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DEATHS.

7. At Somers Town, in his 75th year, lieutenant-colonel Robert Pratt, late of the 5th regiment of foot.

8. At his seat in Dorsetshire, after a long illness, the right hon. Nathaniel Bond, one of his majesty's privy council, and a Bencher of the Inner Temple. He was for many years one of the leading counsel on the Western Circuit, and M.P. for Corfe Castle. During lord Sidmouth's administration be had a seat at the Board of Treasury, and was subsequently appointed Judge Advocate of the army.

9. At Cheltenham, Mrs. Pares, of Hopwell-hall, in the county of Derby.

-At Walton, near Peterborough, aged 25, William King, jun. A.M. Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

12. Of an apoplectic fit, at the house of his brother, Dr. W. Wollaston, the rev. F. J. H. Wollaston, archdeacon of Essex, and vicar of South Weald, and rector of Cold Norton, in the same county.

13. At Harewood-house, Yorkshire, after an illness of only three days, the hon. Frederic Lascelles, fifth son of the earl and countess of Harewood; aged 20. His remains were interred in the family vault at Harewood, on the 15th.

Suddenly, at Windsor, in his 67th year, Samuel Wharton, esq. Clerk Comptroller of his majesty's kitchen.

At Bungay, Norfolk, major general

Kelso.

14. At Kensington, Mrs. Catherine Peyton, eldest daughter of the late admiral Peyton.

At Bath, W. Cade Key, esq. of Hampstead.

15. Aged 22, Eleanor Jane, wife of Captain Maitland, and daughter-in-law of general Maitland, after being suddenly seized with a spasmodic affection. She had been confined in child-bed about three weeks previously.

16. Lady Hamilton Dalrymple, wife of lieut.-gen. sir J. Hamilton Dalrymple, bart.

17. At Grey's-court, Henley-onThames, the seat of lady Stapleton, the hon. Mrs. Stapleton, wife of the hon. Thomas Stapleton, and daughter of Henry Bankes, esq. of Kingstonhall, in the county of Dorset.

18. Henry James Leigh, esq. of Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire. He was only son of lady Caroline Leigh, sister to James, last duke of Chandos; VOL. LXV.

and sat once in parliament for the city of Westminster. His estates descend to his son Chandos Leigh, esq.

-At his seat Ashridge-park, Herts, the right hon. John William Egerton, 7th earl of Bridgewater, This nobleman, who was the eldest son of the late Dr. John Egerton, bishop of Durham, and grandson of the hon. Henry Egerton, bishop of Hereford, succeeded his cousin, Francis, third duke of Bridgewater in 1803. He has munificently bequeathed 6,0007. per annum for ever, for the employment and improvement of the poor of the parish of Ashridge. His chief estates are left to his countess, deducting 18,000l. per annum for his brother the hon. and rev. Francis Egerton, the present earl, after whose decease and that of the countess, they devolve on the hon. Mr. Cust, eldest son of lord Brownlow.

- At Hastings, in his 81st year, the rev. Edmund Cartwright, D.D. F.R.S.of Hollenden-House, Kent, Prebendary of Lincoln, &c.

19. At Sandgate, Frances Leigh, relict of the late general Leigh, and daughter of the late hon. admiral Byron.

Lately, at Willesley-hall, Derbyshire, general sir Charles Hastings, bart. lieutenant-colonel of the 12th regiment of foot.

At St. Petersburgh, M. Steibelt, the celebrated composer.

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10. At Brighton, aged 81, Wm. Mitchell, esq. of Upper Harley-street.

11. After an illness of 24 hours, the rev. Benjamin Wainewright, M.A. of East Bergholt, Suffolk.

He

At his house in Great Ormondstreet, aged 71, sir Richard Richards, Lord Chief Baron. His lordship had been suffering from spasmodic attacks for a considerable period, and was so seriously indisposed during the last Circuit, that on one occasion he was compelled to leave the Court. had long enjoyed the friendship and confidence of the lord Chancellor, for whom on several occasions he presided, under special commissions, as Speaker of the House of Lords. He was appointed on the 4th of May 1813 Chief Justice of Chester; one of the barons of the Exchequer, in 1814; and in April 1817, on the death of sir A. Thompson, sir R. Richards succeeded him in that high office.

12 At Brighton, Elizabeth Helena, only child of the late hon. John Perceval.

13. At Clifton, lady Sullivan, relict of sir B. Sullivan.

- In Hatton-garden, in his 68th year, Mr. Charles Taylor, author of the improved edition of Calmet's History of the Bible, and editor of Dr. Wells' Scripture Geography, and other works on the subject of Biblical Literature.

14. George Augustus Bouverie, esq. Auditor of the Excise.

15. In Beaumont-street, aged 78, the right hon. the earl of Portmore.

16. At Smeaton, lady Buchan Hepburn, relict of sir George Buchan Hepburn, one of the Barous of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland.

