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CHAPLAINS.

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Rev. J. Abbott, to the Bp. of Killaloe.
Rev. J. D. Baker, to the Earl of Munster.
Rev. T. Ventris, to the Gloucester County
gaol.

Rev. J. F. Woodham, to the Hants County gaol.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Mr. Serj. Spankie to be standing Counsel to the East India Company.

J. Wallace, esq. to be second Master of King's College, Canterbury.

At Hampton-court Palace, H. Podmore, esq. of Clayton, Sussex, to Amelia, dau. of J. Guy, esq. of Hampton-wick.14. At Sittingbourne, Kent, the Rev. J. Moreland, of Milton, to Isabel, dau. of the Rev. M. Lough, D.D.- -28. At Orcheston St. George, Wilts, the Rev. H. Lee, Preb. of Hereford Cathedral, to Julia, eldest dau. of G. Lowther, esq. of Ashley Mount, Hants.- -At Bath, Sir B. R. Graham, of Norton Conyers, Bart. to Harriet, third dau. of the late Rev. Robert Cottam.- -30. At Jersey, Chas. Franklin, esq. Capt. 84th regiment, to Emily H. Torrens, youngest dau. of the late Lieut.-Col. Topham.

Lately. At Paris, Edw. Hamilton Ffienney, esq. 62nd reg. to Eliza, dau. of the Rev. Professor Lee.- -At Lyme, John Stuckey, to Monique, dau. of the late Alan Bellingham, esq. of Castle Bellingham, co. Louth, and niece to the late Sir Wm. Bellingham, Bart.-Rev. Thos. W. Hornbuckle, Rector of Staplehurst, Kent, to Eliz. Forster, dau. of the Rev. E. Nelson, late Rector of Conyham.

July 1. At Rugby, the Rev. J. W. Tom. linson, to Caroline, eldest dau. of the Rev. P. B. Homer, D.D. ————4. At Hatfield, Herts, the Rev. W. Horne, Rector of Humber and Hotham, eld. son of Sir W. Horne, solicitor-general, to Eliz. eldest dau. of Jacob Hans Busk, esq. of Ponsbourne Park.

-5. At Middleton St. George, the Rev. E. Peacock, to Selina Wilmer, dau. of the late Dr. Wilmer, of Coventry.- -The Rev. Wm. Lockwood, of Halifax, to Eliz. dau. of the Rev. William Glaister, Vicar of Kirby Fleetham.- -At Ripple, the Rev. R. Martin, to Charlotte, eldest dau. of the Rev. Job Walker Baugh, Rector of Ripple, Worcestershire.- -7. At Oxford, the Rev. J. F. West, to Martha-Trimmer, 2d dau. of Mr. Stevens, of the Corn-market- -At Settrington, co. York, John Kelk, esq. M D. of Scarborough, to Arabella, 7th dau. of the Rev. H J. Todd.At St. George's Hanover-square, Sir John Ogilvie, of Inverquharity, Bart. to Juliana Barbara, youngest dau. of the late Lord Henry Howard, aud

niece to the Duke of Norfolk.-8. At St. Georges's, Hanover-square, T. Smith, esq. M.P. to Louisa, third dau. of Sir M. W. Ridley, Bart. M.P.-13. The Rev. D. Blow, of Kenilworth, to Miss Dyson, of Islington.- -14. At Paris, Baron de Robeck, to Miss Emily Heury, niece to the Duke of Leinster.At St. PancrasChurch, Lieut. C. Kittoe Scott, R N. to Frances AIsop, dau. of R. Scott, esq. of Mill-hill, Hendon. At St. George's Hanover-sq. Neill, eldest son of Neill Malcolm, esq. of Poltalloch, Argyllshire, to Harriett Mary, third dau. of the Rev. Sir Clarke Jervoise, of Idsworth-park, Hants, Bart.———At Chipping Barnet, the Rev. Thos. Brown, to Jane Lewis, youngest dau. of John Goodyear, esq. of Barnet.- -At Barking, H. C. Verboke, esq. of Lower Grosvenor-street, to Emily, only child of W. Pearce, esq of Aldborough Grange, Essex.- -16. At St Mary-laBonne, Hugh Inglis, esq. to Rothes Beatrix, 2nd dau. of the late Sir John Leslie, Bart.

-At Churchill, Somersetshire, T. F. Dymock, esq. to Anre, dau. of the late Wm. Perry, esq.- -The Rev. Copinger Hill, to Emily-Eliz. eldest dau. of the late Rev. G. Pyke, of Baythorne-park.- -20. At St. George the Martyr, Capt. W. W. Baker, 3d son of Sir R. Baker, to Barbara, second dau. of J. A. Young, esq. of Great Ormond-street.

