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CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Geo. Biddell Airy, esq. to be Astronomical
Observator in the Observatory at Greenwich.
Rev. G. Maberley, Head Master, and Rev. C.
Wordsworth, Second Master, of Winchester
School.

Rev. J. Netherwood, Second Master of Ipswich
Grammar School.

BIRTHS.

July 5. At Maize Hill, Greenwich Park, the wife of Stacey Grimaldi, esq. a dau.-11. At, New-st. Spring-gardens, Hon. Lady Campbell, a dau. 20. At Oxford, the wife of the Rev. Dr. Faussett, Margaret Professor of Divinity, a son.- -25. The wife of the Right Hon. Sir S. Canning, a dau. -At Ely, the wife of Rev. J. H. Sparke, a son.- -26. At Ludlow, the wife of A. J. Nightingale, esq. Assistant Commissary General, a dau. -28. At Sledmere, the lady of Sir Tatton Sykes, Bart. a dau.At Earl's-court, the lady of Sir John Osborn, Bart. a dau.- -At Brickworth, the Right Hon. Countess Nelson, a son.- -30. At Cheltenham, the wife of Major North, a dau. At Blyth Hall, Warw. the wife of W. S. Dugdale, esq. M.P. a son.

Lately. At Carnarvon, the wife of Archdeacon Bevan, a son.

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Aug. 1. At Charleville, the seat of the Earl of Rathdowne, Ireland, Lady Frances Isabella Cole, a dau.-2. At Swerford, Oxfordshire, the wife of the Rev. T. T. Roe, a son.Burton Agnes, the wife of the Rev. C. H. Lutwidge, a son.- -4. The wife of Sir C. C. Pepys, Master of the Rolls, a son.- -5. In Cumberland-terrace, Regent's-park, the wife of Lieut.-Col. Ashworth, a dau.7. At Horsmonden, Kent, the wife of the Rev. Wm. M. Smith Marriott, a son.- -At Denby Grange, the lady of Sir John L. Kaye, Bart. a dau.

9. At Chester Terrace, Regent's Park, the wife of W. Ryves, of Ryves Castle, co. Limerick, esq. a son.

MARRIAGES.

July 14. At St. James's, Sir W. R. P. Geary, Bart. M.P. of Oxtonheath. Kent, to Louisa, dau. of the late Hon. Chas. A. Bruce.

-18. At the Ambassador's Chapel, Paris, Thurston B. Caton, esq. son of the Rev. R. B. Caton, of York-street, Portman-sq. to MarieLouse Esther, dau. of Col. de St. Rose, late Chief de l'Etat Major à Paris.- -21. At Lichfield, the Rev. G. Hamilton, Minister of Christ's Church, Bloomsbury, to Lucy, dau. of H. Chinn, esq. of Lichfield-close.- -22. At Bramley, the Hon. Francis Scott to Miss Boultbee.

23. At Pyworthy, the Rev. C. Baring Gould, Rector of Lew Trenchard, to Mary Anne Tanner.- -At St. Bride's, Lieut.-Col. J. J. Mackintosh, to Thalia Eliza, widow of Capt. John Mayne.- -24. At Seaford, Sussex, C. E. Wylde, Esq. to Jane, widow of the late Col. W. D. Knox, of Edinburgh.-25. At St. Marylebone, the Rev. E. Fanshawe Glanville, to Mary Ann, widow of the Rev. F. Chas. Spencer, and dau. of the late Sir Scrope Bernard Morland, Bart. At Islington, R. Montagu Hume, esq. of Cumberland-terrace, Regent's-park, to Martha, third dau. of the late H. Moss, esq. of Stockwell. -28. At Chipstead, Surrey, Sir Tho. Buchan Hepburn, Bart. of Smeaton, Haddingtonshire, to Helen, youngest dau. of Arch. Little, esq. of Shobden Park.

At Sudbury, Sidney, son of the late John Billing, esq. of Stoke Newington, to Isabella, 2d dau. of the Rev. J. W. Fowke.--At St. George's, Hanover-sq. J. Gurdon, esq. to Lady Ormsby Rebow, widow of the late Sir T.

