DEATHS.-Dec. he received five musket-balls in different parts of his dress), and in front of Pam peluna. He was also present at the battles of the Nivelle in the same year. In 1814 he continued on the staff of Sir Lowry Cole, who had been appointed to the command of the Northern District. He remained on the staff from 1815 to 1818 with the army of occupation, and on its return to England he joined his regiment in Ireland. In 1823 he proceeded with Sir Lowry Cole to the Isle of France as Military Secretary. In 1828 he went to the Cape of Good Hope in the same capacity. In 1832 he was appointed Deputy Adjutant-General on that station; and in 1833, on the departure of Sir Lowry Cole, he was appointed Acting Governor of that colony until the arrival of Sir Benjamin D'Urban, in 1834, when he resumed his duties as Deputy Adjutant-General. On his return to England in 1835, he was appointed an Assistant Poor Law Commissioner; which office he held until November, 1841, when he was appointed Deputy Adjutant-General to the Forces in Ireland until 1844, when he retired from the army, and again was appointed Assistant Poor Law Commissioner, the Welsh district being placed under his superintendence. 4. Mrs. Hood, widow of Thomas Hood, the celebrated humorist and poet. In Fitzroy-street, aged 80, Lady Caroline Drummond. She was the only daughter of the Right Hon. Kenneth Mackenzie, Earl of Seaforth, and was married to Peter Lewis Francis Malcolm Drummond, styled Count Melfort. At Allerton Park, Yorkshire, aged 70, the Right Hon. William Stourton, 17th Baron Stourton, of Stourton, Wiltshire (1448). His Lordship was born June 6, 1776, the eldest son of Charles Philip, 16th Lord Stourton, by the Hon. Mary Langdale, second daughter and coheir of Marmaduke, 5th and last Lord Langdale. He succeeded to the peerage on the death of his father, April 29, 1816. Lord Stourton during the greater part of his life was excluded by his religion from any participation in parliamentary affairs, but was an active member of the Roman Catholic party. After the passing of the Emancipation Act, and his consequent admission to Parliament, his Lordship gave his support to the Grey and Melbourne administrations. His Lordship married, in October 1800, Catherine, daughter of Thomas Weld, esq., of Lulworth Castle, Dorset, and sister to his Eminence Car dinal Weld; and by that lady, who survives him, he had issue fourteen children, all of whom but one survive him. 5. At Gresford, Flintshire, aged 76, Charles Cholmondeley, esq., of Overleigh, Cheshire, only brother of Lord Delamere. At Landulph, Cornwall, the Rev. Francis Vyvyan Jago Arundell, M.A., Rector of that parish, the author of "A Visit to the Seven Churches of Asia," &c. Mr. Arundell was the only son of Thomas Jago, esq., a solicitor of extensive practice at Launceston. In the year 1816, obtained the royal permission to assume the name and arms of Arundell, as representing the sole heiress of the elder branch of Arundell of Tolverne. In 1826 he undertook his pilgrimage to the Seven Churches of Asia, a pilgrimage "so endeared to the heart of the Christian, from those churches being coeval with the foundation of his faith." His main object was to compare the present condition of the Seven Churches with the awful prophecies addressed to each in the Apocalypse; and he was also desirous to combine with that object other geogra phical researches, to which he was incited by the observations of Colonel Leake, in his" Journal of a Tour in Asia Minor." The narrative of this expedition, under the title of "A Visit to the Seven Churches of Asia," was published in 1828; it not only excited a wide interest at the time, but has ever since been a work constantly quoted by writers on the early history of the Church. In 1833 Mr. Arundell commenced a second pilgrimage, during which he succeeded in discovering the lake of Anava described by Herodotus, the celebrated cities of Apamea and Sagalassus, and nearly ascertained the site of Colossa. Later in the same season he explored the remains of several other ancient cities, including the magnificent ruins of Apollonia, and those of Antioch in Pisidia, which was the principal object of the journey. These remarks were imparted to the public in his "Discoveries in Asia Minor," published in 1834,-a work which displays profound learning in every point connected with history, language, and antiquity, accompanied by most agreeable sketches of the manners and characteristics of the modern inhabitants. In 1835 Mr. Arundell again visited the East, but the notes of this voyage have not been made public. Whilst Mr. Arundell resided at Smyrna, as well as during his travels, he formed a DEATHS.