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Aged 93, the Countess Dowager Stanhope, she was the relict of the late Earl Stanhope, and mother of the present Earl. A person tuore remarkable for acuteness of understanding, and exquisite sensibility of heart, has, perhaps, never existed. Notwithstanding her advanced age, she retained her faculties entire, and the superior qualities of her mind only appeared the more conspicuous, from her possessing them at a period of life. when the affairs of this world, seldom attract our attention. Such was her philanthropy, that she always took the most lively interest in every thing that occurred, even in the remotest part of the globe, that could any wise affect humanity. Religion and the confident expectation of a fnture and a better state, were to her (what they uniformly are to all good and virtuous characters,) a never failing source of comfort and exalted happiness. The distressed always found in her ladyship a warm-hearted friend, and her judicious and extensive charity relieved many hundreds of the poor in her neighbourhood. -The amiableness of her disposition was never more strikingly observable than in her last moments; and one of the affecting expressions which she used, a short time before her death, was, that she had the consolation to reflect that she had never spared any trouble to be of use. Her ladyship has left a will, in which she has bequeathed her property to her only son, the present Earl Stanhope, whom she has appointed her sole executor. By a condicil, she has left legacies to several of her old and faithful servants.

At his house in Portman square, Sir John Jobnsen, M. P. for Weymouth.

At Woodford, Essex, Mrs. Olimpia Aubert, in her 86th year.

George Woodford Thelluson, esq. M. P. for Barnstaple, at the seat of his nephew, Lord Rendlesham.

In Gloucester-buildings, Walworth, Mrs. Elizabeth Ashforth, aged 70.

James Newman Newman, esq. Captain of his majesty's ship, Hero, 74 guns, (who was unfortunately lost with the whole of his brave officers and crew on Christmas-Eve Last, near the Texel) was the eldest son and heir of Charles Newman, esq. of Preston House, Northamptonshire, and a gallant and good officer. As a Leutenant he had the command of the lower deck of the Queen, 93, Admiral Gardner's ship, in Lord Howe's glorious victory of the 1st of June 1794, the same year that Capt. N. was made post. He afterwards particularly distinguished himself last war, in the several commands of the Mermaid and La Loire frigates-in this war, in that of the Vanguard, 74, and Veteran, 64. Although aged only 44, he had been 30 years at sea, in 20 of which he was not six months on shore, in the East and West Indies, and in many bloody engagements. Thus, almost at the height of his profession, and with the fine prospects, was he doomed to a watery

grave, and in an instant snatched from hip
relatives, who live to deplore his loss.
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At Dalkeith Palace, his Grace, Henry Scott, Duke of Buccleugh and Queensbury, Marquis of Dumfriesshire, Earl, of Dalkeith, Sauguhar and Drumlanrig, Viscount Nith, Torthowald and Ross, Lord Scott of Eshdale, Dourcas of Kinmount, Middlebie and Dornock; also Earl of Doncaster and Lord Tynedale in England, Knight of the Garter, Lord Lieutenant of the counties of Edinburgh, and Roxburghshire, Governor of the Royal Bank of Scotland, &c. His Grace was born in 1746, and succeeded his grandfather in 1752, He was the only son of Francis Earl of Dalkeith, by Lady Caroline Campbell, eldest daughter of John, the great Duke of Argyle. In 1767, his Grace married Elizabeth Montague, only daughter of the late Duke of Montague, by whom he has issue, Charles William, now Duke of Buccleugh and Queensbury; and Henry James, Lord Montague; and four daughters, viz. the Countess of Courtown, Countess of Horne, Marchioness of Queensbury, and Countess of Ancram; ali of whom have families His Grace is succeeded in his titles and estates by his eldest son Charles William, Earl of Dalkeith, who married Harriet, daughter of the late Viscount Sydney, who has several children.,

At his house, at Islington, aged 74, Mr. Poole, father of Mrs. Dickons, of the Theatre Lyceum.

In Charlotte-street, Gen. Sir J. H. Craig, K. B.

