BIRTHS.

May 5. At Cougham Lodge, Norfolk, the wife of Sir Edw. Parry, R.N. a dau.-14. At Aspedon rectory, the wife of the Hon. and Rev, G. Yorke, a dau.-18. At King's Walden, the wife of the Rev. Ralph Berners, a son.- -20. At the Vicarage, Shapwick, co. Dorset, the wife of the Rev. W. Scott, a son.

-24. At Felmersham, Beds, the wife of the Rev. C. C. Beatty Pownall, Vicar of Milton Ernest, a dau.-26. At Clifton, the wife of the Rev. James Daubeny, a son.-27. At Woolmers, Herts, the Lady Susan Hotham, a son. -28. At Brighton, the Hon. Mrs. Anderson, a dau.-29. În Weymouth-st. the Lady Helena Cooke, a son.-31. At Clifton, the wife of Col. R. Whish, a dau.

June 6. In Woburn-sq. the wife of Col. Pereira, of the Madras Army, a son.- -9. The Lady of Sir Wm. Geary, Bart. M.P. a dau.

10. In Great Portland-st. Portland-pl. the wife of the late Aulay M'Aulay, esq. of Demerara, a dau.- At the Vicarage, Somerton, the wife of the Rev. Wm. Newbolt, a son.11. Mrs. Dawes, Acres Field, Bolton le Moors, a son-14. At Torquay, the wife of the Rev. S. O. W. Hawies, a dau.

MARRIAGES.

March 3. At Poona, Geo. Hicks Pitt, esq. Bombay Civil Service, to Wilhelmina Petrie, second dau. of Lieut.-Gen. Bell, of the Madras Artillery.

May 10. At Dunchurch, the Rev. E. Blick, Rector of Rotherhithe, to Louisa Augusta, second dau. of the late Rev. W. Hutchinson, Vicar of Colebrook, Devon; and at the same time Rev. J. Hutchinson, Perpetual Curate of Hanford Trentham, to Martha Oliver, third dau. of the Rev. W. Hutchinson.

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17. At St. Mary's, Marylebone, Capt. C. S. Maling, 68th Bengal Native Infantry, to Wemyss Jane, relict of the late C. H. Campbell, and dau. of the Hon. L. G. K. Murray, son of late Earl of Dunmore.-18. At St. Alban's, the Rev. M. J. Lloyd, Rector of Depden, Suffolk, to Sarah Loretta, eldest dau. of J. Timperon, esq. of New Barnes House, Herts. At St. George's, Hanover-sq. Capt. Swinburne, R.N. second son of Sir J. E. Swinburne, Bart. to the Lady Jane Ashburnham, dau. of the late, and sister of the present Earl of Ashburnham.--At Bathwick, C. Rowlandson, esq. of the Madras Army, third son of the late Rev. Dr. Rowlandson, Vicar of Warminster, Wilts, to Ellen, second dau. of C. F. Sorensen, esq. of Bathwick Hill.. -20. At St. Winnols, Cornwall, aged 68, Ann, relict of the Rev. Dr. Roberts, Rector of Drewsteignton, Devon.At St. George's, Hanover-sq. G. Harding, esq. of Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, to Helen, dau. of the late S. Comyn, esq. barrister-atlaw. 21. At St. George's, Charles, eldest son of Sir George Wombwell, Bart. by his second marriage, to Charlotte, dau. of Orby Hunter, esq. of Grosvenor-pl.-At Walcot, the Rev. J. Cooke Faber, to Emily, dau. of the late Sir W. C. Bagshawe, of the Oakes, Derbyshire.- -24. At Walford, Herefordshire, Č. Underwood, esq. M.D. to Mary Isabella, dau. of the late Col. Thoroton, of Flintham House, Nottingham.-23. At St. George's, Hanoversq. his Royal Highness Prince Charles Ferdinand of the Two Sicilies, Prince of Capua, to Miss Penelope Smyth, sister to Rich. Smyth, esq. of Ballynatray, co. Waterford. -24. The Rev. J. F. Edwards, rector of South Runcton, Norfolk, to Caroline, third dau. of Harry Browne, esq.-At Bedford, the Rev. John Brereton, eldest son of the Rev. Dr. Brereton, of Bedford, to Emily, second dau. of the late John Edwards, esq. of Silsoe, Beds.-

