June, 1815. In July 1830, he was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral, and in May, 1834, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief at the Cape of Good Hope, and in 1838, he was advanced to the rank of Vice-Admiral.

14. At Salt Hill, Kingstown, in her 86th year, the Dowager Countess of Carrick, grandmother of the present Earl of Carrick.

Thomas Andrew James, esq., Barrister-at-Law, the only son of Thomas James, esq., a Bencher of Gray's Inn, and nephew of the late Dr. James, Bishop of Calcutta.

15. At Egham, aged 37, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. John Gould. She had accompanied her husband in his recent expedition to the interior of Australia, and since their return had been preparing drawings of the various extraordinary zoological productions discovered by Mr. Gould. All the drawings for his scientific works, published during the last twelve years, were from his wife's pencil.

17. At his seat, Wavendon House, Bucks, after a long illness, from the effects of gout, in his 80th year, Sir Henry Hugh Hoare, bart., of Stourhead, co. Wilts, and St. James's Square; and the senior partner of the eminent Banking-house, No. 37, Fleet-street.

He

was the eldest son of Sir Richard Hoare, the first Baronet, of Barn-Elms, co. Surrey. In 1838, on the death of his half-brother, the late Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Sir Hugh succeeded to the Baronetcy, and to the whole of his landed as well as personal property, which was, by the will of Sir Richard Hoare, strictly entailed upon the male descendants of the family.

18. At his residence, near Newbury, Jonathan Peel, esq., of Culham, first cousin to Sir R. Peel, bart.

19. At Lawson's Hotel, Rue St. Honoré, Paris, the Very Reverend James Edward Jackson, M.A. Dean and Rector of Armagh.

20. At Hootton Hall, Cheshire, Sir Thomas Stanley Massey Stanley, the ninth Baronet of that place. He succeeded to the title in 1803, on the death of his eldest brother, Sir William, then in his minority. Sir Thomas married, in 1805, Mary, only daughter of Sir Carnaby Haggerston, bart., and sister to the present Sir Thomas Haggerston. By that lady he had issue four sons and one daughter.

At Biddenden, in Kent, in his 80th year, the Rev. Edward Nares, D.D., Regius Professor of Modern History and Modern Languages, in the University of Oxford. He was the third son of Sir George Nares, knt., one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, and for some time M.P. for the City of Oxford. He was educated at Westminster School, where he continued till 1779, and then removed to Christ Church, Oxford. After taking his Bachelor's degree, he was elected a Fellow of Merton College, in 1788. In 1792, he entered into holy orders, and was soon afterwards presented to the cure of St. Peter's in the East, by the College of which he was a member. He vacated his Fellowship in 1797, on his marriage with Lady Charlotte Churchill, third daughter of George fourth Duke of Marlborough. In 1798, he was presented by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Rectory of Biddenden, where for the most part he continued to reside till his decease. On the death of Lady Charlotte Nares, January 15, 1802, he married secondly, Cordelia, second daughter of Thomas Adams, esq., of Osbornes, near Cranbrook. In 1805, he was appointed Bampton Lecturer. In 1814, the Prince Regent appointed him to succeed Dr. Beeke, in the Professorship of Modern History; on which occasion he accumulated the degrees of B. and D.D. Dr. Nares was the author of many excellent theological works.

21. At the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth, aged 45, Captain Hugh Nurse, R.N. While in his command of a tender of H. M. S. Tyne, in the West Indies, in the year 1820, he highly distinguished himself in a desperate and successful conflict against a very superior piratical force, in which action he was severely wounded.

23. Aged 66, Edward Scriven, esq., of Clarendon-square, historical engra

ver.

