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Greenland South Sea fisheries; and, when his wealth had considerably accumulated, he engaged in the banking-house, formerly known under the firm of Robarts, Curtis, Were, Hornyhold, Berwick, and Co., and latterly as Curtis, Robarts, and Curtis. Mr. Curtis served sheriff with sir Benjamin Hamett, in the year 178990; and, a dissolution of parliament occurring in 1790, he was a successful candidate for the City, and came in at the head of the poll. He was re-elected in 1796, 1802, 1806, 1807, 1812, and 1820. Mr. Curtis attained the civic chair in the year 1795, and was raised to a baronetcy December 23, 1802. He kept a yacht at Ramsgate, in which he was accustomed to accompany the favour ite cruizes of his present majesty; and his attentions were graciously accepted. On his way to Hanover in 1821, the king embarked at Ramsgate, and honoured sir William's own roof with his presence, both dining and sleeping in the house. In the following year the baronet attended on his royal master in Scotland.

20. At Cheltenham, aged 49, lieut.col. Kingston Egan, of the hon. East India company's service, and late commandant at South Concan in the presidency of Bombay. He entered the military profession as cornet in his majesty's 21st light dragoons, Dec. 14, 1796; at the age of fifteen he was nominated a cadet on the Bombay establishment; and, after long service in India, he was in 1804, appointed fort-adjutant at Surat, and in the same and early part of the following year, employed in escorting supplies of provisions and military stores from that port, to the army in the field in Candeish. He was promoted to a captaincy March 13, 1808. In 1817 he was appointed to the command of Anjur in Cutch. He was promoted to the rank of major, Nov. 1, in that year; obtained the command of the marine battalion; and attained the rank of lieut.-colonel, July 4, 1821.

21. In Park-place, St. James's, aged 46, Thos. Rose, esq.

22. In Mornington-place, aged 80, Mrs. Bland.

23. Suddenly, at his residence in Hampton, aged 68, the right rev. Robt. Stanser, D.D. late bishop of Nova Scotia. He was of St. John's college, Cambridge, LL.B. 1789; and, after nearly thirty years of laborious service as a missionary from the society for the Propagation of the Gospel, in the pro

vince of Nova Scotia, North America, was consecrated in the year 1816 bishop of that province, at the urgent and unanimous desire of the whole community.

24. At Southampton, aged 71, Eliza dowager lady Tichborne. She was a daughter of Edmund Plowden, of Plowden in Shropshire, esq., was married to sir Henry Tichborne, the sixth and late bart. of Tichborne in Hampshire, in 1777, and had issue sir Joseph, the present bart,, six other sons, and three daughters.

25. In Spring-street, Portman-square, aged 91, Michael James Heber, esq. a native of Brussels.

26. At Clontarf, county of Dublin, aged 100, the rev. John Usher, D.D. He became rector of that parish in the year 1762, on the resignation of his uncle the rev. John Usher, who had received it in like manner from his father. These three successive incumbencies comprised a period of one hundred and fifty-two years up to 1811; the year in which the deceased resigned it to the present incumbent.

27. In York-buildings, Baker-street, aged 54, James Shortt, esq. formerly lieut.-col. of the 10th foot.

At Oxford, the widow of John Oglander, D.D. warden of New College, and uncle to sir William Oglander, the present and sixth bart. of Nunwell in the Isle of Wight.

In his 86th year, capt. Murdoch Mackenzie, R.N. of Minehead.

At Merksworth, Renfrewshire, aged 32, Jane, lady of sir Paul Baghott, knight, and only daughter of W. Maxwell, esq. of Bredaland and Merksworth. Chas. Wyndham Campbell, second son of John Campbell, esq. of Blunhainhouse.

