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ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

The Rev. J. Bluck, to the vicarage of Gray's Thurrock, Essex, vacant by the death of the Rev. M. Wilson.-The Rev. Jermyn Pratt, BA. to the consolidated rectories of Bintry and Themilthorpe, Norfolk; Patron, Sir Jacob Astley, Bart. The Rev. J. Lempriere, to the rectory of Newton St. Petrock, Devon.-The Rev. W. Acton, LLB. of St. John's, Cambridge, to the rectory of Ayott St. Lawrence, Herts; Patron, Lionel Lyde, Esq. of Lincoln's-inn.-The Rev. J.Jenkins, of Wetton, Radnorshire, to the rectory of Knill, Herefordshire; Patron, Mrs. Garbett Walsham, of Knill-* Court.-The Rev. Hugh Owen, LLD. Master of the Grammar School at Beccles, to the rectory of that place; Patron, the Earl of Gosford.-The Kev. Fiennes Sam. Trotman, BA. to the vicarage of

BIRTHS.

Jan. 22, 1823.-At Torquay, Devonshire, the lady. of Sir Thos. Whelen, a son.

23. At Standish Hall, Mrs. Standish, a son and beir.

25. In Vigo-lane, the lady of Miles Morley, Esq. a daughter.

27. In Berner's street, the lady of Fras. Vincent Marins Moreau, Esq. a daughter.

29. At Cochayne, Hatley, Beds. the Rt. Hon. Lady Anne Maria Cust, a daughter.

31. At Bath, the lady of G. T. Williams, Esq. a son and heir.

Feb.9.-Mrs. Stephen Child, of Walworth, a son.
10. At Pinckney Lodge, Berks, the lady of James
Elmslie, Esq. a son.

-In Chapel-street, Grosvenor-square, the Hon.
Mrs. Chas. Boulton, a daughter.

-In Upper Cadogan-place, Mrs. Thomas Broad-
wood, a son.

- In Keppel-street, the lady of Humphry Wm. Woolrych, Esq. of Croxley House, Herts, and of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-law, a son. 11. In Queen-street, May Fair, the lady of Samuel Plate, Esq. a daughter.

In Stratton-street, Lady Jane Peel, a son. 16. In Hill-street, the lady of W. W. Robarts, MP.

a son.

IN IRELAND.

At Chapel-row, Killarney, the lady of John O'Sullivan, Esq. three daughters.

ABROAD.

At Naples, the lady of Alexander Thompson, Esq.
a daughter.

At Abbeville, the lady of Lieut.-Col. John Austin,
Commander of the Portuguese Order of the
Tower and Sword, and Brigadier General in his
most Faithful Majesty's Service, a daughter.
At Florence, the lady of Herbert Barrett Curteis,
eldest son of Edward Curteis, Esq. of Windmill
Hill, Sussex, a son and heir.

At Florence, the lady of Dr. Seymour, a son.

MARRIAGES.

Jan. 23.-At Knutsford, Thomas, eldest son of Thomas Hibbert, Esq. of Brittas Hall, Cheshire, and Chalfont House, Bucks, to Caroline Henrietta, eldest daughter of Charles Cholmondeley, Esq. of Knutsford; and niece to Lord Delamere. 24. At Ellaston, Staffordshire, John Buller Yarde Buller, Esq. of Lupton-house, Devonshire, and Delhorne-hall, Staffordshire, to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Wilson, Esq. of Wootten. Park, Staffordshire, and Bank Hall, in the County of Lancaster.

25. At Wanstead, Wm. Walters, Esq. of Girdlers Hall, to Harriet Matilda, youngest daughter of the late George Dettmar, Esq. of Blake Hall, Wanstead.

-Wm. Plunkett, Esq. of Southampton, to Mary Anne Brown, of Lymington, Hants, third daughter of the late Rich. Brown, Esq. of Littlethorp, in the County of York, Post Captain in the Royal Navy.

27. At St. George's, Hanover-square, John, eldest son of John Egremont, Esq. of Reedness, Yorkshire, to Harriet, relict of Frederick P. Robinson, Esq.

