SHERIFFS FOR THE YEAR 1817. Bedfordsh. S. Crawley, of Stockwood, esq. Berkshire.-Wm. Stone, of Englefield, esq. Buckinghamshire.-G. Carrington, of Missenden-abbey, esq. Cambridgesh. & Huntingdonsh.-Postponed. Cheshire.-Sir Richard Brooke, of Nortonpriory, bart. Cumberland -Sir Ph. Musgrave, of Edenhall, bart. Derbysh.-T. Hallowes, of Glasswell, esq. Devonsh.-Sir Wal. Roberts,ofCourtland,bt. Dorsetsh.-SirW.Oglander,of Parnham,bt. Esser.-John Hall, of Woodford, esq. Gloucestershire.-Sir H. Cann Lippincott, of Stoke Bishop, bart. Herefordsh.Tomkyns Dew, of Witneycourt, esq. Herts.-Edm. Morris, ofCharley-wood, esq. Monmouthsh.-Sir Robert Thompson, of Norfolk. Henry Negus Burroughes, of Burlingham, esq. Northamptonsh.-Sir C. Knightley, of Fawsley-park, bart. Northumberland.-Sir T. J. Clavering, of Oxfordsh.-Walter Perry, esq. Rutlandsh.-T. F. Baines, of Morcott, esq. Shropshire.-W.O.Gore, of Porkingtou, esq. CIRCUITS SPRING NORFOLK. CIRCUITS. JUDGE S. NORTHERN. WESTERN. OXFORD. LdEllenbro' L. C. Justice L. C. Baron B. Wood 1817. B. Graham B. Richards J. Dallas J. Bayley J. Abbott J. Park 4 Winchester Reading Oxford THEATRICAL REGISTER. New Pieces. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. GAZETTE PROMOTIONS. Foreign-office, Feb. 1. John Barrow, esq. His Majesty's Consul in the Provinces of Biscay and Guipuscoa. Feb. 4. W. E. Powell, esq. Lieutenant of the county of Cardigan. Feb. 6. Sir Alexander Campbell, invested with the Ensigns of a Knight Commander of the Bath. War-office, Feb. 11. Gen. Francis Dundas, Governor of Dumbarton Castle, vice Gen. Drummond, dec.-Lieut.-gen. Baldwin Leighton, Governor of Carrickfergus, vice Dundas. Feb. 15. The following Officers, Companions of the Order of the Bath: viz. Cols. L. Smith, Sir C. W. Doyle, and Sir H. Douglas; Lieut.-cols. J. Viney, J. H. Dunkin, Sir W. P. Carrol, Sir P. R. Roche, J., M. Nooth, G. Holmes, F. M'Miller, F. Battersby, C. De Saluberry, G. Taylor, R. M'Douall, G. Macdonell, H. John, W. F. .Brotherton, P. Fyers, and Maj. R. Macdonald. Also a KnightCommander of the same Order: Lieut.gen. R. Jones, East India Company's Service. And the following Officers in the same Service Companions: viz. Col. J. Arnold; Lieut.-Cols. W. H. Cooper, A. Caldwell, R. Houston, J. Shapland; and Majors G. Mason, and A. Macleod. *** Erratum in our last Vol. p. 622: The Commission granted to Osborne Markham, esq. and two other Gentlemen, is revoked, and is not a new appointment, as there stated. Mr. Markham is appointed Comptroller of Barrack Accounts, in consequence of the new arrangement which has taken place in this branch of the public service. CIVIL PROMOTIONS. Dr. Edward-Daniel Clarke, Librarian of the University of Cambridge. Chamberlain William Walker, esq. Vicar-General of Leigblin and Ferne. Rev. Edmund S. Radcliffe, LL.B. Burnley Perpetual Curacy, vice Collins, dec. Rev. John Bradley, Sedgeley V. co. Stafford. Rev. Thomas Ibbetson, Garton V. co. York, Rev. Thomas Cotterill, M. A. Minister of St. Paul's Church, Sheffield, vice Mackenzie, dec. Rev. Alexander Arbuthnot, D. D. Dean of Cloyne. Rev. George Bishopp, Archdeacon of Aghadoe, vice Arbuthnot. Rev. Henry King, Archdeacon of Kilmackduagh, vice Vincent. Rev. Lancaster Dodgson, M. A. Brough V. Westmoreland. Rev. Edward Missenden Love, M. A. Somerleyton and Blundeston R. with Flixton, Norfolk. Rev. Edward Rodgers, M. A. St. Constantine V. Cornwall. Rev. William Russell, B. D. Shepperton R. Middlesex. Rev. R. Morgan, Rendham V. Suffolk. Rev. W.Veale, St. Keverne V. Cornwall. Rev. George Treweeke, St. Minver V. Cornwall. Rev. Joseph Bardgett, A. M. one of the Chaplains of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. Rev. W. Roland, Llandsaint R. co. Brecknock. Rev. John Valentine, Tintinhull Perpetual Curacy. Rev. Richard Griffith, D. D. Aber otherwise Llanaber R. co. Carnarvon, vice Davies, resigned. Rev. Robert Williams, B. A. Llandegfau R. with Beaumaris annexed, vice Griffith. Rev. M. Hare, Ashby-cum-Partney R. co. Lincoln. Rev. T. W. Hervey Beauchamp, B. A. Langley Perpetual Curacy. Rev. T. G. Acland, Lecturer of the united parishes of St. Mildred in the Poultry and St. Mary Coleehurch, London. Rev. John Morse, B. A. Huntley R. co. Gloucester, Rev. Edward Ravenshaw, West Keinton R. Wilts. Rev. Fisher Watson, Minister of St. Rev. William Smith, Vicar-General of George's Chapel, Yarmouth. Elphin. Dr. Ratcliffe, Vicar-General of the Archdioceses of Cashel, Armagh, and Dublin. