25. Aged 32, the Rev. Nicholas Tindal, Vicar of Sandhurst, Gloucestershire; the eldest son of the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.

26. At Membury, Devon, after a very short illness, Henry Wakley, esq., in his 92nd year. He was the father of the Member for Finsbury.

27. At Margate, the Rev. Robert Morgan Vane, Rector of Lowick and Islip, Northamptonshire, and Chaplain to the Duke of Dorset, in his 57th year.

At his residence, Erlwood, near Bagshot, in his 64th year, Col. Sir Edmund Currey, K.C.HI. He was the fifth son of the Rev. John Currey, Rector of Dartford Kent, by the only daugh ter of George Elliott, esq., of Stobbs, N.B. and Wombwell Hall, Kent. He was made a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1794; served in the campaigns in Holland and Egypt; was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Duke of Gloucester in 1803, and Secretary and Comptroller of his Royal Highness's Household in 1805. He retired from the Artillery in 1808, but received the rank of Lieut.-Col. from King William IV. on his accession, and the honour of the Guelphic Order on the death of the Duke of Gloucester 1834. Sir E. Currey was a son-in-law of Lord Chief Baron Abinger.

Aged 66, the Rev. Henry Ellis St. John, of West Court, Rector of Barkham and Finchampstead, Berks.

28. At his residence Green Hill House, Hampstead, in his 72nd year, Thomas Norton Longman, esq. The death of this eminent bibliopolist arose from his horse having fallen with him on the previous Wednesday, near the Small Pox Hospital, St. Pancras, when he was thrown over the horse's head, and struck the ground with such violence as to fracture his skull, and injure the spine. Since the death of his father Mr. Thomas Longman, February 5, 1797, the late Mr. Longman had been at the head of the eminent publishing firm of Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, (for all these had been at various times his partners)-a house which has for more than a century been distinguished as the Leviathan of publishing and bookselling, and has been equally conspicuous in the promotion of literature generally, and in their kind and fostering encouragement bestowed on those

who by that somewhat precarious but noble pursuit obtain their daily bread. Mr. Longman was a man of few words, but his judgment in every thing relating to his profession was well known to have been most judicious. His attention to business was unremitted. In private life Mr. Longman was highly esteemed and respected. He was a liberal patron of the association for the relief of decayed booksellers, at the anniversary of which he had presided a short time before his death. The personal property of Mr. Longman was sworn under 200,000l. He bequeathed 1007. to the Literary Fund.

At Pittenweem, Charles Moyes, esq., of Lumbenny, co. of Fife, in his 100th year.

29. At Lima, George, T. Scaly, esq., Her Britannic Majesty's Vice-Consul at that place in his 51st year.

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At Coleby, Norfolk, aged 76, the Rev. George Coleby, Rector of that parish, and Vicar of Thorpe Market.

At Wandsworth, Capt. James E. White, formerly of the 14th Light Dragoons, and cousin to the late Earl of Macartney.

Aged 31, Mrs. Soyer, wife of Mr. Soyer, of the Metropolitan Reform Club. Some of her pictures were highly prized by the King and Queen of the Belgians, and the other members of the Saxe Coburg family, when in this country. She has left upwards of 500 paintings.

Aged 77, Mr. William Beverley, Manager of the Scarborough Theatre, formerly Manager of Covent Garden Theatre.

31. Aged 39, the Rev. Samuel Robinson Carver, Perpetual Curate of Stannington, in the parish of Ecclesfield, Yorkshire; and September 2, aged 42, Elizabeth Ann, his wife, from injuries received in being thrown from their carriage at Malin Bridge on the 29th. They were married only in December last.

At Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, the Rev. Walter John Kerrich, Rector of that parish, and a Prebendary of Salisbury.

SEPTEMBER.

