He subsequently commanded the Royal Charlotte yacht. He was made a RearAdmiral July 22, 1830, and Vice- Admiral July 1, 1840.

Sir Jableel Brenton was twice married. He married first, April 19, 1802, Isabella, daughter of Anthony Stewart, esq. of Maryland-she died at the Cape of Good Hope, July 29, 1817; and secondly, Oct. 9, 1822, his cousin Harriett, youngest daughter of the late James Brenton, esq. of Halifax, Nova Scotia. By the first lady he had issue two sons and one daughter: 1. John-Jervis, who died at Winchester school in 1817, aged 14; 2. Frances-Isabella, married in 1831 to her cousin Edward Brenton Stewart, esq.; and 3. Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, who has succeeded to the baronetcy. By his second marriage Sir Jahleel has left a daughter, Harriet-Mary, born in

1824.

The present Baronet was born in 1807, and married, in 1839, a daughter of the late Major-General Chester.

[A more ample memoir of the services of Sir Jahleel Brenton will be found in the second volume of Marshall's Royal Naval Biography.]

LIEUT.-GEN. SIR T. W. STUBBS. April 27. At Lisbon, Lieut.- General Sir Thomas Witham Stubbs, of the Portuguese army, Vicondé de Villa Nova de Gaio, K.T.S. and C.B.

This distinguished officer was originally in the British 50th regiment, which, with two others, was sent to Lisbon in 1797. Here Lieut. Stubbs became attached to a young Portuguese lady of many personal attractions, to whom he was subsequently married. On the circumstances becoming known to the late Queen of Portugal, she offered him a company in her service, which he accepted; and, having repaired to England to dispose of his commission, returned to Lisbon to fulfil his double engagement. When our troops entered that capital in 1808, they found the subject of this memoir a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Portuguese army; on the reorganisation of this force by General Beresford, he was appointed to the command of a regiment, in which he served until 1813, when he became Brigadier, and continued his services throughout all the campaigns until the close of the operations in France, in 1814, when he became Major-General. After the peace Sir Thomas Stubbs was appointed to command the military division in the Alemtejo. On the accession of Don Miguel to the throne, Sir Thomas Stubbs quitted Portugal, and returned to England during the reign of that prince, who con.

fiscated part of his property in his absence. When Sir Thomas returned to Portugal, Don Pedro made him Governor of Oporto. Subsequently to this, about 1824, he became Lieut.- General, and held several high situations at the Portuguese head-quarters, where his opinions and advice were always respected and well-received. There he remained until his death, carrying with him the regrets of all the British and Portuguese who enjoyed the benefit of his acquaintance.

LIEUT.-GENERAL LOVEDAY.

Dec. 20. At Bath, at an advanced age, Lieut.-General Lambert Loveday, the senior officer of the Bengal army.

He was the second son of Richard Loveday, esq. an apothecary, at Hammersmith, in Middlesex, to whose memory he erected a tablet in Hammersmith church, with a Latin inscription, which will be seen in Faulkner's History of that parish, p. 135. By this inscription it appears that his father was for nearly 40 years in practice at Hammersmith, and died Dec. 10, 1812, aged 81. His mother Maria, of the Bainbridge family in the county of Leicester, died May 19, 1801, aged 63.

He received his first appointment in the East India Company's service in 1778; became Colonel of the 32d regiment of Bengal infantry in Nov. 1817; attained the rank of Major-General in 1819; and of Lieut.-General in 1837.

He married Miss D'Esterre, sister to Mr. Norcott D'Esterre, who was killed by Mr. Daniel O'Connell in a duel near Dublin in 1815; by whom he had two sons, Lieut. Byam M. Loveday, of the 15th Bombay N.I., killed in India, having married, May 12, 1842, Alicia-Cassan, eldest daughter of Major-Gen. Simpson; and the Rev. Henry A. Loveday, a Chaplain in India, married Aug. 3, 1840, to ElizaLouisa, daughter of William Mulls, esq. and Lady Pilkington, of the Grove, Dedham, Essex; and four daughters, of whom the eldest, Mary, who is deceased, married Edward Hawkins, esq. (since remarried to Alicia, daughter of Henry Lumsden, esq.); the second, Eliza, was the wife of Lieut. Col. Herring, of the 37th Bombay N. Inf. killed at Hyder Keel, Sept. 6, 1839; the third, Jesse, is married to Capt. Spottiswoode; and the fourth, JuliaCharlotte, married July 20, 1842, at Meerut, in India, to C. Madden, esq. civil surgeon.

