to restore the letters which Mason had formerly published in his Life of the Poet, but mutilated, garbled, and patched together, sometimes with fictitious dates. Mr. Mitford afterwards, in 1835, edited the Aldine edition of Gray's Works, the Poems in one, and the Letters in four volumes, for which he received £105 from W. Pickering. There have been still later editions of the Poems in 1847 and 1852.

3. The Poems of Spenser, Milton, Dryden, Butler, Prior, Swift, Young, Parnell, Goldsmith, and Falconer, with memoirs, forming other volumes of the Aldine Poets; to the Parnell is prefixed one of Mr. Mitford's most elaborate attempts in verse, an epistle to his friend, the Rev. A. Dyce.

been recently published by his friend the Rev. Alexander Dyce,) Greene, and Webster; and one on Sacred Poetry, particularly the works of Prudentius.

Before the end of the same year Mr. Mitford had induced the proprietors of the Magazine to transfer a share of it to the late Mr. William Pickering, then of Chancery-lane, and afterwards of Piccadilly, at whose suggestion a new series was commenced in January 1834. Mr. Mitford therefore became the principal writer, and for the next seven years he every month, with very few exceptions, wrote the leading article, as well as the majority of the reviews. This arduous task he very assiduously and successfully pursued until the end of 1850, when he

5. The Latin Poems of Vincent Bourne, with a memoir and notes, 1 vol. 12mo. 1840.

6. Sacred Specimens, selected from early English Poets, 1 vol. 12mo.; with a poetical Proem by the editor, of which the late Charles Lamb thought highly.

7. The Correspondence of Walpole and Mason, 2 vols. 8vo. 1851.

8. The Correspondence of Gray and Mason, 8vo. 1853.

9. Cursory Notes on various Passages in the Text of Beaumont and Fletcher, as edited by the Rev. A. Dyce, and on his "Few Notes on Shakspeare." 8vo. 1856.

10. Miscellaneous Poems, 1 vol. 12mo., 1858, published about six months before his death. This is a very pleasing selection of his fugitive pieces, but by no means containing the whole of them.

At the end of the last was announced, as "in the press," a work as yet unpublished, entitled "Passages of Scripture, illustrated by Specimens from the Works of the Old Masters of Painting."

Mr. Mitford wrote some articles in the 'Quarterly Review." One of them was upon one of the early works of his namesake, Miss Mitford, of Reading: it was so spiced by Mr. Gifford the editor, that Dr. Mitford (her father) went in consequence to Mr. Murray, and challenged him to mortal combat. Mr. Mitford was afterwards on friendly terms with the lady; but she was not a relation, unless a very distant one. It is true that she claimed to be descended from the Mitfords of Mitford Castle; but her father had at one time written his name Midford.

Mr. Mitford began to be a considerable contributor to the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE in the year 1833. He first supplied a series of articles on our old English poets,-Peele, (whose works had then GENT. MAG. VOL. CCVII.

contributions were only few and occasional.

He varied the graver departments of his labours by frequent pieces of occasional poetry, which was usually signed by his own initials, J. M.

A peculiar feature which Mr. Mitford maintained for many years may also be pointed out as having proceeded from his pen; we mean the article of Retrospective Review, the subject of which was usually old English poetry, or some other scarce relic of our early literature.

It may be safely affirmed that during the considerable period that Mr. Mitford was editor of the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, his "leading articles," critiques, and verses, all evinced, more or less, his great abilities and the vast extent of his knowledge. Indeed, it may be said that he made a near approach to his favourite Gray in the variety of his learning and acquirements, for he was an indefatigable student of the Greek and Roman classics, well acquainted with Italian, French, and German authors, most deeply read in every department of English literature, a skilful ornithologist and botanist, and a passionate lover of painting, especially that of the Italian school. In order to indulge his taste in some of these matters, and more particularly in paintings and landscape gardening, which he had cultivated sedulously, he visited, as leisure permitted, almost every part of England, and Mr. Mitford perhaps has left no survivor who has examined a larger number of the best furnished mansions of our nobility and gentry. Nor was he less alive to all that was worthy of observation in the metropolis, whether in public or private custody. When in London, to which he paid frequent visits, Mr. Mitford was always a welcome guest at many tables, and especially at that of the late Samuel

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Rogers, who used to take much pleasure in his conversation.

