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merely place things on their present footing, and tend to relieve the debtor from what would otherwise be an injustice.

May 21, the catholic question was brought forward in the House of Commons by Mr. Grattan, who proposed a resolution tending to pledge the House to an early consideration of the penal laws affecting his Majesty's catholic subjects in Great Britain and Ireland, in the course of the next session. The resolution was copied verbatim from that of Mr. Canning, in 1810. After a discussion of some length, the question was negatived upon a division by 172 votes to

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Considerable dissatisfaction has recently prevailed among the lower classes of the inhabitants of Suffolk and Norfolk. Various outrages have been com

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mitted, in the breaking of threshing ma chines, and the destruction of barns, stacks of corn and hay, by fire. These discontents have broken out into acts of open riot at Brandon and Norwich, but owing to the prompt measures adopted by the magistrates of both counties,these disturbances are we trust, by this time, totally suppressed. The alleged cause is the disproportion between the prices of provisions and those of labour; and if, as it has been asserted, the wages of the labourer in husbandry in these agricul tural districts are under one shilling per day, their condition certainly requires consideration and redress.

We shall endeavour in our next to discharge the arrears due to our readers on the score of the foreign political transactions of the past months.

INCIDENTS, PROMOTIONS, BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS, &c. IN LONDON AND MIDDLESEX.

With Biographical Accounts of Distinguished Characters.

Bulletin of the King's Health.

"Windsor Castle, May 5. "His Majesty passed last month in good bodily health, and in uniform tranquillity, but his Majesty's disorder is not much diminished."

In the Gazette of April 27th public notice was given that the Bank of England will continue to receive Bank dollar tokens at the rate of 5s. 6d. each until the first of November next, in sums of not less than eight dollars.

On the 27th of April, a most respectable meeting, attended by the Dukes of Kent and Sussex, the former of whom took the chair, was held at the London Tavern, for the purpose of taking into consideration the best means of establishing, in a central part of the metropolis, a Universal Dispensary, for the exclusive relief of sick indigent children, with a view to their being promptly supplied with effectual medical aid and advice; the want of which is at present attended with the most fatal consequences among the poor. Dr. J. B. DAVIS, a gentleman well known by his various able professional and other publications, with whom this benevolent plan originated, took a comprehensive view of the great moral effects which such an institution is likely to produce. He stated it as a positive fact, deducible from the clearest data, that of the infant offspring of the lower classes, one-fourth die under the second, one-third under the fifth, and nearly one-half under the tenth-a proportion exceeding that of any other large capital in Europe. This mortality he ascribed, among

other causes, to the inadequacy of medical assistance. One of the numerous advantages which he anticipated from the proposed institution, was its certain tendency to reduce the frequency of consumptive complaints, by ultimately leading to a better treatment for scrophula. The plan was received with enthusiastic approbation, and a subscription opened for carrying it into execution. It is in contemplation, should the funds of the institution admit of it, hereafter to establish stations in different parts of the metropolis, that the benefit of this Dispensary may be the more rapidly and extensively diffused.

In the night of May 9th, a most daring robbery was committed, near Greenwich, on the Coromandel hoy, proceeding down the river with seven chests of dollars, each weighing 4000 ounces. The vessel was boarded by a party of upwards of 20 men, who forced those on board into the hold, while they carried off the treasure. Several persons have been apprehended on suspicion, and part of the dollars recovered.

The

May 23d. a fire broke out in Exetercourt, Strand, between the new English Opera House and Exeter Change, and was not subdued till it had consumed three houses, and damaged two others. new theatre, upon which so much skill, labour, and expense have been bestowed, fortunately escaped uninjured, but the adjoining houses, in which the decorations were deposited, have suffered considerably,

The telegraphic frames at the top of the Admiralty are to be removed, and the im

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Promotions-Appointments-Births.

proved semaphore, consisting of a hollow mast, from which two arms project in different directions, will be erected in their stead. The utility of this invention is to be tried by way of experiment from London to Sheerness. The number of stations, it is said, will not exceed nine; several are erected.

