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At Clapham, Nathaniel Philips, esq. of Manchester, to Margaret, eldest daughter of William Hibbert, esq.

At Greenwich, George Maule, esq. of Lincoln's Inn, to Caroline Forsyth, youngest daughter of the late George Tarbutt, esq. of Gould-square.

At St. James's, Clerkenwell, John Plowes, esq. of Rio Janeiro, to Miss Edwards, daughter of John E. esq. of Pye Nest, Yorkshire.

At Great St. Helen's, Henry Storks, esq. of the Inner Temple, barrister, to Miss T. Trundle, daughter of T. T. esq. of Crosbysquare.

At Deptford, the Rev. Henry Foster Burder, of London, to Anne, eldest daughter of Joseph Hardcastle, esq. of Harcham House.

At St. Andrew Huboards, Captain Robert Brown, of the 4th Ceylon Regiment, to Miss Elizabeth Webb Anderson, only daughter of James A. esq. of South Carolina

At St. Stephen's, Walbrook, London, Miss Smith, only daughter of the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, to Thomas Kennedy, esq. of Charlotte-street.

At Islington, Mr. Thomas Atkinson, son of the late Mr. Peter A. of York, architect, to Miss Wass, daughter of John W. esq. of Islington.

At St. George's, Hanover-square, J. W. Veavers, esq. to Miss M. Eldridge, of Hemmingford Abbotts, Hants.

Major general the flonourable William Mordaunt Maitland, to Mrs. Watherston, widow of Dalhousie W. esq. of Manderston, Berwickshire.

At St. James's, G. Rush, esq. of Farthing. hoe, Northamptonshire, to Miss Ann Moseley, daughter of Mr. William M. of Steurbridge, Worcestershire.

John Bonfoy Rooper, esq. eldest son of John R. esq. of Abbotts Ripton, Huntingdon shire, to Miss Pott, only daughter of WilLiam P. esq of Glocester-place.

At Aldgate Church, Lieutenant Percy, of the Cambridgeshire Militia, to Miss Mehala Wade, youngest daughter of Mr. W. of Whepstead, Suffolk.

Charles Chad, esq. eldest son of Sir George C. to Lady Ann Turnour, second daughter of the Earl of Winterton.

At St. Mary-le-bonne, Baron De Roll, colonel of a Swiss regiment in the British service, to Miss Pate, daughter of the late William P. esq. of Epsom.

At Clapham, Nathaniel Philips, esq to Margaret, eldest daughter of William Hibbert, esq. of Hine-hill, Cheshire.

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In Southampton-place, New-road, Mr. Hugh Wilson, of Chislehurst, in Kent, engraver, brother of Mr. Andrew Wilson, of the Stereotype-office.

In Hertford-stree, Evelyn Shirley, esq. of Eatington, Warwickshire.

In Upper Berkeley-street, Reginald Rabett, esg. of Bramfeld Hall, Suffolk.

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In Upper Brook street, Grosvenor-square, Jane Kizabeth, Countess of Rothes, in her own right, widow of the late George Raymond Evelyn, esq. and wife of Sir Lucas Pepys, bart physician-general to the army: her ladyship is succeeded in title and estate by Lord Leslie, now I arl of Rothes, her son by her first husband; a daughter of whom, some time since, married the son of a nurseryman in the New road, Paddington; the young nurseryman's wife, her father being an earl, is now, by courtesy, Lady Elizabeth.

In Mortimer-street, Cavendishi-square, Mrs. Helman, wire of Mr. H. the actor; this lacy was daughter of the Honourable and Reverend Frederic Hamilton, a niece of the Duke of Hamilton, and nearly related to several other distinguished families.

