was married on the 11th May, 1808, to Arabella, second daughter of Tennison Edwards, esq., of Old Court, in the co. of Wicklow; his lady survives him, with eight children. His eldest son, EdmondHenry, now Lord Glentworth, is a Lieutenant in the 7th foot. DUC DE CADORE. July.. At Paris, aged 78, Jean-Baptiste de Champagny, Duc de Cadore, the favourite Minister of Napoleon. He was born in Rouanne, of a noble family. He entered the French navy under Louis XV., was a Midshipman in the fleet of the Count de Grasse, and wounded in the action so celebrated for the discomfiture of that Admiral. In 1789, he was returned a Deputy from the Noblesse of Forez, to the States-General. He was one of the first who soon afterwards went over to the Tiers-Etat, and he was successively a Member of the National Assembly and National Convention. During the Reign of Terror he was imprisoned, because he belonged to the proscribed order, and he narrowly escaped being guillotined. After this, he retired into private life, and was drawn from it into office by Napoleon; and his administrative successes are contempo. raneous with the most brilliant of the military achievements of his patron. He succeeded Bernadotte in the embassy to Vienna in 1801, was Minister of the Interior from 1804 to 1807, and lastly Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1807 to 1811. In this capacity he had the good fortune to be acting when, in 1809, Bonaparte so completely prostrated the Austrian power, and he heartily assisted in the enforcement of Napoleon's "Continental system." His diplomatic address is said to have secured for the Emperor rewards for his victories, which even the conqueror of Austerlitz and Wagram himself was surprised at. He also mainly negotiated the inauspicious marriage of Napoleon with the Emperor's daughter; and, when all was lost in Russia, contributed to favour and secure the flight of the Empress. In 1811 he was deprived of his portfolio, and entrusted with the management of the imperial domains; being consoled for his loss of power, by the riches he had amassed, a present lucrative post, and the title of Duc de Cadore. Under the Restoration he was made a Peer; but, having acted for Napoleon during the Hundred Days, he was deprived of his peerage at the second Restoration. In 1819 it was restored to him, and he held some office under Government at the time of his death; and it is remarked that he served under every King, and every other description of Go vernment in France, from the time of Louis XV. to the present time. His manners are said to have been mild, and his acquirements considerable. MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE. May 20. At Paris, aged 76, General the Marquis de Lafayette. The wondrous scenes in both the New World and the Old, in which the name of Lafayette was prominently distinguished, are among the most remarkable in modern history. Without any immediate connection with the causes of those great convulsions which have shaken the world for the last half century-for he was an actor, not a plotter-Lafayette was present at the birth, and acted as the godfather to most of them. His interference in North American affairs greatly influ enced the ultimate secession of the United States from this country, and he is found prominently mixed up with all the extraordinary scenes which occurred in his own country some few years after. Lastly, he took a leading part in the second Revolution of 1830. Gilbert Motier de Lafayette was born at Chavaniac in Auvergne, Sept. 6, 1757. His family had been distinguished both in arms and in letters; his father was slain at Minden. After going through his studies at the college of Plessis, he married, at the age of sixteen, the daughter of the Duke d'Ayen, still younger than himself, who was afterwards justly celebrated for her conjugial attachment and courage during his proscription. Through the interest of her family, the princely house of Noailles, he might have at once obtained distinguished preferment at Court; but this he refused with an innate pas. sion for liberty, and at the age of nineteen espoused the cause of American independence. Lafayette arrived at Charlestown in the beginning of 1777; and the Congress immediately offered him the rank of Major-General, which he accepted, on the condition that he should serve as a volunteer, at his own expense. He was wounded in the first battle, that of Brandywine. In the following winter, being appointed to the Command-inchief in the North, which a cabal had rendered independent of Washington, he accepted it only on condition of remaining under the orders of that great man, to whom his fidelity was at this period very serviceable. After two years' absence from France, during which his military skill was distinguished on several occasions, he returned home, honoured with a sword, which was presented to