ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. REV. James Scott, Weston super Mare R. Somerset, vice Beadon, resigned. Rev. James Brown, B. D. Minting V. Lincolnshire. Rev. Horace Parker, Chaplain to the Forces in Spain and Portugal. Rev. Gilbert Heathcote, M. A. Andover V. Hants, and Rev. William Evans, B. D. Bishop Sutton cum Ropley R. Hants, both vice Howley, resigned. Rev. T. L. Strong, Titsey R. Surrey, vice Moreton, resigned. Rev. R. Pickering, B. D. Winterbourne Abbas with Steepleton R. Dorset, vice Bown, deceased. Rev. W. Ward, B. D. to the prebendal stall of Wilsford and Woodford, in the cathedral church of Sarum, vice Brereton, deceased. Rev. H. C. Orde, Wheathamstead R. Herts, vice his brother, deceased. (See p. 597.) Rev. John Ahier, curate of St. Helier's, Trinity R. Isle of Jersey, vice La Cloche, deceased. Rev. Arthur Onslow, D.D. dean of Worcester, Lindridge R. vice Evans, archdeacon of that diocese, resigned. Rev. James Meakin, prebendary of Worcester, Wolverley V. vice Onslow, resigned. Rev. Algernon Peyton, B. A. the rich rectory of Doddington, Isle of Ely. (See col. 2.) Rev. J. T. A. Reed, Walford with Ruardean V. near Ross, Herefordshire. Rev. Brian Broughton, M. A. Long Ditton R. Surrey. Rev. William Page Richards, LL. B. Abbotstoke R. Dorset. Rev. T. Barnaby, B. D. Edwin Loach R. Worcestersh. with Tedstone Wafre Chap. Herefordshire, Rev. C. A. Wheelwright, Little Bytham R. with Castle Bytham annexed, Lincolns. Rev. J. Carter, librarian of the Bristol Library, a minor canon of Bristol cathed. BIRTHS. 1811, AT Arbuthnott House, ViscounJune 5. tess Arbuthnott, a daughter. At Duff House, Scotland, Lady J. Taylor, a daughter. The wife of Henry Comyns Berkeley, esq. of Lincoln's-inn-fields, a daughter. June 6. At Ham Common, the lady of Sir Henry C. Montgomery, bart. a son. June 15. At Ryde, Isle of Wight, the lady of Lieut.-gen. Sir George Nugent, a son. June 26. At Egglesfield House, the wife of the Rev. John Morris, a daughter. June 30. At Winchmore Hill, Mrs. Harvey Combe, a son. Lately, At Carisrhue, the Grand Duchess of Baden, of a Princess. MARRIAGES. 1811, REV. W. Tyner, rector of UpApril 25. marden, and vicar of Compton, Sussex, to Miss Sarah Colston, of Croydon. April 50. At Forglen House, W. Gowan, esq. of the Bengal establishment, to Helen, daughter of Sir George Abercromby, bart, of Birkenhog and Falkland. May 18. Richard Marter, esq. of Bourton-on-Water, Gloucestershire, to Jane, youngest daughter of Pettus Harman, esq. of Charles-street, Cavendish-square. June 1. At Wargrave, Berks, Barrett March, esq. of Remenham, Berks, to Mrs. Low, of Wargrave Lodge. June 6. At Shenfield, Essex, William Brodrick, esq. of Lincoln's Inn, to Marianne, third daughter of the late George Selby, esq. of Twizell House, Northumberland. Hon. and Rev. W. H. Dawnay, of Sessay, Yorkshire, to Lydia, only daughter of the late J. Heathcote, esq. of Conington Castle, Hunts. June 8. James Basevi, esq. to Charlotte Eliza, third daughter of G. Robinson, esq. Queen's-square, Bath. June 10. James Brown, esq. of Harehill Grove, near Leeds, to Charlotte, third daughter of the late Matthew Rhodes, esq. June 11. - Cholmeley, M.D. Physician to Guy's Hospital, to Eliza, third daughter of the late W. Havard, esq. of South Lambeth. June 15. Lieut.-col. Robert Camden Cope, of Loughgall, co, Armagh, to Mary, youngest daughter of the late Samuel Eliot, esq. of Antigua, and sister of the Countess of Errol, Lady Despencer, and Lady Cosby. June 15. Edward Fenshawe, Captain of Royal Engineers, to Frances Mary, second daughter of Lieut.