1787, to his prebend of Rochester in 1797, and became a Canon of Windsor in 1805. He married in 1784, Amelia Frances, only child of Joseph Bullock, esq. and by that lady, who died in 1836, he had issue five sons, the eldest of whom is Dr. Marsham the present Warden of Merton, two others are clergymen, and one a Captain in the Navy, and five daughters. He was a very benevolent man and sincere Christian.

Feb. 18. At Cheltenham, the Rev. Henry Birkett, Fellow of Queen's college, Oxford. He entered as a commoner of that college in 1824, and graduated B.A. 1828, M. A. 1832.

Feb. 20. At Little Grimsby, Lincolnshire, aged 64, the Rev. Edward Cove, Rector of Brimpton and Woolhampton, Berks. He was of Balliol college, Oxford, M.A. 1800, and was instituted to Brimpton, a family living, in the same year.

Feb. 22. At Danby ball, Yorkshire, aged 76, the Rev. William Cust, Rector of Danby Wiske, to which he was instituted in 1811, on his own petition.

Feb. 23. In his 32d year, the Rev. Henry Ross Ripley, B.A., Curate of Gordon, near Manchester.

Feb. 24. At Kellington, Yorkshire, the Rev. John Lowthian, Vicar of that parish. He was formerly Fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1797, as 2d Wrangler and 2d Smith's prizeman, M.A. 1800; and he was presented to his living by that Society in 1818. Mr. Lowthian was formerly a frequent correspondent of the Gentleman's Magazine.

Feb. 25. At Hastings, in his 74th year, the Ven. Thomas Birch, D.C.L. Archdeacon of Lewes, and Vicar of Bexhill, Sussex. This amiable, learned, and pious man was educated at Merchant-taylors' School, then under the superintendence of the well-known Mr. Bishop. He was elected a probationary Fellow of St. John's college, Oxford, in June 1785, and proceeded to the degree of B.C.L. 18th April, 1792, and to that of D.C.L. 14th Jan. 1797. He was preferred to the Deanery of Battle in 1801, to the Archdeaconry of Lewes in 1823, and to the vicarage of Bexhill in 1836, upon which event he resigned the Deanery of Battle. On the 30th Jan. 1804 he was married at Hampton to Maria Rosara, third daughter of the late Charles Gordon of Wardhouse, co. Aberdeen, esq. sister to Rear-Adm. Sir James Alexander Gordon, K. C.B., and niece to Sylvester Lord Glenbervie. By this Lady, who survives him, he has left issue: 1. Thomas Frederic Birch, Lieut. R.N. born 16th Jan. 1805, now com

manding H.M. brig the Wizard_on the South American station; 2. The Rev. Charles Edward Birch, late Fellow of St. John's college, Oxford, M. A. Vicar of Wiston in Suffolk, who married Mary-Anne, daughter of Thomas Burnett, of Keppelston, co. Aberdeen, esq. and has issue; 3. Sylvester-Douglas, in the Hon. E.I.C. civil service, who married in 1837 Isabella, daughter of Dr. Wilmot ; 4. James-Alexander. The Archdeacon had also five daughters, who all predeceased him, the survivor, SalvadoraHannah, having died at Hastings on the 1st of February last, in her 16th year.

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Feb. 25. At Dieppe, the Rev. James Beaver, formerly Fellow of Corpus Christi college, Oxford, and for many years Rector of Childrey, Berks. was the son of the Rev. James Beaver, born at Lewkenor, in Oxfordshire, elected in 1773 to an Oxfordshire scholarship at Corpus, and matriculated, at the unusually early age of twelve, on the 26th Nov. in that year; B.A. 1777, M.A. 1781; elected Probationer Fellow 1784, Actual Fellow 1786; B.D. 1790. 1800 he was presented to Childrey (net value in 1831, 6047.), where he resided and was much beloved for many years. Latterly, however, his time has been altogether passed on the continent. Mr. Beaver, in early life, served as Chaplain both in the army and navy. Whilst in the latter service he was on board the Monarch, in the battle of Copenhagen, that battle of which Nelson himself said that, of all the engagements in which he had borne a part, it was the most terrible; and behaved with so much courage and presence of mind as to attract the notice of all on board. The officer who had the charge of an important gun having fallen early, Mr. Beaver took his place, and fought his gun with so great skill and bravery to the end of the action, that he was honoured with the especial notice of Lord Nelson, and on his return to England had a gold medal presented to him, in commemoration of his heroic conduct.

