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Brooke, of the White Hart Inn, Thetford, She was the mother of 23 children, seven of whom are left to lament their loss. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. April 27. At Guilsborough, in her 25th year, Eleanor, wife of Rev. Rowland Bloxham, and 2d dau. of Henry Harpur, esq. of the Heath, near Alcester, co. Warwick. In ten weeks from her first attack she was taken from her fond relatives, leaving a circle of loving and beloved friends to lament her premature departure. To a natural sweetness and affability of disposition, she united all that can endear a wife and a mother, and lived and died with the unaffected piety of a true Christian.

OXFORDSHIRE. Lately. At the age of 102 years, George Williams, a labouring man, of Weston-on-the-Green, formerly in the service of Capt. Bertie, and since with Arthur Annesley, esq. of Bletchingdon.

April 26. Aged 20, George Blagrave, esq. Commoner of St. John's College, and youngest son of T. W. Blagrave, esq. of Durham-place, Chelsea.

SOMERSETSHIRE.-April 20. At Bath, John Micklethwait, esq. of Tridge-place, Sussex.

SUFFOLK.-Lately. At Long Melford, John Quanbrough, esq. of the firm of Quanbrough and Almack, solicitors.

April 17. At Bury, aged 61, Mrs. G. Addison, for many years Librarian to the Suffolk Library.

May 8. In his 80th year, William Kemball, Gent. of Bury, but formerly of Rede. SURREY.-March 23. At Burstow-park, near Bletchingley, Mrs. Dowden.

April 30. At her son-in-law's, William Pearson, esq. Park-hill, Tooting, aged 68, Jane, relict of late John Lyall, esq. of Findon, Sussex.

WARWICKSHIRE.-March 25. At Leamington Spa, the wife of Charles Thompson, esq. of Swanland, and sister to Lady Plumer.

April 28. At Meriden, aged 2 montlis, the infant daughter of Lord and Lady Lucy Clive.

WORCESTERSHIRE.-Feb. 22. At Bewd ley, aged 98, Jonathan Skey, esq.

YORKSHIRE.-Feb. 29. Aged 24, Charlotte, wife of Capt. Henry Browne Mason, R.N. and youngest daughter of the late J.R. Pease, esq. of Hull.

March 13. At Cottingham, John Travis, esq. Though at the advanced age of 90, he enjoyed all his faculties to the last.

April 17. At Ripon, aged 74, John Stephenson, esq. formerly a draper in that place, and twice Mayor of that Corporation. April 18. At Drypool, aged 86, Robt. Stanton, esq. Ordnance Store-keeper at Hull garrison, after a faithful service of 68 years. April 24. At Bishopton, Geo. Coates, esq. B.A. of University College, Oxford;, only son of Mrs. Coates.

At Thornton, in his 78th year, Samuel

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Wainewright, esq. one of the proprietors of the Leeds Pottery.

April 26. In her 60th year, Mary, wife of the Rev. Richard Forrest, Sub-Chanter of the Cathedral, and Vicar of St. Mary's Bishophill the Younger.

April 29. Aged 55, James Saunders, esq. brother-in-law to the present Lord Mayor. He served the office of Chief Magistrate of York in 1818, and the same year was the Governor of the Merchants' Company in that city.

WALES.-April 17. In his 46th year, Wm. Robbins, esq. of Velindra House, near Cardiff, and late of West Bromwich, co. Stafford. In every relation of life, whether as a husband, a father, or a friend, the kindness and benevolence of his heart, the rectitude and integrity of his conduct, and the accomplishments of his cultivated mind, endeared him to all who knew him.

SCOTLAND.-April 10. At Duddingstone-house, near Edinburgh, Lady Caroline Macdonald, wife of Reginald George Macdonald, esq. of Clauroland, N. B. She was the second daughter of the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, by Sophia Hobart, dau. of John, second Earl of Buckinghamshire, who died Aug. 17, 1806; was born Oct. 22, 1792, and married to Mr. Macdonald on the 13th of Feb. 1812.-This lady was the ornament of the brilliant circle in which she moved; and in private life the model of every virtue.

ABROAD.-Aug. 2, 1823.-At Bushire, Capt. Fred. Soilleux, of the 1st reg. of Bombay Cavalry, who, as a distinguished officer, and most honourable man, will long be remembered with affection by his numerous friends abroad, while by his family and friends at home his loss must be for ever deplored.

Nov. 7. At Camp, near Deesa, Ensign Philip Parkhouse, 2d Reg. Bombay Army, third son of the late John Parkhouse, esq. formerly of Westminster. The Bombay Courier of the 22d November 1823, states him to be a young officer of great promise, sincerely regretted by all his acquaintance, and particularly by the whole of his brother

officers.

March 8, 1824. At Calais, Henry Cadogan, esq. Agent at Lloyd's.

