court of Naples.

Mr. Serjeant Spankie has been appointed a King's Serjeant, in the room of the late Sir Albert Pell.

The Senatus Academicus of the University and King's College of Aberdeen have unanimously re-elected the Right Hon. Viscount Arbuthnot Lord Rector for the year ensuing.

Mr. Serjeant Merewether has received from his Majesty a patent of precedency, and has taken his seat within the bar of the Court of King's Bench.

In the Court of King's Bench, Messrs. Joy, Beames, Swanston, and Rolfe, have been appointed King's Counsel.

Sir Thomas Denman has appointed his son Mr. Thomas Denman, Marshal and Associate of the Court of King's Bench.

The King has been pleased to grant unto the Right Hon. William George, Earl of Erroll, the office of Knight Marischal of Scotland, in the room of Sir Alexander Keith, deceased.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Mr. Alexander Harrison, of Birmingham, a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

Sir Thomas Denman has been appointed Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, in the room of the Right Hon. Lord Tenterden, deceased.

Dec. 1,

the late E. Green, Esq., of Hinxton Hall, Cambridgeshire.

At Blackrock, Cork, J. Beamish, Esq., to Louisa Erskine, youngest daughter of the late Lieut.-Col. M'Donald, formerly Adjutant-Gene ral of his Majesty's Forces in India.

At Brompton, the Hon. H. Arundell, son of the late Right Hon. J. Everard, ninth Lord Arundell, of Wardour Castle, and eldest son of the Dowager Lady Arundell, Dover-street, to Elizabeth, daughter of J. Esdaile, Esq. Sanderstead Court, Surrey.

At the British Ambassador's Chapel at Paris, William, son of R. Fitzgerald, Esq. of Muckeridge House, Cork, to Sarah, relict of the late Rev. C. Dewell, of Malmsbury.

At the Palace, Valetta, R. Anstruther, Esq. of Thirdpart, Fife, Major in the 73rd Regt. to Louisa, daughter of Sir H. Elphinstone. Bart. of Ore-place, Sussex, Colonel in the Corps of Royal Engineers.

At St. Mary-la-bonne, J. Saumarez, son of the late Sir R. Jephson, Bart. to Elizabeth, daughter of the late Colonel Huxley.

At Dixton Church, Major C. Marriott, of Sellersbrook, Herefordshire, to Catherine, daughter of the late G. Griffin, Esq. of Newton House, Monmouthshire.

At the Cape of Good Hope, H. F. Dumergue, Esq. of the Madras Civil Service, to Anna, youngest daughter of J. Marshall, Esq. President of the Government at the Cape.

At Gordon Castle, N.B. the Marquis of Abercorn, to Lady Louisa Russell, daughter of the Duke of Bedford.

James Grant, Esq., Banffshire, to Cecilia Sir William Horne has been appointed Attor- Margaret, youngest daughter of the late Sir J. ney-General; and

Mr. Campbell, Solicitor-General.

Married.]-At St. James's Church, Robert Otway Cave, Esq., M.P. of Castle Otway and Lisson Hall, in the county of Tipperary, to Sophia, eldest daughter of Sir Francis Burdett,

Bart.

At Badmington, George Finch, Esq., to the Lady Louisa Elizabeth Somerset, fifth daughter of the late Duke of Beaufort.

At Brockville, Canada, F. R. Foote, Esq., Assistant Commissary General, son of Vice-Admiral Sir E. J. Foote, K.C.B. to Charlotte, daughter of Dr. Hubbell, M.D.

Sidney Smith Depnall, Esq., of the Grove, Camberwell, to Anne, youngest daughter of the late John Taylor Hicks, Esq., of Chattisham Place, Suffolk.

At Ross, Dumbarton, A. W. Leith, Esq. advocate, son of Major-General Sir G. Leith, Bart., to Jemima, daughter of the late H. Buchanan, Esq., of Ross.

