PROMOTIONS. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Rev. H. V. Bayley (sub-dean of Lincoln) to be archdeacon of Stowe. Rev. Mr. Troughton, Huntingdon prebend. Rev. Mr. Carr, minor canon in St. George's-chapel, Windsor. Rev. W. Barnes, chaplain to the duke of York. Rev. T. Henshaw, chaplain to duke of Cambridge. Rev. E. Nepean, chaplain to viscount St. Vincent. Rev. G. Hodson, chaplain to the bishop of Gloucester. Rev. W. Dewe, chaplain to his majesty's ship the Cambridge; the rev. T. Quarles, to the Sybille ; and the rev. J. S. Cox, to the Spartiate. Rev. J. Hallewell, chaplain to hon. E. I. company on Madras establishment. CIVIL PREFERMENTS. Mr. Alderman Waithman chosen Lord Mayor of London for the ensuing 5. Hon. F. R. Forbes, to be secretary of legation at Lisbon; and P. Brown, esq. to be secretary of legation at Copenhagen. 7. War-office.-14th light drag. : lieut.-gen. sir J. O. Vandeleur, K. C. B. to be colonel, vice earl of Bridgewater, dec.-39th foot: lieut.-general sir G. Airey to be colonel, vice Balfour, dec.Major hon. R. P. Arden to be lieut.colonel of infantry, vice major-general Chabot, ret. 10. Whitehall.-John Clerk, esq. to be one of the Lords of Session, in Scotland. 14. Foreign-office.-Visc. Granville to be ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the king of the Netherlands. War-office. 1st or gren. reg. of foot guards: major hon. R. Clements to be captain and lieut.-col. foot lieut.-col. G. C. Flem 24th reg. ing to be lieut. col. 17. Whitehall.-The king has been pleased to grant the dignity of a viscount of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto Richard earl of Clancarty, G. C, B. and late his majesty's ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the king of the Netherlands, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of viscount Clancarty, of the county of Cork. 21. Carlton-house.-Francis Bayley, esq. recorder of the Prince of Wales'sIsland, knighted. 22. John Chapman (late mayor of Windsor), Griffin Wilson, and Wm. M'Leod Bannatyne, esqrs. knighted. Edward Granville Eliot, esq. to be secretary of legation at Madrid. 29. Charles Harcourt Chambers, esq. knighted. 24. Whitehall.-Thomas Le Breton, the younger, esq. to be procuratorgeneral in Jersey, vice Dumaresq, dec. John Wm. Dupré, esq. to be Advocate-general of Jersey, vice Le Couteur, resig. 28. War Office.-1st_or_gren. regt. foot guards: lieut.-col. J. G. Woodford to be major with the rank of colonel, vice West: capt. J. Lindsay to be capt. and lieut.-colonel, vice Woodford. CIVIL PREFERMENTS. John lord Carbery to be an Irish representative peer vice lord Farnham, dec. Rev. Wyndham Knatchbull, D.D. abp. Laud's professor of Arabic. Rev. John Warren, rector of Caldi. cote, Hunts, to be chancellor of Bangor diocese. Earl Craven recorder of Coventry. Rev. J. Lamb, B.D. (master of Corpus Christi college), vice-chancellor of Cambridge University. DECEMBER. DEATHS. 1. Office of Ordnance.-Royal regt. of artillery: col. and lieut.-gen. E. Stehelein to be col.-commandant, vice Willington, dec.- lieut.-col. R. Beevor to be colonel. 6. Foreign Office.-W. Barnes, esq to be consul at Nantes, and the ports and places in the departments of the Lower Loire and La Vendee.-J. Elliot, esq. to be consul at Dublin for Hanover. 12. Whitehall.-John Levy, gent. his Neapolitan majesty's examiner and inspector of Sicilian or Neapolitan prize accounts in England, to resume his family surname of Lumley, in lieu of that of Levy. At Hastings, after a long illness, lady Musgrave, relict of the late sir James Musgrave, bart. of Barnsley, in the county of Gloucester. At Hale-hall, near Warrington, Ann, the lady of John Blackburn, esq. M.P. for the county of Lancaster. Lately, at Crome, the seat of the earl of Coventry, in his 64th year, J. B. Smith, esq. who expired very suddenly. He requested his attendant, who had left him but a short time before in his usual health, to call lord Deerhurst to him, as he felt exceedingly unwell, and expired shortly afterwards, just as his lordship was entering his apartment. At Kensington, viscountess dow ager Montague. At Beaumont-house, Jersey, the seat of her brother-in-law, Martha, the wife of Charles Pipon, esq. aged 45. 11. In Chenies-street, Bedfordsquare, after a painful illness, Mr. M. P. King, an eminent musical composer, aged 50. At Walthamstow, Mary, wife of W. N. Lancaster, esq. in her 45th year. 13. At his house, in Skinner-street, Bishopsgate-without, Samuel Nash, esq. twenty-two years common-councilman, of Bishopsgate Ward. 14. In South Audley-street, lady Frederica Stanhope, the lady of the hon. J. H. Stanhope, and eldest daughter of the earl of Mansfield, after her accouchement on the 11th. The infant died the day after its birth. 