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On the 25th, in Bruton-street, the right honourable Henry Lawes Luttrell, earl of Carhampton, viscount Carhampton, and baron Irnham, governor of Dublin, a general in the army, and colonel of the 6th regiment of dragoon guards. He married Jane, daughter of George Boyd, esq. of Dublin, one of the most beautiful, as well as the most amiable women of her day, who survives him, and by whom he has had no issue. His lordship was brother to the beautiful Miss Luttrell, who married the duke of Cumberland, uncle of his present majesty. He was distinguished in early life as colonel Luttrell. He fought some political battles, and was the opponent of the celebrated Mr. Wilkes, in the memorable contest for Middlesex, when the latter was expelled the house of commons by a vote of the house. He also figured in the letters of the renowned Junius, among the political dependents of the duke of Grafton. The late earl was appointed a general in 1798, and stood third on the list, those preceding him being the marquis of Drogheda and earl Harcourt. He is succeeded in his titles by his only brother, John Luttrell Olmius. His lordship came to his titles on the death of his father, in 1787. Creations of the first nobleman, the father of the deceased:-Baron, 1768; viscount, 1781; earl, 1785.

June. At his house in Upper Eaton-street, Pimlico, Charles Downes, esq. aged 71, state page to his majesty, and thirty-five years page of the bedchamber to his late majesty.

At Apsley-house, the mar. chioness of Worcester, of an internal inflammation, Her lady

ship was Georgiana Frederica Fitzroy, eldest daughter of the late honourable Henry Fitzroy, son of Charles, first lord of Southampton, brother of the duke of Grafton, by lady Anne Wellesley, sister of the duke of Wellington and marquis Wellesley; and was married to the marquis of Worcester on the 25th of July 1814. Her ladyship was one of the most intimate and favourite friends of the late princess Charlotte.

At her house in Upper Brookstreet, Grosvenor-square, in the 86th year of her age, the right honourable lady Juliana Dawkins.

At Aston Sandford, the rev. T. Scott, well known and highly appreciated in the religious world.

At Olney, Elizabeth Robinson, aged 65, called Poor Bet, and generally considered in the neighbourhood, as the Crazy Kate of Cowper's muse, in his poem of the Task.

Mr. W. Towers, aged 65, brother of the late rev. Joseph Towers, L. L. D. and more than forty years editor of the Sherborne Mercury.

At Gloucester, the rev. J. Griffith, D. D. prebendary of Gloucester cathedral.

At Belle Vue, near Southampton, admiral sir Richard Rodney Bligh, the eighth oldest admiral on the list.

At Wrenningham, Norfolk, Mr, J. Bush, aged 89, leaving 140 children, grand-children and greatgrand-children.

At Brussels, the right honourable Randall Plunkett, thirteenth lord Dunsary, third baron of Ireland. He married, first, Margaret, daughter of Edward Archdeacon, esq. and second, Mary, sister to sir Drummond Smith,

bart. He is succeeded by his eldest son, Edward Wadding, who distinguished himself in the guards, during most of the late arduous contests, and was severely wounded in Egypt,

On the 1st, at his house in Portland-place, the right honourable John Baker Holroyd, earl of Sheffield, in the 86th year of his age. His lordship was the second son of Isaac Holroyd, esq. of Penn, in the county of Bucks. He was born about the year 1735, and in 1760 served in the army under the marquis of Granby. He travelled at an early age through a great part of Europe, and while absent received a great accession to his fortune by the death of his brother. In 1767 he married Miss Way, and soon after became an ardent agriculturist at Sheffield-house in Sussex. In 1778 he accepted a commission in the Sussex militia, of which he afterwards obtained the command. In 1780 he was elected member of parliament for Coventry, after a most violent contest. When the petitions against the Roman catholics were brought up to the house of commons by lord George Gordon, colonel Holroyd, fearing the consequences, told him, "that if any of the mob. made an entrance into the house he would instantly inflict summary vengeance upon his lordship as the instigator." At this time he was created lord Sheffield, baron Dunmore, in the county of Meath, His commercial knowledge recommended him to the city of Bristol at the next general election, where he rendered himself popular by his determined opposition to the slave trade. In 1802 he was created an English peer, and in the upper house he

