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24. At Stutgard, the hereditary prince of Saxe Heildburghausen, to the princess Amelia, second daughter of duke Louis of Wirtemberg, uncle to the king.

29. Earl Percy, to lady Charlotte Florentia Clive, daughter of the earl of Powis.

At Vienna, general Macdonald, to madame Murat.

May 19. Honourable C. Lowther, major of the 10th royal Hussars, second son of the earl of Lonsdale, to the right honourable lady Eleanor Sherrard, daughter of the late earl of Harborough.

24. By special licence, Edmund Phelps, esq. to Anne Catherine, countess of Antrim.

- Mr. Milbank, to lady Augusta Vane, second daughter of the earl of Darlington.

-Honourable Charles Noel Noel, of Barham Court, Kent, eldest son of sir Gerard Noel, bart. to Elizabeth, second daughter of the honourable sir George Grey, bart. commissioner of Portsmouth dock-yard.

June 5. At Mr. Mitchell's house, Sigismund marquis de Nadaillac, son of the duchess d'Escars, to Catherine Maria, daughter of Mr. Mitchell, Charles-street, Berkley

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Bradford, to Selina, fourth daughter of the honourable general Needham, of Waresley Park, county of Huntingdon.

17. By special licence, viscount Strangford, to Ellen, youngest daughter of the late sir John Bourke, bart. and relict of Nicholas Browne, esq. of Mount Hazle, county of Galway.

31. The duke of Saxe Cobourg, brother of prince Leopold, to the princess Louisa, of Saxe Gotha.

Viscount Ebrington, to lady Susan Ryder, eldest daughter of the earl of Harrowby.

Aug. 12. The grand duke Mecklenburgh Strelitz, to the princess Mary, daughter of the Landgrave Frederick of Hesse.

Sept. 17. At Vienna, count Joseph Esterhazy, of Galantha, to the princess Mary of Metternich, daughter of the minister for foreign affairs.

30. At Dublin, sir J. M. Doyle, K. C, B. &c. to Mary, only daughter of major Bryan.

October 7. The earl of Desart, to Catherine, eldest daughter of Maurice N. O'Connor, esq.

9. John Sim, M. D. of Grevillestreet, Hatton Garden, to Ann Eliza, eldest daughter of James Clark, M. D. of Dominica.

13. Major-general Darling, deputy-adjutant-general, to Eliza, second daughter of the late lieutenantcolonel Dumaresq,

16. Lieutenant-colonel D'Arcy, royal artillery, to lady Catherine Georgiana West, daughter of the late earl Delawarr.

Edmund Antrobus, esq. nephew of sir E. Antrobus, bart. to Anne, only daughter of the honourable Hugh Lindsay, of Plaistowlodge.

Rear-admiral sir Philip Charles
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Durham, K.C.B. to Ann Isabella, only child of sir J. Henderson, bart. of Fordel, county of Fife.

18. Honourable captain J. A. Maude, royal navy, to miss Albina Broderic, second daughter of the archbishop of Cashel.

21. Lord Selsey, to the honourable Anna Maria Louisa Irby, youngest daughter of lord Boston.

28. At Dresden, the hereditary prince of Tuscany, to the princess Maria Anne Caroline of Saxony.

November 14. At Culzean Castle, viscount Kinnaird, son of the earl of Newburgh, to lady Margaret Kennedy, third daughter of the earl of Cassillis.

21. At Ballenstadt, prince Frederic of Prussia, to the princess Louisa, of Anhalt-Bernbourg.

27. George Stanley Repton, esq. of Dover-street, to the honourable Elizabeth Scott, daughter of lord Eldon..

DEATHS in the year 1817. Jan. 4. In his 77th year, sir Arthur Owen, bart. late adjutant-general in the East Indies, and a colonel in the army. He is succeeded in his titles by his nephew, W. Owen, esq. of the Temple, barrister-at-law.

10. At West-Ham, Essex, in consequence of a fall from his gig, George Anderson, esq. F. L. S. son of the late Dr. James Anderson, author of Essays on Agriculture, the Bee, and other works. As a man of genius, erudition, and deep botanical research, his death is a severe loss to the scientific world, and will be long deplored by a numerous circle, both of learned and social friends.

At St. Andrew's, rev. Dr. Robertson, professor of Oriental languages,

12. At Maidstone, aged 83, sir William Bishop, knight, the oldest justice of the corporation.

13 Suddenly, aged upwards of 70, George Harriot, esq. lately one of the magistrates of the Thames police office.

26. In Grosvenor-place, Caroline dowager countess of Buckinghamshire.

28. In his 84th year, Anthony Gell, esq. of Cheyné-walk, Chelsea. 29. At Blenheim, aged 78, his grace George, third duke of Marlborough.

At Pisa, the right honourable Francis North, earl of Guilford.

Feb. 2. Aged 85, general Carleton, colonel of the 2d battalion 60th foot, and great uncle to the present lord Dorchester.

At Cambridge, in his 72d year, sir Isaac Pennington, knight, M. D. regius professor of physic, senior fellow of St. John's college, and senior physician of Addenbrooke's hospital.

