318 MARRIAGES. MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. Jan. 28th, at Valparaiso, A. S. Austen, Esq. April 20th, J. Cramsie, Esq., solicitor, Bally- April 20th, at Donaghadee, the Rev. H. S, April 21st, at Bath, Lieut.-Col. Sir Robert April 22nd, at Cheltenham, John, third son April 27th, at Plymouth, Lieut. G. F. Hing- April 27th, at St. Alphege, Greenwich, H. W. April 28th, at Edgbaston, R. Benson, Esq. April 28th, at Bartholmhouse, Kirkcudbright- April 29th, at St. Anne's, Kew Green, Capt. April 29th, at Alne, E. R. Read, Esq., Capt. May 4th, at Bristol, James, eldest son of the late Lieut.-Col. Cookson, of H. M. 80th Regt., to Sybella, daughter of the late T. Tyndall, Esq., of the Fort, Bristol. May 5th, at Portsmouth, L. J. A. Armit, Esq., Kl. Engineers, to Bessie, daughter of the late Major-Gen. Bredin, Royal Artillery. May 5th, at Annaduff, E. J. Irwin, Esq., of Carrick-on-Shannon, to Eliza Matilda, relict of C. Henry, Esq., late Lieut. 97th Foot. May 6th, at Paddington, Ernest, son of the late Col. Craigie, Bengal Army, to Mary, daughter of the Rev. T. Hatch. May 11th, at St. George's, Hanover-square, Major Cotton, 49th Regt., only son of Lieut.Gen. Sir W. Cotton, G.C.B., to Christina Augusta, daughter of Sir C. Des Voeux, Bart. May 11th, at Paddington, J. G. Currie, Esq., of Edmonton, to Mary, relict of the late Col. P. M. Hay, Bengal Army. May 11th, at Cashel, Capt. G. Minchin, to Matilda, daughter of the late J. Scott, Esq. May 11th, at Toulouse, Vicomte H. de Milhau, to F. F. R. Davison, eldest daughter of Major-Gen. Davison, of Northumberland. May 11th, at Cheltenham, W. F. Billings, Esq., to Mary, daughter of the late Major H. Walter, Madras Army. May 11th, at Porlock, W. G. Smyth, Esq., of Southmolton, Devon, to Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. J. G. Cox, late of 11th Regt. May 12th, at Dublin, J. B. Calbeck, Esq., to Letitia, daughter of Lieut. Col. Wearing, Plymouth Division Rl. Marines. May 12th, at St. George's, Hanover-square, Capt. R. G. Duff, 12th Regt., to Mary, only daughter of W. B. Astley, Esq., of the Isle of Wight. May 12th, at Bath, J. R. Ford, late Captain in H. M. 95th Regt., to Elizabeth, daughter of the late J. Broune, Esq., of Bath. May 14th, at Drumcondra, J. Da Cruz, Esq., [JUNE, of Oporto, to Georgiana Hungerford, only daughter of Capt. Wilson, late 49th Regt. May 17th, J. E. Currey, M.D., late of 23rd Fusiliers, to A. M. Fenton, widow of the late J. Fenton, Esq., of Hampstead. May 18th, at St. George's, Bloomsbury, J. D. Pilcher, to Matilda, eldest daughter of H. H. Young, Esq., formerly of 31st Foot. May 18th, at St. Marylebone, Rev. H. B. Power, M.A., youngest son of the late Lieut.Gen. Sir Manley Power, K.C.B., to Sophia, daughter of the late Col. Thoroton, Grenadier Guards. May 18th, at Ripley, Yorkshire, E. Boodle, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, to Julia, daughter of the late Rear-Admiral Sir R. Barrie, K.C.B., and K.H. May 18th, at Greenwich, J. M. Burton, Esq., eldest son of Capt. G. G. Burton, R.N., to Mary, youngest daughter of J. Sutton, Esq., of Greenwich. May 18th, at Mayfield Church, Staffordshire, Thomas Folliott Powell, Esq., of the 16th Queen's Lancers, son of the late S. Powell, Esq., of Brandlesholme Hall, Lancashire, to Isabella, youngest daughter of J. D. Cooper, Esq., of Holme Cottage, Ashbourne, Derbyshire. DEATHS. Jan. 11th, at the Cape of Good Hope, Assist.-Surg. Howell, killed in action. Jan. 11th, at the Cape of Good Hope, killed in action, Capt. Gibson, Rifle Brigade. Jan. 11th, at the Cape of Good Hope, killed in action, Lieut. the Hon. W. J. G. Chetwynd, 73rd Foot. Jan. 16th, drowned on passage from India, Jan. 27th, Quartermaster Hope, h..p. Rox- Feb. 1st, at Poona, Lieut. Walsh, 10th Hus sars. Feb. 19th, Col. Orchard, C.B., E.I.C.S. March 6th, near Edinburgh, Lt.