1830.] OBITUARY.-Earl of Rochford.-Bishop Majendie. The Duke has left a will, entirely written with his own hand, dated 30th August, 1829, by which his whole fortune passes to Henry Eugene Philippe d'Orleans, Duc d'Aumale, the son of the King of the French, and Dame Sophia Dawes, Baroness of Feucheres, an Eng. lishwoman with whom he lived, and who slept in the same house at the time of his death. He has bequeathed, 1st, to the Baroness of Feucheres, two millions of money; 2nd, the chateau and park of St. Leu; 3rd, the chateau and estate of Boissy and all their dependencies; 4th, the forest of Montmo rency and all the dependencies; 5th, the chateau and estate of Morfontaine and all its dependencies; 6th, the Pavilion occupied by her and her servants at the Palais Bourbon, as well as its dependencies; and 7th, the furniture contained in this pavilion, and the horses and carriages appertaining to the establishment of this lady, all free from charge and expenses chargeable on bequeathed property. These various legacies to Madame Feucheres are valued at 12 or 15 millions (francs). The residue of his property, except some private legacies, he has left to the Duke d'Aumale, third son of Philip King of the French. An excellent likeness of the Duke de Bourbon, when he first came over to this country, was painted by Mr. H. P. Danloux, and engraved by Mr. Philip Audinet (size 13 inches by 10). It was never published, and is therefore an extremely rare print. The Duke is represented in the military costume of the army of the Prince de Condé. The painter first represented the Duke with a mutilated hand, he having had some of his fingers cut off with a sabre in an engagement; but the modesty of the Duke wishing to conceal that circumstance, the artist was directed to cover the hands with military gloves, as they now appear in the print. THE EARL Of Rochford. Sept. 3. At his seat, the White House, in Easton, Suffolk, in his 77th year, the Right Hon. William Henry Nassau, fifth Earl of Rochford, Viscount Tunbridge, and Baron of Enfield, co. Middlesex. His Lordship was born on the 28th of June, 1754, and was the eldest son of the Hon. Richard Savage Nassau, one of the Clerks of the Board of Green Cloth, and a representative in Parliament for the borough of Maldon, by Elizabeth his wife, the sole daughter and heiress of Edward Spencer, of Rendlesham, in Suffolk, Esq. and the relict of James the fifth Duke of Hamilton. At the decease GENT. MAG. September, 1830. 273 of his uncle, on the 28th of Sept. 1781, his Lordship succeeded to the family honours; and dying, unmarried, the titles became extinct. For some further account of this noble family the reader is referred to a biographical notice of his Lordship's only bro ther, the late George Richard Savage Nassau, Esq. in vol. xc. part ii. p. 178. DR. MAJENDIE, Bishop of Bangor. July 9. At the house of his son the Rev. Stuart Majendie, at Longdon near Lichfield, aged 75, the Right Rev. Henry-William Majendie, Lord Bishop of Bangor. Bishop Majendie was the son of the Rev. John James Majendie, D.D. Canon of Windsor, the instructor of Queen Charlotte in the English language. The latter was not a German, as it has been frequently stated; but born in England, the son of a French protestant minister who took refuge in this country on the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and settled at Exeter. Dr. Majendie died in 1783, aged 75: and a short memoir of him then appeared in our vol. LIII. p. 716. : The Bishop was a member of Christ's College, Cambridge. He took his Bachelor's degree in 1776; and soon after had the good fortune to follow his father's steps as a royal tutor. The object of his care was Prince William Henry, our present Sovereign. Mr. Majendie accompanied his Royal Highness to sea, and visited with him many distant parts of the globe. In 1783 he was appointed one of the King's Chaplains in ordinary. On the 11th of April 1785, he married Miss Routledge and at the same time was made a Canon of Windsor. With that dignity be held the vicarage of Hun. gerford in Berkshire, where for five years he fulfilled all the duties of a parish priest with great fidelity and success. He proceeded M.A. 1785, D.D. 1791. In 1798 he resigned his Windsor canonry for a residentiary prebend of St. Paul's; and Hungerford vicarage for that of New Windsor; for so great was the attachment of King George the Third to Dr. Majendie, that his acceptance of the vicarage of New Windsor was made the condition of this change of preferment, in order that he might still continue to reside in the immediate neighbourhood of his Majesty. In 1800, on the death of Bishop Warren, and conse quent translation of Bishop Cleaver to Bangor, Dr. Majendie was preferred to the see of Chester, with which be retained both his canonry and living; he 274 OBITUARY.-Adm. Sir H. Nicholls.