Jan. 15. At Bishop's Penn, Jamaica, the wife of the Bishop of Jamaica, a son.

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Feb. 8. At his Prebendal House, Canterbury, the wife of the Rev. J. Peel, a sou. -19. At Mersham-hatch, the lady of Sir Edw. Knatchbull, a son.-21. wife of J. Cleveland Green, esq. of Hoopern Villa, Exeter, a dau.-22. At Waterford, the lady of Lieut.-Col. W. Vincent, E. 1. C., a son.- -24. In Harley-street, the wife of Capt. Berkeley Maxwell, R. N., a son.25. The lady of Capt. Sir J. Gordon Sinclair, Bart., R. N., of Stevenson, near Haddington, a dau.- -26. At Badminton, the Right Hon. Lady Isabella Kingscote, a dau.

Mar. 1. At Dunstable-house, Richmond, the lady of Sir H. Loraine Baker, Bart., a dau.. -At Brighton, the lady of Lieut.-Col. Baillie, a dau.. -At Brighton, Mrs. Jas. Hunter Hulme, a dau.

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At Calverton, near Stoney Stratford, the Hon. Mrs. Chas. Perceval, a dau.——5. At Serlby Hall, Notts. the Viscountess Gal

way, a dau -6. At Bushmead Priory, Bedford, the wife of Hugh Wade Gery, esq. a son and heir.-7. The wife of G. Heneage, esq. of Compton Bassett House, Devon, a son and heir.. -At the Ray, near Maidenhead, Lady Phillimore, a son -In Whitehall-place, Lady Henley, a son. The lady of Lieut.-Col. Alex. Stewart, E.I.C. a son. -At Sir Wm. Ouseley's, Foley-place, the wife of W. G. Ouseley, esq. of His Majesty's Legation in the United States, a son.-9. At Worthing, the wife of the Hon. Capt. A. R. Turnour, R. N., a son.-12. At Clifton, the lady of Sir S. Stuart, Bart. a dau.At Oakingham, the wife of Capt. Mayne, a son.-18. At Paris, Mrs. W. S. Browning, a dan.

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Aug. 26, 1830. At Madras, T. Sharp, esq. 43d N. I., eldest son of Mr. Sharp of Coventry, to Isabella-Jane, 2d dau. of Arthur Brooke, esq. of the Civil Service.

Jan. 19. At Ashbourn, co. Derb. the Rev. John T. Flesher, of Great Easton, co. Leic. to Miss Eliza Spencer.—Feb. 3. At Uppingham, co. Rutland, E.W.Wilmot, esq. fourth son of Sir Rob. W. Bart, to Augusta Matilda, only dau. of Cha. Champion, esq. of Beaumont Chase -At Aspley, co. Beds., John Marshall, esq. eldest son of Joseph M. esq. of Waldersea House, co. Camb., to Anne Penelope, youngest dau. of late Rev. Edw. Orlebar Smith, of Aspley House. -17. In Devonshire, Alfred Lord Harley, heir apparent to the Earl of Oxford, to Eliza, dau. of the Marq. of Westmeath, and grand-dau. of the Hon. Mrs. Cavendish Bradshaw.- -At Fareham, Hants, the Rev. T. Wentworth Gage, to Lady Mary Douglas, 2d dau. of the Marq. of Queensbury.

-22. The Rev. H. Sneyd, of Stone, to Mary Ann, second dau. of Tho. Sneyd Kynnersley, esq., of Loxley Park, co. Staff.

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At Betley, G. A. McDermott, esq. H. P. Rifle Brigade, second son of Col. M'Dermott, to Eliz. -Burrowes, second dau. of Chas. Short, esq.-24. At Kilmaine, Capt. Portlock, Royal Engineers, to Julia, second dau. of Arthur Browne, esq. of Glencorrib, co. Mayo. At Ealing, Alex. Cobham Cobham, esq. of Shinfield House, Berks, to Jane-Halse, second dau. of Rich. Chambers, esq. of Cradley Hall, co. Hereford.26. At West Teignmouth, the Rev. H. Woollcombe, Rector of Pillaton, Cornwall, to Sarah Baker, youngest dau. of the late Rev. Geo. Rhodes, Vicar of Colyton.-26. At St. George's, Bloomsbury, J.R.Yglesias, esq. of San Sebastian, in Spain, to Louisa, dau. of the late Anthony Parkin,

esq. solicitor of the General Post-office.

