Castlemilk. From 1796 to 1806 he was Vice-Consul at Maryland. He then proceeded to the West Indies as Commissary-General, and took charge of the department of public accounts. In 1811, he was ordered to the Mediterranean station, where he remained until 1816; and he was soon after appointed Commissary-General of British North America, where he served seven years, and then retired on account of his health. On his return he received the honour of knighthood from King George IV., April 20, 1825. He married, in 1825, the eldest daughter of the late General Fanning.

At Copenhagen, M. Reinhardt, Professor of Geology at the University. He was a Councillor of State and one of the Directors of Public Instruction. He was the author of some valuable works, and had translated the writings of Cuvier into Danish. He bequeathed his museum of natural history and his library to the University of Copenhagen.

Lately. Aged 47, Francis Dayrell, esq., of Shudy Camps, a Captain in the army, eldest son and heir of Marmaduke Dayrell, esq., who died in 1821, by Mildred Rebecca, daughter of the late Sir Robert Lawley, Bart., and sister to Lord Wenlock.

1. Aged 26, Horatio Nelson Eyre, elder son of George Matcham, esq., LL.D., of New-house, and great-nephew to Admiral Horatio Viscount Nelson.

3. In Dorset-square, in his 68th year, after a lingering illness of many months, Sir John Cheetham Mortlock, Knight, a Commissioner of Excise. Sir John was the son of the late John Mortlock, esq., an eminent banker at Cambridge, and for many years one of the representatives of that borough in Parliament. He was a member of Queen's College, Cambridge, and took the degree of B. A. in 1800. Being of an influential family in Cambridge, he became Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant of the Cambridge Volunteers, raised when rumours were rife of a threatened invasion by Napoleon Bonaparte. He received the honour of knighthood on occasion of presenting an Address from the Corporation of Cambridge to the Prince Regent, on the marriage of the Princess Charlotte, in 1816.

Sir John held the office of Commissioner of Excise for nearly thirty years, and previously that of Auditor of the Excise, and Receiver-General of the Post Office.

5. At Warblington, near Havant, aged 61, Captain Buckland Stirling Bluett, K. H. (1812.) He was a Lieutenant in 1800, and when on board the Scorpion, in 1804, was wounded in gallantly cutting out the Dutch brig of war Atalante, from the Vlie passage. For this daring feat he was promoted to the rank of Commander, in that year. Captain Bluett also received an honorary reward from the patriotic fund, and was nominated a K.H. in 1836.

7. At Highcliffe, Hampshire, in his 67th year, the Right Honourable Charles Stuart, Baron Stuart de Rothesay, of the Isle of Bute; Count of Machico and Marquess of Angra, in Portugal; and Grand Cross of the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword; G.C.B., and a Privy Councillor. His lordship was

born on the 2nd of January, 1779, the eldest son of Major-General the Honourable Sir Charles Stuart, K.B. (fourth son of John, third Earl of Bute, K.G., the prime minister), by Anna Louisa, second daughter and coheiress (with her sister Albinia, Countess of Buckinghamshire) of Lord Vere Bertie, and granddaughter of Robert, first Duke of Ancas. ter. He was educated for diplomacy, and, after earlier services of minor importance, was associated with Lord William Bentinck, at Madrid, in the charge of British affairs in Spain, in the eventful year 1808. Mr. Frere arriving there in November that year, as plenipotentiary from Great Britain, of course superseded Lord William and Mr. Stuart, who, it is stated in Moore's Narrative of Sir John Moore's Campaign, "from having resided some time in Spain, and from personal qualifications, had got acquainted with many of the leading men, and had acquired a clear insight into the state of affairs." On the 9th of January, 1810, Mr. Stuart was appointed to reside at the seat of the Provisional Government of Portugal, as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. He was afterwards for some time Minister Plenipotentiary at the Hague; and, subsequently, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, at Paris, which post he vacated on the change of Ministry, in 1830. On the 26th of September, 1812, he was invested with the insignia of a Civil Knight Grand Cross of the Bath. By patent, dated January 22, 1828, he was raised to

the peerage as Baron Stuart of Rothesay, in the Isle of Bute. In October, 1841, Lord Stuart de Rothesay was appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. Petersburgh, where he remained for four years. Lord Stuart de Rothesay married February 6, 1816, Lady Elizabeth Margaret Yorke, third daughter of Philip, third Earl of Hardwick. By that lady, who survives him, he had issue two daughters, the Right Honourable Charlotte Viscountess Canning, and the Most Honourable Louisa Marchioness of Waterford. The title, being limited to heirs male of the body, is extinct.

