secretary, lord Goderich; president of the board of control, Mr. C. Grant; president of the board of trade, and master of the Mint, lord Auckland; chancellor of the Exchequer, viscount Althorp; first lord of the Admiralty, sir J. Graham; earl of Carlisle (without office.)

Members of the government not in the Cabinet:-Chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, lord Holland; first commissioner of woods and forests, hon. Agar Ellis; master-general of the Ordnance, sir Willoughby Gordon; judge advocate, Mr. R. Grant; attorney-general, Mr. Denman; solicitor-general, Mr. Horne; lord-lieutenant of Ireland, lord Anglesea; lord chamberlain, the duke of Devonshire; lord steward, marquis Wellesley; master of the horse, earl of Albemarle; paymaster of the forces, lord John Russell; vice-president of the board of trade and treasurer of the navy, Mr. Poulett Thomson; postmaster-general, duke of Richmond; keeper of the great Seal of Scotland, the duke of Argyll.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Henry Gawler, esq. (chief secretary to the master of the Rolls) to be a keeper of the records at the Rolls chapel.

Mr. Heath to be a serjeant at law.

DECEMBER.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

1. Right hon. C. Grant, viscount Goderich, viscount Melbourne, viscount Palinerston, earl Grey, viscount Althorp; right honourables C. W. W. Wynn, J. Sullivan, sir J. Macdonald, sir J. Mackintosh, R. Grant, and H. Ellis, esq. to be commissioners for the affairs of India.-Marquis of Clanricarde and the right hon. Robert Grosvenor sworn of the Privy Council.-Viscount Granville to be ambassador extraordinary to the king of the French.-Right hon. G. J. Welbore Agar Ellis, W. Dacres Adams, and H. Dawkins, esqrs. to be commissioners of woods, forests, and land re

venues.

Knighted, Thomas Denman, esq. attorney-general.

To be lords of the admiralty, right hon. sir J. R. Graham, bart., vice-adm. sir T. M. Hardy, vice-admiral the hon. VOL. LXXII.

George H. L. Dundas, sir Jas. B. Pechell, bart., and hon. George Barrington.

2. Sir M. J. Tierney, bart., to be physician to her majesty's household.

3. Francis Jeffrey, esq. to be advocate. general, and H. Cockburn, esq. solicitor-general for Scotland.

10. Brevet. Major W. C. Coles, to be lieut.-general in the army. Staff, major-general John Gardiner, to be deputy adj.-general. North Devon Militia, sir George Warwick Bampfylde, bart. to be colonel.

11. Major-general the right hon. sir James Kempt, G. C. B. to be mastergeneral of the Ordnance.

To be under secretaries of State: for the home department, Samuel March Phillipps, esq., hon. George Lamb; foreign, lord John Russell, sir George Shee, bart.; colonial, Robt. W. Hay, esq., lord Howick. Chief secretary for Ireland, hon. Edw. G. S. Stanley.

The duke of Richmond (postmastergeneral) has a seat in the cabinet. Viscount Anson, to be master of the buck hounds.

The following Irish appointments have taken place: Lord Chancellor, lord Plunkett; chief justice of Common Pleas, John Doherty, esq.; chief baron, right hon. Henry Joy; attorney-general, Edward Pennefather, esq.; solicitorgeneral, Philip Crampton, esq.; king's serjeant, Michael O'Loughlin, esq.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Aylesbury.-Right hon. lord Nugent. Calne. Right hon. sir J. Macdonald, bart.

Cambridge Univ.-Lord Palmerston. Chester. Right hon. R. Grosvenor. Cumberland-Sir J. Graham. Dover.-Right hon. C. P. Thomson. Knaresborough.-Lord Waterpark. Liverpool.-W. Ewart, esq. Lostwithiel-Viscount Valletort. Montgomery-Right hon.C.W.Wynn. Newport (Cornwall).-Sir II. Hardinge.