-Sir L. Pepys, Bart. [Sept. resigned both in 1806, when on the death of Dr. Horsley, Bishop of St. Asaph, he again followed Bishop Cleaver at Bangor. Dr. Majendie printed the following professional tracts: A Sermon at the anniversary of the Sons of the Clergy, in St. Paul's, 1800. A Sermon before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Westminster Abbey, on the Thanksgiving for the Peace, 1801. A Charge to the Clergy of the Diocese of Chester, 1804. Bishop Majendie had a numerous family. Henry-William Majendie, Esq., his eldest son, died Feb 7, 1824, aged 34. Edward, his youngest son, died July 15, 1825, aged 23. J.-Routledge, then his youngest, was married in 1828 to Harriet-Mary, second daughter of the late George Dering, Esq., and first cousin to Sir Edward Dering, of SurrendenDering, Bart. The Rev. Stuart Majendie was presented by his father in 1824 to the Rectory of Llanruddlad in Anglesey. The Rev. Henry-William Majendie, Prebendary of Bangor and Salisbury, and Vicar of Speen, is, we believe, nephew to the Bishop, and son of his brother Lewis Majendie, Esq. F.S.A. of Hedingham Castle, Kent; he was also, we think, son-in-law to the late Dr. Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury. ADMIRAL SIR H. NICHOLLS. Aug. 17. At Clifton, co. Gloucester, in his 72d year, Sir Henry Nicholls, Admiral of the White. This distinguished officer embraced the naval profession when quite a child i and may be truly said to have been "Born on the winds, and cradled in the storm." His zeal, perseverance, and abilities, during a long and arduous service, raised him to the highest rank and honours of his profession. Subsequent to the war with the colonies, this officer commanded the Echo sloop, on the Newfoundland station. On the 1st Dec. 1788, he was promoted to the rank of Post-Captain, and soon after appointed to the Amphion frigate, stationed at Jamaica. During the Russian armament in 1791, he served as FlagCaptain to the late Hon. J. L. Gower, in the Formidable of 98 guns, which ship was put out of commission in the autumn of the same year. At the commencement of hostilities against France, in 1793, Capt. Nicholls was appointed to the Royal Sovereign, a first-rate, bearing the flag of Admiral Graves, in the Channel fleet; and on the memorable 1st June, 1794, when that officer was wounded, his place was ably supplied by Captain Nicholls, who had the happiness of contributing in a very eminent degree to the success of this brilliant encounter. The Royal Sove. reign was among the first ships in ac tion, and at its conclusion was at the head of eleven sail of the line, well formed, and in pursuit of fourteen of the enemy's ships, when the last signal was made by Earl Howe for his fleet to close. In this battle the Royal Sovereign had 14 men killed, and 44 wounded. Capt. Nicholls's conduct was specially noticed by the commander-in-chief, in his public letter; and he was one of those officers to whom George the Third ordered a gold medal to be presented. The wound received by Admiral Graves causing him to retire for a time from active service, Captain Nicholls commanded the Royal Sovereign as a private ship until the spring of 1795, when be was removed into the Marlborough, of 74 guns, where he continued until the period of the mutiny at Spithead, which created a considerable degree of alarm throughout the kingdom. On this occasion the Marlborough's crew committed the most daring outrages, and evinced a spirit of disaffection in a greater degree than that of almost any other ship. In the summer of 1801, when Sir Charles Morice Pole was sent to relieve the late Lord Nelson in the command of the Baltic fleet, Captain Nicholls accompanied that officer, and continued with him during the remainder of the In 1802 he was appointed one of the Commissioners of the Board of Naval Inquiry, and afterwards Comptroller of the Navy; which latter office, howehe enjoyed but a short time. war. ver, Capt. Nicholls was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral in 1807; ViceAdmiral in 1810; Admiral of the Blue in 1825; and Admiral of the White in 1830. He was also, for a short time, Comptroller of the Navy, which he resigned, and on the 20th May, 1820, was elected a Knight Commander of the Bath. Sir H. Nicholls, though a strict officer, was still admired and respected, not more for his uniform zeal, perseverance, and ability, than for his excellen disposition, which displayed the kindest heart of a rough seaman in all his dealings with mankind. SIR LUCAS Pepys, Bart. M.D. June 17. In Park-street, Grosvenorsquare, aged 88, Sir Lucas Pepys, Bart. M. D. Physician-general to the Army, the senior Fellow of the College of Physicians, F.R.S. and S.A. Sir Lucas Pepys was born May 26, 1742, the younger son of William Pepys, Esq. of London, banker, and of Ridgley 1830.] OBITUARY.-Sir L. Pepys, Bart.-Lieut.-Gen. Guard. 