At Windsor Barracks, aged 32, Captain the Honourable William Henry Leicester, of the Grenadier Guards, the only brother of Lord de Tabley.

In Grosvenor-place, aged 55, Sir William Foulis, the eighth Baronet of Ingleby Manor, county of York (1619); eldest son of Sir William Foulis, the seventh Baronet, by Anne, second daughter of Edmond Turnor, esq., of Panton, Lincolnshire; succeeded to the title on the 5th Sept., 1802, on the death of his father. He married May 11, 1825, Mary Jane, second daughter of the late Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Ross, of Balnagowan, county of Ross, Bart., by Lady Mary Fitzgerald, eldest sister of the present Duke of Leinster; but by that lady, who it is believed survives him, he had issue only a daughter, Mary, born in 1826. The title and estates have devolved on his brother, Sir Henry Foulis.

Murdered by brigands, on the road from Macri to Smyrna, Sir Lawrence Jones, the second Baronet, of Cranmerhall, Norfolk (1831). He was born January 10, 1817, the eldest son of the late Major-General Sir John Thomas Jones, K.C.B., by Catharine Maria, daughter of Effingham Lawrence, of New York, and formerly of London. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his father, February 26, 1843. circumstances of the death of Sir Lawrence Jones, were as follows: :-" On the 6th of November, at two o'clock in the afternoon, he, with Captain Twopenny, left Macri for Smyrna. They were accompanied by a Greek dragoman of the name of Nicoli, and also three conduct

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On the night of the same day they all slept at Karghi, and the next day, at twelve o'clock, they found themselves at the foot of the mountain called KhassilsBel, where they stopped to breakfast. During this repast one of the conductors observed to the dragoman, that two or

three Zhybeeks were at a distance in front, but as he in a short time lost sight of them, the travellers were undisturbed, and their route was continued. But they had not proceeded more than six miles on their journey, when they were suddenly assailed by a warm fire of musketry from behind one of the rocks of the mountain. Sir Lawrence Jones fell dead, as well as the Greek, Nicoli, by this fatal discharge; Captain Twopenny was also grievously wounded. The robbers, without the least fear of being recognized, approached and began to take possession of everything which they could lay their hands upon. Captain Twopenny miraculously escaped from being despatched. One of the brigands had already pointed a pistol to his chest, when another turned the aim of the pistol, and it went off in a different direction. Having remained for about an hour-and-a-half upon the field of the murder, the robbers departed. Captain Twopenny, aided by his conductor, with difficulty remounted his horse. It was not until twelve hours' ride of fatigue that he arrived at Macri, weltering in his blood, which was running from his numerous wounds. On his arrival at Macri, his first care was to look after the body of his companion, which was brought to Macri on the 9th, as well as that of Nicoli; both of them were buried in the Greek chapel.' Sir Lawrence Jones is succeeded in the baronetcy by his next brother, now Sir Willoughby Jones.

8. At Chapel-street, Grosvenor-square, Lady Mary Coote, eldest daughter and coheir of Charles, last Earl of Bellamont, by Lady Emily Fitzgerald, second daughter of James, first Duke of Leinster.

