legitimate birth. Vizier Ally, after being placed on the throne, shewed a turbulent, restless, and intriguing temper, and broke his faith with the English Government: the consequence of which was, his being deposed from the musnud, and Sadut Ally, the brother of the late Nabob, was placed on it. A pension was assigned to Vizier Ally of two lacks of rupees per annum, about 25,000; but it was considered necessary that he should reside near the Presidency, that he might be the more under the eye of Government. He in consequence proceeded from Lucknow to Benares, where Mr. Cherry, the Company's Resident, was to make arrangements for his proceeding to the Presidency. Shortly after his arrival at Benares Mr. Cherry invited him to breakfast.

He

came attended by a large armed retinue. It had been previously intimated to Mr. Cherry that his appearance was hostile, and that he ought to be on his guard; but he disregarded the caution. Vizier Ally complained much of the Company's treatment of him; and, in fine, at a signal made by him, several of his attendants rushed in and cut Mr. Cherry and his assistant, Mr. Graham, to pieces. They then went away in the intention of proceeding to the house of Mr. Davis, another European gentleman, holding a high situation under Government, with the view of massacring him also; but fortunately he got some intimation of his danger before they arrived, and got his family to the top of the house, and posted himself at the summit of a narrow circular stone staircase. Here the ruffians pursued him, but with a hogspear he defended himself for a considerable length of time, killing several of his assailants, which, in a manner, blocked up the passage, till at length he was rescued by a party of the Company's troops stationed at Benares, which came to his assistance. The followers of Vizier Ally killed another European private gentleman, residing at Benares, exclusive of the two public officers above-mentioned. Vizier Ally made his escape into the territory of the Rajah of Berar, a powerful and independent Chief, who refused to give him up unless under a promise of his life being spared. This the English Government considered it expedient to accede to; and he was accordingly given up and brought down to Calcutta, and confined in the garrison of Fort William in a kind of iron cage, and here died after an imprisonment of 17 years and odd months, as above mentioned.

DEATHS.

1817. AT Allahabad, in the East InMay 26. dies, of a fever, Lieut. Thomas Allen, of the 24th foot.

June 13. In India, Capt. James Henry Ashhurst, brother to W. H. Ashhurst, esq. M. P.

June 15. At Bombay, Mr. Anderson, fourth officer of the ship Charles Grant, while swimming a short distance from the ship, accompanied by a quarter-master and a forecastle-man. Mr. Anderson struck out, and swam towards a Portuguese frigate, then lying at about half a cable's length from him, and he was followed by two men. As they approached the frigate, Mr. Anderson was heard to say, "Don't drown me." On this exclamation the quarter-master turned round, and to his unspeakable horror and alarm, saw an immense shark darting at Mr. Anderson; he immediately exerted his whole strength for his own sake, and fortunately succeeded in getting on board the frigate. The alarm was then immediately given, and the boats belonging to the frigate and the Charles Grant were instantly lowered into the water; but unfortunately without preventing the fatal catastrophe. The shark passed Mr. Anderson, then turned round, and took him under water, which was immediately discoloured by his blood. He rose again, but was then attacked by five or six more of those voracious animals, and he was gone in an instant. One shark was observed to be making towards the forecastle-man, on which a sentry on board the frigate with great presence of mind and coolness, levelled his musket, and shot the fish, thereby preserving the life of the sailor. The next day, a large shark was caught on board the ship Vansittart, measuring upwards of 12 feet.-Bombay Courier, July 19.

July 18. At Calcutta, in her 23d year, Henrietta, wife of George Richardson, esq. of the East India Company's Bengal civil service.

July 31. At Madras, Mr. William Bell, son of Major-gen. Bell.

Oct. 21.

At St. Lucia, by the fallingin of the Government House during the dreadful hurricane, Major-general Seymour, governor of the island; a most deserving and meritorious officer. He was formerly Lieut.-colonel of the 15th hussars. A widow and seven children, totally unprovided for, are left to deplore his death.