275 in Cheshire, (great-grandson of John Pepys, made Lord Chief Justice in Ireland in 1665, and descended from an ancient family in Cambridgeshire,) by Hannab, widow of Alexander Weller, Esq, and daughter of Dr. Richard Russell. Of Sir Lucas's elder brother, the late Sir William Weller Pepys, Bart. a memoir appeared, on his death in 1825, in our vol. xcv. ii. p. 85. Both brothers were educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford; where Sir Lucas took the degrees of A.M. 1767, M.B. 1770, M.D. 1774. On settling in London, he fixed his residence in St. Anne-street, Soho; and so early as 1769 he was appointed one of the Physicians of the Middlesex Hospital; in 1770, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. On the 30th of Oct. 1772, the Right Hon. Jane-Elizabeth Countess of Rothes, in her own right a Peeress of Scotland, bestowed her hand (at Brighton) on Dr. Pepys. Her Ladyship had been previously married to George Raymond Evelyn, Esq. by whom she was mother to George-William the tenth Earl of Rothes, who died in 1817, leaving a daughter, who was also Countess in her own right, but died in 1819, and was succeeded by her elder son the present Earl, who was born in 1809. By Sir Lucas Pepys, the first-named Countess was mother of three children, who, as is usual with the offspring of the heiresses of Scottish peerages, took their mother's name: 1. the Hon. Sir Charles Leslie, who has now succeeded to his father's Baronetcy; 2. the Hon. Henrietta, married in 1804 to William Courtenay, Esq. Assistant Clerk of the Parliaments, and elder son of the late Bishop of Exeter; and 3. the Hon. and Rev. Henry Leslie, Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty, Prebendary of Exeter, Rector of Wetherden, Suffolk, and Vicar of Sheephall, Herts. He married in 1816, ElizabethJane, younger daughter of the Rev. James Oakes, of Tostock in Suffolk, but became a widower in the same year. Sir Lucas was appointed Physician extraordinary to his Majesty in 1779; and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Nov. 9, 1780. In 1781 he was appointed one of the Commissioners for visiting Madhouses. By patent dated Jan. 22, 1784, in which he was styled of Boxhill in Surrey, be was created a Baronet ; with remainder, on the failure of his own issue male, to his elder brother William Weller Pepys, Esq. Master in Chancery; who was, however, afterwards raised to the same dignity, by another patent, conferred in 1801. Sir Lucas was appointed Physician general to the Forces on the death of Sir Clifton Wintringham, Bart. M.D. and F.R.S. in 1794. In 1799 we find him resigning the office of Treasurer to the College of Physicians, when Richard Budd, M.D. was elected his successor. The Countess of Rothes baving deceased June 2, 1810, Sir Lucas Pepys married, secondly, June 29, 1813, Deborah, daughter of Anthony Askew, M.D. and bas left that lady his widow. A portrait of Sir Lucas, engraved by J. Godby, from a drawing by H. Edridge, was published in Cadell's Contemporary Portraits in 1809. LIEUT.-GEN. GUARD. Lately. Aged 57, Lieut.-General William Guard, Governor of Kinsale. This officer entered the army at the age of sixteen, and was appointed Ensign in the 45th foot, June 13,1789; Lieutenant in 1790; and Captain in 1795. He purchased the Majority in 1797, and the Lieut.-Colonelcy of the same corps in 1799. After doing duty some time at Chatham, he joined his corps, then stationed in the island of Grenada, in February, 1791. His regiment being draughted the latter end of 1793, he volunteered his services in the expedition against the French West India Islands under Sir Charles Grey. After the capture of Martinique, he returned to Europe, in July 1794; re-embarked with his corps (which had been completed by draughts from Chatham) on the 26th of December, and shortly after sailed again for the West Indies, where the regiment was stationed until 1801, in the summer of which year it finally returned to England. Early in 1802 the battalion was ordered to Ireland, and being then joined by the senior Lieut.-Colonel (the late Lieut.-Gen. Montgomerie), Lieut.Col. Guard was appointed to a light battalion of the line. Early in 1804 he resumed the command of his own corps. In the autumn of 1805 he marched from the camp at the Curragh of Kildare for Fermoy, and embarked shortly after to join the expedition under Lord Cathcart; but the intelligence of the loss of the battle of Austerlitz, which was received by the corps on its arrival in the Downs, caused its destination to be altered, and the battalion was disembarked at Margate in January, 1806, and marched to Brabourne Lees Barracks, in Kent, and shortly after was encamped on the heights of Shorncliffe; from whence it marched in July, 1806, and embarked at Portsmouth on the 24th and 25th of the same month. The regiment finally sailed from the Isle of Wight, on the 12th of Nov. 1806, form 276 OBITUARY.-Lieut.-Gen. Guard.