72 Promotions, Births, Marriages, Deaths, &c. [Aug. 1, nary and minister plenipotentiary to the king of Wurtemberg. Mr. John Conquest, of Bishopsgate-street, to Jane, third daughter of R. Steven, esq. of Sir James Gambier, to be consul general in the Paragon, Kent-road. the United Netherlands. At St. Olave's, Hart-street, S. Bencraft, Henry Chamberlain, esq. to be consul esq. to Lucy, eldest daughter of Admiral Bugeneral in the Brazils. J. C. Mellish, esq to be agent and consul in Lower Saxony, and the free cities of Hamburgh, Bremen, and Lubeck. Hen. O'Donnell, esq. to be agent and consul general at Algiers. Births.] In Bolton-street, the Hon. Mrs. Milnes, of a daughter. In New-street, Privy-gardens, the lady of J. H. Tremayne, esq. M. P. of a son and heir. In Grosvenor-square, Mrs. Fuller Maitland, of a son. -Mrs. Maberly, of a son. In Devonshire-place, the widow of John Scott, esq. of a son. In Fitzroy-square, the lady of Wm. Haslewood, esq. of a daughter. In Albemarle street, the lady of Robert Keate, esq. of a son. In Hans place, the lady of Sir G. W. Denys, M. P. of a daughter. At Littleton, Lady Caroline Wood, of a son. In Lower Grosvenor-street, Lady Foley, of a son. Married.] At St. George's, Hanoversquare, Chas. Compton Cavendish, esq. youngest son of Lord G. H. Cavendish, to Lady Catherine Susan Gordon, eldest daughter of the Earl of Aboyne.-Benj. Thomas, M. D. of Kington, Hereford, to Miss North, daughter of Wm. N. esq. of Chelsea.Joseph Morez, M.D. of Oporto, to Eliza, youngest daughter of J. Edwards, esq.-Major-gen. Carey, of the third guards, to Caroline, fourth daughter of Sam. Smith, esq. M. P. of Woodhall Park, Herts.-Rich. Seymour, esq. of Inholmes, Berks, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of Lieut. Gen. Read, of Crowood, Wilts. At Marylebone, W. Cotton, esq. of Upper Berkeley-street, to Miss Chandler, daughter of the late Rev. Dr. C. At St. Pancras, W. G. H. Medhurst, esq. to Fortunata Paula Seraphina Catherina Medhurst, (late Pappalardo,) they having been before married at Messina, Sicily. At St. Andrews, Holborn, Rob. Burn, esq. R. N. to Miss Wood, of Hatton-garden. At St. Botolph's, Aldersgate, the Rev. Chas. Pritchett, of the Charterhouse, to Miss Burder, of Camberwell. Mr. T. Iredale, of Wentworth, Yorkshire, to Ann Frances, daughter of the late Sir Jas. Ibbetson, bart. of Denton park. At Bromley, the Rev. C. W. Le Bas, professor of mathematics at the East India college, near Hertford, to Sophia, second daughter of the late Mark Hodgson. A. M. Sandeman, esq. of Lothbury, to Miss Harriet Fenn, of Great Marlborough street. ry, of Denniton, N. B. General Lord Combermere to Miss Greville, niece to Lady Crewe. Jas. Wardrop, esq. of Charles-street, St. James's-square, to Mrs. Burn, widow of Capt. B. R. N. At Allhallows Staining, Jos. Dicker, esq. of East Grinstead, Sussex, to Mary, eldest daughter of Jos. Reyner, esq. of Marklane. P. L. Godsal, esq. to Grace Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. Sergeant Best Died.] In Grafton-street, the Hon. Mrs. Caroline Howe, relict of John H. esq. of Houslow, Bucks, sister to the late Earl and present Viscount Howe, 92. In Piccadilly, Mr. John Stockdale, bookseller, 64. Chas. Dumergue, esq. surgeon-dentist to her Majesty, the Prince Regent, the Princesses, &c. 75. He was a native of France. The Hon. Capt. Walpole, R. N. second son of the Earl of Orford, 29. In Charlotte street, Portland-place, Lieut.col. G. Powell, of the East India Company's Bombay establishment. In Spring-gardens, Mr. Rob. Dighton, 62. In Compton-street, Brunswick-square, Mr. John Penford, surgeon, formerly of Bishop's Waltham. In Great Coram-street, Thos. Inglis, esq. of the East India Company's civil service in Bengal, fifth son of John I. esq. of Marklane.