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1. At Broughton, Oxfordshire, the Rev. Thomas Dend, M. A., Rector of Blechington, in the same county, to Elizabeth Susan Ann, only daughter of the Rev. C. F. Wyatt, M. A., Rector of Broughton.

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At Bathford Church, Bath, Fitzjames Stuart Macgregor, esq., son of Lieutenant-General J. A. Paul Macgregor, Bathford House, to Louisa Jane, daughter of John Wiltshire, esq., of Shockerwick.

2. At Currie House, Borthwick Ebenezer Wallace, esq., writer to the Signet, to Isabella, youngest surviving daughter of the late Ralph Hardie, esq.

3. At Walcot Church, Bath, Peregrine Henry Fellowes, esq., R. M., son of Capt. Sir Thomas Fellowes, R. N., C. B., to Caroline Elizabeth, only daughter of Major-General Forbes, Royal Artillery.

At St. George's, Hanover-square, John Cater, esq., son of Major Cater, Royal Artillery, to Margaret Corsane, daughter of the late John Reid, esq., Advocate, Edinburgh, and sister of Sir James John Reid.

5. At Broughton Church, Oxon, Henry Wenman Newman, esq., of Thornbury Park, Gloucestershire, and Clifton, Bristol, to Frances Margaret, eldest daughter of the Rev. John Joseph Goodenough, D. D., Rector of Broughton Pogis, Oxfordshire.

8. At All Souls' Church, Langhamplace, Rear-Admiral Earl Waldegrave, C. B., to Sarah, widow of the late Edward Milward, esq., of Hastings.

At St. Luke's, Heywood, John Cunliffe Kay, esq., of Ferefield Hall, Yorkshire, eldest son of Ellis Lister Cunliffe, Kay, esq., of Manningham Hall, in the same county, to Ann, only daughter of James Fenton, esq., of Bamford Hall, Lancashire.

At Jarviston House, Lanarkshire, Captain J. O. Moller, of her Majesty's 28th Regiment, to Mary Pen, third daughter of the late Major Drysdale, of Jarviston.

At Edinburgh, James Vaughan

Allen, esq., of Inchmartine, Perthshire, late of the 8th Hussars, to Barbara Elrington, third daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir Neil Douglas K. C. B., K. C. H., Commander of her Majesty's Forces in North Britain.

9. At Henny Church, near Sudbury, Suffolk, the Rev. John Wingfield Harding, of Tong, Shropshire, to Elizabeth Anne, daughter of the late Charles Raymond Barker, esq.

At Burgany, John Dalrymple, esq., M. P., younger, of Fordel, to Louisa Jane Henrietta Emily, eldest daughter of the Duc and Duchesse de Coigny.

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At Melksham, the Rev. Charles Wadham Diggle, M. A., eldest son of Colonel Diggle, K. H., to Georgiana Augusta, eldest daughter of the Rev. T. Heathcote, of Shaw Hill, Wilts.

10. At Adare Church, Sir John Nugent Humble, Bart., of Cloneoskeran, County Waterford, to Eliza Philippa, only daughter of George Fosbery, esq., of Currabridge, County Limerick.

12. At St. Dunstan's West, William Johnstoun Neale, esq., Barrister-at-law, second son of the late Adam Neale, M. D., Physician to the Forces, to Fanny Herbert, daughter of the late Captain Josiah Nisbet, R. N.

14. At Edinburgh, William Speid, esq., to Johanna, youngest daughter of the late William Wallace, L L. D., Professor of Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh.

16. At Abbot's Ripton Church, Huntingdonshire, William H. Moubray, esq., R. N., son of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Robert Moubray, K. C. H., of Cockairne, Fifeshire, to Selina Mary Anna, fourth daughter of John Bonfoy Rooper, esq., of Abbot's Ripton.

17. At Thorpe Arnold, the Rev. J. Denny Gilbert, Rector of Cantley and of Rillington, Norfolk, to Florence Margaretta, eldest daughter of the Rev. Plumpton Wilson, Rector of Newmarket.

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At Llangattock Church, Breconshire, James Stuart Menteath, the eldest son of Sir Charles Granville Stuart Menteath, Bart., of Closeburn, Dumfries-shire, to Jane, daughter of Joseph Bailey, esq., M. P., Glanusk Park, Breconshire.

