the Honourable Cropley Ashley, brother to the Earl of Shaftesbury; Lady Amelia Sophia, born Sept. 8, 1785, married Sept. 22, 1812, to Henry Pytches Boyce, Esq. Lord Henry died unmarried, July 3, 1795; Lady Elizabeth, who married her cousin, John Spencer, Esq. died a few years since, and left several children; Lady Charlotte, who married the Rev. Dr. Nares, the son of the Judge, died January 5, 1802.

EARL OF GUILDFORD.

Jan.... Died at Pisa, the Rt. Hon. Francis North, Earl of Guildford. His Lordship was the second son of Frederick Earl of Guildford, and inherited from his father the invariable benevolence that formed the foundation of all his character-a benevolence, not confined to the more ostensible exertions of generosity and charity, but extending itself through all the unpretending kindnesses of social life. It was never overlooked in the exultation of wit and spirits; and it will be well remembered by his acquaintance, that he never could hear any person indiscreetly and hastily condemned, without immediately employing himself to search for their possible excuse. His brilliant wit, and his most exhilarating cheerfulness, are known to all who ever heard his name; but those who had occasion to apply to him at more serious moinents, had equal reason to admire the solidity and acuteness of his judgment. His principles on every subject were honourable and liberal, and his manners were the immediate reflection of his manly, candid, and affectionate mind. At every period of his life he preserved the greatest reverence for the attributes of the Christian religion, and the firmest belief in its doctrines; and he expired while invoking the blessing of the Almighty upon those around him, still anxious, even at that awful moment, to impart to the objects of his warmest love a share in the happiness that was opening to his enjoyment.

His Lordship was born Dec. 25, 1761; succeeded his brother George Augustus, the late Earl, April 20, 1802; and married July 19, 1810, Maria, sixth daughter of the late Thomas Boycott, of Rudge Hall, Shropshire, esq. He was a lieut.colonel in the army; high steward of Banbury; captain of Deal Castle; and patent-comptroller inwards and outwards and patent searcher of the customs. The author of the Biographical Peerage observes of his Lordship,-" He possesses the hereditary talents and love of literature of his family; and what is beter, that hereditary good-nature, benevolence, freedom from guile, openness and liberality, which have, for ages, given

a peculiar tincture to his ancestors. The house of North, frank, unassuming, and kind, have, for centuries, set a pattern of what in truth they are, true nobility. Their ease is well calculated to put the insolence of modern upstarts to shame." The Earl dying without issue is succeeded in his titles and estates by his sole surviving brother Frederick North, patent joint chamberlain of the Tally office in the Exchequer, now Earl of Guildford. The three brothers on whom the title has thus fallen successively, were sons of the late celebrated Lord North.

SAMUEL RUDGE, Esq.

Died Jan. 24, at Watlington, Oxfordshire, in his 90th year, unmarried, Samuel Rudge, Esq. He was the eighth son of the Rev. Benj. Rudge, rector of Thornbaugh, Northamptonshire, and a nephew of John Rudge, Esq. of Wheatfield, Oxfordshire, who represented the Borough of Evesham in Parliament from the year 1698 to 1734. He practised the Law in the Middle Temple, but retired from the profession in 17763, at the same time that his elder brother, John Rudge, Esq. upon inheriting an ample fortune, quitted the bar; they then both went to reside at Elstree in Herts, and lived there, together thirty-eight years. In 1792 be served the office of High Sheriff for the county of Northampton, and at the decease of bis brother John in 1801 he removed to Wallington.-His mind, active and intelligent, capable of investigating. every subject with accurate discrimination and sound judgment, his comprehensive legal knowledge, his strong retentive memory, unimpaired to the last, and his benevolent and liberal disposition, secured him the reverence and love of a. numerous circle of relations and friends, to whom he was ever ready to afford information or advice: when he wrote, he had the happy talent of conveying the clearest intelligence in the fewest words.His reading was general and extensive, but Natural History was his favourite study, and Botany that branch of it to which he most assiduously devoted himself so early as about the year 1750, fɔllowing at first the systems of Ray and Tournefort, before the system of Linnæus was adopted, or scarcely known in England; and till within a very short period of his decease, he continued to exercise, his admirable faculties in the cultivation of that engaging science. His innumer-able MS notes in almost every botanical work that he possessed, fully testify his extensive and correct knowledge of the science. That portion of his Library relating to Natural History he has bequeathed to his Nephew (the son of his eldest brother), the author of several bo

