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1829.) 
15.—The Duke of Cumberland arrived in town 
from the Continent. 
17.—Two culprits executed at the Old Bailey. 
19.—Sessions commenced at the Old Bailey. 
20.—News arrived of the disastrous intelligence 
that a most ruinous fire had broken out in George 
Town, Demerara, which occasioned an immense 
destruction of property, calculated at no less 
than £2,000,000 sterling. 
21.—Prince Polignac arrived in London from 
Paris, and had a conference of two hours with the 
Duke of Wellington; he likewise had an inter- 
view with the Earl of Aberdeen. 
— Duke of Wellington’s answer to the Spital- 
field’s weayer’s petition is, “ that the Government 
willdo every thing in its power, short of return- 
ing to the prohibitory laws, during the present 
sessién of Parliament, for the alleviation and 
remoyal of the existing distresses in the silk- 
trade ;’? and that his Grace had it in command 
from his Majesty to contribute to their present 
relief. 
MARRIAGES. 
At St. George’s, Hanover-square, Montague 
Cholmeley, esq., M.P. Grantham, to Lady Geor- 
giana Beauclerk, sister to the Duke of St. Albans. 
—At St. James’s, Rev. W. D. Bromley, to Lady 
Louisa Dawson, daughter of the late Earl of 
Portarlington.—At Marylebone Chureh, T. J. 
Ireland, esq., to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir W. E. 
Welby, Bart.—At St. George’s, Hanover-square, 
C. S, Dickens, esq., to Lady Frances Elizabeth 
Compton, sister to the Marquess of Northampton. 
—At Marylebone chureb, the Hon, Stafford Jern- 
ingham, eldest son of Lord Stafford, to Miss Ho- 
ward, niece to the Duke of Norfolk.—At Maryle- 
bone, Trinity Church, J, Wainwright, esq, to 
Miss Elizabeth Powell.—At Thetford, Rev. F. 
Leighton, son of the late Major General Leigh- 
ton, to Miss Catherine Severne.—S. Newton, esq., 
‘to Charlotte, daughter of General Onslow.—Rev. 
R. Anderson, to the Hon. Caroline Dorothea 
‘Shore, third daughter of Lord Teignmouth,—At 
St. George’s, Hanover-square, Lieut. Col, Fre- 
mantle, to Miss Agnes Lyon. 
DEATHS. 
Rey. M. Wilks, minister of the Tabernacle, 
Moorfields, upwards of half a century, and suc- 
cessor to the celebrated George Whitfield.—At 
Heathill, Stafford, Mrs. Elizabeth Tooth, 102, in 
_ possession of all her faculties: she had been 80 
years tenant to the Marquess of Stafford, on the 
_ same farm, and the family, for time immemorial:— 
Hon. Margaret Emma, wife of J. H. Langham, 
_ @sq., and daughter of Lord Kenyon.—In Wey- 
Mouth-street, R. K, Cox, esq., 84.—At Evesham, 
aged 98, Mrs, E. Horne; she left upwards of 
3,000 guineas to various public charities.—At 
Worcester, Mrs. M. Bevin, 94 ; and Mrs. E, Grif- 
fiths, 100; at Frampton-upon-Severn, Sarah 
Frape, 98; at Bromyard, Mrs. Boar, 101, and at 
Madeley, J. Cramp, 103.—In Pall-Mall, Sir Mark 
_ Wood, Bart., 82.—At Yarmouth, Dowager Lady 
Lacon.—At Harefield, Lieut. General Lawrence, 
_ 74.—In St. James’s-square, Amelia Anne, Marchio- 
_ ness of Londonderry.—At Clontarf, the Rey. Dr. 
Usher, 100, formerly rector of Clontarf. —In 
Queen-square, Rev, W. Crowe, 83, public orator 
of the University of Oxford.—At Bury St, Ed- 
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munds, James Oakes, esq., 87; he had served 
the office of chief magistrate in 1771, 1785, 1798, 
1802 and 1810.—At the advanced age of 87, Mr. 