-At Goudhurst, co. Kent, Rev. W. Har ison, A. M. rector of Warmington, co. Warw. to Mary Anne, third surviving dau. of Rev. W. B. Harrison.At Trinity Church, St. Mary-le-bone, the Rev. S. Douglas, only son of the late Rear Adm. Stair Douglas, to Maria Edith, youngest dau. of Woodbine Parish, esq. of Upper Harley-street.In Dublin, W. H. Wilson, esq. 3d Dragoon Guards, to Louisa, youngest dau. of the late Rich. Lee Hunt, esq. of Artramon, co. Wexford.

Mar. 1. At St. Mary's, Bedford, W. R. Mesham, M. D., of Woburn, to Anne, second dau. of Chas. Bailey, esq. of Bedford.

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-The Rev. R. Antram, of Pentridge, Dorset, to Hannah-Burnaby, youngest dau. of T. B. Galloway, esq. of Corfe Castle.At Bath, the Rev. F. Duncan Gilby, Vicar of Eckington, Worcestershire, to Louisa, youngest dau. of W. Capper, esq. of Green Park Buildings.- 2. Mr. Wood, the vocalist, to Miss Paton, the divorced lady of Lord William Lennox.- 5. J. M. Bosville Durrant, of the Priory, Southover, Sussex, esq. to Fanny, second dau. of J. Hubbard, of Stratford, Essex, esq.At St. George's, Hanover-sq., the Hon. W. Ashley Cooper, son of the Earl of Shaftesbury, to Maria Anne, eldest dau. of Col. Hugh Bailey, of Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square.—At Brighton, Henry Sandham, esq. Royal Engineers, to Augusta Cath. Anne, youngest dau. of John White, esq. M.D. F.L.S. R.N.- -9. The Rev. H. Demain, M.A. of Ashford, Kent, to Sarah Ann, only dau. of Mr. T. Alehorne, of West Brixton.- -At East Down, the Rev. O. H. Williams, youngest son of the late Sir J. H. Williams, to Mary Anne Eliz., eldest dau. of the Rev. Chas. Pyne Coffin.

VISCOUNT SYDNEY.

Jan. 20. At his seat, Frognal, Kent, aged 66, the Right Hon. John-Thomas Townshend, second Viscount Sydney of St. Leonard's in Gloucestershire (1789), and Baron Sydney of Chislehurst in Kent (1783); Ranger of St. James's and Hyde Parks, High Steward of Yarmouth, M.A. and F.S.A.; brother-in-law to the Earl of Chatham, K.G., the Earl of Leitrim, Lord de Clifford, and Lord Dynevor; and uncle to the Duke of Buccleugh and Queensberry, K.G. and Viscountess Stopford.

His Lordship was born Feb. 21, 1764, the eldest son of Thomas first Viscount Sydney, Secretary of State, by Elizabeth, eldest daughter and coheiress of Ricbard Powys of Hintlesham in Suffolk, esq. (by Lady Mary Brudenell, aunt to the present Earl of Cardigan). He was of Clare Hall, Cambridge, where the degree of M.A. was conferred on him in 1784. In 1789 he was appointed one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty; and at the general elections in 1790 and 1796, he was returned to Parliament for Whitchurch. In June 1793 he was transferred from the Admiralty Board to that of the Treasury, where he sat until, having succeeded his father in the Peerage, June 13, 1800, he was in July that year appointed a Lord of the Bedchamber. He resigned that post, we believe, in 1812.

