This day took place the marriage of the Duke of Clarence with the Princess Adelaide of Saxe Meiningen, and the re-marriage of the Duke of Kent to the Princess Victoria of Saxe Cobourg. Fortunately the Queen was so far better as to be able to be present at the double ceremonial, for which purpose a temporary altar was fitted up in the Queen's drawing-room, which looks into Kew Gardens. At four o'clock, the whole of the parties having arrived, her Majesty took her seat at the right side of the altar, attended by the Prince Regent, and was followed by the other members of the Royal Family, and the Great Officers of State. The Duke of Clarence and his intended bride, and the Duke and Duchess of Kent, being introduced into the room in due form, and having taken their station at the altar, the Archbishop of Canterbury commenced the marriage ceremony, assisted by the Bishop of London. The brides were given away by the Prince Regent. At the conclusion of the proceedings, the Queen retired, and dined in a private apartment, her health not permitting her to dine with company. At five o'clock the Prince Regent and the remainder of the company sat down to a most sumptuous dinner. Soon after half-past seven o'clock the Duke and Duchess of Kent left, in Prince Leopold's travelling chariot, for Claremont. The Prince Regent and all the Royal Party proceeded in open carriages to the cottage in Kew Gardens, near the Pagoda, where they drank tea; after which the Duke and Duchess of Clarence left in a new travelling-chariot for St. James's Palace.

Wednesday, June 17.

The foundation of a new Church was laid at Stepney by the Duke of York, assisted by the Bishop of London. The Rector of Stepney placed in a cavity formed in the foundation-stone a glass bottle containing gold and silver coins of the present year. He also deposited a plate with an inscription, stating by whom the foundation was laid, the names of the rector, the trustees, builders, &c. and that the church was for the accommodation of 1500 persons, two-thirds of the space being free sittings.

Saturday, June 20.

In the Court of King's Bench, Lord Ellenborough gave it as his opinion, that a party publishing what passed in a Court of Justice, did not discharge himself from liability by showing that the report was faithful, and contained only what in fact occurred. And in the same Court, on Friday, June 26, Judge Bailey laid it down as law, that a blow was not necessary to constitute an assault :-raising the hauds in anger, as if about to strike, was as much an assault as if the blow had been struck.

Wednesday, July 1. .

A meeting of the most eminent characters of the City of London was held at the London Tavern, to consider of offering some testimony of respect to their late worthy Representative, Sir William Cur tis; when an Address and a series of Resolutions, expressive of their high opinion of his eminent services, and their deep regret at his not having been again returned, were carried with the utmost unanimity. Thursday, July 2.

Usher, the Clown of the Cobourg Theatre, in consequence of a wager, set off in a machine like a washing-tub, drawn by four geese, at half-past twelve o'clock, from below Southwark bridge, and passed under four bridges, and arrived at halfpast two at Cumberland Gardens. A pole extended from the machine in which be sat, to which the geese were harnessed. For some time they were quite tractable, and he went on swimmingly, but at times they were quite restive, and not easily managed. A great number of persons accompanied him in boats, and several viewed the whimsical expedition from the bridges. After completing it, he offered, for a wager of 100 guineas, to return from thence through the centre arch of London Bridge; but no person would accept the challenge.

Tuesday, July 7.

In the Admiralty Court, Sir Wm, Scott gave judgment in the long-pending suit between Lord Cochrane and the Fleet under Admiral Lord Gambier, respecting the distribution of head-money for the destruction of the French squadron in Basque Roads, in April 1809. The Learned Judge decided (against Lord Cochrane's claim) that it was a distinct,

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gagement on the part of the Fleet, as well as of the fire-ships commanded by Lord C. and on that ground awarded an equal distribution to the whole Fleet.

Saturday, July 11.

A dreadful fire occurred this night in Newton-street, High Holborn. It commenced in the stable of Messrs. Spencer, feather-bed makers. Five houses were totally destroyed, and others much damaged. The value of the property consumed amounts to many thousand pounds.

The late General Election has excited perhaps stronger commotion in most parts of the United Kingdom than any former one. A greater number of New Members has been returned than usual. The Opposition interest has, it is believed, on the whole prevailed; but the champions for unlimited Reform and universal Suffrage have been deservedly treated with contempt.

In the present reign there has been coined in gold to the amount of 71,639,2134. and in silver 4,306,1201. Nearly 20 millions of gold were coined in five years,

between 1771 and 1777: none in 1814, 15, and 16: but 4,275,3377.. in 1817: and of the whole there is not, perhaps, two millions in circulation.-Of the silver, 44 millions were coined in 1816 and 1817.

