row, who at that time respectively held the offices of Attorney and Solicitor-General. Although he received every possible encouragement from Lord Eldon in the Court of Chancery, yet as regarded the matter of legal patronage he seemed always to consider himself grievously neglected, and apparently in a fit of desperation he resolved to seize one great occasion of proving to the profession and to the world that his intellectual stature towered far above that of him who then held the position of chief advocate to the King. In the year 1817, Watson, Preston, Thistlewood and others, were indicted for the Spa-fields riots, which took place in the latter end of the preceding year. Mr. Wetherell undertook the defence of Watson; Mr. Serjeant Copley, now Lord Lyndhurst, appeared for Thistlewood; and Mr. Holt, afterwards Vice-Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, for two of the other prisoners. In the defence of these men Mr. Wetherell was, therefore, the leading counsel; and very elaborate excuses have been put forth to palliate the apparent inconsistency of a strong Tory becoming the advocate of Radicals-that he, the Lord Chancellor's friend, should fiercely assail the Government, seemed to some men an offence that required an ample apology: but the public ought to have known that every Englishman has an indefeasible right to the services of any practising barrister, at the same time it must be admitted that Mr. Wetherell was no reluctant advocate. This short excursion of his into a court of criminal jurisdiction was perfectly voluntary, and in taking that step he seems to have been influenced by mixed motives. He regarded with feelings of generous indignation the system of espionage by which that memorable prosecution was supported. He resolved to eclipse the Crown lawyers, to baffle the Home Secretary, to resist the Chief Justice, and to rebuke the Prime Minister, who occupied a seat on the bench throughout the whole trial. These objects he accomplished, but he did not succeed in then acquiring the confidence of the Administration, and he was still obliged to pursue the routine of his pro fessional labours without being able to alarm or to conciliate the Government of the day. It was in vain, however, that the Government continued to withhold its patronage from such a man as Mr. Wetherell; his professional fame was not dependent on Court favour. In suits affecting corporation rights; in weighty causes

which demanded varied knowledge, blackletter reading, or much grasp of intellect, he was most frequently retained; and not only the Court of Chancery, but the business of Parliamentary committees, the Privy Council, and the House of Lords bore ample testimony to the qualifications which gave him an elevated rank in the profession of the law. Still he was unpromoted and even unplaced. He wanted to be the King's Attorney-General, and finally the Keeper of his Majesty's Conscience; yet he was four-and-twenty years at the bar before he adopted the usual method of accomplishing those objects. For the first time he obtained in 1818 a seat in Parliament as member for the borough of Shaftesbury: but he never acquired any great influence with the House. The Liberals sneered at his extreme Toryism; neither was his political creed very palatable to his own party, whose doctrines of government were gradually giving way under the enlarged views and bold leadership of Mr. Canning. Mr. Wetherell was, therefore, treated by both sides of the House as a whimsical pedant rather than a formidable debater; his slovenly attire, uncooth gestures, patchwork phraseology, fanciful illustrations, odd theories, recondite allusions, and oldfashioned jokes, tempted men to call him a buffoon when they ought to have admired his ingenuity, reverenced his learning, and honoured his consistency. During the first Parliament of the reign of George IV., namely, from 1820 to 1826, Sir Charles Wetherell represented the city of Oxford; subsequently he sat for Plympton until 1830, when he was elected for Boroughbridge, which was disfranchised by the Reform Act. Upon the consummation of that great event he ceased to be a legislator. The principal subjects upon which Sir Charles exercised his talents as a debater, were the Reform in Chancery, the Emancipation of the Roman Catholics, Reform in Parliament, in the Church, in Universities, or in Municipal Corporations. Upon these subjects he was a strenuous and uncompromising supporter of the existing state of things. The natural and just ambition entertained by the subject of this memoir to become a law-officer of the Crown was gratified on the 31st Jan. 1824, when he received the appointment of Solicitor-General, together with the honour of knighthood, and in 1826 he succeeded to the Attor

