1819, Nov. 3. At Bombay, James Norton, esq. of the East Iodia Naval service, to the Hon, Eliza Bland Erskine, dau. of the late Lieut.-col. Smith, aud widow of the Hon. Lieut.-col. Erskine,

29, At Calcutta, Capt. H. A. F. Heryey, of the 7th regiment of Bombay Native Infantry, and Barrack master, N.D.G. to Harriet Anne, dau, of Wm. Barnfield, esq. formerly of Pentonville.

1820 Feb. 3. Ai Rio de Janeiro, Charles Lukin, esq. to Emma, daughter of Wm. Young, esq.

March 14. At the Palace Chapel, Malta, R. Bourchier, esq. to Miss Lander.

April 6. Robert Pouget, esq of the East India Company's Engineer Corps, Bombay Presidency, eldest son of Jos. Pouget, esq. late of the Medical Establishment of the same Presidency, to Elizabeth Anne Paget, eldest daughter of Dr. Paget, of Exmouth, Devonshire.

15. At Leghorn, Daniel Cave, esq. of Clevehill House, Gloucestershire, to Frances, daughter of Henry Locock, esq. M. D. of Northampton.

At Paris, G. Rogers Barrett, esq. to Anna Maria, widow of Major-gen. Sey. mour, late Governor of St. Lucia.

17. At Madeira, Rich. R. Sheffield, esq. to Mary Anne, daughter of Wm. Griffiths, esq. of Camberwell.

Wm. Wilson, esq. of the Army Payoffice, to Sarah, dau. of the late Win. Salkeld, esq. of Fifehead Neville, Dorsetshire.

At Edinburgh, John Scott, esq. of Gala, to Madalane, daughter of the late Sir Archibald Hope, bart. of Craig Hall.

19. Rev. Wm. Fraser, Chaplain to the Hon. East India Company, to Margaret, daughter of the Rev. Robt. Mackenzie, of Knockbain, Ross-shire, N. B.

22. George Ely, esq. of Rochester, to Mary, daughter of the late Mr. John Thompson, Master Joiner of his Majesty's Dock-yard, at Chatham.

Capt. Hulme, of the Royal Scots, to Jane, daughter of the late John Wills, esq. of Doctors' Commons.

24. Rev. Richard Henry Chapman, to Miss Emily Anne Allen.

At Edinburgh, John Scotland, jun, esq. W.S. of Luscar, Fifeshire, to Mary, dau. of the late Robt. Burn, esq. of Jessfield.

25. Thomas Hewitt, esq. of Guildfordstreet, to Maria, daughter of the late Edward Penman, esq. of Great Russell-street.

F. Newdigate, esq. to Lady Barbara Legge, daughter of the Countess of Dartmouth, and sister to the present Earl.

At Clonmel, Henry Skellern, esq. surgeon, of Clara (King's County), to Susanna Maria, daughter of James Goldrisk, esq. Assistant Commissary General.

Rev. Henry Reade Quartley, of Wolverton, Bucks, Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Grafton, to Louisa Catherine, sister of Sir John C. Honywood, bart.

John Tylson Pares, esq. son of John Pares, esq. of the Newarke, to Mary, daughter of E. Andrew Burnaby, esq. of Bagrave Hall, Leicestershire.

26 At Gillingham, near Beccles, Tho. Parker, esq. of Wood-street, Cheapside, to Esther, daughter of Samuel Shaw, esq.

Rev. Allen Cooper, Chaplain to the Marquis of Exeter, to Harriet Anne, daughter of the Rev. John Turner, Archdeacon of Taunton, and Canon of Wells.

27. George Halsted, esq. to Josepha, daughter of the late J. Kickman, esq. of Westergate Cottage, Sussex.

29 James Pulinan, e-q. of Parliamentplace, to Harriet Mary, dau. of the late Wm.Walker, esq. of East Hill, Wandsworth.

Wm. Emerson, esq. of Euston-square, to Miss Russell, of Cadogan-place.

Capt. Wm. S. Macdonald, to Miss Samburn, of Portman-place, Paddington.

Lately. At Dublin, Henry Stisted, esq. Capt. in the 1st regiment of Royal Dragoons, to Elizabeth Clotilda, daughter of Bladen Swinney, esq. of Kildare-street.

At Edinburgh, John Gibson Lockhart, esq. Advocate, and of Baliol College, to Sophia Charlotte, eldest daughter of Sir Walter Scott, of Abbotsford, bart.