The additional Members of the Queen's Council, under the new Regency Act, are, the Bishop of London, Lord Henly, Lord St. Helen's, and the Earl of Macclesfield. Their Lordships were sworn into office, before the Lord President, at the Counciloffice.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

July 4. J. B. Gilpin, esq. Consul for Rhode Island.-July 7. C. Rushworth, esq. Commissioner of Taxes,

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Rev. John Sympson Sergrove, ♦ LL. B. Cooling R. Kent,

Hon. and Rev. John Neville, M. A. Bergh Apton R. and mediety of Holveston, Norfolk, and Ottley R. Suffolk.

Rev. Edward Bolwar, Sall R. Norfolk. Rev. George Bythesen, Freshford R. co. Somerset.

Rev. Henry Anthony Pye, Harvington R. co. Worcester..

July 3. At Hawarden Peculiar, co. Flint, Right Hon. Lady Charlotte Neville, a son.-6. At Woolwich, the wife of Maj. Roberts, Royal Artillery, a son.-11. The wife of Dr. Dickson, of Clifton, a dau.-14. The wife of G. Trower, esq. Montague Place, Russell-square, a daughter. At Moreton Hall, co, Worcester, the wife of William Smith, esq. a dau.. -At Sharde

loes, the wife of Thomas Tyrwhitt Drake, esq. M. P. a son. - 15. The wife of Col. H. D. Baillie, a dau,—16. In Charles-st. Berkeley-squ. Marchioness de Nadaillac, two sons.- 19. At Sanderstead, the wife of Rev. A. W. Wigsell, a son and heir.-21. At Odell Castle, co. Bedford, the wife of Justinian Alston, esq. a son.. 26. The wife of H. Ellis, esq. of the British Museum, a son.

June 17. By special licence, Ralph Sheldon, esq. of Weston House, co. Warwick, to Miss Sarah Broom, of Great Titchfield-street.

C. E. Graham, esq. to Mary, eldest dau. of Rice Jones, esq. of New Hall, Rhuabon.

20. Roderick Macniel, esq. eldest son of R. Macniel, esq. of Barra, co. Inverness, to Isabella Caroline, eldest dau. of Charles Brownlow, esq. of Lurgau, co. Armagh.

30. Rev. J. J. Goodenough, D. D. master of Bristol grammar school, to Isabella, fourth dau. of R. N. Newman, M. D. of Thornbury Park, and Clifton.

Lately. Charles Henry Smith, esq. Na val officer of Malta Yard, to Miss Mary Gerrans, niece of J. B. Murphy, esq. Burton Crescent.

July 1, P. L. Brooke, esq. of Mere Hall, co. Chester, to Elizabeth Sophia, eldest dau. of Adm. Sir Charles Rowley.

4. W. T. Brande, esq. of Albemarlestreet, to Anna Frederica, second dau. of Charles Hatchett, esq. of Mount Clare, Surrey, and of Bollington, co. Lincoln.

Capt. George Doherty, 13th light drag. to Emma, youngest daughter of the late T. Henchman, esq. of New Burlington-street.

George Gordon Smith, esq. late of the 9th Lancers, to Marianne, Baroness de Dawbrawa, widow of the late Baron de Dawbrawa, of the Portuguese legion and 3d dragoon guards.

Rev. Richard Fletcher, B. A. of Clapham Common, Surrey, to Caroline Louisa, youngest daughter of R. Thomas, M. D. of Salisbury.

6. Robert Hope, M. D. F. L. S. to Mrs. Davies, of Upper Cadogan Place.

7. Rev. Matthew Morris Preston, of Aspedon Hall, Herts, to Elizabeth, daughter of the late Francis Garratt, esq. GENT. MAG. July, 1818.

J. M. Carter, esq. of Hertford, to Susannah Sarah, second dau.; and Edw. Lewis, esq. of Piggott's hill, co. Hertford, to Eleanor, third daughter, of Rev. J. Price, rector of Great Munden.

9. A. Ewart, esq. surgeon, Madras Estab. to Miss Agnes Scott, of Pall Mall.

C. R. Nugent, esq. to Catherine Eleanor, and Robert Coffin, esq. to Elizabeth, daughters of the late T. Nash, esq. of Guildford-street.

H. L. Albert, esq. late of the 58th regt. to Jane, only dau. of M. Wilks, esq. of Tandridge Court, Godstone, Surrey.

Joseph Hedley, esq. of London, to Anne, second daughter of John Moseley, esq. of Checker House, Wolverhampton.

11. William de St. Croix, esq. of Windsor, to Mary, dau. of the late N. Green, esq. his Majesty's Consul at Nice.

13. By special license, Lord James Stuart, brother to the Marquis of Bute, to Miss Tighe, only dau. of the late W. Tighe, esq. M. P. of Woodstock, co. Kilkenny.

