Roberts, Mrs. James, at Leyton, 13th April. Robinson; Ann, eldest daughter of Nicholas Robinson, Esq., merchant, Sudley, near Liverpool, 18th April. Rodwell; on the 17th April, at 6, St. Agnes-villas, Bayswater, Eliza, the wife of Mr. Will. Rod well, aged 39. Rood, John, Esq., at his residence Kennington, many years of Portsmouth, 4th April. Rosser; Archibald Richard Francis, Esq. of No. 63, Lincoln's Inn-fields, after an illness of nine weeks, 20th April. Say; on the 23rd April, Eleanor, relict of the late William Say, Esq., of Weymouth-street. Samuel; on 13th April, at the house of his mother, in Rodney-street, Mr. Samuel H. Samuel, of Huskisson-street, aged 41, eldest son of the late Henry Samuel, Esq. Saumarez; on the 28th March, of consumption, on his passage home from Madeira, Richard John Saumarez, in his 21st year, eldest son of Capt. Saumarez, R.N., K.L., Scatherd, Ensign C. H., aged 18, 41st Bengal Native Infantry, 2nd division, son of J. S. Scatherd, Esq., Oliver-terrace, Mile-end-road, at Sobraon, on the 10th February. Scott, John, Esq. of Park-lane, only son of John Scott, Esq. of Clay-hill, Bromley. Sebright; Sir John Saunders Sebright, 7th Bart., of Besford, Worcester, died at his seat, Beechwood, Herts, on the 15th April. This respected country gentleman was an ardent lover of the old English sports, and devoted great attention to the noble art of falconry. In early life he sat in parliament for the City of Bath, and subsequently, from 1806 to 1834, represented Hertfordshire. He was born 23rd May 1767, and married 6th August, 1793, Harriet only daughter and heir of Richard Crofts, Esq. of West Harling, Norfolk, by whom he has left one son, the present SIR THOMAS GAGE SAUNDERS SEBRIGHT, Bart., and four surviving daughters. The family of Sebright is of remote antiquity. At the close of the 13th century PETER SEBRIGHT, of Sebright Hall, Essex, fourth in descent from William Sebright, of the same place, was resident at that ancient patrimonial mansion holding his estate by petit serjeantry," the keeping the king's palfrey, or saddle horse, forty days, at the king's charge, whenever he visited the neighbourhood." Sharp; Margaret, wife of William Sharp, Esq. of ths Larches, near Birmingham, 8th April. Shaw; Sophia Matilda, wife of John Barlow Shaw, Esq. at Bromptonlodge, near Newbury, aged 27, 28th March. Smith; in Green-street, Grosvenorsquare, Miss Assheton Smith, 2nd April. Smith, Thomas, Esq. of the Grange, Bermondsey, in his 82nd year, 4th April. Smith; on the 18th April, at her mother's residence, 81, Montpelierroad, Brighton, Katherine, wife of George Anthony Smith, Esq., Madras Civil Service, and daughter of the late Rev. Joseph Hallett Batten, D. D. Smythe, Eleanor Catherine, daughter of W. Meade Smythe, Esq. of Deer park, Devonshire, at Kenilworthhouse, Cheltenham, on the 5th April. Sorell, Lieut. Col. Sir Thomas Steven, K. H., aged 70, her Brittannic Majesty's Consul General to the Austrian-Italian States, at Venice, on the 24th March. Souter, on the 21st April, at Kingston, Surrey, aged 28, Alfred, only son of John Souter, Esq., Thurlowpark, Knight's-hill, Streatham. Southby; on 20th April, at Chievely, Berks, Mrs. Mary Southby, relict of the late Richard Southby, Esq., aged 71. Strong, Captain Charles Burrough, R.N., aged 65, of King's-terrace, Portsmouth, at 20, Montpeliersquare, London, on the 8th April. Stout; John Stout, Esq. at his residence, Queen-square, Lancaster, aged 83, for 22 years J. P. for co. Lancaster. Stroud; on the 22nd April, at 11, Kennington-row, Kennington, Wil liam Stroud, Esq., in the 79th year of his age. Sutherland, on the 27th of February, Lieut.-Col. Sutherland, Military Secretary to the Resident of Hydrabad. Sympson, Edward, Esq., late of the R. N., at Jamaica, 5th March. Taylor, Brigadier Charles Cyril, C. B., | aged 41, Lieut-Col. of the 29 Regt., son of the late Lieut.-Col. Taylor, at Sobraon, on the 10th February. Tegg; on the the 21st April, aged 72, Mr. Thomas Tegg, of Cheapside, Publisher.