son lord Cranborne. By his death there are become vacant, a blue ribbon, of the order of the Garter, and the lord lieutenancy of the county of Herts.

14. At Twickenham, Frances Susannah, wife of lord de Dunstanville, of Tehidy-park, Cornwall.

16. At Whitehall, aged 76, lady Lemon, wife of sir W. Lemon, bart.

18. In South Audley-street, after a long illness, Caroline Georgina, relict of the late col. Evelyn Anderson, brother to lord Yarborough.

In Devonshire-street, Portlandplace, William Gordon, esq. of Cambelton, in the stewartry of Kircudbright.

19. At his lodgings, in Lambeth-road, aged 83, Wm. Coombe, esq. author of the Devil on Two Sticks in England, Dr. Syntax's Tour in Search of the Picturesque, Johnny Quæ Genus, and other popular productions.

22. Found drowned near Westminster-bridge, Francis Chichester, esq. of Trinity College, Oxford, aged 21.

23. At Lamas, Norfolk, in the 77th year of his age, Wm. Lubbock, esq. father of sir John Wm. Lubbock, bart.

26. At Kentish Town, Geo. Jackson, esq. in the 76th year of his age- the last, except one, of the original Directors named in the act of parliament for that truly great national work, the Grand Junction Canal.

30. At Eltham, Kent, John Bowdler, esq. in the 78th year of his age.

At his house, at Stamford, Lincolnshire, Octavius Graham Gilchrist, esq. Mr. Gilchrist was originally intended for the church, and with that view was entered of Magdalen College, Oxford; but after a residence of two years he quitted it for a lucrative business, which was left him by his uncle. He was the author of several interesting publications; among others his Vindications of Ben Jonson and of Pope will not soon be forgotten.

Lately at Dublin, the venerable judge Fletcher. He was elevated to the bench in 1805, by the duke of Bedford, then lord lieutenant of Ireland.

At Pisa, lieut.-col. James Stopford. At Calcutta, the hon. Francis Sempill, youngest son of the right hon. lord Sempill.

At Calais, Henry Forster, esq. M.A. student of Christ Church, Oxford, Barrister-at-law, commissioner of Bankrupts, and nephew to the earl of Eldon, and lord Stowell.

JULY.

1. At Shrewsbury, after a short illness, admiral Geo. Bowen.

2. In London, major Stewart, son o Alexander Stewart, esq. of Huntfield, Lanarkshire.

In Brook-street, Chas. Freeman, esq. formerly secretary to the government at Madras, aged 68.

-At his house in the Kent Road, aged 60, Charles Brewer, esq. late of the Royal Navy Asylum at Greenwich, and formerly secretary to admiral sir Richard King, bart.

6. In Jermyn-street, major gen. the hon. Arthur St. Leger.

- At St. Bernard's Stockbridge, near Edinburgh, sir Henry Raeburn, first portrait painter to the King in Scotland (which appointment he received only a few days before his death), president of the academy in Edinburgh, and member of that in London, a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the late Imperial Academy of Florence, and the Academy of New York. As a portrait painter, he was second only to sir Thomas Lawrence. His full-length pictures of the earl of Hopetoun, lord Frederick Campbell, sir David Baird, and many more, might be mentioned as proofs that he was equally remarkable for correctness of drawing, freedom of penciling, brilliancy of colouring, and a personification of character not less vigorous than graceful. He possessed the rare faculty of producing in every instance the most striking and agreeable likeness, and of indicating intellectual expression and dignity of demeanour, wherever they appeared in the original; often approaching in his portraits to the elevation of historical painting. In his intercourse with the young candidates for public favour, he was uniformly kind, communicative, and liberal; and on all occasions had the candour to bestow just praise on rival excellence. Sir H. Raeburn was not only an artist, but a patron of the arts, and his gallery and study were ever open to the young student. In society, few men more acceptable than sir Henry; for he possessed a cheerful disposition, much good sense, and an inexhaustible store of anecdote. In his domestic relations, no man could dispense or receive a greater degree of happiness.

were

-The rev. David Williams, M.A.

Principal of Ysliadmeyric College, Cardiganshire, and formerly Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford.

7. In Seymour-street, Bath, John Warner, esq. formerly of Beaulieu, Hants, aged 81.

8. At Clough-hall, in the county of Stafford, Wm. Shepherd Kinnersley, esq. M.P.

At Otley, suddenly, Miss Mary Ward. She had been so terrified by a thunder storm, as to be thrown into strong convulsion fits, which defied all aid, and terminated in her death the same evening.

9. At Exeter, on his return home wards from India, in the 40th year of his age, major Chas. Hall, of the 16th regt. of Madras Light Infantry, eldest son of David Hall, esq. of Macclesfield, in the county of Chester.