At Streatham, near Ely, the Rev. Cæsar
Morgan, D. D. rector of that parish.

At Walworth, Mr. C. Dallas, aged 67.
R. Hollingworth, esq. of Queen-square,
Westminster.

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Suddenly, in a coach, while driving to Hatchard's Hotel, Mr. W. Mitchell.

At }. Dale's, esq. Hatton Garden, Harriet, youngest daughter of the late F. Smythies, esq. of Colchester.

Mr. Thomas Smith, 25 years a resident of Hanway-street, Oxford-street.

At his house, in Kensington-square, Dr. Patrick Wuson, formerly Professor of Astronomy in the University of Glasgow.

Colonel W. Cavendish, M. P. for Derby. He was on a visit to his father Lord George Cavendish, at his seat at Holkar Hali, near Cartmel, over the Lancaster Sands. He was out taking the diversion of shooting for wild ducks, accompanied by Mr. Smith, his tutor when at college, and his brother Charles, a youth of eighteen. They all three got into a gig, or buggie, in the park, Mr. Charles Cavendish taking the reins. They had proceeded but a very short way, when the reins by some accident broke, and the horse ran away, and Mr. William Cavendish, was thrown out and pitched on his head, and it is suspected he received a kick on his head

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from the horse, but whether that was the case or not, he never spoke more. His bro ther was not much hurt; but the clergyman had his leg or arm fractured by this fatal accident. This is the second unfortunate accident the Cavendish family have had to deplore within a very short time; another of Lord George's sons having last year been lost on his passage from Lisbon. Colonel Cavendish married the eldest daughter of Lord Lismore, a few years ago. He has left them with four children. He was about 28 years of age.

At Batavia, Dr. John Leyden, a gentleman who accompanied Lord Minto in the expedition to Java, for the purpose of acting as an interpreter to his excellency, and of aiding him in forming those arrangements by which the future prosperity of our new colony was to be secured. Dr. Leyden had taken so much fatigue while following the fortunes of the army, and was so much exposed to the night dews, that he was seized with a fever, and after an illness of two or three days, expired on the 27th of August at Fort Cornelis. Thus has been lost to his friends, to his country, and to mankind, in the full vigour of life, a character who was amply qualified to delight and enliven the world. Feeling himself inspired in early life with that ardour which is the companion of true genius, he maintained a steady and successful struggle against all the disadvantages of humble and adverse circumstances; emerged gradually from his native obscurity to the notice of the first characters in Scotland, and went to India, about the year 1802, with brighter hopes, and continued in it under happier auspices than had almost ever been the lot of any of his young countrymen. Extensively acquainted with the ancient and modern languages, and literature of the European nations, his ardent and indefatigable mind was prepared to enter with success on the study of the various languages which are spoken through the wide extent of our Indian dominions; and such was the rapidity of his progress, that Lord Minto, on a public occasion, observed, that his attainments resembled more the gift of tongues, than the slow and ordinary acquisitions of human application. The early relish which he also felt for the researches which the Bramanical religion opens to the mind, well prepared him for the arduous task of studying in their original state, those books held sacred among the Hindoos, which carried the mind back to remote antiquity, which have tended to form the character of a large portion of the inhabitants of the globe, and which are intimately connected with every thing the most interesting in the history of man. In those important qualifications, there is perhaps no individual now alive who was so well calculated to supply to his country the loss occasioned by the untimely death of the late illustrious Six Wm. Jones. Like that great