-gen. Sir Hew Dalrymple. June 18. J. R. Spencer Phillips, esq. of Writtle, to Anna Maria, eldest daughter of Sir J. Tyrell, bart. of Boreham House, Essex. June 19. At St. George's, Hanoversquare, John Tyrrell, esq. to Clarissa Eliza, only daughter of William Merle, esq. of Colliers Wood, Surrey. June 21. At Putney, Waller Clifton, esq. of the Admiralty, to Elinor, second daughter of Daniel Bell, esq. of Highlands, Putney Heath, June 22. Rev. A. Peyton, rector of Doddington, Isle of Ely, (see col. 1.) to Isabella Anne, youngest daughter of T. Hussey, esq. M. P. of Gathorn, co. Meath. Henry Albers, esq. of Great Coramstreet, to Lucia Lucretia, second daughter of N. A. Martinius, esq. of St. Helen's-place. June 24. At Llanelweth, J. Thomas, esq. of Pencenig, to Miss Gwynne, of Llanelweth Hall, both co. Radnor, June June 25. T. Daniell, esq. of Aldridge Lodge, Staffordshire, to Mary, third daughter of Samuel Smith, esq. M. P. of Woodhall Park, Herts. Rev. J. Griffin, of Preston Candover, Hants, to Catharine, daughter of the late J. Stephenson, esq. of Bedford-square. June 26. By special licence, Lord Burghersh, eldest son of the Earl of Westmoreland, to Miss Wellesley Pole, daughter of the Hon. W. P. June 27. Mr. A. Borradaile, second son of W. B. esq. of Fenchurch-street, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of R. Borradaile, esq. of Bedford-bill, Surrey. Lately, J. Soane, esq. of Lincoln's-innfields, to Maria, third daughter of James Preston, esq. of Sewardstone, Essex. M. Tucker, esq. to Margaret, daughter of the Rev. James Douglas, rector of Middleton, Sussex, and Chaplain to the Prince. R. Smith, esq. of Tibbington House, to Miss Fereday, daughter of S. F. esq. Ettingshall Park, Staffordshire. Thomas Hughes, esq. of Stroud, to Mary, third daughter of the late Rev. Richard Huntley, of Boxwell Court. Rev. John Waltham, rector of Dorlaston, Staffordshire, to Miss Fletcher. At Mugdock Castle, Hugh Tennent, esq. of Glasgow, to Miss B. Graham, daughter of J. G. esq. of Mugdock Castle. In Dublin, by special licence, Edward Hood, esq. of Middle Mount, Queen's county, to Catharine, second daughter of Timothy Driscoll, esq. of Harcourt-street. In Dublin, William Monsell, esq. of Tervoe, to Olivia, daughter of Sir A. J. Walsh, bart. of Ballykillecaven, Queen's county. The Hon. H. R. Crofton, (Aid-de-Camp to Gen. Sir J. Cradock), youngest son of the late Sir E. C. bart. to Mary, eldest daughter of T. Hemsworth, esq. of Limerick. ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. Pages 69, b. 186. The legacy of the late Sir Francis Bourgeois to Dulwich College is more extensive than was supposed. He has left the whole of his pictures, besides 10,000l. to keep them in due preservation, and 20007. for the purpose of repairing the gallery in that place for their reception. He has also bequeathed legacies of 1000!. each to the Master of the College, and the Chaplain; and the Fellows of the College are to be the residuary legatees, and are to possess, for its advantage, all the rest of his property, of every denomination. P. 92. a. The late Rev. Dr. Vardill was educated in King's College, New York, of which he was elected principal, and appointed Regins Professor of Divinity. When America claimed independence, he resigned his bright prospect there, and embraced the cause of the mother country; where he distinguished himself by many publications worthy an acute and liberal politician. He was a rare example of splendid talents, devoted to the purest philanthropy; and of profound scholastic knowledge, blended with the most endearing social virtues. During the last ten years, severe sickness withdrew him from those public circles, of which his wit, eloquence, and urbanity, had rendered him the ornament; but his memory will be treasured while those who knew him exist. P. 197. a. The late Rev. Dr. Maskelyne, baving at an early period of life given proots of his abilities as a mathematician and astronomer, went to Barbados, under the appointment of the Board of Longitude, for the purpose of trying Mr. Harrison's marine time-keeper, for which the inventor claimed the premium offered by Parliament. His first publication was a quarto pamphlet, with a view to the improvement of practical navigation, intituled, "The British Mariner's Guide," published in 1763. His reputation was by this time so completely established, and his talents were so highly appreciated, that, on the death of Dr. Nathanael Bliss, in 1765, he was appointed to the situation of Astronomer Royal to his Majesty. In 1767, he published, by order of the commissioners of longitude, an account of Mr. John Harrison's watch. In 1774, the president and council of the Royal Society brought out in a folio volume, at the public expense, his Tables for computing the apparent Places of the Fixed Stars, and reducing Observations of the Planets. 