An account laid before the House of Commons estimates the sum necessary for reinstating the buildings damaged or destroyed by the late fire at the Mint, at 13,000l.

Promotions and Appointments.] MAS BELL, esq. sheriff of London; GEORGE COOPER, esq.;

ANTONY BULLER, esq.;

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Captain Sir WM. RICH. OWEN, R.N.; CHARLES ABROTT, esq. one of the Judges of the court of King's Bench;

GEORGE SOWLEY HOLROYD, esq. one of the Judges of the court of King's Bench; JAMES BURROUGH, esq. one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas ;

JAMES ALLAN PARK, esq. one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas ;

Lieut. Col. PHILIP KEATING ROCHE; Lieut. Col. WILLIAM PARKER CARROL have received the honour of knighthood. Prince LEOPOLD of SAXE-COBURG-SAALFELD, to be a general in the army. JOHN HALL, esq. to be consul for the kingdom of Hanover in London.

Rear Admiral Sir GRAHAM MOORE, to be a lord of the admiralty, vice Lord Henry Paulet.

The Gazette of May 14, declares that Prince LEOPOLD shall take precedence before the archbishop of Canterbury, the lord chancellor, and other great officers, and before all dukes (excepting those of the blood royal) and peers of the realm.

Lord FITZROY SOMERSET to be secretary of embassy at the court of France.

Rear Admiral Sir PHILIP CHARIES DURHAM, to be a knight commander of the Bath.

Vice Admiral FRANCIS PICKMORE, to be governor and commander in chief of Newfoundland.

JAMES CRAUFURD MACLEOD, esq. to be conservator of the privileges of the royal boroughs in Scotland.

GEORGE COOKE, esq. to be judge of Prince of Wales's Island, vice Sir Edmund Stanley, on which occasion he received the honour of knighthood.

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Members returned to Parliament.]
BERT LATOUCHE, esq. for the county of
Carlow, vice David Latouche, esq. deceased.

JOHN MABERLEY, esq. for Rye, vice Thomas Philips Lamb, esq. who has accepted the office of steward of East Hendred.

Lieut.Gen. JOHN MICHEL for Belfast, vice Sir Stephen May, bart. appointed collector of the customs at that port.

Ecclesiastical Preferments.] Rev. Dr. BARTON, to the deanery of Bocking, Essex.

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Rev. JAMES BEEBEE, to the living of Presteign, Radnor.

Rev. SAMUEL BENNETT, to the chaplaincy of the London and Middlesex Penitentiary, Milbank.

Rev. JAMES STANIER CLARKE, to the rectory of Tillington, Sussex.

Rev. E. FOSTER, to be one of the domes-,
tic chaplains to the Duke of Cambridge.
Rev. W. W. GRETTON, to the vicarage of
Withington, Hereford.

Rev. CHARLES JERVIS, to the vicarage of
Cheltenham.

Rev. R. KEDINGTON, to the rectory of Bradfield Combust, Suffolk.

Rev. CHARLES KEKEWICH, to the perpetual cure of Linton and Countisbury, Devon. Rev. JOHN LOWNDES, to the rectory of Okeford Fitzpaine, Dorset.

Rev. F. MILLS, to be one of his Majesty's chaplains in ordinary.

Rev. Mr. NOTT, to the rectory of Week, Hants.

Rev. HERBERT OAKELEY, to a prebend in Litchfield cathedral.

Rev. JonN ORMAN, to the head mastership of the grammar school, Beverley, York. Rev. JAMES PHILPOT, to the mastership of St. John's, Bath.

Rev. CHARLES PROWETT, to the rectory of Topcroft, Norfolk.

Rev. BENJAMIN RICHINGS, to the living of Manceter, with the chapelry of Atherstone, Warwick.

Rev. ERIC RUDD, to the perpetual curacy of Thorne, York.

Rev. SAMUEL SETTLE, to the vicarage of Winterborne Stoke, Wilts.

