An Account of the Income of, and Charge upon the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended the 5th January 1816 and 1817, together with the Amount of War Taxes, and the Annual Duties, &c. to the same periods.

BIRTHS.

Dec. 6. At Florence, the lady of Sir Thomas Trowbridge, R. N. a son.-23. The wife of W. E. Lees, esq. a son.24. The wife of Thomas O. Lees, esq. a. son.-25. The wife of John C. Lees, esq. a son.-30. The lady of Sir H. Lees, bart. a son and heir.

Lately. In Upper Berkeley-street, the wife of Hon. Lieut.-col. Grey, a son.--In Sackville-street, Piccadilly, the wife of Robert Westley Halls, esq. a son and heir. At Bath, the wife of Lieut.-col. Wardlow, a son.--At Rio de Janeiro, the wife of Henry Chamberlain, his Britannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, a dau.

Jan. 2. In Devonshire-place, the lady of Maj.-gen. Sir William Anson, K. C. B. a son.-4. In Hertford-st. the Countess of Clonmell, a son and heir.-At Hollycombe, Sussex, the wife of C. W. Taylor, esq. M. P. a son and heir.-7. At Kensington, the wife of E. E. Vidal, esq. R. N. a day.-8. At Cambridge, Lady Mortlock, a dau.-10. The wife of Rev. Charles Parr Burney, a son.-10. The wife of Dr. Edward-Thomas Monro, Gowerstreet, a son.-11. In Wimpole-street, the lady of Hon. J. T. Leslie Melville, a son. -In Harley-st. the wife of Capt. Beaufort, R. N. a son.-13. At Kemsey Lodge, Worcester, the lady of Maj.-gen. Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe, bart. a dau–14. In Wimpole-street, the lady of Rt. Hon. Ld. Bridport, a dau.-In Hinde-street, Man chester-square, the wife of Daniel Cronin, jun, esq. of Prospect-hall, Killarney, a son.-16. Viscountess Folkestone, a dau.

MARRIAGES.

Oct. 1. At Kineton, Warwickshire, Rob. Dormer, esq. youngest son of the Hon. James Dormer, to Elizabeth, only child and heiress of the late Richard Hill, esq. of Kineton.

Dec. 20. At Gotha, the reigning Duke of Saxe Cobourg, to the Princess Louisa, only dau. of the reigning Duke of Gotha.

21. Robert Marquis, esq. late of Bengal, to Mary Forsyth, daughter of Thomas Rannie, esq. of Bird's Park, Cullen.

26. W. G. Paul, esq. of Ballyglan, Waterford, second son of the late Sir J. Paul, bart. to Marianne, fifth dau. of the late Edward Moore, esq. of Mooresfort, Tip, perary, and niece to Lord Brandon.

William Young, esq. of Coperagh, Carlow, to Henrietta-Maria Leslie, eldest dau. of the late Major Adams, of Annalee.

30. Rev. John Gore, to Maria, only dau, of the late Capt. John Toone, of Upper-terrace, Islington.

Dec.... By special licence, Lieut. Maurice-Fitzhardinge Powell, Aide-de-camp to the Prince Regent, eldest son of Mr. Powell, of Bristol, to Lady Eleanor Dumbarton, of Dumbarton Castle.

Lately, Richard Eastwick, esq. to Frances, youngest dau. of Maj.-gen. Fyers.

W. Gray, esq. R. N. to Louisa, only dau. of Mrs. Esdaile, and niece to Gen. Glasgow, R. A.

William Curzon, esq. youngest son of C. H. Curzon, esq. of Melton, to Maria, only daughter of Col. Hunlock.

At 'Hitchen, Robert-Linlow Carr, esq. M. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, to Fanuy, eldest dau. of the late Rev. H. Ward, M. A. of Queen's College..

Samuel Gerrard, esq. late of the 3d (or King's own) Dragoons, and only son of Thomas Gerrard, esq. of Tally-ho, Westmeath, to Elizabeth, eldest dau. of T. L. Fowler, esq. of Pendeford House, co. Staff.

Major H. B. Harris, to Anne, eldest dau, of the lateT. H. Balteel, esq. of Bellevue, Devon.

Jun. 1. John Clayton Hall, M. D. to Mrs. Eliza-Jackson Rand, widow of the late Charles Rand, esq. of Madras.

William-John Law, esq. to Charlotte Mary, eldest dau. of Rob. Simpson, esq. John Parrott, esq. of Mitcham, to Mrs. Phillips, of Phipps-bridge, near Merton Abbey.

J. H. Bellairs, esq. of Leicester, to Frances-Louisa, sister to Lieut.-col. Bull, K. C. B. of the Royal Horse Artillery.

At Lisbon, F. W. Haden, esq. Deputy Commissary General, to Mrs. Maria Bullen, widow of A. J. Bullen, esq. and eldest dau. of Sam. Thornton, esq. of Streatham.

