Henry de la Belinaye, youngest son of the Marquis de la Belinaye, to Maria Josephine, daughter of the late Joseph Alder, Esq.-C. O. Bushnan, Esq. to Anne, daughter of B. Hart, Esq. barrister at law.-The Right Hon. Viscount Kingsland, to Julia, daughter of John Willes, Esq. of Walcot Terrace, Lambeth.-William Plomer, Esq. son of the late Sir William Plomer, to Miss Catherine Wilhelmina Pagan, of Edinburgh.-The Rev. John Sheppard, to Miss Marianne Mann, both of Blackheath.-William Choice, Esq. of Ashley Hall, Middlesex, to Miss Emily Brown, of Kentish Town.-W. P. Smith, Esq. M. P. to Eliza, daughter of the late Peter Brelow, Esq.-Jan. 4. At St. George's, Bloomsbury, Robert Bill, Esq. Barrister at Law, eldest son of John Bill, Esq. of Farley Hall, Staffordshire, to Louisa, eldest daughter of the late Philip Dauncey, Esq. King's Counsel.-19. At Fulham, William Wilberforce, Esq. eldest son of William Wilberforce, Esq. to Mary Frances, second daughter of the Rev. John Owen, Rector of Paglesham.-20. Sir Edwin Francis Stanhope, Bart. R. N. of Stanwell, to Mary, eldest daughter of Major Domett.-26. The Rev. Henry Parish, A. M. of Epsom, to Sarah, eldest daughter of the late Thomas Stowers, Esq. of Charterhouse Square.-27. Alexander Texeira Sampayo, Esq. of St. Helen's Place, youngest brother of the Baron Teixeira, of Lisbon, to Harriet, youngest daughter of John Church, Esq. of Bedford square.-Feb. At St. George's, Hanover Square, Sir J. S. Leller, to Miss Louisa Sutherland.-3. The Rev. Richard Sandilands, jun. of Putney, to Miss Debrett, of Sloane Street.-8. The Earl of Uxbridge, eldest son of the Marquis of Anglesea, to Eleanora, second daughter of John Campbell, Esq. of Shawfield.-12. At St. Anne's, Westminster, T. Davis, Esq. of the Inner Temple, barrister at law, to Jane Aysert, daughter of J. Houseman, Esq. of Soho Square.-17. At St. George's, Bloomsbury, G. J. Parry, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, to Mary, eldest daughter of Lieut. Col. W. Brooks, of the Hon. East India Company's service.-John Lock, Esq. to Rabina Maria, daughter of Archibald Cullen, Esq. King's counsel.-23. At St. Pancras, the Rev. F. Dollman, of Milton, Kent, to Amelia, and W. T. Heath, Esq. to Matilda, daughters of J. Heath, Esq. of Russell Place.-24. At Guernsey, the Rev. N. Carey, of the Chapel Royal, St. James's, to Martha, daughter of J. La Serre, Esq. of that island.-27. Richard Smith, Esq. of Portman Square, to Hester, third daughter of Lieut.-Col. Green, of Maidstone.-March i. Lieut.-Col. Colquhoun Grant, of Forres, N.B. to Margaret, daughter of J. Brodie, Esq.-At St. James's, Westminster, Capt. J. N. Burton, to Martha, second daughter of R. Baker, Esq. of Barham, Herts.-John F. Cole, Esq. of Devonshire Place, to Harriet, third daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Jones, of Baker Street.-9. J. Oldham Oldham, Esq. of Montague Place, Russell Square, to Mrs. Quintin Craufurd, of Bellevue Place, Cheltenham.-11. Charles Augustus Fitzroy, Esq. eldest son of Lieut.-Gen. Lord Charles Fitzroy, to Lady Mary Lennox, eldest daughter of the late Duke of Richmond.-12. R. C. Thwaits, Esq. of Berkley Square, to Mary, relict of the late Lient.-Col. Jones, of Hornhouse.-By special license, in Portman Square, the Hon. W. Penn Curzon, now Viscount Curzon, to Lady Harriet Georgiana Brudenell, daughter of the Earl of Cardigan.-27. George Norton, Esq. of the Inner Temple, barrister at law, and fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, to Miss Rose, eldest daughter of John Rose, Esq. of Gray's Inn, and of Kentish Town.-April. The Rev. Edward Bankes, son of Henry Bankes, Esq. M.P. to the Hon. Frances Jane Scott, youngest daughter of the Lord Chancellor.