24. At his house near Fulham-bridge, after a severe indisposition of several weeks, in his 53d year, Theodore Edward Hook, esq. F.S.A. He was born in Charlotte-street, Bedford-square, September 22, 1788, and from his earliest youth was destined to be a cultivator of the polite letters of his age and country. He was the son of James Hook, the popular composer, whose pleasing strains delighted the preceding

generation (when Vauxhall Gardens were a fashionable resort), by his wife, formerly Miss Madden, a lady of singular accomplishments. His indications of genius were early and remarkable. At the premature age of seventeen he produced his first drama, "The Soldier's Return," a comic opera, which was acted in 1805, and for which he received 501. This was his first reward, and with the prospect of an exhaustless treasure before him-the gold to be coined from his own mind-he rushed with the ardour of that juvenile period of life into the pleasures to which society in London courted the debutant who had so early distinguished himself in the great arena of dramatic competition. Elegant in manners -possessed of a great knowledge of music, both vocal and instrumental - gifted with a wit, which, we believe, was never surpassed, it was no wonder that he was petted by the men, who wished to render their dinner-tables convivial, and by the ladies, who wished to render their drawing-rooms attractive. Handsome, witty, and happy, Hook entered upon his gay career with every advantage. The associations of the stage, with all their attractions, were open to him, on his father's account and his own; and he speedily formed intimacies with many of the pleasantest of pleasant men and women who at that time were the soul of society in London. Their tricks, their jokes, and masqueradings, for the next few years, replete, as they were, with frolic and drollery, would fill a volume of whim, such, indeed, as he has sometimes introduced into his later novels. But, though playing in the bright stream of enjoyment, he did not allow luxury or idleness to interfere with graver pursuits. He continued to write with prolific industry, and with increasing popularity. In 1806 he produced "Catch him who can," a farce; "The Invisible Girl," a drama, or monologue, written to exhibit the peculiar talent of his friend, Jack Bannister; and "Tekeli," a melo-drame, which was excellently acted, and caused a great sensation in the dramatic world. "The Fortress," another melo-drame, followed in 1807; "Music Mad," a dramatic sketch, and "The Siege of St. Quintin," in 1808; "Killing no Murder," and "Safe and Sound," in 1809; "Ass-ass-ination," and "The Will and the Widow," in 1810; "Trial

by Jury," a farce, and "Darkness Visible," a farce, in 1811. Of these, "Killing no Murder" created the most sensation, the licence being denied to it by Mr. Larpent, the deputy licenser, in consequence of his alleging that it turned a Methodist parson into ridicule. Hook defended his production, and flagellated the licenser in a clever preface, which created much amusement, and ultimately obtained the victory for wit and satire over dullness and dogmatism. In representation, however, the character was of necessity transmogrified into that of a dancingmaster (Apollo Belvi), so inimitably given by his friend Liston. Several of his early literary efforts appeared in the "Satirist Magazine," published soon after the ejection of the Whigs from office in 1807. In 1809 he published a novel in three volumes, called "The Man of Sorrow, by Alfred Allendale, esq.," which was severely handled by the critics, who little foresaw the future reputation of the youthful writer. In 1813 Mr. Hook was appointed to the offices of Accountant-general and Treasurer of the Mauritius, whither he proceeded with every prospect of fortune before him. He held these offices from the 9th of October, 1813, to the 28th of February, 1818. In 1814 he was made superintendent of the Government press, which duty he performed to April 15th, when a regular Editor was appointed. In April, 1818, he was sent home a prisoner; and in October the same year he was released, the lawofficers declaring there were no legal grounds to detain him. This disgrace originated in a defalcation in his accounts to the amount of 12,000, which, however, does not appear to have been caused by any peculation of Mr. Hook himself, but of one of his clerks, owing chiefly to Mr. Hook's culpable negligence. Conscious of integrity, though legally answerable for his trust, Mr. Hook made the best of his position. His friends rallied round him in his adversity, and perhaps no palace ever rung with louder bursts of laughteras the jest, and pun, and witticism followed in quick succession, among the merry souls who came to solace him,than did the abode in which he was temporarily confined. On August 23, 1819, he produced at the Haymarket Theatre, a comedy in three acts, called "Pigeons and Crows." The scene lay