and good man, Dr. Leyden was desirous of rendering the acquisitions of his mind subservient to the diffusion of the sublime truths of Christianity among the distant tribes of India; and was employed a short time before his death in translating the gospels into various Oriental languages. What degree of progress he had made in this work we have not learned; but we have too much reason to fear from the circumstances of his death, that not only his future plans, but much of the fruit of his past labours is lost to the world. In paying this hasty tribute to the memory of a man snatched by the mysterious dispensations of Heaven, from our hopes and expectations, we ought not to pass over in silence the qualities which endeared him to us as a friend. Marked by great eccentricity of manners, and exposed to the dangerous influence which a change of circumstances, and the favor of the great and learned are apt to produce on the mind, he retained that simplicity and purity of heart, that warmth of affection, and that unbending independence of spirit which raised him above the smiles and frowns of fortune, and entitle him to higher honors than those of literary fame. To all his other attainments, Dr. Leyden added that of poetry; and it is no small honor to him to have associated with his highly-valued friend, Mr. Walter Scott, in preparing for the press the work by which that gentleman became first known to the world as a poet, viz. "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border." Mr. Scott has paid him the high compliment of selecting a passage from "The Ode on visiting Fludden," composed by Dr. Leyden, for that work, as a motto for his celebrated poem of "Marmion;" but the work by which Dr. Leyden's poetic fame is most likely to be established, is entitled, "Scenes of Infancy descriptive of Teviotdale," which was written on the eve of his departure for India. In this interesting production of the heart, he has embalmed the feelings, recollections, and associations of his early years, and his native haunts with a degree of delicacy and tenderness which will find an echo in every reader of sensibility. We cannot deny ourselves the mournful pleasure of extracting from this poem a few lines, which come home to our hearts at the present moment with powerful impression: "But, sad, as he that dies in early spring, When flowers begin to blow, and larks to sing, When Nature's joy a moment warms his heart, And makes it doubly hard with life to part, I hear the whispers of the dancing gale, And fearful listen for the flapping sail, Seek, in these natal shades, a short relief, And steal a pleasure from maturing grief!

[The late Lord Newton was descended of the Hays, of Rannes, one of the most ancient branches of the family of Hay. He was born in the year 1747, and was called to the bar in 1769, He had so thoroughly

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studied the principles of the profession on which he now entered, that he used often to say, "that he was as good a lawyer at that time as he ever was at any future period." His strong natural abilities, assisted with such preparation for business, could not fail to attract notice, and he became soon distinguished for his acuteness, his learning, and his profound knowledge of law. It was remarkable of him that he always appeared as much versed in the common and daily practice of the Court, and even in those minute forms that are little known, except to the interior practitioners, and in the higher branches of legal knowledge, that are only understood by the greatest lawyers. The great simplicity of character which he carried with him through the whole of life, was no where more conspicuous than in his appearance at the bar. His pleadings exhibited a plain and fair statement of the facts, a profound and accurate exposition of the law, and very acute and solid reasonings on both; but there was an entire absence of every thing merely ornamental, and especially of those little arts by which a speaker often tries to turn the attention of his auditors on himself. He seemed full of the cause in which he was engaged, and not a word escaped which could lead any one to imagine that the thoughts of the orator were ever turned to his own performance. Though his reputation continued always to increase, he practised at the bar without obtaining any preferment will the year 1806, when, on the death of the late Lord Methven, he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court, by the ministry of which Mr. Fox was a member, and was the only judge in the Court of Session appointed while that great statesman was in power, a distinction on which he always professed to set a high value. Lord Newton's talents never appeared to greater advantage than after he took his seat on the bench. As a lawyer, the opinions he gave were probably never surpassed for their acuteness, discrimination, and solidity; and, as a judge, he now shewed that all this was the result of such a rapid and easy application of the principles of law, as appeared more like the effect of intuition, than of study and laborious exertion. The clearest and most comprehensive view of every question seemed naturally to present itself, and his opinions, at the same time that they were readily and decisively formed, were considered, by professional men, as being perhaps, less liable to errot than those of any other judge who has appeared in our time. He was unremitting in his exertions, and it is certain that, for his dispatch of business, and the correctness of his judgment, Lord Newton has been rarely excelled. As to political principles, Lord Newton was an ardent and steady Whig. Owing to the great openness and sincerity of his character, and MONTHLY MAG. No, 223,

