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Song of Triumph on the Peace, 1814. Tragedies; viz. the Death of Darnley; Ivan; Zamorin and Zama; the Confession; Orestes, 1814. Ivan, a tragedy, altered and adapted for representation, 1816. Ellen, or the Confession, altered and adapted for representation, 1816. These reprints of the two tragedies have many improvements, and in Ivan an entirely new scene is introduced. few years afterwards he republished the Georgics in a Polyglot edition in Latin, German, Spanish, English, Italian, and French. His last great work was the translation of Homer.

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At Edinburgh, aged 71, the rev. John Inglis, D.D. dean of the Chapel Royal, and of the order of the Thistle, and one of the ministers of the Greyfriars' church. Dr. Inglis was a native of Perthshire. In 1796, he was translated from the parish of Tibbermuir to the Old Greyfriars' church, in Edinburgh, where he became the colleague of Dr. Erskine, and the successor of the celebrated Principal Robertson. nearly thirty years, he was the leader of the Presbytery of Edinburgh; and though he differed in church politics from what is called the popular party, he lived with all on terms of the most affectionate kindness and cordiality. As a preacher he was strictly Calvinistic; his discourses were occasionally too intellectual for an ordinary congregation. In 1804, he was chosen Moderator of the General Assembly; and his work on the "Evidences of Christianity," and his "Treatise in defence of Ecclesiastical Establishments," recently published, exhibit great powers of reasoning.

2. In Whitehall Yard, in his 49th

year, the hon. George Lamb, under secretary of state for the home department, and M.P. for Dungarvon; brother to lord viscount Melbourne. Mr. Lamb was born July 11th, 1784, the fourth and youngest son of Peniston, first viscount Melbourne, by Elizabeth, daughter of sir Ralph Milbanke, bart. He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was created M. A. in 1805, and passed through the usual course of university studies with success. He was early entered of Lincoln's Inn, and called to the Bar, after which he for a short time went the northern circuit; but he soon ceased to practise, partly on account of ill health, and devoted his attention principally to literature. Mr. Lamb was one of the most active members of the committee of management of Drury-lane theatre, when the earl of Essex, lord Byron, and the hon. Douglas Kinnaird, were his associates. He was himself the author of "Whistle for it," an operatic piece, 1807. He also published some and remarkable work was minor poems; but his most elaborate a translation of Catullus. In the year 1819, he was put forward by the Whigs to contest the representation of Westminster against the Radicals, on the death of Sir Samuel Romilly. The contest lasted fifteen days, and terminated as follows:

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At the general election in the following year he gave place to his more popular opponent. In 1826 he entered Parliament, through the interest of the duke of Devonshire, as member for Dungarvon, and he had represented that borough in four Parliaments at the time of his death. On the accession of Lord Grey's ministry, he became under secretary of state to his brother, lord Melbourne, in the home department. His official duties were executed in an efficient manner, and his speeches in Parliament were delivered in a sensible and intrepid style. He married May 17th, 1809, Mademoiselle Caroline Rosalie Adelaide St. Jules, reputed a natural daughter of the late duke of Devonshire

3. The rev. Daniel Lysons, M.A.F.R., A.L. and H.SS., of Hempsted Court, Gloucestershire. He was the elder brother of that very able and distin

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guished antiquary, Samuel Lysons, esq. F.R.S. and S.A. keeper of the records in the Tower of London. They were the sons of the rev. Samuel Lysons, M.A. rector of Rodmarton, in Gloucestershire, who was a younger son of an old family long seated at Hempsted, in the same county. Mr. Lysons was educated at Gloucester, and afterwards at St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, where he took the degree of M.A. in 1785. He first appeared as an author in the year 1790, when he published a sermon preached on the anniversary of Edward Colston, at Bristol. In the same year he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, four years after his distinguished brother. About the same period he served for some time the curacy of Putney; and, during his residence there, commenced his survey of the environs of London. In this design he was encouraged by the countenance and approbation of the earl of Orford (the celebrated Horace Walpole), who complimented him with the appointment of his chaplain, and to whom he dedicated the Environs. The first volume was printed in 4to, 1792, the fourth in 1796. It comprises the parishes within a circuit of twelve miles round the metropolis; and in 1800 Mr. Lysons published, in a separate volume, an historical account of those parishes in Middlesex which were not described in the Environs. A new edition of the Environs was published by Mr. Lysons in 1811; and in the same year he printed a supplement to the first edition, consisting of very important additions and corrections. The whole forms a work of great value and interest; and the copious extracts from the parochial registers are particularly useful to the biographer and genealogist. He afterwards engaged, in conjunction with his brother, in that great undertaking, a Magna Britannia. Of this the first volume was published in 1806, containing Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire; and it was continued in the alphabetical order of the counties, with material additions to the plan during its progress, as far as Devonshire, which appeared in 1822; but after the death of his brother, in 1819, Mr. Daniel Lysons had not sufficient strength to continue this laborious work further, five years having elapsed from the production of Derbyshire to that of Devonshire. His other publications were a History of the Origin and Progress of