28. At Ewell-grove, Elizabeth, widow of the late sir Thomas Reid, bart.

Aged 80, William Shield, esq. master of his majesty's musicians in ordinary. This eminent composer was a native of the county of Durham, and was originally apprenticed to a During his apprenticeboat-builder. ship, he led the Newcastle subscription concerts. Afterwards he was occasional leader of the concerts at Scarborough, till he was invited to fill a place in the orchestra at the Italian Opera, This may be considered as the commencement of his professional career, and of a series of numerous engagements. In the summer of 1791, he accompanied

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his extraordinary countryman Ritson to Paris; whence he proceeded to Italy. He returned to London in 1792. Soon after this period he published his well known "Introduction to Harmony." At the death of sir William Parsons, in 1817, his majesty appointed him master of his musicians in ordinary. His dramatic compositions were very numerous, and eminently successful, among which were-Rosina, The Poor Soldier, The Farmer, The Flitch of Bacon, Hartford Bridge, The Woodman, The Travellers in Switzerland, Robin Hood, Abroad and at Home, Fontainbleau, Lock and Key, Netley Abbey, Two Faces under a Hood, &c. He also composed some excellent songs, particularly The Thorn, O bring me Wine, The Wolf, By the deep Nine, The Post Captain, Old Towler, Tom Moody, The Prince and Old England, and a most erudite Treatise on Harmony.

29. At Bath, aged 84, John Dickson, esq. a lieut.-general in the service of the East India company; great uncle to sir William Dickson, bart.

At Petworth, where he had for many years resided, aged 74, Richard Willis, esq. rear-admiral in the royal

navy.

He was appointed post-captain in 1790, and rear-admiral 1808.

30. In Upper Wimpole-street aged 43, the right hon. lady Amelia Sophia Boyce, sister to the duke of Marlborough. She was the youngest daughter of George the late and third duke, K.G. by lady Caroline Russell, only daughter of John fourth duke of Bedford, K.G. and was married September 22, 1815, to Henry Pytches Boyce, esq.

At the royal military college, Sandhurst, Olivia Baldwin, sister to sir Walter Barry, bart. She was the only daughter of sir Nathaniel Barry, M.D. the second bart. by Catherine, daughter of Walter Jones, esq. of Headfort, county of Leitrim.

31. At Pyrland-hall, aged 71, the relict of William Walter Yea, esq. mother of the present and second bart.

Lately. In St. James's-square, aged 57, the right hon. Emily-Anne marchioness dowager of Londonderry. She was the youngest daughter and co-heiress of John second earl of Buckinghamshire, and was married to Robert, late marquis of Londonderry, K.G. Jan. 9, 1794.

At Bath, aged 78, Katharine dowager lady Waller. She was daughter of the rev. Charles Moore; was married to the

right hon. sir Robert Waller, bart.; first commissioner of his majesty's revenue in Ireland, and M.P. for Dundalk.

At Taunton, the widow of rear-adm. Dundas, and sister to the right hon. lady Harris.

At Port-Glasgow, lieut. John Carmichael, late colonial secretary at Prince Edward's Island.

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1. Aged 73, John Frewen Turner, of Cold Overton in the county of Leicester, esq.

Aged 84, Robert Kilbye Cox, esq. of Weymouth-street, Portland-place. In George-street Portman-square, Elizabeth, widow of lieut.-col. Wilson, of the Tower Hamlets.

3. At Lincoln, aged 80, Charlotte dowager lady Nelthorpe. She was dau. of Andrew Willoughby, esq.; was married to sir John the sixth and late baronet, in 1772; and had issue sir Henry, the present baronet; two other sons and two daughters. Sir John died in 1799.

Of a decline, aged 25, the hon. Mrs. Langham. She was MargaretEmma, eldest child of George second and present lord Kenyon, by MargaretEmma, only daughter of the late sir Thomas Hanmer, bart. (by Margaret eldest daughter and co-heiress of George Kenyon, esq.); and was married, only on the 18th of last June, to James-Hay Langham, esq. the eldest son of sir James Langham, bart.

At Newnton Priory, aged 80, the hon. Jane Estcourt, relict of Thomas Estcourt, esq. of Estcourt, Gloucester; aunt to the earl of Verulam ; and eldest daughter of James second viscount Grimston.