ney-Generalship, an office which he did not retain longer than the 30th of April

in the following year, when Lord Liverpool ceased to be prime minister, and was succeeded by Mr. Canning. Upon the accession to office of this celebrated statesman, a very large majority of those who had served under Lord Liverpool threw up office, and amongst that number was Sir Charles Wetherell, who by so doing lost his chance of becoming ViceChancellor of England, upon the promotion which followed the accession of Lord Lyndhurst to the Woolsack. A few months, however, sufficed to bring the Tories again into power, under the Duke of Wellington; and Sir Charles Wetherell, for the second time, became Attorney-General in Jan. 1828. The second Attorney-Generalship of Sir Charles Wetherell ended, after a duration of fifteen months, in May. At that juncture the Duke of Wellington, then at the head of the Government, prevailed on his parliamentary adherents and his royal master to concur with him in thinking that the penal laws which affected the Roman Catholics must be repealed; Sir Charles Wetherell, however, was an exception to the general rule-he was im movable; he would have nothing to do with "the scarlet individual whose scat is on the seven hills;" and, having declined to assist in preparing the Roman Catholic Relief Bill, he gave in his resignation, and never again held any ministerial office. In the course of the tedious debates on the Reform Bill, no one spoke more than Sir Charles Wetherell; often, indeed, to no good purpose, but as often to such purpose as to force applause from his opponents, and, on some occasions, even to induce ministers to adopt his suggestions. His jokes were sometimes in bad taste, his sarcasm was too keen, his speeches were too long, and too many, but his vote told only as one vote. He could delay, but he could not defeat the measure. Although the course which he took exposed him to the effects of extreme unpopularity, yet every one admired the learning, talent, enthusiasm, and even good humour and drollery, with which he took his part in the debates. It was quite true that the collective wisdom of the nation often laughed with Sir Charles, but they sometimes laughed at him; his manner was odd and whimsical, and his "words of learned length and thundering sound" conveyed sentiments which the young reformers of the age were supposed to regard as antiquated and absurd. To the latest moment, however, his indomitable

zeal knew no abatement.

Even at the close of the final observations which he addressed to the old Parliament, his inexhaustible humour did not desert him, and he sat down exclaiming, This is the last dying speech and confession of the member for Boroughbridge." The strenuous opposition offered by Sir Charles to this measure gave rise to a memorable catastrophe. He had long held a judicial office, to which he had been elected by a municipal corporation-that of Recorder of Bristol. His able, strenuous, and persevering opposition to the ministry of Lord Grey, and especially to the great measure of Parliamentary reform, had rendered him exceedingly unpopular, and when the period approached for holding the October Sessions of 1831 in Bristol it was intimated to Sir Charles that if he then visited that city in the usual manner his presence might be the signal for a very strong expression of popular feeling, if not for actual disturbance and riot. Unwilling to shrink from the discharge of a public duty, but careful at the same time not to take any step likely to interrupt the peace of a community with which he was so closely connected, he consulted Lord Melbourne, then Home Secretary. With the full sanction of that Minister, and after much deliberation, he resolved to proceed to Bristol, and the sessions were opened with the usual procession and other formalities according to immemorial usage. When Sir Charles entered the city his carriage was surrounded by an infuriated multitude. He, and the other corporate authorities, were hooted, were pelted with stones; and it was with the utmost difficulty that they were protected from the murderous rage of their assailants, who pursued them first to the court, in which the sessions were to be opened, and subsequently to the Mansion House. In the course of the following day and night, riots ensued, of a character unparalleled since those of which Lord George Gordon was the leader. It was not without great difficulty that the Recorder escaped with his life, but the city was in the possession of the rioters, many houses were sacked and burnt, and many lives lost. The firmness of Sir Charles was not shaken by these events; he retained his office and continued to fulfil its duties until his death. In 1830 he was appointed counsel to the University of Oxford, on Mr. Serjeant Bosanquet's becoming a Judge of the Common Pleas. He was created an honorary D.C.L. at the installation of the

His dignities of the kingdom of Ireland have devolved on his only surviving brother, Vice-Admiral Lord James O'Brien, G. C. H.