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Rev. W. Chester, M. A. Langford R. with Ickburgh annexed, Norfolk. Rev. Richard Warner, Philip's Norton V. with Charterhouse Hinton Chapelry, Somerset. Rev. John Jones, Foy V. co. Hereford. Rev. R. Cholmeley, M. A. Wainfleet R. co. Lincoln. GENT. MAG. February, 1817. BIRTHS: Jan. 9. The wife of Edward Wigan, esq. of Highbury Terrace, a dau.-21. At Irwell House, the wife of Thomas Drinkwater, esq. son and heir.-24. At. Stoke Rochford, Lincolnshire, the Lady of Edmund Turnor, esq. a dau.-25. In Grosvenor-street, the wife of the Dean of Chester, a son.-29. At Brompton, the wife of William Horsley, Mus. Bac. Oxon. a son. At Narborough Hall, Norfolk, the wife of Samuel Tyssen, esq. a son.-30. In In Bedford Row, Mrs. Domville, a son.31. At the Admiralty, the wife of John Wilson Croker, Esq. a son. Lately, In Upper Grosvenor-street, the wife of Col. Cornewall, a dau.-At Earsham Hall, the wife of Lieut.-gen. Meade, a dau.-At Salton Hall, Scotland, Lady Eleanor Balfour, a dau.-At Porto-bello, Scotland, Lady Elibank, a son. Feb. 2. At Edinburgh, the wife of Maj. James Lee, late of 92d reg. a son.-4. At Powerscourt-house, Cheltenham, the lady of Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, bart. of Harewood-house, co. Hereford, a son.-At VaJenciennes, the wife of Lieut.-col. Mac Gregor, 88th reg. a dau.-5. At Camber well, the wife of the Rev. Philip Dodd, a dau. At the Hyde Cottage, Hendon, the wife of E.W.Bullock Webster, esq. a son.10. In New Boswell Court, the wife of Robert Belt, esq. Barrister at Law, a son.-12. At Lydford Rectory, Somerset, the wife of Rev. Dr. Colston, a son and heir.-The wife of Charles Augustus Tulk, esq. of Marblehall, Twickenham, a son.-17. In Margaret-street, Viscountess Duncannon, a dau. MARRIAGES. 1816, Sept. 26. Sir Peter Theron, to Susanna, only surviving child of the late Thomas Lambe, esq. of Dover. Dec. 26. Robert Farrer, esq. of Drómanby-hall, near Stokesley, to Elizabeth, second dau. of the late Mr. James Hammond, of Hovingham, co. York. 1817, Jan. 11. Sir John Anstruther, of Anstruther, bart. M. P. to Jessie, third dan. of Maj.-gen, Dewan, of Gilston. Lieut.-col. Beresford, Deputy Quartermaster-general in Nova Scotia, to Mary, dau. of Rev. J. Gilby, rector of Barmston, co. York. 13. By special license, Lieut.-col. Sir Guy Campbell, bart. to Frances Elizabeth, eldest dau, and co-heiress of Montagu Burgoyne, esq. of Mark-hall, Essex. 14. Rev. T. Clarke, Vicar of Mitcheldever, Hants, to Anna Maria, youngest dau. of the late Hon. John Grey. 15. Capt. Pechell, R. N. to Caroline, second dau. of William Thoyts, esq. of Reading. 16. Capt. Wilbraham, R. N. to Julia Fanny, youngest dau. of Lewis Montolieu, esq. 18. By special licence, Robert Eckford, esq. of the East India Company's service, to Aune, second dau. of the late James Halliwell, esq. of Broomfield, co. Lan caster. 20. John Becket, esq. Under Secretary of State for the Home Department, to Lady Anne Lowther, third daughter of the Earl of Lonsdale. At Dublin, James Clarke, esq. M. D. to Margaret, eldest dau. of William Harkness, esq. 21. Capt. Henry Ellis, 93d Highlanders, to Jane, dau. of Westrope Rosslewen, esq. of Cornfields, co. Clare. T. Boswell, esq. of Blackadder, co. Berwick, to Lucy Anne, eldest dau. of R. Preston, esq. of Bath. 22. The Earl of Longford, to Lady Georgiana Lygon, sister of Earl Beauchamp. Rev. Barre Phipps, A. M. Prebendary of Chichester, to Anna-Maria, youngest daughter of the late Rev. William Goddard, of Stargrove House, Hants. 