In Stratton-street, Piccadilly, aged 86, Roger Wilbraham, esq. F.R.S. and F.S.A. This gentleman, who was long known as a patron of literature and science, was the second and youngest surviving son of Roger Wilbraham, esq. of Nantwich. Mr. Wilbraham proceeded B.A. 1765, and M.A. 1768, at Trinity college, Cambridge, and was elected a fellow of that Society. Being desirous of a seat in Parliament, Mr. Wilbraham, at the general election in 1784, was a candidate for the borough of St. Michael's, and, in a double return, was the first named; but the other candidate, sir Christopher Hawkins, was successful in his opposition. However, on a vacancy in 1786, Mr. Wilbraham was elected for the borough of Helston. At the general election in 1790 he was returned for Bodmin, for which he sat till the dissolution in 1796. Mr. W. was an active member of the Horticultural Society.

In Cheshire, aged 47, lieut.-colonel Henry Tarleton, nephew to general sir B. Tarleton, bart. K.G.B.

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2. At Wallsall, Staffordshire Daniel Rogers, esq. brother to Samuel Rogers, esq. the poet.

4. At Rome, aged 77, Mary, widow of sir William Abdy, sixth bart. of Felix-hall, Essex, and capt. R. N. She was a daughter of James Gordon, of Moor-place, Hertfordshire, esq.

5. At Rome, aged 68, the right hon. and rev. George Barrington, fifth viscount Barrington of Ardglass, co. Down, and baron Barrington of Newcastle, co. Dublin; M.A. prebendary of Durham, and rector of Sedgfield in that bishopric. He was born July 16, 1761, and was educated at Westminster, where he was admitted a king's scholar in 1774, and whence he was elected to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1778. He obtained the degree of M.A. Jan. 14, 1785. Having taken holy orders, he was in 1786 presented by his uncle bishop Barrington, who then held the see of Salisbury, to the prebend of North Grantham in that cathedral, and, as such, presented himself to the vicarage of Grantham in Lincolnshire. He resigned that living in 1791, on being presented by his uncle, hen translated to Durham, to the rec.

tory of Sedgfield. He also resigned the prebend in 1802; having been preferred to a prebendal stall at Durham in 1796. He succeeded to the viscounty on the death of his brother Richard in January, 1814.

6. At his seat at Drinkstone in Suffolk, aged 70, Joshua Grigby, esq. one of the deputy lieutenants of, and a magistrate for, that county he served the office of high sheriff, in 1810.

In Hanover-street aged 71, col. sir Robert Barclay, K. C. B. of the Madras establishment.

7. In Clarges-street aged 70, the right hon. Louisa countess dowager Stanhope. She was the only child of the hon. Henry Grenville, great-uncle to the present duke of Buckingham.

At Bedhampton, Hants, Sarah Agnes, the wife of T. H. Lethem, esq. of that place, daughter of Thos. Williams, esq. of Heningstone, Dorset, by Jane, daughter of sir Edw. Wilmot.

8. At Sloperton cottage, Devizes, in her 16th year, Anastasia-Mary, only daughter of Thomas Moore, esq. the modern Anacreon.

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In New-street, Spring-gardens, Louise Henrietta, wife of sir James Scarlett.

8. At Port Louis, Mauritius, aged 52, lieut.-col. George Harding, lieut.-col. of the 99th foot.

9. At Belfast, John Young, LL.D. professor of moral philosophy and metaphysics in the institution of that town. 10. At Hampton Court, aged 76, Edward Bowater, esq. admiral of the Blue; brother to the late lieutenant general John Bowater of the Royal Marines.

13. At Bruges, aged 22, RobertSouth-Thurlow Cunynghame, esq. second son of sir David Cunynghame, of Milncraig, bart. by Maria, natural daughter of the late lord Chancellor Thurlow.

14. At her house at Spetisbury, aged 42, the hon. Anna Maria Arundell, sister to lord Arundell of Wardour.

At Munich, aged 75, Lorenz von Westenrieder, Bavarian historiographer, author of several elementary works for schools, and various publications on the subject of education; also of a History of Bavaria, a description of that kingdom; a History of the Bavarian Academy, &c.