the entire absence of the least approach to art or duplicity, he passed through a period remarkable for the hostility which political opinions engendered, with fewer personal enemies than any other man equally unreserved in condemning the measures which he thought wrong, and equally inflexible in supporting those he thought right. In private life he was extremely amiable, and his social qualities, as well as his great worth, endeared him to his friends. He possessed an extraordinary fund of good humour, a disposition extremely playful, great simplicity of character, with the intire absence of all vanity and affectation. A few peculiarities or little eccentricities which he possessed, appeared with so good a grace, and in the company of so many estimable qualities, that they only tended to render him more interesting to his friends. Lord Newton appeared to possess two characters that are but rarely united together. Those who saw him only on the bench, were naturally led to think that his whole time and thoughts had, for his whole life, been devoted to the laborious study of the law. Those, on the other hand, who saw him in the circle of his friends, when form and austerity were laid aside, could not easily conceive that he had not passed his life in the intercourse of society. With great gentleness and kindness of heart, he had a manly and firm mind. He had hardly any feeling of personal danger, and he seemed to despise pain, to which he was a great deal exposed in the last years of his life.

He was a man of great

bodily strength, and, till the latter years of his life, when he became very corpulent, of great activity. He was never married, and the large fortune which he left, is inherited by his only sister, Mrs. Hay Mudie, for whom he always entertained the greatest esteem and affection.]

Lately Mrs. Jebb, widow of the justly cele◄ brated Dr. J. Mrs. J. was the eldest daughter of the late Rev. James Torkington, rector of Little Stukely, in Huntingdonshire, and of Lady Dorothy Sherard, daughter of Philip, second Earl of Harborough. She was married to Dr. Jebb in 1764, when he was in the height of his literary reputation at Cambridge. The Doctor, it is well known, engaged in some very serious controversies with the University, particularly on abolishing subscription to the 39 articles, at the time of taking degrees, and on public annual examinations of under-graduates. These disputes found exercise for the first talents at that time in the University, and Mrs. Jebb was not content with being a silent observer; she became the active opponent of Dr. Powel, the Master of St. John's College, who conducted the other side of the controversy, and who felt as sensibly the point of Mrs. Jebb's pen in the public prints, as he did of the learned doctor's. It was in reference to the force of argument contained ia

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in a smart pamphlet, written by Mrs. Jebb on the same subject, under the signature of Priscilla,' that the late Dr. Paley said at the time, "The Lord had sold Sisera into the hands of a woman." When Dr. Jebb, having embraced some speculative opinions, which, he thought, made it necessary for him to resign his preferment and to leave the Church, settled in London, he became a physician, and a strenuous political reformer. No name is better known among the advocates of parliamentary reform, than that of Dr. Jebb, and the active energy of Mrs. Jebb is also well known: being an invalid, she lived a retired life; but her zeal rose to the full level of her husband's-she saw with the same quickness, glowed with the same ardour, and wrote, occasionally, with the same spirit. But Mrs. Jebb was not more distinguished for the vigour of her mind, than the qualities of her heart. She was a Christian, without bigotry; a moralist, with out severity; a politician, without self in terest or ambition; a sincere friend, without disguise and without reserve. With considerable powers of mind, she possessed all the amiable softness of the female character. With as few failings as could well fall to the lot of humanity, she exercised an un

limitted candour in judging those of others. Candour and benignity were the prominent features of her character. Her friends, therefore, were numerous, and she could not have a single enemy. These superior qua lities of mind and heart were lodged in a body of the most delicate texture. The frame of Mrs. Jebb was extremely feeble, her countenance always languid and wan. She used to recline on a sofa, and had not been out of her room above once or twice these twenty years-she seemed the shadow of a shade, or rather all soul and intellect, like one dropped from another sphere. For ber ardour and patriotic firmuess, mixed with urbanity and gentleness, and occasionally brightening with innocent playfulness, gave that to her countenance, which the mere bloom of health cannot bestow, nor the pen describe; it gave a singular interest to her character it can only be felt, and will be lastingly remembered, by her surviving friends.