22. At Boulogne, Col. William Staveley, C. B. to Sarah, eldest dau. of T. Mather, esq. 23. P.Wyatt Crowther, esq. of Colemanstreet, to Anna-Horatia, dau. of the late Capt. Augustus Dumaresq. At Earlgift, Tyrone, Rev. J. Lighton, son of Sir T. Lighton, Bart. to Mary, second dau. of Dr. Pemberton. At Musselburgh, Maj. John-Sutherland Sinclair, Royal Artillery, to Frances, youngest dau. of Capt. David Ramsay, R.N. 27. At Ugbrooke-park, Devon, Hen. Mr. Langdale, of Haughton, co. York, to the Hon. Charlotte Clifford, dau. of Lord Clifford. 28. Lieut.-col. H. F. Muller, 1st Royal Scots Foot, to Susan, second dau. of the late P. Wyatt Crowther, esq. Comptroller of the City of London. Rev. T. G. Dickenson, Rector of Alpheton, Suffolk, to Elizabeth, eldest dau, of James King, esq. of Wykham Park, co. Oxford. 29. Capt. Ord, Royal Artillery, second son of Craven Ord, esq. of Greensted-ball, Essex, to Miss Blagrave, neice to the late Lady Cullum, of Hardwicke-house, Suffolk. Rev. J. Bennett, nephew to the Bishop of Cloyne, to Louisa, eldest dau. of Robert Otway, Esq. of Cork. 30. Peter Herve, esq. Founder of "The National Benevolent Institution," to Miss Nicholls of Hampstead, daughter of the late J. Nicholls, esq. of Lincoln's Inn. Feb. 3. Capt. J. L. Stuart, of the Bengal Army, grandson of Francis, late Earl of Moray, to Sarah, sixth dau. of the late Robert Morris, esq. M. P. for Gloucester. 4. At Ickham Church, Kent, and at the Chapel at Hales Place, Edward Quillinan, esq. 3d Dragoon Guards, to Jemima, second dau. of Sir Egerton Brydges, of Lee Priory, near Canterbury, Bart. M. P. 5. Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, bart. to Lady Harriet Clive, eldest dau. of the Earl of Powis. 11. Thomas Forster, esq. F. L. S. eldest son of T. F. Forster, esq. of Clapton, Hackney, to Julia, third dau, of Col. Beaufoy, of Bushy Heath. 13. Rev. Charles Edward Stewart, Rector of Rede, Suffolk, and of Wakes Colne, Essex, to Miss Bassett of Melford. THE THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH. On Thursday, Jan. 29, died at Blenheim, aged 78, his Grace George, the third Duke of Marlborough. The day before his death, the Duke took his usual exercise in his carriage, and did not shew any symptoms of an approaching dissolution. He was found dead in the morning by his valet, who for several years past constantly slept in his chamber. The remains of this good and deeply lamented Nobleman were interred in the family vault in the Chapel at Blenheim, on Friday the 7th inst. This mournful duty was attended by his Grace the present Duke, Lord Charles and Lord Robert Spencer, Lord Churchill, the Marquis of Blandford, together with the Mayor and Corporation of Woodstock, impelled by an emphatic and laudable de'sire of bearing a testimony, at this last hour, of affectionate respect to the memory of their illustrious neighbour and friend. Not, however, to those alone who formed the funeral procession, will the grief arising from the death of his Grace be confined. Having manifested, at an early period of life, a distaste for the heartburnings and irritation too often attendant upon high official situation, and equally reluctant to ascend those dazzling though invidious heights of political power which might have been easily accessible to a personage of his splendid station and august extraction; his Grace chose rather to advance the welfare of mankind by other means, and in the cool invigorating shade of private life to cherish and mature those good desires and benevolent affections which have a tendency, perhaps, greater than any of the honours which are to be gathered in the walk of ambition, to ennoble the nature of man, and to abridge the catalogue of those sorrows and those crimes which are principally engendered by the necessities of our fellow-creatures. It has been beautifully said of the excellent Howard by an eminent living character, that"in feeding the lamp of charity he exhausted the lamp of life;" and in this voluntary seclusion from the splendour of public life, and in the concentration of all his heart and all his strength to the culture and nourishing up of that virtue which "never faileth," and the diffusion of its blessed fruits both at home and far around him, his