DEATHS.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.

Jan. 3. Aged 48, Mr. Robert Gray, for the last eight years an actor in the Norwich Company; brother to Mrs. Garrick, of the London boards, at whose house in Gerrard-street, Soho, he hung himself. He was a good representative of elderly gentlemen.

Jan. 30. Aged 71, Mr. John Booth, of Duke-street, Portland-place, an eminent bookseller.

Feb. 6. At his son's, in Alfred

place, Bedford-square, in his 82d year, Mr. James Knowles, author of the En. glish Dictionary that bears his name, and father of Mr. Sheridan Knowles the dramatist and actor. He was first cousin to the late Richard Brinsley Sheridan. His body was interred in the Highgate Cemetery.

Feb. 7. In Upper Seymour-st. aged 33, from a violent attack of scarlet fever, which came on 36 hours after her confinement, the Baroness de Moncorvo, lady of the Portuguese minister at this court.

Feb. 16. Dorothy, wife of John Box, esq. of Doctors' Commons.

Feb. 18. At Turnham Green, SusanEliza, wife of James Home Renton, esq. of the Admiralty.

Feb. 19. In Devonshire-place, Miss Shepley.

Feb. 20. At Clapham-common, in her 60th year, Miss Mercy Mary Bellamy, daughter of the late John Bellamy, esq. of the House of Commons.

Feb. 21. At Peckham, aged 88, Miss Sophia Schutz.

At Hammersmith, aged 64, Robert Cory, jun. esq. of Burghcastle, and Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

At his son's, Mr. Joseph Kisch, Broadstreet-buildings, aged 76, Benjamin Kisch, esq. surgeon and apothecary to various public institutions for upwards of half a century.

At Fitzroy-square, aged 81, Thomas Wilkinson, esq. formerly of the Bombay Civil Service.

Feb. 22. At Sydenham, in Kent, aged 75, the widow of John Parr Welsford, esq. Aged 36, Robert Hancock, esq. of Hamilton-place, New-road.

At St. James's-place, Hampstead-road, aged 52, Mary, relict of C. Leete, esq. of Northumberland-st. Strand.

Feb. 23. In Hyde Park-square, Frances, relict of James Wright, esq. 60th Reg. surgeon to the forces at Martinique.

Feb. 24. In Upper Seymour-st. aged 59, Frances, widow of Geo. Watkins, esq. At Lee, Kent, aged 58, James Young, esq. one of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House.

Susanna, relict of William Lane, esq. of Mercers' Hall.

Aged 41, Joseph Harrison, esq. of Balham.

At Pentonville, aged 77, James Bell, esq. late of Trowse, near Norwich.

Feb. 25. At Sydenham, aged 90, Haskett Smith, esq. of Bedford-square.

Feb. 26. At the residence of her daughters, Kensington, aged 71, Charlotte, relict of John Weston Goss, esq. of Teignmouth.

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At Clapham, aged 78, Joseph Howlett Fenner, esq.

Feb. 27. Aged 34, Anne, wife of William Frederick Hodgson, esq. of Hackney, eldest dau. of the late Charles Platt Wilkinson, esq. of Upper Homerton, and Austin Friars.

In Belgrave-square, Mary-Anne, lady of the Hon. Col. Grant, M.P. for Elginshire. She was the only dau. of John Charles Dunn, esq. of Higham house; was married in 1811, and has left a numerous family.

In Salisbury-place, New-road, Mary Ann, widow of Wm. Winkworth, esq. Feb. 28. At Hertford-st. May-fair, Mary, relict of Edw. Bilke, esq.

At Sydenham, aged 72, Tinmouth Dixon, esq. late of New Boswell-court. Feb. 29. At Tottenham High-cross, aged 76, John Marshall, esq.