11. At his father's house, at Stifkey, Norfolk, col. Henry Loftus, of the Cold

stream Guards.

17. In Bermondsey-street, Southwark, aged 67, the Abbé Auge Denis Macquin, formerly Professor of Rhetoric in the College of Meaux en Brie.

18. At Ramsgate, after lingering three years in a decline, Miles James Beevor, in his 18th year, eldest son of colonel Beevor, of the Royal Artillery.

19. At Fleurs, near Kelso, aged 85, James-Norcliffe-Innes Ker, 5th duke and earl of Roxburgh, marquis of Beaumont and Cessford, earl of Kelso, vis count Broxmouth, and baron Ker of Cessford and Caverton, a baronet, and one of the 16 peers for Scotland. He was born 1738; married, first, April 19, 1769, Mary, sister of sir Cecil Wray, of Glentworth, co. Lincoln, bart. by Frances, daughter of Fairfax Norcliffe, of Langston, co. York, esq. and by her

(who died July 20, 1807) had no issue; and secondly, July 28, 1807, Harriet, daughter of late Benjamin Charlewood, of Windlesham, esq. and by her had issue the present duke, born July 1816, and a daughter, born and died May 26, 1814. His original name was Innes, and he derived his descent from Margaret Ker, third daughter of Harry lord Ker, who married sir James Innes, of Innes, bart. by Jane daughter of James, 6th lord Ross. His Grace claimed the title of duke, &c. and on 11th of May, 1812, the House of Lords unanimously resolved "that the petitioner sir JamesNorcliffe-Innes Ker, bart. had made out his claim to the titles, honours, and dignities, &c. as stated in his petition."

He succeeded William, 7th baron Bellenden, and 4th duke, who died in 1805 without issue; and who succeeded John, third duke, so generally known to the literary world as the nobleman whose taste for old books led to the foundation of the Club which bears his name.

His remains were interred in the ancient family vault at Bowden.

At Bronwhylfa, near St. Asaph, aged 22, Louisa Ann, wife of lieut.-col. Browne, K.C.B. and daughter of the rev. Dr. Gray, Prebendary of Durham and Chichester.

24. At Crofton-hall, Kent, aged 83, general Morgan, formerly of the Coldstream Guards.

- At the house of lord Beresford, Wimpole-street, major-gen. sir Denis Pack, K.C.B. C.T.S, &c. colonel of the 84th Foot, and lieut.-governor of Ply. mouth.

At Stanmore, lady Mary Finch, sister to the earl of Aylesford.

26. Aged 71, Mrs. Coffin, relict of the late Walter Coffin, esq. and niece of the celebrated Dr. Price.

30. At the White-lodge, Richmondpark, in his 37th year, the hon. Henry Addington, eldest son of lord viscount Sidmouth.

31. At Hereford Cathedral, the rev. Mr. Hopkins, curate of Byford, in that county, who expired during the cere imony of his marriage while about to put the ring on his bride's finger. He was 70 years of age.

AUGUST.

1. At Dacre-lodge, Middlesex, the right hon. lord Napier, of Merchistoun, North Britain, lord lieutenant of the county of Selkirk, and one of the sixteen representative peers of Scotland.

2. At Winchester, the hon. Charles Frederick Powlett, lord Bayning.

5. At Bath, lady Palliser, relict of the late, and mother of the present, sir Hugh Palliser, bart.

8. At his house, York-street, Dublin, in his 84th year, the rev. Edw. Ledwich, LL.D. F.S.A. of London and Scotland, and member of most of the distinguished literary societies of Europe; a learned aud industrious Antiquary and Topographer. He was a native of Ireland; and fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, vicar of Aghaboe in Queen's county, and secretary to the Committee of Antiquaries of the Royal Irish Academy. In 1789, Mr. Gough acknowledged his obligations to Mr. Ledwich and other curious gentlemen of Ireland, "for an excellent comprehensive View of the government of that kingdom, from the earliest times to the latest Revolution in it," inserted in his valuable edition of Camden's Britannia.

In 1790 this learned and elegan Antiquary published a most valuable volume intituled "Antiquities of Ireland' containing a large collection of entertaining and instructive essays on the remoter antiquities of that Island. For having called in question the legendary history of St. Patrick, which he invalidated as a fiction invented long after the time when that saint is said to have lived, besides critically examining the several works ascribed to him, and other tales of the dark ages, he was attacked by some Antiquaries of the Roman Catholic persuasion, who allowed their bigoted at tachment to their religion to supersede what had been obtained by indefatigable research.

