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lordship's prompt and dignified repression of the usurper's intemperate address before a full court and all the foreign ministers, is celebrated through Europe. Lord Whitworth, on his first interview with Mons. Talleyrand, remonstrated against the insult offered to him, as alike offensive" to his public and private feelings." He added, that he had repaired to the levee "to pay his respects to the First Consul, and present his countrymen, but not to treat of political subjects; and that unless he had an assurance from him that he should not be exposed to a repetition of the same disagreeable occurrences, he should be under the necessity of discontinuing his visits to the Thuilleries." Similar remonstrances were also made in the king's name, by order of the secretary of state for foreign affairs; but Malta again became the bone of contention, and projets innumerable were formed, presented, and debated, relative to the possession of that important island. At length the English minister, in consequence of positive orders from his Court, delivered in his ultimatum, and declared that if no convention on this basis was signed within a week, he had received instructions to terminate his mission, and return to London. As the Court of the Thuilleries would not accede to this, it was proposed by Talleyrand, as a mezzotermino, to relinquish Malta to Russia; but difficulties occurred in respect to this plan, and lord Whitworth demanded the necessary passports for his departure. These were at length obtained, although not without great difficulty, and after three successive messages, and finally his lordship left Paris May 13, 1803. From this moment every idea of peace vanished, and in the course of three days an order of council was issued for reprisals, which, of course, produced a new war. After an interview with the cabinet ministers in London, lord Whitworth repaired to Knowle, where for some years his lordship chiefly resided, rendering

himself exceedingly popular by his attention and politeness to all descriptions of persons. His native county, in the course of the war, furnished large bodies of volunteers and yeomanry, and he himself was not wanting in his exertions to encourage their patriotic efforts. No sooner was the country menaced with a descent, than he raised and clothed at his own expence the Holmesdale battalion of infantry, composed of 600 men, and he frequently repaired to their head-quarters at Maidstone, to inspect their condition.-On March 2, 1813, lord Whitworth was made a lord of the king's bed-chamber; on the 14th of June following he was created a peer of Great Britain, by the title of viscount Whitworth of Adbaston, county of Stafford, and in August succeeded the duke of Richmond as viceroy of Ireland. At the enlargement of the order of the Bath, in Jan. 1815, he was made one of the twelve civil knights grand crosses and Nov. 25 that year was advanced to the dignities of baron Adbaston and earl Whitworth. He resigned the lieutenancy of Ireland in Sept. 1817, when lord Talbot was appointed to succeed him. As he never had issue, all his titles are extinct.

21. At Montreal, Seven Oaks, Julia Mary Herries, youngest daughter of the late colonel Herries, and sister of J. C. Herries, esq. M. P.

22. At his house in Buntingford, the rev. Abraham Kirkpatrick Sherson, aged 55.

Aged 88, Mr. Domenico Corri, the celebrated musical composer. During the last six years a rapid decay of nature had been visible, and latterly fits of insanity had frequently occurred. He was to have been removed to the care of a doctor experienced in similar cases, when death removed him from the world. He expired suddenly, when apparently in the best health and spirits, and after eating heartily; it is supposed, in an apoplectic fit. He had been a remarkaby abste

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mious man, and had no illness except the gout during his long life. He was a pupil of Porpora, at Naples, from 1763 till his preceptor's death in 1767. He came to London in 1774, and in the same year produced an opera entitled Alessandro nell' Indie;" but his name was not sufficiently blazoned to give his performance much eclât, or indeed to excite the attention it deserved. He settled in Edinburgh, but returned to London in 1788. In that year he published three volumes of English songs, with ori, ginal accompaniments, a work which was moderately successful. In 1796, he entered into partnership with Mr. John Louis Dussek, in the Haymarket, and they were appointed music-sellers to the royal family. Mr. Corri published a great deal of his own music; but the works by which he is chiefly known in England, are his opera of "The Travellers," the Bird song in "The Cabinet," and a treatise on singing, in two volumes, called "The Singer's Preceptor." He was brother to Natale Corri, a singing-master of reputation at Edinburgh, uncle of Mad. Frances and Rosalie Corri, and father of Haydn Corri, pianist and singing-master of Dublin, Montague Corri of Manchester, performer at several theatres, and a fencingmaster, and of Mrs. Moralt, late Mrs. Dussek, late of the Opera House.