At Elvas, in Portugal, aged 20, Lieutenant H. 1. Jones, of the 7th fuzileers, of wounds received in the battle of Albuera. He was a young man of very promising talents, and his premature death is deeply deplored by all who knew his worth.

PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES,
WITH ALL THE MARRIAGES AND DEATHS;

Arranged geographically, or in the Order of the Counties, from North to South. Communications for this Department of the Monthly Magazine, properly a thenticated, and sent free of Postage, are always thankfully received. Those are more particularly acceptable which describe the Progress of Local Improvements of any Kind, or which contain Biographical Anecdotes or Facts relative to eminent or remarkable Characters recently deceased.

NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM.

ST. Hilda's church, at South Shields, after having been almost entirely rebuilt, was lately re-opened for divine service. From the great improvements made therein, it is now one of the best and most convenient churches in the country.

Married.] At Sunderland, Mr, J. Robson, to Miss Booth, daughter of Mr. G. B. of Nile-street, ship owner.-Mr. Grieveson, of Durham, to Miss Suttey, of Vine-street, Sunderland. Mr. Joseph Wood, to Miss Mary Hawksley, late of Bridlington.

At Birtley, Mr. John Stott, of Buteland, near Bellingham, to Miss Robson, daughter of Mr. T. R. of Low Shiel Green

At Carlisle, Mr. John Fleming to Miss Graham.-Mr. William Hall, to Miss Ann Ramsay. Mr. Robert Grierson, to Miss Mary Robinson, Mr. Wm. Jarat, to Miss. Hannah Lancaster.

as Walsend, Mr. Robert Young to Miss

Eliz. Beckwith; and Mr. John Hymers,
Miss Mary Allen, all of Howdon Dock.

At St. John's, Mr. Francis Gray, to Miss Charlton; both of Newcastle.

At St. Andrew's church, the Rev. John Gooch Robberds, of Manchester, to Mary, eldest daughter of the Rev. William Turner, of Newcastle.

At Hebron, near Morpeth, Mr. Robert Hall, to Miss Mary Ann Bolton, both of Morpeth.

Mr. J. Dobinson, to Miss A. Stobbart, both of Staindrop.

At Chester-le-street, Mr. George Hall, of New Painshaw, to Ann, daughter of Mr. Thomas Hepple, of Pealaw Hill.

At Tynemouth church, Mr. William Smith; to Miss Dobison, both of North Shields.

Mr. John Harrison, of Weardale, to Miss Lee, of Nenthead.

At Darlington, Lieutenant William Ridsdale,

ale, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. Ralph Childe, of Darlington.

At Berwick, Mr. William Herriot, cooper, to Miss S. Johnson.

At Durham, Mr. William Peele, to Miss M. Sewell.

At Dearham, Mr. George Telford, aged 67, to Miss Mitchell, aged 19.-Mr. Toulson, to Miss Bell, both of Ellenborough. Mr. J. Ratton, of Ellenborough, to Miss Mary Davidson, of Harrington. Mr. Robert Nixon, to Miss H Smith, both of Ellenborough. Mr. John Nixon, to Miss Mary Smith, both of Ellenborough.

At Plumbland, Mr. Joseph Mounsey, of Tallentire, to Miss Temple, of the former place.

At Ovingham, Mr. Thomas Stokoe, to Miss Margaret Jackson; and Mr. George Stokoe, to Miss Ann Raffer, all of Wylam.

At Grandon, Mr. R. Webb, to Mrs. Beaumont, of Wynyard.

At Alnwick, Mr. Anthony Robinson, of Morpeth, to Miss Elizabeth Brown, of the former place. Mr. Robert Russell, to Miss Revell, daughter of Mr. John R. of Howick Lodge.

Mr. Joseph Atkinson, to Miss Nicholson, both of Berwick.

At Hawick, Mr. William Whitehead Winterbottom, of Huddersfield, to Miss Isabella Dickson, of Housebyers.

At Jarrow, Mr. George Stockton, South Shields, to Miss Murday, of the same place. At Bishopwearmouth, Mr. John Gales, of Hilton Ferry, to Miss Lawson, eldest daughter of Mr. T. L. of the Ford.

