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youngest dau. of Count and Countess Farrand, of St. Germain's, near Paris. WILTS.-Nov. 11. At Warminster, Washington Buckler, esq.

Nov. 23. Isaac Sadler Gale, esq. of Bulidge House, and of Bath.

WORCESTER.-Nov. 29. At Birlingham, aged 82, Martha, widow of Thomas Chinnall Porter, esq. of Birlingham, and Fulham, Middlesex.

Lately. Stephen Griffiths, esq. of the firm of Messrs. Rufford and Co. bankers, of Stourbridge.

YORK.-Nov. 4. At Stanley, near Wakefield, aged 66, Mr. Abram Sharp, formerly of Gildersome, co. York, a descendant of the family of Archbishop Sharp, and of Mr. Abram Sharp, the mathematician, the coadjutor of Newton and Flamsteed.

Nov. 24. At Wigan, aged 89, Miss Mary Aspull. On searching her house, bags of money and notes were found, in the shape of 3000 guineas, bank notes, and a number of old coins, amounting in the whole to upwards of 5000. The old lady has also left four tenements and some land, perhaps worth another 10007.

Nov. 29. At Ottringham, Frances, widow of Mr. Thomas Wright, and also relict of the late celebrated scholar, Dr. Alexander Geddes, LL.D. the Scotch poet, and biblical philologist.

Dec. 7. At the parsonage, Waddington, Frederick, youngest son of the Rev. J. F. Parker, and grandson of Thomas 1st Lord Ribblesdale.

Dec. 11. At Hull, aged 77, Mr. John Danvers, cousin to the late Sir John Danvers, Bart. of Swithland, Leic.

WALES.-Dec. 5. At St. Hilary, near Cowbridge, Glamorganshire, in his 76th year, Llewellyn Traherne, esq.

SCOTLAND.-Nov. 18. Aged 66, James Adams, esq. brother of Joseph Adams, esq. of Leith and Glasgow Wharf.

Nov. 19. In Edinburgh, aged 81, Mary, widow of John Stockwell, esq.

Nov. 22. At Dumcrieff, Dumfriesshire, the relict of Dr. Rogerson, of Wampnay. Dec. 9. In Glasgow, John M Nair, esq. IRELAND.-Nov. 5. Robert Charles Walsh, esq. He was a magistrate of Waterford county, and was waylaid on his route homewards, and murdered, when within about a mile of his own house. This deplorable occurrence, there is little doubt, sprung from the clearance system adopted by the deceased. It is not long since the entire village of Crowbally was depopulated, and the houses razed to the ground, to make way for a wealthy farmer, and about fifteen families were cast upon the world. The friends of the unfortunate gentleman had remon

strated with him upon the danger of his proceedings, and his reply was, "There is no danger-I have the police at my back, and I shall turn out sixty of them in November Term." Mr. Walsh was for several years a ward in Chancery, and came into his property about three years ago. He is succeeded by his brother, Mr. Astell Walsh, an officer in the army.

Nov. 18. At Valencia, aged 105, Mr. John Murphy, commonly called "Paul Jones." He had been taken prisoner by that pirate, commanding a French squadron off the coast of Kerry. When he sent a boat ashore at Valencia for a supply of water, the people seized on the boat and crew, and young Murphy being on board his vessel at the time, as pilot, Paul Jones carried him off, and he was compelled to serve for two years in a French frigate, during which time he accumulated a good sum of prize-money. He lived on potatoes and milk, and, notwithstanding his wealth, never increased his comforts. He was a remarkably strong man, and, till within the lust two years, hale and robust. He voted at the election of 1834.

Nov. 27. At Dublin, aged 62, Lady Anne Beresford, sister to the Lord Primate, and aunt to the Marquess of Waterford.

Dec. 2. At Ballymacrook, Wexford, two sisters, Anastatia and Mary Furlong, the former 103 and the latter 105 years of age. They literally lived and died together, and their mortal remains now occupy the same resting place. Neither ever entered into the bonds of wedlock.

EAST INDIES.-Aug. 1. At Meerut, aged 61, the lady of R. Bluntish, esq. paymaster of Her Majesty's 9th foot.

Aug. 12. At Cawnpore, aged 39, Capt. William Richard Maidman, of the Horse Artillery.