-Mrs. Forster, 75. In Pall Mall, Rob. Ladbroke, esq. 74, formerly M. P. for Warwick. On the Adelphi-terrace, Mrs. Street, wife of Mr. S. of the Courier evening newspaper. In Sloane-street, J. A. Du Roveray, esq. formerly attorney-general of the Republic of Geneva, 68. Being banished from his oppressed country, at the instigation of the French, he sought an asylum in England, where he experienced the most honourable protection, and where his talents secured him general respect. Sir Soulden Laurence, knt. late one of the justices of the court of Common Pleas, formerly of St. John's coll. Cambridge, B. A. 1771, M. A. 1774. In Portman-square, Henry Dawkins, esq. of Stradlynch, Wilts, the fellow-traveller and co-labourer, of Mr. Wood, in the splendid publication of the antiquities of Balbec and Palmyra, 86. In Chelsea hospital, Lieut.-col. Robert Matthews, major of that establishment. In Upper Guildford-Street, John King, esq. formerly of Lisbon, 86. In Newman-street, Jos. Smith, esq. In Baker-street, Mrs. Gildemeester, wife of D. G. esq. 1814.] Account of M. P. Andrews, Esq. the Earl of Peterborough. 78 In Stafford-row, Buckingham-gate, C. Bedford, esq. only surviving issue of G. Bedford, esq. 71. Both father and son held the office of deputy to the late Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, usher of his Majesty's receipt of exchequer At Pentonville, Chas. Page Smith, esq. 51, In the Seven Dials, Mr. John Williams, chimney sweeper. He commenced business in 1754, with a few shillings, and has left real and personal property, accumulated by industry and frugality, to the amount of 22,000l. At Blundell Lodge, C. Fotherington, esq, He had been thrice married, and was the father of 28 children, ten of whom survive him. At Finchley, Mrs. Eliz. Rhodes, mother of the late John R. esq. 93. At Laleham, Francis Grindall, only surviving child of Francis Hartwell, Esq. At Hammersmith, John Kinderley, esq. of Bedford-row, an eminent solicitor, 69. At Islington, of a wound received 18 years ago, and supposed to have been quite healed, Capt. Belton. In Bond-street, Henry Tresham, esq. R. A. Of this distinguished artist, a full account shall be given in our next. In Staple Inn, William Townsend, esq, principal of that society, and an eminent so licitor, sq. In Cleveland-row, Miles Peter Andrews, esq. M. P. for Bewdley, which he has represented ever since the year 1790. This gentleman, the second son of a respectable merchant of London, was himself designed for business; but owing to his father's acquaintance with Garrick, Foote, and other dramatic characters, his mind received a bias towards theatrical composition. He was the author of The Election, a musical interlude; Belphegor, Summer Amusements, and Fire and Water, operas; Dissipation, a comedy, in five acts; Better Late than Never; the Mysteries of the Castle; the Enchanted Castle; the Best Bidder; and the Baron of Kinkvervankotsdarsprakengotchdern, founded on a popular tale with the same title, by the Margravine of Anspach. On the death of his elder brother, he succeeded to his share in the celebrated and lucrative manu factory of gunpowder at Dartford; and on the commencement of the present war, became lieutenant-colonel of the St. Martin's or Prince of Wales's volunteers. He purchased some years since, the noble mansion built by Lord Grenville, facing the Green Park, and the fashionable parties which he was some years since in the habit of giving, were not eclipsed by any in the circle of the great world. The property left by him is New NONTHLY MAG.