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Domestic Occurrences.-Promotions and Preferments.

convicted at Ipswich of extorting an increase of wages, and tweive were acquitted. Twenty-six were convicted at Petworth, and several at Oxford. Of those some were sentenced to transportation for seven years, and the remainder to different periods of imprisonment.-At Gloucester, seven were transported for fourteen years; twenty for seven years; one imprisonment for three years; two to two years; two eighteen months; eight to twelve months; two to nine months; ten to six months; and twenty-nine were discharged on their own recognizances to come up for judgment when called upon. Six prisoners were left for execution at Winchester. Four of the prisoners have been respited; but two of them, named Cooper and Cooke, were executed on the 15th.

Several meetings have taken place in different parts of the country, on the subject of Parliamentary Reform. In Middlesex, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Cornwall, &c. there have been meetings formed of some of the most influential persons in the counties. At the meeting which took place in the Shire-hall at Bedford, on the 17th Jan. the Marquis of Tavistock, Sir Peter Payne, Sir W. Long, the Members, &c. were preResolutions were passed, and a

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petition adopted. Words in the original draught of the petition, in favour of vote by ballot, were expunged, being against the sense of the meeting. At the Berkshire County Meeting, which took place at Reading on the 17th, a resolution in favour of vote by ballot was carried, there being only four hands held up against it.

Jan. 6. Blackburn church was destroyed by fire. The accident is supposed to have been occasioned by the flues which warmed the building with hot air. The church was completed about four years since, and consecrated by Dr. Blomfield, then Bishop of Chester. The damage is estimated to be about 80001.

Jan. 16. The beautiful church of Warkworth, in Northumberland, was discovered to be on fire, and its destruction was providentially prevented by the combined and prompt exertions of the inbabitants. The flues had been heated three days previously, which rendered some wood near them exceedingly susceptible of ignition, and it was discovered that a pew, under which one of the flues passed, was in flames.

Jan. 24. About twelve o'clock at night the beautiful church of St. Peter's, at Birmingham, was discovered to be on fire, and in less than two hours the whole of the edifice was destroyed.

PROMOTIONS AND PREFERMENTS.

GAZETTE PROmotions.

Sept. 11, 1830. David Erskine, of Dry burgh Abbey, Berwickshire, esq. F.S.A. and R.A. Edinb. knighted.

Jan. 15.--Royal Artillery-Major-Gen. Brooke Young, to be Col. Commandant.

Jan. 17. His Majesty has declared himself Col.-in-Chief of the Household Brigade of Cavalry, consisting of the 1st and 2d Life Guards and Royal Horse Guards.

Jan. 8. Brevet; Lieut.-Cols. Hon. Lincoln Stanhope at id W. Cross, to be Colonels in the Army.

The Navy. Capt. Lyon, of the Blonde, appointed to the Madagascar; Acting Capt. Sir T. Pasley, Bart. to the Blonde; Commander C. Graham to the Rattlesnake.-To be Captains, John Wilson, (b.) G. B. Maxwell, Hon. J. Cavendish, H. E. Napier.-To be Commanders, Charles Bla ir, G. W. Matson, F. P. Blackwood, A. Mile, F. Hart, J. B. B. M'Hardy, Lieut. J. § javage (1816).

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ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.
Rev. G. Davys, to be Dean of Chester.
Rev. W. M'Donall, Preb. in Peterb. Cath.
Rev. H. Philpotts, Preb. in Durham Cath.
Rev. W. Vaux, Preb. in Winchester Cath.
Rev. J. Armitstead, Barlings P. C. co.
Lincoln.

Rev. J. Besly, Aston Subedge R. co. Glouc.
Rev. J. Burnett, Houghton R. Hants.
Rev. S. H. Cassan, Bruton V. Somerset.
Rev. J. Clementson, Wolvey V. co. Warw.
Rev. W. N. Darnell, Stanhope R. Durham.
Rev. R. Etough, Gr. Addington R. N'ampt.
Rev. J. Fayrer, Chillington and Seavington
St. Mary P. CC. co. Somerset.