Ormsby, Bart. and only child of Lieut.-Gen.
S. Rebow, of Wivenhoe-park. At Muxton,
the Rev. R. Wedgwood, to Catharine Fanny,
youngest dau. of the Rev. Offley Crewe.-
East Carlton, Norfolk, Rev. Geo. King, Rector
of St. Lawrence, Norwich, to Eliz. dau. of the
late J. Steward, esq.- -29. At St. George's,
Hanover-sq. J. F. Baillie, esq. to Anne, dau.
and heiress of the late Col. J. Baillie, esq. to
Anne, dau. and heiress of the late Col. J.
Baillie, of Leys, M.P.-At Heavitree, the
Rev. J. Leyborne Popham, Rector of Chilton
Foliot, Wilts, to Frances, eldest dau. of E. L.
Sanders, esq. of Stoke Hill, near Exeter.-
30. At Trinity Church, Marylebone, H. New-
combe, esq. of Upper Wimpole-street, to
Cecilia, third dau. of Sir W. Wake, Bart. of
Courteen Hall, Northamptonshire.- -30. At
St. George's, Hanover-sq. Edw. St. John Mild-
may, esq. son of the late Sir H. Mildmay, Bart.
to Frances, dau. of the late Edw. Lockwood Per-
cival, esq.- -At Clapham, the Rev. S. Hird,
of Ringwood, Hants, to Eliz. dau. of P. Bed-
well, esq.- -At Greenwich, Major J. Wood, to
Fanny Anne, eldest dau. of the Rev. Dr.
Burney. -31. At Cheltenham, the Rev. Sir
Edwin Windsor Bayntun Sandys, to Mary
Ann, eldest dau. of W. S. Meryweather, esq.
of Grovefield.

Aug. 1. At St. George's, Hanover-sq. Fred. Baron de Parbuk, to Miss H. Colman, dau. of the late Col. E. Colman.- -At Shinfield, near Reading, the Rev. H. G. Talbot, to Mary Eliz. 3d dau. of the late Hon. Sir Wm. Ponsonby, K.C.B. At Fulham, Edw. Villiers, esq. to the Hon. Eliz. Charlotte Liddell, youngest dau. of Lord Ravensworth.-4. At St. Pancras Church, the Rev. D. Jackson, to Margaret, dau. of M. Davis, esq. of Burton, Westmoreland.

-4. At Petersham, Capt. G. S. Deverill, 16th Lancers, to Anne Spencer, dau. of G. C. Julius, M.D. of Richmond.- -At Bromham, the Rev. Geo. Wells, to Augusta, fourth dau. of the late Rev. Dr. Starky, of Spye Park, Wilts.At Corsham, the Rev. T. H. Applegate, to Eliz. Jemima, second dau. of the late Dr. Bartley, of Bristol.At Lamerton, Devon, the Rev. Wm. Cowlard, to Sarah Philis Clode, widow of Capt. E. Kelly, late 51st Regt.-5. At Bayfield, Ross-shire, the Rev. J. H. Hughes, to Margaret Sutherland, second dau. of the late Col. Mackenzie, of Royston, and sister of Sir Alex. Mackenzie, Bart. -5. At Marston Sicca, Gloucestershire, the Rev. J. R. Inge, to Marianne, eldest dau. of the late J. Ryley, esq. of Hertford House, near Coventry.- -At Dorstone, Herefordshire, the Rev. T. Powell, son of Col. Powell, of Hardwick, to Clara, 3d dau. of the Rev. T. Prosser.-6. At St. Pancras Church, the Rev. R. Deedes Wilmot, Vicar of Kennington, Hants, to Jane, dau. of Chas. Turner, esq. A.R.A.-At Measham, the Rev. W. T. Sandys, Vicar of St. Mary's, Beverley. to Cath. Eliz. only dau. of the late W. Wooton Abney, Esq. of Measham Hall, Derbyshire.

-11. At Hartley Wespall, Hants, the Rev. J. Chapman, Rector of Dunton, Essex, to Frances, second dau. of the Rev. Dr. Keate.

At Marylebone, Oswald Mosley, esq. eldest son of Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart. M.P. to Maria, eldest dau. of Gen. Bradshaw. -At St. George's, Bloomsbury, the Rev. W. Holmes, Rector of West Newton, Norfolk, to Jemima, youngest dau. of the late Sir Chas. Flower, Bart.- -At Leslie House, Martin E. Haworth, esq. 60th Rifles, to the lady Mary E. Leslie, sister of the Earl of Rothes.-13. At All Souls, St. Marylebonn, Chas. Broughton Bowman, esq. to Augusta Josepha, dau. of the late Lieut.-Col. Kirkman.- -At Taplow, Bucks, H. Buckland Lott, esq. of Tracey House, Devon, to Caroline Vansittart, eldest dau. of the Rev. E. Neale.