At St. Lucia, by the dreadful hurricane, Major George Saville Burdett, son of the late Sir Charles Burdett, and brother to the present Sir Charles Wyndham Burdett, bart. He was a dutiful son, a good father, an affectionate brother, a faithful husband, an excellent officer, a man of honour, and a true Christian. His amiable and accomplished wife, who perished at the same time, was the daughter of the late Colonel, and sister of the present Lieut.col. Wilkins, K. C. B.; and their son, who

who also perished, was a fine youth, nearly 15 years of age, the only male descendant of this very antient family, except the present Baronet, and the son of the late Capt. Burdett, who died in March last from the effects of arduous services during the war.

Oct. 24. In South Carolina, Colonel Nathaniel Ramsay, of Baltimore, who, in the revolutionary war, distinguished himself as a brave, meritorious, and humane officer. At the battle of Monmouth, when the American army was pressed by the enemy, advancing rapidly, General Washington asked for an officer; Colonel Ramsay presented himself-the General took him by the hand, and said, "If you can stop the British ten minutes, till I form, you will save my army." Colonel Ramsay answered, "I will stop them, or fall." He advanced with his party, engaged, and kept them in check for half an hour; nor did he retreat, until the enemy and his troops were mingled, and at last, in the rear of his troops, fighting his way sword in hand, fell, pierced with many wounds, in sight of both armies. Colonel Ramsay was a brother of the late Dr. David Ramsay.

Oct. 30. At St. Croix, in her 20th year, Eliza, eldest daughter of Edmund Armstrong, esq. of St. Croix.

Nov. 23. At Tortola, in his 68th year, Hon. James Robertson, his Majesty's Chief Justice of the Virgin Islands, having honourably sustained that office for many years.

Dec. 6. At Sag's Harbour, North America, aged 72, Capt. Elisha Prior. Capt. Prior received a severe wound in defending Fort Griswold from the traitor Arnold, in the revolutionary war.

On his voyage from Madras to this country, in the ship Boyne, in his 58th year, Major-gen. Aldwell Taylor, of the East India Company's service.

Dec. 8. On board the Indian, Baron Frederick de Hedemann, eldest son of the late Gen. de Hedemann, commandant of Hanover, and commander of the royal order of the Guelphs.

Dec. 19. At Belsize house, Hampstead, in her 28th year, the Most Hon. the Marchioness of Ormonde, wife of the Marquis of Ormonde.

Dec. 23. At Jersey, aged 48, Mary, second wife of Charles William Le Geyt, esq.

Dec. 25. At his chambers, Staples Ino, where he had been resident upwards of forty years, aged 71, Rev. Thomas Lee Hill, second son of J. L. Hill, esq. of West Cholderton, Wilts.

Dec. 27. Aged 58, Mr. Humphrey Gregory Pridden, formerly a bookseller in Fleet-market.

At Pentonville, Anne, relict of the late

Mr. John Young, of Chiswell-street, and of Scotby, Cumberland.

At Southampton, aged 77, Sir Richard Onsiow, bart. K. G. C. B. Admiral of the Red, and Lieut.-gen. of the Royal Marines. He was second in command of the Fleet under Lord Duncan, in the North Seas, where he distinguished himself in the Monarch, 74, in the defeat of the Dutch fleet under Admiral De Winter. For his gallant conduct in this action he was created a Baronet, received the Thanks of both Houses of Parliament, and was presented with the Freedom of the City of London, and a sword of 100 guineas value.

Dec. 28. At Huntroyde, Lancashire, the seat of her nephew, Le Gendre Starkie, esq. vice-lieutenant of the Hundred of Blackburn, Mary, second daughter of Rev. Benjamin Preedy, S. T. P. late rector of Brington, Northamptonshire, and one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for that county, and for Hertfordshire. Miss Preedy was interred in the Huntroyde family vault, in Padiham church, on the first day of the present year, beside the remains of her father, who died at the same place, and of her sister, Charlotte, the lady of the late Le Gendre Pierce Starkie, esq. after discharging the truly maternal and affectionate duties to their surviving offspring, by all of whom she is sincerely lamented.