him by the Congress, through the hands of Franklin, having engraved on it several of his most brilliant achievements, and a representation of himself wounding the British lion, and receiving a laurel from America delivered from her chains. He was received in France with enthusiasm, by the Court as well as the republican party; and before his return persuaded the government to take an active part themselves in this attack upon England, through her principal colonies. Never did more signal retribution befall a country than that which shortly visited France after this dastardly conduct. During the campaign of 1780 Lafayette commanded the light infantry, and his services were indefatigably bestowed, until the close of the war, upon the capture of York-town, in Oct. 1781. Having returned to France, Lafayette was joined in the great expedition from Cadiz, destined first for Jamaica, and afterwards for New York and Canada. Their departure was obviated by the peace of 1783, which he contributed to negociate at Madrid, and of which he himself sent the first news to the American Congress. Shortly after, he visited the United States; and in 1785 the courts and armies of Germany. In 1787 he was a member of the assembly of the Notables, in which he denounced various abuses, proposed the abolition of lettres-de-cachet and state prisons, obtained a decree favourable to the civil condition of the Protestants, and made alone the formal demand of the convocation of a National Assembly. What!" said the Count d'Artois, addressing him, "do you move for the assembling of the States General?" "Yes," answered he, "and for something still better." When deputed to the States-general, he proposed, on the 11th of July 1789, his famous declaration of Rights, which was made the basis of that of the Constituent Assembly. When that assembly declared itself permanent, he was appointed Vice-President. On the 15th of the same month, he was proclaimed Commandant-general of the Burgher Guard, and the next morning published the order for destroying the Bastille. He had the credit of having saved the lives of the Royal Family at Versailles on the 5th and 6th of October, and of preserving for two years the general tranquillity of Paris. On the 8th of Oct. 1791 he took leave of the National Guard, and retired to his country seat. It was not long before the Legislative Assembly determined to raise three armies of 30,000 each, to the command of which they appointed Luckner, Rocham beau, and Lafayette; war was declared, and Lafayette sent to the Netherlands. On the 16th of June 1792 he wrote & letter to the National Assembly, denouncing the Jacobin clubs; and they very shortly returned him the compliment. The storm he had contributed to raise now raged beyond his control. It was at this crisis that he might have attained the chief power by leading the party which sacrificed the King; but that his principles of justice and of mercy alike forbad, and more violent and reckless politicians soon surpassed him in the career of popularity. The majority which at first supported him in bis demonstration against the Jacobins fell away like melted snow, and, by the 19th of August, he had no resource left but either a dishonourable recantation, a death inglorious and unavailing, or the chance of a retreat into some neutral territory. He had adopted the last alternative; when he was intercepted by an Austrian corps at Liege, and imprisoned by the Coalition. He continued to suffer the miseries of a rigorous confinement for four years; and after his release, and return to France, he retired to his country residence at Lagrange, not being inclined to participate in the policy of Buonaparte. The various changes after the fall of Napoleon again brought him forward in the Chamber of Deputies; and he made several propositions, in accordance with his principles of liberty, but with only partial success. In 1824 he paid another visit to the United States, where he was received with unabated enthusiasm. He witnessed with gratulation the popular demonstration of July 1830, and again placed himself at the head of the movement, by calling out his favourite National Guard. His measures, however, were again characterized by a moderation which evinced that his ambition was not that of an usurper; his model was evidently that Washington, with whom he had co-operated, and whose actions he had witnessed with admiration; not that Napoleon, from whose politics he had withdrawn, and whose career he had watched with disgust. When Lafayette might have declared himself Head of the French Republic "he was contented with the more humble title of "Chief of the National Guard," a distinction which in a very few months he abandoned in disgust. The Memoirs of these events were pub lished by his Aid-de-camp M. Sarrans, in 1832, under the title of "Lafayette, Louis-Philippe, and the Revolution