tanical

tanical publications, to whom the entailed family estates in Warwickshire and Northamptonshire descend; his own private fortune, an estate in Northamptonshire, he has left to another Nephew (the son of his seventh brother) residing in Oxfordshire, who is his Executor and residuary Legatee.

His loss is sincerely lamented by all his relations and friends; to his servants he was most indulgent, to the poor most bountiful. From the commencement of his last illness, which continued ten days, he distinctly foresaw its inevitable termination, and contemplated it with the composure arising from a true sense of religion, the recollection of a well-spent life, and a perfect submission to the will of divine Providence. It may be desirable here to notice for the benefit of sufferers from calculous complaints, that for the last 40 years of his life, he constantly took a decoction of raw coffee, which acted as a powerful solvent, afforded him much benefit, and relieved him from calculi during that period in quantity equal to a half piut measure.

DEATHS.

1816. AT Delhie, aged 27, Alexander June 4. Charles Fraser, of the East India Company's Civil Service, Bengal, Assistant to the Resident at Delhie, fourth son of Edward Satchwell Fraser, esq. of Ralick, Inverness shire. Aug. 16. At Fort Rotterdam, Macapen, in the East Indies, Lieut. Alexander Irvine, of the East India Company's Bengal European Regt. eldest son of Maj.gen. Charles Irvine.

Aug. 30. At Calcutta, Charles Desborough, esq. of the East India Company's Medical Establishment.

Oct. 20. At Rome, Henry Sapte, esq. formerly captain in his majesty's 19th ft.

Dec. 18. At her daughter's house, at Pocklington, Yorkshire, aged 72, Mrs. Hannah Tate, widow of the late William Tate, esq. of Flatmanby Grange.

At Malta, the wife of Major Fearon, of the 31st Regt.

Dec. 24. In London, Francés, widow of the late Rev. John Robinson, rector of Stockerston, co. Leicester.

At Beverley, much and deservedly respected, Robert Norris, esq. solicitor.

Dec. 28. Aged 55, John Bury, esq. of

Boil 36 raw Coffee berries for one hour in a quart of soft, spring, or river water, then bruise the berries and boil them again another hour in the same water; add thereto a quarter of a teaspoonfull of the dulcified spirit of uitre, and take daily a half pint cup of it at any hour that is convenient: its efficacy win be experienced after taking it two months.

Suddenly, Rev. Robert Kyffin, rector of Llanddoget, co. Denbigh. He was taken ill while riding to perform morning service in his own parish church, and had just strength enough to alight from his horse, when he turned into a small cottage, and expired in half an hour.

Jun. 14. In Ravonstonedale, Westmoreland, aged 82, Mrs Bownass, widow of Rev. J. Bownass, many years minister of that parish.

At Clifton, Dame Anne Miller, relict of Sir Thomas Miller, bart. of Glenlee, Lord President of the Court of Session of Scotland. She was daughter of John Lockhart, esq. of Castle Hill.

Jan. 15. At Garry hunden, Sir Richard Butler, bart. many years M. P. for the County of Carlow.

At Riccall, co. York, in his 89th year, Rev. Joseph Nelson, 50 years vicar of Skipwith, and curate of Riccall; a firm and zealous supporter of the Protestant Religion, and the British Constitution, as by Law established, in Church and State.

Jan. 20. At the rectory at Eccleston, Edward Thornycroft, esq. of Thornycroft Hall, co. Chester.

At Edinburgh, Gen. Drummond, of Strathallan.

