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LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. &c. 



Mr. Charles Richardson is preparing a 

 new Dictionary of the English Language, 

 in which the Explanation of the Words com- 

 mences with the Etymological or Intrinsic 

 Meaning, their various applications in use 

 arc traced in orderly connexion, and the 

 Quotations in Illustration, are arranged 

 Chronologically from tl»e most Ancient to 

 the most Modern Authors. 



A Boolisellers' Assistants' Society has re- 

 cently been formed at Leipsic, the objects of 

 which are stated to be the promotion, after 

 the laboursof the day, of friendly intercourse 

 and improvement, by means of a library, lec- 

 tures, and a reading-room. Classes will also 

 be formed for instruction in the most useful 

 living languages. The lectures are to em- 

 brace the various arts connected with book- 



selling, such as Ictter-founding, printing", 

 bookbinding, paper-making, copper and 

 wood engraving, lithography, he.— Foreign 

 Quarterly Review. 



An Epitome of the County of Warwick, 

 containing a brief historical and descriptive 

 Account of the Towns, Villages, and Pa- 

 rishes, with their Hamlets, by Thomas Sharp, 

 Esq. Author of a " Dissertation on the Co- 

 ventry Mysteries," &c. &c. is nearly ready 

 for publication. 



The first No. of a History and Description 

 of the late Houses of Parliament and ancient 

 palatial edifices of Westminster, by E. H. 

 Brayley, and J. Britton, Esq. to be com- 

 pleted in Ten Monthly parts, illustrated by 

 numerous Embellishments, willbepublishetl 

 on the first of January. 



PREFERMENTS, MARRIAGES, &c. 



PREFERMENTS. 



The Rev. R. Cooper Christie, LL. B. has 

 been instituted by the Lord Bishop of Glou- 

 cester to the Rectory of Frctherne, in that 

 diocese, vacant by the resignation of the 

 Rev. James Hartley Dunsford : patron, the 

 Rev. CoUingwood Forster Fenwick, LL. B. 

 of Brook, in the Isle of Wight. — The Rev. 

 George Roberts has been licensed to the 

 perpetual Curacy of Coleford, in the Forest 

 of Dean , in the patronage of the Lord Bishop 

 of Gloucester. 



MARRIAGES. 

 At St. George's Church, Hanover-sqnare, 

 Lord Bruce, eldest son of the Marquis of 

 Aylesbury, to the Hon. Miss Beresford, 

 daughter of Lord DeCies.— At Halton Chapel, 

 the Hon. Arthur Lascelles, fifth son of the Earl 

 of Harewood, to Caroline, fourth danghter of 

 Sir R. Brooke, Bart, of Chester.— At Old- 

 swinford, Henry Granger, Esq. of Stockwell 

 House, Tettenhall, near Wolverhampton, to 

 Helen, eldest daughter of William Henry 

 Freer, Esq. of Stourbridge, Worcestershire. 

 — At Tenby, Sunderland, Clay Fowke, Esq. 

 fourth son of the late Francis Fowke, Esq. 

 of Boughrood Castle, Radnorshire, to Miss 

 Price, niece of Mr. P. Price, Tenby.— At 

 Abbey Dore, Herefordshire, Mr. W. Minton, 

 to Miss E. Meredith, both of Hereford.— At 

 Cheltenham, the Rev. Edward Synge, Rector 

 of Kilherrin, county of Galway, Ireland, to 

 Emily, daughter of Sir Richard Steele, of 

 the city of Dublin, Bart.— At Newton Sol- 

 ney, Mr. Bartley Hoskins, eldest son of 

 Abraham Hoskins, Esq. of Newton Park, in 

 the county of Derby, to Elizabeth, only 

 daughter of the late Thomas Piddocke, Esq. 

 surgeon, of Burton-upon-Trent. — At St. 

 George's Church, Birmingham, Mr. John 

 Bedford, of Frederick-street, Newhall-hill, 

 in that town, to Sarah, eldest daughter of 

 Henry Taylor, Esq. of Tipton.— The Rev. 

 John Macauley, Vicar of Loppington, Salop, 

 to Miss Large, of Malpas. — Edward Bat- 

 tersby, Esq. of St. Ann's, Dublin, to Miss 

 Ellen Jones, of Cheltenham.— At Edgbaston, 

 BirmiDgham, Owen Owen, Esq. of Coles- 



hill, to Mary Anne, only daughter of the 



late R. Jones, Esq. of Handsworth 



At Meerutt, in the East Indies, John Rose 

 Holden Rose, Esq. Lieutenant in the Uth 

 Light Dragoons, and youngest son of H. L. 

 Rose, Esq. of Lansdowne-place, Bath, to 

 Emily Hall, eldest daughter of Major J. N. 

 Jackson, C.B. and Deputy Quaitermaster- 

 General. 



BIRTHS. 



At Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, the 

 lady of M. G. Benson, Esq. of a son.— At 

 Holly House, Malvern Link, Worcestershire, 

 the lady of the Rev. R. T. Bolton, of a son. 

 —At the Downes, Salop, Mrs. W. Jeffreys, 

 of twin daughters.- At the Grammar School, 

 Bromsgrove, the lady of the Rev. G. A. 

 Jacob, of a daughter. 



DEATHS. 



The Death of H. R. H. the Duke of Glouces- 

 ter took place at Bagshot Park, Nov. 30, after 

 a painful illness of a fortnight's duration, 

 which he bore with the greatest fortitude, 

 resignation, and piety. His Royal Highness 

 William Frederick Duke of (iloncester was 

 in his 58th year, and had he lived until next 

 month would have completed it, being bom 

 in January 1776, at Rome, whither his father 

 went shortly after his private marriage, on 

 the 6th of September, 1766, with Maria, the 

 Countess Dowager of Waldegrave. The 

 Duke completed his education at Cambridge 

 under Dr. Beadon, and had scarcely quitted 

 college before he entered the army. In 1805, 

 on the death of his father, he succeeded to 

 the title, and on the motion of Lord Henry 

 Petty (the present Lord Lansdowne), who 

 was then Chancellor of the Exchequer, his 

 allowance was increased to 14,000/. a year 5 

 and, greatly to his credit, his Royal Highness 

 has always kept witliin the bounds of his 

 income. In I8I6 the Duke married his first 

 cousin, the Princess Mary, the fourth daugh. 

 terof George III, and is said to have stipu- 

 lated that it should by no means be expected 

 to influence his political conduct. His Royal 

 Highness, notwithstandmg his limited for- 

 tune, was a munificent patron of many of 



