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September.

1. At the Escurial, of a typhus fever, Major-general Wheatley, 1st guards.

6. Major-general Robert Bowles, of the Bombay establishment, aged 68.

9. Harriet Countess of Romney. 19. Sir Thomas Dingley Hatton, bart. of Long-Stanton, county of Cambridge. His death was the consequence of being thrown out of a curricle.

20. The honourable Mrs. Vane, relict of the honourable Charles Vane, of Mount Ida, Norfolk.

Lady Rebecca Peyton, wife of Sir Yelverton Payton, bart. aged 87.

21. Lady Amcotts Ingilby, wife of Sir J. Ingilby, of Ripley-park, Yorkshire.

At Bologna, in consequence of a fall from a balloon which had taken fire on being entangled in a tree, M. Zambeccari.

At Manheim, in consequence ofa similar accident, Bittorf, a mechanician.

23. The Prince of Waldeck, in his 68th year.

24. Lady Harriet Jane Hay, 4th daughter of James Earl of Errol.

26. At New-York, of a dropsy brought on by habitual intemperance, the celebrated actor, George Frederic Cooke, in his 57th year. He was anative of Berwickupon Tweed, and after having acted for some time at Dublin, was engaged at the theatre in Covent-Garden in 1800. His forcible, though coarse, style of acting was so much admired, that the audiences were willing to pardon his many offences against order and decorum arising from ebriety. He exclusively excelled

representing characters of deep

and energetic villany, and in the expression of bitter sarcasm. His manner was entirely his own, and he may be ranked among the small number of original actors.

30. Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Lord Sinclair.

Major-general William Grant, R.A. aged 84. He had distinguished his zeal and bravery in a service of sixty years.

The honourable John Astley Bennett, youngest son of the Earl of Tankerville, and a captain in the navy.

Lately, at the storming of Fort Cayetano, Major-general Foord Bowes.

On his passage from Calcutta, Major-general Macan.

October:

1. The right honourable Lady Helen Dalrymple, relict of Hugh Dalrymple, esq. of Fordell.

3. At Castlerosse, Kerry, aged 58, Valentine Brown, Earl of Ken

mare.

4. The Rev. Anthony Hamilton, D.D. rector of Hadham, Hertfordshire, vicar of St. Martin in the Fields, London, and archdeacon of Colchester, aged 74.

The Rev. John Bickerton Dewhurst, Hackney, in his 35th year. This excellent person was brought up to the dissenting ministry, but had chiefly employed himself in private tuition, and in the acquisition of learning, of which he possessed a larger share than falls to the lot of many who have obtained much higher distinction in the world. A degree of modesty, bordering on diffidence, locked up the stores of his mind in company, un. less particularly called forth; but no one ever consulted him

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upon a literary topic without receiving satisfactory information, the result of very extensive reading, 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 complete the plan of study he had laid down to himself, he would probably have ranked with the first, scholars of the age. The only 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 characteristics. His 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.

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. 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, daughter of the late Earl of Cromarty. 28. Grace, Countess Dowager of Meath, in her 84th year.

28. Mrs. Susannah Duncombe, widow of the late Rev. J. Duncombe, of Canterbury, joint-translator 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 votaries of literature, of both sexes, in her day, before the death of her husband, twenty-six years since; after which she lived chiefly in retirement, highly esteemed and beloved 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.

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

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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.

December.

7. Lady Anne Davy, relict of Sir John Davy, bart. Creedy, near Crediton.

9. Wm. Russell esq. of Slaughter's-court, county of Worcester, in the commission of the peace for that and three adjacent counties, aged 63.

12. The honourable Lady Grant,

of Airdrie.

14. George Byng, Viscount Torrington, aged 72. He is succeeded by his only brother, the honourable John Byng.

Sir John Dick, bart. Prestonfield.

16. In his 68th year, the Rev. Isaac Gosset, D. D. F. R. S. well known in the metropolis as a most intelligent purchaser and collector of books, and conspicuous at all public sales by his diminutive person. Dr. Gosset was of a refugee French family, and was the son of a modeller in wax, settled in LonHe displayed from early years an extraordinary passion for rare books, and was trained to so

lid literature udner 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 of fice 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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