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Surgeons to the Phaeton. To the Gauges -Capt. P. Campbell, C.B.; Lieuts. J. A. Wright, C. Lutman, C. Smith, J. V. Baker, and Cheeseman, H. Binstead and Dr. Warden to be Surgeons. Mr. M. Goodsir is re-appointed Surgeon of the Athol, and Lieuts. G. F. Herbert and G. Delné to the Herald. Lieut. W. D. Puget to the Wellesley.

The Rev. R. Cutler, M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford, elected Master of the Free Grammar School in Dorchester, in the room of the Rev. E. Davies, resigned.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

The Rev. J. R. Roberts, to the Rectory of Rotherfield Grays.-The Rev. J. P. Roberts, B.A. and Chaplain of New College, Oxford, appointed a Chaplain of Christ Church.-The Hon. and Rev. E. S. Keppel, A.M. to the Rectory of Quiddenham, Norfolk.-The Rev. B. Hanbury, A.M. to the Vicarage of Bures St. Mary, with the hamlet of Bures, Suffolk.--The Rev. H. Goggs, A.B. to the Vicarage of South Creek, Norfolk.-The Rev. C. V. H. Sumner, appointed Domestic Chaplain to H.R.H. the Duke of York.-The Rev. H. Cholmeley, to the Rectory of Hempstead with Lessingham, Norfolk.-The Rev. Josh. Rowley, Clerk, A.M. to the Rectory of Holton, Suffolk.-The Rev. M. Oxenden, A.M. to be Domestic Chaplain to Lord Prudhoe.--The Rev. F. C. Blackstone, presented by the Warden and Fellows of New College, Oxford, to the Vicarage of Heckfield, Hants -The Rev. J. Amphlett, M.A. to the Perpetual Curacy of Wythall, Worcestershire.-The Rev. Dr. Fea, of Parsons Green, Fulham, to be Domestic Chaplain to the Duke of Sussex. The Hon. and Rev. E. S. Keppel, A.M. to the Rectory of Snitterton St. Andrew with All Saints, Norfolk.-The Rev. R. Faithful, M.A. to the Vicarage of Warfield, Berks, void by the death of Rev. J.

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gat dide robu 99799b Faithful, The Rev. E. Rust, A.M. to the Rectory of Drinkstone, in Suffolk.-The Rev. Chancellor Marsh, to the Prebend of Chute and Chisenbury, and the Rev. H. W. Majendie, to the Prebend of Beamin ster Prima, both in Salisbury Cathedral -The Rev. H. Owen, D.G.L. to the Vi carage of Redisham, Suffolk, vice Bence.

Married.]-At Kensington, Robt, Ha milton, esq. of Bloomfield Lodge, Nor wood, to Mary, only daughter of John Mainwaring, esq. At Richmond, H. Stanynought, esq. to Lucy, second daughe ter of the late William Collins, esq.-At Croydon, the Rev. E. S. Pearce, to Geor giana Elizabeth, second daughter of G.ɔ Smith, esq. M. P.-At Chiswick, R. P Frank, esq. to Caroline, second daughter of the Rev. S. Curteis, LL.D.-F. Gregg,› esq. of the Inner Temple, to Elizabeth Mary, the third daughter of the Rev. J. B. Ferrers.

Died.]-At Long Ditton, Surrey, G. A. Wylie, esq.-At Stoke Newington, J. Maddox, esq.-At Richmond, Mrs. T. Cowper, the last surviving daughter of Anthony Ashley Cowper.-At Kingsland-e green, Richard Gale, esq.-At Northamp ton-square, Mrs. B. Faulkner, relict of the late Rev. W. E. Faulkner-In Upper Montagu-street, G. T. Bulkeley, esq.→ Major-General T. Carey.-At Richmond,« Surrey, Mrs. M.Roberts.-In Queen Annestreet, of typhus fever, Dr. S. Cleverly. We announce with much concern the death of Lieut. Francis Laird, which took ? place on the 20th Oct., at Blackheath. Here had long suffered under a severe illness, which he bore with firmness. He was a man of varied attainments in science and literature. He was distinguished for mosa ral qualities, and a very kind dispositions and all who knew him professionally, and otherwise, held his talents in high respect," and his character in warm estimation. 19mm

REV. GEORGE WADDINGTON. M. A.