-Col. H. F. March 8th, Quartermaster Findlay, h..p. March 11th, at Benares, Major-Gen. J. March 15th, Capt. F. J. McDonell, late 2nd Veteran Battalion. March 15th, at Exmouth, Capt. Wm. Camp- March 16th, Quartermaster Kyle, h.p. 82nd. March 19th, Lieut. Hopper, late District March 23rd, Quartermaster Cross, h.p. 86th March 31st, Quartermaster Brew, h.p. 49th April 1st, Lieut. Villiers, late 2nd R1. Vet. April 4th, Lieut. Donaldson, late 8th R1. April 4th, at Toronto, Colonel Sir Charles April 11th, at Guernsey, Paymaster Ormond, 86th Foot. April 13th, Admiral Mann Dobson, of the White Squadron. The deceased Admiral entered the Navy, in 1778, as a Midshipman of the Hyena, in which ship he was present in Vice-Admiral Byron's action with D'Estaing off Grenada, 6th July, 1779. He then joined the Conqueror, and was in action with M. de la Mothe Piquet's squadron, and the batteries of Fort Royal Bay, Martinique, on 18th Dec. following. In this very sharp affair, Capt. Walter Griffiths, who commanded the Conqueror, was killed, and Mr. Dobson wounded, by one shot. Mr. Dobson continued to serve in the Conqueror, and was present in all the actions of 1780-81, in which he saw some hard fighting. In 1782, he served as Mate of the Cerberus, commanded by Capt. Robert Man, at the relief of Gibraltar, and was made a Lieut. on 23rd Sept. in that year. At the commencement of the revolutionary war in 1793, he was appointed to the Bedford, and was most actively employed at the defence of Toulon, where he acted as Lieut.-Governor of Fort la Malgue. He afterwards became First Lieut. of the St. George, bearing Sir Hyde Parker's flag, in which ship he served in Admiral Hotham's two actions off Toulon. He was made a Commander, 4th Nov., 1795, and in June, 1796, advanced to the rank of Post-Captain, and continued to serve as FlagCaptain to Sir Hyde Parker in the West Indies, until Nov. 1800. In 1819, he was made a Retired Captain; but, in 1827, His Majesty William IV., when Lord High Admiral, gave him his proper place on the list of Flag Officers, and he died an Admiral on the Active List. April 16th, at Corfu, Col, F. Dawkins, Deputy Quartermaster-General. April 17th, in London, Major A. McArthur, E.I.C.S. April 18th, at Catton, Norwich, G. F. Harvey, Esq., late Captain 18th Lt. Dragoons. April 18th, at Exmouth, Charlotte, the wife of Lieut. E. H. Fitzmaurice, R.N., aged 54. April 19th, at Crediton, Lieut. W. Haydon, h.p. 9th Foot. April 20th, at Worthing, Letitia, relict of Capt. E. Coxwell, H.E.I.C.S., aged 97. April 20th, at Weston-super-Mare, Mary April 21st, at Stepney, Capt. Holt, h.p. April 21st, at Clifton, Col. Lewis, of St. Pierre, Monmouthshire, Colonel of the Monmouth Militia. April 21st. at Caton, Lancaster, J. Cririe, Esq., Commander R.N., aged 64. April 22nd, at Cheltenham, Willoughby Edward, youngest son of Major Brooke, of H.M. 32nd, Regt., aged 5. April 22nd, at Southampton place, Reading, Com. G. Tupman, R.N., aged 61. April 23rd, Senior Admiral of the Red Sir Davidge Gould, G.C.B., Vice Admiral of the United Kingdom, who had long been in a declining state, and for the last six months confined to his room, sank at last, full of years and of honours, into the long, quiet, calm sleep of death, without a struggle and without pain, at his seat in Herts. He was in his 90th year, upwards of 70 years of which had been spent in the service of his country. This distinguished officer served under, and was the friend and messmate of Nelson, Rodney, Hood, Hotham, Hyde Parker, &c. His late Majesty William IV., with whom he had the honour of serving, was ever the most kind and gracious friend of his old companion and messmate. For some years past he has been the last surviving Captain who commanded a line-of-battle ship at the glorious battle of the Nile. Sir Davidge's commission as a Lieutenant is dated 7th May, 1779; Commander. June, 1782; Captain, March, 1789, and Rear-Admiral, Oct., 1807. He became Vice-Admiral, July, 1810, and Admiral, May, 1825. He became Senior Admiral of the Red at the promotion in Nov. last. As a Midshipman he served in the Phoenix, in the first American war, and as a Lieutenant served in the Conqueror in Rodney's action