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280 OBITUARY.-Shirley Woolmer, Esq.-Clergy Deceased. [March,

As a bibliopolist Mr. Shirley Woolmer was never surpassed, whilst bis indefatigable exertions in the pursuit of the sciences of Mineralogy and Geology have rendered his name renowned amongst those who have devoted themselves to these branches of useful knowledge. He frequently contributed papers on these subjects to periodical publications (particularly our own), and it is some consolation to those who hope to join him in another and a better world, to know that his exertions ever tended to enhance the goodness of the Creator, and to vindicate his Sacred Book from the attempt of the sceptic to bring it into contempt. January Number was an article of bis on the Geological Effects of the Deluge, wherein he raised his dying voice, as it were, in one final effort to resist the torrent of infidelity and atheism.

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Those only who knew his innate goodness of heart can appreciate his worth. To the world he was known as a keen investigator of science-a devout and consistent professor of the Gospel; to his family and connexions, as a kind and affectionate parent, and a close and steady friend, whose advice was ever sought in the hour of perplexity.

CLERGY DECEASED.

Dec. 8. At Lynn, the Rev. Ligonier Treadway, Vicar of Gayton, Norfolk, to which church he was collated in 1812 by the present Bishop of Norwich.

Dec. 16. Aged 67, the Rev. John Coates, Vicar of Addingham, Yorkshire. He was formerly Fellow of St. John's coll. Camb. where he graduated B.A. 1798, as 11th Senior Optime, and M.A. 1796.

He was presented to Addingham in 1790 by Mrs. Mary Cunliffe.

Dec. 26. The Rev. J. Middleton, Vicar of Melbourne, Derbyshire, to which he was lately collated by the Bishop of Carlisle.

Dec. 28. Aged 75, the Rev. William Robert Wake, late Vicar of Backwell, Somerset, to which he was presented by the Rector in 1787.

Jan. 2. At Clifton, aged 65, the Rev. Timothy Stonhouse Vigor, uncle to Sir John Brooke Stonhouse, Bart. He was the third son of the Rev. Sir James Stonhouse, the third Baronet; was of Oriel College, Oxford, M.A. 1789, and formerly held the living of Sunning-hill in Berkshire. He took the name of Vigor by Royal sign manual in 1795, (his sister Clarissa was the wife of Henry Tripp Vigor, esq.); and married in 1796, Charlotte-Oliver, dau. of the Rev. Thomas Huntingford, and niece to the Bishop of Hereford.

Jan. 3. At Bruton, Som. aged 68, the Rev. William Cosens, Perpetual Curate of

that chapelry, to which he was presented in 1800 by Sir R. C. Hoare, Bart.

Jan. 4. At Milton, near Northampton, aged 75, the Rev. Francis Montgomery, Rector of Harleston. He was of Lincoln coll. Oxf. M.A. 1780; and was presented to Harleston in 1809.

Jan. 6. In York Terrace, the Rev. Dr. Robert Thomson, of Long Stowe hall, Cambridgeshire.

Jan. 9. At Lewanick, Cornwall, aged 35, the Rev. Samuel Archer, Vicar of that parish, to which he was presented in 1822 by Lord Chancellor Eldon.

Jan. 9.

At Southampton, aged 76, the Rev. J. C. Gonnet, domestic chaplain to the Marquess de Montmorency. He was beloved by all who knew him, and in the regular habit of devoting half his salary to the poor. His remains were deposited in the St. James's Catholic burial ground, Winchester,

Jan. 10. At Rochester, aged 42, the Rev. Robert Lambe Warde, the second son of W. Zouch Lucas Warde, esq. of Guilsborough, co. Northamp. He was of St. John's coll. Camb. B.A. 1811.

Jan. 17. At West Bradenham, Norfolk, aged 76, the Rev. James Bentham, Vicar of that parish. He was the only son of the Rev. James Bentham, M.A. F.S.A. Prebendary and Historian of Ely Cathedral, of whom a memoir will be found in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, vol. 111. p. 484. The clergyman now deceased was of Cath. hall, Camb. B.A. 1777, M.A. 1780; and was collated to Bradenham in 1788 by the Hon. Dr. Yorke, then Bishop of Ely. He republished his father's History in 1812; jointly with the late W. Stevenson, esq. F.S.A.