2. Mr. R. Revell, of Chelsea Hospital, to Anne-Mary, eldest dau. of the late Gwyn Jones, esq. of Berbice.

4. E. Tovey, esq. of Daleybrook House, Road, Somerset, to Mrs. Duncan, widow of John Duncan, esq. of Jamaica.

John Irvine, esq. eldest son of Gerard Irvine, esq. of Rockfield, co. Fermanagh, to Sarah, eldest dau. of T. Towers, esq. of Bushy Park, Tipperary.

6. Rt. Hon. Joshua Lord Huntingfield, of Heveningham Hall, Suffolk, to Miss Blois, dau. of Sir C. Blois, bart. of Cockfield Hall, in the same county.

At Edinburgh, John Polwarth, esq. factor for Lord Keith in Scotland, to Miss Adams, dau. of the late Henry Adams, esq. of Lincoln's-inn.

7. Sir J. H. English, K. G. V. surgeon, of Lower Grosvenor-street, to Miss ElizaWigglesworth Bogle, of Manchester-sq.

Henry, son of P. Desbishire, esq. of Little Maddox street, to Mary-EdwardinaFenwick Stuart, dau. of E. Fenwick, esq. and niece to the late Lieut-gen. Sir John Stuart, Count of Maida.

8. Capt. Gapt. George-Augustus Westphal, R. N. to Mrs. Chambers, of Upper' Berkeley-street, Portman-square.

H. J. Conyers, esq. only son of J. Conyers, esq. of Copt Hall, Essex, to Harriet, second dau. of Rt. Hon. Thomas Steele.

Mr. URBAN,

SIR GEORGE PREVOST, Bart.

Jan. 1817. The enclosed Halifax newspaper contains some observations, which appear to me so illustrative of the character and services of that inestimable man, and very excellent, but much-injured officer, the late Governor General of British North America, and so justly, though briefly, detail many of the civil and military difficulties which he had to encounter and did surmount, that I trust you will agree with me in thinking them highly deserving a place in your Miscellany.

Now that the irritation and animosities of party-spirit have subsided and been buried in the grave, I doubt not but every impartial man will allow the preservation of Canada to the British empire to have been chiefly owing to the judicious conduct of Sir George Prevost, in the ardupus charge committed to him by his So'vereigu.

It is certainly of great importance that the fair fame and well-earned reputation of military men should be cherished, and protected from the blight of flippant or unfounded aspersion; and I am confident you will be ready to contribute to so desirable a purpose by handing down to posterity, in your-widely circulated Publication, this just tribute of an unprejudiced Nova Scotian to the virtues and talents of his late Governor, which I am certain will be perused by many with as much satisfaction and interest as it has been by your constant Reader.

AN OLD SOLDIER.

"We have copied from the London Gazette the posthumous honours be

stowed upon Sir GEORGE PREVOST, with a lively pleasure, in which we are sure the great mass of our Readers will participate. Sonie few indeed there are (and we say it with pain) whom we remember pressing nearest to his person, and bowing most profoundly at his levees here, who altered their tone prodigiously when the great and good man was thought to be falling. Where this proceeded, as we believe it mostly did, from a trifling levity of mind, veering, like a silken vane, with every wind, it can only be an object for our pity, But if there were any who could be enemies to so excellent a man, we wish them no greater punishment than the ranklings of their own bad hearts, when they read the judgment pronounced upon him by his Prince..

"For ourselves, as we profess not to flatter the living, so we wish to do justice to the dead. We never had but one opinion of Sir George Prevost, which we formed upon some knowledge of his cha racter, and which we never saw reason to change. We were pleased with the even cheerfulness of his temper, with his simple unassuming manners, and his condescension to people of every rank. We admired his vigorous, active, penetrating mind. But we peculiarly respected him for his probity, his independence, his justice; in short for principles of morals and religion, such as we have but rarely met.

Sir George Prevost, we believe, never had any patron but his services and character. Recommended by these alone, he was selected to defend us at a time when the people of the United States had full confidence that they would speedily