21. In Guernsey, Philip W. S. Miles, esq., M. P., to Pamela Adelaide, fifth daughter of Major-General William F. P. Napier.

22. At Pilton Church, Devon, R. J. Hayne, esq., B. A., of Exeter College, Oxford, eldest son of the Rev. Dr. Hayne,

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Incumbent of Pilton, and Rural Dean, to
Georgiana, youngest daughter of William
Austin White, esq., of Gorwell House,
near Barnstaple.

23. At Edinburgh, George Hair Newall, esq., of Dundee, to Eliza Syme, youngest daughter of Dr. Richard Huie, Edinburgh.

29. At Mansfield, Woodhouse, Notts, Robert Gill, esq., to Fanny Susannah, second daughter of the late Colonel Need, of Sherwood Hall, in the same county.

31. At St. Pancras Church, Charles Reynolds Williams, esq., of Lincoln's Inn Fields, second son of the late LieutenantColonel Monier Williams, SurveyorGeneral of the Presidency of Bombay, to Margaret Marshall, only daughter of John Romer, esq., of Cambridge-terrace, Regent's park, formerly Member of Council of the same Presidency.

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JUNE.

12. At Hartburn, Northumberland, aged 66, the Rev. John Hodgson, Vicar of that parish, Vice-President of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle; a gentleman of great antiquarian erudition, and an indefatigable collector of all documents and reliques connected with the northern counties. He was the author of many archæological treatises, and published part of a very minute and elaborate history of the county of Northumberland.

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13. At Brighton, aged 75, Sir Charles Rowley, Bart. Admiral of the White, G. C.B., G. C.H., K. M.T. This officer was the fourth son of Vice-Admiral Sir Joshua Rowley, Bart., by Sarah, daughter of Bartholomew Burton, esq., of Petersham, Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England; and a grandson of Sir William Rowley, K.B. Admiral of the Fleet, Vice-Admiral of England, and a Lord of the Admiralty. He, Mr. Rowley, was made a Lieutenant in 1789, and was appointed acting Captain of the Hussar frigate in the summer of 1794.

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sequently commanded the Lynx sloop, and captured numerous French merchant vessels, on the North American station. In March, 1796, being then acting Captain of the Cleopatra frigate, he captured

l'Aurore, a French privateer of ten guns. He attained post rank in 1795. When commanding l'Unité 36, he displayed great firmness during the general mutiny in 1797. He subsequently captured the French 18-gun corvette Découverte, the brig-privateer Brunette, of ten guns and eighty men, and several other armed vessels, on the Channel station. Captain Rowley left l'Unité, in consequence of bursting a blood-vessel; but after the lapse of a few months he was appointed to the Prince George 98, the flag-ship of his brother-in-law the late Admiral Sir Charles Cotton, Bart. In the spring of 1801 he was removed into the Boadicea frigate, and entrusted with the command of a light squadron employed in Quiberon Bay, where he greatly molested the enemy. In 1804 Capt. Rowley commanded the Ruby 64, successively employed in the North Sea and off Cadiz. Subsequently to his return from thence, he was stationed off the Scheldt, and, in Nov. 1805, was appointed to the Eagle 74, destined to the Mediterranean, which ship he joined at Spithead. She formed part of the squadron under Sir W. Sidney Smith, employed in disarming the coasts of Naples and Calabria in the summer of 1806. On the 11th May that year Capt. Rowley conducted the attack at the capture of the island of Capri; and he was afterwards severely injured by a shell, while employed on shore in the defence of Gaieta. The Eagle was attached to the grand armament sent against Antwerp in 1809; and part of her officers and crew were employed in the defence of Fort Matagorda, near Cadiz, in April, 1810. In Nov. 1811 she captured the French frigate Corceyre, pierced for 40 guns, and mounting 28. At this period Captain Rowley was senior officer in the Adriatic. conduct at the capture of Fiume, July 3, 1813, was much distinguished; and he afterwards bore a conspicuous part in the operations against Trieste. He continued to serve in the Adriatic until the allies were masters of that sea. In April 1814 he attended Louis XVIII. from England to France. He was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral on the 4th June, 1814; and was nominated a Knight Commander of the Bath, Jan. 2, 1815; and in the same year received the order of Maria Theresa from the Emperor of Austria. Towards the close of the latter year he was appointed to the chief command in the river Medway. Sir Charles Rowley's next appointment was, in the autumn of