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OBITUARY.

MARSHAL MORTIER, DUC DE TREVISO. July 28. At Paris, shot dead by the discharge of fire-arms aimed at the King, (as described in the Foreign News of our present number,) in his 68th year, Marshal Mortier, Duc de Treviso.

Edward Adolphus Casimir Joseph Mortier was the son of a merchant, who represented the tiers-etat of Cambresis at the States-General, in 1789. He was originally brought up in his father's profession, and quitted his station as clerk in a mercantile counting-house at Dunkirk, in 1791, to serve in the first battalion of volunteers of the Department of the North, in which he was at once received with the rank of Captain. Having distinguished himself on various occasions, he was made an Adjutant-general in 1793. His first command as a general officer was at the attack of a fortress of St. Pierre. In 1796, he had the command of the advance-guard of the army of the Sambreet-Meuse, then under the orders of General Lefevre. On the 31st of May of the same year, he attacked the Aus. trians, defeated them, and drove them beyond the Archer. During the whole of the war which was closed by the treaty of Campo-Formio, General Mortier was actively engaged, and invariably successful in every enterprise with which he was entrusted. In the campaign of 1799, he had again the command of the advanceguard. His services in that station were, in a great measure, conducive to the success of the French arms, and to the high opinion that Napoleon conceived of his military talents. It was General Mortier whom Napoleon sent, in 1803, at the head of his first expedition to Hanover. The whole of the military operations were, on the part of the French army, directed by General Mortier, and the result was the memorable Convention of Suhlingen, by which the Electorate of Hanover was placed in the hands of the French. On his return to Paris, he was appointed to the command of the artillery of the Guard; and in 1804 he was raised, with other officers of superior merit, to the rank of a Marshal, and decorated with the grand cross of the newly instituted order of the Legion of Honour.

In the campaigns of 1805 and 1806, General Mortier was at the head of one of the divisions of the grand army, commanded in chief by Napoleon in person. The greatest feat of arms ever achieved by any French troops fell, during this war, to the lot of a corps of 4,000 commanded by Mortier. Having fallen in

with the whole of the Russian army, led by Kutusoff, and forced to accept battle or lay down his arms, Mortier fought with a valour and superiority of tactics which allowed sufficient time for considerable reinforcements to come to his aid. This affair gave great celebrity to Mortier's name throughout the French army and in France. His fellow-citizens at Cam. bray wished to raise a public monument in that city in memory of his action with Kutusoff; but Mortier positively refused to allow it.

It was Marshal Mortier who captured Hamburgh, at the close of 1806. On that occasion he displayed a rancorous. hostility against every thing that was English, which greatly surprised all who had any knowledge of his early life. In his younger days he had lived a good deal in Scotland; and the counting-house at Dunkirk, where he received his commercial education, was that of an English merchant. His intimacy and intercourse with natives of this country, of which he spoke the language fluently, had been such, that few would believe it was in pursuance of orders issued from himself that the whole of the British residents in Hamburgh were thrown into prison, and every particle of British property was confiscated.

In 1808, he was raised to the imperial dukedom of Treviso, receiving at the same time a 'dotation,' attached to the title, of 100,000 francs (4,0001.) per ann., payable out of the crown domains of Hanover. It is hardly necessary to say, that he lost this income at the peace of 1814.

Soon after the opening of the Spanish war, he was sent to Spain, where he cooperated with several successive commanders-in-chief, and fought the battle of Ocana,. which he and his countrymen have claimed as having been won by the corps under his immediate command. Subsequently he accompanied Napoleon to Russia; and it was to him that the hazardous undertaking of blowing up the Kremlin at Moscow was intrusted. He took an active part in the whole of this and the subsequent campaigns under Napoleon, up to the peace.