Rev. WILLIAM STABBACK, to the rectory of St. Stephen's, Exeter.

Rev. ROBERT STANSER, D.D. to be hishop of Nova Scotia, in America, in the room of the Right Rev. Charles Inglis, D.D.. deceased.

Rev. SAMUEL TURNER, to the vicarage of Tealby, Lincoln.

Rev. WILLIAM TYSON, to the perpetual curacies of Rumburgh and South Elmham, Norfolk.

Rev. EDWARD VINCENT, to the vicarage of Rowde, Wilts.

Rev. WILLIAM WEATHERHEAD, to the rectory of Wolferton, Norfolk.

Rev. CARUS WILSON, to the living of Tunstall, Westmoreland,

Births.] In Montague-square, the Right Hon. Lady Fitzroy Somerset, of a son.

In Grosvenor-place, the Lady of Patrick Maitland, esq. of a son.

In Cadogan-place, the wife of R, B. Pollard, A.B. of St. John's college, Cambridge, of a daughter.

In Saville-row, the lady of George Watson Taylor, esq of a son.

At Fulham, the lady of Major General Sir H. Torrens, of a son.

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The Hon. Mrs. Lushington, of a daugh

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Marriages and Deaths in London and Middlesex.

Lady Catherine Halket, of a son.
Countess Talbot, of a son.

Married.] Thos. Gill, esq. of King-street, Finsbury, to Miss Charles, of Calvert-street. Henry Lecky, esq. 20th light dragoons, to Gertrude, youngest daughter of the late Alex. Wallace, esq.

Godfrey Meynell, esq. of Meynell-Langley, Derby, to Miss Balfour, only daughter of the late Dav. B. esq. of Edinburgh.

John Eicke, esq. of Doughty-street, to Anne, third daughter of John Bannister, esq. of Gower-street, Bedford-square.

William, youngest son of the late H. R. James, esq. of Bruton-street, to Maria, daughter of the late John Heathcote, esq. of Tottenham.

Mr. Benj. Chandler, of St. Paul's Church Yard, to Mary, daughter of Sam. Whitty, esq. Sherborne, Dorset.

Rich. Cooper, esq. of Dulwich, to Caroline, eldest daughter of W. A. Hay, esq. of Princes-street, Hanover-square.

Wm. Clark Johnston, esq. to Eliza, eldest daughter of James Daniell, esq.

Rev. Thos. Robinson, of Trinity College, Cambridge, to Miss Dornford, only daughter of the late Josiah D. esq. of London.

Sir Jas. Montgomery, of Stanhope, bart. M. P. to Miss Helen Graham, second daughter of Thos. G. esq. of Kinross, N. B.

Rev. J. C. Clements, of Cheam, to Mary, second daughter of George Jubb, esq. of Winchester-street.

F. H. Pedder, esq. of Gould-square, to Aline, eldest daughter of J. L. Storder, esq. of Austin Friars.

John Cattley, esq. of Queenhithe, to Frances, fifth daughter of the late John Garratt, esq. of Newington Green.

Martin Ware, esq. of New Bridge-street, eldest son of the late James W. esq. to Anne, youngest daughter of the Rev. Thomas Taylor, of the King's-road.

Chas. Thos. Haden, esq. of Sloane-street, to Emma, youngest daughter of the late Sam. Harrison, esq. of Percy-street.

Captain Edw. Lowther, R. N. to Mary, eldest daughter of William Leader, esq. M.P. Mr. Peter Poland, of the Strand, eldest son of Peter Raymond P. esq. of Highgate, to Sarah Selina, third daughter of Mr. T. Jackson, of Fleet-street.

The Hon. and Rev. Geo. Neville, Master of Magdalen College, Cambridge, and youngest son of Lord Braybrooke, to Lady Charlotte Legge, second daughter of George, Earl of Dartmouth.