At Elcott House, aged 83, Lady Elizabeth Shelley, relict of Sir Timothy Shelley, Bart., of Field-place, Sussex, mother of the late Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet.

At Stamford villas, Fulham-road, in his 62d year, Alfred John Kempe, esq., F. S. A. Mr. Kempe was the only son of John Kempe, esq., of his Majesty's Mint, and brother of Mrs. Anna Eliza Bray, formerly Mrs. Charles Stothard, whose historical novels have imparted a wide celebrity to her name. Mr. Kempe was greatly esteemed for his antiquarian researches, of which he contributed to the "Archæologia," and to the "Gentleman's Magazine," many very interesting memoirs. He edited in 1836 the valuable collection of papers called "The Loseley Manuscripts," and contributed the letterpress to his brother-in-law's beautiful work the "Monumental Effigies."

In Mornington-place, Hampsteadroad, aged 51, Mr. Alfred Freebairn, engraver.

23. At Barton Hall, aged 69, Jane, widow of Sir Thomas Preston, Bart., of Beeston Hall.

24. At Llantillo Crossenw, Frances Elizabeth, daughter of the late Richard Lewis, esq., of the same place, and widow of Mr. Serjeant Taddy, Ancient Serjeant and Attorney-General to the Queen Dowager.

At Lausanne, the Right Rev. Michael Henry Thornhill Luscombe, LL.D., a Bishop of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, and Chaplain to the British Embassy at Paris. This amiable and respected prelate was the son of a physician at Exeter; receiving his early education at the free grammar school there, he proceeded to the University of Cambridge, becoming a member of Catharine Hall. On being ordained, he accepted the curacy of Clewer, near Windsor, and in 1806 was appointed Master of the East India College School, in Hertfordshire, which institution he conducted for some years with ability and success, at the same time officiating as Curate of St. Andrew's, Hertford. Owing to difficulties as to standing, Mr. Luscombe took the degree of Doctor of Civil Law at Oxford. While at Hertford he exerted himself earnestly in promoting the several religious and educational institutions

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in the town, and was unremitting in his zeal in urging the necessity and vital importance of ever uniting the National Religion with National Education. Luscombe resigned his school and curacy in 1819, and retired to the continent with his family, and settled at Caen, and subsequently at Paris. In 1824 he returned to this country; and in the following year, with the sanction of Mr. Canning, then Secretary of State, was consecrated a Bishop of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, with a view to render himself more useful on the continent by administering the rite of confirmation, and other offices of the Church, from the want of which the French Protestants had long felt great inconvenience. In the subsequent year Bishop Luscombe was appointed by Mr. Canning chaplain to the Embassy at Paris, which he held to the time of his death. While in the discharge of his duties in this situation, his earnest endeavours in the cause of Protestantism never flagged. By his unwearied exertions he accomplished an object which he had long had much at heart, and in April 1833 the Bishop had the satisfaction of laying the foundation stone of the first Episcopal Church ever built in Paris, in the ground bought for that purpose in the rue d'Aguesseau, Faubourg St. Honoré. Bishop Luscombe's mind was endowed with many intellectual accomplishments; his manners of great suavity and urbanity. Besides some smaller publications and several single sermons, the Bishop published, in 1825, a volume of Sermons translated from the French by Protestant Divines on the Continent; and about the same time the "Pleasures of Society, a Poem," 8vo. This poem contains many striking passages of great pathos and simplicity. He was also the first projector of theChristian Remembrancer," and a frequent contributor to its pages. Bishop Luscombe married Miss Harmood, only daughter of Henry Harmood, esq., a Commissioner of the Navy, by whom he has left an only surviving daughter.

