INCIDENTS, PROMOTIONS, BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS, &e. IN LONDON AND MIDDLESEX; With Biographical Accounts of Distinguished Characters. Bulletin of the King's Health.--Windsor Castle, March 4. "The King continues in good health, and any deviation from a state of perfect composure which had been observed in his Majesty during the month of January, has entirely subsided for more than a fortnight past." The discussion on the subject of the Corn Bill in the House of Commons has, during the past month, produced an agitation throughout the whole country, which has been expressed in a most unequivocal, and at the same time most disgraceful manner, in the metropolis. Ever since this measure was submitted to the attention of the legislature, the walls in all parts of the town had been industriously covered with the most violent inscriptions, calculated to inflame the public mind, and urging the people to riot and disturbance. The chairing of Mr. Barclay, who had been elected a representative for Southwark, in opposition to Mr. Jones Burdett, was the first occasion on which a spirit of violence was manifested by the populace. The ceremony took place on the 28th of February. An erroneous idea having been circulated that Mr. Barclay was favourable to the Corn Bill, he and his friends were attacked by the rabble, who pelted them with mud and stones, broke the windows of his supporters, and assaulted the Horns Tavern, at Kennington, (where the gentlemen composing the procession had assembled to dinner,) with such fury, that it became necessary to call in the aid of the military, by whom farther mischief was prevented, This was only the prelude to still greater outrages. On the 6th of March, the very same evening that a petition against the obnoxious bill from the city of London was presented to the House of Commons, a great concourse of people assembled in Palace Yard, and in the streets leading to the House, and commenced their operations by stopping, insulting, and maltreating the members as they passed to attend their duty. The peace-officers were found inadequate to their protection, and to the maintenance of order'; so that there was no other resource than the interference of the military, who compelled the mob to disperse. Driven from this position, they formed themselves into various bodies, and proceeded to different parts of the west end of the town, to attack the houses of such members of the legislature as they conceived most friendly to the Corn Bill. The residences of Lords Eldon, Ellenborough, Bathurst, and Darnley, those of Messrs. Pole, Meux, and others, were beset the windows and doors dashed in pieces, the iron railings torn up, and other excesses committed. Against that of the Right Hon. Mr. Robinson, as the mover of the obnoxious measure, their fury was particularly directed. They forced their way into the house, destroyed pictures, books, and papers, threw the moveable part of the furniture into the street, and were preparing to set fire to the rest, when the arrival of the military put them to the rout before they could accomplish their diabolical purpose. The following day (Tuesday, 7th) had been fixed for the meeting of the inhabitants of Westminster in Palace-yard, to consider of a petition against the bill, which was very numerously attended. This circumstance favoured a renewal of the outrages of the preceding night. As soon as it was dark a great concourse collected about the House of Commons, the members of which had adjourned at an early hour. Disappointed in their object here, and again dispersed by the military, they re-commenced the work of destruction; but, owing to the precautions taken by government, which had drawn a considerable reinforcement of troops, horse, foot, and artillery, from the environs to the metropolis, their violence did not in general proceed beyond the breaking of windows. The houses of Lords Darnley and King were, however, much damaged, and those of Messrs. Yorke and Bathurst also suffered considerably. A small party again assembled before the house of Mr. Robinson, in Burlington-street, and some stones were thrown at the windows, upon which the persons stationed in the house for its protection fired. A young midshipman, son of Mr. Vize, printer, of Denmark-street, who had merely stopped for a moment from curiosity to look at the house, was unfortunately killed on the spot; and a woman named Watson, drawn to the place by the same motive, and equally innocent, was so severely wounded in the head that she expired in a few days in St. George's Hospital. Verdicts of Wilful Murder have