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DEATHS.-Nov.

20. At Brighton, aged 71, Mr. Samuel Thompson, of Reigate, formerly of Holborn-hill, spirit merchant, and of New Bond-street. He was a conspicuous radical, and one of the leaders of the small sect calling themselves "Freethinking Christians," whose principles proscribe all funeral rites, or family mourning.

Lately. At Carlow, Dr. Nolan, successor to the late Dr. Doyle, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kildare, and Leighlin.

20. Aged 52, John Maddocks, esq. of Glan-y-Wern, formerly M.P. for the Denbighshire boroughs.

21. In Stanhope-place, Hyde Park, in his 74th year, the Right Hon. Richard Ford William Lambart, seventh Earl of the county of Cavan, and Viscount Kilcoursie in the King's county (1647.)

Aged 79, Thomas Babington, esq. of Rothley Temple, co. Leic. The representative of one of the oldest families in Leicestershire. In 1800 he was elected Member of Parliament for the town of Leicester in the room of Lord Rancliffe deceased; he was re-chosen for the four following Parliaments, and sat until the dissolution of 1818.

22. Aged 61, Henry Verelst, of Aston-hall, Yorkshire, esq. He married a daughter of Henry Arthur Herbert, esq. and niece to the Duke of Dorset, by whom he has left a daughter, his heiress.

Lately. Mr. Jos. Holdsworth, aged 87, the father of the Ancient Society of College Youths, whose science in ring. ing is recorded in every church that has a peal of bells within 100 miles of London.

At Keswick, Mrs. Southey, wife of the Laureat.

24. At Plymouth, aged 68, John Brooke Knight, esq. Assistant-Commissary-general to the Forces.

- At Dublin, the Rev. Bartholomew Lloyd, D.D. Provost of Trinity College, President of the Royal Irish Academy, &c. &c.

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Lately. At Carnsalloch, Kirkcudbright, Scotland, aged 88, Peter Johnston, esq. formerly a Commissioner of Bankrupts. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, Nov. 24, 1775: and was M.P. for Kirkcudbright in two Parliaments from 1780 to July 1786.

- At Edinburgh, Miss Isabella Campbell, sister of the author of the "Pleasures of Hope."

At York, aged 71, Major-General
He was for

Salmond, E.I. service.
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India House, and resigned only a short

time before his death.

24. At Kinnegad, co. Westmeath, aged 70, the Right Hon. Richard Le Poer Trench, second Earl of Clancarty, co. Cork (1803), G.C.B., G.C.H.; a G.C.H Privy Councillor in Great Britain and in Ireland; one of the Representative Peers of Ireland, Custos Rotulorum of the county of Galway and Colonel of the Galway Militia, and Vice-Admiral of Connaught. His Lordship was born May 18, 1767, the second but eldest surviving son of William-Power-Keating, first Earl of Clancarty, by Anne, eldest daughter of the Right Hon. Charles Gardiner, and sister to Luke Viscount Mountjoy. On the elevation of his father to the peerage in 1797, he succeeded to his seat in the Parliament of Ireland as one of the Members for the county of Galway, which he continued to represent, after the Union, in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, until his accession to the peerage 1805. He supported the administration of Mr. Pitt, and moved the Address in the House of Commons at the meeting of Parliament of 1802; and, as the intimate friend of Lord Castlereagh, he subsequently enjoyed in succession a variety of important political offices. In 1804 he was appointed one of the Commissioners for the Affairs of India. On the 13th May, 1807, he was sworn a Privy Councillor, and in that year he was elected one of the Representative Peers for Ireland. He was appointed Master of the Mint in 1812, and President of the Board of Trade Sept. 29, 1813. In the same year, on the restoration of the Prince of Orange to the sovereignty of the Netherlands, the Earl of Clancarty accompanied him from England, and landed with him at Scheveling on the 30th of November. On the 11th Dec. following, his name was announced from the Foreign Office

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as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Prince of OrangeNassau, Sovereign Prince of the Netherlands. On the 21st June 1814 he was appointed Joint Postmaster-general (with the Earl of Chichester). In the same summer he went as one of the Plenipotentiaries from the King of Great Britain to the Congress of Vienna. In this capacity he communicated to the allied powers the overtures made by M. Caulaincourt to the cabinet of London; and in his letter of the 6th May, which was made public, he declared to the world the politics of the great powers respecting Buonaparte. He was authorized to conclude the various treaties of subsidy with the sovereigns of the coalition; and signed, in the name of his court, all the Conventions and decisions of the Congress. His portrait occurs in the beautiful French print representing that august assembly. His Lordship was again appointed Ambassador Extraordinary to the Netherlands, on the 25th of May 1816. He continued there until 1818; and has since enjoyed a pension of 2000/. per. annum for his diplomatic services. He was raised to the dignity of Viscount Clancarty by patent dated Nov. 17. 1823.

Murdered by the rebels in Canada, Lieut. Weir, of the 32d regiment, having been taken prisoner when riding with despatches. His funeral at Montreal was attended by more than 3000 men under arms, including the volun

teers.

