in these quarters. The alternative offered At New York a most calamitous fire Dr. Captain Back left Fort William on the 20th March, on his return from his perilous journey in search of Capt. Ross in the Polar regions, and arrived at Liverpool on the 8th of Sept. He travelled on snow-shoes to Fort Chippewayan, whence he departed May 28th, and arrived at Lachin on the 6th of August. King and the rest of the expedition were left at Fort Reliance, all well, and intending to proceed for England by way of Hudson's Bay. No casualty had occurred except the death of Williamson, a volunteer artilleryman, who died on the journey back to Hudson's Bay station. Capt. Back is stated to have traced Great Fish River to the sea; and it is said to be large, but dangerous of navigation, and greatly impeded by ice. PROMOTIONS, PREFERMENTS, &c. Aug. 21. Edward Every, of Carr-hall, Lanc Aug. 23. The brothers and sisters of George Sholto Earl of Morton to enjoy the precedence which would have been due to them in case their said father, John Douglas, esq. had succeeded to the said dignity. Aug. 28. 10th Foot. Major Jas. W. S. Waller, Aug. 29. The Duke of Cambridge to be Sept. 1. Charles Tennyson, of Caistor, co. Sept. 2. John Gurdon, of Letton, co. Nor- Knighted, Lieut.-Gen. Ralph Darling, G.G.H. Sept. 4. 10th Foot, Capt. G. Power to be Sept. 15. The Earl of Minto, G.C.B. to be Sept. 21. Durham Militia, John Bowes, esq. Rt.-Hon. Louisa Perrin to be fourth Justice Naval Promotions.-Capt. the Hon. George Member returned to serve in Parliament. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Rev. C. Deedes, West Camel R. co. Somerset. Rev. H. James, Coln St. Aldwyn's V. co. Rev. W. H. Lushington, Eastling V. Kent. Rev. A. Melville, Church of Falkirk, co. Stir- Rev. F. E. Paget, Elford R. co. Stafford. BIRTHS. Aug. 12. At Hesse Homberg, the lady of Lt.-Col. Sir Chas. Dance, a son.-13. At. Manheim, Lady Sinclair, a son.- -19. At Freckenham Rectory, of a posthumous dau. the wife of the late Rev. S. Tilbrook, D.D.-21. At Errol-park, Perthshire, the Lady Henrietta Allen, a son.- -22. At Milford, Hants, the wife of Lieut.-Col. E. Byam, a son.-At Cheltenham, the wife of Capt. John Mac Dougall, R.N. a son.-28. At Aldwick, near Bognor, the Hon. Mrs. Osborne, a son.- -29. The Lady Charlotte Guest, a son and heir.-31. At Singleton, near Swansea, the wife of J. H. Vivian, esq. M.P. a son.- At Pimlico Lodge, Mrs. Elliott, a son. Sept. 1. At West Lodge, Dorset, the wife of Lieut.-Col. Ferrars Loftus, a dau.-3. At Thornham, Suffolk, the lady of Sir Augustus B. Henniker, Bart. a son.-4. At Glynllifon, the lady of the Right Hon. Lord Newborough, a dau. and heiress.-6. The wife of the Rev. G. Palmer, Rector of Sullington, Sussex, a son. -12. At Cuxton, Kent, the wife of the Rev. R. W. Shaw, a dau.- -16. In Saville-row, the wife of Dr. Bright, a dau.-At Bisham Cottage, Berks, Lady Hinrich, a dau.-In Connaught-place, Lady Boyle, a son.-17. In Cumberland-terrace, Regent's-park, the wife of T. Hankey, esq. a son.-19. At Salisbury, the wife of Dr. Grove, a dau.- -20. At Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire, the wife of Capt. E. Bulkeley, a dau. 3 I MARRIAGES. July 28. At Berne, the Rev. Chas. Lushington, son of Sir H. Lushington, Bart. to Susan Rose, dau. of Capt. J. Tweedale, late of the Hon. E.I.C. Aug. 15. In London, G. Hougham Skelton, esq. eldest son of Major-Gen. Skelton, to Eleanor Sarah, second dau. of T. Gresham, esq. of Barnby-Don, Yorkshire.- -17. At St. Mary's, Paddington, H. Bickersteth, esq. to the lady Jane Eliz. Harley, eldest dau. of the Earl of Oxford and Mortimer.-18. At Marylebone Church, Sir Walter G. Stirling, Bart. of Faskine, to the Hon. Caroline Frances Byng, youngest dau. of Lieut.-Gen. Lord Strafford. of the Earl of Mansfield, to the Hon. F. Eliz. Anson, dau. of the late Visc. Anson.-J. S. Mills, esq. of Elmden Hall, Norfolk, to Sarah, eldest dau.; and Mr. Astley, of Hill Morton, Warwickshire, and brother to Sir Jacob Astley, Bart. to Charlotte, second dau. of the late Lady Charlotte Micklethwait, and nieces to the Earl of Stradbroke.