in April, 1782. As Captain he commanded the Bedford in Hotham's action off Genoa, in March, 1795, and in Frejus Bay in July of that year. At the Nile he commanded the Audacious, and also at the blockade of Malta, and subsequently had the proud satisfaction of commanding the Genereux, which ship, when a French vessel, sneaked away from the Nile, and was recaptured some time after she and her cowardly consort had pounced upon the Leander. The gallant Admiral was not only "the last of the Nile," but the last male descendant of the ancient and honourable knightly Somersetshire family of Gould, of Sharpham Park. Besides enumerating among its members two distinguished Judges, and other persons of eminence, the mother of the celebrated author of Tom Jones was Sarah, daughter of Sir Henry Gould, of Sharpham Park, where the author was born in 1707. She was the wife of General Fielding, nephew of William, third Earl of Denbigh. The deceased married Harriett, eldest daughter of the late Archdeacon Willes, son of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and nephew of the Lord Chief Justice Sir John Willes, but by whom he leaves no issue. Her ladyship survives him. April 24th, at Cloudesley-square, Colonel G. B. Bell, Bengal Native Infantry, aged 61. April 24th, at Cardigan, Capt. J. Ferrier, late of the Cardiganshire Militia, aged 81. April 25th, at Leamington, Lieut.-Colonel Pocklington, late of the Notts Militia, and of Carlton House, Notts, aged 72. April 25th, at Bath, Arthur Henry, the only child of Col. Maclean, 13th Dragoons. April 26th, at Canterbury, Paymaster Williams, 16th Lancers. April 26th, at Gough's Oak, Cheshunt, Mrs. M. Thorpe, relict of Captain J. Thorpe, late of the Adjutant-General's Department, aged 84. April 27th, at the Priory, Woodchester, Jane, widow of the late Col. Cox, RI. Artillery, aged 83. April 29th, at Castle Fraser, Mary Elizabeth, second daughter of Col. Fraser. April 29th, Second Lieut. Henry, RI. Marine Artillery. April 29th, at Buckland, near Portsea, Charlotte Jane, relict of Captain H. Timpson, R.M., aged 52. May 1st, at Gosport, Sophia Augusta Seymour, sister of the late Major-Gen. Seymour, Governor of St. Lucie, aged 80. May 2nd, at Cannon-street, Capt. A. Weynton, elder brother of the Trinity House. May 2nd, at Countesswelis, Aberdeen, Hope Hadden, youngest daughter of Capt. M'Intyre, 78th Highlanders, aged 11. May 2nd, at Dover, Capt. Thomas Lynn, late of the Hon. E.I.C.S., aged 73. May 4th, at the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, Col. White, of the Woodlands, Dublin. May 4th, at Nunhead road, Peckham Rye, Charlotte, widow of Capt. W. Hamilton, H.E.I.C.S. May 6th, at Upper Kensington Gore, Miss Anne Phillott. May 6th, at Southsea, Com. Robert Jones (1844). He was a Lieut. of 1823. May 7th, at No. 4, Gloucester-road, Old Brompton, Eleanor, widow of the late Dr. Pemberton, and sister of the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Hamilton, Bart., in her 76th year. May 7th, at Freeford, near Lichfield, General Dyot, formerly A.D.C. to His Majesty George III., and the twelfth in seniority on the list of General Officers. He had 66 years' service, and was engaged in the West Indies in 1796, in Egypt in 1801, and Walcheren in 1809. His commissions were dated, Ensign, March 14, 1781; Lieut., May 9, 1782; Captain, April 25, 1793; Major, May 19, 1794; Lieut.-Col., Sept. 18, 1794; Col., Jan. 1, 1800; Major-General, April 25, 1808; Lient.-Gen., June 4, 1813; Gen.. July 22, 1830. He held the Colonelcy of the 63rd Foot since 7th April, 1825. May 7th, at Southsea, J. Mill, Esq., Lieut. 40th Regt., in which corps he served in the principal campaigns of the Peninsular war, and was severely wounded at Waterloo. May 7th, at Bath, in his 53rd year, Richard Heaviside, Esq., formerly a captain in the King's Dragoon Guards. May 7th, at Paddington, Augustus Gordon, Esq., late of H.M. 33rd Foot. May 7th, in Sloane-street, the Hon. Lady King, relict of the late Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. Sir Henry King, K.C.B. May 9th, at St. Helier's, Jersey, Sarah, the wife of Simon Little, Esq., Paymaster and Purser, R.N. May 9th, at Eden Lacy, Lieut.