In Pall Mall, in his 60th year, the Right Horsurable William Wyndham, M.P. for Higham Further Particulars will be given in

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In Seymour-place, Charles Townshend, Lord Bayning, in the 81st year of his age. His lordship was educated at Eton and Cambridge; and soon after he came of age was appointed secretary to the embassy at Madrid, where he resided about five years, and then returning home, was chosen into parliament for the borough of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, which he represented many years, and of which he was, in the year 1807, upon the death of his noble relative, the late Marquis Townshend, chosen high steward. He was successively one of the lords of the Admiralty, one of the lords of the Treasury, vicetreasurer of Ireland, treasurer of the navy, and a member of his Majesty's privy council. In 1797, he was raised to the peerage by the title of Boron Bayning of Foxley, in the county of Berks. His lordship, during a long life, had enjoyed uninterrupted health and spirits, and to his last moments his understanding remained unimpaired by age, and unnerved by sickness. He is succeeded in his title and estates by his eldest son, Charles Frederic Powlett Townshend, one of the representatives in parliament for Truro.

In Millman street, Foundling Hospital, Charles Genevien Louise Auguste Andree Tinthe D'Eon de Beaumont, commonly called the Chevalier D'Eon. Further particulars will be given is our next.

At Ewell Grove, Henry, second son of Thomas Reed, esq. 16.

In Mile-end-road, Mr. Thomas Newell, late of the 4th Dragoons.

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At Stratford Grove, John Snelgrove, esq. 78. At Sunbury, Elizabeth, wite of Charles Gilchrist, esq

At Hammersmith, Mrs. Wetherell, wife of Thomas W esq. 67.

In Thornhaugh-street, Dr. Patrick Ivory, formerly in the East India Company's service. In Golden-square, Jobn Waliis, esq.

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At Hillingdon, the Rev. T. Mills, vicar of the horse during the time his master transade that parish, 72.

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In Margaret-street, Cavendish-square, after a long illness, in his 79th year, General Hugh Debbieg. He received a regular military education as an engineer at Woolwich, and in 1746, at the early age of 11 years, he, for the first time, saw active service in the expedition against l'Orient, under General St. Clair; he afterwards served in Brabant with the allied army, commanded by his Royal Highness William Duke of Cumberland, by whom, and by Marshal Barthiani, he was much distinguished; and was attached to the staff of his Royal Highness at the battle of Laffvelt; after which he served in Bergenop-Zoom during the whole of that memora ble siege. After the suspension of hostilities, be was one of the engineers appointed to make a survey of the lare seat of war. 1750, he was employed in making a survey and military map of Scotland, and on many other occasions at home, till the year 1753, when he was sent to North America as second engineer in command, and at the siege of Louisbourgh particularly distinguished himself. In the following year, he served under the immortal Wolfe, at Quebec, with the same rank, and his talents procured him the friendship and entire confidence of that hero. On his return to Europe, he was employed in several confidential but very important and hazardous missions, which he executed to the satisfaction of his Majesty's government. During the American war he was employed at home in constructing fortifications and making military surveys; and, although he differed with the ministers of the day as to their system of conducting their military operations, yet he was consulted by them on many occasions, on account of his acknowledged merit as an officer, and his superior information with respect to the country and character of the people of America. Soon after the peace of 1783, he retired from pub. lic service, and occasionally employed himself in perfecting a system of fortification entirely novel, and peculiar to his extraordinary mind and attainments. Never died an oflicer more devoted to his king, nor a man more respected and beloved by every one who had the honour of his friendship. He has left three sons, one of whom is now serving in Sicily, as captain of the 44th regiment or infantry.

At his lodgings, in Pimlico, Mr. Sylvia, an Israelite, well known for his eccentric disposition. About forty-five years ago he used to attend the Royal Exchange, mounted upon a beautiful charger, withra servant, who held

ed business. The Lord Mayor, conceiving it a nuisance to introduce an animal of that d scription on the Exchange, one day ordered it to be taken away, and not brought there again, which order was complied with. He leat 500%. to Mr. Wilkes, upon his bond, which he afterwards increased, in consequence of non-payment, to 2,000! and the bond was burnt. Mr. Sylvia was the brother of the Jew who was murdered in Garden-row, Chelsea, by his nephew. Through the dears of his brother Le got about 2,000. He has tor some years past been the inmate of a man who took care of him, and whose disposition was in strict unison with his own.