The Earl of Normanton to Lady Diana Herbert, daughter to the Earl of Pembroke. The Hon. H. Grey Bennet, second son of the Earl of Tankerville, to Miss Russell, daughter of Lord Wm. R. and niece to the Duke of Bedford.

John Cuming, esq. to Anna Frances Bishop, of Gray's Wood, Chiddingfold, Surrey, youngest daughter of the late Henry B. esq.

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Rev. Thos. P. Symonds, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late A. H. Tayl esq. of Edward-street, Cavendish-square.

Sam. H. Russell, esq. to Cecil Charlotte, eldest daughter of Dr. Pemberton, of George. street, Hanover-square.

Bevis Thelwall, esq. to Mary Elizabeth, second daughter of L. B. Buckle, esq. of Upper Seymour-street.

Mr. Wm. Yockney, of Bedford street, Covent Garden, to Elizabeth, daughter of Geo. Roberts, esq. of Newington.

At Greenwich, Rob. Pecknell, esq. of the New Legacy Office, Somerset-place, to Mrs. C. Mathews, of Blackheath Road.

At Chelsea, Lieut. T. H. Edwards to Georgiana Meadows.

At Lambeth, Rich. E. Hyde, esq. of the Crescent, near Manchester, to Anne Labella, eldest daughter of Thos. Ashby, esq.

At Fulham, Thos. Betts, esq. to Sarah, widow of the late J. Jones, Historiographer to the King.

Fras. B. Head, esq. of the Royal Engineers, to Julia Valenza, youngest sister of Lord Somerville.

Richard Riley, esq. of the Admiralty, to Harriett, third daughter of Sir Wm. Beechey. At Twickenham, J. T. Brooks, esq. of Flitwick, Beds, to Mary, eldest daughter of A. Hatfield, esq.

At Islington, the Rev. Henry Howard, of Sawbridgeworth, Herts, to Julia, second daughter of Sir Thomas Beevor, bart.

Died.] In New Ormond-street, Bezj. Bewicke, esq.

In White Lion-court, Cornhill, Wm. Wilson, esq. 85.

In York place, Frances Martha, youngest daughter of Lieut. Col. Graham, of Chailey, Sussex, 11.

In Old Brompton road, Lieut. Gen. Sontag, 69.

In Lincoln's Inn, Hardinge Stracey, esq. In Manchester-street, Mrs. Mary Anne Synge, fourth daughter of the late Sir Rob. S.bart.

In Welbeck-street, Dr. John O'Donnel, 56. In Upper Grosvenor-street, Mrs. Fremantle, widow of the late J. F. esq.

In Piccadilly, Cortis Telfair, esq. 65. In Duke-street, West Smithfield, Mr. Samuel Major, 69.

In Golden-square, Osmond Venn, ninth surviving son of John Pearson, esq. 9.

In New Burlington-street, Pole, third son of the Rt. Hon. Charles B. Bathurst.

In Park-street, Richard Warren, esq. In James-street, Covent Garden, Mrs. Sarah Embry, sister to the Rev. Mr. E. rector of that parish, 74.

At Charing Cross, Edward, eldest son of E. Briscoe, esq. of Waterford, Ireland, 20. In Newgate-street, White Newman, esq.

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In Doughty-street, Rob. Storks, esq. 74. In Bernard-street, Russell-square, Janet,

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Account of the Earl of Warwick & Mr. T. Johnes.

relict of the late W. Barclay, esq. of the Navy Pay Office.

At Teddington, Mary Amelia, wife of Jas. Wm. Lukin, esq. of Fludyer street.

At Pentonville, Sarah, wife of Thos. Teb. butt, esq. 55.

At Lambeth, Rich. Wordsworth, esq. of Staple Inn and Stockbridge.

At Kentish Town, Louisa Elisabeth, wife of Mr. Mich. Nugent.-Robert Wedd, esq. At Highgate, John Fred. Poland, esq. of Bush-lane.

At Pimlico, Mr. Patrick M'Manus, of Bow-street-office.-Mrs. Ann Hedgley, 74.