9. In London, Charles Badham, M.D. F. R. S., Professor of Medicine in the University of Glasgow. Having completed his medical education at Edinburgh, he entered a gentleman commoner of Pembroke College, Oxford, in which university he took the degrees of B.A., M.A. and M.D. He commenced his professional career in London, as a medical lecturer, by succeeding Dr., afterwards Sir A. Creighton, when he went to Russia, and was elected Physician to the Wesminster General Dispensary. also became a fellow of the College of Physicians. Dr. Badham attained considerable eminence as a travelling physician, and by the publication of some translations of the classics, several of which evinced much talent. Upon the occasion of the medical chair

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becoming vacant in the University of Glasgow, in 1827, Dr. Badham was recommended to the Duke of Montrose, by Sir Henry Halford, as one whose talents and accomplishments would tend to increase the fame of a rising University. And, although Scotchmen were not pleased at having an Englishman preferred before them, his lectures displayed so much ability that they soon discovered that they had reason to be proud of the services of so brilliant and remarkable a person. He was a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine. "Lines written at Warwick Castle," appeared in the April number of that periodical, in the year 1829. They had been previously privately printed, with notes, in 4to, 1827. Professor Badham was twice married; in early life to Miss Campbell, first Cousin of the poet; secondly, to Caroline, eldest daughter of Admiral Sir Edward Foote, K.C.B.

10. In Richmond-terrace, Westminster, aged 78, John Irving, esq., M. P. for the county of Antrim. Mr. Irving was the eldest son of John Irving, Laird of Cushathill and Burnfoot, in Middlebie, one of those industrious small proprietors now fast disappearing from among the agricultural community. After receiving an education at the parish school, he was sent to London at the age of thirteen, to the care of his maternal uncle, Mr. J. Rae, the active partner in an old firm. At an early age he was brought into the counting-house, where his progress in mastering the principles as well as routine of business, soon gained him the confidence of his chie's, by whom he was made a partner at the same time with the late Sir T. Reid, who was afterwards twice chairman of the East India Company; and thus in time became one of the head partners of the great firm of Reid, Irving, and Company. His commercial transactions extended to every quarter of the globe, and frequently assumed a character of public and national importance, so extensive and so consequential were the negotiations in which he was engaged. In 1806, he entered Parliament as one of the members for Bramber, that seat having been secured to him by the influence of the Rutland family. The friendship of that distinguished family begun with his uncle Mr. Rae, was continued to him during his whole life. He sat for Bramber until the borough was disfranchised by the Reform Bill, and afterwards contested, though unsuccessfully, Clithero in 1832,

and Poole in 1835. At the general election of 1837, he was returned for the county of Antrim, which he represented in the last and present Parliament, until his decease, enjoying the regard of the leading portion of his constituents. In politics he was a steady Conservative.

At Grove-hall, Hammersmith, aged 84, Miss Mary Flaherty, formerly of Bayswater-hill. This lady was the only child of a hat-maker, who formerly resided in the neighbourhood of Covent Garden; of Irish extraction, and a Roman Catholic. Upon her father's death she came into the possession of property which afforded her the means of a very comfortable subsistence. She was well educated, and had read extensively in English literature, especially the poets. She took a lively interest in the question of education, and was especially anxious to see it disconnected with religious party. This sentiment rendered her an ardent admirer of Lord Brougham's exertions in the same cause, and moved her to place at the disposal of the Council of University College, in 1836, the munificent sum of 5000l. three and a-half per cents. The fund was disposed to the foundation of four scholarships, each of the annual value of 50l., to be given in alternate years for proficients in classical learning, and in mathematical and physical knowledge. Miss Flaherty was a person of very simple and self-denying habits. In illustration of this feature in her character it is related of her, that at the conclusion of her interview with the gentleman to whom she first communicated her intentions in favour of University College, on his proposing to have her carriage called, she said, "You may spare yourself that trouble, sir. If I kept my carriage I should not have 50002. to present to University College. am quite content to ride in an omnibus."

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11. At Stokestown House, county of Roscommon, aged 73, the Right Honourable and Rev. Maurice Mahon, third Baron Hartland, of that place (1800). His lordship was born October 6, 1772, the third and youngest son of Maurice, first Lord Hartland, by the Honourable Catharine Moore, fourth daughter of Stephen, first Viscount Mountcashell; and succeeded to the title on the death of his eldest brother, Lieutenant-General Thomas, second Lord Hartland, in 1835, (the second brother, Lieutenant-General the Honourable Stephen Mahon, having previously died unmarried, in 1828.) Hi

lordship was a member of St. John's College, Cambridge, and was in holy orders. He married, November 24, 1813, Isabell Jane, third daughter of William Hume, esq., of Hume Wood, county of Wicklow, but has no issue.