-Mr. Tegg began life in very humble circumstances, but by successful speculation in the purchase of copies of works remaining in the publishers' hands, and reissuing them at reduced prices, he realized a considerable fortune. Thorpe, William, Esq. of Hastings, 11th April. Ude, Louis Eustache, aged 78, at his residence in Albemarle-street, on the 10th April. This celebrated professor of the art of cookery, and writer upon the subject, was a native of France. He early in life commenced his famour culinary career, and was, when not long advanced in his art, cook to Louis XVI. Coming to England, he filled the same office in the domestic establishment of the Earl of Sefton. He afterwards acted as steward to the United Service Club, and then to the late Duke of York. | His last engagement was, we believe, that of Maître d'Hôtel at Crockford's. M. Ude's chief fame, however, rests upon his work, "The French Cook," which has gone through numerous editions, and which is now regarded as the standard work in the science of cookery. Vallance; on the 18th April, at Strathaven, near Glasgow, Margaret, relict of the late Dr. Vallance, aged 64. Official (FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.) Vavasour: on the 21st April, Charles Vavasour, Esq., son of Sir Edward Vavasour, Bart. of Hazelwood-hall. Walton, the Rev. Jonathan, D.D., Rector of Birdbrook, in Essex, and Rural Dean, aged 72, April 20th. Wanklyn; Emily Margeret, daughter of James H. Wanklyn, Esq. of Crumpsall-house, near Manchester, aged 16, 3rd April. Ward; at Exmouth, the Rev. Henry Ward, of Felmersham, Bedfordshire, on the 19th April, in his 43rd year. Watney; Frederick, third son of Jas. Watney, Esq. of Wandsworth, aged 9, 5th April. Wedgwood; Elizabeth, widow of the late Joseph Wedgwood, Esq. of Maer, Staffordshire, 31st March. Westmoreland; on the 16th March, at Etingdon estate, Trelawney, Jamaica, after a short illness, in the 18th year of his age, Herbert, the fifth son of Isaac Westmorland, Esq. of Camberwell-green. Wilkinson, Anne-Matilda, dau. of the late Col. Alex. Bryce, E. I. C. 11th April. Williams; Marianne, wife of Thomas Williams, Esq., at Rose-hill, Sydenham, 21st April. Wood, Capt. W. J., of H. M. 39th Regt., at Chinsurah, on the 26th January. Woodhouse, Lieut., Francis Edward, 1st Bombay European Regiment, youngest son of the late Ollyett Woodhouse, Esq., Advocate General of Bombay, 12th April. Woodwards, Mrs. Eleanor, wife of Joseph Woodwards, Esq. of Bengeo, Herts, 10th April. Promotions. WHITEHALL. APRIL 17.-The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Viscount of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto Lieut. Genl. the Right Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge, G.C.B., Governor-Genl. of India, and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Viscount Hardinge of Lahore, and of King's Newton, in the county of Derby. The Queen has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto General Sir Hugh Gough, Bart., Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, and Genl. and Commander-in-chief of her Majesty's forces in the East Indies, and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Gough, of Chinkeangfoo, in China, and of Maharajpore and the Sutlej, in the East Indies. APRIL 9. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, for granting the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto MajorGenl. Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith, of Alliwal, on the Sutlej, Knight-Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten. APRIL 18.The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting unto Francis Martin, Esq., Norroy King of Arms, the office of Clarenceux King of Arms, and Principal Herald of the south, east, and west parts of England, vacant by the decease of Joseph Hawker, Esq., late Clarenceux. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting unto James Pulman, Esq., Richmond Herald, the office of Norroy King of Arms, and Principal Herald of the north parts of England, vacant by the promotion of Francis Martin, Esq., to the office of Clarenceux King of Arms. DOWNING STREET. APRIL 7.-The Queen has been graciously pleased to nominate and appoint Colonel Sir Henry George Smith, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, serving with the rank of Major Genl. in India, to be a Knight Grand Cross of the said Order. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Norman William Macdonald, Esq., to be Captain-Genl. and Governor-in-Chief in and over the colony of Sierra Leone and its dependencies. APRIL 3.