vided for by his father, was appointed Lieut.-governor of Dover Castle by Mr. Pitt. He married, in 1808, the Hon. Catherine Lucy Smith, a daughter of Lord Carrington, by whom he has issue. The funeral of Earl Stanhope took place December 24. The corpse was interred in the family vault at Chevening. The ceremony was conducted with the utmost possible plainness, agreeably to the directions in the Noble Lord's will. There were neither hearse nor mourning coaches, but the body was carried to the grave. The chief mourners were, his son, the Hon. Col. Stanhope, and his son-in-law, Mr. Taylor. It was attended by Lord Holland, Lord Grantley, Mr. Jekyll, Mr. Dyer, the Rev. Dr. Cartwright, Mr. Stone, Mr. Polhill, Mr. Murray, Mr. Varley, &c. By the Noble Earl's will, dated in 1805, he appoints ten executors; viz. Lord HolJand, Lord Grantley, Jos. Jekyll, esq. George Dyer, esq. the Rev. C. Wyvill, Dr. Goodwin, the Rev. John North, David Stone, esq. the Rev. Dr. Gregory, and the Rev. Mr. Robinson. The two last gentlemen are dead. To these executors, after a few legacies, he leaves all his disposable property. On his separation from Mr. Pitt, his family preferred the patronage of the Minister to the paternal roof; and he has been frequently heard to say, that, as they had chosen to be saddled on the public purse, they must take the consequences. He wished them all to devote themselves, as he had himself done, to some useful calling; by which, when the fatal day of public calamity, which he imagined he foresaw, came, they might secure independence by their own personal ingenuity and labour. They are therefore not mentioned in the will; but they are all entitled to certain sums by the marriage settlements; and the present Earl Stanhope succeeds to the family estate, worth 12,000l. per annum. Mrs. PIGOTT. Sept. 17. Died, after a short illness, at Woodhouse, near Bristol, the residence of the Rev. Dr. Charleton, in her 82d year, Mrs. Honor Pigott, second daughter of the late Robert Pigott, esq. of Chetwyndpark, in the county of Salop. Of this excellent lady it may truly be said, that she possessed every qualification requisite to form either the accomplished gentlewoman, the warm and faithful friend, or the consistent Christian. If she could not boast of the genius and versatility of a More, or the depth and critical acumen of a Carter, she was am-ply compensated for the want of these endowments, in the exercise of a benevolence of temper, and kindness of disposition, which no circumstance of time or place could ever alter or impair — quali ties, it must be confessed, very different in their kind, but not inferior in their nature, or less beneficial in their effects. Her mind, however, was above the ordinary mould; and she had enriched it with such stores of useful knowledge as were abundantly sufficient at once for her own solitary enjoyment, as well as capable of affording various, agreeable, and accurate information to a large and respectable circle of friends and acquaintance. To these she was communicative without intrusion, polite without familiarity, wellbred without affectatiou. She was descended from a family of great respectability in the counties of Salop and Huntingdon, and could justly boast a relationship to that great luminary of English Poetry the illustrious Dryden; the loss of a fine portrait of whom out of the family, she has been known to lament with becoming regret. And here it may be mentioned, that when the late Mr. Malone was about re-publishing an edition of some of the Works of that Poet, together with a Life of him, she was applied to by that Gentleman to furnish him with any communications she might have it in her power to make; and it is believed the application was not unsuccessful. But it would be an act of injustice to the memory of this worthy lady, to close this imperfect sketch of her character without noticing more particularly its chief excellence-the warmth and sincerity of her friendship. In