the Meeting of the three Choirs of Gloucester, Worcester, and Hereford, Svo, 1812; and a Sketch of the Life and Character of the late C. B. Trye, esq. F.R.S. 4to, 1812. Mr. Trye, an eminent surgeon at Gloucester, was brother-inlaw to Mr. Lysons.

3. In Hertford-street, aged 33, John Henry Cotterell, esq. eldest son of sir John Geers Cotterell, bart.

At Gloucester-place, aged 43, Benjamin Burton, esq. brother to sir Charles Burton, bart. of Pollacton Hall, county of Carlow, and younger son of the late sir charles Burton, by the hon. Catherine Cuffe, daughter of John, second lord Desart.

At Edinburgh, aged 8, the hon. William Leigh Canning Sinclair, second son of the earl of Caithness.

5. At Great Saxham Hall, Suffolk, in his 85th year, Thomas Mills, esq. a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant for the county. Constantly residing upon his estate at Saxham, his attention was devoted to its improvement, and the welfare and comfort of his numerous dependants. In 1798, he rebuilt the church, of which he was the patron, at his own expense, in the windows of which are the family arms, &c. together with some good specimens of ancient painted glass, brought from Switzerland in 1816. He served the office of high sheriff for the county in the year 1807.

6. At Boulogne, in his 80th year, Richard Martin, esq. formerly M.P. for the county of Galway.

At Edradour, Atholl, aged 48, John Forbes, M.D. surgeon, R.N.

At Lyme, Dorsetshire, aged 66, the rev. Thomas Henry Hume, canon residentiary and treasurer of Sarum, and vicar of Stratford sub Castro, and of Kewstoke, Somerset. He was the only son of the right rev. John Hume, D.D. formerly bishop of Salisbury, by lady Mary Hay, daughter of George, se venth earl of Kinnoul.

At Edinburgh, aged 21, the hon. Charles Henry Murray, lieutenant R.N. uncle to lord Ellibank.

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At Dalzell House, in his 42nd year, Archibald J. Hamilton, esq. projector of the benevolent, but Utopian Orbiston scheme.

At Trinidad, aged 29, Frederick James Gordon Hammet, second son of the late viscountess de Rosmordue, and nephew to his excellency, the late sir Ralph Woodford, bart. formerly governor of that island.

12. At his seat, Dropmore, Buckinghamshire, aged 74, the right hon. William Wyndham Grenville, baron Grenville, D.C.L. and F.S.A.; uncle to the duke of Buckingham. He was born on the 25th of October, 1759, and was the third son of the right hon. George Grenville prime minister in 1763-1765, and of Elizabeth, daughter of sir William Wyndham, bart. He received his early education at Eton, and then removed to Christ Church, Oxford, where, in 1779, he gained the chancellor's prize for a composition in Latin verse, the subject being Vis Electrica. He took the degree of B.A., and entered one of the Inns of Court, with the view of being called to the Bar. His attention however, was quickly diverted to the business of politics. In February, 1782, he was returned to Parliament on a vacancy for Buckingham: and in September following, when his brother, earl Temple (the late Marquis of Buckingham) was for the first time sent to Ireland as lordlieutenant, he accompanied him as private secretary, and was sworn a privy councillor of that kingdom The period of earl Temple's vice-reign terminated in the June of the following year; in December following, Mr. Grenville ac