Jan. 18. The Rev. John Wood, Vicar of Herne, Kent, to which church he was collated in 1794 by Dr. Moore, then Abp. of Canterbury.

Jan. 20. At Rome, of a rapid decline, aged 30, the Rev. James Duff Ward, Rector of Kingston, Hants. He was of Trin. coll. Camb. M.A. 182—; and was presented in 1827 by G. Ward, esq.

Jan. 21. The Rev. Arthur Bold, Vicar of Stoke Poges, Bucks. He was of Christch. Oxf. M.A. 1802, and was presented to his living in 1803 by Lord F. Osborne.

Aged 67, the Rev. James Sewell, Vicar of Biddulph, Staffordshire, to which he was presented in 1810.

Jan. 23. Aged 70, the Rev. Isaac Grayson, Rector of St. Mary in Castlegate, York, and of Warthill, Yorkshire. He was for many years Master of the Grammar School now called St. Peter's School, in York; was presented to his church in that city in 1815 by Lord Chancellor Eldon, and to Warthill by the Prebendary of that place in York Cathedral.

Jan. 23, At Whixley, near York, aged

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67, the Rev. Henry Lloyd, D.D. Vicar of Babraham, and Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge. He was of Trinity college, where he graduated B. A. 1785, being the 10th Wrangler and first Chancellor's Medallist of that year, M.A. 1788, B.D. 1799, and D.D. 1804. He was elected Hebrew Professor in 1795, and presented to the Vicarage of Babraham by Lord Chancellor Loughborough in 1798.

Jan. 23. The Rev. Dr. Simpson, senior Minister of the Tron Church, Edinb.

Jan. 31. At Ponteland Vicarage, Northumberland, the Rev. J. Furness, upwards of thirty years Curate of that parish.

At Hough, Cheshire, aged 85, the Rev. Robert Hill, Rector of Great Bolas, Salop, and perpetual Curate of Talk-o'-th'Hill, Staffordshire, for many years a Magistrate for Cheshire, uncle to Gen. Lord Hill, aud younger brother to the celebrated Rev. Rowland Hill. He was the seventh son of Sir Rowland Hill, of Hawkstone, in Shropshire, the first Bart. by Jane, dau. of Sir Brian Broughton, of Broughton, in Staffordshire, Bart. He was of All Souls' coll. Oxf. B.C.L. 1772 ; was in that year presented by his father to the Rectory of Great Bolas, and by Miss Wilbraham (whom he shortly after married) to the Rectory of St. Mary's in Chester. The latter he resigned in 1803 to his brother Rowland, on being presented to Talk by the Rev. W. Hicken, Vicar of Audley. Mr. Hill married Mary, dau. and sole heiress of the Rev. John Wilbraham, Rector of St. Mary's, Chester, by whom he had nine sons and five daughters: 1. the Rev. Rob. Wilbraham Bronhall Hill, Rector of Walters Upton, Salop; who is deceased, but has left a family; 2. John, a barrister-at-law, married, and has issue; 3. Rowland-Alleyne; 4. Samuel, married, and has issue; 5. Richard; 6. Mary; 7. Margaret; 8. Brian, who died young; 9. Jane; 10. Brian; 11. Thomas; 12. Eliza-Anne; 13. Emma; and 14. William, who died young.

At Fladbury, Worc. aged 58, the Rev. John Tedstill. He was of Magd.-hall, Oxf. M. A. 1807.

Feb. 1. At Herongate, aged 58, the Rev. Harry Powell, Rector of East Horndon, Essex. He was of Trin. hall, Cainb. B.A. 1793, and was presented to his benefice in 1795. He dropped down in a fit of apoplexy, in an enclosure near his house, after having been visiting some of his poor parishioners, and almost immediately expired.