Jan 21. At Bath, G. Lovibond, esq. of Manchester-square.

At Johannisberg, aged 76, the Prince Hohenlohe-Waldenberg-Bartenstein, Bp.

of Breslau.

Jan. 22. In the Fleet Prison, where he had been coufined near eleven years for contempt of the Court of Chancery, Capt. Green.

Aged 71, Mrs. Thomas, widow of the late Capt. Thomas, North York Militia.

At Hatfield, Thomas Stevenson, esq. 40 years Steward to the Marquis of Salisbury. At Clifton, in his 84th year, Col. Edward Hamilton.

At Buckland, near Lymington, Hants, Mrs. Bowles, relict of Chas. Bowles, esq. and sister to the late Lt.-gen. Sir Harry Burrard, bart.

Jan. 23. The wife of Rev. Anthony Hinton, of Norwood, Middlesex.

Jan. 24. At his mother's residence, Woodcote Park, Surrey, of a deep decline, Lewis Teissier, esq. formerly of his Majesty's 50th foot.

In Grafton-street East, much respected, in his 44th year, Mr. Thomas Dermer.

At his father's, George-street, Hanoversquare, Pinkstern James, eldest son of Dr. Janies.

At

At Ripon, Elizabeth Allanson, daughter of the late Cuthbert Allanson, D. D. rector of Wath near Ripon.

Jan. 25. At Kingston-upon-Thames, in her 67th year, Mrs. Pearse.

At Whetstone, in his 81st year, Rev. Richard Neate, formerly of Trinity college, Cambridge.

At Clifton, in his 61st year, John Campbell, esq. formerly of Spotfield and Gibraltar Estates, Jamaica, and of Phill's-bill, near New York, America. In Jamaica he for many years, with the spirit and independence that characterized his life, represented in the House of Assembly the opulent parish of Trelawny; and in the private walks of life he was esteemed and beloved by all who knew him for his excellent qualities, among which predominated benevolence, cheerfulness, and a generous solicitude for all around him.

At Hastings, the wife of Hon. Col. Harris. At Alresford, the wife of Blastus Godly Wright, esq. of the Polygon House near Southampton.

Jan. 26. In Grosvenor-place, Caroline Dowager Countess of Buckinghamshire. Her Ladyship was the sister of the late T. Conolly, the wealthy Irish commoner, aud daughter of William Conolly, esq. of Stratton Hall, co. Stafford, by Anne Wentworth, daughter of Thomas, third Earl of Stratford. Her Ladyship had three sons, all now dead, and oue daughter, viz. Amelia, the present Viscountess Castlereagh.

In York-street, St. James's square, Georgiana Sophia, youngest daughter of Henry Hugh Hoare, esq.

The wife of J. P. Rowe, esq. of the New River Office, London.

Suddenly, aged 34, Mr. William Morrish, of Copthall-court, Throgmorton-st.

Jan. 26. On Sunday evening, about half past eight o'clock, in his newly-repaired and well furnished house at Brompton, in the parish of Kensington, aged sixty-six years, resigned to his fate, contented with life, prepared for death, and full of hopes of immortality, through faith in the mystery of atonement by our Lord Jesus Christ, the mild and truly venerable John Holland, esq.-Such events surprise not: they seem but ordinary occurrences, the natural effects of natural causes, the result of one common and inevitable destiny, decreed by the justice of the Almighty, in short, the lot of every sou and daughter of frail and fallen Man:

By Nature's law, what may be, may be now;

There's no prerogative in human hours. In human hearts what bolder thoughts cau rise,

Than Man's presumption on to-morrow's dawn?

Where is to-morrow? In another world. For numbers this is certain; the reverse

This "peradventure," infamous for lies,
As on a rock of adamant, we build
Our mountain hopes; spin our eternal
schemes,

As we the fatal sisters would out-spin,
And, big with life's futurities, expire.

Mr. H. lived a life of bonest and honourable character, his conduct was exemplarily correct; the afflicting particulars of his death, sudden and unexpected, were most awful, and we trust they may not prove uninstructive.