cepted office at home, being appointed to succeed Mr. Burke as paymaster of the army. His active senatorial career now commenced; and his industry and acquirements, added to strong natural talents, soon made him of consequence in the House of Commons. At the general election of 1784 he was chosen one of the county members for Buckinghamshire, after a very severe contest. He was re-elected in 1790, He had not completed his thirtieth year when he was chosen to preside over the House of Commons, being elected speaker January 5th, 1789, on the death of the right hon. Charles Wolfran Cornwall. Before four months, however, had elapsed, he was summoned from that station to the still more responsible, if not more arduous, one of secretary of state of the home department. He was removed to the House of Lords by a patent of peerage, dated November 25th, 1790, and thenceforward became the representative and echo of Mr. Pitt in the upper House. In the following May he exchanged the seals of home secretary for those of the foreign department; the latter he retained until the resignation of Mr. Pitt, in February, 1801. In 1791 he was appointed ranger of St. James's and Hyde-parks; which post he exchanged in 1795 for the lucrative office of auditor of the exchequer. He filled the important situation of foreign secretary during one of the most arduous and gloomy periods of our history, with industry, talent, and skill. He was skilled in the detail of the politics of Europe; he had studied deeply the law of nations; he was acquainted with modern languages; he could endure fatigue; and had not an avocation or a pleasure to interrupt his attention. He loved business as his father did; it was not merely the result of his ambition, but his amusement; the flowers of imagination, or the gaieties of society never seduced him astray. There was nothing to dissipate his ideas, and he brought his mind to bear on the subjects before him with its full force. Lord Grenville's talents as an orator were more than usually distinguished in 1795, on occasion of the attack which had been made upon the king during his passage to open Parliament. He brought in a bill to provide for the safety and protection of the royal person, which gave rise to a long and stormy debate, and afforded ample opportunity to Lord Grenville for the most loyal exertion of

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his rhetorical abilities. He had the satisfaction of seeing his motion carried by a large majority; and he followed up his success by another bill to suppress the formation or continuance of seditious societies. In promoting the union with Ireland he took an active part with Mr. Pitt, and shared with him in giving the intimations on which the Roman Catholics of that country founded their claims to emancipation. When it appeared that there were obstacles to emancipation which could not be overcome, the Ministry felt themselves obliged to resign their offices. When application was shortly after made to Mr. Pitt to join the parties then in power, he refused to accede, unless Lord Grenville was included in the arrangements; which proposal being rejected, the negociation ended. But no long time elapsed before Mr. Pitt found himself obliged to yield to the urgent necessities of the state, and he again took his seat as first lord of the treasury, in May, 1804, without having stipulated for Catholic emancipation. Lord Grenville, with Mr. Windham, refused to join him; and from that time, until the death of Mr. Pitt in January, 1806, lord Grenville took a prominent part in the ranks of the opposition. On Mr. Pitt's

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death, the administration was formed which is known by the name of "All the Talents." It was not a little extraordinary that when lord Grenville was the prime minister, Mr. Fox should be his secretary of state. It was an important obstacle to the duration of this ministry, that the religious principles of the monarch were directly opposed to the measures which lord Grenville considered himself pledged; and a party, equally zealous as the sovereign in their resistance to the claims of the Roman Catholics, proved too powerful for the continuance of the Ministry beyond the brief period of thirteen months. During that time lord Grenville suffered not a little in his popularity by obtaining an Act of Parliament enabling him to hold, together with the premiership, the profitable, but nearly sinecure, office of auditor of the exchequer, which had been conferred upon him in 1795, and which he retained until his death. His lordship did not subsequently accept any more prominent office. When the resignation of lord Castlereagh and Mr. Canning left lord Liverpool the only secretary of state,

performing the business of the three departments, official letters were addressed to earl Grey and lord Grenville, proposing the immediate formation of a combined ministry. They were both in the country when these communications reached them. Earl Grey at once declined all union with Mr. Percival and lord Liverpool, and did not come to town. Lord Grenville, who was in Cornwall, came immediately to town, but the next day declined the proposed alliance, because he could not view it in any other light than as a dereliction of principle. At the close of the same year, his lordship was chosen chancellor of the University of Oxford. He continued in opposition to the government during the war; but on the final defeat of the French in 1814, he heartily congratulated the country on the prospect of an immediate peace, and in the following year supported ministers in their resolution to depose Napoleon. From that time he ceased to take a prominent part in parliamentary discussions, except during the debates on Catholic emancipation. In 1804, lord Grenville edited the letters which had been written by the great earl of Chatham to his nephew, Thomas Pitt (afterwards lord Camelford) when at Cambridge. Besides several speeches, &c., he also published a "New Plan of Finance, as presented to Parliament, with the tables, 1806." "A Letter to the earl of Fingal, 1810." He also defended his Alma Mater in a pamphlet, against the charge brought against her of having expelled Locke. He enriched an edition of Homer, privately printed, with valuable annotations; and translated several pieces from the Greek, English, and Italian, into Latin, which have been circulated among his friends under the title of "Nugæ Metricæ." His lordship, as well as his brother, the right hon. Thomas Grenville, had collected a very valuable library. In July 18, 1792, he married the hon. Anne Pitt, only daughter of Thomas, first lord Camelford, and sister and sole heiress of the second lord, who was slain in a duel with Mr. Best, in 1804. Her ladyship survives him, and as they never had any issue, the barony of Grenville has be come extinct.

