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Baronet (1786) of Hutton Hall, co. Cumberland. He was born March 29, 1797, the second but eldest surviving son of Sir Frederick, the second Bart. by Hannah, daughter of John Bowerback, of Johnby, co. Cumberland, esq. He succeeded his father in the title in March, 1832. Sir Francis married April 10, 1823, Diana Olivia, daughter of Charles Beauclerk, of St. Leonard's Lodge, Sussex, esq., and has left issue Sir Henry Ralph.

16. In Ladbroke-terrace, aged 88, Archibald Menzies, esq., F.L.S. This eminent botanist was born in the begining of the year 1754, and in his earlier days led a life of enterprise and hazard. He was originally brought up to the medical profession, and first occupied himself in London with the town practice that came before him, which was, it is believed, lucrative and good. Tired at length, however, of his occupations at home, he grew desirous of throwing himself, in his capacity of surgeon, among the various private expeditions on the part of merchants, which were then fitting out in great numbers, and engaging in the very excellent branch of commerce, which had then sprung up in the fur trade, which at this period gave employment to no less than twenty sail of ships and vessels, fitted out by the European States, as well as other adventurers who thronged from the Asiatic, Chinese, and American shores. The skill and management which Mr. Menzies displayed in the first fur expedition upon which he was employed, caused him to come under the notice of the celebrated Captain George Vancouver, who had sailed with Captain Cook in the autumn of 1771, and who, in his return after that fatal catastrophe which led to the destruction of Captain Cook in 1780, was destined to become the commander of that navigator's ship, the Discovery, and to follow in his steps, by attempting to carry out the designs which had been so unhappily frustrated by the events of Owhyee. It was to this expedition that Mr. Menzies attached himself, and Captain Vancouver appears to have held him so much in estimation, that while in the preface to his "Voyage of Discovery," he omits to mention many more elderly and approved officers of the expedition, he especially devotes a space to commemorate the services of his able collaborateur, Mr. Menzies, and the friendship which he felt towards

him. Mr. Menzies accompanied the expedition appointed by Lord Grenville, then Secretary of State, during a period of five years, through the various regions which Captain Vancouver explored. The collection of rare, and, in a multitude of cases, unknown plants, which he gathered in the Islands of the North Pacific and North Atlantic, was truly valuable. The Cape of Good Hope, New Holland, the Sandwich Islands, more particularly Nootka Sound and its adjacent shores, Port Jackson, the Columbia River, the American coast from Pitzburgh Sound to Cape Decision, and from Monterrey to the Southern coast, the Gallipago Islands, and Valparaiso all contributed, in some shape or other, to furnish him with that rich and invaluable collection of land and maritime plants, which has since formed the finest addition to the treasures of the vegetable kingdom preserved at Kew, and so greatly enriched the cabinets of our first botanical institutions. Mr. Menzies saw himself with the whole of his precious freight, on the 20th Oct. 1795, safe in the Thames, on the return of the expedition, during which excellent health so far prevailed, that only one marine died of illness, the other three that were lost being drowned by accident, and one poisoned by eating muscles. During his latter days, Mr. Menzies spent the greater part of his time in following his favourite pursuit among the plants and flowers of the earth, and he was in communication with the leading botanists and scientific gentlemen of the day.

17. At his house in Suffolk-place, David Edward Morris, esq., proprietor of the Haymarket Theatre. Mr. Morris was born about 1770, of humble parents. Chance threw him in early life in the way of George Colman the elder; under his patronage he advanced in fortune, and Colman the younger marrying his (Morris's) sister, introduced him to the theatre. He obtained a situation in the Admiralty, and husbanding his resources, became a monied man. Nearly forty years since, he purchased a share in the Haymarket Theatre, and whilst Colman was in the King's Bench, managed that establishment. On Dibdin declining a share, Messrs. Morris, Winston and Colman were joint proprietors, though with different proportions of profit. Mr. Morris lived to pay off all his partners, and became sole pro

