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nexion with Prussia, he was under the neces- 

 sity of granting to the troops of that power a 

 passage through Saxony, and also to furnish, 

 in the following year a body of 22,000 auxi- 

 liaries. The victories of Jena and Auerstadt 

 laid open his territories to the French : the 

 respect due to his personal character proved 

 serviceable to his people ; but, as the price of 

 the elector's neutrality, Buonaparte subjected 

 Saxony to heavy requisitions, and to a con- 

 tribution in money of 1,000,000 sterling. To 

 relieve his subjects, the elector made great 

 advances to France, out of his own personal 

 treasury, and from his own personal estates. 



In consequence of the treaty signed at 

 Posen, in December 1806, the fortifications 

 of Dresden were levelled with the ground. 

 Saxony, however, was constituted a king- 

 dom ; and, as a king, the elector acceded to 

 the confederation of the Rhine. The subse- 

 quent treaty of Tilsit conveyed to the new 

 king certain provinces detached from Prus- 

 sia in various quarters. Frederick was, on 

 the other hand, bound to maintain a body of 

 20,000 men to be at the command of Buona- 

 parte for the defence of France. Conse- 

 quently in 1809, he was compelled to march 

 his troops against Austria ; but it was evident 

 that the proclamations which he issued from 

 Frankfort, whither he retired whilst his states 

 were occupied by the Austrians, were dictated 

 by his French connexion. 



The king of Saxony was obliged to quit 

 Dresden on the approach of the Russians, in 

 the beginning of 1813 ; but he was restored 

 to France after the battles of Lutzen and 

 Bautzen ; and afterwards, his country be- 

 came the seat of war. Numerous were the 

 disasters by which its utter ruin was threat- 

 ened. Ultimately, the king of Saxony was 

 conducted to Berlin, while a Russian general 

 commanded in Dresden. In October 1814, 

 the Russian officer delivered up his charge to 

 the Prussians, a transfer supposed to have 

 been long previously arranged. Against this 

 arrangement Frederick made a most energe- 

 tic protest, positively refusing his consent or 

 acceptance of any indemnification whatsoever. 

 At length, in February 1815, the Emperors 

 of Russia and Austria, and the King of Prus- 

 sia, determined that the King of Saxony 

 should relinquish to Prussia a tract of valua- 

 ble country, containing 1 64,000 inhabitants 

 that he should lose his share of Poland 

 that he should cede tracts of land to Saxe 

 Weimar and to Austria and that his remain- 

 ing territory should be reduced to an extent 

 of country, inhabited by only 1,128,000 

 Soon afterwards, Frederick Augustus unked 

 his contingent of troops to the allied armies, 

 and they formed a part of the army of occu- 

 pation on the frontier of France. His efforts 

 were henceforward sedulously employed in 

 healing the deep and dangerous wounds of 

 bis kingdom. Through the influence of the 

 King of Prussia, he, on the 1st of May 1817, 

 acceded to the Holy Alliance. 



His Majesty, the King of Saxony, expired 

 at Dresden, on the 5th of May, after an ill- 

 ness of two days. His successor, the present 

 king, is his cousin, of the same name, the 

 son of his uncle, Maximilian, and Caroline 

 Mary Theresa of Parma. He was born on 

 the 18th of May, 1797. He accompanied 

 the Saxon troops to France in 1815, and he 

 was then contracted with a daughter of the 

 Emperor of Austria. 



THE DEAN OF DURHAM. 

 The Very Rev. Charles Henry Hall, D.D. 

 Dean of Durham, was the son of the late 

 Dean of Bocking. He was born about the 

 year 1763; the early part of his education 

 was received at Westminster; whence, in 

 1779, he was elected a student of Christ 

 Church, Oxford. In 1781 he gained the 

 Chancellor's prize for Latin Verse; took the 

 degree of B.A. May 9, 1783 ; and, in the 

 following year, he obtained the prize for the 

 English essay on the Use of Medals. He 

 became M.A.January 26, 1786; B.D. June 

 30, 1794; and in 1798 was appointed to 

 preach the Bampton Lectures. He took the 

 degree of D.D. Oct 23, 1800 ; and, in 1807, 

 on the resignation of Bishop Randolph, 

 he was appointed Regius Professor of Di- 

 vinity. In 1809 he succeeded Dr. Cyril 

 Jackson, as Dean of Christ Church; and, 

 in 1824, he was appointed to the Deanery of 

 Durham. Having proceeded to Edinburgh 

 for medical advice, he died at an hotel 

 there, from a violent accession of fever, on 

 he 16th of March. 



LORD CREMORNE. 



Richard Thomas Dawson, Baron Cre- 

 morne, of Castle Dawson, in the county of 

 Monaghan, was a descendant fi'om the Daw- 

 sons of Spaldington, in the county of York, 

 one of whom married into the family of 

 Henry Usher, Archbishop of Armagh, Pri- 

 mate of Ireland, <fec. and thus obtained con- 

 siderable property in the counties of Armagh 

 and Tyrone. Thomas Dawson was created 

 Baron Darbrey in 1770 ; advanced to the dig- 

 nity of Viscount Cremorne in 1785, and made 

 Baron Cremorne in 1 797. The nobleman whose 

 decease this notice records, was born on the 

 31st of August, 1788. He succeeded his 

 granduncle, Thomas, Viscount Cremorne, in 

 the Barony, on the 1st of March, 1813, when 

 the titles of Viscount Cremorne and Baroa 

 Dartrey became extinct. His Lordship 

 married, in 1815, Anne, third daughter of 

 John Whaley, of Whaley Abbey, in the 

 county of Wicklow, Esq. (by Anne, eldest 

 daughter of John Meade, Earl of Clanwil- 

 liam.) He had a son born in December, 

 1815, v^ho died an infant, and another son, 

 his successor, born in September, 1817. His 

 Lordship died on the 21st of March, at Daw- 

 son Grove, in the county of Monaghan. 



