DEATHS.—APRIL. he acquired, at that early age, a taste for drawing, in copying Houbraken's heads and other prints. When eight years old he was placed at school at Stretton, near Tadcaster, the birth-place of his father; and there he remained until he was of age to be bound apprentice, when he returned to London. His master was a pattern-drawer for brocaded silks; but during Stothard's apprenticeship, that fashion so completely declined, that, his master having died, the widow gave up to him the last year of his apprenticeship. In this art, however, he had minutely studied nature, in the drawing of flowers and other ornaments; and, having taken every opportunity of improving that knowledge by little trips into the country, both by land and water, he struck out for himself a more dignified profession, and got into business by designing plates for the" Town and Country Magazine," published by Harrison, in Paternoster-row. Shortly after, he became more known by the exquisite little designs he made for Bell's British Poets, and the "Novelist's Magazine," some of which procured for him the friendship of Flaxman. Afterwards he was engaged for almost every work requiring pictorial designs. His first style was formed on the model of Mortimer, some of his paintings being scarcely distinguishable from those of that artist. He studied with great diligence at the Royal Academy, and the first pieture he exhibited was Ajax defending the body of Patroclus. He was elected an Associate of the Academy in 1785, and a Royal Academician in 1794. In 1810, he was appointed Deputy Librarian to Mr. Birch: and on his death in 1812, succeeded as librarian. It is supposed that this veteran artist has made upwards of five thousand designs, three thousands of which have been engraved. From his earliest designs, about the year 1778, for "Bell's Poets" and the "Novelist's Magazine," to his latest productions in the spring of 1833, for the embellished works of Mr. Rogers, his humour, his feminine grace and beauty, Is just conception of cha racter, must be felt by all who can appreciate the loftier efforts of art. Among Mr. Stothard's more important work, may be enumerated his designs for Bo, dell's Shakespeare, his Canterbury Pilgrims, his Ceremony of the Flitch of Bacon at Dunmow, and his Wellington Shield, the last of which he had the en terprise and perseverance to etch with his own hand. His largest work was painting the staircase at Burleigh, the seat of the marquis of Exeter, where the figures are seven feet in height, in fresco; he also designed the ceiling of the Advocates Library at Edinburgh. The chasers in silver and other metals, particularly Messrs. Rundle and Bridge, were continually indebted to Mr. Stothard's creative art. 27. At Tavistock, Susan-Hyde, only daughter of the late Nathaniel Beckford, esq. president of the council of Jamaica 28. In Dartmouth-street, capt. Norman Lamont, esq. M.P. for Wells. He was the youngest son of the late John Lamont, esq. of that ilk in the county of Argyll. At his residence in Exmouth-street, Spa-fields, aged 71, John Caley, esq. of Gray's Inn, keeper of the Records in the Augmentation Office and Chapter House, Westminster, F.R.S. and F.S.A. Mr. Caley was, at an early period of life, introduced to a lucrative profession by the patronage of the celebrated antiquary Mr. Astle, whose favour he procured, it is said, by the present of a curious manuscript, picked up at the stall of an obscure bookseller. Through him he obtained employment in the Record Office in the Tower. In 1787 he was appointed keeper of the Records in the Augmentation Office, in the room of H. Booker, esq. deceased; and in 1818, on the death of the late right hon. George Rose, he was appointed keeper of the Records in the antient Treasury at Westminster, formerly the Chapter House of the Abbey. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, in March, 1786; and in his early life he made the following communications to that learned body: in 1787, a memoir on the origin of the Jews in England, printed in the Archæologia, an extract from a M.S. in the Augmentation Office, relative to a Wardrobe Account of King Henry VIII.: a valuation of the shrine called Corpus Christi shrine, at York: and, a Survey of the Manor of Wimbledon, Surrey, taken by the Parliament's Commissioners in 1649. On the nomination of a national Record Commission in 1801, Mr. Caley was appointed secretary; and he continued to occupy that office until the dissolution of the late Commission in 1831. He also became a joint editor in no less than fourteen of the Works undertaken by DEATHS.-MAY. the Commissioners. At the close of 1813, Mr. Caley engaged to assist in editing the new edition of Dugdale's Monasticon, in conjunction with Dr. Bandinel and sir Henry Ellis. His library and collections were sold by Mr. Evans during nine days of the month of July. The Collection of Reports and Searches made by Mr. Caley, as a legal antiquary, during fifty years, bound in seventy-eight volumes, with one of Index, and three in boards, was sold for 4001. Twenty. five volumes of MS. indexes to and ex. tracts from Records in the Augmentation Office, were sold for 2251. A collection of drawings of the Monastic Seals of England, Scotland, Wales, and some of Normandy, about fifteen hundred in number, and bound in eight volumes, was sold for 2901. 