28. At Woolwich, J. F. Breton, Esq. to Elizabeth Frances, daughter of Colonel Griffiths, of the Royal Artillery.

Dollington, Northamptonshire, and the rectory of Stoke Goldington and Gayhurst, Bucks; Patron, Miss A. B. Wright, of Sidmouth. The Rev. J. Mayo, to the vicarage of Avebury, Wilts.-The Rev. G. Gunning, to the rectory of Deeping, Lincolnshire. The Rev. G. Trevelann, jun. MA. to the vicarage of Milverton Prima, with the chapel of Longford Budville annexed, in the county of So merset. The Rev. P. J. Carpenter, to the vicarage of Cleder, Cornwall.-The Rev. J. Barrow, to the rectory of Lopham, Norfolk.

The Rev. Keginald Heber, MA. appointed Lord Bishop of Calcutta, vice the late Dr. Middleton. CAMBRIDGE.-The subject of the Seatonian Prize Poem for the present year is-Cornelius.

29. At West Bergholt, the Rev. Arthur Crichton,
of Badlemere, Kent, to Susan, daughter of the
Rev. W. E. Sims, Rector of West Bergholt,
Essex, and of Tofts and Downham, Norfolk,
30. AtSt. Mary's, Lambeth, George Burt, Esq. son:
of the late Adam Burt, MD. of Calcutta, to Se-
lina Victoria, youngest daughter of the late Jos.
Hopkins, MD. Queen square.

31. At St. George's, Hanover-square, Nathaniel
Wells, Esq. of Piercefield, to Esther, third
daughter of the late Rev. J. Owen, of Fulham,
and Rector of Paglesham, Essex.

Feb. 4.-The Rev. Charles Chisholm, Rector of
Eastwell, and Vicar of Preston, to Mary, second
daughter of the Rev. R. C. Tylden Pattenson, of
Iborden, Kent, and Rector of Frinstead and
Millstead.

6. At St. Pancras, the Rev. H. West, Rector of
Berwick, and Vicar of Laughton, in the County
of Sussex, to Louisa, daughter of the late Sir
Robt. Barker, Bart.

Richard, eldest son of Sir Richard Phillips, to Matilda, only child of Thomas Bacon, Esq. of Clains, in the County of Worcester.

- Major Sir Charles Angler, Bart, of St. John's Lodge, Herts, to Catherine Frances, eldest. daughter of the Rev. R. Fitzwilliam, of Hali. fax, Rector of Richard's Castle, in the Diocese of Hereford; and grand daughter of the late Bishop of St. Asaph.

8. At Froyle, Hants, E. R. Bertrand, Esq. of Ta
bery, in the Island of Dominica, to Frances Eli
zabeth, eldest daughter of Robert Newton Lee,
Esq. of Coldray, Hants.

By special license, at her Ladyship's House, by
the Rev. Chas. Grant, Vicar of West Barham,
and Minister of Duke-street Chapel, Westmin-
ster, Barry O'Meara, Esq. to Lady Leigh.
Lately, at Bramfield, Suffolk, Andrew Lawson,
Esq. of Aldborough Lodge, Yorkshire, to Mary
Anne Anna Maria, daughter of Thomas Sherlock
Gooch, Esq. MP. for Suffolk.

12. At Bow Church, by the Rev. Dr. Macleod,
Rector of St. Ann's, Westminster, and after-
wards at Grove Hall, in the presence of his Ex-
cellency the Swedish Ambassador, by the Rev.
J. P. Wahlin, Chaplain to the Embassy, Capt,
C. R. Nordenskiold, eldest son of Baron Nor-
denskiold, of Foreby, in Sweden, and Masby, in
Finland, to Margaret, youngest daughter of the
late Rev. Dr. Lindsay, of Grove Hall.
15. At St. George's, Hanover-square, by the Dean
of Carlisle, Charles Arth. Gore, Esq. of the First
Life Guards, to Cath. Frances, younger daughter
of the late Chas. Moody, Esq.

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Lately, at Warrington, Mr. Edward Robert Payne, of Bath, to Helen, third daughter of Richard Turner, Esq. of Warrington.

ABROAD.

At Hanover, Captain Charles Best, of the Royal
Hanoverian Grenadier Guards, to Louisa, only
daughter of the late Captain Robertson, of the
Second Light Battalion, 'King's German Legion.

DEATHS.