Northamptonsh.-Viscount Althorp. Norwich.-Right hon. R. Grant. Nottingham.-Sir T. Denman. Oakhampton.-Right hon. G. J. Agar

Ellis.

taken prisoner at sea, and, after having been detained for five months in Spain, was exchanged, and embarked with his regiment from Minorca in July 1800, in the expedition to Egypt under sir Ralph Abercromby, and was present in the several actions of that campaign. He was preferred to a captaincy in the 90th foot, Dec. 15, 1800; restored to the 42nd in 1802; and promoted, in 1804, to a majority in the 78th, in the command of the light battalion of which he

Chas. Knight Murray, esq. (secretary to the late Lord Chancellor), to be police magistrate at Union-hall.

Peregrine Bingham, esq. to be recorder of the Borough of Sonthampton.

Hon. C. E. Law, to be common serjeant of the city of London, and Mr. Ryland, one of the four common pleaders.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. T. Turton, dean of Peterborough. Rev. C. M. Mount, Preb. in Wells Cathedral.

Rev. J. Smith, Preb. in St. Paul's Cath.
Rev. T. Evans, minor canon of Glou-

cester.

DEATHS. 1829.

Dec. 18. At St. Lucie, major-gen. David Stewart, of Garth, governor of that colony, and C. B. Major-gen. Stewart entered the service as an ensign in the 42nd highlanders, and was appointed lieutenant in 1792. He served in the campaigns of the duke of York in Flanders, and was present at the siege of Nieuport and the defence of Nimeguen. In October 1795 he embarked for the West Indies, where he served in the expedition against St. Lucie and St. Vincent; was at the storming of the Vigie, where his regiment led; and was afterwards employed for seven months in unremitting service in the woods against the Charibs, where he had five companies under his command. He was promoted to the rank of captain-lieutenant in 1796. In 1797 he served in the expedition against Porto Rico, after which he returned to Europe. Captain Stewart next proceeded to Gibraltar, and was in the expedition of 1799 against Minorca. He was

In 1808 he was appointed lieutenantcolonel in the West India Rangers; in 1810 he was present at the capture of Guadaloupe, for which service, and that at Maida, he was rewarded with a medal and one clasp, and was subsequently appointed a companion of the Bath. He was placed on the half-pay of the 96th foot in 1815; promoted to the rank of colonel in 1814, and to that of majorgeneral in 1825. In 1822 the colonel published, in two volumes octavo, "Sketches of the Character, Manners, and present condition of the Scottish Highlanders, with an account of the military services of the Highland regiments;" a work which attracted great notice.

1830.

JANUARY.

2. At Fineshade Abbey, Northamptonshire, aged 90, the hon. John Monckton, a gentleman of the king's Privy Chamber, formerly lieut.-colonel in the army, half-great uncle to lord viscount Galway, and grandfather of the earl of Harborough.

At Chobury North, Shropshire, aged 91, Thomas Mytton, esq. a justice of the peace for the county.

3. Near Reading, Mrs. Mitford, mother of the authoress.

4. At St. Mary's, Montreal, aged 88, the hon. sir John Johnson, second baronet (of Twickenham, in Middlesex), superintendant-general and inspectorgeneral of Indian affairs in British North America. Sir John was the elder son of general sir William Johnson, who went to America under the patronage of his uncle, sir Peter Warren, K.B. and was created a baronet in 1755 for his conduct in the expedition against Crown Point, which was under his command.

4. At Edinburgh, the dowager lady Menzies, mother of sir Neil Menzies of that ilk.

5. At his seat, Williamstrip- park, near Cirencester, in his 70th year, Michael Hicks Beach, esq. formerly M.P. for that borough; and brother to sir W. Hicks, of Whitcombe-park.

6. At Pollerton, county Carlow, sir Charles Burton, third baronet, of that place.

At Shrewsbury, aged 70, Mr. John Hiram Haycock, architect. Several of the public buildings in Shrewsbury are from his designs, particularly the Coun ty Gaol, the Town-hall, and Allatt's charity-school.

At his sister's, Hampton-court, in his 70th year, sir John Packington, bart. of Westwood-park, Worcestersh.

7. At the palace of Queluz, near Lisbon, aged 54, her majesty, Carlotta Joachima, queen-dowager of Portugal. She was born April 25, 1775, and was the eldest daughter of king Charles the Fourth of Spain, by Louisa Maria The resa, princess of Parma. She was married Jan. 9, 1790, to the late king John the Sixth of Portugal, who left her his widow, March 10, 1826.

