MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS,

11. Edward A. W. Drummond Hay, esq. to be consul-general in Morocco.

18. War-office.-14th light dragoons, major John Townshend to be lieut.-col. -30th foot, lieut.-general sir Thomas Bradford, 94th foot to be colonel.-94th foot, major-gen. sir John Keane, to be colonel.

22. 90th foot, lieut.-col. lord George W. Russell, to be lieutenant-colonel.

Unattached.-Major W. Bush, 99th foot, to be lieut..col. of infantry. Major Standish O'Grady, 24th foot, to be lieutenant-colonel of infantry. Brevet.-Major-general sir T. Sydney Beckwith, K. Č. B. to be lieut.-gen. in the East Indies only, sir T. Beckwith having been appointed commander-inchief of the company's forces at Bombay.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PArliament.

Shire of Ayr.-W. Blair, esq. of Blair. East Looe.-H. Thomas Hope, esq. of Dutchess-street, London. Horsham.-Earl of Surry.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS,

Rev. G. Hodson, archdeacon of Stafford and canon residentiary of Litchfield Cathedral.

Rev. T. S. Smyth, Preb. in Exeter Cathedral.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Right hon. James Ochoncar lord Forbes to be high commissioner to the general assembly of the church of Scotland.

JUNE.

GAZETTE PREFERMENTS.

4. Right hon. sir W. Draper Best, knt. to be baron Wynford, of Wynford Eagle, county Dorset.

Col. Fred. Wm. Trench to be storekeeper of the Ordnance of the Unit ed Kingdom.

The earl of Rosslyn to be a mem→ ber of the privy council, and keeper of the privy seal.

Right hon. sir Nicholas Conyngham Tyndal to be lord chief justice of the court of Common Pleas, and sworn of the privy council.

Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, esq. appointed solicitor-general, and knighted.

10. Lieut.-gen. lord R. E. H. Somerset to be lieut.-gen. of the ordnance of the United Kingdom.

- Sir James Welwood Moncrieff, bart. to be one of the lords of justiciary in Scotland.

22. Earl of Ashburnham, to be a knight of the Garter.

24. Right hon. Robert viscount Melville, K. T.; right hon. sir Geo. Cockburn, G. C. B.; sir H. Hotham, K.C.B.; sir Geo. Clerk, bart.; and visc. Castlereagh; to be commissioners for executing the office of the high admiral of the United Kingdom.

24. Adam Rolland, esq. to be clerk of the king's processes in Scotland.-John Tait, esq. to be sheriff-depute of the shires of Clackmanan, and Kinross.

25. 73rd foot, major-general sir Fred. Adam K. C. B. to be colonel.

Garrisons. Gen. Thomas lord Lynedoch, G. C. B. to be governor of Dumbarton-castle.

Royal engineers, captain George Graydon, to be lieut.-col.

esq. to be consul-general in Egypt.Richard W. Brant, esq. to be consul at Smyrna.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Aldeburgh-Spencer Horsey Kilderbee, of Great Glenham, Suffolk, esq. Cambridge Town.-Col. Frederic W. Trench, re-elected.

Cambridge University.-W. Cavendish, esq.

Tralee. Robert Vernon Smith, of Savile-row, Middlesex, esq.

Weymouth and Melcombe Regis.-Sir Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, knt. reelected.

Wexford.-Sir Robert Wigram, knt..

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. H. T. Payne, archd. of Carmarthen, with the Preb. of Llanrian annexed.

Rev. J. Lupton, a minor canon of St. Paul's Cath, and of Westminster Abbey.

JULY.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

30. Henry Unwin Addington, esq. to be Envoy Extraordinary to the Catholic king. George W. Chad, esq. to be minister Plenipotentiary to the Diet at Frankfort. W. Turner, esq. to be envoy extraordinary to the Republic at Colombia.--George Hamilton Seymour, esq. to be secretary to his majesty's embassy to the Ottoman Porte.-lord Albert Conyngham, to be secretary to his majesty's Legation at Berlin.-The hon. J. Duncan Bligh, to be secretary to his majesty's legation at Florence.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Lieutenant-colonel Rowan and Mr. Mayne have been appointed to the two new offices under the Metropolitan Police Act; and John Wray, esq., to be receiver under the act.

R. Smith, esq. of Buckden, and R. Swan, esq. of Lincoln, to be principal registrars of the Diocese and Constitu

tional Court of Lincoln.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.
Corfe Castle-George Bankes, esq.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Richard Bagot, D. D. to be bishop of Oxford.

