The Blayney was a fine vessel of 200 tons burthen.

Dcc. 14. At the Maidstone Winter Assizes, after a trial which lasted two days, John Bodle was acquitted of the charge of having poisoned his grandfather at Plumstead. The trial presented one of the most extraordinary scenes ever witnessed in a Court of Justice. A youth, accused of the murder of his grandfather, charges his own father with the crime, and also with that of attempting, by throwing the guilt on another, to compass the death of his unoffending child; and this strange and appalling statement was apparently so far justified, that, immediately after, the prisoner was acquitted almost by acclamation.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.

Dec. 4. A public meeting of the Newsvenders of the metropolis was held at the Lyceum Tavern, in the Strand, for the purpose of taking into consideration the law of libel, as applicable to themselves. It appears that eighty-four actions had been brought against various newsvenders, by one and the same individual, and for one and the same libel. That individual had already obtained a verdict, with 3007. damages and costs, against the proprietors of the newspaper in which the libel originally appeared, and verdicts also against two newsvenders, with 107. damages in one case, and 57. in the other, besides costs to the amount of 170l., and that one of those newsvenders has been in prison for the fine and expenses since last June. Several resolutions were adopted by the meeting, condemning the present state of the libel laws, which could send men to gaol for the mere nominal offence of selling a newspaper, over the contents of which they had no control.

Dec. 11. An important case was decided in the Court of King's Bench, relative to the liability of the inhabitants of Richmond Terrace, Whitehall, to the payment of poor and other rates. The suit was instituted by the parish of St. Margaret, Westminster, against the whole

of the noble and wealthy individuals occupying premises on this spot, to recover arrears of those rates, amounting to several thousand pounds, the parties not having paid anything towards the poor rates since the mansions were erected, under the pretext that the site upon which they stand was formerly that of a palace belonging to the first Duke of Richmond, and that the land being the property of the Crown, they were exempt from taxes of the above description. The present action was one of trespass, brought by Sir C. Burrell, Bart., who resides on Richmond Terrace, against Henry Nicholson the beadle. The Solicitor-general, for the defendant, showed that the locality in question was not exempted from rates by reason of its being situated on the site of a royal palace, and also, that it had been originally lay property. The Lord Chief Justice summed up, and the jury returned a verdiet for the defendant, thereby affirming the liability of the inhabitants to pay. Privy-gardens, and some other places adjacent, where stand the princely mansions of Sir R. Peel, the Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Dover, and other titled and wealthy individuals, are placed in a similar situation. (See our report of papers read before the Society of Antiquaries.)

Dec. 18. Furzey, who was for some time in custody on a charge of being connected with the Calthorpe-street riot, obtained a verdict, with 401. damages, against the proprietor of the Morning Chronicle, for a libel, setting forth that Furzey had been clearly identified as the murderer of the unfortunate policeman Cully.

Demolition of City Churches.-We are happy to find that the Wards of Bridge, Candlewick, Dowgate, and Vintry, have respectively passed temperate but firm resolutions against the meditated destruction of City Churches. The Vestries of St. Clement, Eastcheap, and Allhallows the Great, have also resolved to memorialize his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Bishop of London, humbly praying those excellent Prelates not to sanction the proposed scheme.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

Nov. 15. Knighted, Capt. Arthur Farquhar, R.N. Nov. 22. Lord Howard de Walden, to be Minister Plenipotentiary to her Most Faithful Majesty; Sir Edw. Cromwell Disbrowe, to the King of Sweden; Brig.-Gen. Lord W. Russell, to the King of Wurtemburg.

Dec. 6. 13th Light Dragoons, Major Wm. Persse, to be Lieut. Col.-16th Light Dragoons,

Capt. C. R. Cureton, to be Major.-Maj. Wm. Beckwith, 14 drag. to be a retired Lt. Col. of Infautry.

Dec. 13. 89th Foot, Brevet Lieut.-Col. Hon. Geo. Lionel Dawson Damer, to be Major.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Hon. H. E. J. Howard, to be Deau of Lichfield. Rev. A. Atherley, to a Preb, in Chichester Cath. Rev. P. Hunt, to a Canon in Canterbury Cath.

Rev. J. H. Alt, Enford V. Wilts.

Rev. R. Brickdale, Telthorpe R. Norfolk.
Rev. R. Broadley, Swinton P.C. Lancashire.
Rev. J. Bromilow, Billinge P. C. Lancashire.
Rev. R. Clarke, Heanlochbervie Ch. co. Suther
land, Scotland.