In the days of his health and vigour, and indeed to a period beyond middle age, Mr. Mitford was an ardent admirer of the athletic sport of cricket: and we may refer to a very curious memoir on this true English game, in our number for July, 1833, p. 41, in which he investigated its origin and progress with great research and enthusiasm. (On the etymology of cricket, see also Mr. Mitford's opinion in our New Series, 1837, vol. vii. p. 338.)

Mr. Mitford had formed in early life a very valuable library of the classic authors of all countries; and many of his books are remarkable for the MS. notes of their authors or former owners. We are informed that this collection is about to be sold by auction by Messrs. Leigh Sotheby and Wilkinson.

Mr. Mitford married, Oct. 21, 1814, Augusta, second dau. of E. Boodle, esq., of Brook-street, Grosvenor-square; and has left one son, Robert Henry Mitford, esq., who married, Aug. 12, 1847, Anne, youngest daughter of the late Lieut.-Colonel William Henry Wilby, and niece of the Rev. Charles Paul, Vicar of Wellow, Somerset.

The several branches of the Mitford family are thus enumerated by Mr. Mitford himself in Nichols's "Illustrations of Literature," vol. vii. p. 840 : — First branch, Bertram Mitford, of Mitford Castle. Second branch, Rev. John Mitford, of Benhall, Suffolk. Third branch, William Mitford, of Pittshill, Sussex. Fourth and last branch, Lord Redesdale, and his elder brother, the historian of Greece. The whole Mitford family are included in these four branches and the off-sets. J. M."

General Gerard Gosselin survived the death of his venerable brother, Admiral Thomas Le Marchant Gosselin, about two years, the gallant Admiral having died at a great age. The late General was one of the senior Generals on the "Army List." He entered the army as far back as November, 1780. According to Hart's record of his services,-"General Gosselin commanded a brigade on the expedition against Genoa under Lord W. Bentinck, and on its capture was appointed commandant there until the peace with France. Subsequently he commanded a brigade in the American

war, and was present at the attack on and capture of Castine, on the Penobscot." The late officer's commissions bore date as follows:-Ensign, November 29, 1780; Lieutenant, January 6, 1791; Captain, June 8, 1794; Major, June 15, 1794; Lieutenant-Colonel, January 1, 1800; Colonel, July 23, 1810; Major-General, June 4, 1813; Lieutenant-General, May 27, 1825; and General, November 23, 1841.

MAJ.-GEN. MACADAM, R.M.

June 10. At Edinburgh, Major-General David Macadam, R.M.

The deceased had been fifty-four years in the Royal Marines, and had greatly distinguished himself in his professional career. While serving in "L'Aigle," between August, 1805, and May, 1809, he was at the attack on the French fleet by Admiral Cornwallis, on the 21st of August, 1805; gun-boats in Vigo Bay, 29th of October following; the blockade of Fort Cygo, July and August, 1807; action with French frigate off L'Orient, 22nd of March, 1808; Basque-roads, 11th and 12th of April, 1809, and various other affairs in the ship or her boats, and was forty times under fire. During service in the "Thames," between the 7th of October, 1809, and the 27th of August, 1812, he landed at Mount Circille, Amanthea, Citraco, in the Gulf of Policastro, and near to Cape Palinuro, and several other places on the coast of Calabria and in the Roman States. On board the "Forth," from the 31st July, 1813, to 29th of September, 1815, he was most actively employed, and was on the staff of the Anglo-Russian force forming the siege of Batlitz. The gallant General subsequently served on the North American coast. He had on repeated occasions been honourably noticed in the despatches of his superior officers to the Home Government, and is stated to have been above seventy times under fire. His commissions were dated as follows:-Second-Lieutenant, April 19, 1805; Lieutenant, July 27, 1808; Captain, December 7, 1830; Major, November 9, 1840; Lieutenant-Colonel, May 27, 1848; Colonel, March 14, 1854; and Major-General, June 20, 1855.