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Dec. 26. At Fulbeck, Lincolnshire, the wife of the Rev. G. Fane, a dau.- -29. At Stourbridge, Worcestershire, the wife of R. Scott, esq. barrister, a son. -At Elwick Hall, Durham, the wife of the Rev. James Allan Park, a son.-31. The wife of the Rev. J. Rigby, Vicar of Hutton-cum-Cranswick, a son.

Jan. 1. At Dan-y-Graig House, Newton, Glamorganshire, the wife of the Rev. H. Elliot Graham, a son.-2. At Bloxworth House, Dorset, the wife of John Hesketh Lethbridge, esq. a son.- -At Westhorpe, Nottinghamshire, the wife of R. Warrand, esq. late Major 6th Dragoons, a son.-9. At Clenchwharton Rectory, near Lynn, Mrs. Goldfrap, twin daughters. -10. The wife of J. T. Justice, esq. of Parliament street, a dau.-At Sledmere, the lady of Sir Tatton Sykes, Bart. a son. -At Cublington Rectory, Bucks, the

wife of the Rev. B. R. Perkins, a son.11. In Saville-street, Burlington Gardens, the wife of Henry Bosanquet, esq. a dau.

-At Turville Vicarage, the wife of the Rev. Geo. Scobell, D. D. a son and heir.

-At Walbury, Essex, the wife of Col. Johnson, a son.—13. At Beaufort Castle, co. Inverness, Hon. Mrs. Fraser, of Lovat, a son.-16. At Brighton, Lady Frances Sandon, a son and heir. -In Torrington-sq. the wife of E. R. Daniell, esq. barrister-at-law, a dau.-17. The wife of Lieut.-Col. Standish O'Grady, a dau.At Hatchlands, the wife of W. Holme Sumner, esq. a dau.-19. At. Fawley, near Hants, the wife of the Rev. Geo. Downing Bowles, a dau. 20. At Chicknell, Salop, Hon. Mrs. Taylor, a son.——21. At Abbot's Leigh, co. Somerset, the wife of R. Bright, esq. a son.

MARRIAGES.

Dec. 21. At Beverley, Captain Unett, late 7th Dragoon Guards, to Miss M. A. Ditmas, dau. of the late Lieut.-Col. Ditmas. -23. At Munich, H. F. Howard, esq. second son of H. Howard, esq. of Corbycastle, Cumberland, to the Hon. Sevilla Erskine, fourth dau. of the Right Hon. Lord Erskine.-24. At Caen, in Normandy, M. Melano de Calcina, of Caen, to Miss Shean, eldest dau. of the late Major Shean, of the Sussex Militia.-27. Berne, P. J. Brown, esq. of Thun, to Eliz. M. Caroline, eldest dau. of John Hawksey Acherley, esq. of Bath.- 29. At Newdigate, Surrey, the Rev. Alfred Lyall, to Mary Drummond, fourth dau. of James Broadwood, esq. of Lyne, Newdigate.

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Lately. Rev. G. D. Faithfull, Rector of Lower Heyford, Oxford, to Miss Ann Norris.

Jan. 1. In the chapel of Warwick Castle, Joseph Neeld, esq. of Grosvenor-square, M.P. to Lady C. Ashley Cooper, dau. of the Earl of Shaftesbury.- -At St. Pancras New Church, Capt. Litchfield, R. N. to Louisa, only dau. of the late H. C. Litchfield, esq.- -3. At St. George's, Southwark, Cha. Kershaw, esq. of Stratford, Suffolk, to Mary, eldest dau. of the late Cha. Noble, esq. of Old Burlington-street.-4. At Mitcham, the Rev. T. Lagden Ramsden, to Sophia Harriet, youngest dau. of the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir H. Oakes, BartAt Liverpool, W. Reynolds, esq. M.D. to Hannah Mary, only dau. of the late W. Rathbone, esq.- -5. At St. Marylebone Church, W. S. Jones, esq. of Brunswickquare, to Georgina Isabella, only dau. of

the Rev. Dr. Stephens, of Devonshire-place.

