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the London Tavern, to take into consideration the 

 oppressive measures established in Russia against 

 the Jews, when an address to the Synagogues of 

 Great Britain was proposed and carried unani- 

 mously, as well as the following resolution : 

 " Resolved, That our nation having for more than 

 2,000 years been subject to dreadful persecutions 

 from all the powers and states of the earth, it is 

 right and proper that at every favourable oppor- 

 tunity we protest against such persecution, and 

 earnestly call on Government to render us equal 

 justice." 



Two convicts executed at the Old Bailey, 

 condemned at the last October Sessions. 



20. A circular sent by the Marquis of Lans- 

 downe to the magistrates of the different police 

 offices in the metropolis, ordering them to make 

 out every day a detailed report, or account, of the 

 proceedings of the various police offices, signed by 

 one of the magistrates, at eight o'clock every even- 

 ing, for printed circulation, 



MARRIAGES. 



At Mary-le-bone, Sir John Gerrard, bart., to 

 Miss Monica Standish ; G. Darley, esq., to Miss 

 M. Homfray. At All Soul's Church, G. R. Ward, 

 esq., to Miss Webb. At Harrow, Rev. L. Foot to 

 Miss Cunningham. At Havering Bower, Lieut. 

 A. S. Robinson to Leonora Maria, only daughter 

 of the late T. Rowcroft, esq., H.M.'s first consul 

 general for Peru. Rev. B. C.Goodison to Eleanor 

 Maria, third daughter of J. Home, esq., deputy 

 assistant commisary general. At St. George's, 

 Hanover-square, C. R. Barker, esq., to Miss Mary 

 Hammersley; Rev. T. Cooke to Jane, daughter of 

 the Hon. C. Flint. At St. Margaret's, Westmin- 

 ster, Mr. J . P. Harman, of the Stock Exchange, to 

 Sarah Jane, third daughter of the late R. B. Curl- 

 ing, of the customs, Dover, 



DEATHS. 



At the British Museum, 84, J. Planta, esq., prin- 

 cipal librarian of that place. Mrs. Hoppner, relict 

 of tiie late J. Hoppner, esq., R. A. In Portland- 

 place, General Ross, governor of Fort St. George. 

 -66, Very Rev. Dr. W. Poynter, the Roman Ca- 

 tholic Bishop of London. At South Lambeth, J. 

 Pittman, esq. In Craven-street, Eliza, the wife of 

 Sir Charles Waller, Bart. In George-street, Port- 

 man-square, 84, Lieut. -General G. Russell. In 

 Albemarle-street, Rear- Admiral Percy Fraser. 



At Spring-grove, 87, J. Twining, esq. 98, T. 

 House, esq., principal export surveyor to the Board 

 of Excise. 71, J. Farley, esq., Claphatn Common. 

 -At Twickenham, 71, Mrs. Ingram. At Hammer- 

 smith, Lieut -Gen. Count Joseph de Puisaye, com- 

 mander-in-chief of the Royalist forces in Bretagne, 

 and son of the Marquis de Puisaye de la Candrelle. 

 At Greenwich College, Andrew Brown, a pen- 

 sioner, 105 years and 9 months old ; he had been 

 inmate there for the last 50 years, and the day pr- 

 eceding his death he sang two songa to his brother 

 pensioners 1 1 



MARRIAGES ABROAD. 

 At Paris, Manuel Godoy, Count of Castellsfiel* 

 only son of the Prince of Peace of Spain, to Maria, 

 third daughter of the late L.Crowe, esq., Stephen's- 

 green, Dublin. At the British Embassy, Naples, 

 Count Alfred d'0rsay,to Lady H. A. F. Gardiner, 

 daughter of the Earl of Blessington. In Paris, 

 Dr. W. English to Lady Maria Gordon. , 



DEATHS ABROAD. 



In Wilkes County, Georgia, 93, Mrs. Hannah 

 Clarke ; she was a heroine of the American Revo- 

 lution, and, amongst other vicissitudes, when once 

 attending her husband (Major-General Elijah 

 Clarke) on an expedition, she had her horse shot 

 under her while two children were on its back with 

 her. She was benevolent and hospitable to the 

 prisoners taken by her husband. In Jamaica, R. 

 Barlow, esq. Hon. A. Hope, fourth son of the Earl 

 of Hopeton, on his passage from Corfu to England. 

 At Priola, Sicily, Mrs. Frances Dyer. At Paris, 

 the celebrated Helen MariaWilliams. At Madras.of 

 cholera morbus, after an illness of two hours, Sir T . 

 Munro, governor. At Vienna, Field Marshall Count 

 Broady ; he first married the relict of T. Dillon, esq., 

 of Belgard-castle, and secondly, the Princeis Ann. 

 of Austria. At Antigua, Capt. R. Dudgeon, of 

 the Royals. In the south-west part of Russia, 

 Rev. A. Young, only son of the late celebrated 

 agriculturist. At Copet, 37, Baron de Stael, son 

 of the celebrated Mme. de Stael, and grandson of 

 the Minister Neckar. At New York, the cele- 

 brated counsellor Emmett, one of the projectors of 

 the formidable Irish rebellion in 1/97, and in the 

 event of success, was to have been included in the 

 supreme government of Ireland. H. Salt, esq., at 

 a village between Grand Cairo and Alexandria ; 

 he was consul-general in Egypt At Pensacola, J, 

 H. Purves, esq., His Majesty's consul. 



MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES; 



WITH THE MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 



NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 



The Trustees of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Sav- 

 ings' Bai.k have made their annual report up to 

 Nov. 20, 1827, by which it appears that the sum of 

 .210,699. JOs. lOd. was in the hands of the com- 

 missioners for the reduction of the national debt, 

 including interest ; and that the number of depo- 

 sitors were at that period 4,002. 



A meeting of the Trustees of the Reading room 

 was held Dec. 7, at which a unanimous resolution 

 i thanks was vtd to tb Dukt of Northumber- 



land, for the liberal accommodation thus afforded 

 to the gentlemen of Alnwick, its vicinity, and the 

 county in general. A committee was also appointed 

 for the government of the establishment. 



At the recent meeting of the Ship-owners at 

 North Shields, Mr. Richmond, the chairman, thus 

 terminated his speech, in allusion to Mr. Huskis- 

 son's reciprocity system : " In the progress of 

 this system of change, every interest of the conv 

 irmnity is, or has been, threatened with destruc- 

 tion or injury; we have seen many of them u- 

 eesgfully resist and oppose the adoption of such 1 

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