of Lieut.-Colonel Churchill, of the 31st Foot, aged 45.

June 12th, at Brighton, Mary, the wife of Capt. R. Cumberland, late of Scots Fusilier Guards.

June 14th, Lieut.-Colonel C. De Vogelsang, h.p., Roll's Regiment.

June 15th, at Margate, Alexander George Clark, son of Dr. Clark, K.H., DeputyInspector General of Army Hospitals.

June 16, in the Citadel, Plymouth, aged 18 months, Frances Anne, daughter of Capt. J. A. Drought, 65th Regiment.

June 19th, at Douglas, Isle of Man, Capt. Mitchell, late of 1st Foot, and Superintendent of Police, Glasgow.

June 20th, at Liverpool, Staff-Surgeon Peter Smith.

June 20th, at Stonehouse, Major-General Harry Percival Lewis. Royal Marines, aged 75. June 20th, at Moretonhampstead, Ann, relict of the late Lieut. William Hooper, R.N. June 20th, at Boulogne-sur-Mer, Capt. Sir Edward William Corry Astley, R.N.

June 21st, at Coventry, J. Kelly, Esq., Barrackmaster.

June 21st, Lieut. Guitton, h.p., Corsica Rangers.

June 21st, at Auteuil, near Paris, Charlotte, wife of Col. H. Percy Davison, and youngest sister of the late Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, Bart.

June 22nd, at Castle Hackett, Galway, Major John Kirwan.

June 23rd, at Stromness, Mr. John Robertson, aged 91. He was on board Rear-Admiral

Palliser's ship, the Formidable, 98, in July, 1778, and was wounded in an engagement with the French fleet in the British Channel.

June 23rd, at Cork, at an advanced age, Capt. A. Graham, late of 25th Regiment.

June 25th, Miss Jessy Isabella, third daughter of the late Major P. Codd, of Kensington.

June 25th, at Hamilton, Capt. P. Coultman, Barrack-Master. He was an old and meritorious officer, of 30 years' standing, 20 of which abroad in the 76th Regt., from which he exchanged to the 46th Regt. He was appointed Barrack-Master at Hamilton about twelve months since.

June 26th, Major James Jonathan Fraser. This veteran officer died at Jemappe, near Liege. He entered the Army as an Ensign in the 42nd Highlanders in 1794, and was promoted to Lieut. Jan 14, 1795; to Capt.-Lieut. April 4, 1801; to Capt. May 26, 1803; and to Major, 8th W. I. Regt., Jan. 4, 1810; Major 7th RI. Vett. Batt., Dec. 27, 1810. He was appointed Town Major at Gibraltar, March 31, 1814, and placed on retired full pay (on reduction of the 7th Royal Veteran Batt., Aug. 17, 1814. He resigned his Staff appointment at Gibraltar, July 4, 1822, and retired from the Service, by sale of his full pay, May 19, 1825. Major Fraser fought at St. Lucie, and received wounds which, with the loss of sight from ophthalmia, entitled him to a pension of 4007. per annum. The great humanity of himself and lady during the fevers at Gibraltar were then the theme of every tongue: the Duke of Kent wrote regretting that the policy of Government prevented his having influence in the affairs of the garrison, so as to order a grant of land to recompense the humanity of Major Fraser, and his pecuniary loss. Major Fraser died of a malady proceeding from his wounds, and was buried in the burial-ground of Serang. Over his tomb the service was read by the French Protestant Minister of Liege, with a pathos and solemnity that caused the tears to

flow of an assembled multitude, met to show respect to a man whose amiable qualities and patient endurance of suffering endeared him to the natives of that country, in which for fifteen years he had resided. Major Fraser married Miss Susan Mackay, of Fort George, N.B., and his father died Fort Major of Plymouth Citadel in May, 1815.

June 27th, at Bishopsteignton, Devon, Capt. Chas. Gill, R.N., C.B.

June 28th, at Hutton Lodge, near Malton, aged 56, Lord James N. B. B. Townshend, youngest son of George, first Marquis Townshend, Capt. R.N., K.C.H., and one of the Naval Aides-de-Camp to the Queen.