In Portland-place, aged 73, Samuel Amy Severn, esq., of Thenford, Northamptonshire, Wallop-hall, county of Salop, and Rhos Gôch, county of Glamorgan: only surviving son of Samuel Severn, esq., of Enfield, by Elizabeth Mary, daughter of George Gorst, of Chester, gent. In 1829, Mr. Severn served the office of sheriff of the county of Northampton. He married, April 10, 1794, Anne, daughter of Thomas Brayne, of Barton, county of Warwick, gent., and had issue.

13. In Hans-place, Chelsea, in his 62nd year, John Backhouse, esq., formerly Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and Receiver-general of Excise. He was a native of Liverpool, and was the son of one of the oldest merchants of that town, and was intended to follow the same respectable profession. His introduction into public life arose out of events attendant upon Mr. Canning's election as representative for Liverpool in the year 1812. Finding that his official connexion with the Government precluded him from rendering that service and attention which the mercantile interest and the rapid increase of the commerce of Liverpool required, Mr. Canning urgently recommended the appointment by the public bodies in that town of a salaried agent in the metropolis, to aid its representatives in the protection of its important commercial and trading privilege. This suggestion was at once adopted, and it was accordingly determined by the different associations formed in Liverpool for the regulation and guardianship of the various branches of its commerce, to establish an office in London, in immediate communication and connexion with the mercantile bodies in the country. To the head of this establishment Mr. Backhouse was unanimously elected; and most ably did he discharge for several years the responsible duties thus confided to him. The frequent communications which took place between him, as the organ of the commercial body in Liverpool and Mr. Canning, soon led to an intimacy which ripened as the acquaintance increased, into the warmest friendship, and, a few years after, resulted in Mr. Canning's electing him as his private secretary.

Through Mr. Canning's interest, Mr. Backhouse was appointed in 1822, to a clerkship to the India Board; but he held that office only two years, and then resigned it on being made a Commissioner of Excise. On the death of Mr. Cholmondeley, (grandson of George third Earl of Cholmondeley, K.B., and nephew of Viscount Malpas,) the Receiver-General of that department, in 1827, Mr. Backhouse was appointed his successor in that post; and about the same period also he was advanced to the important office of Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The value of his services in this latter capacity is abundantly attested by the fact that he continued to hold the appointment through the successive administrations of Viscount Goderich, the Duke of Wellington, Earl Grey, Viscount Melbourne, and Sir Robert Peel, until the year 1842, a period of sixteen years; and his connexion with the Government then only ceased owing to his infirmity of health, which compelled him to tender his resignation. Mr. Backhouse married, in 1810, Catherine, younger daughter of Thomas Nicholson, esq., of Stockport, by whom he has left issue two sons.

In London, aged 50, Mary Ann, wife of Thomas Jevons, esq., of Liverpool, and eldest daughter of the late William Roscoe, esq., of that place.

14. At St. Leonard's on Sea, Sussex, the Right Hon. William Dundas, a Privy Councillor, Lord Clerk Register, Keeper of the Signet, and Register of Sasines in Scotland: third son of Robert Dundas, esq., of Arniston, Lord President of the Court of Sessions, and M.P. for Mid Lothian, half-brother to Henry, first Viscount Melville. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, Jan. 31, 1788. He first entered Parliament at the general election of 1796, as member for the burghs of Kirkwall, Wick, Dornoch, Dingwall, and Tain; and he early distinguished himself as an active member and occasional speaker. In Oct. 1797, he was appointed one of the Commissioners for the affairs of India, his uncle, the Right Hon. Henry Dundas (afterwards Viscount Melville) being then President of the Board; and held that situation until 1803. He was sworn a Privy Councillor on the 25th June, 1800. At the general election of 1802, he was returned to Parliament for the county of Sutherland, and he was rechosen in 1806. On the 19th May, 1804, he was appointed Secretary of

War, which office he held until Feb. 1806. In 1807, he was first returned to Parliament for Cullen. In 1812, he was elected for the city of Edinburgh. He wes re-elected in 1818, 1820, 1830, and 1831, and finally retired on the Reform Act being brought into operation in 1832. As Register of Sasines, and as a compensation for the loss of fees as Keeper of the Signet, his emoluments were little short of 4,000l., per annum.