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prietor. In his Paul Pry season, he realised 14,0007. All our greatest actors and actresses were, at different times under his management, particularly Bannister, Munden, Fawcett, Dowton, Charles Kemble, Mathews, and Jones; Charles Young, Terry, Warde, Rae, Mrs. Humby, and Miss Kelly, made their first appearances in the metropolis under his management. Mr. Morris paid liberally for the dramas produced at his theatre, and was a staunch supporter of the legitimate drama. Edmund Kean, up to the moment of his death, was, at the instance of Mr. Morris, studying the Hunchback, in Sheridan Knowles's play of that

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19. Of typhus fever, at Poole, Dorset., the Rev. John Onsby, Assistant Minister of St. James's Church, and late Chaplain to the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, London, in his 67th year. 21. At Paris, Countess Sebastiani, wife of the late French Ambassador. She was daughter of the late, and sister of the present Duke of Grammont.

Mrs. Urmston, Relict of the late Capt. James Urmston, of the Hon. East India Company's Maritime Service, and of the Grange, Chigwell, Essex; in her 87th year.

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At Hampstead, aged 75, Richard Hart Davis, esq., formerly M.P. for Bristol. Mr. Davis was for many years an eminent merchant and banker in that city. He commenced his political career as M.P. for Colchester, and subsequently represented his native city, Bristol, in six successive Parliaments, his eldest son taking his place at Colchester. This long course of public service embraced a period from 1807 to 1831.

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24. At Greenwich Hospital, aged 86, Daniel Woodriff, esq., Post Captain, R.N., a Captain of the Royal Hospital, and C.B. He was a very gallant officer, and entered the Royal Navy in 1762. While commanding the Calcutta, 50 guns, he was captured, after a gallant defence, by a numerous French squadron, and carried prisoner to Verdun. 1807, however, he received an order signed by Napoleon, who was then in Poland, directing him to proceed immediately to England by way of St. Maloes, where he found a vessel ready to convey him across. At a court-martial held shortly after, he was honourably acquitted of the charge of losing his ship.

25. At Rhuddlan, St. Asaph, in his

62nd year, Captain Stephen Popham, R.N. Captain Popham was brother to Brigadier-general George Munro Popham, C.B., of the Indian Army, who died in 1825. He entered the Navy as Midshipman on board the Formidable, 98 guns, in 1795. After seeing a great deal of active service during the war, Lieut. Popham was made Commander, Aug. 1, 1811. On the 6th May, 1814, when in the Montreal of 21 guns (formerly the Royal George, 23), he assisted at the capture of Oswego, situated on the river of that name, near its confluence with Lake Ontario. On that occasion, he anchored his ship in the most gallant style, sustaining the whole fire of the American fort, until the storming party gained the shore. In this battle the Montreal was set on fire three times by red-hot shot; nor could it be wholly extinguished for nearly three hours after the cannonading had ceased. Captain Popham was severely wounded in the right hand. He was in consequence promoted to post rank by commission, dated Sept. 19, 1814.

At Winestead, Yorkshire, in his 80th year, the Rev. William Hildyard, Rector of that parish, to which he was instituted in 1795, in the gift of Mrs. Hildyard, of Flintham House, Nottinghamshire, niece of the late Sir Robert Hildyard, Bart. He was of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, LL. D. 1786. He lived to see nine sons Masters of Arts in the same university, and six of them Fellows of their respective colleges.

28. At the Abbey, Cirencester (the seat of Miss Master), aged 40, the Hon. and Rev. Charles Bathurst, LL. D. Rector of Siddington, Gloucestershire, brother to Earl Bathurst. He was the fifth and youngest son of Henry, third and late Earl, K.G., by Georgiana, third daughter of Lord George Henry Lennox. He was matriculated as a Commoner of Christ Church, Oxford, July 5, 1821, and nominated a Student of that house in 1824. He took the degree of B.A. Nov. 3, 1825, and on that day was elected to a Law Fellowship of All Souls. He proceeded B.C.L. June 10th, 1880; and the Rectory of Siddington was given to him by Lord Chancellor Eldon, shortly before his Lordship resigned the seals. He took the degree of Dr. in Civil Law, May 21, 1835. Dr. Bathurst published a single sermon, and some tracts on rural and domestic subjects.

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He was a most amiable person, and very much endeared to all who had the happiness of knowing him. He married July 31, 1830, the Lady Emily Caroline Bertie, youngest daughter of the Earl of Abingdon, but has left no issue.