AUGUST.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

J. William Gregson, esq. to be writer of the London Gazette.

3. 13th ditto, Brevet lieut.-col. sir R. Moubray, to be major.

7. Lord Granville C. H. Somerset; R. Gordon, esq. M. P.; lord R. Sey mour; lord Ashley; hon. C. W.W.Wynn; sir George Henry Rose; hon. Frederic Gough Calthorpe; W. Ward, esq. M.P.; Francis Baring, esq. M. P.; George Byng, esq. M. P.; Charles N. Pallmer, esq. M. P.; Thomas Barrett Lennard, esq. M. P.; Charles Ross, esq. M. P.; sir G. F. Hampson, bart.; hon. B. Bou verie; colonel J. Clitherow; Drs. Turner, Bright, Southey, Drever, and Hume, to be commissioners for licensing and visiting all houses within the cities of London and Westminster, and within seven miles thereof, for the reception of lunatics.

10. 11th dragoons, capt. J. R. Rotton, to be major.-13th foot, captain J. Johnson, to be major.—34th ditto, lieut.col. C. R. Fox, to be lieut.-col.-53rd ditto, capt. T. Butler, to be major.

12. Lord Albert Conyngham, secretary to his majesty's Legation at Berlin, knighted.

25. 17th foot, lieut.-col. John Austin, to be lieut.-col.-44th foot, major R. Macdonald to be lieut.-col.-2nd West India reg. lieut.-col. F. Cockburn to be lieutenant-colonel. and capt. hon. J. Montague to be capt. and lieut.-col17th foot, major H. Despard, to be lieut.-col.

Unattached. Brevet lieut.-colonel C. Holland Hastings to be lieut.-col.Brevet lieut.-col. Matthias Everard, from the 13th foot, to be lieut.-col.-Brevet col. George W. Phipps to be major-gen. in the army.

To be lieut.-colonels of infantry by purchase, majors T. Reed, 53rd foot; and B. J. Smith, 11th dragoons.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT. County of Clare.-Daniel O'Connell, of Derinane-abbey, co. Kerry, esq.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.,

16. John Hayes, esq. commodore E. I. C.; R. H. Cunliffe, esq. lieut.col. commandant E. 1. C.; Jeremiah Bryant, esq. lieut.-col. E. I. C. knighted. lient.-col. T. N. Harris to be Brigade major on the staff of major-gen. sir Colin Campbell, at Portsmouth.

- H. J. Shepherd, esq. son of sir Samuel Shepherd, a commissioner of bankrupts, and counsel to the Admiralty, has been appointed by the lord chancellor clerk of the Custodies, vacant by the death of lord Thurlow.

The right hon. Richard earl of Glengall, a representative peer for Ireland.

24. Marquis Conyngham to be governor, captain, constable and lieutenant of Windsor Castle vice earl of Harrington.

War-office-1st Life guards, gen. Stapleton viscount Combermere, G.C.B, to be colonel vice general the earl of Harrington, dec.-3rd light dragoons. major-gen. lord George Tho. Beresford. to be colonel.-24th foot, major-gen, sir James Lyon, to be col.-97th foot major-gen. hon. R. W. O'Callaghan, to be colonel.

Garrisons-Lieut.-general sir G. Murray, to be governor of fort George. 30. Dublin.-Charles Scudamore of Wimpole-street, London, M. D. F. R.S. knighted.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Rev. H. Dampier, to a Preb. in Ely Cathedral.

OCTOBER.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

5. 49th foot, gen. sir Gordon Drummond, to be col.-71st foot, major-gen. sir Colin Halkett, to be col.-95th foot, major-gen. sir Arch. Campbell, to be colonel.

12. The right hon. sir Brook Taylor, Sworn of his majesty's privy council. 26. 30th foot, major J. Powell, to be lieut.-col.-54th foot, lieut.-col. F. L. Nott, and lieut.-cal. A. Kelly, to VOL. LXXI.

be lieut.-col.--70th foot, Brevet lieut.col. T. Evans, to be lieut.-col.

Unattached.-Major H. Barrington, 5th foot, and major P. Phipps, 1st dragoons, to be lieut.-cols.

Garrisons. Lieutenant-general· W. T. Dilkes, to be lieut.-governor of Quebec.

NOVEMBER.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

2. Royal Artillery, captain and brevet major T. A. Brandreth, to be lieut.-col. -Royal engineers, captain A. Fraser, to be lieutenant-colonel.