15. In Wilton-crescent, Harriet, widow of Sir Frederick Francis Baker, Bart., and the third daughter of Sir John Simeon, Bart.

16. In South-street, Grosvenor-square, in her 76th year, the Right Hon. Élizabeth Vassall, dowager Lady Holland. She was the daughter and heir of Richard Vassall, esq., of Jamaica; and was first married June 27, 1786, to Sir Godfrey Webster, of Battle Abbey, county of Sussex, Bart. By which marriage she had issue. Lady Webster's marriage was dissolved by Act of Parliament in June, 1797, and her ladyship was remarried on the 9th of the following month to the late Henry Richard third Lord Holland, (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster during Lord Grey's administration,) who in consequence assumed the name of Vassall only, but his children bear his former name of Fox. His lordship died on the 22nd Oct. 1840. Her ladyship had issue, before her second marriage, Charles Richard Fox, Colonel in the army, and aide-de-camp to the Queen, who married in 1824, Lady Mary Fitzclarence, second daughter of King William IV. and Mrs. Jordan. After her second marriage her ladyship had issue, Stephen, who died an infant in 1800; the Right Hon. Henry Edward, now Lord Holland, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Tuscany; the Right Hon. Mary Elizabeth, Lady Lilford, married in 1830, to the present Lord Lilford, and has a very numerous family; and the Hon. Georgiana Anne Fox, who died in 1819, in her 10th year. The deceased lady played a very conspicuous part in society, political and literary. Her great attainments, lively wit, her grace and dignity, deservedly placed her at the head of Whig fashion. The charms of the celebrated hospitalities of Holland House, in the time of its late revered owners, have been made known wherever liberal thoughts, literary merit, or eminence in the arts are to be found. For the remarkable position

occupied by her ladyship, during many years of those daily festivals in which genius, wit, and patriotic hope were triumphant, she was eminently gifted. While her own remarks were full of fire, practical sense, and nice observation, her influence was chiefly felt in the discourse of those whom she directed and inspired, and which, as she impelled it, startled by the most animated contrasts, or blended in the most graceful harmonies. Beyond any other hostess, and very far beyond any host, she possessed the tact of perceiving and the power of evoking the various capacities which lurked in every part of the brilliant circles she drew around her. To enkindle the enthusiasm of an artist on the theme over which he had achieved the most facile mastery; to set loose the heart of the rustic poet, and imbue his speech with the freedom of his native hills; to draw from the adventurous traveller a breathing picture of his most imminent danger, or to embolden the bashful soldier to disclose his own share in the perils and glories of some famous battle-field; to encourage the generous praise of friendship, when the speaker and the subject reflected interest on each other, or win the secret history of some effort which had astonished the world or shed new lights on science; to conduct those brilliant developments to the height of satisfaction, and then to shift the scene by the magic of a word, were among her daily successes. bituated to a generous partisanship, by strong sympathy with a great political cause, she carried the fidelity of her devotion to that cause into her social relations, and was ever the truest and fastest of friends. The tendency, often more idle than malicious, to soften down the intellectual claims of the absent, which so insidiously besets literary conversation, and teaches a superficial insincerity even to substantial esteem and regard, found no favour in her presence. Under her auspices, not only all critical, but all personal talk was tinged with kindness; the strong interest which she took in the happiness of her friends, shed a peculiar sunniness over the aspects of life presented by the common topics of alliances, and marriages, and promotions; and not a promising engagement, or a wedding, or a promotion of a friend's son, or a new intellectual triumph of any youth with whose name and history she was familiar, but became an event on which she expected and required congratulation, as on a part of her own fortune. If to hail and

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