THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH. On Thursday, Jan. 29, died at Blenheim, aged 78, his Grace George, the third Duke of Marlborough. The day before his death, the Duke took his usual exercise in his carriage, and did not shew any symptoms of an approaching dissolution. He was found dead in the morning by his valet, who for several years past constantly slept in his chamber. The remains of this good and deeply lamented Nobleman were interred in the family vault in the Chapel at Blenheim, on Friday the 7th inst. This mournful duty was attended by his Grace the present Duke, Lord Charles and Lord Robert Spencer, Lord Churchill, the Marquis of Blandford, together with the Mayor and Corporation of Woodstock, impelled by an emphatic and laudable desire of bearing a testimony, at this last hour, of affectionate respect to the memory of their illustrious neighbour and friend. Not, however, to those alone who formed the funeral procession, will the grief arising from the death of his Grace be confined. Having manifested, at an early period of life, a distaste for the heartburnings and irritation too often attendant upon high official situation, and equally reluctant to ascend those dazzling though invidious heights of political power which might have been easily accessible to a personage of his splendid station and august extraction; his Grace chose rather to advance the welfare of mankind by other means, and in the cool invigorating shade of private life to cherish and mature those good desires and benevolent affections which have a tendency, perhaps, greater than any of the honours which are to be gathered in the walk of ambition, to envoble the nature of man, and to abridge the catalogue of those sorrows and those crimes which are principally engendered by the necessities of our fellow-creatures. It has been beautifully said of the excellent Howard by an eminent living character, that "in feeding the lamp of charity he exhausted the lamp of life;" and in this voluntary seclusion from the splendour of public life, and in the concentration of all his heart and all his strength to the culture and nourishing up of that virtue which never faileth," and the diffusion of its blessed fruits both at home and far around him, his Grace may be said (and it is one of the noblest tributes that panegyric can bestow upon man) to have trodden, for a long series of years, the same path of humanity from whence that immortal Philanthropist never deviated, and in which it was his glory to die. Accordingly, to a wide circumference around his own domain, the charitable largesses of the Duke, for more than half a century, were extended with a zeal that never flagged, and a constancy that suffered no remission, R Whenever a season of unusual severity occurred, or the rigours of want, from whatsoever cause arising, pressed upon the comforts of the poor, his bounty expanded to meet the hardship of the occasion. Uninterruptedly resident, with very little exception, upon his own property, he was brought more immediately into contact with the specific character of each case of distress, and, on this account, his charity was exercised with that judicious discrimination which at once doubles the value and dignifies the purposes of benevolence. His Grace's merits might justify the application to himself of the comprehensive eulogy conferred by Tully upon the vittues of Crassus: "Non unus e multis, sed unus inter omnes prope singularis." Any attempt of ours to describe the sorrow, deep and undissembled, which the loss of such a benefactor has occasioned amid all the habitations of the necessitous in the neighbourhood of Blenheim, must, of necessity, be faint and imperfect: but we lament to think that the regret so widely felt will be sharpened with additional poignancy from the consideration that his death should have happened at a season when, by the severe visitation of Heaven, distress, to so afflicting an extent, is spread abroad in the country. Yet to that neighbourhood alone (though the circle swept by his munificence was very spa. cious) the good deeds of his Grace were not limited: to the city of Oxford in various ways, and to every charitable institution established within its walls, the strong and willing arm of his patronage and succour was extended. The University, too, (though he himself was never a Member of that learned body) stands gratefully indebted to the same spirit of unsurpassed generosity for the large Telescope at the Observatory, the fine copies from Paphael's Cartoons in the Picture Gallery, and other gifts. In the bosom of domes. tic life, and with regard to all those lovely and endearing graces which beautify and bless it, the merits of his Grace shone conspicuously and without remission. Exalted raak is an exposed and perilous situation, and is not unfrequently beset and ensnared, with fatal danger to its virtuons security, by temptation and the importunate spirit of evil desires; but his Grace had ever preserved the fountain of action unpolluted-had ever resisted, with unwavering consistency, the blandishments of illicit pleasure, and maintained the most correct and stainless purity of manners. It was remarked by Mr. Burke upon a very memorable occasion, and in a vein of satirical indignation against the universal impulse to jealousy in the human heart, that "obloquy is a necessary ingredient in the composition of all true great Ress." ness." There was, however, something so singularly gentle, unostentatious, and inoffensive in the genius of his Grace's virtues, that the censorious were disarmed by it, and the lips of detraction entirely put to silence. In no instance was merit more free from all sophistication of pride or pretension; and it was, therefore, never harassed by the assaults which such qualities commonly provoke. We really do not recollect to have heard at any time or upon any occasion, the name of the Duke of Marlborough evilly spoken of. Even that envious slander which is so subtle and so malignantly active in its low and illiberal hostility against the noble and the opulent, never ventured to breathe a whisper upon the unsullied ermine of his character. More than all, he was a sound and a thoroughly disciplined believer in Scripture; his religious professions spake eloquently in practice, and were abundantly fruitful in every variety of virtuous conduct. He gave full proof that he was thoroughly furnished unto all good works, and had learned to adorn the doctrine of God his Saviour in all things. He was the indulgent parent, the affectionate husband, the constant friend, the kind and considerate master; and having kept himself, throughout a long life, in no common degree, unspotted by the world, he came to the grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season, and