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Lianfyllin, in Montgomeryshire ; and has 
Jeft ‘a large and amiable family, of three 
daughters and two sons, almost without 
provision. .Mr. Parry was the author of 
several poems inserted in the Welsh Melodies, 
and the projector of the Cambro-Briton. 
He published the Ist volume of a great 
desideratum in biography, called the Cam- 
brian Plutarch; and had,a short time previous 
to his melancholy death, been appointed to 
superintend the Welsh portion of the great 
National History, about to be published 
by Government. 
COLONEL STANHOPE. 
* On Saturday, March the 5th, by hanging 
hi:nself on a beam in one of the out-houses 
in Caen Wood, while in a state of mental 
derangement, the Hon. James Hamilton 
Stanhope, brother of the present Earl 
Stanhope, Aide-de-camp to General Sir 
John Moore and General Graham, and, 
latterly, to the Duke of York, and M.P. 
for Dartmouth. At the siege of St. Se- 
bastian, this gallant officer received a grape- 
shot wound in the spine. Severe as his 
consequent sufferings were, it was, how- 
eyer, the decided opinion of the eminent 
surgeons by whom he had been attended 
that the ball could not, without imminent 
risk of fatal consequences, be extracted. 
Whether by the pressure of an extraneous 
substance, or by the adhesion of the nerves 
themselves during the passage of the ball, 
the result was, that not only the spine was 
morbidly affected, but the whole nervous 
system partook of the injury. Frequent 
exfoliations of the bone had taken place. Of 
late, Col. Stanhope appeared very abstracted, 
was in the habit of sitting a long time, as if 
in a state of stupor, and then would suddenly 
start up, as if from sleep or upon an alarm. 
Within a few days he had complained very 
much that he could get no sleep, in conse- 
quence of the pain he endured. About 
two years ago his wife, the eldest daughter 
of Lord Mansfield, died, and his grief at 
the loss of her was very great. The pain 
and nervous irritations created by the 
wound, acted upon by mental causes, seem 
to have induced temporary insanity. The 
Colonel gave up his establishment after the 
death of his wife, by whom he had one son, 
who is now living. He was held in the 
highest esteem by all in the neighbourhood 
who knew him; and the unaffected sorrow 
of the domestics, who gave evidence be- 
fore the Jury, bore testimony to his worth 
as a master. He was remarkably pious, 
although from his early youth in the army, 
and he paid the highest attention to reli- 
gious duties, and was much given to literary 
pursuits. He was related to the late Right 
Hon. William Pitt, who placed him in the 
army contrary to his father’s wishes. He 
was in his 39th year. We understand that 
he was about to be married to a young lady, 
who was on a visit to Caen Wood, at the 
time the dreadful event took place, 
Obituary of the Month. 
[April 1, 
BARON BRAYBROOK. , 
At his seat ut Bellingbear, on the 28th 
of February, after a lingering illness, in 
his 75th year, the Right Hon. Richard 
Aldworth Griffin, Baron Braybrook, of 
Braybrook, in Northamptonshire, Lord 
Lieutenant, Custos Rotulorum, and Vice 
Admiral of Essex, high Steward of Wok- 
ingham, Rector of Saffron Walden, Provost 
Martial of Jamaica, and Hereditary Visitor 
of Magdalen College, Cambridge. His 
Lordship was born July 3, 1750; and mar-— 
ried, in June 1780, Catherine, youngest 
daughter ofthe Right Hon. Grenville, who 
died Noy. 6, 1796, leaving a numerous 
issue. He succeeded, in May 1797, to 
the Barony of Braybrook, and the Aud- 
ley End estates, on the death of his relative 
John Lord Howard de Walden and Bray- 
brook, at which period he had been four 
times elected member for Reading; a dis- 
tinction on many former occasions conferred 
upon his ancestors. His Lordship was'the 
representative of two of the most ancient 
families in the cour:ty, being descended pa- 
ternally from the Aldworths of Stanlake, 
and in the female line from the Nevilles of 
Billingbear. We cannot conclude ournotice 
of this melancholy event, without express- 
ing our deep concern for the loss of this 
highly respected nobleman, who has been 
long endeared to a very large circle of rela- 
tions and friends, by the most upright and 
honourable conduct, the exercise of the most 
benevolent affections and extensive charity. 
By those who are enabled to appreciate 
his truly Christian and social virtues, and 
high intellectual acquirements, and more 
especially wy the immediate members of 
his afflicted family, the memory of this 
amiable individual will long be most af- 
fectionately cherished He is succeeded in 
his title and estates by the Hon. Richard 
Neyille, one of the representatives of the 
county of Bedford. 
LADY JERNINGHAM. 
At her house in Bolton-row, on Wed- 
hesday, at the age of 77, Lady Jerningham, 
eldest daughter of Henry, eleventh Viscount 
Dillon, by his wife Lady Charlotte Lee, 
daughter of George Earl of Lichfield, and 
grand-daughter of Lady Charlotte Fitz- 
roy, daughter of King Charles II. She mar- 
ried, in 1767, SirWilliam Jerningham, Part. 
of Costessy, in Norfolk, who was the re- 
presentative of one of the few remaining 
families of English gentry, prior in date to 
the Conquest, and was descended on his 
mother’s side from King’ Edward III. _ Sir 
William died in 1809, leaving by his widow, 
the present Viscount Stafford, and Lady 
Bedingfield, besides two sons, since cut off 
in the flower of their age, viz. William, 
who signalized himself, by his distinguish- 
ed bravery, in the Austrian service ; and 
Edward, an English barrister, and Secre- 
tary of the late British Catholic Board, 
whose memory is affectionately cherished 
by 