Aug. 23. At Cawnpore, aged 33, Caroline- Charlotte, lady of Captain Charles Campbell, Deputy Paymaster, and eldest daughter of James Wemyss, esq. civil service.

Aug. 25. At Rajcote, Lieut. C. Williams, 14th Bombay N. I.

Aug. 26. At Calcutta, aged 55, R. Davidson, esq. of the house of M'Intyre and Co. merchants and agents.

At Darjeeling, of Chusan diarrhoea, James Howe, esq. of the firms of Jamieson and Co., of Calcutta, and Jamieson and Howe, of Canton.

Aug. 29. At Barrackpore, Ensign Henry S. Money, 8th Bengal Native Inf.

At Guntoor, P. H. Strombom, esq. late third judge of the Provincial Court of Appeal and Circuit for the Northern Di. vision, Madras,

Aug. 30. At Calcutta, aged 36, Ro. bert Cunningham Paton, esq. of the firm of Allan, Paton, and Co. merchants. Aug. 31. At Arrah, Henry Case Bagge, esq. of the Bengal Civil Service, fifth son of the late Thos. Philip Bagge, esq. of Stradsett hall, Norfolk.

Sept. 11. At Sewgowlie, Major Bunbury, of the 40th Bengal Native In'. Sept. 2. At Surat, aged 30, Lieut. J. C. Supple, 13th Bombay N. I.

Sept. 7. At Madras, Major F. Welland, of the 2d N. V. B.

Sept. 11. At Bangalore, the wife of G. Knox, esq. garrison surgeon.

At Madras, Lieut. D. G. Taylor, of the 1st N. V. B.

Sept. 22. At Howrah, Calcutta, Alfred Ward, esq. Commander of the ship George the Fourth.

Sept. 26. Capt. J. R. Lumsden, of the 63d Nat. Inf. Senior Assistant to the Commissioner of Arracan. He was bathing at Khyook-Phyoo, when a shark carried off his leg, and very soon afterwards he was a corpse.

Sept. 27. At Trincomalee, in Ceylon, Mortimer Jones, esq. of the Ceylon Rifle Regt. second son of the late John Jones, esq. of Woolley House, Wilts.

Oct. 2. At Secunderabad, aged 21, Ensign Samuel Waller, of the 1st Madras European Regt. eldest son of S. Waller, esq. of Cuckfield, Sussex.

Oct. 11. At Chittagong, Mary, wife of G. J. Morris, esq. of the Civil Service, Bengal.

At Coimbatore, aged 26, Second Lieut. R. F. G. Fast, of the Madras Engineers, second son of Gen. J. W. Fast, of the Bengal army.

Oct. 21. At Rajkote, Capt. Charles George Calland, 14th Regt. of Bombay Nat. Inf. eldest son of the late C. Calland, esq. of Upper Forest, Glamorgan.

Oct. 22. At Bangalore, W. E. Mon. teith, eldest son of Major-Gen. W. Monteith, of the Madras Engineers.

Oct. 27. At Bombay, aged 25, Lieut. Edward Lockley, 2d Grenadier_Regt. Nat. Inf. son of the late George Frederick Lockley, esq. of Half Moon-street.

WEST INDIES.-Sept. 13. At Fal. mouth, Jamaica, aged 34, Mr. Bennall Barnsdale, printer and publisher of "The Baptist Herald and Friend of Africa."

Sept. 15. At Jamaica, aged 22, Lieut. Frederick Le Mesurier, of the Royal Engineers.

Oct. 1. At Eve Leary Barracks, Demerara, Mary Rawson, wife of Lieut.Col. Bush, K.H. commanding the 1st West India Regt.

Lately. Col. George Marshall, K. H. of the 82d regiment. He was appointed En.

sign 6th Dec. 1799; Lieut. 15th Aug. 1804; Captain 27th Oct. 1808; brevet Major 27th May, 1825; Regimental Major 23d Oct. 1835; brevet Lieut.-Col. 28th January, 1838. He served in the Peninsula, and had been 41 years in the service, all on full pay.

ABROAD.-Feb. 28. At Sydney, aged 23, Arthur, son of the late Rice Price, esq. of Chancery-lane and Stockwell.

