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OBITUARY.-Clergy Deceased.

of the Old Testament as allegories,— some of them as astronomical allegories. It elicited an answer from Dr. D'Oyley, under the title of "Letters to the Right Hon. Sir William Drummond, in defence of particular passages of the Old Testament against his late work entitled Edipus Judaicus.'' We believe some reply was returned in a pamphlet by Sir William or one of his friends.

CLERGY DECEASED.

May 24. At Lyndon, Rutlandshire, aged 66, the Rev. Wm. Baker, Rector of that parish and South Luffenham; and an active magistrate for the county. He was grandson of Henry Baker, esq. F. R. and A. S. author of works on the Microscope; nephew of David Erskine Baker, esq. author of the Biographia Dramatica; and son of Henry Baker, esq. who was also an author, (see the memoirs of the family, to which the deceased contributed, in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. v. pp. 272-278.) Mr. Baker was presented to his livings in 1796 and 1797. He was much addicted to science and mechanics, and particularly excelled in turnery. He has left two sons, one a clergyman, and the other a physician lately resident in London.

May 24. At Chaddleworth vicarage, Berks, aged 42, the Rev. J. K. Rundell, M. A. eldest son of the late Joseph Rundell, esq. of Gussage in Dorsetshire. He has left five children.

May 25. In his 80th year, the Rev. Wm. Leeves, Rector of Wrington in Somersetshire, to which church he was presented in 1779 by Mr. and Mrs. Pulteney. This gentleman was the author of the favourite plaintive air of Auld Robin Gray. He composed it in the year 1770; but its author was not known until so late as 1812, when it appeared in a volume of Miscellaneous Songs, published by Birchall and Co. under the author's sanction, and dedicated to Mr. Hammersley, the banker. It is related that, when Mr. Leeves lately heard Miss Stephens sing this ballad, he was so affectingly delighted with her expression and melting tones, that he shed tears. The songstress was much gratified on learning the effect her singing had produced on the venerable author, and was indulged in her wish for an introduction to the composer of the air which had contributed to her own celebrity. Mr. Leeves composed much sacred music; and his poetical productions, whether playful or serious, always combined taste and feeling. At his advanced age, his voice, though feeble, was harmonious, and could not be heard without deep emotion. Having held for nearly fifty years the rectory of Wrington (a village remarkable as the birth-place of Locke), he died beloved and respected by the whole neighbourhood.

May 80. At Tunbridge Wells, aged 82, the Rev. and Right Hon. Lord George Henry Spencer Churchill, third son of the Duke of Marlborough. His lordship was admitted to the degree of M. A. at Emanuel coll. Camb. in 1822. He married July 13, 1824, his cousin Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Rev. Edward Nares, D. D. Professor of Modern History at Oxford, by Lady Charlotte, daughter of Charles third Duke of Marlborough, K. G. By this lady, who survives him, his lordship has left no issue. His remains were interred at Penbury near Tunbridge Wells.

June 5. At Whitley Rectory, Woro. aged 36, the Rev. William Andrew Foley, of Newport House, Heref. Rector of Whitley, and Vicar of Claverdon with Norton Linsey; cousin to Lord Foley, and brother to Col. Foley, late M. P. for Herefordshire. He was the youngest son of the late Hon. A. Foley, M. P. for Droitwich, by his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of Boulter Tomlinson, esq. He was of Trin. Coll. Camb. B. A. 1815. M. A. 1819; was presented to Claverdon in 1818 by his brother-in-law the Ven. R. F. Onslow, as Archdeacon of Worcester; and to Whitley in 1820 by Lord Foley.

DEATHS.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY. May 4. Aged 34, Edw. Quin, esq. M.A. barrister, of Hare-court, Temple. May 23. In Gloucester-place, King'sroad, aged 72, Mary, widow of Sir Wm. More, fifth and last baronet of More-hall, Lancashire.

June 5. At Brompton, Harry Stoe Van Dyke, esq. author of several poetical effusions, which appeared in the first series of the present London Magazine. In 1824 he united with Mr. Bowring in editing the Batavian Anthology, containing some truly beautiful translations from the Dutch lyric poets; and in the early part of last year he published The Gondola, a collection of light and entertaining stories, after the manner of Boccaccio.

June 28. In Highbury-place, aged 82, Eliz. relict of Cha. Wilkinson, esq. late of the Customs.

Lately. Iu Clarges-st. Lt.-Col. the Hon. Robt. Clotworthy Clements, brother to the Earl of Leitrim. He was the second and

youngest son of Robert, the first and late Earl, by Lady Eliz. Skeffington, eldest dau. of Clotworthy, first Earl of Massareene. He entered the 1st foot guards as Ensign in 1806; became Lieut. and Capt. 1812, brevet Major 1815, Lt.-Col. 1823. He served in Flanders and at Waterloo. The Colonel held the office of searcher, packer, and gauger, at the Port of Dublin. He has died unmarried.