Rev. Henry Dawson, M. A. second son of William Dawson, esq. of St. Leonard's, Berks, to Julia, second dau. of Sir Robt. Buxton, bart. of Shadwell Lodge, Norfolk.

14. Lieut. col. C. Bruce, to Charlotte, second daughter of James Forbes, esq. of Hutton Hall, Essex.

16. B. L. Gould, esq. of Thornhaughstreet, to Christiana, youngest daughter of W. Beckett, esq. Gower-street.

A. C. Willock, esq. royal artillery, to Miss Dawes, of Foley Place..

Gillies Payne Sharpe, esq. of Tempsford, co. Bedford, to Maria, eldest daughter of the late Rev. Richard Palmer, of Grantham, co. Lincoln.

21. Visc. Cranley, eldest son of Earl Onslow, to Mary, eldest daughter of George Fludyer, esq. M. P.

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SIR THOMAS BERNARD, BART. Died, on the 1st of July, 1818, at Leamington Spa, after a short illness, in the 69th year of his age, Sir Thomas Bernard, bart. LL. D., long and justly celebrated for his philanthropic labours and writings in furtherance of the public charities and other useful institutions of the kingdom; some of which derived their origin, and most of them energetic assistance and support from him. He was the third son of Sir Francis Bernard, bart. Governor of New Jersey and Massachusets Bay; and was born at Lincoln, on the 27th of April, 1750. Having accompanied his father, when young, to America, he studied at Harvard College, in New England, and took a Master of Arts degree there. his return to this kingdom he entered himself of Lincoln's-inn, and in 1780 was called to the Bar, and practised many years in the Conveyancing line, in which he had a high reputation. On the 11th of May, 1782, he married Margaret, one of the two daughters, and eventually sole heiress, of Patrick Adair, esq. which marriage adding considerably to his income, he gradually withdrew from his profession, and took up the line of honourable and useful employment in which he so greatly distinguished himself for the rest of his life-that of suggesting and forwarding all charitable and other useful public establishments, and of composing and publishing many excellent works, the chief object of which was to diffuse moral, religious, and industrious habits among the lower orders, and to increase their comforts and improve their way of life; which publications are so generally known as to make any recital of them quite unnecessary. In this his first marriage, as well as in that which took place afterwards on the 15th June, 1815, with Charlotte - Matilda, youngest daughter of Sir Edward Hulse, bart., he always considered himself very fortunate, from that congeniality of temper and disposition which existed, so conducive to mutual happiness in both instances.

Having made himself very serviceable as one of the Governors of the Foundling Hospital, in conducting their business, he was, on the 13th of May, 1795, upon Dr. White's resignation, elected Treasurer of that Corporation, where he resided eleven happy years, giving a constant and zealous attention to all the concerns of that establishment, the revenues of which he greatly augmented, by his plan of building on a part of the Hospital estate several handsome streets, to one of which the Governors thought fit to give his name; and upon his resignation, in December 1806,

he was elected a Vice-President, and so continued till December 1810.

Soon after he became Treasurer of the Foundling, viz. in 1796, he proposed, and in concert with the Bishop of Durham, Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Morton Pitt, and other benevolent characters, established the Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor, which has been the means of diffusing over the country a large mass of useful information, producing every where an evident effect in improving the situation and conduct of the poorer classes.

In 1799, on the suggestion of Count Rumford, he set on foot the plan of the Royal Institution; for which the King's Charter was obtained on the 13th of January, 1800, which has been of eminent service in affording a school for useful knowledge to the young people of the metropolis, and in bringing forward to public notice many learned and able men in the capacity of Lecturers; and most of all, in its laboratory being the cradle of the transcendant discoveries of Sir Humphry Davy, which have benefited and enlightened Europe and the whole world.

On the 25th of May, 1800, wishing to assist in remedying the complaint of a want of Church room in the populous parts of the metropolis, Sir Thomas purchased a large building, which had been erected for a chapel, in West-street, Seven Dials, and established it, with the consent of the rector, and the Bishop of London, as a Free Chapel for the neighbourhood, with a day-school annexed to it for 420 boys, and a separate school for girls; and two years afterwards, with the assistance of his chaplain, the Rev. Mr. Gurney, now rector of St. Clement's, he added to this establishment the Society called the Chapel Benevolent Society. In a similar attempt at Brighton, many years afterwards, he was not equally successful; the Free Chapel which he, in conjunction with many worthy characters there, had established, being at last put down, on the plea of its interference with the rights of the Vicar.

