quelling a mutiny on board, and thanked for his exertions on the occasion.

He was made a Captain 2nd Sept. 1795, was employed at the siege of La Valette and the reduction of Malta in 1800, when Brigade Major to Gen. Graham, now Lord Lynedoch. Was employed in the expedition to Egypt, and in the following actions, viz. the 13th and 21st March, also the 17th Aug. 1801, and thanked in public orders for his conduct in the latter engagement by Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Doyle. On the 30th of April 1804, he received a Majority.

After his return from Egypt he was em ployed in Ireland in the command of several light battalions, and superintended their formation and exercise under the orders of Major-Gen. de Rottenberg, and received the thanks of that General and certificates relative to the General's sense of his useful services on that duty. He was afterward employed at the siege of Cadiz, and commanded the battalion in the action of Fuentes d' Honor, the 5th May 1811.

Being raised to the Lieut.-Colonelcy of his regiment 4th June 1811, he commanded the battalion in the battle of Salamanca on the 22nd July 1812, and in the action of Villa Murial 25th Oct. On the army going into winter cantonments after the retreat from Burgos, he was appointed to the command of a provisional battalion consisting of four companies of the 30th and 44th regiments (the remaining companies of each being sent to England), and it was particularly noticed by Major-Gen. Sir F. Robinson in what a high state the battalion was brought. When ordered home, he joined the Depot of the 30th at Jersey, where he was enabled from the recruiting service to reorganise the battalion in less than three months, and was inspected by Lieut.-Gen. Donn, who expressed the greatest surprise at seeing the battalion so strong and in such perfect order, and reported them so eligible for service, that an order arrived directing the immediate embarkation of the battalion on the 2nd Jan. 1814 to join Gen. Graham in Holland, where it assisted in the blockade of Antwerp, and afterwards resisted for several hours the attack of a line-of-battle ship and a number of gun-boats at Fort Frederick, in which the battalion lost a number of men and defeated the enemy's intention of landing. He was employed in various operations and service in the command of the battalion in the Netherlands in 18141815; and he commanded the battalion in the action of Quatre Bras, 16th June 1815, where he was severely wounded, and afterwards received the thanks of Sir

CAPT. JAMES BARKER, R.N. May 4. At Seymour Villa, near Bristol, Capt. James Barker, R.N.

He entered the Navy in June 1780, on board the Solway, then commanded by Capt. Everett, and which, on the 10th of the following December, when off the Isle of Wight, captured, after an action, the French privateer Le Comte de Busanoura, carrying 20 guns. He was wrecked during an action off St. Kitt's, in the West Indies, when serving under Sir Samuel Hood. He served in the Prudent, 61, Capt. A. Barclay, in the action with Comte de Grasse, on the 25th and 26th Jan. 1782; also in the Russell, 74, on the 28th and 29th May, and 1st June 1794. He was with Capt. Payne in the Jupiter, 50, and sent by him to the yacht which brought the Princess Caroline of Brunswick from Cuxhaven to London. From that period he served with Sir James Saumarez in the Orion, 74, until made a Commander in Oct. 1798; during which time he was in the actions of 23d June 1795, under Lord Bridport, and assisted in the capture of three line-of-battle ships; also at the defeat of the Spaniards, 14th Feb. 1797, under the Earl of St. Vincent; and at the memorable battle of the Nile under Lord Nelson in August 1798. Subsequently he commanded the Moireston armed ship for the protection of the trade between Bristol and Swansea; and was posted 12th Aug. 1812, since which he had not any public employment.

COMMANDER P. PRYNN, R. N. April 19. At West Looe, suddenly, retired Commander P. Prynn, R. N.

