Robert Gunning, first Baronet, by Aune, daughter of Robert Sutton, of Scofton, co. Lincoln, Esq.; was born Feb. 15, 1763; succeeded his father, Sept. 22, 1816; married Feb. 10, 1794, Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Henry Bridgeman, first Lord Bradford, ancestor to the present Earl, and by her (who died May 5, 1810), had issue eight children, seven sons and one daughter. He is succeeded in his title and estates by his eldest son, Robert-Henry Gunning, Esq. He was not, according to worldly phraseology, a great man, but infinitely superior, he was a good one; his name shone, not on every occasion in the lengthened list, the child of ostentation as often as of charity, but the heart to sympathize with, and the hand to succour the unfortunate were eminently his, and few ever appealed either to the one or the other in vain-the stranger who thus bears tribute to his worth has felt also the sunshine of his philanthropy, and the flower which he now drops on his grave will still bloom in its freshness when he that bestowed it shall bave ceased to be remembered.

SIR CORBET CORBET, BART.

March 31. At Cambridge, aged 70, Sir Corbet Corbet, Bart. of Adderleyhall, Shropshire, Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for the county of Salop. This gentleman's name was originally D'Avenant, of the family of D'Avenant, of Clearbrooke, co. Hereford, descended from the ancient house of D'Avenant, co. Essex. He was son of Thomas D'Avenant, Esq. of Clearbrooke, by Anne, daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Corbet, of Holee, co. Salop, Bart.; received his academical education at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of B. A. 1774; M. A. 1777; took the name of Corbet, by his Majesty's licence in 1783; created a Baronet of Stoke, co. Salop, June 10, 1786; and married Hester, youngest daughter of late Sir Lynch Salisbury Cotton, Bart. of Combermere Abbey, Cheshire, but leaving no issue, the title becomes extinct. On the retirement of Sir Richard Hill, Bart. as Member of the County in 1806, Sir Corbet intended offering himself as a candidate for that important situation, but finding the interest for Mr. Cotes too preponderating, he prudently declined it.

By his will he has devised the Adderley estate to Richard Corbet, Esq. second son of Sir Andrew Corbet, Bart. of Aston Reynold; the other estates to the Cotton family, the relatives of his lady.

SIR T. H. CLIFFORD Constable, Bart.

Feb. 25. At Ghent, aged 60, Sir Thos. Hugh Clifford Constable, of Tixall, in Staffordshire, and of Burton Constable, in Yorkshire, Bart. He was the eldest son of late Hon. Thomas Clifford, youngest son of Hugh, third Lord Clifford, of Chudleigh, in the county of Devon, and of the Hon. Barbara Aston, youngest daughter of James, fifth Lord Aston, Baron of Forfar, Scotland; born Dec. 4, 1762; married June 7, 1791, Mary-Macdonald, 2d daughter of John Chichester, of Arlington, co. Devon, Esq. (by his 2d wife, Mary Macdonald, of Tiendrish, in North Britain), and had issue one son, Thomas-Aston, yet a minor, who succeeds to the title and estates, and two daughters. He was created a Baronet in 1815, by the title of Sir T. H. Clifford, at the particular request of Louis XVIII.; and in 1821 succeeded to the estates of the late F. Constable, Esq. of Burton Constable, near Hull; on which occasion he took the name of Constable.

His parents being Roman Catholics, he was educated at Liege, and afterwards at the famous College of Navarre, in Paris (since converted to the Polytechnic school). He travelled over Switzerland on foot; where he formed an acquaintance with the late Mr. Whitbread. On his return from his travels, Sir Thomas conceived an ardent passion for the study of botany, which became his favourite pursuit. Of the extensive and accurate knowledge which Sir T. C. acquired in this pleasing branch of science, he has left a great proof in the Flora Tixalliana, which is appended to the "Historical and Topographical Description of the parish of Tixall," which he composed in conjunction with his brother, Mr. Arthur Clifford, and of which he furnished almost all the materials. This amusing and instructive work was published at Paris in 1818. At a later period Sir T. Constable imbibed a taste for the study of history, antiquities, topography, heraldry, and genealogy, in all of which he was conversant. He had conceived the plan of a "History of the Normans," and had made considerable progress in it.

