be one of the Lords of Session in Scotland. Foreign-office, Nov. 14.-Visc. Granville to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the King of the Netherlands. War-office, Nov. 14.-1st, or Gren. Reg. of Foot Guards: Major Hon. R. Clements to be Captain and Lieut.-col.-24th Reg. of Foot: Lieut.-col. E. C. Fleming to be Lieut. col.-74th Foot: Capt. R. Cruice to be Major, vicc Arden, prom.-Brevet-Major Hon. J. Finch to be Lieut.-col. in the Army. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Rev. Mr. Burgh to be Dean of Cloyne. Rev. R. Hood to be Dean of Kilmacdeagh. Rev. W. Venables Vernon, M.A. (son of the Abp. of York,) Canon Residentiary at York. Rev. G. Wilkins, Normanton Prebend, in the Church of Southwell. Rev. Archd. Wrangham, Ampleforth Prebend, at York. Rev. T. Gaisford, Regius Professor of Greek, Caddington Major Prebend, St. Paul's. Rev. Henry Cotton, Killardry Prebend, at Cashel, with Vicarage thereof annexed. Rev. Charles Phillips, B. D. Treasurer and Canon in Cathedral of St. David's. Rev. C. Alcock, Empshott R. Hants. Rev. J. J. C. Adamson, St. Leonard's Parochial Chapelry, Padiham, Lancashire. Rev. W. Astley Browne Cave, B. A. Flixton Perp. Cur. near Manchester. Rev. C. H. Cox, St. Mary Magdalen V. Oxford. Rev. T. F. Dibdin, R. New Church, Wynd ham-place, Marylebone. Rev. J. R. Fishlake, Little Cheverel R. Wilts. Rev. Mr. Hawkins, St. Mary V. Oxford. 463 Rev. C. Hull, Terrington R. Yorkshire. CIVIL PREFERMENTS. John Lord Carbery to be an Irish Represensentative Peer vice Lord Farnham, dec. Rev. Wyndham Knatchbull, D.D. Abp. Laud's Professor of Arabic. Rev. John Warren, Rector of Caldicote, Hunts. to be Chancellor of Bangor Diocese. Earl Craven Recorder of Coventry. Rev. W. Knatchbull has taken his degree of D.D. Grand Compounder. Rev. Peter Elmsley, Principal of St. Alban's Hall, D.D. Grand Compounder. Rev. J. Lamb, B. D. (Master of Corpus Christi College,) Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. Mr. C. O. Bartlett, Town Clerk of Wareham, vice T. Bartlett, esq. resigned. The following gentlemen have been appointed Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex:-Rev. D. Creswell, G. Aclom, T. Bryan, R. Broughton, B. Barnard, R. W. Cox, W. Davis, J. G. Fitzgerald, W. Franks, T. Hoblyn, W. Humby, S. Hoare, jun. W. Heygate, W. Medley, G. W. Marriott, T. Page, C. N. Palmer, W. Robinson, R. Rich, W. G. D. Tyssen, J. Walker, esquires; Rev. J. Faithfull; J. A. Franks, G. A. Thursby, and R. Worsley, esquires. BIRTH Jan. 20. At Mocha, the wife of Capt. G. Hutchinson, Resident, a son. Mar. 11. The wife of Major Onslow, 4th Light Drag. a dau. April. 7. The lady of Gen. Sir T. Brisbane, K. C. B. Governor of New South Wales, a dau. Lately. At Belmont, near Londonderry, the wife of James Major, esq. Barrister-atlaw, a son.-At Dublin, the wife of the Rev. C. Wolseley, a son.-At Dublin, the wife of Lieut.-col. Ross, 4th Drag. Guards, a son and heir.-At Edinburgh, Lady Pringle, of Stitchel, a dau.--At Paris, the wife of Arthur Annesley, jun. esq. eldest son of A. Annesley, esq. of Bletchington Park, a son. S. Sept. 13. At Tottridge, the wife of P. Browne, esq. a dau.-19. At Bath, the wife of the Rev. Joseph Hunter, a son.-21. At Paris, the Countess of Airly, a son and heir. -At Monymusk, the wife of Robert Grant, esq. a son and heir.-24. The wife of Farmer Baily, esq. Hall-place, Kent, a son.-In Edinburgh, the wife of Capt. J. D. Boswall, R. N. a dau.-26. At Hampstead, the wife of T. Farrer, esq. a dau.-27. At Hanwell Paddock, the wife of Rev. Dr. Bond, a dau. -At Maxey Vicarage, the wife of Rev. Rich. Pearson, a dan.-At Knowlton Court, the wife of Capt. D'Acth, a son.-28. At Taunton, the wife of Major Henry Nooth, a son. Oct. 11. At Bushy, the residence of the Duke Duke of Clarence, her Serene Highness the Duchess of Saxe Weimar, a son.