At Pentonville, aged 51, John Wesley Clarke, esq. of the Record Office, Chapter House, Westminster, and eldest son of the late Dr. Adam Clarke.

Aged 82, Richard Hitchcock, esq. of Kensington, an old inhabitant of that place.

Lately. In Great Coram-st. aged 20, John Tertius Parkes, esq.

In her 70th year, Susan, relict of James Cowper, esq.

Patrick Persse, esq. of Brompton, who has bequeathed 10,000l. stock in the Bank of England, to be equally divided between the Benevolent Society of St. Patrick, the National Benevolent Institution, the Philanthropic Society, the Refuge for the Destitute, and the Indigent Blind.

March 1. In Dorset-square, Jeremiah Scully, esq.

In his 70th year, William Wiley, esq. of Carthusian-st. Charterhouse-square.

March 2. At Battersea Rise, aged 24, Harriet Maria, wife of Henry Sykes Thornton, esq.

In Manchester-sq. Sarah, widow of Samuel Jones Vachell, esq.

In her 6th year, the Hon. Blanche Eliza Howard, eldest dau. of Lord Howard of Effingham.

March 3. Aged 51, Mr. Oliphant Samuel Sheen, of Holborn-hill, of illness occasioned by excessive grief for the untimely and unfortunate loss of his eldest son, Mr. William Henry Sheen, aged 23, who was a passenger on board the ship Tyrian, which was run down while at anchor off Gravesend by the steamvessel Manchester on the 13th Feb.

March 5. In Edmund-street, King's Cross, aged 81, John Yarnell, esq. At Burton-st. Burton-crescent, aged 3 L

86, Judith, widow of James Devereux Hustler.

March 6. At Lambeth, aged 65, George By, esq. of her Majesty's Customs. In his 73rd year, Caleb Welch Collins, esq. of Clapham Rise.

At Finsbury-terrace, aged 90, Lydia Wright, widow of Joseph Palmer, esq.

At Kensington, aged 72, Anthony Browne, esq. for many years a member of Parliament, and for nearly half a century, and down to the period of his decease, agent for the Island of Antigua. He was first returned to Parliament for Hedon in 1806.

March 7. Aged 69, John Shearman, esq. of Harpur-st. Bloomsbury.

March 8. Aged 81, Euphemia, relict of Andrew Birrell, esq.

In Smith-sq. Westminster, aged 58, Capt. George Kendall, R.M. He had seen much service, and was in the memorable engagements of Copenhagen, the Nile, and Trafalgar.

March 10. The Comtesse De Tour. ville, of Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park. At Highgate, aged 65, William Crew, esq.

March 11. Aged 58, Henry John Rucker, esq. of Clapham-common and Mincing-lane.

At his apartments in St. James's Palace, in his 74th year, Sir Thomas Mash, for many years attached to the Lord Chamberlain's Office during the reigns of George III. and IV. and William IV. by the last of whom he was knighted on his retirement from public life.

At North-end, Hampstead, aged 67, Esther-Sewell, relict of Henry Bankes,

esq.

March 12. At Clapham, aged 17, Hannah Matilda, daughter _of_Gideon Algernon Mantell, esq. LL.D. F.R.S.

At Clapham, aged 81, Thomas Nicholas Wittwer, esq.

March 13. At Wanstead, aged 76, Boswell Middleton, esq.

Aged 66, Nathaniel Palmer, esq. of Aldermanbury, and late of Streatham.

At the house of his friend Dr. Black, in Salisbury-street, Strand, aged 72, James Seaton, esq. of Bridge-street, Westminster, master of the Company of Apothecaries, and a director of the Westminster Fire Office. He was a native of the north of Ireland, was educated at Edinburgh in his profession, which he successfully practised in the parish of St. Margaret, Westminster, for about half a century. He was not only the skilful medical adviser, but the warm friend of numerous families, who will long respect his memory. He was buried March 21, at

St. Margaret's, where the remains of his wife were deposited a few years since. He has left no family.

In Wilton-st. aged 80, Mrs. M. Whittam, sister of the late George Whittam, esq. clerk of the Journals of the House of Commons.

