upon that most severe service in Gallicia, operating upon a constitution already affected by West India service, and the wounds received in it, produced the feverish and other fatal symptoms, which carried him to the grave at the early age of 43 years, ripe indeed in glory, but immaturely for his family and friends, and above all for his country.

At Hammersmith, James Elphinston, esq. 88. A long retirement from the cares of the world, had in a manner withdrawn this gentleman from the view of it for some time past, but he has made no common figure in it during the long period of his life.

At Fineshade, the seat of her father, the hon. J. Monckton, where she was on a visit, Eleanor, countess dowager of Harborough, 38. She has left one son, the present earl of Harborough, a minor, and four daughters.

At the Hyde, Ingatestone, Mrs. Disney, wife of the rev. Dr. D. and daughter of the rev. Francis Blackburne, archdeacon of Cleveland, Yorkshire, 63.

At Stewart-hall, county Tyrone, Andrew Thomas, earl of Castle stewart, no less eminent for the integrity and independence of his mind, than for his illustrious de

scent.

He was the acknowledged head of the house of Stewart, being immediately descended, in the male and legitimate line, from Robert the second, king of Scotland. By his widow (daughter of the late judge Sill), he left two sons and two daughters. His lordship is succeeded by his eldest son Robert.

At Abbeyland, county of Cork, the most reverend doctor Dillon, titular archbishop of Tuam. He

was a prelate exemplary in his conduct, engaging in his manners, and enlightened in his mind; his zeal, as a public character, extended no less to the punctual discharge of the duties he owed to the flock com, mitted to his care, than to promote and support the general interests of religion: his virtue in private life endeared him to his friends, while, in his general intercourse with society, his dignified deportment ren dered him respectable. Placed at the head of this diocese, at a fearful period of civil commotion, unawed by the dread of the misrepresentations of prejudice, or the misconceptions of disaffection,hetaught obedience to the laws of his country, and charity and forbearance to all men. The same zeal which actuated him to remove abuses committed to the prejudice of religion, rendered him firm in opposing any attempts to encroach on its rights.

The most noble William Henry Cavendish Bentinck, duke of Portland, marquis of Titchfield, &c.

At Lansdown-house, Berkeleysquare, the right hon. John Henry Petty, marquis of Lansdown, earl of Wycomb in England, earl of. Shelburne, viscount Fitz Maurice, and baron Dunkerron, in Ireland. His lordship was in his forty-fourth year. He succeeded his father, the late marquis, in 1805; and the same year, married lady Gifford, relict of Sir Duke Gifford, baronet, by whom he has left no issue, but is succeeded in his titles and estates by his brother, lord Henry Petty. He had been for many months in a declining state of health. In the autumn of the present year, by the advice of his medical attendants, he was preparing to embark for Lisbon, to try the effect of the tem

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perature of the atmosphere of that country. Previously to his intended departure, he visited his favourite castle at Southampton, and finding himself daily getting better, he abandoned his intention of going to Portugal. His disorder was a liver complaint, to which he had for many years been subject. His lordship had a presentiment of his approaching end. It was only three days before his death that he observed to a favourite domestic, "Happy is that man who closes his earthly career when in sleep." It was a singular circumstance that he should depart this life in a way most agreeable to his own wishes: his lordship died without a groan, at a time when his servant was sit ting near the head of the bed, and imagined his master to have been still asleep. It was not until half an hour afterwards that he was discovered to be dead. He was a man of the most unassuming and conciliatory manners: in his domestic habits he was beloved by all his household. A few months since, as he passed the church-yard at Paddington, commenting on the display of a pompous funeral procession, when extended frequently a hundred miles into the country, he ridiculed the idea, and added, "When I die, pray let my remains be deposited here." In consequence of that request being lately repeated, the body will be deposited there in a vault, over which a plain mausoleum will be erected to his memory.

At his house, in Seymour place, lord Monson, 23. He succeeded his father in 1805; the following year married lady Sarah Saville, and has left one son, to whom the title devolves.

In Pall-Mall, Sir Frederick Morton Eden, bart. He was a man of distinguished knowledge, particularly on political and commercial subjects. He was also a man of speculation, and was chiefly instrumental in founding the Globe Insurance Company. About a year ago he was deprived of a most amiable and accomplished wife, to the regret of a wide circle of friends.