Lately. On his passage in the Apollo, to join the fleet in China, Mr. Henry V. Craven. He fell overboard in the night, when off the Cape of Good Hope, in a gale of wind. He was a most expert swimmer, and from his not being seen after he fell, it was supposed he was stunned in a fall. This promising young officer was mate of the signals on board the Revenge, 74 guns, at the storming of Beyrout, Sidon, and Acre. He, though young, had gone through his naval studies on board the Excellent with the highest possible credit, and was supposed to be one of the best gunners and swordsmen in the service.

At Galway, in his 49th year, Capt. Arthur Walpole, R.E., seventh son of the late Hon. Robert Walpole.

At Baing, parish of Straiton, Margaret Paterson, in her 97th year. She was the oldest parishioner, and daughter of the celebrated Robert Paterson, the original of Sir Walter Scott's "Old Mortality."

At Hull, John Harrison, esq., late of Grimsby, Lincolnshire; in his 80th

year. He was grandson of the celebrated. John Harrison, who discovered the longitude, in the reign of George the Third, and for which he received 20,000%.

At Greenfield. near Watlington, Oxon, Mrs. Austin, in her 109th year. She preserved all her faculties until within a few months of her death.

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1. At his town residence, Dorchester House, Park-lane, in his 65th year, the Most Hon. Francis Charles Seymour Conway, third Marquess of Hertford and Earl of Yarmouth (1793), Earl of Hertford and Viscount Beauchamp of Hache (1750), and fourth Lord Conway, Baron of Ragley, co. Warwick (1703), all titles in the peerage of England; also Baron Conway, of Killultab, co. Antrim (1703), in the peerage of Ireland; K.G., G.C.H.; Knt. of St Anne of Russia; a Privy Councillor; Custos Rotulorum of the co. of Antrim; War

den of the Stanneries, Steward and Vice" Admiral of the Duchy of Cornwall, and Chief Commissioner for managing the affairs of that Duchy; Lieut.-Colonel Commandant of the Militia corps of Cornwall and Devonshire Miners; ViceAdmiral of the coast of Suffolk; M.A. &c. &c. The late Marquess of Hertford was born March 11, 1777; he was the only surviving child of Francis Ingram Seymour the second Marquess, and K.G., and the sole issue of his mother, the second wife of that Marquess, the Hon. Isabella Anne Ingram, eldest daughter and co-heir of Charles ninth and last Viscount of Irvine, of Scotland. He was a member of the University of Oxford, where he entered at Christ Church in 1794, and subsequently removed to St. Mary Hall, as a member of which society he took the degree of M.A., Nov. 14, 1814. Immediately upon attaining his majority, viz. in 1798, he was returned to Parliament for the borough of Orford, in Suffolk. From the year 1802 to 1812 his Lordship then bearing the courtesy title of Earl of Yarmouth, sat for Lisburne (which his cousin, Captain Meynell, now represents), and from 1812 to 1820 he was returned for the co. of Antrim. From the latter date, until his father's death on the 17th of June, 1822, he sat for Camelford. In September, 1809, Lord Yarmouth was second to his cousin Lord Castlereagh, in his duel with Mr. Canning. In 1810 he succeeded to the greatest part of the dis. posable property of the rich and eccentric Duke of Queensberry, the puta. tive father of his wife. In 1811, on the discussion of the Regency, he naturally, from personal gratitude, as well as probably from his political judgment, took part with those who advocated a more extended authority for the Prince of Wales than the ministers proposed; and when his Royal Highness's first household, under the unrestricted Regency, was formed in March 1811, Lord Yarmouth was appointed to the office of Vice-Chamberlain, and his father to that of Lord Chamberlain. When, on the death of Mr. Perceval, an attempt was made to introduce Lords Grey and Grenville into the Cabinet, one of the greatest difficulties arose from the Prince's presumed unwillingness to allow of certain changes in his household, which would have included the removal of Lords Hertford and Yar