MAJOR-GEN. W. H. BECKWITH. March 17. In Chester, aged 78, MajorGeneral William Henry Beckwith.

He entered the army Jan. 19, 1778, as

Ensign in the 28th Foot. He served in that rank upwards of eighteen months in the West Indies, and obtained his Lieutenancy Jan. 28, 1782. He returned to England at the peace, and in 1793 went to the West Indies as Aide-de-camp to Lieut.-Gen. Prescott. He served at the capture of the West India Islands by Sir Charles Grey, and May 31, 1794, received a company in the 56th. He was present at the siege of Fort Matilda, and at the capture of Guadaloupe; after which he returned home. In 1798, he joined his regiment at St. Domingo, and he returned to England upon the evacuation of that island.

He served the campaign of 1799, in Holland, as Major of Brigade, and on his return was appointed Major in the 52nd, June 26, 1799. He accompanied his regiment to the coast of Spain, and to the Mediterranean; but it was not permitted to serve in Egypt, being formed of limited service men. On his return to England, he was appointed, Sept. 17th, 1803, Lieut.-Colonel to the 1st Battalion of Reserve. He was subsequently placed on the half-pay of the 27th Foot, and appointed an Assistant Adjutant-general in Ireland, The 1st Jan. 1812 he received the brevet of Colonel; and that of Major-General, June 4th 1814. He had been a retired officer for many years.

MAJOR-GEN. SIR O. CAREY. March 13. In London, aged 58, Major. General Sir Octavius Carey, K.C.H. commanding the Cork district.

He was present at the siege of Scylla in 1809, and served with distinction on the eastern coast of Spain, from Feb. 1812 to the close of the war in 1814. When a Major, he was selected for the command of the Free Corps of Calabrese, which, under his able superintendence, soon attained efficiency and skill as light troops. His rigid enforcement of justice from the officers, chiefly Italians, to the men, gained him the devoted attachment of the latter, as was evinced by their readiness to follow and stand by him in the execution of any enterprise, how ever perilous.

Major Carey was at the taking of Alcoy, the action at Briar, battle of Castilla, siege of Tarragona, action at Ordal, blockade of Tarragona, and also of Barcelona. At Briar and Castilla he and his corps achieved great credit by their dexterity and courage; but it was at the Col de Ordal that the ability of the commander and the gallantry of his men were most eminently conspicuous. The light division of the English army, to which the Calabrese were attached, being posted

at Col de Ordal, was furiously attacked at midnight, on the 13th Sept. 1813, by two French columns of 10,000 men, and, after a sanguinary conflict of two hours, was compelled, from want of support, to retire with heavy loss in officers and men. Major Carey, having been posted by the Commander of the Forces himself considerably to the left of the position, was completely separated from the main body of the army, and must have been captured but for the promptitude, skill, and daring with which he boldly cut his way through the rear of the French column, though with heavy loss, thereby opening his road to Villa Nova, where he pressed some vessels, embarked his weakened corps, and rejoined the army at Tarragona, to the inexpressible surprise and satisfaction of the Commander of the Forces, Lord William Bentinck, who had given them up as lost, and who was proportionably warm in his praise of Major Carey and his brilliant feat.

When in command of the 57th regiment, Lieut.-Colonel Carey arrived with the regiment off Chatham, from Ireland, on a day when the Duke of York was reviewing the garrison, and received orders for its immediate debarkation and presence on the reviewing ground. Athough quite unconscious of what was going on, the regiment appeared before the Commanderin-chief in as clean a state, and in as fine order, as any corps in the field, and elicited from His Royal Highness the repeated expression of his admiration and thanks.

