DEATHS.-JULY. tribune to express our sympathetic regret, and to manifest our high esteem for that illustrious orator, who during the whole course of his long and glorious career has never expressed any sentiments towards France but those of kind feeling and justice, and whose language has always been that of courtesy towards her Government. If the Assembly deigns to approve of my words, they shall be inserted in the procèsverbal." Marks of assent arose from every part of the Assembly. Numerous portraits and busts have been published of Sir Robert Peel. 2. At Cheltenham, aged 72, Lieut.Col. Thomas Wright, of the late Royal Staff Corps. He was present at Waterloo. 3. Aged 64, Anne, relict of Thomas Nevile Guest, esq., of Cardiff. At Ilfracombe, aged 62, Elizabeth, widow of Francis Kingdon, esq., of Great Torrington, and eldest daughter of the late Very Rev. Joseph Palmer, Dean of Cashel. In Mansfield-street, London, aged 57, the Right Hon. William Henry Francis, eleventh Baron Petre of Writtle, co. Essex (1603), F.R.S. His Lordship was born on the 22nd January, 1793, the eldest son of Robert Edward, the tenth lord, by Mary Bridget, eldest daughter of Henry Howard, esq., and sister to Bernard Edward, fifteenth Duke of Norfolk. He succeeded to the peerage on the death of his father, March 29, 1809; and took his seat in the House of Peers on the passing of the Roman Catholic Relief Act. He voted in favour of Reform of Parliament, and generally supported the Whig party. During many years Lord Petre was well known as a patron of the turf, and a promoter of the manly English sport of fox-hunting, and when declining health obliged him to give up his pack in 1831, the gentlemen of Essex presented him a handsome piece of plate commemorative of their esteem and sense of obligation. Lord Petre was twice married,-first, on the 2nd June, 1815, to Frances Charlotte, eldest daughter of Sir Richard Bedingfield, bart.; and secondly, April 14, 1823, to Emma Agnes, second daughter of the late Henry Howard, esq., of Corby, and has left numerous issue. bar by the Inner Temple in 1805, and went the Western circuit for a considerable period. In 1817 he was appointed recorder of Penang, and he subsequently became one of the Puisne Judges of the Supreme Court in Bombay. 4. At Barham, Suffolk, in his 92nd year, the Rev. William Kirby, M.A., Rector of that place, Rural Dean of the deanery of Claydon, and an hon. Canon of Norwich; Honorary President of the Entomological Society of London, President of the Ipswich Museum, Fellow of the Royal, Linnean, Zoological, and Geological Societies, and an honorary member of several foreign societies. In 1782 Mr. Kirby was nominated to the joint curacies of Barham and Coddenham, in which for 68 years he performed in a most exemplary manner the duties of parish priest. Always of an observant turn of mind (having at an early period evinced a great fondness for natural science), he had not been long resident at Barham before his attention was called to the habits of various insects which he met with in his daily walks. He was encouraged by some friend to pursue this study, as one opening before him a wide and extensive field of research; and from this time the study of the insect world became his constant source of recreation and amusement. In the year 1801 he published his work entitled" Monographia Apium Angliæ," in 2 vols. 8vo., in which, from materials almost wholly collected by himself, and the plates of which were mostly etched by his own hand (having taken lessons in the art for this express purpose), he described upwards of 200 of the wild bees of this country, with a largeness and correctness of view as to their family (or, as they are now considered, generic divisions), that excited the warmest admiration of British and foreign entomologists. About this time, or rather earlier, he formed an acquaintance, which afterwards ripened into a firm and unbroken friendship, with William Spence, esq., the wellknown and highly-esteemed naturalist. It is probable they had both met with hindrances in the prosecution of their favourite study, from the paucity of books in the English language devoted to entomology, especially to the elementary part of the science. That this obstacle to the study of Entomology might no longer exist, Mr. Kirby and Mr. Spence determined to unite their DEATHS.