GAZETTE PROMOTIONS, &C. Dec. 25. 7th Dragoons-Brevet Major Keane to be Major.

22nd Foot-Brevet Lieut.-col. M'Neight to be Major.

67th-Brevet Major Abrahams to be Major.

Hospital Staff-Surgeon Murray to be Surgeon to the Forces,

CIVIL PROMOTIONS.

Rev. H. Wilkinson, M.A. Fellow of New College, Cambridge, and senior Moderator in that University for the present year, to be Head Master of the Grammar School of Sedbergh, Yorkshire.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Rev. John Hallward, M.A. of Worcester College, Oxford, Stanton-in-the-Wolds R. Notts, on his own petition.

Rev. Jeremiah Burroughes, B.A. Rectory of Burlingham St. Andrew, with Burlingham Saint Edmund annexed, Norfolk. Rev. Henry Blunt, B. A. Clare V. Suffolk.

Rev. John Williams Butt, B.A. Lakenheath V. Suffolk.

Rev. Mr. Clarke, Budston R. and V. Somersetshire.

Rev. Jamson Davies, B. A. of Clarehall, Cambridge, Evington V. Leicestershire.

Rev. W. F. Mansel, B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, (Vicar of Sandhurst, Gloucestershire) to the adjoining Vicarage of Ashelworth.

Rev. Henry Freeland, B. A. of Emanuel College, Cambridge, Hasketon R. Suffolk.

Rev. Robert Bathurst, M. A. Topcroft R. Norfolk; also to Docking V. same county.

Rev. Wm. Hennell Black, to Perpetual Curacy of Wormegay, Norfolk.

Rev. Wm. Robt. Hay, M. A. Rector of Ackworth, and Chairman of the Manchester Quarter Sessions, Rochdale V. vacant by the death of Dr. Drake. This living, in the gift of the Abp. of Canterbury, is estimated at 2,500. a year.

Lately. At his house, in Upper Brookstreet, Grosvenor - square, London, the wife of Thos. Phillipps, esq. of Middle Hill, Worcestershire, a daughter.

Dec. 4. At Aqualate Hall, Lady Boughey, a son, — - 15. In Great Quebecstreet, the wife of Johu Corfield, esq. of

Baker-street, Portman-square, a son.—— 20. At Methley Park, Viscountess Pollington, a son. 22. The wife of Adolphus Meetkirke, esq. of Julians, co. Hertford, a son and heir.-23. In Russell square, the wife of Thomas Denman, esq. M.P. a

son.

Aug. 2. At Madras, the Rev. Wm. Roy, Chaplain of Masulipitam, to Aune Catharine, eldest daughter of Evelyn J. Gascoigne, esq. Deputy Master Attendant.

Lately. The Rev. James Baker, M.A. Chancellor of Durham, to Catharine, only daughter of the Rev. Francis Haggitt, D.D. Prebendary of Durham.

Rev. Thos. Glasscott, to Caroline-Augusta, youngest sister of William Cholmley Morris, esq. Fishery House, Devon.

Rev. J. P. Jones, Perpetual Curate of Leonard Stanley, to Susanna Willett, only daughter of the Rev. R. D. Cumberland, Vicar of Driffield, both in Gloucestershire.

Rev. T. Morris, to Miss Fanny Hammett, daughter of Mr. Matthew Brodribb, of Gloucester.

Rev. E. Williams, to Miss Coke, daughter of the late Rev. D. Ewes Coke, of Brookhill Hall, Notts.

At Newcastle, Mr. Silvertop to Mrs. Pearson. This is the third time the lady bas been before the Altar. Her first husband was a Quaker, her second a Roman Catholic, and her third is of the Establish

ed Church. Every husband was twice her own age; at 16 she married a gentleman of 32; at 30 she took one of 60; and now, at 42, she is united to a gentleman of 84.

Dec. 3. G. Brown, esq. son of the Rev. Dr. Brown, Principal of Marishall College, Aberdeen, to Catherine Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Brian Hodgson, esq. of Clacton, Essex.

13. Isaac Webster, of Derby, to Maria, third daughter of the late Parker, esq. of Littleover, Derbyshire.

14. The Rev. J. L. Hamilton, eldest son of the late Vice Admiral Hamilton, to Susan, eldest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Wood. ward, and grand-daughter of the late Lord Bishop of Cloyne.

The Rev. W. Sharpe, M.A. Chaplain of Trinity College, Cambridge, to Lucy-Anne, eldest daughter of the late Rev. Edm. Gapper, M.A. Rector of Keinton Mande. field, Somersetshire.

