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and in that year was appointed Aid-deCamp to Lord Cornwallis, the Lord Lieutenant and Commander-in-chief in that country, under whom he served the short campaign in Connaught, and was present at the surrender of the French force, under General Humbert, at Ballinamuck. In April 1799, Lieut. Colonel Clinton, being attached to Lord W. Bentinck, employed on a mission to the Austro-Russian army in Italy, was present at the battle of Trebia, sieges of Alexandria and Seravalle, and at the battle of Novi; after which, being appointed to attend Marshal Suwarrovv, on his march into Switzerland, he was present at the action in forcing the passage of St. Gothard at those of the Teufels Brück, Klonthaler See, and Glarus. Early in 1800, being employed on a mission to the Austrian army in Swabia, he was present at the battles of Engen and Moeskirck; and during the retreat from the Upper Danube to Alt Otting in Bavaria. At the end of the campaign he joined his battalion in England; in June 1801, he was appointed Assistant Adjutant-general in the eastern district; and in June 1802, Adjutant-general in the East Indies. He received the brevet of Colonel, Sept. 25, 1803, and in October he joined the army under Lord Lake, at Agra. He was at the battle of Lasswarree, on which occasion he was entrusted by his Lordship with the command of the right of the army; he continued to serve in Hindostan until October 1804, and then he resigned the appointment of Adjutant general. In March following he sailed from India. In November 1895, Colonel Clinton was employed on a mission to the Russian army in Moravia, under General Kutusovv; and at the conclusion of the peace between Russia and France, returned to England. In July 1806 he embarked for Sicily, in command of the flank battalion of the Guards. He commanded the garrison of Syracuse from December 1806 to November following, and returned with his battalion to England in January 1808; the 25th of which month he was appointed Brigadier-general, and as such commanded a brigade in the armament that sailed under the late Sir John Moore to Sweden. On his return from the latter place, he was appointed Adjutant-general to the army in Portugal; he was present at the action at Vimiera, and with Sir John Moore during the campaign in Spain, and retreat through Gallicia, to the embarkation at Corunna, in January 1809. On his return from Spain, he published a pamphlet, entitled "A Few Remarks explanatory of the motives which guided

the operations of the British army during the late short campaign in Spain;" the object of which was to justify the retreat of Sir John Moore, and "to clear his reputation from that shade which by some has been cast over it." The 25th of Jan. 1809, Colonel Clinton was appointed Adjutant-general in Ireland, and on the 25th of July, 1810, a Major-general. In October 1811 he was removed from the Staff of Ireland to that of the army under Lord Wellington in Portugal, and was appointed to the command of the sixth division. In June 1812 he was charged with the siege of the forts of Salamanca; and he was present at the battle fought near that city on the 22d of July. When Lord Wellington marched against Joseph Buonaparte at Madrid, Major-General Clinton was entrusted with the command of that part of the army left upon the Douro, to observe the enemy in that quarter. He was present at the siege of the Castle of Burgos, and in the several affairs which happened in the retreat from thence to the frontiers of Portugal. Major-General Clinton received the thanks of Parliament for his conduct at the battle of Salamanca ; on the 29th of July, 1813, he was appointed an extra Knight of the Order of the Bath, and, on the enlargement of the Order, nominated a Knight Grand Cross. In April 1813 he was appointed a Lieut.General in Spain and Portugal; he was present at the investment of Pampluna in July, and at the actions which were fought upon passing the Nivelle in November, and the Nive in December of that year. During the winter he was em ployed in the blockade of Bayonne : was present at the battle of Orthes on the 27th of February, 1814; affair of Caceres, on the 2d of March; affair at Tarbes, on the 20th; and at the battle of Toulouse, on the 10th of April, Lieut.-General Sir Henry Clinton received the thanks of Parliament for his services in these several actions. Sir Henry was appointed Colonel-Commandant of the first battalion, 60th foot, May 20, 1813; Lieut.-General in the army, June 4, 1814; the same year Inspector-general of Infantry; and, subsequently, second in command in the Belgian army. He commanded a division of infantry at the battle of Waterloo; and for his conduct on that occasion was appointed Knight of the Austrian Order of Maria-Theresa; Knight of the Third Class of the Russian Order of St. George; and Knight of the Third Class of the Wilhelm Order, of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. He afterwards commanded a division of the British contingent in France. On the 9th of August, 1815, he

was removed from the sixth battalion, 60th foot, to the Colonelcy of his late regiment, the 3d foot; and on the 20th of May, 1816, he again received in person the thanks of the House of Commons.