Sir Frederick has left a large and valuable library, among which are many rare and curious manuscripts.

At St. George's hospital, Thomas Soaper, a carpenter, whose death was occasioned by the bite of a rattlesnake. He was at work at an exhibition-shop of beasts and reptiles, in Piccadilly, where there is a rattlesnake in a close cage. He must needs tease and provoke the creature with his rule, which he unluckily dropped in the cage; and in taking it out, the snake bit him between the thumb and finger. In a few minutes, the hand was terribly swoln, and in a few hours the poor sufferer was deprived of his reason. Every possible attention was paid to him at the hospital, without effect.

At Whitton, Edmund Hill, esq. 76. He has left property to the enormous amount of 800,000l. To Mr. Fish, of Greville-street, Hatton-garden, and to another gentleman, he has left 360,000l. each; to the rev. Mr. Taylor, his nearest relative, who was offered 100,000l. some time ago, for the chance of his legacy, he has bequeathed 36,000l. He has left nothing to his relatives in Somersetshire, whom he had placed on a valuable estate in that county, which he had bought for 75,000l. and which he had as

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sured them they should inherit. Mr. Hill was originally a tailor at Brentford; and the person who succeeded him in that business, still carries on the trade in that town. It was by the powder mills at Whitton, that Mr. Hill realised his vast fortune. He enjoyed the complete supply of Turkey in powder, whence he imported back the produce of the Levant, and with it carried on the business of a Turkey merchant.

The celebrated composer, J. Haydn, 76. He was born at Rhoran, in Lower Austria, in 1733. He is justly considered as the father of music in our day; for although in his youth he diligently studied the works of every great master, ancient and modern, his transcendant genius soaring above them all, soon called the attention of the whole musical world upon himself; all admiring him, first for the beauty, boldness, and originality of his works, and afterwards regarding him as the best model for study and imitation. He died at Gumpendorf, near Vienna.

Major-gen. John Ronald M Kenzie, who so gloriously fell in the battle of Talavera, was the representative of a very ancient family, whose patrimonial estate (Suddie) lies in that part of the county of Ross, called the Black Isle. He fell in or about his 47th year. He began his military career in the marines, under the immediate eye of his uncle, general M'Kenzie, of that corps, and for some time previous to 1794, did the duty of adjutant to the Chatham division. Upon the death of his uncle, by which he succeeded to some personal fortune, he relinquished the marines, perhaps from an ambition to get VOL. LI.

forward in his profession more rapidly than that service admits of. In the spring of 1794, he became major of the 2nd battalion of the 78th foot, raised by the present lord Seaforth. In the latter end of that year, or early in 1795, both battalions of the 78th were consolidated; by which measure this gallant officer became attached to the 1st battalion, and with the officers and men from the 2nd, joined the 1st battalion at the Cape, whence they proceeded 1,200 strong to India, where the regiment served with distinction, under the present lieut.-gen. (then col.) M'Kenzie Frazer. With this corps the gallant major-gen. served many years in India, and latterly commanded the regiment. He returned to Europe in 1801-2, sincerely regretted by his regiment, and all who knew him-and if his service in the east was not marked by any brilliant professional event, it was because the situation of that country, during his stay in it, did not call for any active exertion. Promoted to the rank of colonel soon after he came home, on the breaking out of the present war, 1803, he was placed on the northern staff as a brigadier; he was afterwards made governor and commandant of Alderney, and soon replaced on the northern staff as major-gen. which situation he held, when, on his own solicitation, he was removed to the command of a brigade in Portugal in 1808. He was in parliament four years, first for the Sutherland district of boroughs, and latterly for the shire of Sutherland, in the room of Mr. William Dundas. In 1804, he superintended the levy; and in 1805, the discipline of that gallant, but ill-fated second bat

talion of the 78th, which, when but recruits, in fact, beat the chosen troops of France on the plains of Maida, but were afterwards annihilated with their gallant young lead er, lieut.-col. M'Leod, in the last Egyptian expedition. He was a zealous, steady, cool soldier-a mild and most friendly man. The service loses in him a most excellent officer-his friends, an estimable and amiable man. The 78th adored him, and will long lament him. His estate, called Suddie, devolves to an only sister, married to a captain Potts, of the 42nd regiment, by whom she has a large family.