-The Queen has been pleased to appoint the following officers to be Companions of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath:-Col. Thomas Reed, 62nd Foot; Col. the Hon. Thomas Ashburnham, 62nd Foot; Lieut. Col. Thomas Ryan, 50th Foot; Lieut. Col. Peter John Petit, 50th Foot; Lieut. Col. Marcus Barr, 29th Foot; Lieut. Col. Thomas Bunbury, 80th Foot; Lieut. Col. John Byrne, 31st Foot; Lieut. Col. Charles Barnwell, 9th Foot; Lieut. Col. Robert Blucher Wood, 80th Foot; Lieut. Col. James Spence, 31st Foot; and Captain James Hope, commanding her Majesty's steam-frigate "Firebrand." Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint the undermentioned officers in the service of the East India Company, viz. :-Major Genl. Walter Raleigh Gilbert to be a Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath; and Lieut. Col. David Harriott, 8th Bengal Light Cavalry; Lieut. Col. James Parsons, 18th Bengal Native Infantry; Lieut. Col. John Samuel Henry Weston, 31st Bengal Native Infantry; Lieut. Col. William John Gairdner, 14th Bengal Native Infantry; Lieut. Col. William Burlton, 7th Bengal Light Cavalry; Brevet Lieut. Col. William Garden, Quartermaster General Bengal Army; Brevet Lieut. Col. Patrick Grant, Deputy Adjutant General Bengal Army; Lieut. Col. James Stuart, 70th Bengal Native Infantry; Lieut. Col. Richard Benson, Ist Bengal Native Infantry; Lieut. Col. George Brooke, Bengal Artillery; Lieut. Col. George Hicks, 47th Bengal Native Infantry; Brevet Lieut. Col. William Mactier, 4th Bengal Light Cavalry; Brevet Lieut. Col. William Geddes, Bengal Artillery; Lieut. Col. George Gladwin Denniss, Bengal Artillery; Lieut. Col. Edward Huthwaite, Bengal Artillery, to be Companions of the said Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath. CROWN OFFICE. APRIL 17. Members returned to serve in this present Parliament.— Borough of Richmond Henry Rich, Esq., in the room of the Hon. William Nicholas Ridley Colborne, deceased. Borough of Malton-The Hon. William Thomas Spencer Wentworth Fitzwilliam, commonly called Viscount Milton, in the room of John Walbanke Childers, Esq., who has accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds. THE PATRICIAN. HEREWARD THE SAXON. Or the heroes of authentic English history there is perhaps none, who after having been so famous in chronicle and song, is now so little known amongst us as is the illustrious subject of the present memoir. There are a few scattered notices concerning him to be found in one or two modern books, and but for them Hereward le Wake" would be now a name altogether unknown to his descendants. Yet he was a hero of no common order ;-nor was the interest once attached to his name such as should grow old with time, or change with circumstances. He was the last of the once celebrated order of Anglo-Saxon knighthood,—the brother in arms of the patriot Earls Edwin and Morcar,-and the successful foeman of the Conqueror. Nor were his personal qualities unequal. To the minstrelsy and romance of England, for centuries after the cessation of his earthly career, Hereward le Wake continued to present himself as the very type of the old English chivalry. The Anglo-Saxon knight was not that churlish warrior, so erroneously and unjustly imagined and described by Doctor Lingard,*-little better than a barbarian, incapable of distinguishing between friend and foe, and esteeming courage to supply the place of every other virtue. His high and powerful mind owned far other and nobler inspirations. In the worst of times he never ceased to display his patriotism, and to approve it. To the end he struggled on, against all the storms of fate, in the gallant endeavour to rescue from the deep the sinking fortunes of his race and country. We know that the endeavour failed, despite the unchequered course of victory which marked Hereward's career, and that the star of William the Norman remained ever the Lord of the ascendant. But over Hereward himself he obtained no advantages. The strife was ended: the enemy succumbed not. It is a rare thing to witness so happy an union, of ardent, dauntless, and almost desperate love of country, with fruitful invention, and calm and prophetic judgment, as is offered to our view in the character of this timehonoured patriot. Daring to excess, his