June 28th, at the house of J. Cockburn, Esq., New Broad-street, Lieut.-Col. J. Wright, of the H.E.I.C. Madras Establishment.

June 30th, in Upper George-street, Portmansquare, aged 70, Edward Amhurst Saunders Sebright, Esq., late Lieut.-Colonel Grenadier Guards.

July 2nd, on board the Braganza steamer on his passage to England, Mr. W. R. H. Mattagott, late H.M.S. Inconstant.

July 2nd, at Tullagh House, Nenagh, Lieut.Gen. Sir William Parker Carroll, C.B., K.C.H.

July 3rd, at Bishopsteignton, Devon, Harriet, the relict of the late Capt. Charles Gill, C.B., having survived her husband six days only.

July 4th, at Elm-grove, Notting-hill, after a long and painful illness, Thomas Dent, Esq., late Major 10th Foot.

July 5th, at Guernsey, Capt. John Rayson, late of H.M.'s 83rd Regt., aged 38.

July 6th, at Higham, near Chatham, after a long and painful illness, Eliza Maria, wife of Capt. Hookey, Paymaster of that Division of Royal Marines.

July 10th, at Southampton, aged 72, Lady Bullen, wife of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Bullen, K.C.B., K.C.H.

July 12th, at Frimley, near Bagshot, the Hon. Col. Alexander Murray. He was third son of John, late Earl of Dunmore (and uncle to the present Earl). The deceased was born in Scotland, in Oct., 1764, and entered the Army as an Ensign in the 2nd Batt. 84th Regt. in 1778; purchased his Lieutenancy in the same Regt. in Nov. 1779; and his Company do. on the 1st Jan., 1781. Major by brevet 1st March, 1794. By the Gazette, Majors of the above date were entitled to the rank of Brevet Lieut.-Cols. of 1st June, 1798, whereas that of deceased was only gazetted as on the 1st Jan., 1800; thus placing his name on the list of Lt.Cols. upwards of 250 lower down than by right it ought to have been; while deceased had nearly from the commencement of the war held the commission of Col. Commandant of the Balma Militia.

July 19th, at his house, Maize-hill, Greenwich, in the 82nd year of his age, after only four days' illness, William Taylor, Esq., Adm. of the Red, the only surviving officer who accompanied Captain Cook in his third voyage round the world, and was present at his death, most sincerely respected and beloved, and deeply regretted by a numerous circle of friends.

At Birr, Mr. Philip Clayton, QuartermasterSerjeant 90th Light Infantry, aged 50. He had had served 33 years in the regiment.

At Hackney, Mr. G. H. Toulmin, Purser, R.N. (1830), aged 62.

At Sunday's-well, Cork, Captain Alexander Graham, late of 25th Regt.

At Southsea, aged 55, Lieut. James Clark, R.N. (1813), after long suffering.

At Mullion, Lieut. Š. Cock, R.N., aged 81.

Abd-el-Kader and Algiers, 399
Addiscombe, Hon. E.I.C.'s College at,
the half-yearly examinations at, 416;
Professor De la Voie's French and
English Lexicon, 400

Admirals slain in action, details respect-

ing British, 86; account of celebrated
Lords High Admiral, 206, 207
Admiralty Regulations,-the Naval In-
structors at the Royal College, Ports-
mouth, 114, 115, 397, 571
Affairs at Home and Abroad, 121, 257,
401, 577

Affghaun affairs, on, by Colonel A. F.
Macintosh, 11; summary of events of
this war, 402, 577; despatches relat-
ing thereto, 420, 586
Affghaunistan or Kaboolistan, formerly
Eastern Persia, or Kandahar, 103, 578;
H. E. Lord Ellenborough's notifica-
tion of the reverses in, 121; Dr. Bry-
don's letter, and other correspondence
relative to the same, 123, 124; Wyld's
Map of, noticed, 256

Akhbar Khan, Mahomed, routed by Sir
Robert Sale, 425

Alexander, Sir J. E., K.L.S., 14th Regt.,
469

Allen, Joseph, Esq., The Wooden Walls
of England, by, No. XXI., 60; his
account of Mathews and Lestock's
action, 321. His Battles of the Bri-
tish Navy, noticed, 576
Allen's Map of China, noticed, 256
America, North, 524; United States and

the Slave Trade, 171; Naval affairs
of, 583; Scenes in, from a Tyro's
Note-Book, No. II., 335
Antigua, island of, 53

