Thursday, August 4.

The grand Dinner, so long announced in honour of the glorious cause of the Spanish Patriots, was given to the Spanish Deputies at the City of London Tavern. The chair was filled by Sir Francis Baring; and immediately around him at the Spanish Deputies, the Spanish Admiral, Portuguese Ambassador, Earls Camden and Bathurst, Viscount Sidmouth, Lords Erskine and Hawkesbury, Sir C. Price and W. Curtis, Messrs. Canning, Windham, Perceval, and Sheridan, Alderinen Combe and Shaw, Messrs. Mellish, Thornton, &c. There were six tables lengthways, and one cross table, in the large room, at which 328 noblemen and gentlemen sat down to dinner; and in the adjoining room there were 72, making together 400 persons, whose united property, it is no exaggeration' to say, exceeded fifteen millions. The decorations and style of the entertainment in general were most splendid. Every

thing was elegant, prófuse, and excellent. There were "drest for the day 2500 lbs. weight of turtle, and the intervals between the tureens had every delicacy in season. The dessert was extremely magnificent. The scene was enlivened by many loyal and patriotic songs and toasts; among the latter were the King, the Queen, Prince of Wales, Ferdinand VII.; success to the gallant Heroes of Spain, &c.; the Patriots of Portugal, and the House of Braganza; the King of the Two Sicilies; the King of Sweden, &c.; all of which were drunk with enthusiastic plaudits. The health of the President of the United States of America was alone received with murinurs of disapprobation; but it was explained, that it was to the President individually, and GENT, MAG. August, 1808.

not to the United States, that this disapprobation extended. On the health of their Noble Visitors being given, Mr. Canning returned thanks in their name. The health of the Chairman, and of Mr. Canning, were also drunk. The Spanish Deputies departed amid loud testimonies of respect from the company at large. Sir F. Baring was succeeded in the chair by Beeston Long, Esq. Governor of the Bank of England, who kept up the festivity of the night to a late hour.

Tuesday, Augast 9.

This day as five men in the employ of Messrs. Scot, Idle, and Co. Wine-merchants, in the Strand, who had been delivering rums at his Majesty's Stores, near Deptford, on returning home about five o'clock in the afternoon, took a boat, and the tide being against them, the waterman as usual, kept near the shore to avoid the current. Whilst passing Dock-head, scveral barges were lying in the mud, on a high bank, one of which, a small rope which fastened it giving way, came against the boat with great violence, by which means Richard Seward, a native of Exeter, was crushed to death between that and another barge, and Robert Dornton, in endeavouring to escape, had his leg so severely shattered, that he was conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital, and underwent amputation. The rest of the people, being good swimmers, got safe on shore.

Tuesday, August 16.

A child about 3 years old, belonging to a Serjeant of the Guards, was run over by a boy driving at a furious rate into Knightsbridge barracks. The child was taken to St. George's Hospital, but expired the same night.

Friday, August. 19.

An interview took place after the Review on Wanstead Flat, between the Prince of Wales and Louis the. Eighteenth. The latter, who was accompanied by all the members of the Bourbon family, afterwards dined with the Prince and his Royal Brothers, at Wanstead-house.

Saturday, August 20.

This day Parliament was again prorogued till the first of November.

This morning, about six o'clock, as a coal-porter, of the name of Fletcher, was crossing some coal barges, lying off Narrowwall, Limehouse, he slipped between two of them, immediately sunk, and was drowned. Wednesday, August 31.

The importation of Portugal and Spanish Wines has of late been very considerable; upwards of 90 vessels have arrived from Oporto since the expulsion of the French from thence. About 150,000 gallons of wine were entered at the Custom-house during the last week, and there are now upwards of forty vessels on our coasts, proceeding to the river.

P. 561.

P. 561. By the death of Lord Delaval, John-Fenton Cawthorne, esq. formerly M. P. for the city of Lincoln, becomes possessed of a large fortune, in right of his wife, the grand-daughter of Lord D.

