and at all the principal theatres and musical festivals in Britain; he was for several years principal tenor-singer at the King's theatre in the Haymarket, where he was stage-manager, a situation which he held nominally till the period of his death, and musical director at Colman's Haymarket theatre. It was on the death of his intimate friend, Stephen Storace, in 1797, that Kelly first became a composer, and, subsequently to that time, he composed and selected the music for nearly sixty dramatic pieces. He also composed numbers of Italian and English songs, duetts, trios, &c. many of which are established favourites in the musical world. The following is a list of his compositions, &c. with their respective dates :-A Friend in Need, 1797; Chimney-Corner, 1797; Castle Spectre, 1797; Last of the Family, 1797; Blue Beard, 1798; Captive of Spilsberg, the comic music, the serious being by Dussek, 1798; Aurelio and Miranda, 1798; Feudal Times, 1799; Pizarro, 1799; Of Age To-morrow, 1800; De Montford, 1800; Remorse, 1801; Gipsy Prince, 1801; Adelmorn, 1801; Algomah, 1802; House to be Sold, 1802; Urania, 1802; Hero of the North, 1803; Marriage Promise, 1803; Love Laughs at Locksmiths, 1804; Cinderella, 1804; Counterfeits, 1804; Deaf and Dumb, 1804; Hunter of the Alps, 1804; Land we live in, 1804; Honey-moon, 1805; Youth, Love, and Folly, 1805; Prior Claim, 1805; Forty Thieves, 1806; We Fly by Night, 1806; Royal Oak, 1806; Adrian and Orilla, 1806; Adelgitha, 1807; Town and Country, 1807; Time's a Tell-tale, 1807; Young Hussar, 1807; Wood-demon, 1807; Something to do, 1808; Jew of Mogador, 1808; Africans, 1808; Venoni, 1808; Foundling of the Forest, 1809; Fall of the Taranto, 1809; Britain's Jubilee, 1809; Gustavus Vasa, 1810; Humpo, 1812; Absent Apothecary, 1813; Polly, 1813; Russian, 1813; Nourjahad, 1813; Peasant Boy, 1814; Unknown Guest, 1815; Bride of Abydos, 1818; Abudah, 1819; Grand Ballet, 1819.

9. At Upper Dunsforth, near Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, at a very advanced age, the rev. W. Jackson, formerly curate of Myton and Little Ousebourn, in that county, and a native of Kirby Stephen. About 35 years ago he purchased a small estate in the firstmentioned village, laid aside his clerical

office, and turned his attention to horticultural and farming pursuits; but sometime about the year 1793, he let his farm, and abruptly withdrew to the kingdom of Denmark, where he resided for many years, supporting himself by tuition, without drawing his rents, or corresponding with his friends. After having been long considered dead, he suddenly made his appearance about 1812, and, taking possession of his estate, resumed the cultivation of the soil. He had neither worn the dress of a minister, nor attended any place of worship for several years; his religious principles were those of a Freethinker.

9. In his convent, the famous monk of La Trappe, known under the name of the Trappist, a Guerilla chief, who, during the campaign of 1823, commanded in Catalonia and Castile a corps of 1,000 or 1,500 men. Brother Anthony, which was the name of the Trappist, died as he had lived, a bigotted enthusiast.

At Southampton, aged 38, Charles Mills, esq. author of some historical works: He was born in 1788, the youngest son of the late Samuel Gillham Mills, a surgeon of eminence at Greenwich. He was intended by his father for the law, and articled to an attorney in Berner's-street, but quitted that profession in consequence of his love for literature. His first work, "A History of Muhammedanism," was published about 1817, and is said to have strongly attracted the attention of sir John Malcolm. A second edition was published in the following year. The next work of Mr. Mills, was "The History of the Crusades, undertaken for the recovery of the Holy Land; a view of the Latin States in Syria and Palestine; the Constitution and Laws of the Kingdom of Jerusalem; the military orders which sprang from the wars between the Christians and Muselmen, and the consequences of the Crusades upon the morals, literature, politics, and manners of Europe," 2 vols. 8vo. A few months after its appearance, accident led Mr. Mills to the study of Italian literature; the result of which was a work of fiction, in two.vols. entitled "The Travels of Theodore Ducas in various countries of Europe, on the revival of Letters and Arts." The model upon which this book was formed, was the "Travels of Anacharsis ;" but the public seemed to underrate Mr. Mills as a commentator