It would be endless to mention all the measures which he brought forward at this period of his life, as well for protecting children in cotton mills, and the apprentices of chimney-sweepers, as also for providiñg schooling for the blind, promoting vaccination, and establishing hospitals for cases of typhus fever, all of which were eminently useful, but the last more particularly so in the metropolis, and in large towns, where his system was adopted.

In 1801, the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred upon him a Lambeth degree of A. M.; and at the same time the Univer

sity of Edinburgh sent him a degree of LL.D. In the same year his kind friend and relative, the Bishop of Durham, appointed him Chancellor of that Diocese, which occasioned his paying annual visits to the County Palatine, during one of which the School at Bishop's Auckland was planned, of which he gives a description in one of his best publications.

In 1805, he formed the plan of the British Institution for the promotion of the Fine Arts, since better known by the name of the British Gallery, where splendid exhibitions of Painting and Sculpture have been annually brought forward to the publick, greatly to the encouragement and improvement of British taste and skill.

Being a member of the Literary Society, he conceived the plan, in unison with the present Lord Mountnorris, and other members of that Society, of establishing a Club-house for Literature, from which all gaming, drinking, and party politicks should be excluded. This club-house was opened in 1809, in Albemarle-street, under the name of the Alfred, and many of the Bishops and Judges became members of it; and as a proof of its high reputation, we may cite the long list of candidates, and strong contention every year to be elected to fill the vacancies which happen.

Among his numerous publications, those entitled the Barrington School, the Cottager's Meditations, Dialogue between Monsieur François and John English, the entire Prefaces and most of the Reports of the Society for bettering the condition of the Poor, and Spurinna, or the Comforts of Old Age, have been the most popular. This last work was printed privately in 1813, and given away to friends; but the applications for it grew so numerous, as to induce him, in 1816, to publish it, with considerable augmentations, and it has since gone through four editions.

The last energetic effort of his life was to procure some mitigation, if not a total repeal, of the enormous tax on British salt, which he considered contrary to every maxim of sound policy, and militating against the best interests of the country. He first broached these sentiments in a pamphlet on the supply of employment and subsistence for the labouring classes, published in 1816. And he followed up the subject by his last and most laboured work, entitled "The Case of the Salt Duties." This led to the appointment of a Committee of the House of Commous, for the investigation of the subject, before whom he was examined as to the grounds of the opinions which he held, and as to the information which he had collected. The result was, that a bill was ordered to be brought into Parliament for reducing the Duties on Rock Salt used for Agricul. tural purposes. And it exceedingly grati

fied him during his last illness, to know that he, and those who co-operated with him, had in part succeeded in obtaining this Act.

During the last winter he had been occasionally indisposed with a cough and bilious attack; and his incessant labour and study in discussing and urging the Salt question, had had a visible effect in increasing his complaints, so as to induce him, about the middle of June, to repair to Leamington Spa, where, after about ten days residence, the symptoms grew alarming; but he would not consent that his friends should be written to, either thinking favourably of his own case, or wishing that they should not be troubled on the occasion. A dropsical affection came on, which increasing, overpowered his breath, and hastened the termination of his valuable life, and on Wednesday forenoon, the 1st of July, he expired without a struggle.

His remains were brought to London, and interred on Friday, the 10th of July, next to those of his first lady, in a vault under the Foundling Chapel, where he had always expressed a wish to be buried.

He had two elder brothers, one of whom, Francis, died before his father, and the other, Sir John, died in the West Indies in 1809, when he succeeded to the Baronetage.

His first lady, Margaret Adair, died on the 6th of June, 1813, after a happy union of thirty-one years; and her character is eulogized by him in his Spurinna, or the Comforts of Old Age, under the title of a Tribute to the Memory of a Departed Friend. His second lady, Charlotte Matilda Hulse, survives him; and to her attendance on him, he owed much of his satisfaction and comfort in his latest moments, breathing his last in her arms.

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The best consolation to her and his surviving friends is, that he is gone to receive the reward of his beneficent actions, and that they have the prospect before them of a happy re-union in a better state. he left no issue, his title devolves to his only surviving brother, Scrope, of Winchendon, Bucks, and of Pall Mall, London, who, in 1811, by royal licence, added the name of Morland to that of Bernard, and after having been Member in several Parliaments for Aylesbury, has been subsequently, and is at present, Member for St. Mawes.

HARVEY CHRISTIAN COMBE, Esq.

July 4. Died at Cobham Park, Surrey, Harvey Christian Combe, esq. He was born at Andover, in Hampshire, where his father, who possessed a landed estate, acted for many years as an attorney. Being the eldest son, he succeeded to the patrimonial fortune; and, notwithstand