at Margate, and the title referred to the deception practised on a City Alderman residing there. And on the 12th of August, 1820, at the same theatre, he produced another comedy in three acts, called "Exchange no Robbery, or the Diamond Ring." This piece was then attributed to Mr. Richard Jones, but was written by Mr. Hook, and was com pletely successful. In the same year he published a witty trifle, in ridicule of Alderman Wood and Queen Caroline, under the title of "Tentamen; or an Essay towards the History of Whittington, sometime Lord Mayor of London, [and his Cat]. By Vicesimus Blenkinsop, LL.D., F.R.S., A.SS.," &c. In 1821, the Haymarket Theatre opened with another drama from his pen, entitled " Peter and Paul," but it was only acted three nights, and failed to be productive to the house or the author. Ever a staunch Tory in principle, the establishment of the John Bull newspaper in December, 1820, formed an important event in his life. He was selected to be its editor; and, besides holding a share in the property, be was allowed, as we have heard, a handsome weekly salary for this duty. It is not for us to enter into a discussion, either upon the politics or personalities which marked the opening of this party-battery: but we may truly say, that the éclat given to its early numbers by his lavish talent raised the publication at once into a high degree of popularity and profit. Since his return to this country, Mr. Hook's writings cover a space of more than twenty years, charming the public in many a way, whilst their gifted author was enjoying all the best society in the metropolis, all its gaieties and humours, -himself the most gay and humourous of its merry sons. His company was sought by the luxurious and by the intelligent; by the mirthful and the wise; by the fair and by the learned. Wherever he came he was a welcome guest, and his arrival was the signal for hilarity and festivity. The diningroom and the drawing-room were alike his theatres: the former was enlivened by the jest and song- the latter by music and improvisation, of which he was master beyond any man that perhaps England ever beheld. It was a fortunate moment in which Mr. Hook first turned his attention to prose fiction, for which his jovial habits and quick

apprehension of peculiarities of character eminently qualified him. He was the author of upwards of a dozen tales or more, all of which evince great knowledge of town life, great powers of caricature, great ease and spirit of style, and it must be added too, with occasional negligence, both in the disposition of incident, and the construction of plot. The earliest of his novels, Sayings and Doings, the first Series," was sold to Mr. Colburn before a line of it was written, and appeared in 1824; and here simple justice requires that the liberality of that publisher should be mentioned. Mr. Colburn was bound to pay 6007. for the three volumes, and no more. The success of the book was great; but to the honour of Mr. Colburn we now state, what has never appeared, that he presented the author, at subsequent periods, two sums, 1507. and 2007. in addition to the 600. he had bound himself to pay-thus making 9501. Poor Hook was no exception to the class of men of genius and wit; the carelessness of his disposition, his nonattention to matters of money, as it had involved him in difficulty at the Mauritius, unhappily prevailed with him while life lasted, and it was found that he had left his six children even utterly destitute. A second and a third series of

Sayings and Doings," soon followed the first, for each of which Mr. Colburn gave him 1000 guineas. The following is, we believe, a correct list of Mr. Hook's works, and the dates of their publication:-"Sayings and Doings," 1st Series, 21st Feb. 1824; 2nd Series, 26th Jan. 1825; 3rd Series, 29th Jan. 1828; "Maxwell," Nov. 15, 1830; "Life of Kelly," (edited by Mr. Hook), 1826; "Life of Sir David Baird," Nov. 6, 1832; "Parson's Daughter," May 2, 1833; "Jack Brag," March 15, 1837; "Births, Deaths, and Marriages,' March 18, 1849; "Love and Pride," Nov. 24, 1833; "Gilbert Gurney," Nov. 30, 1835; "Gurney Married," 1839; "Peregrine Bunce," 1842, (Posthumous.)

At Lymington, aged 35, George Walter Adams Nares, esq., youngest son of the late Rev. Dr. Nares, of Biddenden, Kent, and grandson of the Duke of Marlborough.