P. 654. We are assured that no part of the Library of our late valuable friend Mr. Ashby is bequeathed to St. John's College; But that the whole has been purchased by * Bookseller at Bury. We know that it is a véry valuable collection.

P. 661. The late Andrew Caldwell, of Rutland-square, Dublin, was the eldest son of Charles C. esq. an eminent solicitor; and was born in the year 1732. He received part of his education in one of the Universities of Scotland; from whence he removed to London; and, after a residence of about five years at the Temple, returned to Dublin, where he was admitted to the Bar in 1760; but his father being possessed of a good estate, fully adequate to his son's wishes, he never paid much attention to the profession of the Law, and for several years past had entirely quitted it. His literary and studious disposition, and his love of the fine arts, for many of which he had an excellent taste, always afforded him sufficient employment: nor was he content with a cold admiration, but was a liberal patron and encourager of all those who excelled in any of the various branches of art. He had studied Architecture with particular attention; and about the year 1770 published anonymously some very judicious Observations on the public Buildings of Dublin, and on some edifices which at that time were in contemplation, and about to be erected in that city, at the expence of the State. The only other known production of his pen, that has been published, is a very curious" Account of the extraordinary Escape of James Stewart, esq. (commonly called ATHENIAN Stewart) from being put to Death by some Turks, in whose Company he happened to be travelling ;" the substance of which had been communicated to Mr. C. by the Bishop of Dromore, as related to his Lordship by Stewart himself. Of this narrative, of which only a small number was printed at London in 1804, for the use of the Writer's friends, it is believed not more than a dozen copies were distributed in this country. Mr. Caldwell's love of literature naturally led him to collect an ample library, which contains many curious articles, and is particularly rich in botany and natural history. It would be great injustice to this worthy and amiable man not to add, that his manners were gentle and pleasing; and that, as his benevolence and other virtues made him generally respected through life, so his urba nity, various knowledge, and cultivated taste, extremely endeared him to the cir

cle of his friends, by whom he will be long and deeply regretted. He died at the house of his nephew, Major-general Cockburn, near Bray, in the county of Wicklow, on the 2d of July, in the 76th year of his age, after an illness of about three months duration. Having never married, his estate devolves in succession on his brothers; Caldwell, of Liverpool, esq.; and Admiral Caldwell, of Charles-street, Berkeley-square.

BIRTHS,

LATELY, in Merrion-square, Dublin, the Countess of Meath, a daughter. At Sir Hercules Langrishe's, on St. Stephen's-green, Dublin, the wife of the Rev. Dean Langrishe, a daughter.

In Frederick-street, Dublin, the wife of George Brown, esq. a daughter.

AtHowth castle, Lady Mary Trotter,a dau AtHelstone, the wife of Col. Sandys, a son. At Norwich, Lady Bedingfield, a son. The wife of Geo. Windham, esq. of Cromer-hall, Norfolk, a son and daughter. At Ossington, the wife of John Denison, esq. M. P. a daughter.

In Clarges-street, Piccadilly, the Hon. Mrs. Calvert, a daughter.

At the Earl of Tankerville's, in Privygardens, Lady Ossulston, a daughter.

July 14. In Upper Seymour-street, the Hon. Mrs. Baird, a daughter.

24. At Plymouth, the Hon. Mrs. C. Paget, a daughter.

27. The wife of B. E. Hall, esq. of Hillhouse, near Swansea, a son.

At Binfield-grove, Berks, the wife of Lieut.-col. Buckeridge, a son.

31. Viscountess Marsham, a son and heir, Aug. 1. In Lincoln's-inn-fields, the wife of Thomas-PeregrineCourtenay, esq. a dau. 2. In Seymour-place, Curzon-street, the wife of Thomas Raikes, esq. a daughter.