Ronald George Macdonald, esq. Writer to the Signet, youngest son of Lieut.-Colonel Robert Macdonald, C.B. of Inch Kenneth, late of the Royal Horse Artillery, to Alicia Jane, eldest dau. of the Rev. Nath. Bridges, Vicar of Henstridge, near Sherborne.At Horncastle, the Rev. C. Turner, Vicar of Grassby, Lincoln, to Louisa, dau. of Mr. Sellwood. -26. At St. Roch, Paris, the Lord Stafford, to Eliz. dau. of Richard Caton, esq. of the State of Maryland, and sister to the Marchioness of Wellesley.--At Cheam, Surrey, the Rev. Edm. Dawe Wickham, to Emma, only child of Archdale Palmer, esq. of Cheam Park.

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-Vice-Adm. Sir John Beresford, Bart. to Amelia, widow of Samuel Peach, esq.At Merthyr, the Rev. D. Jones, vicar of Cadoxton juxta Neath, to Sarah Anne, eldest dau. of the late E. J. Hutchins, esq. and niece to J. J. Guest, esq. M.P.-At Brighton, Anthony Augustus Baron de Stermberg, of Park-street, Grosvenor-sq. to Miss Harrison, of Acrewalls, co. Cumberland.-31. At St. George's, Hanover-sq. John Lindesay, esq. of Loughrea, co. Tyrone, to Harriet Hester, dau. of the Rt. Hon. C. W. Williams Wynn.-At Kensington, the Rev. G. W. Murray, of Pimlico, to Mary Anne, second dau. of the late MajorGen. Sir W. Douglas, of Pimpendean, Roxburgh. At Preston Candover, W. Hunter Little, esq. of Llansafraed, Monmouthshire, to Georgiana, dau. of W. H. Hartley, esq. and the late Lady Louisa Hartley, and niece to the late Earl of Scarborough.--At St. James's Church, Eldred Mowbray, third son of the Lady Eliz and the late Stephen Thos. Cole, esq. of Stoke Lyne, Oxon, and Twickenham, Middlesex, to Helen Lina, second dau. of Gen. Von Molgel, of Stellenbosch, in Austria.

June 2. At Burbach, near Hinckley, Chas. Noel, esq. of Kirkby, to Mary Anne, eldest dau. of the Rev. Jerome Dyke, Rector of Aston, Flamville, Leicestersh.Joseph Boyer, esq. third son of the Rev. J. W. R. Boyer, Rector of Swepstone, to Mary, only dau. of the Rev. J. Piddocke, of Ashby-de-la-Zouch.-4. At Christ Church, St. Marylebone, John Addison, esq. of Mecklenburgh-sq. to Miss Elizabeth Smith, of Greville-pl. Kilburn Priory.-At Bath, W. Owen Jackson, esq. barrister-at-law, to Harriet Martha, only child of the Rev. Jas. Lowry, of Somerset, co. Tyrone.-7. At Biddenham, the Rev. Alfred Dawson, son of J. T. Dawson, esq. of Woodlands, Clapham, to Flora, dau. of the late J. Foster, esq. of Brickhill House, nr. Bedford.At Lymne, in Cheshire, the Rev. G. Mallory, Rector of Mobberley, Cheshire, to Henrietta Trafford, the second dau. of Trafford Trafford, esq. of Oughtington Hall.At Richmond, Wm. Bouverie Pusey, esq. son of the late Hon. Philip Pusey, to Cath. dau. of T. Freeman, esq.-At St. Botolph's, Aldgate, the Rev. J. Garwood, Minister of Wheler Chapel, Spitalfields, to Caroline, elder dau. of Mr. Dean- -At the Cathedral, Canterbury, A. B. E. Holdsworth, esq. eldest son of A. H. Holdsworth, esq. of Mount Galpin, co. Devon, to Ann Mervyn Baylay, eldest dau. of Rev. W. F. Baylay, Prebendary of Canterbury. At the same time, the Rev. Edm. Telfer Yates, son of the late Rev. Dr. Yates, of Chelsea College, to Mary Sophia Pollexfen Baylay, youngest dau. of the Rev. William Frederick Baylay.-8. At Ruanlanihorne, Cornwall, the Rev. R. Morris, to Harriet, dau. of the Rev. R. Budd, Rector of Ruanlanihorne.-9. At Long Ashton, Somersetshire, D. Lewis, esq. M.P. of Stradey, Carmarthen, to Letitia, dau. of the late Benj. Way, esq. of Denham-place, Bucks.- -At Barnes, Thos. Bernard, eldest son of the late George Cooke, esq. of Barnes Terrace, to Eliz. dau. of the late Rev. Thos. Etherington, of Stockwell, Surrey, and niece of the late Bishop of Durham.