Feb. 3. At Bath, aged 84, the Rev. William Trail, LL.D., Chancellor of the Cathedral of Connor, F.R.S. Ed. and M.R. 1.A. He was a son of the Right Rev. James Trail, Bishop of Down and Connor from 1765 He was for some time Professor of Mathematics of Glasgow, succeeding Robert Simpson, M.D. the editor of Euclid, GENT. MAG. March, 1831.

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whose Life he published in 4to. 1812. Dr. Trail was also editor of the Porisms of Pappus and other mathematical works; and his unaffected piety, unostentatious charity, and urbanity of manners, ensured the esteem of all who knew him. He married at Edinburgh, April 29, 1799, Lady Frances Charteris, aunt to the present Earl of Wemyss and March.

Feb. 5. Aged 35, the Rev. Charles Couper Cholmondeley, Rector of Hodnet, and Perpetual Curate of Moreton Say, Shropshire. He was born at Chester, Sept. 28, 1785, the eldest son of Charles Cholmondeley, of Overlegh, esq. by CarolineEliz. 3d. dau. and co-heiress of Nicholas Smythe, of Cubley, in Shropsb. esq. He was of Brazenose coll. Oxf.; and was presented to Hodnet with Moreton Say in 1823, by Richard Heber, esq.

Feb. 5. At Hull, in the house of his nephew the Rev. T. Venn, aged 68, the Rev. George King, M.A. Prebendary of Ely, and Rector of Whitwell, Derbysh. He was formerly Fellow of Trin. coll. Camb. where he graduated B.A. 1784, as 11th Wrangler, M.A. 1787; was presented to Whitwell in 1798 by the Duke of Rutland, and collated to his stall at Ely in 1810 hy Bp. Dampier.

Feb. 6. Aged 33, the Rev. Hen. Brougham, Rector of Tallow, co. Waterford.

Feb. 11. At Rainscombe House, Wilts, aged 76, the Rev. James Rogers, D.D. Rector of Heddington and South Cadbury, and a Magistrate for the county. He was of Oriel college Oxf. M.A. 1780, B. & D.D. 1800; was presented to South Cadbury in 1796, and instituted to Heddington in 1300, on his own presentation.

Feb. 16. The Rev. Robert Breakspear, of Audlem, Chesh. He was of Queen's coll. Oxf. M.A. 1797.

DEATHS.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY. Jan. 7. In Upper Baker-st. Major A. Watkins, late of Bengal Estab.

Feb. 6. Aged 68, Mr. Wm. Atkins, who had been a performer at Covent Garden Theatre for the last thirty years, and during the whole of that time never had a day's illness, and never neglected his duty by absence from rehearsal in the morning, or from the performance of his part in the evening.

Feb. 14. At St. James's Palace, aged 87, Mrs. Anne Boscawen, who was for above 54 years in the family of Queen Charlotte. She was the eldest dau. of Gen. the Hon. George Boscawen, by Anne, dau. of John Morley Trevor, of Trevallyn, co Denbigh, esq.

Feb. 19. Mr. John Thomas, auctioneer, King-st. Covent Garden.

Feb. 20. Aged 74, the widow of Mr. C. L. Wright, many years a resident and citizen of London; dau. of the late Mr. Chas.

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Freeth, of Bewdley, and great-grand dau. of De Toney, esq. of Wolverhampton, whose family were descendants of a branch of the illustrious house of Stafford.

Feb. 21. In Lower Seymour-st. aged 80, Joseph Dorin, esq.

Feb. 22. At Kensington, Jonathan Bell, jun. esq. formerly of Bordeaux, and lately of New York.

In Bruton-st. aged 82, Martha, widow of Sir Claude Scott, Bart. She was the only child of John Eyre, of Stepney, esq., and was married Sept. 8, 1767, to the late Sir Claude Scott, Bart., who died last year (see vol. xc. i. 467).

Feb. 23. In Finsbury-sq., in his 80th year, (at the house of his son-in-law Dr. B. G. Babington,) Benjamin Fayle, esq.

In Park-crescent, aged 77, John Chamier, esq.

Aged 85, James Bolland, esq.