15. Suddenly, at Pimlico, Mr. Shaw, one of the messengers attached to the Foreign Office. Mr. Shaw suffered so

severely from intense cold on his journey to Vienna, during the sittings of the Congress in that city, that he lost the use of his legs, which he never recovered. At Brighton, the right hon. AnnaMaria Countess dow. of Minto. She was the eldest daughter of sir George Amyand.

At Hales-place, near Canterbury, in his 72nd year, sir Edward Hales, the sixth baronet of Woodchurch in Kent. The ancient Roman Catholic family of Hales, of which the deceased baronet is said to have been the last male representative, was descended from Nicholas Hales, in the reign of Edward the Third, whose son Robert was the prior of St. John's, Clerkenwell, and lord high treasurer of England: he was beheaded by Wat Tyler's mob in 1381. Fifth in descent from Nicholas was John Hales, baron of the Exchequer, whose son sir James, a judge of the Common Pleas, was the only one of the bench who refused to sign the Will of Edward the Sixth, which disinherited the princesses Mary and Elizabeth. Third in descent from the baron of the Exchequer was sir Edward, who was advanced to a baronetcy June 29, 1611, in the first year of the institution of that dignity. Sir Edward, his descendant in the seventh degree, was the only son of sir Edward the fifth baronet.

At Shrewsbury, aged 75, Mr. William Castieau, many years a teacher of the classics and mathematics in that town. He was author of the principal portion of an useful work, entitled Proctor and Castieau's Cyclopædia, and of many valuable articles on Chemistry and Astronomy in other Encyclopædias, and periodical works of science.

17. At his house in Devonshire-place, aged 88, the right hon. John Luttrell Olmius, third earl of Carhampton, viscount Carhampton of Castlehaven in the county of Cork, and baron Irnham of Luttrellstown in the county of Dublin; a retired captain in the royal navy.

19. At Stoke park, near Grantham, aged 74, Edmund Turnor, esq. of Stoke Rochford and of Panton, in the county of Lincoln, F.R.S. and F.S.A. He was descended from a younger branch of the Turnours of Haverhill in Suffolk, whose representative is the earl of Wintertoun. His father was Edmund Turnor, esq. who died in 1805, and his mother was Mary, only daughter of John Disney, esq. of Lincoln. Mr. Turnor early ac

quired a taste for topography and antiquities, and was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1778. In 1779 he printed, in 4to., "Chronological Tables of the High Sheriffs of the County of Lincoln, and of the Knights of the Shire, Citizens, and Burgesses in Parliament within the same, from the earliest accounts to the present time." In 1783 he compiled and printed a pamphlet, intituled, "London's Gratitude; or, an Account of such pieces of Sculpture and Painting as have been placed in Guildhall at the expense of the City of London. To which is added, a List of those distinguished persons to whom the Freedom of the City has been presented since the year 1758. With Engravings of the Sculptures, &c." Mr. Turnor communicated to the Society of Antiquaries in the following spring, a "Description of an ancient Castle at Rouen in Normandy, called Le Château du Vieux Palais, built by Henry 5th, King of England." This is printed in the Archæologia, vol. vii. with a folding plate of two views and a plan of the castle. In 1792 Mr. Turnor communicated to the Society, as a sup plement to the volume of Household Accounts they had published, "Ex

tracts from the Household-Book of Thomas Cony, of Bassingthorpe, co. Lincoln." These were printed in the Archæologia, vol. xi. To the Royal Society Mr. Turnor, in 1792, communicated "A Narrative of the Earthquake felt in Lincolnshire, and the neighbouring Counties, on the 25th of February, 1792, in a letter to sir Joseph Banks." This was read May 10, 1792, and printed in the Philosophical Transactions, vol. lxxxii. In 1793 Mr. Turnor communicated to Dr. Kippis, for his edition of the "Biographia Britannica" then in progress, a memoir of sir Richard Fanshawe, the eminent statesman, negotiator, and poet, in the reign of Charles the First. This article is printed in the fifth volume of that biographical collection. In 1801 Mr Turnor furnished the Society of Antiquaries with some "Remarks on the Military History of Bristol in the Seventeenth Century." These were read on the 11th and 18th of June in that year, and, with a plate giving a plan of the outworks, were printed in the Archæologia, vol. xiv. Of the garrison of Bristol, Mr. Turnor's ancestor, afterwards sir Edmund, was treasurer for Charles the