-JULY. efforts, and present the English nation with a work which should be at once a compendious and an accessible Introduction to the study. So happily was the design conceived and executed, that, whilst numerous scientific works have been superseded since the date of its publication, this still enjoys a reputation and celebrity steadily increasing, and has been translated into several foreign languages. Although Entomology was Mr. Kirby's favourite pursuit, he did not confine his attention to this alone, but was conversant with other subjects connected with Natural History, and from time to time contributed many valuable papers to the Transactions of the Linnean Society. The energies of his mind were with equal diligence directed to the study of Theology. In the year 1829 he published a volume of Sermons, partly (to use his own language) to show that while he devoted so much of his time to the study of God's works, he had not been negligent of his word. Mr. Kirby was shortly after selected by Mr. Davies Gilbert (the President of the Royal So ciety) to write one of the Bridgewater Treatises. His subject was "the history, habits, and instincts of Animals," and was published in the year 1835. The manner in which he executed this task, although in his 76th year, was alike creditable to his scientific acquirements and his piety; his earnest desire was to see God in all things here, his fervent hope was "to see all things in God hereafter." Mr. Kirby was also the author of the description (occupying a 4to. volume) of the insects of the "Fauna Boreali-Americana" of Sir John Richardson. In 1841 Bishop Stanley nominated him an honorary canon of Norwich Cathedral. 4. At Cambridge, aged 45, Mr. Andrew Murray, curator of the University Botanic-garden. 5. Matilda, wife of Edward Jesse, esq., of Richmond, and daughter of the late Sir John Morris, bart., of Clasemont, Glamorganshire. At Knole House, near Frant, Sussex, aged 62, Sheffield Grace, esq., LL.D., a Deputy-Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for that county. He was the second son of Richard Grace, esq., M.P., of Boley, in the Queen's County, and brother of the late Sir William Grace, bart., of Grace Castle, co. Kilkenny, who succeeded to that title on the death of his kinsman Sir Richard Gamon, M.P. for Winchester. The family are descended from the famous Raymond le Gras, brother-in-law and companion of Strongbow in the conquest of Ireland, and from the illustrious English family of the Sheffields, Dukes of Buckingham. Mr. Sheffield Grace was educated at Winchester College, and at St. Mary's Hall, Oxford. Mr. Grace was a man of great literary taste, and was well versed in genealogy and antiquity, and published some treatises on those subjects. 6. At Oak Hill, near Liverpool, Thurstan Dale, esq., of Ashbourn, formerly Major in the 4th Foot. At the Chateau Echinghen, Pas de Calais, in his 70th year, the Right Hon. James Butler, Baron of Dunboyne, co. Meath (1541). His Lordship was born on the 25th July, 1780, the only son of James Butler, esq., of Cragnagowra, co. Clare. He was descended from James, fourth son of the second Lord Dunboyne, and became the representative of his family on the death, in 1800, of his cousin John Lord Dunboyne. The peerage had been unacknowledged by the state from the year 1641, when James, the fourth Lord, having been implicated in the Irish rebellion, suffered a sentence of outlawry. Another sentence of outlawry was passed against Pierce Butler, his cousin and heir; and they continued in force until the reign of King George the Fourth, when the gentleman now deceased petitioned His Majesty for permission to prove his descent, which petition His Majesty was pleased to refer to the consideration of his Attorney and Solicitor-General for Ireland. The law officers having reported to His Majesty that the claimant's right had been fully and satisfactorily proved before them, his Majesty was thereupon graciously pleased by warrant under his royal sign manual, dated at Windsor, 26th Oct., 1827, to order his Attorney-General that the attainders against this barony should be immediately reversed. Lord Dunboyne married, first, on the 17th Aug., 1799, Eleanor, daughter of David O'Connell, esq., of Cork; and secondly, in 1843, Mrs. Vaughan, of Bell-hatch House, Oxfordshire. William Gilbert, of Tottenham, son of William Gilbert, esq., of Finchley. At Lahore, in the East Indies, Lieut.-Col. John Wallace King, com DEATHS.-JULY. third class of the Bath conferred on him. He now obtained leave to travel into Cashmere, and on his return to Lahore found much disagreeable occupation in the numerous courts-martial which were then assembled. On the 16th of Dec. the regiment was reviewed at Lahore by the Commander-in-chief, Sir Charles Napier, who addressed them as follows:-"Soldiers, the Colonel says you are small men, and your swords are too heavy for you, and not so sharp as the Sikhs' swords. I beg the Colonel's pardon. I see before me men with big hearts, and broad shoulders, and strong arms, and, if we have another war, Ï would give them an opportunity to show what they are made of." These remarks, though the Colonel at the time seemed gratified with the result of the inspection, appeared to have rankled in his mind when subsequently labouring under great depression and irritation of spirits; and in a letter written on the eve of his committing suicide, addressed to Sir Charles Napier, he declared, "Your remarks before the regiment sowed the seeds of discontent, which have ripened into mutiny. You are the cause of the stripes and punishment which that mutiny has led to, and distraction and death to one that once had friends, now disgrace and misery to those friends." Under the irritation of mind caused by these unfortunate discussions, Lieut.