During the earlier part of the reign of Louis XVIII. Marshal Mortier spent his time in Paris, apparently little desirous of figuring in the military or political world. In 1816, however, he was. appointed commandant of the 15th military division, the seat of which is Rouen; and soon after he was elected by his

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native department of the North, member of the Chamber of Deputies, in which he sat till 1819, when he was raised to the peerage. In 1834, on the resignation of Marshal Soult of the Presidency of the Council and the Ministry of War, the whole ministry being then disjointed, and, much against the wish of the King, on the eve of dissolution, Marshal Mortier was solicited by Louis-Philippe to accept the offices which Marshal Soult had given up, he being the only individual at the moment with whom the other members of the Soult administration were willing to remain in office. The marshal yielded with extreme reluctance to the wishes of the King: he knew that politics were not his element; and soon after, at the ministerial council table, as well as on the ministerial benches in the two legislative chambers, he felt that he was not in his proper place. The remarks and jokes of the press about his silence in the ebambers, and his inactivity as a minister, however goodnaturedly expressed, at length drove the Duke de Treviso to the positive resolution of withdrawing for ever from the ministerial career. One morning in the early part of February, therefore, he waited on the King, placed his act of resignation in the royal hands, and gave his Majesty to understand that his resolution to withdraw was not to be changed.

Mortier is among the few of Napoleon's generals whose reputation for integrity and private worth has remained unquestioned through life. Though not very popular, owing to a natural stiffness in his manners, not more habitual among, than agreeable to, the French, he was always spoken of with respect, and to the last day of his existence he has enjoyed the undivided esteem of his countrymen.

At the public funeral of the victims on the 28th of July, his pall was supported by Marshals Grouchy, Gérard, and Molitor, and Admiral Duperré.

THE EARL OF WALDEGRAVE. July 30. At his seat, Strawberry Hill, Middlesex, aged 50, the Right Hon. JohnJames Waldegrave, sixth Earl of Waldegrave and Baron Waldegrave of Chewton, co. Somerset (1686), and the tenth Viscount Chewton (1729), seventh Baronet (1643).

His Lordship was born July 30, 1785, the second son of George the fourth Earl, by his cousin-german Lady Elizabeth. Laura Waldegrave. eldest daughter of James the second Earl, and Maria second daughter of Sir Edward Walpole, K.B., and afterwards Duchess of Glou

cester.

He succeeded to the Peerage, June 29, 1794, on the death of his elder brother George, who was drowned in the Thames, near Eton. Having been educated at Eton, with his brother, he entered the army as Ensign in the 3d foot-guards in 1802, became Lieutenant in March 1804, and immediately exchanged to the 7th dragoons, was promoted to a Company in 1805, the rank of Major in 1808, and a Majority in the 72d foot the same year; exchanged to the 15th dragoons in 1809; was appointed Lieut.-Colonel of the 54th foot in 1812, and was subsequently on the halfpay of the 98th foot. He served in the Peninsula and in Flanders, and was present at the battle of Waterloo. He retired from the army some years ago, and had latterly very ill-health. We believe he was for a short time one of the Lords of the Bedchamber, at the commencement of the present reign.

The Earl of Waldegrave succeeded to Horace Walpole's villa and cabinets of bijouterie, on his mother's death, in Jan. 1816; the Hon. Mrs. Damer, Lord Orford's immediate legatee, having resigned it to her ladyship in 1810. Lord Waldegrave authorized the publication of Memoirs of James Earl Waldegrave (his grandfather), from 1754 to 1758, 4to. 1821; and of Horace Walpole's Memoirs of the last Ten Years of the reign of George the Second, 2 vols. 4to. 1822.

His Lordship married Anne, daughter of Mr. William King, of Hastings; and by her, who survives him, he has left issue his heir, born in 1816, two other sons, and two daughters; his third son, the Hon. William- Arthur Waldegrave, died an infant, in 1821.

DR ELRINGTON, BISHOP OF FERNS.

July. At Liverpool, on his road from Dublin to London, the Right Reverend Thomas Elrington, D.D. Lord Bishop of Leighlin and Ferns, M.R.I. A. &c. &c.