At Mary-le-bone, the Rev. A. Lake, of West Walton, Norfolk, son of the late Sir J. W. Lake, Bart., to Sophia, daughter of the late S. Turner, Esq., of Upper Wimpole-street.

At Kilcullen Church, G. Heathcote, Esq. M.D. of Prospect Hill, Galway, to Annie, daughter of F. Homan, Esq., late Comptroller of the British Mail, Dublin.

At Walcot Church, Bath, the Rev. H. Smith, A.M., son of Sir J. W. Smith, Bart., of the Down House, Dorsetshire, to Elizabeth, daughter of

Leslie, Bart.

At Chelsea, W. Robinson, Esq. of Montagueplace, to Sophia Augusta, daughter of the late T. Barker, Esq. of Rio de Janeiro.

At Itchen Abbas, Hants, Hugh, son of Archdeacon Berners, of Wolverstone Park, Suffolk, to Alice, youngest daughter of the late J. Ashton, Esq. of the Grange, Cheshire,

At St. George's, Hanover-square, and afterwards at the Catholic Chapel, Warwick-street, the Hon. Fred. Longworth Browne, youngest son of the late and brother to the present Lord Kilmaine, to Lucy, only daughter of Sir James and Lady Frances Wedderburne, of Chesterfield-street, May-fair.

At St. Vedast Foster, G. Horsley, Esq. to Jacoba, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Watson, Vicar of Denford and Ringstead, and Curate of the above parish.

At Marylebone, the Rev. B. G. Bridges, son of the late Sir B. W. Bridges, Bart. of Goodnestone Park, Kent, to Louisa, daughter of the late C. Chaplin, Esq. of Blankney, Lincolnshire.

At St. George's, Hanover-square, the Rev. Dr. Pearson, F.R.S., Rector of South Kilworth, near Lutterworth, Leicestershire, to Miss Hunter, of Wilton-place, Belgrave-square.

At St. George's, Hanover-square, the Hon. Theobald Fitz Walter Butler, eldest son of Lord Dunboyne, to Julia, second daughter of the late W. Brander, Esq. of Morden Hall, Surrey.

At St. Mary-le-bone, the Rev. J. H. Davies, M.A. to Elizabeth, daughter of the late Right Hon. Sir A. Hart, Lord High Chancellor of Ireland.

[ocr errors]

1832.

Deaths and Provincial Occurrences.

At St. Pancras, J. W. Deacon, Esq., eldest son of J. J. Deacon, Esq., of Ulster-place, Regent'spark, to Esther, eldest daughter of T. Greenwood, Esq., of Cumberland-place, Regent's Park.

At St. James's, Colchester, Captain Schreiber, late of the 18th Hussars, to Anne, eldest daughter of A. W. Hume, Esq.

At St. James's Westminster, J. Fitz-James, Esq., of Holles-street, Cavendish-square, to Arabella, widow of C. Offley, Esq., of Upfield Lodge, Gloucestershire, and youngest daughter of Captain T. Martin.

At the British Chapel, Genoa, Emile De la Rue, Esq. of Geneva, to Augusta, daughter of A. Granet, Esq., Commissary-General to the Forces.

At Clapham, the Rev. R. D. Backhouse, M.A., Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, to Mary, eldest daughter of D. R. Remington, Esq.

At St. George's, Hanover-square, the Hon. G. L. Massey, son of the late Major-General Lord Clarina, to Rebecca, widow of the late J. Cann, Esq., of Haverhill House, Herefordshire.

Died.]-Aged 57, the Right Hon. Godfrey Bosville Macdonald, of Thorpe, near Bridlington, in Yorkshire, and of Armadill Castle, Isle of Skye, a Lieutenant-General in the Army.

At Kensington Gore, the Hon. Thomas Windsor, in his 81st year.

At Wood End, near Chichester, the Right Hon. Lady Emily Charlotte Berkeley, widow of the late Admiral the Hon. Sir George Berkeley, G.C.B., in the 71st year of her age.