Gereld Dease, esq. of Torbestown (Westmeath), nephew of the Earl of Fingall, to Elizabeth, daughter of the late Edmund O'Callaghan, esq. of Kilgory (Clare). Wm.

Wm. Clayton, esq. of Worth, to Elizabeth, third daughter of the late P. Brooke, esq. of Shrigly, Cheshire.

15. Edward, third son of E. Armitage, esq. of Farnley Hall, Yorkshire, to SarahAnne, eldest daughter of Henry Thompson, esq. of Cheltenham.

Andrew Cohen, esq. of Woburn-place, Russell-square, to Hannah, eldest daugh. ter of M. Oppenheim, esq. of Manselstreet, Goodman's-fields.

16. J. C. Cameron, esq. of Gray's Inn, to Jane, third daughter of Joseph Sibley, esq. of Hall Place.

J. H. Galton, esq. third son of S. Galton, esq. of Duddistone House, Warwickshire, to Isabella, eldest daughter of Joseph Shutt, esq.

The Rev. C. T. Heathcote, D. D. of Mitcham, to Maria, youngest daughter of the late Thomas Trower, esq. of Clapton..

At Paris, Jas. Du Bois, esq. of Brixton, Surrey, to Eliza-Mary, daughter of G. Grant, esq. of Ingoldsthorp Hall, Norfolk.

17. At Edinburgh, Col. Farquharson, to Rebecca, fourth daughter of the late Sir G. Colquhoun, bart. of Tillycolquoun.

Sir Richard Sutton, bart. of Norwood Park, Notts. to Mary-Elizabeth, daughter of the late B. Burton, esq. of Burton Hall, Carlow.

18. Wm. Wrixon Becher, esq. a Gentleman of very considerable property, and M.P. for Mallow, to the lovely and accomplished Miss O'Neill. The ceremony was performed by the Hon. and Rev. the

Dean of Ossory. Mr. B. settles 1000%. a year on the lady; and refuses to take a shilling of her fortune, which she has settled on her family as follows:-On her father and mother 500l. a year; her bro ther Robert 3001, a year; her second brother, in the 44th regiment, 2007. a year; and the sum of 5000l. on her sister,

Major-gen. Riall, Governor of Grenada, to the eldest daughter of the late James Scarlett, esq. of Jamaica.

Edward Carey Grojan, esq. to JaneIsabella, second daughter of Horatio Robson, esq. of Piccadilly.

Lieut.-col. E. C. Fleming, to Charlotte, youngest daughter of the late Lieut.. gen. St. Leger, of Baker-street, Portmansquare.

Robt. Hutchinson, esq. of the Commercial-road, to the daughter of Wm. Corston, esq. of Fincham, Norfolk.

21, Wm. Holl, esq. of Worcester, to Charlotte, second daughter of R. H. Gedge, esq. of Sloane-street.

22. Nath. Hardcastle, esq. to Elizabeth Augusta, only dau. of Joseph Smith, esq. of Strangeways Hall, near Manchester.

23. T. R. Dimsdale, esq. of Hertford, to Lucinda, eldest daughter of Henry Manning, esq. of Sidmouth.

Robt. Lyney, esq. of Limehouse, to Grace, eldest daughter of the late Wm. Sutherland, esq. of Jamaica,

25. Mr. Joseph Nalder, of London place, Hackney, to Susan, only daughter of Thos. Nalder, esq. of Cheapside.

DR. JOHN PARSONS,

BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH. Part I. p. 481. A sketch of the character of this distinguished Prelate, from the pen of the Rev. Edward Patteson, in a Letter to the Right Hon. Sir William Scott, has lately been printed for private distribution; and it is hoped we shall not offend the author by giving publicity to the following extract. Sure we are that every one who rightly values the great and excellent qualities of Dr. Parsons, will read it with more than common interest.

"The Right Reverend John Parsons, D.D. late Bishop of Peterborough, and Master of Balliol College, in the University of Oxford, was one of those rare and remarkable men, who appear to have been born, not so much to extend the limits of any particular species of knowledge, as to promote the cultivation of good sense and right feeling in every department of life. Of many not undistinguished persons, it is but too justly suspected that the hope of distinction alone rendered them what they were of Dr. Parsons it may be truly affirmed, that he rose to distinction, be

cause he would not, in any circumstances, have been other than he was. His qualities were not of a nature to be assumed, nor his system of conduct such, as the views of latent ambition could have prompted. To be useful was the great aim of his life and the general persuasion, how eminently nature and experience had empowered him to be useful, was now fully established, when the hopes which it had raised were extinguished by his death.