Jan. 17.-In his 72d year, George Edwards, MD. of Barnard Castle, in the County of Durham, author of various political publications and writings relative to the improvement of National Affairs.

18. Aged 68, R. Danson, Esq. of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-law.

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Deaths.

-At the Hotwells, Mrs. Judith Barry,
and on the 22d, her sister, Mrs. Catherine
Barry, aged 90. Both of them underwent the
operation of couching in 1813, from which time
they retained their sight perfectly.

21. Louisa, eldest daughter of Robert Blagden,
Esq. of Sackville-street.

-At Fairlight Lodge, near Hastings, in her 66th
year, Anne, the lady of Dr. Batty.

22. At Richmond, in his 71st year, the Hon. and
Rev. Harbottle Bucknall, Rector of Pitmarsh,
and Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty.
23. The Right Hon. Lady Aston, daughter of the
first and sister and coheir of the second Earl of
Northington, and relict of Sir Willoughby As
ton, aged 74.

-At Ramsgate, Henry Stephenson Ashton, Esq.
of Salters Buildings, Walthamstow, aged 36.
24. At Nottingham, aged 78, Mrs. Henrietta Tem-
pest, third sister of the late Major Tempest, and
Grand-daughter of the late Sir George Tempest,
of Tong Hall, Yorkshire.

-In his 73d year, Johu Finlay, Esq. late MP. for
the County of Dublin, and Lieut.-Colonel of the
County of Dublin Militia.

25. The Hon. Thos. Mullins, third son of the Rt. Hon. Lord Ventry, of Barnham, in the County of Kerry, Ireland.

Aged 72, Sarah, relict of Wm. Winchester, Esq. of Cecil-street, Strand.

At Willesden-house, Middlesex, Sir Rupert
George, Bart. aged 74.

-Suddenly, in a carriage in which he was going
to the Opera, Peter Bayley, Esq. of Cumberland-
place, New Road, Editor of the "Museum." It
was deposed on the Coroner's Inquest, that his
death was occasioned by the bursting of an
aneurism of the aorta, from which an effusion
of nearly two pints of blood had taken place in
the chest. Mr. Bayley was author of a poem
entitled, "Sketches from St. George's Fields,"
a production exhibiting no ordinary powers,
either of versification, or forcible description;
to the Fine Arts, particularly music and paint-
ing, he was enthusiastically attached, and was
an able judge of the merits of both.
27. At his house, in Bedford-row, in his 86th year,
Charles Hutton, LLD. FRS. one of the most dis-
tinguished characters in the arduous walk of
mathematical science that the present day can
show. Dr. Hutton has been before the public
as an author for the long period of sixty years;
during forty of these he held the important situa-
tion of Professor of Mathematics, at the Royal
Military College, at Woolwich, with the highest
honour to himself, and advantage to his coun-
try. Military tactics have been much benefited
by his important labours, for it is by him that
our artillery, and system of engineering have
been brought to that perfection which they are
As a proof
universally admitted to possess.
how little his extraordinary abilities were im-
paired, either by advanced age or the languor of
illness, it may be mentioned that almost in his
very last moments he replied to the scientific
questions proposed to him by the Bridge House
Committee, relative to the curves most proper
to be employed for the arches of the projected
New London Bridge: and this paper is allowed
to be a very valuable mathematical document.
The immediate cause of his decease was a cold,
that affected his lungs, and carried him off ap-
parently without pain. His remains were in-
terred on February 4, in the family vault at
Charlton, in Kent.

26, At his house, at Berkeley, in his 76th
year, Edward Jenner, MD. FRS. &c. Among
the benefactors of the human race, gratitude
will assign a distinguished situation to this ve-
nerable individual, who by the discovery of Vac-
cination, has contributed greatly toward the
complete suppression of one of the most terrible
of its scourges. His remains were interred at
Berkeley, Feb. 3d, followed by an immense con-
course of persons, among whom were many of
the highest respectability. Dr. Baron, of Glou-
cester, has been applied to by the family, who
have supplied him with authentic documents for
that purpose, to arrange for publication his nu-
merous papers and manuscripts.

27. In Euston-square, Martha, wife of Thomas
Hodgson, Esq.

27. At Lee, in Kent, aged 20, Catherine Anna,

of the Hon. East India Company's Service, St.
Helena.
Jeldest daughter of the late Adam Baildon, MD.