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1820, to be Commander-in-chief on the Jamaica station, then much infested with pirates. Immediately on those desperadoes attempting to insult the flag of Great Britain, this active officer took such effectual steps that many vessels were captured and destroyed by the cruisers under his orders. Of the survivors of their lawless crews, about thirty were sentenced to death, and executed at Port Royal. He returned home with his flag on board the Sybille 44, in May 1823; and was promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral in May 1825. Sir Charles Rowley was nominated a Groom of the Bed Chamber to King William IV. Nov. 23, 1832; and appointed one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, in Dec. 1834, which he continued to be until the following April. He was created a Baronet in 1836; and a good-service pension of 3001. was conferred upon him by the Admiralty, Sept. 1, 1837. He attained the full rank of Admiral, Nov. 23, 1841. On the 26th Dec. 1842, he was appointed to the chief command at Portsmouth; but was compelled to resign from debility. Sir Charles married in 1797 Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Adm. Sir Richard King, Bart., and by that lady, who died Jan. 11, 1838, had issue.

18. Aged 97, Jacques Dominic Cassini, Count Cassini, a distinguished astronomer. From 1671 to 1793, that is, from the foundation of the Paris Observatory till the period of the Revolution, it was occupied by the four Cassinis in succession. The last of these, the Count Cassini, the subject of this memoir, was for some years director of the Observatory, member of the Academy of Sciences, and subsequently of the Institute. In 1789 he made a present to the National Assembly of the great map of France, in order to facilitate the operation of dividing it into departments, in doing which he assisted. He was, however, driven out of office by the National Convention, at the time when he was pressing upon them the re-construction of the Observatory and the introduction of modern instruments. In 1804 the imperial government gave him the cross of the legion of honour; and when the Institute was converted into the Royal Academy, he was named a member, in 1816. Count Cassini was the author of some scientific treatises, as had been his ancestral predecessors. In the recent annual report of the Astronomical Society of London the following notice is taken of the death of this hereditary philosopher,

"Though the Count had retired from the pursuit of astronomy long before the formation of the Astronomical Society, and was not, therefore, one of our associates, it is, nevertheless, impossible to pass over in silence the extinction of this ancient hereditary race of astronomers. Though such an hereditary dynasty was not found very favourable to the interests of astronomy, as tending to perpetuate the ideas and methods of its founder in lieu of introducing acknowledged improvements from time to time, family groups of distinguished philosophers must always be objects of peculiar interest to the historical inquirer. Community of name and blood magnifies even the aggregate amounts of the successes of the Cassinis, the Bernouillis, the Lemonniers, the Maraldis, the Lalandes, and the Herschels."

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31. Of wounds received at Ferozeshah, Colonel James Maclaren, of the 16th Grenadier Bengal N. Inf. He was nominated Aide-de-camp to the Queen, with the rank of Colonel in the Gazette (since his death) of the 3d April.

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2. At Cowley House, Exeter, aged 80, Mary-Anne, relict of Joseph Wells, D. D.

3. At Mattishall, aged 98, Anne, relict of the Rev. Thomas Bodham, M. A. She was daughter of the Rev. Roger Donne, of Catfield, and first cousin of William Cowper, the poet.

5. At Monkrigg, near Haddington, aged 46, the Hon. William Keith, Captain R.N., uncle of the Earl of Kintore.

6. At Lamberton Park, Maryborough, aged 82, the Right Hon. Arthur Moore, late a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland. He was appointed Third Serjeant 1801, First Serjeant 1805, a Judge of the Common Pleas July 1816, and resigned in Feb. 1839.