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mouth. The result was the continuance of the Liverpool Administration. August (1812) Lord Yarmouth resigned the place of Vice-Chamberlain for the far more lucrative, and permanent, office of Lord Warden of the Stanneries. He was then sworn a member of the Privy Council. On the visit of the Allied Sovereigns to England in 1814, his Lordship was appointed to attend the Emperor Alexander, and accompanied his Imperial Majesty in his visits to all the objects of interest in and about London, to Oxford, Portsmouth, and, finally, to Dover. On parting with Lord Yarmouth, the Emperor conferred on him the order of St. Anne. On the 17th June, 1822, he succeeded, on his father's decease, to the peerage and the large family estates. He was elected a Knight of the Garter on the 22nd Nov. 1822. In 1827, prior to the dissolution of Lord Liverpool's cabinet, he accepted a mission as Ambassador Extraordinary to convey the Garter to the Emperor Nicholas. He sailed for St. Petersburg in the Briton frigate, and the magnificence which he displayed on this occasion, made a sensation even in a court which outshines all European royalty. The Marquess married May 18, 1798, Maria Fagniani, supposed to be a daughter of William, fourth Duke of Queensberry.

3. At his official residence, Guildhallyard, of dropsy, after a long protracted illness, in his 62nd year, Henry Woodthorpe, esq., LL.D. His father was Town-Clerk of the City of London, and his son (the subject of this brief memoir) was appointed in 1818 to officiate for him in the capacity of Deputy Town Clerk, and on the death of his father in 1825 he was unanimously elected to succeed him in the office. He was so thoroughly acquainted with the business of his office, that he might be considered a living encyclopædia on all City affairs; and from his good temper and pleasing manners, he was much beloved. Unfortunately, from inattention to his own private affairs, he was compelled, in 1837, to avail himself of the benefit of the Insolvent Act. But he voluntarily offered to agree to any sum the court might annually apportion to his creditors. It being understood that no power existed in the Insolvent Court to make the recommendation, as the situation was in the gift of the City of London, it rested with the Court of

Common Council to carry that recommendation into operation. The Court named 1,2007. a-year, which the City confirmed, and the creditors benefitted to the amount of upwards of 5,0007. The debts of Mr. Woodthorpe were considerable, but a portion of them was secured by policies of insurance on his life, which become payable, and some of his creditors will be paid in full.

5. At his residence, the Schloss Seekof, near Bamberg, in Bavaria, after a few days' illness, Frederick Baron Von Zandt, of Ovington Park, Hants., and of Clarges-street, London, Chamberlain of his Majesty the King of Bavaria, and Baron of the Holy Roman Empire, in his 56th year.

8. In Curzon-street, in his 74th year, the Right Hon. Henry Francis Roper Curzon, fourteenth Baron Teynham, co. Kent (1616), D.C.L. He was born May 9th, 1768, the eldest son of the Hon. Francis Roper, fourth son of Henry, tenth Lord Teynham, by Mary, eldest daughter of Launcelot Lyttleton, of Lichfield, esq. He took the name and arms of Curzon, in addition to his own, by royal sign-manual, in 1788. The honorary degree of D.C.L. was conferred upon him by the University of Oxford, July 4th, 1793. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the city of Oxford in 1812, the contest being with J. A. Wright, esq., J. S. Lockhart, esq., and the Hon. Geo. Eden, now Lord Auckland. The two first were the successful candidates. On the death of his cousin John, the thirteenth Lord Teynham, Sept. 7, 1824, he succeeded to the peerage. He gave his vote on the Whig side of politics. About the year 1831 he published a pamphlet relating to the reform of Parliament, entitled, "How it must work." His Lordship was twice married.

Aged 42, his Serene Highness Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, brother to the Duchess of Orleans. He was born Sept. 15, 1800, the eldest son of the Grand Duke Frederick Louis, by Helene Paulowna, daughter of the Emperor Paul of Russia. He married 25th May, 1822, the Princess Alexandrina, daughter of the late Frederick William III., King of Prussia, and sister of the present King of Prussia and Empress of Russia, by whom he has left issue the Hereditary Grand Duke Frederick Francis,

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born 28th Feb. 1823, who succeeds his father; the Duchess Louisa Maria Helena, born 17th May, 1824; and the Duke Frederick William Nicholas, born 5th March, 1827.