Grace may be said (and it is oue of the noblest tributes that panegyric can bestow upon man) to have trodden, for a long series of years, the same path of humanity from whence that immortal Philanthropist never deviated, and in which it was his glory to die. Accordingly, to a wide circumference around his own domain, the charitable largesses of the Duke, for more than half a century, were extended with a zeal that never flagged, and a constancy that suffered no remission, Whenever a season of unusual severity occurred, or the rigours of want, from whatsoever cause arising, pressed upon the comforts of the poor, his bounty expanded to meet the hardship of the occasion. Uninterruptedly resident, with very little exception, upon his own property, he was brought more immediately into contact with the specific character of each case of distress, and, on this account, his charity was exercised with that judicious discrimination which at once doubles the value and dignifies the purposes of benevolence. His Grace's merits might justify the application to himself of the comprehensive eulogy conferred by Tully upon the virtues of Crassus: "Non unus e multis, sed unus inter omnes prope singularis." Any attempt of ours to describe the sorrow, deep and undissembled, which the loss of such a benefactor has occasioned amid all the habitations of the necessitous in the neighbourhood of Blenheim, must, of necessity, be faint and imperfect but we lament to think that the regret so widely felt will be sharpened with additional poignancy from the consideration that his death should have happened at a season when, by the severe visitation of Heaven, distress, to so afflicting an extent, is spread abroad in the country. Yet to that neighbourhood alone (though the circle swept by his munificence was very spacious) the good deeds of his Grace were not limited: to the city of Oxford in various ways, and to every charitable institution established within its walls, the strong aud willing arm of his patronage and succour was extended. The University, too, (though he himself was never a Member of that learned body) stands gratefully indebted to the same spirit of unsurpassed generosity for the large Telescope at the Observatory, the fine copies from Paphael's Cartoons in the Picture Gallery, and other gifts. In the bosom of domestic life, and with regard to all those lovely and endearing graces which beautify and bless it, the merits of his Grace shone conspicuously and without remission. alted rank is an exposed and perilous situation, and is not unfrequently beset and ensnared, with fatal danger to its virtuous security, by temptation and the importunate spirit of evil desires; but his Grace had ever preserved the fountain of action unpolluted-had ever resisted, with unwavering cousistency, the blandishments of illicit pleasure, and maintained the most correct and stainless purity of manners. It was remarked by Mr. Burke upon a very memorable, occasion, and in a vein of satirical indignation against the universal impulse to jealousy in the buman heart, that "obloquy is a necessary ingredient in the composition of all true great Ex ness.?? ness." There was, however, something so singularly gentle, unostentatious, and inoffensive in the genius of his Grace's virtues, that the censorious were disarmed by it, and the lips of detraction entirely put to silence. In no instance was merit more free from all sophistication of pride or pretension; and it was, therefore, never harassed by the assaults which such qualities commonly provoke. We really do not recollect to have heard at any time or upon any occasion, the name of the Duke of Marlborough evilly spoken of. Even that envious slander which is so subtle and so malignantly active in its low and illiberal hostility against the noble and the opulent, never ventured to breathe a whisper upon the unsullied ermine of his character. More than all, he was a sound and a thoroughly disciplined believer in Scripture; his religious professions spake eloquently in practice, and were abundantly fruitful in every