her, indeed, sincerity was personified. Here she shone with peculiar lustre: a lustre which not only shed its benign influence on those of her friends immediately around her, but on those also from whom she had long-too long for her own happiness been separated by distance of situation: to those who had been the friends of her younger years, and who were still the objects of her unabated esteem, even to the latest period of her life. "The face of a friend," she said to the writer of this Sketch, a short time previous to her decease," had always revived her more than the sight of gold and silver." Her heart was ever active in "devising liberal things;" and with the greatest truth may it literally be added, "in her tongue was the law of kindness," Such was this excellent lady, and more might safely be added. Enough, however, has been said, if it shall at all tend to excite emulation in her survivors at large; perpetuate affectionate remembrance in the breasts of those who knew and loved her; and testify, however inadequately, the gratitude and esteem of the Writer. MICHAEL WODHULL, Esq. P. 463. Mr. Wodhull's first publication was "An Ode to the Muses," in 1760, 4to; which was followed in 1761 by "An Epistle 1 to to **** *******, A. M. Student of Christ Church," 4to, a very spirited and manly composition, addressed to his tutor, Mr. Cleaver, noticed as nobly pointing "to guide the rising Youth The steep ascent which gains the hill of Truth, With Learning pure Morality impart, Strengthen the head, and humanize the heart" and who must have been peculiarly pleased to receive so public a testimony of friendship towards him, and gratitude to his Father, as is happily displayed in the following extract: "If e'er my bosom caught the sacred flame, [came : Let me remember from what source it Your counsel bade me tread this arduous way', [lay. And deign'd to form the rough mishapen Here will I trace where first these strains began, Ere fleeting childhood ripen'd into man. Can I forget, while Memory holds her reign, And summons forth her bright ideal train, In wild career spontaneous numbers flow'd, 1 To me far dearer than the boasted groves Of proud Lyceum, where Ilissus roves : Though not a wreath adorn thy modest In thy neglected meads no Poet burn,[urn, No Lover carve thy name on every tree, With his Calista fondly joining thee." In 1763 he published "Two Odes: 1. To Miss Sally Fowler. 2. To the Dryads," 4to; and in 1765, "The Equality of Mankind," 4to; on which it was well observed by the Monthly Reviewers, that "Mr. Wodhull seems strongly to have imbibed the spirit of that Platonic and Roussovian Enthusiasm, which, worshiping at the feet of Freedom, looks up to the Goddess, and sees nothing beside. Philosophy, in this, more, perhaps, than in any other instance, indulges the influences of Fancy, and is satisfied with the image of Truth. While she has the moral liberty of mankind in view, she finds nothing in real life that is adequate to her ideas of it; yet, willing to believe that men have some time or other existed in such forms of society as in her own systems she conceives to be possible, she easily gives herself up to the delusions of Poetry, and wanders with her through ages of visionary perfection." *** P. 463. a. lin. penult. the parenthesis is misplaced-" to whom," last line, should refer to the Rev. John Cleaver, the eldest son (see the note). The father's name was William. WILLIAM ALEXANDER, ESQ. The Library of the late William Alexanauction, by Mr. Sotheby, Nov. 25, and der, esq. F. S. A. & L. S. was sold by five following days, and produced 13801. 13s. 6d. Many of his books were very neatly illustrated, particularly by beautiful drawings of rare Portraits. We shall enumerate a few of the principal articles: Alexander's Costume of China, large paper, with the original Sketches, 147. Dress and Manners of the Chinese, with a set of the Outlines coloured by Mr. A. 17. Baker's List of Books, &c. printed at Strawberry-hill, 1810, only 20 printed, with drawing of Mr. Baker, &c. 41. Beauties of England and Wales, large paper, illustrated, 297. 