-DEC. very valuable collection of antiquities, coins, and manuscripts, including some Greek copies of the Gospels. A portion of his coins were purchased some time since by the British Museum. Mr. Arundell had also made an extensive collection of books, manuscripts, coins, &c., &c., relating to the history and antiquities of this country, and particularly rich in those of Cornwall. Adam Anderson, LL.D., Professor of Natural Philosophy, St. Andrew's. Dr. A. was well known in the literary world, having contributed the articles Barometer, Cold, Dying, Fermentation, Evaporation, Hygrometry, Navigation, and Physical Geography, to the "Edinburgh Encyclopædia," and Gas Light to the " Encyclopædia Britannica." At Tredegar House, Monmouthshire, in his 87th year, Sir Charles Morgan, the second Bart. of that place (1782). He was born February 4, 1760, the eldest son of the Right Hon. Sir Charles Gould Morgan, Bart., D. C. L., and M. P. for Breconshire, an eminent civilian, who was created a Baronet in 1782, and in conformity with the testamentary in. junction of his brother-in-law, John Morgan, esq., assumed the name and arms of Morgan. Sir Charles Morgan succeeded to the title in December 1806. He was a most liberal landlord, and had for a long series of years expended a large capital in the improvement of his extensive property in Wales. There was not in the principality such a munificent promoter of the welfare of the agricultural classes. His annual cattle shows at Tredegar have for the last quarter of a century maintained a high character, as he distributed prizes amounting to nearly 5007. in the shape of silver cups and premiums to breeders of live stock; and he has lately erected one of the most extensive cattle markets in the kingdom, at Newport, entirely at his own expense. Last winter the nobility and gentry and the yeomanry of the counties of Brecon and Monmouth raised a subscription to present the worthy Baronet with a testimonial, and we believe a sum little short of 3000l. was subscribed. Sir Charles Morgan married Mary Magdalen, daughter of Captain George Story, R. N., and by that lady, who died in 1807, he had a family of four sons and three daughters. At Southsea, Colonel Richard Swale, second commandant of the Woolwich division of Royal Marines. Colonel Swale entered the corps of the Royal Marines in September 1798, and was forty years in active service. He was appointed to the Diadem, and served with the army in Holland in two general actions in 1799. In the following year he accompanied the expedition to Quiberon Bay, and was at the taking of a fort and two batteries at the Morbihan, and the destruction of a brig of war and other vessels. He was present under Lord Keith at the surrendering of Genoa, at the landing in Egypt, and the actions of the 13th and 21st of March, 1801. For his services in that country he received a medal. In 1802 he was at the shore attack of Porto Ferrajo, and was engaged in several boat actions at the blockade of Boulogne. He was of the Diomede at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope and of the French frigate Voluntaire, in 1806. He landed at Buenos Ayres, entered the city after a short contest in the field, and captured in his retreat with his detachment two brass field-pieces in the face of a superior force of the enemy, and served in the breaching battery before Monte Video, until the place was carried by assault in 1807. In 1810, in the Nemesis, he assisted in the cutting out of two Danish war schooners and the destruction of several of their gun-boats. Colonel Swale had received the appointment of second commandant at Woolwich; but had not been able to join, having been severely injured by the overturning of a stage coach in which he was passenger. At Balgonie Mills, Fifeshire, at the advanced age of 81, Mr. David Booth, long an industrious labourer for the London booksellers. Mr. Booth was born at Kinnettles in Forfarshire, of humble parents, and was entirely self-taught. After occupying himself as a brewer and a schoolmaster, he settled at London as a "literary man." His "Tradesman's Assistant," and a Ready Reckoner," in 8vo, and a volume of "Interest Tables," in 4to, are highly esteemed among the mercantile classes. He was also author of "The Art of Wine-making," "The Art of Brewing," published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and the "Explanation of Scientific Terms," published by the same society, The Principles of English Composition," and "An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language, on a new plan of arrangement;" of the latter, however, only onehalf has been published. Mr. Booth received from Sir Robert Peel a grant of 501. from the Royal Bounty Fund. 66 DEATHS.-DEC. 6. At Whitechurch, Salop, in the 72nd year of her age, Mrs. Elizabeth Turner, author of "The Daisy," The Cowslip," and other juvenile works. At Dublin, aged 86, LieutenantGeneral James Shortall. He served on the Continent, under the Duke of York, in 1794 and the following year. 8. At Boulogne-sur-Mer, Maria, relict of Sir C. E. Nightingale, Bart. At Peckham, Lieutenant-Colonel Fountain Elwin, Knight of the Crescent, on the half-pay of the 44th Foot. He was a very gallant and distinguished officer, and during his active services in the army, from 1798 to 1816, his name was always associated with the brilliant and dashing performances of the old 44th, from which regiment he retired on half-pay in 1816 as Major. Lieutenant-Colonel Elwin served the Egyptian campaign of 1801 with the 44th, including the actions of the 13th and 21st March, together with the detached service on which his battalion was engaged after the Sandhills were taken on the 13th, in driving back a strong picquet of the French and two howitzer guns, which had kept up a destructive fire for some time on the right of the line. For this campaign he received a medal and the Turkish order of the Crescent. He commanded a company in the light battalion under Sir James Kempt, on the expedition to Naples in 1806. In 1813 he landed in Sicily in command of five companies, and accompanied the expedition to Italy under Lord William Bentinck. He served afterwards in the Peninsula until the end of the war in 1814, most part of the time in command of the left wing of the 44th; and during that period he was twice wounded near Tudela, once severely and once slightly. Finally he commanded the 44th at the capture of Paris. 