Arms, British, as they were and as they
are, compared with the opinions of
Foreigners, No. II., III., IV., 156,
304, 533

Army, Distribution of the British, on 1st
May, 1842, 132; 1st June, 275; 1st
July, 431; 1st August, 592

Notes on the, Nos. I. II., 441, 443
Our Military System, 111, 487
Complement of British Regts., 273
Rewards and Augmentation of the,

by Miles, 569

U. S. MAG., No. 165, AUG., 1812.

B. (R. I.), In Port after Action, a Sketch
of Old Times, by, 369

Ballingall, Sir George, M.D., F.R.S.E.,
270

Barbuda, Anguilla, Nevis, and Mont-
serrat, 59

Bayonne, Reminiscences of, by Green
Feather, 79

Benbow, Vice-Admiral, anecdotes of,
100; letter from Admiral Du Casse
to him, 102

Best, Capt. J. J., Excursions in Alba-
nia, by, noticed, 399

Births, 142, 285, 438, 598
Blackdown Hills, Survey of, 267
Borstall, the Sieges of, a Tale of the
Civil War, 464

Brydon, Dr. William, his account of the
retreat from Cabul, 123

Britannicus, his letter to Samuel Whit-
bread, on the military conduct of Lord
Wellington, and the effects of party
spirit, 156

Burnes, Col. Sir Alexander, his "Cabool,
&c.," noticed, 255

2 R

Cabul, affair of, Sir Wm. McNaghten,
&c., 121, 123, 406, 428, 523; Sir A.
Burnes's work on, noticed, 255
Calabria, a Day in, by an Old Soldier,
346

Camps, ancient, from Bath to Chelten-
ham, survey of, 266

Canada, on Desertion in, 469
Candahar, affairs in, 403, 429
Chareekah, fort of, 406

China, the British naval and military
force in, 124; military statistics of the
Empire, 415

Christopher's, St., and its Carib indige-
nous population, 57
Churchill, Captain Lord John, R.N.,
monument to, 125

Clerke, Major T. H. Shadwell, retires
from the Editorship of the United
Service Magazine, 401

Codrington, Capt., his defence of Cha-
reekah, and death in action, 406
Cole, Rev. Samuel, Rector of Bretten-
ham, 565

Columbus, voyages of, 524

Cook, Capt. James, R.N., his death at
Owhyhee, 45

Correspondence, General, 106, 245, 390,
556

from the Principal Ports and Sta-
tions, 113, 248, 396, 570
Courts-Martial, Lieut. Plunkett, 130;
strictures on these tribunals, 309; ob-
servations by M. Foucher on them,
312

Davenport, Capt. Sir Thomas, R.N., 219
Deaths, 142, 286, 439, 599
Dennie, Lieut.-Col., slain in action near
Jellalabad, 425, 428

Deserter, Confessions of a, 227
Desertion from the Army, 271; instru-
ment for marking deserters, 274; on
desertion in Canada, by Sir J. E.
Alexander, 469

Discharge of soldiers, on the, 310
Diving-bell improved by Dr. Halley, 298
Domingo, island of St., 525

Dragoon, Reminiscences of a Light, No.
XVI., The Field of Battle, 550
Drake, Sir Francis, history of, and poeti-
cal eulogium of, 208-216; his return
home to his Lady's mansion, 217; her
second nuptials with Courtenay of
Powderham Castle, 218

Edinburgh, Examination held at the
Scottish Military and Naval Academy,
at, 125

Editor's Portfolio; or, Naval and Mili-
tary Register, 121, 257, 401, 577
Ellenborough Lord, Governor-General

of India, Notifications, Orders, &c.,
by, 121, 420, 428, 586
Elphinstone, Major-General, at Water-
loo, 404; proposed court-martial on,
respecting the capitulation of Cabul,
428; death, 580

England's Wooden Walls. By Joseph
Allen, Esq., No. XXI., the Mars,
No. 1, 60

England, Major-General, repulsed at
the Kojuck Pass, 403, 429
Enlistment, on, 160