1776, he produced the first volume, in folio, of his Astronomical Observations, made at the Royal Observatory, at Greenwich, from the year 1765. The continuation of this important work has since been given to the world in the same form, in obedience to his Majesty's command. In 1792, Dr. M. presented the publick with the invaluable Tables of Logarithms, by the late indefatigable Michael Taylor, who sunk under his task and died when only five pages of his work remained unfinished, bequeathing to the world a most remarkable monument of human industry. Dr. Maskelyne had always encouraged the design, and now took upon himself to finish the work, to which he prefixed a most masterly introduction, rendering the whole a very complete performance. In tenant in the 9th light dragoons; 3. Mau- died May 14. P. 604. a. The late Viscount Longueville was one of his Majesty's most Hon. Privy Counsellors, a Governor of the county of Cork, a Trustee of the Linen Manufacture, and one of the representative Peers of Ireland. His lordship was born Oct. 9, 1734, married Nov. 8, 1756, Margaret, only daughter of Richard White, esq. of Bantry (grandfather of the present Viscount Bantry), but had no issue by her, who died in April 1809; the title of Viscount Longueville therefore becomes extinct, being the 13th Irish peerage which has failed, since the Union in Januury 1801, for want of male heirs. The late Viscount embarked early in active political life, and was for many years representative in parliament for the city of Cork, previous to his attainment of the peerage. He enjoyed a great share of influence in the distribution of the Crown patronage, in consequence of his parliamentary interest; but he invariably declined any office or situation of emolument for himself, though his friends and relatives ever found in him an active and strenuous patron. His loss will be particularly deplored by his tenantry, among whom he constantly resided, unless when attending his parliamentary duties, and whom he was ever ready to aid with his advice and admonition. By his lordship's decease, a considerable estate devolves to Lord Viscount Bantry and his brothers, which the late Viscount enjoyed under the will of his brother-in-law, Hamilton White, esq.; but the Longueville estates, amounting to near 20,000l. per annum, are principally devised to his male heirs, John Longfield, esq. of Longueville, formerly member for Mallow, and Colonel Mountifort Longfield, member for the city of Cork: to the latter, his lordship has bequeathed his beautiful seat of Castle Mary, situated on the harbour of Cork, and a large personal fortune. P. 606. a. The late Mr. Daniel Roberts was the son of Mr. John Roberts, of Bristol, afterwards of London, by Amelia, second surviving daughter of Mr. Thomas Daniel, both merchants of superior estimation and character; the second possessing an exteusive influence in the former city, where the subject of this notice was born on the 12th Dec. 1753. He was the fourth in lineal descent from John Roberts, an eminent personage in the early history of the people called Quakers, and the tenth from Hugh Tyndale, of Hunt's Court, in Nibley, esq. father of the celebrated GENT. MAG. Suppl. LXXXI. Part I, apostle of the English reformation; these ancestors he was often accustomed to contemplate with pleasure, in common with several others of considerable religious and scientific merit. The nature of his family connexions early devoted him to commercial pursuits; and while yet in his minority, he sustained a principal share in the superintendence of one of the most extensive establishments of its kind in Europe. At different periods of the American