16. In Cork-street, the widow of the late general Vernon.

At his seat at Enfield, aged 66, lieut.-colonel Riddell. He was appointed lieutenant of the 66th foot April 19, 1798; captain Dec. 24, 1802; captain of 50th foot, May 25, 1803; major by brevet, Dec. 10, 1807, and lieut.-colonel June 4, 1814. This officer had been many years on the staff in different parts of England, as an assistant quartermaster general.

Near Mexico, in his 23rd year, the hon. Augustus Waldegrave, third and youngest son of the late admiral lord Radstock, G. C. B. While shooting, in company with Mr. Ward and Mr. Baring, the gun of the latter accidentally exploded, and killed him on the spot. He was educated at Brasenose college, Oxford, and took the degree of B. A. May, 1823, with distinction in literis humanioribus.

19. In Hyde-park barracks, aged 19, William Lloyd, esq. cornet in the Royal Horse Guards, eldest son of Wm. Lloyd, esq. of Aston, county of Salop.

Aged 76, lady Eyre, widow of the late lord chief justice Eyre.

22. At Kensington, aged 83, Mrs. Ann Whittaker. She has bequeathed the Loughton-hall estate, and all her freehold property, together with her personals, amounting to 100,0001. to John Maitland, esq. late M. P. for Chippenham, with remainder to his nephew, E. F. Maitland, esq. high sheriff for Berkshire.

24. At Notting-hill, Kensington, aged 83, Evan Evans, esq. formerly of New Bond-street.

at his residence in the Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, aged 50, general Maximilian Sebastian Foy. For eight days the disorder had made rapid progress. Two of his nephews, of the same name as himself, the one his aide-de-camp, and the other an advocate, did not quit his bed for a moment. "I feel," said he, in a dying tone, "a disorganizing power that labours to destroy me. fight with the giant, but cannot conquer him." He scarcely slept at all, and even sleep fatigued him. The nearer the fatal moment approached, the more did his kindness manifest itself to those around him. Wishing again to breathe the pure air, and see once more the light of the sun, his nephews carried him in a chair to the window, which was open; but feeling himself sinking, he said to them-"My good friends, put me upon the bed; God will do the rest" These were his last words. On opening the body after death, the heart was found twice as voluminous as in the natural state, soft, and gorged with coagulated blood, which it had no longer strength to put into circulation. Mirabeau, it will be recollected, according to the report of Cabanis, likewise sunk under a disease of the heart, augmented by the fatigue of the tribune, and the cares and anxieties inseparable from business. This officer was educated for the bar, but on the breaking out of the revolution, he entered the artillery, in which he was rapidly promoted. From the first campaigns of the revolution to the battle of Waterloo, he was in incessant action, and frequently distinguished himself. He was wounded in Moreau's retreat, at the battle of Orthes, and at Waterloo. His activity in Spain was well known to many officers of the English army. Though his fate was bound up with the military profession, he refused, previously to the expedition to Egypt, the appointment of aide-de-camp to Buonaparte, whose views he seems

to have suspected; and he also opposed Napoleon's elevation to the supreme power. It is related of the general, that, after one of Buonaparte's victories, he was at a dinner of the officers; when, upon "the health of the emperor" having been given, he alone declined drink ing it. In vain was he pressed on the point. "I am not thirsty," said he. By Buonaparte's abdication he lost a marshal's baton; but his military promotion, which then ceased, was compensated by popular honours and distinctions, which he could not have attained or enjoyed under the imperial government. Since his first admission to the Chamber of Deputies in 1819, he had been one of its most prominent orators; and in the last session he was the most powerful opponent of the ministry. Being one of the few members gifted with the talent of extemporaneous speaking, he was enabled to make or to repel attacks with promptitude and effect. The general left a widow and five young children; but so strongly has the public feeling been excited in their favour, that a subscription amounting to more than 20,000. has been raised for their support. Portraits of the general have been engraved, medals have been struck in his honour, and a public monument is to be erected to his memory. His funeral was celebrated Dec. 6, at Notre Dame de Loretto. An immense crowd, computed at 100,000 persons, flocked to the cemetery. A considerable number of deputies, generals, and officers of all ranks, thronged the apartments. At a quarter past one the body was brought down into the yard of the hotel. Eight young persons presented themselves to carry it on their shoulders into the church. After divine service, the same persons again carried the corpse. Shortly after, the crowd made way to allow the children of the general, conducted by his domestics, to pass through them. The procession moved in the follow