LATELY, at Tuxford, Nottinghamshire, aged 70, the Rev. George Waddington, M. A. vicar of that parish, and rector of Blaby with Countessthorpe, in the county of Leicester. He was mathematical tutor to his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, in which capacity he attended his Royal Highness to America, and was appointed Chaplain to the Duke on the first establishment of his Royal Highness's household in 1789. He was one of the sons of the Rev. Mr. Waddington, Vicar of Harworth, Nottinghamshire; and was

educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, A where he was elected a Fellow; and in A 1789 was presented by his College to the Vicarage of Tuxford. In 1790 he married i Anne, youngest daughter of the late Peter Dollond, esq. the celebrated optician, of St. Paul's Church-yard; by whom he has left two sons and two daughters. 'Ini 1793 he was presented by the King to the i Rectory of Sharnford, in the county of e Leicester, which he resigned in 1798, ond being presented to the Rectory of Blaby with Countessthorpe, in the same county.** Mr. Waddington possessed a most reten

tive memory, and a great love for reading, by which he had acquired a considerable fund of learning and information, which rendered him one of the most agreeable of men, as he was favoured with an amiable disposition, and the manners of a perfect gentleman.

REV. L. S. WHELAN.

In St. James's Chapel House, Ireland, the Rev. Laurence Sylvester Whelan, in the 72d year of his age. This learned ecclesiastic entered, at the age of fourteen, the Order of the Capuchins in France, where he spent fifteen years. Shortly after his return to Ireland he resigned his parish, to which his merits soon raised him, and inflamed by an ardent zeal of extending the religion to which he was most devotely attached, he proceeded to America, where, for twenty-one years, he support cd a most laborious ministry. At a time when the yellow-fever raged in Philadelphia, he was the only Catholic clergyman of five who escaped its frightful ravages, Land, with a heroism worthy of his cause, i devoted himself to the care of the dying, till the plague ceased. Although attacked by the fever, he had the good fortune to escape, and returned in 1811 to his native land, of which his long absence both increased his admiration and love. His piety and his extensive knowledge in every branch of science, were the ad$miration of all who conversed with him; 』ན his ready wit, and facetious anecdote, Lonever failed to make him an instructive 50 and agreeable companion.

2 LORD CHARLES MURRAY. Looking upon the cause of Greece as the most sacred of causes, and that those who devote themselves to it are among the most honourable and deserving among mankind, we give the following from the Greek Chronicle, being the record of the death of a young nobleman who shewed much zeal in the present glorious struggle of that immortal people. "With deep regret have we heard of the death of Lord Charles Murray, son of the Duke of Atholl, at Gastouini, on the 11th August (New Style), at ten A.M. His death was occasioned by a most violent pain in the regions of the head. He was aged twentyfive years, and although so young, had evinced, from the moment his foot pressed our country, the most noble and philanthropic sentiments, with an ardour to fulfil them as far as lay in his power. Mr. Georgio Sessini, in whose house he was lodged, paid him every attention and assistance, for which the nation owe him her thanks. As soon as our Governor,

DR. JOHNSTON,

VISCOUNT HAMPDEN.

Lately, At his house in Green-street, Grosvenor-square, aged 78, Thomas Trevor Hampden, Viscount Hampden, and Baron Trevor of Bromham, D.C.L, and Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order. His Lordship, who was born on September 11, 1746, was the eldest son of Robert the first Viscount, Ambassador at the Hague in the reign of George 11. (an eminent classical scholar, and author of "Poemata Hampdeniana," edited in 1792, from Bodoni's press at Parma, by his second son the Right Hon. John Trevor, now the third Viscount), by Constantia, daughter of Peter Anthony de Huybert, Lord of Van Kruningen in Zealand, who died June 15, 1761. He was educated, with the rest of his family at Westminster School, to which he always felt strongly attached; afterwards a student at the University of Oxford; and soon after coming of age, in 1768, elected M. P, for Lewes, which he represented till the dissolution of that Parliament in 1774. Aug. 22, 1783, he succeeded his father in the