revolution and independence, he thrice visited that Continent: the first time, in the spring of 1774, on professional engagements connected with the preceding. Here his numerous and respectable introductions, supported by his personal merits and conciliating manners, acquired him the esteem of numerous individuals in different spheres of life, amongst whom were General Washington, Dr. Franklin, and other distinguished characters of each party; while his address in the management of a very arduous confidence, and his abilities as a merchant, were acknowledged by competent judges to have been, in many respects, unrivalled. On a similar occasion he was also absent in Austrian Flanders. In one of his Transatlantic excursions, he explored with much taste and gratification, the magnificent scenery of the Northern provinces. The vicissitudes and disappointments which he experienced in some of the former and following occurrences, were frequently great and painful; but his genuine principles of sentiment and action, both of a religious and civil nature, remained unshaken and uncorrupted; and he retired from the ultimate close of his prospects, in consequence of events mostly of a national description, and independent of his controul, in the full maintenance of hereditary integrity. Notwithstanding his varied and active occupations, he had read much; his library, though small, was select and valuable, and his conversation and anecdotes from so many different sources, enlivened with great constitutional cheerfulness, were intelligent and agreeable. His talents and general accomplishments, as well of an useful as ornamental nature, were otherwise of no common rank; and during a subsequent seclusion of above twenty years, he devoted his principal attention, next to the care of his children's education, to medical botany and chemistry, in which his acquisitions were freely rendered subservient to philanthropic feelings, and though his native liberality was often subjected to imposition, it was never preeluded from exertion by preceding instances of ingratitude or deceit. His integrity has been already adverted to, and his turn of mind was peculiarly independent; but in his high sense of religion, benevolence, and His and superior energies of domestic attachment, his more familiar traits of character were predominantly conspicuous: his extended and active, but unassuming and private benefactions, may long be feelingly remembered by the objects of their exertion; and his uniform anxiety and efforts for the improvement and happiness of his family ever anticipated and superseded the cold suggestions of sordid policy. In this interesting particular, it would indeed be difficult to render an adequate justice to his desert and kindness; and amid the absence or diminution of every other excellence, these alone would have afforded a private source of review and acknowledgment, affectionate as eternal. theological sentiments were comprehensive and sublime, and the latter part of his life was assiduously employed in the dissemination of principles calculated to promote the welfare of mankind. He married in 1778, Ann, youngest daughter of Mr. Jonah Thompson, of Nether Compton, Dorsetshire, a gentleman of honourable extraction, and distinguished for eminent moral qualities and general acquisition. In exterior appearance, Mr. Roberts exceeded the middle height; he was remarkable for great corporeal, as well as mental activity, and in point of personal symmetry, agility, and elegance, he was equalled by very few examples in the earlier part of life. The delicacy and propriety of his external habits were exemplary and conspicuous. His eye was singularly expressive and brilliant; and his countenance, but for a severe attack of the natural small-pox in infancy, which however seems to have improved the original excellence of his constitution, would have been similarly distinguished. He expired in the midst of his afflicted family, to whom his tranquil conclusion and expressions of confidence and comfort in the Christian faith and redemption, with a full assurance of future happiness, have additionally contributed every consolation compatible with their loss. DEATHS. 