-6. At Tottenham, Astley, eldest son of W. H. Holt, esq. of Enfield, to Jane, dau. of the Rev. Edw. Heathcote, of Chesterfield. -At Beverley, the Rev. G. P. Richards, Rector of Sampford Courtenay, Devon, to Miss Eyre, eldest dau. of the Rev. J. Eyre, of Beverley.- -8. At Hackney, Teesdale Cockell, esq. of Navarino-terrace, Dalston, to Harriet, youngest dau. of the late Major G. Wright, of Fitzroy-square, and Plymouth, Devon.-10. The Rev. W. Pye, to M. Cripps, dau. of J. Cripps, esq. M.P. for Cirencester.11. At St. George's, Hanover-square, the Rev. C. A. Steuart, of Ewhurst, Surrey, to Mrs. De Lancey Barclay, of Tillingbourn.

-At Hendon, the Rev. John James, to Eliz. dau. of W. Wilberforce, esq. of Highwood-hill, Middlesex.- -15. Edw. Montagu Woodford, esq. of Hill's Court, nephew of the late Col. Montagu, of Lackham, House, Wilts, to Mary, only dau. of Mrs. Fowler.The Rev. John Edwards, Vicar of Prestbury, to Eliza, youngest dau. of the late J. Milford, esq. of Exeter.

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At St. George's, Bloomsbury, Ashhurst Majendie, esq. eld. son of L. Majendie, of Hedingham Castle, esq. to Frances, eld. dau. of John Griffin, esq. Bedford-place.

-At St. Pancras, Captain Charles King Rudge, of Hanham, in Gloucestershire, to Miss Mary Anne Crabtree, of St. Andrew'splace, Regent's-park.- -20. At Chelsea, John Newbery, esq. late Lieut.-Col. of the Sussex Militia, to Fanny, eldest dau. of Lieut.-Col. Le Blanc, of Chelsea College.

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LORD HENLEY.

Dec. 6. At Gumley-ball, Leicestershire, the seat of his son-in-law E. C. Hartopp, Esq. aged 78, the Right Hon. Morton Eden, Baron Henley, of Chardstock, in the Peerage of Ireland; a Privy Councillor; G. C. B.; and F. R. S.

The family of Eden, which is of considerable antiquity in the county of Durham, is in four branches honoured with hereditary titles in two cases with Baronetcies, in the third with Peerages both of England and Ireland, and in the present instance with one of the latter Kingdom. Sir Robert Eden, the first Baronet, who was for many years Knight in Parliament for co. Durham, was created in 1672, and is now represented by Sir Robert Johnson-Eden, the fifth that has enjoyed the title. Sir Robert, the third Baronet, by Mary, youngest daughter of William Davison, of Beamish, Esq. had, besides his son and successor Sir John, four younger sons: Sir William Eden, of Truir, co. Durham, and Governor of Maryland, who was created a Baronet in 1776, and was grandfather of Sir William Eden, the present and fourth Baronet of that place; William, who, after having filled many diplomatic situations of great importance, was created Lord Auckland, in the Peerage of Ireland, in 1789, and afterwards made an English Peer in 1793; he died in 1814, when a short memoir of him appeared in our vol. LXXXIV. i. 629; his eldest son is the present Lord Auckland, and among bis daughters are the Countess Dowager of Buckinghamshire, Lady Bexley, and Lady Francis Osborne. Thomas Eden, Esq. the fourth son, was Deputy Auditor of Greenwich Hospital; and the fifth and youngest was the distinguished individual whose death we now record. One of their sisters was the wife of Archbishop Moore.