-No. 7. estimated at about 110,000l. which he has charged with an annuity of 2,000l. per annum to a lady for life, which reverts to the family of Mr. Pigou, who is residuary legatee. To each of his executors, Siş Walter Sterling, and Messrs. Wilsonn and Grote, he has left 1000l. to Major Top ham, 300l. and to the theatrical funds of Covent Garden and Drury Lane, 100l. a piece, as a testimony of his respect to the cause of the drama, At Dauntsey, Wiltshire, Charles Henry Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough and Monmouth, Baron Mordaunt, of Ryegate, Surry, and of Turvey, Bedfordshire, His lordship, the only son of Charles, fourth earl, by his second countess, was born in 1756, and succeeded his father in 1779. He was fond of retirement and literature, and never married. By his death the earldom becomes extinct, but the barony of Mordaunt of Turvey only, descends to his half-sister, Lady Mary Anastasia Grace, who was born in 1738, and is unmarried. At Kirkby Mallory, Leicestershire, Mary, Viscountess Wentworth, wife of Viscount W, She was the third daughter of Robert, Earl of Northington, lord high chancellor of England, sister to the late earl, of whom she was one of the co heiresses, and first mar ried to Edward, the last Earl Ligonier, She was united in 1788 to Viscount W. by whom she had no issue. At the Hermitage, Hambledon, Hampshire, Sir Erasmus Gower, admiral of the white, 71. This officer, the eldest of 19 children of Abel Gower, esq. of Glandoven, Pembrokeshire, was early destined for the naval profession. He went to sea very young, under the protection of his maternal uncle, capt. John Donkley; and served after the death of his relative, under various commanders on the North American station, in the Channel, and the Irish and North Seas, In 1762, he passed his examination for lieutenant, and was soon afterwards selected as one of the officers whom it was deemed nes cessary to send into the service of Portugal, in the apprehension of an attack on that country by Spain. On the conclusion of the peace which speedily followed, he ac companied Commodore Byron, in his voyage round the world in the Dolphin; and it was not till his return in 1766 that he was pro moted to the rank of lieutenant, in which capacity he sailed on another voyage of dis covery with Capt. Carteret, in the Swallow. From this perilous expedition he returned in 1769; and towards the end of the same year, embarked as lieutenant of the Swift sloop, for the Falkland Island station. In that vessel he had the misfortune to be wrecked, on the 13th of March following, in Port Desire, on the coast of Patagonia. ship grounded on a sunken rock at high water; and just as the crew began to enter tain hopes that their exertions for getting hep VOL. II. L The 72 Promotions, Births, Marriages, Deaths, &c. nary and minister plenipotentiary to the king of Wurtemberg Sir James Gambier, to be consul general in the United Netherlands. [Aug. 1, Mr. John Conquest, of Bishopsgate-street, to Jane, third daughter of R. Steven, esq. of the Paragon, Kent-road. At St. Olave's, Hart-street, S. Bencraft, Henry Chamberlain, esq. to be consul esq. to Lucy, eldest daughter of Admiral Bugeneral in the Brazils. J. C. Mellish, esq to be agent and consul in Lower Saxony, and the free cities of Hamburgh, Bremen, and Lubeck. Hen. O'Donnell, esq. to be agent and consul general at Algiers. Births.] In Bolton-street, the Hon. Mrs. Milnes, of a daughter. In New-street, Privy-gardens, the lady of J. H. Tremayne, esq. M. P. of a son and heir. In Grosvenor-square, Mrs. Fuller Maitland, of a son. -Mrs. Maberly, of a son. In Devonshire-place, the widow of John Scott, esq. of a son. In Fitzroy-square, the lady of Wm. Haslewood, esq. of a daughter. In Albemarle street, the lady of Robert Keate, esq. of a son. In Hans place, the lady of Sir G. W. Denys, M. P. of a daughter. At Littleton, Lady Caroline Wood, of a son. In Lower Grosvenor-street, Lady Foley, of a son. Married.] At St. George's, Hanoversquare, Chas. Compton Cavendish, esq. youngest son of Lord G. H. Cavendish, to Lady Catherine Susan Gordon, eldest daughter of the Earl of Aboyne.