July 12. In his 85th year, the Right Hon. William Howe, fifth Viscount Howe, Baron of Clenawly, Knight of the Bath, one of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, a General in the Army, Colonel of the 19th regiment of dragoons, and Governor of Plymouth. The Viscount was born August 10, 1729; succeeded his brother, Richard, Earl Howe, in his Irish honours August 5, 1799, when the English Earldom of Howe became extinct; mar ried Frances, daughter of the Right Hon. William Conolly, of Castletown, co. Kildare, Ireland, by the Lady Anne Wentworth, eldest daughter of William third Earl of Strafford, by whom he had no issue: the titles of Viscount Howe and Baron of Clenawly consequently become extinct, being the fifteenth peerage of Ireland which has failed since the Union in January 1801, for want of male heirs. The title of Howe being the third peerage extinct since the creation of Lord Decies, the Crown would have been entitled to create a new Peer of Ireland, but for the late acknowledgement by the House of Lords of the title of Viscount Barnewall of Kingsland, claimed by Mathew Barnewall, esq. By the Act of Union it is stipulated that where a title supposed to be extinct or dormant was claimed and allowed, his Majesty, on the next vacancy immediately following, should not be empowered to make a new creation. William Viscount Howe, was the third son of Emanuel Scrope, Viscount Howe (by Mary-Sophia-Charlotte, eldest daughter of the Baron Kielmausegge, master of the horse to the Elector of Hanover, by Sophia-Charlotte Platen, Countess of DarJington in her own right). He received his education at Eton; but, being designed for a military life, left that seminary very early, and was soon presented with his first commission by the Duke of Cumberland, who gave him a cornetcy in his own regiment of light dragoons. Having passed through the several gradations of the service, he was advanced to the rank of Colonel in the year 1762, and in the year 1764 was appointed to the command of the 46th regiment of infantry. He had served during the Seven Years War in America under the command of General Wolfe, whose esteem and confidence he enjoyed for many years in their fullest extent, and bore a very distinguished share in that victory, on the plains of Quebec, in which his friend and commander lost his life. In the year 1772 he was made Major general; in 1775 he was honoured with the commission of Commander-inchief in America, and was made Colonel of the 23d regt. of foot, or Welch fusileers. In 1777 he became Lieut.-general, and, his services were further rewarded by being invested with the order of the Bath. In 1782 he succeeded the late Lord Am

herst as Lieut.-general of the Ordnance; and was appointed in 1786 Colonel of the 19th regt. of dragoons. He in the year 1804 resigned his situation in the Ordnance, on finding himself, through deciining health, unable to perform to his own satisfaction the duties of that important office. He was removed in 1805 from the Government of Berwick (to which he had been appointed in 1795) to that of Plymouth, in which he continued to his death, which, after a long and most severe illness, attended often with the most excruciating pain, sustained by him with all that firmness and magnanimity which had distinguished him during the whole course of his life, took place on the 12th July, 1814.

July 19. Capt. Matthew Flinders, R. N. a native of Donnington, co. Lincoln, whose, unrivalled excellence as a Discoverer will, make his death an object of regret to the scientific of all nations. In his profes sional services he had four times circumnavigated the Globe; and his loss must be long and deeply lamented by all who had the happiness of his acquaintance. His fate has been as hard as it has been event ful. Under the direction of the Admiralty, he sailed in 1801 on a voyage of discovery to Terra Australis; where, after successfully prosecuting the purposes of his voy. age, he had the misfortune to run upon a, coral rock, and lose his ship: out of the wreck he constructed a small vessel, that carried him to Mauritius, where, shocking to relate, instead of being received with, kindness, as is the practice of civilized na tions to nautical discoverers, he was put in prison by the governor De Caen, and confined for six years and a half,which brought upon him maladies that have hastened his death. Fortunately for mankind and his own fame, he survived to finish the printing of the account of his voyage.

Part I. 421. The late Dr. Burney was in 1749 elected organist of St. Dionis BackChurch, Fenchurch-street, with an annual, salary of only thirty pounds; and in the course of the same year was engaged to take the organ-part at the new concert established at the King's Arms, Cornhill, instead of that which had been held at the Swan Tavern, burnt down the year before., Being in an ill state of health, which, in the opinion of his physicians, indicated a consumption, he was prevailed upon to retire into the country. Accordingly he went to Lynn Regis, in Norfolk, where he was chosen organist, with a salary of one hundred pounds a-year. He continued there nine years, and at that period formed the design of compiling his General History of Music. In 1760, his health being re-established, he gladly returned to the Metropolis, with a large and young family, and entered upon the pursuits of his pro fession with an increase of profit and repu