10s. Britton's Architectural Antiquities, large paper, 241. 2s. Byron's (Lord) English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, with Portraits and Drawings, &c. 31. 18s. Combe's Terra Cottas and Marbles, 3 vols. large paper, proof plates and etchings, 381. 6s. 6d. Cooke's Southern Coast, 6 Parts, proofs on India paper, 117. 11s. Dibdin's Bibliomania, with very numerous Portraits, Views, and Drawings, 221, "Lincolne Nosegay, beynge a brefe Table of certaine Bokes in the posession of Maister Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Clerk, which Bookes be to be sold to him who shall gyve the moste for ye same." "Note, price stitched 3s. 6d. Only 36 copies printed. T. F. Dibdin." 17. 11s. 6d. Englefield's Walk through Southampton, with additional Plates, &c. 6l. 10s. Hearne and Byrne's Views, Proofs, and Etchings, &c. 17. Macartney's Embassy to China, large paper, with Proofs and Etchings and additional Plates, 107. 15s. Pennant's London, in 6 vols. with an im mense number of Drawings & Prints, 251. Shakspeare, by Isaac Reed, 21 vols. with a great number of Portraits and Plates, 187. 15s. Britton's Remarks on Shakspeare, large paper, 1814. Only 10 printed on this paper. 21.8s. Vancouver's Voyage of Discovery, 1798, 3 vols. with original Drawings, &c. 91. Vertue's Description of Hollar's Works, with MS Additions, 27. 15s. Vieux Abrigement des Statutes, Lettou & Machlinia, folio, 117. 10s. "Virgilius. "Virgilius. This boke treateth of the lyfe of Virgilius, and of his deth, and many marvayles that he dyd in hys lyfe tyme by whychcrafte and nygramancye, thorowgh the helpe of the deuyls of hell;" wood-cut. Anwarpe, London, re-printed 1812. N. B. Only 50 printed, by Mr. E. V. Utterson, for private distribution. 47. 8s. Walton's Angler, 1815, illustrated with drawings, &c. &c. 81. 8s. Collections, by Mr. Alexander, towards a History of Kent; with 4 additional volumes of Records, &c. relating to Kent, 91, 12s. 6d. Mr. Alexander at one time intended to publish a History of Kent, and formed these collections for that purpose. They are now in the possession of Mr. Nichols. DEATHS. 1816. AT Pondicherry, in his 65th June 5. year, Ernest W. Fallofeild, esq. of the East India Company's Civil establishment. He was associated in the Madras government ten years with Sir Charles Oakley, the Earl of Buckinghamshire, and Earl Powis, Aug. 11. At the Government-house, Bombay, of an attack of the liver, in the prime of life, regretted and beloved by all that knew him, aged 25, Francis Haworth (son of William Rose Haworth, of his Majesty's Receipt of Exchequer), a Lieutenant in the 17th Light Dragoons and aid-de-camp to his Excellency Sir Evan Nepean, Governor of Bombay, East Indies. Sept. 26. At her son's estate, Mangrove, Barbadoes, Mrs. Skeete, relict of the late John Brathwaite Skeete, esq. of that island. Sept. 29. At Antigua, Robert Mackay, esq. of Bighouse, N. B. Oct. 10. At his seat in the vicinity of Raleigh, North Carolina, the venerable Col. John Ingles. He was born in North Britain in 1739, emigrated at an early period of life; and was among the first of those who took up arms to resist the hand of the Mother Country. Oct. 16. At Pilgrim, in Barbadoes, Lieutenant-general Sir James Leith, Governor of that island. He was attacked on the 10th of October with a fever, which proved fatal to him on the 16th. His character, as a brave and skilful General, during the late war, is well known. The many wounds he had received in Spain rendered him, perhaps, less able to resist the attack of the fever that terminated his valuable life. Antigua and Guadaloupe bore strong testimony to the wisdom, the justice, and the policy, with which he had administered their respective Governments. Sir James was buried with military honours on the 17th of October, the troops aud inhabitants being anxious to pay him