-Benj. Thomas, M. D. of Kington, Hereford, to Miss North, daughter of Wm. N. esq. of Chelsea.Joseph Morez, M.D. of Oporto, to Eliza, youngest daughter of J. Edwards, esq.-Major-gen. Carey, of the third guards, to Carofine, fourth daughter of Sam. Smith, esq. M. P. of Woodhall Park, Herts.-Rich. Seymour, esq. of Inholmes, Berks, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of Lieut. Gen. Read, of Crowood, Wilts. At Marylebone, W. Cotton, esq. of Upper Berkeley-street, to Miss Chandler, daughter of the late Rev. Dr. C. At St. Pancras, W. G. H. Medhurst, esq. to Fortunata Paula Seraphina Catherina Medhurst, (late Pappalardo,) they having been before married at Messina, Sicily. At St. Andrews, Holborn, Rob. Burn, esq. R. N. to Miss Wood, of Hatton-garden. At St. Botolph's, Aldersgate, the Rev. Chas. Pritchett, of the Charterhouse, to Miss Burder, of Camberwell. Mr. T. Iredale, of Wentworth, Yorkshire, to Ann Frances, daughter of the late Sir Jas. Ibbetson, bart. of Denton park. At Bromley, the Rev. C. W. Le Bas, professor of mathematics at the East India college, near Hertford, to Sophia, second daughter of the late Mark Hodgson. A. M. Sandeman, esq. of Lothbury, to Miss Harriet Fenn, of Great Marlborough street. ry, of Denniton, N. B. General Lord Combermere to Miss Greville, niece to Lady Crewe. Jas. Wardrop, esq. of Charles-street, St. James's-square, to Mrs. Burn, widow of Capt. B. R. N. At Allhallows Staining, Jos. Dicker, esq. of East Grinstead, Sussex, to Mary, eldest daughter of Jos. Reyner, esq. of Marklane. P. L. Godsal, esq. to Grace Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. Sergeant Best Died.] In Grafton-street, the Hon. Mrs. Caroline Howe, relict of John H. esq. of Houslow, Bucks, sister to the late Earl and present Viscount Howe, 92. In Piccadilly, Mr. John Stockdale, bookseller, 64. Chas. Dumergue, esq. surgeon-dentist to her Majesty, the Prince Regent, the Princesses, &c. 75. He was a native of France. The Hon. Capt. Walpole, R. N. second son of the Earl of Orford, 29. In Charlotte street, Portland-place, Lieut.col. G. Powell, of the East India Company's Bombay establishment. In Spring-gardens, Mr. Rob. Dighton, 62. In Compton-street, Brunswick-square, Mr. John Penford, surgeon, formerly of Bishop's Waltham. In Great Coram-street, Thos. Inglis, esq. of the East India Company's civil service in Bengal, fifth son of John I. esq. of Marklane.-Mrs. Forster, 75. In Pall Mall, Rob. Ladbroke, esq. 74, formerly M. P. for Warwick. On the Adelphi-terrace, Mrs. Street, wife of Mr. S. of the Courier evening newspaper. In Sloane-street, J. A. Du Roveray, esq. formerly attorney-general of the Republic of Geneva, 68. Being banished from his oppressed country, at the instigation of the French, he sought an asylum in England, where he experienced the most honourable protection, and where his talents secured him general respect. Sir Soulden Laurence, knt. late one of the justices of the court of Common Pleas, formerly of St. John's coll. Cambridge, B. A. 1771, M. A. 1774. In Portman-square, Henry Dawkins, esq. of Stradlynch, Wilts, the fellow-traveller and co-labourer, of Mr. Wood, in the splendid publication of the antiquities of Balbec and Palmyra, 86. In Chelsea hospital, Lieut.-col. Robert Matthews, major of that establishment. In Upper Guildford-Street, John King, esq. formerly of Lisbon, 86. In Newman-street, Jos. Smith, esq. In Baker-street, Mrs. Gildemeester, wife of D. G. esq. 1814.] Account of M. P. Andrews, Esq. the Earl of Peterborough. In Stafford-row, Buckingham-gate, C. Bedford, esq. only surviving issue of G. Bedford, esq. 71. Both father and son held the office of deputy to the late Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, usher of his Majesty's receipt of exchequer At Pentonville, Chas. Page Smith, esq. 51, In the Seven Dials, Mr. John