17. John M'Donald, esq. lieut.-col. E. I. C. and envoy-extraordinary, to the Shah of Persia, knighted by patent.

21. Earl Amherst and earl Howe to be lords of his majesty's bed-chamber. MEMBER RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT. Eye.-P. Chas. Sidney, esq. vice sir Miles Nightingall, dec.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. C.J. Hoare, archdeacon of Winchester.

Rev. E. Berens, Preb. in Salisbury Cathedral.

DECEMBER.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

7. Right hon. Stratford Canning, and right hon. Robert Gordon, ambassador to the Sublime Ottoman Porte, to be G. C. B.

14. 1st dragoons.-Lieut.-gen. lord R. E. H. Somerset, 17th light dragoons, to be col. vice gen. Garth, dec. 17th light dragoons.: major gen. sir J. Elley, to be col.-66th foot, lieut.-gen. sir W. Anson, to be col.-Ceylon reg.; lieut.col. Charles Arch. Macalister, to be lieut.-col.

17th. 63rd foot, lieut.-col. Francis Battersby, to be lieut.-col.-83rd ditto: major hon. Henry Dundas, to be lieut.col.-Unattached: major A. Hope Pattison, 97th foot, to be lieut. col. of infantry.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

W. Bolland, esq., to be a baron of the Exchequer.

David Pollock, esq., to be recorder of P

Maidstone; Russell Gurney, esq., common pleader to the city of London; and W. E. Burnaby, esq., junior counsel to the Bank of England; all vice Mr. Baron Bolland.

Robert Benson, esq., to be deputy recorder of Salisbury, vice Mr. Tinney.

Algernon Greville, esq. private secretary to the duke of Wellington, to be Bath king at arms.

DEATHS.

JANUARY.

1. At Bristol, aged 70, Edw. Chinn, esq. late of the Moat in Newent, and the representative of a very ancient family at that place.

At Sydney place, near Exeter, aged 81, William Swiney, esq. admiral of the red, who had served for seventy years in the royal navy. He entered into this service at a very early age, on beard the Hero, of 74 guns, commanded by the late lord Mount Edgecumbe, a few weeks before sir Edward Hawke's action with Conflans. He was actively employed on the American and WestIndia station nearly the whole of the American war. He was advanced to the rank of rear-admiral in 1797, of vice-admiral in 1801, and of admiral in

1808.

2. At Heidelberg, aged 85, Christian Gottlieb von Arndt, imperial Russian councillor. He was formerly attached to the Russian cabinet in the reign of Catherine II., and assisted that empress in her literary employments. He wrote also several treatises on the Russian language, which are esteemed for the classical purity of their style. His last work, on the Origin, &c. of the European Dialects, published at Frankfort in 1818, has excited the attention of literary men even in America.

3. At Stockton, aged 24, Emily Maria, second daughter of the late col. Symes, of Bally Arthur, Wicklow, and wife of George Prescott, esq. eldest son of sir Geo. Prescott, of Theobald's-park, bart. She was married July 10, 1827.

At Paris, aged 63, Madame la Marechale Massena, duchess de Rivoli and princess d'Esling.

At Amsterdam, in his 62nd year,

Andries Snoek, one of the greatest tragic actors of modern times. This distinguished performer, whose talents shed a lustre on the Dutch stage, obtained the suffrages not only of his own countrymen but of all foreigners of taste who visited Amsterdam. Among those who expressed their admiration of his wonderful powers, was a no less eminent and competent critic than Talma. Few actors have rivalled or even approached him in the characters of Hamlet, Richard, Mahomet, Sylla, Brutus, Achilles, Orosmanes, Rodrigo, and the Stranger; and he retained even to the last nearly all the energy of his prime, having performed, within the month previous to his death, the parts of Edipus, Mahomet, Ninus; the last, on the 13th December. His funeral took place on the 16th January, when his remains were deposited in the Roman Catholic church, called the Vriedenduivje; on which occasion was performed a requiem composed by Bertelman. The crowd collected around the building was so great, that it was with the utmost difficulty that many of the cortège could make their way into the church, or that the sentinels could prevent the throng from attempting to enter. On the 22nd of the same month, a solemn representation in honour of this ornament of the drama, was held at the theatre; the boxes were hung with black draperies, and on the stage was placed a magnificent tomb, with the bust of Snoek, beneath a lofty canopy of the same sable hue as the other decorations of the house.