26. At Grenofen, near Tavistock, aged 47, the Rev. Jonathan Philips Carpenter, formerly incumbent of South Sydenham, Devon. His death afforde

an awful lesson of the uncertainty of human life. He had breakfasted, read the customary morning prayer, and had been playing with his children. It was his custom after this to read the newspaper, and while reading, to put one hand into his pocket; when Mrs. Carpenter left the room, in which they were sitting, he was in that posture. On her return (bardly a quarter of an hour had elapsed) she found him lying on his back on the floor, his feet on the chair, quite dead! - his hand in the position stated, which would show that his death was instantaneous, and without a struggle.

In Arlington-street, aged 42, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. George Berkeley Molyneux, Lieut.-Colonel of the 8th Dragoons; next brother to the Earl of Sefton. He was born on the 26th of June, 1799, the second son of William Philip second Earl of Sefton, by the Hon. Maria Margaretta Craven, second daughter of William sixth Lord Craven. He entered the army as Cornet the 3rd of May, 1815; was pro moted to the rank of Lieutenant, 12th of September, 1816; to a troop, 11th of April, 1822; to be Major, 28th of September, 1826; and Lieut.-Colonel, 31st of December, 1827,

At his house, 71, South Audleystreet, of inflammation in his bowels, General Isaac Gascoyne, for twenty-five years Colonel of the 54th Foot. He was one of the three sons of Bamber Gascoyne, esq., M.P. for Truro, and one of the Lords of the Admiralty, &c., who resided for many years at Barking, Essex. He was appointed an Ensign in the 20th Foot, 8th of February, 1779, and passing through the various professional grades, in 1819, received the rank of General. He served with the Guards in the campaigns in Flanders, and was present in the most material actions. He was severely wounded in the affair at Lincelles, and again in 1794, whilst commanding the covering party in the retreat of Sir Ralph Abercromby's army from Mouvaix to Roubaix. The General was returned to Parliament for the city of Liverpool in 1796, and represented that city until the passing of the Reform Bill. He moved the celebrated amendment which threw out the second Reform Bill by a majority of 1.

28. At St. John's Wood, aged 52, Colonel George Edmond Hamilton Gor

don, Captain half-pay 71st Regiment, formerly Aide-de-camp to the Duke of Orleans, and Equerry to the Duke of Gloucester. He was appointed Lieut. 100th Foot, 1794, Captain 1795, Captain 18th Foot, 1806, Brevet-Major, 1808, Lieut.-Colonel, 1814, and Colonel, 1837.

At Mortimer Lodge, near Reading, aged 70, Edward Fellowes, esq., Vice-Admiral of the Red. Admiral Fellowes was a son of the late William Fellowes, of Ramsey Abbey, esq., M.P. for Andover, and brother to William Henry Fellowes, esq., M.P. for co. Huntingdon. He was made a Lieutenant in 1793, and served in the Phaeton in Lord Howe's action in June 1794. In 1795 he was promoted to be Commander in the Albicore sloop, and he obtained post rank in the Tourterelle, of 26 guns, December the 7th, in the same year. He was present at the reduction of St. Lucia, and soon after that event removed into the Alarm frigate. On the 23rd of November, 1796, he captured the Spanish corvette, El Galgo, of 18 guns, off Granada, which had on board specie to the amount of 80,355 dollars. In February, 1797, the Alarm formed part of the squadron under the orders of Rear-Admiral Harvey at the conquest of Trinidad; and was subsequently employed on the Jamaica station. His next appointment was to the Acasta, a frigate of the largest class, in which he captured several enemy's privateers and merchant vessels. In 1805 he was appointed to the Apollo frigate; and in 1806 was employed under the orders of Sir W. Sidney Smith, in co-operation with the British army under MajorGeneral Stuart, on the shores of Calabria. During the second expedition to Egypt, Captain Fellowes commanded the gun boats in the Nile at both the unsuccessful attacks on Rosetta. He subsequently commanded the Conqueror, of 74 guns, on the Mediterranean station, from whence he returned to England in 1812, since which time his health did not allow him to be in active service. He was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral, June 4th, 1814, and to that of Vice-Admiral in 1830. He married the eldest daughter of the late R. Benyon, esq., M.P. for Peterborough.