Williams, chimney sweeper. He commenced business in 1754, with a few shillings, and has left real and personal property, accumulated by industry and frugality, to the amount of 22,000l. At Blundell Lodge, C. Fotherington, esq, He had been thrice married, and was the father of 28 children, ten of whom survive bim. At Finchley, Mrs. Eliz. Rhodes, mother of the late John R. esq. 93. At Laleham, Francis Grindall, only sur- At Islington, of a wound received 18 years ago, and supposed to have been quite healed, Capt. Belton. In Bond-street, Henry Tresham, esq. R. A. Of this distinguished artist, a full account shall be given in our next. In Staple Inn, William Townsend, esq. principal of that society, and an eminent solicitor, sq. In Cleveland-row, Miles Peter Andrews, esq. M. P. for Bewdley, which he has represented ever since the year 1790. This gentleman, the second son of a respectable merchant of London, was himself designed for business; but owing to his father's acquaintance with Garrick, Foote, and other dramatic characters, his mind received a bias towards theatrical composition. He was the author of The Election, a musical interlude; Belphegor, Summer Amusements, and Fire and Water, operas; Dissipation, a comedy, in five acts; Better Late than Never; the Mysteries of the Castle; the Enchanted Castle; the Best Bidder; and the Baron of Kinkvervankotsdarsprakengotchdern, founded on a popular tale with the same tidle, by the Margravine of Anspach. On the death of his elder brother, he succeeded to his share in the celebrated and lucrative manufactory of gunpowder at Dartford; and on the commencement of the present war, became lieutenant-colonel of the St. Martin's or Prince of Wales's volunteers. He purchased some years since, the noble mansion built by Lord Grenville, facing the Green Park, and the fashionable parties which he was some years since in the habit of giving, were not eclipsed by any in the circle of the great world. The property left by him is New NONTHLY MAG.-No. 7. 73 estimated at about 110,000l. which he has charged with an annuity of 2,000l. per annum to a lady for life, which reverts to the family of Mr. Pigou, who is residuary legatee. To each of his executors, Si Walter Sterling, and Messrs. Wilsonn and Grote, he has left 1000l. to Major Topham, 300l. and to the theatrical funds of Covent Garden and Drury Lane, 100l. apiece, as a testimony of his respect to the cause of the drama. At Dauntsey, Wiltshire, Charles Henry Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough and Monmouth, Baron Mordaunt, of Ryegate, Surry, and of Turvey, Bedfordshire. His lordship, the only son of Charles, fourth earl, by his second countess, was born in 1756, and succeeded his father in 1779. He was fond of retirement and literature, and never married. By his death the earldom becomes extinct, but the barony of Mordaunt of Turvey only, descends to his half-sister, Lady Mary Anastasia Grace, who was born in 1739, and is unmarried. At Kirkby Mallory, Leicestershire, Mary, Viscountess Wentworth, wife of Viscount W, She was the third daughter of Robert, Earl of Northington, lord high chancellor of England, sister to the late earl, of whom she was one of the co heiresses, and first married to Edward, the last Earl Ligonier, She was united in 1788 to Viscount W. by whom she had no issue. At the Hermitage, Hambledon, Hampshire, Sir Erasmus Gower, admiral of the white, 71. This officer, the eldest of 19 children of Abel Gower, esq. of Glandoven, Pembrokeshire, was early destined for the naval profession. He went to sea very young, under the protection of his maternal uncle, capt. John Donkley; and served after the death of his relative, under various commanders on the North American station, in the Channel, and the Irish and North Seas, In 1762, he passed his examination for