In Belgrave-st. Miss Charlotte H. G. Mackenzie, of Bursledon House, Hampshire.

March 14. At Chiswick Grove, Charlotte Lydia Elizabeth, wife of Septimus Burton, esq. having given birth to`a son on the 7th inst.

In Gloucester-place, aged 32, Louisa Henrietta, wife of John Kingston, esq. and sister to Sir Archibald Edmonstone, Bart. She was the elder daughter by the second marriage of the late Sir Charles Edmonstone, Bart. with the Hon. Louisa Hotham, youngest dau. of Beaumont 2d Lord Hotham.

In Berners-st. aged 24, Ellen Dorothea, wife of the Rev. William Hornby, of St. Michael's-on-Wyre, Lancashire. In Brunswick-sq. aged 50, H. Cheape, esq.

March 15. At the house of her uncle, James Vanhouse, esq. Camberwell, aged 28, Sophia, daughter of the late Mr. William Vanhouse, of Mincing-lane.

March 17. In Dorset-sq. RebeccaAnne, widow of Capt. E. Scobell, R.N. of Poltair House, Penzance.

In Osnaburgh-terrace, Regent's Park, aged 59, Hannah Maria, wife of LieutCol. Maling, Assistant Military Secretary, Horse Guards.

At the Globe eating-house, in Bowstreet, in a violent fit of coughing, Mr. Dealey, formerly for 30 years in the employment of Messrs. Ives and Co. Little Queen-street, Holborn. His wife, who died some years since in Switzerland, was a novel writer of some celebrity, under the assumed name of Anna Maria Roche.

March 18. In Upper Montagu-st. Mary Elizabeth, wife of John Sheafe Gaskin, esq. Member of her Majesty's Council in Barbadoes.

At Stamford-hill, Catharine, relict of Seth Thompson, esq.

Henry Barton, esq. of the Six Clerks' Office, Chancery-lane.

BEDS.-March 25.

At HenlowGrange, Katharine, wife of George Nigel Edwards, esq. last surviving dau. of Robert Peers, esq. late of Chislehampton.

BERKS.-Feb. 24. Mariana, wife of William Bennett, esq. of Faringdon.

March 1. At Sandhurst, aged 71, Thomas Leybourne, esq. F.R.S., and Senior Professor of Mathematics at the

Military College. In consequence of infirmities he retired from active duty in Nov. last.

March 2. Frances-Mary, wife of Lion. el Hervey, esq. of Woodside, Winkfield, uncle to Sir F. H. Hervey Bathurst, Bart, and cousin to the Marquess of Bristol. She was a dau. of the late ViceAdm. Thomas Wells, was married in 1825, and has left issue a son and a dau.

March 9. At Benham-place, Anna Maria, wife of F. Villebois, esq. dau. of Robert Jones, esq. of Fonmon-castle, Glamorgan.

March 17. At Reading, Sarianne, wife of Francis S. Hurlock, esq. young. est dau. of the late Barnard Cocker, esq. of Nassau-st. Soho.

BUCKS.-Feb. 24. In his 63rd year, W. Clarke, esq. of Hambledon, formerly of Compton, Berks.

March 2. At Broughton, Sarah, wife of the Rev. Joshua Cautley.

March 18. At Denham-park, aged 45, the Hon. Edward Perceval. For the last five or six months he had been an inmate of that establishment for the insane. He managed, during the temporary ab. sence of his keeper, to reach the window, raise it up, and cast himself therefrom, a height of about 40 feet. He married in 1821 his cousin Jane, eldest dau. of the late Rt. Hon. Spencer Perceval, but she died without issue in 1824.

CAMBRIDGE.-Dec. 29. At Ely, aged 87, John Hall, esq.

Feb. 8. At Leverington, aged 90, Mr. Abraham Lehair. This worthy and venerable old man had been the schoolmaster of the village, and taught "the young idea how to shoot," from the year 1779 until a few years of his death, when his son was appointed his successor.

Feb. 17. At Suham, aged 52, John Slack, esq.