"Whitehall, Sept. 3. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, taking into his Royal consideration the distinguished conduct and services of the late Lieutenantgeneral Sir George Prevost, bart. during a long period of constant active employment in situations of great trust, both military and civil, in the course of which his gallantry, zeal, and able conduct were particularly displayed at the conquest of the Island of St. Lucie, in 1803, and of the Island of Martinique in 1809; as also in successfully opposing, with a small garrison, the attack made in 1805, by a numerous French force, upon the Island of Dominica, then under his government; and while Governor-general and Commander in Chief of the British Provinces in North-America, in the defence of Canada against the repeated invasions perseveringly attempted by the American forces during the late war; and his Royal Highness being desirous of evincing in an especial manner, the sense which his Royal Highness entertains of these services, by conferring upon his family a lasting memorial of his Majesty's royal favour, hath been pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to ordain, that the supporters following may be borne and used by Dame Catharine Anne Prevost, widow of the said late Lieutenant-general Sir George Prevost, during her widowhood, viz. On either side a grenadier of the 16th (or Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot, each supporting a banner, that on the dexter side inscribed WEST INDIES, and that on the sinister CANADA;' and that the said supporters, together with the motto, 'SERVATUM CINERI,' may also be borne by Sir George Prevost, bart. son and heir of the said late Lieutenant-general, and by his successors in the said dignity of a Baronet; provided the same be first duly exemplified according to the laws of Arms, and recorded in the Heralds' Office. And his Royal Highness hath been also pleased to command, that the said concession and especial mark of the royal favour be registered in his Majesty's College of Arms."

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be in possession of Halifax. And some time after, when Sir James Craig had left Canada in a state of irritation little short of rebellion, the Prince Regent (as the Secretary's letter expressed it) having had experience of his talents, both for civil and military affairs,' ordered him to assume the administration of that most delicate and difficult government.

"And certainly no man could be better qualified to reconcile (if that were possible) the two discordant parties, who with very unequal numbers, but equal animosity, have so long divided, and still unhappily divide, that Province. But since even his good temper, impartiality, and address could effect nothing like cordial union, he took the course which his duty plainly required to be of neither party; to employ men who had talents and influence, without any distinction whether they were of French or English origin, or whether they had been obnoxious or otherwise to his predecessor.

"This equal holding of the balance was displeasing to the English party; but it saved the country. It gained Sir George the entire confidence and affections of the Canadians. They submitted to be se. verely trained to arms; they took his army-bills as cash; and when the Enemy invaded the country, encouraged by the supposed disaffection of the inhabitants, General Wilkinson testifies, that they met nothing but the most determined hostility in the whole male population. And another General (Hampton) could testify that he and his army were discomfited by the gallant De Salaberry, a Canadian gentleman, at the head of one or two companies of Canadian militia.

"In brief, when this War broke out, Sir George was informed that England could neither send him men nor money. But, confident in the affections of the people he governed, and in the resources of his own mind, he met the Enemy at every point where he attacked, along a frontier of 1100 miles; and at every point he repulsed him with loss and disgrace; until the whole fleet on Lake Erie being captured-and captured, beyond all controversy, for want of 100 seamen whilst we had 100 ships of war upon the stationthe loss of Uppermost Canada inevitably followed.

"Another much more unaccountable disaster upon the water-the defeat of an English fleet by that of the Enemy on Lake Champlain-rendered it altogether impossible for Sir George to penetrate, as he had been instructed, into the interior of the United States. Which being the case, and none can deny it, he thought he could not answer for blood 'unprofitably shed' by assaulting the works at Plattsburgh, which he assuredly must

abandon, if he succeeded, in less than a month.

"But here was a fine opportunity for wicked passions to work. It was convenient for the beaten navy to devolve the blame upon the land service. It was delightful to the domineering party at Quebec to be revenged of the man who had trusted to French Canadians. They were able artful men, and high in office. They had attempted long before to get Sir George recalled, by privately representing to the Prince Regent that his conciliating system, as they called it, would be ruinous to the authority of Government. But now they thought no terms need be kept. The brother of one of thehighest civil officers -himself a civil officer-was afterwards found to be the writer of the most virulent libels upon Sir George that appeared in the Montreal Herald. That paper, and the Arcadian Recorder, teemed with calumnies and abuse against that good man, which must ever be esteemed disgraceful to the countries in which they were published; and we believe that both countries now think so.

"We have not room in an article of this sort to enter largely into the subject. We shall only say that we profess to think for ourselves, and not to follow the nomentary cry of a inob. We think that

there is often more magnanimity displayed in not fighting, than in fighting; and certainly much more in facing obloquy than in facing a cannon. The Heralds of Sedition, and Recorders of Calumnies, were as busy in the days of Fabius as they have been in ours. They called him Pædagogue, coward, old-woman, every thing; because he would not fight just when they thought he should. He bore with the in famy of the day, and is illustrious to all posterity.

Non ponebat enim rumores ante salutem:

Ergo postque magisque v.ri nunc gloria

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"Such also was Sir George Prevost. He knew very well what use his enemies would make of his retreat from Plattsburgh. He might have assaulted and carried the place (for we think it would have fallen); and, after burying one or two thousand brave men in the ditch, returned with the applause of the multitude, bought with the tears of widows and orphans, and without any one advantage to his country. He followed the dictates of his conscience, and trusted to the deliberate voice of his country for his fame. It has not disappointed him,

"But we hasten to the catastrophe. Sir George Prevost went home (with an eagerness and by a route that exhausted nearly all the strength he had left) to answer every charge his enemies might