3. At his seat at Chaddesden, near Derby, the lady of Sir Robert-Meade Wilmot, bart, a son.

6. At Ealing, Middlesex, the Duchess of Newcastle, a daughter.

8. At Windsor, the wife of James Ramsbottom, esq. a daughter.

10. In Russell-square, the wife of Cha Augustus Tulk, esq. a son.

At his house at Chichester, the lady of the Hon. Col. King, a son.

11. At West Ashling, the wife of Capt. Douglas, R. N. a daughter.

12. In Portland-place, the wife of H Vos, esq. a son.

13. At Launde abbey, co. Leicester, the wife of John-Finch Simpson, esq. a daugh, 14. At Beaumont-lodge, Viscountess Ashbrook, a son.

15. At Highgate, the wife of Francis Freeling, esa. of the General Post-office, a daughter.

At Chessell cottage, Southampton, the lady of Sir T. Tancred, bart. a son and heir. 17. In Montague-street, Portman-squ. the wife of Bell Lloyd, esq. a daughter.

20. Viscountess Anson, two sons; one of whom died shortly afterwards.

In Chester-street, Grosvenor-squa. the lady of the Hon. W. H. Gardner, a daugh, 21. In St. James's-square, the Countess of Bristol, a son,

At Mask-hall, in Cleveland, the lady of the Hon. Lawrence Dundas, a son.

At Tichfield, the lady of Sir A. C. Dickson, bart. a daughter.

24. At Farnborough, co. Warwick, Lady Mordaunt, a son.

At his Lordship's house, in Grosvenorsquare, Lady Petre, a daughter.

25. In Gloucester-place, Mary-la-Bonne, the wife of H. T. Hardacre, esq. R. N. a son, after having had eight daughters in regular succession.

27. At Walthamstow, Essex, the wife of Benjamin Pead, esq. a daughter.

27: At Little Thurlow, Suffolk, Sir John. Courtnay Honywood, bart. to Mary-Anne, eldest da. of Sir William-Henry Cooper, bart:

30. James Colthurst, esq. captain in the 3d Foot, to Miss Warren, eldest daughter of Augustus W. esq. of Warren court, co. Cork, and grand-dau. of Sir Rob. W. bart.

Aug... At Apsley, co, Bedford, the Rev. William Dennison, rector of Cublington, Bucks, to Miss Avelin, of Apsley.

Aug. 1. AtMary-la-Bonne church, Lieut.. col. John Bladow Taylor, to Mrs. Elliot, daughter of the late Sir William Dunkin.

2. At Stratfield-lodge, G. E. Beauchamp Proctor, esq. second son of Sir ThomasBeauchamp P. bart. of Langley park, co. Norfolk, to Ellen, only daughter of RobertWilliam Halhed, esq. of the Priory, Berks. Henry Thompson, esq. of Chiswick, Surrey, to Mary, daughter of Edmund Barber, q. of Uggershall, Suffolk.

At Sandbach, George Ormerod, esq. late of Brazenose college, Oxford, to Sarah, eldest daughter of J. Latham, of Bradwell-ball, Cheshire, M. D.

3. At Kensington, Capt. Forrest, of Binfield, Berks, to Mary, eldest dau. of Col. James Lowther, M.P. for Westmoreland..

4. Sir Mordaunt Martin, bart. of Burnham, Norfolk, and Long Melford, Suffolk, to Mrs. North, relict of the late Rev. Edward N. and daughter of the late Rev. Armine Styleman, of Snettisham.

7. At Cheltenham, Capt. Blake, of the 13th Foot, and of Belmont, co. Galway, to Mrs. W. Erskine, widow of Major-gen. E. of Cardross, co. Perth, and only daugh. of the late Lieut.-gen, Sir Wm. Myers, bart.

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8. At Harrington-house, St. James's, by the Archbishop of Dublin, the Marquis of Tavistock, to Lady Maria-Anne, daughter of the Earl of Harrington,

Sir Charles-Meyrick Burrell, bart. to the Hon. Miss Windham, eldest daughter of the Earl of Egremont.