Lord Henley, like his brother Lord Auckland, was engaged in many important diplomatic missions. He commenced his career at the age of 24, with the appointment of Minister Plenipotentiary to the Electoral (now Royal) Court of Bavaria, and Minister at the Diet of Ratisbon, Oct. 10, 1776; he was removed to Copenhagen, with the style of Envoy Extraordinary, Feb. 22, 1779; and to Dresden Sept. 21, 1782. In 1783 he came to England, and was married at Lambeth, by bis brother-in-law Archbishop Moore, on the 7th of August, to LadyEl izabeth Henley, 5th daughter of Robert Earl of GENT. MAG. January, 1881.

Northington, and coheir to her brother Robert, the second and last Earl, and K. T. He had two sons born at Dresden in 1784 and 1785; and with the additional character of Minister Plenipotentiary conferred July 6, 1788, remained there until 1791. He was then appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Duke of Saxe Gotha; where having resided only a short time, he was in the same year appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Berlin. Shortly after, he was nominated a K. B., with the insignia of which Order he was, at the King's desire, publicly invested by his Majesty of Prussia on the first day of the following year. In 1793 Sir Frederick set off for Vienna, as Ambassador to the Emperor of Germany; in 1794, when he was sworn a Privy Counsellor, he went Ambassador Extraordinary to Madrid; but in the same year he was re-appointed, as Envoy Extraordinary, to Vienna; where he remained until 1799; when, on bis retirement, he was, by patent dated Nov. 9, created a Peer of Ireland, as Baron Henley, of Chardstock. Chardstock is in Dorsetshire. He has since enjoyed an annual pension of 2,000l.

By Lady Elizabeth, who died Aug. 20, 1821, his Lordship had three sons and one daughter: 1. the Hon. Frederick Eden, born at Dresden 1784, M. A. of Christ-church Oxford 1807, a barristerat-law, died Nov. 5, 1823; 2. the Right Hon. Robert-Henley now Lord Henley, born at Dresden 1785, M. A. of Christchurch 1814, a Master in Chancery: he married in 1824 Harriet, sister to the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, and has a son and heir; 3. the Hon. and Rev. William Eden, born at Berlin in 1793, now Rector of Hertingfordbury; he married in 1820 Anna-Maria, dowager Lady Grey de Ruthyn, and bas several children; and, 4, the Hon. Anna-Maria, married in 1824 to Edmund Cradock-Hartopp, Esq. the eldest surviving son of Sir E. C. Hartopp, of Four Oaks Hall, in Warwickshire, Bart.

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OBITUARY.-Count Linsingen.—Viscountess Massareene. [Jan.

per y, co. Oxon, Bart.) of John Powell of Sandford, co. Oxon. Esq. The mother of these ladies was Anne, dau. of Thomas Wyndham, of Tale, co. Devon, Groom of the Bedchamber to King Charles the Second. The subject of this brief notice resided with his aunt Lady Curzon, at Waterperry, until her decease in 1764; and on the death of John Barnwall Curzon, 19 Aug. 1787, s. p. the estate became the property of Henry (eldest son of the Hon. Francis Roper), who thereupon assumed the name and arms of Curzon, and is the present Lord Teynham.

Mr. Philip Roper married, in 1765, Barbara, 2d daughter of Launcelot Lyttelton, of Lichfield, Esq. whose elder sister Mary was the wife of his brother Francis, and mother of the present Lord Teynham. By that lady, who died Apr. 10, 1805, he had one son, Col. PhilipHenry Roper (who married, in 1804, Henrietta, dau. of Thomas Banister, Esq. and widow of Capt. John Bentham, and has a numerous family), and six daughters:-1. Barbara, married in 1786 to Sir Samuel Chambers, High Sheriff of Kent in 1799; 2. Anne, married in 1793 to Gawen Aynesley Mitford, of Morpeth, co. Northumberland, Esq.; 3. Catherine, married in 1803 to Thomas Johnston Pearce, Esq.; 4.Frances-MariaLouisa, who died young; 5. Emma, married in 1803 to Frederick Holbrooke, Esq. F.S.A.; and, 6. Eliza.