Rev. F. Cole, St. Feock V. Cornwall.

Rev. C. H. Cox, Littleton P.C. co. Worcester.
Rev. J. B. Edwards, St. Stephen's V. Cornwall.
Rev. T. G. W. Freston, Dalingworth R. co. Glouc.
Rev. J. Gaskin, Bitton P.C. co. Gloucester.
Rev. E. A. Holmes, S. Peter's R. Suffolk.
Rev. T. H. Horne, St. Edmund's R. Lombard-st.
Rev. B. Howell, Acton Round P. C. Salop.
Rev. W. P. Hutton, Little Birch R. Herefordsh.
Rev. S. Mayelston, Brantingham V. co. York.
Rev F. Ouid, Kilteel V. co. Kildare.
Rev. W. W. Park, Whelpington V. Northumb.
Rev. E. Pole, Templeton R. Devon.
Rev. J. H. Pooley, Scotter R. Lincoln.

Rev. W Potter, St. Mary the Less P. C. Cambridge.
Rev. J. Punnett, St. Erth V. Cornwall.
Rev. J. Richardson, Alsager P.C. Cheshire.
Rev. H. Rowe, Stonehouse P.C. Devon.
Rev. R. W. Scure, Aldeburgh V. Suffolk.
Rev. S. Smith, St. Mary P.C. Ely, Camb.
Rev. G. T. Smith, Uffculm V. Devon.
Rev. W. T. Wild, Weston V. Hertford.
Rev. E. Vaux, Romsey V. Hants.

Rev. M. Vavasour, Ashby-de-la-Zouch V. co. Leic.
Rev. L. Yarker, Chillingham V. Northumberland.
Rev. W. Young, St Helen's P.C. Isle of Wight.
Rev. R. H. Williams, Grendon P.C. Herefordsh.
Rev. C. Grant, Chap. to Lord Dutham.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Sir C. T. Metcalfe, Bart. to be Governor of the new Presidency of Agra.

T. B. Macaulay, esq. M.P. to be fourth Ordinary Member of the Council in India.

Rev. H. Banfather, Head Master of the Grammar School, Norwich.

Rev. H. M. J. Buckle, Head Master of Gram. School, Durham.

BIRTHS.

At West

Nov. 5. The wife of John Shephard, esq. of Keusington-sq. a dau.-15. At Teddington, Lady Campbell, a dau.-20. At the dow- Lady Aruadell's, Dover-st. the Hon. Mis. Neave, a sou.-18. At Grove House, Fulham, the wife of the Rev. W. Roy, D.D. late Senior Chaplain of Madras, a dau. 22. At Week St. Mary, Cornwall, the wife of the Rev. Walter Gee, a son.At Lord George Seymour's, St. George's place, the Visc'tess Boyle, a son and heir.-23. At Trowbridge, the wife of the Rev. Francis Fulford, a dau.—— At Ealing, Middlesex, the wife of the Rev. Sır Herbert Oakeley, Bart. a son-At Wimbledon, the wife of Col. Adam Hogg, E.I.C. a dau.At Topsham, the wife of the Rev. H. Thorp, a dau.-27. At Hanover, the Duchess of Cambridge, a dau.-At Marble Hill, Twickenham, the Lady Alice Peel, a son.-28. Dean, Wilts, the wife of the Rev. Edw. Arney, a son. At Harrow, the wife of the Rev. Dr. Longley, a son.--30. At Bath, the wife of Capt. Lysaght, R. N. a son.-Dec. 1. At Stopham. house, Sussex, the wife of Geo. Bartelot Smyth, esq. a son.--2. In Belgrave-street, the wife of E. Berwick Harwood, esq. a son. At Newbattle Abbey, Dalkeith, the M'ness of Lothian, a son.-6. At Lypiatt house, Wilts, the wife of W. Waldron, esq. a dau.At Perry Barr, Staff. Mrs. Hunter Hulme, a dau.-8. At Dover, the wife of Capt. Sinart, a son.-10. At Sussex House, Hammersmith, the wife of Lieut. Col. A. Robertson, a son.-11. At Horsmonden, the wife of the Rev. Wm. M. Smith Marriott, a dau. --In Eaton place, the lady of Sir John Ogilvy, Bart. a dau.-In Cornwall terrace, Regent's park, the wife of W. Paynter, esq. barrister-atlaw, a son.

MARRIAGES.

