THEATRICAL REGISTER. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. March 29. The Unknown Guest; an Opera. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. March 27. Zembuca, or, the Net-maker and his Wife; a Melo-Dramatic Romance, formed on an Eastern tale. The music by Mr. Ware. March 31. Love in Limbo; a Farce. GAZETTE PROMOTIONS. Whitehall, April 1. Earl of Clancarty (one of his Majesty's Plenipotentiaries at Vienna), a Knight Grand Cross of the Bath: Howard Elphinstone, esq. (LieutenantColonel in the Corps of Royal Engineers) a Baronet of the United Kingdom. April 7. The under-mentioned Knights Commanders of the Bath to be Knights Grand Crosses: Lieut.-gen. Hon. Sir John Abercromby, vice Lieut.-gen. Sir John Stuart (Count of Maida), deceased; Major-gen. Hon. Sir Charles Colville, vice Major-gen. Hon. Sir E. M. Pakenham, dec. The following Officers to be Knights Commanders: Lieut.-gen. Moore Disney, vice Lieut.-general Hon. Sir John Abercromby; Major-gen. William Inglis, vice Major-gen. Sir Samuel Gibbs, deceased; Major-gen. James Lyon, vice Major-gen. Hon. Sir Charles Colville. The following Officers in the service of the East India Company to be Knights Commanders, viz. : Lieut.-gen. John Macdonald; Major-generals Robt. Blair, George Wood, Hector Maclean, Thomas Dallas, John Chalmers, John Horsford, Henry White, Gabriel Martindale, George Sackville Browne, George Holmes, and David Ochterlony; Cols. Sir J. Malcolm, Augustus Floyer, and Robert Barclay. April 8. Major gen. Sir G. T. Walker, Lieut.-Governor of the Island of Grenada, vice Sir J. Stuart, deceased. CIVIL PROMOTIONS. Hon. Hugh Lindsay (East India Director), Marshal of the Admiralty, vice Mr. Robert Thornton. March 18. Thos. Dunbar, esq. M. A. of Brazenose College, Oxford, Keeper of Ashmolean Museum, vice Lloyd, resigned. Rev. Francis Rowden, M. A. Fellow of Merton College, and Rev. Rich. Stephens, M. A. Fellow of Brazenose College, Oxford, Proctors. Rev. John Radcliffe, M. A. Vice-Principal of St. Mary-Hall, Rev. Thos. Dunbar, M. A. of Brazenose College, Rev. Arthur Matthews, M. A. Fellow of Brazenose College, Rev. Chas. Rose, M. A. Fellow of Lincoln College, Pro-proctors. Rev. Evan Davies, Master of Dorchester Free Grammar School. GENT. MAG. April, 1815. Rev. J. Cumming, M. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, Professor of Chemistry, vice Dr. Tennant, deceased. Rev. James Metcalf, of Appleby, Master of Kirkby Stephen Free Grammar School with the Curacy of Soulby. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Rev. H. D. Roundell, Fringford R. Oxon. vice Greenhill, deceased. Rev. John Fox, Barton Mills R. Suffolk, vice Dove, deceased. Rev. James Rudge, M. A. F. R. S. Lecturer of Limehouse, Sunday Evening Lecturer of St. Lawrence Jewry. Rev. H. Hoper, M. A. Hangleton R. Suffolk, and Portslade V. The Rev. Henry Gauntlett, Olney V. Bucks. Rev. D. Evans, B. A. Chaplain of the Royal Hospital at Haslar, Simonbourn R. near Hexham, Northumberland. offspring minor Rectories adjacent of 500l. a year each, conferred on Rev. J. Davis, now Curate of Catherington, Rev. E. Holliday, Rev. W. Salter, Rev. W. Evans, and Rev. W. Jones, Chaplains in the Royal Navy. Rev. Thomas Green, Hawkhurst Perpetual Curacy, Kent. Rev. Edward Robt. Raynes, Archdeaconry of Lewes, vice Rev. M. D'Oyly, res. Rev. Charles Taylor (head-master of the College school, Hereford) Long Stantou V. Salop. Rev. Johu Lowe, jun. Ardley R. Oxon. Rev. R. Fawcett, M. A. Curate of Armley, Leeds R. Rev. John Hume Spry, M. A. of Oriel College, Bampton Lecturer. Rev. T. H. Gawthrop, B. D. Marston Morteyne R. co. Bedford. Rev. John Hudson, M. A. Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge, Kendal V. Westmoreland. Rev. Dr. Charles Burney, Rector of St. Paul's Deptford, Cliffe R. Keut. Rev. John Knight, Petrockstow R. Dev. Rev. S. R. Drummond, Swarreton R. Hants. Rev. Frederick R. Barker, Little Barrington V. Gloucestershire. DISPENSATION. Rev. Wm. Casson, A. M. Thrussington V. with Norton juxta Twycross R. both co. Leicester. 27. In Portland-place, the wife of Wm. Lately.In Upper Harley-street, the lady of Sir C. Colville, a son.--At Brompton, the lady of Sir Geo. Cayley, a dau. The wife of Capt. Manby, R. N. a dau.At Ashley Park, Surrey, the lady of Sir H. Fletcher, a son.-At Winchester, Lady Mary Long, a dau. The wife of Adm. Young, of Barton-End house, Gloucestershire, a dau. At Weymouth, the lady of Sir W. W. Yea, bart, a dan.