Excellent, H.M. ship, at Portsmouth,
397, 571

Fitzgerald, Lieutenant Edward, R.N.,
mortally wounded at Canton, 125
Foucher, M. Victor, "de l'Administra-
tion de la justice militaire en France et
en Angleterre," quoted, 312.
Foreign Miscellany, 103, 242
France; the état-major, 541; Peace Esta-
blishment of the Army, 243; addi-
tional fortresses, 244

Gazette, &c., Despatches from India,
&c., 423, 586

General and Flag Officers, Memoirs of;
240, 385

Ghuznee, fall of; proposed court-martial
on Lieut.-Colonel Palmer, 403; his
despatch relating the surrender, 428
Gibraltar, Original Letters of General
Eliot (Lord Heathfield), on the siege
of, 238

Gomm, Major-General Sir William,
K.C.B., public approval of his con-
duct in the government of Jamaica,
128

Greece, Notices of the Naval and Mili-
tary Establishments of; by a Com-
mander in the Navy, 72.

Grenadiers, the British, a Ballad by P.,

547

Green Feather, 79

Guadaloupe taken by Sir C. Grey, 51

Halkett, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Colin, G.C.B.,
wounded at Waterloo, 404
Hamburg, general description, of, 244
Harty, Lieut.-Colonel, 405
Heise, Major Christopher, 238
Henry VIII., his Navy and Admirals
86, 205

Historical Yarns and Shakings (con
tinued), 86

Howard Family, Earls of Surrey, &c.,
their naval and military achievements,
205

Hughes, Col., C.B., on Promotion in the
Army, 32

Huish, Major George, 424
Hutchinson, Lieut.-Colonel W. N.,

on

the boring of rocks under water at
Bermuda, 560

Hygieia's visit to the British Fleet, 145
Hykulze, action between Major-General
England and Sadeg, chief of Candahar,
at, 429

India; the Indus, Calcutta, Caubul,
Jellalabad, &c., 121-124,260,403,427,
581; Ghuznee, 403, 428; discontent
of certain regiments in our Indian
Army, 122

Inventions and Naval Improvements:
marine barometer, 289; bending of
planks, 292; Colonial dockyards,
293; speaking-trumpet, 296; life-
boats, 297; diving-bell, &c., 298
Ionian Islands, and Sir Howard and
Lady Douglas, 259

Jacobi, Lieut. on military enlistment,
&c., 161

Jamaica, affairs of the island of, 128, 524
Jellalabad, victorious sortie from, 402,
425

Marriages, 142, 285, 438, 598

Mars line-of-battle ship, history of her
services in action, No. XXI., 60
Marshall's, Mr., Historical Details of the
British Army, referred to, 160
Mathews and Lestock, Admirals, action
fought by them, and courts-martial
held on them, 321
Mazé, Capitaine, on enlistment and en-
rolment, 161

Memoirs of General and Flag Officers,
240, 385

Meteorological Register: kept at Car-
diff, by Capt. W. H. Smyth, R.N.,
144, 288, 440

Milford Haven and Pembroke dockyard,
117, 252, 547

Officers, Pensions and Allowances
to Relatives of, 16

Navy, Stations of the Royal, in Commis-
sion: 1st May, 1842, 135; 1st June,
276; 1st July, 432; 1st Aug., 593

Hygieia's Visit to the British, 145
Old England's, 237
Nelson, Adm. Lord, his behaviour in his
last victory, 390; his victories and

death, portraits, &c., in Greenwich
Hospital, 102, 576

Nicolay, Lt.-Gen. Sir W., memoir of, 385
Niger, Expedition to the River, 260

Palmer, Capt., in the Hebrus frigate,
captures L'Etoile, Capt. Phillibert,
who is severely wounded, 369; anec-
dotes, 371-380

Pasley, Major-General, and the Royal
George wreck, &c., 250

Pearse, Commander, on the Principles
of Ship-building, 106

Plunket, Tom, account of, 234
Plunkett, Lieut. E. S., 95th Regiment,

result of court-martial on, 130
Penn, Rich., Esq., on Angling, Chess,
Shooting, &c., noticed, 256
Pensions and Compassionate Allowances
to Relatives of Naval Officers, 16
Phillimore, Capt. J., R.N., his wounds
in action (the Clorinde and Eurotas),
379
Plymouth, naval intelligence from, 116,
250, 398, 573