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LIEUT.-GEN. COUNT LINSINGEN. Lately. Charles Count Linsingen, a Lieut.-General in the British service, K. C. B. and G. C. H.

From the age of fourteen he was present in all the Continental wars, including "the Seven Years' War," when he was on the Duke of Brunswick's staff. In 1794, although only a Lieut.-Colonel, he commanded a considerable corps of British and Hanoverian troops; and defended Menin, in Flanders, for eight weeks. Not long after he was taken prisoner. When the French occupied Hanover in 1803, and the Hanoverian army was disbanded, he declined signing the convention, and was one of the first who came over to this country, to reform his regiment, the 1st Hussars of the German Legion. He was then appointed to the rank of Major-General in the British service; and afterwards served with all the expeditions on which the German Legion was employed, except that to Spain, which his age and other circumstances did not permit him to accompany, and, in the absence of the Duke of Cambridge, he held the command and immediate superintendence of that distinguished corps. He was

promoted to the rank of Lieut.-General in 1811; and received the Orders of the Bath and of the Guelphs from his late Majesty, with whom he was a great favourite.

VISCOUNTESS MASSAREENE.

Jun. 2. At Portobello, near Dublin, the Right Hon. Harriet Skeffington, Viscountess of Massereene, Baroness of Loughneagh, co. Antrim, in her own right.

Her Ladyship was the only daughter and heir of Chichester Skeffington, 4th Earl of Massereene, 8th Viscount Masserene, Baron of Loughneagh, and 11th English Baronet of Fisherwick, co. Stafford, on whose decease the Earldom of Massereene and the English Baronetcy became extinct; but the Viscounty and Barony devolved to his daughter. Her Ladyship married Nov. 20, 1810, Thomas-Henry Foster, Viscount Ferrard, Baron Oriel, in Ireland, in descent from his mother the late Viscountess Ferrard, and Baron Oriel in England, in descent from his father the late Lord Oriel, and has had issue bybis Lordship (who assumed the name of Skeffington only in 1817, pursuant to the last Earl of Massareene's will,) eight children; the titles devolve to her eldest son the Hon. John Skeffington Foster, now tenth Viscount Massereene, Baron of Loughneagh, born 30 Nov. 1812. As the descent of this Viscounty will be in future similar to that of a Barony in fee, going to the direct female heir, and not to the collateral male heir, it may not be amiss to refer to the patent conferring an entail so unusual, if not unique. The first Viscount was Sir John Clotworthy, Knt. a very eminent person in the reign of Charles I. who, on the restoration, was raised to the peerage of Ireland by the titles of Viscount Massereene and Baron of Loughneagh, by patent dated Nov. 21, 1660, with remainder to his son-in-law Sir John Skeffington, Bart. and his issue male by his wife Mary Clotworthy, and for default of such issue male, to the heir of the body of the said Sir John Clotworthy. The entire issue male as above, failed in 1816, when the last Earl's daughter claimed the Viscounty as "heir of the body" of Sir John Clotworthy, first Viscount; and the dignity will in future be descendible like a Barony in fee; the only Viscounty in fee now, or probably ever, existing.

CAPT. THE HON. SIR R. C. SPENCER.

Nov. 4. On board his Majesty's ship Madagascar, aged 39, the Hon. Sir Robert Cavendish Spencer, K. C. H. Captain of that ship, Surveyor-general of the

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OBITUARY.-Capt. the Hon. Sir R. Spencer.

Ordnance, and an extra Groom of his
Majesty's Bedchamber.

He was born Oct. 24, 1791, the third but second surviving son of George-John 2d and present Earl Spencer, K. G. and the Hon. Lavinia Bingham, eldest daughter of Charles 1st Lord (and afterwards Earl of) Lucan.

