DEATHS.-MAY. lord of the Treasury, earl Gower returned to his old office of president of the council, and Mr. Macdonald was appointed to the place of solicitorgeneral. He succeeded to the attorneygeneralship in 1788, when, by the promotion of sir Richard Pepper Arden to the Mastership of the Rolls, that office became vacant. He was then knighted, June 27, and re-elected for Newcastleunder-Line on a new writ; as he was again at the general election of 1790. During the period that Mr. Macdonald held the responsible situations of solicitor and attorney general, the times were remarkably quiet. In February 1793 he was promoted to the place of chief baron of the court of Exchequer, and sworn of the privy council. It did not, therefore, fall to his lot, as chief law officer of the crown, to conduct many state prosecutions, but in the few which the necessities of the times obliged him to institute, he was so uniformly successful, that he is said never to have lost a verdict. Although, from the high rank he held at the bar, his name was brought forward to the notice of the profession, yet sir Archibald never was in great business. He presented in the court of Chancery the singular spectacle of an attorney-general generally briefless. He presided in the court of Exchequer for twenty years; and, in 1813, from a sense of approaching infirmities, retired into the bosom of private life with a baronetcy. In private life sir Archibald was the life and soul of society. With an inexhaustible store of anecdote and humour, and prodigious talent for conversation, which he had improved by constant exercise, he enlivened and amused wherever he went. His surviving family are one son, now sir James Macdonald, bart. M. P. for Calne, and two daughters, CarolineMargaret, and Caroline, wife of the rev. Thomas Randolph, rector of Hadham, Herts. Two other sons were Francis, R.N. who died June 28, 1804, and Levison, who died in Sept. 1792. Louisa Macdonald survives her husband. Lady 18. At Hammersmith, aged 85, J. Ramsden, esq. 19. In Piccadilly, aged 14, lady MaryAnne Primrose, second daughter of Archibald-John, present and fourth earl of Rosebery. At Boulogne-sur-Mer, the right hon. lord viscount Neville, eldest son of the earl of Abergavenny. 20. At his seat, Shrowton House, Dorset, aged 67, George Fred. Ryves, esq. rear-admiral of the Blue. 23. At Vienna, aged 23, Chas.-Thos. viscount Ingestrie. His lordship, who had been travelling on the continent for nearly two years, was taking his usual ride in the Prater at Vienna. Passing under a tree, his hat was caught by a bough, and falling upon the spirited animal which carried him, terrified the creature so much as to cause him to start off at full speed; nor did he stop until he had plunged himself and his rider into a pit or quagmire, in which they were both suffocated. His lordship was born July 11, 1802, the eldest son of Charles-Chetwynd, second and present earl Talbot, by Frances Thomasine, eldest daughter of Charles Lambart, of Bean Park in Ireland, esq. and niece of James first lord Sherburne. 24. At his seat at Marton, near Bridlington, aged 80, Ralph Creyke, esq. a deputy-lieutenant of the East and West Ridings of Yorkshire. He was the oldest magistrate of the East Riding, to which he was qualified in 1778; and many years chairman of the East Riding sessions. 26. At the Manor House, Great Durnford, Wilts, aged 72, Mrs. LouisaMargaret Harris, daughter of the late celebrated author of "Hermes," sister to the late, and aunt to the present earl of Malmesbury. At St. Petersburgh, in her 38th year, Ellen viscountess Strangford, the lady of H. M. ambassador at that court. 27. At Bath, in her 70th year, the right hon. Catherine countess De la Warr, widow of John Richard fourth and late earl De la Warr, and daughter bridgeshire. of Henry Lyell, esq. of Bourn, CamShe was mother of the present earl, and of two daughters, one of whom is the wife of lieut.-colonel Darcy, R. A.; and the other died an infant. In Manchester-square, aged 42, wife of sir Charles Lemon, second and the right hon. lady Charlotte-Anne, present baronet of Carclew, Cornwall. She was the fourth daughter of Henry Thomas, second and late earl of Ilches. ter, by Mary-Theresa, daugh. of Standish Grady, esq. of Cappercullin, county of Limerick. Boyle, daughter of the earl of Cork and 30. Aged 19, right hon. lady Louisa Orrery. DEATHS.-JUNE. 31. At the house of David Ker, esq. M. P. at Battersea, aged 74, lady Eliz. Pratt, daughter of the late and sister to the present lord Camden. JUNE. 1. Aged 17, Frances, youngest daughter of the late sir Wm. Blackett, bart. of Matfen Hall, Northumberland. 