Dec. 30. At Maryborough, Mrs. Mosse, relict of the late Rev. P. Mosse, and aunt to Lords Donoughmore and Hutchin son.

At Musselburgh, in his 86th year, Mr. Thomas Thomson, upwards of forty years town-clerk of the said burgh.

Dee. 31. At his chambers in the Temple, in his 62d year, M. W. Hall, esq. barrister at law.

Aged 50, Rev. E. Codd, of East Derehain, Norfolk.

LATELY. In the Edgeware Road, Rebecca, wife of Rear-adm. Charles Dudley. Cambridgeshire.-At Ely, aged 65, the wife of Francis Bagge, esq. High Bailiff of the Isle of Ely.

Cornwall.-Aged 50, Rev. T. F. Bedford, rector of Filleigh, near Truro, and late of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge.

At Bodmin, Mrs. Pomeroy, widow of Rev. J. Pomeroy, who expired in his church at Bodmin, four years since, while in the act of reading prayers before the Judges at the Assizes.

Devon.-At Exeter, aged 85, Mrs. Spicer, widow of the late W. Spicer, of Wear, and daughter of Francis Parker, esq. late of Blagdon.

At Ashburton, in her 84th year, Mrs. Mary Dunning, sister to the late, and aunt to the present Lord Ashburton.

Dorset.-At Poole, in her 93d year, Mrs. Shoveller, mother of Rev, John Shoveller, of that place.

At

At Blandford, aged 86, Rev. Robert Maurice.

Essex. At Fitzwalters, in his 65th year, T. Wright, esq. of the banking-firm of Wright and Co.

Hants. In her 17th year, the youngest daughter of Rev. A. Thistlethwayte, rector of West Titherby.

At the Army Depot, Isle of Wight, Capt. Bower, 5th batt. 60th reg.

Kent.-Aged 34, Jobn Devaynes, esq. of Updown-house, Isle of Thanet.

At Greenwich Hospital, Capt. W. C. Rutherford, of that establishment. Capt. Rutherford was one of the Trafalgar beroes, having commanded the Swiftsure, of 74 guns, in that memorable battle.

Leicestershire.-Rev. Harry Barnes, rector of Wanlip.

Lincolnshire.-At Welbourne, Rev. J.

Ridghill.

In her 83d year, Mrs. Cookson, wife of Rev. Mr. Cookson, Rector of Whitton.

Aged 80, Rev. W. Stopford, M. A, rector of Wytham.

Suffolk.-In his 78th year, Rev. Simon Pyrke, upwards of forty years chaplain to the county gaol and house of correction. Warwickshire.-Charles Stewart, esq. of Birmingham, solicitor.

At Wake Green, near Birmingham, in his 72d year, Rev. W. P. Willinger.

near

Wiltshire.-At Wingfield-house, Bradford, aged 70, the wife of Thomas Morris, esq. late of Camberwell.

Henry Kinneir, esq. of Highworth. At Moxton, Mr. Joseph Bradby, brother of the late Adm. Bradby, of Hamble. Yorkshire.-In his 80th year, Charles Tancred, esq. of Arden-hall.

1818, Jan. 1. In Duke-street, St. James's, in his 56th year, Count Zenobio. The Count was descended from the first family in Europe among the Noblesse being not only a Prince in the Venetian Republick, but also a Prince of the House of Austria. Count Zenobio was likewise the nephew of Emo, the late Admiral of Venice; he was the owner of two of the finest palaces in the world, Emo and Zenobio. The political bias of the Count is well known. As a man of fashion and gallantry he took the lead at Versailles, when under the antient regime; at Baxter's Club, about the year 1790, he usually risked 50001. every night.