Feb. 26. At Fulham, aged 86, John Bell, esq., formerly of the Strand, bookseller. Few men have contributed more, by their industry and good taste, to the improvement of the graphic and typographic arts; witness his beautiful editions of the "British Poets" and "Shakspeare." He was one of the original proprietors of the Morning Post; and projector of that well-established Sunday newspaper, Bell's Weekly Messenger. Another of his successful projects was the elegant monthly publication, La Belle Assemblée.

Feb. 27. In Chatham-place, Blackfriars, Mrs. D. Reeve, sister to late Joshua R., esq. Wm. Gunnell, esq. Assistant Clerk of the Ingrossments of the House of Commons. Feb. 28. At South Lambeth, aged 67, Charlotte, wife of Thos. Hill, esq., formerly of Piccadilly.

At Islington, Mary Frances, wife of Mr. Wm. Downey, one of the senior engravers in the Bank of England, and sister of the Rev. R. G. Bedford, Minor Canon of Bristol.

At the house of her brother-in-law, Dr. Chambers, in Brook-street., aged 27, Eliz. wife of Rev. Francis John Stainforth, of Long Stow, Camb.

Mar. 1. In Hanover-st., John Fenton Cawthorne, esq. M.P. for Lancaster.

Mar. 2. Aged 28, Anna, wife of Mr. Duarte Dos Santos, of Foley-st.

Mar. 3. In Sloane-st., aged 32, Capt. Francis Candy, Bengal N. I.

Mar. 5. In Peckham, aged 85, G. Choumert, esq.

At Turnham-green, Esther, wife of T. W. Hughes, esq.

Mar. 7. At Wandsworth, aged 53, John Ames, esq. of Paternoster-row, silk-manufacturer.

Mar. 8. Aged 72, John Thompson, esq. of Upper Clapton.

Aged 43, Caroline, wife of Rev. J. H. Evans, of Hampstead.

In the City-road, aged 77,Hen. Munn, esq.

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Mar. 9. Elizabeth-Florentine, wife of Mr. M. A. Richter, of the firm of Messrs. Treuttel, Wurtz, and Co., Soho-square.

Mar. 10. In Brook-st., aged 53, Ann, wife of Samuel Merriman, M. D.

In Brompton-sq., aged 80, Ann Roberts, late of Painswick, Glouc.

Aged 62, Jane, wife of Thomas Ramsay, esq., of Camberwell-green.

Mar. 11. In Sloane-st., Frances-AnnMary, wife of T. Hoblyn, esq.

At Islington, aged 78, James Allies, esq. of Hill-house, near Worcester.

At Kennington, Caroline, third dau. of late Rev. Herbert Jenkins, of Leicester.

Mar. 14. Aged 69, Ann, wife of John Harcourt, esq. of Bermondsey.

Mar. 18. In Broad-st.-buildings, Rich. Clement Headington, esq. President of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Surgeon of the London Hospital.

BERKS.-Jan. 7. At the Castle Priory, Wallingford, aged 66, James Blackstone, esq. D.C.L. Principal of New Inn Hall, and Deputy Steward of the University of Oxford. He was a son of the celebrated Judge, and like his father was a Fellow of All Souls, where he graduated B.C.L. 1787, DC.L. 1792. In 1793 he was appointed Vinerian Professor of Common Law (of which chair his father was the first occupant, from 1758 to 1760); and in 1803 Principal of New Inn Hall (in which office also his father preceded him, from 1761 to 1766). There have not for many years been any other members of that House except the Principal. Dr. Blackstone resigned the Professorship in 1824. He has left a family.

Lately. Aged 87, Thomas Norton Powlett, esq. of Shinfield Place.

At Reading, Mrs. Jesse, of Castle Hill House; respected for her Christian principles and amiable qualities. BUCKS.-Feb. 24. At Wexham Lodge, aged 82, G. Roberts, esq., Lt.-Gen. E.L.C. Lately. At Aylesbury, aged 64, the widow of Thomas Dell, esq.

CHESHIRE.-Feb. 17. At Chester, aged 87, Mr. John Reece, late of Brereton Park, in the parish of Tarvin, deeply lamented by his widow and family. To the former (the daughter of the late Mr. Peter Hodson of Christlington) he had been married 66 years.