3. J. T. Bland, esq. of Huthwaite House, near Barnsley, Yorkshire. At the Tauridan palace, St. Petersburgh, in the midst of his labours, aged 60, Nicholas Michaelovitch Karamsin, historiographer of the Russian empire, councillor of state, grand cordon of the order of St. Anne, knight of St. Vladimir, member of the Russian academy, &c. He was born Dec. 13, 1765, of a noble family, in the government of Simbirsk, studied with success, and made his debut in the career of letters, while still a young man, by publishing poems, which indicated a lively and brilliant imagination. At the age of 24, he undertook a voyage to Germany, Switzerland, France, and England. He was in Paris at the commencement of the revolution, and was in habits of intimacy with the principal literary men of that epoch. Germany, which enjoyed at that time a state of calm and tranquillity, offered also many individuals, whose society was of advantage to him in add. ing to his information, and developing his talents. In Switzerland he saw frequently the celebrated Bonnet, author of "Palingenesie," "La Contemplation de la Nature," and of several other works in philosophy and natural history, which Karamsin purposed to translate. Upon his return to Russia, he published the "Letters of a Russian Traveller," in four volumes, a work which the public received with great enthusiasm. These letters went through several editions, and were immediately translated into German and English. His "Historical Recollections upon the Road from Moscow to Troitza" (an ancient monastery in the neighbourhood of Moscow), his "Martha, the Possadnitza, or the Surrender of Novogorod," an historical novel, and a great number of other productions of the first rank, prove that he had perfected Russian prose, and given it a charm not to be found in any preced * Possadnitza means, wife of the Possadnik or chief magistrate, ing writer. He was afterwards the Karamsin an annual pension of 5,000 rubles (1,1207.), to descend to his wife, and after her to his children. Mr. William Hamilton Reid. He was the son of persons occupying no higher station than that of domestics in DEATHS.-JUNE. the duke of Hamilton's family. In his early childhood he lost his father, and his mother, after struggling a few years with poverty, sunk to the grave, and left her only child an unprotected orphan. He had previously, through the duke of Hamilton's interest, been placed in St. James's parochial school, where he received the first rudiments of education. He was subsequently apprenticed to a silver-buckle-maker near Soho, and from that period he commenced his literary studies. All his pocket-money was expended in books, and, after a long day of severe labour, half the short period allotted for his repose was frequently spent in reading, particularly history and poetry. Mr. Law's writings fell in his way, and he was long bewildered in the labyrinths of mystical divinity. After the expiration of his apprenticeship he supported himself by working at his trade, occasionally writing various poetic trifles, which, by the advice of some friends, he sent for insertion to the papers and magazines of the day, receiving praise, and in some instances pecuniary remuneration, he was encouraged in his literary career, and he next turned his attention to the acquirement of the French language. Soon afterwards he undertook to supply various light articles to a daily paper; and, quitting his trade, which, from the change of fashion, was no longer productive, he supported himself respectably by the labours of his pen. Having procured an engagement as French translator to a daily paper, he successively mastered the Italian, Spanish, and German tongues, without receiving a single lesson or assistance of any kind, except from books. He now extended his engagement to the translation of the whole of these languages, and in a very short time the Portuguese was added. This employment necessarily confined him at home to await the arrival of the different mails. To fill up these intervals of leisure he commenced the study of the learned languages; the Greek and Hebrew he read so as to consult any author he wished to examine, and the Latin he could read and translate with accuracy. When the Post office refused to supply the newspapers with the foreign journals, except in their own translations, he was deprived of his employment. He soon afterwards proposed to publish a volume of poems by subscription; they were accordingly col lected, but were not published. He now produced his first prose volume, entitled "The Rise and Dissolution of the Infidel Societies." This work, and some communications which he made to government, when shortly after engaged as editor of a daily paper, procured him the notice of Mr. Canning, and of the then bishops of London and Durham. From the former gentleman he received a present of five pounds: all that, in the form of patronage, he ever received. The bishop of London made him an offer of ordination in the church, which his objection to subscribe to the articles of faith, induced him to refuse. He now turned his mind to the study of topography, biography, and general literature. London and its antiquities afforded him ample scope for investiga tion. A great mass of information which he had thus collected and designed to form a volume, remains in the hands of the present writer. In the lat ter end of 1810, about a year and a half after his marriage, pecuniary losses induced him to apply to the Literary Fund, and he then received a handsome donation. His literary labours were afterwards more successful, and, though he had a large family, his circumstances remained comfortable till within the last year or two of his life, when he again applied to the Literary Fund, and was again relieved from his difficulties. 