He received his education at Harrow ; and commenced his naval career in Aug. 1804 as Midshipman on board the Tigre, 80, Capt. Benj. Hallowell, with whom he first sailed to the Mediterranean, and from thence accompanied Nelson to the West Indies, in pursuit of the combined fleets of France and Spain. In the spring of 1807, Capt. Hallowell was occupied in commanding the naval part of the expedition sent from Messina, to take possession of Alexandria; and Mr. Spencer was employed in all the boat services which took place, and at both the unsuccessful attacks on Rosetta, under the immediate orders of Capt. (now ViceAdm.) Fellowes.

For the next two years the Tigre was principally employed in watching the port of Toulon; and at the capture and destruction of the French convoy in the bay of Rosas, Nov. 1, 1809, Mr. Spencer was employed in the Tigre's launch, under Lieut. Edward Bower, the senior officer, and leader of the starboard line of boats. The crew of the launch were among the first who, hauling up on the inshore side of la Lamproie, penetrated under the boarding nettings, which the French bad neglected to lace down, doubtless supposing that the fire from the beach would have deterred any attempt to board on that side.

Mr. Spencer's commission as Lieutenant bore date Dec. 13, 1810; he removed with Rear-Adm. Holloway to the Malta 84, and continued to serve in that ship until he received an order to take charge of the Pelorus brig, in Oct. 1812. He was promoted to the rank of Commander Jan. 22, 1813; and appointed first to the Kite brig, of 16 guns, and soon after to the sloop Espoir, of 18, which, joining Sir Edward Pellew's fleet, was selected by that officer to form a part of Capt. Usher's squadron employed off the French coast, in the neighbourhood of Marseilles. That little squadron was in a state of unceasing activity, few days passing in which it was not engaged with the enemy. One of the most remarkable of its services was one suggested by Capt. Spencer, the destruction of the batteries at Cassis, a small seaport between Marseilles and Toulon. “Owing to light wind," says Capt. Ussher, in his official letters, "the Undaunted could not take up the anchorage that I in

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tended; therefore, to Capt. Coghlan, Sir John Sinclair, and the Hon. Capt. Spencer, I am entirely indebted for the success that attended an enterprize which for gallantry has seldom been surpassed." The re-embarkation of the men was conducted under Capt. Spencer's orders; and he selected a situation which was particularly well-calculated to resist any attack from Toulon or Marseilles, had such been attempted.

On the 19th Jan. 1814, Capt. Spencer was appointed to the Carron 20-gun corvette, which ship he continued to command after his advancement to post rank, June 4, 1814. It was one of the small squadron under Capt. the Hon. W. H. Percy, at the attack of Fort Bowyer, near Mobile, in West Florida, Sept. 15, 1814; and at the latter end of the same year he was very usefully employed in the expedition against New Orleans. From his knowledge of the French and Spanish languages, he was selected by Sir Alex. Cochrane to obtain information respecting the state of Louisiana, and procure guides, pilots, &c. for the approaching expedition. He narrowly

escaped being taken prisoner by Gen. Jackson's Cavalry, while in company with an officer of the Quartermastergeneral's department, looking into the fort of Pensacola, into which place the enemy's cavalry entered at the moment these officers pushed off from the molehead.

Although the junior Captain present, Capt. Spencer was selected to reconnoitre Lac Boigne, in company with Major Peddie, for the purpose of discovering where a landing could be best effected. Having obtained considerable influence over the emigrated Spaniards and Frenchmen settled as fishermen, &c. he prevailed on one of them to take Major Peddie, himself and coxswain, in a canoe up the creek; and this party actually penetrated to the suburbs of New Orleans, and walked over the very ground afterwards taken up by General Jackson as the position for his formidable line of defence. Having discovered an eligible spot for the disembarkation, he undertook, with Col. Thornton and about thirty of the 85th and 95th regiments, to dislodge a strong picquet of the enemy; a service which they performed most efficiently, without a shot being fired or an alarm given. From this time to the disastrous 8th of January, when the army failed in its last attack on the American lines, Capt. Spencer was engaged in all the arduous duties which fell to the lot of the officers who remained on shore. It was shortly after that he received a letter from Sir Alex.

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