-At Sheerness, the lady of Rear-adm. Sir C. Rowley, a dau. At Courteenhall, the lady of Sir Wm. Wake, bart. a dau. At Lincoln, the wife of Rev. G. T. Pretyman, a dau. At Greenwood lodge, Wicklow, the wife of Flon. Matthew Plunkett, a dau. The wife of E Thornton, esq. English Envoy at Stockholm, a son. April 7. In Stratford place, the Duchess of St. Alban's, a son and heir.-10. At the British Museum, Mrs. H. Ellis, a son. At Arbuthnott-house, Viscountess Arbuthnot, a dau.-13. In St. James'splace, the wife of James Colquhoun, esq. a dau.-20. Rt. Hon. Lady G. Beresford, a dau.-In Upper Charlotte-street, Fitz. roy-square, the wife of Thos. Cadell, esq. a dau. MARRIAGES. 1814, Dec. 26. At Quebec, Lieut.-col. Smelt, 103d regiment, to Miss Robinson, daughter of Commissary-gen. Robinson, 1815, Feb. 10. At Palermo, Lieut.-gen. R. Henry M'Farlane, to Maria Gertrude, eldest dau. of G. Henry Vankemper, esq. Captain in the Dutch Navy and Consul of the Netherlands at Tripoli. March 1. Col. Alexander Hind, Bengal Artillery, to Mrs. Thornton, widow of Major Thornton, same establishment. 10 At Ematrus Church, co. Monaghan, Lord Cremorne, to Anne, third daughter of John Whaley, esq. by Lady Anue, eldest dau. of John first Earl of Clanwilliam. 13. At Edinburgh, P. Hay, esq. to Elizabeth Wellwood, only child of the late Brigadier-gen. French. 15. Rev. Dr. J. F. Bond, Dean of Ross, to Miss Croker, sister to the Secretary of the Admiralty. H. Warren, esq. of Great Bromley Lodge, Colchester, to Miss Maria Bur- rows, of Scarbro' Castle, Surrey. 18. A. Norder, esq. nephew to the . Countess of Liverpool, to Miss Hobart, niece to the Earl of Buckinghamshire. 20. At Kensington, James Boggis, esq. major in the West Essex regiment, to Mary Cecilia, second daughter of Edward Stephenson, esq. of Queen-square, and Farley ball, Berks. 27. Mr. Vernon, eldest son of the Archbishop of York, to Lady Eliz. Bingham, eldest daughter of the Earl of Lucan. C. H. Barrett, esq. late Major in the 11th Light Dragoons, to Miss Charlotte Villebois, of Feltham-place. 28. At Brighton, Lieut.-col. Downman, Royal Horse Artillery, to the only daughter of J. Marsh, esq. late Chairman of the Victualling-Board. 29. In the Isle of Wight, W. W. Anwyl, esq. M. D. of Oswestry, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Hon. Mr. Justice Grose, of Priory. 30. John Gottlieb Anthony, esq. of Konigsberg, to Betty Maria, second daughter of Francis Henry Tyler, esq. of Bedfordstreet, Bedford-square, and niece to Lord Teynham. Major Cator, Royal Horse Artillery, to Miss Farnaby, only daughter of the late Sir John Farnaby, bart, of Wickham Court, Kent. At Bath, C. H. Van Baerle, esq. of Demerara, to Miss Anna Margaretta Caroline Torte, of Suydall Hall, York. Lately. Lord Edward O'Brien, to the youngest daughter of Mr. Methuen, of Lower Grosvenor street. Rev. R. Boodie, rector of Radstock, Somerset, to Mary, eldest daughter of E. Boodle, esq. Rev. W. Pulling, B. A. Master of Chudleigh Grammar School, to Mary Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Rev. R. Reihan, M. A. rector of Hemingsby, co. Lincoln. James Farrer, esq. Lieut.-col. 31st foot, to Elizabeth, eldest dau. of W. Helyar, esq. of Coker-cour', Somerset. At Teignmouth, Capt. R. Williams, R.N. to the eldest dau. of Wm. Whitmore, esq. of Dudmaston, Salop. At Bruxelles, by special licence, Lieut.col. Sir G. H. Berkeley, to Miss Sutton, eldest daughter of Lady Sutton, of Moleseyhouse, Surrey. April 3. Capt. Thos. Bligh, Coldstream Guards, to Helen, third daughter of Thos. Patterson, esq. of Upper Seymou-street, 4. At Great Saxham, Suffolk. Edward Harman, esq. of Clay Hill, Middlesex, to Maryanne, third daughter of Thomas Mills, esq. of Great Saxham Hall. 12. Rev. Thomas Mills third son of Thos. Mills, esq. of Great Saxham Hall, Suffolk, to Anne, second daughter of Nathaniel Barnardiston, esq. of the Ryes Lodge, near Sudbury, 16. Mr. J. Willis, of East-gate, Rochester, to Miss S. A. Brayfield, of Camden House, Peckham. 