been returned by the coroner's inquest in both cases. On the night of Wednesday, the 8th, the house of Mr. Ponsonby, in Curzon-street, was furiously attacked, and it was not till the military stationed within it were permitted in the last extremity to fire, that the mob desisted from their determination to destroy it. They next proceeded to Soho-square, and assaulted the house of Sir Joseph Banks, the venerable president of the Royal Society; and, under the idea that it was the residence of Mr. Bankes, they forced an entrance, and were preparing to set it on 271 Incidents, Preferments, Promotions, Births, &c. fire, when discovering their mistake, they quietly departed. The attack on the night of Thursday, the 9th, upon the house of Mr.Giddy,in Holles-street, Cavendish-square, closed these misguided ebullitions of the popular resentment against the supporters of this loudly and generally reprobated measure, Lord Cochrane contrived to make his escape from the King's Bench Prison; how and when remains to be ascertained. He was seen there on Sunday, March 5, and was not missed by the officers of the prison till some days afterwards. Mr. Jones, the marshal, offered a reward of 300l. for his apprehension. Nothing, however, was heard respecting him for about a fortnight, when he addressed a letter to the Speaker of the House of Commons, announcing his intention of taking his seat as a member of that house. Accordingly, on the 21st, he presented himself for the purpose of going through the usual formalities; a messenger was dispatched to the marshal of the prison to acquaint him with the circumstance; and his lordship, after some resistance, was secured and conveyed to his former place of confinement. Early in the morning of March 2d, the printing-office of Mr. Clowes, in Northumberland-court, Strand, was discovered to be on fire, and burned with such rapidity, that nothing but the account-books could be saved. The property consumed was very considerable. That noble mansion, Burlington-house, Jate the property of the Duke of Devonshire, has been sold by public auction for 75,2001. The purchaser is Lord G. H. Cavendish, who intends to make it his residence without alteration. Not fewer than 4,500 insolvent debtors have been liberated under the late huimane but impolitie act, which will, no doubt, be repealed this session, to prevent the facility with which so many swindlers have been enabled, by defrauding their creditors, to dash immediately again into all the dissipations of a luxurious life. Ecclesiastical Preferments.] Rev. S. F. Statham, to the vicarage of Powerscourt, Dorset. Rev. T. Blackhall, B. D. fellow of Exeter Coll. Oxford, to the rectory of Tordibeg, Worcester. Rev. Mileson G. Edgar, M. A. to the rectory of Trimley St. Mary, Suffolk. Rev. Edw. Barlee, fellow of St. John's Coll. Oxford, to the rectory of Worlingworth, Suffolk. Rev. Edw. Rob. Raynes, to the archdeaconry of Lewes, Sussex. Rev. Charlesworth, curate of Happisburgh, Norfolk, to the rectory of Flowton, Suffolk. Rev. Matthew Lunn, minor canon of Worcester Cathedral, to the vicarage of St. Peter's, Worcester, with the chapel of Whittington annexed. [April 1, Rev. Thos. Price to the rectory of St. Clement, Worcester. Rev. Wm. Jas. Porter, M. A. head master of the College School, Worcester, to the vicarage of Himbleton, Worcester. Rev. Wm. Compton, M. A. to the rectory of St. Olave, Exeter. Rev. Rob. Bartholomew, M. A. to the rectory of St. Mary Arches, Exeter. Rev. Dav. Evans, B. A. of Landilo, to the rectory of Simonburn, Northumberland. Rev. T. Roberts, master of Uppingham School, to the rectory of Barholm, Rutland. Rev. E. Morris to the perpetual curacy of Llanon, Carmarthen. Rev. B. Lewis, M. A. late of Jesus Coll. Oxford, to the rectory of Llanfihangel Penbedw, Pembroke. Rev. Dav. Williams, second master of Winchester College, to a prebend in the collegiate church of Brecon. Rev. Luke Booker, LL D. vicar of Dudley, Worcester, to be a chaplain in ordinary to H. R. H. the Prince Regent. Rev. Jas. Metcalf, of Appleby, to be master of the Free Grammar School of Kirkby Stephen, Westmoreland. Promotions.] Robert Booth, of Alconbury, esq. to be sheriff for Cambridge and Huntingdon, in the room of K. C. G. Mitchell, esq. deceased. Lord Erskine to be a Knight Companion knighted. Births.] In Sackville-street, at the Duchess dowager of Rutland's, Lady Catherine Weld Forester, of a son. ter. In Park-lane, Lady Grimston, of a daugh In Seymour-place, the lady of Jas. Alexander, esq. M. P. of a son. In Portland-place, the lady of Wm. Blake, esq. of a son. In Gloucester - place, the Hon. Mrs. Brooks, of