-25. At the Rectory, Slimbridge, the wife of the Rev. J. H. Dunsford, a dau.-26. In Stanhopestreet, the lady of the Right Hon. Robert Peel, a son.-27. At Montrose, the wife of the Rev. J. Dodgson, a dau.-28. At All Cannings Rectory, the wife of the Rev. T. A. Methuen, a son.-28. At South Lytchet Parsonage, the wife of the Rev. William Oldfield Bartlett, a dau.-29. At Cheswick House, North Durham, the wife of John S. Donaldson, esq. a dau.-31. Mrs. Frederick Pollock, of Bedford-row, a son.-At Sellwood Park, Berks, Mrs. Geo. Simson, a son and heir. Nov. 1. At Ashprington House, near [Nov. Totnes, the wife of Major-general Adams, a son. The Lady Theodosia Rice, a son. -2. Mrs. David Pollock, a son.-5. The lady of H. Watts Russell, esq. M. P. 1 dau.-5. In the North Bailey, Durham, the wife of John Wetherell Hays, esq. a son.— The wife of John Smith, esq. Uplands, Devon, a dau.-7. In Chesterfield-street, Mayfair, Lady Maria West, a son.-At Brechin, the wife of John Guthrie, esq. banker, a dau.-In Queen-square, Mrs. G. Marriott, a son.-In York-place, the wife of Joseph Hume, esq. M. P. a dau.-The wife of M. Yeatman, esq. of Dorchester, a son and heir. 8. At Pimlico Lodge, Mrs. Elliott, & dau. -9. At Walthamstow, the wife of William Burnie, esq. a dau. MARRIAGES. June 4. Horatio, only son of the late Sir J. Davis, to dau, of Sir Walter James.--Rev. J. P. Jones Parry, Rector of Edern, to Marg. dau. of W. M Iver, esq. of Liverpool. Aug. 7. S. G. Benyon, esq. of Ash-hall, Salop, to Caroline, dau. of J. Tharp, esq. of Chippenham-park.—--12. Rev. E. James, Vicar of Llandyssil, to Louisa Margaret Evans, dau. of Rev. Maurice Evans, Vicar of Llangeler.-16. Nath. Hooper, esq. of the Temple, solicitor, to Elizabeth, dau. of S. Saxon, esq. of Evercreech.- -21. Richard Cowan, son of J. Chambers, esq. of Lifford, to Caroline, dau. of late Rev. R. Warren, Rector of Tuam and Cong, and niece to Sir Gore Ouseley, bart.- -Rev. John Butt, of Upper Seymour-street, to Mary, dau. of Rev. J. Eddy, Rector of Whaddon, Wilts.Philip Duncombe Pauncefort Duncombe, esq. of Buckhill Manor, Bucks, to Sophia Frances, dau. of late Sir W. Foulis, of Ingleby Manor, Yorkshire.-23. Congreve, son late Rev. C. Selwyn, Rector of Pixley, to Albinia Frances, dau. of late H. C. Selwyn, esq. Governor of Montserrat. Sept. 1. H. Sparks Bowden, esq. of Bradninch, Devon, to Eliza Packman, dau. of late S. Sharpe, of Clapham-common. 10. Rev. H. Fendall, Vicar of Nazing, to Anne Catherine, dau. of Rev. John Johnson, Rector of Great Parudon.- 11. At Bathwick, Rich. Mansel, son of late Laver Oliver, esq. of Brill-house, Bucks, to Margaret Eliza, dau. of Rev. Millington Massey Jackson, of Warminster, and of Bangley-hall, Cheshire. -John, second son of J. Smart, esq. of Trewitt House, to Mary Anne, dau. of late Rev. T. Gregory, of Henlow, Beds. 16. At Nunwich, Rob. Grainger, esq. Chain berlain to the King of Bavaria, and second son of E. Grainger, esq. of Tywysog, Deubighshire, to Countess Julia Franner.--18. At Lyndhurst, John Morant, esq. of Brockenhurst, Hants, to Lady Caroline Augusta Hay, dau. of late Earl of Errol.-22. Mr. ́S. Boydell, of Islington, to Miss Jane Bordell Philpot, of Bethnall-green, both relatives of the late celebrated Ald. Boydell.29. At Berne, T. E. Beatty, esq. of Dublin, to Marg, dau. of E. Mayne, esq. late Judge of the Court of King's Bench in Ireland. Lately. Wm. Pott, esq. of Bridge-street, to Mary, dau. of Sir Charles Price, bart. Oct. 6. Wm. son of G. Clayton, esq. of Lostock Hall, near Preston, and nephew of the late Lord Gardner, to Mary, dau. of E. Gorst, esq. of Preston.At Nether Winchendon, Rev. C. Spencer, nephew to the Duke of Marlborough, to Mary Anne, dau. of Sir Scrope Bernard Morland, bart. M.P. -7. Major-gen. Carey to eldest dau. of W. Manning, esq. M.P.