Deaths.-Jan. In Hill Street, the Hon. Charles Finch, uncle to the Earl of Aylesford.On the Pavement, Moorfields, aged 37, Sylvanus Bevan, a highly respected member of the Society of Friends, active, like many of his brethren, in every work of benevolence.-James Carry, M.D.F. A.S. of Grafton Street, senior Physician to Guy's Hospital, and Lecturer there on the Theory and Practice of Medicine.-5. In Cecil Street, William Winchester, Esq. 72. For a long course of years he had been a most consistent, useful, and devoted Christian; shewing forth to the world the evidence of his faith, by the works which an ample fortune, the fruits of a successful application to business, enabled him to perform for the promotion of the glory of God, and the good of his fellow-creatures. His last end was peace; for surrounded by his numerous descendants, whom he admonished with patriarchal affection and fidelity from the bed of death, without a sigh or groan, he fell asleep to wake but in the heavenly world. His funeral sermon was delivered on the morning of Sunday the 16th of January, by Mr. Lacey, of Salters' Hall, from Gen. xlviii. 21, at the Adelphi Chapel, of which place the deceased had long been an active manager.-7. At Naples, the Rev. John Ashbridge, A. M. fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.-8. In Bedford Street, Lieut.-Col. Edward Handfield, 81.-16. Mrs. Brenton, widow of the late Admiral Brenton.-9. At Charlestown, N. A. Mrs. Starr Barrett, a native of one of the States of Barbary, after fully completing 120 years of active and chequered life.-17. Lieut.-Gen. James Campbell, aged 76.—At Kingston, Jamaica, Cheney Hamilton, Esq. late receiver-general and public treasurer of the island.-23. Prince Charles, of Sconditch Earlath, in the 35th year of his age.-24. Cardinal Caracciolo, Bishop of Palestine, the first person advanced to that dignity by the present Pope, who gave him the hat as a reward for his tried attachment to Pope Pius VI., whom Carracciolo followed into France, and attended to the period of his death in Valencia.-30. John Digges Latouch, Esq. M.P.-Feb. Mrs. Mills, wife of G. Mills, Esq. M.P.-The Hon. Marianne Curzon, only daughter of Baroness Howe.-At St. James's Palace, Mrs. Hall, relict of the late General Hall.-2. The Hon. Captain Hart, of the Artillery.-3. At Kentish Town, the Rev. W. Lucas, late of Doctors' Commons.-6. In Buckingham Street, Fitzroy Square, Anne, the wife of John Flaxman, Esq. R. A. She was an excellent Greek scholar, and her taste in the Fine Arts was of a superior description. To her knowledge of composition her husband was ofteu indebted for much of the admired classic beauty of his groupes.-8. Sir Vicary Gibbs, late Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. This able lawyer was educated at Eton, whence he was elected into King's College, Cambridge; which University he represented in the parliament of 1807. As a lawyer, he will ever be held in great estimation by the members of his profession, in which he rose to a high rank and extensive practice by his own merits and diligence. He first came into public notice as an advocate on the trial of Horne Tooke and his associates, in 1794; on which occasion he was one of their counsel, and obtained very great popularity by

