sent family, assert any claim upon the throne of Prussia. This exclusion was readily assented to. Their Royal Highnesses left Berlin on the 27th of October, and arrived at Hanover on the 28th. Having spent some weeks in Germany, they continued their tour to England, where they arrived in the latter end of the ensuing month. The ceremony of a re-marriage in this kingdom between the Duke and Duchess of York, according to the ri tual of our Church, was rendered necessary by the Royal Marriage Act, 12 Geo. III. cap. 11. sect. 1. which directs, "That his Majesty's consent shall not only pass the great seal, but shall also be set out in licence and register of marriage." His Majesty's consent did pass the great seal previous to the marriage at Berlin, but the latter direction of the statute could be complied with in this country only; for our archbishop could not have granted a licence for the marriage at Berlin, nor can a marriage be registered but in the parish or place where it is solemnized. The ceremony took place on Wednesday, Nov. 23, at the Queen's House. When the marriage of his Royal Highness was announced to Parliament, a more splendid provision was immediately voted to him, and an honourable settlement made upon his illustrious Consort. The life of her Royal Highness the Duchess of York has been marked by few circumstances calculated to bring her prominently under public observation. She has not mixed much in the gaieties of fashionable life, nor has she taken any part in those domestic occurrences in the Royal Family, by which she might have been involved in the painful discussions to which they have so repeatedly led. From the state of her health she has found a life of retirement most congenial to her happiness, and the same reason has unfortunately operated as a bar to those domestic joys which her married state might have entitled her to expect. Easy of access, affable and benevo lent, she spent her whole time in promoting the comforts and the happiness of every individual within her sphere. The children of the whole neighbourhood-at least, all who needed her assistance appear to have been considered by her Royal Highness almost as her own; they were clothed and educated under her own immediate inspection, and even assistance. Every Sunday whole troops of these infant protegées were to be seen crossing the Be park in their simple cleanly attire to the mansion of their benefactress, where they regularly partook of cakes and wine administered by her own hand. As they grew up, the patronage of her Royal Highness was still continued in the shape of apprentice premiums, &c. and, in many instances, small marriage portions to the young women. Among her own household, not a servant was married but a home was provided for them by the Princess; and the estate and its neighbourhood abounded with cottages so tenanted. Her Royal Highness also founded two benefit societies for male adults: the one in Weybridge, and the other at Walton-upon-Thames, and not only did she endow them liberally at the outset, but she unceasingly watched over their progress; and fostered their interests by her care. sides this, she had a long list of infirm pensioners, both male and female, in London, who were regularly paid out of her Royal Highness's funds, some five, some ten, and some twenty pounds a year. The list of public charities likewise bear testimony to the zeal of her humanity, and afford ample proofs of the interest which she took in every thing calculated to promote the hap piness, or to alleviate the sufferings of her fellow creatures in short, this illustrious lady appears never to have turned away her ear from the prayer of want or the plaint of woe, but to have had "a hand open as day for melting charity;" and the blessing of the poor and needy is upon her." His Royal Highness has been pleased to direct that all these charities shall be continued. A Correspondent at Weybridge says, "The Duchess of York's charities were of so useful and discriminating a kind, that poor-rates here and at Walton are hardly known; she found the method to stimulate the poor to industry." MARQUESS OF Ormonde. August 10. At his seat, Ulcombeplace, Kent, in his 51st year, the most noble Walter Butler, Marquess of Ormonde, Earl of Ormonde and Ossory, Viscount Thurles, Baron of Arklow, in Ireland, and a Peer of Great Britain by the title of Baron Butler of Llanthony Hereditary Chief Butler of Ireland, Knight of St. Patrick, a Privy Counsellor in Ireland, Custos Rotulorum and Governor of the County of Kilkenny, Colonel of the Kilkenny Militia, F. S. A. The Marquess was born in 1770, succeeded his father