THEATRICAL REGISTER.

COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. Feb. 25. At Home; a Farce, levelled at the prevailing follies of the day interspersed with musick.

DRURY LANE THEATRE.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Rev. Isaac Mosop, curate of Pluckley, Cranbrook V. Kent.

Rev, H. J. Randolph, Hawkesbury V. Gloucestershire, vice Jenkinson, resigned. Rev. George D'Oyly, B. D. Christian Advocate in the University of Cambridge,

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GAZETTE PROMOTIONS. General Floyd, Governor of Gravesend and Tilbury, vice Musgrave, deceased. Foreign-office, Jan. 27. George Foy, esq. Consul at the City and Port of Stockholm.

Jan. 30. Lieut.-gen. Frederick Maitland, Lieutenant-governor of Dominica..

Whitehall, Feb. 2. The Prince Regent has conferred the dignities of Viscount and Earl of the United Kingdom on the Right Hon. Gilbert Baron Minto, and his heirs male, by the style and title of Viscount Melgund, of Melgund, co. Angus, and Earl of Minto, co. Roxburgh.

Foreign-office, Feb. 6. William A'Court, esq. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Barbary States.

Feb. 6. David Moneypenny, esq. Advocate, a Lord of Session, and one of the Lords of Justiciary, in Scotland, vice Tytler, deceased.

Whitehall, Feb. 13. Alexander Maconochie, esq. Advocate, his Majesty's Solicitor-general in Scotland.

Foreign-office, Feb. 20. W. Laird, esq. Consul at Malaga. Bernard Athy, esq. Consul at Alicant.

Whitehall, Feb. 23. Richard Chandos, Marquis of Buckingham, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Buckingham.

Colonial Department, Feb. 27. Majorgen. Sir Charles Shipley, knt. Governor of the Island of Grenada. Major-gen. George William Ramsay, Governor of the Island of St. Croix.

Feb. 27. The honour of Knighthood conferred on E. Hyde East, esq. Chief Justice at Fort William in Bengal.

Carlton-house, March 2. Lord Whitworth, K. B. a Lord of his Majesty's Bedchamber.

Carlton-house, March 4., William Pugh, of Car Howell, esq. Sheriff of the County of Montgomery, vice Corbett.-And the following Amendments on the Roll: Pem broke, Gwynne Gill Vaughan, of Jordanston, esq. Cardigan, Roderick Richardes, of Pentglais, esq. Merioneth, Thomas Edwards, of Ty Issa, esq.

Downing-street, March 9. Sir Richard Goodwin Keats, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Newfoundland.

Carlton-house, March 13.Viscount Lake,› a Lord of his Majesty's Bedchamber. GINT. MAG. March, 1813,

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Rev. James Hartley Dunsford, Frampton upon Severn V. Gloucestershire. Rev. Robert Wetherell, LL. B. Newnton Longville R. Bucks.

Rev. William Fryer, vicar of Cam, Wheatenburst Perpetual Curacy, vice Jenkin, deceased.

Rev. Edward Daubeny, Smallburgh V. Norfolk.

Rev. William Digby, M. A. a Canonry or Prebend in Worcester Cathedral, vice Torkington, deceased.

Rev. G. Hutchinson, M. A. vicar of St. Mary's, Nottingham, Dunham Prebend in the Collegiate Church of Southwell.

Rev. T. Rudd, M. A. Blyth V. Notts, vice Pritchard, deceased.

Rev. John Collins, Oxwich and Nicho laston consolidated R Glamorganshire. Rev. Thomas Morgan, Rural Dean of Upper Kemmes, Pembrokeshire.

Rev. C. Arnold, vicar of Roydon, Es sex, Nasing V. in same co. vice Moir, dec.

DISPENSATION.

Rev. P. Bulmer, A. M. to hold with Thorpe V. next Wainfleet, Orby V. co. Lincoln.

BIRTHS.

Jan. 15. At the Government-house, Bermuda, the wife of Brigadier-gen. Horsford, a daughter.

25, Mrs. Bunning, of Bernard-street, Russell-square, of twins, daughters, (see p. 286).

30. At Gibraltar, the wife of Assistant commissary-general Ragland, a daughter. Feb. 23. At Methley-park, co. York, Viscountess Pollington, a daughter.

27. At Binfield-house, Berks, the wife of George Henry Elliott, esq. a son and heir.

At Lady Elizabeth Courtenay's, Clayhill, Beckenham, the wife of Thomas Peregrine Courtenay, esq. M. P. a son.