1809, AT Canterbury, aged 74, Rev. Feb. 23. John Riquiey, a truly respectable emigrant French priest, formerly Curé D'Espagnes, in the diocese of Amiens. June 22. At Elbridge, in the parish of Littlebourn, in Kent, Sarah, wife of Mr. Henry Denne, and daughter of the late Mr. T. Hollingbery, of Wingham. July 24. At Sandwich, in her 94th year, Mrs. Goulder, widow, Nov. 2. At Sevenoaks, Kent, aged 78, Mr. Geoffrey Taylor, for many years in considerable practice as a Surgeon and Apothecary at that place, but who had retired from practice. 1 Dec. 12. At Faversham, in Kent, in his 81st year, John Shepherd, esq. Dec.... At Sandwich, Kent, aged 95, Mr. William Trelegon, formerly Master of a Trading vessel belonging to that port. 1810, Nov...At Cawnpore,Oude, Bengal, after a few hours illness, Eliza, wife of Samuel G. Evans, esq. of the Honourable Company's Establishment, and only child of the Rev. William Lucas, Doctors Commons. Of this amiable lady's life, the last nine years were passed in India; where, from her correct deportment, engaging manners, and genuine wit, heightened by a fascinating sprightliness which might be truly termed peculiar to herself, she was received in the first circles with approbation and esteem; but, after all, the best praise that can be given her is, that which she deserved as a daughter, a wife, a mother, and a friend. Dec. 31. At Serroor, sincerely regretted, Lieut. Francis Sampson, 5th reg. Native cavalry. 1811, Jan. 1. At Barbados, Capt. John Parr, of the Robert, of Liverpool; on the 5th, Mary, his wife; and on the 17th, Margaret Anne, their infant daughter. Feb. 26. Lost at sea on his passage from Lisbon to England, Lieut. Rotham Home, Royal Artillery, eldest son of the late Rear-Admiral H. of Longformacus. Lately, In Duval's-lane, near Hornsey, after a short illness, in his 65th year, Mr. John Leech, formerly an eminent leatherseller on Snow-hill; a man much and deservedly respected in all the relations of life. He has left a widow and seven children. At Kettering, aged 87 years, 27 of which he spent with reputation as a draper at Thrapston, Mr. Jacob Watson. He was the father of the town of Kettering. In the year 1745, he volunteered into the regiment of carbiniers raised by that patriotic nobleman John Duke of Montague, and marched with them into the North, under the command of Major Swinney, to assist in quelling the Rebellion; he is believed to be the last member of that respectable corps. About 1777,he retired from Thrapston, and returned to Kettering his native place; after which, he married his third wife, whom he survived 14 years. He was an early riser, and enjoyed with but little interruption a long life of health. He was, till within ten days of his death, an early and constant attendant on public worship. His urbanity and suavity of manners rendered him through life, an agreeable companion, a good neighbour, and a desirable friend. At Trinity College, Cambridge, Mr. William Gilpin, eldest son of the Rev. Mr. Gilpin, of Pulverbatch, Shropshire. He was a young man of a capacious under standing, standing, refined by superior attainments in many branches of human knowledge; and his mind was attempered to perfect tranquillity, by fervent religion and animated piety. At Northcote House, Devon, Edward Blagdon, esq. He was descended from one of the most antient and respectable families in Devonshire, and was distinguished by his unsullied honour, firm integrity, and unaffected piety. His loyalty also was conspicuous: he raised a volunteer corps in the vicinity of his paternal residence, and for many years commanded it with credit to himself and benefit to his country. Captain G. Blagdon Westcott, who fell gallantly commanding his Majesty's ship Majestic, in the battle of the Nile, and to whose memory Parliament have erected a monument by the side of Nelson in St. Paul's Cathedral, was of his