First. At the close of the year 1802, Mr. Turnor was elected to parliament for the borough of Midhurst; but he sat only until the dissolution in 1806. He served the office of high sheriff for Lincolnshire in 1810. Having for a considerable time made the topography of his neighbourhood his study, Mr. Turnor in 1806, published the result of his researches in a handsome quarto volume, under the title of "Collections for the History of the Town and Soke of Grantham; containing authentic Memoirs of sir Isaac Newton; now first published from the original MSS. in the possession of the earl of Portsmouth." A Decla ration of the Diet and Particular Fare of King Charles the First, when Duke of York," was, in 1802, communicated to the Antiquarian Society by Mr. Turnor, from a manuscript in vellum, in the possession of his brother-in-law sir William Foulis, the descendant and representative of sir David Foulis, the prince's cofferer. It is printed in the Archæologia, vol. xv. Mr. Turnor is said to have been the editor of "A Short View of the Proceedings in the County of Lincoln, for a limited exportation of Wool," printed in 4to, 1824. In 1825 Mr. Turnor furnished the Antiquaries with an "Account of the Remains of a Roman Bath near Stoke in Lincolnshire," printed, with three plates, in the Archæologia, vol. xxii. pp. 26-32; and, immediately before his death, he sent an account of some further similar discoveries in the same neighbourhood.

20. At Cainbo-house, county Fife, Anne, dowager countess of Kellie. She was daughter of captain Adam Gordon, of Ardoch, and was married to Thomas, ninth and late earl of Kellie, at Gottenburg, in 1771.

21. At Antwerp, the rev. Rowland Reginald Heber, late of Bossall Hall, Yorkshire.

Drowned in the Isis, at Oxford, aged 18, Henry, youngest son of the rev. John Emra, vicar of St. George's, near Bristol.

22. At Rotterdam, aged 86, the rev. John Hall, for upwards of forty years minister of the English church in that city.

At the Manor-house, Wandsworth, Marianne, wife of Dr. Sumner, lord bishop of Chester.

23. At his house in Hart-street, Bloomsbury, aged 75, the rev. Robert Nares, M. A., F. R. S., F. S. A., V. P.

R. S. L. archdeacon of Stafford, canon residentiary of Litchfield, and _rector of Allhallows, London Wall. He was born at York, June 9th, 1753, and was the son of Dr. James Nares, au eminent composer and teacher of music, and for many years organist and composer to kings George II and III. His uncle, the hon. sir George Nares, was for fifteen years one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas. Educated at Westminster School, he became a king's scholar at the head of his election in 1767, and was subsequently elected in 1771 to a studentship of Christ Church, Oxford, where he took the degree of B. A. 1775, and M. A. 1778, and about the same time took orders. From 1779 to 1783 he resided in the family of the late sir Watkin Williams Wynn, as tutor to his sons, the present baronet and his brother the right hon. Charles Williams Wynn; and from 1786 to 1788, they were under his tuition at Westminster School. In 1782 he obtained from Christ church the living of Easton Mauduit in Northamptonshire, and shortly after, that of Doddington, in the same county, which is in the patronage of the lord Chancellor. In 1787 he was appointed one of the chaplains of his late royal highness the duke of York, and, in the ensuing year, he was nominated an assistant preacher of the hon. Society of Lincoln's Inu. In 1790 he assisted in completing " Bridge's History of Northamptonshire," and wrote the preface to that work. In 1795 he was elected F. S. A., and, in the same year, became one of the assistant librarians of the British Museum; and afterwards librarian for the MS. Department, where he prepared the third volume of the Harleian catalogue of MSS. published by the record commission. This situation he resigned in 1807. In 1798 he was presented to the rectory of Sharnford, in Leicestershire, which he resigned in 1799, on being collated to the fifth stall of the canons residentiary of Litchfield; and, in the following year, he was appointed archdeacon of Stafford. In 1804 he was elected F.R.S. In 1805 he was presented to the living of St. Mary, Reading, which he resigned in1818for that of Allhallows, London Wall. The archdeacon was thrice married, but left no issue.