Some time after the decease of his wife, by whom he had a family of three sons and one daughter, he resigned a very reputable and lucrative concern to his eldest son, and retired wholly from the cares of business, to enjoy in his own way the comforts of an English gentleman secured by the hard-earned princely fortune of a successful English trader. no country in Europe but in England, can the profits of industry confer on their worthy possessor an independence and a respectability almost equal to the haughtiest privileges and prerogatives of liberal birth: by the unassuming subject of this sketch the advantage was justly appreciated, and never abused. In the course of his trade he was known to many families of fortune and distinction, who freely and widely threw open their doors to his respectful visits, after he quitted the shop. Several years ago, he had the misfortune by a fall to break one of his knee-pans: scarcely four years have yet elapsed since by a similar mischance he fractured the other: In both cases, the temperance of his habits and the gentleness and equability of his disposition soon enabled him to recover to a considerable degree a portion of former activity, and he daily exerted his limited locomotive powers in slow and short walks about Brompton.

Of his children Mr. H. was deservedly fond, and to all he was impartially indulgent; his daughter he happily married two years ago, his eldest son and successor in trade is also married; one son died, and the youngest son he settled in the farming line, much to the satisfaction of all parties, the very last week previous to his own dissolution. To attest a father's

joy, the good old gentleman gave a little ball at his house on Monday, 20th January; he was himself pleased, and by his unaffected and exuberant cheerfulness of temper eulivened the very liveliest heart around him. On Thursday, 23d, he went in the Chelsea Stage to London, where he dined. After dinner, adverting to the theme (next to his views of Heaven) ever uppermost in his thoughts, the happiness of his family, he gently avowed his readiness to quit this world for the next, when

ever Providence should please to ordain his departure. In the evening, to obviate the chance of accidents, he returned to the top of Sioane-street in the coach, and quitted the vehicle to walk three hundred yards to his own door. In walking part of those three hundred yards, he trød upon a piece of orange-peel, slipped, and fell back violently, breaking his leg, and otherwise much injuring himself. On the arrival of help, he calmly directed the mode of his conveyance homewards, gave orders for the attendance of his surgeon, and was put into bed, whence he rose no more. A mortification followed, with occasional delirium. The writer of this plain statement knew and revered him long, and humbly thus offers a tribute of affectionate regard to the memory of JOHN HOLLAND. What grave prescribes the best? A friend's: and yet, [gage! From a friend's grave how soon we disenEv'n to the dearest, as his marble, cold. Why are friends ravish'd from us? 'Tis to bind,

By soft affection's ties, on human hearts, The thought of DEATH, which reason, too supine,

Or misemploy'd, so rarely fastens there.
WEEDEN BUTLER,
Chelsea.
Lecturer of Brompton.

In Conduit street, Martha, wife of Thomas Bent, esq. of Upper Norton-street, and of Hillingdon, Middlesex.

In his 73d year, Mr. Joseph Moon, teacher of the mathematics in Salisbury, and author of the well-known Western Almanack.

At Shawdon, near Alnwick, aged 81, Wm. Hargrave, esq. one of the oldest magistrates for the county of Northumberland. He served the office of High Sheriff for the county in 1783.

At Whixley-hall, Yorkshire, aged 73, Mr. Siminson, son of the late Warren Siminson, esq. of Star Burton.

At Milton House, Edinburgh, Cecilia, eldest daughter of John Thompson, esq. Jan. 27. Paul Groves, esq. of Stockwell, Surrey.

In the 70th year of his age, Charles Duffin, esq.

At Knightsbridge, aged 74, Mrs. Wyatt, relict of James Wyatt, esq.

At Bath, where she had resided many years beloved and respected, in her 85th year, Mrs. Philips, relict of the late Frederick Philips, esq. and mother of Lady Strangford, New York.

At Wykeham Abbey, near Scarborough, aged 55, Richard Langley, esq. He served the office of High Sheriff of the county of York in 1786.

