16th of June, 1824, with a complement of 41 persons; and when she had taken in all her stores, from the Snap surveying vessel, off the coast of Labrador, and was left to pursue her course alone, her draft of water was nearly sixteen feet. The principal object of her mission was to connect the western shore of Melville Peninsula with the important discoveries of Captain Franklin; - but the season was more unfavorable than any in the memory of the whalefishery, and after encountering some perilous storms, during which, on two distinct occasions, all on board had relinquished the slightest hope of ever again seeing their country, he returned in the following November. From these adverse circumstances, he had enough to do in preserving the vessel, and consequently made only a few additions to the geography of the Arctic Sea. The history of the voyage, however, as published in an octavo volume entitled "An unsuccessful Attempt to reach Repulse Bay, by Sir Thomas Rowe's Welcome," is by no means the least interesting of the series of North-Pole voyages; for there are portions of its narrative which raise the character of the British Seaman above the splendors of the most glorious victory, and affect the imagination as powerfully as any tale of far more tragical consequence.

In June, 1825, the honorary degree of D. C. L. was conferred upon Captain Lyon, by the University of Oxford and on the 5th of September following, he married Lucy-Louisa, the younger daughter of the celebrated Lord Edward Fitz Gerald, and the almost equally celebrated Pamela. Not long after, he went to Mexico, as one of the Commissioners of the Real del Monte Mining Company. Returning home, by way of New York, in the Panthea packet, bound to Liverpool, he was wrecked in a gale at Holyhead, January 14, 1827, and lost every thing belonging to him, including his journal, plans of the mines, &c. To add to his mortification, he heard, upon landing, of the death of his wife, which had taken place about four months before. He afterwards returned to South America on mining business, which he prosecuted with his wonted intelligence; and the specimens of South American minerals which he forwarded to this country, are evidences of his taste. At length his sight began to fail him to an alarming degree, insomuch that he determined to revisit England for advice. He accordingly embarked for that purpose, but unfortunately died on the passage; thus concluding a career of extraordinary adventure, and attended by extraordinary misfortunes.

[From "The Gentleman's Magazine for April, 1833."]

EARL OF DUDLEY.

Died, March 6th, at Norwood, Surrey, in his 52d year, the Right Honorable John William Ward, Earl of Dudley of Castle Dudley, county of Stafford, and Viscount Ednam of Ednam, county

of Roxburgh (1827), fourth Viscount Dudley and Ward, of Dudley (1763), and ninth Baron Ward, of Birmingham (1643-4); a Privy Councillor, Recorder of Kidderminster, M. A. and F. R. S.

This highly gifted but eccentric nobleman was born August 9, 1781, the only child of William the third Viscount, by Julia, second daughter of Godfrey Bosvile of Thorpe and Gunthwaite in Yorkshire, esq., and aunt to the late Lieutenant General Lord Macdonald.

His education was remarkably private, being removed from his father's mansion in Park-lane to a small house at Paddington, where he was intrusted to the care of the Rev. Mr. James, a fellow of New College, Oxford, and a separate establishment was maintained for his service. The degree of M. A. was conferred upon him at Oxford, at a subsequent period, January 14, 1813.

Immediately after his coming of age, he was, at the general election of 1802, elected M. P. for Downton; and he very soon distinguished himself in the house of Commons as a young man of extraordinary talents. A vacancy occurring in the representation of Worcestershire, he accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, August 1, 1803; and was elected without opposition for that county. At the election of 1806, however, the present Lord Lyttelton was returned in his room; but at that of 1807 Mr. Ward waschosen for Wareham. In 1812 he was returned for Ilchester. Of the Parliament of 1818 he was not a member; in 1820 he was elected for Bossiney; and on the 25th of April, 1823, he succeeded his father in the Peerage.

On the formation of Mr. Canning's administration, Lord Dudley and Ward was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and sworn a member of the Privy Council, April 30, 1827. On the 24th of September in the same year he was raised to the rank of an Earl by the titles of Earl of Dudley and Viscount Ednam, the latter being the name of an estate which he had recently purchased in Roxburghshire, and the birth-place of the poet Thom

son.

