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of monumental memorials. To this donation Mr. Ormerod bas added the inclosure of the Church-yard at his own expence with a stone wall and iron railing, and contributed also a peal of six Bells, an Organ, the Communion Plate, Books, and Pulpit furniture. The entire donation exceeds two thousand pounds, exclusive of the original grant of the land to the Commissioners.

June 13. The first stone was laid, with great solemnity and rejoicings, of the intended enlargement of Mirfield Church, Yorkshire. The whole of the alterations, though very extensive, and amounting nearly to the re-building, is to be effected by the inhabitants, without any aid either from Government or any other quarter. Besides the large sum thus actually advanced for improving the Parish Church, several hundred pounds were put down in the room where the Committee had dined, towards meeting a grant which his Majesty's Commissioners have made to Mirfield, for building a new Church in a distant part of that populous Parish.

July 11. The foundation-stone of the new Church in St. Clement's, Oxford, was laid, and excited considerable interest, from its being the first Church in that City on a new site since the Reformation. It is in an open field, commanding a delightful view of Oxford and the surrounding country.

July 20. A distressing fire, of a most extensive nature, broke out at Christchurch, Hants. It spread with such alarming rapidity, owing to the dryness of the weather, and the houses being chiefly thatched, that upwards of filty houses were destroyed, and the distressed inmates rendered homeless.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY. The Quarter just closed furnishes a proof that the improvement in the last year is not evanescent in its character. On the Customs and Excise, taken together, there is an increase over the produce of the corresponding quarter of last year of 225,0781. Some of the other branches of the Revenue are still more favourable; and the total increase, in the quarter ending July 5, 1825, exceeds that of the corresponding quarter of last year by 504,0417.

June 21. In the Court of Chancery, some time since, an injunction was moved for, to restrain the publishers of the Lancet from promulgating the lectures of Mr. Abernethy, the surgeon, such lectures having been delivered solely for the professional improvement of his pupils; the injunction was moved for on the grounds of a violation

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of literary property, a breach of trust, and of implied contract. Mr. Brougham had argued that there were no grounds whatever for the motion, and that the alleged violations had not been proved; but the Lord Chancellor this day decided to the contrary; his Lordship said he had advised with the Common Law Judges on the subject, who were unanimously of opinion, that if the publication were by a pupil, an action for damages would lie against him, as the common law would assume an implied contract, or that if the publication were by a person who received his information through a pupil, a similar action would lie against the person thus publishing, for the law would not permit that which could only be obtained by fraud to be employed by a third party to the injury of the person in whom the property existed. In this view of the law, he perfectly concurred; and he was of opinion, that it had been made satisfactorily to appear, that this publication was effected by either a breach of implied contract or of trust, and ou either of these grounds, Mr. Abernethy was entitled to the injunction" prayed. The Lord Chancellor confirmed the injunction, and ordered it to be issued.

June 21. This afternoon, a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Cruzett, carver and gilder, in Great Titchfield-street, which was attended with the most destructive consequences. It communicated to the stables and hay-loft of Mr. Woolley, livery-stable keeper, and in less than an hour the destruc tion of nearly the whole of the neighbourhood was completed, the flames spreading over the houses of Margaret-street, Mortimer-street, Titchfield-street, and Great Portlaud-street. In the rear of the houses

the fire raged with tremendous fury, and did considerable damage. Between twenty and thirty buildings were reduced to a pile of ruins.

June 25. That splendid building recently erected (at a cost of 30,0007.) in Pall Mall East, the Royal College of Physicians, was opened with great pomp, in the presence of their R. H. the Dukes of York, Sussex, Cambridge, and Glouces ter, Prince Leopold, several Cabinet Ministers, and other distinguished persons. Soon after three o'clock, the President, Sir Henry Halford, dressed in his full robes, entered the room, attended by the Officers of the Corporation, and delivered an oration in Latin. His Majesty, on the same morning, bad bestowed on Sir H. Halford the Guelphic Order, which was worn by him at the ceremony.