1. At the Deanery, Westminster, in his 81st year, the Very Rev. John Ireland, D.D., Dean of Westminster, Dean of the Order of the Bath. Dr. Ireland was born at Ashburton in Devonshire,

on the 8th of September 1761. In 1780 he matriculated at Oxford, as Bible Clerk of Oriel college, which he left after taking the degree of B.A. and afterwards proceeded M.A. as a Grand Compounder June 13, 1819, and B. and D.D., on the 24th October following. He was ordained and appointed to a small curacy in the neighbourhood of Ashburton. He afterwards travelled on the Continent in the capacity of tutor to the son of Sir James Wright. On the 15th July 1793, he was collated by Archbishop Moore to the vicarage of Croydon in Surrey, which he held until 1816. On the 14th of August 1802, he was promoted to a prebendal stall in the collegiate church of Westminster: and on the decease of Dr. Vincent he was advanced to the deanery, in which he was installed on the 9th February 1816. He also succeeded Dean Vincent in the Rectory of Islip, which is in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. He resigned this living some years before his death. Dr. Ireland, in conjunction with his friend Mr. Canning, was one of the principal writers who assisted Mr. Gifford in the early volumes of the "Quarterly Review." Had Mr. Canning lived as Prime Minister, there can be little doubt but that Dr. Ireland would have been promoted to the episcopal bench. He was the author of "Five Discourses, containing certain arguments for and against the reception of Christianity by the ancient Jews and Greeks, 1796." "Vindiciæ Regiæ, or a Defence of the Kingly Office, in two Letters to the Earl of Stanhope, 1797." "The Claims of the Established Church considered, in a Sermon." 1807. "Paganism and Christtianity compared, in a course of Lectures to the King's Scholars at Westminster." 1809. "A letter to H. Brougham, esq., M.P." 1819. "Nuptiæ Sacræ ; or an Enquiry into the Scriptural Doctrine of Marriage and Divorce, addressed to the two Houses of Parliament." 1821. It is to be lamented that Dr. Ireland (as his friend Gifford had done) desired all his manuscripts to be destroyed. The benevolent character of his good deeds, in every place wherewith he was in any way connected, as Ashburton, Oxford, Islip, and Westminster, will remain lasting memorials of him. He was always distinguished by his warm patronage of learning. The University of Oxford is indebted to him for the

Scholarships bearing his name-four in number, of 301. per annum each, founded in 1825; to be elected on this foundation is one of the highest honours in the University. To Westminster School he gave 5007. stock to be vested in trustees, to be applied to the purchase of books as prizes in the school. He evinced a lively interest in the welfare of his native town, where he gave the liberal sum of 2,000l. for the purchase of a house for the residence of the master of the grammar school, at which be received his education. By his will Dr. Ireland left 2,000l. to Oriel College, and 10,000l. to the University of Oxford for the Professor of "The Exegesis of the Holy Scripture," part of a system of education established, or being established, in that university. He gave the reversion of 10007. to the Western Dispensary, Charles-street, Westminster, after the life interest of a person mentioned as "an excellent Sunday-school child in my parish of Islip, in the co. of Oxford, and now deserving my assistance." He gave his pianoforte, with Handel's case, and his manuscript music, to Mr. John Leman Brownsmith, organist of St. John's Waterloo-road, and a lay vicar in the Abbey. He gave 2,000. in reversion, after the decease of a relation, to the Devon and Exeter Hospital in Exeter; 2,000l. to Westminster Hospital, after a life-interest therein in Westminster; 1,000l. to trustees for poor persons in Ashburton ; 5,0007. for a chapel in Westminster; 2,000l. for King's College, for promotion of religious education, with divers other benefactions to religious and charitable objects, His name will thus be perpetuated as a munificent patron of learning, and liberal encourager of religious and benevolent undertakings.

On board the Amherst, on his return from Arracan to Calcutta, aged 42, James Shaw, esq. He was in the Civil Service and Acting Judge of the Sudder Dewany Adawlut.