Nov. 15. A. T. Malkin, esq. of Trin. collCamb. to Marianne, dau. of Rev. J. Addison Carr, Rector of Hadstock.-18. Capt. Dunt, to Sophia St. Ives Mary, eldest dau. of the late Capt. Jarvis, R.M M.-25. At Reading, Rev. J. King, Rector of Bradenham, Bucks, to Maria, only dau. of Tho. Rickford, esq.-Rev. W. Master, Rector of Bucknell, to Lucy Eliz. only dau. of Benj. Woods, esq. of Blakesley, Northamptonshire.-26. At Paris, Geo Martón, esq. only son of Col. Marton, of Capernwray Hall, Lancashire, to Lucy Sarah, dau. of the late Right Hon. Lord Chief Justice Dallas.At Bitton, Gloucestershire, Lieut. W. Glennie, R.N. to Eliz. Cath. eldest dau. of H. A. Barker, esq. of Wilbridge, Gloucestershire.-27. At St. John's, Savoy, the Rev. John Dowues, to Lucy, dau. of J. Todd, of Lancaster place, esq.-At Trinity Church, Marylebone, G. H. C. Scott, esq. of Devonshue-place, to Mary Favell, second dau. of the late Geo. Dehany, esq. of Jamaica.-At St. Mary's, Bryanston-sq. the Rev. G. A. Burnaby, of Hazlebeach Hall, Northamptonshire, to Harriet, third dau. of H. Villebois, esq. of Gloucesterplace.-28. At Sculcoates, co. York, the Rev. H. Dawson, to Maria, youngest dau, of the late Capt. Andrews, of Alford, Lincolnshire.—At Nantwich, T. Bower, esq. to Annette, only dau. of the late Rev. W. Salmon, Vicar of Tudeley, Kent. The Rev. B. Lucas Cubitt, son of Geo. Cubitt, esq. of Catfield, Norfolk, to Einma, youngest dau. of Francis Holyoake, esq. of Tettenhall, Staff. At St. George's, Hanover sq. Gilchrist Whisker, nephew of John Borthwick Gilchrist, LL.D. to Cecilia Somerville, only dau. of the late Capt. Burton, E.I.C.-At Dulverton, co. Somerset, Henry Hall, esq. to Charlotte, youngest dau. of the late Capt. Gibson, R.N.-Dec. 2. At Chicksands Priory, Bediordshire, Capt. C. Bulkeley, to Charlotte, dau. of Sir W. and Lady Todd. 4. At Sherborne, David Bate, esq. of Torpoint, Cornwall, to Theophila Annie, only dau. of the late Capt. John Nash, R.N.5. At Box, Wilts, the Rev. W. Fowle, Rector of Allington, to Anne Fawcett, eldest dau. of the late Rev. R. W. Moor, Rector of Sandford Orcas.

-At Broadwater, Sussex, Lieut. Col. Bonner, to Francis Maria, eldest dau. of the late Major Bean, R.A.7. At Keston, Kent, the Rev. J. Kirkpatrick, to Eliz Ann, eldest dau. of the Rev. J. W. Martin.-9. At Bromham, near Devizes, Cuthbert Johnson, esq. of Wallington, Berks, to Jane, second dau. of the Rev. Dr. Starky, of Spye Park, Wilts.-- 10. At Dodington, Gloucestershire, H. Lannoy Hunter, jun. esq. of Beach Hill, Berks, to Charlotte Octavia, dau. of Sir C. Bethel Codrington, Bart.

-At Culzean Castie, Ayr, N. B. Rich. Oswald, esq of Cavets, to Lady Mary Kennedy, second dau. of the Marquis of Ailsa.-At St. James's, Charles H. Pigot, esq. of Great Marlborough-st. nephew of Sir G. Pigot, Bart. to Leonora, second dau. of Sir W. Russell, Bart. of York-place, Portman square.-14. At Leamington, Capt. Hamil ton, Scots Fusileer Guards, to Catherine Emily, second dau. of W. Wynne, esq. of Dublin.At St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, Edward, youngest sou of the late Deputy Greenaway, to Jane Anna, eldest dau. of Stephen Cox, esq. of Nottinghamstreet, Marylebone, and Turnham green.-17. At Warnford, Hants, the Rev. A. Atherley Hammond, of West End Lodge, near Southampton, to Eliz. Malpas, eldest dau. of the late T. L. O. Davies, esq. of Alresford.--At Bridgewater, the Rev. John Ailen Giles, to Aona Sarah, dau. of the late Fred. Dickinson, esq.- -At Great Amwell, Herts, the Rev. Henry Coddington, Vicar of Ware-cum-Thundridge, to Priscilla, dau, of the Rev. Dr. Batten, Principal of the East India College, Haileybury.--Lady Catherine Grimston, second dau. of the Earl of Verulam, to Mr. Bar. ham, son of the late Lady Caroline Barham.