-11. At Kimbolton, Evan Baillie, esq. of Dochfour, to Lady Georgiana, dau, of Duke of Manchester.-14. In Tralee, Capt. Richards, of Preventive Water Guard at Castletown, Bearhaven, to Miss Kirwan, dan. of late Dean of Killala.--Rev. T. Rennell, Vicar of Kensingron, to Frances Henrietta, dau. of Jos. Delafield, esq.- --15. W. Sarsfield Rositer Cockburn, esq. M.A. of Exeter Coll. Oxford, only son and heir of Lieut.-gen. Sir W, Cockburn, of Cockburn and Ryslaw, bart. to Anne eldest dau. of Rev. F. Coke, of Lower Moor, Herefordshire, Prebendary of Hereford.-20. Mr. T. Bourn, to Miss Mary Gray, both of Hackney.Mr, Thos. Evans, to Eliza, eldest dau. of late Major Wingfield, both of Bath. -25. Count Constantine Frederick Woronzoff, Capt. in Grenadiers of Imperial Guard of Emperor of Russia, to Eliza, d. of S. Hayes, esq. of South Lambeth. Nov. 3. At St. James's Church, Capt. Yeoman, R. N. to Charlotte, dau. of Sir Everard Home, bart.- -4. Mr. Chas, Berry, of Carlisle-st. Soho, to Miss MaryAnneSwan, of Chapel-st. Grosvenor-sq.- -6. H. N. Daniel, esq. Roy. Artill. to Margaretta Lucy, only dau. of Sir Ludford Harvey, of Bedford-place. POPE PIUS VII. Aug. 20. At Rome, after a most eventful life of 83 years and 6 days, of which he had governed the Roman Catholic Church for the long period of 23 years, 5 months, and 6 days, his Holiness Pope Pius VII. His original name was Barnabus Chiaramonti. He was born at Cesena, in the Romagna, on the 14th of Aug. 1740 (not 1742 as incorrectly stated in the almanacks). In April 1785 he was elected a Cardinal. This venerable personage was Bishop of Imola in 1796, when Buonaparte entered that town with his army; and the reception which the French experienced from the Prelate was so charitable and mild as to secure to the latter the favour of the Republican General, whose influence was supposed to have been afterwards employed in promoting him to the Popedom. Pius VI. died in captivity at Valence in 1798, at the advanced age of 82; but it was not till March 1800, that it was found possible to proceed to the election of his successor, when Cardinal Chiaramonti being chosen on the 14th, and his enthronization taking place on the 21st. he assumed the name of Pius VII. He did not take possession of Rome itself till November 1801, when a medal was struck there, with the inscription, Sol refulget. His occupation of the throne was marked by an act of liberality, in remitting to the distressed inhabitants of Pesaro their taxes. He also made many promotions, particularly conferring the honour of knighthood on the celebrated Canova. In the years 1800 and 1801 he caused no less than ten vacancies in the College of Cardinals to be filled up, among which was the nomination of his private secretary, Hercules Consalvi, whom he also appointed Secretary of State. In February 1802, he received at Rome with great pomp the body of his venerable predecessor, which Buonaparte caused to be transported thither, wishing to conciliate the good opinion of the Catholics. Steps indeed had already been taken by the First Consul to reconcile France to the Church of Rome, and with this view a Concordat was signed on the 25th of July 1801, and Pius VII. in September following sent Cardinal Caprara as his Legate à Latere to Paris; together with the Bull of raGENT. MAG. November, 1823. 