her seventh daughter. Married.] Jas. R. Corbett, esq. of Fridaystreet, to Miss Eliz. Fletcher, of Totten ham. The Rev. John Mansfield, rector of Rowner, Herts, to Winifred, eldest daughter of the late R. P. Blachford, esq. of Osborne, 1. of Wight. E. H. Locker, esq. of Davies-street, Berkeley-square, to Ellen, daughter of the late Rev. Jonathan Boucher, vicar of Epsom. John Corfield, esq. of Chatham-place, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of Thos. Marsham, esq. of Baker-street. The Hon. John Somers Cocks, eldest son of Lord Somers, to Lady Caroline Harriet Yorke, youngest daughter of the Earl of Hardwicke. Lord Saltoun to Catherine, daughter of the late Lord Thurlow. 1815.] Marriages and Deaths in and near London. Thos. Coutts, esq. to Miss Harriott MelIon, of Holly Lodge, Highgate. Captain Geo. Heming to Miss Eliz. Johnstone, of Gloucester-street, Portman-square. Sir Edw. Paget, K. B. brother to the Earl of Uxbridge, to Lady Harriet Legge, sister to the Earl of Dartmouth. Mr. Edw. Cobb, of Feversham, to Mary Anne, second daughter of Thos. Williams, esq. of Abchurch-yard. Thos. Nixon, esq. surgeon major of the 1st Foot Guards, to Mrs. Drury, widow of Thos. D. esq. of Finchley. R. S. Giraud, esq. of Pentonville, to Miss Soppitt, of Queenhithe. Thos. Thornhill, esq. of Berkeley-square, to Sarah, relict of S. T. Wood, esq. Lieut. Johnston, R. N. to Miss Griffith, only daughter of Chas. G. esq. of Devonshire-street, Queen-square. Henry Hutchinson, esq. to Miss Tripp, only daughter of Wm. T. esq. of Thurlowplace. At Lambeth, Mr. Jos. Applegarth, of James-street, Covent Garden, to Mary Ann, only daughter of the late John P. Lepard, esq.-Mr. P. H. Byrne, of Kennington, to Louisa, youngest daughter of George Heinpan, esq. of Woburn-place. At Acton, Mr. G. F. Timberlake, of Oxford-street, to Jane Eliza, only daughter of Rob. Salmon, esq. of Bond-street. At Layton, Lewis Doxat, esq. to Lavinia, second daughter of J. Clementson, esq. At Islington, Hugh Gray, esq. of Mincinglane, to Sophia, only daughter of J, Gray, esq. Augustus Foster, esq. son of the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, and his Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Court of De mark, to Miss Hobart, niece to the Earl of Buckinghamshire. Capt. Pipon, of the 7th Hussars, to Ann, only daughter of the late Rear-adm. Omma ney. Capt. G. Ridout, of the 11th Lt. Dragoons, to Louisa, youngest daughter of Dr. Geo. Heath, Canon of Windsor. Died.] In Nottingham-place, Geo. Cher ry, esq. formerly Chairman of the Victualling Board, from which he had retired some years, 84. At Lambeth, Mr. Chas. Lockhart, many years organist of that parish, 70. At Laytonstone, Capt. Geo. Burton, one of the elder brethren of the Trinity House, and the oldest member of that corporation, 89. In Faternoster-row, Mr. John Hopkins, wine merchant, 84. In Carburton-stree Chas. Lind, esq. late Deputy inspector of Hospitals. In Castle-street, Holborn, Wm. Portal, esq. 60. In Vincent square, Westminster, Rob. Hughes, esq. In Upper Wimpole-street, Sam, Turner, @sq. 69. 275 In Lincoln's-inn- fields, Mary Louisa, only daughter, and Arthur, second son of C. Puller, esq. In Weymouth-street, Sam. Virgin, esq. late of Jamaica, 77. In Bank-buildings, Thomas Watson, esq. In Church-street, Westminster, Miss Curtis, daughter of the late Mr. Thos. C. of Lambeth. In George-strect, Hanover-square, Mrs. Fordyce, widow of John F. esq. of Ayton, N. B. In Essex-street, John Davis, esq. In Clarendon-square, Sam. Little, esq. 73. In George-street, Portman-square, Anne In Weymouth-street, Charlotte Sophia, only daughter of Mrs. General Egerton. In Upper Gower-street, John Poole, esq. of Teddington, Middlesex, and Carshalton, Surrey, 39. In New Boswell-court, Rich. Bevan, esq. barrister. In Sloane street, Mrs. Gruber, relict of At Hornsey, Mrs. Whitworth, 86. At Hillingdon, at the bouse of her nephew, Rich. Heming, esq. Mary, relict of the Rev. John Mapletoft, 86. At Highgate, Mr. Wm. Bloxam, of Emanuel-college, Cambridge, eldest son of the late Wm. B. esq. At Hoxton, Mrs. Anderson, widow of Thos. A. esq. late of Jamaica. At Finchley, Mr. W. Harris, of New Bondstreet, 51. At Ealing, N. Grieve, esq. of Essex-street, Strand, 43. Immediately on her arrival from the Netherlands, Juliana, wife of Lieut. Jas. Ma land, of the 33rd regt. eldest daughter of the late Sir Edw. Nightingale, Bart. In Giltspur-street Compter, Felix Cæsar O'Neil O'Hanlon, a notorious swindler. About fifteen months since he visited Birmingham, and representing himself as a commissary attached to the army of Lord Wellington, put almost