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fortunate, Mrs. Mattocks re-engaged her- 
self at Covent- Garden Theatre, where, we 
believe, she held an uninterrupted engage- 
ment, as'an actress of first-rate celebrity in 
hér walk, until her final retirement from 
the stage, now more than twenty years ago. 
Hers was the most affecting theatrical 
leave-taking we ever witnessed. She had 
played, with all the freshness and spirit of 
a woman in her prime, the part-of Flora, 
in The Wonder, to Cooke’s Don Felix. 
After the play, she, having changed her 
stage-dress for the lady-like attire of black 
silk, was led forward by Cooke in a suit of 
black velvet, with weepers, &c. Her feel- 
ings enabled her to utter only a few impres- 
‘sive words. There was scarcely a dry eye 
in the house: she retired amidst the most 
heartfelt plaudits of the theatre. 
' Mrs. Mattocks possessed a good stage- 
face and figure; and her broad stare, her 
formal deportment, her coarse comic voice, 
and her high colouring, enabled her to give 
peculiar effect to the characters in which 
she excelled. In the delivery of the ludi- 
erous epilogues of the late Miles Peter 
Andrews, which always required dashing 
spirit, and the imitation of vulgar manners, 
she was eminently successful. She is un- 
derstood to have been a great favourite of 
her late Majesty, Queen Charlotte. She 
has left one daughter, who married Mr. 
Hewson, a barrister. ‘That gentleman, un- 
fortunately, lived only a few years after the 
union. The portion which he received 
with his wife was laid cut in the purchase 
of one of the City pleaderships: the pre- 
eaution of insuring Mr. Hewson’s life was 
overlooked ; and, upon his death, after 
holding the appointment not more than a 
year or two, the purchase-money was, in 
consequence, lost to his widow. 
Mrs. Mattocks died where she had long 
resided, at Kensington. The Baron de 
Noel, and other friends, attended the 
funeral. 
THE EARL OF CHICHESTER. 
July 4.—Thomas Pelham, Earl of Chi- 
chester, and Baron Pelham, Joint Post- 
master-General, a Privy Councillor in Ire- 
land, &c., descended from a Hertfordshire 
family, was possessed of an estate whence. 
they derive their surname. His lordship 
was born on the 28th of April 1756, edu- 
cated at a public school, and brought early 
into public life. His mother, who died in 
1813, was the daughter and heiress of Fre- 
derick Meinhard Frankland, son of Sir 
Thomas Frankland, Bart. His father, who 
succeeded to the title of Baron Pelham, in 
1768, by his interest procured him to be 
returned to Parliament: first for the 
borough of Shoreham, and’ then for the 
county of Sussex. 
Mr, Pelham commenced his official ca- 
reer as principal secretary for Ireland, 
during the vice-royalty of the late Duke of 
Portland, and afterwards filled the same 
Biographical Memoirs of Eminent Persons. 
[Ave. 
office at the critical period of the memo- 
rable rebellion in that country, when the 
Marquess of Camden was at the head of 
the Irish government. When his father 
was created Earl of Chichester, in 1801], 
he was called up by writ to the House of 
Peers, and placed in his father’s barony of 
Pelham. In the administration’ of Mr. 
Addington, now Lord Sidmouth, he was 
principal Secretary of State for the Home 
Department, which office his ill state of 
health obliged him to resign; and, on his 
succeeding to the earldom, on the death of 
his father, in 1805, he was appointed one 
of the postmaster’s-general, which office 
he continued to hold for the remainder of 
his life. In 1809 he was also Chancellor 
of the Duchy of Lancaster. 
His lordship married, in 1801, Mary 
Henrietta Juliana Osborne, daughter of 
Francis, fifth Duke of Leeds, by Amelia 
D’Arcy, sole heiress of Robert, fourth 
Earl of Holdernesse, on whose decease, in 
1778, the Earldom became extinct. By 
that lady he had nine sons and daughters. 
Thomas, the first son, died in infancy ; and 
Henry Thomas, his second, born in 1804, 
has succeeded him in his titles and estates. 
His Lordship died at his house in Strattou- 
street, Piccadilly. 
SIR T. S. RAFFLES. 
July 5.—Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, 
whose sudden death by apoplexy it is our 
painful duty to record, originally went out 
to India through the interest of Mr. Ram- 
say, the secretary of the East-India Com- 
pany. Possessing talent and a spirit of en- 
terprize, he soon attracted the notice of 
his superiors; and on the conquest of 
Java, by Sir Samuel Auehmuty and Ad- 
miral Stopford, in the year 181], he was 
appointed lieutenant-goyernor of that island 
by Lord Minto. While in that station he 
had the misfortune to lose his wife, who 
died at Batavia, in I18l4. In 1815 Mr. 
Raffles published a Statistical Account of the 
Island of Java, in one yolume quarto ; and, 
on his return to England, he gave to the 
world his History of Java, in two large 
quarto volumes, with plates. This work 
abounds with information of the most inte- 
resting charaeter, and is in every respect 
highly creditable to its author. It was 
well observed by a critic of the time, that 
“ only a gentleman who had enjoyed the 
advantages connected with a. situation. of 
authority in the island could shave com- 
posed it; and only a gentleman of sterling 
talents and love for literature and research, 
would have directed his efforts: to the ac- 
quisitions here communicated to the ‘pub- 
lic.” The first volume of the work com- 
prizes'a geographical account of the island ; 
a history, or remarks on the history of) the 
natives, and the races of which ‘the island 
is peopled; on their labours, agriculture, 
manufactures, and commerce—on the cha- 