Mr. Elrington obtained a scholarship in the University of Dublin in 1778; and in 1781 was elected. Fellow. In 1794 he became the first Donnelan Lecturer, elected on the foundation of Mrs. Anne Donnelan, of the parish of St. George, Hanover-square, in the county of Middlesex, spinster. That lady had bequeathed to Dublin College the sum of 1,2431. for the encouragement of religion, learning, and good manners; the particu lar mode of application being intrusted to the Provost and Senior Fellows; who by their resolution of 22d Feb. 1794, established a lectureship of six sermons, to be delivered in the college chapel, after morning service on certain Sundays; the lecturer to be elected annually from among

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the Fellows of the College: the subject of the lectures to be determined by the Board; one copy of the lectures to be deposited in the library of the College; one in the library of Armagh; one in the library of St. Sepulchre; one to be given to the Chancellor of the University; and one to the Provost of the College. The subject of Dr. Elrington's lectures was, "The proof of Christianity derived from the miracles recorded in the New Tesament.' Which lectures were printed in Dublin, in 8vo. 1796, together with the Act Sermon, which he preached Nov. 15, 1795, for the degree of Doctor of Divinity.

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In 1795 he was chosen Professor of Mathematics; and on the 25th Dec. 1806, he was presented to the rectory of Ardtrea, in the county of Tyrone, and diocese of Armagh.

In 1811, he was raised to the highest rank a literary man can attain in Ireland, by being appointed Provost of Trinity College: :-a situation which he filled for several years with the highest credit to himself, and advantage to those whose interest and welfare it was his happy lot to promote. In the year 1820, he was consecrated Bishop of Limerick; and he was translated, in 1822, to the see of Leighlin and Ferns.

Dr. Elrington published an edition of Euclid, enlarged by Notes, which is now the text book in the Dublin University, and throughout Ireland. He also presented the literary world with a valuable edition of Juvenal, illustrated by Notes, critical and explanatory. These publications alone, independent of Doctor Elrington's numerous polemical writings, would be sufficient to hand down his name to posterity as a scholar of the highest order.

His publications of the latter description were, Reflections on the appointment of Dr. Milner as the political agent of the Roman Catholic Clergy of Ireland, 1809, 8vo.

The Clergy of the Church of England truly ordained, 1809, 8vo.; and some other pamphlets.

In all the relations of life, Bishop Elrington was a most exemplary man: and if in any capacity he exceeded, it was as a warm patron of struggling merit.

He arrived in Liverpool from Ireland on Wednesday, July by one of the Dublin steam-packets, on his way to London, on business connected with the Irish Church Bill. On his arrival, he became an inmate of the Waterloo Hotel, where he expired on the Sunday following. His body was conveyed back to Dublin, and deposited in the vaults of Trinity College.

On' its arrival at the College gate, a procession was ready to receive it, consisting of the Provost, Vice Provost, Senior and Junior Fellows, &c. The service was read by the Rev. Mr. Todd, and a Latin eulogium pronounced by the Rev. Mr. M'Donnell, Professor of Oratory. The funeral was attended by the Bishop of Kildare; and a vast body of the clergy and several private gentlemen followed the coffin, anxious to pay this tribute, of respect. A portrait of Bishop Elrington was painted in 1820, by Thos. Foster, for his brother, Major Elrington, of the Tower.

According to the Irish Church Temporalities Act, the Bishopric of Ferns is one to which the Bishopric of Ossory, had it become first vacant, was to be united: but Ferns itself being first vacant, the Bishop of Ossory becomes, by virtue of the Act, Bishop of Ferns.

LORD MIDDLETON.

June 10. At his seat, Wollaton House, co. Nottingham, aged 74, the Right Hon. Henry Willoughby, sixth Lord Middleton, of Middleton, co. Warwick (1711), and the seventh baronet (1677), hereditary High Steward of Sutton Coldfield.

His lordship was born April 24, 1761, the only son of Henry the fifth Lord, by Dorothy, daughter and coheiress of George Cartwright, esq., of Ossington, Notts; and succeeded his father June 14, 1800.

Lord Middleton was not a public character, but took a lively interest in rural sports and occupations. A capital print has been recently published representing him in his park, with his favourite pony and ten spaniels before him. It is mezzotinted by William Gillet, from a painting by Charles Hancock, and measures about 30 inches in width by 20 in height. His lordship married, August 21, 1793, Jane, second daughter of Sir Robert Lawley, the fifth Baronet, of Spoonhill, co. Salop, and sister to the late Lord Wenlock and the present Sir Francis Lawley; but by that lady,' who survives him, he had no issue. The title has consequently devolved on his cousin Digby Willoughby, a Commander R. N., grandson of the Hon. Thomas Willoughby, second son of the first Lord Middleton. The present peer was born in 1769, and is unmarried. He has a brother, Francis, also a bachelor; after whom, the next in succession to the title is Henry Willoughby, esq. of Settrington House, Yorkshire.