-Col. Lacy, aged 82. May 10th, at Brentwood, Lieut. C. Chinnery, R.N., aged 57. May 10th, at Catton, Augusta, relict of Lieut.-Col. J. Hart, Inspecting Field Officer, Dublin District, aged 77. May 11th, at Binfield, Berks, Sophia, relict of the late Capt. Wright, aged 71. May 11th, at Salford, Manchester, Henry Devereux, the youngest child of Lieut. Betts, 25th Reg., aged two years two and a half months. May 11th, Capt. Thomas George Wills, R.N. (1835), died at his residence. Brockhurst, near Gosport, under the following distressing circumstances:-It appeared from the evidence of a friend, Captain Jacob Silver, that about halfpast 3 o'clock the deceased retired to the bottom of his garden, and, having sat down, shot himself with a pistol. Com. Shute, who had known the deceased upwards of six months, observed he was in a most desponding state, especially since the 11th of March last, and had asked him the cause, when he replied, placing his hand on his forehead, "I feel it here." An inquest was held, and a verdict returned, "That the deceased committed suicide by shooting himself with a pistol, whilst in a state of unsound mind." Captain Wills was aged 61, and has left a widow and four children. He was the Senior Captain of 1835; was Midshipman of the Windsor Castle, 98, under Lord Hood, at Toulon, in 1793; was in Hotham's first action, 1795, and of the Russell, 74, at Copenhagen, 1801; was Midshipman of the Wasp, in an encounter with the revolted blacks at Sierra Leone, 101, and a prisoner in France ten years. His commissions bear date -Lieut., Jan., 1806; Commander, May, 1820; Capt., Jan., 1835. May 12, at his residence, Kilburn Priory, in his 79th year, Admiral John Fordyce Maples, R.N., C.B. He was one of the Captains of 1813, who, in October last, accepted the retirement. His previous commissions were dated, Lieutenant, May, 1794, and Commander, Oct., 1810. He was Midshipman of Penelope in 1793, at the capture of a French corvette and the French frigate Inconstant, for which he was promoted. In 1794, as a Lieutenant, he served in the Magicienne at the reduction of Port-au-Prince, and subsequently at the capture of several large privateers, and the French corvette, Cerf Volante, in 1796; and was in command of the Magicienne's boats in the following year in cutting out the privateers at Porto Rico. He then became Senior Lieutenant, and as such was at the capture of guns and destruction of vessels in various cuttingout expeditions in the harbour of Cape Roxo, and in the most gallant manner boarded and brought out from under the batteries of Tiberoon, an armed sloop. He served at Copenhagen, in 1801, as a volunteer; and we find him at Trafalgar, as first Lieutenant of the Naiad; but he was not promoted until 1810, in which year he commanded the Etna, bomb, at the defence of the Isla de Leon. Three years subsequently he won his Captain's rank; for when in command of the Pelican brig, at the commencement of the war, engaging and capturing the United States 20-gun brig Argus, for which brilliant affair, in 1815, he was nominated a Companion of the Bath. May 12, at his seat, Bedhampton, aged 78, Admiral of the White Stephen Poyntz. The gallant deceased commanded the Solebay, at the capture of a French Squadron in the West Indies in 1792, and in the Melampus assisted at the destruction of the Imperieux, off Cape Sheury. Gazetted 1810. Admiral Poyntz's commissions bear date, Lieutenant, April, 1791; Commander, Oct., 1795; Captain, Dec., 1796; Rear-Admiral, Aug., 1819; Vice-Admiral, July, 1830; Admiral, Nov., 1841. May 12th, at Urswick, Thomas, son of the late Capt. W. Neal, aged 26. May 12th, S. Halliday, widow of Capt. J. L. Halliday, 9th Royal Invalids, aged 78. May 14th, at Torquay, Capt. W. Evans, 18th Foot: deceased was one of the few survivors of the unfortunate 44th Regt., cut up at Cabool, and was