DEATHS.-MARCH. elected chairman of the county magis trates, in April, 1842; and he continued to discharge the duties of that office until within two years of his death. 26. At his seat, Durdans, near Epsom, aged 77, Sir Gilbert Heathcote, the fourth bart. (1732-3), of Normanton Park, co. Rutland. He was the eldest son of Sir Gilbert, the third bart., and succeeded to the title, Dec. 4, 1785. He entered Parliament at the early age of 21, as one of the members for the county of Lincoln, being returned at the general election of 1796. He was again returned in 1802 and 1806, but not in 1807, in consequence of a contest being then threatened, into which he declined to enter. In 1812 he was returned for the county of Rutland, which he continued to represent until the dissolution of 1841. He then retired from active political life; but continued to the end of his days much devoted to the amusements of the turf, on which no one was more distinguished for high principle and honour. Gilbert Heathcote was twice married: first, on the 15th of August, 1793, to Lady Katharine Sophia Tollemache, fourth daughter of John Manners, esq., of Grantham Grange, co. Lincoln, by Louisa, Countess of Dysart; and secondly, in 1825, to Mrs. Eldon, of Park-crescent, Portland-place, and had issue by both ladies. Sir At Southall, aged 49, Major William Payne Neale, late of the 16th Lancers. At Hampton Court Palace, Charlotte Thoroton, daughter of the late Thomas Thoroton, esq., of Screveton Hall, Notts. 27. At Notting-hill-terrace, Catherine, relict of Capt. Sir George M. Keith, bart., R.N. At Romford, aged 49, Major Richard Bennett, of the 1st Regt., son of Major Bennett, 13th Light Dragoons. In Grosvenor-square, Mary, widow of Col. Gore Langton, of Newton Park, co. Somerset. 28. At St. Breock, Cornwall, the Rev. William Molesworth, Rector of that parish. At Ardsheal House, Appin, Argyleshire, aged 63, Major Robert Stewart, late of the 91st and 94th Regiments of Foot. veyor-General at the Cape of Good Hope. He was the second son of Adm. Sampson Michell of the Brazilian navy, and obtained his commission as second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1809. In 1810 he embarked for Gibraltar; and, shortly after, joined the army in Portugal, where, in command of a brigade of Portuguese artillery, he gained great credit at the siege and capture of Badajos, and in the battles of Vittoria and Toulouse. Towards the close of the field of Toulouse, he received a severe contusion from a spent ball, which kept him for some weeks on crutches. He received the silver medal for Badajos, and the gold medal and clasp for Vittoria and Toulouse. In March, 1824, in regard to his own services and those of his father, the Queen of Portugal sent him the order of St. Bento d'Avis; and in Sept., 1846, her Faithful Majesty nominated him also a Commander of the order of the Tower and Sword. On the return of the Portuguese army to Lisbon, he was attached to the staff of Field-Marshal Beresford; whom in 1820 he accompanied to the Brazils, and thence retired to France. In 1824 he was appointed to the situation of Military Drawing Master at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst; and in the following year was appointed Professor of Fortification in the same institution. In 1828 he received the ap pointment of Surveyor-General, Civil Engineer, and Superintendent of Works at the Cape of Good Hope, where he remained for nearly twenty years. Near all the great public works which have changed the aspect of the colony were undertaken and accomplished in accordance with Col. Michell's plans, and under his immediate superintendence. Some of his roads across the gigantic mountains are unsurpassed in boldness of conception and beauty of execution, by any works of the kind in other parts of the world. During the Kafir war in 1834, he acted as Assistant Quartermaster-General, and he received in acknowledgment the Hanoverian Guelphic Order from King William IV. 28. Aged 56, Catherine, widow of William Braybrooke, esq., Deputy-Assistant Commissary General, and second daughter of the late Charles Rossi, esq., R.A. At his residence, in Old Windsor, DEATHS.-MARCH. aged 78, Samuel Bagster, esq., publisher of the Polyglot Bibles. 