June 25. The new Church of St. Mary, at Greenwich, was consecrated by the Bishop of Oxford. The ceremony was attended by Lord Bexley, the rest of the Committee, and about 2,000 persons, many of the first distinction. Mr. Basevi is the architect.

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PROMOTIONS AND PREFERMENTS.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

War Office, July 1.-Unattached-Maj. Fitzgerald, 95th Foot, to be Lieut.-col. Infantry, vice Pratt.-Capt. Churchill, 75th Foot, to be Major of Infantry.

July 2.-Maj. Genls. Sir J. Campbell, Sir E. Blakeney, Sir J. Maclean, Sir R. D. Jackson, Sir H. F. Bouverie, Lord H. Somerset, and Rear Adm. Sir T. M. Hardy, to be Knights Comm. of the Bath.-Maj.gen. Sir T. Munro, Governor of Madras, to be a Bart. of the United Kingdom.

July 4.-Maj.-gen. Bourk to be Lieut. gov. of the Eastern District of the Cape of Good Hope.

War Office, July 9.—Unattached—Maj. Drummond, 72d Foot, to be Lieut.-col.Capt. Fitzroy, Royal Reg. of Horse Guards, to be Major.-Capt. Bingham, 1st Reg. of Life Guards, to be Major of Infantry,

July 16.-Coldst. Reg. of Foot Guards, Col. J. Macdonnell to be Lieut.-col.; Lieut.col. J. Hamilton to be Major, with the rank of Col.; Lieut.-col. W. H. Raikes to be Major, with the rank of Col. vice Macdonnell.; Brevet Lieut.-col. G. Bowles, and Brevet Major Sir C. A. F. Bentinck; Lieut.-col. G. Fitz-Clarence, vice Hamilton.; Lieut.-col. F. Russell, vice Raikes, to be Capts. and Lieut.-cols.-95th Ditto, Maj. W. G. Cameron, 1st or Gren. Reg. to be Lieut.-col. vice Brown; Lieut.-col. A. C. Wylly, to be Lieut.-col. vice Cameron. Unattached: Capt. J. H. J. Stapleton, 3d Reg. Foot Guards, to be Lieut.-Col.; Capt. J. A. Schreiber, 6th Drag. Guards, to be Major. Brevet: To be Aides-de-Camp to his Majesty, with the rank of Col. in the Army; Lieut.-col. R. C. St. John Lord Clinton; and Lieut.-col. C. Morland, 9th Light Dragoons. To be Major-Capt. D. Urquhart, 39th Reg.

July 16.-Sir Philip Egerton, of Egerton and Oulton Park, Cheshire, to be a Bart. to use the surname of Grey, in addition to, and before, that of Egerton, and bear the arms of Grey de Wilton, quarterly with those of Egerton; as his late brother did, see p. 8.

MEMBER RETUENED TO PARLIAMENT. Tyrone.-The Hon. Henry Thomas Lowry Corry, of Ahenis, co. Tyrone, and of Castlecoole, Fermanagh, vice Štewart,

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Rev. Walter Fletcher, to a Prebendal Stall in York Cathedral.

Rev. James Johnson to the Prebendal Stall
of Hampton, in Hereford Cathedral.
Rev. C. Nixon, to a Prebendal Stall in
Southwell Collegiate Church, Notts.
Rev. J. Cross, to be Precentor, and Rev. W.

Miller a Minor Canon of Bristol Cathedral. Rev. J. Brown, Bottisham V. co. Camb. Rev. R. R. Faulkner, St. Sepulchre's P. C. Cambridge.

Rev. R. Edmonds, Woodleigh R. Devon. Rev. Morgan Evans, to the Benefice of

Builth, and Llanddewir cwm, co. Brecon. Rev. J. Tapp Griffith, Great Elme R. Somerset.

Rev. H. E. Head, Bromfield P. C. Kent.
Rev. H. Jones, Northop V. Flintshire.
Rev. W. B. Leach, Sutton Montague R.;

with Lovington P. C. Somerset.
Rev. G. A. Legge, Bray V. Berks.
Rev. T. Musgrave, St. Mary the Great P. C.
Cambridge.