the very able and intrepid manner in which he discharged that arduous and important duty. He was appointed a King's Counsel in the same year, Solicitor General to the Prince of Wales, and Recorder of Bristol, 1795; Solicitor General in 1305, which office he resigned on the change of administration in the following year; Attorney General in 1807; one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in 1812; Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1813; Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1814, with the promise, it is understood, of succeeding to the Chief Justiceship of England in case of a vacancy in the King's Bench. However, long before that vacancy happened, his own bad health compelled him to resign his judicial situation, and to retire altogether from a profession of which he was for many years a very principal ornament, and by whose members his loss as a judge was deeply regretted; as it also was, with good reason, by the public at large, whose sentiments, on this occasion at least, did justice to his extraordinary merits.-10. Her Royal Highness the Princess Anne Elizabeth Louisa of Prussia, relict of his late Royal Highness Prince Ferdinand of Prussia, in a fit of apoplexy.15. In Vincent Street, Westminster, the Rev. Matthew Haynes, aged 86.-16. At her house, Curzon Street, May Fair, the Right Hon. Lady Mary Henrietta Erskine, sister to the Earl of Rosslyn.-18. At Chelsea College, at a very advanced age, the Right Hon. Sir David Dundas, K. C. B. Governor of the Royal Military Hospital, Chelsea, formerly Commander in Chief of the Forces.-Hon. Marianne Curzon, only daughter of Baroness Howe.-19. In Hurde Street, Manchester Square, Sir Thomas Philip Hampson, Bart.-21. At Hampstead, the Hon. John Dimsdale, Baron of the Russian Empire, in the 73d year of his age. The baron received his title and made his fortune by introducing inoculation for the small-pox into Russia.-23. M. Greffuth, a peer of France, who had received at a ball in his house the unfortunate Duke de Berri, on the very evening of his assassination. That dreadful event had such an effect upon him, that his death was occasioned by the shock which the first intelligence of it gave to his frame. His widow is also in a state of very alarming indisposition, occasioned by the sudden loss which she has sustained, under such singular circumstances.-24. At his chambers in Lincoln's Inn, aged 64, James Read, Esq. barrister at law.-27. In Lower Brook Street, the Rev. John Toke, Vicar of Brocksbourne, and Rector of Hartledown, Kent.-28. In George Street, Portman Square, the widow of the late Sir Augustus Floyer, aged 49.—In his 76th year, Gen. Hartrup, of the Royal Engineers.-29. In Cork Street, the Rev. G. Chatfield.-Suddenly, in an apopleptic fit, whilst finishing a portrait of Prince Leopold, Mr. Percy, the artist, well known for his exquisite models in miniature size.-March 3. Mrs. Ellen Devis, authoress of an ingenious Grammar for Young Ladies.-At the great age of 92, the Right Hon. Asheton Viscount Curzon.-5. At his house in Gloucester Place, Mrs. Luxmore, wife of the Bishop of St. Asaph.-At Paris, Count Shee, a peer of France.-7. At Brussels, aged 69 years, his Highness the Duke of Areanberg, who lost his sight at the age of 24, but was remarkable for the intelligence with which he repaired this loss by the aid of his other senses.-In Quebec Street, in her 83d year, Mrs. Augusta Manners, second and only surviving daughter of the late Right Hon. Lord William Manners.-11. Richard Warren, Esq. formerly Lieutenant-Colonel in the 3d regiment of Guards.-At his house in Newman Street, in the 82d year of his age, Benjamin West, Esq. the venerable President of the Royal Academy, who expired without a struggle. Mr. West was a native of America, having been born at Springfield, in Chester County, Pennsylvania, whither his ancestors, who were Quakers, emigrated with the celebrated Penn. By his father's side he was lineally descended from the Lord Delamere who distinguished himself in the wars of Edward III., and at Cressy under the Black Prince. Colonel James West, the friend and companion in arms of the celebrated Hampden, was the first of the family who embraced the tenets of Quakerism; of which, however, they were so distinguished supporters, that the maternal grandfather of our artist was the confidential friend of their great legislator. There is something romantic in the development and early cultivation of his talents, as a painter, to which art he evinced the strong bias of his genius so early as his seventh year. At that period he was one day left to watch a sleeping infant in the absence of its mother, when the child happening to smile in its sleep, he was so forcibly struck by its beanty, that he seized pens, ink, and paper, which happened to lie by him, and endeavoured to delineate its features, though he had then seen neither an engraving nor a picture. In the course of the summer of the following year, a party of Indians paid their annual visit to Springfield, and being amused with the birds and flowers which the young artist shewed them, as the production of his holiday hours from school, but still drawn in ink, taught him to prepare the red and yellow colours with which they painted their rude ornaments. To these a present of a piece of indigo from his mother added blue; and thus, in a manner which borders closely on poetical fiction, was he put in possession of the three primary colours. Forming for himself such combinations of their tints as he required, his drawings soon attracted the attention of his neighbours, from some of whom he first heard of camels'-hair pencils; and inquiring how they were made, he substituted for them some brushes formed of the hairs which he slily cut off the cat's tail. The frequency, however, of his depredations at length attracted his father's attention to the altered appearance of his favourite puss; and a discovery ensued, which gained to the disposer of the hairs of her tail the merited praise of ingenuity. In the following year, Mr. Pennington, a merchant of Philadelphia, visiting the family, on his return home sent young West a box of paints and pencils, several pieces of canvas, and six engravings by Grevling. Enraptured with a present so congenial to his taste, the young painter rose at the dawn of day, bore away his newly acquired treasures into a garret, prepared a palette, and began to imitate the figures of the engravings; and so enchanted was he with his new pursuit, that for several successive day she played truant from his school; nor was his occupation known to the family, until, on the master's sending to know the reason for his absence, his mother recollecting that she had seen Benjamin going up stairs every morning, and suspecting that it was the box of paints which had occasioned his fault, immediately repaired to the garret, and found the lad at his work. The anger which she had at first felt at his delinquency was soon changed into a very different feeling at the sight of his performance; and kissing him with transports of