29. In Torrington-square, Capt. Edward Harris Butterfield, R.N. He was the second son of Rear-Adm. William Butterfield. He was actively engaged in the suppression of the slave trade in the Atholl, 28, and Sybille, 48, and as mate of the Black Joke, the tender of the latter, he contributed to the capture of 21 vessels, carrying an aggregate of upwards of 7000 slaves. For his dashing capture of El Almirante, of 14 guns and 80 men, having 460 slaves on board, after a severe action of 80 minutes, he was placed on the Admiralty list, and ultimately appointed First Lieutenant of the Primrose, 18, Jan. 5, 1830. On Sept. 7 following, he again signalized himself in a desperate conflict with another slaver, the Veloz Passagra, of 20 guns, to which he owed his promotion to Commander, March 7, 1832. In the interval, on the 16th of April, 1831, he commissioned the Brisk brig, and captured the Preuva, with 313 slaves. Subsequently in the Fantome, 16, with a small squadron of brigs under his orders, he seized 48 slavers, containing 5628 captives. He was advanced to post rank Nov. 23, 1841. Capt. Butterfield committed suicide at the house of his brother-inlaw, Dr. Smedley. At Pau, R. W. St. John, esq., formerly Consul-General of England at Algiers. At his residence, near Bristol, aged 75, George Daubeney, esq. At Corby, aged 76, Elizabeth Jane Caroline, relict of the Rev. J. Harris, Rector of Deene and Corby, youngest daughter of the late Sir Percy Bysshe Shelley, bart., of Goring Castle, Sussex, by his second wife, Elizabeth Sidney, sole heiress of the Sidneys, Earls of Leicester. 30. At Kingston, Canada West, Major Alexander Forbes, late of the 79th Highlanders. He served in the Peninsula, at Badajoz, in the battle of the Nivelle and Nive, and at Waterloo, where he was wounded in the leg by a musket-ball. At St. Leonard's-on-Sea, aged 18, 30. At his house in Moray-place, one of the Senators of the College of an ever 31. In Keppel-street, Russell-square, aged 65, Mr. John Dickens. In his earlier years Mr. Dickens held an office in the Navy Pay Department, at Chatham Dockyard; he afterwards joined "the press," and had ever since been known as one of its most efficient, and at the same time one of its most respected members. He was the father of the celebrated novelist, Mr. Charles Dickens. At Bossall Hall, aged 79, Marianne, relict of the Rev. Wm. Nesfield, Rector of Brancepeth. At Kilmacoe, Comm. John White Pritchard, R.N., 1828. He was actively employed for twenty years during the war, and was Aide-de-Camp to Admiral the Earl of Northesk, in the Britannia, at the battle of Trafalgar, for which he received a medal. Lately. At Edinburgh, aged 82, Mr. James A. Haldane, a great promoter of evangelical Christianity in Scotland. Lately. At Chichester, in his 85th year, Comm. George Reynolds, R.N., son of the late Adm. John Reynolds. In 1791 he was wrecked in the Pandora, 24, sent in search of the mutineers of the Bounty, and was first lieutenant of the Vengeance, 74, at the capture of St. Lucia and Trinidad. Lately. At Hanover, aged more than 80, a lady named Sophie Von Lenthe, the widow of a subaltern civil official. In the year 1771, when the unfortunate Queen Caroline Matilda, of Denmark, obtained by the intervention of her brother George III. an asylum at Cette, in Hanover, she wished to adopt a child to supply the void left in her heart by the detention of her own children from her. An orphan girl, known as "little T 2 REGISTER Sophie," was selected, and remained with the Queen till the death of Her Majesty in 1775, when she received a small pension from the State. Lately. Aged 66, M. Henri Delatouche, once a celebrated name among French writers. Lately. At Berlin, the Russian philosopher Jacobi. Lately. In his 58th year, M. Lachmann, Professor of Greek Philology in the University of Berlin, author of many works, philological and critical. And on the same day, M. P. F. Stuhr, Professor of Mythology and the Philosophy of History in the same university. Lately. Dr. Czermak, a celebrated Professor of Anatomy and Pathology in the University of Vienna. Lately. Aged 94, M. François, father of the artists of Belgium. Lately. At Paris, M. Ganneau, inventor of a new religion, which he named "Evadaïsme," and of which he was the "Mapah." The new faith flourished at the era of Mormonism and the Unknown Tongues, and gained some notoriety. APRIL. 1. At Plymouth, in his 64th year, Rear-Admiral John Toup Nicolas, C.B., K.H., and K.F.M. Rear-Admiral Nicolas was the eldest son of retired Comm. John Harris Nicolas, R.N., of East Looe, Cornwall, and was brother of the late Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, G.C.M.G., the very distinguished historical and genealogical author. Capt. Nicolas was in constant service in the junior ranks of his profession. In 1810 he was appointed to the Pilot, 18, in which he did great service on the east and west coasts of Calabria, where he captured and destroyed upwards of 130 of the enemy's vessels. On the 17th of June, 1815, he attacked the French manof-war La Legère, mounting 28 guns, On this occaand caused her to run. sion Capt. Nicolas received post rank. On the 4th of June, 1815, the Prince Regent conferred on him the companionship of the Order of the Bath. the 4th of October in the same year His Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies conferred on him the small cross of the Royal and Military order of St. Ferdinand and Merit; and on the 26th of April, 1815, he was raised to the rank On of Knight Commander of the same last. 1. At Chelmsford, Jane, relict of the Rev. Vincent Edwards, Vicar of Broomfield, sister of the late Lord Chief Justice Tindal. 