- The Hon. C. J. Canning, son of the late Right Hon. G. Canning, to the Hon. Charlotte Stuart, dau. of Lord Stuart de Rothesay. -At Stoke Climsland, Cornwall, the Rev. G. Somerset, eldest son of the late Lord Arthur Somerset, to Phillida Eliz. eldest dau. of Sir Wm. Pratt Call, Bart. of Whiteford House. Sept. 1. D. Wakefield, jun. esq. to Angela, eldest dau. of T. Attwood, esq. M.P. of Harborne, Birmingham.-At Culham, Mayow Short, esq. Barrister-at-Law, to Mrs. Phillips, of Culham House, Oxfordshire.- -At Chevening, the Right Hon. Lord Suffield, to the Hon. C. S. Gardner, sister to Lord Gardner.- -At Oddington, the Rev. Alex. Cameron, to Charlotte, eldest dau. of the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Gloucester.-2. At Erthig, co. Denbigh, Charles, eldest son of Lieut.-Gen. Birch Reynardson, of Holywell, Lincolnshire, to Anne, eldest dau. of the late Simon Yorke, esq. Rev. J. Blackburn, of Attercliffe, Yorkshire, to Sophia, youngest dau. of the late Chas. Rivington, esq.--At Leyland, Lancaster, F. Sewallis Gerard. esq. of Aspul-house, brother of Sir J. Gerard, Bart. to Mary Ann, eldest dau. of the Rev. T. Wilkinson, Vicar of Kirk Hallam, co. Derby.-3. At Blendworth, Spencer Smith, esq. of Portland-place, to Frances Anne, 2d dau. of the late Adm. Sir M. Seymour, Bart.-5. At Gorhambury, the seat of the Earl of Verulam, the Earl of Craven to the Lady Emily Mary Grimston, second dau. of the Earl of Verulam.-5. At Evercreech, Somerset, T. Jones, jun. esq. of Stapleton, co. Gloucester, to Margaret Nugent, eldest dau. of the Hon. James Talbot, of Evercreech-house. At Finchley, Middlesex, the Rev. H. L. Ventris, to Ann, youngest dau. of J. Newman, esq. of Soho-sq.- -20. At Clifton, T. C. Morris, of Carmarthen, banker, to Mary, dau. of the Rev. T. S. Smyth, Vicar of St. Austell, Cornwall. -At All Souls, Langham-pl. the Rev. E. Evans, vicar of Llangranog, Cardiganshire, to Miss Webb, of Carmarthen.- At Droxford, Alex. Beattie, esq. of Calcutta, to Mary Ann Eliz. Theresa, youngest dau. of the late Vice-Adm. Sir E. Griffith Colpoys, K.C.B.At Baldock, the Rev. W. Gould, of Whickham Durham, tó Eliz. eldest dau. of Vickris Pryor, esq. of Baldock. -25. At St. Mary's Church, Marylebone, the Hon. Capt. Best, R.N. son of Lord Wynford, to the Hon. Marianne, only dau. of Lord Kenyon.- -At St. James's, Sir Minto Townshend Farquhar, Bart. to Erica Cath. Mackay, dau. of the Right Hon. Lord Reay. -At Grantham, H. Greene, esq. of Higham Ferrers, to Charlotte, dau. of the late Rev. G. Wareup Malim.- -At Binfield, Berks the Rev. W. Parr Phillips, Rector of Woodford, Essex, to Caroline, fourth dau. of the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir F. Wilder. -At Witham, the Rev. W. Manbey, to Theresa, Matilda, dau. of the Rev. J. Newman, Essex.-26. At Carphen House, Fife, Jas. Whitefoord, esq. son of Sir John Whitefoord, to Louisa-Jane, dau. of the late Capt. Impett, of Ashford, Kent.-At All Souls, J. Matthews, esq. to Emma, dau. of the late Col. Marlton.-27. At Oxford, T. E. Bridges, D.D. President of Corpus Christi College, to Henrietta, sole surviving dau. of the late R. Bourne, M.D. -At Brighton, the Rev. J. Warren, Rector of Gravely, Hunts. to Caroline Eliz. second dau. of the late Lieut.Col. Warren, 3d Guards.- -At St. James's, Ernest Augustus Earl of Lisburne, to Mary, youngest dau. of the late Sir Lawrence Palk, Bart. -At Mells, co. Somerset, Francis Adams. jun. esq. of Clifton, to Maria, fourth dau. of the Rev. J. F. Doveton.- At Bromley Palace, the Earl of Brecknock, to Harriet, eldest dau. of the Bp. of Rochester.- At Shottesham, Norf. T. Gladstone, esq. M.P. to Louisa, second dau. of R. Fellowes, esq. of Shottesham Park. At Cheltenham, the Rev. W. Wood, rector of Staplegrove, Somerset, to Mary Agnes Tufnell Barrett, of Batt's House, eldest dau. of Capt. Barrett.- -28. At Leerdam, in Holland, G. Ackermann, esq. of the Strand, London, to Jeannette, only child of James Halfkins, esq. Chief Magistrate of Leerdam. 29. At Kennington, George Eddie, esq. to Jannet, youngest dau. of Lieut.