of 1830," and a translation was published in London, in 2 vols. 8vo. Lafayette was avowedly the head of the Republican party in France; at once the most influential and the most respectable of that political sect. His name and virtuous private character were as a host to that faction, or fraction; but his counsels, on the other hand, which were invariably those of peace, contributed much to keep within bounds its insurrectionary excesses. His disposition was mild, and revolted from scenes of blood; whilst he was weak enough to think that the most violent excesses might be perpetrated in an innocuous and peaceful manner. He would not hurt a fly, and could yet approve of convulsions which unsettled all the guarantees of life, liberty, and property. Vain, superficial, and theatrical, he could parade at the head of a Parisian mob, and before that ignorant audience clamour about freedom, equality, and popular rights; but knew not, or cared not, that the speeches he was making and the tumults he was countenancing, were the certain preludes to galling despotisms, under which all freedom and all right were sure to be crushed. He was the last of that theoretic school which received its notions of sedition from the writings of the philosophers. Weak and inconclusive in council, he was straightforward and formidable in action, most commonly the slave of his own impulsive attachment to abstract liberty; or a tool in the hands of somebody more cunning and less principled than himself. It is to him, and others like him, that France owes the governments of Robespierre, of Napoleon, and of Louis-Philippe. His funeral took place on May 28, and from his public character both as a Member of the Chamber of Deputies and a General, was invested with all the imposing pomp of numerous bodies of military and of the National Guards, who came forward in immense numbers, to join in giving effect to this parting act of their homage. The hearse was decorated with 12 tricoloured flags, three at each corner; it was surmounted by plumes, and had the letter L on various parts of the drapery; and was drawn by four black horses. It was preceded by muffled drums, the deputations from various legions of the National Guards of Paris and the Banlieu, the 61st regiment of the line, and a regiment of red lancers; and succeeded by the deputations of the Chambers of Peers and Deputies, and from various public bodies of foreigners, particularly Americans and Poles. Four of the Royal carriages, three private ones of the General, followed by another regiment of lancers, seven private carriages, and a body of Municipal Guards, wound up the procession. The religious part of the ceremony, was performed in the church of the Assumption, the parish of the deceased, and the interment took place in the private burying-ground of Piepas, within the walls of Paris, where the General was laid by his own request in the same grave with his wife and mother-in-law. A simple slab of black marble marks the spot where his remains repose. It bears this inscription;-"Here lies M. P. J. R. G. M. de Lafayette, Lieut.-General, Deputy; born at Auvergne, in 1757; married, in 1796, Mdlle. de Noailles; died in 1834.—Requicscat in pace.” M. DE BOURIENNE. Feb. 7. At Caen, aged 64, M. de Bourienne, formerly Minister of State. Louis Anthony Fauvelet de Bourienne was born at Sens, July 9, 1769. He was brought up in the military school at Brienne with Napoleon Buonaparte, and there formed an intimate friendship with the "child of destiny." However, being intended for diplomacy, he was removed from Brienne to Leipsic, and in 1792 was appointed Secretary of Legation at Stuttgard, from whence he was recalled on the breaking out of the German war. Having returned to Leipsic (where he married) he was shortly after arrested by the Court of Dresden, on suspicion of corresponding with the French emissaries, and, after an imprisonment of seventy days, was commanded to quit the electorate. In 1797 General Buonaparte invited Bourienne to become his Secretary; he was consequently with the Conqueror in all his Italian campaigns, and also in Egypt. In conjunction with Gen. Clarke, he drew up the memorable treaty of Campo Formio. When Buonaparte was appointed to the Consulate, M. de Bourienne was nominated a Counsellor of State; and subsequently he was sent to Hamburgh as Chargé d'Affaires, and Envoy Extraordinary to the circle of Lower Saxony. He continued to reside at Hamburgh until the fall of Napoleon, when he returned to Paris. On the 3d of April 1814 the Provisional Government appointed him Director-general of Posts; and in the course of the same year he published a pamphlet, entitled "A History of Buonaparte, by a Man who has not quitted him for Fifteen Years." His larger work, the Memoirs of Napoleon, is well known by an English translation; it is valuable in those portions in which he was personally concerned, but is spun out with many matters with which he had nothing to do: When Louis XVIII returned to Paris, M. de Bourienne was removed from the office of the Posts, which was given to 430 OBITUARY.