29. In Montague-square, aged 35, Henry Wodehouse, esq. eldest son of the hon. John Wodehouse. 30. At Paris, aged 26, lady Catherine Caroline Montagu, sister to the earl of Sandwich. Lately. Aged 97, a few months after his wife, to whom he had been married 75 years, Mr. David Phillips, of Carmarthenshire, leaving behind him & children, 53, grand-children, 152 great-grand-children, and 11 great-great-grand-children. At Reading, Mr. Francis Peter Cowslade, for a considerable period editor and joint proprietor of the "Reading Mercury." He was a grandson of the poet, Christopher Smart. At the seat of W. Hanbury, esq. Shobdon Court, Hereforshire, aged 59, the hon. and rev. Anchitel Grey, brother to the earl of Stamford and Warrington. He was the youngest son of George Harry, the fifth earl, by lady Henrietta Cavendish Bentinck, daughter of William second duke of Portland. He was of Trinity College, Cambridge, B. A. 1797; and was formerly a prebendary of Durham. Mr. Grey, by his will, has directed that 2001. should be given to each of fourteen charitable institutions. MAY. 1. Aged 81, George Cumming, esq. formerly M.P. for Fortrose, &c.; uncle to sir William Cumming-Gordon, bart. Georgiana, eldest daughter of sir George Wombwell, bart. 3. At Edenhall, Cumberland, aged 36, the rev. sir Christopher John Musgrave, the ninth baronet of that place, rector of Crundall, Kent. At East Lodge, Enfield, aged 93, the hon. William Fullerton Elphinstone, a director of the East-India Company, and a commissioner for the lieutenancy of London; great-uncle of Lord Elphinstone, and elder brother of admiral lord viscount Keith, C. B. 7. At Cheverells, Herts, in her 70th year, the hon. Louisa Sneyd, widow of Walter Sneyd, esq. At Valleyfield, county of Perth, aged 94, sir Robert Preston, the sixth baronet of that place, and an elder brother of the Trinity House. 8. At Madeira, whither he had gone for the recovery of his health, the rev. William Mills, B.D. fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and late Professor of moral philosophy in that University. 9. At Finchley, after repeated attacks of paralysis, aged 36, the hon. John Law, brother to Lord Ellenborough. 11. At his cottage, Arderry, county of Waterford, aged 92, Robert Thomas Carew, esq. of Ballinamona, in that county. At Gaerloch, Rosshire, aged 23, after the birth of a son, Kythe Caroline, wife of sir Francis Mackenzie, bart. and eldest daugher of John Smith Wright, esq.; and on the same day, her infant son. 15. Lieutenant-colonel Molyneux Marston, half-pay 37th foot. 17. At the palace of Lacken, aged ten months, Leopold Louis Philippe Victor Ernest, prince royal of the Belgians. His body was interred on the 24th, in the church of St. Gudule, Brussels. 18. In Sackville-street, Dublin, aged about 65, Thomas Bernard, esq. of Castle Bernard King's County, colonel of the King's County militia, and formerly M. P. for that county; brother-inlaw to the earl of Donoughmore, and lord Dunalley. Q DEATHS.-MAY. 18. George Heald, esq, of Upper Harley-street, one of his majesty's counsel, and a bencher of Gray's Inn. In Hanover-square, aged 65, Robert Walpole, esq. second son of the hon. Richard Walpole. 20. At Paris, aged 76, general the marquis de Lafayette. Gilbert Motier de Lafayette was born at Chavaniac in Auvergne, September 6th, 1757: his father was slain at Minden. After going through his studies at the college of Plessis, he married at the age of sixteen, the daughter of the duke d'Ayen, still younger than himself. Through the interest of her family, the princely house of Noailles, he might have at once obtained distinguished preferment at Court; but this he refused, and at the age of nineteen espoused the cause of American independence. Lafayette arrived at Charles-town in the beginning of 1777; and the Congress immediately offered him the rank of major-general, which he accepted, on condition, that he should serve as a volunteer, at his own expense. He was wounded in the first battle, that of Brandywine. In the following winter, being appointed to the command-in-chief in the north, which a cabal had rendered independent of Washington, he accepted it only on condition of remaining under the orders of that great man. After two years' absence from France, during which his military skill was distinguished on several occasions, he returned home, honoured with a sword, which was presented to him by the Congress, through the hands of Franklin, having engraved on it a representation of himself wounding the British lion, and receiving a laurel from America delivered from her chains. During the campaign of 1780, Lafayette, who had returned to America, commanded the light infantry, and his services were indefatigable until the close of the war, upon the capture of York town, in October, 1781. Having returned to France, Lafayette joined in the great expedition from Cadiz, destined first for Jamaica, and afterwards for New York and Canada. Its departure was prevented by the peace of 1783, which he contributed to negociate at Madrid and of which he himself sent the first news to the American Congress. Shortly after, he visited the United States; and in 1785, the courts and armies of Germany. In 1787, a member of the assembly he was of the Notables, in which he denounced various abuses. When deputed to the States-general, he proposed, on the 11th of July, 