Besides several charges, sermons, and other writings, he published “ An

Essay on the Dæmon or Divination of Socrates," Svo. 1782. "Elements of Orthoëpy; containing a distinct view of the whole Analogy of the English Language, as it relates to pronunciation, accent, and quantity, 1784," 8vo. "Principles of Government deduced from Reason, &c. 1792," 8vo. "A connected and chronological View of the Prophecies of the Christian Church; in twelve sermons, preached in Lincoln's Inn chapel, from the year 1800 to 1804, at the lecture founded by bishop Warburton, 1806," 8vo.

"Essays and other occasional compositions, chiefly reprinted, 1810," 2 vols. small 8vo. "The Veracity of the Evangelists demonstrated, by a comparative view of their Histories, 1816," 12mo. "A Glossary; or Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, &c." In 1793, he commenced the British Critic, in conjunetion with the rev. W. Beloe. To each of the half-yearly volumes of the British Critic was prefixed a preface, always written by Mr. Nares, taking a survey of the literature of the period. Mr. Nares proceeded with the work till the end of the forty-second volume, and then resigned it to others. In 1815 he edited Dr. Purdy's Lectures on the Church Catechism, &c. to which he prefixed a Biographical Preface.

23. At Aberdeen, aged 71, sir John Innes, ninth bart. of Balvery, county of Banff.

27. At Dresden, in his 77th year, Jacob Seydelmann, professor at the academy of Fine Arts.

27. At Kirkby, Notts, aged 82, the rt. hon. Henry Venables Vernon, third lord Vernon, elder brother to his grace the archbishop of York.

At Pimlico Lodge, aged 65, John Elliott, esq. F.R.S., head of the porterbrewery of Elliott and Co. Pimlico, and treasurer of Westminster hospital.

28. Aged 66, Henry Hase, esq. chief cashier of the Bank of England.

29. At Plymouth, aged nearly 100, Levi Benjamin, for upwards of 60 years reader to the Jewish synagogue of that town. He was supposed to have the most powerful voice in the kingdom; and was one of the teachers of Leoni, the master of Braham.

29. At Chester, aged 85, Thomas Harrison, esq. a distinguished architect. Mr. Harrison was born at Richmond, in Yorkshire, in the year 1744; and, having

shown a taste for drawing, went to Rome under the patronage of lord Dundas, about 1769. He remained there several years, engaged in the study of architecture, and made some designs for the embellishment of the square of Santa Maria del Popolo; in consequence of which he had the honour of receiving from the hands of Pope Ganganelli a gold and silver medal, and was also `made a member of the Academy of St. Luke, by an especial order for that purpose. Upon leaving Rome, Mr. Harrison travelled through part of Italy and France, and returned to England in 1776, where he was soon afterwards engaged in building a bridge over the Lune, at Lancaster, consisting of five arches, being the first level bridge constructed in this country. Having settled at Lancaster, he designed and executed the extensive improvements and alterations in the castle at that place; and afterwards gained a premium, and was appointed architect for rebuilding the gaol and county courts of Chester. The armoury and the Exchequer-buildings, which form the wings of the superb county hall, at Chester, as also the gateway before it, were built after designs furnished by Mr. Harrison; and the new bridge across the Dee, now in progress, which is to be formed of one arch of 200 feet span, is also from his design. England is indebted to Mr. Harrison for the possession of the Elgin marbles. When the earl of Elgin was appointed ambassador to the Porte, in 1799, Mr. Harrison, who was at that time in Scotland, designing a house for his lordship, strongly recommended to him to endeavour to procure casts of all the remaining sculpture, &c. in Athens, but had not the least idea of the marbles themselves being removed. The following are some of the works in which Mr. Harrison was engaged :-A Greek Doric column, at Shrewsbury, in honour of lord Hill, and one for the marquis of Anglesey, erected near his lordship's residence, on the Straits of the Menai; the triumphal arch at Holyhead, built to commemorate the king's landing there; the Jubilee tower upon Moel Famma, to commemorate the 50th year of the reign of George III; the Athenæum and St. Nicholas's tower, in Liverpool; and the theatre and exchange buildings in Manchester. Besides Broom-hall, in Fifeshire, the residence of the earl of Elgin, Mr. Harrison designed houses for several

gentlemen in Scotland; amongst others, one for the late general Abercrombie, and one for Mr. Bruce.