the whole of the manufactures of that place in requisition. Of saddles alone, he had given an order for 20,000. At Bath, having undertaken to defray the joint expense of a chaise to London, he became acquainted with Mr. Hawkins, a banker, with whom still maintaining the character of a commissary, and representing himself as the protegé of Lord Wellington, he 276 Account of Sir J. Thorold, Ludy Kenyon, &c. so far ingratiated himself, that he obtained his consent in three days to marry his daughter. To this family he pretended to be possessed of large property, and affected to make a settlement of 20,000l. on his future bride. To solemnize the nuptials in a suitable manner, a vast number of tradesmen were duped. The fraud was, however, soon discovered, and the anticipations of splendour and happiness entertained by the young lady and her friends, were quickly disappointed by the arrest of the deceased. His conduct while in prison was irregular, and a wound which he had received in his leg from a duel was brought to such a state of irritability, as to produce mortification and an inflammatory fever, which caused his death. At Syston Park, near Grantham, Sir John Thorold, bart. 81. He succeeded his father, the eighth baronet, in 1775, having previously married, in 1771, the daughter and heiress of Heyford, esq. by whom he has left several children. Sir John was elected knight of the shire for the county of Lincoln in 1780, 1784, and 1790. At Gredington, N. Wales, Lady Kenyon, 29. Her ladyship was the only daughter of the late Sir Thos. Hanmer, bart. and mar. ried, in 1893, to the present Lord Kenyon, to whom she has left two sons and three daughters. In the New Road, J. Buttolph, esq. 62. He was of such penurious and eccentric habits, that, though possessed of a landed estate of 1200l. per annum, he frequently denied himself the common necessaries of life. It was his boast, that he had never rode on horseback since he had arrived at years of maturity, on account of the accidents to which equestrians were liable. From the like apprehension, he avoided travelling in any vehicle; and his journies into the country were always performed on foot. His landed property, which lies in Yorkshire, devolves to a poor and distant relative, whom He bad constantly refused to see during his life. At Colchester, John Kendall, a member of the Society of Friends, universally beloved, respected, and regretted, by the inhabitants of that town and its neighbourhood, to which he had long been a conspicuous ornament, He was the author of the following tracts: "Remarks on Stage Entertain 89. ments, Romances," &c. [April 1, "Extracts from the Works of the Archbishop of Cambray," 12mo. "A Collection of Letters on Religious Subjects by Friends deceased," 2 vols. "Abstracts from the Old and New Testament," chiefly intended for children, 2 vols. 12mo. "A Collection of Poems on Religious subjects,” from various authors. “Extracts from the Imitation of Christ, by Thomas à Kempis." "An Abridgment of the Life of Thomas Story." " Principles and Precepts of the Christian Religion, explained by way of Question and Answer." At his house in St. Martin's - street, Leicester-fields, on the 18th of February, that well-known, industrious, excellent, and classical bookbinder, Mr. Charles Hering, after a painful illness of three months, leaving a disconsolate widow, with ten children, all minors, to lament his loss, 52. This article of intelligence will be read with regret by the bibliographical world, as Mr. Hering was a treasure to many noble and learned amateurs of the empire for a series of years; for few could equal and none excel him in such points of his business as were of the most importance to those with whom accuracy and elegance were indispensable: particularly in his mode of rebinding early printed beoks, and that both in respect to his exactness of prescribed arrangement, his care as to breadth of margin, and his tasteful, ornamental, yet correct, mode of tooling and finishing. To enumerate the various libraries in which specimens of his skill are deposited would alone fill up the space allotted for this article; but any work taken from them at random might be esteemed as a fair specimen of his abilities. Yet if we were to particularize, perhaps the illustrated copy of Shakespeare, in Lord Spenser's library, the indefatigable labour of fifteen years, by the late Dowager Lady Lucan, may be considered as unrivalled. If any thing can allay the regret of amateurs for his loss, it is that the concern will still, we understand, be conducted by his brother and eldest son, for the benefit