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upon a literary topic without receiving satisfactory information, the result of very extensive read. ing, committed to a most tenacious memory. In classical literature he was not only elegantly but critically skilled, and his knowledge inspired respect even in a Porson. If he had lived to com plete the plan of study he had laid down to himself, he would probably have ranked with the first The only scholars of the age. fruits of his learning which he is known to have given to the public, were the classical and biographical articles in the Annual Review, and a series of papers in the Athenæum, containing an account of Greek authors, from Homer to Thucydides. These are distinguished by good taste, sound erudition, and spirit of candour and liberality which was one of his chaHis private character was such as to gain the affection and esteem of all who knew him; and few men have left the world more sincerely regretted by their friends. 6. At Keith hall, Scotland, William Keith, Earl of Kintore.

racteristics.

Major-general Brock, in an action with the Americans in Upper Canada.

13. Moolvy Meer Abdool Ali, a :native of Lucknow, and a professor .of Oriental, literature in the EastIndia College near Hertford.

16. Baroness Dimsdale, Hertford, -aged 82.

At Carlsrhue, the Hereditary
Prince of Baden..

17 James Lind, M. D, F, R. S. late physician at Windsor, aged 78. q 20 The right honourable Heneage Finch, Earl of Aylesford, in his 62d year. His lordship married Lady Louisa Thynne, daugh

ter of the Marquis of Bath, by
whom he had fourteen' children.

21. Lady Jane Mackenzie, daugh-
ter of the late Earl of Cromarty.
23. Grace, Countess Dowager of
Meath, in her 84th year.

28. Mrs. Susannah Duncombe,
widow of the late Rev. J. Dun-
combe, of Canterbury, joint-trans-
lator with his father of the works
of Horace. Mrs. Duncombe was
the daughter of Mr. Highmore, a
portrait painter in London, whose
taste in the arts and love of letters
she inherited. She was intimately
connected with many eminent vo-
taries of literature, of both sexes,
in her day, before the death of her
husband, twenty-six years since;
after which she lived chiefly in re-
tirement, highly esteemed and be-
loved by her friends and relatives.
Of her literary effusions none met
the public eye except a paper or
two in the Adventurer, and some
pieces in the Poetical Calendar, and
Nichols's Poems.

Thomes Eagles, esq. collector of the customs at Bristol, a gentleman of great literary accomplishments, and the translator of the Deipnosophiste of Athenæus.

November.

3. Sir Charles Talbot, bart. of Chart park and Mickleham, Surrey, M. P. for Bletchingly.

4. Philip St. Martin, Count de Front, ambassador from Sardinia.

5. Major general Broadhurst, in the East India company's service.' 7. Lieutenant-general Richard England.

9. At Paris, in a very advanced age, David Sintzheim, grand rabbi, sistory and president of the central con

sistory of the Jews in the French empire.

17. Edward Jerningham, esq. aged 75, brother to the late Sir W. Jerningham, bart. of Costessy, Norfolk; known to the public by 'several works in verse and prose.

19. Nicholas Wanostrocht, LL.D. aged 68, many years master of an academy at Camberwell, and author of a number of esteemed elementary works, Latin and French.

27. The Lady of Sir Cuthbert Heron, bart. South Shields.

38. Sir Alexander Douglas, bart. of Glenbervie.

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lid literature under Dr. Kennicott, at Exeter college, Oxford, and other learned men. He became eminent as a preacher, notwithstanding his personal disadvantages, but never sought or obtained preferment. He was a good scriptural critic, and had thought much and freely upon various topics, which, with his natural flow of spirits, and his friendly and communicative disposition, rendered him highly entertaining in conversation. His prominent character, however, was that of an adept in bibliography, in which quality he was looked up to by all of the same turn, to whom he readily imparted his knowledge. He was 'married, and left two sons and a daughter.

Gustavus Adam Baron Nolcken, his Swedish Majesty's Chamberlain, and minister plenipotentiary for the affairs of Pomerania at the court of Great Britain, aged 80, after a residence of near 49 years in this country. His excellency began his diplomatic career with being chargé d'affaires at the court of Berlin, whence he was removed to be minister plenipotentiary at this court. He had resided in that quality for thirty years, when he was recalled by the present King of Sweden, when regent, to take upon himself the office of president of a court of justice. This he declined, and returned to London in a private capacity, being strongly attached to England. On the accession of Gustavus IV. he was restored to the rank of foreign minister, which he continued to possess. He married the widow of the honourable S. C. Lemaistre, a judge in India, by whom he left two sons. Baron Nolcken passed through life with

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29. Lieutenant-colonel J. Boag R. A. aged 79. He was present at the death of General Wolfe, on the plains of Abraham.