28. At West Cowes, the Lady of Sir Jos. Mawbey, bart. a still-born child.

Lately, At Rily-grove, co. Lincoln, the wife of W. E. Tomline, esq. M. P. a son and heir.

"March 2. At Eher, Hon. Mrs. Blackwood, a daughter.

March 10. In Grosvenor-square, Mrs. Fuller Maitland, a son.

At Hanwell-paddock, the wife of Rev. Dr. Bond, a daughter.

18. In Great Cumberland-place, Mrs. Charles Hammersley, a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

Jan. 28. Major M'Leod, of the East India Company's service, to Mary, eldest daughter of J. Mackenzie, esq. of Kincraig, co. Ross.

Feb. 2. Viscount Neville, R. N. to Miss Mary Anne Bruce Elcock, of Sloane-street.

6. At Dundalk-house, Ireland, Viscount Powerscourt, to Lady Frances Jocelyn, eldest daughter of the Earl of Roden.

15. Mr. David Scott, fourth son of the late David Scott, esq. of Nether Benholm, Kincardineshire, to Mary, eldest surviving daughter of the late William Seddon, esq. of Acres Barn, near Manchester.

16. John Caldecott, esq. of Holbrookgrange, Rugby, to Anne, second daugh ter of the late Richard Stephens, esq. of Leicester.

At Bath, Lieut.-col. Wilks, governor of St. Helena, to Miss D. Taubman, youngest daughter of J. T. esq. of Bath. Rev. Francis Pelly, rector of Siston, co. Gloucester, to Mary Anne, daughter of Theophilus Richards, esq. of Birmingham.

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18. James Alexander, esq. M. P. to the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, widow of the Hon. Charles Andrew B.

J. Fleming, esq. of Stoneham-park, Hants, to the only daughter of J. Buchanan, of Bath.

19. Rev. Mr. Hobson, of Chedgrave, near Norwich, to Miss M. P. Willes, niece of- Willes, esq. of Dulwich.

20. At Edinburgh, Lord Blantyre, to Fanny, second daughter of the Hon. John Rodney.

22. At Lenhales (commonly spelt Lyonshall), co. Hereford, John Hodgson, conveyancer, Red Lion-square, son of John H. esq. of Bedford-street, Bedfordrow, to Anne, daughter of Robert Whitcombe, esq. of the Whittern, in the parish of Lenhales (who died in 1790) by his wife Sarah, elder of the two daughters of the late Sir Henry Thomas Gott, knt. (formerly Greening) and now the lady of Sir Harford Jones, bart. late Minister in Persia, and now of the Whittern aforesaid. The mothers of Robert Whitcombe, Lady Jones, and Sir Harford, were the three married ones of four daughters and coheirs of Richard Hooper, gent. formerly of the Whittern.

Rev. Henry Faulkner, to Harriet, second daughter of Sir Andrew Bayntun, bt. 24. Thomas Somers Cocks, esq. to Agneta, fifth daughter of the Rt. Hon. R. Pole Carew, of Antony-house, Cornwall.

25. At Burrington, Somerset, James Bowden, esq. of Bury-hall, Edmonton, to Clara, second daughter of Rev. S. T. Wylde, of Barrington; and at the same time, A. J. Valpy, esq. M. A. of Great James-street, Bedford-row, to Harriet, third dau. of Rev. S. T. Wylde.

At South Stoneham, Hants, Edwin Godden Jones, M. D. Hertford-street, Mayfair, physician to the Duke of York, to Mary, only child of Dummer Andrews, esq. of Swathling.

At Edinburgh, T. Hamilton, esq. merchant, of Glasgow, to Maria Helena,youngest daughter of the late Sir George Colquhoun, bart. of Tillyquhoun.

Lately, Sir John Pinhorne, knt. of Ninywood-house, Isle of Wight, to Susannab, eldest daughter of the late Rev. Daniel Price, rector of Cradley, co. Hereford.

At Southampton, Capt. Lodder, to Caroline, daughter of Lieut.-gen. Benson.

At Bridgnorth, Rev. Francis Salt, of Wem, to Miss Joice Bates, of Bridgnorth. Rev. T. F. Wilson, of the Grove, Otley, to Miss Eden, daughter of the late Sir John E. bart.

At Moor Park, R. Robinson, esq. eldest son of Rev. J. R. of Albemarle-street, to Lady Helena Moore, eldest daughter of the Earl of Mount Cashell.

Henry Morley, esq. of Cherry-garden, King's-county, to the daughter of Rev. J. M Cay, of Dublin.