Mr. George Dale, of Hebron, near North Shields, to Elizabeth, daughter of Captain J. Wate.

At Brompton, near Northallerton, Mr. Henry Tunstall, to Mrs. Ann Gott, whose united ages amount to 179. The bridegroom has been married four times, and the bride · three.

At Nantwich, aged 64, Mr. Thomas Green, to Mrs. Hannah Tew, of the same place. This is the bridegroom's third trip to the Hymeneal altar; and it is worthy of remark, that, by his two former wives, he has been blessed with no less than 23 children.

Captain Simpson, to Miss Rait, of North Shields.

At Ancroft, Adam Sibbit, esq. to Miss Branxton.

At Hubberstone, Mr. John Davies, of Milford, aged 22, to Miss Jemima Twiggs, aged 84,

At Kirkby Steven, Mr. John Moore, to Miss Jane Tunstall.

Mr. Joseph Newbold, to Miss Isabella Hastwell, both of Hartley, near Kirkby Steven

At Gretna, John Jardine, esq. Ladyward, to Misa Lindsey, of Lochmaben.

Mr. Edward Stobart, to Miss Pearson, both of Hexham.

At Gretna Green, Ingleby Thomas Miller, esq. to Miss Miller, both of Shincliffe, near Durham.

At Rothbury, Mr. James Elliot, to Miss Mary Storer, of Healy.

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At Newcastle, Mr. J. Monkhouse, to Miss Mary Elliott.

At South Shields, Captain Robert Cairns, to Miss Adamson.

Mr. William Charlton, to Ann, youngest daughter of Mr. William Thompson, of Earldon.

At Lamberton Toll bar, Captain Clark, to Miss Falla, of Gateshead.

At Crosthwaite, Mr. Sutton, to Miss Crosthwaite, late of the Museum, Keswick. At Newark, Mr. Benjamin Wilson, of the Great Market, to Miss Hudson, daughter of Mr. William H.

Mr. Kirbie, to Grace, youngest daughter of the late Thomas Gibson, esq. of the Flatts, Durham.

At Jarrow, Mr. James Evans, to Mrs Middleyard.

Mr. Thomas Archer, of the Tile Sheds, near West Auckland, to Miss Mary Newsham, of Redworth, near Bishop Auckland.

Mr. Robert Hobson, of Lazonby, to Miss Barnfather, late of Carlisle.

Died.] Mary, daughter of Mr. Towns, of Newcastle.

Mr. John Hardy of South Shields.

Mrs. Ann Wright, of Claypeth, Durham. At Cummersdale, Mr. Joseph Dixon, 64. At Alnwick, (after a severe ten days' ill ness, occasioned by the falling of a horse) Mr. Robert Patterson, 24.

Mr James Taylor, of Sunderland.
At Belsay, Mrs. Robson.

Miss Ann Proud, of Wylam, 23.
Mr. Robert Clark, of Usworth Farm.
Mr. William Peacock, of Well, near
Grantham.

In Framwelgate, Durham, Mr. Thomas Lumley, 75.

At Carlisle, Mary, second daughter of Mr. Daniel Pattinson.—Mrs. Ann Donald, 64.Mr. William Nixon. Mrs. Margaret Little, 64.-Mrs. Mary Wilson, 75.-Mrs. Forster, mother of the late Mr. Joseph F.-Mrs. Margaret Wood, 66.-Mr. Joseph Pattinson, near Carlisle, 80.-Mrs. Margaret James, widow, 86.

At Lazenby, Mr. William Birbeck, 57. At Kibblesworth, Mr. William Ironsides, much lamented, 9.

At Bygo, George Roseby, 87; and two days after, Margaret, his wife, 86. They had been married 50 years, and were both interred in one grave.

At Bishop Burton, Caroline, wife of G. Hotham, esq. of that place. Her mother, Mrs. Acklom, who had been confined for some time by illuess at Beverley, on hearing

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