When capt. Grose went to Dublin for the purpose of completing his design, "to illustrate the Antiquities of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland," he formed an acquaintance with this gentleman, urged by the above-mentioned specimen of his consanguinity in authorship. Upon his death, which shortly followed, Mr. Ledwich, at the request of the publisher, became the editor of "The Antiquities of Ireland," in two volumes, 4to.; and with great liberality and the utmost success, engaged in the design of completing what his predecessor had begun, but did not live to carry it on to any considerable extent. The first volume of this valuable work came out in 1794, and the second in 1796.

In the same year in which the second volume of the above national work was published, he produced a judicious, informing, and interesting work, in imitation of the Scotch Clergy, who, under the encouragement of sir John Sinclair, conducted their statistical inquiries with such success in their own country. It was intituled "A Statistical Account of the parish of Aghaboe, in the Queen's County," 1796, 8vo.

Besides the above works, he contri. buted to the volumes of the Archeolo gia, a "Dissertation on the Religion of the Druids," inserted in vol. VII. p. 303, and "Observations on our own ancient Churches," vol. VIII. p. 165.

Mr. Ledwich was a member of a little society for investigating the antiquities of Ireland, at the head of which was the right hon. Wm. B. Conyngham, Teller of the Exchequer at Dublin; but which was dissolved, it is said, in consequence of the free pleasantry, with which Mr. Ledwich treated certain reveries circulated among them, and occasionally alluded to in his Antiquities of Ireland.

9. In Old Burlington-street, after a long indisposition, the most noble marquis Cornwallis. He succeeded bis father in 1805. On the 18th, his remains were removed, for interment in the family vault, to Culford-hall, near Bury. The title descends to his uncle, the bishop of Lichfield and Coventry.

- At New-house-place, Chalfont, St. Giles, Bucks, the lady of sir Coddrington Edmund Carrington.

10. In Devonshire-place, Esther, the wife of the rev. Fras. North, Prebendary of Winchester.

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11. At Brompton, lieut.-col. Brookes Lawrence, late of the 13th light drag.

12. At her house, in Regent-street, lady Wilson, wife of sir Robert Wilson, M.P.

19. At the house of the rev. J. Bradshaw, with whom he had just returned in a gig from Hornsey, and after partaking of a hearty dinner, the rev. Charles Rushworth, senior, B.D. fellow and steward of St. John's-college, Cambridge, aged 45.

-At Shefford, in Bedfordshire, in his 57th year, Robert Bloomfield, author of the "Farmer's Boy," &c. &c. His constitution, naturally weak, had of late years become alarmingly impaired; every fresh attack left him still weaker; the last, it was feared, had he survived, would have fixed him in a state of mental aberration, to which he himself and his dearest friends must have preferred his death. Robert Bloomfield was born in 1766, in the county of Suffolk. He was one of six children of a tailor in middling circumstances, who was not enabled to give him more than a common education, for the acquirement of which he was indebted to his mother, who kept a school, and gave him all the instruction which she was enabled to bestow. He learned to read as soon as he could speak, and his mother, having lost her husband, remarried when Bloomfield was not more than seven years old. At the age of eleven, he was obliged to accept the menial office of a farmer's boy, to attend the workmen in the field. In the intervals of his labours, that native genius, which sooner or later bursts the bonds of slavery, led him to peruse such books as came within his reach, and whatever newspapers he could obtain: even at that early age he wrote a small poem, which he sent for insertion to the editor of the London Magazine, and had the pleasure of seeing in print. He next turned his attention to poetry during the hours of relaxation from toil, and composed many pieces, even in the midst of his occupation; he had also a taste for music, playing very decently on the violin; his imagination, however, was heated with the descriptions which he had read in the Poets of celebrity, particularly Thomson; and, disengaged from the bustle and care of a city, he planned and executed his "Farmer's Boy," a work,

which, as a descriptive Poem, possesses original genius and a happy facility in composition. Robert married about this time, and entered into trade. His poem fell into the hands of Mr. Lofft, who revised it, and prepared it for the press, bestowed on the author his protection, printed it at his own expense, and wrote the preface. On its first appearance it was highly approved of, and passed through many editions in a very short time; it fully established the claim of the author to the title of Poet, and stamped his name with the honour of genius. Of all Bloomfield's published works, no volume has alone so much interest as his "Wild Flowers," which was dedicated to his only son, Charles, "There can be no harm in telling the world," observes the poet in his Dedication, "that I hope these 'Wild Flowers' will be productive of sweets of the worldly kind; for your unfortunate lameness, should it never be removed, may preclude you from the means of procuring comforts and advantages which might otherwise have fallen to your share. What a blessing, what an unspeakable satisfaction, would it be to know, that the 'Ballads,' the 'Ploughman's Stories,' and the 'Broken Crutch' of your father, would eventually contribute to lighten your steps in manhood; and make your own crutch, through life, rather a memorial of affection than an object of sorrow!" The Poet's last production is intituled "Hazlewood Hall," a Village Drama, in Three Acts; and the Preface is dated from the place of his dissolution, so recently as the 12th of April preceding.