June 1. At Sydney, Emily, wife of William à Beckett, esq. Sol.-Gen. of New South Wales.

At Beaudesert, Port Macquarrie, New South Wales, aged 38, William Danvers, esq. the elder son of the late James Danvers, esq. of Richmond, Surrey.

Aug. 22. At Bonn, aged 23, Alexander Chisholm Gooden, B.A. scholar of Trinity coll. Cambridge, B.A. 1840, and second son of James Gooden, esq. of Tavistock-square.

Aug. 23. At Dieppe, Barnard Topham Foord-Bowes, late Capt. 95th Reg. son of the Rev. Timothy Fysh FoordBowes, D.D. of Cowlam, county York, and nephew of the late Major-Gen. Foord-Bowes.

At Calais, aged 66, John Bradley, esq. late of John-st. Berkeley-sq. a member of the College of Surgeons, &c.

Aug. 27. In Florida, of yellow fever, Helen, and, on the 29th Aug. Russell, (the wife of Joseph Chaires, esq. of Tallahassee), both daus. of the late James Ormond, esq. of Leith, North Britain.

Aug. 29. At Paris, aged 63, Baron

d'Este.

Lately. On his voyage to England, Octavius Palmer, esq. M.M.S. son of the late Very Rev. Joseph Palmer, Dean of Cashel, and nephew of the late March. ioness of Thomond.

At Paris, aged 72, Sir Nicholas B. Skottowe.

Sept. 1. Off Paris, the Dowager Lady Prescott. Her ladyship, who was dau. of the late Baron Moucheron, was second wife of the late Sir George Beeston Prescott, Bart. who died on the 25th of Oct. last year. (See our Magazine for April, p. 341.)

Sept. 2. In China, of his wounds, on board her Majesty's ship Modeste, Lieut. Edward Fitzgerald, grandson of the late Edward Fitzgerald, esq. of Carrigoran, co. Clare, and nephew to Sir William Fitzgerald, Bart.

Sept. 4. At Leghorn, Dr. Crook. He was attached to the Court of the Grand Duke, and fell in a duel with M. Plowden, a banker of Florence, who has been arrested for the offence.

Sept. 5. Near Chippawa, Upper Canada, James Sawbridge, esq. third son

of S. E. Sawbridge, esq. of Olanteigh, Kent.

At Turitecana, in Lucca, the Chevalier C. W. M. Crooke, Chamberlain to his Royal Highness the Duke of Lucca.

In Table-bay, aged 23, John Robert, tbird son of Mr. Serjeant Merewether. As first officer of the ship Bucephalus, this humane and intrepid young man had during the night made three trips to a wrecked emigrant ship, the Prince Ru pert, in the course of which he had succeeded in saving the lives of thirty persons; returning a fourth time to complete his benevolent purpose, the boat was swamped.

Sept. 7. At Baden Baden, Frances

Mary, eldest dau. of the late William Tustin, esq. of Fludyer-street, Whitehall.

Sept. 9. At Wiesbaden, aged 26, Stephen Rowley Conroy, late Capt. Coldstream Guards, second son of Sir John Conroy, Bart. of Kensington.

Sept. 12. M. Bertin, sen. aged 80, principal editor of the "Journal des Débats." Under the Empire he shared the exile and the disgrace of M. de Chateaubriand, his friend and colleague. For

some years M. Armand Bertin, his son, conducted the literary business of the journal.

Sept. 30. At Frankfort-on-the-Maine, Jane, wife of Samuel Stiebel, esq. of Russell-sq.

BILL OF MORTALITY, Nov. 30 to Dec. 21, 1841.

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Sussex Pockets, 57. 15s. to 67. 10s.-Kent Pockets, 51. 15s. to 91. 10s.

PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW AT SMITHFIELD, Dec. 27.
Hay, 37. to 47. 15s.-Straw, 17. 13s. to 21. 2s.-Clover, 4l. to 5l. 16s.
SMITHFIELD, Dec. 27. To sink the Offal-per stone of 8lbs.
Head of Cattle at Market, Dec. 27.
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18 or At the Office of WOLFE, BROTHERS, Stock and Share Brokers, 23, Change Alley, Cornhill.