In Grafton-street, Bond-street, in his 66th year, Lord Robert Edward Henry Somerset, G.C.B., K.M.T., T. and S., and St. W., a General in the Army, and Colonel of the 4th Light Dragoons, a Commissioner of the Royal Military College and the Royal Military Asylum; uncle to the Duke of Beaufort, and brother to Lord Fitzroy Somerset, the Military Secretary to the Commander-in-chief, Lord Edward Somer

set was born on the 19th December 1776, the fourth son of Henry fifth Duke of Beaufort, K.G. by Elizabeth daughter of Adm. the Hon. Edward Boscawen. He was appointed Lieut.-Col. in the 5th regt. of Foot, from whence he effected an exchange in the following year into the 4th Dragoons. In April 1809, he embarked for Portugal in command of that regiment, and continued to serve under the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula, until the conclusion of the war; he was present at the battles of Talavera, Busaco, Salamanca, Vittoria, the Pyrenees, Orthes, Toulouse, and other actions of less importance. At Salamanca, the 4th Dragoons, under his command, in conjunction with the 5th Drag. guards, and the 3rd Dragoons, forming the heavy brigade under the late Major-Gen. Le Marchant, made a brilliant and successful attack on a strong body of the enemy's infantry, which was completely defeated with great loss. On this occa. sion, two pieces of artillery, and nearly 2,000 prisoners, were captured by the brigade. In July 1810 Lord Edward was appointed Aide-de-camp to the King; and in June, 1813, being promoted to the rank of Major-Gen., received the command of the Hussar brigade, consisting of the 7th, 10th and 15th Hussars, with which he was actively employed in the advance of the army into France in the campaign of 1814. At the battle of Orthes, the Hussar brigade made a successful attack, and captured many prisoners from the enemy in his retreat. For his conduct on these occasions, his Lordship received the thanks of Parliament on his return to England in 1814, was decorated with a cross and one clasp, and appointed a Knight Commander of the Bath, on the enlargement of that Order in January 1815. He also received permission to accept the foreign decorations of the third class of Mariacuirassiers. After the conclusion of peace in 1815, Lord Edward Somerset continued to command the 1st brigade of cavalry in the army of occupation in France; and on the 15th of January 1818, was appointed Col. of the 21st regiment of Light Dragoons. In March, 1836, he was removed from the Colonelcy of the Royal Dragoons to his old regiment, the 4th Light Dragoons, which he had commanded in the earlier part of his career in Spain and Portugal.

Lord Edward was frequently employed upon the staff. The last appointment which he held was that of Inspecting General of Cavalry, which the rules of the service compelled him to relinquish upon his promotion to the rank of Lieut.-Gen. He was made Lieut.-Gen. May 27th, 1825; Gen. November 23rd, 1841 and was raised te the grade of a Grand Cross of the Bath, in 1834. His Lordship married October 17th, 1805, the Hon. Louisa Augusta Courtenay, twelfth daughter of William second Viscount Courtenay; and by that lady, who died February 9th, 1823, he had issue five daughters, of whom the second was married in 1840 to Theophilus Clive, esq. and three sons, of whom two are surviving.

3. At Kirby Knowle, the Rev. James Serjeantson, M.A., forty-six years Rector of Kirby Knowle-cum-Bagby.

4. Rev. R. B. Podmore, of Pailton House, Warwickshire, in his 81st year.

8. At Peterborough, aged 86, the Ven. William Strong, D.D., Archdeacon of Northampton, Canon of Peterborough, Rector of Bolingbroke, and Vicar of Billinghay, Lincolnshire, and Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

9. Aged 17, J. Lloyd, second son of the Rev. J. Lloyd Rector of Aughrim union, co. Roscommon; and aged 24, Robert M. Day, second son of Mr. Day, barrister. They were drowned by the upsetting of a small boat while on a pleasure excursion in the harbour of Cove.

12. Of tetanus, brought on by a fall from a pony, at Chapelthorpe Hall, near Wakefield, William Charles Chapple, youngest son of the Hon. Geo. Chapple Norton, of Kettlethorpe Hall, Wakefield, in his 10th year.

14. At his seat in co. Carlow, Walter Blakeney, esq., a Dep.-Lieut. and formerly M.P. for that co. Mr. Blakeney represented Carlow on the liberal interest, in two Parliaments, from 1832 to 1835, when he retired to make way for Mr. M. O'Connell. Mr. Blakeney who was much admired in private life, has left a widow and large family to deplore his loss. He died after an illness of less than five minutes, and an inquest was held upon his body, when a verdict was brought in that he died by the visitation of God.

