478 



Deaths Ahroad. 



diicirig 8,on6r. per annum, of wliich no 

 pait is spent ill Irelaiiii. 



niarr'n'd.] James Lenox W. Napior, esq. 

 of Lonfilicipw, cniinty of Meatli, to Selina, 

 daii!;li(er of Sir Gray Skip with. 



Died.'\ At Dnblin, Mrs. Browiilow, wi- 

 dow of the Riclit Hon. William li.; 8r, 

 Mis. Elizabcili Coiiltnum. 



At Limerick, Ciipt. !l. W. Parker, R. N. 



At Kilnianock-lionse, county of Wex- 

 ford, T. \i. Hoiifriiton, esq. — At BrooU- 

 waisoii, near Ncnai;li, 37, Jolin Waison, 

 ♦•sq. — Lately, at Nenagh. Tippeiary, tlie 

 Rev. Tlios. (i'iMeara. He was Coi- many 

 years cliaplain to tlie present kin^. He 

 was said to have been near obtamin;; a 

 mitre through the iiiilupnce of Mrs. Blary 

 Ann Clarke; l)nt was rc-jected on acronnt 

 of the Alilesian " O" prefixed to his family 

 name. 



BEVrns ADROAD. 



In Africa, IMr. John Forbes, in wliom 

 botanical Kcience has sustained a severe 

 loss. He was sent ont by the Horticul- 

 lural Society of London, with the squadron 

 roininandod by Captain M'illiani Owen; 

 the object of which was to make a com- 

 plete survey of the whole eastern cua»t of 

 Africa. SucJi an expedition afforded too 

 favourable an oppoi tunity to he omitted 

 by the Horticultural Society to send out 

 au intelligent collector, and Mr. Forbes, 

 whose zeal as a boIalli^l was known to the 

 Society, was tixed on as a proper person 

 to accompany it. His extensive collcc- 

 • ions made at the Cape of Good Hope, 

 l)e!aj:oa Bay, and Madagascar, were re- 

 ceived l)y the Society in hi^h preservation, 

 and by their ma;;nitnde and variety evinced 

 the uiiicniitiiii}; attention which he had 

 paid to the objects ot his mission. With 

 the appiobaiioii of Captain Owen, and 

 \vilh a zeal hii-hly creditable to his ovmi 

 character, although not iiisiructed by the 

 Society, he engaged hini>-elf to torm part 

 of an expedition wl.ich was proceeding 

 from the squadron, up the Zambezi River, 

 on the eastern coast of Afiira. It was in- 

 tended to go about eight hundred miles 

 up the liver in canoes, and the party was 

 then to strike off southwards to the Cape. 

 It was iu this progress up the Zanibezi 

 that IMr. Forbes died, in the twenty-tilth 

 year of his age. 



At Parij/IM. Langles, Member of the 

 Academy of Inscriptions and Belles 

 I.ettres, and an ingenious investigator of 

 Oriental antiquities. With equal capacity 

 and application, he hail collected ma- 

 terials from Asiatic authors, so as to com- 

 pose one of the most complete libraries 

 extant on Oriental books of voyages, his- 

 tory, and literaiuic. This library formed 

 a rendrzvons, on the first and third Tues- 

 day of every monili, to a munberof dis- 

 tinguished characters, scientific and lite- 



rary, of all comifrips. From his profonnd 

 and exieiisive erudition, and benevolent 

 deposition, I\L L. was held in the highest 

 e«teeui; and the numerous labours which 

 employed Ins pen, had secured the public 

 attention and applause. He was conser- 

 vator 1)1 MSS. iu the King's Library, con- 

 ductor of the Special Sdiool of Oriental 

 Languages, jirolessor of ilie Persian, and 

 president of tlu> Royal Society of Anti- 

 quaries, and of that <if Geography. He 

 had presided at this last institution twelve 

 days before his death. 



Also at Paris, in his 58tli year, INI. 

 Clianssard. He was born Jan. 29, 1766, 

 liis fathel being the kini;'s architect. His 

 juvenile studies were at the College of St. 

 Jeande Beaiivais, under the author of 

 " L'Oiigiiie des Ciilles," after which lie 

 appeared as an advocate at the bar. At 

 the age of t'l, he published an " Essay oil 

 the Penal Laws." He adopted moderate 

 and liberal revolution principles; and, as 

 French commissary in IJclgiiim, at Brus- 

 sels, formally united its provinces to 

 France. Soon alter, he was made Secre- 

 tary to the t'ommittee of Public Safety, 

 ami to tlio mayoralty of Paris. His zeal, 

 in these functions, in rendering services to 

 individuals, was dangerous to himself, and 

 he was three ti'ues placed on the Proscrip- 

 tion List by Robespierre. After this, he 

 was made Secielary General to the Com- 

 mission of Public Instruction ; but he had 

 scarcely traced out the first plans of its 

 organization, when the place was sup- 

 j)ressed. Hi" pen then became the instru- 

 ment of his laboiirs, and he wrote for the 

 booksellers, but never sold his name. His 

 work on the H.^use of Austria was pur- 

 chased by the iMinislcr of War, and distri- 

 buted by order of government, as was 

 also hi^ '• Tiaiis'.af ion of Arrian's Expedi- 

 tions of Alexander.'' His fi lend Fourcroy 

 procured for him the place of Professor of 

 Belles Lettrcs at Rouen. After some 

 other cltanges, he lived partly retired, con- 

 tenting hirvk>elf with a moderate fortune, 

 inheiited from his father. 



At Peteisbtngh, 67, M. Sleibelt, the 

 musical composer. He was a native of 

 Berlin. Haily in life he manifested very 

 decided talents for music. He subse- 

 quently visited Paris, London, and Peters- 

 buigli. At Piiiis he wrote a ballet, called 

 ''La Retour de Zejihyr," and an opera, 

 "La Priiicessc de Babylone," both of 

 which weie successful : and for the Theatre 

 Feydcau, he wrote " Romeo ct Juliette." 

 In the year 1797 he was in London, and 

 performed at the Concerts, under the 

 direction of Salomon. On the &Otli Jan. 

 ISO,"), he produced his ballet called "La 

 Belle Lailiere, oii Blanche Reine." Stein- 

 belt iiiially visited St. Petersburgli, where 

 he subsequeiitlj resided. 