-Marquis Grimaldi.—Rt. Hon. M. A. Taylor. M. Ferrand. However, on the 12th of March 1815, he was appointed to the Prefecture of Police; and he afterwards fled with the King to Ghent. In the month of July he was again at Paris, and restored to his employment. He continued a Minister of State until the termination of the reign of Charles X. The "glorious revolution of the three days," combined with the loss of his fortune, is supposed to have deprived M. de Bourienne of his reason; and he passed the latter part of his life at a maison de santé in Normandy, where he died of apoplexy. THE MARQUIS GRIMALDI. June 28. At Turin, aged 57, the Marquis Luigi Grimaldi, of Genoa, commonly designated della Pietra, from the name of his fief near Naples, which had been held by his immediate ancestors for about three centuries. This amiable nobleman was the last male descendant resident at Genoa, of a family which has given consuls, rulers, and doges to that republic for upwards of of a thousand years ; and it is believed that, out of the four great Genoese families of Grimaldi, Doria, Spinola, and Fiesque (to be a member of any one of which is accounted greater than nobility) the name of Spinola alone is now to be found at Genoa. The Marquis has left a widow and two daughters his coheiresses, of which latter the lady Isabella was married in 1823 to the Marquis Guvanni Francesco Spinola; and the Lady Ginevra was married in 1830 to the Marquis Cæsar Durazzo. The extinction in late years of various branches of this house bas been remarkable. In 1820 the Marquis Giuseppe Grimaldi of Genoa, who was the last male descendant of another branch, died, leaving only four daughters. His cousin, Giovanni Giacomo Grimaldi, Doge of the Republic, died without issue a few years previously. The Duke Francesco Grimaldi (the surviving member of a third branch) died in 1821, leaving one only daughter, who succeeded to his immense wealth. The Duke's father, in limiting his property by his will, when speaking of the presumption of there being no male issue of his line, uses this melancholy sentence," but in the unhappy supposition of the extinction of my family;" a forboding which was early realised. This family has constantly been connected with England in embassies and otherwise, from the reign of William the Conqueror to the present time. See Gent. Mag. vol. CH. pt. ii. p. 508. [Oct. The sudden death of the Marquis Luigi affords a striking instance of the vanity of worldly pursuits. He had for the last three years, or thereabouts, absented himself much from Genoa, and resided at Turin, for the purpose of prosecuting the claims of the Grimaldi family (viz. the branches of Genoa and Antibes) to the small independent sovereignty of Monaco, at the confines of Italy and France, on the ground that the ancestors of the present Prince had obtained possession of the principality in 1731, from having married the daughter and only child of Prince Antonio Grimaldi, the then reigning Prince, and which possession was an usurpation, as the principality was a fief of the empire, granted to the Gramaldis as early, according to most accounts, as the year 920, but at any rate during the existence of, and subject to the salic law, which excludes females, and that by consequence the male heirs of the House of Grimaldi became entitled to the inheritance in preference to the daughter of Prince Antonio, who died in 1731; and her descendants, who have, notwithstanding, enjoyed it ever since, changing their name and arms of Matignon for those of Grimaldi. In the prosecution of this claim, the Marquis was resident at Turin in June last, expecting the ultimatum of the Court in his favour; when he died, to the overwhelming grief of his family, who were at Genoa. The Marquis was in much favour with the King of Sardinia, whilst his benevolence and princely liberality gained for him universal affection. His estates devolve to the Marchioness and her daughters; and his nearest male heirs are an elder branch of his family, which settled in this country in the reign of James II. to which branch, and to the Marquis Grimaldi of Antibes, descends the conclusion of the prosecution of the claim against the present Prince of Monaco. RT. HON. M. A. TAYLOR. July 16. At his house at Whitehall, aged 76, the Right Hon. Michael Angelo Taylor, M. P. for Sudbury, a Barristerat-law, and Recorder of Poole. Mr. Taylor was the son and heir of Sir Robert Taylor, Architect to the Bank of England and other public offices, who was Sheriff of London and Middlesex in 1783, and during his shrievalty received the honour of knighthood. He died in 1788, leaving a fortune of 180,000l. entirely his