30. At the White-lodge, Richmondpark, in his 37th year, the hon. Henry Addington, eldest son of lord viscount Sidmouth.

31. At Hereford Cathedral, the rev. Mr. Hopkins, curate of Byford, in that county, who expired during the ceremony of his marriage while about to put the ring on his bride's finger. He was 70 years of age.

AUGUST.

1. At Dacre-lodge, Middlesex, the right hon. lord Napier, of Merchistoun, North Britain, lord lieutenant of the county of Selkirk, and one of the sixteen representative peers of Scotland.

2. At Winchester, the hon. Charles Frederick Powlett, lord Bayning.

5. At Bath, lady Palliser, relict of the late, and mother of the present, sir Hugh Palliser, bart.

8. At his house, York-street, Dublin, in his 84th year, the rev. Edw. Ledwich, LL.D. F.S.A. of London and Scotland, and member of most of the distinguished literary societies of Europe; a learned aud industrious Antiquary and Topographer. He was a native of Ireland; and fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, vicar of Aghaboe in Queen's county,and secretary to the Committee of Antiquaries of the Royal Irish Academy. In 1789, Mr. Gough acknowledged his obligations to Mr. Ledwich and other curious gentlemen of Ireland, "for an excellent comprehensive View of the government of that kingdom, from the earliest times to the latest Revolution in it," inserted in his valuable edition of Camden's Britannia.

In 1790 this learned and eleganį Antiquary published a most valuable volume intituled "Antiquities of Ireland' containing a large collection of entertaining and instructive essays on the remoter antiquities of that Island. For having called in question the legendary history of St. Patrick, which he invalidated as a fiction invented long after the time when that saint is said to have lived, besides critically examining the several works ascribed to him, and other tales of the dark ages, he was attacked by some Antiquaries of the Roman Catholic persuasion, who allowed their bigoted attachment to their religion to supersede what had been obtained by indefatigable research.

When capt. Grose went to Dublin for the purpose of completing his design, "to illustrate the Antiquities of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland," he formed an acquaintance with this gentleman, urged by the above-mentioned specimen of his consanguinity in authorship. Upon his death, which shortly followed, Mr. Ledwich, at the request of the publisher, became the editor of "The Antiquities of Ireland," in two volumes, 4to. ; and with great liberality and the utmost success, engaged in the design of completing what his predecessor had begun, but did not live to carry it on to any considerable extent. The first volume of this valuable work came out in 1794, and the second in 1796.

In the same year in which the second volume of the above national work was published, he produced a judicious, informing, and interesting work, in imitation of the Scotch Clergy, who, under the encouragement of sir John Sinclair, conducted their statistical inquiries with such success in their own country. It was intituled "A Statistical Account of the parish of Aghaboe, in the Queen's County," 1796, 8vo.

Besides the above works, he contributed to the volumes of the Archeologia, a "Dissertation on the Religion of the Druids," inserted in vol. VII. p. 303, and "Observations on our own ancient Churches," vol. VIII. p. 165.

Mr. Ledwich was a member of a little society for investigating the antiquities of Ireland, at the head of which was the right hon. Wm. B. Conyngham, Teller of the Exchequer at Dublin; but which was dissolved, it is said, in consequence of the free pleasantry, with which Mr. Ledwich treated certain reveries circulated among them, and occasionally alluded to in his Antiquities of Ireland.

9. In Old Burlington-street, after a long indisposition, the most noble marquis Cornwallis. He succeeded his father in 1805. On the 18th, his remains were removed, for interment in the family vault, to Culford-hall, near Bury. The title descends to his uncle, the bishop of Lichfield and Coventry.› - At New-house-place, Chalfont, St. Giles, Bucks, the lady of sir Cod drington Edmund Carrington.

10. In Devonshire-place, Esther, the wife of the rev. Fras. North, Prebend. ary of Winchester.

11. At Brompton, lieut.-col. Brookes Lawrence, late of the 13th light drag.

12. At her house, in Regent-street, lady Wilson, wife of sir Robert Wilson, M.P.

19. At the house of the rev. J. Bradshaw, with whom he had just returned in a gig from Hornsey, and after partaking of a hearty dinner, the rev. Charles Rushworth, senior, B.D. fellow and steward of St. John's-college, Cambridge, aged 45.