affection, she assured him that she would interfere with his master to prevent his being punished for his truancy. So great, indeed, was her admiration of his performance, that she would not allow him to complete the picture, lest he should spoil the half he had already done. Sixty-seven years after its execution, it was sent over to him by his mother; and the venerable president shewed it to every stranger admitted to the painting-room, declaring that, with all his subsequent knowledge and experience, he could not vary the situation of one colour for the better. It was with peculiar delight, also, that upon these and other occasions he would emphatically declare, that it was the kiss with which his mother rewarded this early effort of his genius that made him a painter. A short time afterwards he went to Philadelphia with his friend, Mr. Pennington, where he was introduced to a painter, who lent him the works of Drs. Fresnoy and Richardson, which he studied attentively, and to much advantage. On his return home he amused himself by painting on the detached pieces of broken furniture which lay scattered over a cabinet-maker's shop near his father's house; and the rude sketches which he there executed have since been sought for with much avidity by his countrymen, and purchased at enormous prices. About twelve months after his return, young West became acquainted with William Henry, an extraordinary mechanic, who had acquired a fortune by his abilities; and it was he who first induced him to direct his attention to historical painting, giving him for the first subject of his pencil the death of Socrates, which he took much pains in explaining to his pupil from Plutarch. By Mr. Henry's interest, also, the young artist was sent to Philadelphia, to receive the benefits of a classical education from Provost Smith, as he did until he was sixteen years of age; when a general consultation of the members of the Society of Friends taking place, to determine his future destiny, it was agreed, after much debate, that he should follow the profession of his choice. In 1760, he left Phila delphia for Italy, where he pursued his studies with such intense ardour, as considerably to injure his health. Having completed the tour of Italy, he came to London by way of France, and after visiting several of our chief towns, was about to return to America, when the disinterested advice of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Wilson, the two greatest painters of their day, happily induced him to alter his resolution, and to settle in this country, where the patronage of the late King, and his own great merit, soon opened to him the road to fame and fortune; having deservedly attained, by productions of his pencil, too well known and too generally admired to need particular mention here, the very first rank in his profession, at whose head. he was placed in the year 1791, by his election to the Presidentship of the Royal Academy, in the formation of which he was very actively engaged. It is a singular fact in the history of Mr. West's professional life, and it is the only one to which our limits will permit us to refer, that the largest, and incomparably the best of his numerous works, were produced after he had completed his 70th year. He has left two sons by his wife, formerly a Miss Shewell, of Philadelphia, to whom he had formed an attachment before he quitted America, which was cemented by a marriage, on her arrival in England, with the father of her lover, when she found that he had determined to settle there. She died in 1816. These sons will inherit the chief of his property, which principally consists of numerous works from his own pencil, and some choice specimens of the old masters, particularly of Titian; the whole being valued at upwards of an hundred thousand pounds. On the 29th, his remains were interred, with great funeral pomp, in St. Paul's Cathedral, having previously laid in state in the council-room of the Royal Academy.-14. At Knightsbridge, aged 84, Dr. Michael Underwood, many years Physician to the British Lying-in Hospital, and author of several approved works on the diseases of children.-18. In Cleveland Row, St. James's, Major-Gen. Digby Hamilton, Colonel of the Royal Waggon Train.-19. In Park Lane, Ed. Cooke, Esq. late Under Secre tary of State in his Majesty's Office for Foreign Affairs.-13. At his house in Arlington Street, Lord Dundas, late Lord Lieutenant and Vice-Admiral of Orkney and Shetland. He is suc ceeded in his title and estates by his eldest son, the Hon. Lawrence Dundas, M.P. for the city of York.-April 1. At the house of Mr. Wilberforce, Kensington Gore, the Very Rev. Isaac Milner, D.D. F.R.S. Dean of Carlisle, President of Queen's College, Cambridge, and Lucian Professor of Mathematics in that University; well known to the religious world by his warm support of the Bible Society, and to the literary circles by his various publications.-2. At Brompton, in the 42d year of his age, Dr. Thomas Brown, Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, author of two or three volumes of poems of considerable merit, and of other works.-3. At Harewood House, Hanover Square, London, in the 83d year of his age, the Right Hon. the Earl of Harewood. His Lordship is succeeded in his titles and estates by his only son, Lord Lascelles.-At Hampton Court Palace, Colonel Thomas, Master of the Robes, and Groom of the Bedchamber to his Majesty.

