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INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, 

 CHRONOLOGY. 



J .in. 21.- The City of London voted an address 

 of condolence to His Majesty on the death of the 

 Duke of York. N.B. Almost all the cities and 

 principal towns of the kingdom have since followed 

 the example. 



22. The Corporation ot Bath voted the freedom 

 of that city to Mr. Canning, in a gold box, oi the 

 value of fifty guineas. 



24. His Majesty arrived at Brighton. 



26. A preliminary meeting held at Freemason's 

 Tavern, for the purpose of erecting a monument 

 to the memory of the Duke of York. 



Feb. 4.-The Duke of York's stud sold at Tat- 

 tersall's, producing *8,804 Os. 6d. 



Feb. 10. The shares for the New London Uni- 

 versity were filled up, and the second instalment 

 paid, or a large portion of them. 



15. Sessions commenced at the Old Bailey ; 248 

 prisoners formed the calendar. Two jurymen 

 begged to be excused, as they could not (they said) 

 return any verdict inflicting the penalty of death ; 

 they were ordered to attend the Court during the 

 sessions, it not being deemed a sufficient excuse, 

 although the Court would endeavour to dispense 

 with them. 



AND DEATHS, IN AND NEAR LONDON. 



Jones, sister to the late Countess of Clermont and 

 Dowager Lady Rossmore. Major Wall. In 

 Sloane-street, 72, W. M into, esq., late L>eut. -Colo- 

 nel of the royal marine artillery. Regent's Park, 

 Mrs. Grant, widow of C. Grant, many years a direc- 

 tor of the East India Company. In Bedford-row, 

 Mrs. F. Pollock. At Islington, the Rev. John 

 Evans, L.L.D. author of several works. In Con- 

 naught-place, the Hon. and Right Rev. G. Pelham, 

 Bishop ot Lincoln, in consequence of a severe cold 

 caught by attending the Duke of York's funeral. 

 At Southwood, Highgate, Miss F. Longman. At 

 Hoddeson, 82, GeneralJ. A. Harris. At Roches- 

 ter, the Rev. Dr. Law, Archdeacon of that place. 

 At Nottingham-place, 74, General W. Cartwright; 

 he was Colonel of the King's regiment of dragoon 

 guards. Lieut.-General Ramsay, royal artillery. 

 At Whitehall, Lady Carrington. In Wimpole- 

 street, Mary-Anne, wife of Major-General H. F. 

 Calcralt. Sir W. Rawson, late of Albcmarle- 

 street. At Brompton. Mr. Branston, the cele- 

 brated wood engraver. In Woburn-place, Mrs. 

 Rouse, widow of the late B. Rouse, esq., of New 

 Bridge-street. 



MARRIAGES. 



At St. Ann's Blackfriars, John Frost, esq., 

 F.S.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to Har- 

 riott, only daughter of the late John Peter Yo^y, 

 esq., of Berne. At St. George's, Hanover-square. 

 Joseph What el y, esq., to Charlotte, widow of T. 

 Crcspigney, esq., formerly M. P. for Sudbury. At 

 St. George's Hanover-square, the Rev. Joseph . 

 Wolff, missionary to the Jews, to Lady Georgiana 

 Mary Walpole, aunt to the Earl of Orlord. 



DEATHS. 



At Milbank-terrace, Westminster, Mr. Vidler, 

 the celebrated mail-coach contractor. At Lovel- 

 Hill Cottage, near Reading, J. Gumming, esq., 

 F. S. A. late of the Board of Control. It was to 

 this gentleman the public were indebted for the 

 latter editions of that excellent work " Owen 

 Feltham's Resolves." At Brix-Hill, Dr. Bleg- 

 borough. At his house in Harley-street, the Right 

 Hon. James Sutherland, Lord DulTus, at an ad- 

 vanced age. In Duke-street, Westminster, 78, the 

 Right Hon. Lady Louisa Macdonald, widow of the 

 late Right Hon. Sir Archibald Maedonald, bart. 

 and eldest sister of the Marquis of Stafford. Mrs. 

 Jones, relict of the late Right Hon. Theophilus 



MARRIAGES ABROAD. 



At St. George's Church, by the Bishop of Bar- 

 badoes, the Rev. S. Isaacson, Rector of St. Paul's, 

 Demerara, to A.M.M. Killikelly, youngest daugh- 

 ter of the late B. B. Killikelly, esq,. of Barbadoes. 

 The Earl of Huntingdon, Sir B. D'Urban, Lady 

 D* Urban, and the Archdeacon of Barbadoes, ho- 

 noured the ceremony by their presence ; and it 

 being the first instance of a Protestant bishop 

 having performed any of the offices of the church 

 on the vast continent of South America, its no- 

 velty excited a considerable degree of interest, and 

 attracted many other persons to the ceremony. 

 Guiana Chronicle and Demerara Gazette, JVov. 



27, 1826. At Guernsey, J. Gimingham, esq., to 



Ellen Maria, daughter of R. Sauuiarez, esq., and 

 niece of Admiral Sir James Saumarez. At the 

 Cape of Good Hope, John Carlisle, esq., to Ca- 

 therine, daughter of T. Philips, esq., late of Mil- 

 ford Haven, but now of Glendour, Albany district, 

 Cape of Good Hope. At Leipzic, A.H. Wolston, 

 of Torrenton House, Devon, to Henrietta Semmel . 

 widow, of Leipzic. 



DEATHS ABROAD. 



AtTampico, Mexico, Commodore Charles Thur- 

 low Smith, of the Mexican navy, late Po.st Captain 

 in the British service, and nephew to Sir Sklney 

 Smith. At Naples, Lady Emily Montagu, youngest 

 daughter of the Duke of Manchester. 



MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES; 



WITH THE MARRIAGES ANU DEATHS. 



NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 



A meeting has been held at the Guildhall, New- 

 castle, for the purpose of taking into considera- 

 tion the propriety oi establishing a "Society for 

 the Relief of the Indigent and Sick," when reso- 

 lutions were entered into, and a liberal subscrip- 



tion made for immediate relief in clothing, food, 

 money, or other necessaries, as the urgency of 

 the different cases may require. 



Another meeting, of ship-owners, has been held 

 at North Shields, when a petition was unani- 

 mously agreed on to the House of Commons, 

 against the Reciprocity system, and praying tk<t 