Sir Octavius Carey was nominated a Companion of the Bath in 1815, received the honour of knighthood Aug. 4, 1830, and was appointed a Knight Commander of the Hanoverian Order in 1835. The following are the dates of his reespective commissions: Ensign, March, 1801; Lieutenant, 5th June, 1801; Captain, 27th Aug. 1804; Major, 2nd Nov. 1809; Lieut.-Col. 30th Sept. 1811; Colonel, 27th May, 1825; and MajorGeneral, 10th Jan. 1837.

Sir Octavius Carey married, in 1818, a daughter of R. P. Le Marchant, esq. of Guernsey, whom he has left his widow with thirteen children.

In private life he was deservedly held in great esteem, as he professionally enjoyed the character of a brave, zealous, and able soldier.

MAJOR-GEN. F. J. T. JOHNSTONE, C.B. Jan. 5. Aged 67, Major-Gen. Francis James Thomas Johnstone, C. B.

He was born August 26, 1776, the younger son of Samuel Johnstone, esq. of the E. I. civil service, by the Hon. Hester

Napier, third daughter of Francis fifth Lord Napier, and was only brother of the Right Hon. Sir Alexander Johnstone, of Carnsalloch, Dumfriesshire, late Chief Justice of Ceylon.

He entered the Bengal army in 1795. His regiment was the 3d Light Cavalry. He attained the rank of Colonel June 5, 1829, and was appointed Brigadier-Ge neral in Oude, Feb. 11, 1835.

LT.. COL. W. G. WHITE. March 3. At Newtown Cottage, Swanage, Dorsetshire, aged 66, Lieut.Colonel William Grove White, C.B.

He entered the service in April, 1795, and was appointed Ensign, by purchase, in a corps then raising by the Hon. Colonel Ward, and in August was removed to the 48th Regiment, in which he was shortly afterwards promoted to a Lieutenancy. In November of the same year, he sailed for the West Indies, with the expedition under Sir Ralph Abercromby and Adm. Sir Hugh Christian. He was at the capture of St. Lucia, and suffered severely from the fatigues of service and the noxious influence of the climate, until the year 1797, when, the regiment being reduced to a skeleton, he returned with it to England.

On the 48th being recruited in 1798, he accompanied it to Gibraltar, and subsequently in the expedition up the Mediterranean, where he assisted at the taking of Malta, and in 1802 was sent to England with the limited-service men of his corps, preparatory to their discharge. A few months after the regiment followed, and, receiving reinforcements from the army of reserve, was formed into two battalions, to the second of which this officer was appointed paymaster; but he relinquished that office on his promotion to a company in 1804, and in 1805 joined the 1st Battalion, under orders for Gibraltar, where he continued until 1809, and for the last thirteen months acted as Town-Major of that garrison, and part of the time previously as Aide-de-Camp to Lieut.-General Drummond, then in command. During the above interval, this officer, in conjunction with the then Capt. Hailey of the 10th Foot, raised under the sanction of Lieut.- Gen. Drummond 500 men and upwards, who were transferred to the regiment of Meuron by order of

the Duke of York.

In 1809 he joined the army under the Duke of Wellington, with which he actively served during the transactions in the Peninsula, except at short periods, when severe illness obliged him to repair to England for the benefit of his bealth. He was promoted to his majority in 1809.

WADHAM WYNDHAM, ESQ. M.P.

Oct. 23. At the College, Salisbury, aged 70, Wadham Wyndham, esq. for many years one of the representatives of that city in Parliament.

Mr. Wyndham was born Oct. 16, 1773, and was the eldest surviving son and heir of Henry Penruddocke Wyndham, esq. M.P. for Wiltshire from 1796 to 1812, (author of Tours in Wales and the Isle of Wight, and translator of the Domesday Book for Wiltshire,*) by Caroline, daughter and heiress of the Rev. Richard Hearst, Canon Residentiary of Sarum.