11 tification of the Concordat. A new circumscription of Dioceses was agreed upon, and the Legate was authorised to institute the new Archbishops and Bishops. On the 24th of May 1802 his Holiness delivered a remarkable allocution on this subject in 'a secret Consistory. When Buonaparte assumed the Imperial title, be persuaded Pius VII. to come to Paris to crown him. The latter delivered an allocution on this subject on the 29th of October, 1804; left Rome on the 2d of November, and reached Fontainbleau,where Buonaparte received him in great state, on the 25th of that month. On the 2d of December the Coronation took place, and from this time Buonaparte, having obtained all that he wanted of the Pope, began to prepare for depriving him of all his power. one time," says he to Mr. O'Meara, " I had in contemplation to take away all his temporal power, and make him my Almoner." In the third volume of Las Cases' Journal, Buonaparte is described as speaking in most contemptuous terms of the discussions which took place on the part of the Pope with him at this period. He does not, however, state whether he gratified the Holy Father by solemnizing a regular marriage with the Empress Josephine. It is probable that he did, and that his subsequent marriage was consequently invalid, and his son illegitimate, though the mistaken pride of the House of Austria would never suffer this point to be fully investi gated. At On the 16th of May, 1805, the Pope reached Rome on his return, and was received with great joy by his subjects. In the course of 1807, Buonaparte having made many demands on Pius VII, with a threat of occupying his capital on noncompliance, the latter, on the 2d of February, 1808, published a solemn protest against such occupation. This was answered on the 2d of April following by a Decree, in which Buonaparte said, "considering that the Pope had constantly refused to make war on the English, the provinces of Ancona, Urbino, and Macerata should be annexed to the kingdom of Italy." His Holiness sent a deputation to pray that the rigour of this Decree might be softened, but Buonaparte replied to them,-" Your Bishop' is the Spiritual Chief of the Church, but I am its Emperor :" and on the 17th of May, 466 OBITUARY.-Earl of Caithness.-Countess of Dartmouth. [Nov. May, 1809, he issued a Decree, annex ing the Pontifical States to the French Empire. Pius VII. opposed to all these violences nothing but the purest Christian humility, but he combined with it the most unbending firmness. He never would anathematize the English nationhe never would make war on them-be never would declare that they were the enemies of the Church. Buonaparte caused him to be seized by night, and dragged, at nearly 70 years of age, from Rome to Fontainbleau, where he was kept as a State prisoner until the downfall of the Tyrant in 1814, when he was immediately restored to his dominions, and proceeded to revisit them without delay. His Proclamation at Cesena, on the 24th of May, on his return, is highly interesting, and exhibits a mind of great strength at so late a period of life. The same day he once more re-entered Rome, in the midst of a population enthusiastically delighted at his restoration. He immediately employed himself in re-organizing all the public institutions, and has ever since devoted himself unceasingly to the affairs of the Church, leaving the direction of civil and temporal affairs almost wholly to his Minister, Cardinal Consalvi. Pius VII. was admitted by Buonaparte himself to be mild and amiable; he abounded in real Christian charity; and, though so long subjected to the most unjust persecutions, never evinced the least symptom of a vindictive spirit towards his enemies; whilst to his friends or benefactors, and particularly to the English Nation and Government, he always testified the warmest gratitude. He was indeed greatly attached to the English, towards whom, on every presentation at his Court, he manifested kindness. The Pope would never permit an Englishman, when he was presented to him, to indulge in the wellknown humiliating ceremony of kissing the great toe. This old relic of Popish superstition was, on these occasions, converted by the good old man into a cordial and affectionate embrace. May his successor show the same attachment and