In may 1828 he resigned the Secretaryship; when a "leading journal," (whose language, it must be admitted, is seldom tempered by moderation,) thus warmly expressed its regrets:

"Lord Dudley, from high character for independence and discernment, for sound sagacious views, without prejudice or passion, - from a political concurrence with Mr. Canning, on which no suspicion has ever lighted, and from the esteem and reputation which, since his superintendence of our foreign affairs, he has achieved for himself with the whole diplomatic world, withdraws (if, unfortunately he should withdraw) from the Ministry, a greater volume of public usefulness than perhaps all the rest who are seceding."

The Earl of Dudley was a man of powerful talents, varied accomplishments, and a most generous disposition; but his manners had always been so much marked by eccentricities, that few were astonished by the unhappy circumstances under which he was

withdrawn, about a year ago, from society. He experienced since that period a succession of paralytic attacks, and had sunk latterly into a state of perfect childhood. We are not aware of any literary production of his Lordship that has found its way to the press, except the well known article in the Quarterly Review, on the life and character of John Horne Tooke, with whom Lord Dudley had been intimate in his early youth. His parliamentary speeches, and his despatches while Secretary for Foreign Affairs under Mr. Canning, Lord Goderich, and during a brief part of the Wellington administration, were always distinguished by a elegance of style. His indisposition precluded him from giving a vote on the question of Parliamentary Reform. His Lordship had, however, some months before expressed his intention to support the Earl of Harrowby's views, and vote for the second reading of the Bill.

Of his extraordinary absence of mind and his unfortunate habit of "thinking aloud," many amusing anecdotes have been in circulation. It is a fact that when he was in the Foreign Office, he directed a letter intended for the French to the Russian Ambassador, shortly before the affair of Navarino; and, strange as it may appear, it attained him the highest honor. Prince Lieven, who never makes any mistakes of the kind, set it down as one of the cleverest ruses ever attempted to be played off, and gave himself immense credit for not falling into the trap laid for him by the sinister ingenuity of the English Secretary. He returned the letter with a most polite note, in which he vowed, of course, that he had not read a line of it after he had ascertained that it was intended for Prince Polignac; but could not help telling Lord Dudley at an evening party, that he was "trop fin, but that diplomatists of his (Prince L.'s) standing were not so easily caught."

One of the earliest symptoms of his Lordship's unfortunate malady was that of asserting himself to be married. He is said to have expressed great affection and solicitude for his imaginary Countess. A report prevailed among the higher orders that his Lordship was a suitor for the hand of one of the accomplished daughters of the Earl of Beverley; but that his overtures met with a most decided rejection from her Ladyship. The administration of the Earl of Dudley's affairs remains, it is said, for the present in the hands of Mr. Littleton, the Member for Staffordshire, as one of the executors. It was in honor of the debut of Miss Littleton, now Viscountess Newark, that his Lordship gave his Olla Podrida fête, in Park-lane, in the early part of last season.

All the Earl's titles have expired with him, except the Barony of Ward; which has devolved on the Rev. Humble Ward, Rector of Himley, Staffordshire, who is descended from the Rev. William Ward, also Rector of Himley, and of King's Swinford, younger brother to John who succeeded to the title of Lord Ward in 1740, and was created Viscount Dudley and Ward in 1763. The ancient Barony of Dudley (by writ 1342) had separated from

the Wards in the first mentioned year, in favor of Ferdinand Dudley Lea, the heir general, and on his death in 1757 it fell into abeyance among his sisters.

The will of the late Earl has not hitherto been made public: but it has been stated that an entailed estate of 40007 per annum accompanies the title, and that by a will drawn up about two years ago, the Earl settled the remainder of his estate, to the value of 80,0007. per annum, on the present Lord Ward's eldest son, who is a youth of sixteen years of age.

[From "The Gentleman's Magazine for June, 1833."]

LORD GAMBIER.

Died April 19, at his house at Iver, near Uxbridge, aged 76, the Right Honorable James Gambier, Baron Gambier, of Iver, county of Buckingham, Admiral of the Fleet, and G. C. B.