-Gen Sucre. ing part of the expedition under the orders of the late Brigadier-General Robert Crawfurd. After remaining some weeks at Port Praye in the Cape de Verds, it reached the Cape of Good Hope, on the 20th of March, 1807; where a brig of war had previously arrived with orders which changed the destination of the expedition. It sailed from the Cape on the 6th of April; and having put into the island of St. Helena to complete their water, the expedition quitted it again on the 26th of the same month, arriving at the mouth of the river Plate on the 27th of May; but the transports being driven to sea by a severe gale, did not reach Monte Video until the 14th of June, when the expedition joined the force already assembled there under the orders of Lieutenant-General Whitelocke. In the subsequent operations against the city of Buenos Ayres, after the Residencia (the post assigned to the 45th in the plan of attack) had been captured and secured, the Lieut.-Colonel taking his grenadier company with him to reconnoitre and open the communication with the column on his left, was forced by circumstances to join the corps under the orders of Brigadier-General Crawfurd; in the charge made through the street, and a subsequent one made by order of the Brigadier at the St. Domingo Church, this company was particularly distinguished, driving before them and clearing the streets of a column of some thousands of Spaniards which had surrounded it. In the execution of this service their loss in officers and men was extremely great; and honourable mention was made of the Lieut.-Colonel's conduct in the dispatches of the Commander of the Forces. Returning to Europe from this ill-fated expedition, the regiment, after a passage of fourteen weeks from the river Plate, disembarked at Cork, on the 27th of December, 1807; having (with the small interval of its services on the shores of South America) been embarked aboard the transports nearly eighteen months. The battalion, however, was not long destined for inaction; again embarking at Cork in July, 1808, it was landed at Montego Bay, in Portugal, on the 1st of August following. The regiment was present at the battles of Roleia and Vimiera, fought on the 17th and 21st of the same month, but having received a considerable reinforcement from its second battalion, and these additional men not being equipped for the field, the corps was employed to garrison the fort of Peniche, afterwards removed to Oporto; and on Sir John Moore's ad [Sept. vance into Spain, the important fortress of Almeide was entrusted to the Lieut.Colonel, with the command of the 45th and 97th regiments. In 1809 the 45th formed part of the advanced guard to the army which entered Spain under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley; and at the battle of Talavera, which took place on the 27th and 28th of July of that year, was highly praised for the distinguished manner in which it covered the retreat of the advanced guard when attacked by the enemy on the first day, the Lieut.-Colonel receiving the thanks of that celebrated commander for his conduct on that occasion. Having been severely wounded on the evening of the 27th, and obliged to retire from the field, the Lieut.-Colonel was left with many other officers in the hospitals at Talavera, and, on the British army retiring from its position, fell into the hands of the French on their subsequent advance, and being removed to France, endured a captivity of four years and ten months, not being released until the overthrow of Buonaparte's power in 1814. This officer received a medal and one clasp for the battles of Roleia, Vimiera, and Talavera. He attained the brevet of Colonel 1809, Major-General 1812, and Lieut.-General 1825. GENERAL SUCRE. Lately. Aged 37, General Antonio Jose de Sucre, who was assassinated on his way to Pasto in New Granada, by order of the traitor General Obando. Next to Bolivar, General Sucre was the greatest benefactor of South America. He was born at Cumana, in Venezuela, in 1793, and was educated at Caraccas. He entered the army in 1811, and from 1814 to 1817 he served in the staff. He commanded the patriot forces at the battle of Pinchicha, on the 24th May, 1822, when 500 Spaniards were left dead on the field, and the remainder, consisting of about 3000 men, capitulated. By this event, the independence of Colombia was finally secured. In June, 1823, he was elected Commanderin-Chief of the patriot forces in Peru, on the approach of a powerful Spanish army, and soon after was invested with the supreme command. On the 9th of December, 1824, he gained the battle of Ayacucho, the most brilliant ever fought in South America, in which 1400 royalists were killed, 700 wounded, and 3784 taken, including 16 generals, 16 colonels, 68 lieut.-colonels, and 484 officers of lower grades. This secured the independence of Peru. He afterwards liberated the province of Bolivia, became 1830.] OBITUARY.