Feb. 23. At Fenstanton, in his 80th year, James Mason Margetts, gent.

Feb. 25. At March, aged 68, Richard Matthew, esq. solicitor.

CHESHIRE.-March 7. At Eaton. hall, aged 18 months, Arthur Richard, youngest son of Lord R. Grosvenor.

March 8. At Winsford-lodge, John Dudley, jun. esq. the eldest son of John Dudley, esq. of Wharton-lodge.

CORNWALL. -At Helston, Dinah, wife of Peter Martin, sexton, in her 96th year. Her husband, who survives her, is in his 98th year, and is able to walk about, and read the smallest print without spectacles. This couple had been married 64 years.

DEVON.-Jan. 30. At Stonehouse, Devon, aged 53, the widow of Mr. N. T. Carrington, author of "Dartmoor," and other poems.

Feb. 23. At Torquay, in her 20th year, Margaret Fleming, youngest dau. of the late Sir James Montgomery, of Stanhope, Bart.

Feb. 24. At Teignmouth, aged 74, Mary, widow of the Rev. Joseph Griffith, Rector of West Grimstead, and Warden of Farley hospital, Wilts.

Feb. 26. At Newton Abbot, aged 24, Joshua Wm. Hole, only son of the late Rev. William Hole, Rector of Belstone.

March 2. At Exeter, aged 27, John Clitsome Warren, esq. only son of J. W. Warren, esq. of Taunton.

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March 6. At South Molton, aged 48, C. R. Goring, esq. M.D. This amiable gentleman had long retired from the busy scenes of life, and devoted his talents to the pursuits of science with very great success. His works, in conjunction with those of Mr. Andrew Pritchard, published under the titles of "Microscopic Illustrations,'' Microscopic Cabinet,” and “ Micrographia," have long been before the public, and received their due meed of praise. For many years he assiduously devoted himself to effecting improvements in the microscope, and by his writings and extensive patronage of artists, he elevated it from being a mere plaything to one of the most useful and important instruments for discovering and investigating the secrets of nature.

Lately. At Shaftesbury, aged 82, Philippa Mary, widow of Wm. Trenchard, esq. and daughter of the late Samuel Luke Angier, esq. of Shaftesbury.

DORSET.-Feb. 21. At Dorchester, Charlton Byam Wollaston, esq. a leading magistrate of the county, and for many years the able Chairman of the Quarter Sessions. He was the son of Charlton Wollaston, M.D. F.R.S. Physician to the Queen's Household, by Phillis Byam, was born Feb. 16, 1765, was of St. John's college, Cambridge, B.A. 1786, M.A. 1789, and called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1809.

DURHAM.-Lately. At North Biddek Hall, aged 83, Nicholas Crofton, esq.

At Hurworth-house, near Darlington, in his 85th year, A. Mowbray, esq. many years receiver-general to the Bishops of Durham.

ESSEX.-Feb. 20. In his 21st year, Arthur Archibald, youngest surviving son of the late Hon. George Winn, M.P. of Warley Lodge. Feb. 21. At Star Stile, Halsted, in her 65th year, Sarah, widow of John Vaizey, esq.

Lately. At Chelmsford, William Bessy, better known as Black Will," who was in the habit of carrying a basket of oranges about Chelmsford. This man

lived in the most wretched manner, denying himself the common necessaries of life, and declaring that his poverty prevented his having a fire in his room. On his death he was found to have possessed 800/. in the 3 per Cents., 2007. Long Annuities, and 3007. in the hands of Messrs. Sparrow, the bankers. He has left the money to two brothers and the widow of another.

March 1. At Colchester, William Mason, esq. aged 79.

GLOUCESTER.-Feb. 15. At Wottonunder-Edge, aged 76, Samuel Goodson Dauncey, esq.

Feb. 17. At Downend, aged 90, Bartholomew Doyle, esq. upwards of 50 years a merchant at Bristol.

Feb. 18. At Cheltenham, Lady Drake, widow of Sir Francis Henry Drake.

Feb. 19. Aged 73, Nathan Windey, esq. of Bristol.