-At Clifton, co. Gloucester, H. Mark Pringle, esq. of Oakendean, Sussex, to Julia Fanny, only dau. of the late J. Brooke Irwin, esq. Capt. 103d regiment.- -At Broadclist, the Rev. E. E. Coleridge, Vicar of Buckerell, in Devon, to Eliz. eldest dau. of the late Rev. G. Tucker, Rector of Musbury and Uplyme.- 21. At Bradninch, the Rev. John Tucker, of Ham House, near Cheltenham, to Jane Rogers, of Byrleigh House, eldest dau. of the late T. Shepherd, esq.-At St. George's, Hanover-square, George Seymour, esq. son of Lord G. Seymour, and Minister resident at the Court of Tuscany, to Miss Gertrude Brand, dau. of the Hon. Gen. Trevor.- -At Stafford, Dorset, Chas. Wriothesley Digby, esq. to Eliz. only dau. of late Rev. Wm. Floyer.

THE ARCHDUKE CONSTANTINE. June 27. At Witepsk, of the cholera morbus, aged 52, his Imperial Highness the Archduke Constantine of Russia, the late Viceroy of Poland.

He was born May 9, 1779, and was the second son of the Emperor Paul, and the Empress Maria Feodowna, before marriage the Princess Sophia Dorothea Augusta of Wurtemberg; and received the name of Constantine Cesarowitsch (the latter instead of Paulowitsch, which was his proper patronymic, and that given to all his brethren), as an earnest of the schemes of ambition indulged by his grandmother Catherine with respect to the conquest of the Turks. As if it were, however, in defiance of his name, Constantine refused empire, when it had legitimately devolved upon him.

When not yet seventeen, Constantine was married Feb. 26, 1796, to Julia Henrietta Ulrica, daughter of Francis Duke of Saxe Coburg-Saalfeld, and sister to the present reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg, to Leopold the new King of the Belgians, and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. The Archduchess was baptized into the Greek Church by the names Anna Feodorowna.

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marriage was dissolved by an Imperial ukase of April 2, 1820; and the Grand Duke was married again, on the 20th of May following, to Jane, by birth Countess Grudzinska, and created Princess of Lowicz.

On the death of the Emperor Alexander, Dec. 1, 1825, the Imperial crown was presumed to devolve on Constantine; but on the opening of some secret documents which had been drawn at the period of his divorce, it was found that he had then signed an act renouncing his right of succession. The Grand Duke Nicholas, notwithstanding, declared himself ready to take the oath of fidelity to the Emperor Constantine, until, after the lapse of nearly a fortnight, be received a letter from his brother, entirely foregoing his right of seniority, and stating that he remained at Warsaw until he received the commands of the Emperor Nicholas the First. These proceedings occasioned great astonishment throughout Europe, nor have their causes been ever fully explained; but it is supposed that the understanding took place between Alexander and Constantine, as a condition of his being permitted to divorce his

wife, and contract a second marriage with a subject. The alteration of the suc cession led to an insurrection of the military in Moscow, Dec. 14, 1825, but which was soon effectually suppressed. Mr. Rae Wilson, in his "Travels in Russia," has printed a letter of Nicholas to Constantine, in which, after stating that he had obeyed his brother's will in ascending the throne, Nicholas begs he may be "assured that he, who contrary to my expectation and wish, has placed me on this very difficult road, will be on it my guide and conductor,-this duty you, in the presence of God, cannot refuse, cannot renounce; and to this power to you, as the elder brother entrusted by Providence himself, I shall deem it the greatest happiness in life to be always in subjection." It may be presumed that, at least as far as Poland was concerned, Nicholas kept this resolution of entire confidence and reliance on his brother.

The Archduke Constantine continued to reside as Viceroy of Warsaw, which government he had already for some years held, until the revolution broke forth at the close of last November, when he was driven to make a hasty flight with bis Russian troops. The grand complaint of the Poles is, that his government was one of completely military despotism.

FIELD-MARSHAL DIEBITSCH.

June 10. At his head-quarters, Kleczewo, near Pultusk, of cholera morbus, aged 46, Field-Marshal Count Diebitsch Sabalkansky.