Lately. At Reading, aged 86, Elizabeth, wife of Chevalier Jean Baptiste

Noir, last surviving daughter of the t Christopher Smart.

- At Ruyton, Shropshire, aged , Sir Henry Edwardes, the ninth ronet (1644-5).

In Jamaica, aged 40, Lieut.-Col. e Hon. Augustus Frederick Ellis, mmanding the second Battalion 60th oyal Rifles, second son of Lord Seard, and brother to Lord Howard de Walden. His death was accelerated by s indefatigable attention and anxiety = arrest the mortality which had aleady destroyed many of his regiment.

At St. Thomas's, Lieut.-Colonel on Clavell Sladdon Slyfield, K.H., of be 60th Regiment. He entered the ervice on the 5th of October, 1812, and served in the Peninsular war.

SEPTEMBER.

2. Within sixteen days of the death of her elder brother, Sir Hugh Hoare, bart, at the Manor-house, Beckenham, co. of Kent, in her 78th year, the Hon. Mrs. Fortescue.

- At Corynton Park, aged 79, William Tucker, esq., for many years an active magistrate for Devon and Dorset.

9. In Portman-square, James Blair, esq., of Penninghame, co. Wigtown, late M.P. for that county. In the Parliament of 1820, Mr. Blair sat for the borough of Aldborough in Suffolk; and in that of 1826, for Minehead. At the general election of 1835, he was a candidate for the county of Wigtown, in opposition to the former member, Sir Andrew Agnew, bart., but lost his election. In 1837 Sir Andrew Agnew retired, and Mr. Blair was success

ful.

At Geneva, aged 64, Augustus Pyramus De Candolle, one of the most distinguished botanists of the present age; he was born at Geneva on the 4th of February, 1778, which year, by a remarkable coincidence, is also memorable by the death of Linnæus, the father of modern botany. Possessing a remarkable facility of writing verses both in French and Latin, and having at the same time a keen relish for the study of history, young De Candolle at first resolved to make literature his profession; aspiring, as the summit of his ambition, to the fame of being a i great historian. But this dream of his

youth was effaced by a new taste, imbibed during a residence in the country, where he amused himself with examining the plants of the neighbourhood, and with writing their descriptions, before he had even opened a single book on botany. The few pages he there read of the volume of Nature were sullcient to captivate his affections for the pursuit which henceforth became the dominant passion of his life. The botanical lectures of Professor Vaucher, which he attended in 1794, confirmed him in the resolution he had formed, of devoting himself to the cultivation of Botany as his primary object, to which all other sciences, as well as branches of literature, were hereafter to be deemed subordinate, and to be followed merely as recreations from severer study. A visit to Paris, which he made in 1795, gave him the opportunity of attending the lectures of Cuvier, Foureroy, Vauquelin and other distinguished professors of that period, and of forming friendships with Desfontaines and Lamarck. The establishment of the Society of Physics and Natural History at Geneva, which took place, after his return, under the auspices of the cele brated De Saussure, gave a fresh and powerful impulse to his exertions; as was evinced by the numerous memoirs which he presented to that society. The state of Geneva being soon after this period, absorbed into the French empire, De Candolle was induced to quit that city and attend the medical lectures in Paris; a course of study, which, tending to enlarge his views of the physiology of organised beings, contributed greatly to the success with which he afterwards cultivated the philosophy of botany. In 1804 he gave lectures on vegetable physiology at the Collège de France, and published an outline of his course in 1805, in the Principes de Botanique prefixed to the Flore Française. In 1806 he was commissioned by the French Government to collect information on botany and the state of agriculture through the whole of the French empire, the limits of which, at that time, extended beyond Hamburgh to the north, and beyond Rome to the south. Every year, during the following six years, he took a long journey in the fulfilment of the task assigned him, and drew up a report of his observations for the minister. In these annual reports, however, he did