title; and although a supporter of Mr. Fox's celebrated India bill in December 1783, and of the claims of the Prince of Wales to an unrestricted Regency in 1789, in all the momentous questions of later years during the war, Lord Hampden, though seldom a speaker in either House of Parliament, gave a uniform support to the Tory interest, both in Bedfordshire, Sussex, and Buckinghamshire, where his estates were chiefly situated, and in which latter county he inherited the residence of his renowned ancestor, John Hampden, a name ever dear in the annals of English freedom. His first wife, to whom he was married on 13th June, 1768, was Catherine, only daughter of Gen. David Græme, confidential secretary to the late Queen Charlotte, who died May 26, 1804; and his second, whom he married June 12, 1805, daughter of George Brown, esq. of Edinburgh, sister to Lady Wedderburn and the Hon. Mrs. Alexander Hope, who now survives him. He had no issue by either.

THE REV. DR. DAVIS.

On the 28th of September, the Rev. Dr. Davis. The great claim which his memory has on public veneration and gratitude, is the foundation of the Royal Universal Dispensary for Children, an Institution the first of the kind in the world, and which, for its extensive and increasing usefulness to individuals, to families, and to nations, will cause his name to be transmitted to posterity as one of the greatest benefactors of mankind. Dr. Davis had observed that among the numerous charitable institutions of this great empire, though there were many into which diseased children as well as adults might be admitted, there was none of a medical character for children only. He was satisfied too that in the most tender age maladies were generated by maltreatment, the consequences of which, even where not immediately fatal, produced in after-life debility both of mind and body, impairing the powers of the individual, throwing an additional burden on society, and greatly augmenting the general mass of human suffering. The diseases of children, injurious as they may be in effect, are peculiarly difficult of treatment from the imperfect means possessed in most cases of ascertaining the nature, the seat, the cause, or the violence of the complaint, the operation of the medicines, and the various diagnostics of disease or indications of cure. A peculiar study therefore is requisite of this very obscure and intricate subject; and such a study cannot be effectually pursued but by a physician who has means and inclination to attend to a vast number of

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cases of infantile malady. Nor is it only in regard to actual disease, that information of this kind becomes serviceable, it necessarily leads to many important observations on the nursing and rearing of children in health, and on the best means of preventing sickness. Viewed in this light, a Dispensary for the Children of the Poor is, in fact, a great and essential benefit to the rich, facilitating the cure of their children by improving the general state of science, and enlarging the sphere of medical experience. It cannot be necessary to advert to the exquisite moral pleasure of restoring to affectionate parents of all classes the offspring which an alarming disorder had threatened to snatch from them; nor will a reflecting mind fail to observe that in promoting judicious and constant attention to the health of the infant, we do much toward improving and elevating the character of the parent. Influenced by such reflections as these, Dr. Davis applied all the energies of an acute mind and an active disposition towards the formation of a General Dispensary for Children; which he had the happiness of seeing brought into operation in June 1816. Since that time the advantages which he contemplated have been more than realized; and the continued growth of the institution has been followed by an increase of benefits, the evidence of which is alike striking and unequivocal. From the report for the year 1822, the children relieved by this charity, and those who have died under ten years of age during the same period within the bills of mortality, appear as follows:Relieved by the Charity.

1st year.....

2d

3d

4th 5th

6th.

1822.

1925.

2171.

3282.

7987.

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.8004

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7620

.7602

.6973

Thus we see, that with a population which is well known to be continually increasing in London, the deaths of young children are annually diminishing. Such is the monument which Dr. J. B. Davis has erected to his own memory; a monument ære perennius, for it must live in the heart of a grateful country; a heritage to his children, and the best possible alleviation to that sorrow which bis friends sustain for his premature loss. Dr. John Bunnell Davis was one of a numerous family, the children of the late T. Davis, Esq. formerly of Thetford, and afterwards surgeon-general to His Majesty's customs. He has left a widow, three children, four brothers, and six sisters. He was interred at Kennington.

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heavy expenses incurred in raising it, obtained permission to dispose of his Lieutenant-Colonelcy, retaining the rank he then held, and his Lieutenant-Governorship.