He first joined the service in 1793 as a Midshipman, and served successively in

that capacity in the Adventure, Crescent, Monarch, Queen Charlotte, and Hyæna. In 1795 he was at the taking of the Dutch squadron at the Cape of Good Hope, under Lord Keith. He also served in America and in the Channel. In 1798 he received an acting order as Lieutenant from his Captain, the Hon. C. Paget, of the Penelope, stationed at the Western Isles. In 1799 he acted by a similar order in the Brilliant, under Sir E. Pellew, at Newfoundland and Quiberon Bay; and in October 1800, the Admiralty, in consideration of services, confirmed him in his rank of Lieutenant, and appointed him to the Barakil, in which ship he was ordered on the expedition to Egypt; was at the landing of the troops, and on shore with the army in the battles of the 13th and 21st March; he afterwards volunteered and served up the Nile in gunboats, until the surrender of Grand Cairo, on which occasion his conduct was warmly acknowledged by his superiors, and the Grand Seigneur presented him with a gold medal. In 1805 he was appointed to the Achilles, Sir R. King, as Second Lieutenant, and afterwards First, in which capacity he was at the battle of Trafalgar, where he received two wounds. The last ship he served in was the Espiegle as First-Lieutenant; and he retired on half-pay when paid off in 1807. At the general promotion that took place in 1830, he obtained the rank of retired Commander.

CLERGY DECEASED. March 18. At Botulph Claydon, Bucks, aged 72, the Rev. Edmund Milward, Rector of Farthinghoe, Northamptonshire. He was formerly a member of Brazenose college, Oxford; and was presented to Farthinghoe in 1794 by Lord Grey de Wilton. Mr. Milward was of a very eccentric character; he was seldom seen by any one, even by his domestics, and never paid any visits. He had not been shaved for a long time previous to his decease, and very rarely put on a change of linen, &c.

March 21. Aged 74, the Rev. John Nanney, of Belmont, Denbighshire, and Maesynedd, Merionethshire.

March 23. Aged 76, the Rev. Charles Cooke, Rector of Semer, Suffolk, and for many years an active Magistrate for that county. Camb. B. A. 1784, as the 7th Junior Optime, M.A. 1787, and was presented to Semer in 1793 on his own petition.

He was of Caius coll.

March 24. At Wardington, Oxfordshire, aged 65, the Rev. George Wasey, Rector of Ulcomb, Kent. He was matriculated of Oriel college, Oxford, in 13

1791; was elected Fellow of All Souls, and graduated B.A. 1795, M. A. 1799, B.D. 1809. He was presented to Ulcomb in 1810.

March 25. Aged 64, the Rev. Robert Porter, Rector of Draycott, Staffordshire. He was the son of William Porter, esq. of Wigan in Lancashire; was matriculated in 1792 at Brasenose college, Oxford, graduated B.A. 1796, M. A. 1798; and was presented to Draycott in 1806.

March 26. At Oxford, of small-pox, caught in the faithful discharge of his ministerial duties, in his 25th year, the Rev. John Garnier, Fellow of Merton College, and Curate of St. Ebbe's in that city. He was a son of the Rev. Thomas Garnier, Prebendary of Winchester; entered as a Commoner of Exeter college in 1831; took the degree of B. A. 1834; was elected a Fellow of Merton in 1835, and proceeded M.A. in 1837. He wholly devoted himself to his parochial charge, to the visitation of the poor, and the instruction of children.

March 28. At Ipswich, aged 51, the Rev. John Buck, Fellow of Christ's college, Cambridge, on the Norfolk foundation. He graduated B.A. 1808, as 8th Senior Optime, M.A. 1811. He left his home to take his usual walk, and two days after was found drowned in a pond.

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At Rome, aged 30, the Rev. John Southwell Ifill, M. A. He was the third son of the late Benjamin Ifill, esq. of Barbadoes, entered a Commoner Worcester college, Oxford, in 1826; removed to Magdalen hall in 1831, and graduated B.A. 1832, M. A. 1834.

