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CHRONOLOGY, MARRIAGES, DEATHS, ETC. 



CHRONOLOGY. 



May 21. — The Lord Chancellor stated in the 

 House of Lords, that one of the highest* offlccrs 

 in the Court of Exchequer had for many years 

 lived in Yorkshire, with a salary of .£5,000 per 

 annum, while all his duties were performed by a 

 deputy who had .£500 or £'600 a-year 1 



23.— Captain Ross left Woolwich in his steam- 

 vessel the Victory, with which he is about once 

 more to attempt the discovery of the North-west 

 Passage, at his own expense. 



25.— A further sum of ^£150,000 voted in the 

 Honse of Commons towards completing Bucking- 

 ham Palace.f 



— The three days' sale of West's gallery of 

 pictures terminated, producing 25,000 guineas ; 

 15,0U0 persons had .attended the sight of thera on 

 occasion of the sale. 



27. — The New Bazaar, Oxford-street, totally 

 destroyed by fire. 



June 1. — The Duke of Orleans, and his son the 

 Duke of Chartres (recently arrived from France), 

 conducted through the apartments of Windsor 

 Castle, and through Windsor Park, by his Ma- 

 jesty. The Duke of Chartres is to make the tour 

 of England, the DuUe of Orleans returning to 

 France. t 



• " Name him! name him I" said Lord Lldon. 

 "Oh," retorted the Chancellor, "his name is 

 ' , but you all know wlio he is!" So the mat- 

 ter ended without the public knowing who he is. 

 However, Lord Thurlow, just dead, possessed 

 many offices, producing about .£12,000 per an- 

 num, sonic porformeil by deputy, and s<tme almost 

 sinecures ; for instance. Register of the diocese of 

 Lincoln, Clerkship of the Hanaper, Patentee for 

 making out Bankruptcy Commissions, Clerkship 

 of the Custodie- of Lunatics and Idiots, &c. &c. 

 M'hat had his lordship done for this country tliat 

 he should have been thus paid ? or what had these 

 two reverend lords achieved wlio were allowed 

 to reside al)road and spend the money of the Pro- 

 testant church in a foreign Roman Catholic land, 

 until they died.^ We allude to Earl Bridgewater, 

 lately deiunct at Paris, and Viscount Barrington, 

 also lately defunct, ot Rome ! Both Avere golden 

 prebends of Durham, and both held parochial 

 livings besides! — Some years ago one of these 

 rei^crendissime said to a friend, " I am so eri- 

 nuye, that I will go and play the fool abroad !" 

 He did so, and at length died in the Elysian 

 Fields ! (Ics Champs Elysies a Paris !). 



f From the low, swampy, and disagreeable 

 i^ituation of this building, the French wits of the 

 last century used to characterize it by le Palais 

 du pot-dc-chambrc dc Londres ! 



\ The noble qualities and exemplary conduct of 

 the Duke of Orleans powerfully atone for the er- 

 rors of his father. Citizen EgalitiS. Acquainted 

 with all the anxieties of private life, from his 

 youth upwards, he has not lost the benctit of the 

 lesson, although raised to the most enviable situ- 

 ation of any prince now existing in Europe. At 

 17 years of age he was a general in the French 

 army, and rallied his troops three times at Ge- 

 nappe, under the command of Dumourier ; and 

 during the period of the troubles in France, he 

 was of course one of the proscribed ot the house 

 of Bourbon. In the year 17'J3, he wandered an 

 emigrant amongst the mountains of the Alps, in 

 personal danger, and suffering extreme priva- 

 tions : destitute of friends or succour, broken in 

 fortune, and exiled from bis native land. In this 

 exigency he applied to a coUejie near Coire, in 

 Switzerland, tor the situation of teacher of mathe- 

 matics, and, after a competition against several 

 rival candidates, he obtained (at 20 years of age) 

 the appointmeut by the force of merit, for his 

 rank was unknown, and discharged its duties 



June 2.— The Marquis of Blandford's motion in 

 the Commons, for parliamentary reform, nega- 

 tived : 40 for, and 114 against. " Can there, Sir,' 

 said he to the Speaker, "be any thing more mon- 

 strous, than that seven electors, headed by the 

 parish constable of Gatton, should send <k'0 mem- 

 bers to this house, and that two more should re- 

 present the interesting ruins and well-peopled 

 sheep-folds of Sarum"!!! 



4. — In the House of Commons Sir J. Mackintosh 

 presented a petition from Mr. C. Bucke, of Isling- 

 ton, complaining of the imperfect state of the law 

 for the protection of Literary Property. 



5.— The Anatomy Bill, for cutting up Poor Peo- 

 ple's Bodies, thrown out of the House of Lords. 

 " Parliament bad a right to legislate on the living, 

 but not on the dead," said Lord Harewood ; 

 " every man was entitled to Christian burial, and 

 it was not proper to pursue men beyond the 

 bounds of this world"!!! 



— The Charities Inquiry Bill passed in the 

 House of Commons, Mr. Brougham observing, 

 that up to 1S28, the commissioners had examined 

 18,000 charities, and that 20,000 more remained to 

 be examined ; that their exertions had already 

 increased the available funds of the charities to 

 nearly .£600,000 1 Four years more he hoped 

 would close their labours. Respecting the state 

 of education, it appeared that in 500 parishes in 

 ISIS, tlicre were 1,400 unendowed day schools; 

 and in 1823, in the same parishes, there were 

 3,200 schools. The number of children attending 

 the schools had also greatly increased, it being in 



with distinguished ability for eight months. Thence 

 he was driven by the same unceasing persecution 

 to the shores of America ; and although he re- 

 sumed there his own illustrious name, be was not, 

 on that account, better treated among our Trans- 

 Atlantic brethren. When he was afterwards re- 

 siding at Twickenham, in the year 1816, he was 

 invited to dine at the anniversary of the Society 

 of Schoolmasters, on which occasion he wrote to 

 the treasurer, regretting his inability to attend, 

 but enclosing a liberal donation to the charity. 

 His Serene Highness's letter concluded by ob- 

 serving — " That among the motives which 

 made him feel an attachment to Schoolmasters, 

 was that of having been himself once a member 

 of the profession. It was one of the many vicis- 

 tudes of fortune which had f.allen to his lot, that 

 at a period of severe distress and persecution, he 

 had the good luck of being admitted as teacher in 

 a college, where he gave lessons regularly for the 

 space of eight months. He hoped, therefore, that 

 the Society for the Relief of Distressed School- 

 masters would permit him to render his mite as a 

 fellow schoolmaster." — Tliere was magnanimity 

 in the avowal. He was not ashamed of his neces- 

 sities: be had reason to be proud of the merits 

 they developed. The crown of France has been 

 twice tendered to the Duke of Orleans by a nu- 

 merous, powerful, and active party ; and twice 

 he has rejected it with disdain, and remained 

 faithful to his legitimate sovereign and rel.itive. 

 Since the period of the restoration, he has led, at 

 Paris, although a private, yet a most brilliant 

 life. His splendid mansions of the Palais Royal 

 and of Neuilly, are open, without distinction of 

 peculiar favour, to the eminent of all parties; 

 and, not unmindful of the kindness with which 

 he has been treated in this country, be receives 

 our Eu£-lish nobility in Paris with that marked 

 hospitality which does equal honour to his heart 

 and to his taste. He has presented his eldest son, 

 the Duke of Chartres, to the King, who has thus 

 become personally acquainted with three genera- 

 tions uf the Orleans family. 