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displayed the same independency of spirit which had characterised him in the lower. His lordship was three times married. On the death of his first lady in 1793, he espoused lady Lucy Pelham, daughter of the earl of Chichester; and after her death he married lady Anne North, daughter of the late earl of Guildford, by whom he had issue a son born in 1802. Lord Sheffield was the most intimate friend of Gibbon the historian, whose memoirs and posthumous works he published in 3 vols. 4to. "The Dictionary of Living Authors" enumerates his lordship's literary performances as follow: "Observations on the Commerce of the American State, 1783. 6th edition, 1784." "Observations on the Manufactures, Trade, and present State of Ireland, 8vo. 1785; 3d edition, 1792."" Observations on the project for abolishing the Slave Trade, 8vo. 1789." Observations on the Corn Bill, &c. 8vo. 1791." "Substance of his Speech on the Subject of the Union with Ireland, 8vo. 1799.""Remarks on the Deficiency of Grain, occasioned by the bad Harvest of 1799, 8vo. 1800." "Observations on the objections made to the Exportation of Wool from Great Britain to Ireland, 8vo. 1800." "Strictures on the necessity of maintaining the Navigation and Colonial System of Great Britain, 8vo. 1804.' "The Orders in Council and the American Embargo beneficial to the Commercial and Political Interests of Great Britain, 8vo. 1809." "A Letter on the Corn Laws, and on the Means of obviating the Mischiefs and Distresses which are rapidly inceasing, 8vo. 1815." &c. &c.

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On the 9th at Whitby, York

shire, in the 43d year of his age, Thomas Bateman, M. D. late of Bloomsbury-square. The health of this excellent and lamented physician had long been in a declining state, and there had for some time been, unhappily, little prospect of any favourable result, either from the resources of art, or the assiduous and affectionate attentions of his family. The failure of his bodily powers did not, however, impair the vigour of his mind, and his wonted cheerfulness continued unabated to the last; his religious principles supporting him under the expectation and approach of death. In recording his regretted illness and decease, it is impossible not to advert to the loss which his personal connections, and society at large, have thereby sustained. In his private life he was most exemplary, and in the exercise of his profession upheld its dignity and usefulness, by independent feeling, integrity of conduct, active benevolence, and extensive learning. Dr. Bateman was, indeed, highly gifted for administering to the sick, being acute and accurate in his observation of disease, and prompt and judicious in the treatment of it. His contributions to the medical literature of his country have been no less various than important: whilst the zeal and ability, with which for many years he performed the arduous services of the public dispensary, as well as of the house of recovery or fever hospital, were highly beneficial to those institutions and to the community. Of him then may it be said, that though removed from life at an early

period, he has descended full of honour to the grave.

Dr. Bateman's works are "Delineations of the Cutaneous Diseases." "A Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous Diseases, according to the arrangement of Dr. Willan, exhibiting a concise View of the diagnostic Symptoms, and the Method of Treatment." "A succinct Account of the Typhus or Contagious Fever, of this Country, with the appropriate Method of Treatment, as practised in the House of Recovery, &c." "Reports on the Diseases of London, and the State of the Weather, from 1804 to 1816, including practical Remarks on the Causes and Treatment of the former."

July. At Thomas's Hotel, Berkley-square, Frances, the wife of sir Jenison William Gordon, bart. Catherine, youngest daughter of the right honourable Charles Bathurst.

Mrs. Smith, daughter of the late sir W. Bowyer, of Denham court, Beds.

At Durham, the right reverend Dr. Gibson, R. C. bishop of Acanthos.

At Beverley-lodge, Essex, L. R. Macintosh, esq.

At Bristol, after a few hours illness, in the 79th year of his age, the rev. Thomas Ford, L.L.D. known throughout England for his extraordinary attachment to church music, and a singular intimacy both with the secular and sacred works of Handel. In his last sermon, preached on the Sunday preceding that on which he died, after an allusion to the race of some of his hearers being almost run, he emphatically added, mine is!

Oliver Cromwell, esq. aged 79, at Cheshunt-park, Herts, a descendant of the Protector. At Calthorpe-house, Oxfordshire, T. Cobb, esq.

In Great Pulteney-street, Bath, the right honourable John Campbell, lord Cawdor, of Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire.

Miss Mills, of Ripley, York. shire, was given in marriage, by sir W. Ingilby, bart. high sheriff of the county, to Mr. Houseman. The same day she attended York races, and the dinner to celebrate the nuptial union was prepared for her and her numerous friends. Previously to this intended celebration, she drank a glass of cold water, retired from the festive circle, became convulsed in the night of Wednesday, and on Thursday evening died.

The right honourable John lord baron Clonmorris, at his seat, Newbrook, Ireland.

