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the principal events of his life, with observa- 
tions on great musical works and on the 
most eminent of ancient and modern com- 
posers. He was the author of many arti- 
cles in the Leipzig Musical Gazette, and 
also in the Alendzeitung, an evening paper 
of Dresden. 
He has left a widow and two children. 
On the 2lst of June, his remains were 
interred with great solemnity in the Roman 
Catholic Chapel, in Moor Fields, most of 
the distinguished characters in the theatri- 
eal and musical worldattendingas mourners. 
At the close of the funeral service, Mo- 
zart’s Requiem was sung by the whole 
choir.—-The following is the inscription on 
the coffin plate :— 
Hic jacet Canotus Maria FREYHERR 
Von Weser. Nuper Prefectus Musicorum 
Sacelli Regii Apud Regum Saxonum Natus 
Urbe Eutin, inter Saxones Die X VI. De- 
cembris MDCCLXXXVI. Mortuis Lon- 
dint Die V. Junii MDCCCXXVI. 
Anno Quadrigesimo tatis Sur. 
THE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA. 
May 16.—Her Majesty the Empress 
Elizabeth Alexrowna, relict of the late 
Emperor Alexander (before her marriage 
the Princess Louisa Maria Augusta), was 
the second daughter of the Hereditary 
Prince Charles Louis of Baden, who died 
in 180]. She was born on the 24th of 
January 1779, and married in 1793. Her 
Majesty’s eldest sister is the Queen Dow- 
ager of Bavaria: her youngest sisters are 
Frederica, late Queen of Sweden, and the 
Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse 
Darmstadt. Her imperial Majesty never 
recovered the shock which she sustained on 
the death of the Emperor, upon whom, 
during his last illness, she attended with 
unremitting and devoted affection. A pro- 
clamation issued on the occasion of her 
death, thus concludes :—“ This afflicting 
event took place after a long sickness both 
of mind and body, which ended in a total 
extinction of the vital powers, so that her 
Majesty, on her’ way from Taganrok, was 
obliged to stop in the town of Beleff, in 
the government of Tver, where she died.”’ 
: SIR ARCHIBALD MACDONALD. 
- May 18— The Right Honourable Sir 
Archibald Macdonald, Bart. late Chief 
Baron of the Exchequer, was a member 
of the very ancient house of Macdonald, a 
family of Norwegian origin, and long inde- 
pendent of the Scottish kings. He was 
born in the year 1747, the third and pos- 
thumous son of Sir Alexander Macdonald, 
ef Margaret Montgomery, daughter of 
Alexander, ninth Earl of Eglintown. He 
Was consequently uncle to Godfrey Bos- 
ville Macdonald, the present Baron Mac- 
donald, of State, inthe County of Antrim. 
He was bred to the English bar, but his 
practice lying chiefly in Scotch’ appeals was 
never very extensive. Good fortune, how- 
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ever, introduced him to the ite oo 
of Lady Louisa Levison Gower, the 
daughter of the late Marquess of Stafford, 
to whom he was united on the 26th of De-’ 
cember 1777. He was soon afterwards’ 
elected M.P., for the Borough of Hindon ; 
and, in the year ]780, he was, through the 
interest of the Stafford family, appointed 
King’s counsel, and raised to the dignity 
of a Welsh judge. At the general election 
in the same year, he was returned M.P. 
for Neweastle-under-Line. As a parlia-’ 
mentary speaker, he is understood to have 
been easy and fluent, perspicuous and con- 
cise. Lord Stafford, on joining the Pitt 
administration. procured for him in 1784, 
the office of Solicitor General ; and, in 1788, 
on the promotion of Sir Pepper Arden to 
be Master of the Rolls, he was knighted, 
and appointed Attorney-General in his 
room. After a few years longer practice at 
the bar, he was promoted to be Chief 
Baron of the Exchequer, having been pre- 
viously called to the degree of Serjeant at 
Law. As ajudge, he conducted himself 
with great candour and impartiality; in pri- 
vate life, he was distinguished by the most 
amiable and gentlemanly manners. By his 
marriage with Lady Louisa Gower, he had 
five children, two or three of whom, we 
believe, survive their parent. One of his 
daughters, a beautiful, elegant, and inte- 
resting young woman, died at Lisbon, in 
the year 1802, shortly after her arrival 
there in the hope of recovering her health. 
Sir Archibald Macdonald was created a 
Baronet of the United Kingdom, on the 
27th of November 1813. He died at his 
house, Duke Street, Westminster, where 
he had resided many years. 
LORD INGESTRIE. 
May 23.—Charles Thomas, Viscount 
Ingestrie, the second son of Earl Talbot, 
was born on the 11th of July 1802. His’ 
lordship, who had been some time upon 
the continent, was taking his usual ride in’ 
the Park at Vienna, when bis horse ran 
away with, and threw him, and he was’ 
taken up dead. It is remarkable that, on 
the day after his lordship’s death, one of 
his younger brothers met with an accident 
while driving a horse unaccustomed to’ 
harness, through the Park at Ingestrie in’ 
a low carriage on four wheels. The horse 
set off at full speed and attempted to leap 
a gate. In consequence the shafts broke, 
and the young nobleman falling forward, 
had his thigh forced with such violence 
between the front of the carriage and the 
gate, that it received a severe fracture. ~ 
THE DUKE OF MONTMORENCY LAVAL, e 
March.—The Duke Matthieu de Mont- 
morency Laval, cousin of the Duke ‘of 
Montmorency, the Premier Christian 
Baron of France, was born at Paris, in the 
year 1767. Matthieu is So 
name in this family, “having been h me in 
