LORD HENRY Fitzgerald. July 8. At Boyle Farm, Surrey, aged 68, the Right Hon. Lord Henry Fitzgerald, a Privy Councillor for Ireland; uncle to the Duke of Leinster, and husband of Baroness de Roos.

His Lordship was born July 30, 1761, the fourth son of James 1st Duke of Leinster, by the Right Hon. Lady Amelia-Mary Lennox, daughter of Charles 2d Duke of Richmond and Lennox, K.G. At an early period of his life he was in the army, and served in the West Indies with the Earl of Harrington.

On the 4th of August, 1791, he was married to Charlotte, daughter and sole heir of the Hon. Robert Boyle Walsingham (uncle to the present Earl of Shannon), which lady being a coheir of the Barony of Roos, was, by special favour of the Crown, confirmed in that title in 1806.

His Lordship was Member of the Irish Parliament for the borough of Kildare in 1789; but never sat in the British House of Commons. Endowed with a good understanding, united to principles of the highest honour, his manners were the most engaging. To a cheerful mind, he added the true character of a perfect gentleman. He was surrounded by an affectionate family and numerous friends, who were sure to find under his roof the most cordial reception, and all that was hospitable and convivial. His residence at Boyle Farm is celebrated for its elegance and beauty; and an entertainment given there about two years since was the occasion of one of the most admired productions of the muse of Lord Francis Leveson Gower.

Lord Henry Fitzgerald had, by Lady de Roos, a family of six sons and five daughters; 1. the Hon. Henry-William Fitzgerald de Roos, born in 1793; 2. the Hon. Arthur-John-Hill, who died a Lieut.-Colonel in the army, Feb. 23, 1826; 3. Emily-Henrietta; 4. the Hon. William-Lennox-Lascelles, a Major in the army, and Colonial Agent for Malta; be married in 1826, Lady GeorgianaLennox, sister to the present Duke of Richmond, and has children; 5. the Hon. Edmund-Emilius-Boyle, who died in 1810 at the age of eleven; 6. the Hon. Charlotte-Georgiana-Elizabeth, who died in 1813, aged 12; 7. the Hon. HenriettaMabel, married in last October to John Broadhurst, esq.; 8. the Hon. John-Frederick, a Commander R.N.; 9. the Hon.

Augustus; 10. the Hon. Olivia-Cecilia ; 11. a son born in 1809; and, 12. the Hon. Cecilia.

VISCOUNT Clermont.

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June At Ravensdale Park, co. Louth, the Right Hon. William-Charles Fortescue, second Viscount Clermont, and Baron Clermont, of Clermont, co. Louth; a Lieut.-Colonel in the army, and a Trustee of the Linen Manufacture.

This family, which has thus failed in heirs to the Peerage, is presumed to have descended from an early ancestor of Earl Fortescue in England. The first who settled in Ireland was Sir Faithful Fortescue in the reign of James the First. The first Peer, uncle to the nobleman now deceased, having been M.P. for the County of Louth, a Privy-councillor, and Postmaster-general, was created Lord Clermont in 1770, Viscount in 1776, and Earl of Clermont in 1784.

The deceased was the second, and last surviving, of the four sons of the Right Hon. James Fortescue, of Ravensdale Park, by Henrietta, eldest daughter of Thomas Orby Hunter, of Crowland Abbey in Lincolnshire, Esq. He was appointed a Lieutenant in the army in 1783, and to the 34th foot in 1786. He raised men for the rank of Major, which he obtained May 26, 1794; and received the brevet of Lieut.-Colonel Jan. 1, 1800.

On his uncle the Earl of Clermont's death, Sept. 26, 1806, be succeeded to the Viscounty and Barony of 1776, by a special remainder; and, having died unmarried, all the titles of Clermont have now expired; this being the thirty-fifth Peerage of Ireland that has become extinct since the Union in 1801.

LORD THURLOW.

June 4. In Regency-square, Brighton, aged 47, the Right Hon. Edward Hovel Thurlow, second Lord Thurlow of Thurlow, in Suffolk, Patentee of the Bankrupts' Office, Clerk of the Presentation in the Petty-bag Office, Clerk of the Hanaper, and of the Custody of Lunatics and Idiots, and Registrar of the Diocese of Lincoln.