2. At the residence of Lord Mackenzic, near Edinburgh, in his 53rd year, the Rev. James Seaton Reid, D.D., Professor of Ecclesiastical and Civil History in the University of Glasgow. At Clifton-hill House, aged 70, George Eddie Sanders, esq., a magistrate for the county of Gloucester and city of Bristol. At Richmond, aged 81, Miss Maria Babington, last surviving sister of the late William Babington, M.D. 3. In Montague-street, Portman-square, Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Macleod, knt., C.B. and K.C.H., Colonel of the 77th Foot. Sir John Macleod entered the army as an Ensign in the 78th Highland Regt., in 1793, and next year served in Holland in the arduous campaign under the Duke of York. He was present at the attack and capture of Fort St. Andre, the bombardment of Nimeguen, and the sortie, the attack, and defeat of the enemy at Beirren Mansel, Guilder Mansel, and Thuil. In 1814 Col. Macleod served in the campaign under Lord DEATHS.-APRIL. Lynedoch, and commanded the brigade which carried the village of Merxem on the 14th of January, on which occasion he was severely wounded. In 1815 he was nominated a Companion of the Bath, and in 1832 he was knighted by King William the Fourth. In 1840 he was appointed colonel of the 77th Regiment. 3. At Stonehouse, Mrs. Fanshawe, wife of Commodore Arthur Fanshawe, C.B., Commander-in-Chief on the Coast of Africa, daughter of Vice-Adm. Sir Edw. G. Colpoys, K.C.B. - At Bowood Park, in her 66th year, the Most Hon. Louisa Emma, Marchioness of Lansdowne. She was the fifth daughter of Henry Thomas, second Earl of Ilchester, by Maria Theresa, daughter of Standish Grady, esq., of Capercullin, co. Limerick, and was married to the Marquis of Lansdowne on the 30th of March, 1808. The deceased Marchioness was the animating spirit of that refined and intellectual society which made Lansdowne House and that of the late Lord and Lady Holland the great points of attraction of all that was witty, learned, and polished in the Whig circles. Nor was her Ladyship less endowed in the best and noblest qualities of the heart; and hundreds of poor families, spread over the princely demesnes of the family, have sustained a loss which they will feel severely. The lively interest which this excellent lady took in everything that related to the comfort and moral habits, the wellbeing and well-doing of the poor on the estate, has passed into a proverb. Stimulated by a lively faith, and aided by two valuable tastes, a love of cottage architecture and of the education of the young-in many a roomy and convenient peasant's home; in her three very efficient schools at Buckhill, at Calne, and at Foxham; in the lodges of elegant and varied designs which cover the avenues to the park; in the picturesque group of gabled buildings which cluster about the Italian gate at Derry Hill; above all, in the churches, which both there and at Foxham (the one by her influence founded, the other restored) have provided the means of grace and truth to long-neglected populations, and made the wilderness to blossom as the rose ;-in and by such works as these she has left an imperishable record of what may be effected by the combination of a refined understand ing, a humane heart, and a religious spirit. Her Ladyship has left issue. 3. At Coblentz, aged 34, the Hon. Frederick Savile, fifth son of the Earl of Mexborough. 4. At Frant, Mary, third surviving daughter of the late John Adams, esq., of Peterwell, Cardiganshire, and M.P. for Carmarthen. At Liverpool, in his 57th year, Edward Rushton, esq., barrister-at-law, stipendiary magistrate in that town. 5. At Highgate, aged 82, William Barron, esq., formerly of the Strand, a highly-respected member of the Court of Assistants of the Stationers' Company. He served Master in 1837, and was again elected to that office in 1841. At the house of his brother, in Leicester, aged 65, Thomas Cradock, esq., a Major in the army, and one of the Military Knights of Windsor. Shortly after the breaking out of the Peninsular War in 1808, being then lieutenant of the 27th Foot, he joined the army in Portugal under the command of Lord Wellington, and took part in nearly all the important actions of that memorable war, including Busaco, Albuera, Talavera, Cuidad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, the Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes, and Toulouse. At the siege of Badajoz his regiment (the 27th) formed part of the storming party at the main breach, and such was the carnage that Major Cradock, though only lieutenant, entered the town in command of the regiment. At Salamanca he was engaged in the skirmish, one of the most celebrated in the war, that took place the night before the battle, when an important position occupied by a strong corps of the enemy was carried at the point of the bayonet by a comparatively small force of British troops. At Albuera, the division to which Major Cradock belonged (Sir Lowry Cole's) formed the reserve, but was brought into action early in the day to supply the defection of a corps of 10,000 Spaniards, who had been suddenly seized with a panic, and abandoned the important position assigned to them. At the close of the war with France in 1814, the 27th was one of the regiments which was immediately shipped off to America, to take part in the war then going on with that country. Lieut. Cradock accompanied his regiment, and was engaged in several of the actions of the latter part of the war, including the DEATHS.