BEDFORDSHIRE.

Death.-Jan. At Lawrence End, Herts, the Rev. John Hawkins, M.A. Rector of Bartonle-Clay, aged 80.

Ecclesiastical Promotion.-Jan. A dispensation has passed the Great Seal, to enable the Rev. Wm. Collins Cummings to hold the rectory of St. Mary's, Bedford, with the vicarage of Eaton Bray, in the same county.

Philanthropic Institution. Since the first institution of the Bedfordshire Bank for Savings, in 1814, we rejoice to learn, that the sums deposited by 699 individuals amount to £15,410. 8s. 6d. The sums drawn out during the same period do not exceed £3,273. 3s. 9d. Miscellaneous Intelligence.-In the beginning of February, the waters about Bedford rose so high as completely to inundate several parts of the town; the inhabitants of which were obliged to sit up stairs the greater part of the day. Considerable damage ensued.

BERKSHIRE.

Birth.-Jan. 28. At Fern Hill, the lady of G. A. Fullerton, Esq. a son.

Death. Jan. At Abingdon, S. Selwood, Esq. Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.

Miscellaneous Intelligence.-A petition to the House of Commons, praying that the depressed state of the agriculture of the country may be taken into consideration, and such relief granted as an impartial investigation of the case may warrant, has been prepared for the town and neighbourhood of Wallingford. It has been signed by all the aldermen of the Borough, with a considerable number of the other members of the Corporation; and it is said that scarcely a tradesman in the town has refused his name.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE.

Marriages.-Jan. The Rev. Henry Fardell, M.A. Prebendary of Ely, to Miss Eliza Sparkes, eldest daughter of the Bishop of Ely.-Feb. At Cambridge, the Rev. J. Milner, B.A. of Catherine Hall, to Miss Crompton, niece to the Rev. Dr. Milner, of Queen's College. Death.-Jan. J. H. Legard, Esq. student of Trinity College.

University Intelligence.-The late Rev. John Hulse, of Elworth Hall, Cheshire, formerly of St. John's College, among other bequests to his alma mater, for the promotion of religion and learning, instituted a lectureship in divinity in Cambridge, to which he annexed a considerable salary, payable out of estates in Middlewich, Sandbach, and Olive. The duty of the lecturer is to preach and publish twenty sermons, chiefly on the truth and excellence of revelation. The Rev. Christopher Benson, of Trinity College, has been chosen the first lecturer, and is to discharge the duties of the office during the present year.-The Halsean Prize for the present year has been adjudged to Mr. Edward White, Bart. of Corpus Christi College and of Colchester, for the best essay on "The fitness of the time when Christ came into the world."-On the 3d of February, a grace passed the Senate, for granting to the University of Cephalonia, of which the Earl of Guildford is Chancellor, a copy of all the books now in the University press, or which have been printed there at the University expense.

CHESHIRE.

Birth.-Jan. At Marberry Hall, the lady of John Smith Barry, Esq. High Sheriff of the county; a son.

Marriages.-The Rev. Edward Royds, Rector of Brereton, to Mary, the second daughter of Thomas Molyneux, Esq. of Marsham House, Lancashire.-The Rev. R. Carr, of Chester, to Miss Armstrong, of Market Drayton.-Feb. The Rev. E. Mainwaring, of Peevor, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of J. Fenton, Esq. of Doncaster.

Deaths.-Jan. In the 56th year of his age, Edward Downes, Esq. of Shrigley; a graduate of the University of Oxford, one of the magistrates for this county, and the last male branch of one of its most ancient families.-At Bolesworth Castle, Thomas Sutton, Esq. aged 67.-At Chester, Edward Mainwaring, Esq. suddenly.-Feb. At Thornton, aged 83, Mr. J. Williamson, father of twenty-nine children, and clerk of that parish for half a century.