ing order :-A detachment of troops of the line in two platoons; a platoon of chasseurs of the National Guard; the mourning coach, drawn by two horses, in which was an officer; afterwards followed nearly 6,000 persons; a platoon of troops of the line at the head of the equipages. All the pupils of the schools of law and medicine joined the procession. The duke de Choiseul, notwithstanding his great age, went to the grave, and would have delivered an address, but was overpowered by his feelings, and compelled to abandon his intention. M. Royer Collard, although on the preceding day he had witnessed the interment of his distinguished brother, attended the funeral, but in the road to Père La Chaise he be came indisposed and was conveyed to a house on the Boulevard. Among the followers were the viscount Chateaubriand, M. Lafitte, M. Gohier, formerly president of the Directory, Horace Vernet, marshals Oudinot and Marmont, general O'Connor, &c. The grave in which the late eminent individual was interred is near that of Camille Jordan. The minister of war's carriage was among those which attended the procession. Eloquent and pathetic addresses were delivered at the grave by Messrs. Cassimir Perrier, Ternaux, Mechin, and lieut.-general Miollis. At the moment when the former said, "If general Foy died without fortune, the nation will adopt his widow and children," a host of voices exclaimed "Yes, we swear it, the nation will adopt them." All the theatres of Paris, and particularly those on the Boulevards, were nearly deserted in the evening. The National Guards on duty at the post of their staff on Thursday appeared with crape on the arm.

28. At Belvoir-castle, in consequence of an inflammation of the chest, aged 45, Elizabeth duchess of Rutland. Her grace so lately as Friday the 18th was engaged in inspecting the progress of the

numerous workmen employed in completing the splendid decorations of the grand drawing-room at Belvoir, which it was intended should have been first opened on the occasion of the duke's approaching birth-day she also took her accustomed exercise, and wrote several letters. In the evening symptoms of the disease, with which she was severely attacked a year ago, began to manifest themselves; but on the following day they appeared to have abated very considerably. At two o'clock on Sunday morning, Mr. Catlett, surgeon to the family, who sleeps in the castle, was hastily summoned to her grace's apartment, and found her state so extremely dangerous as to excite the most alarming apprehensions. Expresses were instantly sent off to Dr. Wilson, of Grantham, Dr. Pennington of Nottingham, Dr. Arnold of Leicester, and sir Henry Halford. The three first promptly obeyed the summons; sir Henry arrived at the castle from London at 5 o'clock on Tuesday morning, but the hand of death was already on the duchess; all the efforts of the faculty had been unremittingly exerted to arrest the progress of the disorder, but in vain. The duke never quitted the bed-side, till she had ceased to breathe. Her grace, born Nov. 13, 1780, was the fifth, but second surviving daughter of Frederick earl of Carlisle, who died Sept. 4 (see p. 277), by Caroline, daughter of Granville Leveson, the first marquess of Stafford. She was married to John Henry Manners, duke of Rutland, on the 22nd of April 1799, and had issue nine children, of whom three sons and four daughters survive. Of her elevated taste, Belvoir-castle will long remain a magnificent monument. From its first commencement, twenty-five years ago, in despite of momentary interruption from the fire in October 1816, until its recent completion, the duchess had selected all the plans for its erection. Nor were her active and useful exertions VOL. LXVII.

restricted to the castle alone. The grounds, the villages, the roads in its vicinity, were improved through her agency. Every rational suggestion which had for its object the decoration and the embellishment of this beautiful domain, was adopted with eagerness, and zealously carried into effect under her personal and immediate superintendence. On several occasions she was complimented with premiums from the Society for the promotion of Arts and Manufactures, for her extensive plantations and acknowledged improvements in the breeding of cattle. On the 9th of Dec. the remains of the duchess were deposited in the family vault at Bottesford. Crowds of inhabitants of the vicinity had assembled to pay the last tribute of respect to their esteemed benefactress. Early in the morning the duke of Rutland arrived at Bottesford, and immediately proceeded to the house of the rev. Charles Thornton. The procession left Belvoir-castle at ten o'clock, and arrived at Bottesford about one. It was followed by a long train of carriages.

29. At Clapham, aged 78, Saralı, relict of the late William Cotterell, esq. late sword bearer of the city of London.

At his chambers in the Albany, aged 70, William Ogilvy, esq. of Westhall county of Angus.

Jacob Mocatta, esq. of Finsbury-square, aged 57, of the firm of Mocatta and Goldsmid.

30. At his brother's house, in Upper Wimpole-street, Edward Calvert, esq.

Lately, at Bristol, aged 75, John Nott, M. D. resident physician at the Hot-wells. He was born at Worcester, Dec. 24, 1751. At a very early period, while at school, he evinced his taste for poetic composition, in some happy translations from the Latin classics. He studied surgery first at Birmingham, under Mr. Hector; and then removed to London, to finish his education under the eye of sir Cæsar HawU