29. At Woodlands, Blackheath, at the advanced
age of 91, John Julius Angerstein, Esq. of Pall-
Mall, well known to the admirers of the Fine Arts
by his admirable taste in painting, and as the pos-
sessor of one of the very finest private galleries
in the empire. It is reported that the collection
is about to come to the hammer; and that his
Majesty has expressed a wish to become the par-
chaser of the Raising of Lazarus, by Sebastian
del Piombo.

At his residence, in the Regent's Park, Lucius
Concannon, Esq. MP. for Winchelsea.

31. At her house, at St. Stephen's, near St. Alban's,
Miss Sheffield, daughter of the late Sir Charles
Sheffield, and aunt to the present Sir Robert
Sheffield, Bart. Normanby-hall, Lincolnshire.
- At York, Ann, wife of the Rev. C.Wellbeloved.
-At his seat, Harold house, Bedfordshire, in
his 68th year, Thomas Alston, Esq. of apoplexy.
Feb. 1. At North Cray, Kent, in his 86th year, the
Rev. Thomas Moore, Rector for fifty-seven years
of that parish, and the adjoining one of Foot's
Crav.

2. In Piccadilly, Magdalene Countess Dowager of
Dysart.
-At Coln, St. Aldwin's, near Fairford, Glouces
tershire, in his 70th year, General Lister, late
Colonel of the 45th regt, and Governor of Lan-
guard Fort.

his 92d year, the Rev. James Jones, DD. Chan3. In Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, in cellor of the Diocese of Hereford.

6. Frances, lady of. Richard Lewis, Esq. of Llan-
tillio, Monmouthshire, and daughter of the late
W. Owen, Brigstock of Blaenpent, Cardigan-
shire, and Glynn Abbey, Carmarthenshire.
-At Dawlish, in Devonshire, James Browne,
Esq. of Brighton.

7. At Hampton-court, R. T. Mostyn, Esq.
-At Hendon, W. Lewis, Esq.

-At Pimlico, Mrs. Anne Radcliffe, Authoress of
the celebrated Romances, of the Mysteries of
Udolpho, and the Italian, and some other works
of fiction.

8. At his father's, at Hammersmith, Jonathan
Skelton, Esq. LLB. of Trinity Hall, Cam-
bridge.

-Robert Blake, Esq. MP. for Arundel.
-At Ella Combe, near Torquay, Devonshire,
Marianne, the lady of Francis Garratt, Esq.
10. In John-street, Bedford-row, aged 47, John
Gregory Shaddick, Esq. late one of the sworn
clerks in the Court of Chancery.

-In Finsbury-square, in her 40th year, Julia,
wife of Philip Samuel, Esq. and daughter of the
late Asher Goldsmid, Esq.

-At Moria-place, Southampton, aged 70, Mrs.
Young, relict of the late John Young, Esq. Pro-
fessor of Greek at the University of Glasgow.
14. At Camberwell, James Poole, Esq. of the Seal
office, Inner Temple.

-In Guilford-street, in her 81st year, Mrs.
Tooke, relict of the late Rev. W. Tooke.
15. At his mother's, Chapel-street, Grosvenor-
square, George Brummell, Esq.

-In Bryanstone-square, aged 94, the Rev. Richard
Roberts, DD. late Head Master of St. Paul's
school.

At Paris, in his 61st year, Henry Gray M'Nab, MD.
Physician to the late Duke of Kent.

At Passage West, near Cork, Win. Parker D'ES
terre, Esq. late Commander of the Hon.
Company's Ships, the United Kingdom, and
Fairlie.

Near Madras, the lady of Lieut. Charles Highmore
Potts, aged 28.

THE LION'S HEAD.

OUR friends, we are sure, will regret the cause which has robbed our pages this month of the continuation of the interesting Letters by the English Opium Eater. Their re-appearance, in our next Number, will, we trust, afford the most welcome bulletin that can be given of his recovery. The following note from him has just been received:

To the Editor of the London Magazine.