In Piccadilly, aged 58, Mrs. Amelia Noel, artist.

At Clapham, aged 65, Dr. John Perkins Hill, M.D.

At Brighton, in his 56th year, Mr. Ta-. tham, of Mount-street, upholsterer to the Prince Regent.

At Owston, near Doncaster, the wife of Bryan Cooke, esq.

At Doonside, Capt. James Robertson Crawford, of the 21st dragoons.

Jan. 2. In Cumberland-street, New-road, Lieut.-gen. Wm. Souter Johnston. This officer was at the siege of Quebec in 1759, and distinguished himself at the memorable battle of Bunkers Hill, where he was severely wounded. The General was one of the claimants of the Marquisate of Annandale. He married the sister of the widow of Sir R. Perrott, bart. by whom he has left issue a son and two daughters. At Forest house, Chigwell, the son and heir of Rev. Mr. Wildman.

In Hanover-street, in the prime and flower of youth, Capt. John Prince, lieutenant and adjutant in his Majesty's 2d or Coldstream regiment of foot guards. He was active, diligent, and scientific in his military duties; possessed the most agreeable manners, and was universally respected as a young man of great promise, and of considerable attainments. In him his country have to lament the early loss of a gallant and distinguished officer; and society that of a well-informed and accomplished gentleman. He was the only son of Lieut.-gen. Prinee, late Lieut.-col. of the 6th or Inniskilling dragoons, now resident at Ipswich, and bad but recently married the sister of Sir Robert Sharpe Ainslee, of West Torrington, co. Lincoln, bart.

Jan. 3. At South Lambeth, aged 57, J. Bridges, esq.

At East Bradenham, Norfolk, aged 56, Hannah, only daughter of the late Rev. John Goodwin, of Guestwick.

At Marazion, in her 58th year, Mrs. Elizabeth Vivian, sister of J. Vivian, esq. of Portland place.

At Festiniog Tan-y-bwlch, North Wales, Mr. J. Innis, purser of his Majesty's late ship Ranger.

At Stowey house, Old Down, Gertrude Louisa Allen, second daughter and coheiress of the late Ralph Allen, esq. of Bathhampton, co. Somerset.

At Paris, M. Goupy, senior of the Chamber of Deputies for the department of the Seine. He was a Counsellor of the Chatelet in his youth; but, being diverted from the career of the Magistracy by the storms of the revolution, he embraced the profession of commerce, aud became one of the chiefs of the house Goupy, Buzoni, and Co.

Jan. 4. At Cowes, the wife of James Macdonald, esq. M.P.

At Bath, in her 61st year, the wife of Rev. Dr. Price, prebendary of Durham, and canon residentiary of Salisbury Cathedral.

M. P.

At

At Sawtrey, Lincolnshire, in his 13th year, the youngest son of the Rev. James Saunders. He possessed an uncommon flow of spirits, and was intended for the Navy, which seemed to be his proper sphere of action.

At Woodhead, near Borrowstonness, C. Addison, esq..

Jan. 5. Richard Shutt, esq. of Bath place, Fitzroy-square.

In his 80th year, Robert Stokes, esq. of Walworth.

At Lincoln, in his 76th year, John Bromhead, esq. formerly lieut.-colonel of the Royal South Lincoln Militia. At an early age he entered the military service, and was present at the siege of Louisbourg, where he was wounded. He was

also engaged in the proceedings at Gaspay, and in the following year greatly distinguished himself at the siege of Belleisle. He was subsequently employed in the expeditions against Martinique and Grenada; and on his return with Admiral Boscawen, took part in the engagement with the French fleet. On his marriage with Miss Anne Darwin, a relative of the celebrated Dr. Darwin, he retired from the Regular service; but, during the next war, he accepted the Lieut.-colonelcy of his County Militia. To all Officers stationed at Lincoln he invariably, while his health permitted, shewed the most hospitable at tention; and his many excellent qualities have left a deep and general regret for his loss throughout this extensive county.