MARSHAL JOURDAN.

Nov. 23. At Paris, aged 71, Marshal Jourdan, Governor of the Hotel des Invalides.

Jean-Baptiste Jourdan was born at Limoges, April 29, 1762. In his sixteenth year he enrolled himself in the regiment of Auxerrois, and proceeded with a part of his regiment to America, from whence he did not return until the peace. On his arrival in France, he obtained a Lieutenant's commission, and in 1790 became Captain of Chasseurs in the National Guard of his native town.

In 1791 he commanded a battalion of volunteers of Haute-Vienne, which he led to the army of the North, and distinguished himself under Dumourier in the campaign of Belgium. His military talents were appreciated; and, in May, 1793, he obtained the rank of General of Brigade. In 1794 he was advanced to the superior command of the army of the Moselle. It was at the head of these troops that he gained the victory of Fleurus, and that he planted his colours on the Rhine from Coblentz to Cleves. France owed to him the possession of those beautiful provinces, which she has frequently declared to be her natural boundaries.

In the succeeding year he crossed the Rhine, and maintained the war with various success. The same results followed in 1796. In 1797 he started in his politieal career, having been nominated to the Council of Five Hundred. From this era his devotion to his country was divided between the tribune, the army, and his diplomatic duties. On the 18th Brumaire he was among the small number of those who foresaw the ambitious views of Bonaparte, and who acted on the reserve. The Emperor eyed him with disfavour, but he eventually rendered justice to his deserts and his unbending integrity. In 1800 he commanded in Piedmont; and so mildly that sixteen years after the King of Sardinia sent him his portrait splendidly set in diamonds. In 1802 he was called to the Council of State; the year suceeeding saw him at the head of the army of Italy: and on the memorable 19th of May, 1804, he was created a Marshal; but on the breaking out of the Austrian war (1805), he was superseded by Massena (as he had been before in Swabia), an indignity of which he complained without effect. In 1806 he governed Naples under Joseph Bonaparte; and in 1808 he accompanied that personage into Spain as his Major-General. In the latter post Marshal Jourdan was overwhelmed with disgust, and his counsels were met with

contempt, by the courtiers who surrounded the King of Spain; he demanded and obtained his recall at the close of 1809. However, when the Russian campaign was decided, to his chagrin he was sent back to Spain, where he conducted the inglorious retreat from Madrid, and was at length overwhelmed in the ruin of Vittoria. Jourdan had already the reputation of having sustained more defeats than any other French general (from which he had acquired the significant nick-name of The Anvil); but this last defeat threw all his former ill success into the shade. In his flight from the field he threw down his truncheon, which was found and ludicrously displayed by some of our soldiers. Jourdan did not think himself safe until he reached Paris. There he quietly watched the declining fortunes of his master, after whose abdication he received a command from Louis.

In

When Bonaparte returned from Elba, Jourdan retired into the country. He was for some time undecided as to what course he should pursue; but at length consented to take a seat in the Chamber of Peers. His active services was not required, but he was entrusted with the government of Besançon. He was one of the first to recognise the authority of Louis after the second restoration. 1817 he was placed over the seventh military division, and in the year following was admitted among the new peers. During the first days of the revolution of July, he was called to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, but the men of the next day came in, and he willingly surrendered to them his place. Shortly afterwards he was appointed Governor of the Invalides, where he made himself as beloved by the aged warriors under his care as he had been by the soldiers when he was in the army. Labouring for some time under a fatal disease, he supported his protracted sufferings without the least diminution of his placidity and amenity of disposition. He died poor; after holding his rank of Marshal for 30 years, and filling some of the most important offices, he has scarcely left 15,000 francs in the funds.

Marshal Jourdan was the last representative of the military glories of the Republic. "Jourdan is a poor general," said Napoleon at St. Helena; "but he possessed the virtues, rare among his competitors, of honour, integrity, and humanity." Throughout the protracted civil commotions of his country, and the varied forms of its Government, he was still consistent. His disinterestedness enabled him to look unmoved at all the efforts of

power, and to withstand the intoxicating seductions of the Imperial sway.