April 19. At Missolonghi, the Rt. Hon. Lord BYRON. A cold attended by inflammation was the cause of his death. Lord Byron had perfectly recovered from his illness in February, which was of quite a different nature from that under which he died. The Greeks have requested and obtained the heart of Lord Byron, which will be placed in a Mausoleum in the country, the libera tion of which was his last wish. His body will be brought to England. A Memoir of this distinguished Nobleman shall appear in

our next.

C. C. 66 says, one of your Correspondents in your Magazine for December, 1823, p. 509, is surprised that no mention is made by Hayley in his Life, written by himself, of Cyril Jackson, the late learned and excellent Dean of Christ Church.-The Dean, I know, thought but little of Hayley, either as a poet or a scholar. He considered him merely as a literary gossip, and was therefore by no means desirous of cultivating any intimacy with him when they became neighbours. Hayley, however, called upon the Dean, and was received with ordinary courtesy. When the visitor rose to take his leave, the Dean shook him by the hand, and said (with that peculiar voice and manner which all who knew him can never forget) Mr. Hayley, I trust that you and I may always be very good friends and neighbours, that is, I trust that we may see very little of one another.'-This anecdote is quite consistent with your Correspondent's story about the butter."

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R. remarks, "I wish to call the attention of the Legislature, or of the Bench of Bishops, to the objectionable practice of placing sprigs of holly, laurel, &c. in our Churches and windows at the season of Christmas. Whether the custom be of Pagan or Popish origin, it might be sufficient with us, as Christians, to discontinue it; but it is productive of much injury, as leading to much crime. The plantations of these shrubs in every situation are seriously injured in gentlemen's and gardener's grounds, and fences broken down and destroyed to get at them; and many young depredators are induced to commence with this nefarious practice for the sake of the gain which attends it. Nor does it end even here, as those who break into grounds for this purpose, will not scruple to take any thing else with them which lies in their way. If therefore a stop could be put to this criminality, by discontinuing the practice which leads to it, it would, I am persuaded, lessen at least one species of crime."

E. R. observes, "in your Obituary of the Earl of Barrymore, p. 177, you state that as he died without issue, all the titles have become extinct, except the ancient Baronies of Barry and Olethan, which devolve on his only sister, Lady Caroline Melfort.' Lord Barrymore's sister did indeed marry Count Melfort, and he had an only child by her, a daughter; but, if I am not misinformed, she and her child have both been dead many years. The heir to Earl Barrymore's second title of Buttevant is a grandson of the late Redmond Barry, esq. of Jamaica, who died in 1748."

Mr. J. HAMBLETON states that B*, p. 419, is wrong in his supposition that the Rondeau which he introduced has been

hitherto unpublished. It is given as a specimen of that species of poetry in the rules of French versification, subjoined to the justly - esteemed work of Restaut on the general principles of French Grammar.

I. F. would feel much obliged to any of our Bibliographical readers who would inform him of the name of the author of the following little treatise, published by William Weekly, of Ipswich, viz. “The Good Master's Plea, and the Evil Servant's Cavil," 12mo. He is in possession of a very imperfect copy of the work, which is without the title-page and the greater part of the introduction; and from its mutilated state is only able to collect that it was published after the author's decease by his three friends, Matthew Lawrence, Robert Stansbye, and Isaac Basil. He finds also from MS. “Cullections relating to the Town of Ipswich," that Matt. Lawrence was the Town Preacher; Rob. Stansbye, Rector of St. Helen; and Isaac Basil, Rector of St. Mary at Stoke.

C. informs us, "that there has been lately found an iron instrument under the surface in unbaring the rock to dig stones near Sempringham Abbey Church in Lincolnshire, on the estate of Earl Fortescue. There are seven tines (84 inc. long) springing from a solid base, (of 44 inches in length) like those of a hay-fork. It was no doubt fitted into a wooden shaft, as forks are now used; but whether the points where sharp, like a piu, or barbed as a dart, time hath so corroded their ends, that it is not possible to tell. The use of it, as supposed, was for fishing for eels."

T. M. says, "in your last Magazine, p. 342, you quote from Wadd's Nuge Chirugice,' the following epigram, which Mr. W. attributes to Cordus:

Tres medicus facies habet; unam quando rogatur Angelicam: mox est, cum juvat, ipse Deus. Post ubi curato, poscit sua præmia, morbo, Horridus apparet, terribilisque Sathan. I know not on what authority this epigram is given; but in the Nuga Venales,' printed in 1720, I find the following among the 'Crepundia Poetica,' p. 320.

Esculapius Trifions. Intrantis Medici facies tres esse videntur Ægrotanti; hominis, Dæmonis, atque Dei. Quam primuni accessit Medicus dixitque salutum, En Dcus, aut custos Angelus, æger at: Cum morbum Medicina fugaverit, ecce homo, cla-"

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Cum poscit Medicus præmia, vade, Satan. Which of these is the genuine Epigram?

P. 449. The Lines to Lord Byron on having converted a Human Skull to the purpose of a Goblet, were not written by T. Moore, esq. but by W. H. Sterndale, who is now in Bengal, and were first inserted anonymously in the Sheffield "Iris." In the first line of the stanzas alluded to, for trim read rim.