30. Sir Denzil Cope, bart. Bramzil-park, Hants.

31. General Sir Thomas Mus-. grave, bart. colonel of the 70th foot, and governor of Gravesend and Tilbury forts, aged 75.

Lately, Gideon Fournier, esq. F. R. S. barrister at law, and chief magistrate of the county of Sur-. rey.

CENTENARY DEATHS.

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John Urszulack, Lemburg, Prussia, 116.

April.

Mrs. Sheppard, Winchester, 102. Mr. John Brown, Carpenter, of Wymondham, Norfolk, 104. William Chatfield, Cowfield, Sussex, 105.

James Hinchliffe, clothier, Milshaw, Yorkshire. 102.

Morgan Corslett, Crosswen, Glamorganshire, 109.

Mrs. Price, Rhayader, Radnor,

100.

James Brown, Birse, Aberdeen,

103.

Christian Catanach, ibid, 101. Hugh Blaney, Hannestown, Ireland, 100.

Margaret Bowlanger, near ClerMrs. Dorothea Borough, Limermont, Ireland, 102. ick, 104.

May.

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SHERIFFS

Appointed by the Prince Regent in Council for the Year 1812.

Bedfordshire, J. Cooper, of Toddington, Esq.

Berkshire, George Elwes, of Marcham, Esq.

'Buckinghamshire, C. Salter, of Stoke Poges, Esq.

Cambridgeshire and Huntingdons. John Carstairs, of Woodhurst, Esq.

Cheshire, Edmund Yates, of Ince, Esq.

Cornwall, J. Vivian, of Pencallenneck, Esq.

Cumberland, Thomas Hartley, of Linethwaite, Esq.

Derbyshire, R. Bateman, of Foston, Esq.

Devonshire, James Hay, of Collypriest, Esq.

Dorsetshire, Thomas Horlock Bastard, of Charlton Marshall, Esq.

Essex, Sir Robert Wigram, of Walthamstow, Bart.

Gloucestershire, Sir William Hicks, of Whitcomb-Park, Bart.

Herefordshire, Thomas Jay, of Derndale, Esq.

Hertfordshire, J. Currie, of Essenden, Esq.

Kent, J. Wells, of Bickley, Esq.

Lancaster, Edward Greaves, of Culcheth, Esq.
Leicestershire, R. Cheslyn, of Langley, Esq.
Lincolnshire, George Lister, of Grisby, Esq.
Monmouthshire, C. Lewis, of St. Pierre, Esq.
Norfolk, J. Turner Hales, of Hardingham, Esq.

Northamptonshire, Peter Denys, of Easton Neston, Esq.

Northumberland, Ralph Bates, of Milbourne-Hall, Esq.

Nottinghamshire, Hugh Blades, of Ranby-Hall, Esq.

Oxfordshire, Francis Sackville Lloyd Wheate, of Glympton-Park.
Rutlandshire, Gerard Noel Noel, of Exton, Esq.

Shropshire, Richard Lyster, of Rowton, Esq.

Somersetshire, William Vaughan, of Moneton Combe, Esq.

Staffordshire, Thomas Mottershaw, of Silkmore-House, Esq.

Southampton (Hampsh.) Thomas Thistlewaite, of Southwick, Esq.

Suffolk, Richard Moore, of Melford, Esq.

Surrey, Thomas Starling Benson, of Champion Lodge, Esq..

Sussex, George Francis Tyson, of Singleton, Esq.

Warwickshire, Samuel Peach, of Idlicote, Esq.

Wiltshire, Sir William Pierce Ashe A'Court, of Heytesbury, Bart.
Worcestershire, J. Baker, of Waresley, Esq.

Yorkshire, Sir Thomas Slingsby, of Scriven Park, Bart.

SOUTH WALES.

Carmarthenshire, J. George Phillips, of Cwingwilly, Esq.
Pembrokshire, Henry Scourfield, of Robeston-Hall, Esq.
Cardinganshire, Griffith Jones, of Cardigan, Esq.

Glamorganshire, Morgan Popkin Traherne, of Goytraherne, Esq.
Brecon, Charles Fox Crespigny, of Tallyn, Esq.

Radnor, Thomas Grove, the younger, of Cwn Ellan, Esq.

NORTH

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