of the orphans, so that the same unique neatness and elegance may yet be realized. At her apartments in Pall Mall, the once celebrated actress, Mrs. Abington, of whom a biographical account shall be given in our next. PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES, IN THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND, ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY. BERKSHIRE. The first stone of a new theatre was laid at Windsor on the 17th February. Married.] At Wargrave, Mr. W... Soundy of Henley, to Mary, youngest daughter of the late Mr. T. Bartlett. At Cookham, the Rev. S. T. Chapman, rector of Little Kimble, Bucks, to Susanna, youngest daughter of the Rev. Henry Dodwell, of Maidenhead. At Newnham, Wm. Moss, esq. to Miss Ann Pythers. Ded] At Warfield John Terry, esq. improptiator of that parish. Reading, Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. daughter, J. Stone, 44. At Purley, Mr. Benj. Humphries. At Down End cottage, Chieveley, Mrs. Pettinger, 59. At Swallowfield, near Reading, the wife of C. R. H. Bailey, esq. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, Married.] At Upton, Miss M. B. Mortlake, to Mr. W. Stevens, of Princes Risborough. Died.] Parker. At Chalfont St. Giles, Mrs. At Aylesbury, Mrs. Hogg, wife of Mr. H. liquor-merchant. At Low Grounds, near Marlow, Mr. T. Taylor. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. During the last month an epidemic fever has prevailed at Cambridge, to an alarming extent. The business of the university, has, in consequence, been in a great measure, suspended; and it is in contemplation to give the under-graduates the next term, on account of the danger of exposure to the disease; which, whether it arises from specific infection or atmospheric miasmata, is very local, and almost confined to the town of Cambridge. Married.] At Cambridge, the Rev. J. Crosthwaite, B. A. of St. John's college, chaplain to the E. I. Company, on the Bengal establishment, to Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. Edw. Presgrave. At Wisbech, Mr. Wm. Orton, solicitor, to Mary, only daughter of the late Mr. Wm. Powell. Mr. Walters, baker, to Mrs.Stocker. Died.] At Cambridge, Edw. J. Staunton, esq. fellow-commoner of Emanuel college, eldest son of the Rev. Dr. S. of Stauntonhall, Notts.-Mrs. Apsey, 68.-Mr. Wm. Flack, 46.- Mrs. Eliz. Fordham, 69.-Mrs. Mills, wife of Mr. Edw. M. of the Sun inn. the typhus fever, which has lately been prevalent in this town, John Alty, esq. one of the fellows of Jesus college.-John Newling, esq. an alderman and magistrate of this town, 83. He was many years treasurer of Addenbrooke's hospital, and distributor of stamps for the county, which he lately resigned.-Miss Charlotte Wilson, 53.-Chas. Wm. Atkinson, esq. of Jesus college, eldest son of the Rev. Wm. A. rector of Warham, All Saints, and lecturer of Broadford, York, 20. At Trumpington, Sophia, second daughter of the late Mr. H. Humphries. At Newton, Mrs. Asby, 75. At Girtford, Mr. Thes. Chort, 74. Married] At Chester, capt. David Smith, of the brig Maria, of Liverpool, to Miss Bunster.--Henry, son of John Tulk, esq of Ham common, to Mary, second daughter of Sigismund Stolterforth, esq. At Presbury, Mr. John Sills of Hinckley, Leicester, to Mary, second daughter of Thos. Critchley, esq. of Whitefield house, Macclesfield. Died.] At Chester, Ms. Wilkinson, 77. -Mrs. Walker, wife of M Geo. W. of the George and Dragon.—Mrs. Brassey, wife of Mr. B. grocer, 27.-Mrs Downes, widow, 46.-Mrs. Oldham, wife of Mr. Chas. O.Mr. F. Hinde, schoolmaster.-George, eldest son of Mr. T. Smith, esq. 14.-Mrs. Dickin son, relict of the Rev. Thos. D. vicar of Tarvin. -Mrs. Kyrle. 82. At Boughton, Mr. Scott. At Runcorn, Mrs. Sothern.-Mrs. Orford, At Thornton-le Moors, Mrs. Dutton. At the Marsh house, Dutton, Mrs. Whitley, 78. At Aston Park, Mrs. Wright, relict of Wm. W. esq. of Bank house, Bolton. CORNWALL. Married.] At St. Ives, the Rev. W. Spry, B. D. to Miss Famfield. At St. Gluvias, Mr. Ellingworth, surgeon, of Fowey, to Miss Sowell, of Penryn. At Padstow, Capt. W. Knight, to Miss Jane Heatherington. At Gwennap, Mr. W. Quick, of Saint Day, to Miss Oppy, of Stythians. Died.] At Penryn, Mr. Jonathan Hornblower, 62. At Moorwinston, James Pinney, esq. At Tregony, Mrs. Pascoe, wite of Mr. P. surgeon, 59. At Skisdon lodge, St. Kew, Henry Braddon, esq. en alderman of Camelford, and formerly a surgeon in that town. At Launceston, Mr. John Copp. At Penzance, Lieut. J. R. Colman, R. N. late first lieutenant of H. M. S. Inconstant, 26.-Mrs. Marg. Penherthy, a maiden lady, 49.-Ann, only daughter of Mr. Knight, |