on Italian literature, and accordingly, notwithstanding the splendor of particular passages, such as the criticism on Dante, and the account of an interview with Ariosto, the work was compara. tively unsuccessful. For a year subsequent to its publication, Mr. Mills lay quietly on his oars, till invited by his publishers (Messrs. Longman and Co.) to undertake a History of Rome, from the earliest ages down to the reign of Augustus, at which period Gibbon's History commences. From some cause, however, the work was dropped; and Mr. Mills then directed his attention to his last and most popular work, the "History of Chivalry, or Knighthood and its Times."

13. In obscure lodgings in Dublin, Edward Hay, esq. late secretary to the Catholics of Ireland. He was entitled to considerable property; but an unfortunate contest between him and his brother, respecting the possession of it, threw the business into Chancery; from the delays in which court he became considerably embarrassed for many years previous to his death. He died in absolute want, unable even to procure medicines. The New Catholic Association gave 201. towards defraying the expenses of his funeral.

14. At her father's house, in Parkstreet, Grosvenor - square, aged 21, Emma, eldest daughter of the hon, and rev. Wm. Beresford, brother of lord Decies, and lady Ann, daughter of the earl of Tankerville.

At vice-adm. Donnelly's, Queen Ann-street, Portland-place, aged 47, Mrs. Donnelly.

18. At Tours, in France, aged 16, Eliz. Forbes, eldest remaining daughter of colonel K. Young.

19. At Paris, aged 60, Francis Joseph Talma, the celebrated tragedian. He was born in that city, Jan. 15, 1766. At ten he had to represent a character in tragedy at college, and, during the representation, burst into a flood of tears at the misfortunes of the hero he represented. Taken to London by his father, an eminent dentist, he there learned English, and spoke the language so purely, that lord Harcourt and other noblemen, who had seen him perform little comedies in society, encouraged his father to destine him for the English stage. Family circumstances, however, taking Talma back to Paris, he for some time attended the Royal School of Decla

mation, and, shortly afterwards, appeared in Voltaire's tragedy of Mahomet, Nov. 27, 1787, in the character of Seide. The commencement of his profession was thus spoken of:-" He has succeeded in tragedy and comedy. Besides his other natural endowments, he has an agreeable figure, a voice at once sonorous and audible, with a pure and distinct enunciation. He feels the harmony of versification, and can communicate such feelings to others. His deportment is simple, his action natural. He is always in good taste; and has no mannerism, being an imitator of no actor, but using his own discretion and abilities." Being on the most intimate terms with literary men, and the most celebrated painters and sculptors of the day, he resolved, in the ery commencement of his career, to effect a revolution in the costume of the stage, which had been scarcely commenced by Lekain and Madame Clairon. In despite of Gothic usages, Talma, who had gained some confidence in the tragedy of Brutus, had the courage to appear in a veritable Roman toga. At the commencement of the revolution, he was attacked with a violent affection of the nerves, which brought him to the edge of the grave, and which, in discovering his nervous sensibility, developed his fine talent. The ascendancy which this talent was to exercise was not yet established, when his brother performers, differing from him in politics, exposed him to a controversy, which he sustained with courage his superiority was discovered, and this by a man not less superior in his way, Larive, who undertook to defend Talma. On the retirement of Larive, Talma found himself in the possession of the first tragic characters; his influence with the public increased every day, the dignity and the grace of his attitudes, his measured boldness, the manner of conceiving his characters, his frequent sublimity, acquired for him the just title of the first tragedian of his age. His enemies reproached him with having broken the rhythm of verse, and having pronounced tragedy as prose. He published in 1825 Reflections upon his art, manifesting the profoundness of those studies which conducted him to his elevation of talent. The characters in which Talma was most powerful, were the heroes of Shakspeare. His Coriolanus and Hamlet will long be remem. bered with delight. The part of Sylla,