12. At the house of his sisters, in Leman-street, aged 72, Aaron Cardozo, esq. late of Gibraltar, Knt. of the Legion of Honour, &c.

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12. At Stockwell, aged 73, Josiah Taylor, esq. for many years an eminent bookseller in Holborn, particularly for works on architecture.

13. William Blackall Simonds, esq. of Caversham, late receiver-general for Berks, and a magistrate of Oxfordshire.

14. In Guernsey, lieutenant-colonel William Irving, late of the 28th foot.

15. At Vizianagrum, aged 27, capt. George de Blaquiere, 8th Madras infantry, second son of the hon. P. B. de Blaquiere, and grandson of John first lord de Blaquiere.

At Boulogne, aged 38, the right hon. Sarah-Garcy lady Lyndhurst. She was a daughter of Charles Brunsdell, esq. and was married first to lieutenantcolonel Charles Thomas, who was killed at Waterloo. She was married secondly, March 13, 1819, to sir John Copley, now lord Lyndhurst, and has left three surviving daughters. Her ladyship's remains were brought to England, and deposited in the new church of St. John's, Paddington, attended by lord Lyndhurst, lord Henley, Mr. Shepherd, &c., followed by the private carriages of the lord Chancellor, the earl of Carlisle, lord Holland, chief-justice Tindal, the Master of the Rolls, baron Bayley, baron Bolland, baron Vaughan, baron Gurney, judge Alderson, &c.

17. At Oxford, George Williams, M.D. late fellow of Corpus Christi College, in the University of Oxford, Regius Professor of Botany, keeper of the Radcliffe Library, and one of the Delegates of the University Press. Dr. George Williams was the son of a clergyman, beneficed in Hampshire, who was the author of a very valuable little work, entitled "Education of Children and young Students in all its branches, with a short Catalogue of the best books in Polite Learning, and the Sciences, and an Appendix concerning the usefulnesss of Natural Philosophy to Divinity, taken out of the celebrated writers on that subject." He was admitted upon the foundation at Winchester. From Winchester, at a very early age, and after the usual severities of examination, he was elected to a Hampshire scholarship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. In 1788, he was admitted to the degrees of M.B. and M.D.; he then became a fellow of the College of Physicians, but continued to discharge various important duties within the walls of Corpus

Christi College, as a resident fellow, practising, at the same time, as a physician in the University and City of Oxford. In 1789, he was elected one of the physicians of the Ratcliffe Infirmary. In 1796, on the death of Dr. Sibthorpe, he was elected by the fellows of the College of Physicians, according to the terms and conditions of Dr. Sherard's benefaction, Sherardian Professor of Botany, to which appointment is annexed the Regius Professorship in that Science. In 1811, upon the death of the rev. Dr. Hornsby, Dr. Williams was elected Keeper of the Radcliffe Library by the ten distinguished individuals to whom Dr. Radcliffe has, by will, assigned the right and power of election. This appointment may, with propriety, be represented as a new era in the history of that Library, not merely because he was the first physician who had held the office of librarian, nor because he was the first who had any active and urgent duties to perform in the library, but specially by reason of the important change which then took place in the course pursued in the purchase and collection of books, and the general character of this repository. Before Dr. Williams's appointment, no particular rule or principle appears to have been observed, in furnishing the cases and shelves with literary stores. No particular branch or branches of science or literature seem to have fixed the attention and determined the choice either of the trustees or the librarian. Butviscount Sidmouth, with his co-trustees, resolved to distinguish this library from the Bodleian, by dedicating it exclusively to Physiological and Medical science. In carrying into effect these great national as well as academic purposes, the trustees found in Dr. Williams's extensive reading, retentive memory, and comprehensive views, the very talents and accomplishments which were necessary to ensure the successful execution of their design. As far as it has been carried into effect, it has been ably executed. The shelves, which present to the student's eye all the best productions of the French, German, and Italian, as well as British press on general physics, or particular branches of natural science, bear witness to the assiduity, as well as ability, with which the work has been conducted. The volumes are all philosophically distributed (as far as possible) under general and particular heads, or subjects.

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