this last sad tribute of respect. By the death of Sir James Leith, the command of the forces on the Barbadoes station has devolved on Major-general Ramsay, Governor of Antigua. Oct. 20. Off St. Antonio, Cape Verde Island, returning to England, after a long absence, Lieut. Charles Robinson. Nov. 1. In Fleet-street, suddenly, on his way home, in his 46th year, Ged. Jocelyn Robinson, esq. of Great Coram-st. At Tottenham, Joshua Garth, esq. of Frederick's-place. At Ness-side, near Inverness, Angus Macintosh, esq. of Holme. Nov. 2. In Canonbury-lane, Islington, highly respected, Mr. M. Dupont. Aged SS, Mr. John Noble, of Southampton-buildings, Holborn, upwards of half a century a clerk in the house of Messrs. Hoares, bankers, Fleet-street. Charlotte, wife of Rev. Robt. Evans, vicar of Everton, Notts. In her 73d year, the wife of Dr. Sparks, of Ipswich. Nov. 3. In Church-row, Hampstead, in his 65th year, Mr. Thomas Strafford, of Holborn-hill. At Rome, Cardinal Saluzzo. She Nov. 4. In her 77th year, Mrs. Charlotte Woolley, relict of Thomas Woolley, esq. formerly of Hatton-garden. was the youngest of the three daughters and co-heiresses of Charles Hitch, esq. formerly an eminent bookseller in Paternoster-row, and of Plashett, in the county of Essex, who died in 1764. Her two sisters were both married; Catharine, the eldest, to James Leake, esq. of Bath, and formerly mayor of that city; and Thomasine (now living) to Arthur Heming, of Hadleigh, in the county of Suffolk, esq. who died 1809. Mrs. Woolley had been deprived of sight upwards of 20 years, a misfortune which she bore with happy serenity. She has left three daughters respectably married. In Sloane-square, Mrs. Mary Jeffs, widow of Rev. Wm. Jeffs, B.D. and F.S.A. formerly fellow of St. John's coll. Oxford. In his 82d year, Wm. Hynam, esq. of Hackney. Nov. 5. In Sloane-square, Mrs. A. M. Atkinson. Aged 53, Ebenezer Baker, esq. of Kentish-town. Nov. 6. In Crutched-friars, aged 66, C. H. Martens, esq. Austrian Consulgeneral, At Rev. W. Russell's, Green-hill, Harrow, Mrs. Russell, relict of John Russell, esq. R. A. formerly of Newman-street, Oxford-street. At Charlton, Kent, in his 53d year, J. Pinhorn, esq. of H. M. Dock-yard, Deptford. At At Berlin, in his 70th year, Dr. Bremer, who was distinguished for his meritorious exertions in the introduction of Vaccination. Nov. 7. At Gateshead, aged 81, Mr. C. Wilkinson, a clerk to Messrs. Hawks and Co. in whose service he conducted himself with the utmost integrity upwards of 52 years. Nov. 8. At Peckham, in his 74th year, John Reed, esq. Nov. 9. In Lamb's Conduit-street, John Freeman, esq. In London, Joseph Ledsam, esq. of Edgbaston, near Birmingham. At Lewisham, Kent, aged 79, the wife of Lieut.-gen. Mann. At Kennington, aged 81, Thomas Laneaster, esq. At Clifton, Mrs. Jones, relict of the Jate James Jones, esq. of Bristol, At Exmouth, Gen. Alexander Mercer, of the royal engineers. Nov. 10. At Bedford, in his 26th year, Frederick Joseph Livius, esq. second son of Geo. Livius, esq. At Bristol, aged 45, Mr. John Evans, R. N. late master of H. M. S. Catherine, and who had been upwards of 23 years actively employed in his Majesty's service. At Exeter, Mrs. Cutler, wife of H. CutJer, esq. of Sidmouth. Nov. 11. In Kingsland-road, William Jones, esq. second attorney of the Lord Mayor's Court. At Plymouth, Vice-adm. Chas. Boyles. At Alveston, Mrs. Bryan, relict of Rev. John Bryan, A. M. of Charlton, Somerset, and daughter of the late Henry Casamajor, esq. of Tockington, co. Gloucester. In his 26th year, Lieut. Henry Bulmer, 16th Native infantry, East India Company's service, son of Mr. Bulmer, of York. He left India for the recovery of his health, and arrived off Plymouth, in H. M. S. Cornwallis, which he quitted in a boat in company with Lieuts. Stopford and Ibbetson: the boat was upset, and Lieutenants Bulmer and Ibbetson were drowned, Lieut. Ibbetson was the youngest son of Mr. Ibbetson, formerly an eminent silk-mercer on