DEAR SIR, I send you as much of my fourth letter as I have been able to write that it is not completed, you must impute to no neglect of mine, but to an inflammatory complaint attended with pain, which for the last ten or twelve days has rendered all attempt to compose very laborious to me, and at length fruitless. It is due to yourself, who have attached so much more weight to these letters than I fear they can deserve, to let you know that this temporary interruption of the series is caused by no want of exertion on my part up to the latest time at which it could have been available for the present number. For your readers in general, I suspect, that they will rejoice to find that you have "lightened ships" for one month by discharging some of your heaviest lading.

March 27.

Very faithfully your's,

X. Y. Z.

Time and space will not allow Lion's Head to enter at large upon the subject of Doctor B.'s Letter; but he will submit the following considera→ tions, for their novelty, "to the serious attention of parents" and poets.

Another objection, Sir, I have to make to our Juvenile Literature, is, that in its youthful poems the rhyme is not strictly attended to. Rhymes are to children the very signs of poetry; they read them with emphasis, and remember them tenaciously; and, therefore, it is of the first importance, that they should chime correctly, in order that the infant tongue may not acquire a bad and vicious pronunciation. And in this particular I know of no juvenile author so faulty as the Rev. Dr. Watts; who, although a very good and pious man in other respects, was a very bad rhymer, and is not, therefore, as Dr. Johnson says of him in his Life, one of the few poets with whom youth and ignorance may be safely pleased.' The Doctor too truly objects, elsewhere, that his rhymes are not always sufficiently correspondent.' Thus, in his Divine and Moral Songs for Children you meet continually with such flagrant examples as these :

How skilfully she builds each cell,
How neat she spreads the wax,
And labours hard to store it well
With the sweet food she makes.

Ormaks,' which is a Scottish pronunciation, and even to the offspring of that country would make no rhyme with the antecedent word, which they would call wox.'

God quickly sent two raging bears

To stop their wicked breath,

That tore them limb from limb, with tears,

And blood, and groans, to death.

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To tear them with tears (tares) is tautology, and to read it tears (teers) would require it to be raging, or foaming, beers.

I might, Sir, trouble you with innumerable other instances, but the present are sufficient to show the evil consequences that must result from such errors to the juvenile mind, which, till it begins to reason, attaches so much importance to rhyme.

We thank our Dublin Correspondent for his kind offer; but we fear we can scarcely advise him to carry his project into execution.

TO ALLAN CUNNINGHAM,

By the Author of "The River Derwent."

I.-1.

MINSTREL of other days! if stranger's hand
May to thy name attune a votive lay,

Thee, worthy as thou art of crown of bay,
And all the wealth Parnassian fields command,
Fain would I hail! For thou, as with a wand
Of magic, hast call'd up, in proud array,
Scenes which had passed confusedly away
To the dim confines of tradition's land!

I.-2.

Thee, on whose mind imaginative powers
Have shed the blessing and the pomp of song,
Long may Joy keep in her elysian bowers,
And Fancy lead in her immortal throng!
May spirits lap thee in Castalia's tide,
And give thee wings, upon the winds to ride,-

II.-1.

That from the halls which in the heavens arise,
Where day-light ever smiles on happy Time,
From the bright meads of the ethereal clime,
Hereafter thou may'st win the glorious prize
Which shall thy name and verse immortalize,-
That gift which shall reward thy gorgeous rhyme-
Thy fabled strains-and genius sublime,
And lift thee to thy mansion in the skies!

II.-2.

Proceed, sweet minstrel! Charm us yet awhile
With grateful tales, from Cumbrian legends cull'd,
And from thy country's annals. Thee the smile
Of Britain welcomes, in seclusion lull'd
Amid the worthies of those distant years,
To whom thy page a welcome tribute rears.

III.-1.

The mighty bard of Albion's glens and hills,
(He who hath conjured up, as in a dream,
Visions which floated on oblivion's stream,
And taught the feelings which the Muse instils;
Whether she lingers by the modest rills,

Or lists the trumpet and the eagle's scream

On fields of war:) not more hath felt the gleamThe warmth-the fire which thy conception fills.

III.-2.

Bard, thou, of other days-beloved in these!

Though thine own valleys vibrate with thy name; Let not a distant sound of praise displease,

From one who envies thee the wreath of Fame. Receive my thanks, and proud my verse shall be Thus to acknowledge thy sweet minstrelsy. December, 1822.