in Jouy's tragedy of that name, was so admirably performed by Talma, that for more than two hundred nights the theatre was crowded to witness it. Off the stage Talma was as attractive as upon it--his conversational powers were of no mean order. Napoleon entertained a high respect for him. In his domestic habits Talma was remarkably plain, and, except when with friends, rather abstemious. He rose early, and wrote or read until ten or twelve o'clock in the morning, at which time he received the visits of his theatrical colleagues, the littérateurs of Paris, and foreignwriters who were desirous, during their stay in Paris, to see the "great actor." To the less fortunate in the career which he had run so brilliantly, he was ever a kind friend and a liberal patron; his purse was as open as his heart. The sums bestowed by Talma upon distressed talent would have formed an ample fortune; and, if he died rather poor than rich, the circumstance is thus easily accounted for. His regard for the English character was with him at once the result of natural feeling and of a sound judgment. He received and spoke of Englishmen with delight, and he has been known, on more occasions than one, abruptly to quit a French saloon in which the English nation was being calumniated. Talma, to the last, was in full possession of his faculties. On being told that the archbishop of Paris had called almost daily, and had been regularly refused admittance, he observed, "I am much obliged to him for his kindness, and my first visit shall be to thank him for his attentions. Should I get worse, pray keep the priests from me. What can they want with me? Do they want me to abjure a profession to which I owe all my fame, an art which Iidolize, and retract forty of the proudest years of my life; separate my cause from that of my comrades, and declare them infamous? Never! Never!" A few moments before his death, he said, in a low voice, "Voltaire ! Voltaire ! like Voltaire !" He expired without suffering any apparent pain; he only complained that there appeared a cloud before his eyes. He told his nephew (Amadée Talma, M. D.) "The doctors know nothing about my disorder; let my body be opened, it may, perhaps, be of some use to my fellow-creatures." The remains of Talma were carried from his house to the cemetery of Père la

Chaise. The procession was headed by the hearse, surrounded by his family, his intimate friends, and the whole of the actors of the Theatre Français, after whom came a great number of members of the Institute in full dress. There were eighteen mourning coaches, and above a thousand private carriages, hackney coaches, and cabriolets. The Boulevards were lined with people all the way, the gendarmes cleared the road, and it is supposed that the procession, before it arrived at Père la Chaise, amounted to at least one hundred thousand persons. The place of sepulchre was one of the heights to the right, not far from the monument of marshal Massena, and bordering upon that of the Despaux family. Middle way up the steep leading to it the hearse stopped; twelve young men then carried the coffin to the borders of the grave destined to receive it. From an early hour in the morning, a considerable crowd, amounting, perhaps, to 20,000 persons, had filled the cemetery, and when the coffin was brought into it, they assembled round the tomb. It was not without difficulty that the persons carrying the coffin, with the friends of the deceased, were able to get within the circle. religious rites were performed over the body; but speeches were made over his grave by his colleague, Lafon, and by the two tragic writers, Jouy and Arnault. The death of Talma excited great sensation throughout all the French provinces. At Strasbourg, an apotheosis of Talma took place at the theatre, and all the performers appeared in mourning. The same ceremony took place at Lyons, and in some other large towns. At Valenciennes, the inhabitants claim the honour of being fellowtown's-men of Talma, as they fancy he was born at Paix, a village near Valenciennes. The journal of that city states, that there is a hamlet in the neighbourhood which bears the name of Talma.

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20. The hon.'Mrs. Green, lady of John Green, esq. of Greenmount, and aunt to lord Massy.