At Dublin, Sir R. Harty, an Alderman of and late temporary Member for, that city in conjunction with Mr. Perrin.

At Blandford, Dorsetshire, the Hon. A. Stuart, formerly of the Queen's Bays, the only (and twin) brother of the Earl of Moray, aged 62.

At Greenwich, Mrs. Ann Bridges, widow of the late General G. Bridges, of the Royal Engi

neers.

C. Smythe, Esq. of Brambringe House, near

547

Winchester, brother of Mrs. Fitzherbert and Lady Haggetstone.

At Peasmarsh, Sussex, the Rev. John Lettice, D.L., in his 95th year.

At the Hall, Wigan, the Hon. and Rev. G. Bridgman, Rector of Wigan, brother to the late and uncle to the present, Earl of Bradford, aged 67 years.

At Dalhousie Castle, George, Lord Ramsay. In the Madras Presidency, where the regiment is stationed, in the 45th year of his age, Lieut.Colonel Henry Thomas Shaw, of his Majesty's 45th Regt., son of the late Sir John Gregory Shaw, Bart. of Kenward, in the County of Kent,

On his way to Corfu, the Rev. G. Winneck, Chaplain to the Forces, aged 41.

In Grafton-street, Fitzroy-square, J. B. Cobb, Esq. late of the East India House.

At Shooter's Hill, aged 76, Lieut.-General Cuppage, Royal Artillery, and Inspector of the Royal Carriage Department.

At Dale Park, Arundel, Frances Dowager Marchioness of Bute.

The Rev. John Percival, Minister of St. Peter's Chapel, Marylebone, and Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford.

At Dominica, on the 14th September last, after a few days' illness, Deputy Assistant Commissary-General C. E. Monk, Esq.

The Right Rev. Dr. Burke, Protestant Bishop of Waterford, at his residence in Waterford.

At Brighton, the Right Hon. Lady Stafford, of Cossey.

At Riga, A. H. Aiken, Esq., his Britannic Majesty's Consul there, aged 61.

At Belgrave-square, Letitia, wife of Vice-Admiral Sir C. Ogle, Bart.

At Oak Bank, near Sevenoaks, the Right Hon. Catherine Ann, Countess of Aboyne, aged 61.

Lady Ann Vernon Harcourt, the lady of the Archbishop of York, at his palace at Bishopsthorpe, Yorkshire, in her 71st year. She was the third daughter of the first Marquess of Stafford.

PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES

IN THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND, AND IN WALES, SCOTLAND AND IRELAND.

[blocks in formation]

548 Middlesex-Northumberland-Warwickshire-Wiltshire. Dec. 1,

ety in that city for the Relief of the Poor, and thereby enabling them to keep themselves from the necessity of applying for parochial relief.

Port of Gloucester.-The first active step towards the establishment of a direct intercourse between the West India Colonies and this Port has been made manifest, by the arrival in our Basin of a vessel purchased for the express purpose of the trade. To the firm of Messrs. Phillpotts and Baker, of London, belongs the credit of this adventure. The vessel is a fine barque 230 tons register, named the Isabella. On her nearing the Basin, the crowd was immense; and her entrance was greeted by repeated hurrahs, the firing of cannon, ringing of bells, and other demonstrations of joy. She brought in her from London one hundred hogsheads of sugar; and will immediately take on board a freight of hoops, fire-bricks, salt, &c., for Jamaica, whence she will return direct with a full cargo of colonial produce for this Port.

MIDDLESEX.