March 2. Lieut.-col. J. G. Scott, of the Artillery in the East India Company's service, Madras establishment, to Caroline Isabella, youngest daughter of the late Andrew Grant, esq.

At Bath, Mr. Robert Clarke, solicitor, to Miss Susannah Kitson, youngest dau. of John Kitson, esq. of Queen-square, Bath.

4. The Hon. W. H. Lyttelton, M. P. to Lady Sarah, eldest daughter of Earl Spencer.

8. George Hicks, esq. of Lincoln's-inn, barrister-at-law, to Augusta, daughter of the late Capt. Fielding, R. N.

Viscount Gage, to Miss Foley, eldest daughter of the late Hon. E. F.

John Batten, esq. of Yeovil, Somerset, to Miss Copeland, of Amen-corner, London.

11. At Kensington, Capt. George Hills,' R. N. to Diana, fourth daughter of the late Thomas Hammersley, esq. banker.

At the Roman Catholic Chapel, Lichfield, and afterwards, the same morning, at Tamworth church, Edward Ferrers, esq. of Baddesley Clinton, co. Warwick, major in that county militia, to Lady Har riet-Anne Ferrers-Townshend, eldest sur viving daughter of the late Marquis Townshend.

16. J. Goss, esq. of Hathaleigh, Devon, to Lady Harringtou, widow of the late Sir Edward H.

MEMOIRS

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THE late Edward Jerningham, esq. (see our last Volume, Part ii. p. 501. b.) descended from an ancient family in Norfolk, was the youngest brother of the late Sir William Jerningham, bart. He was educated in the English College at Douay, and from thence removed to Paris, where he improved himself in classical attainments til he had nearly reached his twenty-first year. He was a good Latin scholar, and was tolerably well acquainted with the Greek. French and Italian languages, but particularly the former, were nearly as familiar to him as that of his native country. In his mind, benevolence and poetry had always a mingled operation. His taste was founded upon the best models of Literature. The first production which raised him into public notice, was a poem in recommendation of the Magdalen Hospital; and Mr. Jonas Hanway, one of its most active patrons, often declared, that its success was very much promoted by this poem. He continued occasionally to afford proofs of his poetical genius, and his works passed through many editions. They are uniformly marked by taste, elegance, and a pensive character, that al ways excites tender and pleasing emotions. In some of his works, however, as in "The Shakspeare Gallery," "Enthusiasm," and "The Rise and Fall of Scandinavian Poetry," he displays great vigour, and even sublimity. The first of these poems had an elegant and spirited compliment from Mr. Burke, in the following passage: "I have not for a long time seen any thing so well-finished. He has caught new fire by approaching in his perihelium so near to the Sun of our poetical system.". His last work, published a few months ago, and which has reached a second edition, was entitled "The Old Baro's Farewell." It is not unworthy of his best days, and breathes an air of benevolence and grateful piety for the lot in life which Providence had assigned him, highly honourable to his heart, as well as to his talents. In his later writings he

endeavoured to represent the Christian doctrine in its most attractive form, divested of the terrors with which it is viewed by the timid believer. "The Essay on the mild Tenour of Christianity" traces historically the efforts to give an Anchorite-cast to the Christian profession, and abounds in interesting anecdotes derived from the page of Ecclesiastical History. "The Essay on the Eloquence of the Pulpit in England," (prefixed to Bishop Bossuet's Select Sermons and Orations) was very favourably received by the publick. "The presuming to canvass a subject (says the Author) with which I am not professionally connected, is sanctioned by the authority of the judicious Jortin; who says, the subject might be treated

to more advantage by those who are not personally concerned in it."- Mr. Jerningham had, during the course of a long life, enjoyed an intimacy with the most eminent literary characters in the higher ranks, particularly the celebrated Earl of Chesterfield, and the present Earl of Carlisle. His illness had continued for some months, and was at times very se vere; but his sufferings were much alles viated by a course of theological study he had imposed on himself, and which he considered most congenial to a closing life. He has bequeathed all his manuscripts to Mr. Clarke, New Bond-street.