[Further particulars of the late Admiral Lord Collingwood, whose death was announced in pige 199 of our last Number.—Worn out with the toils and cares of a sea-faring life, s lordship expired just as he was about returning home for the recovery of his decaying health and constitution. Cuthbert Colling wood was born at Newcastle-an-Tyne in 1750; his family is very ancient, and was particular ly distinguished in arms, and celebrated by the poets during the wars of the Borderers, in the 16th century. The traditionary songs and tales of those wars made a strong inpression on the young mind of our here, as he sought the field of glory at the very early age of 11, although not for the same reisan which induced Nelson at that age to adt the like course, his father possessing a smid but competent fortune. Cuthbert received the rudiments of his education from the Rev. H. Moises, M. A. After spending six er seven years under the tuition of this venera ble master, who died about two years ago, he left his much-esteemed school-fellows, the present Sir W. Scott, Judge of the Adminky. court, and his younger brother, Lord Chancele lor Eldon, and entered the service in 1761, Like Nelson, he went under the protection and patronage of his maternal uncle, Captain Braithwaite, then commanding the Shaanda frigate, who died Admiral of the Blue, in hs 80th year, in 1805. To this officer he owel his great professional knowledge and skill in all the various branches of nautical science, and with him he continued several years. In 1766, he was a midshipman in the Gibral tar, and from 1767 to 1772, master's ma in the Liverpool, whence he was taken into the Lenox, Captain (now Admiral) Roodan, whose disinterested friendship for him and his family was nobly rewarded by the futurt conduct of his protege Admiral Rodim also took his younger brother, Wil red Colingwood, into his ship, and brought his to the rank of captain, when he died in the West Indies, about 1779 or 1780. Lord Ca lingwood has another brother in the Caston, and two maiden sisters, who still live very retired at Newcastle. By Admiral Rosam Lord C. was introduced to Vice-Acma Graves, and afterwards to Sir Peter Parker

and with the former he went in the Preston to America; yet it was not till after he had been fourteen years in the service, that he was appointed fourth lieutenant in the Somerset. In 1776, he went to Jamaica in the Hornet sloop, where he became acquainted with Nelson, then second lieutenant of the Lowestoffe, Captain Locker. This friendship of congenial minds continued the remainder of their lives; Collingwood regularly succeeding his friend Nelson in every appointment and ship which he left in the course of his promotion. From the Lowestoffe, Nelson was taken into the Bristol, Admiral Sir Peter Parker, and Collingwood into the Lowestoffe; in 1778, Nelson was appointed to the Badger brig, and Collingwood to the Bristol; in 1779, Nelson was made post-captain in the Hinchinbrooke, and Collingwood in the Badger; in 1780, Nelson was appointed to the Janus frigate, and was again succeeded by his friend Collingwood. On this occasion, Nelson was snatched from the jaws of death by being recalled from the destructive Quixotic expedition to St. Juan on the Spanish main, and "Collingwood, whose constitution was less delicate, survived the effects of that dreadful climate, where, in four months, out of 200 men, who composed his ship's company, he buried 180! Of 1800 men, who were sent at different times on this expedition, only 300 ever returned; and many of them, according to Dr. Moseley, were literally devoured by the carrion crows of the country. In August he quitted a station which had proved equally fatal to the other ships that were employed. In December of the same year, he was appointed to the command of the Pelican of 24 guns, but his continuance in that ship was not of long duration; for, on the 1st of August 1781, she was wrecked upon the Morant Key during the dreadful hurricane which proved so destructive to the West India islands in general. The crew were how. ever saved, as well as their commander. It was not long before an opportunity presented itself to resume his station in the service of his country. He was appointed next to the command of the Sampson, of 64 guns, in which ship he served till the peace of 1783, when she was paid off, and he was appointed to the Mediator, and sent to the West Indies, where he again met his friend Nelson, who at that time commanded the Boreas frigate upon the same station. The friendship which subsisted between these two young nien, who were hereafter to make so conspi cuous a figure upon the great theatre of naval glory, appears from the letters which were written during this period by the latter, to his friend Captain Locker. In one of these, dated on board the Boreas, September 24, 1784, he says, "Collingwood is at Grenada, which is a great loss to me, for there is no body I can make a confidant of." another, dated November 23: " Collingwood desires