30. At the Priory, Totnes, in his 90th year, Sir William Elford, of Bickham near Plymouth, Bart. F.R.S. and F.L.S., late Recorder and M.P. for Plymouth, and Lieut.-Colonel of the South Devon Militia. Sir William Elford was a skilful amateur painter, and there has been scarcely an exhibiof the Royal Academy for a long series of years without a contribution from his easel. His subjects were usually landscapes. He was also attached to scientific inquiries; and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1790. During the last year he had communicated to the members of both Houses of Parliament, and to all the foreign ministers resident in London, an important discovery which he had made as a substitute for common yeast.

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2. At Leamington, Miss Anne Maria Finch Hatton, sister of the Earl of Winchilsea.

In Canada, by the hands of the rebels of Toronto, Lieut.-col. Moody.

3. In St. James's palace, aged 60, the Most Hon. Charles Douglas, fith Marquis of Queensberry (1682), K.T.; a Lord in waiting to her Majesty, Lori Lieutenant of Dumfriesshire, and Cal. of the Dumfries Militia.

- In Sloane-street, aged 70, Joha Fearn, esq. author of an Essay on Human Consciousness, 4to. 1811; Review of the first principles of Bishop Berkeley, Dr. Reid and Prof. Stewart, 4to. 1813; and a Demonstration of the Principles of Primary Vision, with the consequent state of Philosophy in Great Britain, 4to. 1815. 5. Mr. J. O. Robinson, publisher, formerly a bookseller at Leeds, and afterwards a partner in the large concern of Messrs Hurst, Robinson and co. successors to Messrs. Boydell and co. printsellers and publishers, of Cheapside and Pall Mall.

On the passage between Sierra Leone, and Barbadoes, aged 26, the hon. George Robert Anson Clements, fourth son of the earl of Leitrim, lientenant in command of her majesty's brig Harpy.

6. At his seat, Delamore, in his 73rd year, Treby Hele Hayes, esq., lieute col. of the East Devon Militia.

7. In Edinburgh, aged 82, Janet, widow of Dr. Deans, mother of capt. Deans Dundas, R.N. M.P., and sister to the late lord Amesbury.

14. At his seat, Brynkinnalt, Denbighshire, in his 75th year, the right hon. Arthur Hill Trevor, second vis count Dungannon, co. Tyrone, and baron Hill of Olderfee, co. Antrim (1766).

15. In Albemarle-street, Henry Barre Beresford, esq., of Learmount castle, co. Londonderry.

18. In Great Russell-st., aged 71, after a long illness, Mr. Philip Audinet, engraver in the line manner.

19. At her residence at Harrogate, Mrs. Jane Van Mildert, widow of the late lord Bishop of Durham.

At Woodford, Essex, in his 83rd year, Henry Field, esq., formerly of Christ's Hospital. Mr. Field was descended from a family which resided

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for several generations at Cockenhoe, Herts. He was the eldest son of Mr. John Field, an apothecary in extensive practice, in Newgate st., by Anne, daughter of Thomas Cromwell, grocer who was a grandson of Henry Cromwell, lord deputy ty of Ireland, the younger son of the Protector.

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20. At his house in Brompton Row, in his 82nd year, Michael Bentley, esq., bencher of the Middle Temple.

Lately. At Brussels, age aged 29, the rt. hon. William Lord Nairne, a baron of Scotland. He was the only son of William Lord Nairne, (restored in blood in 1824) by Caroline, third daughter of Laurence Oliphant, esq. As he has died unmarried, the baroness Keith, lady of count Flahaut, becomes heir to his barony, through his lordship's great-uncle, the late colonel William Mercer. It will descend to her daughters and the family will assume the name and arms of Nairne.

29. At Edinburgh, aged 72, Eliza, relict of Donald Macqueen, esq., of Corriebrough. She was great-niece of the unfortunate lord Lovat, beheaded in 1745.

Lately. On an uninhabited island in

the South Pacific Ocean, aged 23, John Elforth, son of major-gen. Jas. Lomax.

- At Van Diemen's Land, aged 43, J. T. Gellebrand, formerly of Austin. Friars, London. In Feb. 1837, he was travelling, accompanied by another gentleman from Hobart Town to Port Philip, but in crossing the country, they were met by a party of the Aborigines who murdered, and threw them into a lake.

At Paris, aged 80, Mrs. Ellis Cornelia Knight, for many years preceptress to the late princess Charlotte.

At the rectory house, Woodstock, in his 80th year, the rev. William Mavor, LL.D. rector of Bladon with Woodstock, vicar of Hurley, Berks, and a magistrate for Oxfordshire. By his many useful publications, written during a literary life of fifty-six years, Dr. Mavor evinced his deep regard for the promotion of useful knowledge, and the temporal and eternal welfare of his fellow creatures. Many of these works, particularly his Spelling-book, and others formed for the purpose of education, have, from the time of their publication, been exceedingly popular and successful.

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