THE DUKE OF GORDON, May 28. In Belgrave-square, aged 66, the Right Hon. George Gordon, fifth Duke of Gordon, Marquis of Huntly, Earl of Huntly and Enzie, Viscount of Inverness, Lord Badenoch, Lochaber, Strathaven, Balmore, Auchindoun, Garthie, and Kincardine (1684); eighth Marquis of Huntly (1599), and premier Marquis of Scotland; and thirteenth Earl of Huntly (1449); all in the peerage of Scotland: second Earl of Norwich, and Baron Gordon of Huntley, co. Gloucester (1784); Baron Beauchamp of Bletshoe* (by writ 1363), and Baron Mordaunt of Turvey (by writ 1532); G. C. B.; Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, a Privy Councillor, Lord Lieut. of the county of Aberdeen; a General in the army, Colonel of the third Foot Guards, Governor of Edinburgh Castle; a Colonel of the Royal Archers of Scotland; Chancellor of Marischall college, Aberdeen; Hereditary Keeper of Inverness Castle, President of the Scotish Incorporation, &c.

His Grace was born at Edinburgh Feb. 1, 1770, the elder son of Alexander fourth Duke of Gordon, by Jane, second daughter of Sir William Maxwell, of Monreith, co. Wigton, Bart.

He was appointed Ensign in the 35th regiment, and Lieutenant, in 1790. In 1791, he raised an independent company of foot, and in the same year was appointed to a company of the 42d. In 1792 he was made Capt.-Lieut. of the third foot guards; and in Feb. 1793, he embarked with that regiment for Holland, where he was present in the actions of St. Amand, Famars, Lannoi, and Dunkirk, and at the siege of Valenciennes.

In the beginning of 1794, Lord Huntly raised the 100th, afterwards called the 92d foot, of which excellent regiment he was made Lieut.-Colonel Commandant, and accompanied it to the Mediterranean. Leaving it at Gibraltar, in order to visit

England, in Sept. 1794, the Marquis embarked, from Corunna, in a packet which, three days after, was taken by a French privateer. After being plundered of every thing valuable, his Lordship was put on board a Swede, and landed at Falmouth on the 24th September.

He afterwards rejoined his regiment in Corsica, where he served for above a year. He received the brevet of Colonel, May 3, 1796.

In 1798, on the breaking out of the Irish rebellion, he hastened to join his regiment in Ireland, where he was appointed Brigadier-General, and was actively employed against the rebels, particularly in the county of Wexford. In Gordon's History of the Rebellion, it is remarked, that "To the immortal honour of this regiment, its behaviour was such as, if it were universal among soldiers, would render a military government amiable. To the astonishment of the until then miserably harassed peasantry, not the smallest trifle would any of these Highlanders accept, without payment of at least the full value."

The Marquis of Huntly accompanied his regiment on the expedition to Holland in 1799; and was severely wounded at the battle of Bergen, on the 2d of October in the same year.

His Lordship received the rank of Major-General, Jan. 1, 1801; was on the North British staff, as such, from May 1803 to 1806; was appointed Colonel of the 42d or Royal Highland regiment, Jan. 7, 1806; and a Lieut. - General May 9, 1808. In 1809 he commanded a division of the army in the unfortunate expedition to the Scheldt. To conclude our notice of his military career,-his Lordship attained the full rank of General, Aug. 12, 1819; was appointed Colonel of the first Foot Guards on the death of the Duke of Kent, Jan. 29, 1820; and removed to the command of the third Guards

(with which regiment he was connected in his youth), on the death of the Duke of Gloucester, in Dec. 4, 1834. He was invested with the insignia of a Grand Cross of the Bath, May 27, 1820.

At the General Election of 1806, the Marquis of Huntly was returned to Parliament as Member for the borough of Eye; but he continued for a very short time in the House of Commons; for, on the change of ministry, he was, by writ dated April 11, 1807, summoned to take his seat in the Upper House, in his father's English barony of Gordon.