23. At his house in Pulteneystreet, Bath, aged 60, the right hon. James Caulfield Browne, second baron Kilmaine of the Neale, co. Mayo, eighth baronet, and a governor of the county of Mayo. He was the eldest son of John the first baron, by Alice Caulfield, second daughter of James, third viscount Charlemont, and sister of the first and celebrated earl of that name. He succeeded to his father's titles June 7, 1793, having married, on the 25th of July preceding, Anne, fourth daughter of the late right hon. sir Henry Cavendish, of Dove

ridge Hall, Derby, bart. by Sarah baroness Waterpark. By this lady lord Kilmaine had issue four sons and one daughter; the eldest, John Cavendish, now lord Kilmaine, married Jan. 4, 1822, Eliza, daughter of David Lyon, esq. of Portlandplace.

24. At Richmond, whither he had repaired for the improvement of his health, aged 58, sir John Grey Egerton, eighth baronet of Egerton and Oulton Park, county of Chester. He was born at Broxton, Cheshire, July 11, 1766, the eldest son of Philip Egerton, of Egerton and Oulton, esq. by his first cousin Mary, daughter of sir Francis Haskins Eyles, third baronet of Moor Park, Herts. He was married at Backford, Cheshire, April 9, 1795, to Maria, daughter of T. Scott Jackson, of London, esq. and remarried in June following by special license, at serjeant Adair's chambers, in Lincoln's-inn, she being under age and her mother re-married. This lady died without issue, and sir John remained a widower till his death.

From 1812 to 1819 he sat in parliament for the city of Chester; and on the death of Thomas Egerton earl of Wilton, and seventh baronet [the earldom was entailed on the second and third sons of earl Grosvenor], Sept. 23, 1814, succeeded to the baronetcy, as eldest son of Philip Egerton, second son and heir of John, second son and heir of Dr. Philip, fourth son and heir of sir Philip Egerton, knt. the fourth son of sir Rowland the first baronet, whose first and third sons died without issue, and whose second son, sir John the second baronet, was the direct ancestor of the deceased Thomas earl of Wilton, whose male line had become extinct on his death.

Sir John Grey having died without issue, he is succeeded in his title and estates by his brother, the rev. Philip Egerton, rector of Tarporley and the Higher Mediety of Malpas.

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square, Mary, the wife of Courtenay, esq. of Buckland-house, in the county of Berks.

24. At Kingston in Barbadoes, whither he had been advised to go for the recovery of his health, John Ellis, of the Middle Temple, esq. barrister-at-law, M. A., F. S. A. and deputy recorder of Huntingdon.

Horace Hone, esq. of Doverstreet, Piccadilly.

At her house, in Quarryplace, Shrewsbury, in the 85th year of her age, Mrs. Forester, relict of the late colonel Forester, of Ross Hall, Shropshire, and mother of lord Forester.

27. At his house, in Montagueplace, colonel William Cowper, of the hon. East India Company's service.

At Richmond, in the 20th year of his age, the right hon. lord Spencer Augustus Chichester, third son of the marquis of Donegal.

28. At her house in Grosvenorsquare, lady Sophia Heathcote.

29. In Cavendish-square, Henrietta Sophia Jane, only daughter of sir Frederick Watson.

31. At his house in James-street Buckingham-gate, aged 82, George Chalmers, esq. F. R. S. and F. S. A., chief clerk of the office of the board of trade and plantations. He was a native of Scotland, and was educated at King's college, Aberdeen, principally under the celebrated Dr. Reid. He afterwards removed to Edinburgh, and studied law, which he practised in America, until the colonies declared themselves independent. Soon after his return to England, his extensive knowledge of commerce and colonial relations, introduced him to a connexion with the board of trade. As an author, Mr. Chalmers's range of publications was very extensive. In history he produced "Political Annals of the United Colonies, from their settlement to the Peace of 1763," 4to. 1780; and " Caledonia, or a Topographical History of North Britain, 4to. vol. i. 1807, ii. 1810, and iii. 18....". In Biography,