Rev. Dr. Spry, Mary-le-bonne R. Middx. Rev. J. Stratton, Halston V. Kent; also a

Minor Canon of Canterbury Cathedral. Rev. H. Tripp, Blackborough R. Devon. Rev. V. F. Vyvyan, Withell R. Cornwall. Rev. C. Ward, Moulden R. co. Bedford. Rev. John West, Evercreech V. Somerset,

with Chesterblade Chapelry annexed. Rev. W. B. Whitehead, Chard V. Somerset. Rev. G. E. Whyley, Eaton Bray V. Beds. Rev. T. Wynter, Daylesford R. co. Worc. Rev. R. Richards, Domestic Chaplain to the Duke of Sussex.

Rev. G. G. Smith, Domestic Chaplain to

the Duke of York.

Rev. John Langley, of Worcester, Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Stirling.

DISPENSATION.

Rev. A. Stapleton, to hold Halwill R. with that of East Budleigh, Devon.

BIRTHS.

May 11. At Upper Kennington Green, the wife of John McDermott, esq. a dau. June 26. At Woburn Vicarage, Bucks, the wife of Rev. Alexander Dallas, a son. -28. at the Residentiary House, the wife of the Rev. Wm. V. Vernon, Canon Residentisry of York Cathedral, and son of his Grace the Archbishop, a son and heir.-At Overlegh Hall, near Chester, the wife of Captain

J. Patterson, a son.-29. At Eccleshall Castle, the Hon. Mrs. Ryder, wife of the Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, a son.-30. the wife of Adolphus Meetkerke, esq. of Julians, Herts, a dau.

Lately. In Stratton-st. Piccadilly, Lady Jane Peel, a dau.

July 2. At Holdernesse-house, Park-lane, the

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May 26. At Mary-le-boune church, the Rev. Nathaniel Best, to Mary dau. of Eardley Wilmot Michell, esq. of Wargroves, Sussex.

Lately. The Hon. and Rev. Alfred Curzon, son of Lord Scarsdale, to Sophia, 2d dau. of Robert Holden, esq. of Nuttall-temple, Notts.. W. C. Hamilton, esq. of Craighlaw, to Anne, dau. of Rev. Dr. Stewart, of Kirkcowan, Wigtonshire.At. St. Clement Danes, Thomas Price Wyune, esq. East India Co's Bengal Med. Service, to Anne Maria dau. of the late R. H. Cox, esq. of Christchurch, Hants.

June 28. At Broxborne church, Herts, Donat. Henchy O'Brien, esq. Capt. R.N. to Hannah, dau. of late John Walmsley, esq. of Castlemeer, co. Lancaster.-At Thorney Abbey, Rev. Harry Smith, to Ann, dau. of late J. Wing, esq.-29. At St. George's, Hanover-sq. John Fountaine, esq. to Marian Catherine, dau. of late W. Hodges, esq. R.A. -30. At Sherborne, George Rider, esq. of Grenno-house, near Sheffield, to Matilda, dau, of late Mr. J. Thirkell.- -G. W. C. Stapylton, esq. son of Major-gen, the Hon. G. A. C. Stapylton, to Catherine, dau. of John Butteel, esq. of Fleet, Devonshire.

-At Saling-grove, Essex, Thos. Barrett, Lennard, esq. M.P., eldest son of Sir T. B. Lennard, bart. of Belhus, to Mary, dau. of late Bartlet Bridger Shedden, esq. of Gowerstreet, London.