25. At Cheltenham, in his 30th year, Sir Justinian Vere Isham, the 9th Bart., of Lamport, Northamptonshire (1627). He was the elder son of the late Sir Justinian Isham, who died on the 26th March, 1845, by Mary, daughter of the Rev. S. Close, of Elm Park, county Armagh.

being the younger brother of Mr. Peter Stuart, who started the first daily evening paper, the Star, in 1788, in consequence of the increased facilities of communication then lately commenced by the adoption of Palmer's mail-coach system. The same gentleman in 1795 purchased for 801. the copyright of the Oracle newspaper, then selling 800 daily; and Mr. Daniel Stuart soon after joined with his brother in purchasing the Morning Post, the circulation being then only 350 per diem, for 600l. By the spring of 1797. Mr. Stuart had raised the number sold of the Morning Post to 1000 a day. The Morning Herald and the Times had been the leading papers; they were then much neglected, and the Morning Post, by vigilance and activity, now threw them both into the background. It took a strong part against Buonaparte during the Peace of Amiens,-a popular course, and which materially contributed to its success. Mr. Stuart also effected an increase in the sale by the purchase of two morning papers, the Gazetteer and the Telegraph. By these means, the Morning Post became a journal of considerable influence and circulation. Mr. Stuart afterwards became part-proprietor of the Courier. In this paper he also gave a qualified support to the Government, when Mr. Pitt had returned to power, and after Mr. Pitt's death. From that time, indeed, the Courier was considered a ministerial paper, and by degrees even an organ of government. From these successful undertakings, Mr. Stuart retired into private life with an ample fortune.

26. At Old Warden, aged 36, the Hon. Frederick Henley Ongley, fourth surviving son of the late, and brother of the present, Lord Ongley.

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27. At Holyrood House, Edinburgh, aged 73, the Right Hon. Thomas Lyon Bowes, Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorn, Viscount Lyon, Lord Glamis, Tannadyce, Sydlaw, and Stradichtie. Lordship was born May 3, 1773, the third and youngest son of John Bowes, the ninth Earl, by Mary Eleanor, only daughter and heir of George Bowes, esq., of Gibside, county Durham. In the year 1810 he served the office of High Sheriff of the county of Leicester. He succeeded to the peerage July 3, 1820, on the death of his brother John, the tenth Earl. His Lordship was three times married his eldest son, Viscount Glamis, died in 1834, leaving two sons, of whom the eldest succeeds to the title.

30. At Blackadder, aged 90, Sir Robert Preston, Bart., of Valley-field, Perthshire, and Lutton, Somerset, and of Sydney-place, Bath.

SEPTEMBER.

1. Aged 48, Mr. G. Wynn, comedian, once a favourite actor. The loss of his left hand some years since, by the bursting of a gun which he discharged at some persons he supposed to be breaking into his house, caused his partial retirement from the profession.

2. At Bockhold (Prussian Westphalia), His Highness Prince Florentin William, reigning Prince of Salm-Salm.

5. On board his yacht the Kestrel, at Vigo, on the coast of Portugal, aged 65, the Right Hon. Charles Anderson Pelham, Earl of Yarborough, and Baron Worsley of Apuldercombe in the Isle of Wight (1837), second Baron Yarborough, of Yarborough, Lincolnshire (1794), ViceAdmiral of the coast of the Isle of Wight and county of Southampton, D. C.L., F. R. S., and F.S. A. His Lordship was born Aug. 8, 1781, the elder son of Charles, first Lord Yarborough, by Sophia, only daughter and heir of George Aufrere, esq., of Chelsea, and received his education at Trinity College, Cambridge. For many years he was one of the members for Lincolnshire, which his father had previously represented, being first returned in 1807, on the Whig interest. In 1818 a second Whig candidate was proposed, but the old members were returned. Mr. Pelham succeeded to the peerage on the death of his father, Sept. 23, 1823, and was raised to the dignity of an Earl on the 24th Jan. 1837, by Viscount Melbourne's administration, having been always an ardent supporter of Whig principles. He did not, however, give way to the views of his party on the Corn Laws. He was also Vice-Admiral of the coast of the Isle of Wight and county of Southampton, and formerly Recorder of Grimsby and Newport. His Lordship was, however, best known as Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron, which command he had held for a long series of years, during which the members of the squadron have had repeated instances of his zealous superintendence, as well as of his princely hospitality. The Earl of Yarborough married Aug.11. 1806, Henrietta Anne Maria Charlotte, second daughter of the Hon. John Bridgman Simpson (uncle to the present Earl of Bradford), and sole heir