3. In Lower Brook-street, aged 21, the right hon. Arthur-Henry Carleton, second baron Dorchester, co. Oxon. His lordship was born at Madras, Feb. 20, 1805, the only son of the hon. lieut.col. Christopher Carleton (third son of Guy, the first lord), who died by assas sination in 1806, at the age of 30. His mother was Priscilla-Martha, daughter of William Belford, esq. who was drowned with her only daughter (then aged 20), when the sir William Curtis packet was lost at Ostend in 1815, His lordship succeeded his grandfather, Nov. 18, 1808. He was educated at the school of the rev. Weeden Butler at Chelsea, and afterwards at Winchester. He died unmarried, and is succeeded in his title by his first cousin Guy (now in his fifteenth year), son of the hon. lieut.-col. George Carleton, slain at the storming of Bergen-op-Zoom in 1814. 5. At the house of sir George Smart, in Great Portland-street, in his 40th year, the celebrated musical composer, DEATHS.-JUNE. Carl Maria Freyherr Von Weber. He was born Dec. 16, 1786, at Eutin, a small town in Holstein. His father gave him a most liberal education, and the son evinced an early predilection for the fine arts, particularly painting and music. The first regular instruction he received on the piano-forte, the instrument on which he has gained so high a reputation as a player, was from Heuschkel, at Hildburghausen, in 1796; and it is to this severe and learned master that Weber owed his energy, distinctness, and execution. The more his father perceived the gradual developement of his talents, the more anxious he was to sacrifice every thing to their cultivation. He therefore took his son to the famous Michael Haydn, at Salzburg. In 1798 he published his first work, six fugues in four parts, which are remarkable for their purity and correctness, and received the praise of the Musikalische Zeitung. At the end of that year, Weber went to Munich, where he was taught singing by Valesi, and composition, as well as the pianoforte, by Kalcher. To him he was indebted for a full knowledge of the theory of music, and for a skilful and ready use of all the means it furnishes to the composer. Weber now began to apply himself to one particular branch of the art, in preference to the rest-the operatic music. Under the eyes of his master he wrote an opera, "Die Macht der Liebe und des Weins" (The Power of Love and Wine), a mass, and several other pieces; but all these were subsequently destroyed. Soon after this, Weber entertained an idea of rivaling Sentefelder, of lithographic celebrity; and he went so far as to say that the invention was his, and that be used machines more adapted to the purpose. In order to pursue his plan on a grand sale, le removed with his father to Fremherz in Saxony, where the best materials were most conveniently at hand. the tediousness of o recurs business, however, he was wore Ent: and the young speer laser resized, with tirely new style, and of reviving the use of the ancient musical instruments. With this view he composed, in 1801, at Salzburg, the opera" Peter Schmoll and his Neighbours." Although it met with little success on its performance, it was highly praised by Haydn. During one of his many professional travels with his father, in 1802, to Leipsic, Hamburgh, and Holstein, his principal occupation was, to collect and study all works on the theory of music; and entertaining doubts as to the correctness of most of them, he commenced studying harmony once more, from its very elements, with a view of constructing an entire new system of music. His analysis of Sebastian Bach's "Vogler, 12 Chorale," is a work of great research and much utility. Soon after this he was left entirely to himself in the great musical world of Vienna, in the midst of Haydn, Vogler, Stadler, &c. Instead of being drawn away from his art by the innumerable amusements of so gay a city, he was for a considerable period more deeply engaged than ever in studying with the Abbé Vogler. During all this time, only two of his works, if they merit that name, appeared in print, a set of variations, and Vogler's opera "Samori," arranged for the pianoforte. Having completed his musical education at Vienna, he was called to Breslau in the character of maestro di capella. As he had to form here an entirely new orchestra and corps of singers, he was furnished with a very favourable opportunity to improve himself in the knowledge of effect. While at Breslan he composed the opera of "Pibebabl, or Number Nip,” of which the famed mountain spint finished the ject. The commencement of the great Prolan war in i×06 ong ng bis 19 quit Brian, be removed to Caran be, There he wrote two gympanion, weseral experts, and variola genes in wind He is that un DEATHS.