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LORD SUFFIELD.

July 6. At Vernon-house Park-place, in his 54th year, the Right Hon. Edward

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Harbord, third Lord Suffield, of Suffield in Norfolk (1786), and the fourth Baronet (1745-6).

His Lordship was born Nov. 10, 1781, the third and youngest son of Sir Harbord Harbord, the first Lord Suffield, by Mary, daughter and coheiress of Sir Ralph Assheton, of Middleton, co. Lancaster, Bart. and sister to Eleanor Countess of Wilton.

Being a younger son, he was bred to the bar. In early life he moved in the highest circles of fashion, and was distinguished for the polish of his manners, the energy of his character, and his skill in manly exercises: he was the fastest runner among his associates, with the exception perhaps of Lord Frederick Beauclerk. The same courage and enthusiasm which led to the pursuit of such pleasures, was early turned to the service of his country. In 1806 he was returned to Parliament for the borough of Great Yarmouth which borough he represented till 1812. In 1820 he was elected for the borough of Shaftesbury, which be continued to represent until his accession to the peerage.

He went abroad under Lord Castlereagh's administration, on a mission which partook both of a public and private nature, and he executed his task with fide. lity and discretion. That Minister offered him his Private Secretaryship; but the appointment did not take place.

In 1819 he first appeared as the advocate of liberal measures, on the occasion of a public meeting held at Norwich, to petition for a parliamentary inquiry into the transactions at Manchester. There was, at that time, a large party of his friends and political connexions, assembled at Blickling, the seat of his brother, including among others the Duke of Wellington and Colonel Wodehouse but their most earnest entreaties and remonstrances were unavailing; and, as he had previously determined, he made his appearance on the hustings, where he spoke in favour of the inquiry, professing, at the same time, an entire independence of party. A very serious disagreement with bis family, and very large pecuniary sacrifices, were the consequences of the decision manifested by him on this occa sion: but that decision corresponded with the whole course of his political life; in which he always evinced a determination resolutely and conscientiously to follow in the path in which, according to his clearest convictions, his public duty led him.

While he sat in Parliament, as a Member of the House of Commons, he applied himself sedulously to the discharge

of the duties of that high trust; and, among other important services, undertook to frame a Bill for the better disci

pline of Prisons; a subject to which he had given great attention, and on which he published a valuable tract entitled "Remarks respecting the Norfolk County Goal, with some general observations on the subject of Prison Discipline; addressed to the Magistrates of that county," 8vo. pp. 59, 1822.

Lord Suffield was principally instrumental in the enactment of the improved law (4 Geo. IV. c. 64.) for the management of prisons.

To him also the British public is indebted for the abolition of Spring Guns.

He also published "Considerations on the Game Laws," 8vo, pp. 107. 1824. (See Gent. Mag. vol. xCIV. part 1. p. 352.) This pamphlet, which was written with considerable power, and in a spirit of the most enlightened benevolence, produced a great impression at the time of its publication, and contributed to that amendment of the Laws which shortly afterwards took place on this subject: for there is great reason to believe that His Majesty's Ministers were convinced by the facts and arguments contained in his pamphlet, and stimulated by his urgent application to them, to take up the question, after it had failed in so many other hands.

He was also amongst the most zealous and unwearied friends of the Abolition of Slavery; in the promotion of which great national measure he greatly distinguished himself, as will be hereafter more particularly stated.

In the year 1821, having succeeded his brother, who had died without issue, in the family title and estate, he quitted the House of Commons. On his retiring from the representation of Shaftesbury, his late constituents voted him a gold snuff box, the expense of which was defrayed by a subscription of not more than a guinea from each contributor; and, notwithstanding that he had been introduced to this borough on the Grosvenor interest, which had then the ascendancy, he received this public testimony of his constituents' approbation of his independent and stainless conduct in Parliament, at the suggestion of the opponents of that interest.

Upon his succession to the peerage, he went to reside in Norfolk; where he applied himself, with characteristic enthusiasm, to the duties of his new station, comprehending those of an extensive landholder. He rebuilt and repaired the farmhouses and cottages on the Suffield estate, adding portions of land to each; and so improved the property that there are now

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