May 1. Rev. J. Van Hemert, son of the late F. Van Hemert, esq. of London, to Caroline, daughter of T. Richardson, esq. of Norwood, Surrey.

F. B. Wright, esq. of Hinton Blewett, Somersetshire, to Sarah Emily, relict of the Rev. Wm. Bingham.

Rev. J. Hill, Rector of Bonchurch and Shanklin, to Jane Helena, daughter of the late Sam. Shute, esq. of Fern-hill, both in the Isle of Wight.

2. Sir W. Newry Clerke, bart. to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of G. W. Kendrick, esq. of Mertyn, Flintshire.

4. Rev. Henry Austen, of Keynston, Dorsetshire, to Elizabeth, widow of the late Capt. Dickens, R. N.

9. George Vardy, esq. of Marlboroughsquare, Chelsea, to Miss Grojan, of Brompton Grove.

11. Mr. I. F. B. Mertens, of Demerara, to Eugenia Margaretta, dau. of the late P. W. Marr, esq. of Lewisham, Kent.

15. At Epsom, the Rev. R. F. Snelson, Vicar of Reigate, to Eliza, daughter of Solomon Davies, esq.

16. Cuthbert Rippon, esq. of Stanhope Castle, Durham, to Eleanor, third dau. of T. Moxon, esq. of Mincing-lane.

18. Mr. Josiah Slee, to Miss Harriet Taite, both of Bermondsey..

EARL OF LISBURNE.

May 6. Near Stamford, co. Lincoln, in his 65th year, the Right Hon. Wilmot Vaughan, Earl of Lisburne, Viscount Lisburne, Baron of Fethers. The Earl was born May 3, 1755, succeeded his father Wilmot, the late Earl, Jan. 6, 1800, since which period his Lordship has laboured under a mental affection, which rendered it necessary to place his estates under the direction of trustees. Dying unmarried, the Earl is succeeded in his titles and estates (amounting to near 18,000l. per ann.) by his half-brother, the Hon. John Vaughan, now Earl of Lisburne, &c. The first peer of this noble family was John Vaughan, created in 1695, by William III. Baron of Fethers, co. Tipperary, and Viscount Lisburne, co. Antrim. He was grandson of Sir John Vaughan, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, in 1668. The present Peer is the sixth Viscount and Baron, and third Earl. The Barony of Fethers is derived from a town in the County of Tipperary, now, according to modern usage, called Featherd.

EARL OF SELKIRK.

April 8. At Pau, in the South of France, in his 49th year, the Right Hon. Thomas Earl of Selkirk, Lord Lieutenant of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. His Lordship was born in 1774. He was the youngest of five sons (all of whom attained to manhood) of Dunbar, 4th Earl of Selkirk, who died in 1799. In the latter end of 1807 he married Jane, daughter of James Wedderburn Colville, Esq. by whom he has left one son, now Earl of Selkirk, born in 1809, and two daughters. Her Ladyship accompanied the Earl to North America, and afterwards to France, and continued, with painful and unwearied assiduity, to administer, till the last hour of his life, those kind and soothing attentions which wealth can neither purchase nor reward. The mortal remains of this excellent man were interred in the Protestant buryingground at Pau.

Few men were possessed of higher powers of mind, or capable of applying them with more indefatigable perseverance. His Treatise on Emigration has long been considered as a standard work, and as having exhausted one of the most difficult subjects in the science of political economy. His Lordship is also advantageously known to the public as the

author of some other literary produetions, all of them remarkable for the enlargement and liberality of their views, the luminous perspicuity of their statements, and that severe and patient spirit of induction which delights in the pursuit, and is generally successful in the discovery of truth.

To his friends, the death of this be loved and eminent person is a loss which nothing can repair. His gentle and condescending manners wound themselves round the bearts of those admitted to his society, and conciliated an attachment which every fresh interview served to confirm. With those connected with him by the ties of kindred, and the sweet relations of domestic society, bis Lordship lived in terms of the most affectionate endearment. Indeed, seldom has there existed a family, the members of which were more tenderly attached to each other than that of which his Lordship was the head; and few families have experienced a more severe succession of those trials, by which the Almighty chastens the hearts and disciplines the virtues of his creatures.

His Lordship was eminently exemplary in the discharge of every social and private duty. He was a considerate and indulgent landlord, a kind and gracious master; to the poor a generous benefactor, and of every public improvement a judicious and liberal patron.