Philanthropic Intelligence.-Broughton Hall, near Chester, is about to be divided into small lots, and to be let at trifling rents to the poor of that city, for the purpose of their cultivating it with potatoes. There are few cities or large towns in the kingdom, which do not afford the opportunity of imitating so good an example.

Law Intelligence.-At the Epiphany Quarter Sessions for this county, held in the city of Chester, before Trafford Trafford, Esq. chairman, and a very respectable bench of magistrates, Joseph Swann was indicted for publishing at Macclesfield two blasphemous and two seditious libels. The former were contained in Carlile's Republican, the latter in Sherwin's Political Register. Having convicted him on one of each, the counsel for the prosecution (Mr. Williams) declined offering any evidence upon the others, and by his consent a verdict of not guilty was taken. Swann was then again indicted, with Robert Swindells, Joseph Burtenshaw, John Stubbs, John Richards, and Joseph Sutton, for having conspired together to excite sedition at Macclesfield, on the 31st of July last; when they were all of them speakers at a public meeting held there, ostensibly for the purpose of petitioning for a Parliamentary Reform. The language which they used was most violent, and had it been followed by actions, would have clearly amounted to an overt act of treason. They were all found guilty, and were sentenced-the five first to two years' imprisonment each, and J. Sutton to one. Swann was further sentenced to two years' imprisonment for the first libel, and six months' for the second; making on the whole an incarceration of four years and a half. This he most probably considers a martyrdom to his political and Deistical firmness, as we never recollect to have seen a more determined radical. When asked whether he had any objection to the jury, he said" No, I suppose you mean to hang me, and the sooner you do it the better; a few minutes' hanging will do me no harm." The blasphemy which he was proved to have vended was of the grossest description; but after his conviction for its publication, he very coolly said, that he should most likely do the same again, as he saw no harm in it: He seemed, however, on the whole, to be an obstinate stupid fellow; but some of his coconspirators were shrewd sensible men, and possessed a degree of intelligence rather above the very low stations of life in which they moved. One of them, (Burtenshaw if we recollect right), had evidently a slight smattering of law, as applicable to his case; for when some little doubt was expressed at the bar, whether the right of challenging jurors was the more fully stated in the third or the fourth volume of Blackstone's Commentaries, he very deliberately and very correctly informed the counsel for the Crown, that it was in the fourth. After sentence had been passed upon Swann, he held up his white hat ornamented with a crape band, the badge of a thorough radical, and very impudently asked the magistrate-" Have you done? Is that all? Why I thought you would have got a bit of hemp for me, and would have hung me."-The Spring Assizes for this county presented a very heavy calendar, and an unusual quantity of civil business. On Saturday, April the 8th, Jacob Magennis and James George Bruce were tried; the former for having shot at Birch, the Stockport constable, who had Harrison in his custody after the Smithfield meeting, with intent to kill him; and the latter with aiding and abetting in this crime: when, after a trial of some length, they were