6. In Queen Ann-street, Cavendish square, the right honourable Catharine Anne, lady Glenbervie. She was the eldest daughter of Frederick second earl of Guildford, and sister to the late earl.

At Rufford Hall, Lancashire, the lady of sir Thomas Dalrymple Hes. keth, bart.

7. At the Jews Hospital, Mileend, aged 104, Henry Cohen. He was taken ill in the morning, and expired in the evening, retaining his senses to the last.

8. At Yellowfield, Devon, in her 89th year, the dowager lady Carew, relict of the late sir John, and grandmother of the present sir Henry Carew, bart. of Haccombe.

M. At his seat at Carlton, in Northamptonshire, aged 82, sir John Palmer, bart.

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12. At Leeds, Joshua Walker, esq. M.D. of the Society of Friends; 25 years physician to the general infirmary in that town.

14. At her hotel in Paris, aged 85, the countess of Coislin, formerly one of the attendants upon the person of the queen of Louis XV. and grand aunt of the duchess of Pie of Bavaria. 22. At Camberwell, much respected, Mr. John Walker, late of Paternoster-row, bookseller, and one of the common council of the ward of Farringdon Within.

23. At the house of Charles Brooke, esq. Long Ditton, Surrey, right honourable lady Amelia Leslie, second daughter of the late earl of Rothes.

March 7. At the house of sir Henry Halford, bart. in Curzonstreet, London, in his 65th year, the rev. David Hughes, D.D. principal of Jesus-college in the university of Oxford, and many years rector of Besselsleigh, Berks.

At Rudding Park, in her 83d year, right honourable Catherine, dowager countess of Aberdeen, daughter of Mr. Hanson, of Wakefield in Yorkshire.

At Trawnstynydd, county of Me. rioneth, aged 110, Edmund Morgan, being, as it is believed, the oldest inhabitant of Wales. He retained his faculties to the hour of his death. His funeral was attended by his three sons, one daughter, twentythree grand-children, ten greatgrand-children, and five great-great grandchildren, and upwards of seven hundred inhabitants of that and the adjoining parishes.

At Brighton, in her 74th year, Theodosia, countess of Clanwilliam, relict of John earl of Clanwilliam, only child and heiress of Robert Hawkins Magill, esq. of Gill-hall in the county of Down. Her ladyship was grand-daughter of John 1817.

earl of Darnley, and lineally descended from the illustrious earl of Clarendon.

At Gilcomston, Aberdeenshire, aged 101, John M'Bain. He was present at the battle of Culloden, and was attached to the corps brought into the field by lady M'Intosh, which made so furious an irruption into the left wing of the royal army, that they completely annihilated the first line. In this attack he received a wound, being struck with a musket-ball on the left cheek when running on to the second line after the first had been overthrown; but he said it did not disable him.

In Bolton-row, in her 75th year, Jane countess of Uxbridge.

At his house in Ipswich, at the advanced age, there is reason to believe, of 100 years, and deservedly respected, sir William Innes, bart. of Balvenie.

At their encampment at Honiton, Mrs. Boswell, sister to the Queen of the Gipsies. She was interred with great pomp.

25. Expired easily, and almost imperceptibly, at his apartments in Jesus college, Cambridge, rev. Robert Tyrwhitt, formerly fellow of that college.

27. At Halliford, Middlesex, Joseph Boydell, esq. well known as an eminent encourager of the arts, and himself a very superior artist.

April 1. At Paris, aged 71, the duke of Laval de Montmorency, a peer of France and a lieutenantgeneral in the king's army.

2. In Grosvenor-place, in his 22d year, Charles-Fox Townshend, esq. eldest son of lord John Towns hend.

At his estate, at Ruel near Paris, after a long and severe illness, Andrew Massena, prince of Esling.

10. At Gatcombe, near Portsmouth,

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mouth, lady Curtis, relict of the late admiral sir R. Curtis, bart. G.C.B. 11. At his house in Kensingtonsquare, thé reverend William Beloe, B.D. F.S.A. rector of Allhallows, London Wall, prebendary of Pancras in St. Paul's cathedral, and prebendary of Lincoln.

13. In Macclesfield-street, Soho, in his 73d year, Thomas Hearne, esq. F.S.A.

15. At Bath, in his 73d year, right honourable sir A. Thomson, lord chief justice of his majesty's court of exchequer.

18. At Mauldslie Castle, in his 60th year, the right honourable Thomas Carmichael, earl of Hyndford.

May 1. At Clifton, near Bristol, right honourable lady Edward O'Bryen, daughter of the late Paul Cobb Methuen, esq. of Corshamhouse, Wiltshire.

At Aston-hall, Yorkshire, right honourable lady Mary Foljambe, sister to the present earl of Scarborough, and relict of the late Francis Ferrand Foljambe, esq. of Os berton-hall, Nottinghamshire.