4. At the rectory, Bottesford, in her 77th year, Roosilia, widow of admiral Evelyn Sutton, of Screveton-hall, Notts, and mother of the late sir Chas. Sutton, K.C.B.

6. At West End, Hampstead, aged 69, Charles Beazley, esq. architect, formerly of Whitehall, and of Walmer, Kent.

7. At Thirsk, aged 85, Matthew Butterwick, esq. for many years register of the North Riding.

8. At the Mauritius, aged 22, Montgomerie Stewart, acting lieutenant on board his Majesty's ship Helicon, and nephew to the earl of Galloway. He was the eldest son of the Hon. Montgomerie-Granville-John Stewart, by Catherine, dau. of Patrick Honyman, esq.

10. At Boulogne, aged 72, Richard

Peake, esq. formerly treasurer of DruryJane Theatre, which office he held for upwards of forty years.

11. At Dresden, of apoplexy, Fred. Von Schlegel. This celebrated writer was born at Hanover in the year 1772, and was afterwards apprenticed to a merchant in Leipsic; whilst his elder brother, A. W. Von Schlegel, was highly distinguishing himself at Gottingen. Frederic, however, evincing a decided distaste for the mercantile profession. returned to his father, and was permitted to follow the natural bent of his genius, which led him, during his sojourn at the Universities of Gottingen and Leipsic, to devote himself to the study of languages with exemplary ardour. He entered the lists as an author at a very early age, attracted the attention of the public by the novelty of his opinions on subjects connected with ancient literature, and acquired no little fame by his critical labours in the field of ancient and modern poesy. His first attempts, the "History of Poetry among the Greeks and Romans," which appeared in 1792, and the Greeks and Romans," which followed in 1797, were very favourably received. At a later period, particularly after his conversion to the Roman. Catholic religion, his favourite pursuit was ethics and romantic literature, in which departments his "Prelections on German History," and "History of Literature," have secured him a high reputation. His public lectures on Modern History, and on the Literary Annals of all nations, delivered in 1811-12, created a deep sensation throughout Germany, as combining a high degree of literary attain ments with much originality of perception. His manner of viewing and treating these subjects, no less than his dramatic compositions and poems, afforded abundant aliment to the new school of the Romantesque in that country, soon after its foundation had been laid, in contra-distinction to the "Classical school," chiefly through the instrumentality of his brother. An overwrought impression of the pre-eminent genius and glory of the middle ages strengthened the principles his mind had already imbibed; and, though himself the son of a Protestant clergyman, he scrupled not to pass over to the Roman Catholic religion, within the exclusive pale of which he conceived the regeneration of that golden epocha to

be placed. Having prevailed upon his wife, a daughter of the celebrated Jewish deist, Mendelsohn, to follow his example, he associated himself with Gentz and other converts to the same opinion, and in 1808 transferred his residence to Vienna, where he was appointed to the situation of counsellor of Legation in the imperial chancery by prince Metternich; and for several years conducted the affairs of secretary to the Austrian envoy at the diet of Frankfort. In 1819 he was allowed to retire from official avocations, from which period he devoted himself entirely to his spe culations and studies.

12 At Solihull, Warwickshire, aged 72, the rev. Charles Curtis, M.A. rector of that parish and of St. Martin's, Birmingham. He was the youngest brother of the alderman and baronet, who died only six days after him.

13. At Paris, Miss Haggerston, sister of sir Carnaby Haggerston, bart. of Haggerston.

At Exmouth, aged 87, Charles Baring, esq. uncle to sir Thomas Baring, bart. M.P. and younger brother to sir Francis the 1st baronet. He married Margaret, daughter and heiress of Wm. Gould, esq. of East Looe, in Cornwall, and by her had two sons and four daughters; 1. William, 2. Charles, 3. Jaquetta, married in 1791 to sir Stafford Henry Northcote, the present and seventh bart. of Pynes in Devonshire, and has a numerous family; 4. Frances, married to Wm. Jackson, esq. of Cowley in Devonshire; 5. Eleanor, 6. Emily, 7. Lucy, 8. Caroline.

Mary-Margaret, wife of John Haythorne, esq. of Hill-house, Mangotsfield, and second daughter and coheiress of Edward Curtis, esq. of Mardyke-house, Clifton.

14. At Clifton-wood-house, the wife of lieut.-col. Brereton, inspecting field officer of the Bristol district.