-At Shefford, in Bedfordshire, in his 57th year, Robert Bloomfield, author of the "Farmer's Boy," &c. &c. His constitution, naturally weak, had of late years become alarmingly impaired; every fresh attack left him still weaker; the last, it was feared, had he survived, would have fixed him in a state of mental aberration, to which he himself and his dearest friends must have preferred his death. Robert Bloomfield was born in 1766, in the county of Suffolk. He was one of six children of a tailor in middling circumstances, who was not enabled to give him more than a common education, for the acquirement of which he was indebted to his mother, who kept a school, and gave him all the instruction which she was enabled to bestow. He learned to read as soon as he could speak, and his mother, having lost her husband, remarried when Bloomfield was not more than seven years old. At the age of eleven, he was obliged to accept the menial office of a farmer's boy, to attend the workmen in the field. In the intervals of his labours, that native genius, which sooner or later bursts the bonds of slavery, led him to peruse such books as came within his reach, and whatever newspapers he could obtain: even at that early age he wrote a small poem, which he sent for insertion to the editor of the London Magazine, and had the pleasure of seeing in print. He next turned his attention to poetry during the hours of relaxation from toil, and composed many pieces, even in the midst of his occupation; he had also a taste for music, playing very decently on the violin; his imagination, however, was heated with the descriptions which he had read in the Poets of celebrity, particularly Thomson; and, disengaged from the bustle and care of a city, he planned and executed his "Farmer's Boy," a work,

which, as a descriptive Poem, possesses original genius and a happy facility in composition. Robert married about this time, and entered into trade. His poem fell into the hands of Mr. Lofft, who revised it, and prepared it for the press, bestowed on the author his protection, printed it at his own expense, and wrote the preface. On its first appearance it was highly approved of, and passed through many editions in a very short time; it fully established the claim of the author to the title of Poet, and stamped his name with the honour of genius. Of all Bloomfield's published works, no volume has alone so much interest as his "Wild Flowers," which was dedicated to his only son, Charles, "There can be no harm in telling the world," observes the poet in his Dedication, "that I hope these 'Wild Flowers' will be productive of sweets of the worldly kind; for your unfortunate lameness, should it never be removed, may preclude you from the means of procuring comforts and advantages which might otherwise have fallen to your share. What a blessing, what an unspeakable satisfaction, would it be to know, that the 'Ballads,' the 'Ploughman's Stories,' and the 'Broken Crutch' of your father, would eventually contribute to lighten your steps in manhood; and make your own crutch, through life, rather a memorial of affection than an object of sorrow!" The Poet's last production is intituled "Hazlewood Hall," a Village Drama, in Three Acts; and the Preface is dated from the place of his dissolution, so recently as the 12th of April preceding.

20. M. Brockhaus, of Leipsic, Editor of a vast number of literary works, and one of the most active, intelligent, and estimable of the German booksellers. M. Brockhaus was born in Westphalia: a lover of books, and though originally in another business in Holland, he gave it up to open a house at Amsterdam under the title of the "Comptoir d'Industrie.” This was about the time that Holland lost her maritime power, in consequence of her union with France and the continental blockade. His first attempts were unsuccessful. The difficulty of the crisis forced him to stop payment; but when afterwards he became successful, he paid all his debts with interest. He next went to Altenberg in Saxony, when Germany was in a situation not

much better than Holland; but, knowing the country, he made some successful speculations. He published the "Dictionary of Conversation," which was the foundation of his fortunes. There existed before a small Encyclopædia under that name. Brockhaus remodelled it and increased it to ten volumes, including in it every thing of interest, such as the history of the times, biography, and choice pieces of literature. It went through five editions; in ten or twelve years 50,000 copies were sold, a success without example in the annals of German bibliopolists. After the peace of 1814 he projected and established a work after the plan of the "Public Characters" in England, containing an account of the celebrated men of the day, of which thirtysix parts appeared. Brockhaus also published the Hermes, a quarterly work on the plan of the Edinburgh Review, which ranked high, and to which men of the first talents in Germany contributed. In 1817 and 1818, he determined to establish a daily journal, and came to Paris in 1819 to acquire a knowledge of the best mode of conducting it. On his return home, he bought the literary paper established by Kotzebue, and proposed to speak, in conducting it, the language of truth, and to defend intrepidly the rights of humanity. But already the efforts of the Holy Alliance were exerted to crush any thing resembling freedom of thought or expression, and even when he removed to Leipsic, a rigorous censorship was exercised over him. He next thought, that the governments, which watched with so much vigilance over the press, might perchance protect the property of the booksellers against the piracy exercised in the estates of the German confederation, and he published a memorial on the subject; but in vain. His other literary enterprises are too numerous to particularise. From 1815 to the present year, his house at Leipsic furnished the greater number of new and interesting works which appeared; and many men of talent found they could exercise their pens, give vent to their thoughts, and even secure an honourable existence by alliance with Brockhaus. He stimulated the selflove and zeal of literary men, and often suggested new ideas for original works. He was sufficiently conversant with