-APRIL. disastrous one of New Orleans. The American war had just terminated when that with France was renewed by the escape of Bonaparte from Elba, in March, 1815, and the 27th was one of the old Peninsular regiments which were fortunate enough to rejoin their chief in time to fight once more under his command in the ever-memorable battle of Waterloo. Here they displayed in no small degree the unflinching fortitude and indomitable perseverance which on that eventful day so nobly distinguished the British regiments of the line. Out of little more than 700 men who took up their ground in the morning, 400 had fallen killed or wounded before the repulse of the enemy and the final advance of the British line in the evening. Amongst the wounded was Lieut. Cradock, who received a severe wound from a musket shot in the face, the ball entering one cheek, carrying away part of the roof of the mouth, and passing through the other cheek. In 1842 Capt. Cradock was appointed one of the Military Knights of Windsor, having been selected from amongst a great number of competitors, solely in regard to "his services and his conduct in the field," as was signified to him in the most handsome and gratifying manner by Sir James Graham, with whom the appointment then rested. In 1845 he was promoted to the rank of Major by brevet. 6. At St. Thomas's, Southwark, aged 44, Eliza, wife of the Rev. William Deey, and younger daughter of Charles Francis, esq., of Vauxhall. Aged 62, the Rev. William Morgan Kinsey, B.D., Rector of Rotherfield Grey's, Oxfordshire. At Thornton Lodge, near Northallerton, aged 67, Mary, relict of Col. Bedingfeld. 7. At Uplands Hall, aged 73, Lieut.Gen. Sir Thomas Whitehead, K.C.B., of the Bengal Army. At Norwich, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. William Squire, and only daughter of the late Sir W. J. Playters, bart. At Clifton, in his 83rd year, Thomas Browne, esq., Vice-Admiral of the Blue. This veteran officer entered the service nearly 70 years ago, and saw much active service on various stations. In February, 1796, in command of the boats of the Intrepid, 64, he cut out, from a cove on the north of St. Domingo, La Perçante, of 26 guns and nearly 200 men, all of whom fled at his approach. He was appointed flag-captain to Rear-Admiral Eliot Harvey, in the Tonnant, 60, in 1806; and he afterwards served in the same capacity in the Hannibal, Christian VII., and Aboukir, the flag-ships of Rear-Admirals P. C. Durham and T. B. Martin, in the last of which he commanded at the siege of Riga. From May, 1813, to December, 1815, he commanded the Ulysses, 44, in which he conducted Sir Thomas Graham's army to the Scheldt; afterwards, as commodore on the coast of Africa, destroyed the two last remaining English slave-factories; and at the time of Bonaparte's escape from Elba, conveyed home from St. Helena a fleet of Indiamen valued at 10,000,000%, and was in consequence presented by the Hon. E. I. Company with a larger sum for the purchase of plate than had ever before been voted to any captain. 8. At Boulogne, Commander George Hall Dacre, R.N. In the Phonix, 36, he assisted at the capture, in 1801, of the French frigates Carrère, Succès, and Bravoure. In 1803 he was taken prisoner in the Minerve, 48, when she grounded near Cherbourg, and did not regain his liberty until 1809. In Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, aged 75, Mr. John Parry (Bardd Alaw). Mr. Parry was born at Denbigh, Feb. 18, 1776, and at an early age evinced talent for music, and was an admirable performer on most wind instruments, particularly on the clarionet. His compositions and arrangements for various instruments are innumerable. He was the editor of the "Welsh Harper," and the "Welsh Melodies." He adapted the music of "Ivanhoe," at Covent Garden; wrote the music for Dibdin's "Harlequin Hoax," at the Lyceum; and "Oberon's Oath," at Drury Lane. The farce of "High Notions" was by him; as also, "Two Wives; or, a Hint to Husbands," "Helpless Friends," and "Fair Cheating." For several years he composed the songs for Vauxhall Gardens. of his most popular compositions was the favourite song of "Jenny Jones." Mr. Parry was the conductor of many of the Eisteddfods in Wales; and in 1821, at a Gorsedd, or assemblage of bards, the title of Bardd Alaw was conferred on him. He was for many years the honorary treasurer of the Royal One |