In Great Stanhope-street, aged 79, the countess St. Martin de Front.

At Whitehall, aged 72, the right hon. Mary Jemima, dowager lady Grantham. She was the younger daughter and coheiress of Philip, second earl of Hardwicke, by lady Jemima Campbell, marchioness de Grey; was married to Thomas, second and late lord Grantham, Aug. 17, 1780, and was left his widow, July 20, 1786, having had issue three sons, Thomas Philip, the present lord Grantham, Frederick John, now viscount Goderich, and Philip, who died an infant.

8. In Davies-street, Berkeley-square, aged 87, the right hon. Anne, countess dowager of Galloway. She was the second daughter of sir James Dashwood, the second baronet of Kirklington-park, in Oxfordshire, and M. P. for that county, by Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress (with Anne, duchess of Hamilton) of Edward Spencer, of Rendlesham, esq.; and was consequently aunt to the present duke of Manchester, duchess of Montrose, marchioness of Ely, &c. She became the second wife of John, seventh and late earl of Galloway, June 13, 1764, and was left his widow, Nov. 14, 1806, having had a

family of seven sons and eight daughters, of whom George is the present earl and K. T., Charles James is bishop of Quebec, and Susan is duchess of Marlborough.

S. In a duel fought near the Redhouse, Battersea-fields, Oliver Clayton, esq, editor of "Clayton's Court Guide," and also the author of several pamphlets, and of a work called "Ten Miles round London." (See Chronicle p. 52.)

At Tors, near Kirkcudbright, Mr. John Mactaggart, late civil engineer, on the Rideau canal, Canada, and author of Three Years in Canada."

At his house in Edward-street, Portman-square, aged 82, the rev. Stephen Weston, B.D. F.R.S. F.S.A. M.A.S. This elegant scholar was born at Exeter in 1747, and was the eldest son of Stephen Weston, registrar of that diocese, and grandson of Stephen Weston, bishop of Exeter from 1724 to 1743. He was educated at Eton, and thence went to Exeter College, Oxford, where he obtained a fellowship. He accompanied sir Charles Warwick Bampylde, bart., as his tutor in an extensive tour on the Continent, and formed an early friendship with the late earl of Lisburne, who conferred on him, in 1777, the living of Mamhead. In 1784 Mr. Weston married Miss Tierney; but on her death in 1790, he resigned his ecclesiastical preferments. His first publication was in 1784, "Hermesianax: sive Conjecturæ in Athenæum, atque aliquot Poetarum Græcorum loca, quæ cum corriguntur et explicantur, tum carmine donantur,” 8vo. In 1785 he published "A Sermon on Isaiah, xiv. 18, 19, 20; in which it has been endeavoured to preserve the genuine sense and original meaning of the prophet, in an exact and literal translation:" in 1788, "An attempt to translate and explain the difficult passages in the story of Deborah, with the assistance of Kennicott's collations, Rossi's Versions, and Critical Conjectures:" in 1789, "The Provincial Ball," a poem: also "The Turtle-doves of Florian, in French and English:" in 1792 and 1793, in two volumes, 8vo. "Letters from Paris:" in 1794, "Elegia Grayiana, Græce:" in 1795, Conjectures, with some Comments and Illustrations of various passages in the New Testament, particularly in the Gospel of St. Matthew; to which is added a specimen of notes on the Old Testament:" in 1799, "A Fast Sermon,"