In May 1808, he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire, on his father's resignation. In 1814, on the death of Lord Auckland, he was elected Chancellor of the Marischall College, Aberdeen, his father being at the same time Chancellor of the King's College in the same University.

He succeeded to the Dukedom on his father's death, June 17, 1827; and was also appointed his father's successor as Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland.

His Grace was appointed Governor of Edinburgh Castle, Nov. 15, 1827.

He married Dec. 11, 1813, Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Brodie, of Arn Hall, N. B. esq. Her Grace survives him, without issue.

In politics, the Duke of Gordon was a Conservative, and a more kind-hearted, noble, and gallant gentleman and soldier never breathed. His death will be universally lamented, but more particularly in the north of Scotland, where his Grace had endeared himself to the inhabitants by an uninterrupted succession of acts of kindness and philanthropy. The convivial powers of this chivalrous peer were well known and appreciated; and he was unrivalled as a chairman at a public dinner. He was a large contributor to many of our charitable institutions, but particularly to the Scotish Hospital, of which he was President, having succeeded his present Majesty in that office, at his express desire, on his accession to the throne.

His Grace was also Grand Master of the Orangemen of Scotland. His Grace had been for some time indisposed; but the more immediate cause of the Duke's death was ossification of the trachea. On a post-mortem examination, it was found he had also cancer in the stomach. He suffered much; but his noble and gal. lant spirit supported him to the last.

His Grace's only brother, Lord Alexander, died unmarried in 1808; and the male line of the Dukes of Gordon having thus expired, the Scotish titles conferred by the patent of 1684, and those conferred by the English patent of 1784, have be

come extinct.

The marquisate and earl

dom of Huntly, and the precedence of Premier Marquis of Scotland, have devolved on George Earl of Aboyne, the fifth in lineal descent who has borne that title, which was created by patent in 1660, to Charles younger son of George the second Marquis, the grandfather of the first Duke. His Lordship is also a Peer of Great Britain, by the title of Baron Meldrum of Morven, which was conferred upon him in 1815. He is now in his 76th year, and does not accede to any part of the Gordon estates.

The baronies of Beauchamp and Mordaunt have fallen into abeyance, between his four surviving sisters and his nephew. These are 1. Charlotte Duchess of Richmond; 2. Lady Madelina Fyshe Palmer; 3. George Viscount Mandeville; 4 Louisa Marchioness of Cornwallis; and 5. Georgiana Duchess of Bedford: Between these parties and their families the representation will be widely spread, unless the Crown should please to terminate the abeyance in favour of any of the coheirs.

Gordon Castle and very considerable estates, have devolved on the Duke of Richmond, who will succeed to about £30,000 a year, after so much land is sold as will clear off all incumbrances on the estates. Kinrara, Glenfiddich, and £2,000 a year come to his Grace's mother, the Duchess dowager, the Duke of Gordon's eldest sister. The Duchess of Gordon is to have the house in Belgrave-square, and Huntly Lodge in Aberdeen, which the late Duke occupied before his father's death, 80,0007. in money, and 5000. a year for life. His Grace, among other liberal bequests, has left 2001. a year to his private servant, and lesser sums to others of his domestics.

The remains of the Duke of Gordon were removed on the 1st June from his Grace's residence in Belgrave-square, to Greenwich, where the body was taken on board a steamer, to be conveyed to Scotland for interment. The procession moved in the following order: Undertaker's men on horseback, two and two. The third regiment of Foot Guards (of which the deceased was Colonel), the band playing the "dead march" in Saul. The coronet on a crimson velvet cushion, carried by a page on horseback. The bearse drawn by eight horses. Eight mourning coaches, drawn by six horses, containing friends and domestics. His Majesty's private carriage, drawn by six black horses, the servants in full state liveries. Her Majesty's private carriage, drawn by six white horses. Six other of the royal carriages, each drawn by six horses.

The

carriages of the Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Cumberland, and other branches of the Royal Family, drawn by two horses each. Detachments of the Foot Guards with arms reversed. A long train of carriages of the principal nobility and gentry.