On the 9th, at his apartments at the London coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, July 19, (within the rules of the Fleet Prison,) in his 85th year, sir Watkin Lewes, knight. He was elected alderman of Lime-street Ward in 1772: and removed (as father of the city) to Bridge Ward Without in 1804, on the death of Mr. Harley. He served the office of sheriff of London and Middlesex in 1772, and of lord mayor in 1780-81. He was elected M. P. for the city of London in 1781 on the death of Mr. alderman Hayley, and again in 1790; but lost his election in 1796. Sir Watkin Lewes married a lady of large fortune; but in 1773 and 1774 he embroiled himself in expences in two elections for Worcester, which in

their consequences so involved him in law-suits, that he never recovered the possession of his estates.

August. In Fitzroy-square, aged 77, John Forbes, esq. of New, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, and formerly of Bombay.

In Portland-place, Charles Thomson, esq. one of the masters of the high court of chancery.

At Bookham-grove, Surrey, the honourable Catharine Dawnay, aged 53, daughter of the late viscount and viscountess Downe.

C. Hague, esq. M. D. professor of music in the university of Cambridge.

At Baytham-hall, Essex, Mrs. E. Burleigh, aged 91.

At his seat in Hampshire, aged 76, sir T. Champneys, bart.

Mrs. Vaughan, of Pentwynmawr-house, Monmouthshire.

At Leamington Hastings, Warwickshire, rev. sir C. Wheeler, bart. aged 91.

At Moldcap, Wales, captain J. Martin. He had served in the army sixty-nine years.

In Ireland-alderman Russel, at Limerick. Hon. Mrs. Stretton. Lieut.-col. Campbell. At Belmore Castle, T. Seymour, esq. At his seat, county of Meath, J. M. Granger, Esq.

At Collon, Rev. Dr. Beaufort. Dr. Beaufort was nearly 60 years, a beneficed and resident clergyman. His name is well known to the public, "by his Civil and Ecclesiastical Map of Ireland," and by the memoir which accompanied that map. Dr. Beaufort was one of those who first proposed a royal Irish Academy, and actively assisted iu the formation and in the regulation of that institution.

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To the establishment and improvement of the Sunday schools in Dublin he contributed essentially, by his personal exertions; and he was one of the original founders of the "Association for the encouragement of Virtue." When he was nearly 83, in the last year of his life, he was occupied in preparing, from a large mass of materials, an improved edition of the memoir accompanying his map.

At Paris, the duchess dowager of Orleans, in her 68th year-a lady of exemplary character.

Lately, C. A. S. Perrier, one of the first bankers in France, and a member of the legion of honour, He was born in 1776, at Grenoble, and was among the founders of the bank of France.

In France, on his return from Rome, the rev. Charles Plowden, provincial of the order of Jesuits at Stoney-hurst, Lancashire, in the 78th of his age. year

Lately, at Bombay, after a few hours illness, of the cholera morbus, Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Norris, esq. of that presidency.

At Brussels, the extra conventionalist Quirette. He was one of the four deputies who, with the minister at war, Bournonville, went on the 3d of April 1793, to the head-quarters of general Dumourier to arrest him; but were themselves arrested and delivered by Dumourier to the Austrian general Clairfait, and kept in prison in Germany two years and a half, until they were exchanged for the duchess of Angouleme in 1795.

Mr. John Ballantyne. He was born in the town of Kelso, Roxburghshire; was the son of re

spectable parents engaged in a mercantile line. He enjoyed the advantages of that sort of tuition which is, greatly to the benefit and honour of the country, so readily to be obtained in Scotland; we allude to the instruction which the grammar school, established in every parish, affords an opportunity of receiving at a very moderate charge; and which has not only been the foundation for higher attainments, but the sole system of study enjoyed by many a one who has reflected eminent credit on the literature of his native land. Here, perfectly informed in the useful branches of education which fit individuals for active pursuits, or well grounded in lan guages, whether of modern date for the intercourse of the world, or of antiquity for the labours of learning, the young Scot lays in those stores and acquires those habits which, in after years, are exhibited so conspicuously in the man of business or the scholar, In academic shades, or by private devotion, the polish and deeper intricacies of classic lore may be superadded; but in no part of the universe can so much solid and competent knowledge be gathered as in these admirable institutions, which are open to every class, and within the reach of all but the very poorest.

In his youth, the subject of this sketch displayed great readiness and facility, and sufficiently indicated that smartness of talent and ability which distinguished him at a riper age. While still a young man, his mind was turned to literary concerns by the establishment of a provincial newspaper,

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