amiableness of character towards the English, as his late Holiness did. In adversity as well as prosperity, he had given the strongest proofs of his sincere attachment to the religion of which he was the head, mainly opposing the doctrines and institutions of what they denominate Hereticks. On the 29th of June, 1816, he issued a Bull to the Archbishop Gnezn, Primate of Poland, against Bible Societies, which he termed in this Bull" a crafty device, by which the very foundations of religion are undermined,”—a “defilement of the faith, most imminently dangerous to souls,”—and a "new species of tares which an enemy is sowing s abundantly." See the original Latin Bull, together with a translation, in Gent. Mag. vol. LXXXVII. i. pp. 365-7. EARL OF CAITHNESS. Lately. At his seat, Barrogill Castle, near Thurso, in his 57th year, the Rt. Hon. James Sinclair, Earl of Caithness, Lord Berriedale, and a Baronet; formerly one of the representative Peers for North Britain, in the Imperial Parliament, but retired in consequence of ill health; Lord Lieutenant, co. Caithness, and Post Master General for Scotiand. He was cousin to John the 11th Earl, and was descended from Alexander Sinclair, Esq. of Stempsters, second son of William Ed Earl of Caithness. He received some part of his education in the town of Elgin, co. Moray. His Lordship married 1784, Jane second daughter of Colonel Alexander Campbell of Barcaldine, and niece to the Right Hon. Sir John Sinclair, of Ulbster, Bart. and had issue the present Peer, and 8 other children; 5 sons, of whom the eldest died in 1802, and the others are now living; 3 daughters, two of which are married, and one died in 1803. His Lordship succeeded to the title on the death of his cousin John, April 8, 1789. In 1802 he was appointed Lieut.-colonel of the Caithness, Sutherland, and Cromarty Militia. By his Lordship's premature decease, his family and friends have sustained an irreparable loss; in every relative duty, as a husband, as a parent, as a friend, as a master, his virtues were eminently conspicuous; and it may with truth be said, that he never lost a friend, and never had an enemy. He had been for ten years a martyr to a severe and lingering illness, which he bore with the utmost resignation and composure. He is succeeded in his titles and estates by his eldest son Alexander, How Earl of Caithness. His amiable wife survives him. COUNTESS OF Dartmouth. Oct. 4. Suddenly, at Ingastrie, co. Stafford, the seat of her father, aged 22, Frances-Charlotte, the amiable and accomplished Countess of Dartmouth. She was eldest daughter of Charles Chetwynd, present Earl Talbot, and late Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, by FrancesTomasine Lambart, eldest daughter of Charles Lambart of Bean Park, in Ireland, Esq. by Frances sister of John Dutton, Lord Sherborne. She was born May 1823.] OBITUARY.-Visc. Powerscourt.-Ld. Yarborough.-Ld. Napier. 467 May 17, 1801, and on April 5, 1821, was married to William Legge Earl of Dartmouth. Her Ladyship had been long in a declining state, and at her own especial request was removed, in the course of last week, from Sandwell, her seat at Handsworth, about four miles from Birmingham, to the residence of her Noble Father, the Earl Talbot, at Ingestrie, near Stafford. The considerate object of her Ladyship's removal at this season was to afford accommodation for her uncle, the Bishop of Oxford, who was to have preached the Sermon at the Birmingham Musical Festival instead of Dr. Gardiner, and for a long list of distinguished persons, who were wont to partake of her Ladyship's hospitality on these interesting occasions. Her death has necessarily involved in the deepest grief all those branches of her illustrious family, whose presence would otherwise have added splendour to the Birmingham