own creation; and some anecdotes of him will be found in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. LVIII. p. 930. Mr. M. A. Taylor was a student of St. John's college, Oxford, where he took the degree of M.A. in 1781. He was called to the bar by the Society of Lincoln's Inn in Michaelmas term 1774, and was at the time of his death supposed to be its senior barrister, as well as father of the House of Commons (since the retirement of Mr. Coke). He was first returned to Parliament for Poole in 1784, and in the same year was elected Recorder of that town. At the general election of 1790 he was returned to Parliament for Heytesbury, and was also a candidate for Poole, but his opponents, the Hon. Charles Stuart and Benj. Lester, esq. were returned, the latter by a majority of two, and the former by only one vote. Mr. Taylor having petitioned the House of Commons, with other parties concerned, the Committee in Feb. 1791 declared that Mr. Stuart was not duly elected, and that Mr. Taylor should have been returned. He in consequence relinquished his seat for Heytesbury, and made his election for Poole. However, in 1796 he was not re-elected; but obtained a seat for Aldborough. In Feb. 1800, on the resignation of Sir F. V. Tempest, Bart. he was elected Member for the City of Durham; but in the Parliament of 1802-6 we believe he did not sit in the House. In 1806 he was returned for Rye; in 1807 for Ilchester; in 1812 again for Poole; and in 1818 he recovered his seat for Durham, which he continued to represent until the dissolution of 1830. In 1831 he was returned for Sudbury; having in the preceding February been sworn of the Privy Council. For many years Mr. Taylor's house was a rendezvous for the Whig party; and his liberal and elegant, but unostentatious, hospitality will be long remembered. He was one of the few surviving associates of Mr. Fox, and of that small number of able and intrepid men who adhered to him during the stormy times of the French revolution. He was a friend of the late King and one of his Counsel for the Duchy of Cornwall. Mr. Taylor was of late years chiefly distinguished by his persevering exposition of the intolerable grievances of the Chancery Court; and he has lived to see many of his recommendations effected by the instrumentality of his friend, the Lord Chancellor Brougham. Mr. M. A. Taylor and his father Sir Robert were the authors of two very useful but complex Acts of Parliament. Sir Robert's was the Building Act, which secured to the metropolis that most important safeguard against the spread of fire, the erection of party walls; Mr. Taylor's was the Street Act, by which most of the nuisances and obstructions which heretofore deformed the metropolis have been effectually got rid of. Mr. Taylor's body was interred on the 23d of July, in the family vault at St. Martin's in the Fields. SIR FOSTER CUNLIFFE, BART. June 15. At Acton Park, Denbighshire, in his 80th year, Sir Foster Cunliffe, the third Baronet (1759), and F. S. A. He was born Feb. 8, 1755, the only son of Sir Robert the second Baronet, by Mary daughter of Ichabod Wright, esq. of Nottingham, banker; and was nephew to Sir Ellis Cunliffe, M.P. for Liverpool, on whom the baronetcy was conferred, with remainder to his brother. Sir Foster succeeded his father in 1778. He married, Oct. 1, 1781, Harriot, daughter of Sir David Kinloch, the sixth baronet, of Gilmerton, co. Edinburgh; and by that lady, who died Sept. 11, 1826, he had issue seven sons and two daughters. The former were, 1. Foster Cunliffe, esq. who died without issue, Feb. 18, 1832, having married, in 1809, the Hon. Elizabeth- Emma Crewe, only daughter of John Lord Crewe; 2. Sir Robert-Henry Cunliffe, who has sucIceeded to the title; he has been twice married in India, and has a numerous family; 3. Ellis Watkin Cunliffe, esq. who married in 1822, Caroline, youngest daughter of the late John Kingston, esq.; 4. Francis-Kinloch, who died Cunliffe, who married in 1821 Dorothea, young; 5. Brooke; 6. the Rev. George daughter of T. S. Townshend, of Trevellyn, co. Denbigh, esq.; and 7. Thomas. The daughters were, 1. Mary, married to the Right Hon. Charles Watkin Williams Wynne, brother to Sir Watkin WilliamsWynne, Bart.; and 2. Harriet, who was married to her cousin-german Sir Richard Brooke, the sixth and present baronet, of Norton Priory, in Cheshire, (whose mother was Mary Cunliffe, sister to Sir Foster) and died in 1825, leaving a numerous family. A view of Acton Hall, in the improvement of which Sir Foster Cunliffe expended large sums, will be found in Neale's Seats. SIR ROBERT WILMOT, BART. July 23. At the Parks, Great Malvern, aged 82, Sir Robert Wilmot, the second Baronet, of Osmaston, co. Derby (1772). He was the natural son of Sir Robert Wilmot, the first Baronet, (of a junior branch of the Wilmots of Chaddesden in the same county, on whom a Baronetcy |