The latter years of the life of this lamented Nobleman were employed in the establishment of an extensive colony in the Western parts of British America. In the prosecution of this favourite object, he had encountered obstacles of the most unexpected and formidable character. With these, however, he was admirably qualified to contend; as, to the counsels of an enlightened philosophy, and an immoveable firmness of purpose, he added the most complete habits of business and a perfect knowledge of affairs. The obstructions he met with served only to stimulate him to increased exertion, and after an arduous struggle with a powerful confederacy, which had arrayed itself against him, and which would, long ere now, have subdued any other adversary, he had the satisfaction to know, that he bad finally succeeded in founding an industrious and thriving community. It has now struck deep root in the soil; and is competent, from its own internal resources, to perpetuate itself, and to

extend the blessings of civilization to those remote and boundless regions.

His Lordship, besides his work on Emigration, published a pamphlet on the Scottish Peerage, and the following tracts:"Speech in the House of Lords, Aug. 10, 1807, on the Defence of the Country, 8vo; "Observations on the present State of the Highlands," 8vo, 1805, 2d. edit. 1806; on the Necessity of a more effectual System of National Defence," 8vo, 1808; "A Letter to John Cartwright, Esq. on Parliamentary Reform," 8vo.

HON. A. R. BUTLER DANVERS.

April 26. At Boulogne, the Hon. Augustus Richard Butler Danvers, uncle and presumptive heir to the present Earl of Lanesborough. He married, first, March 8, 1792, Miss Danvers, sole heiress of sir John Danvers, Bart. of Swithland Hall, co. Leicester, on which he assumed the name and arms of Danvers; and 2ndly, May, 1802, Eliza Bizarre, daughter of Humphry Sturt, Esq. of Critchill House, co. Dorset. By his first lady he has left issue George John Danvers, born Dec. 1793, now heir presumptive to the Earldom of Lanesborough, married, Aug. 29, 1815, Frances Arabella, third daughter of Colonel Stephen Fremantle.

REAR-ADMIRAL SIR C. FORTESCUE.

Lately, at Cullenswood, near Dublin, in bis 70th year, Rear Admiral Sir Chichester Fortescue, Knt. Ulster King of Arms. He was third son of Chichester Fortescue, esq. of Dromisken (Louth), by the Hon. Elizabeth Wellesley, sister of the first Earl of Mornington, and aunt to the Marquis of Wellesley and the Duke of Wellington. He was ap pointed Captain in the Navy, Nov. 2, 1780, and retired as Rear Admiral, March 5, 1799. He succeeded his brother, Gerald Fortescue, Esq. as King of Arms, Jan. 31, 1788. By his deccase, compensation annuities, granted to his office of King of Arms, at the Union, amounting to 10217. 5s. (besides his pay as Rear Admiral), reverts to the public purse. Sir William Betham, who has for many years acted as Deputy King of Arms, is now Ulster Principal King of Arms. His succession to that dignity on the demise of Sir C. Fortescue, the late King, was not a matter of course, the deputy being by no means heir-apparent; but the honour was conferred upon him by his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, as a mark of special fa

vour.

MAJOR TOTHAM.

April 26. At Doncaster, in his 69th year, Edward Topham, Esq. of the Wold Cottage, in Yorkshire, one of His Majesty's Deputy Lieutenants, and during many years an acting Magistrate for the North and East Ridings of that County. He was the son of Dr. Francis Topham, Master of the Faculties and Judge of the Prerogative Court at York ; was educated at Eton, and at Trinity Col. lege, Cambridge. On leaving the University, he obtained a Commission in the Guards, became Adjutant, and afterwards rose to the rank of Major. He possessed a considerable share of literary taste and talent, which has been displayed in several poetical effusions, particularly in Prologues and Epilogues, in which he excelled. He was at one time a proprietor of the Newspaper called the World; on leaving which he retired to his family seat in Yorkshire, with three daughters, whom he had by the once celebrated Mrs. Wells.

No man had more the manners of a gentleman, or more of the ease and elegance of fashionable life, than Major Topham. Though fond of retirement, he communicated himself through a large circle of acquaintance, and was of a temper so easy and companionable, that those who saw him once knew him, and those who knew him had a pleasing acquaintance; and, if services were required, a warm and zealous friend. His knowledge of life and manners enlivened his conversation with a perpetual novelty, while his love of humour and ridicule (always restrained within the bounds of benevolence and good-nature) added to the pleasures of the social table, and animated the jocundity of the festive board.