literature himself to judge of the merits of his editors, and even to co-operate himself in the enterprises he planned. Thus, though directing a bookselling establishment of vast extent, and corresponding with literary men all over the world, he still found time to work himself on his Encyclopædia and his daily journal, &c. One cause of his success was his constant publication of the literature of the day in England and France, in all their novelty. The death of so indefatigable a man was a great loss to Germany; and though his works are proposed to be continued, so independent a bookseller, one who never trembled at the frown of power, will not be soon replaced by another equally estimable in the view of his fellow-citizens.

21. At Broomham, Sussex, in his 85th year, sir Wm. Ashburnham, bart.

22. At Stratton, near Circencester, the rev. Thos. Boys, D. D. late fellow of New College, Oxford, and rector of Radcliffe-cum-Chagmore, Bucks, in the gift of the wardens of that college.

- At Gedling, near Nottingham, the rev. Wm. Smelt, A. M. rector of that valuable living. He married the sister of the late earl of Chesterfield.

23. At his house, in Upper Brookstreet, major Sneyd.

27. At Paris, the right hon. John Hope, earl of Hopetoun, viscount Airthrie, lord Hope (lord Hopetoun, 1809, and lord Niddry, 1814, British titles), lord lieutenant of Linlithgowshire, knight grand cross of the order of the Bath, a general in the army, colonel of the 42nd foot (Royal Highlanders), governor of the royal bank of Scotland, captain-general of the royal company of archers, &c. &c. His lordship succeeded James the last earl, his half-brother, in 1816, and was the only son of John earl of Hopetoun, by his second marriage with Jane, daughter of Robert Oliphant, of Rossie, esq. and was born on the 17th of August 1765. He married, first, Elizabeth, daughter of the hon. Charles Hope Weir, of Craigiehall, in 1798, who died in 1801, without issue. He married, secondly, Louisa Dorothea, third daughter of sir John Wedderburn, of Ballendean, bart. by whom he has left John, now earl of Hopetoun, born Nov. 15, 1803, eight other sons, and two daughters. His lordship entered, when young, into the army, in which he served with great

bravery and distinction. He was appointed adjutant-general to the forces serving under sir Ralph Abercromby in the Leeward Islands, in 1794; and had the rank of brigadier general in the West Indies, where he was actively employed in the campaigns of 1794, 5, 6, and 7, being particularly noticed in general orders, and in the public despatches of the commander-inchief, particularly, as having " on all occasions most willingly come forward and exerted himself in times of danger, to which he was not called from his situation of adjutant-general." He accompanied the British troops into Holland in August, 1799, as deputy adjutant-general, but was so severely wounded at the landing at the Helder, on the 27th of that month, that he was compelled to come home. On his recovery he was appointed adjutant-general to the army serving under his royal highness the duke of York, Oct. 19, 1799. In 1800, he accompanied sir Ralph Abercromby as adjutant-general on the expedition to Egypt, and at the battle of Alexandria, March 21, 1801, he was wounded in the hand, and the army was thus for a time "deprived of the service of a most active, zealous, and judicious officer." He afterwards accompanied the British army to Spain and Portugal in 1808. At the battle of Corunna, January 16, 1809, in consequence of the wounds of sir John Moore and sir David Baird, the command devolved on his lordship (then lieutenantgeneral hon. John Hope), "to whose abilities and exertions," said the despatches, "in the direction of the ardent zeal and unconquerable valour of his majesty's troops, is to be attributed, under Providence, the success of the day, which terminated in the complete and entire repulse and defeat of the enemy at every point of attack." On the 26th of April 1809, he was invested with the order of the bath, and was afterwards appointed commander-inchief in Ireland, where he remained a considerable time. When he left Ireland, he again joined the duke of Wellington in the Peninsula; and on the 14th of April, 1814, in a sortie made by the garrison of Bayonne, he was very severely wounded, and was taken prisoner by his horse falling with him, which made him a cripple for a long time. This was his last service, as the war terminated next year. As a soldier,

he was cool, determined, and brave; and his conduct as a nobleman, landlord, and friend, was such as became his high station. By his numerous family and relatives his loss is much lamented; and few of his rank have died who have been more sincerely regretted by all classes of the public.