Jobn Pratt, the oldest person connected with the 
turf in Newmarket, and the most eminent 
rider of his day.—At Kenilwerth, the Hon. T, R. 
Arundel, brother to the late Lord Arundel, of 
Wardour.—At Brixton, S. F. Waddington, -esq., 
70.—At Edinburgh, Lady Anu Wharton Duff, 
sister to the Earl of Fife, and wife to R. W. 
Duff, esq.—At Bath, Lieut. Gen. Dickson, 84.— 
At Arundell, Lady Caroline Sidney Kerr.—At 
Minehead, Capt. Murdoch Mackenzie, 86 ; he was 
the last surviving officer who sailed round the 
world with Admiral Byron.—In Lincoln’s-inn- 
fields, the Baroness Le Despencer.—At Newnton 
Priory, the Hon. Jane Estcourt, relict of T. Est- 
court, esq., and eldest daughter of James and 
Viscount Grimston.—Foxton, alias Jack Ketch, 
in a natural, not a professional way, aged 61.— 
At Dalston, B. Flower, esq., 74, formerly editor 
of the Cambridge Intelligencer.—At Brighton, 
Mr. W. Bradford, 96; he started the first coach 
from Brighton to London.—At Ashley Park, 
Frances Charlotte Fletcher, only daughter of 
the late Sir Henry Fletcher, Bart.—Mrs. Riggs, 
100, of Kingston, Isle of Wight.—In Regent-street, 
Lieut. General Sir P. K. Roche. — At Mardy- 
newyd, Mr. E. Thomas, 101; he served in the 
first militia in Glamorganshire ; and his name 
was inserted in a lease for 99 years determinable 
by three lives, the second instance of the kind on 
record in the kingdom.—At Kingston (Surrey) 
Mr. J. Astin, a celebrated florist.—At Bath, D. H. 
Dallas, esq., only son of Lieut, General Sir T. 
Dallas.—At Starston, Anne, wife of the Rev. J. 
Aldershaw, Arclideacon of Norfolk,—At Lincoln, 
the Dowager Lady Nelthorpe. 
DEATHS ABROAD. 
In India, Sir Edward West, Chief Justice of 
Bombay, and Lucretia, his widow ; and Lieut. 
General Sir T. Bradford, Commander-in-Chief at 
Bombay.—At Naples, J. Maberley, esq., and son 
of J. Maberley, esq.,M.P. Abingdon.—At Dieppe, 
Rey. T. Hartcup, son of the late General Hartcup, 
—At Berlin,the celebrated writer Von Schlegal.— 
At Paris, Paul Barras, 72, formerly President of 
the Directory during the French Revolution.—At 
Vienna, the beautiful Princess Meternich, 23, wife 
of the great diplomatist.—At Rio de Janeiro, the 
Hon, G. J. Stanhope, son of Earl Stanhope.— 
At Bayonne, a widow named Prado, 108.—At 
Prades, in the Eastern Pyrenees, Anne Bennet, at 
the extraordinary age uf 114, wanting 2 months,— 
At Paris, the Fey. Francis Henry Egerton, Earl 
of Bridgewater, and a prebendary of Durham. 
At Brussels, Lady Whitefoord.—At Borno, in 
Moravia, the learned and erudite Abbé Dobrow- 
sky, 70, well known by his “ Institutes of the Old 
Slavonian,” “ History of the Bohemian Tongue,’ 
&c, &c,—At Paris, Mme, la Comtesse de Bruce, a 
descendant of Robert and David Bruce, Kings of 
Scotland.—At Rome, his Holiness Pope Leo XI. 
—At Pisa, Grace, third daughter of the late Ad- 
miral Sir C, Hardy, Bart.—At Passy, M. de 
Gossec, 95; he composed-the music to the cele- 
brated Hymne des Marseillois in the Freneh 
Revolution, and which, was the national hymn 
performed at all the atrocities during the reigns 
of Robespierre and the Goddess of Reason, as 
well in the armics as in the interior of France. 