16. Sir James Samuel Lake, of Friskney, Bart. He succeeded his father, 1832; and married Anna Maria, eldest daughter of Admiral Sir Richard King, Bart., by whom he had issue a son and heir. companied Vice-Admiral John Campbell to the Newfoundland station in the Salisbury. He afterwards joined Commodore Gardiner's expedition to the West Indies. In 1789 he was appointed to act as Lieutenant of the Europa, a fifty-gun ship; and he was made a Lieutenant in September 1790. He never held a Commander's commission, but was promoted to the rank of Captain in September 1793. He was then appointed to command the Juno, and in that ship in the year following, 1794, beat off the French frigate Junon, together with a corvette and a brig near the Hiérès Islands. He also commanded the Juno in March 1795, when the French fleet was defeated, and two ships captured. In the ensuing year he commanded the Dryad, and captured the French frigate Proserpine; and subsequently commanded the Royal Oak, in the Walcheren expedition. He attained the rank of Rear-Admiral in August 1811, and commanded the white squadron of the Channel fleet. In 1819 he became a Vice-Admiral, and in that rank he commanded the fleet sent to Portugal in December, 1826. In July 1830, he attained the rank of full Admiral, and from April 1836, to 1839, was the Commander-inChief at Plymouth. He was first and principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to King William the Fourth. His Lordship was unmarried. At Carlsruhe, the Landgrave of Hesse. He is succeeded by his brother, Gustavus Adolphus Frederick. 11. At Argyll-house, Chelsea, Richard Curran, esq., eldest son of the late John Philpot Curran, late Master of the Rolls in Ireland. DEATHS. DEC. He was re-chosen in 1820 without opposition, and again in 1826 after a contest. In 1830, 1831, and 1832 his return was undisputed; but in 1835 he was defeated by Mr. Bailey, the Conservative candidate. In 1837 he again came in, on the resignation of one of the members, but on the next dissolution in 1841 Colonel Davies himself retired. 12. At her father's, Upper Gowerstreet, Jane, second daughter of William Tait, esq., and grand-daughter of the late John Hunter, LL. D., Principal of the United Colleges of St. Salvador and St. Leonard, in the University of St. Andrew's. 13. At Carlsruhe, Madame de Sablenkoff, wife of General de Sablenkoff, of the Russian Service, and only daughter of the late John Julius Angerstein, esq. 17. At his house, in Hamilton-place, in his 91st year, the Right Hon. Thomas Grenville, a Privy Councillor, Chief Justice in Eyre South of Trent, and a Trustee of the British Museum. The following sketch of the life of this eminent gentleman is from the pen of one well acquainted with him: "For two generations the history of the Grenvilles, distinguished by hereditary descent, but illustrious by personal merit, has been interwoven with the annals of their country. The last of the second generation has but now passed away from the busy scene on which we still remain. It is right that, while we record the death of such a man, his life should be recalled to us, though it can be but feebly represented in this short memoir. "Mr. Richard Grenville, of Wotton in Buckinghamshire, married the sister of Viscount Cobham, who afterwards became Viscountess Cobham and Countess Temple in her own right. Their children were-Richard, Earl Temple, Secretary of State; George, who shall be mentioned presently; Thomas, Captain in the Navy, killed in action; James, father of Lord Glastonbury and General R. Grenville; Henry, Governor of Barbadoes and Ambassador at Constantinople; and one daughter, who married the Earl of Chatham. "The character of Mr. George Grenville, the second son, will be preserved as long as our language lasts, by Mr. Burke's speech upon American taxation. It is sufficient for the present purpose to say, that he was Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer from the VOL. LXXXVIII. resignation of Lord Bute, in April 1763, till the formation of Lord Rockingham's ministry, in July 1765. In February 1765, he proposed the memorable Act of Parliament for imposing the Stamp Duties on the American colonies, which was carried by a majority of 245 against 49, after little opposition, and a very languid debate-no one appears at that time to have at all foreseen the tremendous social and political consequences with which this financial measure was fraught. Mr. George Grenville died in 1770. He left by his wife, daughter of Sir William Wyndham, grand-daughter of the proud Duke of Somerset, four daughters Lady Williams Wynn, the Countess of Carysfort, the Countess Fortescue, Mrs. Neville (whose husband became Lord Braybrooke), and three sons. The first son, George, succeeded his uncle as Earl Temple, and was created Marquess of Buckingham; the second, Thomas, the subject of this memoir, was born on the 31st of December, 1755; the third was William Wyndham, afterwards the great Lord Grenville. 