July 2. At Croydon church, Capt. John Simcoe Macauly, R. Eng. to Anne Gee, dau. of late John Elmsley, esq. Chief Justice of Lower Canada.-4. At St. George's, Hanover-square Capt. Price Blackwood, R. N. to Helen Selina, dau. of the late Thomas Sheridan, esq.—--At George's, Hanover-square, S. Waymouth, esq. to Eliz. eldest surviving dau. of late Hugo Meynell, esq. of Quorndon-hall, co. Leicester.--At St. Margaret's, Westminster, Charles Greenwood, esq. of Great Queen-street, to Ann Louisa Adriana, dau. of Rev. Alex. Sterky, of James-street, Buckingham-gate.. 5. At Ribbesford church, James Taylor, esq. of Moore-green, Worcestershire, to Anne Eliz. dau. of Walter Michael Moseley, esq. of Winterdyne.At Dinton, Wilts, Rev. Wadham Knatchbull, son of Wyndham Knatchbull, esq. of Russell-place, to Louisa Eliz. third dau. of Wm. Wyndham, esq. of Dinton. Turvey, Bedfordshire, Rev. John Ayre, to Henrietta, dau. of Rev. Leigh Richmond,

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Rector of Turvey.At Woodford, Essex, Richard Bennett, esq. of Spital-square, to Ann Isabella, eldest dau. of Rupert Kink, esq. of Grove-lodge, Woodford.-6. At St. Peter's, Leeds, the Rev. J. Ackworth, to Sarah, dau. of M. Thackrey, esq. St. Ann's-hill, Burley. At Christchurch, Hants, Hector B. Monro, esq. son of the late lieut.t.-gen. Monro, to Lewina, dau. of L. D. G. Tregonwell, esq. of Cranbournelodge.- -At St. George's, Lieut. Charles W. Ross, R. N. to Sophia dau. of David Richardson, esq. of Wellclose-square.-7. At Great Stambridge, Essex, the Rev. W. Worsley, to Louisa Ann, dau. of the Rev. Wm. Benson Ramsden.--At Seal, near Sevenoaks, Sir William Ashburnham, bart. of Broomham, Sussex, to Juliana, dau. of late Rev. Wm. Humphry.-At Milford, Hants, Rev. Henry Cookeram, of Beckenham, Kent, to Mary Octavia, dau. of late Sir W. Fraser, bart.- -8. At Ilfracombe, Devon, Capt. Alder, R. N. of Southampton, to Miss Isabella Mary Forrest.—9. At St. George's, Hanover-square, Henry Shiffner, esq. Capt. R. N. eldest son of Sir George Shiffner of Coombe-place, Sussex, to Emily, dau. of late Thomas Brooke, esq. of Church Minshull, Cheshire.At Felbrigg, Henry Baring, esq. M. P. of Somerley, Hants, to Cecilia Anne, eld, dau. of Rear Adm. Windham.-11. At the house of the British Consul at Dunkerque, in France, the Right Hon. Richard Hobart Fitzgibbon, M. P. 2d son of the late of the late Earl of Clare, to Diana, eldest dau. of late Chas. Woodcock, esq.-12. At Islington church, and at the French Ambassador's chapel, Mons. P. E. Alletz, to Elizabeth, third dau. of late J. Green, esq. of Highbury-park.— -18. At Portobello, near Edinburgh, Col. James Hamilton, from Columbia, to Marian Eliz. dau. of the late John Anderson, esq. of Winterfield.At Inch-house, Edinburgh, Major Robert Gordon, of Hillhead, to Jane, dau. of the late Walter Little Gilmour, esq.At Walcot church, Bath, the Rev. J. King, son of the Bishop of Rochester, to Maria, dau. of the Hon. Lieut.-col. George Carlton,

-14. At St. James's Church, Arthur Capel, Esq. nephew to the Earl of Essex, to the Right Hon. Lady Caroline Janetta Beauclerk, third dau. of late Duke of St. Alban's.-15. At Seaton, in Devonshire, the Rev. Cecil Robert Smith, to Mary Jane, eldest dau, of late Col. Warreu, 3d Guards. OBITUARY.

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OBITUARY.

EARL WHITWORTH.

May 13. At Knowle, Kent, after three days illness, aged 71, the Right Hon. Charles Whitworth, first Earl Whitworth of Adbaston, co. Stafford, Baron Adbaston, Lord Whitworth of Newport Pratt, co. Gal way. G. C. B. a Privy Councillor, Lord of the Board of Trade and Foreign Plantations, High Steward of Stafford-uponAvon, and D.C.L.