His funeral took place Nov. 28, at 12 o'clock. The two lodges at the entrancegate, and the grand portal of the Hotel des Invalides, as well as the principal doors of the church, were hung with black cloth. The interior of the church was also hung with black draperies, and ornamented with military trophies, funeral urns, and tri-coloured flags; and lighted by innumerable wax tapers, in a style which produced a most imposing effect. A rich catafalque was erected in the centre, in which the remains of the Marshal were deposited during the service, Not only the old veterans, whose chief he had been, attended to pay him the last honours due to his rank and military fame, but a great many officers of the National Guards were present, with detachments from each legion. The pall was supported by Marshal Soult, the Minister of War, Marshal the Duke de Treviso, Major-General Count de Colbert, and Lieut.-General Baron Fririon, Commandant of the Hotel des Invalides. Amongst the other Marshals who attended were, Counts Lobau, Molitor, and Gerard; the Ministers of the Inte rior, of the Marine, of Justice, of Public Instruction, and for Foreign Affairs; Generals Sebastiani, Flahaut, and Jacqueminot; Admiral Truguet, and a great number of other officers of all ranks. A deputation from the Chamber of Peers, M. Dupin and nearly all the Members of the Chamber of Deputies then in Paris, joined in the procession. Generals Gourgaud and Bernard, Aides-de-Camp to the King, and the Aides-de-Camp to the Duke of Orleans, followed the hearse in the Royal carriages. The troops of the garrison were ranged in double lines round the outer circumference of the Hotel, under the orders of General Pajol and General Darriule. A squadron of artillery, four squadrons of cuirassiers, four squadrons of dragoons, and four squadrons of lancers, occupied the space in front of the Avenue de Breteuil. The coffin was carried from the Governor's apartments into the church by men selected from the inmates of the Invalides, and, after the service, was placed on a hearse, and, followed by the whole cortege, made the circuit of the Hotel-the infantry during the procession firing volleys by battalions. The body was at last again taken into the church, and deposited finally in the vault. Before they took an eternal farewell of their companion in arms, Marshal the Duke de Treviso, General Fririon, and General Solignac delivered orations, which

were listened to with mingled feelings of grief, reverence, and regret.

LADY MARY LINDSAY CRAWFORD. Νου. 21. At Crawford Priory, co. Fife, aged 75, Lady Mary Lindsay Crawford.

Her Ladyship was the younger daughter of George nineteenth Earl of Crawford, fifth Earl of Lindsay, and fourteenth Lord Lindsay of the Byres, a title which ranks first on the roll of Scottish Barons, as that of Crawford does on the Union roll of Earls. On the death of her brother, George Lindsay, the twentieth Earl of Crawford, in 1808 (her two other brothers, and her sister Jean Countess of Eglintoun, having all previously deceased without issue), she succeeded to the family estates of Crawford Priory and Struthers in Fife, and Kilbirnie in Ayrshire. The Fifeshire property was obtained from the Keiths, in exchange for Dunotter Castle, in the fourteenth century, by Sir William of the Byres, younger brother of the ancestor of the first fourteen Earls of Crawford, of whom the Earl of Balcarres, chief of the name, is heir-male and representative. The Kilbirnie property was obtained by the marriage (1664) of Lady Mary's ancestor, Patrick Lindsay (second son of John tenth Lord Lindsay of the Byres, first Earl of Lindsay, and fifteenth Earl of Crawford,) with Margaret Crawford, the heiress.

Their son was created Viscount Garnock; and on the death in 1749, of John Lindsay, the eighteenth Earl (whom the industrious Chambers styles "the most generous, the most gallant, the bravest, and the finest nobleman of his time,") George fourth Viscount of Garnock, Lady Mary's father, succeeded, as nineteenth Earl, to the estates and earldom of Crawford.

By her Ladyship's settlements, examined at the Priory after her interment, Lord Lindsay, eldest son of the Earl of Balcarres, is appointed, after the payment of her debts and certain legacies and annuities to her friends and domestics, her sole residuary legatee. A considerable sum is also left to the poor of the parish. Her domestics, several of whom have been many years in her service, and whom, shortly before her death, she thanked for their long and faithful attentions, are kindly remembered in her will. Even her anxiety for the kind treatment of the numerous animal favourites she protected during her lifetime, has been bequeathed by her will to her successor. None of her horses are

to be disposed of to cruel and barbarous masters; and of one of them, which belonged to her late brother, particular care is to be taken. The gratitude and affection with which it is pleasing to find her memory regarded by those who had the best opportunities of knowing her, will long be cherished in her native county, when those harmless eccentricities, which, like those of Goldsmith's village-pastor, still "lean'd to virtue's side" and to the cause of humanity, are forgotten, or remembered but with a smile.