1789, his famous declaration of rights, which was made the basis of that of the constituent assembly. When that assembly declared itself permanent, he was appointed vice-president. On the 15th of the same month, he was proclaimed commandant general of the Burgher Guard, and the next morning published the order for destroying the Bastille. He had the credit of having saved the lives of the royal family at Versailles on the 5th and 6th of October, and of preserving for two years the general tranquillity of Paris. On the 8th of October, 1791, he took leave of the National Guard, and retired to his country seat. It was not long before the legislative assembly determined to raise three ar mies of 50,000 each, to the command of which they appointed Luckner, Rochambeau, and Lafayette; war was declared, and Lafayette sent to the Netherlands. On the 16th of June, 1792, he wrote a letter to the National Assembly, denouncing the Jacobin clubs; and they very shortly returned him the compli ment. The majority, which at first supported him in bis demonstration against the Jacobins, fell away like melted snow, and, by the 19th of August, he had no resource left but either a dishonourable recantation, a death inglorious and unavailing, or the chance of a retreat into some neutral territory. He adopted the last alternative; when he was intercepted by an Austrian corps at Liege, and imprisoned by the coalition. He continued to suffer the miseries of a rigorous confinement for four years; and after his release, and return to France, he retired to his country residence at Lagrange, not being inclined to participate in the policy of Buonaparte. The various changes after the fall of Napoleon again brought him forward in the Chamber of Deputies; and he made several propositions, in accordance with his principles of liberty, but with only partial success. In 1824, he paid another visit to the United States, where he was received with unabated enthu siasm. He witnessed with gratulation the events of July 1830, and again placed himself at the head of the movement, by calling out his favourite National Guard. When Lafayette might have declared himself" Head of the French DEATHS.-MAY. republic," he was contented with the more humble title of "Chief of the National Guard," a distinction which in a very few months he abandoned with disgust. His funeral took place on May 28th, and from his public character, both as a member of the Chamber of Deputies and a general, was accompanied with all the imposing pomp of numerous bodies of military and of the National Guards, who came forward in immense numbers, to join in giving effect to this parting act of their homage. The hearse was decorated with twelve tri-coloured flags, three at each corner; it was surmounted by plumes, and had the letter L on various parts of the drapery; it was drawn by four black horses. It was preceded by muffled drums, the deputations from various legions of the National Guards of Paris and the Banlieu, the 61st regiment of the line, and a regiment of red lancers; and succeeded by deputations of the Chambers of Peers and Deputies, and from various public bodies of foreigners, particularly Americans and Poles. Four of the royal carriages, three private ones of the general, followed by another regiment of lancers, seven private carriages, and a body of municipal guards, closed the procession. The religious part of the ceremony was performed in the church of the Assumption, the parish of the deceased, and the interment took place in the private bury ing-ground of Picpas, within the walls of Paris, where the general was laid by his own request in the same grave with his wife and mother-in-law. A simple slab of black marble marks the spot where his remains repose. It bears this inscription;-" Here lies M. P. J. R. G. M. de Lafayette, lieutenant-general, deputy; born at Auvergne, in 1757; married, in 17, Mdlle. de Noailles; died in 1834.-Requiescat in pace." 23. Aged 76, Charles Wesley, esq. for many years organist to their late majesties George III. and George IV. When he was four years old, his father, the rev. Mr. C. Wesley, took him to London; and Beard, who was the first musical man who heard him there, was so much pleased with his abilities, that he kindly offered his interest with Dr. Boyce to get him admitted among the king's boys. This, however, his father declined, as he then had no thoughts of bringing him up to the profession of On music. However, when he was about six years old, he was put under the tuition of Rooke, a very good-natured man, but of no great eminence, who allowed him to run on ad libitum, whilst he sat by apparently moro to observe than to control him. For some years his study and practice were almost entirely confined to the works of Corelli, Scarlatti, and Handel; and so rapid was his progress, that, at the age of twelve or thirteen, it was thought, that no person was able to excel him in performing the compositions of those masters. coming to London, he received instructions on the harpsichord from Kelway, and in the rules of composition from Dr. Boyce. His first work, "A set of six concertos for the organ or harpsichord," was published under the immediate inspection of that master; and, for a first attempt, was indeed a wonderful production, as it contained some fugues which would have done credit to a professor of the