LORD REDESDALE.

Lately, at his seat, Batsford-park, near Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Gloucestershire, Lord Redesdale, in the eighty-second year of his age. His Lordship was born on the 18th of August, 1748. Early in life, when Mr. Mitford, he entered as a Member of Lincoln's-inn. In due time he was called to the Bar; and in 1788 was returned Member of Parliament for a borough in the West of England. About 1790 he was appointed Solicitor-General, and received the honour of knighthood;

and in due process of time he was appointed Attorney-General. In 1801 he was chosen Speaker of the House of Commons, and a few months afterwards was appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and created Baron Redesdale. His Lordship married, in 1803, Lady Frances Perceval, daughter of the Earl of Egmont. His Lordship was always considered a very high legal authority in appeals and committees of the House of Lords. The measure of affording relief to men in a state of insolvency originated entirely with his Lordship; and, however much the privilege may have been abused by fraudulent individuals, the Insolvent Debtors' Laws will be a monument to the philanthropy of Lord Redesdale.

INCIDENTS, ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS, APPOINTMENTS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

A meeting was held at the London Tavern, lately, to take into consideration the expediency of forming resolutions and petitioning Parliament relative to the inju rious tendency of the Insolvent Laws. There were but few individuals present, and it was considered that the public sentiment would not be accurately represented by adopting the suggestions of so thin an attendance; it was this obvious feeling, which generally prevailed, that induced Mr. Bousfield, the solicitor to the Metropolitan Society for the Prosecution and Opposition of Fraudulent Insolvent Debtors, to move an adjournment. This was stoutly opposed by Mr. Northouse; but upon the question being put, it was carried by a very considerable majority, and the meeting adjourned, with the understanding that the public would be apprised of the adjournment-day. In the course of the remarks that fell from the speakers' description of the evils of the present Act, the chairman (a Mr. Chambers) said, that he had three thousand customers, out of which number there were not three hundred worth 301. and it was astonishing the number of letters he received with the tidings, that unless he received 5s. or 6s. in the pound for his claim, they must take the benefit of the Act and get "whitewashed."

West India Trade. The particulars of an interview between his Majesty's Ministers and the West Indian planters have transpired in the City; the latter are stated to have complained of the high duties on sugar and other West India products, and the depressed state of the European markets; and to have added, that they were led to believe, from the discus

sions in Parliament last session, that the duty on sugar would be reduced. The Duke of Wellington is represented to have said that there was not the slightest intention of reducing the duty; nor were any measures in contemplation that would relieve the West India interests, which were only suffering in common with every other in the country.

This

Metropolitan Reform Meeting. meeting, which it was computed amounted in number to about sixteen thousand persons, took place last month on some ground belonging to the Eagle Tavern, City-road. Mr. O'Connell, M. P. presided. A string of resolutions were passed, a petition was founded thereon, and a "Political Union" determined on. The resolutions stated "that trade had arrived at an extent of depression never before equalled, and that the hopes of melioration held out had proved fallacious; that the opinion of the meeting was, that the distress was to be ascribed to the sanguinary wars carried on against liberty in America and France, and heightened by gross mismanagement in public affairs; that relief only could be hoped for by means of Parliamentary reform; that to accomplish the objects desired, it is expe. dient to form a general Political Union between the middling and labouring classes of the metropolis, &c. The objects of the Political Union were to attain, by Constitutional means, a Radical Reform in Parliament to secure the rights of the people-to address the Crown, &c. for the repeal of bad laws and the enactment of good ones to prevent and redress all political wrongs-to premote peace, union, and concord among all classes-to collect

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and organize the peaceful expression of public feeling-to adopt adequate measures for obtaining relief for the national distress, &c. and in all things to obey and conform to the law, and in nothing to violate the spirit, or even the letter of the Constitution." The utmost order prevailed. The assemblage was addressed by the chairman, Mr. Henry Hunt, and several warm advocates of Parliamentary Reform.