March 29. Aged 74, the Rev. William Benson Ramsden, Rector of Great Stambridge, Vicar of Little Wakering, Essex, and Vicar of Croxton, Norfolk. He was of Christ's coll. Camb. B.A. 1785 as 15th Senior Optime, M.A 1788, B.D. 1812, was presented to Croxton in 1797 by his college, to Stambridge in 1801, by the Governors of the Charter House, and to Little Wakering in 1812, by the Governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

At Hunnington, aged 63, the Rev. John Todd, for thirty-seven years Curate of Frankley and St. Kenelm's, Worc.

At Gwinear, Cornwall, aged 68, the Rev. William Vawdrey, for twenty.. three years Curate of that parish; and Rector of Kennerleigh, Devon, to which he was presented, in 1831, by the Governors of Crediton charity. Mr. Vawdrey was a man of the greatest humility, charity, and benevolence; his name will be long revered by the inhabitants of Gwinear. He was a scholar of the first class, being perfectly acquainted with the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages.

March 31. The Rev. Henry Wilkinson, Head Master of Sedbergh Free Grammar school. He was formerly Fellow of St. John's college, Cambridge, where he graduated B. A. 1814, as second Wrangler, and second Smith's prizeman, M.A. 1817.

April 3. At St. Margaret's, Herefordshire, aged 77, the Rev. Joseph Stephen Pratt, B.C.L. Prebendary of Peterborough, and late Vicar of that parish. He was of Trinity hall, Cambridge, LL.B. 1805; and collated to his prebendal stall at Peterborough, by Bishop Madan in 1808.

At Sheriff Hutton Park, Yorkshire, the Rev. Edward Thompson, Vicar of Aspatria, Cumberland; youngest son of G. L. Thompson, esq. of Sheriff Hutton. He was collated to his living last year, by the Bishop of Carlisle.

April 5. At Ludlow, after an illness of four months, the Rev. John Hinde, Head Master of Ludlow Free Grammar School, and Afternoon Lecturer in the parish church. He was formerly, for above three years, Master of the Grammar School at Peterborough, and Curate to Mr. Pratt at the parish church; and from that city he removed to Yaxley, and was Chaplain to the barracks at Norman Cross. In 1813 he married Jane Berthon, step-daughter of the late Rev. Robert Lewis, Vicar of Chingford, Essex; and he has left a numerous family.

April 6. Aged 70, the Rev. John Rideout, Rector of Woodmancote, Sussex. He was of Jesus college, Cambridge, B.A. 1790, M.A. 1795. In his living he succeeded his father in 1793, who had held it from 1755. The patronage is in the Crown.

In Upper Baker street, aged 58, the Rev. George Wheeler, for twentyfive years Curate of Shipton Moyne, co. Glouc. Mr. Wheeler was a native of Bath, the son of George Wheeler, esq. of that city. He entered at St. Edmund hall, Oxford, 1798; proceeded B.A. 1802, M.A. 1805. In 1812 he married Margaret, sister to Sir Compton Pocklington Domvile, Bart. by whom he leaves issue one son, George Dom vile Wheeler, B.A. scholar of Wadham College. Mr. Wheeler was a sound and accomplished scholar, a deeply-read divine, and an exemplary parochial minister. But for his retiring habits, and utter dislike to obtruding, even his just claims, on those who were able to reward his scholastic attainments and professional diligence, Mr. Wheeler would probably have obtained preferment, and there was no man more likely to have reflected credit on his patron, or to have proved a greater ornament to the GENT. MAG. VOL, X.

Church, of which he was a most zealous and attached son and servant, than himself.

April 12. At Leamington, in his 60th year, the Rev. Richard George, Vicar of Wolverley and late of Stoke Prior. He was of Trinity hall, Cambridge, LL.B. 1807; was presented to Stoke Prior in 1815 by the Dean and Chapter of Worcester, and to Wolverley by the same patrons on his recent resignation of the former living.