greatest experience and the first eminence. In 1784, he published "A Set of Eight Songs," in an extremely fine and masterly style. His subsequent career was one of greater success than incident. He was for some years organist of Surrey chapel, better known by the name of its minister, the late Rowland Hill. old church at Marylebone. It is said, His duties were latterly confined to the that the ruling passion was so strong, when on his death-bed, he was continually humming Handel's music; and, fancying he had his pianoforte before him, he moved his fingers on his bedclothes, as though he were playing on the instrument. the wife of sir Charles Watson, bart. of Kent, on the eve of her 82nd birth-day, 27. In Arnaree, Dr. Waldron, Roman Catholic Bishop of Killala. His death was caused by a fall down stairs, when winding up a clock. At Bellevue house, aged 81 Helen, widow of William Colquhoun, of Garscadden, esq. Wodehouse, first lord Wodehouse of 29. Aged 93, the right hon. John Kimberley, Norfolk (1797), and thǝ DEATHS.-JUNE. sixth baronet (1611); recorder of Falmouth. Lately. The rev. Alexander Murray, D.D. professor of oriental languages in the University of Edinburgh. Born in obscurity, amidst the bleak mountains of Galloway, Murray rose above all the difficulties of his birth and education; and at an early age he had made great attainments, not only in his own language, but in the dead languages, the knowledge of many of which he had acquired before he went to school. While prosecuting his studies at Edinburgh, he was selected by Mr. Constable to arrange the papers of Bruce the traveller; and before he could begin, he had to acquire a knowledge of various languages and their dialects, which he did with wonderful facility. When a communication came to this country from the court of Abyssinia, the academies of the south failed to give it an interpretation, and they were under the necessity of applying for a translation to the humble minister of Urr. This led to bis appointment to the chair of oriental languages in Edinburgh, a situation from which he was soon removed by death. JUNE. 1. On the French coast, near Boulogne, after a few days illness, aged nearly 45, Thomas Barrett Brydges Barrett, esq. of Lee Priory, near Canterbury, late captain and lieutenant-colonel of H. M. regiment of Grenadier Guards. He was born June 20, 1789, and was the eldest son of sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, bart. and Elizabeth, sole daughter and heiress of the rev. Dejovas Byrche, by Elizabeth, only sister of the late Thomas Barrett, esq. of Lee Priory. He succeeded to the estates and name of his maternal great-uncle Thomas Barrett, esq. in January 1803, when a minor at Harrow School, He entered the army as an ensign in the grenadier guards in 1807. 3. By the overturning of a Brighton coach in Southwark, aged 52, sir William Richard Cosway, a director of the Crown Life Assurance Company. (see Chronicle, page 76.) He was the son of a baker at Devonport. His first employment was in the victualling-office in the Dock-yard, whence he entered the navy, in which he filled the situa tions of captain's secretary, purser, &c., and eventually became secretary to the late lord Collingwood, with whom he was present at the battle of Trafalgar. 4. Aged 76, Robert Bowyer, esq. of Byfleet Lodge, and late of Pall Mall, portrait painter in water colours to his majesty. He was the publisher of the embellished History of England, which bears his name, and of various splendid popular works. At Southampton, aged 88, lady Bligh, relict of rear-admiral Bligh, 5. At his seat, Uddens House, Dorsetshire, after a short illness, aged 45, sir James John Fraser, the third baronet of Lead clune, county of Inverness (1806), a lieut.-col. in the army (1826). 6. At Letherhead, Surrey, aged 71, the rev. James Dallaway, M.A. and B. Med., vicar of that parish, and of Slynfold, Sussex; secretary to the earl mar shal, and F.S.A. When he left the University, having taken his degree of M.A. December 3rd, 1784, he went to serve a curacy in the neighbourhood of Stroud. At a subsequent period he resided in Gloucester; and about the years 1785 to 1796 he was employed as the editor of Bigland's Collections for Gloucestershire. His first publication was "Letters of the late Dr. Rundle, Bishop of Derry, to Mrs. Sandys, with introductory Memoirs," 2 vols. 8vo. 1789. In the same year he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries ; and in 1792 he published, in 4to. "Inquiries into the Origin and Progress of Heraldry in England, with observations on Armorial Ensigns." dedicated to the duke of Norfolk. Through the duke's introduction he was appointed chaplain and physician to the British embassy at the Porte, where Mr. Liston was then ambassador. After his return he published, under the auspices of the marquess of Bute, "Constantinople, ancient and modern, with excursions to the shores and islands of the Archipelago, and to the Troad," 1797, 4to. He, at the same time, announced that he had in contemplation to publish" the History of the Ottoman Empire, from the taking of Constantinople by Mohammed II. in 1452, to the death of the Sultan Abdulhamid in 1788, as a continuation of Gibbon;" but this he did not accomplish. In 1802 he communicated to the Society of Antiquaries an account of the Walls of Constantinople; which |