St. Katherine's Docks.-The first annual meeting of the proprietors of shares in the St. Katherine's Docks was lately held at the Dock-house, Tower-hill; Thomas Tooke, Esq. in the chair. The report stated, that the total cost of the docks, and all the works and buildings within the boundary wall, was 1,933,472.; and an additional outlay of 196,9951. was required, which it was proposed to raise by an issue of debentures, reserving the rights of the holders of those already issued. Of such additional outlay, the excess upon the estimates is only 45,3217. Is. 2d. the remaining sums being required to defray the expense of additional works, buildings, improvements, plant fixtures, and contingencies. The directors recommend a dividend of one

and a half per cent. upon the fixed capital 1,352,8001. (the interest on debentures, up to the 5th of October last, having been paid,) which will leave a balance of 14,9267. 19s. 9d. to be carried to the credit of the revenue account of the next half year. The report was received with strong marks of approbation. The chairman then observed, that eighty ships, between 300 and 800 tons register, had entered the dock during the last year.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. The Rev. J. H. Seymour, M.A. to the Rectory of Northchurch, Herts.

The Rev. C. Goring, B.A. of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Twineham, Sussex.

The Rev. C. C. Clerke, M.A. and Student of Christ Church, is appointed Archdeacon of the Diocese of Oxford.

The Rev. A. Crowdy, A.M. of Brasenose College, Oxford, to the Vicarage of King's Somborne.

The Rev. S. T. Gulley, to the Rectory of Berrynarbor, Devon.

The Rev. W. A. Norton, A.M.Rector of Skenfrith, Monmouthshire, to the Rectory of Eyke, Suffolk. The Rev. W. Church, B.C.L. of Emmanuel College, to the Rectory of Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire.

The Rev. L. E. Towne, M.A. of Emmanuel College, to the Rectory of Knipton, Lincolnshire. The Rev. T. Willingham Booth, B.A. to the Vicarage of Friskney, Lincolnshire.

The Rev. C. Nairne, M.A. of Trinity College, to the Rectory of Shadoxhurst, Kent. April.-VOL XXX. NO. CXII.

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The Rev. W. Firth, B.D. Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, to the Rectory of Letcombe Basset, Berks.

The Rev. C. Holloway, B.A. to the Rectory of St. Simon and Jude, Norwich.

Married.] At St. George's, Hanover square, Captain the Hon. F. Spencer, C. B. third son of Earl Spencer, to Miss Poyntz, second daughter of W. S. Poyntz, Esq. of Cow Park, Sussex.

At the British Embassy, Paris, Viscount Stuart, eldest son of the Earl of Castle Stuart, to Emmeline, sole surviving child of the late B. Bathurst, Esq.

Hall, Staffordshire, to Helen Elizabeth, the second
At Shaw Church, W. Mosely, Esq. of Leaton
daughter of T. Bacon, Esq. Donnington Castle,
Berks.

At Twickenham, G. E. Pocock, Esq. eldest son of Sir G. Pocock, Bart. to Augusta Elinor, eldest daughter of the late Hon. T. W. Coventry.

At Godalming, the Rev. Dr. Wilson, to Miss Sumner.

At Sculcoates Church, Mr. Francis to Mrs. Rimmington.

At Rolls Park, Essex, Colonel W. C. Eustace, C.B. to Einma, second daughter of the late Admiral Sir E. Harvey.

At. St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, Mr. B. Elwin, of Norwich, to Miss E. Elwin, of Bexley.

At Streatham, R. Puckle, Esq. of Claphamcommon, to Clementina, daughter of J. Kaye, Esq. At St. Michael's Church, S. Smith, Esq. to Georgiana Matilda, only daughter of Joshua Lo

max, Esq.