is gone, we would fain hope, to receive the promise vouchsafed to the "good and faithful servant," and to be "made perfect" in the paradise of his Father and his God. G. T. The following instance of his Grace's munificence is recorded in a very interesting Memoir of Mr. Jacob Bryant, by the late Mr. Justice Hardinge, printed in Mr. Nichols's "Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century:" The Duke of Marlborough's conduct by Mr. Bryant when his Grace came of age, and when Mr Bryant attended his levee, is an instance of munificent gratitude, and of delicacy in the manner of it, perhaps unparalleled. After his father's death, he continued the income to him which the former Duke had conferred upon him in fact, but with no legal security. That income was, I think, 1009. a-year. At this levee, after Mr. Bryant had made his bow and retired, one of the servants ran after him, and said, the Duke had picked up a paper out of Mr. Bry ant's pocket. It was a paper sealed. Mr. Bryant affirmed that he had brought with him no such paper; but the servant persevered, and forced the paper upon him. Thus challenged, he carried home the paper, and found an irrevocable grant of the income for his life." His Grace was born on January 26 *, 1738-9 (Old Style), and, upon returning from his travels, was made a Captain in the 20th regiment of foot, but afterwards resigned; he succeeded to the title, on the death of his father, October 20, 1758. In April, 1760, his Grace was appointed Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Oxford, and was continued in those offices by his present Majesty, at whose coronation be carried the sceptre with the cross. On the 23d of August, 1762, his Grace married Lady Caroline Russell, daughter of John, Duke of Bedford, who died Nov. 26, 1811. On Nov. 22, 1762, being then Lord Chamberlain of the Household, his Grace was sworn of the Privy Council; and upon his resigning the Chamberlain's key, was, on April 22, 1763, appointed Lord Privy Seal; but in August, 1765, quitted that place. In 1768 he was chosen oue of the elder brethren of the Trinity House. At a chapter of the most noble Order of the Garter, held at St. James's, Dec. 12, 1768, his Grace was elected one of the Knights Companions of that Order, and was installed at Windsor, July 25, 1771. He was also one of the Governors of the Charter House; High Steward of the Corporation of Oxford; President of the Radcliffe Infirmary; High Steward of the Corporation of Woodstock; and Ranger of Whichwood Forest. If we have not been misinformed, he was the last surviving Peer who had a seat in the House of Lords upon the King's accession to the throne in 1760 +. His Grace is succeeded by his eldest son, the Marquis of Blandford, (who was created Baron Spencer of Wormleighton, in 1806,) born March 3, 1766; married Sept. 15, 1791, Susan Stewart, daughter of John, Earl of Galloway. The other surviving issue of his Grace are the Baron Churchill, born Dec. 26, 1779, and mar. ried Nov. 25, 1800, to Lady Frances Fitz roy, fifth daughter of the Duke of Grafton; Lady Caroline, born Oct. 27, 1763, married March 10, 1792, Heury Lord Clifden, now Lord Mendip; Lady Anne, born Nov. 5, 1773, married Dec. 10, 1796, * After the alteration of Style his Grace's birth-day was of course till 1800, by the Act passed in 1752 for altering the Style, the 6th of Feb.; since 1800, on the 7th. +We are aware that there are two or three Peers still living who had succeeded to all the titular honours of their respective Houses as early as the period we speak of, but they were then minors, and consequently could have no seat in either House of Parliament. And the present Duke of Gordon succeeded his father so long ago as 1752, but his Grace was not elected one of the 16 Representative Peers of Scotland until 1769, nor was he created a British Peer until several years afterwards. the 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 iminediately 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 morpents, 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. 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 The The a peculiar tincture to his ancestors. 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 Thornhaugh, Northamptonshire, and a nephew of John Rudge, Esq. of Wheatfield, Oxfordshire, who represented the Borough of Evesham in Parliament from the year 1698 to 1754. He practised the Law in the Middle Temple, but retired from the profession in 1763, 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 his brother John in 1801 he removed to Watlington.-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, fol lowing at first the systems of Ray and Tournefort, before the system of Linnus was adopted, or scarcely known in England; and til! within a very short period of his decease, he continued to exercise his admirable faculties in the cultivation of that engaging science. His innumerable 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 be queathed to his Nephew (the son of his eldest brother), the author of several bu 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, Frances, 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 will be experienced after taking it two months, Runcorn, Cheshire, and of Salford, co. Lancaster. Jan 12. At Dunstan Hill, John Carr, esq. Chairman of the Bench of Magistrates for the county of Durham; an upright magistrate, an affectionate husband, a kind father, and benevolent man. 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 92, 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 Gienlee, Lord President of the Court of Session of Scotland. She was daughter of John Lockhart, esq. of Castle Hill. Jan. 15. At Garryhunden, 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 confined 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. James. Át 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 61 st year, John Camp- At Hastings, the wife of Hon. Col. Harris. Jan. 26. In Grosvenor-place, Caroline In York-street, St. James's square, The wife of J. P. Rowe, esq. of the 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 resalt 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 bours. can rise, Than Man's presumption on to-morrow's dawn? Where is to-morrow? In another world. This "peradventure," infamous for lies, As we the fatal sisters would out-spin, Mr. H. lived a life of honest 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. In 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 bis knee-paus: 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 childreu 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 enlivened the very liveliest heart around him. On Thursday, 23d, he went in the Chelsea Stage to London, where be 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 |