18. At the Hotwells, Mrs. Judith Barry, aged 80; and on the 22nd, her sister, Mrs. Catherine Barry, aged 90. Both of them underwent the operation of couching in 1813, from which time they retained their sight perfectly. 19. In Piccadilly, Miss Andrews, youngest daughter of the dean of Canterbury. Lately, at Roehampton, Caroline DEATHS. countess dowager of Kingston, in her 69th year. 20. At Hingin Ghaut, 50 miles south of Nagpoor, while proceeding in the execution of his duty from Hydrabad towards Nagpoor, lieut.-col. Wm. Lambton, superintendent of the grand Trigonometrical survey in India. The Annals of the Royal and Asiatic society bear testimony to the importance of the labours of colonel Lambton, in his measurement of an arc of the meridian in India, extending from Cape Comorin, in lat. 8. 23. 10. to a new base line, measured in lat. 21. 6, near the village of Takoorkera, 15 miles S. E. from the city of Ellichpore. It was the intention of colonel Lambton to have extended the arc to Agra, in which case the meridian line would have passed at short distances from Bhopaul, Serange, Nurwur, Gualiar, and Dholpore. Though the measurement of the arc of the meridian was the principal object of the labours of colonel Lambton, he extended his operations to the East and West, and the set of triangles covers great part of the Peninsula of India, defining with the utmost precision the situation of a very great number of principal places in latitude, longitude, and elevation; and affording a sure basis for an amended Geographical Map. 22. At Richmond, in his 71st year, the hon. and rev. Harbottle Bucknall, rector of Pitmarsh, and chaplain in ordinary to his majesty. 23. The right hon. lady Aston, daughter of the first, and sister and co-heir of the second earl of Northington, and relict of sir Willoughby Aston, aged 74. 24. At Nottingham, aged 78, Mrs. Henrietta Tempest, third sister of the late major Tempest, and grand-daughter of the late sir George Tempest, of Tong-hall, Yorkshire. In his 73rd year, John Finlay, esq. late M.P. for the county of Dublin, and lieut.-colonel of the county of Dublin militia. 25. The hon. Thos. Mullins, third son of the right hon. lord Ventry, of Barnham, in the county of Kerry, Ireland. Aged 72, Sarah, relict of William Winchester, esq. of Cecil-street, Strand. At Willesden-house, Middlesex, sir Rupert George, bart. aged 74. Suddenly, in a carriage in which It he was going to the Opera, Peter Bayley, esq. of Cumberland-place, Newroad, editor of the "Museum." was deposed on the coroner's Inquest, that his death was occasioned by the bursting of an aneurism of the aorta, from which an effusion of nearly two pints of blood had taken place in the chest. Mr. Bayley was author of a poem intituled, "Sketches from St. George's Fields'." 26. At his house, at Berkeley, in his 76th year, Edward Jenner, esq. M.D. the discoverer of Vaccination. The doctor not appearing at the breakfast-table about his usual time, on Saturday the 25th, his servant was sent to call him; and found him, lying on the floor, in a severe fit of apoplexy. His nephew, who is of the medical profession, immediately bled him, and another relative rode to Gloucester to fetch Dr. Baron. Dr. B. accompanied by Mr. Shrapnell, surgeon of the South Gloucester militia, hastened to Berkeley. They found the symptoms most formidable, and every effort, which skill could suggest, was employed in vain. The patient continued in a state of total insensibility till about two o'clock on Sunday morning, when he expired. Dr. Jenner was M.D. LL.D. F.R.S. M.V.I.F.&c.; a physician extraordinary to the king, and a magistrate of the county of Gloucester. Nature had given him great genius, vast sagacity, much inclination for, and great ardour in the prosecution of his subjects of Natural History, Physiology, and Pathology. At an early age he was destined to the study of one department of the medical profession, Surgery. In the commencement of his studies, he associated with many eminent characters, Dr. Parry, of Bath, Dr. Hickes, of Gloucester, and Dr. Ludlow, of Corsham, near Bath; and he was honoured with the peculiar friendship and patronage of the late Mr. John Hunter; who, aware of the extraordinary talents of Dr. Jenner, then a pupil, offered to him patronage, connexion, and employment, in his professional and physiological