-Col. King destroyed himself with a pistol. manding Her Majesty's 14th Light accordingly rewarded by having the Dragoons. This gallant officer entered the army as cornet in the 5th Dragoon Guards. He served in that regiment for nineteen years, beloved and esteemed by all as a zealous officer, and as an honourable, high-minded, and generous man. In 1845 he exchanged, as Major, into the 14th Dragoons, having an ardent desire to see active service, and proceeded to India by the first packet. After the outbreak at Moultan, when that fortress was invested, Lieut.-Col. King (as cavalry were not likely to be called into requisition) solicited and obtained permission to serve in the trenches or elsewhere. He remained there till the defection of Shere Singh forced the officer in command to raise the siege, when he immediately rejoined his regiment, and shortly after proceeded with it to the head-quarters of the army under Lord Gough. The affair of Ramnugger soon followed, and the 14th Dragoons suffered severely. On the death of Lieut. Col. Havelock, Lieut.-Col. King succeeded to the command of the regiment, and acquitted himself to the entire satis faction of Lord Gough. At the battle of Chillianwallah, the brigade of cavalry, of which the 14th Dragoons formed a part, most certainly were unfortunate, and did not distinguish themselves; but it was never alleged that the officer commanding the 14th was in any shape responsible for the failure. Almost immediately afterwards Lieut.-Col. King was appointed to command a force consisting of a native cavalry regiment and his own, supported by a brigade of guns, for the important duty of bringing into camp a convoy of provisions on which the subsistence and safety of the army depended, which service he performed to the entire satisfaction of the general in chief. Next followed the battle of Goojerat, where Lieut.Col. King had a horse shot under him. The Sikh power was destroyed, and Major-Gen. Sir Walter Gilbert was intrusted with the pursuit, in the hope of cutting off the flying enemy; he selected Lieut.-Col. King to command the entire cavalry employed on that arduous and fatiguing duty. This war being terminated, Lord Gough, before resigning his command, transmitted to England the names of such officers as he deemed worthy to receive the approbation of Her Majesty. Among these was that of Lieut.-Col. King, who was 7. At Liege, Somerset G. D'Arcy Irvine, esq., son of the late Sir George D'Arcy Irvine, bart., of Castle Irvine. At Edinburgh, aged 61, Lieut. Wm. Hamilton Murray, R.N. He was in the Resistance 38, at the capture of the Marengo 80, and Belle Poule 40; and in several actions in the Mediterranean. At Seymour, East Canada West, Commander Henry Le Vesconte, R.N. This officer was a brother of Commander Philip Le Vesconte, who died in Jan. last. He entered the navy in 1790, and was actively employed in various parts of the globe. He was made Lieutenant Oct. 27, 1800; and, having joined the Jamaica 24, he shared in that vessel in the action off Copenhagen April 2, 1801; and on the 21st of the following Aug. took command, in conjunction with Lieut. J. J. C. Agassiz, of the boats of a squadron, and gained DEATHS.-JULY. the praise of Lord Nelson for his gal lantry and zeal at the capture and destruction, with but slight loss to the British, of six flat-bottomed gun-vessels which had been driven on shore near St. Valery, and were protected by the fire of a body of military and five fieldpieces. He invalided from the Jamaica in Jan., 1804, and was subsequently appointed, on the 16th June following, to the Naiad 38, Capts. Jas. Wallis and Thomas Dundas, under the latter of whom he fought at Trafalgar, and on that occasion assisted in extricating the Belleisle 74 from a perilous position near the shoals, whither she was fast drifting. He subsequently served in various ships. 8. At Cambridge House, Piccadilly, in his 77th year, H.R.H. Prince Adolphus Frederick of Brunswick-Lunenburgh, Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Tipperary, and Baron of Culloden; a Privy-Councillor, K.G., G.C.B., and G.C.H., Grand Master, and first principal Knight Grand Cross of the Ionian Order of St. Michael and St. George, and Knight of the Prussian Orders of the Black and Red Eagle; FieldMarshal in the Army, Colonel of the Coldstream Guards, Colonel-in-Chief of the 60th Rifles, and a Commissioner of the Royal Military College and Royal Military Asylum; Ranger of St. James's, Hyde, and Richmond Parks, Warden and Keeper of the New Forest; D.C.L., &c., &c. The Duke of Cambridge was the seventh and youngest surviving son of King George the Third and Queen Charlotte; and was born on the 24th Feb., 1774. On the 2nd June, 1786, together with his brothers Princes Edward, Ernest, and Augustus, he was elected a Knight of the Garter, the King on that occasion enlarging the number of the Order. Prince Adolphus received his earliest education at Kew, together with his brothers the King of Hanover and the late Duke of Sussex, under the care of Dr. Hughes and Mr. Cookson. At fifteen years of age he was sent with his brothers to Göttingen, to finish his studies. He also visited the court of Prussia to perfect his knowledge of military tactics. In 1793 the Duke of Cambridge was appointed Colonel in the Hanoverian army. He served as a volunteer under his brother the Duke of York during the early part of the campaign of 1793, in Flanders, and the latter part of that campaign He with Marshal Freytag. On the retreat DEATHS.