one of the captives with Col. Shelton, the gallant Lady Sale, &c., aged 39. On passage from India to England, Alethes, wife of Major E. Bond, 39th Regt., aged 30. Off the Cape of Good Hope, on board the Gloriana, Elizabeth Martha Maria, daughter of the late Lieut-Gen. Boye, B.A., and wife of Jaines Coster, Esq., H.M. 14th (King's) Light Dragoons, aged 23 years. May 15th, T. M. Elstor, R.N., late of H.M.S. Dolphin, aged 19. May 15th at Heigham, near Norwich, Capt. H. G. S. Croasdaile, 10th Madras N.I. May 16th, at the Club Chambers, Regent Street, J. Lovewell, Esq., formerly Captain in the 7th Dragoon Guards, aged 61. May 18th, at Anne Mount, county of Waterford, Ireland, Capt. Alston, late of 99th Regt. May 19th, at Cheltenham, Louisa Dacres, the wife of Col. James Jones, K.H., Unatt. Surgeon Calder, 2nd Life Guards. Lieut. Potts (1808); he was Midshipman of Conqueror at Trafalgar, and one of the old neglected Lieutenants. -Retired Surgeon Forbes M'Bean Chevers (1795). He served as Assistant-Surgeon of Phaeton, at the capture of the French frigate Promte, and in Howe's action; was Surgeon to Hydra, in the action with the French frigate Confiance, aud destruction of the Vesuve, corvette; of Tamor, at the capture of the Republicaine; of Robust, at the cutting out the Chevrette; of Tonnant, at Trafalgar and of Implacable, at the destruction of the Sewolod, and a flotilla, in the Baltic. →Colonel Lee, late of 96th Foot. Lieut. Duperier, h.p., 18th Hussars. - Lieut. Badham, h.p., 35th Foot, (Adj.). ON THE ENLISTMENT BILL. BY COLONEL FIREBRACE. "Oh! that I was but a soldier once more, In peace time or war, 'twould do me no harm; A can of good ale, no chalk on the door, And a pipe to smoke the length of my arm." DIONYSIUS TOBACCONICENSIS. In every branch of legislation in England, and throughout our institutions, there is nothing so prominent as the force of custom: any thing which has had the sanction of time is cherished with a sort of veneration, even after it has been proved detrimental and injurious, and any change or amelioration is resisted with a sort of vis inertia that is curious to contemplate. Nothing can more forcibly prove this assertion than the opposition that has been shown to the just and philanthropic measure of shortening the period of the soldier's service, which in the eyes of some overwise and overcautious persons is fraught with great and serious danger; and nothing less is foreseen than the disorganization and consequent destruction of the Army. This feeling even pervades professional men, some of whom are of high character in the military world. I do not wish to throw any slur on the opinions of most of those gentlemen. I have no doubt that they have been actuated by feelings of what was proper and beneficial to the Service. Perhaps they have been swayed by the mere force of habit and adherence to old customs and practices. I have little doubt that a very few years will do away with this prejudice, and that they will look on the measure in its true light, as an act of justice and kindness to the British soldier. Their opposition was founded on principle; and that conscientious feeling will console them when the measure they were adverse to has become the law of the land. The gentlemen I have alluded to have shewn some sort of cause why they voted in opposition to the Government; but there are a few who appear to have had nothing on their side but mere prejudice. Of these the most conspicuous, the Marquis of Londonderry in the Upper and Sir Howard Douglas in the Lower House, have not in my apprehension brought forward any single valid argument against the measure. Nothing but a repetition of fears and alarms, precisely of the same vague and indefinite form and substance which attended the reform of the House of Commons, the emancipation of the slaves, and the abolition of the Leadenhall Street monopoly. The noble Marquis, something in the manner of a sulky school-boy, exclaims, "We want no reform, no revolution, or disorganization;" and then