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4to.; and in 1802, "A specimen of the conformity of the European languages, particularly the English, with the Oriental languages, particularly the Persian, in the order of the alphabet, with notes andauthorities," 8vo. Another edition of the same work, enlarged, was published in the next year (1803). At the peace of 1802, Mr. Weston took an early opportunity of revisiting the French metropolis; and in 1803 he published "The Praise of Paris; or a Sketch of the French Capital, in extracts of letters from France, in the Summer of 1802; with an index of many of the convents, churches, and palaces, not in the French catalogue, which have furnished pictures for the Louvre Gallery." There appeared afterwards from his pen, "A slight sketch of Paris in its improved state since 1802," 1814, 8vo. ; "Enchiridion Romæ; or Manual of detached remarks on the buildings, pictures, statues, inscriptions, &c. of antient and modern Rome," 1819, 12mo.; "A Trimester in France and Switzerland," 1821, 8vo.; "A Visit to Vaucluse," 1823, 8vo. ; and "The Englishman Abroad," two parts, 1824 and 1825, 8vo.; "Short recollections in a Journey to Pæstum," 1828, 12mo. In 1803, Mr. Weston published "The spirited Remonstrance of Rajah Soubah Sing to the emperor Aurengzebe, in Persian and English:" in 1804, “Dares and Entellus; or Bourke and the Chicken, carmine Latina :" in 1805,

Q. Horatius Flaccus; cum collatione Scriptorum Græcorum perpetua et notis nominibusque variorum illustratus, præmittuntur Ödæ O Fons' atque Intermissa Venus' e Latino in Græcum conversæ:" in the same year, "Arabic Aphorisms, with Persian comments." In 1805-6," Earths and Metals, Werner and Hauy:" in 1807,"Fragments of Oriental Literature, with an outline of a painting on a curious China Vase:" in 1808,

The Sunday Lessons for the morning and evening service throughout the year, with those for Christmasday and Good-Friday; illustrated with a perpetual commentary, notes, and index.-Part I containing the first Lessons." "Part II containing the second Lessons," followed in 1809. The following publications also came from his pen. In 1809, "Ly Tang, an imperial poem, in. Chinese, by Kien Lung, with a translation and notes." "Siao cu Lin; or a small collection of Chinese characters analys

ed and decompounded," &c. In 1810, "Conquest of the Miaotsee, engraved (by Mutlow) from the original Chinese poem ;" and "Remains of the Arabic in the Spanish and Portuguese languages, with a passage from Bidpay, in German, Greek, and Latin hexameters." In 1812, " Specimen of a Chinese Dictionary, with the keys explained" (engraved by Mutlow), and" Persian and English ambassadors, with fifteen new Persian tales, and a portrait of sir Robert Shirley." In 1814, "Persian Distichs, from various authors: in which the beauties of the language are exhibited in a small compass, and may be easily remembered;" to which were added, additions to his "Conformity of European and Oriental languages" "Fan-Hy Cheu, a tale in Chinese and English; with notes, and a short grammar of the Chinese language." "Porsoniana; or scraps from Porson's rich feast." In 1815," An Ode to her imperial majesty, Catherine the Great." In 1815," Episodes from the Shah Nameh; or Annals of the Persian kings, by Ferdosee, translated into English verse." In 1816, "A Chinese poem inscribed on Porcelain, in the 33rd year of the Cycle, A.D. 1776; with a double translation and notes." In 1818, "Nyg." In 1819, "La Scava." In 1820, "A Chinese Chronicle, by Abdalla of Beyza; translated from the Persian, with notes and explanations." In 1821, "Voyages of Hiram and Solomon." In 1822, "Petrarchiana." In 1826, "Historic notices of towns in Greece, and other countries that have struck coins." In 1829, "A Supplement to the German Grammar, for the use of students in that language, 1829," 8vo. The last book which he published was in 1830, "Annotations on the Sunday lessons for morning and evening service throughout the year." Mr. Weston was elected a fellow of the royal society in 1792, and of the society of antiquaries in 1794, and was a frequent contributor to the Archæologia, and to the Gentleman's Magazine.

9. At Hereford, John Gwin Rogers, esq., formerly a commander of the East India Company.

"At Woolwich, major Taylor, R. A. 10. At Yate, aged 70, Mr. William Ludlow, last surviving son of Daniel Ludlow, M.D. of Chipping Sodbury, and uncle to Mr. Sergeant Ludlow.

11. At Portobello, near Edinburgh,

aged 82, Alexander Fraser, esq. viceadmiral of the Red, and equerry to H. R. H. the duke of Cambridge. This gentleman was the eldest surviving son of Hugh Fraser, esq. surveyor of the Customs at Lerwick, in Shetland, (and fifth in lineal descent from William, second son of Thomas Fraser, esq. of Strichen, second son of Alexander, fifth lord Lovat, who died in 1558), by Jane, daughter of the rev. Thomas Linning, of Walstein. His maternal grandmother was eldest daughter of John Hamilton, esq. of Gilkerscleugh, descended from the first marquis of Hamilton.