At his residence at Scarisbrick, aged 58, Thomas Eccleston, esq. The agricultural improvements which have, during late years, rendered the county of Lancaster as conspicuous as any other district in this kingdom, owe, in a very great measure, their rise, and subsequent success, to his active and enterprising spirit. He loved the theory as well as the practice of the most interesting science which can engage the attention of the human intellect. His pursuits were, therefore, devoted to the execution of every undertaking which combined a hope of removing long-established prejudices with the prospect of future utility. Even in early life, and long before most men exert themselves at all, he began to carry into effect those magnificent designs, which formed in more advanced life his darling occupation.-Throughout the anxious scene in which he afterwards became so illustrious a character, his efforts were eminently distinguished by the calm and patient consideration of every circumstance which could contribute to

render them beneficial to the present age, and to posterity. No suggestion which arose from a quarter which he had accustomed himself to treat with respect, passed without having its due reflection; he had the ability to distinguish between innovation and really useful discovery. Whilst those who dreaded any change in the system, which, unfortunately too near our own times, had palsied the exertions of genius, and restrained the benevolence of patriotism, imagined that ruin and mortification alone could attend schemes apparently so extravagant; to a philosophic eye the picture was reversed. If it was too highly varnished, if it partook too much of that kind of recommendation which avoids the curiosity of critical analysis; on nearer review it was found to owe its most imposing qualities to the design of a masterly pencil. This was precisely the case with Mr. Eccleston's endeavours, to do honour to his native country. What might seem the effect of enthusiasm to an indolent observer, had never been suffered to engage his attention, until it had been submitted to the closest and most accurate investigation of his superior understanding. A narrative of his various undertakings does not come within the intention which produced this hasty and imperfect sketch. It is sufficient to our purpose to observe, that his neighbourhood bears ample testimony to his spirited and liberal exertions. He has rendered a country once uninviting and barren, fertile and abundant. His own domain has risen like a new creation under his hands, where, to use the expression of the poet, "Digna manet divina gloria ruris." A tract of

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and in the worst of times he never shrunk from the manifestation of his sentiments, fearless, though not insensible, of the obloquy which might attend it. With singular judgment he steered in difficult times a middle course between the opposite extremes of party. But although he felt it a duty to act decidedly, when the times called for it, he held no feelings of personal hostility against his political opponents. Indeed he was wholly without gall; the occasion which called forth the exertion, once past, he instantly tendered the right hand of friendship to the keenest of his adversaries. We have hitherto dwelt on the useful part of Mr. Gurney's character, but he largely contributed to the pleasures as well as the interest of those around him, for he was of a singularly cheerful nature, and of habits in a high degree social. These he indulged by a constant hospitality, impossible to be exceeded, and by no means confined to the respectable religious sect of which he was a member, but extended very generally to his friends and neighbours, and to those who occasionally visit

ed Norwich. After a life well spent in the discharge of the duties of a Christian, Mr. Gurney died in truly Christian sentiments, distinctly expressed a short time before his death, in the last moments of his unclouded reason, with a perfect consciousness that his disease was mortal, and with a resignation the most entire to the will of Almighty God. Mr. Gurney was a member of the Society of Friends; he was once married, and eighteen years ago was left a widower with eleven children. All of these survive him, and would be inconsolable under the loss of him who was the most tender and affectionate of parents, but for the hope that is in them.

At Ottery St. Mary, Mrs. Coleridge, relict of the Rev. John C. vicar of that place, 88.

In the public hospital, at Kingston, Jamaica, and buried at the expense of the parish, Robert Hepburn Ker, formerly a baker in that city, and who, by a late decision in the House of Peers, was found entitled to the dukedom of Roxburgh, unincumbered, and 100,000l. sterling in the funds.

Bombay, June 9th, 1810.

ON Monday last, being the 4th of June, the hon. the governor gave a splendid ball and supper at Parell to the ladies and gentlemen of this settlement, surpassing even the many former elegant entertainments which we have had the pleasure of witnessing at the same mansion.

The arrangements for this fete were conducted with a degree of liberality and magnificence, worthy of the occasion for which the party was assembled: to celebrate not only the birth-day of our beloved sovereign, but the fiftieth year of his arduous and eventful reign.

The avenue leading to Parell was illuminated