At Camden Town, Miss Ann Jackson, daughter of John J. esq. of the same place. At Hampstead, Mrs. Theobald, widow of Jas. T. esq. of Great James-street, Bedfordrow.-Isaac Johnstone, esq. barrister-at-law. At Chelsea, Mr. James Peltram. In Camberwell-terrace, Henry Blaxland,

esq. 68.

At Fulham, Captain J. Turner, R. N.Mrs. Cleaver, wife of the Archbishop of Dublin.

At Stoke Newington, Mrs. Eliz. de Valangin, widow of the late Dr. de V. 76.

In the Edgeware-road, Capt. Chas. Roberts, of the 4th royal veteran battalion. At Frognal, Mrs. Abel, wife of James A. esq.

In Durham-place, Hackney-road, Wm. Henry Staveley, esq.

At Norwood Green, Wm. Spencer, esq. one of his Majesty's justices of peace for the county of Middlesex, 70.

At Pentonville, Thomas Collier, esq. 85. At Brompton, Gilbert, only son of G. Macleod, esq. of the E. I. C. Bengal Medical Establishment, 9.

In Highbury-place, Martha Sadelbia, third daughter of John Nichols, esq.

In Curzon-street, May Fair, BARRINGTON POPE BLACHFORD, esq. M. P. one of the lords commissioners of the Admiralty. He was married to a sister of the present Duke of Grafton.

In Green - street, Grosvenor - square, GEORGE GREVILE, Earl of WARWICK and BROOKE, which titles were conferred on his father by King George II. His lordship was born in 1746, and succeeded his father in 1773. He married, in 1771, Georgiana, only daughter of the first Lord Selsey. This lady died in 1772, leaving him a son, who died at the age of 14 years. In 1776, his lordship married Henrietta, daughter of Richard Vernon, esq. by whom he had issue: Henry Lord Brooke, born 1779, colonel of the Warwick militia, who succeeds to the family titles and estates; Robert; Elizabeth, died in 1806; Henrietta, married in 1805 to the Earl of Clonmel; Caroline, Augusta Louisa, and Charlotte. His lordship never took any active part in public affairs.

At Langstone Cliffe Cottage, near Daw

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lish, THOMAS JOHNES, esq. M.P. for Cardiganshire, and lord lieutenant and custos rotulorum of that county, 67. This gentleman was bred at Eton, and first sat in Parliament for the county of Radnor. His first wife was Miss Bird, of Monmouth; and for his second, he took his first cousin, Miss Johnes, of Dowla Colty, Carmarthenshire. The benefits conferred by this gentleman on all the country around his princely domain of Hafod, will entitle him to the respect of distant posterity. Previously to 1783, when Mr. Johnes began to erect his first residence, the roads were impassable; there was not a post-chaise in the county: the miserable huts of the peasantry he transformed into comfortable habitations, and supplied medical attendants; he employed the population in planting millions of forest trees upon the cheerless barrenness of the waste and mountains, as well as in other improvements; and instituted schools, which he and Mrs. Johnes personally attended. Having in view the two-fold design-to patronise literature and the arts, and to combine objects, which, together with the natural grandeur of the scenery, might induce travelling to this remote part of the Principality, and thereby ameliorate the condition of the natives he enriched his residence with paintings and sculptures by the best mastersstored his library with the most valuable literature, ancient and modern; and in his pleasure grounds he developed and enhanced the sublime scenery of Nature. So intent was he on improving the agriculture of this forlorn county, that he brought farmers from Scotland and other districts, and proposed, at one time, to introduce 100 Grison families, and to place them on the high uncultivated grounds; but various circumstances and objections prevented the execution of this latter plan. An Agricultural Society was commenced for the purpose of encouraging cottagers, by giving premiums, and purchasing their productions; and he distributed an excellent tract, entitled, "A Cardiganshire Landlord's Advice to his Tenants." While Mr. Johnes was thus employing his talents and fortune for the benefit of his country, a destructive fire, in the year 1807, consumed his house, with much of its valuable contents; the loss amounted, it is said, to upwards of 70,000l. Notwithstanding this disaster, Mr. Johnes still "resolved to inhabit his Eden, although driven out by the flaming minister." Haford was once more rebuilt and adorned anew. Amid these various occupations, and his business in Parliament, Mr. Johnes translated the Travels of Brocquière, 1 vol. 4to.; the Chronicles of Froissart, 4 vols. folio; Monstrelet, 4 vols; and Joinville, 2 vols. 4to.; the three latter were printed at his own press at Hafod.-During the last few years, he continued indefatigable in his improvements at Hafod, and in making roads and erecting bridges for the accommodation

