of the force under his command were particularly noticed by the Duke of Wellington in his last despatch from Toulouse. Sir William commanded the small force sent to Portugal in 1828, and subsequently held the appointment of Surveyor-General of the Ordnance. On the 25th of April 1814, he was appointed to the Colonelcy of the 55th Regiment; in January 1815, a Knight Grand Cross of the Bath; and the 17th of April 1842, LieutenantGovernor of Chelsea Hospital. In 1826 Sir William was returned to parliament as representative for the borough of Newark, for which place he continued to sit until 1829. Sir William Clinton married, March 14th, 1797, Lady Louisa Dorothea Holroyd, second daughter of John Baker, first Earl of Sheffield, and by that lady, who survives him, he had issue two sons and four daughters.

16. At Fintray House, Aberdeenshire, aged 60, Sir John Forbes, the sixth Baronet, of Craigievar, in the same county. He was born July 2, 1785, the eldest son of Sir William, the fifth Baronet, by the Hon. Sarah Sempill, eldest daughter of John, 12th Lord Sempill. In 1804 he entered the civil service of the Hon. East India Company, and he eventually attained a high judicial appointment in the Madras Presidency. After a residence of nearly twenty years in India, he returned to his native country, having succeeded to the family titles and estates on the death of his brother, the late Sir Arthur Forbes. Sir John married, September 15, 1825, the Hon. Charlotte Elizabeth Forbes, third daughter of James Ochoncar, 17th Lord Forbes, and by that lady had issue two sons and five daughters.

22. On board her Majesty's ship Herald, in the Pacific, aged 23, Mr. Edmonstone, botanist to the expedition. A loaded rifle being accidentally touched by one of the men, it went off and the bullet passed through his head, killing him instantly.

23. At Cheam, the Rev. Charles Mayo, D.C. L., formerly Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford. Dr. Mayo spent some years in the establishment of Pestalozzi, in Switzerland, with the view of acquiring a perfect knowledge of the system of education introduced by that eminent philanthropist, and on his return to England opened a similar establishment, which he conducted for many years with great suc

cess.

28. At Ford Abbey, Devonshire, aged 84, John Fraunceis Gwyn, esq. Mr. Gwyn was the representative of the very

ancient Devonshire family of Fraunceis, being the son and heir of John Fraunceis, esq., of Combe Florey, Somersetshire, who assumed, in 1780, the additional surname of Gwyn, having succeeded to the estates of Ford Abbey, and of Llansannwr, Glamorganshire, on the death of his kinsman, Francis Gwyn, esq., and died in 1789. His mother was Jane, daughter of Edward Towell, esq., of Stogumber. Mr. Gwyn was twice married, but, having no issue by either union, his ancient family becomes extinct, and his fine estates pass into the hands of strangers.

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2. At Ferozepore, India, Major-General Sir James R. Lumley, Colonel of the 9th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, and Adjutant-general of the army. J. R. Lumley was the senior officer in the Bengal army in actual employ, having commanded his regiment at the first siege of Bhurtpore upwards of forty years ago; and had just completed his fifty years in India at the time of his death. MajorGeneral Lumley was at the capture of the Isle of France; in the first, second, and third campaigns in Nepaul, in the years 1814, 1815, and 1816; and in 1817 and 1818 he served in the grand army with Lord Hastings. He was also at Maharajpore and Gwalior.

At Baring Crescent, Exeter, aged 78, Daniel Asher Alexander, esq., formerly of London, an architect of considerable eminence. Mr. Alexander's principal public works were-the buildings in the London Docks, until 1831; the Prison of War at Dartmoor; the County Prison at Maidstone (not the Courts); the Royal Naval Asylum at Greenwich; the Lighthouses of Heligoland, Holyhead, Harwich, Lundy, Farne Islands, and others; the Moat, near Maidstone; and many important ameliorations of the old Ferrara-like castellated mansion, Longford Castle, Wilts.; and additions to Beddington House, Surrey, and Combebank, Kent. Among his earliest works was the widening of Rochester Bridge, and forming the two centre arches into one, to give increased waterway and facilities to the navigation a work of great difficulty, and the successful accomplishment of which tended very much to establish his reputation.