Jan. 5. Aged 73, B. Wyatt, esq. of Lime-grove, near Bangor. He was the last surviving brother of the late J. Wyatt, esq. surveyor-general of his Majesty's works.

At Perth, Mr. John Scott, for 28 years one of the English teachers of that city.

was

Jan. 6. In his apartments in St. James's Palace, in the 100th year of his age, Mr. John Eldred. He was page of the presence to King George the Second, which office he may be said to have filled during three reigns; and although he filled it correctly, being very attentive to his duty, yet, extraordinary to relate, he never received any promotion. He much respected and esteemed by all the attendants at Court, and was very attentive to the females who were admitted into the State-room, in St. James's Palace, of which he had the control, on Court-days. He possessed a great flow of spirits till the last, and had something to say to every person. At other times, when he was inclined to pass jokes upon his eating and drinking, it would be of a reverse description, by saying, he never got a good dinner but in the sprat season, meaning, as much as he could eat, and then he got a feast, as his board-wages were but sevenpence-halfpenny a-day, which he reckoned GENT. MAG. January, 1818.

a fast. He ate and drank very heartily; his favourite beverage was porter, and he would often drink as much as three quarts in a day. When he drank spirits, it was British gin, and, occasionally, he took gin and water; he smoked tobacco incessantly. His favourite dinner was a rump-steak, of which he would eat a pound, and this course of life he continued till about a fortnight past. His bodily strength did not fail him till very lately. At the last time, or the last but one, that the Prince Regent went in state to the Chapel Royal, he carried one of the heavy massy maces before the Prince, as a Deputy Serjeant at Arms. His principal exercise during the last fifty years has been walking from St. James's Palace

to

the neighbourhood of Tothill-fields, near Lady Dacre's Alms-houses, to receive the weekly rents of small houses which he owned, and to purchase his own food. He would walk through several markets, or go to a number of butchers' shops in the streets, till he could meet with a rump of beef in a particular state of cutting, to get a rump-steak that would please him, and took that or any thing else he purchased home for dinner, for his servant to cook. His wife has been dead several years. Mr. Eldred was extremely obliging and accommodating to every person who had the pleasure of knowing him.

At Fitzwalters, Essex, in his 65th year, T. Wright, esq. of Henrietta-street, banker. Aged 77, Mrs. Symons, relict of William Symons, esq. of Bury St. Edmund's.

At Newhouse, near Stroud, Samuel Wathen, esq. one of the magistrates for the county of Gloucester.

Hon. Mrs. Fitzwilliam, of Titchfield.

At Hatfield-hall, near Wakefield, in her 16th year, Jane, eldest daughter of F. Maude, esq. barrister at law.

Jan. 7. In Weymouth-street, Portlandplace, A. W. Otley, youngest son of Warner Otley, esq. of Spanish-place, Manchester-square.

At W. A. Venour's, in Woburn-place, W. Bruce Smith, esq. of Harborough Castle, late of Nulpore, East Indies.

Mr. Daniel Deale, of Christ's Hospital. At Hammersmith, the wife of William Keene, esq.

In his 92d year, Henry White, esq. of Brasted, Kent.

At Bury St. Edmund's, Mr. Peter Gedge, the respectable and intelligent editor and proprietor of "The Bury and Norwich Post" almost from the first establishment of that newspaper.

In the Close, Norwich, at an advanced age, Frances, wife of the Rev. James Williams Newton, M. A. late senior minor canon of that cathedral.

Mr.

Mr. John Charles Pocknell, late of the East India Company's service, and a free mariner on the Bombay establishment.

In Dublin, W. Burton, esq. of Burtonhall, Carlow, who many years represented that county in parliament.

At Paris, aged 80, the Marquis de Mauray, lieut.-general of the French armies.

Jan. 8. Mr. E. Lloyd, of Harley-street. At Islington, in his 73d year, John Stevens, esq. many years an inhabitant of Fore-street, Cripplegate.