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G. Hardinge, Esq., & Rev. C. Dunster,

of the public. He lately succeeded in establishing a fund for the relief of the families of seamen and others who may suffer by casualties; and he conceived the idea of establishing a fishery on an extensive scale. In the winter of 1814, Mr. Johnes had an alarming illness, from which, however, he appeared to have recovered; and purchased a residence in Devonshire for his winter resort, or, as he expressed it, "a cradle for his age." Here it was that the hand of death arrested him, after a short illness. His remains were deposited in the church which he built at Hafod, in the same vault with those of his beloved and only daughter, for whom a marble monument of most interesting design and exquisite workmanship has long been executing in London.

At Presteigne, April 26, GEO. HARDINGE, esq. first justice of the counties of Brecon, Glamorgan, and Radnor, and attorney-general to the Queen, 71. He was the son of Nicholas H. esq. of Canbury House, Surrey, formerly clerk to the House of Commonsdistinguished for his virtues and literary attainments; nephew to the late Earl, and cousin to Marquis Camden. He was educated at King's College, Cambridge; after which he entered at one of the inns of court, and became eminent as a counsel. He possessed a refined classical taste, brilliant wit, and the most powerful and varied eloquence, which he uniformly displayed in the charges delivered by him after his elevation to the bench. His benevolent temper and active philanthropy will long live in the recollection of his friends, and of the many who have been henefited by his zealous exertions. He was the author of the following tracts :"Speech delivered at the Bar of the House of Lords against Mr. Fox's East India Bill, Dec. 16, 1783" "Letters to Edmund Burke, in which are contained Inquiries into

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the constitutional existence of an impeachment against Mr. Hastings," svo. 1791"The Essence of Malone, or the Beautis of that fascinating writer extracted from his immortal work, entitled, "Some Account ci the Life and Writings of John Dryden,' 8vo. 1800-"The Russian Chiefs, an ode,"

4to. 1804.

At Petworth, the Rev. CHARLES DENSTER, rector of that parish, and rural dean of West Sussex. He was the son of the Rev. Chas. D. the translator of Horace, and received his education at Trinity College, Oxford, where he proceeded to his degree of M. A. in June, 1775. He possessed consi. derable literary and critical abilities, which he evinced in the following publications:"The Frogs, a comedy from the Greek t Aristophanes," 4to. 1785 -"Phillips' Cider, a poem, with notes," 8vo. 1791"Milton's Paradise Regained, with notes," 4to. 1795 Considerations on Milton's Early Reading, and the prima stamina of his Paradise Lost, together with Extracts from a Poet of the 16th century," 8vo. 1800-"A Letter to the Bishop of London, suggesting a farther Consideration of a Passage in St. Matthew," 8vo. 1804-"A Letter to Granville Sharp, respecting his Remarks on the twa last Petitions in the Lord's Prayer," 12mo. 1807.-To those which follow he did not affix his name:-" Discursory Considerations on St. Luke's Gospel," svo. 1805-"Considerations on the supposed Evidence of the carly Fathers that St. Matthew's Gospel was the first written," 8vo. 1806-" Considerations on the hypothesis that St. Luke's Gospel was the first written," 8vo. 1808"Points at issue between the editor of Dr. Townson's Works and the author of Discursory Considerations on St. Luke's Gospel,"

8vo. 1811.

PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES,

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