Mr. Jerningham's productions are as follow: 1." Poems and Plays," 4 vols. 9th edition, 1806. 2. "Select Serinons and Funeral Orations, translated from the French of Bossuet, Bishop of Meaux," third edition, 1801. 3. " The Mild Tenour of Christiauity, an Essay, (elucidated from Scripture and History; containing a new illustration of the characters of several eminent personages,)" second edition, 1807. 4. "The Dignity of Human Nature, an Essay," 1805. 5. "The Alexandrian School; or, a Narrative of the first Christian Professors in Alexandria," third edition, 1810. 6. "The Old Bard's Farewell," a Poem, second edition, with additional passages, 1912,

This accomplished scholar died at his residence in Chelsea, on the 28th of January, in the 41st year of his age, after an illness of some months continuance; (see p. 188.) He had been recently called to the Bar, a profession for which he was highly qualified, and in which there was every reason to hope he would have risen to high eminence had his life been prolonged. Indeed, the zeal with which he devoted himself to his various professional pursuits hastened, if it did not bring on, the

disorder, which put a period to his existence. As a classical scholar and nervous elegant writer, he has left few equals. His letters under the signature of "Galgacus" first printed in The Star, have not been sur passed by any political popular writings since the days of Junius; with this difference, that their aim and tendency was to rouse and unite the energies of a powerful people in defence of their common Country, while those of the latter were calcu lated to divide, repress, and sacrifice them

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to the passions of party. In private life Mr. Yorke was distinguished for a benerolence and liberality of sentiment, and openness of character, which fall to the lot of few; and his company was courted by men of all parties. An account of the life of Mr. Yorke, which was a busy one and much chequered, could not fail to hold up many useful lessons, particularly to young men of ardent minds. Carried away with youthful fervour, he was, in his younger days, a great admiter of the French Revolution; or, as he himself used to express it, "madly in love with ideal Liberty." He was an officer in the French army, a member (if we rightly recollect) of the National Convention, and personally acquainted with all the leading characters in the Revolution. He was denounced by Robespierre; and, but for a friendly hint from the celebrated Condorcet, must have been guil lotined had he been one hour longer in making his escape.--The scenes through which he passed, the enormities he witnessed, the abuse and perversion of all principle which characterised almost all the demagogues of the Revolution, left a strong and salutary effect on the mind of Mr. Yorke, cured him completely of all his Utopian ideas, and made him highly va lue the only practical illustration of true Liberty which has yet been exhibited among the political institutions of men-the British Constitution. Mr. Yorke has left a widow and four children. His manuscripts ought to be revised for publication, for their benefit, and the instruction of the publick. See our present Month's Review, p. 250.

who, being on the road from Valenciennes to Catillon, was cut off by the patroles of the Enemy, as his Majesty on that day was returning from Brussels to the army, and the Enemy's patroles were already passed over the River Selle. Capt. Ryan, who so distinguished himself in this affair, had his horse wounded, as well as the Officers who are specified by Field Marshal Lieut. Otto, under whose particular command the regiment was. MAXM. COUNT DE MERVELOT, Major General, Vienna, Dec. 20, 1797."-Not contented with preventing the melancholy consequence above stated, this regiment took three pieces of cannon, Much more is stated by Count Mervelot; but the communicator of this article fears to trespass too much on Mr. Urban, though with some excuse, as referring to an historical fact.

May At Pondicherry, Lieut. Facio, of the East India Company's service. Being one of a party of officers in a catamaran, which was upset, his leg was seized by a shark, and so dreadfully lacerated, that he died on being brought on the beach.

Oct.... At Dominica, Thos. Beech, esq. surgeon, formerly of Bracknall, Berks.

Dec.... In the Island of Antigua, Lieut. Thos. C. Scotland, R. N. son of Thomas S. esq. of that Island.

Jan.... 11. In her 86th year, Mrs. Greene, mother of Mr. J. G. painter, Oxford.

Jan. 17. Struck in the breast by a musket-ball, in the retreat near the river Huerta, in his 24th year, Capt. Henry Dawson, 52d foot, fourth son of Pudsey D. esq. of Liverpool, His fall has renewed in his family those griefs which had scarcely subsided for the loss of another son, Capt. Wm. D. of the Piedmontaise, who lately died in the East Indies.

Jan. 19. At Kensington, the wife of John Vickris Taylor, esq. of Southgate, Middlesex.

Aged 59, Mrs. Hamer, widow of the late Geo. H. esq. of Rochdale, Lancashire.

At Grantham, in his 89th year, Rev. Robert Heron, third son of Robert Heron, sometime town-clerk, and afterwards recorder of Newark, in Nottinghamshire. This last mentioned Robert had four sons and two daughters. Of the former, John, the eldest, was recorder of Newark, and died in early life. Thomas, the second son, was also recorder of the same place; and having married to his first wife the daughter of Sir Edward Wilmot, king's physician, continued to reside there till after her decease. He purchased the ancient castle of Chilham in Kent, whither he removed late in life, and married to his second wife, one of the Sawbridges of the last-mentioned county, who survives him. The only surviving son of Thomas Heron is the present Sir Robert Heron, of Stub

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