Jan. 28. In York-place, suddenly, Robert Polhill, esq.

In his 84th year, Anthony Gell, esq. of Cheyne-walk, Chelsea.

At Colchester, Lieut.-col. Norris, of the Engineers in the East India Company's service, Madras Establishment.

In her 21st year, of rapid consumption, Miss Shelly, niece to Mr. Tippetts, Surgeon, of Spital-square, and daughter of Seba Shelly, esq. of Saint Anne's in the island of Jamaica.

At Aberdeen, Lieut.-col. Finlayson.

At Fort Etna, Limerick, Ireland, T. G. Peacocke, esq. The estate devolves on his eldest son Capt. T. Goodriche Peacocke, A. D. C.

Jan. 29. John Tekell, esq. late of the Middle Temple.

At Southampton, in his 72d year, Rev. Dr. Mant, rector of All Saints, Southampton, and of Fonthill-Bishops, Wilts.

At Winchester, of an inflammation on the lungs, Henry Bosanquet, esq. of Clanville Lodge, near Andover, late High Sheriff of the County of Southampton.

In Maitland-street, Edinburgh, Margaret, widow of the late Robert Scott, esq. of Coudhouse, Roxburghshire.

In his 22d year, John Hawtrey Jones, esq. eldest son and heir of H. Jones, esq. of Mullinbro (Kilkenny), and grandson and adopted heir of the late Rev. Ralph Hawtrey of Waterford. His premature decease was occasioned by a fall from his horse the day preceding, while coursing in the demesne of Dunkett, near his father's residence. A hare had been started, and Mr. Jones galloping with great eagerness in pursuit, unhappily encountered a tree, and was thrown with desperate violence on his back, by which his spine was mortally injured.

Jan. 30. In Percy-street, in his 78th year, James Moore, esq.

In Mecklenburgh-square, the youngest son of Wm. Roberts, esq.

At Bury Lodge, Gosport, Mary Martha, youngest daughter of Capt. Rowland Money, R. N.

Aged 28, at Devizes, on his way from Bath, Mr. John Dick, son of James Dick, esq. of Artillery-place.

At Clifton, Capt. Clarke, R. N.

Jan. 31. At Lympston, Devon, Mary Ruth, eldest daughter of Thomas Glendining, esq. of Basinghall-street.

At Ramsgate, in his 71st year, James Townley, esq. of Doctors' Commons, an eminent proctor. He was the son of the Rev. James Townley, high-master of Merchant Taylors' school, and the friend of Hogarth; of whom an account will be found in Nichols's "Anecdotes of Hogarth," 4to. vol. 1. pp. 173-176. The late Mr. Townley had a considerable taste for literature; and printed a small voJume of his poems, for the private use of his friends.

At Swaffham, Norfolk, aged 83, Mrs. Jane Grant.

Jan.

Jan... At Valenciennes, aged 29, James Boyd, esq. Paymaster of the 5th foot. On the last day of the year 1815, he lost a most beloved wife, whose life was to him every joy; and though he prayed for, and obtained from, his heavenly Father that consolation which the world cannot afford under such a loss, yet still grief preyed upon his heart, and falling on a constitution already weakened by a long campaign in the Peninsula, at length brought on a decline, which terminated a life, the memory of which will long be held most dear by his many friends. From the uniform rectitude of his principles, he was highly respected in his regimen, and his afflicted family have lost in him a dutiful son, and affectionate brother. He has left one orphan boy about seven years old.

LATELY.-In Rathbone place, in her 26th year, the wife of Dr Perrin, of the East India Company's Medical Establishment, Bombay.

Berks-At Benham House, aged 41, Mrs. Letitia Smith.

At Woolhampton, aged 85, Rev. James Burnell, many years rector of North Muskham and Caunton, Notts.

Aged $6, Mr. Rutter, senior member of the Choir of St. George's Chapel, Windsor. Cambridgeshire-At Whittlesea, aged 83, the widow of Mr. Stona, surgeon.