His Lordship was twice married; firstly, April 12, 1790, to the Hon. Sophia Southwell, third daughter of Edward Lord de Clifford, and by that lady had two daughters; the Hon. SophiaMary Townshend, and the Hon. Mary Elizabeth, married in 1825 to GeorgeJames Cholmondeley, of Boxley House in Kent, esq. (who died on the 5th of November last, and of whom a memoir was given in our December number, p. 567): these ladies are presumptive coheiresses to the barony of de Clifford. Having lost his first lady Nov. 9, 1795, Lord Sydney married secondly, May 27, 1802, Lady Caroline Clements, third daughter of Robert first Earl of Leitrim, who died Aug. 9, 1805, in giving birth to her first child, the Right Hon. JohnRobert now third Viscount Sydney. His Lordship has sat in Parliament for Whitchurch since the last general election ; he is at present unmarried.

LADY DE Roos.

Jan. 9. In Stratford Place, aged 60, the Right Hon. Charlotte Fitzgerald de Roos, Baroness de Roos.

Her Ladyship was the only surviving child and heiress of Capt. the Hon. Robert Boyle Walsingham (fifth and youngest son of Henry 1st Earl of Shannon), by Charlotte, daughter of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, K.B. She was married Aug. 4, 1791, to Lord Henry Fitzgerald, uncle to the present Duke of Leinster.

The ancient Barony of de Roos bad been in abeyance for 119 years, when it was allowed to this lady in 1806. Having petitioned the King to terminate the abeyance in her favour, the petition was on the report of the Attorney-general referred to the House of Lords; who, on the 7th of May, 1806, reported that the Barony was then in abeyance be tween 1. Sir Henry Hunloke, Bart. (heir general of Bridget Manners, eldest daughter and coheir of George 7th Earl of Rutland); 2. George Earl of Essex (as son and heir of Frances, elder daughter and coheir of Sir C. H. Williams); and 3. the petitioner. Two days after the date of this report, the King was pleased to terminate the abeyance in her Ladyship's favour. The descent of her mother, through whom her title was derived, was as follows. She was the younger daughter of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, K. B. by Lady Frances Coningsby, daughter and at length only surviving child of Thomas Earl of Coningsby; by his second wife Lady Frances Jones, daughter and eventually sole heir of Richard Earl of Ranelagh; by Elizabeth, daughter and ultimately sole heir of Francis 4th Baron Willoughby of Parham; who was son and heir of William the 3d Lord Willoughby of Parham, by Frances Manners his wife, younger sister and coheir of George 7th Earl of Rutland, which George was brother and beir male of Francis 6th Earl, and 18th Baron de Roos, whose heirs-general failed on the death of George Duke of Buckingham and 19th Baron de Roos, in 1687. Mr. Nicolas, in his Synopsis of the Peerage, has considered it "worthy of remark that her Ladyship was only younger coheir of one moiety of the Barony of Roos; the entire representation of the elder coheir being vested in Sir Henry Hunloke, Bart.; and the

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editor is not aware of any similar instance (excepting in the case of the Barony of Zouche of Haryngworth,* but which is not precisely in point, because, though Sir Cecil Bisshopp was only the eldest coheir of one moiety of that Barony, no descendants could be traced of the coheir of the other moiety after the time of the Commonwealth,) of the grace of the Crown having been exercised in favour of a coheir who did not wholly represent one moiety of the dignity."

Lady de Roos was left a widow on the 8th of July, 1829; and as on that occasion we enumerated her numerous famly, in our memoir of Lord Henry Fitzgerald, vol. xcvm. ii. 174, we shall not now repeat them. Her eldest son, the Right Hon. Henry-William, now Lord de Roos, was born in 1792, and is at present unmarried.

LORD RIVERS.

Jan. 23 Drowned in the Serpentine river, aged 53, the Right Hon. Horace William Pitt, third Baron Rivers, of Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire (1802).