At Nazing, Robert, eldest son of John Biddulph, Esq. of Ledbury, to Elizabeth, only daughter of G. Palmer, Esq.

At Hadstock, J. Day, Esq. of Cheswick Hall, to Miss M. Smoothy, youngest daughter of T Smoothy, Esq. of Hadstock.

At Coggeshall, Robert, second son of Charles Barclay, Esq. M. P. of Grosvenor-place, to Ra chel, third daughter of Osgood Hanbury, Esq. of Holfield Grange.

At Aylesbury, Mr. N. Neale, of Leighton Buz zard, to Elizabeth, second daughter of Mr. W. Rolls, of Aylesbury.

Died. On the 16th inst. at Richmond-terrace, Whitehall, Sir R. T. Farquhar, Bart. M. P. many years Governor of the Mauritius and its dependencies.

At Stapleton-park, the Hon. C. Anne Petre.
At the Rectory House, Bread-street-bill, the
Rev. J. B. Sanders, M. A.

In Lower Grosvenor street, Colonel John Mackenzie, C. B.

At Fulham, Frances Rachel, daughter of Thomas Wood, Esq. of Lettleton.

Mrs. H. Bowdler, of Park-street, Bath.
At Fakenham, Norfolk, J. Ivory, Esq.
At Abingdon, at an advanced age, Mary, relict
of the late Mr. J. Shury.

Miss Austwick, daughter of the late L. Austwick, Esq.

Mrs. George Wetton, of Maidenhead.

At Trinity College, Cambridge, the Rev. H. Renouard, M.A.

The Rev. R. Kedington, M. A. of Babergh, Great Waldingfield, Suffolk.

At Tannington, Charles Ray, Esq.

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PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES

IN THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND, AND IN WALES, SCOTLAND,
AND IRELAND.

BERKSHIRE.

In the charge to the Grand Jury, on a late opening of the Berks sessions, at Reading, the Chairman (Mr. Dundas), in adverting to the general state of crime throughout the country, could not forbear observing that it appeared obvions to him its increase arose principally from the universal distress which was spread throughout the kingdom. Indeed, he need scarcely have mentioned this, for it affected every one-the magistrate on the bench, as well as the jury in the box. It was unques. tionable that the poor were in a most miserable state; and he feared it was too generally the practice to beat them down so low, as well in wages as in parochial allowances, as to leave them scarcely sufficient to maintain even their existence. The consequence was, they were almost driven to the commission of dishonest acts, and thus crime was cultivated rather than restrained; and which, in all likelihood, would not be the case were masters and parishes more liberal. The law compelled the sustentation of the young and the old, and even of the able-bodied who could not find employment; but in some places, he grieved to hear, the weekly payments were as low as two shillings and eightpence, a sum which he conceived to be inadequate. The Grand Jury had the power of inquiry into these facts. The Chairman thought some work might be found for them which would tend to the general good; at all events, the poor ought to have a sufficient allowance, certainly not less than four shillings per week. Indeed, it was much better in every point of view to pay them better, for then they would work better; whereas, when they received only 2s. 8d. per week, they were of course dissatisfied, and only idled away their time. Pay them fairly for their work, keep them to regular hours, and he (the Chairman) was satisfied it would be advantageous to both parties, as well as to the community at large. In some parishes, a beneficial custom prevailed to employ a proportionate number of the poor on the respective farms, according to their size: here parochial distress was effectually relieved, and in some degree turned to good. He was sorry, however, to say that but few parishes could agree to adopt that plan, and of course, where they could not, it was not put into operation. But he earnestly advised all parishes to endeavour to give employment to their own poor, and pay them fairly, as well as they could, for their labour.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE.