July 1. In Bread-st. And. Walsh, esq.

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At Chelsea, aged 58, John Crowther, esq. of Regent-street.

July 2. On Wandsworth-common, Wm. Willis, jun. esq. of Lombard-street.

July 3. Aged 40, Harriett, wife of James Lys Seager, esq. of Palace-yd. Westminster. At Twickenham, in her 30th year, the Rt. Hon. Eleanora, Countess of Uxbridge. She was the second dau. of the late John Campbell, esq. by Lady Char. Campbell, dau. of John, 5th Duke of Argyle; was married to Lt.-Col. the Earl of Uxbridge, in Scotland Aug. 5, 1819, and in London Feb. 8, 1820; and has left issue, a son, Lord Paget, and two daughters.

July 4. In South Audley-street, the infant dau. of Edward M. Foxhall, esq.

July 5. In Cavendish-square, the infant son of Visc. Duncannon.

In Cecil-street, aged 30, Marcus Somerville Garston, esq.

At Hampstead, Major David Reed Parker. He became Captain in the 14th dragoons, in 1794; Major in Nugent's Levy, 1800, and was on the half pay of that corps.

July 6. At Cannon-house, Little Chelsea, Eliz."relict of the Rev. John Mitchell, late Rector of Kingston Bagpuze, Berks.

In the Albany, aged 68, Clement Cartwright, esq. Fellow of All Soul's College, Oxford, and uncle to the Knight in Parliament for Northamptonshire. Mr. C. took the degree of M. A. in 1785.

At the house of her brother-in-law, Mr. Elliott, Charter-house-st. aged 21, Anne, dau. of Mr. Bradley, of Hernfield.

July 7. In Great Duke-st. Westminster, aged 74, the Rt. Hon. Charlotte, Countess Dowager of Suffolk and Berkshire; aunt to the Earls of Aylesford and Dartmouth. She was the eldest dau. of Heneage, third Earl of Aylesford, by Lady Char. Seymour, sixth dau. of Charles, sixth Duke of Somerset. Her Ladyship became the second wife of Henry, twelfth Earl of Suffolk, Aug. 14, 1777. She had by him two sons, Henry Viscount Andover, who died when three months old; and Henry, who was born Earl of Suffolk in 1779 (for his father had deceased five months previously), but lived only two days. On her infant's death the titles devolved on his great uncle, and afterwards in 1783 on his cousin, father of the present Earl, who succeeded in 1820. Her Ladyship's charities have been widely experienced.

Mr. J. R. Griffin, solicitor, of Upper Montagu-street, Montagu-square.

Aged 62, Kemys Radcliffe, esq. and on the same day, his only surviving dau. Emllia Anne Radcliffe.

July 8. Aged 12, Eliz. Jane, dau. of Mr. Thos. Pocknell, of the Blackheath-road.

July 9. At 85, Goswell-road, Matthew Mendes, esq. surgeon, and for many years assistant-surgeon in the E. I. C. Bengal Establishment.

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At Salisbury-place, Regent's-park, in his 24th year, Duncan Forbes Duff, esq. eldest surviving son of Hugh Robert Duff, esq. of Muirtown, Inverness.

July 10. At Islington, Eliz. relict of the late Capt. Joseph Street.

Geo. Hoskins, esq. of the Secretary of State's Office, Whitehall.

July 12. At Fulham, Mat. Burchell, esq. July 13. In Thayer-st. Manchester-sqEsther, youngest dau. of Abraham Maling, esq. late of Bury St. Edmund's.

July 14. At Dartmouth-terrace, Blackheath, Mrs. Burn, relict of the late MajorGen. Andrew Burn, Royal Marines.

July 15. Aged 6, James, second son of Sir Sandford and Lady Graham.

July 16. In Tavistock-place, Mary Gertrude, infant dau. of N. H. Nicolas, esq. barrister-at-law.

July 17. Aged 20, Charlotte Frances, third dau. of Mr. Thornton, late of Fenchurch-street.

At Newington-green, in her 56th year, Anne, wife of John Rotton, esq. Deputy Comptroller of the Excise.

At his house in Charles-squ. Mr. Swainston Harrison, of Mark-lane, wine-merchant. At Walworth, in his 60th year, John Idle, esq.

esq.

July 18. Charlotte, wife of Bruno Silva, of Hunter-street, Brunswick-square. In Caroline-street, Bedford-square, Caroline, wife of Charles Nicholson, esq.