variety of virtuous conduct. He gave full proof that he was thoroughly furnished unto all good works, and had learned to adorn the doctrine of God his Saviour in all things. He was the indulgent parent, the affectionate husband, the constant friend, the kind and considerate master; and having kept himself, throughout a long life, in no common degree, unspotted by the world, he came to the grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season, and is gone, we would fain hope, to receive the promise vouchsafed to the "good and faithful servant," and to be "made perfect" in the paradise of his Father and his God. G. T.. The following instance of his Grace's munificence is recorded in a very interesting Memoir of Mr. Jacob Bryant, by the late Mr. Justice Hardinge, printed in Mr. Nichols's "Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century:" The Duke of Marlborough's conduct by Mr. Bryant when bis Grace came of age, and when Mr Bryant attended his levee, is an instance of munificent gratitude, and of delicacy in the manner of it, perhaps unparalleled. After his father's death, he continued the income to him which the former Duke had conferred pon him in fact, but with no legal security. That income was, I think, 1000. a-year, At this levee, after Mr. Bryant had made his bow and retired, one of the servants ran after him, and said, the Duke had picked up a paper out of Mr. Bry His Grace was born on January 26, 1738-9 (Old Style), and, upon returning from his travels, was made a Captain in the 20th regiment of foot, but afterwards resigned; he succeeded to the title, on the death of his father, October 20, 1758, In April, 1760, his Grace was appointed Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Oxford, and was continued in those offices by his present Majesty, at whose coronation he carried the sceptre with the cross. On the 23d of August, 1762, his Grace married Lady Caroline Russell, daughter of John, Duke of Bedford, who died Nov. 26, 1811. On Nov. 22, 1762, being then Lord Chamberlain of the Household, his Grace was sworn of the Privy Council; and upon his resigning the Chamberlain's key, was, on April 22, 1763, appointed Lord Privy Seal; but in August, 1765, quitted that place. In 1768 he was chosen one of the elder brethren of the Trinity House. At a chapter of the most noble Order of the Garter, held at St. James's, Dec. 12, 1768, bis Grace was elected one of the Knights Companions of that Order, and was installed at Windsor, July 25, 1771.. He was also one of the Governors of the Charter House; High Steward of the Corporation of Oxford; President of the Radcliffe Infirmary; High Steward of the Corporation of Woodstock; and Ranger of Whichwood Forest. If we have not been misinformed, he was the last surviving Peer who had a seat in the House of Lords upon the King's accession to the throne in 1760 +. His Grace is succeeded by his eldest son, the Marquis of Blandford, (who was created Baron Spencer of Wormleighton, in 1806,) born March 3, 1766; married Sept. 15, 1791, Susan Stewart, daughter of John, Earl of Galloway. The other surviving issue of his Grace are the Baron Churchill, born Dec. 26, 1779, and mar ried Nov. 25, 1800, to Lady Frances Fitz roy, fifth daughter of the Duke of Grafton; Lady Caroline, born Oct. 27, 1763, married March 10, 1792, Henry Lord Clifden, now Lord Mendip; Lady Anne, born Nov. 5, 1773, married Dec. 10, 1796, *After the alteration of Style his Grace's birth-day was of course till 1800, by the Act passed in 1752 for altering the Style, the 6th of Feb.; since 1800, on the 7th. We are aware that there are two or three Peers still living who had succeeded to all the titular honours of their respective Houses as early as the period we speak of, but they were then minors, and consequently could have no seat in either House of ParJiament. And the present Duke of Gordon succeeded his father so long ago as 1752; but his Grace was not elected one of the 16 Representative Peers of Scotland until 1769, nor was he created a British Peer until several years afterwards. the |