lieutenant, and was soon afterwards selected as one of the officers whom it was deemed necessary to send into the service of Portugal, in the apprehension of an attack on that country by Spain. On the conclusion of the peace which speedily followed, he ac companied Commodore Byron, in his voyage round the world in the Dolphin; and it was not till his return in 1766 that he was pro moted to the rank of lieutenant, in which capacity he sailed on another voyage of dis. covery with Capt. Carteret, in the Swallow. From this perilous expedition he returned in 1769; and towards the end of the same year, embarked as lieutenant of the Swift sloop, for the Falkland Island station. In that vessel he had the misfortune to be wrecked, on the 13th of March following, in Port Desire, on the coast of Patagonia. ship grounded on a sunken rock at high water; and just as the crew began to entertain hopes that their exertions for getting hẹp VOL. II. L The 74 Account of Sir E. Gower-Viscount Howe. off would be crowned with success, she [Aug. 1, to send am embassy to the Emperor of China, and Lord Macartney was nominated to conduct it, capt. Gower, who was knighted on the occasion, was appointed to the command of the Lion, of 64 guns, equipped for the purpose of conveying his lordship to the scene of negociation. The circumstances of this mission are well known; it will, therefore, be sufficient to observe, that the Lion returned to England in September 1794. In November following, Sir Erasmus was appointed to the Triumph, of 74 guns, in which he served in the Channel, under Lords Howe and Bridport. The Triumph was also one of the little squadron, of five ships of the line and two frigates, which, under the orders of admiral Cornwallis, made such a masterly retreat on the 17th of June, 1795, in the face of a French armament, composed of thirteen sail of the line and fourteen frigates, and the conduct of Sir Erasmus, on this trying occasion, obtained the justly-deserved encomiums of the commander in chief. When the dreadful mutiny broke out at the Nore, in 1797, Sir Erasmus hoisted his broad pendant on board the Neptune, of 98 guns, in the Thames, and assumed the command of the vessels equipped to act against the mutineers; but on the fortunate termination of the insurrection, he continued second in command in the same quarter, under vice-admiral Sir T. Paslev. He afterwards served as a private captain in the Channel fleet, till his promotion to the rank of rear admiral of the white in 1799, since which time he has not held any active employment. If the name of this officer is not crowned with such brilliant glory as surrounds those of some of the heroes of our naval annals, it is evident from the whole tenor of his life, that the cause must be sought in circumstances alone which withheld from him opportunities of acquiring equal distinction. At Twickenham, the right honourable William Viscount Howe, general of his majesty's forces, colonel of the 19th regiment of dragoons, governor of Plymouth, K. B. and one of his majesty's most honourable privy council. His lordship was the third son of Scrope, second Viscount Howe, and Baron Clonawly of the kingdom of Ireland, and succeeded his brother Richard, Lord Howe, in his Irish honours, Aug. 5, 1799, He was the fifth viscount, and dying withHe was out issue, his titles are extinct. born Aug. 10, 1729, and received his education at Eton; but, being designed for a military life, left that seminary very early, and was soon after presented with his first commission in the army by H.R.H. William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, who gave him a cornetcy in his own regiment of light dragoons. Having passe through the various gradations of the service, he was advanced to the rank of colonel in the year 1762, and in 1754 was appointed to the |