17. At Port Elliot, the right hon. John Craggs Elliot, earl of St. Germains. His lordship succeeded his father in 1804; he was twice married, but not having any issue, the title devolves upon his brother, the hon. Wm. Elliot.

21. At Blackwell, near Darlington, in the county of Durham, in his 75th year, captain Ralph Milbanke, R.N. first cousin to sir Ralph Noel, late Milbanke.

22. In Old Palace-yard, in her 63rd year, Frances, wife of Henry Bankes, esq. M.P. of Corfe-castle.

24. At Hoddesdon, Herts, aged 77, Wm. Hodgson, esq. F.R.S.

27. At his house, in Brunswick.

square, aged 83, Harden Burnley, esq. father-in-law of Joseph Hume, esq. M.P.

28. At his seat, Picton-castle, after a long illness, in his 85th year, the right hon. Richard Phillips, lord Milford, lord lieutenant for Pembrokeshire, and late member for that county. His lordship was a lineal descendant from sir John Picton, the second baronet of the family, who garrisoned the castle of Picton for Charles 1st in 1647; he was raised to the Irish peerage, in 1776, by the title of baron Milford, which is now extinct, his lordship having died with out issue.

30. At Chiswick, at lieut.-colonel Cavendish's, Villiers Frederick Francis, youngest son of the hon. Henry Howard, aged 8 years.

Lately, at Edinburgh, David Robert

son, esq.

At his seat at Candie, in his 73rd year, Matthew Ross, dean of the faculty of advocates in Scotland.

At Dundee, in her 21st year, Anne, eldest daughter of the rev. H. Horsley, and grand-daughter of the late lord bishop of St. Asaph.

At Almondale, near Edinburgh, in his 76th year, Thomas lord Erskine, of an inflammation of the chest.

At Carderan, near Bourdeaux, lady Sophia Pierrepoint, wife of the right hou Henry Pierrepoint.

At the Hague, the right hon. Reinard Deiderick Jacob baron de Reede Ginckell, count of the Holy Roman Empire, lord of Ameronger Ginckell, Elst, and Livendael, earl of Athlone, viscount Aughrim, baron of Ballemore, and late a colonel in the army. He is succeeded in his estates by his only son George Godart Henry lord Augh

rim.

At Jersey, in his 43rd year, J. Dumaresque, esq. his majesty's attor ney-general, and colonel of the first regiment of Militia of that island. His death was occasioned by an attack of apoplexy, while in the Assembly of the States.

At Borden Town, New Jersey, in his 49th year, general Lallemand, of a disease in the stomach, under which he had laboured for some time. He was a general of Artillery under Napoleon, and member of the Chamber of Peers.

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2. In consequence of a wound received

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the preceding day, while shooting in his plantations, by his gun going off as he was getting through a hedge, and lodging its contents in his right side,Robert Viner, esq. of Eathorp.

3. In his 9th year, the hon John Russell Keppel, youngest son of the earl of Albemarle.

At Gato, G. Belzoni, the celebrated traveller. He was buried the next day, and the following inscription was placed upon his tomb: "Here lie the remains of G. Belzoni, who was attacked with dysentery at Benin (on his way to Houssa and Timbuctoo) November 26, and died at this place December 3, 1823." At the time of his death every thing was arranged with the king of Benin for his departure; and there is no doubt he would have succeeded. He passed with the king and nobles for a native of the interior, who had been in England since his youth, and was then returning home; and wore a Moorish dress, and a beard a foot long. The distance from Benin to Houssa is about 25 days' journey. His guard was to have left him at the latter place, whence he was to have proceeded to Timbuctoo by himself.

4. Aged 32, Eliza, relict of general Keith Macalister, late of Wimpolestreet, Cavendish-square, and of Toresdale-castle, Argyleshire.

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- In Brook-street, aged 63, sir Eyre Coote, bart. of West-park, in the county of Hants.

In Upper Grosvenor-street, lady Wake, relict of sir Wm. Wake, bart. of Courtean-hall, Northamptonshire.

12. Aged 21, Martha Caroline, daughter of Arthur Daniel Stone, M.D.

Aged 53, Robert Dormer, esq. son of the late James Dormer, esq.

13. Aged 49, the rev. D. F. Pryce, D.D. of Bradfield rectory, in the county of Essex.

14. Eliza, wife of major Lane, of the royal artillery.

16. At Colchester, aged 32, William,

second son of the rev. Dr. Moore.

28. Aged 70, S. Pell, esq. of Sywellball, in the county of Northampton. 30. At Torquay, Devonshire, Sarah, countess of Kilcoursie.

At Myerscough-hall, Lancashire, in his 58th year, Edw. Greenhalgh, esq. 31. At Walthamstow, Thomas Courtenay Warner, esq. Treasurer of St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

At his seat in Cornwall, sir A. P. Molesworth, bart.

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