Aged 67, Mr. John Cowie, of Lea-bridge, Clapton.

At Bishopsgate Cottage, Berks, Eliza Louisa, wife of George Powney, esq.

At Callaly, Northumberland, the wife of John Clavering, esq.

Jan. 9. At his lodgings in Shoe-lane, aged 99, John Smith, a person well known at all the offices of Government, and who, from his singular appearance and eccentric manner, has often excited a smile from the heads of many of the principal departments. During a period of 80 years did this honest creatufe fill the humble Istation of an errand-carrier at his Majesty's Printing-office. But what was accounted humble, became in his hands important; and "the King's Messenger," as he always styled himself, yielded to none of his Majesty's Ministers in the conception of the dignity of his office, when entrusted with King's Speeches, Addresses, Bills, and other Papers of State. At the offices of the Secretaries of State, when loaded with parcels of this description, he would throw open every chamber without ceremony; the Treasury and Exchequer doors could not oppose him; and even the study of Archbishops has often been invaded by this important messenger of the press. His antiquated and greasy garb corresponded with his vizard-like shape, and an immense cocked hat was in continual motion to assist him in the bows of the old school: the recognition or nod of great men in office was his delight. But he imagined that this courtesy was due to his character, as being identified with the State; and the Chancellor and the Speaker were considered by him in no other view than as persons filling departments in common with himself; for the seals of the one, and the mace of the other, did not, in his estimation, distinguish them more than the bag used by himself in the transmission of the dispatches entrusted to his care. The imperfect intellect given to him seemed only to fit him for the situation he filled. Take him out of it, he was as helpless as a child, and easily became a dupe to those who were inclined to impose upon him. With a high opinion of his own judgment, however, he diverted himself and others by

mimicking the voice and manner of his superiors, when he thought he perceived any assumption of character. John could imitate the strut and swell of the great man, and even the frivolity of the fop. Seeing in his time packets to the same individuals addressed from plain "Mr." to "the Right Honourable," afforded him subject for much joke; and he frequently used to observe, that it would shortly come to Old John's turn to become an Esquire or Knight himself. He had a high veneration for ecclesiastical dignitaries, and never visited a church unless a Bishop was to preach. The infrequency of this opportunity disposed him, at one period of his life, to fit up his room as a chapel, with an altar and a figure of his own contrivance, dressed in canonicals, through which he used to read the church service. Though his ruling passion was vanity, yet he never despised money; avarice laid hold of him, and his delight was to count it. A few years ago, a fellow came to him in a great hurry from a meeting of noblemen at the Crown and Anchor, requiring his attendance with a bag of silver for change to give away to the poor, for which he would get double the value in notes; the fellow succeeded in his stratagem, and poor John was taken in the snare. About this time a few gentlemen at Westminster had his likeness taken; and copies of John's picture were distributed among his friends, of whom he reckoned a great personage to be one, having heard that a copy was sent to Windsor, and a pension for his long services was expected from that quarter. Seeing his picture hung up in the first offices in the kingdom, the poor fellow felt that he had attained the summit of human distinction; the measure of his ambition was full, and be looked in vain to his former pursuits for his accustomed pleasure. It had been recounted of him, that he was dutiful to an antient mother; and sacrificed his own comforts for a parent's support: but it was not known that he ever felt the tender passion of love. It was now John's fate, at fourscore and ten, to discover himself to be a son of Adam. Female warmth melted the seals set on his thriftybags, and the soothings of a daughter of Eve turned the miser to the spendthrift; the fair one, having spent his all, left him. The poor fellow, though a great man, was honest; and the liberal establishment to which he belonged, adhered to him in his last moments. Like the leaves of Autumn, generations of men are swept away, and are soon forgotten; and though this singular being was comparatively known to few, yet as his hand has conveyed Papers of State to most of the great Statesmen of the last and present century, when considering him as ministering with fidelity

in