Mr. Wyndham was first a candidate for the representation of Salisbury in Parliament in 1813, when he was defeated by George Purefoy Jervoise, esq. who polled 28 votes, and Mr. Wyndham 21. He was elected without opposition in 1818, 1820, and 1826, and 1830. On the agitation of the Reform Bill he was opposed in 1831 by Mr. Brodie, and the result of a poll

Mr. Wyndham was for many years an officer in the Wiltshire Militia, and was Major of the regiment when he retired from it. He was held in the highest esteem by a large circle of friends, for the strict integrity of his conduct, his popular manners, and the extreme benevolence of his disposition.

Mr. Wyndham married March 1, 1821, Anne-Eliza, second daughter of Lieut.General Sir John Slade, Bart. who survives him, without issue. His sister, Caroline-Frances, and her husband John Campbell, esq. have assumed the name of Wyndham after Campbell, by royal licence, dated April 3, 1844, in compliance with the wills of Henry Penruddocke Wyndham and Wadham Wyndham, esquires.

JOHN TOMES, Esq.

Jan. 31. At Warwick, aged 83, John Tomes, esq. late M. P. for that borough.

Mr. Tomes was an active persevering man, and universally esteemed, even by those bearing different political opinions. About the year 1793, when Mr. Knight, of Barrels, opposed Mr. Villiers for the representation of the borough of Warwick, Mr. Tomes (who then lived in Churchstreet) was engaged on behalf of the former as his attorney. Mr. Knight, however, was unsuccessful, the Castle, or Orange, interest being then too powerful. Soon afterwards, on the death of Mr. John Parry, the Coroner, he succeeded to that appointment, which he held many years. He then purchased Mr. Parry's house in Jewry-street, pulled it down, and on the site built a splendid mansion, and adjoining it a large hotel, called the Black Swan. In course of time he felt it necessary to take a partner, and the firm then became "Tomes and Heydon." He was also a banker-the firm being "Tomes and Russell." He was of great benefit to the rising town of Leamington, and patronized the sports of the turf by occasionally entering horses to run at Warwick races.

He was first elected to Parliament for Warwick, on a vacancy in Feb. 1826, on the Whig interest, having polled 186 in competition with the Hon. G. Winn, who polled only 14. He was reelected in 1830, and again after a contest in 1831, which terminated as follows:

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Mr. Tomes had since retired into private life.

On the 6th Feb. his body was conveyed to its place of interment, in St. Mary's Churchyard. Several gentlemen of the neighbourhood expressed a desire to evince their respect for the memory of the venerable departed, by following his remains clined, and the funeral was strictly prito the grave; but their offers were devate. A hearse and one mourning coach formed the whole of the procession. The mourners were W. Collins, esq. M. P. for Warwick (son-in-law of the deceased), H. T. Chamberlayne, esq. (who married a niece of the deceased), Mr.Thomas Collins, and Mr. Edmund Tomes (grandsons of the deceased); and the pall-bearers were Charles Lamb. esq. Theophilus Taylor, esq. Thomas Heath, esq. and W. Handley, esq.-all of whom were for years the devoted friends of the deceased. The service was attended by many of the old and respectable inhabitants of the town, who had witnessed the long and useful course of their late fellow-townsman; and there were present also many of the poorer residents, who gratefully remembered his kindness and condescension of manners, and his willing and strenuous endeavours to render services to others. Tomes of Warwick, Dr. Parr," says one of his biographers, "always admired the vigorous understanding and useful activity by which he is distinguished in private life: and he applauded the consistency and integrity of his public conduct; guided, as it has ever been, by large and enlightened views on all great questions connected with the wise policy, the just rights and liberties, and the true prosperity and glory of his country. This gentleman has lately been raised, by the almost unanimous suffrage of his fellow-townsmen, to the honour of being one of their representatives in Parliament. Thus they have borne to him a high testimony of their respect for his public and private character, and of their gratitude for his exertions, so constantly directed to the local improvements, to the political freedom, and the general welfare of their

town."

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