At Cheetham Hill, near Manchester, in his 80th year, the Rev. Clarke Prescott, for 52 years Vicar of Downton and Burrington, Herefordshire, to which he was presented in 1786 by Lord Chancellor Thurlow.

His

April 13. Aged 73, the Rev. George Carpendale, of Harwood Chapel, in the parish of Middleton in Teesdale, having faithfully discharged his duties as schoolmaster and reader of the chapel since the year 1789, and with equal usefulness and propriety those of his sacred office since his ordination in the year 1808. whole stipend, which he received from the Duke of Cleveland, for the performance of his ministerial duties, was 40 guineas a-year. His realised property, amounting to 2001., he has left in the hands of the Bishop of the Diocese, the Rector of the parish, and Churchwarden of that part of the parish of Middleton in Teesdale, as trustees, to lay with it the foundation of an endowment for a perpetual successor to himself, that the inhabitants of that destitute part of the diocese may be constantly supplied from the Church with a resident minister, and provided with a burial ground, the distance of the burial-place of the parish, from the chapel in Harwood, being 10 miles. The name of George Carpendale, therefore, deserves to be had in perpetual remembrance, not only in the remote district in which his lot was cast, but as an example throughout the Church,

DEATHS.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.

April 9. In Castle-st. Leicester-sq. aged 39, by suicide, Monsieur Caiman Duverger, the engineer and architect. At the early age of 18 years he was an engineer of the Luxembourg Palace; subsequent to which he made a voyage into Syria and Asia Minor, and visited Palmyra, Balbec, and Babylon. On his return to Paris he was employed by the government to draw up a work upon the roads. In all philosophical researches he was a great orator, and argued greatly upon the crime of suicide. He intended to become a candidate for a plan for the erection of the Royal Exchange. P

May 5. At the New Hummums Hotel, Covent Garden, aged 68, John Ord, esq. solicitor, of York.

May 15. In Cambridge-st. Hyde Park, Anne Maria, third dau. of the late John Henry Pakenham, Capt. 1st, dragoon guards.

May 16. In Laurence Pountney-lane, aged 50, Horatio Ripley, esq.

May 23.

B. Bond, esq.

At Clapham Rise, aged 76,

Aged 70, William Armstrong, esq. of Pimlico, 54 years in his Majesty George the Third's library, and late of the British Museum.

May 24. In Bedford-sq. aged 16, Elizabeth Mary, only dau. of T. Wakley, esq. M.P.

At Gloucester Terrace, Cannon-st.Road, aged 70, Mr. John Parker, formerly of Lant-street, Southwark. May 26. At Notting-hill, aged 73, Humphrey Bache, esq.

In Connaught-terrace, aged 82, the widow of the Rev. T. Robinson, Vicar of St. Mary's, Leicester, and previously of the Rev. James Gerard, D.D. Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, and afterwards Rector of Monks' Risborough.

May 27. In Grosvenor-sq. aged 66, the Right Hon, Susan Countess of Harrowby, aunt to the Duke of Sutherland, the Duke of Beaufort, the Earl of Carlisle, the Countess of Galloway, the Countess of Surrey, the Countess Grosvenor, &c. &c. She was the sixth dau. of Granville 1st Marquis Stafford, by Lady Louisa Egerton, daughter of Scrope first Duke of Bridgewater; was married in 1795 to the Hon. Nathaniel Ryder, now Earl of Harrowby, and had issue the late Viscountess Ebrington, Viscount Sandon, three other sons, and four other daughters.