WILLIAM FALCONER, M. D.

In August, at his house in the Circus, Bath, aged 81, William Falconer, M. D. F.R.S. Physician to the General Hospital at Bath. His information was various, and of the best kind; and it was collected, not when he ought to have been employing his time in professional studies, for his stores of knowledge were large and diversified, but before he became a student, and he was not a late student, of a University. His habits of reasoning also had been formed at this early period upon the severe logic of books of the law, the reading of his own choice, &c. In conversation he never loitered among premises, but seized at once the conclusion. In more advanced life, his retentive memory, his extensive association, his quick and vigorous perception, his strong feelings, brought immediately what he required for his purpose; apt and original quotations, curious anecdotes, facts, precedents, principles, and analogies introduced and expressed in powerful language, in the exercise of his profession, in studious and retired research, in the moment of ardent conversation, or eager argument and discussion. Difficulties stimulated and dissipated his indolence, and danger, instead of oppressing or overwhelming his mind, animated his powers and developed his resources. Various will be the representations of this excellent and extraordinary man, by those who saw him only in public although he lived much in public view; but the whole of his character cannot be correctly delineated from such observations of it. It will vary, as he was in spirits or hypochondriacal; chafed by artful opposition, or tranquil; triumphing over an ill-bred, baying antagonist, or communicating calmly of his rich stores of information. Much, however, as he lived and conversed, and debated in public, he never disregarded truth, even where scrupulous casuists think that it may sometimes be neglected, in maintaining the wrong side of a question, as a display of skill and invention. "In that respect," he once said to a person who defended the practice by the authority and example of Dr. Johnson, a greater but not a better man than Dr. Falconer, "in that respect I consider myself to be a better man than Dr. Johnson, for I never in my life maintained the

wrong side of an argument, knowing it to be so. It was no rare occurrence to hear him confess his own ignorance, and acknowledge bis inferiority to other persons; and yet the late Lord Thurlow, at whose table he was almost a constant guest, declared, "that he never saw such a man; that he knew every thing, and knew it better than any one else." He did not live in vain, for the cause of learning, or science, or virtue, or religion: his writings contain sufficient evidence of his claim to a place among the philosophers and scholars of his age and country. He was the author of the following useful tracts on medical subjects:"Dissertatio de Nephritide verâ, Edinb. 1766."-"Essay on the Bath Waters," 1770, 8vo; 2d ed. 2 vols. 8vo. 1774."Observations on Dr. Cadogan's Dissertation on the Gout," 1772, 8vo. Observations and Experiments on the Poison of Copper," 1774, 8vo.- Essay on the Water commonly used at Bath," 1775, 8vo.-" Experiments and Observations," 1777, 3 parts, 8vo.-" Observations on some of the articles of Diet and Regimen usually recommended to Valetudinarians," 1778, 8vo.-" Remarks on the Influence of Climate, Situation, Country, Population, Food, and Way of Life," 1781, 4to.

"Account of the Epidemic Catarrhal Fever, called the Influenza," 1782, 8vo. "Dobson on fixed Air, with an Appendix on the Use of the solution of fixed Alkaline Salts in the Stone and Gravel," 1785, 8vo; 4th edit. 1792.-"On the Influence of the Passions upon the Disorders of the Body," 1788, 8vo." Essay on the preservation of the Health of Persons employed in Agriculture," 1789, 8vo." Practical Dissertation on the medicinal effects of the Bath Waters," 1790, 8vo.-" Miscellaneous Tracts and Collections relating to Natural History, selected from the principal Writers of Antiquity on that subject," 1793, 4to.-"Observations respecting the Pulse," 1796, 8vo.-"An Examination of Dr. Heberden's Observations on the increase and decrease of different Diseases, and particularly the Plague," 1802, 8vo. An Account of the Epidemical Catarrhal Fever, commonly called the Influenza, as it appeared at Bath in the Winter and Spring of 1803," 8vo.-" A Dissertation on Ischias, or the disease of the Hipjoint, commonly called a Hip-case," 1805, 8vo.-"Arrian's Voyage round the Euxine Sea translated, with a Geographical Dis sertation and three Discourses,' 1805, 4to.