BERKS.-Lately. At Windsor, aged 68, Lieut.-Gen. Geo. Lewis, R. A. This officer was appointed from the Academy at Woolwich to a 2d Lieutenancy in the Royal regiment of Artillery in 1776; he became 1st Lieutenant 1779, Captain-Lieut. 1787; Captain 1794, Major in the army 1795, Lt.-Colonel 1800, Major of Artillery 1801, Brevet Col. 1810, Major-Gen. 1813, Lt.General 1825. His services were chiefly confined to the West Indies, whither he first embarked in Nov. 1778. From ill health he retired from the active duties of his profession at the peace of Amiens.

BUCKS.-June 30. At High Wycombe, Georgiana Maria Hutchinson, wife of Gen. Sarrazin, and youngest dau. of late Capt. Samuel Hutchinson, of the Horse Guards, and Deputy-Consul at the Brille, in Holland.

CORNWALL.--June 30. At Padstow, Charlotte, dau. of the late Tho. Rawlings, esq.

DEVON.-July 14. At Plymouth, Dr. Wm. Bremner, late of Dominica.

DORSET.-July 4. At Sturminster, Newton, aged 74, Thomas Colbourne, esq. banker.

July 15. At her uncle's, R. Alner, esq. Piddletown, Emma, dau. of Mr. J. Miller, late of Alton.

ESSEX.-July 13. At Wanstead, of the hooping cough, Walter Wilson, only child

of the late Rev. Walter Mayers, of Worton, Oxon, aged 17 months.

July 18. At Witham, aged 48, Hannah, wife of W. H. Pattison, esq.

July 20. Aged 58, Samuel Daniell, esq. of Colchester.

Lately. At Wickham Bishop's, in her fourth year, Margaret, youngest daughter of the Rev. Tho. Leigh, Rector of that parish, and of St. Magnus, London Bridge, surviv ing her mother only nine months (see our Magazine for October last, p. 380).

GLOUCESTER.-June 23. Aged 23, Eliza, eldest dau. of Mr. Cha. Soulbieu Desprez, of York Crescent, Clifton.

June 30. At Clifton, in her 81st year, Eliz. widow of J. Rodon, esq. of Jamaica.

Lately. At the Ordnance Barracks, Bristol, aged 51, Cap. T. Wilkinson, late of the ad Garrison Battalion.

July 1. In Lower College Green, Bristol, J. Ballard, esq.

July 8. Aged 84, Alice, relict of the late Capt. Jas. Lambert, 52d foot.

July 16. At Redland, near Bristol, Margaret, wife of the Rev. John Parsons.

July 18. At Bristol, in her 50th year, Sarah, wife of Mr. Beadey, of Wotton Astleredge.

HANTS--July 2. At Southampton, Margaret, relict of Humphrey Osborn, esq. eldest dau. of the late Wm. Newton, esq. of the island of St. Christopher's.

July 10. At Fareham, aged 69, Mary, Esther, relict of the late Edw. D'Auvergne, esq. nephew of the late Gen. D'Auvergne, of Salisbury.

July 13. At Rounhams House, near Southampton, aged 97, the Hon. Helen, widow of the late Oliver Colt, of Auld Hame, co. East Lothian, and aunt to Lord Blantyre. She was the 2d dau. of Robert 7th Lord Blantyre, by his 2d wife Margaret, daughter of William Hay, of Drumelzier, esq. cousin to the 1st Marquis of Tweedale. July 16. At the Preventive Station, Christchurch, Eliz. wife of Lieut. Butcher, R.N. HERTS.-July 11. Eliz. wife of Wm. Kay, esq. of Tring Park.

July 17. Mr. John Brickwell, surgeon, of Sawbridgeworth, leaving a widow and 14 children.

KENT.-July 6. In his 76th year, Mr. Woollett, of Gould-square, and Chislehurst. July 9. Mary, wife of the Rev. John Mossop, Rector of Hothfield.

July 12. Aged 39, Mr. E. V. Shott, of Lee.

LANCASHIRE-July 1. Eliz. wife of Robt. Wm. Hopkins, esq. solicitor, Preston.

July 5. At Ardwick-green, Manchester, Robert Slack, esq.

MIDDLESEX.-June 25. At Clarence Cottage, Homerton, Margaret, wife of Wm. Judson Bantock, of Doddington-grove, Kennington, and only child of the late Mr. Brockus, of Nine Ash Farm, Ongar, Essex.

July 2. At Southgate, aged 62, Tho. Sowerby, esq.

NORFOLK.-July 13. At Gunton-park, aged 11 months, the infant son of Lord Suffield.

July 19. At Cromer, in her 41st year, Sophia, wife of Sam. Tyssen, esq. of Yarborough-hall, and youngest dau. of the late John Baker, esq. of Deal.

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.-July 5. At Newark, aged 72, Mrs. Hannah Rowland Litchford.