-Col. Hill. 31. At Great Yarmouth, J. G. Seymour, esq. of Bishop's Waltham, banker, to Susanna, widow of the late Sam. Palmer, esq.- -31. At St. Ann's, Dublin, G. Morant, esq. late Gren. Guards, to Lydia, youngest dau. of the late Dr. Hemphill, of Castel, co. Tipperary. Lately. At St. George's, Hanover-sq. S. Arbouin, esq. to Margaret, dau. of the late John Abernethy, esq.-At Colnwick, near Shugborough, the Hon. C. Murray, second son OBITUARY. SIR J. E. BROWNE, BART. Sept. 5. At his residence in Hollesstreet, Dublin, in his 87th year, Sir JohnEdmund Browne, of Johnstown, co. Dublin, Bart. This gentleman was descended from a younger branch of the same family as that of Lord Kilmaine and the Marquess of Sligo. He was called to the Bar by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn, Feb. 5, 1784; but practised only a few years; the latter period of his life being completely confined to Ireland. He was created a Baronet of Ireland, Dec. 8, 1797. Sir John's habits of life were singular, and worthy of remark. For the last thirty years he went in downright opposition to the sun-going to bed at six, seven, and eight in the morning, and rising about the same hours in the evening; thus turning night into day. The coldest night in winter, whilst reading or writing, he never used a fire, but as a substitute wrapped his feet and legs in blankets. Thus over the lamp of study he consumed his midnight hours, till the busy hum of men announced the approach of day, and then he prepared himself for rest. As a classical scholar and linguist, few equalled Sir J. Browne. His oratory was powerful, and flowed in the utmost barmony of language. Sergeant Ball, a celebrated Irish barrister, once declared he never heard the English language spoken in such purity as by Sir John Brown." He was twice High-Sheriff for the county Mayo, and stood a severe and expensive contest for the same county, but was unseated on petition. Sir John married Margaret, second daughter of Matthew Lorinan, of Ardee, co. Louth, by whom he had issue four sons and one daughter: 1. Sir John Edmund de Beauvoir, who assumed that name only on his marriage with Mary, heiress of the Rev. Peter de Beauvoir, and was knighted at Dublin in March 1827: Lady de Beauvoir died Feb. 11, 1831; 2. Montagu-Stepney; 3. Frederick-Augustus; 4. Charles-Manley; and 5. Caroline-Margaret, married to William Ogle Hunt, esq. of Coombe Wood, Surrey. ADM. SIR F. LAFOREY, BT. K. C.B. June 17. At Brighton, in his 68th year, Sir Francis Laforey, Bart. (1789), K.C.B. Admiral of the Blue. He was born at Virginia Dec. 31, 1767, and was the only surviving son of Admi ral Sir John Laforey, who was created a Baronet in 1789, by Eleanor, daughter of Col. Francis Farley, Royal Artillery, one of the Council of Antigua. His great-grandfather Louis Laforey, esq. was descended from a noble family in Poitou, and came to England with King William the Third. Sir Francis entered the Navy early in life. In 1791, having arrived to the rank of Commander, he was appointed to the sloop Fairy, on the Leeward Islands station, where he continued under the orders of his father until the spring of 1793, and was then despatched to England with an account of the capture of the Island of Tobago. On the 5th June 1793, four days after his arrival, he was promoted to Post rank, and shortly after was appointed to the Carysfort, of 34 guns. On the 29th May 1794, he captured the Castor, a French frigate of 32 guns and 200 men, 16 of whom were slain, and 9 wounded. The Carysfort lost but 1 man killed and 6 wounded. The Castor had formerly been a British ship, captured by the French, regularly condemned, and recommissioned in their service; yet the Navy Board put in a claim for her to be restored to the British service on payment of salvage; but, on the matter coming before the Admiralty Court, Sir James Marriot, the Judge, decided she was a lawful prize, and the whole value was decreed to the captors. Capt. Laforey was afterwards appointed to l'Aimable, of 32 guns; and in the summer of 1795 conveyed his father to Antigua, Sir John Laforey having been re-appointed