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Scripture Topography, an Alphabetical Arrangement of all the Names of Places mentioned in the Old and New Testament; accompanied with Historical and descriptive Information derived from Ancient Writers and Modern Travellers, and particularly useful in the Illustration of the Prophe

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A Third Course of Practical Sermons. By the Rev. Harvey Marriott, Rector of Claverton, and Chaplain to the Right Hon. Lord Kenyon.

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The Agamemnon of Eschylus, translated into English Verse, with Notes Critical and Explanatory. By John Symmons, Esq. AM. of Christ Church, Oxford,

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ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

The Rev. C. Bradley, of High Wycombe, to the rectory of Glasbury, Breconshire: Patron, the Bishop of Gloucester.-The Rev. George Cuming Rashleigh, Fellow of New College, Oxford, to the rectory of Sheviock, Cornwall, vacant by the death of the Rev. Duke Yonge, on the presentation of the Right Hon. Reginald Pole Carew.-The Rev.

Manley, to the vicarages of Westwell, Godmer sham, and Shallock, Kent, vacant by the death of the Rev. G. Sherer.-Dr. Smith, Dean of Christ Church, to the deanery of Durham, vacant by the death of Earl Cornwallis-Dr. Ryder, Bishop of

Gloucester, to the see of Lichfield and Coventry -Dr. Smyth, to the see of Gloucester, by which the deanery of Chichester is become vacant.

CAMBRIDGE.-Members' Prizes for the present year, Senior Bachelors: "An recentium ingenii vim insitam veterum poetarum exemplaria promovent?"-Middle Bachelors: "Quænam potissimum causæ Tragicæ Camenæ apud Latinos offecerint?"

Porson Prize: Shakspeare's Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene 1, beginning, "Of a strange nature is the suit you follow, &c.

BIRTHS.

Jan. 22, 1824,-In Baker-street, the lady of Wm. James, Esq. MP. a daughter.

29. At the Rangers Lodge, Oxford, the lady of Sir Henry Lambert, Bart. a son.

Feb. 1. The lady of Major Deare, of the Eighth Hussars, a daughter.

At Ickwell Bury, near Biggleswade, Lady Johnstone, a son.

3. At Greenstead Hall, Essex, the lady of Major Robt. H. Ord, KGO. a son.

6. At Woolterton Hall, Norfolk, the Rt. Hon. the Countess of Orford, a daughter.

-Mrs. Jackson, of Brunswick Square, a daugh

ter.

8. At the Principal's Lodge, at the East India College, Herts, the lady of the Rev. Dr. Batten, a daughter.

9. In Grosvenor Square, the Rt. Hon. Lady Petre, a daughter.

The lady of Wm. Stuart, Esq. MP. for Armagh, a daughter.

10. At Belton Hall, Lincolnshire, the Countess of Brownlow, a daughter.

In Hill-street, Berkeley Square, the lady of W. Lucas, Esq. MP. a daughter.

-In Stratton street, the lady of George Carr Glyn, Esq. a son.

At Cheddington, Kent, the lady of the Rev. R. P. Wish, a son.

At Powis Castle, Shropshire, the Rt. Hon. Lady Lucy Clive, a daughter.

14. In Lower Brook-street, the lady of the Hon. Wm. Barrington, a son.

-The lady of C. M. T. Western, Esq. a son. 17. At Whiteball Place, the Rt. Hon. Lady James Stuart, a son.

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to Mary, youngest daughter of Robert Grant, Esq. of Druminnor, Aberdeenshire.

24. Daniel Wakefield, Esq. to Selina, second daughter of J. G. De Burgh, Esq. of Chewton House, Old Down.

26. Rose Price, Esq. eldest son of Sir Rose Price, Bart. to the Rt. Hon. the Countess of Desart. 28. By Special License, at Hepburn Hall, Wm. Henry Lambton, Esq. brother to John George Lambton, MP. for the county of Durham, to Henrietta, second daughter of Cuthbert Ellison, Esq. MP. for Newcastle on Tyne.