EDWARD DAWSON, ESQ. June 1. Edward Dawson, Esq., of Whatton-house, Leicestershire, aged 57. Mr. Dawson was born in March, 1802, at Long Whatton, where his ancestors have resided from the time of Charles I. to the date of his birth. He was the son of Edward Dawson, Esq., by his wife Susan, eldest daughter of Thomas March Phillipps, Esq., of Garendon-park, and the

position of the family may be inferred from the facts that the grandfather of Mr. Dawson was High Sheriff of Leicestershire early in the reign of George III., and that his great-grandfather held the same office in the reign of George I.

Early in life the deceased gentleman identified himself with the cause of Liberal Progress. He was one of the members for the Southern Division of the County from the year 1832 to 1836. Mr. Dawson succeeded Thomas Paget, Esq., of Humber. stone, on his retirement from the representation of the entire county in 1832.

As a Magistrate, resident in the Loughborough division, Mr. Dawson was active and useful, taking a strong interest in all measures affecting the welfare of the county, and he will be much missed from his accustomed place in Quarter and Petty Sessions.

Mr. Dawson was twice married, and he leaves a family. In right of his first wife, Mary, eldest daughter of J. F. Simpson, Esq., of Launde Abbey, (in which chapel he was interred on Wednesday,) he became the proprietor of that beautiful seat and domain, where his late brother, Henry Dawson, Esq., resided for many years, and which is still occupied by the mother-inlaw of both the deceased brothers, Mrs. Finch Simpson. He is succeeded by his eldest son, Edward Dawson, Esq., Captain of the Inniskillen Dragoons, with which regiment he served in the Crimea, and he is now serving in India.

THE BAN JELLACHICH.

AUSTRIA has lost one of her brightest names just at a time when she well needed every champion who could be called into her service. Jellachich, the celebrated Ban of Croatia, died a few days ago, at Agram, in the 59th year of his age. No truer hero than Jellachich has been seen in our time. He had that genius which inspires at once the affection and reverence of men; and, born both a warrior and a poet, he had acquired that great ascendancy over the minds of the wild nation over which he was chief, which could alone have enabled him to play the memorable part he did in the days of 1848. Never, perhaps, was so much dependent on the will and energy of one man, as when the great Ban saved the Austrian empire at that terrible period. Never could you point so distinctly at the armed hand that had torn a page from the book of history. On that page of 1848 was already written, as it seemed, the doom of the Austrian empire, when a new task was assigned to the GENT. MAG. VOL. CCVII.

historian by means of an exploit which can hardly be matched for daring and brilliancy since the world's chronicle began. It was only the great influence which the Croat chief had acquired over the wild tribes under his command that enabled him to take advantage of the opportunity afforded him. The first week of October, 1848, brought a crisis of fearful importance to Austria. The then Emperor had been compelled to yield point after point to the Vienna revolutionists, until he at length made his escape from the capital and sought refuge at Olmutz. Radetzky and the army of Italy were fully engaged by the revolt of Lombardy; the Bohemians had been recently in a state of insurrection; the whole force of Hungary, the flower of the Austrian Empire, was now arrayed in deadly conflict against the heir of Maria Theresa. At that time Jellachich was with difficulty holding his own in Hungary against the swarming levies of the Magyars. But on hearing of the flight of the Emperor from Vienna, he determined to hazard all for the sake of striking a blow at that capital, now the centre of the revolution. Abandoning his operations in Hungary, he hurried by forced marches towards Vienna. A more perilous die was never thrown than that set upon the move. ment in question. Jellachich and his Croats were now the only force which could take an active part on behalf of the House of Hapsburg. But that part was taken against fearful odds. Before him the ramparts of Vienna were held by the revolutionary levies; close behind him the Hungarian army pressed in pursuit. It is remarkable that at this moment of danger the principle of nationality which M. Kossuth so eloquently invokes, and to which the existence of Austria is supposed to be antagonistic, was the very principle asserted for the purpose of saving the empire. Not even the blunders of the Hungarian General Moza, nor the pusillanimity of Kossuth, who was among the first to take to flight on the battle-field of Schwechat, contributed so much to the triumphant success of the Ban as the address of the latter to the Sclavonians of Bohemia, in which he called on them for assistance on the ground of their community of race with the Croats and Transylvanians. Up to this time the Bohemians had been making common cause with the revolution; they now responded to the cry of nationality, and at once joined heart and soul with their Croat br thren. This change set the troops of Windischgratz free to join those of Jellachich: and the result was the salvation of the Austrian Empire.-John Bull.