"The Life of Daniel De Foe, 1790," 8vo. which was prefixed to his edition of De Foe's " History of the Union." and to Stockdale's edition of his "Robinson Crusoe :" "The Life of Thomas Ruddiman, M.A." 1794,8vo.; "The Life of Sir John Davies," prefixed to his Tracts; "The Life of Allan Ramsay," prefixed to an edition of his Poems, 1800; "The Life of Sir James Stuart," with his Works, 1805; "The Life of Gregory King," with his Political Observations, 1794; "The Life of Charles Smith," with his Corn Tracts; and, under the name of Oldys, a name well known to the literati of this country, in 1793, a Life of that bold, insidious, and baleful disciple, or rather master, of democracy and infidelity, Thomas Paine. He had previously issued, under his own name, a Letter addressed to Dr. Currie, on the same subject, which had excited great public attention. In political economy Mr. Chalmers published "An Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Great Britain, during the present and four preceding reigns, 1782," 4to.; 1786, Svo.; "Opinions on interesting Subjects of Public Law and Commercial Policy, arising from American Independence, 1784," 8vo. ; "Considerations on Commerce, Bullion, Coin, Circulation, and Exchanges, 1811," 8vo. ; and "An Historical View of the Domestic Economy of Great Britain and Ireland:" in Criticism, "An Apology for the Believers in the Shakspeare Papers, which were exhibited in Norfolkstreet, 1796," 8vo. ; and "Supplemental Apology, 1799," 8vo. ; and an Appendix to the same, containing the Documents in favour of the Opinion, that Hugh Boyd wrote Junius's Letters, 1800. As an editor Mr. Chalmers published a "Collection of Treaties between Great Britain and other Powers, 1790," 2 vols. 8vo. the "Works Political, Metaphysical, and Chronological, of the late sir James Stuart, bart. 1805;" the "Natural

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and Political Observations of Gregory King, 1804;" the "Corn Tracts of Charles Smith, in 1804;" the "Poems of A. Ramsay, 1800" and the "Poetical Works of Sir David Lyndsay, of the Mount, Lion King at Arms, 1806," 3 vols. 8vo. Mr. Chalmers also published, an Appeal to the Generosity of the British Nation on behalf of the family of the unfortunate Bellingham, 1812," 8vo.; and many anonymous pamphlets on the side of administration have been attributed to him. He was the writer of two very good papers in the "Looker-on," the one on Illicit Hopes, the other on the Equalization of Follies and Diseases.

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1. At Paris, M. de Souza formerly ambassador of Portugal, at Berlin, and Paris.

At Nottingham, aged 78, the rev. Charles Wylde, D. D. rector of St. Nicholas Nottingham.

At York-place, Edinburgh, the lady Elizabeth Finch Hatton. 2. At his house in Green-street, Grosvenor-square, Charles Walsham, esq. late of Ashted-lodge, Surrey, in his 72nd year.

At the Rectory-house, Piccadilly, in the 76th year of his age, Gerrard Andrewes, D. D. dean of Canterbury, and rector of St. James's Westminster. This distinguished divine was born at Leicester, April 3, 1750, and was the son of the rev. Gerrard Andrewes, vicar of Syston and of St. Nicholas Leicester, and master of the free grammar school in that town. His mother was Isabella, daughter of John Ludlam, esq. of Leicester, whose uncle, sir George Ludlam, was chamberlain of London from 1718 to 1727. Dr. Andrewes's father was one of fifteen children, and his mother one of seventeen; yet he was the only remaining male of either grandfather. Dr. Andrewes was educated at Westminster school, where he was elected a

scholar in 1764, and whence he was elected a fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge, in 1769. He proceeded B. A. 1773, M. A. 1779, S. T. P. 1807. In 1772 he returned to Westminster as an assistant master, and such he continued till 1784. One of his first clerical duties was that of an occasional assistant preacher at St. Bride's, Fleet-street; he was afterwards engaged at St. James's chapel, in the Hampstead-road. In 1780, when his friend sir Edmond Cradock Hartopp served as high sheriff of Leicestershire, Mr. Andrewes acted as his chaplain. In 1788 he was presented by lord Boringdon, whose tutor he had been, to the rectory of Zeal Monachorum, in Devonshire. On the 1st December in the same year, he was united to Elizabeth Maria, daughter of the rev. Thomas Ball, rector of Wymondham, Leicester; by this marriage he had three daughters, the eldest of whom was married to a son of John Baker, esq. formerly M. P. for Canterbury, the second died an infant, and the third died unmarried; his youngest child and only son married a daughter of Dr. Heberden. In 1791 he was chosen alternate evening preacher at the Magdalen; and in 1799 at the Foundling-hospital. In the latter year he preached in St. Paul's, at the anniversary meeting of the Sons of the Clergy, a sermon which he afterwards published. His efforts in the pulpit having excited the admiration of lady Talbot, and obtained her esteem, she presented him, in 1800, to the rectory of Mickleham, in Surrey. He was offered the rectory of Wormley, Herts, by sir Abraham Hume, bart., but the kind proffer was declined. He was most unexpectedly collated to St. James's August 10, 1802, by bishop Porteus, who, though personally unacquainted with Mr. Andrewes, had the uncommon fortitude to advance merit in opposition to the concerted intrigues of interest, and the formidable demands of power. His rectory of