15. Robert Neville, esq. High Sheriff of the co. Kilkenny.

16. At Hook Hall, Yorkshire, aged

58, the Rev. James Simpson, Vicar of Swinesfleet.

At the House of his nephew, Mr. Maziere, in Delgany, co. Wicklow, Wm. Curry, esq. one of the Masters in Chancery in Ireland, and formerly M.P. for Armagh. He was born Aug. 16, 1784, the only son of William Curry, esq. He was elected to Parliament for Armagh on the liberal interest in 1837, after a contest, but vacated his seat in May 1840, on accepting the office of a Master in Chancery. Mr. Curry was much esteemed by the bar and the public generally, for his excellent character, both private and professional. To the solicitors, as a body, he gave the most perfect satisfaction, by his industry and talent in his office, from the period of his appointment to the last moment of his attendance.

17. At Strathpeffer, near Dingwall, Ross-shire, of scarlet-fever, Catherine, wife of Charles Edwards, esq., of Darcey, third daughter of John Waterhouse, esq., of Well Head, in her 28th year; and on the 19th, her husband, Charles Edwards, eldest surviving son of Henry Lees Edwards, esq., of Pye Nest, Halifax, Yorkshire, in his 33rd year.

18. At Cambridge, aged 79, the Rev. Charles William Burrell, senior Fellow and President of St. Catharine's Hall.

19. At Bristol, aged 73, the Rev. John Emra, Vicar of St. George's Bristol.

In Duke-street, St. James's, Capt. Edward Reynolds Sibly, R.N.

20. At Duntsbourn Abbat's Gloucestershire, aged 77, the Rev. Charles Mesman, Rector of that parish.

22. At Kingsdown, near Bristol, aged 62, the Rev. John Ward, Rector of Compton Greenfield, Gloucestershire.

23. Aged 40, Charles Hampden Turner, jun. esq., of Lee-place, Godstone, son of Chas. H. Turner, esq., of Rook's Nest. He was found near his residence, quite dead from the effects of a gunshot wound in the head, which he was supposed to have accidentally received while resting on his gun.

At Dublin, aged 53, the Right Hon. Henry Roper Curzon, fifteenth Lord Teynham (1616). His Lordship was the eldest son of Henry Francis, fourteenth Lord Teynham, by his first wife Bridget, eldest daughter and coheiress of Thomas Hawkins, of Nash Court, co. Kent, esq. He succeeded to the peerage on the death of his father, on the 8th of March last.

At Six-mile-bottom, near Newmarket, aged 96, Mr. Charles Wedge. He was long engaged in various public works, and commissioner for the inclosure of many parishes in Cambridgeshire and adjoining counties, and the extensive drainage of the fens in the neighbourhood of Boston, in the county of Lincoln; and he was the first, by his example, to lead to the improvement of the barren heaths of Cambridgeshire.

24. At the residence of the British Consul at Adalia, in Syria, of brain fever, in the prime of life, the Rev. Edward Thomas Daniell, M.A., of Balliol College, Oxford, late Reader at St. Mark's Chapel, Grosvenor-square.

At Colleton Estate, Barbadoes, aged 26, the Rev. Samuel William Hinkson, late Curate of Farthinghoe, Northamptonshire.

At his house, Bonair, St. Martin's, Guernsey, in his 80th year, Daniel De Lisle Brock, esq., Bailiff of that island. 25. At Portobello, near Edinburgh, Sir James Spittal.

The Rev. Jonathan Skelton Gibson, Curate of Billingham, Durham, formerly of Trinity College, Cambridge, B.D. He committed suicide by hanging himself from an appletree; an act attributed to insanity brought on by severe study. He had preached twice the same day. He was an accomplished classical scholar, and an excellent linguist, and has left a valuable library.