seeming rashness was always tempered and pointed, by a forecast which never deceived him of the promised success, and by a skill which never misled him in the choice of means or the estimate of resources. Nor must the unequal nature of the contest be forgotten. His antagonist was William of Normandy, combining under one truncheon the arrays of his native dukedom and his acquired realm. Not light the remote hazard;-not small the perils, sacrifices, and sufferings, which were the direct and immediate consequences of resistance. But these were personal considerations-of not the highest rank in the old English * History and Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church, vol. ii. p. 5. (last edition.) VOL I.NO. II. H judgment. Hereward felt-are his descendants of the same mind ?—that there was something higher far. The sense of duty which wrought within him he knew to be a great and holy principle, inspiring to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means, that it was primordial, and had existed before him, that it was immortal and would survive him,-and that with it there would endure eternally the honour, name, and praises, of all who like himself had in their day abandoned, at its call, the mean earthly interests of life, and even life itself! Hereward le Wake was born at Brunne, in Lincolnshire, in the reign of Edward the Confessor. His parents were noble; his father Leofric was the elder brother of Provost Brand, a monk of the famous Abbey of Peterborough, and afterwards Abbot of the same, and the near kinsman of King Edward's brother-in-law, the great Earl of Hereford. Leofric himself was a Lord who, having gained great glory in war, had afterwards retired to his paternal inheritance, the lordship of Brunne in Lincolnshire, upon his marriage with Ediva, the daughter of a neighbouring thane. Hereward was the offspring of that marriage ;- -a tall youth and a handsome, says Ingulphus, but much too prone to warfare, and of a fierceness of heart without measure. In boyhood he was much addicted to wrestling and other trials of bodily strength, and so ungovernable withal, that he became a very Ishmael, his hand against all, and the hand of every one against him. Nor was he satisfied with a reasonable share of success. If might or skill failed him, so that he could not overcome his rivals by natural means, he would make no more ado but draw upon them at once, and so repair by the sword what by mere strength of limb he had failed to keep. So he fell into great disrepute amongst his youthful acquaintances. It should be mentioned however, that honest Ingulphus was no partisan of Hereward, but, on the contrary, the private secretary of the Norman Conqueror. Hereward's boyish fellows, continues the chronicler, conceiving him the great pest of their sports and pastimes, complained to his father Leofric. So bitter were their reproaches that the thane's wrath was powerfully excited against him. They recalled, it is said, to the paternal recollection some very barefaced and intolerable pranks of a practical kind, which the youth had at an earlier period put upon him, Leofric; and thus determined him, the memory of private wrong co-operating with the indignation kindled within his breast by the recital of the wrongs of others, to prefer a complaint in his own name and theirs, to the king in person, against the auda. cious culprit. The meek king, upon hearing Leofric's representation, hoping to reclaim his son from such giddy courses, banished him from Lincolnshire for a time, Hereward retired at first into Northumberland, and afterwards into Cornwall. Growing tired of an inactive life, he soon afterwards visited Ireland in quest of adventures, and at a later period, Flanders; where he married that noble Lady Turfrida, whose mother, says Ingulphus, afterwards came to England with her husband, and, by his permission forsaking all earthly pomp, became a nun in our holy convent of Croyland. But this was not done at once. The brave Hereward did not lightly nor too soon surrender himself to the ease and idleness of a domestic life. Long before his betrothal he had established unto himself a shining and magnificent renown by deeds of arms and chivalry. Wherever he went he carried himself right valiantly. Ever seeking the |