OXFORDSHIRE.-July 5. At Oxford, aged 85, Rich. Curtis, esq. brother of the late Rev. Dr. Curtis, Fellow of Magdalen College.

July 19. At Stadhampton, aged 62, Mr. Spenlove.

July 23. At Oxford, aged 66, of water in the head, John Gilpin. For the last twenty-five days previous to his death, he lay in a profound sleep, from which he could not be raised without much difficulty, and if spoken to replied incoherently, and again sank into the same state of torpor and apparent insensibility.

SOMERSET. Lately. At Moorland, near North Petherton, aged 103, Mr. T. Macey. July 2. At Bath, Marian, wife of Dan. Ward, esq. of Brewton.

July 8. At Backwell Hill, John Robert Lucas, esq.

July 9. At Bath, in her 80th year, Mrs. Martha Farran.

July 17. At Bath, advanced in years, Sarah, widow of the late Ald. Brookes, of Woodstock, co. Oxford.

SURREY.-July 13. At Croydon, at her father's, Geo. Steinman, esq. Louisa Bastin, wife of Mr. P. H. Byrne.

SUSSEX.-July 2. Aged 51, Anne, wife of Major Philip Stewart, of Devonshire-place, Brighton.

July 8. At Northiam, in his 18th year, Edw. third son of the Rev. Dr. Lord.

July 20. At Hastings, Anne, wife of John Parkinson, esq. of Skinner-st. and second dau. of Wm. Row, Esq. of Totten

ham.

WARW.-July 1. At Leamington, aged 88, the relict of the late Rev. Alex. Cromleholme, Rector of Sherrington, Bucks.

YORK.-July 2. At Huddersfield, Mrs. Madden, mother of the Rev. Wyndham Madden, incumbent of Christ Church Woodhouse.

July 6. At Whitby, aged 86, John Holt, Esq.

July 8. At Woodhall, near Leeds, aged 65, Joseph Thackrah, esq. July 17. Aged 60, Mr. James Hartley, of Halifax, merchant.

SCOTLAND.-June 22.

At Nottinghamhouse, Caithness, aged 74, John Campbell Sutherland, esq. of Forse.

July 5. Aged 83, Dr. Andrew Duncan, Senior Professor of the Theory of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh.

IRELAND. Lately. In Grafton-st. Dublin, aged 4, the Hon. Henry Joseph Blake, eldest son of Lord Wallscourt.

ABROAD.-March 4. At the Mauritius, on board the George Canning, aged 22, William, only son of Wm. Wadd, esq. of Park-place, St. James's-street.

April 16. On board the Acorn, which foundered, Lieut. J. O. Bliss, R. N. youngest son of the late Rev. Philip Eliss, Rector of Frampton Cotterell, Gloucestershire (of whom an account appeared in vol. LXXIII. p. 284); and brother of Rev. Dr. Bliss, Registrar of the University of Oxford.

June 1. At Zante, aged 34, Captain Francis Abney-Hastings, brother to Sir Charles Abney-Hastings, Bart. M. P. for Leicester. He was the younger son of the late Gen. Sir Charles Hastings, by Parnell, dau, and sole heiress of Thomas Abney, of Wellesley, co. Derby, esq.; and received with his brother the royal licence to use the name of Abney.

June 3. In Dominica, after a short illness, John O'Driscol, esq. late Chief Justice of that colony. His remains were consigned to the grave on the following day, attended by the Governor and all the public functionaries.

Mr. O'Driscol was on the eve of returning to England to take out his family. June 19. At Malta, in his 27th year, Major Fred. Culling Smith, 80th Reg.

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July 2. At Beauvoir, Guernsey, Wm. Kershaw, esq. late of King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street.

July 17. At Paris, of an aneurism of the heart, aged 65, the Duke of San Carlos, Ambassador from Spain to France. The Duke was a native of Lima, but was very early employed in the Spanish army, and became shortly afterwards the tutor of the present King of Spain. He is succeeded by his eldest son, the Count del Puerto, an officer in the Royal Guards of Spain.

Lately. Near Torgau, of apoplexy, aged 72, Charles Augustus, Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar. He had reigned longest of all the Sovereigns of Europe now living, having succeeded to the Dukedom at the age of eight months, on the death of his father, Duke Ernest Augustus Constantine, May 28, 1758. He was declared of age, Sept. 3, 1775, and married a month after, Louisa, sister to the present Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt. He had issue by that Princess, who survives him, two sons, Charles Frederic, now Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar, who married in 1804 a sister of the Emperor of the Russias, and has a son and heir, born in 1818, and other children; and Duke Charles Bernard, who married in 1816, the Duchess Ida of Saxe Meiningen, only sister of the Duchess of Kent, and has also a family.

BILL OF MORTALITY, from June 25, to July 22, 1828.

Christened.

Females

Buried.