-JUNE. "Aban Hassan" at Darmstadt. From on the most eminent of ancient and mo1813 to 1816 Weber was the director of the opera at Prague, which he organized anew; and, while there, he wrote his great cantata, "Kampf und Sieg,” a most imposing composition; and a melodrama, entitled "Preciosa," or the Gipsy Girl. After the object of his visit to Prague was fulfilled, he once more travelled without any permanent appointment. Though he received the most handsome offers from all parts of Germany, he did not accept of any until he was called to Dresden, for the purpose of forming a German opera. This appointment he held until his death. His celebrated opera of "Der Freischutz" was produced at Berlin, June 21, 1821; and in November, 1823, his 66 Euryanthe" was performed at Vienna, but did not succeed. Der Freischutz first appeared in an English dress at the English Opera House, in the summer of 1824, when its success was such as to induce the managers of Covent Garden and Drury Lane theatres to bring it out at their respective houses in the ensuing winter. With some slight alterations in the story, and aided by the most magnificent scenery, the popularity of "Der Freischutz" was unequalled, and led to an invitation to its author to visit England, and to compose an opera expressly for the English stage The offer was accepted, and he fulfilled his engagement by the production of "Oberon," which was first performed at Covent Garden on the 12th of May in the present year. His health was evidently much impaired previously to his arrival in England; and, during his residence in this country, it became gradually worse, until the 3rd of June, when his disorder, a pulmonary affection of long standing, received so sudden and violent an accession, as to preclude all hope of recovery. On the morning of Monday, June 5, he was found dead upon his pillow, his head resting upon his hand, as though he had passed from life without a struggle. The following Wednesday, June 7, had been fixed upon for an attempt to re-visit his native country. Weber is understood to have left but one work in manuscript of any importance, a production which was to be entitled " Kuntsler Leben," upon which he had been employed several years. It consists of a narrative of the principal events of his life, with observations on great musical works, and dern composers. He was the author of many articles in the Leipsic Musical Gazette, and also in the Abendzeitung, an evening paper of Dresden. He has left a widow and two children. 5. In Verulam-buildings, Gray's-inn, James Bradby, esq. This gentleman was born about 1774, of respectable parents. His father was a grocer, resident on Snow-hill, and died before the subject of this sketch was born. His maternal grandfather held the situation of registrar to the society for the encou ragement of arts, manufactures, and commerce. The mother of Mr. Bradby, a sensible but rather singular woman, received for a drawing of flowers one of the first gold medals presented by this institution. She paid every attention to the education of her only son, and he was early placed at an academy at Bow, kept by a Mr. French, and from him he went to an eminent attorney, to whom he was articled; but "too proud," as he has often expressed himself, "to be come the porter between the counsel and the client," he remained some time without practising the law, passing his time chiefly among the French literati at that time banished by the Revolution; and endeavouring to improve his mind by general application. During this interregnum, lounging by chance in a coffee-room, he met with a friend whom he had not seen for twelve years, and who was about to sail for the WestIndies. He reproached Bradby for thus wasting his fine talents in idleness, advised him to study for the bar, and gave him a letter to a friend of his, Mr. Thompson, a special pleader, Bradby then entered himself of Lincoln's Inn. Mr. Thompson soon after retired from the profession in consequence ill health and an accession of fortune; and he relinquished his chambers and his business to Mr. B., who gave up the bar, to which he had at first directed his attention, and became a special pleader. Mr. Bradby was a man of general information, and high intellectual powers, and an excellent linguist. He was the author of a "Treatise on the Law of Distresses," 1808, 8vo. 6. In Jersey, Andrew Fitzherbert Andrew Evans, esq. rear-admiral of the Blue. This officer was made a lieutenant, Dec. 1, 1789; and on May 4, 1796, when commanding the Spencer sloop of war, captured, after a brisk action off of |