29. In Foley-place, aged 65, Edward Ash, M. D. F. R. S. Physician extraor dinary to his late majesty.

Aged 66, in Cavendish-square, Stephen Luke, M.D.

30. At the Clarendon hotel, aged 43, Geo. Robert Petre, esq. of Dunken-hall, Lancashire, first cousin to lord Petre.

31. In Conduit-street, aged 40, the rev. Brownlow Poulter, rector of Buriton, Hants, eldest surviving son of the rev. Edmund Poulter, prebendary of Winchester, by Miss Bannister, sister to Mrs. North, wife of the late bishop.

Lately. Aged 25, Douglas Smith, esq. student of Christ Church, Oxford, and son of the rev. Sydney Smith.

At Cambray, the wife of the rev. sir Rd. Wolseley, bart. of Mount Wolseley, co. Carlow.

At Rome, in his 72nd year, Dr. Fortis, general of the order of the Jesuits.

At his apartments in the Rue Vaugirard, Paris, at an advanced age, Francis Plowden, esq. LL.D. formerly a member of the English Chancery bar, author of a History of Ireland, and father-in-law to the earl of Dundonald.This gentleman was a member of a Catholic family of the name, and brother to the rev. Charles Plowden, a Roman Catholic priest, and tutor at Stoneyhurst, author of several profes sional works, and also to the rev. Robert Plowden, priest at Bristol. The bar rister's first works were: "An Investigation of the Native Rights of British Subjects, 1784," Svo.-" A Supplement to the same, written in relation to the case of the earl of Newburgh, a descendant of the earl of Derwentwater, 1785."" Impartial Thoughts upon the beneficial consequences of enrolling all Deeds, Wills, and Codicils, affecting Lands throughout England and Wales, including a draught of a Bill proposed to be brought into Parliament for that purpose," 1789.-"The Case stated, by Francis Plowden, esq. Conveyancer of the Middle Temple; occasioned by the Act of Parliament lately passed for the relief of the English Roman Catholics, 1791, 8vo. In 1792 Mr. Plowden pablished: "Jura Anglorum; the Rights of Englishmen; being an historical and legal Defence of the present Constitution," Svo. At the Enconia at Oxford on the 5th of July in the following year,

the honorary degree of D.C. L. was conferred upon him. In 1794 the latter work was attacked in an octavo pamphlet, called "A Letter to Francis Plowden, esq. Conveyancer, of the Middle Tem. ple, on his work entitled Jura Anglorum, by a Roman Catholic clergyman." Dr. Plowden's next publications were "A short History of the British Empire during the last twenty months, viz. from May 1792 to the close of the year 1793, London, 1794," Svo.-" A friendly and constitutional Address to the People of Great Britain, 1794," 8vo. In the titlepage of this he styled himself "LL.D. of Gray's-inn, Conveyancer." In the same year, John Reeves, esq. another well-known legal and political writer, printed "The Malcontents; a Letter to Francis Plowden, esq." and there was also "A Letter from an Associator to Francis Plowden, esq." The next productions of Mr. Plowden were"Church and State; being an Inquiry into the origin, nature, and extent, of Ecclesiastical and Civil Authority, with reference to the British Constitution, 1795," 4to.-" A short History of the British Empire during the year 1794. London, 1795, 8vo.- A Treatise upon the Law of Usury and Annuities," 1796, 1797, 8vo." The Constitution of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Civil and Ecclesiastical, 1802, Svo. In 1803 appeared, in two quarto volumes, his grand work, entitled “ An Historical Review of the State of Ireland, from the invasion of that country under Henry 2nd. to its Union with Britain in 1801. London, 1803." Of this an elaborate critique by sir Richard Musgrave, the author of the History of the Irish Rebellion, appeared in the British Critic, continued through more than one number; and which was afterwards published in a separate form, with additions, corrections, and an appendix, under the title of, "Strictures upon an Historical Review of the State of Ireland, by Francis Plowden, esq.; or, a Justification of the Conduct of the English Governments in that Country, from the Reign of Henry the Second to the Union of Great Britain and Ireland." Mr. Plowden published in reply two pamphlets, one intituled, "A Postliminious Preface to the Historical Review of the State of Ireland; containing a statement of the Author's Communica tions with the Right Hon. Henry Ad. dington, &c. upon the subject of that