1823.] Deaths in and 



Georgiana, married to Sir Henry Wellesley; 

 Emily, married to tlie Marquis of West- 

 nieaili; and James Viscount Craiibourne, 

 (wlio succeeds liim), married to Frances 

 Rlary, sole heir of Bamber Oascoine, esq. 

 When Lord Cranbourne, he was returned 

 to Parliament for Piympton, appointed 

 Treasurer of the Itiog's household, and 

 admitted of the privy council. He was 

 also colonel of the Hertford militia, iu 

 1789 he was appointed lord chamberlain, 

 and continued in office until the change of 

 ministers in 1806. In 1812 he became 

 Postmaster General. The Marquis being 

 considered a great personal favourite of 

 George the Third, his courtier-like cha- 

 racier subjected him to the satires of Dr. 

 Wolcot, in his attacks on the court ; but the 

 political influence of the Marquis was 

 always believed to arise from the energetic 

 character and superior talents of the 

 Marchioness. 



At his lodgings in Lambeth-road, 83, 

 IVUliam Coombe, em]. He was a gentle- 

 man who, in the course of his protracted 

 life, had experienced many fortunes, and 

 hud become known, through various inci- 

 dents, to so many people in every rank of 

 society, that it seems hardly necessary to 

 c!raw his character. His lot forbade his 

 stepping aside in order to let tlie stream 

 •if life pass hy, and observe whom it swept 

 along: he swam, mingled with the rest, 

 down the current; but with just so much 

 elevation above the surface as enabled 

 him to perceive the sinkings and risings 

 of ;ill aroimd him : so that there was hardly 

 a person of any note in his time with 

 whose history he was not in some degree 

 . acquainted. He knew others as well as 

 he was known to them. Upon every 

 branch of art,— it might almost be said, 

 upon every de))artment of science, — he 

 could expatiate in an instructive and in- 

 teresting maimer. The destruction of his 

 fortune, and the incessant calls for his pen, 

 reniiered profundity unattainable, nor, in- 

 deed, in his case was it necessary. It 

 would be difficult to sum up the various 

 works of which he was the author or com- 

 piler. The " Devil upon two sticks in 

 England" was as popular as any in its day, 

 and still retains a reasonable degree of 

 celebrity, by the delmeation of character 

 and display of anecdote when those of 

 whom it treats are no more. The spurious 

 breed of Doctor Syntaxes, to which his 

 work has subsequently given birth, attests 

 the tiimc (if the original; and without sub- 

 jectin!; this woik to that severity of crili- 

 cism which it ni^ver iiieHut to challenge, it 

 displays tiu< li readiness of veisification, 

 such pliability in intellect, and we may add 

 such an amiable playfulness of mind, with 

 kudsvlidge of the little scenes of domestic 

 life, as aw rarely to be found in one whom 

 adversity might have steeU'<l, and age be- 

 nouibeJ. He was educated at Kton and 



near London. S67 



Oxford; and his fii-st ^titrance Into Hie 

 world was attended by those adventitious 

 circumstances that too often seduce the 

 possesser — some fortune, a graceful person, 

 an extensive acquaintance, elegant man- 

 ners, and a taste for literature. He played, 

 he sang, he danced, and it might almost 

 be said he was undone ; but his literary 

 attainments which remained, when in the 

 c<iurse of nature lighter accomplishments 

 had loft him, »\'ere converted into the 

 means of support. Though mild and un- 

 rescDting in his nature, and habitually spa- 

 ring of his censures, his first work was a 

 satirical poem, entitled the " Diaboliad," 

 the subject of which has, we believe, sunk 

 into the grave about the same time with 

 the author. A ' singular work, entitled 

 " Letters of the late Lord Littleton," was 

 written by him : an assumed similarity of 

 style to that of the deceased nobleman, 

 and the repetition of some unimportant in- 

 cidents, known, as it was supposed, only 

 in the family, deceived, as we have been 

 informed, Mr. Windham, one of the most 

 acute judges, and Lady Littleton, the 

 nearest friend of the deceased, into the 

 belief that the letters vvere the ireuiiine 

 production of his lordship. With the de- 

 grading vice of drunkenness, Mr. Coomlie 

 was totally unac.iuaiiited ; he was equally 

 free also from the practice of gaming of 

 every kind ; and we may add, that his 

 general qualities, united to his excellent 

 talents, which, under happier auspices, 

 might have raised an 'hum hie man to for- 

 tune and eminence, served to diffuse a 

 lustre round the dtciiuing fortunes of one 

 born in affinence. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS. 



The Hon. and Uev. Gerrard Wellesley 

 appointed Bishop of Meath, in lieu of 

 Dr. O'Beiruc. 



Rev K. G. Baker, to the Rectory of 

 Sprinnfield, Essex. 



Rev. Dr. Povah, to the Rectory of St, 

 James's, Duke's-place, London. 



Uev. M. Marsh, n.i). ciraiiccllor of the 

 diocese of Sarum, has been collated to 

 the Prebend of Beaniinster Prima, Dorset. 



Kev. W. Curtis, vicar of Ijroniinster, to 

 be Chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford. 



Rev. H. Bishop, vicar of Ardleigh, to 

 the Vicarage of Great Clacton, Essex. 



Kev. W. White, m.a. to the Vicarage of 

 Siradbroke, Siili'olk. 



Rev. W. H Dickinson, r.c.r.. of Christ's 

 College, Cambridge, Domestic (Chaplain 

 to Dowager Lady l''orrester. 



Rev. (;ariy Elers, of Sidney College, 

 Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Bickenhill, 

 Warwickshire. 



Uev J. T. Notfidge, to the Vicarage of 

 Old Newton, Snfiolk. 



Rev. John Smith, fellow of St. John's 

 College, Canibiidyc, to the Rectory of 

 Kirkby cum Asgaiby, Lincoln. 



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