John, seventeenth Earl of Ormonde, Jan. 30, 1796; married married March 17, 1805, Anné, only child of Joseph Pryce Clarke, esq. by Anne, sole heiress of Godfrey Clarke, esq. of Sutton Hall, in Derbyshire, but had no issue by her, who died Dec. 19, 1817. The Marquess was created a Peer of the United Kingdom, Jan. 20, 1801, by the title of Baron of Llanthony one of the attainted titles of his collateral ancestors the Dukes of Ormonde), and advanced to the dignity of Marquess of Ormonde, Jan. 22, 1816, but these dignities being limited to the male issue of the grantee, become extinct. The antient honours of Earl of Or monde and of Ossory, Viscount Thurles, Baron of Arklow, hereditary chief butler of Ireland, devolve to the Marquess's brother, the Hon. James Wandesford Butler, Knight of the Shire for Kilkenny, now nineteenth Earl of Ormonde. On the attainder of James, second Duke of Ormonde in 1714, the forfeiture of the honours was supposed to have included the Irish dignities as well as the English, but on argument before the House of Lords of Ireland, in 1791, it was decided that the Irish honours were not affected (though the Irish estates were) by the attainders passed in England and Ireland, and consequently that the English dignities of Duke of Ormonde, Earl of Brecknock, Baron of Llanthony, were alone extinguished. The Duke's brother, the Earl of Arran, was consequently in fact third Duke of Ormonde, &c. in Ireland, but deceasing without male issue, the Dukedom became extinct, and the Earldom of Ormonde devolved to his collateral relative, John Butler, of Kilcash, descended from the Hon. Richard But ler, younger brother of the first Duke, who, under an ignorance of his right, never assumed the title, though in fact, fifteenth Earl of Ormonde; on his death without issue, the representation devolved to his first cousin, Walter Butler, of Garryricken (sixteenth Earl), whose son, John, seventeenth Earl, established his claim in 1791; he was father of the late Marquess by the heiress of the Earl of Wandesford. In one of the late sittings of the Court of Coronation Claims, his Lordship preferred his claim to assist at the ensuing Coronation, as Chief Butler for Ireland; which was allowed, with reference to his Majesty in Council, to assign the particular share of the duty to be performed. DR. NORTH, BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. July 19. At his palace at Chelsea, aged 79, after a long illness and general decay of nature, the Honourable and Right Rev. Brownlow North, D. C. L. Lord Bp. of Winchester, Prelate of the Order of the Garter, Provincial Subdean of Canterbury, and Visitor of Mage dalen, New, Trinity, St. John's, and Corpus Christi Colleges, Oxford, F.A. S. and F. L.S. He was a younger son of the first Earl of Guilford, and younger brother of the Prime Minister, Lord North, in whose administration he obtained a mitre, 1771, at the age of 30. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford; elected Fellow of All Souls; proceeded M. A. in 1766; and LL. D. 1770. From a Canonry of Christ Church he was promoted to the Deanery of Canterbury in 1770; and from thence, the following year, advanced to the See of Lichfield and Coventry, on the translation of Dr. Egerton to Durham. In 1774, he was promoted to the Bishoprick of Worcester, on the death of Dr. James Johnson, and in 1784 to Winchester, on the death of Dr. John Thomas. The house of North, frank, unassuming, and kind, have for centuries set a pattern of what in truth they are, true nobility. Their ease is well calculated to put the insolence of modern upstarts to shame. His Lordship, like all the Norths, was of an amiable, ge nerous, and yielding temper; and of a most kind and attractive disposition. He was also possessed of much higher abilities than has generally been supposed; which might, perhaps, be owing to his deafness; or more probably to that strange inclination of the world, to mistake fierceness and ill-nature for wit, and the ductility, which almost always accompanies generous and rich minds, for weakness. When an under-graduate at Oxford, considerable expectations were raised of the figure he would make in life. To. He had a large family (three sons and several daughters) by his wife (Miss) Bannister) now deceased, a lady wellknown in the fashionable world. comply with her wishes, Farnham Cs6tle, the Episcopal palace, was some years ago repaired at a vast expence; and with her the Bishop passed some years in Italy. The virtues of Christianity grafted upon his singularly mild and indulgent disposition, formed a character, whose loss is truly afflicting to his family and friends. Bp. North