pursuits. Dr. Jenner, however, preferred a residence at his native place, Berkeley, where he acquired both high local reputation, and great estimation among phuosophers and medical professors. After some less important communications to the royal society of London (of which he DEATHS, was early made a member), he imparted to them, a complete Natural History of the Cuckoo. Dr. Jenner also communicated to his youthful friend and colleague, Dr. Parry of Bath, his discovery of the internal diseased structure of the heart, which produces the disease called Angina Pectoris, and which was before unknown and conjectural. After a long and arduous inquiry into the disease termed Cow Pox, which is a common complaint in cows in Gloucestershire, and some other counties, and which, to those who receive it from the cows in milking, appears from long existing tradition, to confer complete security from Small Pox, either natural or inoculated, Dr. Jenner determined to put the fact to the test of experiment, and accordingly,in 1797,inoculated some young persons with matter taken from the disease in the cows. From the proof of the powers which these experiments afforded, of the Cow Pox inoculation to protect the human being from Small Pox contagion, Dr. Jenner was induced to bring this inestimable fact before the public in 1798. This discovery he promulgated with all the simplicity of a philosopher, and with all the disinterestedness of a philanthropist. His remains were interred at Berkeley, Feb. 3rd, followed by an immense concourse of persons. Principles of Bridges, 8vo. 1772; The Diarian Miscellany, 5 vols. 12mo.; a Selection of useful and entertaining Parts from the Ladies' Diary, of which he was for a long time editor; Elements of the Conic Sections, 8vo. 1777; Tables of the Products and Powers of Numbers, folio, 1784; Mathematical Tables (Logarithms), 1785-five editions to 1811; Tables of Interest, 8vo, 1786; Tracts, Mathematical and Philosophical, 4to. same year; Compendious Measurer, 12mo, id.; Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, 2 vols. 4to. 1796; and many other treatises on Mathematics, Projectiles, and Philosophy. As a proof how little his extraordinary abilities were impaired, either by advanced age or the langour of illness, it may be mentioned, that, almost in his very last moments, he drew up a paper in reply to the scientific questions proposed to him by the Bridge-house committee, relative to the curves most proper to be employed for the arches of the projected New London Bridge. The immediate cause of his decease was a cold, that affected his lungs, and carried him off apparently without pain. His remains were interred on February 4, in the family vault at Charlton, in Kent. 29. At Woodlands, Blackheath, at the advanced age of 91, John Julius 27. At his house, in Bedford-row, in Angerstein, esq. of Pall-mall. This his 86th year, Charles Hutton, LL.D. gentleman, was born at St. Petersburgh, F R.S. Dr. Hutton was a native of in the year 1735. About 1749 he came Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where he was to England, under the patronage of born in 1737. At an early age he the late Andrew Thompson, esq. an opened a school in the place of his opulent Russian merchant. In that birth; and in 1764 published his first gentleman's counting-house he remainvolume, "A Practical Treatise on Arith-ed for some time, and, when he came metic and Book-keeping." To this a Key for the use of Tutors was afterwards added; and,in 1768, appeared his quarto Treatise on Mensuration, which led to his election to the Royal Society, and his appointment at Woolwich, which he held till 1807, and then retired on account of ill health, with a liberal and well-merited pension from government, and a just eulogy from the Board of Ordnance, the department best acqainted with his services. Dr. Hutton was for some time foreign secretary to the Royal Society; but when sir Joseph Banks succeeded to sir John Pringle in its presidency, a misunderstanding arose, and the doctor was deprived of his office. Besides the works already mentioned, Dr. Hutton published The of age, he was introduced to Lloyd's by his patron. With good natural abilities and unwearied application, Mr. Angerstein quickly became celebrated as a broker and underwriter. His subscription to a policy was quite sufficient to induce other underwriters to add their names. In such repute were his policies, that, for some years after, they were called Julians, as a mark of distinction. It is, therefore, not