Feb. 19. William Kent, esq., of Nantwich, surgeon.

CORNWALL. Lately. At Launceston, aged 102, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, of St. Stephens.

March 1. At Moditonham, aged 74, Charles Carpenter, esq. DEVON.-Feb, 20. At Bideford, J. C. Mules, esq. a retired surgeon in the navy, and inventor of " Mules's Pills."

Feb. 24. At Chudleigh, aged 45, Mr. John David Mugg, youngest surviving son of the late Rev. Henry Mugg.

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Feb. 26. At the house of Rev. Robert Cox, Minister of Stonehouse, aged 20, Au. gusta-Louisa, eldest dau. of John Henry Tilson, esq. of Watlington, Oxfordshire. March 1. At Bush, Spreyton, aged 75, Susanna, wife of George Cann, esq.

March 2. At Kingsbridge, aged 85, Capt. Andrew Lockhart, R.N.

March 3. At Wembury House, Henry Edward Thornton, esq., eldest son of the Right Hon. Sir Edward Thornton, G.C.B.

March 9. At Axminster, aged 29, John Mallock, Esq. late of Hastings, surgeon, youngest surviving son of Rawlin Mallock, esq. of Hill House, near Axminster.

March 10. At Whiteway, aged 53, Montagu Edmund Parker, esq.

Lately. Edmund P. Lyon, esq., for many years an intelligent and useful magis

trate

DORSET.-March 16.-At Lyme, AnneMico, relict of Wm. Daniel, esq.

DURHAM.-Feb. 11. At Stockton-uponTees, Sarah, relict of Rob. Christopher, esq. ESSEX.-Feb. 20.-Louisa, relict of T. Tourle, esq. of Chigwell-hall.

March 12. The relict of Rev. W. Sparrow, of Walthamstow.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE.-Feb. 12. At Mangersbury Park, aged 64, Edw. John Chamberlayne, esq. Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for the counties of Oxford, Worcester, and Gloucester.

Feb. 19. At Bristol, Cath.-Eliz.-Bishton, wife of William Owen Jackson, esq. Barrister, and eldest dau. of Wm. Phillips, esq. of Chetwynd-house, Salop.

Feb. 25. At Clifton, Edmund S. Walcott Simpson, esq. eldest son of late John Walcott, esq. of Bath.

March 1. In his 17th year, HenryTucker, youngest son of Thomas Hardwicke, esq. of Tytherington.

At Bristol, aged 57, Thomas Yate, esq. March 6. At Cheltenham, Decima, wife of R. Bradshaw, esq. Lieut. R.N.

Lately. At Clifton, aged 22, John, second son of Rev. Henry Purrier, of Little Hinton.

At Tetbury, aged 62, John Wm. Biedermann, esq. an eminent land-agent.

HANTS.-Feb. 21. At Southampton, Joseph Bushman, esq. Comptroller of the Chamber of London.

Feb. 24. At Ringwood, Dorothy, widow of Rev. Henry Davies.

Feb. 26.-At Romsey, aged 45, William Henry Lintott, esq., Mayor of that town. Feb. 27. At Lymington, Phoebe, only surviving dau. of late John Whitchurch, esq. of Salisbury.

March 4. At Southampton, Caroline, wife of W. P. J. Lodder, esq., and daughter of late Lieut.-Gen. Benson.

Lately. At Shirley, aged 35, Mr Alfred S. Powell, author of a work on the Battle of the Nile, written while a shepherd's boy, and dedicated to Adm. Otway.

HEREFORDSHIRE.-Jan.

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Mrs. Hooper, mother of William Hooper, esq. solicitor, Ross. HERTS.-Jan.

At Berkhampstead Castle, aged 53, the Hon. Charlotte Grim ston, sister to the Earl of Verulam. She was the younger dau, of James first Viscount Grimston, by Henrietta, only daughter and heiress of Edw. Walter, esq. of Stalbridge, co. Dorset (by the Hon. Henrietta Forrester, heiress of the Lords Forrester of Scotland). This lady was the compiler of some family history, a few years ago privately printed in lithography,

March 22. At Little Hadham, aged 36, Elizabeth, wife of the Rev. M. D. Duffield. KENT.-Feb. 28. At Tunbridge Wells, aged 74, Mrs. Mary Poynder.