4. At Rome, Charlotte, wife of lieut.general F. W. Buliver, of Pelynt, and Lanreath, Cornwall.

5. At Whitby, aged 61, Mr. John Bird, artist.

6. At his house in Pall Mall, aged 82, sir Mark Wood, of Gatton-park in Surrey bart. F.R.S. Sir Mark was the eldest son of Alexander Wood, esq. of Perth, descended from the Woods of Largo, to the honours and estates of whom sir Mark succeeded on the death of John Wood, esq., who had been governor and captain-general of the Isle of Man. Sir Mark went to India with his brother the late sir George Wood, K.C.B., who attained the rank of major-general in

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the East India company's service, and died in 1824. Sir Mark entered in 1770 into the company's corps of engineers on the Bengal establishment; was made a captain in 1778; major and surveyorgeneral in 1787; and, in the latter year, obtained the highly lucrative appointment of chief engineer at Bengal. He first entered parliament in 1794, for Milborne Port. Sir Mark was the author of "A Review of the Origin, Progress, and Result of the late War with Tippoo Sultaun. 1800." 4to; also of "The Importance of Malta considered; with Remarks during a Journey from England, through Egypt, to India, in 1779," published in 4to, 1803. He was created a baronet, October 3rd, 1808.

7. In his 41st year, C. R. Alderson, M.D. physician to the Hull General Infirmary, and Public Dispensary.

At Harefield, lieut.-gen. Henry Parker Lawrence, of the Bombay establishment.

9. At Brussels, after a month's suffering, in consequence of her clothes having taken fire, the wife of sir John Rousselet Whitefoord.

In Queen-square, Bloomsbury, aged 83, the rev. William Crowe, B.C.L. public orator of the University of Oxford, and rector of Alton Barnes, in Wiltshire. Mr. Crowe was a native of Winchester; his parents were persons in a humble rank; and, at an early age, he became one of the choristers in the College Chapel. In that situation his promising talents attracted notice, and he was placed on the foundation of the school. Having made considerable proficiency in classical studies, he was, at the usual period, removed to a fellowship at New College, Oxford, where he took the degree of B.C.L. in 1773; and was appointed to a tutorship. In 1781 he published a sermon, preached before the university, on Exodus xii. 24; and, in 1782, he was presented by his college to the rectory of Alton Barnes. In 1784 he was elected public orator, on the resignation of the rev. James Bandinel, D.D. On the many occasions when his talents were called forth in this situation, his orations, pregnant with classical spirit, gave full evidence of his attainments as a scholar. In 1786 Mr. Crowe published the poem of Lewes don Hill, which met with distinguished success. As a piece of local descriptive poetry, it must be ranked among the happiest efforts of the kind.

This work reached a third edition in 1804. In 1788 Mr. Crowe published the Creweian oration he had that year delivered, its topic being the Centenary of the Revolution: and in 1800 another, of which the subject is Poetry. In the notes to the latter he inserted a beautiful translation of the well-known passage in Lucretius, lib. i. ver. 67, &c. In conjunction with Thomas Caldecott, esq. of the Inner Temple, his friend and contemporary at New College, Mr. Crowe projected an edition of Shakspeare. They published Hamlet and As you like It, in 8vo., 1819, as a specimen of their labours. Mr. Crowe devoted a considerable portion of his leisure to the study of architecture, and occasionally read lectures on that subject in the University. His last publications were, a collection of his Poems, and a Treatise on English Versification, both of which appeared in 1827. In the dedication of the latter to Mr. Caldecott, he acknowledges the material assistance derived from him in the completion of the work. Mr. Crowe continued until a very late period to deliver the Creweian oration, alternately with the professor of poetry, at the commemoration festivals; and his remarkable appearance in the ros trum, united to the powerful enunciation of his periods, imparted a striking interest to the performance.

10. At Rome, aged 68, his holiness Pope Leo the Twelfth. Annibal della Genga was born August 2, 1760, at the castle of Genga, the property of his family, situated between Urbino and the March of Ancona. He entered the church very early, and soon obtained considerable preferment. About the period of the first invasion of Italy by the French, he was sent as nuncio to the court of Bavaria and the states of a second rank in Germany, which office he filled for fourteen years. In 1807 he was sent by the Pope to Paris, on a mission to Napoleon, and, on his return to Rome, he was obliged, when the French took possession of that city, to remove with the other prelates who were not natives of the Roman States. In 1814 he was again sent to France to compliment Louis XVIII. and was afflicted at Paris with a long illness. In 1816 he was elevated to the dignity of cardinal; and, on the death of Pope Pius the seventh, in 1823, he was elected to the papal chair.