In Grosvenor-st. the Right Hon. Sarah Countess Amherst and Countess dowager of Plymouth. She was the dau. and co-heir of Andrew second and last Lord Archer, was married in 1788 first to her cousin Other- Hickman fifth Earl of Plymouth, who died in 1799, having had issue (besides three children who died young) Other-Archer the sixth and late Earl, the Marchioness of Downshire, and Lady Harriet Clive. She married secondly, in 1800, William - Pitt now Earl Amherst, and had issue Lady Sarah Elizabeth Amherst, Viscount Holmesdale, and three other children now deceased. Her body was removed for interment to the new chapel, Riverhead. The Earl of Hillsborough, Viscount Holmesdale, Hon. R. Clive, and Hon. E. B. Clive were among the mourners; and the cavalcade was accompanied out of Lon

don by the carriages of Earl Amherst, the Marquis of Downshire, the Hon. R. Clive, Mr. Musgrave, the Earl of Ply. mouth, Hon. E. B. Clive, Earl Powis, the Bishop of Carlisle, the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Northumberland, the Marquis of Camden, Earl De la Warr, Viscount Clive, Lord Marcus Hill, Lord Manners, the Countess of Bridgewater, Lady Colchester, and Sir George Taunton, Bart.

May 28. At Pentonville, Thomas Busby, esq. Mus. Doc. Author of a translation of Lucretius, a History of Music, the Prophecy, a sacred Oratorio, and other literary and musical works.

At Providence-row, aged 78, Andrew Johnstone, esq. secretary to the Royal Jennerian and London Vaccine Institution.

May 29. In Hyde-st. Bloomsbury, aged 69, Mr. Edward Gwyn, eldest son of the late Mr. Edward Gwyn of Long Acre, citizen, ironmonger and painterstainer of London. He was a diligent antiquary as far as regarded his own immediate vicinity, a skilful mechanic, and kind friend.

In York-terrace, aged 78, Thomas Borough, esq. of Chetwynd Park, Salop.

Lately. In Cannon-street-road, St. George's-in-the-East, aged 46, S. Slatter, esq. the eminent mason of London-bridge, Woolwich Dock Yard, and many other places.

June 1. At the residence of Benjamin Ridge, esq. Putney, aged 48, William Thomas, esq. of Russell-place.

At Stamford-hill, Mr. Thomas Windus, of Bishopsgate-street, eldest son of Thomas Windus, esq. F. S. A.

June 2. At Brixton-hill, aged 62, J. Dobree, esq.

In Conduit-street, aged 81, MargaretEsther, widow of J. Dewbery, esq.

In Hans-place, Sloane-st. aged 36, Margaret, only daughter of G. H. Drummond, esq.

Vincent Vaughan, esq. of Belle-hatchhouse, Henley-upon-Thames.

June 3. At Chelsea, Elizabeth Laurie, formerly widow of W. Bell, esq. Aylesham, Norfolk.

June 4. At his son's house, Muswellhill, aged 81, W. Remington, esq.

In the Old Kent-road, aged 51, J. Newman, esq. late of Charlton, many years clerk to the magistrates of the Town-hall, Southwark. He was the eldest surviving son of the late W. L. Newman, esq. solicitor to the Corporation of London.

June 7.

In Albemarle-st. aged 82, Anne, relict of T. G. Fothergill, esq. and sister to the late Lieut.-Gen. Arthur Whetham.

In Ebury-st. Pimlico, aged 16, James, the eldest son of R. Chalmers, esq. senior Committee Clerk of the House of Com

mons.

June 10. In Carlton-gardens, aged 12, Louisa Jane, daughter of Mark Milbanke, esq. and grandson of the Duke of Cleveland.

June 11. At Highgate, aged 11, Dulcibella Cecilia, youngest daughter of Sir E. Wilmot, Bart. M.P.

June 12. At Dulwich, Rachael Catharine, wife of the Rev. Robt. Morgan, dau, of the late Dr. Nicholls, of Hinton house, near Reading.

At Woolwich, aged 30, Caroline, the wife of Lieut. Harness, royal eng.

Richard Pering, esq. of Exmouth.