March 3. At Loose, near Maidstone, Elizabeth, widow of Samuel Dennis, D.D. formerly President of St. John's College, Oxford.

March 3. Aged 74, George Smith, esq.

of Camer.

March 7. At Sevenoaks, in his 40th year, W. H. Hilton, esq. of Regent-street.

LANCASTER. Feb. ... Aged 76, Sarah, widow of Richard Walmesley, esq. mother of Charles Walmesley, esq. of Westwoodhouse, and dau. of James Worthington, esq.

Feb. 28. Aged 35, Mr. Thomas Cropp, editor and proprietor of the Bolton Chronicle.

He fell a victim to a coach accident in June last, on his return from London, where he had been acting with other deputies against the truck system.

LINCOLNSHIRE.-Feb. 24. Aged 20, Mr. J. William Massingberd, midshipman R.N. third son of Rev. B. B. Massingberd, of Kettlethorpe.

MIDDLESEX.-Feb. 17. At Teddington, aged 72, George Hardisty, esq.

Feb. 22. At Hillingdon, aged 65, Mr. Edmund Lloyd, many years of the Strand.

Lately. At Ealing, the relict of Rev. Richard Badcock Shury, Master of Ealing School.

March 3. At Muswell-hill, Jane, wife of J. S. Ewart, esq.

NEWCASTLE-Feb. 19. At Newcastle, Capt. James W. Cairnes, R.N. youngest son of late Major W. Cairnes, 36th Regt. and brother of late Major C. of Horse Art.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.-Feb. 20. At Cosgrove, aged 67, Millecent, widow of the Rev. Joseph Thomas, of Epsom, and only surviving child of the late Rev. John Parkhurst, author of the Greek and Hebrew Lexicons. Mrs. Thomas was learned in the Hebrew and Greek languages, and, since her father's death, when a new edition of either Lexicon was printed, she corrected the press. She assisted her friend Miss Starke in translating Madame de Gen!is' Theatre of Education, in 3 vols. 12mo. 1783-8.

Feb. 23. Aged 25, Heary-Horrabin, eldest son of Mr. Henry Leete, of Thrapston. March 1. Aged 37, S. J. Humfray,

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esq., surgeon on the Madras Establishment, only son of the late Rev. S. H. of Daventry. Lately. Aged 74, Wm. King, esq. of Walton, near Peterborough.

OXON.-Feb. 26. At Clifton, aged 18, Elizabeth-Anne, youngest surviving dau. of Richard Tawney, esq. of the Lodge, near Dunchurch, Warw.

March 10. At Grandpont, aged 55, Thomas Henry Taunton, esq. solicitor, second son of late Sir W. E. Taunton, and brother to Sir W. E. Taunton, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Court of King's Bench.

March 13. At Rousham, aged 32, Charles, eldest surviving son of Rev. John Strange Dandridge, Rector.

SALOP.-Feb. 25. At Cheney Longueville, Richard Duppa, esq., High Sheriff of co. Radnor.

March 6. At Shiffnall, the relict of Mr. Smyth, of Lincoln-hill, Lieut. R.N. under the immortal Nelson.

SOMERSET.-Feb. 24. At Bath, aged 91, Dame Mary, relict of Sir Peter Nugent, Bart. of Donore, Westmeath.

Lately. At Taunton, aged 81, Miss Badcock, sister to late John B. esq.

At Taunton, aged 40, Major Isaac Downing, late of 69th Reg.

March 7. At Bath, Mary-Teresa, wife of Major Fotheringham, of E.I C. Engineers, and of York-gate, Regent's Park.

STAFFORDSHIRE.-Feb. 15. Aged 84, William Adams, esq of Cobridge, formerly a manufacturer of earthenware, and one of the earliest introducers of blue painting in that manufacture.

Feb. 21. Aged 55, the relict of the Rev. William Anwyl, Rector of Ashley.