Ludgate-hill. Nov. 14. In Swithin's-lane, Lombardstreet, after an illness of fourteen days, Robert Spottiswoode, esq. solicitor. Aged 80, Mrs. Cope, relict of Arthur Cope, esq. of Loughgall, Ireland. In Carlisle, aged 60, Rob. Ferguson, esq. Nov. 15. The wife of Harriold Steward, esq. Watford. At Bristol, Captain John Herbert, pay master of the royal South Gloucester light infantry militia. Nov. 16. At his apartments in Hydepark-barracks, of a rapid decline, Lieut. J. Warde, 1st life guards, whose amiable disposition and uniform integrity excited general admiration and esteem. Nov. 17. At Ewdness, in Worfield, Shropshire, Thomas Barnfield, gent. to the unfeigned grief of all his friends, and the general regret of every acquaintance, who will long bear testimony to his virtues and inestimable worth. His facetiousness, hospitality, and inexhaustible fund of anecdote, will long continue in the minds of those who had a perfect knowledge of him. He was a man possessed of great practical as well as theoretical information in regard to agricultural pursuits, and an accurate calculator. He was a philanthropist in the true sense of the word; his charity and benevolence proceeded from the ardent wish of his heart to promote the welfare of his fellowcreatures. After a life spent in very active pursuits, he may fairly be said to have left this busy sphere without an enemy. At Bristol, Wm. Champante, esq. late an eminent wax-chandler and wholesale stationer in Jewry-street, London. He is succeeded in his property, estimated at 40,000l. by his daughter, the wife of Mr. Joggett, stationer, Taunton. At Frankfort, of apoplexy, her Serene Highness the Duchess Dowager of NassauUsingen. At Florence, in her 70th year, Lady Hammet, of Taplow-hill, Bucks, relict of the late Sir Benjamin Hammet. Nov. 18. W. D. Lloyd, esq. late of the Island of Barbados. In her 88th year, Mrs. Elizabeth Gordon, relict of Rev. Wm. Gordon, D. D. late of Ipswich. Nov. 19. At Bristol, in his 65th year, Mr. Wm. Greaves, many years a merchant of that city. Nov. 20. At Royal-hill, Greenwich, in his 63d year, Digby Scott, esq. Of a decline, having nearly completed her 21st year, Caroline, third daughter of Sir Richard Brooke, bart, of Great Oakley, Northamptonshire. Nov. 21. At Clay-hill, Enfield, aged 63, Thomas Weston, esq. At Bridgnorth, co. Salop, in his 85th year, John Haslewood, gent. brother of the late Thomas Haslewood, solicitor, of that town. He had retired from business many years; was the oldest member of that corporation, and had filled the office of magistrate at four different periods. And subsequently, as senior alderman, he succeeded upon the death of Mr. Richard Corbett, in 1802, to the office of bailiff, which he held but a few days previous to the bailiffs elect taking upon them the oaths of office. Nov. 22. At Binfield, Berks, at a very advanced age, Louisa, widow of W. Mae Kinnon, esq. She was the daughter of Henry Vernon, esq. of Hilton Castle, eo. Stafford, and was married in 1757. At At Jersey, aged 21, Mary, wife of Brevet-major Scott, late of the 10th foot. Nov. 23. At Hatfield-Peverel, Essex, in her 60th year, Sarah, relict of Rev. Wm. Walford, of that place. Nov. 24. At Reading, in his 63d year, Thomas Harris, esq. At Clifton, in her 62d year, the wife of Gen. Hamilton, of Dalziel and Orbiston, eo. Lanark. Nov. 25. At her father's, of a deep deeline, in her 19th year, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. William Rose, solicitor, Princes-street, Bedford-row. At Pimlico, Harriet, second daughter of the late Rev. David Scurlock, M. A. of Lovehill-house, Bucks, and Blaencorse, co. Carmarthen. At Brompton, Clarinda, daughter of John Woods, esq. of Spring-gardens, Westminster. Frances, wife of Francis Moore, esq. Richmond-hill, Surry. At Bath, Major-gen. Thomas Nepean, Royal engineers, elder brother of Sir Evan Nepean. Nov. 26. In Lamb's Conduit-street, aged 91, John Manship, esq. formerly a director of the East India Company. At Mile-end, aged 58, Samuel Somes, esq. ship-owner. At Brighton, aged 34, Mrs. Wood, widow of the late Jacob Wood, esq. of Threadneedle-street. 