March 8. At Cheltenham, aged 81, Mary, relict of the Rev. Chas. Plumptre, Rector of Houghton-le-Skern. March 13. At Bristol, aged 56, C. Hare, esq.

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HANTS.-Jan. 5. near Newport, Isle of Wight, aged 85, Mrs. Isabella Syme.

Jan. 28. At Southampton, aged 19, Margaret Maria, daughter of A. La Fargue, esq. of Leicester, and niece of H. Holmes, esq. of Romsey.

Feb. 21. At Burton, Christchurch, from the effects of a fall from his horse in June last, aged 83, William Rowlett, esq. formerly of Little St. Helen's, and more recently of Warnford Court, London.

Feb. 25. At Westbury House, Arabella Cecil, wife of the Hon. T. W. Gage, and daughter of the late Thos. William St. Quintin, esq. of Scampston Hall, Yorkshire.

Feb. 29. At Southampton, aged 77, Mr. William Pardy, formerly an eminent builder of that town.

Aged 67, John Goolding Seymour, esq. banker, of Bishop's Waltham.

Lately. Captain John Terry, fourth son of the late T. Terry, esq. of Dummer House.

March 14. At Southampton, aged 56, John Webb Weston, esq. of Sutton Place, near Guilford, Surrey.

March 16. At Portsea, aged 83, Mary, relict of James Hancock, esq.

HERTS.-March 14. At the residence of her son-in-law, A. L. Ffeil, esq. of Willenhall House, East Barnet, in her 89th year, Ann, relict of Richard Parkes, esq. of Luton.

HUNTINGDON.-Feb. 18. At the house of her brother-in-law, David Veasey, esq. Huntingdon, Jane, second daughter

of the late Ingram Chapman, esq. of Whitby.

March 12. At Hartford, near Huntingdon, aged 72, H. J. Nicholls, esq. a Deputy Lieutenant, and in the commission of the peace for the counties of Cambridge, Huntingdon, Lincoln, and Norfolk.

KENT.-Feb. 22. At Folkington, aged 73, Charles Harrison, esq.

Feb. 24. At the house of his son, Dr. Miller, Gravesend, aged 70, Samuel Miller, the elder, esq.

Lately. At Tunbridge Wells, Mr. J. H. Fry. He filled the office of Treasurer to the Dispensary from its formation, and had also been for many years one of the Secretaries to the Tunbridge Wells Bible Society, and mainly instrumental in the establishment of many of the societies in the neighbourhood. has left a widow, but had lost all his children in early life, except one, the present Rector of Sumpting.

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Nov. 29. At Chatham, aged 72, Commander Nathaniel Belchier, R. N. As a midshipman he was a messmate of the late King. He obtained the rank of Lieut. 1794, and commanded the boats of the Trent 32, at the capture and destruction of a Spanish ship and three schooners at Porto Rico, in March 1797. He received the Turkish gold medal for his services off Egypt, and he is highly commended in a letter of Capt. G. Miller, of the Thetis, reporting the capture of Le Nisus corvette, and the destruction of the fortification of Des Hayes, at Guadaloupe, in 1809. He was advanced to the rank of Commander while serving as first of the Neptune 98 at the Leeward Islands, Oct. 21, 1810. He married in 1803 the dau. of the Rev. Edward Bryant, of Newport, Essex, and became a widower in 1830.

March 5. At the seat of Lord Wynford, near Chiselhurst, aged 72, the Rt. Hon. Mary-Anne Lady Wynford. Her Ladyship was the second daughter of Jerome Knapp, esq. was married to Lord Wynford in 1794, and had a very numerous family.

Aged 74, James Barnes, esq. of Boughton-under-Blean.

March 6. At Dover, in her 25th year, Emily, the wife of G. R. Jarvis, esq. and daughter of the Rev. the Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral.

March 7. At Borden, aged 68, Mrs. Vesey, relict of Capt. Vesey, R.N.

March 9. At Ramsgate, aged 80, Mrs. Mary Ann Rider, daughter of Ingram Rider, esq. of Boughton-place.

March 14. At Shorne, Ifield, aged 77, Jarvis Noakes, esq.