In our memoir of his predecessor in that title, in our volume for 1828, part ii. p. 463, we took a brief review of the family of Pitt, one branch of which (in the male line) then became extinct. The Peer now deceased was the only son of Peter Beckford, of Stapleton in Dorsetshire, esq. by the Hon. Louisa Pitt, second daughter of the first Lord Rivers. As Mr. Horace Beckford he was for many years a distinguished member of the haut ton; and it was only after his succeeding to the title on the death of his maternal uncle, July 20, 1828, that he took the name of Pitt. The manors of Sudley and Wincombe, in Gloucestershire, were sold by auction in March 1829, for the sum of 74,8007. It will be remembered that Strathfield Say in Hampshire, from which the first Lord took the designation of his first Barony of Rivers (1776), was purchased by the nation some years ago for the Duke of Wellington.

Lord Rivers was first missed on the evening of Sunday Jan. 23. At the inquest held on his body, his footman deposed that his Lordship had on that day dined with his family, when he appeared much as usual, nothing being observed about him indicative of aberration of mind, On Tuesday the Serpentine river was dragged, and in the afternoon his Lordship's body was found at the east end, near the waterfall. John

* See our memoir of the late Lord de la Zouche, in vol. xcix. i. 86.

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Ambrose, esq. his Lordship's steward at Mistley in Essex, deposed that he thought it extremely probable that his Lordship had fallen off the footpath into the river by accident, being very nearsighted; and a more unlikely person to commit self-destruction the witness had never seen than his Lordship, he seemed so remarkably happy and contented. It appearing also, from the testimony of the superintendant of the Humane So ciety's Receiving-house, that the path at that part of the river was so extremely dangerous, that no less than ten persons fell in one foggy night, a short time ago, and were with difficulty saved, the jury returned this verdict: "Found drowned near the public path at the head of the Serpentine River, considered very dangerous for want of a rail or fence, where many persons have lately fallen in."-The rail has been since erected by direction of the Duke of Sussex, the new Ranger of Hyde Park. '

Subsequently to the inquest, there has been considerable discussion in the newspapers regarding the cause of the occurrence; and it has been stated, with what truth we cannot say, that when the body was taken out of the water, his Lordshp's hat was secured with a bandkerchief under his chin, and that his umbrella was found on the bank, both which circumstances are considered indicative that his immersion was intentional; and it is added that on the Saturday night he had lost considerable sums at a gaming-house; and that this passion for play had for some years so far possessed him, that his uncle be< queathed to him only 4000l. a year, leaving the bulk of his property, amounting to 40,000l. a year, to trus tees for the benefit of his son, the present Peer.

Horace Lord Rivers married, Feb. 9, 1808, Frances only daughter and heiress of Lieut.-Col. Rigby, of Mistley Hall in Essex; and by that lady, who survives him, had issue two sons and two daughters: 1. the Hon. Fanny Pitt; 2. the Right Hon. George now Lord Rivers, born in 1810; 3. the Hon. Horace Pitt, lately appointed a Cornet in the Blues; and 4. the Hon. Harriet-Elizabeth, born in 1816.

There is a youthful portrait of Mr. Horace Beckford, at full length in a Vandyke costume, painted by R. Cosway, R.A. and engraved in stipple by John Condé, 1792.

vers,

It is stated that the present Lord Riwhen he becomes of age, which will be shortly, comes into the Pitt property, upwards of 40,000l. a year, and the Beckford property (in the West Indies),

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THE BISHOP OF CORK.

Jan. 10. At the Palace, Cork, aged 55, the Hon. and Rt. Rev. Thomas St. Lawrence, D. D. Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross; uncle to the Earl of Howth and the Viscountess Dungarvon, and father-in-law to the Bishop of Elphin.

His Lordship was born in 1755, the second son of Thomas first Earl of Howth, by Isabella third daughter of Sir Henry King, Bart. and sister to Edward first Earl of Kingston. He was preferred to the Deanery of Cork in 1797, and promoted to the Bishopric in

1807.