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ter that you will think it a history of the West Indies. What an amiable good man he is!" Off Martinique, March 5, 1786, he writes: "This station has not been over pleasant; had it not been for Collingwood, it would have been the most disagreeable I ever saw." In this ship, and upon this station, he remained until the latter end of 1786, when, upon his return to England, the ship being paid off, he took the opportunity to visit his native county, and renew his acquaintance with his family and friends, from whom he had been so long separated. In this retirement, after a service of five-and-twenty years. he continued to enjoy himself in Northum berland until the year 1790, when, on the expected rupture with Spain, he was again called into employ in the armament then fitting out, and appointed to the Mermaid, of 32 guns, under the command of Admiral Cornish, in the West Indies. The dispute being however adjusted without hostilities, and no prospect of immediate employment again at sea appearing, he once more returned to his native county, and in this interval of repose formed a connexion with a lady of great personal merit, and of a family highly respectable, Sarah, the eldest daughter of John Erasmus Blackett, esq. one of the alder men of Newcastle. By this lady he has two daughters; Sarah, and Mary Patience, both living with their mother at Morpeth, the place of his lordship's residence, during the short intervals of repose which he has been suffered to enjoy. On the breaking out of the war with France in 1793, Captain Collingwood was called to the command of the Prince, bearing the flag of Admiral Bowyer, with whom he served in that ship, and afterwards in the Barfeur, until the engagement of the 1st of June, 1794. In this action he distinguished himself with great bravery, and the ship which he commanded is known to have had her full share in the glory of that day; though it was the source of some painful feelings at the moment in the captain's own mind, that no notice was taken oỂ his services upon this occasion, nor his name once mentioned in the official dispatches of Lord Howe to the Admiralty. Rear-Admiral Bowyer lost his leg by the side of Captain Collingwood, yet no epithet of approbacion was officially bestowed on the captain of the Barfleur! That any intended neglect of this modest and brave man occurred we have no reason to believe, and ligy far he was jus tinable in resenting the apparent unintention. al omission of his name it would exceed our limits in this sketch to inquire. When his Majesty visited the fleet at Spithead, he distributed the gold chaing and urejals voted to the commanders in that glorious action; but, unfortunately, Collingwood was no lon. ger commander of the BarЯcur; he was not preset, and received not from the hands of his sovereign that meed of honour which had been wasdly and justly awarded to the dif

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ferent officers. Lord Howe, indeed, fully sensible of the superior merit of Captain Collingwood, used every means of conciliation in his power; but Collingwood inflexibly resisted the subsequently preferred honour of a medal, and however men may think him somewhat too "jealous of honour" in the first place, it is impossibie not to admire the spirit which dictated his refusal, when he declared that he could never condescend to wear that distinction (the medal) of which he was not deemed worthy by his commander-in-chief; and that he would wait till he should have done something that might entitle him to the honour of wearing it." The battles of St. Vincent and Trafalgar have since proclaimed his merit! Captain Collingwood was appointed to the Excellent, after Lord Howe's victory, and went with Lord Hood to Toulon. From that station he joined Admiral Jervis, and following the maneuvres of his tried friend Commodore Nelson, these two commanders, with the ill-fated Troubridge, contributed to accomplish one of the most signal victories off Cape St. Vincent ever recorded in the annals of naval war. The English consisted of 15 ships, the Spanish of 27; the former had only 1232 guns, the latter 2308; and, notwithstanding this inferiority, four of the enemy's ships were captured, two by Nelson, and two by Collingwood; the San Josef 112, and San Nicolas 80, struck to Nelson; and the Salvador del Mundo 112, and the San Isidro 74, to Collingwood. The prodigies of valour displayed by Nelson and Collingwood on this extraordinary occasion, are well depicted by the former at a perilous moment of the engagement. "The Salvador del Mundo, and the San Isidro," said his Lordship, 'dropped astern, and were fired into in a masterly style by the Excellent, Captain Collingwood, who compelled the San Isidro to heist English colours; and I thought the large ship Salvador had struck; but Captain ColJingwood, disdaining the parade of taking posses. sion of a vanquished enemy, most gallantly push ed up with every sail ret to save his old friend and messmate, who was to appearance in a crippled state." Yet even in this, as in the preceding action, Collingwood was destined to suffer the mortification of not receiving the verbal honours of the Gazette. not the fortune of Collingwood, although anxiously desired by both, to accompany his friend to fresh victories at the Nile, and he remained in the painful office of blockading the enemy's ports till 1799, when he was made Rear-Admiral of the White, and in 1801 Rear-Admiral of the Red. In May 1802 he returned to Spithead, and proceeded to his family and friends in Northumberland, But the period of domestic enjoyment was again very short; and in April 1804 he was made Vice-Admiral of the Blue, and resumed the blockade of Brest with Admiral Cornwallis. The very irksome life of ah indolent blockade, always apprehensive that the enemy