Pollock, Major-Gen. Sir G., forces the
passage of the Khyber defiles, 402,

421

Poetry-Old England's Navy, 237; the
Transport in other Days, 381; the
Artilleryman's Réveillée, 463; Lines
on Sir W. McNaghten, by E. S. T.,
523; The British Grenadiers, 547

Porter, Sir Robert Ker, K.C.H, death
of, 288

Port, in, after Action, by J. R. B., 369
Portsmouth, naval correspondence from,
113, 248, 396, 570

Royal Naval College at, 114; Gun-
nery on board the Excellent, 397;
Examination of Marine Cadets,
397, 571

Procter, Major, Private Secretary to Sir
George Arthur at Bombay, 269
Promotion, Col. Hughes's System of
Army, 32

Promotions and Appointments, 137, 278,
434, 595

Prussia, national debt of, 415; military
punishments in, 242; population and
religion of, 242

Razors, Philp and Whicker's mode of
tempering, 272

Readers and Correspondents, to, 120,
256, 400, 576

Reviews and Critical Notices, 118, 252,
399, 575

Russia: Cossacks, frontiers, conquests,
554

Sailor, Passages in the Life of a, Nos.
X., XI., 219, 514

Saints, the, islands, 53

Sale, Major-Gen. Sir Robert, his military
services, 257; his despatches relating
the defeat of the Affghans at Jellala-
bad, 403, 425

Florentine, Lady, her admirable
letter to Sir Robert, 257, 576
Sandhurst, Examinations at the R. M.
College at, 261

Sandwich, death of the gallant Admiral
Earl of, 98

Sargent, Capt. Wm., R.N., 377
Scott, Col., K.S.F., his Travels in Mo-
rocco, Fez, and Algiers, noticed, 399

Rev. Dr. A. J., Life of, noticed,

576
Scurvy at Sea, successful prevention of
the ravages of, 154

Service, Restoration of Forfeited, 271
Sharks, a Yarn about, 1

Sikh allies of the British, the Maha
Raja Shere Sing, &c., 420

Slave-trade, the, 171

Smyth, Capt. W. H., R.N., 390; Me-

teorological Register kept by, 144, 288,
440

Soldan, H.M. ship, 220-225
Surveying and Mensuration, the Pocket
Quintant and Polymeter, &c., critical
account of its application to, 118
Spragge, Adm. Sir Edward, 99
Steamers and steam-frigates, 249, et
passim

Symonds, Capt. Wm. Cornwallis, 96th
Regt., his death at New Zealand, 189,

204

Taylor, Lieut.-Col., his services at the
Khyber Pass, 421

Townshend, Col. Sir H. G. P., 404
Transport, the, in other Days, by H. K.,
a late General Officer, 381

United Service Institution, Mr. Tonna's
catalogue of its library, 400

Van Diemen's Land, Bush-rangers of,
by an Officer, 361

Victoria, H.M. the Queen, 577. Peti-
tion to H.M., from the Undecorated
Officers of the late War, 582

Vigne, T. C., Esq., his Travels in Kash-
mir, and Tibetian countries, reviewed,
575

Wade, Lieut.-Col. Sir C. M., C.B.,
services of, 477

Waterloo, Field-Officers who served at,

247; Belgian critique on this battle, 391
Waverley Novels, the-Part I. of the
Abbotsford Edition, noticed, 120
Wellington, Field-Marshal the Duke of,
156, 247

West Indies, by Lieut.-Col. Wilkie-
Guadaloupe, 51. The Saints; Anti-
gua, 53. St. Christopher's, 56. Bar-
buda; Anguilla; Nevis; Montserrat,
59. Jamaica; St. Domingo, 524.
Probable effect of the abolition of
negro slavery to the advantage of the
British colonies, 175, 177. Black
troops, 556

Wilkie, Lieut.-Col., on the West India
Islands (continued) 51, 524

Zealand, New, Capt. A. Dottin Best's
Journey through the Northern Island
of, 189

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