7. At his residence at the Pieta, Malta, in his 77th year, the Right Hon. Johu Hookham Frere, M. A., Formerly Ambassador in Spain. Mr. Frere was born May 21, 1769, the eldest son of John Frere, esq., of Roydon Hall, Norfolk, M. P. for Norwich, F. R. S. and F. S. A. (who died in 1807) by Jane, only child of John Hookham, esq. of Old Broad Street, London, and Beddington, Surrey. Mr. Frere was educated at Eton,

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having for his schoolfellows Canning and many other noble youths after highly distinguished in literature and statesmanship. These youthful writers published a magazine called the "Microcosm," which contains many papers giving promise of eminence which was afterwards well realized; amongst them the essays and translations of young Frere are not the least remarkable. Mr. Frere became a member of Caius College, Cambridge, and having taken his degree was returned to Parliament in 1796, for West Looe. In 1799 he succeeded Mr. Canning as under secretary for Foreign Affairs. In 1800 he was appointed envoy extraordinary to the Portuguese Court, and transferred to Madrid in 1802. Having continued at Madrid two years, he returned home, and was made a Privy Councillor as an acknowledgment of his services. In 1807 he was sent ambassador to Prussia; and in 1808 was again sent to Madrid. At this time the national insurrection of the Spaniards against the French had broken out; Mr. Frere, an enthusiast in the ancient deeds of the Spaniards and thoroughly detesting the invaders, entered into the Spanish cause with an enthusiasm which blinded him to all their errors and weaknesses, and had nearly led to fatal consequences. It was by his representations that the British Government were induced to enter into the war of the Peninsula, and by his earnest entreaties it was that Sir John Moore and his gallant army were so nearly ensnared and destroyed. Mr. Frere's conduct, which was unquestionably upright and sincere, has given rise to much comment; and, upon the appointment of Sir Arthur Wellesley to the command of the English forces, Mr. Frere was recalled, and succeeded by the Marquess of Wellesley, and does not appear to have subsequently occupied any distinguished post. Mr. Frere is now better known as a man of high literary acquirements and brilliant conversation, than as a statesman; and his writings retain a great charm of wit and novelty, although for the most part fugitive and scattered. He was one of the chief contributors to the witty poetry of the AntiJacobin Review, and of many quizzing and satirical essays which were highly valued. His chief work, however, was his specimen of "An Intended National Work, by William and Robert Whistlecraft, of Stow Market, in Suffolk, Hemp and Collar Makers, intended to comprise the most interesting particulars relating to

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King Arthur and his Round Table." This whimsical and charming fragment is a literary curiosity, being the model, as to style, upon which Lord Byron wrote his capital tale of " Beppo," and upon the success of which he proceeded with his Don Juan." Mr. Frere also translated with great spirit "The Birds," "The Knight," and The Acharnians" of Aristophanes, the poems of Theognis and other works; he also gave a spirited translation of "The Cid" from the Spanish, which is published in Southey's "History of the Cid," and which turned the attention of English writers to the stores of romance and history embodied in the ancient poetry of Spain. Mr. Frere married in 1816 Elizabeth Jemima, dowager Countess of Errol, and daughter of Joseph Blake, esq. Mr. Frere died suddenly of apoplexy, to the great regret of a numerous circle of friends, to whomh is talents and noble qualities had justly endeared him, and to the great loss of the poor, to whom his beneficence was unbounded.

8. In Bruton-Street, aged 72, the Right Hon. Granville Leveson-Gower, Earl Granville, Viscount Granville of Stone Park, Staffordshire, and Baron Leveson, of Stone; a Privy Councillor, and G. C. B. Third and youngest son of Granville, first Marquess of Stafford, and the only son by his third marriage, with Lady Susannah Stewart, second daughter of Alexander sixth Earl of Galloway. He was born Oct. 12, 1773. He was first returned to Parliament for Lichfield, in 1795. He resigned his seat for this borough in 1799, in order to stand for the county of Stafford, and continued to sit for that county until created a peer in 1815. Mr. Pitt, the great friend of his father, deeming highly of his abilities, became his political patron, and in 1800 appointed him a Lord of the Treasury; and he retained his seat at the board until Mr. Pitt gave way to Mr. Addington, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, in July 1802. In 1804, Lord Granville LevesonGower was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Court of Russia, at that troubled period when Napoleon was exerting all his skill to reconcile the Emperor Alexander to the territorial conquests the French army had achieved in Prussia and Austria. On this occasion, he was sworn a member of the Privy Council. He returned from Russia in the following year, having concluded the treaty which he was commissioned to effect. His Lordship was sub