The Whitworths are an ancient Staffordshire family, which, in the beginning of the last century, produced a nobleman between whose character and that of the late Earl there are many points of similarity. Like him he was celebrated for the number and importance of his embassies, like him created Baron Whitworth of Galway, and, as if to complete the resemblance, died in the year 1725, leaving no

heir to his title.

The deceased Earl was grandson of a younger brother of this nobleman, which younger brother, who was M. P. for Minehead, Surveyor-General of his Majesty's Woods and Forests, and Secretary of Barbadoes, seitled at Leybourne, in Kent. His son, Sir Charles Whitworth, Knt. also M. P. for Minehead, married (June 1, 1749) the eldest daughter of Richard Shelley, esq. Commissioner of the Stamp Office, and had issue by her three sons and four daughters, the eldest of whom is the subject of the present memoir.

ence proved but the signal for the final overthrow of that ancient state, Even then the King, an accomplished but weak prince, was dictated to in his own capital by the Ambassador of St. Petersburg; and the successor of John Sobieski who saved Vienna from the Turks, and of those powerful princes who held Prussia in vassalage, and considered the Russians as a wild Tartarian horde, was reduced to the humiliating necessity of complying with the cruel mandates of Frederick, Leopold, and Catharine.

After residing two years in Poland, Mr. Whitworth was recalled, and in Sept. 1788 nominated Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Russia. Warsaw bad presented the singular spectacle of a King retained a kind of state prisoner in his own capital, while a foreign Ambassador assumed all the functions of royalty; but St. Petersburg, on the other band, exhibited a beroine possessed of a masculine mind, adored by her own subjects, holding Poland in chains, and threatening to render the Greek cross triumphant on the shores of the Hellespont. But Catharine was surrounded by French philosophers and statesmen ; and this circumstance, in addition to some recent events of a disagreeable nature, had created somewhat of an aversion in the bosom of this princess to the British Cabinet, if not to the Nation. From this feeling consequences unfavourable to the commerce of England might have been anticipated, but the French Revolution forewarned her of her own danger. In 1793, when the English ministers determined to take part in the confederacy against France, it was thought proper to invest the Ambassador at St. Petersburg with the Order of the Bath, to add dignity to his mission; and Sir Charles Whitworth from this moment began to act a conspicuous part on this, now become the great theatre of European politics. A more intimate connexion than had bitherto subsisted became an object of mutual desire; a subsidiary treaty began to be hinted, and the death of the Empress alone prevented its completion. The zeal of her son and successor, Peter III., required but little stimulus to induce him to make a common cause with the chief potentates of Europe. He entered into His first diplomatic mission was to the the contest with a degree of enthusiasm Court of Poland, whither he was sent as worthy of the days of chivalry; while bis Minister Plenipotentiary in 1786. War. General, Suwarrow, at the head of a chosaw was then the centre of intrigues; for sen body of troops, conferred new lustre new partition of Poland happened to on the Russian arms. But the sudden be meditating at that moment, and the reverse that occurred in Switzerland, addgenerous attempt at national independ-ed to some misunderstanding relative to

He was born at Leybourne Grange, but in 1776 removed with his father to Stanmore, Sir Charles having, with his eldest son's consent, obtained an act of Parliament which enabled him to sell Leybourne to James Hawley, esq. M. B. and F.R.S. whose son, Sir Henry Hawley, Bart. now resides at that beautiful seat. Earl Whitworth was educated at Tunbridge school, under Mr. Cawthorne the poet, and Mr. Towers, the translator of Cæsar and other Latin classics. Among bis school-fellows were Colonel James, of Tytham Lodge, Kent, Christopher Hull, esq. of Sidcup, and the late Lord Eardley. To the second of these he was fag; and, it is not a little remarkable that the third was created a baronet whilst at school, which occasioned a holiday and treat, &c. Soon after leaving this academy, Mr. Whitworth became an officer in the Guards.

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Holland, and a cooluess that took place between the two Imperial Courts, were calculated to effect an alteration in the aspect of public affairs. This was completed by a domestic incident, for the introduction of an obscure actress produced a complete change in the politics of Russia, and all that had been achieved by the talents of our minister there was overturned by the arts of a cuuning and intriguing female.