The steamer arrived at Speymouth on Monday 6th June; the body was conveyed to Gordon Castle, where it lay in state until the following Friday, and was on that day deposited in the family vault in Elgin cathedral. The Duke of Richmond attended as chief mourner, and was accompanied by the Marquis of Tweeddale, Lord Arthur Lennox, Lord Loughborough, Lord Ramsay, the Hon. W. Gordon, M.P. Capt. C. Gordon, Mr. Brodie, of Brodie, Mr. Baillie, of Dockfour, John Innes, esq. &c. the Principal and Professors of Marischall college, Aberdeen, the magisterial officers of the town and county of Elgin, &c. &c. The Duchess of Gordon, Lady Sophia Lennox, and Mrs. Patillo, were also present.

A portrait of the Duke of Gordon was painted by the late John Jackson, R.A., and an engraving from it in mezzotinto, by H. Meyer, was published in 1812; a later portrait by Miss Huntly is engraved in mezzotinto by C. Turner, A. R. A.

THE DUCHESS OF BUCKINGHAM AND
CHANDOS

May 16. At Stowe, aged 56, the Most Noble Anne-Eliza Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos.

Her Grace was born in Nov. 1779, the second but only surviving daughter and beiress of James Brydges, third and last Duke of Chandos of that family, by his second wife Anne-Eliza, daughter of Richard Gamon, esq. and widow of Roger Hope Elletson, esq.

Her Grace's father died on the 29th Sept. 1789, when the Dukedom of Chandos became extinct. She was married, April 16, 1796, to Richard then Earl Temple; the marriage ceremony took place at Westmerland-chapel, Cavendishsquare; her mother was present, and Mr. Justice Buller gave away the bride. (See Gent. Mag. LXVI. 351.) Earl Temple succeeded his father in 1813, as second Marquis of Buckingham, and in 1822 was created Marquess of Chandos, and Duke of Buckingham and Chandos.

Her Grace had an only child, RichardPlantagenet, now Marquess of Chandos, who was born in 1797. His Lordship succeeds her as the eldest descendant and lineal representative (through the families of Brandon, Grey, Seymour, and Bruce) of Mary Tudor, Queen of France, second daughter of King Henry the Seventh, and sister to Margaret Queen of Scots, who conveyed the title to the En

glish crown to the family of Stuart, and thence to the house of Hanover. It was

in allusion to this circumstance that he received the name of Plantagenet.

Her Grace was also the eldest coheir of the barony of Bourchier, as heir-general of Frances Marchioness of Hertford, sister and coheir of Robert Earl of Essex, the Parliamentarian General: the abeyance of whose other barony of Ferrers of Chartley was terminated in favour of his great-nephew Sir Robert Shirley, and has descended to the Marquis Town

shend.

Those who were acquainted with the Duchess of Buckingham, are unbounded in praise of her many excellent qualities. "Of all the virtues which can adorn the human character, and fit our imperfect nature for a better world, her Grace was a splendid example. Sincere, gentle, affectionate, and pious, as well as boundless in her charities, this excellent lady seemed to be born for the happiness of all whom the common relations of life brought within her sphere, and for their improvement, by her conversation and example." The Court and Drawing-room had no charms for her; she loved the retirement of her delightful villa at Avington, Hants, where she daily ministered to the temporal and spiritual necessities of all around her; and some of her latest expressions referred to her "poor people at Avington," among whom she wished her remains might be deposited. Her Grace's benevolence was unlimited; no application for purposes of a charitable nature was unheeded.

Her Grace had been in a declining state of health, but her fatal attack was rapid and unexpected. In company with the Duke, she rode through the delightful gardens at Stowe on Saturday afternoon, and dined in excellent spirits. During the same evening, she was seized with violent indisposition, arising from spasms, and, after 24 hours' illness, she expired.

Her remains were removed for interment to Avington, near Winchester, on the 23d May. Three mourning coaches and the Duchess's own carriage followed the hearse, and everything was conducted in the most simple style, according to the request of the deceased. The funeral reached Avington on the 24th, and the tenants upon the estate preceded the hearse to the house, where the body remained that night. The funeral took place on the following morning, at ten o'clock; eight of the labourers of Avington carried the coffin. The pall was supported by Sir Henry Rivers; the Warden of Winchester College; Captain Nevill, R.N.; the Rev. H. Lee, of Winchester; Mr. Deane, of Winchester; and the Rev.