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SIR JAMSETJEE JEJEEBHOY.

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April 15. Bombay has lost her foremost citizen. Sir Jamsetjee died at his house in town, about two o'clock yesterday morning, and his remains were conveyed to the Tower of Silence at Chowpatty, about nine o'clock the same morning. The funeral procession, as may be supposed, was most numerously attended, all the leading members of the Parsee community of course being present. The road along which it passed was crowded with spectators, many of whom, doubtless, were sincere mourners for a man whose charities were sown broadcast. During yesterday business was almost at a stand throughout the town. The dockyard and other factories were closed. So were all the schools and colleges. In the Government offices all the Parsee clerks were allowed leave of absence. Most of the Parsee shops and places of business were shut up, as were those of many sympathizing Hindoos. the afternoon all the banks were closed by common consent. The man to whom these unusual honours were paid had been a successful man, but it was not his success that won him these honours. He was a wealthy man, but they were not paid to his wealth. Those who rendered them thought not of what he was or what he had, but of what he had done. They were paid to his active and boundless beneficence. Sir Jamsetjee was an able man, so far as a sound and shrewd judgment, indomitable resolution, and untiring perseverance constitute ability; but it was for his liberal spirit and willing hand that he was honoured. The late Baronet was of humble stock, and was altogether a self-made man. His parents, who died while he was a mere child, belonged to Nowsaree, a small town in the Baroda territories, but their son was born at Bombay. The date of his birth was the 15th July, 1783, so that he was near the ripe age of 76 when he died. He had to make his own way in the world, but by the time he was 16 he was fully prepared to do so. That way was at first rough and hard, but, undiscouraged, he went right on. The early life of the wealthy and all-honoured Baronet was strongly in contrast with the calm which enveloped his later years. He made five mercantile voyages to China. In one of these the ship in which he sailed formed one of the fleet which, under the command of Sir Nathaniel Dance, beat off a French squadron under Admiral Linois. In another voyage the vessel on board which were himself and his fortune was captured by the French, and he was carried to the Cape of Good Hope, whence,

with the loss of all his property, and after enduring many privations, he found his way in a Danish vessel to Calcutta. Fortune smiled on him afterwards, however; and as his wealth increased we soon find the tendency to share it with the needy, or to spend it for the benefit of the public, begin to develope itself. In 1822 he released all the poor debtors confined by the Court of Requests from the Bombay gaol by the simple process of paying their debts. From that time to this the stream of his beneficence has scarcely slacked in its flow. The disposal of the vast sums brought to account (above £222,981) was not limited by the bounds of the community to which the munificent donor belonged. Parsee and Christian, Hindoo and Mussulman, indeed, people of all classes and creeds, alike shared in his beneficence, the largest outlay being for the poor and for the public. It is for this abounding and undiscriminating beneficence that Sir Jamsetjee was honoured while living, and that his memory will be honoured now that he is dead. May his example be a lesson to all of his countrymen who seek the road to honour, and are able to follow in his footsteps, though it may be a humble distance in the rear.-Bombay Gazette.

CLERGY DECEASED.

May 14. At Exmouth, aged 61, the Rev. George Hole, LL.B. 1821, Trinity College, Cambridge, Rector of Chumleigh (1823), Devon.

At Brecon, aged 82, the Ven. Richard Davies, B.A. 1798, M.A. 1800, Christ Church, Oxford, Canon of St. David's (1805), Archdeacon of Brecon (1804), and Vicar of Brecon.

May 15. At the Vicarage, aged 59, the Rev. Henry James Wharton, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Vicar of Mitcham (1846), Surrey.

May 16. In London, aged 77, the Rev. John Gwillim, M.A. 1809, Trinity College, Cambridge, Rector of Bridenbury (1810), Herefordsh., and Ingoldmells (1817), Lincolnsh.

The Rev. Henry Cupper Smith, B.A. 1830, Christ's College, Cambridge, P.C. Monyash (1841), Derbysh., and formerly Curate of Steeple, Essex.

May 17. At Clifton, aged 39, the Rev. William Merry, B.A. 1842, M.A. 1848, Worcester College, Oxford.