1 At Taplow, in his 72d year, Abraham Robarts, esq. M. P. for Worcester, an eminent banker, partner with Sir W. Curtis, in Lombard-street; an ex-director of the East India Company; and colonel of the first regiment of East India volunteers. He first represented the city of Worcester in 1796. Nov. 27. In her 56th year, Anne, wife of Andrew Lovering Sarel, esq. of Surreystreet, Strand. At Florence, of a decline, Catherine, wife of Rev. Archdeacon De Lacy, daughter of the late Capt. Moutray, R. N. Her disease was aggravated by the most excruciating sufferings from gall-stones, which she bore with a patience and resignation truly exemplary. Nov. 28. In Wilmot-street, Brunswick square, Mrs. Bella Peckwell, widow of the late Rev. Henry Peckwell, D.D. rector of Bloxholme cum Digby, co. Lincoln. At a very advanced age, suddenly, whilst smoking his pipe and reading, Rev. Daniel Taylor, many years pastor of the Baptist Congregation, Church-lane, Whitechapel. He was married about five weeks since. At Walworth, aged 83, Joseph Dodsworth, esq. formerly of Whitby. At Stoke Newington, in his 87th year, Benjamin D'Israeli, esq. At Saffron Walden, in his 53d year, G. Hall, esq. youngest son of the late T. Rumbold Hall, esq. of Middleton House, and Heldersham Hall, co. Cambridge. At Derlangan, co. Meath, Capt. Henry and Robert Battersby, R. N. Nov. 29. At the house of her brotherin-law, A. Highmore, esq. near Dulwich, Surrey, Miss Anne Jellicoe, third daugh ter of Adam and Elizabeth Jellicoe, formerly of Highbury-place, deceased.-To draw from the recesses of private life characters which are calculated to adorn and endear it, is the office of domestic affection and private friendship; those of public life present themselves as elevated trophies for general observation: but, if the examples of the limited circle of social union were always suffered to lose themselves in the silent grave without record, their few relatives would alone be enabled to profit by their virtues, and society would seldom be enlightened by the more retired and estimable qualities of their piety, resignation, and humility. On these grounds it became a duty to reserve a small space in our Obituary for the lady above mentioned; for although there may be little in a private course which the hurry of the world would stop to contemplate, yet there is that by which the world would be improved if it would adopt her example; for it would tend to hasten the period of universal truth by the union of the spirit of peace, From her earliest years she discovered an ardent pursuit of intellectual acquirements; and as her maturer age advanced, she realized them by possessing the fruits of a liberal education and a well-cultivated mind. A knowledge of the Scriptures formed the basis of her unfeigned piety and resignation; im-. proved her temper; and secured an undisturbed serenity; she was always cheerful, but never elevated; her manners were polished and well bred, but always unobtrusive-capable and communicative of advice and consolation in the midst of trouble-charitable in the sorrows of adversity-persuasive and conciliating to children, and ever active amongst her relatives in the most affectionate interest for their welfare and happiness. In discussion, on whatever subject, it was her part to promote the most conciliatory argument; and in those of religious inquiry, she strove to make the most liberal allowances, and to repress opposition-she never differed but with diffidence; nor rejected a principle but in humility; and her conversation was reserved until drawn forth, when it gratified and improved. Astronomy, history, and botany, constituted part of her favourite studies. She gave instruction without pedantry, and endeared the sciences themselves by her interesting method of communication.— The whole of her cultivations had attained |