He frequently amused his leisure hours with lighter pursuits; he translated into English verse the fables of La Fontaine, and he had contrived to hit off, with remarkable felicity, the almost inimitable naiveté and indescribable arch simplicity of that original author. In his latter years Sir T. Constable completed a new Metrical Version of the Psalms. He produced also a work in French, entitled, "L'Evangile Médité.” From this religious work he extracted forty meditations on the Divinity and

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Passion of Christ, for the forty days of Lent, which he translated into English, and published at his own expense.

No one supported through life a more uniform good character, and very few will be more sincerely and deservedly regretted.

SIR ROBERT KINGSMILL, BART. May 4. In London, aged 51, Sir Robert Kingsmill, Bart. of Aston, co. Gloucester, late of Sidmonton-house, Hants; and in 1811 was High Sheriff for the County of Hants. He was son of Edward Kingsmill, of Belfast, Esq. (brother of Admiral Sir Robert [Brice], first Baronet, who afterwards took the name and arms of Kingsmill), by Catherine, daughter of George Spaight, Esq.; was born in 1772; married in 1796, Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Newman, late of Calcutta, Esq. by whom (who died Oct. 4, 1817,) he had issue, Elizabeth-Catharine, born Sept. 1797; and Anna-Maria, born Jan. 12, 1800, died April 1818. He succeeded his uncle, Admiral Sir Robert, Nov. 23, 1805.

SIR THOMAS PRESTON, BART. April 21. At his seat, Beeston-hall, Norfolk, aged 56, Sir Thomas Preston, Bart. He was eldest son of Henry Hulton, Esq. of Andover, co. Hants, by Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Preston, of Beeston, co. Norfolk, Esq.; born Aug. 29, 1767; married, Ist. Eliza, daughter of George Adams, Esq. of Lichfield, co. Stafford, and by her had no issue: 2d. March 1799, Jane, youngest daughter of Thomas Bagge, Esq. of King's Lynn, co. Norfolk, and had issue 4 daughters. In 1805, be took the name and arms of Preston, by royal sign manual, and on the 30th of May 1815, received the patent of Baronetage.

SIR THOMAS WEBB, BART. March 26. At Grillon's Hotel, Albemarle-street, in his 49th year, Sir Thomas Webb, Bart. of Odstock, co. Wilts. He was son of Joseph Webb, Esq. second son of Sir Thomas W. 4th Bart. and nephew to the late Sir John Webb, Bart. whom he succeeded on his death in 1796. On the 14th of March, 1799, he married the Hon. Frances - Charlotte, daughter of Charles 12th Viscount Dillon, by Henrietta-Maria-Phipps, only daughter of Constantine first Lord Mulgrave; and by her had issue a son and heir.

SIR W. DUFF GORDON, BART. March 8. Sir William Duff Gordon, second Baronet. He was son of Alexander Gordon, Esq. third son of William

Earl of Aberdeen, (by Anne, daughter of Alexander, second Duke of Gordon) by Anne, third child and second dau, of James Duff, Esq. of Crombie, co. Banff; was born April 8, 1772. He married Feb. 10, 1810, Caroline, dau. of Sir George Cornwall, Bart. and by her had issue Mr. (now Sir) Alexander-Cornwall Duff Gordon, and two other children, one son and one daughter. On the death of his uncle, Sir James Duff, Bart. Nov. 20, 1815, he succeeded to the title, agreeably to the limitation of the patent of creation, and was authorized by royal licence to take the name and arms of Duff in addition to that of. Gordon.

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SIR RUPERT GEORGE, BART. Jan. 25. At Willesden-house, aged 74, Sir Rupert George, Bart. first Commissioner of the Transport board. He was third son of Dennis George, Esq. of Clophook, by Sarah, daughter of Young, Esq.; was born at St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, Jan. 16, 1749; married at Halifax in Nova Scotia, June 30, 1782, Margaret, daughter of Thomas Cochren, of the Province of Halifax, Esq. and by her had issue three sons and five daughters. On Sept. 18, 1809, he was created a baronet.