County Rate of Middlesex.-For the current quarter the rate is fixed at one penny in the pound, at which sum, inconsiderable as it may appear, it will produce the large amount of 22,5531. Thirty days are allowed to the different parishes for the payment of their respective proportions. The stir made some time back by the Magistrates respecting certain parishes which habitually ran into long arrears, and the threat of issuing distress warrants upon the property of the Churchwardens and Overseers, have not been without their good effects in facilitating the collection of the rate. The amount in arrear on the county day of last Session, when the rate was made, was about 12,000l., of which more than onehalf has since been paid. Even the parishes of Bethnal-green, Mile-end, and others, which used regularly to be four quarters in arrear, are now never more than two. This change is in part to be attributed to the gratifying fact that the pressure of distress, arising from want of work, which so long prevailed in the silk-manufacturing districts of the Metropolis, is now to a very considerable degree removed.

Antiquities at Staines.-A few weeks back some ancient buildings in Staines, the property of G. Fournier, Esq., were pulled down. They stood on the site of the Old George Inn, and were supposed to be nearly four hundred years old. Tradition has stated this inn to be the lodging place of Queen Elizabeth when on her road to Windsor. J. Langridge, Esq., an antiquary, made a minute search over the buildings as the workmen were proceeding in their work of demolition, and discovered in one of the long rooms (which had been divided into tenements), a large painting over the fire-place. He had the whitewash, &c. carefully removed, and thus brought again to view the perfect arms of Queen Elizabeth, richly emblazoned. On the dexter and sinister sides of the supporters were drawn two angels, holding cornucopias of flowers, fruits, &c. designed, no doubt, to form a wreath over the regal coronet. A copy was taken, as it was found impracticable to take down the original so as to preserve it entire. Many very curious Latin sentences were

also found scratched on the walls, indicative of the style of the company admitted as guests.

NORTHUMBERLAND.

A discovery of a large quantity of coins has been recently made in a church-yard at Hexham. The sexton and an assistant were employed in forming a grave on the west side of the north transept, in a piece of ground known by the name of the Campy-hill, and which has been for several years back appropriated as an additional church-yard. From some local cause it was necessary to go to the depth of about seven feet. In doing so, the sexton struck a brass vessel, in the form of a pitcher or flagon, in which were contained the coins, which are all brass, to the amount of about 10,000. This vessel is very thin and with a loose handle, highly ornamented, and had, most probably, been placed in the ground and had the coins poured into it, being too thin in substance to have borne the weight. On the coins presenting themselves, they were imagined to be gold, and were readily seized by the persons employed, and many in consequence have been dispersed; the bulk of them, however, are in the possession of the Rev. Mr. Airey, the perpetual curate, who, by virtue of such office, claims them. This gentleman, actuated by the laudable wish that a discovery of such importance should, in the first place, enrich the Museum of the Antiquarian Society of this district, has determined that an accurate examination shall be had, and that the vessel, with a complete set of the coins, shall be depo. sited there. The coins which have been as yet examined, are found to be Stycas of Eanred, Ethelred, and Redulf, Kings of Northumberland, and of Eanbald and Vigmund, Archbishops of York. Of the two former Kings and second Bishop there are the greatest number, and many varieties occur as well from the names of the moneyers, as from the different construc. tion of the letters. It will be fair to infer, as there are not any coins of Osbercht, that they may have been concealed about the time of Redulf, nearly 1000 years ago, and although found so deep now, were not probably above two feet below the surface when placed there, as from the ruins of parts of the church, and other causes, a great accumulation of rubbish has taken place. No coffin or remains were found which could have any connexion with the concealment of the coins.

WARWICKSHIRE.

A public cemetery has been formed at Birmingham, to be open for the interment of persons of all religious denominations, who shall be allowed to use their own form of service, and select their own officiating minister or teacher.

WILTSHIRE,

Discovery of Human Skeletons.-The workmen employed at the stone quarry situated on Clark's hill, near Bowood-house (the residence of the Marquis of Lansdowne,) have, in the course of the last two years, disinterred no less than five human skeletons. The first was discovered in 1829, three more during the summer of the present year, and the last a few days since. They all lay in the space of about ten square yards;

« ÀÌÀü°è¼Ó »