His Lordship married Frances, eldest daughter and coheiress of the Rev. Hen. Coglan, D.D. by whom he had three sons and five daughters: 1. the Rev. Thomas St. Lawrence, a Prebendary of Ross, who married in 1816 Harriet, only daughter of Lt.-Gen. John Grey; 2. the Rev. Edward St. Lawrence, Archdeacon of Ross, and Prebendary of Cork; 3. Robert; 4. Emma, married in 1805 by the Rev. Wm. Lewis Beaufort, a Prebendary of Cork; 5. Isabella, married in 1808 to the Rt. Rev. John Leslie, D.D. now Bishop of Elphin; 6. Lætitia; 7. Caroline, who died in 1812; and 8. Frances.

BISHOP HOBART.

Sept. 12. At Auburn, in New York, which place he was visiting in the tour of his diocese, aged 54, the Right Rev. John Henry Hobart, for more than eighteen years Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in that State.

In 1825 he visited Europe, for the restoration of his shattered health, and was received in this country with great attention. The following eulogy is passed upon him in a New York paper:

"With him the dignity of his situation was no sinecure. Unwearied in his activity, and unwavering in his principles, he gave his life and soul to the promotion of the interests of the Church over which he presided. To her he dedicated the native strength of his mind, the treasures of his learning, and the power of his eloquence. She has lost a persevering friend and advocate, as well as an honoured Prelate."

SIR THOS. FRANKLAND, BART. Jan. 4. At Thirkelby, near Thirsk, aged 80, Sir Thomas Frankland, the sixth Baronet of that place, M.A. F.R.S. F.L.S. and F.H.S.

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He was born in September 1750, the eldest surviving son of Admiral Sir Tho mas Frankland, the fifth Baronet, by Sarah Rhett, granddaughter of a Chief Justice of South Carolina. He was educated at Merton College, Oxford, where he was created M.A. July 4, 1771. He was one of the representatives of Thirsk in the Parliament which sat from 1774 to 1780, and again in that which met in 1796; but before the close of that Parliament, he resigned the representation of the family interest in that Borough to his younger brother Colonel Wm. Frankland, who died in 1816.

Sir Thomas succeeded to the Baronetcy on the death of his father, Nov. 20, 1784.

He married in March 1775, Dorothy, daughter of William Smelt, esq. and niece to Leonard Smelt, esq. Sub-Governor to the Prince of Wales; and by that lady, who died May 19, 1820, had two sons and three daughters, who all died young, excepting his successor Sir Robert Frankland, now M P. for Thirsk ; he was born in 1784, and married in 1815 Louisa-Anne, daughter of the late Lord George Murray, Bishop of St. David's, and sister to the present Bishop of Rochester, and the late Countess of Ilchester; by whom he has several children.

SIR R. WILLIAMS, BART. M.P. Dec. 1. At Nice, aged 65, Sir Robert Williams, ninth Baronet of Penrhyn, co. Carnarvon, for forty years Knight in Parliament for that county; half-brother to the late Lord Viscount Bulkeley.

Sir Robert was born July 20, 1764, the elder son of Sir Hugh the eighth Baronet, by the Right Hon. Emma dowager Viscountess Bulkeley (widow of James the 6th Viscount), daughter and heiress of Thomas Rowlands, of Nant, co. Caernarvon, and Caeren in Anglesey, esq. He was educated at a school at Blackheath; and then entered into the Guards, in which he was a Captain when first elected to Parliament for Carnarvonshire at the general election in 1790.

He succeeded his father in the Baronetcy Aug. 19, 1794; and married in June 1799, Anne, second daughter of the Rev. Edward Hughes of Kinmel, Carmarthenshire, one of the proprietors of the Paris mine; with whom he acquired a considerable addition to his fortune. He had issue by that lady, who survives him, three sons and seven daughters: 1. Harriet-Georgiana, married in 1826 to Brice Pearce, esq. of Barkham in Essex; 2. Sir Richard

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SIR C. J. SMITH, Bart.