Cheshire. Anne, wife of John Laxden, esq. an Alderman of Chester.

At Chester, at an advanced age. Bagot Reed, esq.. prothonotary for Cheshire and Flintshire..

At Woodchurch, William, eldest son of Rev. Bryan King.

At Ollerton, aged 77, Mr. John Wood. He lived alone, in a very penurious way, denying himself the, common necessaries of life, although possessed of three houses and some land. After his death his relatives found 289 guineas and 4 half guineas in gold in three leathern bags, and a number of bank notes tied up in a bundle of sticks. The guineas were in the wall and plastered over.

Cornwall.-Aged 72, Mrs. Dalby, widow of Rev. Mr. Dalby, of St. Pinnock. At Newham, the wife of Capt. Woolridge, R. N.

Aged 85, Rev. John Symonds, 35 years rector of St. Tudy near Bodmin.

Cumberland -At Carlisle, aged 77, Mrs. Pearson, ret of the late Samuel Pearson, esq. of Hawkesdale.

At Carlisle, the widow of Dr. Losh. At Carlisle, aged 36, the wife of Dr. Smith.

At Blencowe, the wife of Rev. Johu Stephenson, Master of Blencowe School. In Cumberland, Mr. Isaac Dixon, SchoJar of Queen's College, Cambridge, and GENT. MAG. February, 1817.

one of the Exhibitioners elected at Aberford on Lady Hastings's foundation.

Derbyshire-At Butterly Hall, aged 58, Mrs Jessop.

At Walton upon Trent, Frances, eldest daughter of E. M. Mundy, jun. esq. Devon. At Budleigh Salterton, Frances, wife of Lieut.-col. Furzer, Royal Marines, and eldest daughter of the late Maj.gen. Dixon, Royal Engineers.

At Matford House, near Exminster, aged 25, Lieut. J. Trodd, 13th Lt. Drag.

At Exeter, aged 90, Mrs. Back, mother of the Rev. Edward Back.

At Exeter, Anne, wife of Ralph Rice, esq. barrister at law.

At Exeter, in his 86th year, Mr. John Land of the New Loudon Inn. He was the oldest, and supposed to be nearly the richest inn-keeper in the kingdom. To the Devon and Exeter Hospital he has left 5001. His remains were interred with much funeral pomp. The bearse, drawn by six horses, was followed by eight coaches and four, 15 post chaises, and 160 gentlemen on horseback.

In her 106th year, Margaret Clark, well known at Stonehouse and Exeter. She was born at Dundee, and married there about 80 years since. She was at the battle of Fontenoy with her husband, who was afterwards a serjeant of Invalids; she had fifteen children, one of whom is drum-major of the East Devon Militia; she lost two sons at sea at the time of the great earthquake, and five in the action fought against the French by the fleet under the command of Admiral Keppel. Tea was her constant beverage, and she asserted that she had never drunk either beer or spirits during her long life.

Essex At Colchester, Mrs. Cornelia de Lancy, relict of S. de Lancy, esq. formerly Governor of Tobago, and mother of Col. Sir W. H. de Lancy, K. C. B. who fell at the Battle of Waterloo.

Gloucestershire-At Cirencester, in his 68th year, Richard Selfe, esq. a Magistrate of the county.

At Gloucester, in his 72d year, C. L. Thomas, esq. many years Collector of Excise for that district, and a faithful servant to Government for more than half a century.

At Clifton, near Bristol, aged 24, Elizabeth Margaret Antoinetia Ridley, wife of the Rev. John Ridley, Prebendary of Bristol Cathedral.

Hants-At Gurnet, Isle of Wight, Lieut. William Trevathick, R. N.

Herefordshire-In his 82d year, Rev. Dr. Lewis, rector of Monnington on Wye, and vicar of Waxford in the diocese of Peterborough.

Lancashire-Aged 66, T. Moore, esq. one of the Aldermen of Lancaster.

Leicestersh.