20. C. Marett, esq. of Southampton, to Miss Frances Rouse, youngest daughter of the late Benjamin Rouse, esq. of New Bridge-street. Mr. Thomas Griffin, of Rotterdam, to Miss Lydia Field, of Brixton Rise. MEMOIR OF THE REV. JOHN HEY, D. D. Died, March 17, John Hey, D. D.; aged 80. He was born in July 1734. In 1751 he was admitted of Catharine Hall in the University of Cambridge; and he continued a Member of that College till 1758, when he removed to a Fellowship in Sidney; of which College he continued a Member till he quitted the University in 1795. He took the following degrees: B. A. in January 1755, of Catherine Hall; M. A. in 1758, of Sidney; B. D. in 1765; D. D. in 1780. But in 1775 he performed his exercise for his Doctor's degree in which he gave an instance of that mode of disputation which is not usual, and is called a Public Act. He was a Tutor of Sidney College from 1760 to 1779; and was one of the Preachers of his Majesty's Chapel at Whitehall. His Fellowship in Sidney became vacant by his accepting, from Lord Maynard, the Rectory of Passenham in Northamptonshire, near Stony Stratford. Not long afterwards he obtained the adjoining Rectory of Calverton, by exchange for a distant living offered to him by the late Earl of Clarendon, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. On these two livings he bestowed assiduous pastoral care: the small extent of the whole, and the thin population, enabling him to attend to every distinct family in both parishes. From the time of his getting Passenham till about five months before his death, bis ordinary residence was there; except the time which the duties of his Professorship required him to spend at Cambridge. In 1780 he was elected the first Norrisian Professor of Divinity in the University. In 1785, and again in 1790, the Professorship became vacant, by the will of Mr. Norris, the founder: and he was, each time, re-elected. In 1795, he ceased to be Professor: being too old, by the will, to be re-elected, and having declined to vacate the Professorship, in 1794, in order to be re-elected within the prescribed age. When Tutor in Sidney College, he gave Lectures in Morality, which were attended by several persons voluntarily (amongst whom were the late Mr. Pitt and other persons of rank), besides those pupils whose attendance was required. These Lectures have not been printed. His Lectures in Divinity are before the publick; having been printed at the University Press, 1796 1798, and published in four volumes octavo. He also published seven Sermons, at different times; and a Poem on the Redemption, which gained Seaton's Prize in the University in 1763; and Discourses on the Malevolent Sentiments, in one volume, in 1801. And in 1811 he printed, without publishing, General Observations on the Writings of St. Paul. - In 1814 he divested himself of the whole of his ecclesiastical preferment: which was merely the two livings mentioned above; and he removed to London in October; having resigned Calverton at Lady-day, and Passenham on the 10th of October. From that time he continued in London to his death: growing feeble in body, till, without painful disease, he sunk under that feebleness; retaining to the last a soundness of mind, and giving, to every business that came before him, a remarkable degree of that persevering attention which had evidently been, with him, a matter of strict duty through a long course of years. Had a mitre been placed on his head (which was at least once, from good authority, understood to be highly probable), he appears likely to have discharged the duties imposed by it with the same steady and principled perseverance. - He is buried in the buryingground of St. John's Chapel, St. John's Wood, in the parish of Mary bone: In which parish he died. MEMOIR OF GEORGE ELLIS, Esq. F. R. S. F. S. A. tion. These mild and refined qualities "Pert without fire, without experience He He afterwards changed his political connexions; but it was not till after his return from Lille, whither he had gone in 1797, with his friend Lord Malmesbury, that be became personally acquainted with Mr. Pitt. At the first interview, two men of wit, the friends of both, amused themselves with allusions to the Rolliad, which, as they probably intended, visibly embar rassed Mr. Ellis. Mr. Pitt turned round, and with a smile said, in a manner full of grace and good-humour, "Immo age, et à primâ dic hospes origine nobis." He instantly relieved Mr. Ellis from his embarrassment; and both were probably afterwards amused by the applications which the verses immediately following might have suggested, Insidias, inquit, Danaûm, casusque tuo rum, Erroresque tuos," To pardon merely political pleasantries, or