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Biographical Memoirs of Eminent Persons. 



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the King of Prussia entered that capital, 

 amidst cries of " Vive k Rot ! Vivent les 

 Bourbons /" and Buonaparte now signed 

 his first abdication. On the landing of 

 Louis XVIII. in France, the emperor 

 hastened to meet him, and conducted him 

 to Paris, which he entered on the 4th of 

 May ; a treaty of peace was signed at Pa- 

 ris on the 30th of the same month ; and, 

 on the 1st of June, the emperor left France 

 for London, where his reception was of the 

 most cordial and magnificent description. 

 He returned to St. Petersburg on the 25th 

 of July. On the 25th of September he en- 

 tered Vienna, where he attended the con- 

 gress of sovereigns, and remained imtil the 

 end of October. The ratification of the 

 acts of congress was signed on the 9th of 

 Febriiaiy 1815. In the course of the same 

 year, the emperor was acknowledged King 

 of Poland, having previously entered into 

 a treaty of peace with Persia. The escape 

 of Buonaparte from Elba changed the ap- 

 parent security of Europe into confusion. 

 Great preparations were in consequence 

 made by the Emperor of Russia — prena- 

 rations which were terminated only by the 

 arrival of the news of the victory of Water- 

 loo. Alexander immediately set out for 

 the French capitiil, where he arrived three 

 days after the entry of Louis XVIII. 

 Thence he proceeded to Brussels to view 

 the field of Waterloo ; and, after a short 

 stay, he returned to St. Petersburg, which 

 he entered amidst universal acclamations. 

 From that period until his death, the em- 

 peror's policy appears to have been alto- 

 gether pacific : he lias attended several 

 congresses, and been almost incessantly 

 moving from one part of the Continent 

 to another; but, although his force was 

 large, and there have not been wanting, at 

 different times, pretexts which a warlike 

 prince might have seized for purposes of 

 hostility, particularly against the Turkish 

 government, he has terminated his mortal 

 career without any deviation from those 

 peaceful principles which were agreed upon 

 by all the great powers in the year 1815. 

 The Emperor Alexander's successor was 



his next brother, the Grand Duke Con- 

 stantine Coesarovitch, who was bom on the 

 8th of May 1779, and married, on the 26th 

 of February 1796, Julia, Princess of Saxe 

 Cobourg, sister to his Royal Highness the 

 Prince of Saxe Cobourg. This marriage 

 was dissolved by an imperial ukase, dated 

 April 2, 1820 ; and the Grand Duke mar- 

 ried, secondly. May 24-, 1820, Jane, bom 

 Countess of Grudzinska, and created 

 Princess of Lowicz. By neither of these 

 marriages has this prince any issue ; and if 

 there were any by the latter, it is against 

 the law of the Russian empire, as the lady 

 was a subject, that they should succeed to 

 the crown. Constantine is savage and 

 martial in his charac'"or, and brave even to 

 rashness. He distinguished himself under 

 Suvaroff, and under his late imperial bro- 

 ther, whom he accompanied in all his cam- 

 paigns of 1812, 1813, and 1814-. He was 

 first created Military Governor, then Ge- 

 neralissimo, and finally Viceroy of Poland. 

 He is said to have conciliated the .iffection 

 of that nation in an eminent degree ; and 

 in Russia he has a strong party of the nobi- 

 lity in his favour. 



REAR-ADMIRAL BIN'GHAM. 



Dec. 10. — Joseph Bingham, Esq., a 

 Rcar-Admiral in His Majesty's Navy, 

 This officer was on the point of proceeding 

 to the East-Indies, as commander in chief 

 of his Majesty's ships on that station. He 

 had just completed his arrangements in 

 London previous to his departure for 

 Portsmouth, where he was to hoist his 

 flag on board the Warspite, when, in con- 

 sequence of getting wet through, lie was 

 seized, on the 2d of December, with a 

 sudden attack of erysipelas, which, not- 

 withstanding his previous state of perfect 

 health, baffled the skill of his physicians, 

 and terminated fatally on the 10th. Rear- 

 Admiral Bingham had uninterniptedly 

 served unto the conclusion of the wai', 

 and was esteemed a most correct and zea- 

 lous officer. In private life he was beloved 

 for his integrity, sincerity, and domestic 

 ■\irtues. 



ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS. 



The Rev. F. Palmer, L.L. B., rector of Alcester, 

 Wai-wickshire, lias been appointed Stinogate for 

 the granting Marriage Licences within the Diocese 

 of Worcester. 



The Rev. T. Kennion, B. A., to the Perpetual 

 Curacy of Harrowgate. 



The Rev. J. Daves, A. M., to the Rectory of 

 Over Warton. 



The Rev. B. Pope, to the Vicarage of Oxbome, 

 St. George, WUts. 



The Rev. H. Wetherell, B. D., has been collated 

 one of the Prebends of Hereford Cathedral. 



The Rev. G. H. Curtois, M.A., to the Rectory of 

 East Burkwith, Lincolnshire. 



The Rev. G. Powell, M. A., to the Perpetual 

 Curacy of St. Mary's, Thetford. 



The Rev. E. Wilton, M. A., to the Curacy of 

 C'hrist's-church, North Bradley, Wilts. 



The Rev. W. Cooke, A. lyf., to the office of Por- 

 tionist, in the Church of Bromyard. 



The Rev. J. Sauraarez, to the Rectory of Hay- 

 gate, "i'orkshire. 



The Rev. J. W. Peters, M. A., to the Vicarage of 

 Langford , Oxford and Berks. 



The Rev. T. Chevallier, to the Vicarage of St. 

 Andrew the Great. 



The Rev. J. Case, M. A., to the Vicarage of Me- 

 theringham, Lincolnshire. 