His Lordship was born June 10, 1781, the elder son of the Right Rev. Thomas Thurlow, D.D. Bishop of Durham, by Anne, daughter of Mr. William Beere. He was educated at the Charter-house, and afterwards at Magdalen College,

Oxford, where he was created M.A. July 16, 1801.

In 1806 he succeeded his uncle the Chancellor as second Lord Thurlow, in pursuance of a special remainder in the patent.

Lord Thurlow wrote and published a large quantity of poetry. We believe the first which appeared were some sonnets prefixed to a private edition of "The Defence of Poësy; the author Sir Philip Sidney, Knight," 4to, 1810. They were reprinted in "Verses on several occasions," vol. 1. 8vo, 1812 (see our vol. LXXXII. i. 41; a notice of the second edition, pt. ii. p. 353; and of an Appendix, ibid. p. 579.)

In 1814 appeared, in 4to, his " Moonlight," a Poem; with several copies of verses (see vol. LXXXIV. i. 53); in Evo, "The Doge's Daughter, a Poem, in two cantos; with several Translations from Anacreon and Horace," dedicated to Lord Chancellor Eldon (vide ibid. p. 357); "Ariadne, a Poem, in three Parts;" 8vo, (ibid. part ii. p. 149); and "Carmen Britannicum, or, the Song of Britain, written in honour of his Royal Highness George - Augustus - Frederick Prince Regent." (ibid. p. 252.)

All these were printed in 1814, and from that time his Lordship appears to have rested until 1822, when he again published several small volumes; two of them were modernized versions of "Arcita and Palamon, after the excellent poet Geoffrey Chaucer;" and "The Knight's Tale, and the Flower and the Leaf," from the same old English bard. An original poem under this date is entitled "Angelica, or the Rape of Proteas," printed in 12mo; as was a thin volume of "Poems on several occasions; the second edition, several poems being added." Lord Thurlow had paid great attention to the elder English poets, and bis Lordship's poetry possessed in excess one of their faults, that of employing too great a complication of mythological figures and phrases on modern and inappropriate subjects. In a sonnet to Gifford of the Quarterly Review, he has well imitated the nervous style of the poet which that gentleman so ably edited the classical Ben Jonson. Lordship generally employed the Spenserian stanza. From the year 1813 to 1819, he was a very constant contributor to this Magazine. (See our General Index, vol. 1. p. 538.)

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Lord Thurlow assumed the name of Hovel in 1814, that having been the name of the family of his grandmother, the wife of the Rev. Thomas Thurlow, Rector of Ashfield. She was the daughcer and at length coheiress of Robert

Smith, who was the male descendant of Richard Hovel, Esquire of the Body to King Henry the Fifth, but whose more immediate ancestors had first added the name of Smith to that of Hovel, and had been called Hovel, alias Smith, and whose father dropped the name of Hovel altogether.

Lord Thurlow married, Nov. 13, 1813, Miss Mary Catherine Bolton, an actress of Covent-garden Theatre, and eldest daughter of Mr. James-Richard Bolton, an attorney in Long Acre. By this lady, who survives him, he had three sons: 1. the Right Hon. Edward-Thomas, born in 1814, and now Lord Thurlow; 2. the Hon. Thomas-Hugh; 3. the Hon. John-Edmund.

LADY ELEANOR BUTLER.

June 2. At Plasnewydd Cottage, Llangollen, the Hon. Lady Eleanor Butler, aunt to the Marquess of Ormonde, K.P.

This celebrated lady was the third and youngest daughter of Walter Butler, Esq. by Eleanor, eldest daughter of Nicholas Morris, of the Court, co. Dublin, Esq. Her only brother John claimed and obtained his ancestral Earldom of Ormonde in 1791. Her eldest sister Lady Susan was married to Thomas Kavanagh, of Borris, co. Carlow, Esq. and was mother to Thomas Kavanagh, Esq. who married his cousin the late Lady Elizabeth Butler, sister to the present Marquess. Her second sister Lady Frances was married to another gentleman of the Kavanagh family. The three sisters all assumed the title of Lady, probably by Royal authority, on their brother's recovery of the Earldom.