10. At Southampton, aged 17, Mary.

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Alicia, second daughter of the late capt. Wm. Baird, eldest son of sir Jas. Baird, bart. of Slaughton-hall, Mid-Lothian.

11. At his residence, St. John's Row, Shrewsbury, aged 75, Jonathan Scott, LL.D. He was the third son of Mr. Jonathan Scott, of Shrewsbury, by Mary, daughter of Humphrey Sandford, esq. of the Isle near that town. Dr. Scott received the rudiments of his education at the Royal Free Grammar School in his native town, which he left for India at the early age of twelve. He continued to reside in that country for many years, during which he proceeded diligently to study its languages and history; and became a captain in the East India Company's service. His rising abilities and meritorious conduct soon gained him the patronage of Warren Hastings, esq. then Governor-general of Bengal, &c. to whom, from his excellent knowledge of the Persian language, he was appointed Persian Secretary, and elected a member of the Asiatic Society of Calcutta. On his return to England, he was not allowed to remain inactive, but received the appointment ofOriental Professor at the Royal Military and East India Colleges. The University of Oxford conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, June 26, 1805.

He published the following works: -In 1786, "A Translation of the Memoirs of Eradut Khan, a nobleman of Hindoostan. In 1794, "A Translation of Ferishta's History of the Dekkan, from the first Mahummedan Conquests, with a continuation from other native writers of the events in that part of India, to the reduction of its last monarchs by the Emperor Aulumgeer Aurungzebe. Also the reigns of his successors in the Empire of Hindoostan to the period of publication. With the History of Bengal from the Accession of Aliverdee Khan to the year 1780," 2 vols. 4to, pp. 411, 461. In 1798. an " Historical and Political view of the Decan, including a sketch of the extent and revenue of the Mysorean Dominions, as possessed by Tippoo Sul taun at the commencement of the war in 1798." Svo. pp. 56. In 1799, “Bahar Danush, or Garden of Knowledge. an Oriental Romance translated from the Persic of Eiwaint Oollah." 3 vols. 8vo. In 1800, "Tales, Anecdotes, and Letters, from the Arabic and Persian." Svo pp. 446. In 1811 he published,

in six volumes, "The Arabian Nights' Entertainments," carefully revised and corrected from the Arabic; to which he added a selection of new tales, then first translated from the Arabic originals. To these he prefixed a copious introduction, interspersed also by many valuable notes illustrative of the religion, manners, and customs of the Mahummedans.

Dr. Scott had four brothers, three of whom entered early in the honourable East India Company's service. John the eldest attained the rank of major, and interested himself much in the celebrated trial of Warren Hastings, esq.; on succeeding to some extensive estates, he took the name of Waring, and died in 1819. Richard entered the service as a cadet in 1768, was promoted to the rank of lieut.-col. and retired on full pay 1797. In the course of his services he distinguished himself under lieutenant-general sir Eyre Coote, K.B., in the war with Hyder Ali Khan, and under the marquis Cornwallis in the war with Tippoo Sultaun. Henry Scott, esq. of Beslow Hall, co. Salop, the only survivor of the brothers, and who also held a distinguished situation in the Bengal establishment, proposed about three years ago to publish the military memoirs of lieut.-col. Rich. Scott, from the journal which that gentleman kept from his arrival in Bengal to the year 1793, and the mass of manuscripts he left; this proposition, not meeting with sufficient encouragement, was relinquished. The younger son, Foliott, was a mercer in London.

15. In Regent-street, sir Philip Keating Roche, knt. C.B. K.C.H. C.S. and F. colonel in the British service, and formerly lieut.-gen. in that of Spain.

Aged 50, H. Blaydes, esq. of High Paull, near Hedon. He was an acting magistrate for Nottinghamshire, for which county he served the office of high sheriff during the disturbances of the Luddites in the year 1812, and was formerly major in the third West York militia.