GENERAL HUMBERT.

Lately.* At New Orleans, General Humbert, a French distinguished Republican Officer, who, at the commencement of the war in 1798, landed in Ireland, with a small force, and defeated General Lake, &c.; but met with considerable resistance from BrigadierGeneral Robert Craufurd, and the Rt. Hon. Charles Vereker, now Viscount Gort, whose gallant conduct at Coloony, in opposing the progress of the French, occasioned a gracious mark of his Majesty's approbation, in an honourable augmentation to the arms of Vereker, with the motto of "Coloony."

He emigrated to the United States in 1812, and acted under General Jackson when New Orleans was attacked by a British force. For the last five years his mind had been disordered, a deep melancholy preyed on his spirits, and he died without leaving sufficient to defray the expenses of his funeral.

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MR. PETER BAILEY.

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Jan. 25. Suddenly, in a coach, in his way to the Italian Opera, by the bursting of an aneurism of the aorta in his inside, Mr. Peter Bailey, late Editor of the weekly periodical The Museum. Bailey possessed considerable literary acquirements, and he was about pursuing his avocation, in attending the Opera, for the purpose of making his observations on the same, and on the performers, for the publication of which he was the editor, when his sudden death took place.

He has left a wife and three children to bewail their loss.

"Mr. Bailey was the son of a solicitor near Nantwich, who had realised great property in Cheshire. His scholastic career commenced at Rugby, and continued at Merton College, Oxford, from whence he removed to London, and entered at the Temple to follow another branch of the profession of his father. Instead of following the law, Mr. B. seems to have let the law follow him, until it left him, where it frequently does the more mercurial spirits, carried along in this gay metropolis, like atoms in the system of Des Cartes, and in a place which few have quitted so completely unsoiled by the contact with vicious characters, and full of feelings as fine, actions as honorable, and heart as pure, as when he knew but by name of the Palace of Thoughtlessness. We make no hesitation in alluding to this period of Mr. B.'s life, since it enables us to direct the attention of our readers to a publication of his, which does equal credit to the pen and pencil of the author of "Sketches from St. George's Field's, by Giorgione di Castel Chiuso." From this publication, of which we have seen only the first volume, although some copies of the second have got into circulation, we could make many extracts GENT. MAG. May, 1823.

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to prove that Mr. B. possessed all the fluency of Pope's versification, with the accuracy of Crabbe's description.

"Mr. Bailey's first essays were in the higher flight of epic poetry; some specimens of whose power were shown in a printed, but not published, volume, under the title of “ Idwal." The poem, of which only portions are there given, but the whole or at least the greater part of which has been left in MS. by the author, was founded on the events connected with the conquest of Wales. At the end of the same volume is found a Greek poem, originally published in the Classical Journal, a few years ago. The last publication of Mr. B. was an anonymous poem, called, "A Queen's Appeal," of 165 stanzas, in the Spenser measure. His taste in the beaux arts of painting and music (to the love, of which, all the unhappiness of his life was to be attributed, and of which he was no mean proficient practically), although it was correct ad unguem, still it not chill the fervor of enthusiasm ; but while his eye and ear, fixed by the mighty masters of colors and of sounds, drank deeply all the beauties of an original spirit, they instinctively rejected the feebleness of imitation, and turned with scorn from the impudence of successful quackery."

MRS. MAXWEll.

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Jan. 9. In child-bed, at the Government House of the Island of St. Kitts, the lady of his Excellency Charles Wm. Maxwell, the Governor. From the period of her arrival in the island till the day of her death, her life was one continued round of benevolence and charity; she was universally beloved, and at the early age of twenty-six quitted a world of which she seemed destined to be one of the brightest ornaments. She was of the noble family of Douglas, and was the only daughter of Col. Douglas of Lockesby House, near Dumfries, and niece to the Admiral of the same name. believe she was second cousin to the Marquis of Queensbury, and to the atflicted partner who survives her.