surprising, that he at length reached the summit of commercial fame and prosperity; his reputation being spread to all quarters where commerce is known. In public loans his list was always ranked among the first, and monied men were anxious to obtain a place in it. Nor were his exertions confined only to his DEATHS. own benefit. The frequenters of Lloyd's Coffee-house owe to his strenuous efforts the accommodations which they at present enjoy. He was the proposer of the issue of Exchequer Bills in 1793, by which, at a critical moment, relief was afforded to trade. The Veterinary college would, perhaps, have sunk to the ground, had he not made a vigorous effort in its favour, at a moment when its funds were nearly exhausted; and he was the first to propose, from the fund at Lloyd's, a reward of two thousand pounds to that meritorious discovery, the life-boat. It is no slight proof of his worth, that he enjoyed the friendship of Dr. Johnson, sir Joshua Reynolds, Garrick, Jonas Hanway, and many other eminent contemporaries. As a patron of art he ranked high. His collection in Pall-mall contained some of the finest works of the foreign and British artists. - At his residence, in the Regent'spark, Lucius Concannon, esq. M.P. for Winchelsea. 31. At her house, at St. Stephen's, near St. Alban's, Miss Sheffield, daughter of the late sir Charles Sheffield, and aunt to the present sir Robert Sheffield, bart. Normanby-hall, Lincoln shire. FEBRUARY. 1. At Calcutta, sir Robert Henry Blosset, knt. lord chief justice of Calcutta, formerly an eminent counsel upon the Norfolk circuit, and deputy recorder of Cambridge. He was appointed lord chief justice of Calcutta, and received the honour of knighthood, in 1822. At North Cray, Kent, in his 86th year, the rev. Thomas Moore, rector for fifty-seven years of that parish, and the adjoining one of Foot's Cray. 2. In Piccadilly, Magdalene countess dowager of Dysart. At Coln, St. Aldwin's, near Fairford, Gloucestershire, in his 70th year, general Lister, late colonel of the 45th regt. and governor of Landguard Fort. 3. In Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, in his 92nd year, the rev. James Jones, D. D. chancellor of the diocese of Hereford. -Aged 89, the rev. J. Cooke, D. D. nearly forty years president of Corpus Christi college, rector of Woodeaton and Begbrooke, and for about fifty years an active magistrate for the county of Oxford. 5. In Harley-sreet, lady Rumbold, relict of sir Thomas Rumbold, bart. and daughter of Dr. Edmund Law, bishop of Carlisle. 7. In Stafford-row, Pimlico, Mrs. Anne Radcliffe, long known and admired by the literary world, as the author of some romances, which have been translated into every European tongue. Her first work was Athlin and Dumblaine, her second The Romance of the Forest, and her third The Sicilian Romance, which established her fame as an elegant Her next proand original writer. duction, published in 1793, was the famous Mysteries of Udolpho, for which the Robinsons gave her 1000., and were well repaid for their speculation, the work being universally sought for, and many large editions rapidly sold. In 1794, Mrs. Radcliffe gave to the world a Narrative of her Travels in France, Germany, and Italy; but in describing matters of fact, her writings were not equally favoured. Some years after, Cadell and Davies gave her 1,5007. for her Italian, which, though generally read, did not increase her reputation. The anonymous criticisms which appeared upon this work, the imitations of her style and manner by various literary adventurers, the publication of some other novels under a name slightly varied for the purpose of imposing on the public, and the flippant use of the term "Radcliffe school," by scribblers of all classes, tended to disgust her with the world, and to create a depression of spirits, which led her for many years to seclude herself from society. Her loss of spirits was followed by ill health, and the only solace of her latter years was the unwearied attentions of an affectionate husband, whose good intelligence enabled him to appreciate ber extraordinary worth. In one of the most chearful situations round the metropolis, under a gradual decay of her mental and bodily powers, this intel lectual ornament of her sex expired in the 62nd year of her age. In person, Mrs. Radcliffe was of diminutive size; and, during the prime of her life, when she mixed in company, her conversation was vivacious, and unalloyed by the pedantic formality, which too often characterizes the manners of literary ladies. |