At the cathedral at Cork, the Rev. John Leslie, dean of Cork, brother of CharlesPowell Leslie, esq. M. P. for the county of Monaghan, to Isabella, second daughter of the Hon. Thomas St. Lawrence, lord bi shop of Cork and Ross.

9. At Stapleton, co. Gloucester, the Rev. Godfrey Faussett, fellow of Magdalen college, Oxford, to Marianne-Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Thomas Bridges, esq. of Kymmin cottage, in Glamorganshire.

At Douglas, by special licence, William Scott, esq, receiver-general of the Isle of Man, to the Hon. Miss Murray, eldest daughter of the late Lord Henry M. and niece to the Duke of Athol.

10. At St. Mary-la-Bonne, Rob. Smith, esq. barrister-at-law, of Gray's-inn, to Miss Emma Smith.

Rev. Thomas Browne, D. D. master of Christ college, Cambridge, to Lucy, youngest daughter of the late Rev. John Astley, of Thornage, Norfolk.

11. At Dublin, Viscount Lismore, to Lady Eleanor Butler, sister to the Earl of Ormond.

12. William Saunders, esq. of Batter sea-rise, Surrey, to Mary, eldest daugh. of Stephen Rolleston, esq. of Arlington-street.

15. By special licence, at St. George, Hanover-square, Sir John Gore, R: N. to the eldest daughter of Admiral Montague, commander in chief at Portsmouth.

16. At Chesham, Bucks, Mr. W. Street, to Mary-Anne, second daughter of the late Rev. Moses Porter, of Clapham, Surrey.

17. By special licence, Rev. Wm. Huntingdon, of Cricklewood, to LadySaunderson. 18. Thomas Addison, esq. of Ludgatestreet, to Mrs. Coombs, of Addington. place, Camberwell.

20. At Dublin, by special licence, Capt. Coote, R. N. to Miss Barbara-Henrietta Saunders, daughter of Lady Martha S. and niece to the Earl of Aldborough.

21 At Gravesend, Walter Humphries, esq. of White Hart-court, Bishopsgate-str. to Miss Sarah Reynolds, of Billiter-square, only dau. of Sir Roger R. of Chatham, Kent:

22. Henry Adams Mayers, esq. of Bar bados, to Caroline-Seyliard, 3d dau. of Jn. Perkins, esq. of Pendell-court, Blechingley. 23. At Ridge, Herts, Henry-Edgworth Bicknell, esq. of the Secretary's office, Customs, to Mary, eldest daught. of Cha. Arnold, esq. of Shenley-hill, Herts.

At Bramham, co. York, Grosvenor Perfect, esq. of Boston, near Thorp-Arch, to Mary, daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Richard Asheton, rector of Middleton, and

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warden of Christ's college, in Manchester.

24. At Lewisham, Kent, Thomas Downward, jun. esq. of Liverpool, to Sarah, eldest dau. of John Shuter, esq. of Southwark.

S. Barrow, esq. of Bedford-place, to Tryphina, fourth daughter of L. De Symons, esq. of Mitcham, Surrey.

25. Peter Power, esq. of Lime-street, to Miss Marianne Havard, daughter of William H. esq. of South Lambeth.

Rev. Henry Penny, of Ealing, to the only daughter of John Harwood, esq. of Chiswick.

AtEastKnoyle, Wilts, Sir William-George Parker, bart. R.N. to Elizabeth, 3d danghter of J. C. Still, esq.

DEATHS.

March IN Old-street-road, aged 46, Mr. 1. Nathaniel Stokes, lately a banker in Lombard-street, of the firm of Brown, Cobb, Stokes, and Co..

5. At his house on Kew green, Surrey, aged about 65, of a carbuncle in his cheek, J. Saporta, esq. a respectable merchant, of the Jewish persuasion, in Lemanstreet, Goodman's-fields.