even invectives, is an effort of placability, which did not require so safe and unassailable a greatness as that of Mr. Pitt. "It is a folly," says Mr. Addison, "for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. There is no defence against reproach but obscurity." Contempt is a lazy and laconic sentiment; and they, as Swift somewhere says, who take much pains to shew how much they despise an opponent, prove clearly enough that he is not contemptible. It was Mr. Ellis's somewhat singular fortune to have been also engaged in another collection of political pleasantries, "The Anti-Jacobin," with two colleagues of brilliant talent, with whom he continued in affectionate friendship the rest of his life. In 1790 he published the first edition of the Specimens of our early Poetry, which, with the enlarged edition in 1801, and the Specimens of our early Romances, forined an important contribution towards that growing study of our antient literature, which has breathed a youthful spirit into English Poetry. These works justly gave him the titles of the Tressan, and St. Palaye, of England *. His Essays on the formation and progress of the English Language, are models of abridgement, in which useful information is shortly and modestly communicated, without inaccuracy or obscurity on the one hand, and without pretension or pedantry on the other. In the Abridgement of the old Romances, these prolix tales are rendered more amusing by a gentle sneer, which is constantly visible through *Others dug deeper for materials; but he alone gave vivacity to antiquities, and diffused those graces of literature and society, which were peculiarly his own, over the rudest remains of barbarism. the serious narrative, and which enlivens the perusal without destroying the interest. In the Preface and Appendix to the Tableaux of his friend Mr. Way, are to be found some of the purest and most classical passages of Addisonian composition which this age has produced. Our mo dern writers have, indeed, rather aimed at strong effect, than cultivated assiduous elegance, and with two exceptions, one of which is very recent, we scarcely recollect any writers since Sir Wm. Blackstone, who have bestowed on their style those. "patient touches of unwearied art," by which the great literary artists of former times sought to preserve their writings from oblivion. Mr. Ellis had been employed for some time on a Life of the late Mr. Windham, which was intended to accompany some works of that gentleman:The latter years of his life were embittered by maladies, which his virtues, and the friendships which they still more than his talents had procured, happily enabled him to endure with cheerful patience. The most celebrated of his friends often left the pursuits of ambition, and the enjoyments of society, to carry consolation to his sick-bed. Another of his friends thus addressed him: "Thou, who canst give to lightest lay Marmion-Canto V. Introd.' His mind, which had for a little time been clouded by his disease, shone out shortly before his death, and he was enabled to make a dying declaration characteristic of him, that his last earthly thoughts were on his friends, whose names he pronounced with affectionate prayers for their happiness. DEATHS. 1814, FELL, when gallantly endeaDec. 16. vouring to board one of the American flotilla, with many more of his brave companions, near New Orleans, Thomas Warner Moore, midshipman of H. M. ship Seahorse, second son of the Rev. Dr. Moore, of Park-hill, co. Gloucester, His excellent conduct had endeared him to his Captain and all on board, who give this testimony to his merit, "that he is universally regretted, and had he lived he would have been a credit to his friends and an ornament to his profession and his country, in whose service he has thus honourably fallen." He had served as midshipman nearly six years, during which time he had been in several remarkably severe engagements. Dec Dec. 18. At New York, Harry Grant, esq. of Charleston, South Carolina Dec. 26. At Halifax, Lieut. Rickets, 44th regiment. At W. H. Thursby's, esq. Shrewsbury, Mrs. Bevan, relicts of the late Henry Bevan, esq. d March 4. At Hampstead, in her 75th - 1815, Jan. 5. At the Cape of Goodyear, the wife of John Watts, esq. 98 Hope, Charles Twisleton Bishop, esq. late of the 21st, and heretofore of the 16th Dragoons. His funeral was attended by Gen. Baird the Commandant of the garrisou, Col. Pigot, and the other officers of the regiment, and most of the officers of the garrison. He was the eldest son of Charles Bishop, esq.