to the chief command on the Leeward Islands station. Early in the following year, Capt. Laforey removed out of the Beaulieu, which frigate he had commanded but a short time, into the Scipio of 64 guns; in which ship he was very active, in conjunction with Commodore Parr, and Major-Gen. Whyte, in the capture of the Dutch settlements of Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice. On the 21st April, the day that Demerara surrendered, Rear-Adm. Christian arrived to relieve Sir John Laforey, who immediately sailed for home, but unfortunately fell a victim to the yellow fever, on the 14th June, two days before the ship came to land. His body was pub. licly interred at Portsmouth. In 1797 Sir Francis Laforey was appointed to the Hydra, and, while cruising off the coast of France, in company with the Vesuvius bomb and Trial cutter, he, on the 1st of May, 1798, discovered a French frigate, a corvette, and a cutter. After a long chase, the former was brought to action by the Hydra, who succeeded in drawing her on shore near Havre, and, with the boats of his small squadron, destroyed her. She proved to be the Confiante, of 36 guns, and a crew of 300 men, the greater part of whom got on shore. The corvette contrived to escape, but the cutter shared the fate of the frigate. After serving two years, 1799 and 1800, on the Leeward Islands station, in the Hydra, Sir F. Laforey took the command of the Powerful, 74, and was employed in the Baltic, and afterwards under the order of Sir C. Pole, in Cadiz Bay. Soon after the renewal of the war, he was appointed to the ship Spartiate, of 74 guns, and attached to the fleet under Lord Nelson, accompanying him to the West Indies, in search of the French and Spanish fleet, and in the memorable battle of Trafalgar had the good fortune to be engaged. The Spartiate sustained a loss of 3 killed and 20 wounded. Sir F. Laforey, with the other captains of the fleet, received a gold medal; and at the funeral of Lord Nelson, he carried the standard in the first barge in the procession from Greenwich. He was afterwards employed in the Spartiate in guarding the coast of Sicily; and he continued in the Mediterranean until promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral, in 1810. He was then nominated Commander-in-Chief on the Barbadoes station, with his flag in the Dragon, of 74guns, where he remained to the beginning of 1814. On the increase of the Order of the Bath, in 1815, Sir F. Laforey was nominated a K.C.B. He was promoted to the rank of Vice- Admiral in 1819, and to that of Admiral in 1833. He was never married, and has left no heir to the baronetcy. His sister was married to Capt. A. J. P. Molloy, R. N. LIEUT. GEN. COOKSON. Aug. 12. At Esher, Surrey, George Cookson, esq. a Lieut.-General in the army, and Colonel of the Royal Artillery. He was born April 29, 1760, at Farnborough, Hants, the sixth son of Thomas Cookson, esq. a Captain in the Royal Navy, who died Nov. 13, 1775, who was grandson of Wm. Cookson, esq. of Wellington, co. Salop. Before commencing his military career, he passed some years with his father in the Navy; but being appointed, through Lord North, a cadet in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, he joined that establishment in 1777, and in August with a gold medal from the Grand Seignior, which he received permission to wear, in the general orders of the 6th Oct. 1803. In Sept. 1802 he was appointed to a troop of horse artillery; on the 13th March following he left Egypt with the army, and in Aug. 1803 arrived in England. The On the 12th Sept. in the same year, he was promoted to a Majority in the Artillery; and the 20th July 1804, to a Lieut.-Colonelcy. In Sept. following he was appointed to the command of the artillery in the Dublin district; and in May 1805, to command the artillery to proceed with the army upon a secret expedition, under Gen. Sir E. Coote; but, after having been three months embarked at Cork, the expedition was stopped, when he returned to the command of the artillery in the Dublin district. 