"Deeply and sincerely, by those who stood near to him, will his decease be lamented; but far wider is the sphere in which it will be most permanently felt, The sorrows of private friendship will die with the passing generation; but, that the public career of the Bishop of Peterborough should have been prematurely terminated, will be regretted by every true friend to our Ecclesiastical and Civil Establishment for generations to come. In him his College has lost a second founder; the University, a reformer of its abuses, a strict enforcer of its discipline, an able champion of its privileges, and a main pillar of its reputation; the public cha

rities,

rities, a liberal contributor, and a powerful advocate: the Church of England, a conscientious professor of its doctrines, and a temperate but firm defender of its rights; the House of Peers, a discerning, upright, and active senator; and the nation at large, a true, loyal, and sober patriot.

"It was his peculiar felicity to leave, in every station which he successively filled, indelible traces both of his talents and his worth. The entire line of his progress was marked by a series of improvements, of institutions reformed, of revenues augmented, of residences restored and embellished; and all this was effected by means not less creditable to his integrity and benevolence, than to his judgment, perseverance, and energy. In his Benefices, his College, his Deanery, and his Diocese, the thought of those who might come after him, was ever present to his mind; and to their interest he often made large sacrifices of his own.

"The elevation of Dr. Parsons to the Prelacy was equally honourable to the discernment which pointed out his merit, and to the choice which acknowledged it. Conferred without solicitation, it was accepted without the forfeiture of indepen dence; nor can any other motive be assigned for the appointment, than a just sense of his peculiar fitness both to fulfil the duties of the Episcopal office, and to sustain its dignity.

"By those, whose opportunities of observing him were confined to his public functions and duties, the more soft and amiable features of his character were little understood. The commanding vigour of his colloquial powers was felt by all who conversed with him; but the lively narrative, the unstudied wit, the playful and inoffensive gaiety which adorned and animated his private conversation, were known only to few; for in the mixed and varied circle of general society, his habits were usually serious, and sometimes reserved.

"With a strength of intellect, of which he could not be unconscious, and a frame of nerves naturally firm, it is the less surprising that he should have possessed also that admirable presence of mind, which enabled him, on many trying and delicate emergencies, to act with equal promptitude, spirit, and propriety.

"As a coadjutor in public business, he was neither forward to dictate, nor when consulted, slow to suggest: but, when an entire question was fairly before him, his decision was formed without hesitation, and pronounced without fear. On the other hand, in collecting, weighing, and comparing evidence, he was patient and indefatigable. Never would he consent to

sánction grave measures on questionable grounds; to assign public rewards where Do public service was proved; or, least of all, to affix the stigma of delinquency, unless where a strong case was clearly made out.

"He entertained a due respect for the opinions and information of others; but where facts, testimony, and argument had failed to convince him, it was vain to urge him with mere names and authorities, excepting on subjects remote from his own province or track of enquiry. His co-operation, therefore, was only to be obtained by satisfying his judgment; and such was his penetration, that any attempt to insnare him by sophistry, or to work upon his feelings by imposture, was exposed to detection.

“Though resolute and tenacious where conscience was concerned, no man could be more unwilling to contend for trifles; but he anxiously deprecated that false liberality, which, under the name of trifles, is ready to abandon the most important outworks of the Church and State. To peace he was ready to make any sacrafice but that of principle and the public good; and, wherever his situation gave him influence, it was for this object that he most delighted to exert it. Hence, it was his earnest endeavour to heal divisions and to extinguish the spirit of party in every society with which he became connected; and he made his own example eminently conducive to this end by the strict impartiality of his regulations and decisions.

"When placed where sectaries were numerous and powerful, he neither courted them by concessions, nor disgusted them by useless hostility; and his couduct, however averse to their views, conciliated their esteem.

· Though be had not been long known to his clergy as their Diocesan, they already appreciated his character, and felt the value of his paternal counsels and care. A few years had taught them to regard his residence among them as a blessing, and the prospect of his removal as that of an impending misfortune.

"As a Preacher, his grave, dignified, and emphatic delivery, was well-suited to compositions of which the purpose was to convince, not to attract applause; and it is highly reputable to the University of Oxford, that its pulpit was never more numerously attended than when he was expected to fill it.