It was about the year 1779 that Miss Butler and her companion Miss Ponsonby (a cousin of the Earl of Besborough, and half-sister to the present Chambre Brabazon Ponsonby-Barker, Esq. who married Lady Henrietta Taylour, sister to the present Marquess of Headfort,) first associated themselves to live in retirement. It was thought desirable by their families to separate two individuals who appeared to cherish each other's eccentricities; and after their first departure together, they were brought back to their respective relations. Miss Butler resolutely declined marriage, of which she was said to have had five offers; and the ladies soon after contrived to elope a second time, taking a small sum of money with them. The place of their retreat in the Vale of Llangollen was only confided to a female servant; and they lived for many years unknown to their neighbours by any other appellation but "the ladies of the

in the room of John Williams, Esq. but sat only until the dissolution in 1806. He married, July 17, 1806, the Hon. Caroline Eden, fourth daughter of William 1st Lord Auckland (an elder sister of which lady became in the following month the wife of his cousin the present Lord Bexley, but died in 1810). The Hon. Caroline Vansittart survives her husband, with a numerous family.

REAR-ADM, SIR J. A. WOOD.

July... At Hampstead, aged 73, Rear-Admiral Sir James Atholl Wood, Knight, C. B.; uncle to Sir Mark Wood, the present and second Baronet of Gatton in Surrey.

Sir James was the third son of Alexander Wood, of Perth, Esq. and younger brother to the late Sir Mark Wood, Bart. and M.P. who died on the 6th of last February (see his memoir in the first part of our present volume, p. 276), and to Major-Gen. Sir George Wood, K.C.B. who died in 1824.

Sir James entered the Navy at an early age, and during the American war was engaged in a great variety of service, both at sea and on shore, particularly in the defence of Quebec in 1776, the reduction of Charlestown in 1780, and the memorable battle between Rodney and De Grasse in 1782, on which glorious occasion be was Second Lieutenant of the Anson 64, commanded by Capt. Blair (then slain), with whom he had formerly served in the Princess Royal, a second rate, bearing the flag of ViceAdmiral Byron.

During the ensuing peace, Mr. Wood visited the Continent, and resided for about three years in the south of France. He afterwards went to the East Indies, and on his return explored the greater portion of the western coast of Africa, respecting which he made some valuable communications to Mr. Arrowsmith the celebrated geographer. He thence proceeded, in 1793, on business of a private nature to Barbadoes; and finding, on his arrival at that island, an armament about to sail against the French colonies, he immediately tendered his services to Sir John Jervis, the Commander-in-Chief, who received him on board his flag-ship, the Boyne, and soon after ordered him to take charge of some cartel ships going to Europe with prisoners of war. During the voyage, some of the French prisoners made three attempts to obtain possession of the cartel ships in which they were conveyed; but their endeavours were frustrated, although the English crew was only 18 in number, whilst the republicans were GENT. MAG. August, 1829.

upwards of 200. On reaching St. Maloes, Robespierre, then the sanguinary dictator of France, without any respect to the laws or common usage of nations, not only seized the vessels, but threw their commander and crews into prison. After undergoing an examination before the Committee of Public Safety at Paris, he was consigned to the Abbaye, in which, and various other prisons, be was confined for many months. Being at length liberated on his parole of honour, he exerted himself most warmly on behalf of his suffering countrymen, and with considerable success, to which Gen. O'Hara (who had been captured at the siege of Toulon,) bore the following testimony in a letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas, dated "Paris, Prison du Dreneux, April 6, 1795:-Sir, Give me leave to present to you Lieutenant Wood, of the Royal Navy, whose long confinement in a common gaol, where our acquaintance began, renders him highly deserving your protection, as the unexampled severities he experienced arose from his manly endeavours to oblige these faithless people to carry into execution the object of his mission to this country.

"Lieutenant Wood will, I am fully persuaded, Sir, have a further claim to your good offices, when you are acquainted that several English families who had languished for many months in the prisons of this town, the mansions of despair and accumulated cruelties, are indebted to his friendly interference for their liberty; and that likewise the exchanges of several officers of the Royal Navy have been in a great measure brought about by his unremitting exertions."