20. M. Brockhaus, of Leipsic, Editor of a vast number of literary works, and one of the most active, intelligent, and estimable of the German booksellers. M. Brockhaus was born in Westphalia: a lover of books, and though originally in another business in Holland, he gave it up to open a house at Amsterdam under the title of the "Comptoir d'Industrie.” This was about the time that Holland lost her maritime power, in consequence of her union with France and the continental blockade. His first attempts were unsuccessful. The difficulty of the crisis forced him to stop payment; but when afterwards he became successful, he paid all his debts with interest. He next went to Altenberg in Saxony, when Germany was in a situation not

much better than Holland; but, knowing the country, he made some successful speculations. He published the "Dictionary of Conversation," which was the foundation of his fortunes. There existed before a small Encyclopædia under that name. Brockhaus remodelled it and increased it to ten volumes, including in it every thing of interest, such as the history of the times, biography, and choice pieces of literature. It went through five editions; in ten or twelve years 50,000 copies were sold, a success without example in the annals of German bibliopolists. After the peace of 1814 he projected and established a work after the plan of the "Public Characters" in England, containing an account of the celebrated men of the day, of which thirtysix parts appeared. Brockhaus also published the Hermes, a quarterly work on the plan of the Edinburgh Review, which ranked high, and to which men of the first talents in Germany contributed. In 1817 and 1818, he determined to establish a daily journal, and came to Paris in 1819 to acquire a knowledge of the best mode of conducting it. On his return home, he bought the literary paper established by Kotzebue, and proposed to speak, in conducting it, the language of truth, and to defend intrepidly the rights of humanity. But already the efforts of the Holy Alliance were exerted to crush any thing resembling freedom of thought or expression, and even when he removed to Leipsic, a rigorous censorship was exercised over him. He next thought, that the governments, which watched with so much vigilance over the press, might perchance protect the property of the booksellers against the piracy exereised in the estates of the German confederation, and he published a memorial on the subject; but in vain. His other literary enterprises are too numerous to particularise. From 1815 to the present year, his house at Leipsic furnished the greater number of new and interesting works which appeared; and many men of talent found they could exercise their pens, give vent to their thoughts, and even secure an honourable existence by alliance with Brockhaus. He stimulated the selflove and zeal of literary men, and often suggested new ideas for original works. He was sufficiently conversant with

literature himself to judge of the merits of his editors, and even to co-operate himself in the enterprises he planned. Thus, though directing a bookselling establishment of vast extent, and corresponding with literary men all over the world, he still found time to work himself on his Encyclopædia and his daily journal, &c. One cause of his success was his constant publication of the literature of the day in England and France, in all their novelty. The death of so indefatigable a man was a great loss to Germany; and though his works are proposed to be continued, so independent a bookseller, one who never trembled at the frown of power, will not be soon replaced by another equally estimable in the view of his fellow-citizens.

21. At Broomham, Sussex, in his 85th year, sir Wm. Ashburnham, bart.

22. At Stratton, near Circencester, the rev. Thos. Boys, D. D. late fellow of New College, Oxford, and rector of Radcliffe-cum-Chagmore, Bucks, in the gift of the wardens of that college.

- At Gedling, near Nottingham, the rev. Wm. Smelt, A. M. rector of that valuable living. He married the sister of the late earl of Chesterfield.

23. At his house, in Upper Brookstreet, major Sneyd.

27. At Paris, the 'right hon. John Hope, earl of Hopetoun, viscount Airthrie, lord Hope (lord Hopetoun, 1809, and lord Niddry, 1814, British titles), lord lieutenant of Linlithgowshire, knight grand cross of the order of the Bath, a general in the army, colonel of the 42nd foot (Royal Highlanders), governor of the royal bank of Scotland, captain-general of the royal company of archers, &c. &c. His lordship succeeded James the last earl, his half-brother, in 1816, and was the only son of John earl of Hopetoun, by his second marriage with Jane, daughter of Robert Oliphant, of Rossie, esq. and was born on the 17th of August 1765. He married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of the hon. Charles Hope Weir, of Craigiehall, in 1798, who died in 1801, without issue. He married, secondly, Louisa Dorothea, third daughter of sir John Wedderburn, of Ballendean, bart. by whom he has left John, now earl of Hopetoun, born Nov. 15, 1803, eight other sons, and two daughters. His lordship entered, when young, into the army, in which he served with great