12. At Ipswich, aged 87, Mrs. Ann Page, mother of rear-admiral Page.

At Preston, aged 59, lieut.-general John Rigby Fletcher.

At Jedburgh, aged 83, major John Rutherford, late of Mossburnford.

At Bath, aged 73, James Sholto Douglas, late consul-general at Tangier.

At Naples, aged 82, Joseph Edw. Acton, esq., general in the service of the king of Naples, brother to the late sir John Acton, prime minister of that kingdom, and uncle of sir Ferdinand Richard Acton, bart.

14. Atthe Abbey-gate house, Bristol, Susanna, eldest daughter of the late W. Barrett, esq. surgeon, and historian of that city.

At his house in Russell-square, aged 60, sir Thomas Lawrence, knight, president of the Royal Academy, principal portrait-painter to his majesty, LL.D. F.R.S. and knight of the legion of honour.

At Edinburgh, aged 63, the right rev. Daniel Sandford, D.D. bishop of Edinburgh. Dr. Sandford was descended from a highly respectable family in Shropshire; and was formerly a member of Christ Church, Oxford, where he proceeded M.A. 1791, B. and D.D. 1802. He settled at Edinburgh, as a private clergyman, between thirty and forty years ago. The general worth of his character induced his reverend brethren to elect him to be their bishop, and the election was confirmed by the bishops, by whom he was consecrated on the 9th of February, 1806. Dr. Sandford was the author of "Lectures on Passion Week," 1797, 8vo. dedicated

to the queen; "Sermons designed chiefly for young persons," 1802, 12mo.; "A Charge delivered to the clergy of the Episcopal Communion at Edinburgh," 1807, 4to.; "A Sermon

for the Lancastrian Schools," 1813, Svo. He was also a contributor to the Classical Journal.

15. At his residence, at Datchet, John Beard, esq. F.S.A. for fifty-three years a proctor of Doctors' Commons.

16. At Winchester, aged 52, Arthur Clifford, esq., uncle to sir Thomas Aston Constable, of Tixall, in Staffordshire, bart., brother-in-law to sir Charles Wolseley, bart. and to Thomas Weld, esq. (recently created a cardinal), and first cousin to lord Clifford. To Mr. Clifford the world was indebted for a more complete collection of the State Papers of sir Ralph Sadler, queen Elizabeth's chief minister in her affairs with Scotland, than the previous publication of 1720. The private MSS. of sir Ralph had descended to the Clifford family through that of lord Aston, into which sir Ralph's granddaughter had married. In 1809 were published, in two quarto volumes, "The State Papers and letters of sir Ralph Sadler, edited by Arthur Clifford, esq.; to which is added, a memoir of the life of sir R. Sadler, with historical notes, by Walter Scott, esq."-so that his name appears associated in the same title-page with the most successful author of the present age. In 1811 were announced "The State Papers and Letters of sir Walter Aston, afterward lord Aston, ambassador in Spain in the reigns of James 1st and Charles ist," as printing uniformly with those of sir Ralph Sadler, in two quarto volumes, but they were never published. In 1813 Mr. Clifford printed, in 4to, Tixall poetry, with notes and illustrations;" and in 1814, in 8vo, "Carmen Seculare; an Ode in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the accession of the house of Hanover to the British Throne." In 1817, whilst Mr. Clifford was spending some time at Paris with his brother, the late sir Thomas Hugh Clifford (afterwards Constable) bart., the two brothers amused themselves in there printing, in 4to., "An historical and topographical description of the parish f Tixall, in the county of Stafford, and of the most remarkable places in the im mediate neighbourhood: By sir Thomas Clifford, bart. and Arthur Clifford, esq.; embellished with fine engravings, of which three are from original paintings: 1. of the famous judge Littleton; 2. of viscount Stafford, who was beheaded in 1682; 3. of Walter, first