Birmingham Canal, 200.

East

Ellesmere and Chester, 75.- Grand Junction 115. Kennet and Avon, 174. Leeds and Liverpool, 720. Regent's, 9. Rochdale, 82.- -London Dock Stock, 73-St. Katharine's, 93.Great and West India, 103.. London and Birmingham Railway, 167. London and Southwestern, 59. Grand Junction Water

85.

Western,
West Middlesex, 90. - Globe Insurance, .118. Guardian,
Works, 54.
35.Hope, 5. Chartered Gas, 573.- -Imperial Gas, 60.-Phoenix Gas,
-London and Westminster Bank, 214. -Reversionary Interest, 92.
For Prices of all other Shares enquire as above.

33.

METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY W. CARY, STRAND.
From November 26 to December 25, 1841, both inclusive.

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DAILY PRICE OF STOCKS,

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J. J. ARNULL, English and Foreign Stock and Share Broker,

1, Bank Buildings, London.

J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, PRINTERS, 25, PARLIAMENT-STREET.

GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

FEBRUARY, 1842.

BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT.

CONTENTS.

MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-Roman Pottery forged at Cirencester-The Merry
Lewid-Gobel-Coins struck at Exeter-The Crest of Wales, &c. &c....

FAGE

122

THE PURSUITS OF LITERATURE; and other Works of Mr. Mathias
Diary of a Lover of Literature; by Thomas Green, Esq.

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New Church in St. Ebbe's parish, Oxford (with a View)
Architecture of the New Church at Streatham

142

144

Marlborough, William III. and James II.-Personal and official authority of the

Popes. Archbishop Dillon.-Trial of Galileo, &c.

145

Memoirs of Jean Barbier D'Aucour and C. R. Dufresny

149

Three days' Conversation with King James I. in 1603.-Sir Walter Ralegh's
Visit to Winchester.-Will of King James....

152

Description of SHERBOURNE CHURCH, Dorsetshire (with a View).

153

ON COLLARS OF THE ROYAL LIVERY, No. I. Introductory

157

ROYAL CHRISTENINGS.-King Edward the Sixth, 161. King Charles the Second 165
Proofs that Sir Philip Francis was not Junius......
Epitaph at Leominster of the Grandfather of Mrs. Siddons

166

168

REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Schulz's Essay on Welsh Literature, 169; Scrivenor's History of the Iron Trade, 174; Ward's De Clifford, 175; Capt. Gerard's Account of Koonacour, 178; Sermons by the Rev. T. Tunstall Smith, 179; Knight's London, 181; and Miscellaneous Reviews

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LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.

187

-New Publications,

191

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189; Institution of Civil Engineers, 191; Stamford Institution..... ARCHITECTURE.-Franciscan Priory, Doncaster, 192; Restoration of Hereford Cathedral, 193; Institute of British Architects, 196; Alwalton Church, co. Lincoln, 197; Cambridge Camden Society... ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.-Society of Antiquaries, 198; Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 199; Painting found in Tettenhall Church..... HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Foreign News, 200.-Domestic Occurrences. 201 Promotions and Preferments, 203.-Births and Marriages OBITUARY; with Memoirs of The Earl of Westmoreland; Earl of Falmouth; The Countess of Durham; Dr. Shuttleworth, Bishop of Chichester; Dr. Fowler, Bishop of Ossory; Lord Polwarth; Lady Anne Fitzpatrick; Lady Elizabeth Mathew; The Duke of Cannizaro; George Baillie, Esq.; Rev. T. D. Fosbroke, M.A., F.S.A.; George Birkbeck, M.D.; David Don, Esq.; K. F. Schinkel; J. H. Dannecker; Francis Paul Stratford, Esq.; Mr. Serjeant Arabin; R. M. Casberd, Esq., Q. C.; Philip Courtenay, Esq.; John Sydney Taylor, Esq.; Mr. Thomas Philipps

DEATHS, arranged in Counties

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205

207-222

222

Bill of Mortality-Markets-Prices of Shares, 231; Meteorological Diary-Stocks 232 Embellished with Views of SHERBOURNE CHURCH, Dorsetshire; and of the proposed

New Church in ST. EBBE'S, Oxford.

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