Lately. Aged 50, Mr. Joseph Smart, printer and bookseller, of Wolverhampton, proprietor of the Wolverhampton Chronicle. March 9. At Wolverhampton, the widow of Robert Morrison, esq. M.D.

SURREY.-Feb. 26. At Dorking, aged 82, John Sims, M.D. F.R.S. and F.L.S. He was the editor of Curtis's Botanical Magazine, from the 14th to the 42d volume, and contributed several professional papers to the "Medical Facts," and " Medical and Physical Journal."

SUSSEX.-Lately. At Brighton, Richard Wellesley, esq. Commissioner of the Stamp Office, son of the Marq. Wellesley.

At Ringmer, near Lewes, aged 103, Mrs. Innis, a native of Scotland. The late Col. Haye, of Glyndebourne, owed the preservation of his life, during the American revolution, to Mrs. Innis's husband, and pensioned off his preserver and wife at Ringmer, where she had resided upwards of 60 years. Her only daughter is now in her 84th year.

March 8. At Brighton, Ann, relict of Rev. George Bevan.

WARWICK-Lately. At Packington, the Hon. John Henry Finch, infant son of the Earl of Aylesford.

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At Leamington, in her 80th year, Harriet, widow of General Scott, of Wolston.

At Birmingham, in his 70th year, Mr. Thomas Knott, of the highly respectable firm of Beilby and Knott, booksellers.

WILTS.-Feb. 24. Aged 80, Mrs. Susannah Stratton, dau. of Rev. Thomas Seccombe, Rector of Camely and Brimpton, Somerset, and mother of Miss Stratton, for many years a favourite member of the Salisbury Theatre.

Feb. 28. At Fairwood, John Whittaker, esq. March 6. At Latton, Dorothy, relict of Rev. James Mauesty.

WESTMORELAND.-March 8. Aged 88, the relict of J. Maude, esq. of Kendal.

WORCESTERSHIRE.-Feb. 21. At Westbury-upon-Trym, aged 84, Benj. Field, esq. late of Evesham.

March 5. In his 80th year, Rich. Hemming, esq. Foxlidiates-house, Tardebigg.

March 7. At Brandard-end House, King's Norton, aged 86, Mary, relict of Thomas Gem, esq.

March 10. At Belbroughton, aged 24, Geo.-David Blackiston, only son of the Rev. G. F. Blackiston, D.D., Rector.

YORK.-Jan. 6. Mr. Thos. Bridgewater, organist of St. Saviour's, York. As a composer his ballads were much admired, and his church services were received into the library of the cathedral.

Jun. 7. Aged 85, Francis Hall, esq. an eminent merchant in Hull, and Father of the Corporation of the Trinity-house at that port. He had been a member of that house ever since 1775, had five times served the office of Warden, and would have been elected a sixth time, but on account of his age and infirmities. His loss will be severely felt, especially by the poor of Hessle, his country residence.

Jan. 15. At Moat-hall, Boroughbridge, aged 78, Jouah Wasse, esq.

Jan. 18. Aged 67, Wm. Jarratt, esq. one of the oldest deputy-Lieutenants for the East Riding, and Alderman of Hull, where he had three times filled the office of Mayor. Jan. 21. At Clifton, near York, aged 80, Geo. Bigland, esq. of Bigland-hall, Lanc.

Jan. 25. At Bridlington Quay, aged 52, Mr. John Mason, Surveyor of his Majesty's Customs, eldest son of Mr. Richard Mason, of Sowerby, farmer.

Jan. 28. At Woodlands, near Harrowgate, aged 60, Thomas Maude, esq.

Aged 88, the relict of Lieut. Thos. Plint, R.N. and mother of Mrs. Plint, of Leeds. Jan. 30. At York, aged 76, Geo. Fettes, esq. Sheriff of that city in 1802.

Feb. 1. At Bawtry, aged 45, Thomas le Gay Brewerton, esq. surgeon.

At Selby, Mrs Mary Jackson, aged 106. Feb 11. Aged 62, Benjamin Crossley, esq. M.B. of Hull.

Feb. 13. At Croom, near Sledmire, aged 82, Aun, wife of the Rev. R. Croxton, Vicar of Wetwang.

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