2. At Paris, M. de Urquijo, prime minister of Spain under king Charles IV. and during the government of Joseph.

7. At Dunglass-house, Scotland, Helen, eldest daughter of sir James Hall, bart. of Dunglass.

8. At Carlsruhe, of convulsions, the hereditary prince of Baden, only son of the grand duke.

15. In Welbeck-street, madame de Freire, wife of his excellency the chevalier de Freire, late minister at this court from the court of Portugal.

16. At Bath, the right honourable Charlotte Newcomen, viscountess Newcomen, baroness Newcomen of Mosstown, county of Longford, in her own right.

23. At Gort, county of Galway, in his 76th year, the right honour. able John Prendergast Smyth, viscount Gort, baron Kiltarton, a go. vernor of the county of Galway, chamberlain of the city of Limerick.

At Rome, the celebrated Cardi. nal Maury; who was in some measure, under Buonaparte and during the capacity of the Pope, the head of the Catholic church. He fancied he saw a change of colour in his lips, that denoted his having swallowed poison; and by taking coun terpoisons, he killed himself.

At Heckington, aged 65, Mr. Sa muel Jessup, an opulent grazier, of pill-taking memory. He lived in a very eccentric way as a bachelor, without known relatives; and has died possessed of a good fortune, notwithstanding a most inordinate craving for physic, by which he was distinguished for the last thirty years of his life, as appeared on a trial for the amount of an apothecary's bill, at the last assizes at Lincoln, in which Mr. Jessup was the defendant. The evidence on the trial affords the following materials for the epitaph of the deceased: In twenty-one years (from 1794 to 1816) the deceased took 226,934 pills supplied by a respectable apothecary at Bottesford; which is at the rate of 10,806 pills a-year, or 29 pills each day: but as the patient began with a more moderate appetite, and increased it as he proceeded, in the last five years preceding 1816 he took the pills at the rate of 78 a-day, and in the year 1814 swallowed not less than 51,590. Notwithstanding this, and the addition of 40,000 bottles of mixture and juleps and electuaries, extending altogether to fifty-five closely written columns of an apothecary's bill, the deceased lived to

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At Great Melton-hall, Norfolk, aged 86, sir John Lombe, bart. so created in 1783.

29. In Grosvenor-square, the countess dowager of Leitrim.

At Enfield, aged 74, William Saunders, M.D. F.R.S. and F.S.A. Fellow of the royal college of physicians, physician extraordinary to the prince of Wales, and senior physician to Guy's hospital.

June 2. At the advanced age of 103, Catherine Prescott, of Manchester. 5. At Bamborough-hall, aged 78, Henry Grey, esq. of Shoreston house, Northumberland.

7. At Warwick, in his 83d year, the honourable James Dormer, brother to the late and uncle to the present lord Dormer.

16. At the royal arsenal at Woolwich, in his 80th year, general Vaughan Lloyd.

July 8. At his house in Curzonstreet, in consequence of a paralytic affection, with which (like the great earl of Chatham) he had been suddenly seized, a few evenings before, in his place in parliament, the right honourable George Ponsonby, M.P. for Wicklow.

10. At Northumberland-house, in his 75th year, his grace Hugh, duke of Northumberland.

At Paris, aged 53, the celebrated madame de Stael-Holstein, daughter of M. Necker, so much distinguished before the French revolu tion for his financial talents.

At Dresden, Werner, the celebrated German mineralogist.

At Edinburgh, Alexander Carre, esq. of Caverse and Nisbet.

At Hamburgh, at a very advanced age, professor Ebeling, one of the most learned geographers of Germany, who continued the geographical works of Busching.

At Paris, M. Suard, whose loss will be sensibly felt by literature.

9. At Brighton, in her 87th year, lady Anne Murray, sister to the late earl of Mansfield.

13. At Eglinton Castle, the right honourable Hugh Montgomery, earl of Eglinton.

14. At Bath, in his 54th year, right honourable James Everard, ninth lord Arundel of Wardour Castle, and count of the sacred Roman empire.

19. In Somerset-street, Portmansquare, suddenly, in his 71st year, sir William Parsons, knight, one of the magistrates belonging to the public office, Marlborough-street, and master of his majesty's band of musicians.

At Paris, in the hospital for patiper lunatics of Salpetriere, where he had lived unpitied and unknown. for many years, aged 57, the famous Theroigne de Mericourt, one of the regicides, and the most blood-thirsty of the heroes of the revolution.

At Agen, aged 50, madame Toussaint Louverture, widow of the celebrated black general.

At Philadelphia, after a short illness, supposed about eighty years of age, Mr. Thomas McKean, formerly representative in the continental congress, one of the signers of American independence, chief justice of Pennsylvania, and nine years governor of that state.

August 1. At St. Catherine's, near Dublin, in his 86th year, right ho.. nourable David Latouche, many. years one of his majesty's privy council, and for forty years a member of parliament of Ireland.

5. At Wolsely-hall, Staffordshire, sir William Wolsely, bart.

10. In Upper Berkeley-street, lieutenant-colonel the honourable W. Grey, fourth son of the late and brother of the present earl Grey.

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