At Paris, count François-Antoine Boissy-d'Anglas, a peer of France, and member of the Institute. He was born Dec. 8th, 1756, and sustained with equal firmness and moderation, a public part in the perilous times of the revolution. Being chosen deputy to the States General from Annonay, he com

menced his political career by an absurd declaration which he ever afterwards scrupulously maintained-namely, that the Tiers Etat alone really constituted the National Assembly. He was afterwards appointed Procureur General Syndic of the department of Ordiche, where he succeeded in preserving the public tranquillity during that stormy period. On every occasion, and in all the various offices to which he was successively called, he uniformly showed himself the friend of the weak, the adversary of what he deemed oppression, the advocate of the liberty of the press, of liberty of conscience, and of personal liberty. The energy of his character equalled the rectitude of his principles: of this he gave a noble proof on the memorable 1st of Prairial, 1795. M. Boissy d'Anglas was at that period a member of the Committee of Public Safety: the hall where the meetings were held was on that day besieged by a furious mob, who had been instigated to seditious conduct by the leaders of the opposite parties. The gates were at length burst open, and a number of men and women, armed with muskets, knives, swords, and other weapons, entered. The president Vernier, and Dumont, had successively quitted the chair, on which it was taken by Boissy-d'Anglas, who maintained the situation undauntedly, in spite of the menaces of the infuriated multitude, and the firing of guns, many of which were aimed at himself. A party of these wretches presented to him on a pike the head of the deputy, Ferrand, who had been murdered by them in one of the corridors. On beholding this bleeding fragment of his massacred colleague, the president rose from his seat and bowed to it with respect. At length, after six hours of dreadful tumult and carnage, an armed force succeeded in expelling the mob, and M. Boissy retired from the hall unhurt.

24. At Geneva, the hon. and rev. Robert Samuel Leslie Melville, brother to the earl of Leven and Melville. He was the fourth son of Alexander the late earl, by Jane, daughter of John Thornton, esq. of London; was of Trinity College, Cambridge, M. A. 1812, and was presented to the rectory of Great Tey cum Pontisbright in Essex, by Samuel Thornton, esq. in 1816.

At his seat, Edlington - grove, Richard Samuel Short, esq.

25, At Zurich, aged 56, Johann Conrad

In his 82nd year, M. Philippe Pinel, honorary professor of Medicine, chevalier of the Legion of Honour, &c. The remains of this illustrious man were followed to the burial-ground of Père la Chaise by a numerous train of medical men, &c. and discourses in honour of his memory were delivered by MM. Pariset, Rostan, Andouard, and Geoffrey St. Hilaire, who paid a just tribute to the services he had done the profession, and to his zealous labours in behalf of suffering humanity. His two principal works are, "Nososographie Philosophique," and "Traité de l'Aliénation Mentale."

27. At Waresley-park, the seat of her uncle, visct. Mandeville, Eliz. eldest daughter of col. and lady Eliz. Steele.

At Ilfracombe, Jessé Foot, esq. a gentleman long known, and deservedly esteemed in the medical world. He had reached his 83rd year, and retained his faculties to the last. He was born at Charlton, in Wiltshire. On his first coming to London he became apprentice to his uncle, a respectable apothecary in Hatton Garden, but finding himself superior in capacity and knowledge to his master, he entered at the London hospitals. He went early in life upon a particular mission to the island of Nevis, and afterwards to Russia, where, passing an examination in the Latin tongue, under professor Pallas, he was admitted as a privileged practitioner at the college of St. Petersburgh, where the Russians wanted good English surgeons. Mr. Foot had every encouragement to remain in Russia, but he was anxious to return to his own country; and, after undergoing an examination at Surgeons' Hall, under the celebrated Percival Pott, whose talents he held in the highest veneration, he became housesurgeon to the Middlesex-hospital, then in a very flourishing state. He soon after commenced practice for himself in Salisbury-street, Strand, and afterwards in Dean-street, Soho, where he resided for many years, and by his various professional publications and successful practice, acquired a handsome fortune,

He continued in practice till a very advanced age, when he purchased an annuity of government, and about four years ago fixed his residence at Ilfracombe. Besides his numerous professional works, Mr. Foot published:-A Defence of the Planters in the WestIndies, comprised in four arguments: 1. On comparative Humanity; 2. On comparative Slavery; 3. On the African Slave-trade; and 4, on the Condition of the Negroes in the West-Indies, 1792, 8vo.; the Life of John Hunter, 1794, 8vo.; Dialogues between a Pupil of the late John Hunter and Jessé Foot, 1795, 8vo.; Observations on the Speech of Mr. Wilberforce in Parliament, May, 1804, for the Abolition of the Slavetrade, 1805, 8vo.; The Lives of A. R. Bowes, esq. and the Countess of Strathmore his wife, 1810, 8vo. ; Life of Arthur Murphy, esq. by Jessé Foot, esq. his executor, 1811, 4to.