May 18. The Rev. Thomas Ludbey, B.A. 1806, M.A. 1809, St. John's College, Cambridge, Rector of Cranham (1818), Essex, and Rural Dean of Chafford.

At Muggerhanger-house, 'Beds, aged 64, the Rev. Edward Henry Dawkins, B.C.L. 1819, D.C.L. 1824, All Souls' College, Oxford.

May 23. At Sussex-gardens, Hyde-park, aged 69, the Rev. Archibald Montgomery Campbell, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1816, formerly Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, R. of Little Steeping (1818), Lincolnsh., and P C. of Paddington (1829).

May 24. At the Vicarage, aged 49, the Rev. Frederick William Naylor, B A. 1832, St. John's College, Cambridge, V. of Upton (1840), and P.C. of Winkbourn (1840), Notts.

May 25. At Berkeley-sq., aged 83, the Rev. Charles Augustus Steuart, B.A. 1798, M.A. 1801, University Coll., Oxford, of Sunningdale, Berks.

May 29. Aged 84, the Rev. John Jowett, Rector of Hartfield (1830), Sussex.

May 30. Aged 49, the Rev. Edward John Raines, B.D. 1845, Queen's College, Cambridge, Vicar of Stillingfleet (1857), York.

At the Rectory, aged 78, the Rev. John Worrall Groves, B.A. 1804, M.A. 1819, B. and D.D. 1828, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, Rector of Strensham, (1807), Worcestershire.

May 31. At Alveston, Warwickshire, aged 87, the Rev. Francis Fortescue-Knottesford, B.A. 1793, M.A. 1798, Queen's College, Oxford, Rector of Billesley (1823).

June 4. Aged 70, the Rev. Henry Lindsay, M.A., Rector of Sundridge (1846), Kent.

June 6. At Dudley, aged 86, the Rev Henry Antrobus Cartwright, B.A. 1795, M.A. 1798, B.D. 1808, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.

June 12. At Stratford-house, Ryde, the Rev. J. G. Kentish, B.C.L., of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and son-in-law of the Dean of Carlisle.

June 13. At Brompton, aged 68, the Rev. J. Morison, D.D., LL.D.

At Pickhill Vicarage, the Rev. William Twigg. June 15. At the Vicarage, aged 58, the Rev. H. J. Wharton, Vicar of Mitcham, Surrey.

At the Parsonage-house, aged 28, the Rev. H. E. Phillips, B.A., Incumbent of Christ Church, Leeds.

April I. At his residence, Ryde, New South Wales, aged 89, the Rev. William Henry, being the last of the pioneer missionaries of the ship "Duff," having been 63 years in the Pacific.

May 18. At Ashburton, suddenly, the Rev. John Dore, for many years minister of the Baptist Chapel in that town.

May 21. At Warminster, Wilts, aged 82, the Rev. Andrew Smith, for thirty years minister of the Baptist church at Rye, Sussex.

May 26. At St. Andrew's, the Rev. Charles Jobson Lyon, late minister of the Episcopal Church, St. Andrew's.

May 29, Aged 86, the Rev. C. F. A. Steinkopf, D.D., Minister of the German Lutheran Church, Savoy, Strand, for 58 years, and formerly Foreign Secretary to the British and Foreign Bible Society.

June 1. At the Manse, Oxnam, aged 69, the Rev. James Wight, in the twenty-ninth year of his ministry.

DEATHS.

ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.

Feb. 17. At Canterbury, near Sydney, New South Wales, aged 32, Sarah Mary, widow of Wm. Hobart Seymour, esq., and subsequently wife of Henry Pleydell Bouverie, esq.

March 17. On board the "Alfred," on its passage to England, aged 44, Matilda, wife of the Rev. A. B. Spry, senior Chaplain, late of Allahabad, fifth dau. of the late H. Brown, esq., of Diss.

March 31. At Duntroon, near Queanbeyan, New South Wales, aged 54, the Hon. Robert Campbell, esq., Colonial Treasurer.

Lately. Drowned at sea, on his passage from Malta to England, by falling overboard from the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-packet Ripon," aged 62, Rear-Adm. Sam. Thornton. April 1. Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Wise, esq., of the Priory, Hants, and late Lady Superintendent of the Royal Academy of Music, Hanover-sq.