16. At Passey, having a month before completed his 96th year, François Joseph Gossec, a celebrated French composer. He was born June 17, 1733, at Vergniers, a village in Hainault. At the age of seven he was sent to Antwerp, where he remained eight years as singing-boy in the cathedral. In 1751 he settled in Paris, where he engaged with M. de la Popliniere, whose

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orchestra he conducted under the direction of Rameau. Subsequently he was attached to the suite of the prince de Condé, as leader of his band, for which he composed several operas. In 1770, he founded the Concert of Amateurs, where the chevalier de St. George was first violin; in 1773, he took the management of the concerts of sacred music; and, in 1784, he was appointed superintendent, or principal professor, of the royal school of singing and declamation, founded at the Ménus Plaisirs by M. le Baron Breteuil. At the commencement of the French Revolution, he accepted the situation of master of the band of the national guard; and many of Chenier's hymns to liberty, symphonies, &c. were composed by him, for wind instruments, and performed at all the public festivals. In 1795, when a law was passed by the National Convention for establishing a conservatory of music in Paris, be was chosen, conjointly with Messrs. Mehul and Cherubini, inspector of instruction and professor of composition to the institution; his chief pupil, Catel, being at the same time appointed professor of harmony. During the heat of the Revolution, Gossec composed two operas, which were eminently successful," The Retaking of Toulon," and "The Camp of Grandpré." The composition of the "Marseillois Hymn," which was introduced with superb effect in the latter, has been generally, attributed to Gossec; but, in fact, Rouget de Lisle was the author of the air, which Gossec arranged, with accompaniments, for a full orchestral chorus. Gossec composed the music for the Apotheoses of Voltaire and Jean Jaques Rousseau, for the funeral of Mirabeau, and for the funeral hymn in honour of the French ministers who were assassinated at Rastadt. He was the author of "The Elementary Principles of Music," published by the Conservatory, in two vols. folio; and of numerous solfeggi, which are inserted in the book of instruction for singing used in that establishment. His pupils have generally obtained the great prizes at the Conservatory. Gossec's music is light, pleasing, and spirited; occasionally evincing fire, and even grandeur. He had never enjoyed the advantage of a regular course of instruction; nor had he even been able to make a journey to Italy; yet he was intimately conversant with the style of the Italian and

also of the German masters. To a very advanced age he retained in his conversation, and occasionally in his compositions, all the spirit and vivacity of youth. At 81, he continued to lecture on composition at the Conservatory; and, at 90, he frequently used to spend a part of his evenings at the theatre Feydeau.

18. At Florence, aged 60, sir Grenville Temple, ninth baronet of Stowe in Buckinghamshire. This male heir of a family, of which the representative through the female line is now duke of Buckingham, was the eldest son of sir John Temple,the eighth baronet, consulgeneral to the United States of America. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy, in Nov. 1798.

At Dalston, aged 74, Mr. Benj. Flower, formerly editor of the Cambridge Intelligencer.

21. At Brompton, aged 80, Dudley Long North, esq. formerly M.P. for the boroughs of Banbury and Richmond.

At Sidmouth, lieut.-colonel Neil Cockburn, late of the 4th veteran battalion.

27. At Edinburgh, aged 75, the rt. hon. Mary, dowager lady Seaforth.

Lately. In his chambers, Raymondbuildings, Gray's-Inn, George Henley, esq. third surviving son of Henry Hoste Henley, esq. of Leigh-house, Somersetshire.

At Beckenham, Kent, Richard Lea, esq. late of the Old Jewry, and formerly alderman of Coleman-street Ward. He was elected to the office in 1803, and resigned it in 1808, without serving sheriff or lord mayor.

In Beaufort-row, Chelsea, William Stevenson, esq. author of the "Historical Sketch of the Progress of the Discovery of Navigation and Commerce."

At Prades, in the department of the Eastern Pyrenees, aged nearly 114, a woman named Anne Bennett.

At Paris, the countess de Bruce, who claimed to be a descendant of Robert and David Bruce, kings of Scotland.

Aged 40, the princess Carignan, widow of the late prince Carignan, maréchal de camp. Whilst reading by her own fire-side, her clothes caught fire, and she was burnt to death.

In his 82nd year, the Danish viceadm. Olfert Fischer, who distinguished himself in the battle of Copenhagen with lord Nelson in 1801.

M. Oelsner, counsellor of the Prussian legation at Paris, and author of several highly-esteemed works.

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