At Kingston House, Knightsbridge, aged 82, the Most Hon. Richard Wellesley, Marquess Wellesley of Norragh (1799), second Earl of Mornington, Viscount Wellesley of Dengan Castle (1760), and Baron Mornington of Mornington, co. Meath (1746); Baron Wellesley of Wellesley, co. Somerset (1797), K.G., Knight of the Crescent, and of the Lion and Sun, a Privy Coun cillor, Custos Rotulorum of the County of Meath, and D.C.L. The Marquess Wellesley was born in Grafton-street, Dublin, on the 20th June, 1760, the eldest child of Garrett, first Earl of Mornington, by the Hon. Anne Hill Trevor, eldest daughter of Arthur, first Viscount Dungannon. Viscount Wellesley, as he was then called, was at an early age placed at the most celebrated of English schools, Eton College; and in due time, transferred to the Univer sity of Oxford. At both those great seats of learning, the embryo statesman

was eminently distinguished. His studies at the University being concluded, Viscount Wellesley returned to his native country, but had the misfortune to lose his father before he attained his majority. His first act on becoming of age was to assume the numerous pecuniary obligations of his father, and to place his estates under the prudent and upright management of his mother; it is, however, to be regretted, that though the first Earl's debts were paid, his son was not able eventually to preserve the family estates. Like Pitt, Fox, Burke, Canning, and other distinguished statesmen, and, like most men of genius, he proved an unsuccessful manager of pecuniary affairs. Immediately on attaining his majority, the young Earl of Mornington took his seat in the Irish House of Peers, of which body he of course continued to be a Member for the nineteen years which preceded the Union. It was a theatre of operations, however, which soon proved too circumscribed for his abili ties; and there is no reason to suppose that he was a frequent speaker in that assembly. The most remarkable proceeding in which he took any part as an Irish peer was the Regency question in 1789. It will be recollected that the British Houses of Parliament, on the illness of George III., proposed that the Prince of Wales should assume the Royal authority, subject to certain restrictions, while the Irish Legislature proposed that his powers should be unrestricted. The Earl of Mornington was a strenuous supporter of the views taken in this country of the Regency question, contending that the full powers of the Crown should not be assumed by any one during what was hoped would prove but a temporary indisposition of the Sovereign. On the recovery of George III., His Majesty's attention was naturally called to the stand made by minorities in the Irish Houses of Parliament, against that which was held to be as unconstitutional in doctrine, as it was likely to prove dangerous in practice to the sort of connexion which at that time subsisted between the two countries. The young Irish Earl frequently visited London, having been returned in 1784 to the British House of Commons, as Member for Beeralston, and, owing to the part which he took in the Regency debates, as well as on account of the general evidences of brilliant

talent which his Lordship found many occasions of displaying, the King ap peared to take a warm interest in the rising fortunes of the young and ambitious statesman, who would not be content with less than the enjoyment of seats in two Houses of Parliament. At the next general election he was returned for the King's borough of Windsor, sworn in a Member of the Irish Privy Council, and elected one of the Knights of St. Patrick, which latter distinction, however, he resigned in 1810, on being elected a Knight of the Garter. Lord Mornington, soon after his entrance into the House of Commons, was appointed a Lord of the Treasury; and in 1793 sworn in a Member of the British Privy Council. His Lordship made such rapid progress in the favour of the King and the confidence of the Minister, that even the post of Governor-General of India was not deemed a situation too arduous for his powers, or too extended in the nature of its duties for the grasp of his comprehensive and vigorous intellect. In the year 1797 he succeeded Lord Cornwallis in the Government of India, having been at the same time raised to the British Peerage by the title of Baron Wellesley, in right of which he continued to sit in the House of Lords. The Marquisate which he subsequently received was in the Irish Peerage; but as a British Peer he never attained to a higher rank than that of Baron. In the month of May, the noble Marquess, accompanied by his illustrious brother, Colonel Wellesley, afterwards Duke of Wellington, arrived in the mouth of the Ganges. The moment was critical symptoms of rising comBonamotion had become apparent.

parte had accomplished the conquest of Egypt, and was supposed to meditate an attack upon our Indian possessions. The spirit of Tippoo Saib, sovereign of the Mysore, rankled under his losses; and emissaries from the French government encouraged him in his secret plans for the recovery of the district of Coimbatore and the hill fortresses, which he had been compelled to surrender. The first step taken by Lord Mornington, was to secure and fortify the island of Perim, which commands the entrance to the Straits of Babelmandel; the next was to negociate with Tippoo for the purpose of inducing him to abstain from intercourse with the French. The Sultan, however, entertained a strong con