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loo, and received honors at Talavera, Busaco, 

 and Toulouse. In 1832 he was made a K. C. H., 

 in 1854 was constituted a general, and in 1861 

 a G. 0. B. He also received honors in Russia 

 and in Holland. 



March 9. BOILEAU, Sir JOHN PETER, Bart., 

 F. R. S., Y. P. S. A., an English physicist and 

 antiquarian ; died at Torquay, whither he had 

 repaired in the hope of obtaining relief from a 

 bronchial affection, aged 74 years. He was a 

 lineal descendant of Etienne Boileau, the first 

 Grand-Provost of Paris. Previous to 1815 he 

 performed military service. In 1836 he pur- 

 chased the estate of Ketteringham, to which 

 he added other purchases in that vicinity, and 

 subsequently, to gratify his antiquarian tastes, 

 Burgh Castle, in Suffolk, one of the most re- 

 markable specimens of Roman masonry in Eng- 

 land. At Ketteringham he made great improve- 

 ments, erecting a spacious Gothic hall in the 

 house, and richly storing it with paintings, 

 books, and choice monuments of antiquity, and 

 forming in the grounds a park of two hundred 

 acres, planted with choice forest trees. In 1843 

 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, 

 and, in 1852, of the Society of Antiquaries. In 

 1849 he was made president of the Norwich 

 Archaeological Society, and he served for many 

 years as vice-president of the Society of An- 

 tiquaries, contributing to each valuable exhibi- 

 tions. He was also vice-president of numerous 

 other scientific bodies, and president of the 

 Norwich School of Design. Sir John filled the 

 office of Sheriff of Norfolk in 1844. He was 

 eminent for his liberality, and ever zealous in 

 any good work calculated to benefit his fellow- 

 creatures. 



March 12. SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-SONDER- 

 BURG - AUGUSTENBURG, CHRISTIAN CHARLES 

 FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, Duke of, father-in-law 

 of the Princess Helena of England ; died on 

 his estate of Primkenau, in Silesia, aged 71 

 years. He was son of the Duke Frederick Chris- 

 tian of Schleswig-Holstein, and of the Princess 

 Louisa Augusta of Denmark, daughter of King 

 Christian VII. He was born at Copenhagen, 

 and succeeded his father in the dukedom in 

 1814. In the proceedings of the provincial 

 diets to which Frederick VI. committed the 

 direction of the German States, after the 

 French Revolution of July, the Duke of Au- 

 gustenburg took a prominent part, distinguish- 

 ing himself as much by his zeal in the cause 

 of liberty and progress as by his great oratori- 

 cal ability. After the downfall of the Duchy 

 of Schleswig-Holstein, his estates were con- 

 fiscated, and he was declared a traitor for head- 

 ing the insurrectionary movement against the 

 King of Denmark. He appealed to the Ger- 

 man Diet for protection against the conse- 

 quences of this decree, but without success. 

 Returning to Silesia, he purchased there, in 

 1853, the estate of Primkenau. In 1851 he 

 ceded, for a money-payment, his property and 

 rights in Holstein to the Danish Crown ; but 

 afterward, with his son, Frederick Christian 



Augustus, sought to repudiate the transaction, 

 and himself published a strong protest on be- 

 half of his alleged rights. The Austrian and 

 Prussian Governments, in 1865, wholly ignored 

 his pretensions after they had wrested Schles- 

 wig-Holstein from Denmark. He was con- 

 sidered the handsomest man in Germany. 



March 13. CLAY, Sir WILLIAM, Bart., an 

 English politician and political economist; 

 died in London, aged 78 years. He com- 

 menced life as a merchant and ship-owner. 

 In 1832 he entered Parliament as a member 

 for the newly-formed borough of the Tower 

 Hamlets, and was reflected until 1857. Dur- 

 ing his parliamentary career he was a firm 

 Radical, advocating extension of the suffrage, 

 the ballot, triennial Parliaments, and abolition 

 of church-rates. From 1839 to 1841 he was 

 secretary of the Board of Control. He was 

 the author of the Small Tenements Rating 

 Act, which led to much discussion during the 

 debates on Mr. Disraeli's Reform Bill. 



March 20. GRENFELL, JOHN PASCOE, Ad- 

 miral of the Brazilian Navy, and Brazilian 

 consul at Liverpool ; died in that city, aged 69 

 years. He was born atBattersea, in 1800'; en- 

 tered the service of the East India Company 

 when but eleven years of age, and in 1819 that 

 of the Chilian Republic, in which he took part 

 in the war against Spain. In 1820 he com- 

 manded one of the boats of the squadron 

 which, under the direction of Lord Cochrane, 

 boarded and cut out from under the castle of 

 Callao de Lima, and from the midst of a squad- 

 ron of armed vessels and gunboats, the Spanish 

 admiral's ship, the Esmeralda, a frigate of 40 

 guns, fully manned and prepared for the attack. 

 Among the wounded was Lieutenant Grenfell. 

 In 1823 he accompanied Lord Cochrane to 

 Brazil, and engaged in the service of that new 

 state against Portugal, became commander, 

 and afterward, as post-captain, distinguished 

 himself in the war with the Argentine Con- 

 federation, and in a naval fight off Buenos 

 Ayres, July, 1826, lost his right arm. In 1844 

 he was made a rear-admiral, and received the 

 Queen's permission to hold his rank and con- 

 tinue in the service of the Emperor of Brazil. 

 In 1846 he returned to England as Brazilian 

 consul, residing at Liverpool. In 1848 he re- 

 ceived the thanks of the town and a gold medal 

 for his exertions in saving the lives of the pas- 

 sengers and crew of the emigrant-ship Ocean 

 Monarch, burnt off that port. In 1850 he was 

 placed in supreme naval command in the cam- 

 paign growing out of a misunderstanding be- 

 tween the Argentine Republic and that of 

 Montevideo, in which Brazil was involved, 

 and, after its speedy and happy conclusion, 

 was promoted to the rank of vice-admiral. In 

 1852 he returned to his post at Liverpool, 

 which he continued to hold, with honor to 

 himself, until his death. 



March 20. PRATT, Rev. JOHN BENNETT, 

 LL. D., a Scottish Episcopal clergyman, anti- 

 quarian, and author; died at Cruden, Aberdeen- 