A meeting, composed of nearly two thousand respectable landowners, farmers, &c. assembled at the Town Hall, Cambridge, lately, pursuant to a requisition to Richard Orton, Esq. High Sheriff of the county," for the purpose of considering the expediency of petitioning Parliament for the abolition of the Malt and Beer Tax, and for considering the present system of licensing public houses." Sir S. V. Cotton, Bart. of Mattenly, in moving the petition, said, that by striking at the root of the licensing system, effecting the repeal of the Malt and Beer Duties, they would at once afford relief

to the agriculturists of the kingdom. The Hon. Bart. then read the petition, which was approved. CUMBERLAND.

A meeting of the nobility, gentry, clergy, and freeholders of Cumberland was lately held at Wigton, the High Sheriff in the chair, when a petition was agreed to, earnestly praying the Legislature to pass an Act for causing an efficient reform in the Commons House of Parliament, as the only means of removing the distresses in which the country is plunged, and thereby restoring happiness and prosperity to the people. Mr. James, late Member for Carlisle, who moved the adoption of the petition, avowed that he "was for low prices, low rents, and low taxes. He should like to know who ever heard of the farmers, or of the people of England, being injured by low prices in any former age?" The Hon. Gendeman called on Sir James Graham to insist on the remission of taxes" it was his duty to oppose all grants for the building of palaces;" adding, that he should "stand forward and boldly denounce such scandalous extravagance, committed at a time when the people were starving.”

GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

Several plans and specifications of a suspension bridge, to be thrown across the Avon from Saint Vincent's Rocks, including those of Capt. Brown, the inventor and patentee of suspension bridges, were lately submitted to the Committee for carrying the undertaking into effect. A very beautiful model was also laid before them, made by Messrs. Foster and Okeley, on a scale of 10 feet to an inch, The pillars are intended to be sunk thirty feet in the rock, and to be 150 feet high, fifty of which are to be above the level of the bridge. They are to be erected in a line with Sion Row and Nightingale Valley. The whole span is 830 feet, and 570 feet in the clear; the height is 200 feet; it is to be forty feet wide, of which the footpath on each side is to be six feet. From these measurements, it appears that it will be twenty feet wider, and just double the height of the Menai bridge. The estimates amount to 40,000l. and 50,0007. Captain Brown, who has erected every bridge of this description, attended the committee.

HAMPSHIRE.

A meeting was lately held at Winchester, convened by the High Sheriff of the county, on the requisition of upwards of 300 persons of the first respectability, for the purpose of considering the propriety and necessity of petitioning the two Houses of Parliament, to re-consider the distresses of the people, and to repeal the taxes upon malt, bops, beer, houses, and windows, as appearing to the requisitionists to be amongst those that pressed most heavily upon the middle and lower classes of the people, and to add to that distress so generally admitted to prevail throughout the kingdom. The meeting was opened by the High Sheriff in the County Hall, and adjourned to the Grand Juryroom, in order that the speakers might address the persons assembled from the windows. There were about 400 persons present, consisting of the respect

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able yeomanry of the county, among whom were the owners of upwards of 50,000 acres of land. The meeting adopted resolutions in accordance with the prayer of the requisition, and upon which a petition to both Houses was formed.

KENT.

At a meeting lately of the freeholders and inhabitants of Buckland, near Dover,-G. Jennings, Esq. in the chair-a petition was approved of and numerously signed, praying for a Reform in Parliament; the abolishing of all unmerited sinecures; a thorough investigation of all public grants, especially those in reversion; a review of the tithe system, with intent to modify it; a reduction of duties now levied on all the principal necessaries of life; a reduction of the standing army, and on the tax laid on newspapers, and other meritorious publications--the petitioners expressing their full confidence that such exemplary measures would long prevent their enumerating other well-known grievances, be an immediate encouragement to industry, a stimulus to the drooping energies of British talent, and create a cheerful spirit of mercantile enterprise among all classes for the general

welfare.