Her Ladyship's funeral, on the 2d of December, was attended by the Earl of Glasgow, heir of entail to the deceased, her distant but nearest relative, by the Right Hon. David Boyle; Lord Justice Clerk; Lord Lindsay (son of the Earl of Balcarres); Lieut.-Col. James Lindsay, younger of Balcarres; by Sir Henry Bethune (paternally Lindsay), of Kilconquhar; Johnstone Lindsay, Esq. of Kirk forthar, and many other gentlemen of Fifeshire. The burial service of the church of England having been impressively read in the hall of Crawford Priory by the Rev. Mr. Sinclair, brotherin-law to the Earl of Glasgow, the fune ral proceeded to the mausoleum at Walton, built many years ago on a lofty eminence on the estate, and in which repose the ashes of her brother, the late Earl of Crawford and Lindsay. Great numbers of the tenantry, and of the townspeople of Cupar and Ceres, were in attendance; the most respectful order was preserved, and few indeed, it is to be presumed, could witness with indifference, the obsequies of the last of a direct line, which, for nearly five hundred years, has flourished in Fifeshire, and whose deeds have been enrolled in the chronicles of ancient Scotland.

a liberal education, he gave early indications of future eminence. He was admitted Advocate Jan. 22, 1765, and at the bar he deservedly acquired the character of a sound and able lawyer. He was the intimate friend and companion of Blair, Mackenzie, Cullen, Erskine, Abercromby, and Craig; and one of the contributors to the Mirror and Lounger. His accomplishments as a gentleman, and his attainments in general knowledge and belles lettres, were such as to excite an opinion that, had he devoted his talents exclusively to literary pursuits, he would have arrived at no ordinary degree of eminence. He was the last survivor of that phalanx of genius which shed so brilliant a lustre on the periodical literature of Scotland half a century ago. He was also one of the original founders and promoters of the Highland Society of Scotland, a national institution which has eminently and essentially contributed to the internal improvement of the country.

It is supposed that the Earl of Balcarres, who is descended from the second Earl of Crawford, is entitled to that Earldom; but his claim does not extend to the Earldom of Lindsay, Viscounty of Garnock, and ancient Barony of Lindsay of the Byres, which belong to the person who can prove himself heir-male-general of George the last Earl. John Lindsay Crawford, esq. asserts this claim. It may be expected that these claims will now be brought forward.

SIR W. M. BANNATYNE.

Nov. 30. At Whiteford House, co. Ayr, aged 90, Sir William Macleod Bannatyne, one of the retired Senators of the College of Justice.

This venerable man was descended from an ancient and honourable family, and born Jan. 26, 1743, O. S. Having enjoyed and profited by the advantage of GENT. MAG. VOL. I.

He was promoted to the Bench on the death of Lord Swinton, and took his seat as Lord Bannatyne, May 16, 1799; and his judicial career for twenty-four years reflects high honour on his memory. He resigned in the year 1823, and was succeeded by the late Lord Eldin.

RICHARD HEBER, ESQ.

Oct. 4. At his house in Pimlico, Richard Heber, esq. M. A. formerly M. P. for the University of Oxford.

He was the eldest son of Reginald Heber (who succeeded his eldest brother as Lord of the Manors of Marton, Yorkshire, and Hodnet, Salop) and Mary Baylie, his first wife; and was half-brother to the late amiable Reginald, Bishop of Calcutta, who was by a second wife. Towards this brother he acted a most affectionate part, superintended his education, took great interest in his literary efforts, and was justly proud of his talents and virtues.

Mr. Heber was born in Westminster, on the 5th of January 1773; and was educated under the private tuition of the late learned George Glasse. He then proceeded to the University of Oxford, and was entered at Brasenose College. There he cultivated assiduously an acquaintance with the Greek and Latin Classics, and acquired that taste for them which accompanied him through life, and which was the means of introducing him to the friendship of Porson, Dr. Burney, and other eminent scholars. There, too, it was that he laid the foundation of his extensive collection of books; but at this time his views were limited to the formation of a classical library, with the addition of critical works, and the mo

critical