At Langley Farm, Beckenham, sir Wm. Bellingham, bart. F.A.S. a director of Greenwich-hospital, and formerly receiver-general of the land and assessed taxes for the city of London. He was descended from a younger brother of sir Henry Bellingham, of Helsington, Westmoreland, who was created a baronet in 1620, but died s. p. in 1650; and was the fourth son of Alan Bellingham, of Castle Bellingham, co. Louth, by Alice, daughter and coheir of the rev. Hause Montgomery, rector of Killinshee. He was created an English bart. March 16, 1796, with remainder to the issue male of his father, and is succeeded by one of his nephews.

28. In Upper Seymour-street, aged 86, Anne, widow of James Whyte, esq. and great aunt to sir Henry John Lambert, bart. She was daughter of sir John, the second bart. by Mary, daughter of Tempest Holmes, esq. one of the commissioners of the Victualling-office.

30. At Boulogne-sur-Mer, on her return from Switzerland, the lady of F. Thruston, esq. of Weston Hall, Suffolk.

At Rolleston-hall, Eliz. Goodman, eldest daughter of the late sir Edward, and sister of the present sir Henry Every, of Egginton, bart.

31. At Barry's-hotel, Edinburgh, sir Stephen Shairp, of Russell-place, Fitzroy square, late his Britannic majesty's consul-general at St. Petersburgh. He was knighted Sept. 17, 1806.

At Blackheath, aged 11, Eleanor Henrietta Victoria, daughter and last

surviving child of the right hon. Fred. John Robinson, chancellor of the Exchequer, and lady Sarah, only child of Robert, fourth and late earl of Buckinghamshire. Her remains were interred in the family vault at Norton, in Lancashire.

Lately, At her house in Montagu-sq. Jane, dowager countess of Normanton. She was the eldest daughter of Wm. Benson, esq. by Frances, daughter of Geo. Macartney Powis, esq. and was married Nov. 22, 1776, to the right rev. Charges Agar, then archbp. of Cashell, and afterwards archbp. of Dublin and earl of Normanton. By his Grace she had issue: the right hon. Welbore-Ellis, the present earl; the hon. Geo. Charles Agar, F.R.S.; the hon. and rev. James Agar; Henry-William, who died an infant; and Frances-Anne, now widow of the late viscount Hawarden.

In Arlington-street, aged 88, William Prater, esq.

In Sloane-street, Ann, widow of rev. Frogmore Cumming, vicar of Cardington, Bedfordshire.

At Corby, near Carlisle, aged 102, Joseph Liddle, one of the Society of Friends. He retained his faculties to the last, and managed, till within a few years of his death, an extensive garden. He was a shoemaker by trade, and was working at a shop in the market-place at Preston, when the rebels entered that town in 1745.

At Havre de Grace, rear-adm. John Monkton.

At Chelmsford, aged 55, Priscilla, wife of sir James Esdaile, knight.

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1. William Barnes Rhodes, esq. of Bedford-street, Bedford-square. was born on Christmas-day, 1772, and was the second son of Richard and Mercy Rhodes, of Leeds. His education is said to have been on rather a limited scale, he being intended for mercantile pursuits, and commencing his career in the humble department of writer in an attorney's office. About the year 1799, he obtained a permanent situation as a clerk in the Bank of England, where his strict attention, assiduity, and integrity, induced the governors, about three years since, to promote him to the situation of a chief teller. His duty at the Bank daily afforded a very few hours of leisure, of which his persevering zeal made due advantage. At the Roxburgh sale, in