In pursuance of a requisition, signed by upwards of 250 freeholders of the county of Kent, and addressed to the High Sheriff, E. Price, Esq. a meeting was lately held on Penenden Heath, for the purpose of considering of the propriety of addressing his Majesty on the present appalling distress of the country, and of petitioning both Houses of Parliament on the subject; and also on the necessity of pressing on the attention of the Legislature the benefits that would result from a full and effectual Reform in the Commons House of Parliament. Earl Stanhope, seconded by Lord Teynham, proposed an address detailing the existing distresses. Mr. Larkins moved as an amendment, that," in order to alleviate the distress of the people, an instantaneous reduction in the civil, military and church establishment ought to be effected; that all sinecures, and offices performed by deputies, ought to be annulled; that the salaries of public servants ought to be reduced; and, finally, the petitioners called on his Majesty to direct his Government to take measures for a Reform in Parliament," which was carried, and a petition of Mr. Bradley, to nearly the same effect, agreed to. LINCOLNSHIRE.

It has for some time been a great desideratum to improve the communication between the manufacturing districts west of the river Trent, and the agricultural district of Lincolnshire, on the other side. The meat consumption of the popu lation of Wakefield, Sheffield, Manchester, &c. has long been chiefly supplied from the markets of Lincoln, Boston, &c. Other traffic of a very extensive description also seeks improved means of communication on the same line.-A turnpikeroad was formed in 1827, under the superintendence of Mr. M'Adam, from East Retford to Littleborough Ferry, on the banks of the Trent; on the opposite side, an improving road leads direct to Lincoln, making the point of Littleborough Ferry the nearest of intersection between the agricultural and manufacturing districts divided by the river Trent. A bridge at Littleborough Ferry is also recommended, by the capability of one's being formed at an insignificant expense, owing to the narrowness of the river there, and

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local advantages. The great proprietors of estates on the line of the Littleborongh road, have become sensible of the general benefit which would ensue from a bridge over the Trent at Littleborough ; and Mr. Foljambe, Mr. Gally Knight, and others, are anxious to promote the measure, which only requires a little co-operation from proprietors on the Lincolnshire side of the river to be accomplished.

NORFOLK.

A meeting of the owners and occupiers of land in the Hundred of Mitford was held lately at the Assembly Room, East Dereham, which was attended by the principal agriculturists of the Hundred. The Dean of Hereford presided, and resolutions, stating the difficulties in which the farmers and those depending on them are now involved, and the necessity of the Legislature taking their situation into immediate consideration, for the purpose of affording relief, which it was considered might be most efficiently done in the first instance by the total repeal of the tax on malt, were moved, after some remarks by Mr. Samuel Lock, of Shipdham, and seconded by Mr. R. F. Beeston, of East Tuddenham. The resolutions were unanimously agreed to, and petitions founded upon them, to both Houses of Parliament, were adopted and signed by the meeting.

NORTHUMBERLAND.

The antiquarian Society of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, of which the Duke of Northumberland, K.G. &c. is the patron, lately held its seventeenth anniversary, C. Cookson, Esq. in the chair, when the following officers were appointed for the next year :-President, Sir J. E. Swinburne, Bart. F.R.S. &c. Vice Presidents, Sir C. M. L. Monck, Bart. James Losh, and Charles Wm. Bigge, Esq. Secretaries, the Rev. John Hodgson, F.R.S.L. and Jobn Adamson, Esq. F.S.A., F.R.S.L., &c. Treasurer, Mr. Adamson. Council, the Rev. W. Turner, Mr. John Murray, Mr. Thomas Hodgson, Mr. J. T. Brockett, C. Cookson, Esq. Charles J. Bigge, Esq. Mr. Emerson Charnley, Mr. John Stanton, Mr. Thomas Bell, John Hodgson, Esq. Dixon Dixon, Esq. and Mr. William Hutton.

SHROPSHIRE.

A public meeting, convened by the Mayor, to petition Parliament to repeal the Malt Duty, was held at Oswestry, last month; and notwithstanding an intemperate state of the weather, the meeting was highly respectable and numerous. Mr. Croxon, after a brief introduction, moved the adoption of a petition in conformity with the ob. ject of the meeting, and the motion was warmly seconded by Major Ormsby Gore. It was unanimously resolved, that the petition remain for signatures at the Town Clerk's office, and that the Members for the County be requested to present it in the House of Commons.

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