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sentiments, through the medium of his 
friend, the Bishop of Chester. 
Dr. Sutton “* was a man of mild, but im- 
posing presence, mingling the humility of 
the religion, of which he was the eloquent 
teacher, with the dignity of high birth and 
lofty station. His voice was full and tune- 
able, his elocution distinct and unaffected, 
his arguments well weighed, his words well 
chosen, his manner grave and simple, his 
learning accurate, his knowledge compre- 
hensive, and his judgment sound. He spoke 
fluently and impressively on most subjects, 
even on those which might have appeared 
most averse from his general course of study.”” 
Notwithstanding his powers in the pulpit, 
his Grace published only two sermons: one 
preached before the Peers, on the Fast Day, 
1794; the other, before the Society for Pro- 
pagating the Gospel, in 1797. 
- He is understood to have been eminently 
happy in the marriage state. Mrs. Sutton 
was the woman of his choice ; one who, as 
a wife and as a mother, has been an honour 
to her station, and a pattern to all. By this 
lady he has had a family of thirteen chil- 
dren; all of whom, with two exceptions, 
have been females. His eldest son, the 
Right Hon. Charles Manners Sutton, is the 
Speaker of the Honse of Commons; an 
effice which he has filled with great ability, 
and unqualified approbation, ever since the 
resignation of Lord Colchester, in the year 
1817. His Grace’s eldest daughter was 
married, in 1806, to the Rev. Hugh Percy, 
D.D., Bishop of Carlisle, the third son of 
Algernon, Karl of Beverley. His Grace’s 
fourth daughter was married, in 1812, to the 
Rey. Dr. Croft, Archdeacon of Canterbury. 
After a long illness, his Grace expired at 
Lambeth Palace, about half past.ten in the 
forenoon of Monday, the 21st of July. 
LORD MOUNT-SANDFORD. 
Henry Sandford, second Baron .Mount- 
Sandford, of Castlerea, in the county of 
Roscommon, was born on the 10th of March, 
1805 ; and he succeeded his uncle, Henry 
Moore Sandford, the late lord (so’ created 
on the 30th of July, 1800,) on the 29th of 
December, 1814. His lordship was the son 
of the Rey. William Moore Sandford (who 
died in 1809), by Jane, second daughter of 
the Right. Hon. Siber Oliver, of Castle 
Oliver, in the county of Limerick. This 
amiable and unfortunate young nobleman 
died at Windsor, on Saturday, the 14th of 
June, from injuries which he had received 
in an affray on the morning of Friday, the 
6th. It appeared, from the evidence given 
the coroner’s inquest, that his lord- 
aitipy with some other gentlemen, had been 
at Ascot races; that, afterwards, they ad- 
journed to Eton, to play at billiards ; and 
that, between twelve and one in the morn- 
ing, as they were returning to the Castle 
Inn at Windsor, where they had been stay- 
ing, they encountered a drunken rabble of 
mechanics, with whom, by some means, a 
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quarrel ensued. His lordship was perfectly 
sober at the time, and was interfering only 
to ascertain the cause of the disturbance, 
when, in a minute or two, he was knocked 
down, and received the brutal blows and 
kicks which occasioned his death. The 
jury returned a verdict of “ wilful murder” 
against Samuel Brinkbett (a shoemaker), as 
principal, and George and Thomas Hunt, 
as aiders and abettors therein. The jury 
also expressed themselves unanimously of 
opinion, that the treatment received by his 
lordship, and which caused his death, had 
been entirely unprovoked on his part. His 
lordship’s remains were interred in the 
parish church of Windsor on the Tuesday 
following his decease. His lordship is suc- 
ceeded by his uncle, George, now third Ba- 
ron Lord Mount-Sandford. 
SIR WILLIAM CONGREVE, BART., M.P., 
F.R.S., &e. 
Sir William Congreve was descended from 
a family said to have been settled in Staf- 
fordshire when that county formed part of 
the kingdom of Mercia. His father, the 
first baronet (so created in 1812), was an 
officer of rank in the artillery. Sir William 
was born in the year 1770, and entered 
young into the same branch of military ser- 
vice. Having a great mechanical genius, 
he effected many important improvements. 
In 1808, he invented a formidable engine of 
military annoyance, which, having been 
tried and approved, was used by Lord Coch- 
rane in Basque Roads—in the expedition 
against Walcheren—in attacks on several 
places in Spain—at Waterloo, &c. The 
effects of these weapons, generally called 
Congreve rockets, and now adopted in the 
armies of all the European powers, are tre- 
mendous. They have been employed, also, 
in a modified form, in the whale fishery. 
Sir William Congreve was Equerry to the 
King, Comptroller of the Laboratory at 
Woolwich, &c. Besides many other works, 
abounding in ingenious ideas, he published 
treatises on the Mounting of Iron Ord- 
nance, on his Hydro-Pneumatie Lock for 
saving Water, on the Means of preventing 
the Forgery of Bank Notes, &c. 
- About two years ago, Sir William Con- 
greve was conceived to be deeply implicated 
in some of the Stock Exchange bubble con- 
cerns ;. after which he retired to the Conti- 
nent, where he continued to reside. His 
death was thus announced in the Moniteur 
of May 23 :—“ Sir William Congreve, the’ 
English general of artillery, who acquired so 
much renown by the deadly rockets which 
he invented, died lately at ‘Toulouse, at the 
age of fifty-seven. It is said, that having. 
foreseen for some time that war would break 
out in the east, he had submitted two pro- 
jects to his government—one for the de- 
fence of Constantinople, and the other for 
its destruction, according as England might 
be favourably or inimically disposed towards 
the Turks, Towards the latter part. of his 
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