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sequently accredited Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Hague, and then sent as Ambassador to France. By patent, dated July 15, 1815, Lord Granville was advanced to the dignity of a Viscount of the United Kingdom. In 1825, he was nominated a Knight Grand Cross of the Bath; and he was invested with the insignia of the Order by the King of France, at the Tuileries, on the 9th of June. On Earl Grey's advent to power as Prime Minister, Lord Granville was again selected to take the post of Ambassador at Paris, and continued to fill that important station at the Court of France until the resignation of Lord Melbourne's Government. By patent dated May 2, 1833, his Lordship received the further titles of Earl Granville, and Baron Leveson of Stone, Staffordshire. Lord Granville married, Dec. 24, 1809, Lady Harriet Elizabeth Cavendish, second daughter of William fifth Duke of Devonshire, K. G.; and by that lady, who survives him, he had issue two daughters and three sons, and is succeeded in the Earldom by his eldest son, the Right Hon. Granville George.

8. At Sundridge, Kent, aged 67, the Rev. George D'Öyly, D.D., Rector of Lambeth and of Sundridge, and F.R.S. This learned and eminent divine was born Oct. 31, 1778, and was the fourth son of the Ven. Matthias D'Oyly, Archdeacon of Lewes, and Rector of Buxted, Sussex. His grandfather, the Ven.. Thomas D'Oyly, D.C. L., was also Archdeacon of Lewes, and also Chancellor of Chichester and a Prebendary of Ely. The elder brothers of the Rector of Lambeth were the present Mr. Serjeant D'Oyly, Sir John D'Oyly, Resident in Ceylon, created a Baronet in 1821, and Sir Francis D'Oyly, K. C.B., killed at Waterloo; and his younger brother is Major-General Henry D'Oyly, who survives him. Dr. D'Oyly was a fellow of Bene't College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1800, as second Wrangler and second Smith's prizeman, M. A. 1803, B.D. 1811, D.D. 1821. He was appointed in 1810 a Chaplain in Ordinary to George III., in 1811 Christian Advocate on the foundation of Mr. Hulse, and in 1813, one of the examining chaplains to the late Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1815 he was collated by the Archbishop to the vicarage of Herne Hill, in Kent, which he resigned in the same year for the rectory of Buxted, Sussex, vacated by the death of his father; and in 1820 he exchanged that living with Dr. Wordsworth for the

rectories of Lambeth, Surrey, and Sundridge, Kent. Dr. D'Oyly's sphere of public usefulness has been a very extended one. He was connected with all the more important religious societies; and the foundation of King's College, London, an establishment where religious and secular studies are professedly blended, is generally understood to have been the result of suggestions emanating from him. His literary labours have not been unimpor

tant.

He was a frequent contributor on theological subjects to the Quarterly Review, when under the editorship of Mr. Gifford. In 1813 he undertook, in conjunction with the Rev. Richard Mant, the present Bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore, the preparation of an annotated Bible to be published under the sanction of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge. Its publication was first commenced in weekly numbers on the 1st Jan. 1814, and under the well-known title of " D'Oyly and Mant's Bible" it has since passed through many impressions, and has been generally recognised as a standard of episcopal examination. Dr. D'Oyly published several works of reputation. He married Aug. 9, 1831, Maria-Frances, daughter of William Bruere, esq., of Chetwynd, Salop; by whom he had issue.

9. At Stoke, in his 60th year, Captain Thomas Smith, R.N. This gallant officer entered the Navy as a volunteer of the first class in 1798, and served under the late Admiral Sir George Campbell, K. C. B., and others, in her Majesty's ships Dragon, Cameleon, Adamant, and Resolution, and saw some service as acting Lieutenant in her Majesty's ships Agincourt and Hound. He was confirmed to the rank of Lieutenant on the 29th Nov. 1808, and served in that rank during the war on board her Majesty's ships Nymphen, Blake, Briseis, Venerable, and Bulwark. He was employed, in October, 1804, in the night attack on the Boulogne flotilla, commonly called the catamaran expedition, in the division of boats under Captain V. Collard. During the remainder of the war he was constantly engaged in active service in various parts of the world. In 1824 he was appointed senior Lieutenant of her Majesty's ship Genoa, and took part in that vessel in the battle of Navarino, being the senior Lieutenant of the whole squadron. After the battle of Navarino he was promoted to the rank of Commander, and received post rank on the 23d Nov. 1841.

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