14th Dec. following, he was called upon, by desire of Gen. Lord Cathcart, to take the command of the artillery (102 field pieces and 2000 men and drivers, King's German Legion, including the artillery) in Hanover, with the army under the command of his Lordship; he left Dublin immediately, and on the 27th of the same month arrived at Bremen: the battle of Austerlitz terminated the campaign, and he again returned, for the third time, to the command of the artillery in the Dublin district. In June 1806, he was appointed Lieut.- Col. to the Brigade of Royal Horse Artillery. In May 1807, he was again called from Ireland, by desire of Gen. Lord Cathcart, to accompany his Lordship, as one of the field officers of artillery in the expedition to Copenhagen; he proceeded with the army and commanded the whole of the artillery in advance, till within nine days of its surrender, when he commanded all the batteries upon the right of the British lines. In Oct. 1808, he embarked in command of the artillery, 48 field pieces, and 1,200 men, to be landed at Corunna with the army under Gen. Sir David Baird. The 29th Dec. following, with the horse artillery, he supported the cavalry on the plains of Benevente, when the French General Lefebvre and several of the Imperial Guards were made prisoners. After the retreat of the army under Lieut.Gen. Sir John Moore from Velada to Corunna, this officer, on the 13th Jan. 1809, prepared and blew up the two great magazines, three miles from Corunna, containing nearly 12,000 barrels of gunpowder. On the 16th (a few hours before the French force, under Marshal Soult, made its attack upon Sir John. Moore's army,) the horse artillery in advance under his command were relieved, and the whole embarked agreeably to orders, which deprived this corps of participating in the defeat of the enemy. He returned with the army to England the 21st of the same month, and in April following was appointed to command the artillery in the Sussex district. In July 1809 he was called upon to proceed with the army in the expedition to Walcheren: he commanded all the artillery in advance on the island of South Beveland, and after the surrender of Flushing, he returned to England, and resumed the command of the artillery in the Sussex district, which he held till the 1st Aug. 1814. The 17th March 1812, he succeeded to a Colonelcy in the Royal Artillery. The 4th June 1814, he was promoted to the rank of Major-General; and the 22d July 1830, to that of Lieutenant-General. Lieut.-Gen. Cookson was three times married. His first lady was Ann-Helena, daughter of Dr. Thomas Weir of Jamaica, born in 1766, married in 1786, and died without issue in 1789; his second was Sarah, daughter of John Parker, esq. of Hornsey and London, banker, born 1769, married 1791, and died 15th April 1798, by whom he had issue three children: one son and a daughter died young, and George, born 1793, an officer in the 3d regiment of Foot Guards, who was killed in action before Almeida in Spain, under the Duke (then Marquis) of Wellington, on the 5th May 1811. By his last lady, Margaret, only daughter of William Remington, esq. to whom he was married in 1807, and who survives him, he has left a numerous family. General Cookson's youngest brother, Charles Norris Cookson, a Colonel in the artillery, (whose death we recorded in our volume for 1830, i. 476,) was born 16th October 1762, and was twice married, 1st to Mary-Margaret, 2d daughter of Dr. Thomas Weir of Jamaica, who was born in 1769, and died in 1807, having had issue five sons and four daughters: his 2d lady was Mary, daughter of Joseph Bussell, esq. of Kenton, co. Devon, born 1776, and married in 1810. REAR-ADM. BOWEN. April 27. At Ilfracomb, in his 85th year, James Bowen, esq. a retired RearAdmiral. Mr. Bowen was originally brought up in the merchant service, and so long back as 1776 commanded a merchant ship trading to Africa, Canada, and Jamaica. After entering the Royal Navy, he was, in 1781, Master of the Artois frigate in the action off the Doggerbank; and at the request of Lord Howe he afterwards became Master of the Queen Charlotte, |