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LITERARY INTELLIGENCE, &c. 



Mr. Murray has issnecl a Prospectus of his 

 Variorum Edition of Boswell's I<ife of John- 

 son, to be printed uniformly with the Life 

 and Works of Byron and Crabbe. 



Mr. Valpy is preparing for early publica- 

 tion, a new Edition of Boswell's Life of 

 Johnson, in Monthly Volumes, interspersed 

 ■with many Anecdotes and Documents never 

 before published. Johnson's Jovu-ney to the 

 Hebrides, and his Tour into Wales, are to be 

 incorporated in this Edition. 



Mr, Valpy has announced for publication 

 a most useful work for the Clergy in general, 

 and for Students in Divinity, under the title 

 of " Skeletons of the Sermons of the most 

 eminent British Divines," by the Rev. T. S. 



Hughes. The work has been undei taken at 

 the request of several Members of the 

 Church, in consequence of the great expense 

 of the voluminous originals. 



The Third Volume of Mr. Montgomery 

 Martin's History of the British Colonies, 

 comprising the whole of our Possessions in 

 North America, with Maps, Official Docu- 

 ments, and accurate Statistical Tables, is in 

 an advanced state at press, and will speedily 

 appear. 



In the Press, and shortly will be published, 

 in One Vol. 12mo. Hector Fieramosca, or 

 The Challenge of Barletta. An Historical 

 Tale ; by the Marquis D'Azeglio. Trans- 

 lated from the Italian. 



PREFERMENTS, MARRIAGES, &c. 



PREFERMENTS. 



The Rev. G. O. Fenwicke, M, A. has been 

 instituted to the Vicarage of Aston, near 

 Birmingham, void by the resignation of the 

 Rev. Nathaniel Morgan. 



The Rev. Charles Pilkington, B. C. L., 

 Fellow of New College, Oxford, and one 

 of the Masters of Winchester College, has 

 been presented to the Rectory of Stockton, 

 in the county of Warwick; patrons, the 

 Warden and Fellows of New College. 



MARRIED. 



In London, Thornton Leigh, eldest son of 

 Leigh Hunt, Esq. to Catherine, third daughter 

 of the late John Gliddon, Esq. formerly of 

 Highgate.— Charles Warde, Esq. of Leaming- 

 ton, Warwickshire, to Marianne, eldest 

 daughter of the late John Bennett Lawes, 

 Esq. of Northampstead, in Hertfordshire. — 

 At Much Marcle, Herefordshire, Mr. Edwin 

 Allgood, of Ledbur3'^, to Anne, daughter of 

 Mr. Powell, of the Hill, Marcle. — At Maple- 

 durham, Oxfordshire, the Rev. Richard Sey- 

 mour, Rector of Kinwarton, Warwickshire, 

 son of the late Rear-Admiral Sir Michael 

 Seymour, Bart, to Frances, daughter of the 

 late Charles Smith, Esq. of Suttons, Essex. — 

 At St. Mary's church, Cheltenham, the Rev. 

 Thomas Page, of St. Paul's Church, Chel- 

 tenham, to Elizabeth Mary Anne Hull, 

 daughter of the late James Watson Hull, Esq. 

 — At Bitterley, near Ludlow, by the Rev. Mr. 

 Hinde, R. Guppy, Esq. Barrister-at-Law, of 

 Clifton, to Emily, only daughter of Richard 

 Parkinson, Esq. Castle-street, Hereford. — 

 At Paris, Edward Charles Blount, Esq, ne- 

 phew of the late Sir Walter Blount, of Sod- 

 dington, Worcestershire, to Gertrude Fran- 

 ces, youngest daughter of the late Wm. Jer- 

 ningham, Esq. and niece of the Right Hon. 

 Lord Stafford,— The Rev. John Lawson, of 

 Hope Bagot, Salop, youngest son of the late 

 Rev, Marmaduke Lawson, of Boroughbridge 

 Hall, to Mary, third surviving daughter of 

 the late Matthew Crowe, Esq, of Stocton- 

 upon-Tees,— At Prestbury, Gloucestershire, 

 by the Rev, W, G, Maxwell, of Twyning, 

 Charles Shrimpton, Esq, M. D, of Paris, 

 Physician to the Queen of France, to Jane, 

 daughter of the Rev. Christopher Capel, of 



Prestbury, — At Nuneaton, Warwickshire, 

 John Bond, jun. Esq. M, D, to Harriet, 

 daughter of Thomas Hincks, Esq. both of 

 that place.— At Birmingham, Mr. Robert 

 Gillam, jun. of Worcester, Solicitor, to Mary 

 Cooke, only daughter of the Rev. John 

 Richards, of the former place. 



BIRTHS. 

 At Park House, Stourbridge, the Lady of 

 John Amery, Esq, of a daughter. — At Chel- 

 tenham, the Lady of Dr. Samuel Dickson, of 

 a son. 



DIED. 



In his 79th year, M. Maignet, one of the 

 Members of the National Convention.— At 

 her seat, Ranby Hall, near East Retford, 

 Anna Maria, Duchess Dowager of Newcastle. 

 —At St. Amans, the mother of Marshal 

 Soult, having attained an extraordinary age. 

 —In the 74th year of his age, M. Dewer, 

 permanent Secretary to the Academy of 

 Brussels.— At Naples, Count Giraud, aged 

 68, one of the most distinguished comic 

 Poets of Italy.— At Stephen's Town, county 

 of Louth, aged 72, Agnes, wife of Wm, Gait, 

 and eldest sister of Robert Burns, the cele- 

 brated Ayrshire Poet.— At Barnes Green, 

 Surrey, the Baron de Noval.— At Brighton, 

 Dorothy Margaret, the wife of Richard West- 

 macott, Esq. R. A. of South Audley-street.— 

 At Torquay, Devon, Richard Earle Welby, 

 Esq. fifth son of the late Sir William Earle 

 Welby, Bart, of Denton Hall, Lincolnshire, 

 aged 55. — John Forster, Esq. of Wobaston, 

 near Wolverhampton, — At Kington, Here- 

 fordshire, in the 84th year of his age, the 

 Rev, John Wall, vicar of that parish for 

 more than half a century, and one of the 

 Prebendaries of Hereford Cathedral.— At 

 Shiphara, Somerset, aged 7.3, Mr, James Glo- 

 ver, miner. He was noted for discovering 

 springs, &c, by the hazel twig.— After a few 

 days' illness, at Greenhill (within half a mile 

 of the Copper Works), Swansea, aged 101 

 years, Mary Griffiths, widow. She could 

 read without the use of spectacles ; and re- 

 tained her faculties to the last,— Mr, Fitz- 

 gerald, M, P. for the county of Louth,— The 

 Hon, Randal Plunket, only brother of Lord 

 Dunsany, at his scat, Ballybridge, near Bray. 