This celebrated chieftain was descended from an ancient Silesian family, and was born May 13, 1785. In his earliest years, it is said, he had so singularly retentive a memory, that when he had attained his fourth year he was capable of resolving arithmetical questions with greater readiness than most adults. The Count's father was an officer of distinguished talent, whom Frederick the Great, a short time before his death, appointed on his personal staff as extra-adjutant. After Frederick's demise, he occupied the post of garrison-major at Breslau; and when holding this post, was one day agreeably surprised by receiving a ministerial dispatch, addressed to "Lieutenant-Colonel von Diebitsch." In his delight at this unexpected honour, he spread the tidings instantly among his comrades, and solicited bis commander to make it public on the day's parade; the request

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was refused, because his superior had received no official intimation of his promotion; and, indeed, it turned out that the whole arose out of a blunder on the part of the office-clerk who had directed the dispatch. Major Diebitsch, deeming that he had compromised his character with the government, sent in his resignation, left his son to complete his education in the academy for cadets at Berlin, and entered the service of Russia. He was immediately intrusted with an important command; and his son having received an officer's commission in the Russian guards, he wrote to Frede rick William II. requesting his sanction to the transfer of his own services; but at the same time insisting that, as his child had been educated in a Prussian military school, the services of that child should be devoted to the Prussian state. Frederick, however, refused to shackle his sanction with any such stipulation; and the consequence was, that the late Field-Marsbal enlisted under Russian banners. His stratagetic acquirements, as far as regards theory, were perfected in the military school at St. Petersburgh. He rose rapidly from the Guards to an appointment on the staff: though young in years, his ta'ent was so eminent as to entitle him to the grades of LieutenantGeneral and Quartermaster-general in the campaigns of 1813 and 1814: and he became subsequently Adjutant-general to the late Emperor, whose confidence in him descended to his successor Nicholas. In the conflict at Austerlitz he was wounded by a spent ball, which lodged in the palm of bis hand. also distinguished himself in the actions of Eylau and Friedland, and in the celebrated campaign of 1812. At Dresden he received a severe contusion, and had two horses killed under him. The appointment of Count Diebitsch to the supreme command of the Russian army, at the commencement of the campaign against Turkey in 1829, was the exclusive act of the Emperor. The nomination excited considerable discontent in the first instance, because the person selected was not a native Russian. The operations of the campaign and its result show that the choice of the Emperor was not misplaced; and it is stated that the "greatest living master in the art of war" gave his testimony to the merits of the general in the following terms "I don't know which is to be most admired, the original plan of the campaign, or the combination of skill, courage, and caution, with which it has been conducted; but this I do know, that this single campaign places Diebitsch at the very head of his profession."

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The Emperor made the Field-Marshal a Count, with the title of Sabalkanski, or the Traverser of the Balkan; and on the 12th of Sept. 1829, sent him, with the order of St. George of the 1st class, the following acknowledgment of his merits: "The army entrusted to your command has not ceased, since the commencement of the present campaign, to distinguish itself by the most brilliant exploits. The total defeat of the main force of the Grand Vizier at the village of Kulewtscha, the taking of the fortress of Silistria, the ever-memorable passage of Mount Balkan, the capture of all the fortresses in the Bay of Bourgas, and that of the second capital Adrianople, are deeds which cover the army with imperishable laurels. But not satisfied with this, your distinguished military talents have shewn to the world an event which exceeds all expectation, and you did not delay to plant our victorious standards upon the very gates of the enemy's capital, and communicating on the right wing with our forces in the Archipelago, and on the left with those in the Black Sea, at length triumphantly compelled the Ottoman Porte to acknowledge its inability to resist the Russian arms, and decidedly to implore clemency."

Thus possessing the entire confidence of Nicholas he was immediately selected, on the breaking out of the Polish revolution, to restore the Russian dominion in that country. There has been a fatality throughout this war, favourable to the Pules. Among its instances are the frozen bridges of the Vistula gliding suddenly away-the cholera waging an exterminating war upon their ill-provided opponents-disunion and fatigue paralysing the hostile army—and, in fine, the "Balkan-Passer" checked, distracted by difficulties, and undermined, at length succumbed to his altered destiny by taking refuge in the grave. On the morning of May 28 (June 9), the Field Marshal had felt himself unwell, but during the whole day he appeared to be in good health, had eaten, and seemed in good spirits as usual. In the evening he went to bed at 10 o'clock, was soon called up to attend to some business, and still appeared quite well. About two o'clock in the morning he suddenly felt indisposed, and called to his attendants, but it was not till past three o'clock that, finding himself grow worse, he ordered the physician to be called. The symptoms of cholera soon became very violent, and after severe sufferings terminated in death at a quarter past 11 in the morning.