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may escape, and yet without the hope of his coming to action, can only be understood by those who have spent some time aboard ship in such service. In 1805, however, Admiral Collingwood was called upon to exercise his talents in the blockade of Cadiz, with only four ships, with which he had to deceive the enemy, and impress them with an idea that he had a powerful feet. This delusion he effected with the happiest result, by means of well-conceived signals from two ships off the harbour to two others at a greater distance. The arrival of Nelson relieved him from the arduous task of watching a fleet of thirty-four ships of the line with only four, and prepared the way for the glorious, but melancholy, battle of Trafalgar, in which twenty-seven British were opposed to thirty-three French and Spanish ships. The particulars of this engagement are yet too deeply engraven in the minds of the public to require repetition here. Lord Collingwood led the van in the attack, and Nelson exclaimed: "Look at that noble fellow! Observe the style in which he carries his ship into action!" Collingwood, enjoying the honour of his siteation, with equal spirit said to his captain, "What would Nelson give to be is our situation!" The loss of the Royal Sovereign, Admiral Collingwood, in this action, was 5 officers, 29 seamen, and 19 marines, killed; 8 officers, 70 seamen, and 10 marines, wounded in all 141. Of nineteen vessels that struck, only three Spanish and one French 74 were sent to Gibraltar; all the others being either burnt, sunk, or run on shore. The humanity and piety of Lord Collingwood after this battle, were not less conspicuous than they were in Nelson; and in his letter to the Admiralty, detailing the particulars of the action, he laments the fall of the com. mander-in-chief with great feeling. "My heart (said he) is rent with the most poig nant grief for the death of a friend, to whom, by many years intimacy, and a perfect know ledge of the virtues of his mind, which inspired ideas superior to the common race of men, I was bound by the strongest ties of affection; a grief to which even the glorious occasion on which he tell does not bring that consolation which perhaps it ought." The merit of this official dispatch struck his Majesty, who observed, that "Collingwood's was an excellent letter." The last fact we shall notice, was the Admiral's humanity after the action, to the unfortunate prisoners in shattered vessels, and exposed to a tremendous storm. Lord Collingwood's proposal to the Governor of Cadiz to receive them into hospitals, was most gratefully received; and the Spanish people, in a spontaneous burst of enthusiastic admiration of the English, although their enemies, sent every assistance to the English fleet, in wines, fruit, and refreshments, to comfort the wounded and sick. The well-merited eulogiums which have been pronounced on Lord Collingwood's professional