-JULY. to the dominions of his royal father, after having been annexed for a time, by the decree of Buonaparte, to the kingdom of Westphalia. Shortly after, his Royal Highness was appointed by his father Governor-General of Hanover, and he continued to fill that important post with satisfaction to the country, until, in the year 1839, the death of King William IV. opened the succession to the throne of Hanover to the Duke of Cumberland, when the Duke of Cambridge returned to England. His administration of the affairs of that kingdom was characterised with wisdom, mildness, and discretion, and was such as to preserve the peace of that kingdom through the revolutionary fervour of 1830. On the 7th of May, 1818, the Duke of Cambridge was united in marriage, at Cassel, to the Princess Wilhelmina Louisa, youngest daughter of Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse Cassel, and that marriage was renewed upon the arrival of their Royal Highnesses in England. The issue of this marriage were a son and two daughters: 1. Prince George-William-FrederickCharles, born in 1819, and now Duke of Cambridge; 2. the Princess Augusta, born in 1822, and married in 1843 to the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz; and 3. the Princess Mary, born in 1833. The Duke of Cambridge was nominated a Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, on the enlargement of the order Jan. 2, 1815. He was nominated Grand Master of the Ionian order of St. Michael and St. George in 1826. In 1827 he was appointed Colonel-in-chief of the 60th Foot. In 1842 he received the honorary degree of D.C.L. from the University of Cambridge. On the 29th Aug., 1835, he was appointed Ranger of Richmond New Park; on the 31st May, 1843, Chief Ranger and Keeper of Hyde Park and St. James's Park; and on the 22nd Feb., 1845, Warden and Keeper of the New Forest; all of which offices he retained to his death. In this country his Royal Highness has always been popular. He was a zealous and indefatigable supporter of those public charities which are the pride of England, and he was always ready to give them his efficient aid by presiding at their anniversary meetings and festivals, where the frankness of his manners, and the straightforward earnestness with which he advocated their claims, rendered him an universal favourite. With out the slightest pretension to eloquence, he had yet a manly, unaffected, and thoroughly English style of speaking and conducting himself, which endeared him much to all those with whom he came publicly in contact. His Royal Highness was President or Patron of almost every benevolent institution in London; not only contributing his personal and pecuniary support, but taking a large and judicious share in the management. His private character was ever unexceptionable. When young his habits were very studious, and his acquirements as a scholar were far more considerable than was generally supposed. His manners were affable and pleasing, no person, perhaps, possessing more completely that characteristic which the French term "bonhommie." He was a thorough English prince in habits, disposition, and bearing, and he seemed at all times at home with the English people, and they with him. Of music he was a constant and a cordial patron. There was no pretence in the interest he took in the art. If sometimes it was amusingly demonstrated, it was always sincere, and for the most part well directed. In his day, too, the Duke bore a fair reputation among amateur performers. In the House of Lords the Duke of Cambridge spoke but rarely, and only on important occasions. In politics, he had from the beginning of his career acted generally in favour of the Tory party: his deep affection for his father made him resist all overtures on the part of his brother the Prince of Wales, Fox, Sheridan, and the other Whigs of that day; and, though latterly always ready to support the measures of the Government as chosen by his Sovereign, if he conscientiously could, he on all occasions displayed Conservative calmness and caution. His mode of address, though not eloquent, was sensible and impres sive, and he was ever listened to with attention and respect. His body was consigned to a temporary resting-place in Kew Church, in the immediate vicinity of Cambridge-cottage, his favourite suburban residence. 8. At Trafford Hall, aged 59, R. G. Perryn, esq. 9. In Paris, General Boyer, the former President of the Republic of Hayti. At Washington, of a short attack of cholera, aged 63, General Zachary |