29. At St. James' Church, John Ruggles, Esq. of Spains Hall, in the county of Essex, and of Clare, Suffolk, to Catherine, daughter of John Haynes Harrison, Esq. of Copford Hall, Essex. Feb. 3. At Mary-le-bone Church, the Rev. W. Heberden, eldest son of Dr. Heberden, to Elvira Rainier, second daughter of John Underwood, Esq. of Gloucester Place.

3. At Kensington, John Hurnall, Esq. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to Mary, only daughter of Charles Badham, MD, FRS.

4. Captain H. Jenkinson, RN. to Miss Acland, sister to Sir Thos. D. Acland, Bart.

10. At St. George's, Hanover Square, by the Dean of Carlisle, Thos. Hoskins, Esq. of North Perrot, Somersetshire, and late of the Royal Dragoons, to Charlotte, daughter of the late James Adams, Esq. of Berkeley Square.

11. At Grasmere, Westmoreland, Thos. Carr, Esq. of Compton Lodge, to Miss Dowling, of Ambleside.

16. At Wilmington, Kent, John Walter Hulme, Esq. of the Middle Temple, to Eliza, eldest daughter-and William Parr Isaacson, Esq. of Newmarket, to Sarah, second daughter-of J. Chitty, Esq. Barrister-at-law.

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20. In the Edgeware Road, aged 86, Mrs. Thicknesse, relict of the late Governor Thicknesse, (father to the late Lord Audley) whom she mar ried in 1762, after the death of his first wife, Lady Betty Thicknesse; Mrs. Thicknesse was the author of Sketches of the Lives and Writings of the Principal Literary Ladies in France, 3 vols. 8vo. and some other publications. 22. At Castle Dennington, Leicestershire, in his 71st year, the Rev. Thos. Bosville, AM. of Magdalen College, Oxford, and of Ravenfield Park, in the county of York.

23. At Binfield, Berks, aged 49, Lieut. Gen. Sir Fras. Wilder.

25. At Camberwell, aged 48, Vincent Wanostrocht, LLD.

-In Upper Seymour-street, Judith, relict of the late Gen. Sir Robt. Laurie, Bart. of Maxwelton, in the county of Dumfries.

27. At Chiswick, in his 86th year, the Rev. Dr. Horne.

-At Castle Howard, Yorkshire, in her 71st year, the Right Hon. Margaret Caroline, Countess of Carlisle. Her ladyship was the second daughter of Grenville Leveson Gower, first Marquis of Stafford.

29. At her house, in Hill-street, Berkeley Square, Mrs. Tynte, relict of the late John Kemeys Tynte, Esq. 31. In his 34th year, Mr. G. Fordyce Mavor, of Finsbury Square, of the Firm of Harding, Mavor, and Co.

Feb. 1. At the house of Robt. Clark, Esq. of Trinity Square, Captain Stephen Rains, RN. in his 59th year.

At Woolwich, aged 73, Mrs. Hartley, the once celebrated actress, and the contemporary of Garrick. This lady, when in her zenith, was possessed of extraordinary beauty of person, and frequently sat as a model, to Sir Joshua Reynolds; and Mason is said to have written his Elfrida, that she might represent the heroine, which character she sustained for sometime with great popularity.

-At Cheltenham, in his 78th year, the Rev. Sir Henry Bate Dudley, Bart. Prebendary of Ely, Chancellor of the diocese of Ferns, &c. This gentleman who had been for nearly half a century a distinguished character both in the literary and political world, first established the Morning Post, and the Herald, the latter in 1780, the former a few years previously; he also commenced the Courier de l'Europe, and the EngJish Chronicle. Of the Herald he was for many years the sole proprietor, and supported that paper by his wit and talents. He contributed largely to the celebrated "Probationary Odes," and the "Rolliad," and was author of a satirical work entitled "Vortigern and Rowena," and of several popular operas and other dramatic pieces. Sir Henry was the patron of Gainsborough, De Lolme, Lavoisier, and other individuals of talent; and the friend and associate of Garrick, the elder Colman, Bonnel Thornton, Cumberland, and other contemporary wits. At one period he obtained much notoriety by his quarrels and duels with Mr. Bowes, the hus. band of the Countess of Strathmore, Messrs. Miles and Fitzgerald, &c. one of which was about Mrs. Hartley, the lady whose decease bas been just noticed.