was the oldest Prelate, except the truly venerable Bishop of Durham, who is now in the 87th year of his age; the latter having been consecrated to the See of Landaff in 1769, and translated to Durbam in 1791. A Portrait of Bp. North is given in the Ninth Volume of Nichols's "Literary Anecdotes." DR. BENNET, Bishop of CLOYNE. July 16. In Mountagu-square, in his 75th year, the Right Rev. William Bennet, D. D. Bishop of Cloyne. This exemplary Prelate was most respectable for his learning, and most exemplary for his uprightness, benevolence, and piety. He was educated first under the worthy Dr. Thackeray, and afterwards under his learned successor, Dr. Robert Sumner, at Harrow School. At this famous Seminary his principal associates were men of no ordinary rank in Literature; amongst whom were the profoundlylearned Dr. Parr, and the not less celebrated Sir William Jones. At this period, as we learn from Lord Teignmouth, young Jones invented a political play, in which Bennet and Parr were his principal associates; and Bp. Bennet informed the Writer of this article, that "great peculiarity of thinking, fondness for writing verses and plays of various kinds, and a degree of integrity and manly courage, distinguished young Jones even at this period." Mr. Bennet was removed to Emanuel College, Cambridge where he took the degrees of B.A. 1767; and M. A. 1770. His Compositions in English were perspicuous, correct, and elegant. When a young man, he wrote Latin prose.and Latin verse with great fluency; and a copy of verses, which the men at Cambridge call Tripos, was honoured with the warm approbation, even of the austere and fastidious Mr. Gray, In 1775, he succeeded his friend Dr. Richard Farmer in the Tutorship of his College; and proceeded B. D. 1777; and D. D. 1790; in which latter year, this elegant and profound Scholar, having been appointed Chaplain to the Earl of Westmorland, was most deservedly elevated to the Bishoprick of Cork and Ross; and in 1794, was translated to the valuable See of Cloyne, estimated at nearly 6000l. per annum. own observation and that of Mr. Leman, that this Island had many more Roman Towns and Roads in it than have been generally imagined. The Bishop found undoubted marks of five Roads round the town of Cambridge only. He communicated to the "History of Leicestershire" a Plate containing two Views of the old Church of St. Nicholas in that Town, with a Portion of the Roman Wall: he also gave some judicious observations on the Roman Roads and Stations in that County, in addition to the essay on that subject by Mr. Leman. He conferred a similar favour on the Rev. Mr. Polwhele, in the "History of Cornwall," (see p. 104.) He was also a frequent and muchesteemed -Correspondent of the celebrated Antiquaries, Richard Gough, esq. and the Rev. William Cole of Milton. In Dr. Parr's memorable "Sequel to a printed Paper lately circulated in Warwickshire by the Rev. Charles Curtis, 1792," the learned Doctor, enumerating some of his highly-esteemed Correspondents, places first "that most amiable man, and most accomplished scholar, Dr. Bennet, the Bishop of Cork ;" and in a subsequent Pamphlet, in answer to Dr. Combe, 1795, will be found the following just and admirable character of Bp. Bennet; which we cannot resist re- - printing in this place, although it has already graced our volumes; as it is, to use the words of the Correspondent who originally sent us the extract, literary tribute due to a man not only of the first attainments, but of the mildest complexion of manners :" "Among the Fellows of Emanuel College who endeavoured to shake Mr. Homer's resolution, and to preserve for him his academical ránk, there was one man, whom I cannot remember without feeling that all my inclination to commend, and all my talents for commendation, are disproportionate to his merit. From habits not only of close intimacy, but of early and uninterrupted friendship, I can say, that there is scarcely one Greek or Roman author of eminence, in verse or prose, whose writings are not familiar to him. He is equally successful in comBp. Bennet was elected in 1790 a bating the difficulties of the most obFellow of the Society of Antiquaries; scure, and catching, at a glance, the whose pursuits were very congenial to beauties of the most elegant. Though his own. He was particularly skilled in I could mention two or three persons the knowledge of Roman Roads; to which, who have made a greater proficiency in conjunction with his learned friend than my friend in philosophical learnthe Rev. Thomas Leman, of Bath, he ing, yet, after surveying all the intelhad paid the greatest attention. In