"In the House of Peers he was rather a hearer than a speaker. There the due dispatch of business was his object; and to his industry and perseverance in committees, his readiness in catching the true bearing of a question, and his acuteness

in the detection of errors, they who were accustomed to act with him, will bear ample testimony:

"Where such is the intrinsic weight of Character, the lustre, which it may derive from the friendship of other great and good men, is reflected upon themselves. Honourable, therefore, as it was to the Bishop of Peterborough, it was not to him alone honourable that for many years he possessed equally the confidence of some persons who filled the highest offices with dignity and credit, and of others who, with no less dignity, had declined them.

"Of such a man it is almost superfluous to record, that his faith as a Christian was sound, rational, and effective; that what he taught he believed, and what he believed he practised.

"When the religious opinions of other men, however opposite to his own, appeared to him to be sincere, his dissent from them was consistent with respect, and his disapprobation, with charity. But to the Establishment in which he was bred, he was no lukewarm friend. Whether he regarded, with a greater share of dread, an intolerant superstition, or an intolerant fanaticism, may reasonably be doubted; but certain it is, that he could not contemplate the prevalence of either without serious alarm.

"So earnest, indeed, was his solicitude to guard and maintain what he considered as the best and purest form of Christianity, and so well adapted was the turn of his mind, either to withstand the force, or to expose the artifices of its assailants, that his decease cannot but be regarded as having left a void in the ranks of orthodoxy, not easily to be supplied."

JAMES WATT, Esq.

P. 163. The following character of this eminent man is extracted from the remarks of the Quarterly Review, on M. Dupin's Work on the Marine Establishments of France and England:

"Here we are introduced to the celebrated Jas. Watt,' an old inhabitant and civil • It was engineer belonging to Glasgow.' with a respect,' says M. Dupin, mingled with admiration, that I saw this fine old man, of eighty-three years of age, preserving the vigour of his mind, as well as his physical strength; he informed me of a variety of particulars relative to the progress of English industry, of which, more than any other inventor, he has accelerated the advancement. It is to Mr. Watt that England, in a great measure, owes the immense increase of her wealth within the last fifty years.'

"To every word of this we most cordially subscribe, and to more. Not to England alone, but to all Europe and the western

world, Mr. Watt may be considered as the greatest benefactor. In strength of intellect, in original genius, in sound judgment, and in the application of all these to the useful sciences and the practical purposes of life, Mr. Watt (now, alas! no more), stood eminently alone, and without an equal. His steam-engine, which has been pronounced "the most perfect production of physical and mechanical skill which the world has yet seen," would alone immortalise his name. But the vigour of

his genius was not satisfied with bringing to perfection what he found defective; it took a bolder flight in the wide field of invention, and shewed, in a variety of instances, what powerful effects were capable of being produced by the most simple and easy means, when properly applied. Among other amusements of the latter days of this venerable man, was the invention of a machine for multiplying copies of busts and other pieces of statuary, which, though brought to a degree of perfection, was not deemed by him sufficiently near it to be produced to the public. By his death, it may be truly said, England has lost one of its most useful and brightest ornaments; and we cannot but regret that a nation's gratitude was not evinced by some mark of distinction, ere he was snatched away to a better world; which, though it could have added nothing to his reputation, would not have sullied the purity of that fountain from which all public honours are held to derive their

source."

LIEUT. CAVENACH.

Oct. 12. At Trinidad, aged 24, Lieut. Nathaniel Cavenagh, of the Royal Artillery, eldest son of Nathaniel Cavenagh, esq. of Bath. This amiable and accomplished young man, when preparing to return to Europe, was seized with a violent fever, and expired on the third day of his illness, to the great loss of the service he adorned, and the inexpressible sorrow of his afflicted parents and family. The fairest eulogy of a departed soldier is found in the praises of his companions in arms. The intelligence of Lieut. Cavenagh's untimely fate was received in a letter from a brother officer, whose affecting words are alike creditable to the writer, and the subject of his regret." Although in a foreign country, and far from his relations,[he did not die among strangers to his goodness: open, generous, sincere, his excellent heart attached to him many friends, who knew well how to appreciate his worth while living, and deeply to deplore his loss now that he is no more." Devoted to his profession, he desired, almost in his last moments, that particular attention should be paid to one of his soldiers, who had just been taken ill. He was interred on the

day

day following his death, with the military honours due to the rank of Captain.

MR. JOSEPH HEYCOCK.