In person, Diebitsch was short, brown, and walked with his head down; he ap

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peared cold, but his eye was fiery, and continually occupied; his forehead was high, like that of Napoleon, and his back bent somewhat crooked.

He was married, in 1815, to Jane, Baroness de Tornau, niece to the lady of Prince Barclay de Tolly. Of this marriage there was no issue. His lady died in the course of last year. The marshal, when dying, expressed a wish that his remains should be buried in Silesia.

ADM. EARL OF NORTHESK. May 28. In Albermarle-street, after a short but severe illness, aged 73, the Right Hon. William Carnegie, seventh Earl of Northesk and Lord Rosehill, in the peerage of Scotland; an Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of Great Britain, G.C.B., K. C., LL.D. and Governor of the British Linen Company's Bank.

He was born April 10, 1758, and was the second but eldest surviving son of George the sixth Earl, a Captain R. N. by Lady Anne Leslie, eldest daughter of Alexander Earl of Leven and Melville; and first sailed at the age of thirteen with Capt. the Hon. S. Barrington, in the Albion. He next served with Capt. Macbride, in the Southampton, and Captain Stair Douglas, in the Squirrel; was made acting Lieutenant in the Nonsuch, and confirmed by Lord Howe, in 1777, into the Apollo. He afterwards served with Admirals Sir J. L. Ross and Sir G. B. Rodney; and by the latter was made a commander after the action with the Count de Guichen, April 17, 1780, and appointed to the Blast fire-ship, from which he removed into the St. Eustatia, and was present in her at the reduction of the island of that name, Feb. 3, 1781.

Capt. Carnegie obtained post rank on the 7th April, 1782, and at the ensuing peace returned to England in the Enterprize frigate, and was put out of commission. In 1788 he succeeded his elder brother, as Lord Rosehill; and in 1790, on the Spanish armament, was appointed to the command of the Heroine of 32 guns; but was paid off when the apprehension of a war with that power ceased.

On the demise of his father, Jan. 29, 1792, his Lordship succeeded to the Earldom and estate. In January, 1793, he commissioned the Beaulieu frigate, and went to the Leward Islands; whence be returned towards the close of that year, in the Andromeda, which ship was shortly afterwards put out of commission. In 1796 Lord Northesk was appointed to the command of the Monmouth, of 64 guns, and employed in the North Sea, under the orders of Viscount

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Duncan, until, in May 1797, the spirit of disaffection, which had originated in the Channel Fleet, unfortunately spread to that squadron, and the Monmouth was one of the ships brought to the Nore: the subsequent events of that temporary delirium among our seamen, are matters of history. When the firmness of the mutineers was at length a little shaken, they determined to attempt a reconciliation with government through the medium of Lord Northesk. For this purpose, on the 6th June, the two delegates of the Monmouth were rowed on board that ship, where his Lordship was confined, and informed him it was the pleasure of the committee that he should immediately accompany them on board the Sandwich, as they had proposals to make leading to an accommodation; his Lordship complied, attended by one officer: he found the convention in the state cabin, consisting of sixty delegates, with the chief ringleader, Parker, sitting at their head. Having consented to bear the letter, Lord Northesk proceeded to London with this despatch; and after stopping a short time at the Admiralty, he attended Earl Spencer to the King. The demands of the seamen were rejected as exorbitant and unreasonable. Captain Knight (whose death we also record in p. 81,) was the bearer of the Admiralty's answer to the Mutineers. After the trials were over, Lord Northesk resigned the command of the Monmouth, and remained unemployed until 1800, when he was appointed to the Prince of 98 guns, in which ship he continued on Channel service until the suspension of

hostilities.

In 1803, his Lordship was appointed to the Britannia, of 100 guns, at Portsmouth, and soon after received the honour of a visit, on board that ship, from their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of York and Cambridge. Towards the close of the same year, the Britannia was stationed at St. Helen's, to guard that end of the Isle of Wight, in case of an invasion. She afterwards formed a part of the Channel fleet.

Lord Northesk was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral April 23, 1804, and, with his flag in the Britannia, continued to serve in the arduous blockade of Brest, until August in the following year, when he was detached with a squadron, under the orders of Sir Robert Calder, to reinforce Vice Admiral Collingwood off Cadiz. In the glorious and decisive battle of Trafalgar, his Lordship took a distinguished share. Previously to that memorable event, the Britannia had been directed by Lord Nelson, in