lectual endowments of all my literary one of the mauy Letters with which acquaintance, I cannot name the man the good Bishop favoured Mr. Nichols, whose taste seems to me more correct he gives it as his opinion, from his aud more pure, or whose judgment upon any any composition in Greek, Latin, or English, would carry with it higher authority to my mind. "To those discourses which, when delivered before an academical audience, captivated the young and interested the old, which were argumentative without formality, and brilliant without gaudiness, and in which the happiest selection of topics was united with the most luminous arrangement of matter, it cannot be unsafe for me to pay the tribute of my praise, because every hearer was an admirer, and every admirer will be a witness. As a tutor, he was unwearied in the instruction, liberal in the government, and auxious for the welfare, of all who were entrusted to his care. The brilliancy of his conversation, and the suavity of his manners, were the more endearing, because they were united with qualities of a higher order; because in morals he was correct without moroseness, and because in, religion he was serious without bigotry. From the retirement of a college, he stepped at once into the circle of a court; but he has not been dazzled by its glare, nor tainted by its corruptions. As a prelate, he does bonour to the gratitude of a patron who was once his pupil, and to the dignity of a station where, in his wise and honest judgment upon things, great duties are connected with great emoluments. If, from general description, I were permitted to descend to particular detail, I should say, that in one instance he exhibited a noble proof of generosity, by refusing to accept the legal and customary profits of his office from a peasantry bending down under the weight of indigence and exaction. I should say, that, upon another occasion, he did not suffer himself to be irritated by perverse and audacious opposition; but, blending mercy with justice, spared a misguided father for the sake of a distressed dependent family, and provided, at the same time, for the instruction of a large and populous parish, without pushing to extremes his episcopal rights when invaded, and his episcopal power when defied. While the English Universities produce such scholars, they will indeed deserve to be considered as the nurseries of Learning and Virtue. While the Church of Ireland is adorned by such prelates, it cannot have much to fear from that spirit of restless discontent and excessive refinement which has lately gone abroad. It will be instrumental to the best purposes by the best means. It will gain fresh security and fresh lustre from the support of wise and good men. It will promote the noblest interests of GENT. MAG. August, 1820. "The very learned Bishop of Cloyne was Tutor of Emanuel College when Lord Westmorland resided there, and was his Lordship's Private Tutor also. He had previously received his education at Harrow, and was in every respect a very learned and accomplished man. When Lord Westmorland was appointed to the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland, he necessarily remembered his old preceptor and friend. He was accordingly on the first opportunity appointed to the Bishoprick of Cork, and afterwards to the more lucrative see of Cloyne. Whoever knew this amiable Prelate in his early life, or have been honoured by his friendship in his progress to his present dignity, cannot but experience the truest satisfaction, from seeing the benefits of fortune so honourably bestowed, and so discreetly enjoyed." In 1791 Bp. Bennet married Frances, daughter of the Rev. Nathaniel Mapletoft, of Boughton, Northamptonshire, by Anna-Maria, only daughter of Charles fifth Viscount Cullen. His Lady survives him, but there are no children. Owing to illness in his family, he for some years past spent the greatest portion of his time in London; where he was at all times prompt to assist the charitable institutions in the Metropolis with his powerful assistance from the pulpit. In March last he anxiously per formed his promise of preaching at St. Michael's, Cornbill, when his health had been much impaired by a recent attack of the gout, and when the weather was very cold. This last and most meritorious exertion shortened his life; and his death will indeed be deeply and sincerely regretted by a numerous circle of admirers and friends. works, now of standard celebrity at home and abroad, have, from the spirit of profound and accurate analysis, which they every where display, and from the force, clearness, and precision of their statements, most