7. At Wingham, Kent, aged 89, Mr. Henry Neville, formerly an apothecary at that place.

8. Captain Hardinge, commander of his Majesty's frigate St. Fiorenzo. He fell at the close of his gallant and successful action with the Piedmontaise, a large French frigate, which had long been the terror of the Indian Seas (see p. 735). His death is a great loss to the Service. It was he who boarded and carried with his boats a large Dutch man of war brig on the coast of Holland; for which gallant enterprize, conducted and headed by himself, Lord St. Vincent gave him the rank of Post Captain; and there is a circumstance attending this Officer's report of the action which ought not to be kept from the Publick, as it shews how much modesty is ever attendant on true courage. On his landing at Sheerness, and reporting to the Port Admiral (Rowley) the arrival of the capture, he forbore to speak of himself; nor was it until the Admiral questioned him as to what officer conducted the attack that he acknowledged, with a manly blush, that it was himself, although the Dutch Captain (to whom he had offered quarters on boarding him, and who returned this generous offer with the discharge of a pistol), actually fell by Capt. Hardinge's sword. He was the godson, the nephew, and the adopted heir of Mr. Hardinge, the Welch Judge. He was 27 years of age when he fell; and his name has four times appeared in the London Gazette, graced with high panegyrick: 1. in the enterprize against Granville, under Admiral Sir James Saumarez; 2. in the capture of the Atalante'; 3. at the Cape of Good Hope; 4. in the action of the

St. Fiorenzo with La Piedmontaise, which terminated his career. An officer more beloved, as well as admired, never adorned his profession. He had the most engaging manners, and the most benevolent heart, which accompanied a sound judgiñent, a cultivated mind, and the zeal of a patriot for his Country; a high sense of honour in every thing; and the most fervent but unaffected piety.

20. In the Lower-street, Islington, of a fever, aged 38, Mr. John Damant.

23. At Canterbury, in his 83d year, Mr. William-Henry White.

24. At the Cape of Good Hope, after a few days illness, William-Henry-John Murray, only son of the Commissary-general to the Army in that colony; and, on April 7, Mrs. Murray, his wife, of a nervous decline during which she lost her infant child, and which, in two months, terminated her life, at the age of 31.

25. At Goodnestone, near Wingham, in Kent, in her 101st year, Mrs. Catharine Stokes (not Stocks, as erroneously printed in most of the news-papers), widow. She was born at Wingham, Jan. 25, 1708.

26. In Old-street-road, aged 50, Mr. John Dupuy, formerly a lieutenant of the Westminster Militia.

April 5. At his lodgings, No. 31, Evesham-buildings, Somers-town, aged 54, of a pulmonary consumption, Messire Marie Anne Auguste Loaisel, Vicointe de la Villedeneu, formerly major of the Regiment of Condé, knight of the Order of St. Louis, and page of honour to the Prince of Condé. He was born Oct. 13, 1753, at Gaële, in Britanny; and was lineally descended from Robin de Loaisel, whose name occurs in a Register of the associated Nobility of that province in 1374,

24. In the Lower-street, Islington, aged 46, Mr. John Davall..

28. At Dover, in Kent, in her 70th year, Mrs. Pleasant Hannam, widow of the late Mr. George H. surgeon, of that town (see vol. LXXVII. p. 1173), and daughter of the late Mr. Edward Pett, of St. Nicholas, in Thanet.

May 7. At Folkestone, in Kent, aged 60, after a lingering illness, Mr. George Janneway, of the Folkestone Arms inn.

8. At Quebec, in Upper Canada, Mrs. Sarah Mountain; sister to the Bishop of that province.

12. At St. Petersburg, aged 18 months, her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Alexandrowna, his Imperial Majesty's only daughter.

At Sandwich, in Kent, after a short illness, aged 65, Mrs. Anne Garrett, one of the daughters of the late Mr. Samuel Silver, bookseller in that town, and relict of the Rev. George Garrett, M. A. (also a native of the town of Sandwich), late vi

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