winds up this lachrymose appeal with that wondrous apothegm, which contains within itself all the knowledge and philosophy of ages, "Let well alone*." Before letting well alone, it may not be amiss to ask one or two questions. Is it well to impose on the senses of some country lout by the most false misrepresentations and impossible lies? to tell this unfortu * Lord Londonderry's letter to Lord John Russell. U. S. MAG., No. 224, JULY, 1847. Y nate fellow, that on condition of parting with his liberty for life, he will be entitled to a certain amount of pounds, shillings, and pence, and when he awakes from a drunken delirium into which you have thrown him, he finds that the only money that has passed through his hands is the fatal shilling, and that, when he comes to settle accounts with the Pay Serjeant, he is in debt? Is it well, that in free England the only man bound to servitude for life is a soldier? Is it well, that a man should be kept in India for two and twenty years, have the marrow of his bones fried down to a few drops, and then be sent to Canada to have the residue frozen, and when you have extracted all the pith and stamina from him, and that he is no longer "worth his salt," you get rid of him by doling out the magnificent reward of five-pence a day, with the implied advice that he should lose no time in joining a temperance society? This species of consolation is much of the same sort as I recollect was once offered to the soldiers on the retreat to Corunna. After a day's march in the wet, which continued till long after dark, the troops were halted in a quagmire near Betanzos, half way up the leg in its mixed contents; when a Staff Officer galloped into the slush, and told the men to make themselves as comfortable as they could! Is it well, that when soldiers are sent into every nook and corner of the inhabited or desert portions of the globe, to combat the enemies of their country, civilized and savage, and that they perform deeds of valour individually equal to any related in history, that no chance exists of ever having them recorded, and he is denied the slightest badge to distinguish him from the herd? Such, without the least exaggeration was the state and condition of "our glorious Army" at the conclusion of a war that has shed immortal honour on the annals of Great Britain; and because, within these last dozen years, a few instalments have been paid of the long standing debt due by the nation to its brave defenders, the whole of the standfasts, like poor Jack Falstaff, "are so shaked of a burning quotidian tertian, that is most lamentable to behold." There are people in the world possessed of a very scanty supply of ideas of their own: they form their opinions and pin their faith on the real or supposed sentiments of some one else who takes a leading part in the affairs of the world. Because the Duke of Wellington gave at first apparently cold support to the Enlistment Bill, these wise men immediately concluded that his Grace was secretly opposed to it, and they spoke and voted accordingly, with the additional desire of " currying favour." I may tell these toadies, for their comfort and consolation, that they have entirely mistaken the man and their own object. Amongst the many high and great qualities which distinguish the Commander-in-Chief, he possesses in a very superior degree that species of intuitive tact, which the French denominate clair-voyance, he can tell in an instant when any subject is likely to obtain popular attention and interest, and he never allows his private views to interfere with the wishes or supposed interests of the nation: witness Catholic emancipation and the close of the discussion on the corn-laws. If he has given some what dubious support to the present bill, there is still sufficient to encourage those who instituted the measure, for it is fairly admitted that it will do no injury to the great point of retaining in the service the old soldiers, "who are the heart and soul, the courage, the life of a |