April 2. At Indore, Lieut.-Col. Charles Grant Becher, of the 5th Bengal Light Cavalry, and of of Beatson's Horse.

April 9. At Calcutta, whither he had been conveyed after his capture by the English at Canton, Ex-Commissioner Yeh. The "Hurkaru" says, "He was jolly to the last, and retained his genuine Chinese type of stoicism. So far from

suffering from compunction of conscience for having beheaded 100,000 fellow creatures, his only regret seems to have been his inability to take the lives of all the rebels and their kindred."

At Berhampoor, John Francis Tierney, Bengal Medical Service, second son of the late Matthew John Tierney, Bengal Civil Service.

April 10. At Chinsurah, India, Lieut. Thomas Shore Macdonough, 20th Regt.

April 11. In the city of Mexico, aged 68, Eustace Barron, esq.

April 12. At Dholia, Kandeish, India, from an accident when on field-service, aged 28, Robt. Litchfield, Lieut. 30th Regt. Bombay Native Infantry, sixth son of Thomas Litchfield, esq., surgeon, Twickenham.

April 13. At Port of Spain, Trinidad, Roseanna, youngest dau. of the late J. T. Carr, esq., of Stelia-house, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

April 15. At Lucknow, aged 20, Lieut. Robert Foster Melliar, esq., H.M.'s 20th Regt.

April 20. At Kernool, Madras, Col. James Davidson, 36th Native Infantry.

April 23. At Ahmedabad, while serving with his regiment, aged 19, Charles Henry, son of Captain Horatio Blair, R.N.

April 25. At Paraiba, Brazil, aged 36, James Wetherell, esq., British Vice-Consul at that port.

April 30. At Eling Vicarage, Southampton, aged 17, Frank, second son of the Rev. Francis R. Phillips, Vicar of Eling, Hants, late a midshipman of H.M.S. "Sanspariel" and of the Naval Brigade at the storming of Canton.

May 8. At Great Torrington, Devon, aged 26, Fanny Eleanora William, wife of John Blackwell Helm, solicitor, of Derby.

May 10. At Castle-st., Edinburgh, Christian, younger dau. of the late Thomas Cleghorn, esq., Inspector-General of Imports and Exports for Scotland.

At his brother's residence, Radnor-villa, aged 75, Comm. George Haydon.

May 12. At Collumpton, Eliza, wife of Wm. Matthews, esq.

Hannah Maria, wife of Henry Badcock, esq., Birdhill, near Limerick, and youngest dau. of the late James Leeche, esq., formerly Capt. in H.M.'s 86th Regt.

At Billingham, Mr. John Surtees, aged 100 years, (born February 27, 1759.)

May 14. At the Cottage, Ferry-Port-on-Craig, John Mackintosh, esq., surgeon, Royal Artillery, eldest son of the late Dr. John Mackintosh, of Edinburgh.

On board the "Imperatriz," between Suez and Cossier, in the Red Sea, aged 59, Charles Maurice Lewall, esq.

May 15. At the Naval Hospital, Haslar, aged 45, Lieut. Robert Hopkins, R.N.

At Dunkeld, aged 81, John Leslie, esq., writer and banker.

At Reading, aged 69, Mary, youngest sister of the late Rev. Dr. Mills, of Exeter.

May 16. At Parkstone, Poole, aged 49, Eliz. Patience, wife of Vice-Admiral Philip Browne, (senior Vice Admiral.)

At Madrid, Philip, eldest son of Sir. Geo. Musgrave, bart., of Eden-hall, Cumberland.

Mr. William Herbert, Town Councillor and late Sheriff of the city of Oxford, committed suicide by deliberately shooting himse.f in the cellar of his residence, at Summertown Farm, about a mile from Oxford. The cause for this rash act was a false impression that his pecuniary affairs was in a bad state. Mr. Herbert had for many years carried on an extensive business as a cabinet-maker, upholsterer, &c., and was generally thought to be a wealthy man. He had also a large residence in St. Giles-st., where the judges of assize lodged when they visited Oxford, as well as the farm between Oxford and Summertown.

May 17. At Torquay, aged 83, Elizabeth Travers, widow of Townshend Monckton Hall, esq., of Fern-hill, Torquay.