family, At Gateshead, Northumberland, in his 101st year, Mr. Richard Bentley, who was able to follow his occupation till within the last nine years. At Coulston Croft, near Sheffield, Mrs, Ratcliffe, relict of Mr. William R. who was of the family of the celebrated physician of that name, and his wife a near relation of William Emerson, the great mathematician. At Read, Lancashire, aged 105, George Crowshaw, who enjoyed his faculties to the last, and had very little sickness till within a week of his death, At Aston Hall, Salop, Mrs, Jane Pugh, a maiden lady, descended from the antient and respectable family of that name, of Kerry, Montgomeryshire. She has left 10. per annum for ever to the poor of the parish of Hopesay. At Meriden, Salop, Mr. Addison Ashburn, a relative of the celebrated author of the Spectator. At Castle Grant, Sir James Grant, bart. His virtues as an individual will long be cherished in the recollection of his friends; the excellence of his public character will be not less warmly remembered in the district over which he presided, not so much by holding the property of the soil, as by possessing the attachment, the gratitude, and the confidence of its inhabitants. He had all the affections, without any of the pride, or any of the harshness, of fendal superiority; and never forgot, in attention to his own interests, or in the improvement of his extensive estates, the interests or the comforts of the people. Amidst the varied situations, and some of the severe trials of life, he was uniformly guided by rectitude of principle, benevo¬ lence of disposition, and the most fervent though rational piety. From these he derived support and resignation during the long progress of a painful disease, and felt their best consolations at the close of a life devoted to his family, his friends, his dependents, and his country. At sea, on board the Dromedary, Col. William Paterson, Lieut.-col. 102d reg. F. R. S. Member of the Asiatic Society, and many years Lieutenant-governor of New South Wales, from which colony he was returning to England in the command of the 102d reg. Suddenly, while eating his breakfast in a coffee-house at Belem, Portugal, G, Welch, M. D. late of Chelmsford, and since employed in the Medical Staff under Lord Wellington. April 25. Rev. H. Maguire, formerly Chaplain on board the Denmark, and latterly of Sheerness, Isle of Sheppy. About two months since, while preaching at the parish church of St. Dunstan's, Towerstreet, he was struck with palsy, and for a time deprived of speech and the use of one side; two attacks afterwards caused his death. He has left a wife and six children. May 8. On board the Boyne, in Basque Roads, in an engagement with the enemy, John Curtis, marine (son of Mr. C. lately a wine-merchant at Oxford), a young man of excellent character, and highly respected by his Officers, May 14. At Coimbra, Portugal, in his 20th year, the Hon. J. Wingfield, of the Coldstream-guards. May 18. At Bogner, Sussex, Mary Anne, second daughter of Mr. Upton, Throgmorton-street. At Villa Fermosa, of the wounds he received in the action of the 5th, Capt. Knipe, 14th dragoons, At Odessa, Gen. Kaminskoi, the late Commander-in-Chief of the Russian-army, May 19. At Halliford, near Shepperton, the divorced wife of Henry Jackson, esq. May 24, In his 73d year, Rev, G. Ingham, of Chapel-bar, Nottingham. May 25, In James-street, Buckinghamgate, aged 76, Mr. J. Gordon, late of the Cudbear Company, Great Peter-street, Westminster. At Gibraltar, of the Walcheren fever, in his 31st year, Capt. R. Tribe, of the 828 regiment. May 26. At Thornbridge, Derbyshire, aged 57, Mr. John Morewood. In his 78th year, T. Peake, esq. of Denbigh, formerly of Southampton-buildings. May 27. D. E. Mac Donnell, esq. a literary gentleman of considerable erudition and talents, The wife of J. Agar, esq. of Welbeckstreet, barrister, At Richmond, in his 76th year, R. Penn, esq. grandson of W. P. one of the Proprietaries, and formerly Governor of Pennsylvania. At Lewes, the wife of John Hoper, esq. |