Festival. In person her Ladyship was amongst the tallest of our female nobility. Her remains, together with those of her infant son, Lord Lewisham, arrived at the family mansion in Berkeleysquare, from Staffordshire, and on Oct. 17, at eight o'clock, were removed for interment in the family vault, Trinity Church, Minories, in a very private manner, consisting of a hearse, containing the two bodies, with six horses; three mourning coaches and four, and the family carriage. The chief mourners were, the Earl Talbot, and his brother, the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Talbot. VISCOUNT POWERSCOURT. Aug. 9. Near London, aged 33, Richard Wingfield, Viscount Powerscourt, of Powerscourt, co. Wicklow, and Baron of Wingfield, co. Wexford. His Lord ship was eldest son of Richard 4th Viscount, by his first wife Catharine Meade, 2d daughter of John first Earl of Clanwilliam, who died Feb. 7, 1793. He was born in September 1790. On the death of his father, July 19, 1809, he succeeded to the title of Vis count, &c. He married Feb. 6, 1813, Frances-Theodosia Jocelyn, eldest daugh. ter of Robert second Earl of Roden; and by her Ladyship, who died on the 10th of May, 1820, had issue one son Richard, the now Lord, born in 1813. His Lordship had been recently elected one of the Irish Representative Peers, and was a strenuous friend of every endeavour to benefit his native country, to the Bible Society of which he lately gave 300% This noble family were seated at Wingfield Castle, co. Suffolk, prior to the Conquest; Sir Richard Wingfield, the first Viscount Powerscourt, was, for his eminent services, made Mareschal of Ireland by Queen Elizabeth; and by James the First, for his subsequent achievements, was twice joined in the Government of Ireland, and created Viscount Powerscourt in February, 1616, in that country, where the whole of this distinguished family have ever since continued. The title became extinct in 1634, on the Viscount's decease, without issue; but it was conferred, in 1665, on his male heir Foliot Wingfield, the second Lord, who also dying without male issue in 1717, the title again became extinct; but was renewed, however, in 1743. LORD YARBOROUGH. Sept. 23. At his seat, Brocklesby, Lincolnshire, aged 75, Charles-Anderson-Pelham, Baron Yarborough, of Yarborough, co. Lincoln, D..C. L. F. R. S. F. A. S. He was eldest son of Francis Anderson of Manby, co. Lincoln, Esq. by Eleanor, daughter of Thomas Carter, of Bossavern, co. Denbigh, Esq.; and on the 4th of July, 1793, received the degree of D. C. L. from Oxford. He was born July 3, 1749; married July 22, 1770, Sophia, daughter and sole heir of the late George Aufrere, Esq. of Chelsea; and by her, who died Jan. 25, 1786, had issue Charles-Anderson, who succeeds his Lordship, and 6 other children, 1 son, and 5 daughters, all of whom were married, and now living, with the exception of Caroline and Lucy. His Lordship while Mr. Pelham, commenced his political career by representing the town of Beverley in 1768. From 1774 till he was ennobled on the 13th of August, 1794, he represented the county of Lincoln. He assumed the name of Pelham, in compliance with the will of his great uncle, Charles Pelham, of Brocklesby, co. Lincoln, Esq. His Lordship will long be regretted by a numerous tenantry, to whom he was a kind and indulgent landlord. He is succeeded in the title by his eldest son, Charles-Anderson Pelham, now Lord Yarborough, one of the Members in Parliament for Lincolnshire, which will occasion a vacancy in the representation for that county. LORD NAPIer. Aug. 1. At Dacre-lodge, Middlesex, the Right Hon. Francis Napier, Lord Napier, of Merchistoun, N. B. a Baronet of Nova Scotia, Lord Lieutenant of the county of Selkirk, one of the sixteen Representative Peers of Scotland; and D. C. L. |