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the slightest apprehension of danger was en- 

 tertained. It is more than probable that his 

 death was accelerated by the high mental 

 exc-itement to which he had been for many 

 weeks, if not months, subjected. The dis- 

 ease which ultimately consigned him to the 

 grave, appears to have been a general inter- 

 nal inflamation. It was not until the morn- 

 ing of Sunday, the 5th of August, that the 

 first bulletin respecting bis illness, was issued, 

 that the public were first apprised of his 

 alarming indisposition ; and so rapid was his 

 illness in its progress, that at ten minutes 

 before four o'clock, on the morning of the 

 Wednesday following (Aug. 8) he expired. 



Daring his illness, Mr. Canning was sedu- 

 lously and unremittingly attended by his 

 amiable wife, and his daughter, the Mar- 

 chioness of Clanricarde. Mr. Canning's 

 eldest son died on the 31st of March, 1820, 

 in the 19th year of his age. He has left 

 two other sons : the first a post captain in 

 the navy, and the second, a youth about 

 fourteen or fifteen years of age. 



Mr. Canning's remains were interred in 

 Westminster Abbey, near the grave of Mr. 

 Pitt, on the 1 6th of August. The fune- 

 ral was strictly private. The chief mourn- 

 ers were Mr. Canning's son, the Duke 

 of Portland, and the Marquis of Clanri- 

 carde. There was nine mourning coaches, 

 and several carriages of the nobility, &c. 

 Amongst the distinguished personages who at- 

 tended, were the Dukes of Clarence, Sussex, 

 and Devonshire, the Marquises of Anglesea 

 and Lansdown, the Lord Chancellor, the 

 Lords Goderich, Seaford, and Cowper, Count 

 Munster, and about fifty other noblemen. 

 The funeral service was read by the Dean of 

 Westminster. 



The coffin in which were inclosed the re- 

 mains of the late premier, was covered with 

 crimson velvet. On the coffin plate was 

 engraven the family arms and motto of the 

 deceased; and beneath, the following in- 

 scription: 



Depositum. 



THE RIGHT HON. GEORGE CANNING, 



One of His Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council, 

 First Lord Commissioner of HisMajesty's Treasury, 



Chancellor and Under Treasurer of the 



Exchequer of Great Britain and Ireland, 



And a Governor of the Charter house, &c. &c. 



Born the llth of April, 1770. 



Died 8th August, )827. 



SIR GEORGE BEAUMONT. 

 Sir George Rowland Beaumont, Bart., of 

 Sloughton Grange, in the county of Lei- 

 cester, D.C.L., F.R.S., and S. A., and a 

 Trustee of the British Museum, was born at 

 Dunmow, in Essex, in November 1753. He 

 was the only child of Sir George Beaumont, 

 by Rachel, daughter of Matthew Howland, 

 of Stonehall, Dunmow, Esq. He succeeded 

 to his title and paternal estate in 1762. He 

 was educated at Eton, and at New College, 

 Oxford. In 1778, he married Margaret, 



daughter of John Willes, of Astrop, in North- 

 amptonshire, Esq., the eldest son of Lord 

 Chief Justice Willes. 



Sir George Beaumont commenced the tour 

 of Europe in 1782. At the general election 

 in 1790, be was returned as one of the re- 

 presentatives of the borough of Beeralston, 

 in Devonshire ; but he sat during only one 

 parliament. 



Sir George Beaumont was long known as 

 an amateur and connoisseur of the Fine 

 Arts. Many admirable productions of his 

 pencil have at different times graced the 

 walls of Somerset House. He was honoured 

 with the friendship of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 

 who bequeathed him his Return of the Ark, 

 by Sebastian Bourdon. This is one of the 

 sixteen pictures which Sir George, a year or 

 two before his death, presented to the Na- 

 tional Gallery. A portrait of Sir George, 

 engraved by T.S. Agar, from a painting by 

 Hoffner, in the possession of Lord Mulgrave, 

 was published in the year 1812, in CadelTs 

 British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits. 



Sir George Beaumont died of an attack 

 of erysipelas in the head, at his seat Cole- 

 Orton Hall, Leicestershire, on the 7th of 

 February. Leaving no issue, he is suc- 

 ceeded in his title and estates by his first 

 cousin, now Sir George Howland Willoughby 

 Beaumont, who has married a daughter of 

 the Bishop of London. 



THE REV. DR. DAUBENY. 



The Venerable Charles Daubeny, D.C.L., 

 Archdeacon and one of the Prebendaries of 

 Salisbury, Fellow of Winchester College, 

 and Vicar of North Bradley in the county of 

 Wilts, was born aboutthe year 1744. He was 

 of lineal descent from a Norman attendant 

 on the conqueror at the battle of Hastings, 

 and collaterally from Sir John Daubeny, 

 brother of the Earl of Bridgwater. Through 

 life he appears to have been deeply im- 

 pressed with a high sense of the real value 

 of hereditary distinction that of exciting its 

 possessor to honourable action, that he may 

 reflect lustre, rather than disgrace, upon the 

 name of his ancestors. Educated for the 

 church, he had long been one of its most 

 distinguished, most efficient members, evinc- 

 ing, at all times, the highest sense of official 

 duty, combined with the most zealous soli- 

 citude to defend and support the great cause 

 in which he was engaged in an age of scep- 

 tical indifference to the interests of truth. 

 His literary productions, in several volumes, 

 constitute splendid monuments of ecclesias- 

 tical knowledge and attachment to ancient 

 principles. Amongst these may be particu- 

 larly mentioned his celebrated Guide to the 

 Church : also his Vindiciee Ecclisice Angli- 

 canee, in which some of the False Reasonings, 

 Incorrect Statements, and palpable Mis- 

 representations in a Publication entitled 

 " The True Churchman ascertained," by 

 John Overton, A.B., are pointed out. The 

 latter was published in the year 1803, the 

 former at an earlier period. In 1803 he 



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