In Tavistock-st. Covent-garden, aged 68, Mr. Matthew Young, medallist, M. Num. S. In conjunction with his father he kept a shop many years in Ludgate street, whence he removed to High Holborn, and afterwards to Tavistock-street. These two last residences were the resort of the most eminent collectors, by whom he was highly esteemed, and will be sincerely regretted for his quiet, amiable manners, his honourable dealings, and his willingness and skill to assist them in their pleasing pursuits. We believe he was frequently assistant to Mess. Sotheby in forming the Catalogues of Coins, sub. mitted to their care for sale.

June 13. In Charlotte-st. Portlandplace, aged 72, John Fielder, esq. of Duke-st. Grosvenor-sq. solicitor.

June 14. At North-bank, Regent's park, aged 21, Martha, second daughter of W. Rayner, esq. of Stradishall-place, Suffolk.

In Grafton-st. Mary, wife of the Right Hon. C. W. Williams Wynn, dau. of the late Sir F. Cunliffe, Bart.

June 15. Aged 70, S. Gilbee, esq. of Leadenhall-st. and Tottenham.

BERKS.-May 27. At Binfield Villa, aged 48, Elizabeth Amelia, wife of Col. Kenab, C.B.

June 11. At Mortimer, Ann Helena, wife of Major-Gen. C. Brown, C.B. E. I. Co.'s. service.

BUCKS.-June 13. At Beaconsfield, aged 73, Hester, widow of the Rev. Robert Norris, Rector of Tatterford, Norfolk, youngest dau. of Harvey Sparkes, esq. of Kinstoun Hall, co. Northampton.

DEVON.-May 21. At Devonport, Capt. Archer, late of 16th dragoons.

May 22. At Exeter, at an advanced

age, the relict of the Rev. William Tanner, Rector of Meshaw.

May 25. At Delamore, near Ivy-bridge, aged 76, Susanna, widow of T. H. Hays, esq. sixth and youngest daughter of the late Very Rev. W. Cooke, D.D. Dean of Ely, and Provost of King's College, Cambridge.

May 27. At the house of her nephew, S. C. Culverwell, esq. Charmouth, aged 83, Mrs. Mary Culverwell.

Lately. At Lympstone, W. C. Callow, esq. M.D.

At Haslar Hospital, Lieut. Warlett, R.N. commanding her Majesty's steamer Defiance.

At Branscombe, Lieut. M. Hill, R.N. chief officer of the Coast Guard Service in that district.

DORSET.-May 25. At Weymouth, the wife of Gen. Gore Browne.

May 27. At Sturminster, aged 85, Capt. Thomas Moore, late of the E. I. S. He was nearly the last surviving officer of the army which conducted the war against Tippoo Saib. He distinguished himself in many engagements, and was once captured, and incarcerated for three years and six months in one of Tippoo's dungeons. Till within a very short period, he had joined in field-sports with a zeal scarcely known at the age of fourscore years.

June 9. At Blandford, aged 65, James Florance, esq. Barrister at Law, and Commissioner of Bankruptcy for the county of Dorset. He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn, Nov. 20, 1809.

ESSEX.-March 17. At Harwich, Capt. Carruthers, 67th regt.

June 8. At Great Bardfield, Essex, aged 70, Anne, widow of William Pollett, esq. of Dor-street.

May 31. At Mascalls, near Brentwood, Richard Gardner, esq. of that place, and of Billericay.

GLOUCESTER.-March 28. At Bristol, aged 95, Ann, widow of Thomas Blakenmore, esq. of Westbromwich, co. Stafford, and mother of Richard Blakemore, esq. M.P. of the Leys, co. Hereford.

April 13. At Cheltenham, retired Commander C. Sheldon Timins, R.N. May 7. At Cheltenham, Martha Elizabeth Ann, wife of R. Hurd Lucas, esq. of Grimley, Worc. and Clifton Hall, Bucks.

May 20. At Gloucester, aged 52, Alexander Walker, esq. co-proprietor of the Gloucester Journal.

May 28. At Clifton, Sarah Theodora, third daughter of the late Theodore