both found guilty. On Monday sentence of death was passed upon them, when Magennis, who immediately after his conviction had very coolly declared that he was the man that fired the pistol, but that neither Bruce nor any one else knew any thing of his intention, conducted himself in the most indecorous manner, observing, as he was taken down from the dock, that hanging was a good specific for a spen (a swimming) in the head, and manifesting the most shocking indifference to his awful situation; after having been solemnly assured by the chief justice (Warren), in passing sentence upon him, that the noon of the following Saturday was the latest hour that he had to live. To Bruce, also, no hopes of pardon or reprieve were held out; and his behaviour partook but too much of the spirit of his associate; though during the trial his countenance evidently betrayed an anxiety as to its issue, which was vainly sought in that of his companion. In a short time, however, a marvellous change was wrought in their demeanour. Magennis, who had hitherto avowed himself a Deist, or worse than a Deist, (for he denied the existence of a God, or asserted that if there was one he had incited him to the commission of the deed for which he was about to suffer; for, maintaining that he had a right to kill any one who offended him, he would not call it a crime;) soon began to shew signs of penitency; whilst Bruce, who had all but trembled at the bar, in the retirement of his cell evinced a hardihood and callousness of heart which nothing could penetrate or remove. The extraordinary change in Magennis is, under God, to be attributed to the humane exertions of Mr. Keeling, one of the pages of his late Majesty, who devotes much of his time to visiting those who are appointed to die, and who has in several instances met with the most encouraging success. The impression which his continued visits and exhortations, from the moment of his conviction, produced, lasted, we are happy to say, to that of his execution; and the deluded victim to the offended laws of his country passed from his cell to the scaffold with a bible in his hand, intent but upon reading, with the deepest attention, the history of the thief upon the cross, which his kind friend had folded down for his perusal, in a new bible which he had provided for this melancholy occasion. He spoke not at the place of execution, either in justification or extenuation of his crime; but on the falling of the drop, was, with scarce a struggle, launched into eternity, and introduced to the presence of a Judge who cannot err, and who knoweth the most secret intentions of the heart of man. Bruce has been reprieved, and we wish we could add, that either his reprieve or the jeopardy in which he has been placed had produced any alteration in his conduct or demeanour.-On the Monday following their trial, Sir Charles Wolsely and Joseph Harrison, commonly called Parson Harrison, were indicted for a conspiracy to excite sedition, at a public meeting which they attended in July last, at Stockport. The former was most ably and most eloquently defended by Mr. Pearson, a barrister brought specially for the occasion from the Oxford circuit. The latter defended, or rather attempted to defend himself. But they were both convicted, and will be called up to receive judgment in the Court of King's Bench in the course of the present term.

CORNWALL.

Birth.-Jan. At Ivy Church House, the lady of Wm. Rawlings, Esq. of Monkeley; a son. Deaths.-Jan. At Tywardreath, the Rev. William Raymond Cory, Vicar of Landrake and Tywardreath. At Penzance, Theodosia Mary, wife of Samuel Crawley, Esq. of Storkwood Beds, M.P. for Honiton.-Feb. Harriet Frances, youngest daughter of Lady Theodosia Vyner. -At his seat at Trelowarren, Sir Vyall Vyvyan, Bart. He is succeeded in his title by his son, who is now a minor.-Jane Lucas, aged 104.

Ecclesiastical Presentations.-Jan. On the presentation of the Rev. Mr. Preston Brittain, the Rev. Thomas Fisher, M.A. to the rectory of Roche, vacant by the death of the Rev. Richard Postlethwaite.-On the presentation of the major part of the trustees of the late John Thornton, Esq. the Rev. Ley, A.M. chaplain to the Earl of Mount Edgecumbe, to the living of Landrake.

CUMBERLAND.

Deaths.-Jan. At Whitehaven, Sarah Scott, aged 100. About two years since, her husband died at the age of 105.-The Rev. J. Fisher, M.D. Rector of Drax and Perpetual Curate of Carleton in Yorkshire, a graduate in medicine of the University of Leyden, and Honorary Fellow of the Physical Society of Edinburgh. He was author of the "Review of Dr. Priestley's Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity," and of "The Practice of Medicine made easy."-At Brampton, aged 32, Mr. Dobson, an occasional preacher in the Independent congregation in that town.

Miscellaneous Intelligence.-The 4th of February was the era of three remarkable events at Carlisle; namely, the proclamation of the King, the first essay at lighting the city with gas, and the commencement of cutting the canal from Carlisle to the Solway Frith.

DERBYSHIRE.

Death.-Jan. At Calke Abbey, Henrietta Charlotte, youngest daughter of the late Sir J. H. Cruse, Bart.

DEVONSHIRE.

Births.-Jan. At Rockbeare Court, near Exeter, the lady of the Rev. Charles Herbert, of a daughter.-27. At Exeter, the lady of the Rev. Edward Leigh, A. M. a son:-Feb. 2. The lady of the Rev. Richard Dixon; a daughter.

Marriages.-Jan. At the Hague, Lieut.-Col. Sir James Roupell Colleton, Bart. to Septima Sexta Colleton, daughter of Rear-Admiral Richard Graves, of Timbury Fort. The Rev. Samuel Kilpin, Baptist minister of Exeter, to Miss Hodge, of Axminster.-Feb. At Tedbury, St. Mary, the Rev. C. Barne, to Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of the Rev. John Tethill, Rector of Hettisleigh.

Deaths.-Jan. At Exeter, in her 77th year, Mary, Countess Dowager of Rothes, daughter of Mary, Countess of Haddington, by her first husband, Lloyd, Esq. and relict of the