4. In Wardrobe-place, Doctors' Commons, London, aged 67, Hugh Murray, esq., F.R. S. Ed., and F.R. G. S. The

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father, and grandfather, and great-grandfather of Mr. Murray were ministers of the parish and town of North Berwick in East Lothian; a living which his ancestors had held uninterruptedly from the period of the Revolution till the death of the last incumbent, his elder brother, in 1824. Mr. Murray evinced a taste for literature at a very early age; his first production being an elegant tale entitled "The Swiss Emigrants." A few years afterwards he enlarged and completed Dr. Leyden's "Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Africa;" his next work was the "Account of Discoveries and Travels in Asia," 1820; and in 1829 appeared his " Discoveries and Travels in America," in two vols. 8vo. These productions display very considerable research, are written in a lively elegant style, and acquired for their author, at the time, a liberal share of popularity Murray now became connected with the periodical press, to which he was an indefatigable contributor. Along with his more important labours, Mr. Murray had some connexion with the newspaper press, and was for a time editor of the Scots Magazine, published by the late Mr. Archibald Constable, who was at that time the great Mæcenas of Scottish literature. He also contributed to the Edinburgh Gazetteer; but it was his connexion with the magazine that procured for him a place in the celebrated Chaldee Manuscript, among the other rival heroes lampooned in that extraordinary satire. His great work, however, and that on which his fame will chiefly rest, was his " Encyclopædia of Geography," which appeared in 1834. It was a stupendous monument of reading, industry, and research. During the latter years of his life, he was a frequent contributor to the Edinburgh Cabinet Library," among the most interesting volumes of which are his His tory of British India," his "Account of China," of "British America," of the "United States." For the same publication he wrote the historical part of the "Polar Seas and Regions," the descriptive account of" Africa," and an enlarged edition of the "Travels of Marco Polo."

Captain (afterwards Sir John) Beresford, in the action off the Chesapeake, when two English sail beat off a squadron of six of the enemy's ships. In 1800 he was promoted to the rank of Commander, and posted September 25, 1806. He subsequently served as flag-Captain to RearAdmiral the Hon. Michael de Courcy, on the South-American station, where he was in command of the Foudroyant at the period of the arrival of the Royal Family in the Brazils. Rear-Admiral Hancock obtained his flag-rank at the last general promotion made in honour of the birth of the Prince of Wales, in November 1841.

11. At Greenwich Hospital, aged 70, John Clavell, esq., the senior Captain on the list of the Royal Navy. He was midshipman of the Victory, at Toulon, in 1793, and served on shore under Nelson at the siege and taking of Bastia and Calvi, in 1795; in Hotham's second action, in July of that year; and in the action off Cape St. Vincent, in February 1797. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in July 1797, and was senior of the Royal Sovereign, the flag-ship of Lord Collingwood, who spoke of him, in a letter to Lord Nelson, as "indeed my right arm, and the spirit that puts every thing in motion." He was wounded at the battle of Trafalgar, and was promoted to the rank of Commander, his commission bearing date the day after the battle. He subsequently commanded the Weazel brig, in which ship he engaged for several hours, and captured, a Spanish privateer pierced for 20 guns. He also took part in numerous actions in the Adriatic, and on one occasion was again wounded. He was promoted to the rank of Captain, February 4, 1808. He was appointed, in 1837, to the superintendentship of Chatham Dockyard, and, on the expiration of his term of service there, was appointed to Greenwich Hospital. Captain Clavell received a pecuniary reward from the Patriotic Fund for his services.

In London, General David Hunter, of Burnside, North Britain. He was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Angus fencibles 1794, Colonel in the army 1802, Major-General 1809, Lieutenant-General 1814, and General 1837.