8. At Salzburg, the widow of Mozart, in her 85th year.

9. In Athol Crescent, Edinburgh, the youngest daughter of Mr. Robert Chambers.

10. At Balsham, Cambridgeshire, Miss Maria Dayrell, youngest daughter of Marmaduke Dayrell, esq., of Shudy Camps Park, Cambridgeshire.

At Isleworth House, Middlesex, the Dowager Lady Honywood, relict of the late Sir John Courtenay Honywood, Bart., of Evington, Kent, in her 51st year.

- In Wilson-street, Belgrave-square, in his 40th year, Edmund Clark, esq., of Lincoln's Inn, barrister-at-law, Recorder of the Boroughs of Hastings and Rye, occasional assistant or Deputy Recorder of the Borough of Birmingham.

11. Aged 71, the Rev. Samuel Blackall, Rector of North Cadbury, Somerset, and a Prebendary of Wells. He was formerly Fellow and Tutor of Emanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.D. 1791, as fourteenth Wrangler, M.A. 1794, and B.A. 1801; he was presented to his living by his college in 1812.

13. At his residence, Peartree House, near Southampton, Lieut.-Gen. Henry Sharpnel, Royal Artillery. He obtained his commission as Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on the 9th of July, 1779. He was appointed First Lieutenant the 3rd of Dec. 1781, and Lieutenant-General the 10th of Jan. 1827. Lieut.-General Sharpnel served with the Duke of York's army in Flanders, and shortly after the siege of Dunkirk, he invented the case shot, a destructive engine of war used by the Royal Artillery, and known by the name of Sharpnel Shells. The discovery was considered of such importance, that on its adoption by the service he received a pension of 1,2001. per annum, in addition to the pay to which he was entitled in virtue of bis rank in the army. He retired from active service as a general officer on the 29th of July, 1825.

14. Aged 76, the Hon. Lady Frances Allen, of Somerset Cottage, Isleworth, great aunt to the Earl of Winterton. She was married to John Allen, esq., in VOL. LXXXIV.

1806, and had been for some years a widow.

14. At Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, suddenly, Archdeacon Singleton.

15. At Letterkenny, Cassandra Jane, wife of Lord George Hill, brother to the Marquess of Downshire and Lord Sandys. She was the youngest daughter of Edward Knight, esq., and was married in 1834. She died shortly after giving birth to a daughter.

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At Boulogne-sur-Mer, Frances, the Lady of Sir Stephen May, Bart.

16. At Bristol, Lieut.-Col. Henry Ellard, late of 65th regiment, and formerly of the 13th Light Infantry.

At Aldbourne, aged 73, Mr. Broome Witts, cousin of Broome Witts, esq., of Brunswick-square; and of the late Broome Witts, esq., of Cookham House, Berks; and of the late Right Hon. Apphia Lady Lyttleton, and Thomas Lord Lyttleton, Baron of Frankley. At Kensington, aged 44, the Dowager Lady Filmer. She was Esther, daughter of Mr. John Stow, of Tenements St. Stephen, became the second wife of the Rev. Sir John Filmer, Bart., in 1821, and was left his widow in 1834.

In St. James's-square, aged 76, the Most Noble Bernard Edward Howard, twelfth Duke of Norfolk (1483), Earl of Arundel (1139), Earl of Surrey (1483), Earl of Norfolk (1644), and Baron Fitz-Alan, Clun and Oswaldestre, and Maltravers (by writ 1330), the premier Duke and Earl in the peerage of England next the Blocd Royal, hereditary Earl Marshal of England, K.G., a Privy Councillor, F.R.S. and F.S.A. His Grace was born at Sheffield, Nov. 21, 1765, the eldest son of Henry Howard, esq., by Juliana, second daughter of Sir William Molyneux, Bart. He succeeded to the ducal honours on the 16th Dec. 1815 on the death of Charles, eleventh Duke, to whom he stood in the relation of third cousin. He took his seat in the House of Lords after the passing of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill in April 28, 1829. He was elected a Knight of the Garter Aug. 13, 1834. In April 1789 he married Lady Elizabeth Belasyse, third daughter and coheiress of Henry, last Earl of Fauconberg. They had issue only one child, the present Duke. The marriage was dissolved by Act of Parliament in 1794, and the lady was re-married to Richard Earl of Lucan, by whom she had a numerous family. The Duke of S

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