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Mickleham having become vacant on his preferment, he was again presented to it, and instituted Sept. 7, 1802. In 1804 he published a plain, energetic "Sermon, preached at St. Nicholas, Deptford, June 6, 1803, before the Trinity Brethren." The substance of seven lectures on the Liturgy, which he delivered at St. James's in February and March 1809, occupies thirty-four pages of "The Pulpit, by Onesimus," vol. i. 8vo. 1809. In that year, through the influence of Mr. Perceval, then prime minister, he was elected dean of Canterbury; and he thereupon finally left Mickleham. In 1812, on the translation of bishop Sparke, he was offered by lord Liverpool, the bishoprick of Chester, but declined it on the plea of his advancing years. In the pulpit he was argumentative but not impassioned, conclusive but not eloquent, a good rather than a great preacher. He was often striking, but seldom moving. All that human information suggests or human ingenuity can devise, in aid of truth, elucidatory, or confirmatory, presented itself readily to his mind, and was impressed by him on the minds of his hearers. He was therefore fond of illustrating the evidences of religion; and of enforcing, from motives of propriety or expediency, the practice of the moral duties. Sometimes he rose into considerable animation; and he uniformly secured attention.

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In Gloucester-place, aged 86, sir William Weller Pepys, bart. He was descended from sir Richard Pepys, made lord chief justice of the King's-bench, in Ireland, in 1664. Samuel Pepys, secretary to the admiralty, whose lively memoirs are now entertaining the public, was also of this family. The deceased was son of William Pepys, esq. (sixth in descent from William Pepys of Cottenham, Cambridge. shire), by Hannah, relict of A. Weller, esq.; and brother to sir Lucas Pepys, the king's physician, who married in 1772 the late count

ess of Rothes, and who was created a baronet in 1783. Sir William was a grand compounder for the degree of M. A. at Christ Church College, Oxford, December 17, 1766; he was formerly a master in Chancery, was created a baronet of London June 23, 1801, and was a vicepresident of the incorporated Literary-fund Society. He married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late right hon. Wm. Dowdeswell, chancellor of the exchequer, and had issue by her, three sons, William Weller, A. M. of Trinity College, Cambridge, who has succeeded to the title; Christopher Charles, of the same college, married June 30, 1821, Elizabeth, daughter of Wm. Wingfield, esq. of Lincoln's-inn Henry, formerly fellow of St. John'scollege, Cambridge, and now rector of Aspeden, Herts, married Jan. 27, 1824, Maria, daughter of the right hon. John Sullivan; and three daughters, Maria Elizabeth; Sophia Isabella, wife of rev. Thomas Whateley, vicar of Cookham, Berks; and Louisa Anne.

3. At the residence of his son, at Walthamstow, Daniel Britten, esq. of Homerton, aged 76.

At Pertenhall rectory, Bedfordshire aged 89 years and eight months, the rev. Thomas Martyn, B. D. F. R. S. rector of that place, perpetual curate of Edgware, Midlesex, and for sixty-four years professor of Botany in the university of Cambridge. He was the eldest of the three sons of John Martyn, M. D., also professor of Botany at Cambridge, and a physician resident at Chelsea, by Eutalia, youngest daughter of John King, D. D. rector of that_place, and prebendary of York. He was educated under the rev. Mr. Rothery, at Chelsea, and thence admitted a pensioner, or in the second rank of under-graduates, of Emanuel College, Cambridge; but after taking the degree of B. A. in 1756, he removed to Sidney Sussex College, under the following circumstances. The buildings of that

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