-H. M. procurator general. C On board the Ajax transport, (during his passage from Jamaica to join the New Orleans Expedition) Capt, G, Cromp ton, 40th regt. second son of G. Crompton, esq. of Nunmonkton, co. York, Jan. 7. On her passage to Jamaica, the wife of Wm. Rhodes James, esq. of Spanish town, Jamaica. Jan. 8. Fell in action at New Orleans, Major J. A. Whitaker, 21st foot, eldest son of the late Rev. John Whitaker, of Pembury, Kent. Jan. 10. At Government house, Tobago, his Excellency Governor Sir Wm. Young, bart. F.R.S. and F.S. A. He was born in 1749; and succeeded his father Sir William, in 1788. He married first, in 1777, Sarah, daughter of Chas. Laurence, esq. by whom he had issue, 1. William ; 2. BrookHenry; 3. Charles; 4. Sarah; 5. Caroline; and 6. George. Sir William married secondly, in 1792, Barbara daughter of Richard Talbot, of Malahide Castle, Ireland, esq. by whom he had no issue. He represented the borough of St. Mawes in four parliaments. Feb. 8. At Barbadoes, Capt. W, H. Powell, of the ship Nelson, of Bristol. Feb. 18. At Lisbon, in her 18th year, Caroline, eldest daughter of the late Major-gen. John Smith. Feb. In the West Indies, Charles Hobbs, esq. late of Lambeth. ! March 1. In George-street, Portmansquare, Mrs. Anna Maria Fitzgerard, relict of Major-gen. Thomas Fitzgerard, many years in the service of Portugal. In Weymouth-street, Portland-place, Charlotte Sophia, only daughter of Mrs. Gen. Egerton. March 3. In George-street, Hanoversquare, aged 68, Mrs. Catharine Fordyce, willow of the late John Fordyce, esq. of Ayton, co.. Berwick, N. B. who died July 1809. She was daughter of Sir Wm.. Maxwell, bart. and sister to the late Duchess of Gordon. Her remains were interred at Ayton. At Ealing, in his 44th year, Nathaniel Grieve, esq. of Essex-street, Strand. At her nephew's, R. Heming, esq. of Hillingdon, aged 86, Mrs. Mary Maple. toft, relict of Rev. J. Mapletoft. At Popplewick, Notts, aged 20, Charles› Heneage Robinson, of Jesus college, Cambridge, youngest son of Jas. Robinson, esq. March 5. At Worting, near Basingstoke, Rev. Charles Blackstone, M. A. fellow of Winchester college, and rector of Worting. He was the youngest son of the late Judge Sir William Blackstone, kot. and brother of J. Blackstone, esq. » LL. D. Principal of New Inn Hall. At Eden Hall, Cumberland, Julia, daughter of the late Sir J. C. Musgrare, bart. only sister of the present Sir Philip Musgrave, bart. At Nice, Sir Stephen-Richard Glynne, bart. of Hawarden Castle, Chester. He was born in May 1780, and immediately became Baronet, being posthumous and only child of the Rev. Sir Stephen Glynne. He married -April. 11, 1806, the Hon. Mary Neville, third daughter of Lord Braybrooke, March 6. At Shirley-house, near Southampton, aged 24, Caroline, youngest daughter of Sir Charles Rich, bart. 2 At Kingsdown, near Bristol, Capt. Robt. Adamson, well known for many years in the American trade from that port to New York. Edw. Rowland, esq. of Garthen, late high sheriff for the county of Denbigh March 7. At Oundle, co. Northampton, aged 75, Mrs. Johnson, relict of the late Rev. George Johnson, vicar of Norton, co. Durham, rector of Lofthouse, co. York, and prebendary of Lincoln. At Vienna, the Prince of Aremberg. Riding a spirited horse he knocked down a woman, and with difficulty succeeded in stopping his horse to alight. Finding she was not seriously hurt, he again mounted } his horse, which appeared tranquil, but shortly after reared, and threw his rider. He was conveyed in a lifeless state to his brother-in-law's, Prince Schwartzenberg.w It is remarkable that the father of this young Prince received a gun-shot in the eye when hunting, and lost his sight; his mother was guillotined; his brother obliged to banish himself in consequence of a duel, in which he killed his adversary; and finally, his sister perished in the fire at Prince Schwartzenberg's at Paris. March 8. At Clifton, Mrs. Parker, widow of the late Thos. Parker, esq. of Parkshall, co. Stafford. March 10. On Clapham-common, aged 56, Wm. Mercer, esq. of Basinghall-street. Aged 42, Planpin Peter Salter, esq. of Lambeth. Aged 67, W. Buckley, gent. of Thoruton, co. Leicester, March |