-Lieut.-Col. Haverfield.-Major Hughes. 277 supreme chief, and was finally appointed by the Congress of that republic President for life. He was first President of the late constituent Congress of Bogota, was delegated by that body as one of the commissioners to propose friendly terms with Venezuela. When this mission had proved unsuccessful, and the Congress had closed its labours, he was proceeding to the Southern departments to appease certain disturbances which had arisen under General Flores, when he met an untimely fate. Sucre is the fourth general, besides many inferior field officers, who have been assassinated within the past year by the soi-disant liberals. The others were, General of Division Mires, at San Borron; General of Brigade Pasdel Castillo, near Guayaquil; and General Lucas Carbasal, on the plains of Casanare. LIEUT.-COL. JOHN HAVERfield. Sept. 1. At Brighton, Lieut.-Col. John Haverfield, of Kew, one of bis Majesty's Justices of the Peace for Surrey, late Lieut.-Colonel of the army, and Assistant Quarter-Master-General to the forces. He entered the army as an Ensign, on the 27th of Feb. 1799; was Lieutenant, 10th July, 1800; Adjutant, 27th June, 1801; Capt. 43d Foot, 15th Aug. 1804; Capt. 48th Foot, 6th Aug. 1807; Brevet-Major, 6th Sept. 1810; and Lieut.-Colonel, 7th Jan. 1814. In 1809, he served on the Staff as an Assistant Quarter-Master-General in Spain and Portugal. For some years he held the same staff-appointment in England. MAJOR P. J. Hughes. Lately. In College-street, Bristol, aged 53, Philip James Hughes, esq. Major in the Royal Artillery. This meritorious officer was the descendant of a very ancient family in Anglesea, and served during the principal part of the Peninsular campaign. He entered the military service 22d April 1795, as Second Lieutenant in the Roya! Artillery; was employed in the expedition to Ostend in 1798, under the command of Sir Eyre Coote and Sir Harry Burrard, and was mentioned in a gratifying manner in the despatches of the latter for his conduct in the action on the Sand Hills, near Ostend, on 20th May 1798. The force of the enemy being very strong, added to the impossibility of the troops re-embarking, compelled the General Officer commanding to surrender, when the whole English force, amounting not to above 1500 men, were marched prisoners of war to Lysle, where Lieut. Hughes continued until the Nov. following, when he returned to England, having been exchanged. A few months after his return to England, he was appointed to the Horse Artillery, in which service he continued as first Lieutenant and second Captain, until promoted to the command of a company in Feb. 1808. In Jan. 1810, he embarked with his company for Lisbon, for the purpose of joining the army, and was daily after his arrival there waiting orders to proceed, when a sudden movement of the French to the south of Spain, made it necessary to send troops to Cadiz, and he embarked at Lisbon with his company, and arrived at Cadiz early in February, where the French, amounting in force to 20,000 men, under Marshal Victor, had invested Isla de Leon and Cadiz. Capt. Hughes continued in command of the artillery at Isla de Leon for some months, and six companies of artillery arrived from England, three of which remained at Cadiz, and the other three were sent to the Isla. In the battle of Barrosa, Captain Hughes commanded a brigade of guns, and received a severe contusion in his chest from a musket-ball: be was second in command in the corps in the field on that day, and received a medal for his services. In Oct. 1811, he commanded the artillery in an expedition sent to Tariffa from Cadiz, and took with him a brigade of guns (embarking at Cadiz) under the orders of the late Gen. Skerreth; the whole force consisting of 1500 men, cavalry, artillery, and infantry, which service ended in the siege of Tariffa, in Dec. 1811. Gen. Skerrett made most honourable mention of this officer in his orders on the conclusion of the siege. Major Hughes returned to England from Cadiz in 1814, and since commanded the artillery in the Western district. CAPT. SIR T. STAINES. July 13. At Dent-de-Lion, near Margate, aged 56, Sir Thomas Staines, Captain in the Royal Navy, Knight Commander of the Bath, and of the Sicilian Order of St. Ferdinand and Merit, and Knight of the Ottoman Order of the Crescent. Sir Thomas was born at Dent-de-Lion; and commenced his naval career at the beginning of Jan. 1790, from which period he served as a Midshipman on board the Solebay frigate, commanded by Captain Matthew Squire, on the West India station, till the spring of 1792. We subsequently find him proceeding to the Mediterranean, under the command of Captain (now Rear-Adm.) Cunningham, with whom be continued in various ships, from the commencement of the French revolutionary war, until the surrender of Calvi, in Aug. 1794. |