Lately after a lingering illness, at Barrogill Castle, near Thurso, in his 57th year, the right hon. James Sinclair earl of Caithness, lord lieutenant of that county, and post master general for Scotland. He is succeeded in his titles and estates by his eldest son Alexander, who in 1813 married Frances, the daughter of the late dean of Hereford, by whom he has a son, James, lord Beniedale, born 1822.

At Lochwinnoch, Thomas Reid, labourer, the original of Burns's celebrated Tam O'Shanter; he was born in October, 1745, and had been for some time past in the service of major Hervey, of Castle Semple.

At Londonderry, aged 76, the right rev. Charles O'Donnell, D. D. Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Derry. During the thirty years that he exercised his prelatical functions, he enjoyed the esteem of all parties.

At Glasnevin, near Dublin, in her 48th year, the right hon. viscountess Mountmorris.

At Tivoli, by falling into the cascade, while looking down upon it, Robert, eldest son of Robert Brown, esq. of Clapham Common, and of the firm of Robert and Benjamin Brown and co. Cheapside.

At Florence, John King, esq. husband of the countess of Lanesborough.

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At Middleton Cheyney, near Banbury, aged 38, the rev. E. Ellis, M. A. vicar of Chippenham, Wilts, formerly student at Christ Church, Oxford, and for some time second master at Westminster school.

At Kensington, the chevalier Hippolyto Da Costa, lately chargé d'affaires in this country, of the new Brazilian government, and proprietor of the Correio Braziliense, a Portuguese journal printed in London, but lately discontinued.

11. At Gatcomb Park, Gloucestershire, David Ricardo, M. P. for Portarlington, of an inflammation of the brain. He was a man of distinguished abilities; and in the House of Com mons, his opinions were received with the most respectful attention, as well from the general opinion of his profound knowledge of commerce, as from his amiable disposition and conciliating manners. The history of Mr. Ricardo holds out a bright and inspiring example. Mr. Ricardo had every thing to do for himself: and he did every thing. He had his fortune to make, he had his mind to form, he had even his education to commence and to conduct. In a field of the most intense competition, he realized a large fortune, with the univeral esteem and affection of those who could best judge of the honour and purity of his acts. Amid this scene of active exertion and practical detail, he cultivated and acquired habits of intense and patient and comprehensive thinking, such as have been rarely equalled, and never excelled. A new field of exertion was opened to him in the House of Commons; and when one reflects on what he had done, and what he was capable of doing, to accelerate the progress of enlightened legislation, it is difficult to point out another life the loss of which could be regarded as such an

evil to his country. It is known how signal a change has taken place in the tone of the House of Commons, on subjects of political economy, during his short parliamentary career; and though he had the advantage of a ministry, some of whom were sufficiently enlightened to be warm in the same beneficent course, yet they will not be among the most backward to acknowledge, how much his calm and clear exposition of principles, his acute detection of sophistry, and unwearied industry, contributed to the great result. Mr. Ricardo, had not completed his fifty-sixth year. His constitution, though not robust, was sound, and his health such as to promise a long life of usefulness. He was actively engaged, at the period when his mortal disease attacked him, in the most elaborate investigations; and had nearly completed an essay on the proper constitution of a national bank. As a political economist none of his cotemporaries came near him. After every allowance has been made for its deficiencies in style and arrangement, it is still certain that the "Principles of Political Economy and Tax. ation" is one of the most original, profound, and truly valuable philosophical works, that have appeared since the publication of the "Wealth of Nations."

At Bill-hill, near Wokingham, Berks, aged 51, Catherine, wife of John James Cholmondeley, esq.

12. At his house, Tunbridge Wells, in his 77th year, after a long illness, W. Lushington, esq. formerly one of the representatives for the city of London.

14. At Cobham-lodge, general Buckley, governor of Pendennis Castle.

22. At Barham-lodge, Herts, aged 22, Louisa, youngest daughter of the late lord Primate of Ireland.

23. At his seat, Duntisborn, near Cirencester, Matthew Baillie, M. D. This gentleman was a native of Scotland, and son of a professor of divinity at Glasgow. After having received the rudiments of education at Glasgow, he was sent to London, under the care of his two maternal uncles, the late Dr. William and Mr. John Hunter. Under these he acquired an extensive and complete knowledge of the profession he intended to pursue. He was sent early to Oxford, where he took his degrees; and was admitted to that of M.D. in 1789. Repairing to London, he was made a member of the College of Phy