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talents are sufficiently known. By Lord Hood it was observed, that he only wanted the opportunity to prove himself a second Nelson. After the battle of Trafalgar, he was raised to the rank of Admiral of the Red, created Baron Collingwood of Coldburn and Hethpole, in Northumberland, and a grant of 20001. a year voted to him during his own life, 10001. to his lady, and 5001, to each of his daughters. During the last five years, he has scarcely ever been on shore; and in one of his letters to a friend, he observes,

since 1793, I have been only one year at home. To my own children I am scarcely known; yet, while I have health and strength to serve my country, I consider that health and strength due to it; and if I serve it Successfully as I ever have done faithfully, my children will not want friends." His natural diffidence and unassuming character induced a rather disadvantageous opinion of real merit; he despised ostentation, and evinced a kind of patriarchial simplicity in his whole conduct. To the charitable institutions of Newcastle he has been a most liberal benefactor, and has also subscribed to raise a monument to his master, the late Rev. Mr. Moises. His noble title is now extinct; but the records of his brave achievements and his personal worth, will be handed down to future ages, while naval warfare shall continue to engage the attention of nations; and the names of Nelson and Collingwood be blazened by posterity, as models of the most heroic and sublime patriotism. A relation of his lordship, the late E. Collingwood, esq. left him his estate worth about 20001. besides a handsome library. With this addition, it is presumed that his lordship possessed a very ample fortune. The body of the lamented admiral was brought to England in the Nereus frigate, and conveyed from Sheerness in = the commissioner's yacht to Greenwich. Here it lay in state for some days in the Painted Chamber in the Hospital, and was then deposited in its final resting-place under the dome of St. Paul's, close by the coffin of Lord Nelson; so that it may with truth be said, that even in death these heroic friends are undivided. Lord Collingwood was of middling stature, but extremely thin, and temperate in his general habits; ate always with an appetite, drank moderately after din ner, but never indulged afterwards in spirits or wine. It was his general rule, in tempestuous weather, and upon any hostile emergency that occurred, to sleep upon his sofa in a flannel gown, taking off only his epauletted coat. He would appear upon deck without his hat; and his grey hair floating to the wind, whilst torrents of rain poured down through the shrouds, and his eye, like the ea gle's,on the watch. Bodily exposure,colds, rheumatism, ague, all, were nothing to him when his duty called; and to this contempt of personal comfort and indulgence his country doubtless owes the privation of his services, MONTHLY Mag. No. 200.

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[Further particulars of the late Thomas Finch, esq. whose death was announced in page 499 of our last Number. He was principally educated at Merchant Taylors'-school, and was afterwards Fellow of St. John's college, Oxford, where his academical career was marked by the most correct conduct, and considerable literary distiuction. The loss of this truly excellent man and accomplished scholar will be long and deeply felt by the select circle of friends, who well knew how to estimate his numerous good qualities. The calmness, resignation, and Christian heroism, with which he mee the slow and gradual advances of death, were the best evidences of that genuine piety which happily revolted equally from extreme Calvinism as from Socinianism, and which was founded upon the true and unperverted doc. trines of our excellent church, of the truth of which he was thoroughly convinced, as well by his own accurate judgment, as by an extensive acquaintance with the writings of our ablest supporters. In his manners, and in his whole deportment, he never lost sight of that elegant and gentlemanly reserve, which might keep rudeness or impertinence at a distance, but which marked the true gentle man, and evinced a proper self-esteem, and a laudable conscience of that rank, which his birth and talents entitled him to hold in society. In the profession of the law he uni formly proved himself an upright and discreet adviser; a sound and able advocate. In the early part of his career at the Bar, he attracted the peculiar notice and marked attention of Lord Thurlow, whose discernment would, there is little doubt, had he filled the office of Chancellor, have elevated him to a station where his merit would have shone more conspicuously, and his talents have been more diffusely useful. The "Precedents in Chancery," which he edited with considerable care and ability, will not permit his name to be entirely forgotten in the profession. It is much to be regretted, that the weakness of his health, combined with his great aversion to all speculative enterprize, deprived his country at large of that learning, judgment, and eloquence, joined to great political knowledge, which would have done honour to her parliamentary representation. As a scholar, he was highly capable of relishing the beau ties and sublimities of those works which are the great standards of classical composition, his grammatical acquaintance with the Greek and Latin languages was correct, and his taste perhaps almost too fastidiously refined. The Holy Scriptures formed a favourite branch of his studies, which his experience and skill in the Hebrew language rendered more delightfal to him. With the principal modern lan guages he was well acquainted, and was particularly attached to the German. He conversed in French with great fluency and propriety. The unexampled care and attention 4H

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