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tation. His eldest daughter, who was then about eight years old, obtained great notice in the musical world by her astonishing performances on the harpsichord. Soon after his arrival in London, he composed several much-admired concertos; and in 1766 he brought out at Drury-Jane Theatre a translation of Rousseau's Devin du Village, already noticed, which he had executed during his residence at Lynn. It had, however, no great success. In 1761 he had the honorary degree of Doctor of Music conferred upon him by the University of Oxford; on which occasion he performed an exercise in the musical school of that University. This exercise, consisting of an anthem of great length, with an overture, airs, recitatives, and choruses, was several times afterwards performed at the Oxford music-meetings, under the direction of the famous Emanuel Bach. the year following he travelled through France and Italy, as well with a view to improvement, as to collect materials for his intended History of Music, an object which he never had out of his mind from the time he first conceived the plan of such a work. In 1771 he published his "Musical Tour, or Present State of Music in France and Italy;" a work which was well received by the public, and deemed so good a model for travellers, that Dr. Johnson professedly adopted it in his account of the Hebrides. Speaking of his own book; "I had," said the Doctor, "that clever dog Burney's Musical Tour in my eye." In 1772 he travelled through the Netherlands, Germany, aud Holland, and in the course of the next year he published an account of his journey in two volumes octavo. In the same year he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1776 appeared the first volume, in quarto, of his "General History of Music." The remaining volumes of this elaborate and intelligent work were published at irregular periods; and the four, of which it now consists, were not completed till the year 1789. In 1779, at the desire of Sir John Pringle, Dr. Burney drew up for the Philosophical Transactions, "An Account of Little Crotch, the Infant Musician," now Professor of Music in the University of Oxford. The grand musical festival, in 1785, in commemoration of Handel, held in Westminster Abbey, was considered as deserving of a particular memoir; the Historian of Music was therefore fixed upon as the most proper person to draw it up. Accordingly, in the same year, a splendid volume was published by Dr. Burney, in quarto, for the benefit of the Musical Fund. In this work the Doctor displayed eminent talents as a Biographer; and the life of Handel is one of the best memoirs to be found in our language. In 1796 he published the "Life of Metastasio," in

three volumes, octavo; but this perform. ance wants that arrangement and judicious selection which characterize his former publications. Besides these productions, Dr. Burney wrote "An Essay towards the History of Comets," "A Plan of a Public Music School," &c. &c. His Musical Works, in addition to those already men. tioned, are: Sonatas for two Violins and a Bass, two parts. Six Cornet Pieces, with an introduction and Fugue for the Organ. A Cantata and Songs. Six Duets for two German Flutes. Six Concertos, for Violins, &c. in eight parts. Two Sonatas for a Piano Forte, Violin, and Violoncello, two parts. Six Harpsichord Lessons, &c. &c. Dr. Burney was twice married, and has had eight children, of whom several have manifested very superior abilities. His eldest daughter was celebrated for her extraordinary musical powers. Madame D'Arblay, the author of Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla, and The Wanderer, is the second. His eldest son, James, sailed round the World with Capt. Cook; and afterwards commanded the Bristol, of 50 guns, in the East-Indies: he has published some judicious tracts on the best means of defending our Island against an invading enemy; and has commenced a History of Voyages of Discovery. The second son is the very learned Charles Burney, LL. D. His youngest daughter is pursuing the career of her sister as a novelist. For many years Doctor Burney resided in the house in St. Martin's-street, eicester-fields, which was formerly occupied by Sir Isaac Newton; but during the last twenty-five, having been appointed organist of Chelsea-hospital, he inhabited an elegant suite of apartments in that college, and enjoyed a handsome independency. His remains were deposited in the burying-ground belonging to Chelsea College; and the funeral was numerously attended, by the governor, deputy-governor, and chief officers of the College, and by the family and friends of this accomplished and excellent man. The procession moved from the apartments of the deceased, in the College, at one o'clock; the pali was borne by the Hon. F. North, Sir G. Beaumont, Dr. Moseley, Mr. Townsend, Mr. Rogers the Poet, and Mr. Salomon: amongst the fol-` lowers were, Captain Burney, Dr. C. Bur ney, Mr. M. Burney, Mr. D'Arblay, Rev. C. P. Burney, Messrs. E. Burney, C. Ra, per, Barrett, Sir D. Dundas, Colonel Mat thews, Dr. W. Moseley, Captain Nunn, Messrs. North, Payne, Ayrton, M. Raper,. &c. &c. His "Miscellaneous Library", was sold by Leigh and Sotheby, June 9, 1814, and on eight succeeding days.

Of Mr. James Burney (the elder halfbrother of the late highly respectable: Doctor) see our vol. LXXX. ii. 552, A third brother is there also noticed.