66 The three sons were educated at Eton and at Oxford, and placed under the careful tuition of Bishop Cleaver and Bishop Randolph. Mr. Grenville was entered as a gentleman commoner at Christ Church, before he was sixteen years old; Lord Grenville was a student of the same House. Mr. Grenville entered the army on the 18th of May, 1778, as an ensign in the Coldstream Guards. On the 9th of October, 1779, he was gazetted as lieutenant (his commission bearing date the 30th of September) in the regiment of Foot, afterwards the 86th, or the Rutland regiment, of which Anthony St. Leger was appointed colonel. "In the Gazette of the 12th of Fe On bruary, 1780, we read that Ensign John DEATHS. DEC. tration of Lord North. Mr. Grenville had been returned to Parliament as member for Buckinghamshire (in the place of his brother, who had become Earl Temple), on the 26th of October, 1779. In the debate on the Army Estimates, upon the 11th of April, 1780, I find that Mr. Fox called upon Mr. Grenville to inform the House the particulars of the ill treatment he had received on his application for preferment.' "Mr. Grenville, in a very correct and neat speech, stated to the House that having been an ensign in the guards for a twelvemonth, and the next step in the guards being to a captaincy, he applied to the commander-in-chief to be made a captain in an old regiment; the answer he received was, that there were many old lieutenants who had applied for that promotion before him. Satisfied with this, he remained content till his friend the Duke of Rutland offered him a captaincy in his new-raised corps. He applied again to the commander-in-chief, and was refused, upon the plea that he could not take two steps at once. He then applied for a lieutenancy in the Queen's regiment, which happened to be vacant, and all the ensigns of which petitioned in his favour, but he was again refused, unless he would specify what were the reasons which had induced the ensigns of the Queen's regiment to recommend him, and to give up their own claims in his favour. He was an applicant another time to be a captain of one troop of an honourable gentleman's horse, who had raised the corps on condition of appointing his own officers; this likewise he was refused, till at length, finding that he was singled out for ill treatment, he felt himself disgusted, desired to resign his commission, and quitted the service.' (Parliamentary Register, vol. xvii. p. 497-8.) "Mr. Grenville early enrolled himself in the party of Mr. Fox, to whom he became subsequently bound by the ties of personal friendship. This alliance afterwards placed him in opposition to the politics of his family, and so he continued to be until the period of the French Revolution--though no difference of political opinion ever impaired the warm affection which subsisted between the three brothers. The high estimation in which his abilities were held may be more certainly deduced from the following facts, than from any amount of indefinite panegyric : "In 1782, he was entrusted by Lord Rockingham and Mr. Fox to arrange the terms of that treaty which was to sever Great Britain from her American colonies a treaty of no ordinary delicacy and importance, and to be negotiated with Dr. Franklin and Monsieur de Vergennes. The reputation of the latter as a diplomatist was at that time unrivalled in Europe. The Comte de Vergennes gives a detailed account of this negotiation, in his despatch to the Comte de Montemorin, the Spanish ambassador, and also an interesting sketch of the subject of this memoir. "M. Grenville est très propre à recommander la mission dont il est chargé ; c'est un jeune homme de trente ans au plus, qui annonce beaucoup d'esprit et de sagesse, d'honnêteté et de modestie. Il appartient à une famille considérable, qui est liée d'intérêt avec le ministère actuel, et il n'est guère vraisemblable que celuici lui eût destiné une rôle aussi plat et aussi peu analogue à sa naissance et à son état que celui de venir nous ennuyer et nous tromper.' Je lui ai cité' (he says in another place) le traité de Paris et les sacrifices immenses qu'il nous a couté dans toutes les parties du monde, quoique la contestation ne roulât dans les principes que sur quelques terreins sur les bords d'Ohio. Vous ne pouvez, ai je dit à M. Grenville, rejeter cet example; il est l'ouvrage de Lord Chatam votre oncle.' (See Flassan, Histoire Générale de la Diplomatie Française, tome vii. p. 328, &c.) "Mr. Grenville was suddenly recalled from his mission by the death of Lord Rockingham. This event was followed by the immediate secession from office of Fox, Burke, Lord John Cavendish, and the Duke of Portland. Mr. Grenville joined the seceders, though in the new administration formed under Lord Shelburne and Mr. Pitt his two brothers held high office-Lord Temple being made lord lieutenant, and his younger brother, chief secretary for Ireland. This government, after the lapse of a few months, was overthrown by the coalition of Lord North and Mr. Fox. Mr. Grenville supported the coalition ministry, and so high was the opinion of his abilities, that he was destined for the office of Governor-General of India. This appointment was to take place under the famous India Bill; this measure Mr. Fox vainly endeavoured to pass into a law; but it gave his rival, Mr. Pitt, the |