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Chronology, Marriages, and Deaths. 



[[AUG. 



" Gentlemen of the House of Commons 1 

 thank you for the supplies which you have granted, 

 and for the provision which you have made for 

 several branches of the puhlic service, during that 

 part of the present year which must elapse before 

 a new Parliament can be 'assembled. I cordially 

 congratulate you on the diminution which has 

 taken place in the expenditure of the country ; on 

 the reduction of the charge of the public debt; 

 and on the relief which you have afforded to my 

 people by the repeal of some of those taxes which 

 have heretofore pressed heavily upon them. You 

 may rely upon my prudent and economical ad- 

 ministration of the supplies which you have placed 

 at my disposal, and upon my readiness to concur 

 in every diminution of the public charges which 

 can be effected consistently with the dignity of the 

 crown, the maintenance of national faith, and 

 the permanent interests of the country. 



" My Lords and Gentlemen I cannot put an 

 end to this session, and take my leave of the pre- 

 sent Parliament, without expressing my cordial 

 thanks for the zeal which you have manifested on 

 so many occasions for the welfare of my people. 

 You have wisely availed yourselves of the happy 

 opportunity of general peace and internal repose, 

 calmly to review many of the laws and judicial 

 establishments of the countrv, and you have ap. 

 plied such cautious and well-considered reforms 

 as are consistent with the spirit of our venerable 

 institutions, and are calculated to facilitate and 

 expedite the administration of justice. You have 

 removed the civil disqualifications which affected 

 numerous and important classes of my people. 

 While I declare on this solemn occasion my fixed 

 intention to maintain, to the utmost of my power, 

 the Protestant reformed religion established by- 

 law ; let me, at the came time, express my earnest 

 hope, that the animosities which have prevailed 

 on account of religious distinctions may be for- 

 gotten, and that the decision of Parliament, with 

 respect to those distinctions, having been irre- 

 vocably pronounced, my faithful subjects will 

 unite with me in advancing the great object con- 

 templated by the legislature, and in promoting 

 that spirit of domestic concord and peace which 

 constitutes the surest basis of our national 

 strength and happiness." 



24. Parliament dissolved. 



MARRIAGES. 



At St. Marylebone, E. Wilson, esq., to Anne 

 Clementina, daughter of Lieut. General SirT. S. 

 Beckwitb. At Richmond, Rev. C. E. Kennaway, 

 second son of Sir J. Kennaway, bart., to Emma, 

 fourth daughter of the Hon. and Rev. G. T. Noel. 

 At Portsmouth, Capt. O. Gunning, R.N., fourth 

 on of Sir G. Gunning, bart., to Mary Dora, 

 fourth daughter of Commissioner Sir M. Seymour, 

 bart. Lord Clonbrook, to the Hon. Caroline 

 Elizabeth Spencer, eldest daughter of Lord 

 Churchill. Earl of Buchan, to Miss Elizabeth 

 Rae Hervey. H. Heathcote, esq., son of Rear 



Admiral Sir H. Heathcote, to Henrietta Maria, 

 youngest daughter of R. B. Cooper, esq., M.P. 

 Gloucester. H. Tufnell, esq., to Anne Augusta, 

 daughter of the Right Hon. Wilmot Horton, M.P. 

 Sir John Hayford Thorold, to Mrs. Dalton. 

 Robert, youngest son of Sir J. E. Harrington, 

 bart., to Charlotte, youngest daughter of Lady 

 Pulteney. Lord Edward Thynne, son of the 

 Marquess of Bath, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter 

 of W. Mellish, esq. Rev. S. L. Sainsbury, to 

 Georgiana, eldest daughter of Sir Wathen Wal- 

 ler, bart. R. Burford, esq., to Miss Shepley. 



DEATHS. 



At Kempsey, Lieut. Col. Ludovick Grant, 81. 

 Hon. and Rev. W. Beresford, youngest son of the 

 late Archbishop of Tuam, and brother to Baron 

 Decies. Mr. Madrid, minister from the republic 

 of Colombia. Sir James Gardiner Baird, bart. 

 Captain Sir Thomas Legard, bart., R.N., 67. 

 Mrs. Anne Penn, 84, relict of the late T. Penn, 

 esq., formerly governor, and one of the hereditary 

 proprietors of Pennsylvania. At Alveston, Lady 

 Harriet, wife of Sir Gray Skipwith, bart. At 

 Durham, the lady of Lieut. General Siddons. At 

 Longdon, the Right Rev. Dr. H. W. Majendie, 

 Bishop of Bangor, 76. At Bath, Lady Catherine 

 O'Donel, relict of Sir N. O'Donel, and sister to the 

 Earl of Annesley. At Edinburgh, 72, Barryraore, 

 the veteran actor, after a comfortable retirement 

 of several years. 



MARRIAGES ABROAD. 



At Florence, Hon. F. J. Stapleton, son of Lord 

 Le Despencer, to Margaret, daughter of Lieut. 

 General Sir G. Airey. At Dieppe, M. de Meri, 

 Baron de la Canergue, to Miss Isabella Lucy 

 Johnson. 



DEATH ABROAD. 



At Perugi, Hipolyto Bendo, aged 124, pre- 

 serving his faculties to the last; he married a 

 second wife when 101 years old, and lost the use 

 of his limbs in 1822, in consequence of a fall. 

 Pope Leo XII. settled a pension upon the veteran 

 in 1825. He was abstemious in eating, but drank 

 regularly six bottles of wine per day ! At his 

 son's, near Evreux, Dr. Pinkstan James, M.D., of 

 George-street, Hanover-square, aged 64. Dr. 

 James was one of the Physicians Extraordinary to 

 his late Majesty, and also Physician to the parish 

 of St. George, Hanover - square. His son, 

 G. P. R. James, esq., is the author of " Riche- 

 lieu," and other works of great merit. 



MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES. 



YORKSHIRE. The ceremony of laying the 

 first stone of the "Hull and Sulcoates Public 

 Rooms" took place, June 28. The building is to 

 be in the Grecian Ionic style of architecture, and 

 will consist of a room for puhlic meetings, con 

 certs, &c. &c., dining and drawing rooms, with a 

 library, and room also for lectures, a museum, 

 and various other rooms for committees. The 

 extent of the entrance front is 79 feet, of the 

 so rthern front 142 feet. 



The splendid tower of Whitby Abbey lately fell 

 tt> the ground. It was 104 feet in height, and 



from its elevated site, had long been a useful sea- 

 mark, as well as a distinguished ornament to the 

 surrounding neighbourhood. Although this event, 

 from the decayed state of the pillars, has been 

 long anticipated, yet it has excited among the in- 

 habitants a deep feeling of regret, in which all the 

 lovers of bold and picturesque scenery will par- 

 ticipate. 



June 29, the foundation-stone of the new church 

 at Todmorton was laid in grand ceremony. The 

 building is in the Gothic style, which prevailed 

 at the end of the 12th and beginning of the 