On the return of the Ambassador he was created, March 21, 1800, an Irish Peer, by the title of Baron Whitworth of Newport Pratt, co. Galway, and soon after the critical situation of this country in respect to the northern states, all of whom complained of the conduct of England, required the intervention of an able diplomatist; and Lord Whitworth was commissioned to this office. Having made the necessary dispositions, he repaired to Copenhagen, in the character of Plenipotentiary Extraordinary. While his Lordship commenced a treaty with the Count de Bernstorff, a nobleman of great talents and influence, his mission was backed, and his arguments supported, by a strong squadron, consisting of nine sail of the line, four bomb-ketches, and five gunboats, which entered the Sound under the command of Admiral Dickson. As such guests, however disagreeable, were not to be slighted, the Prince Royal, who had for some years taken upon himself the management of public affairs, immediately signified his wishes, in form of an invitation, that they should anchor in Elsineur roads. As the Court of Denmark was at that period assured of support from the neighbouring states, her ministers held a high language, and, considering England as the aggressor, affected rather to demand than to yield submission. However, after a considerable time had elapsed in discussion, in consequence of the exertions of our Plenipotentiary, an adjustment at last took place, Aug. 29, 1800.

Lord Whitworth, on his return to Eng. land, found some relaxation necessary after the burry of two long journies, and the labour and fatigue incident to a tedious and intricate negociation. He also contrived to twine the roses of Venus around the caduceus of Mercury, by an union peculiarly auspicious in every point of view. This marriage took place, April 7, 1801, with Arabella Diana, widow of John Frederick, third Duke of Dorset, and eldest daughter and coheir of Sir Charles Cope, second Baronet of Brewern, co. Oxford, by Catharine, youngest dau. of Sir Cecil Bishop, fifth Baronet of Parham, Sussex (and afterwards second wife of the first Earl of Liverpool).

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occurrences had taken place;-France loudly threatened us with all the terrors of an invasion; and our fleets, on the other hand, scoured the narrow seas, intercepted her shipping, and blockaded ber barbours. Notwithstanding these marked appearances of a violent and lasting animosity, a negociation, which had been for some time depending, was accelerated at this critical period with all the subtilty of diplomatic refinement. For some time past an active intercourse had taken place between the two Governments; Bags of truce and defiance were actually display. ed at the same time, and in the same strait; so that while Boulogne and Dunkirk were bombarded and blockaded by hostile squadrons, the ports of Dover and Calais were frequently visited by the packet-boats and the messengers of the Courts of St. James's and the Thuilleries. At length Lord Hawkesbury, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, after a long but secret negociation with M. Otto, during which the humiliating intervention of a third person was not recurred to, as on a former occasion, suddenly announced the signature of preliminaries of peace between England on the one part, and France, Spain, and Holland on the other. After the lapse of nearly six months, during which the public expectation was amazingly excited by alternate hopes and fears, the long-expected treaty was signed, ratified, and promulged according to the established forms.

The treaty of Amiens, concluded March 27, 1802, was considered by some politicians rather as a cessation of hostilities than a definitive pacification; and the event proved that too many ob. jects of importance were left open for future discussion. Lord Cornwalls, notwithstanding this, returned from the Congress welcomed by the well-merited applause of his country men. He was succeeded first by Mr. Jackson, then by Mr. Merry, and finally by Lord Whitworth, who, having been made a Privy Councillor, was sent to Paris towards the latter end of 1802, as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. (see vol. LXXII. 1148.) On his Lordship's arrival at Paris he found himself, like his predecessors, surrounded by difficulties. The war had indeed ceased, but the hostility of the mind was not yet ended. A rivalship in commerce had succeeded to a rivalship in arms, and the Custom Houses of the respective nations were in a state of direct hostility. A variety of circumstances tended to ren der this negociation delicate in the ex treme; such as the renunciation of Parma; the mission of Sebastiani; the occupation of Holland by a considerable army; the violation of the rights of the Swiss Cautons; and, above all, the aggrandize

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