Lord Gambier was a member of a French refugee family, his grandfather, Nicholas, having migrated from Caen to this country on the revocation of the edict of Nantes. His uncle, of his own Christian name, was a Vice-Admiral in the Royal Navy, and was father of Sir James Gambier, F. R. S., Consul-general in the Netherlands, and grandfather of William Gambier, esquire, who married the late Countess dowager of Athlone. His aunt Margaret was the wife of the first Lord Barham, First Lord of the Admiralty in 1805-6.

His Lordship was born in the Bahama Islands, October 13, 1756, the younger son of Samuel Gambier, esquire, then Lieutenant-Governor of the Bahamas, by Deborah Stiles, of Bermuda. He went to sea at an early age; and in 1778 was Commander of the Thunder bomb, in which he had the misfortune to be captured by the French fleet under Count d'Estaing. He was promoted to the rank of Post-Captain October 9 in the same year, and appointed to the command of the Raleigh 32. In this frigate he was engaged in repelling the French attempt upon Jersey, January 6, 1781, and afterwards proceeded to the coast of America; where, at the reduction of Charleston in South Carolina, he served on shore with the brigade of seamen and marines. In 1781 he captured the General Mifflin, an American ship of war, mounting 20 guns.

At the commencement of the war with France in 1793, Captain Gambier was appointed to the Defence 74, in which he took an active share in the glorious victory of the 1st of June, 1794. The Defence was on that memorable day the first vessel that cut through the enemy's line, passing between the seventh and eighth ships. She had successively three or four ships engaging her; her men being, almost from the first, divided at their quarters to fight both

sides at once. Her masts were all shot away; the main-mast fell in-board, and the whole of the quarter deck and forecastle guns were rendered useless. The loss she sustained on that and the preceding days, amounted to 18 men killed and 39 wounded. At the general promotion which followed this important victory, Captain Gambier was nominated a Colonel of Marines: and, on the 1st June, 1795, he was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral. On the 2d of March, in the same year, he was appointed to a seat among the Commissioners of the Admiralty, which he retained until February; 1801.

At the latter period (having attained the rank of Vice-Admiral in 1799) he was appointed third in command of the Channel Fleet, and hoisted his flag on board the Neptune of 98 guns. In the spring of 1802 he proceeded to Newfoundland as Governor of that island, and Commander-in-chief of the squadron employed for its protection.

In May 1804 he was re-appointed to a seat at the Admiralty board; and he continued there during the two naval administrations of Viscount Melville and Lord Barham, until the change of ministry that took place on the death of Mr. Pitt, in February, 1806. On the 4th of April 1807 (having become full Admiral in 1805) he was again appointed to assist in the direction of naval affairs, under Lord Mulgrave; and in the following summer he was entrusted with the command of the fleet sent to demand possession of the Danish navy, a measure which, in conjunction with Lieutenant-General Lord Cathcart, he successfully accomplished, to the great mortification and frustration of the designs of the Emperor Napoleon. For his able conduct in this affair Admiral Gambier was rewarded with a peerage, by patent dated Nov. 9, 1807; and was offered a pension of £2000 which he generously declined.

In the month of May, 1808, Lord Gambier finally retired from his seat at the Admiralty, on being appointed to the command of the Channel fleet. During his seasons of office he had applied himself with great assiduity to the duties of the situation. He compiled, with much labor and close attention, a Code of Signals, which superseded one which had been established in the reign of Charles II.; and also drew up General Instructions for the direction of officers in the internal discipline and government of the King's ships, in the place of some which had become obsolete. The Plantagenet 74, a finely proportioned ship, launched at Woolwich in 1801, was built after his suggestions; being without a poop, she passed at a distance for a large frigate.

Nothing material occurred in the Channel fleet when under his Lordship's command, until the month of April, 1809, when a detachment attacked a French squadron in the Aix roads, and destroyed la Ville de Varsovie 80, Tonnerre 74, Aquilon 74, and Calcutta 56, besides driving several others on shore. A difference of opinion respecting the practability of destroying the remainder of the enemy's squadron, was productive of a misunderstanding