Nov....At Sadington, in the county of Leicester, aged 68, Mr. Joseph Heycock, one of that valuable class of society to whom the Metropolis is indebted for a regular and ample supply of cattle in Smithfield market. Mr. Heycock was possessed of much landed property, besides occupying, in Sadington and Gumley, a large tract of some of the best grazing land in the fertile county of Leicester; and it may literally be said, that "his hills were white over with sheep," of a description the most beautiful and the most productive. He was the descendant of a family long settled with great respectability in the county of Northampton; their name was originally Acot. Mr. H. formerly lived at Keythorp, in Leicestershire, but had resided at Sadington about 20 years. He bas left a widow and two sons.

Mr. JOSEPH MEYMOTT.

P. 572. An unusual mark of respect was paid to the memory of the late Mr. Joseph Meymott, of the Borough-road, Southwark, whose remains were deposited, in the vault under St. George's church. He had been, for several successive years, principal churchwarden of his parish; and by the urbanity of his manners, and soundness of his judgment, so greatly endeared himself to his fellow parishioners, that his unexpected and almost sudden death (after a very few days illness of a nervous fever) has thrown a gloom over the whole neighbourhood where he was so well known and highly esteemed. In addition to a numerous train of relatives, and intimate friends who followed him to the grave, the parish officers, and upwards of thirty of the principal inhabitants, voluntary joined in the procession; which (with the addition of the charity children of the parish, to whose schools he was treasurer, and a liberal benefactor, not only in his lifetime, but by his will) had a most solemn and impressive effect; and as a further mark of public respect for his memory, the parish officers postponed the parochial dinner, annually held on the day of the fu neral (St. Thomas's Day). To his immediate family and friends, his loss is irreparable he was, at once, the bright example of every Christian virtue, their counsellor, their guide, their own familiar friend.

DEATHS.

1819. AT Poonamalee, in the East InJune 25. dies, in his 49th year, Lieut. J. Hewson, of his Majesty's 89th reg. July... At Trincomalee, from the bite

of a dog, in his 22d year, Lieut. Henry Rushworth, of his Majesty's ship Liverpool, youngest son of the late Edward Rushworth, esq. of Farringford Hall, Isle of Wight.

July 15. At Seroor, near Poonah, in command of a Cavalry Brigade, Lieut. col. Montague Cosby, an officer of distinguished merit, who fell a victim to the melancholy ravages of the cholera raging in that country. He was eldest son of Lieut.-gen. Sir Henry Cosby, of Barnesville Park, Gloucestershire, and during a military career of 34 years active service, never visited his native country but once, for a period of eighteen months.

July 22. Near Taulnah, in the East Indies, aged 19, Lieut. J. Dilnot Sutton, of the Madras Establishment, eldest son of Dr. Sutton, of Greenwich.

Aug. 7. At Trincomalee, Robert, second son of the late Rev. W. A. Cockey, of Ashburton, Devon, a Midshipman on board the Minden, Sir R. King. He was drowned by the upsetting of a boat, when endeavouring to save the life of another.

Aug. 8. At Arcot, of the cholera morbus, after a few hours' illness, the Lady of Major Macalister, of the 13th reg. of Light Dragoons.

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Aug. 25. At Nagpore, Lieut.-col. Munt, commanding 6th reg. of Native Cavalry. Sept. At the Mauritius, RichardJaques, youngest son of the late Samuel Brandram, esq.

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Oct. 30. At Quebec, the Hon. Jenkins Williams, one of the Members of the Executive Council, and many years one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench for that district.

Nov. 25. At St. Petersburg, Count Tormassow, General of Cavalry, and Governor of Moscow.

Dec. 7. In his 18th year, Charles, eldest son of Chas. Coote, esq. of Bellamont Forest (Cavan), Ireland.

Dec. 14. In Upper Grosvenor-street, in her 76th year, Lady Anne Fitzwilliam, sister to the present Noble Earl.

Mary, wife of John Wheeler, esq. of Manchester.

Off the Humber, L. Lacy, M. D. aged 30 years, late Surgeon of his Majesty's cutter Swan, only son of Capt. Lacy, in the Jamaica trade.

Dec. 15. At Gibraltar, Anna Maria Teresa, wife of G. Thos. Maddox, esq. Deputy Assistant Commissary General.

In Judd Place West, New-road, in her 74th year, Elizabeth, widow of William Woollett, esq. the eminent historical and landscape engraver. - She survived her husband 34 years. (See vol. LV. p. 406.)

Dec. 16. At Fareham, aged 17, Charlotte, youngest daughter of the late P. Paton, esq. Admiral of the Red.

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