Jan. 14. In Portland-place, aged 30, Sir Charles Joshua Smith, the second Baronet, of Suttons in Essex.

He was born May 31, 1800, the eldest son of Charles Smith, of Suttons, Esq. by Augusta, 3d daughter of Joshua Smith, of Stoke Park, in Wiltshire, Esq. and sister to the dowager Marchioness of Northampton and the late Lady Dunsany. He succeeded to his Baronetcy Jan. 22, 1816, on the death of his mother's uncle Sir Drummond Smith, of Tring Park, in Hertfordshire, on whom the title had been conferred in 1804, with remainder to the issue male of Charles Smith, of Suttons, Esq.

Sir C. J. Smith was twice married; 1st. Oct. 28, 1823, to Belinda, daughter of George Colebrooke, Esq. and grandson of Sir George Colebrooke, Bart. who died in childbed, Jan. 22, 1825, having given birth to a daughter, who also did not survive; 2dly, July 20, 1826, to Mary, second daughter of William Gosling, of Portland-place and Roehampton, Esq. by whom he has left a son and successor, Sir Charles Cunliffe Smith, born Sept. 13, 1827.

REAR-ADM. SIR E. BERRY, Bart. K.C.B. Feb. 13. At his residence in Bath, aged 62, Rear-Admiral Sir Edward Berry, Bart., K.C.B.

This distinguished officer had been several years suffering under severe illness and extreme debility, the effect of paralysis, which rendered him totally incapable of taking upon himself the active duties for which his distinguished talents in his profession, and his high character, so eminently qualified him.

Sir Edward Berry was the only officer in His Majesty's Navy who had the honour of three medals, having commanded a line-of-battle ship in the battles of the Nile, Trafalgar, and St. Domingo.

Being First Lieutenant of His Majesty's ship Captain, at Porto Feraijo, Sir

Horatio Nelson recommended him for promotion for "the masterly style in which he brought that ship to bear on the batteries."

Next he particularly distinguished himself in the same ship in the battle off Cape St. Vincent, 14th February, 1797, with Sir Horatio Nelson, and was the first man who boarded the San Nicholas, 80 guns, and the San Josef, 112 guns. For this heroic conduct he was made a Post Captain, March 16, 1797.

He next commanded His Majesty's ship Vanguard, at the battle of the Nile, under Lord Nelson, whose estimate of bis valuable services was thus expressed in his dispatches to the Admiralty: "The support and assistance I have received from Captain Berry cannot be sufficiently expressed; I was wounded in the head, and obliged to be carried off the deck; but the service suffered no loss by that event; Captain Berry was fully equal to the important service then going on."

Being charged with dispatches to the Admiralty on this occasion, he was returning home as a passenger in the Leander, 50 guns, commanded by the late Sir T. B. Thompson, when that ship, after a desperate resistance, was captured by the Genereux, a French 74. Captain Thompson particularly mentioned the great assistance be received from Captain Berry on this occasion, and the Court Martial on Captain Thompson expressed their approbation to Captain Berry" for the gallant and active zeal he manifested by giving his assistance in the combat."

He received the honour of knighthood, December 12, 1798, and was presented with the freedom of the City of London in a gold box, value 100 guineas.

Sir Edward afterwards commanded the Foudroyant, 80 guns, at the capture of the said Genereux, and of the Guilliaume Tell, 84 guns. In this conflict, the Foudroyant expended 162 barrels of gunpowder, and 2,749 cannon shot of various sizes; the loss of the Guilliaume Tell was upwards of 400 men killed and wounded.

In 1798, Sir Edward Berry conveyed the Royal Family of Naples from Palermo to Leghorn, for which he had the honour of receiving a gold box set with brilliants, inclosing a diamond ring with a letter of thanks (in her own hand-writing) from the Queen of Naples, sister of the unfortunate Maria Antoinette, Queen of France.

In 1805, Sir Edward Berry commanded the old Agamemnon, 64 guns, appointed to join Lord Nelson's fleet, and on his passage out, most conspicuously evinced