essentially contributed to advance Chemistry to the high rank which it now holds among the liberal Sciences. His very acute, vigorous, and comprehensive mind has been most successfully exerted in arranging its numerous and daily multiplying details, defining its laws, and, above all, in attaching to it a spirit of philosophical investigation, which, while it lays the best foundation for extending its practical application, tends at the same time to exalt its character, and dignify its pursuit. As a Lecturer on Chemistry, it is impossible to praise too highly the superior talents of Dr. Murray: always perfectly master of his subject, and very successful in the performance of his experiments, which were selected with great judgment, his manner had a natural ease and animation, which showed evidently that his mind went along with every thing he uttered, and gave his lectures great freedom and spirit. But his peculiar excellence as a teacher was a most uncommon faculty, arising from the great perspicuity and distinctness of his conceptions, of leading his hearers step by step through the whole process of the most complex investigation, with such admirable clearness, that they were induced to think that he was following out a natural order which could not be avoided, at the very time when he was exhibiting a specimen of the most refined and subtle analysis. With him the Student did not merely accumulate facts, note down dry results, or stare at amusing experiments: he was led irresistibly to exercise his own mind, and trained to the habits of accurate induction. To those solid attainments which entitled Dr. Murray to stand in the first rank as a man of science, was united a refined taste, and a liberal acquaintance with every subject of general interest in literature. His manners were easy, polite, and unpretending, regulated by a delicate sense of propriety, with much of that simplicity which so often accompanies strength of character and originality of mind. He rose to eminence by the intrinsic force of his talents; he was above all the second-hand arts by which so many labour to attract attention; and a native dignity of sentiment, and manly spirit of independence, kept him aloof from all those petty intrigues which are so often employed with suceess to bolster-up inferior pretensions. Dr. Murray is the Author of Element's of Chemistry, 2 vols. 8vo. 1801, 2d edit. 1810-Elements of Materia Medica and Pharmacy, 2 vols. 8vo. 1804.-A System of Chemistry, 4 vols. 8vo. 1806.-Supplement to the System of Chemistry, 8vo. 1809.-A System of Materia Medica, and Pharmacy, 2 vols. 8vo. 1810. DEATH S. 1820. OF a fever, sincerely lamented, Jan. 25. on his passage from Batavia to China, Richard Rogers, esq. of the Hon. East India Company's ship Herefordshire. Feb. 8. At Coimbatore, in the East Indies, in his 21st year, William Colin Gordon, esq. of the Hon. East India Company's Civil Service, son of the late Hesse Gordon, esq. April 14, in his 37th year, on his pas sage from Madras to the Cape of Good Hope, Hugh Spottiswoode, esq. of the Hon. East India Company's Civil Service at Madras. April 25. Of a malignant fever, at Kingston, Jamaica, in his 29th year, William, eldest son of Mr. Cornelius Marsh, of Yoxford. The kindness of his disposition, and his many amiable qualities, will long endear him to his afflicted relations and friends. May 15. At Pernambuco, in his 27th year Mr. Henry Koster, son of Sir J. T. Koster, of Liverpool. He was author of "Travels in Brazil." June 4. At Jamaica, in his 14th year, Henry Edward Carr, of his Majesty's ship Sapphire, son of the Rev. Dr. Carr, Dean of Hereford. No higher testimony of his worth and promise can be adduced than the following extract from his Commander, Capt. Hart's Letter, to his afflicted parent: -"He was admired and is regretted not only by the officers of his own ship, but by every one of that squadron, whose attention had been drawn towards him from his youth, his activity, and bis intelligence. His memory will ever be most dear to me. A more mild, a more intelligent, active, clever youth, never graced his Majesty's fleet." June 5. At Port Royal, Jamaica, Edward, son of the Hon. and Rev. Edward and Charlotte Rice, Midshipman on board his Majesty's ship Sapphire. June 9. At St. Vincent's, in his 20th year, Frederick, son of the late Joseph Shiercliffe Jessop, esq. of Waltham Abbey, Essex. June 13. On his passage from Demerara, Francis James Adam, esq. son of the Lord Chief Commissioner of the Jury Court, Edinburgh. .... June At Rio Janeiro, aged 29, the Hon. Robert Cavendish Spencer, third son of Earl Spencer, and Captain of his Ma jesty's |