15. At the residence of Lord Methuen, in Park-street, aged 58, the Right Hon. Jane Dorothea, Lady Methuen, eldest daughter of Sir Henry Paulet St. John Mildmay, Bart., by Jane, eldest daughter and coheiress of Carew Mildmay, esq., and was elder sister of the late Viscountess

became one of the greatest favourites that ever appeared upon those boards. He had not, however, been long a performer in Kemble's company when he discovered that he had totally mistaken his powers; he essayed a comic cast of characters, and so fully succeeded in the attempt, that he thenceforth began to devote himself peculiarly to the performance of low comedy. He acted old men and country boys with great applause in Newcastle and other towns which lay within the circuit of that manager, and evinced powers of very whimsical and original humour. Mr. Charles Kemble, happening to travel into the north, was struck with his merit, and very warmly recommended him to Mr. Colman, and he accordingly made his bow to a London audience at the Haymarket, in the summer season of 1805, in the character of Zekiel Homespun. His efforts were crowned with the highest success, and a long list of subsequent performances ratified and increased his favour with the public. He was immediately secured by Mr. Harris, for CoventGarden theatre, at which house he appeared on the 15th of October, in the same year, as Jacob Gawkey, in "The Chapter of Accidents." He continued to perform there without intermission until 1823; when, the theatre having fallen into the hands of new proprietors, he accepted from Elliston the liberal offer of 401. a week, and removed to Drury-lane, where he remained till October, 1831, when Madame Vestris engaged him for the little Olympic theatre, at the enormous salary of 1007. per week. At this theatre he continued six seasons. Indeed, with the exception of a few nights at Covent Garden afterwards, he there closed his theatrical career, without taking a formal farewell of the public, alleging as his excuse that he was unequal to the painful task of bidding a public adieu to his friends. During the season of " Paul Pry" at the Haymarket theatre, Morris, the proprietor, cleared 70007., Liston receiving 607. per week. For many years, in the provinces, when starring for a few nights, his attraction was so great, that he has received from 250l. to 350l. as his share of the receipts in one week, in the towns of Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, &c., and, being a careful and prudent man, died in possession of considerable wealth. As a performer of comic characters, his place will perhaps never be adequately supplied. To a rich fund of natural humour he added the care, dis

crimination, and perception of the finished artist; hence he never was merely droll, but so moulded and adapted his powers of humour as to make them perfectly characteristic of the part he played. In private life Mr. Liston's habits were domestic, and he possessed the respect of all who knew him. He married on the 23rd of March, 1807, Miss Tyrer, of Covent-Garden theatre, who was a pupil of Mrs. Crouch, a lady whose merits both in dialogue and song are well remembered, though in figure nearly a dwarf. Mr. Liston's last appearance before the public was at Covent-Garden theatre, for the benefit of Mr. George Rodwell, the composer, who married Emma Liston, his only daughter. He has also left a son, an officer in the army.

23. In Hill-street, aged 32, the Hon. William Nicholas Ridley Colborne, M. P. for Richmond, only son of Lord Col borne.

At Davybulme, near Manchester, in his 77th year, Mr. Charles Ewart, a distinguished Waterloo veteran. He was born at Kilmarnock, and enlisted in the Scots Greys in 1779. He served with that regiment in the Low Country Campaigns, under the Duke of York, in 1793-94, and shared in all the victories and defeats which the allied arms experienced. With the exception of a small portion of the Greys, who took part in the Peninsular war, the regiment was not again abroad until 1815, when it was called, along with the household troops, to meet the enemy at Waterloo. Upon that ever-memorable field, the Greys, who, with the First Royals and Enniskillens, formed Ponsonby's cavalry brigade, performed a distinguished part. Two standards were taken by the brigade-one by the First Royals, and the other by the Greys-the gallant captor of the latter being Serjeant Ewart. The eagle belonged to the 45th Regiment of Invincibles, and was superbly gilt and ornamented with gold fringe. It was inscribed with the names of the following battles: Jena, Austerlitz, Wagram, Eylau, Friedland, &c. The capture was made in the first charge of the brigade, when two columus of French infantry, 5000 strong each, were broken, and about 2000 men taken prisoners. Ewart had a severe contest for his prize, having successively cut down