3. At the King's Palace, the Countess of Harrington. Her remains were interred on the 12th, in Westminster-abbey.

- At Lymington, aged 49, James Green Livett, Esq.

4. Sir John Simeon, one of the Masters in Chan

cery.

- At Birmingham, aged 29, Mr. George Mills, medalist, one of the first artists in England in this branch of the Fine Arts. His medals of Watt, West, Admiral Duckworth, &c. are sufficient proofs of his ability and talent. -At Fleet House, near Weymouth, Abigail, reliet of the late George Gould, Esq. of Upway House, in the county of Dorset, and last surviving sister of Robt. Goodden, Esq. of Compton House, in the same county.

6. In Belgrave place, Pimlico, John Henderson, Esq. in his 92d year.

Lately, Sir Frederick Flood, Bart. late MP, for Wexford.

7. In his 35th year, Wm. Henry Majendle, eldest son of the Lord Bishop of Bengor.

8. In Dover-street, in her 90th year, Margaret, relict of the late Hon. Gen. Thos. Gage.

9. In Great George-street, Westminster, in his 74th year, John Fane, Esq. MP. of Warmesley, Oxfordshire.

10. In Piccadilly, in his 80th year, Sir W. Paxton, of Middleton Hall, Carmarthenshire. 11. At Walton, Lady Harriet Bennet, youngest daughter of the Earl of Tankerville.

-In Queen square, Richard Cheslyn Creswell, Proctor of Doctors' Commons, and one of the Deputy Registers of the Prerogative Court, Canterbury.

At Cavendish Hall, Suffolk, Georgiana Lucy, youngest daughter of Sir Digby Mackworth, Bart.

14. In Regent's Park, Jane, relict of the late Thos. Greenough, Esq. of Bedford-square.

Lately, at Bayswater, in his 85th year, Mr. Charles Frederick Baumgarten, formerly leader of the band at Covent Garden Theatre,

19. At his house, in Gloucester-place, in his 73d year, Sir John Örde, Bart. Admiral of the Red. -In his 75th year, Ralph Walker, Esq. Civil Engineer.

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IN IRELAND.

At Roch fort, Gustavus Hume Rochfort, Esq. MP. for the county of Westmeath.

At Collen, in the county of Louth, the seat of Lord Oriel, in her 87th year, the Rt. Hon. Margaret, Viscountess Ferrard, and Baroness Oriel, his Lordship's wife. Her Ladyship was a Peeress in her own right, and is succeeded in her titles by her only son, the Rt. Hon. T. H. Skeffington. one of the Representatives for the county of Louth, now Lord Ferrard.

ABROAD.

At Boulogne, in his 80th year, Sir Brook Boothby, Bart. of Ashbourne Hall, Derbyshire: he is suc ceeded by his only brother, Wm. Boothby, Esq. of Edwinston, Notts. Sir Brook was of literary habits, and published Britannicus, a Tragedy, and Tales and Fables, 2 vols.

At Paris, the Rev. Rich. Hayes, of the Order of St. Francis, who rendered himself conspicuous in the Catholic discussion on the Veto.

At Eichstell, aged 84, Count Joseph Von Stubenberg, Archbishop of Bombay, and Prince Bishop of Eichstell.

At Paris, of a complaint in the chest, M. Gericault, painter; whose picture of the "Wreck of the Medusa Frigate," was exhibited in London three years since.

At Versailles, aged 54, George Francis Lynn, Esq. of Southwick Hall, Oundle, Northamptonshire. At Paris, (Jan. 28.) Lonis Matthieu Langlès, the celebrated Orientalist, who was born at Montdidier in 1764. The whole life of this indefatigable scholar was devoted to the study of Oriental literature, with which his numerous translations and other works exhibit his intimate acquaintance. His "Ancient and Modern Monuments of Hindostan," alone, sufficiently attest the profundity, extent, and variety of his researches in this field of literature.

At Malta, of Apoplexy, Sir Thos. Maitland, GCB. and GC. Col. of the 18th Regt. Foot, Governor of Malta, Commander of the Forces in the Mediterranean, and Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands. Sir Thomas was brother to the Earl of Lauderdale.

At Florence, in her 72d year, Aloisia de Stollberg, relict of Prince James Stuart, and the friend of Alfieri:

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