His several publications are:-Letters from Edinburgh, containing Observations on the Scotch Nation, 8vo. 1776. Address to Edmund Burke, Esq. on his Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol, 4to, 1777. The Fool, a farce, 8vo, 1786. Life of the late John Elwes, Esq. 8vo. 1790; new edition, enlarged, 1805. An Account of a remarkable Stone which fell from the Clouds on his Estate in Yorkshire, 4to, 1798. Major Topham also wrote a farce called Deaf Indeed! acted in 1780; another, of the name of Small Talk, in 1786; one, bearing the title of Bonds without Judgment, which made its appearance in 1787; and another, which obtained some notice, having the name of the Westminster Boy, acted for the benefit of Mrs. Wells.

ARTHUR YOUNG, Esq. F. R. S. April 12. In Sackville-street, in his 79th year (the last ten of which he had been

been blind) Arthur Young, Esq. F. R. S. Secretary to the Board of Agriculture. He was born at Bradfield Hall, in Suffolk, the paternal estate, consisting of about two hundred acres of land, on which the family have resided above two centuries. He was a younger son, and being intended for trade, was apprenticed to a wine-merchant at Lynn. About 1761, however, his commercial pursuits were changed for those of agriculture, being called to the management of the farm at Bradfield. Here he experienced many losses and disappointments owing to his inexperience and propensity to new theories and projects: the event of which was a temporary removal from the estate. He now took a farm in Hertfordshire near North Mimms, where he made numerous experiments, but after residing there about nine years, he found his embarrassments increase, in consequence of which he returned to Bradfield Hall, and his mother dying soon after, he came into full possession of the estate. His death was accelerated by the stone, which painful complaint he bore with Christian resignation. His remains were interred in the churchyard of Bradfield, his native parish. The funeral was attended by a large assemblage of poor from the surrounding country, all anxious to testify their respect for the loss they had sustained in so benevolent a benefactor; his kindnesses must be long regretted both by "The young who labour, and the old who rest,"

as few men with so limited an income conferred greater benefits in their neighbourhood.

Mr. Young is well known to the public as a voluminous writer on Agriculture and Political Economy. One of his earliest works, and which first called the attention of the country gentlemen of England to the value of their landed property, was published about fifty years ago, entitled "Farming Tour through the East, South, and North of England, in nine volumes octavo," and we believe that most of the modern improvements in agriculture originated from this work. His account of Ireland, drawn up after a most minute survey made in the year 1776, is allowed, even by those most inimical to his writings, to contain a fund of intelligence rarely found in any single book; and it is no slight proof of its merit that Miss Edgeworth remarks, that "it was the first faithful portrait of its inhabitants;" it, indeed, proved to be of the highest utility to the Irish nation. The "Annals of Agriculture" were commenced in 1784, and he continued to

conduct it, as Editor, till the period of his blindness, inserting from time to time his own ingenious and interesting experiments; for the information contained in this work he received the late King's approbation, and personal thanks, on the Terrace at Windsor; and his Majesty afterwards sent some accounts of the late Mr. Ducket's farm at Esher, which were inserted under the signature of "Ralph Rohinson," and have been copied into all the published memoirs of George III. In 1790 his "Travels in France' appeared, the result of three journeys performed through every province of that kingdom, in 1787, 88, and 89. It was translated into the French language, and gave the inhabitants a higher idea of the value of their own soil and climate than they before possessed. Nearly from this period Mr. Young became Secretary to the Board of Agriculture (1793), and his time was chiefly devoted to the objects of that In- stitution, though he occasionally printed some political pamphlets, applicable to the disturbed and distressed state of the Nation; amongst the most conspicuous was, "The Example of France a Warning to Britain." He also drew up the Agricultural Reports for the Counties of Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, and Oxfordshire. Of the last pamphlet which he wrote *, the "Edinburgh Review," lately published, says, -"We are indebted to the researches of Mr. Young for much valuable information respecting the rate of wages at different periods."

Mr. Young had been a Member of the Royal Society nearly fifty years, and his name will be found inserted in the lists of most of the Agricultural Societies of the United Kingdom; and in many of the Academical and Economical Institutions on the Continent of Europe, and also in America. The striking features in this gentleman's personal qualities were an ardent industry, indefatigable perseverance, and a lively imagination. His manners and address were peculiarly pleasing; his conversation highly animated and instructive; his countenance strongly marked his decision of character, and the strength of his understanding. The publications of Mr. Young are too numerous to be here inserted; the more principal ones are above alluded to.

The Rev. JAMES JOHN TALMAN, (whose death we announced in our last, p. 381,) was the son of the Rev. James Tal

*"On the Depreciation of Money," &c. man,