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Her features and her person were lovely. With the highest polish of manners and address, there were united a simplicity and an unconsciousness of superiority, which spread a charm and a

grace around her, that made her the delight of the circle in which she moved. Such exalted virtue, and such sincerity and fascination of manner in the high station which she filled, could not fail to have an influence upon the manners and happiness of the youth of her own

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MRS. AGNES IBBETSON.

Feb.... At Exmouth, in her 66th year, Mrs. Agnes Ibbetson, relict of the late Councellor Ibbetson, and daughter of Andrew Thomson, Esq. of London.

Possessed of a great and rich variety of knowledge, her stores of thought were enlivened and combined with an energy of character, which imparted the tone of genius and originality to her commonest actions and conversations. Devoted to literary pursuits with an ardour which can only be fully appre ciated by the companions and associates of her friendship, in every object of Nature and Science, “truth genuinely established upon investigation," was her sole aim and desire.

Endowed with a liberal and enlarged taste for literature, in the English, French, and Italian languages, she decidedly preferred the path of Natural Philosophy; especially Geology, Mineralogy, and Astronomy, in all of which she made great progress; but her fa

vourite pursuit beyond all others, and wherein she has usefully and eminently evidenced the vigour of her intellect, was Botany, and especially the Physiology of Plants. Here her mind embraced the subject with a powerful impression of the wonders displayed in this most amazing feature of the divine economy, and under the sense of its rich and felieitous illustration of Nature's works, she has developed data connected with "the life of the seed," "its germination," and progress to maturity," not only curious and bighly interesting, but also important and useful. The application of the solar microscope to establish every link of her chain of facts and deductions, stamp her communications upon this subject with a peculiar value.

The powerful tone of her mind, and her desire to appreciate the wonders of the vegetable tribes, have accomplished much in this path, and it is earnestly to be desired and hoped, that those papers may be given to the public to which she had put her last touches, after twenty years unabated investigation.

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In this her favourite pursuit, she will long be known to the world, as her observations are most honorably recorded, not only in Nicholson's and other seientific Journals, but their substance is also transferred and copied into the Edinburgh and other Natural Encyclopedias, and already have received testimonies of high respect and appreciation from foreigners of distinguished science.

These attainments, although bright and flattering, are however only for the world at large. To her friends who were favoured with her society and esteem, her memory will be distinguished by a native simplicity of manner and candour of thought, wholly divested from pretension or superiority; rendering her talents sources of pleasure, and her pursuits the medium of never ceasing amusement and instruction.

Above all, the exalted and unbounded nature of her charity and zeal to soften distress and pain, and to relieve the destitute under all circumstances, stamped her life with a value beyond all that Science or Literature can bestow; and combined to create a softness and impressive affection of habit and manner, which converted esteem very quickly into friendship, and rendered friendship, grounded on a knowledge of her real worth, permanent and indelible.

DEATHS.

LONDON AND ITS ENVIRONS. Lately. At Kensington, James Trevens Trinity College, Cambridge, and son of Rev. Coulton, grandson of Rev. Jas. Coulton, of Walter Travena Coulton, formerly Master of Bristol Grammar-school.

March 26. In Berkeley-sq. the infant son of Hon. W. J. Ricketts.

April 13. At Turnham-green, Mrs. Deane, late of Eastcott-house. Dr. Faithhorn. April 14.

In Berners-st. the wife of

April 16. In Soho-sq. aged 73, A. Ar rowsmith, esq. the eminent geographer, celebrated as a constructor of maps and charts throughout Europe and America. April 19. Regnier Buffar, esq. of Gray's Inn.

April 21. Aged 61, Hieronimus Burmester, esq. of Crosby-square.

April 22. In Hill-st. Berkeley-square, Gen. Richard Grenville. He was the 3d. son of James Grenville, esq. son of Richard Grenville, by his wife Hester, Countess Temple; and brother and heir presumptive of Lord Glastonbury. He was appointed a General in the Army in 1801, and was Cal. of the 23d. regiment of foot.

Aged 74, James Blieth, esq. of Twicken ham, late of Great Russell-st.