Soon after his return to England, Lieut. Wood was advanced to the rank of Commander, and appointed to the Favourite sloop of war, in which, after cruising for some time in the Channel, he proceeded to the West Indies. He arrived there in time to assist in quelling the insurrections which had long raged in the islands of St. Vincent and Grenada, and threatened the total destruction of those colonies. Among the many instances of his activity and zeal while on that service, was the capture and destruction of three formidable French privateers in the course of one day. These vessels, which he found in the Gulf of Paria, had been long and but too successfully employed in carrying provisions to the insurgents of Grenada. Captain Otway, the senior officer on the station, subsequently ordered the Favourite to cruise to windward of that island, where she fell in with three other armed vessels, chased them dur

ing a whole day in light variable winds, and at length came up with a ship mounting 16 guns, formerly a Liverpool letter of marque, but then an enemy's cruiser, which struck without firing a shot; and Captain Wood by this means obtaining a knowledge of the private night signal, was fortunate enough to get possession of her consorts before day-light. From this period no supplies were ever received by the brigands, for the only vessel that ever afterwards attempted to come over was taken in a most gallant manner by the boats of the Zebra sloop of war, under the directions of Lieut. Senhouse.

Capt. Wood's services were eminently efficient on the morning of March 1, 1796, when the insurgents made a grand movement by taking possession of Pilot hill. There then being no other vessels than the Favourite, and an armed transport named the Sally, at that anchorage, Capt. Wood immediately pressed two large sloops which were lying at Isle Ronde, moored them close to the beach, and before 8 o'clock succeeded in bringing off all the troops and the followers of the army, amounting in the whole to between 1100 and 1200 men, of different colours, whom he conveyed in safety to St. George's, where they were landed by day-light the next morning. Had any delay occurred in the embarkation, there can be no doubt that every man of them would have been massacred.

In January 1797 Capt. Wood was actively engaged in the seizure of the island of Trinidad, which had been projected in the preceding autumn by Sir Hugh C. Christian, Captain Otway, and himself. On the day following Sir Ralph Abercromby's arrival, he was commissioned to inspect the defence of the island; and a few days after was desired by Rear-Admiral Harvey to turn his attention to the mode of attack necessary to be adopted. In consequence he submitted to that officer and Sir Ralph a plan which, after due consideration, they did him the honour to approve; and which was carried into execution with perfect success. Immediately after the capture of the island, Captain Wood was promoted to the command of the San Damaso, of 74 guns, the only Spanish line-of-battle ship which, at that time, fell into our possession. His post commission was confirmed by the Admiralty, March 27, 1797.

Soon after the above important event, the San Damaso escorted a large fleet of merchantmen to England; but, as she was not continued in commission, Capt. Wood was appointed to the Garland fri

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gate, then employed at the Cape of Good Hope, under the orders of Sir Hugh C. Christian, by whom he was sent, in company with a small squadron, upon a cruise off the islands of Mauritius and Bourbon, during which intelligence was received that two large French frigates had been committing great depredations in the Indian seas, and were proceeding towards MadagasIn consequence of this information, the squadron went in pursuit of the enemy; and at length Capt. Wood discovered a large vessel at anchor near the former French settlement of Fort Dauphine. The rest of the ships being to leeward, and unable to work up against the current, the Garland was ordered to examine ber, and stood in shore for that purpose; but, when arrived within a mile of the enemy, she unfortunately struck with great violence upon a pointed rock, fifteen feet under water, unshipped her tiller, and before Capt. Wood could run her into an opening in the reef, had settled so far that the water was rushing through the midship ports on the main-deck and the bawse boles. He, however, succeeded in saving the whole of her crew, rigging, and stores. The enemy, instead of a frigate, proved to be a large merchant ship, pierced for 24 guns, with a compliment of 150 men. She ran ashore on the approach of the Garland, but, perceiving the disaster that had befallen that ship, the Frenchmen pushed off in their boats, and endeavoured to recover the possession of their deserted vessel. Very luckily, the Garland's boats, being to windward, first reached and secured her; a circumstance which proved of essential service to Capt. Wood and his crew, during their continuance at Madagascar. This event occurred July 26, 1798.

Having succeeded in his endeavours to conciliate the natives, our officer had most of the Frenchmen delivered up to him as prisoners, and, while he remained upon the island, was well supplied with every thing that it afforded. He bad built one vessel of 15 tons burthen, and made considerable progress in the construction of another to carry his men to the Cape of Good Hope; when, at the expiration of four months, the Star sloop of war made her appearance at St. Luce, and in her, the French prisoners were conveyed to the Isle of France; the Garland's officers and men returning to the Cape in their prize, and some small vessels taken by the squadron under Commodore Osborne.

On Capt. Wood's arrival in England he was appointed to the Acasta, one of