The Duke of RICHMOND, to be Governor of Lower and Upper Canada. FRANCIS DESANGES and GEORGE ALDERSON, Esqrs. Sheriffs of London, Knighted. Members returned to Parliament.] JOHN JACOB BUXTON, esq. for Great Bed win, vice J. H. Leigh, esq. who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, esq. for Yarmouth, vice Alex. Maconochie, esq. who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. JAS. HENRY LEIGH, esq. vice Richard Meyler, esq. deceased. 3 A VOL. IX. -358 Births, Marriages, and Deaths in London, &c. Ecclesiastical Preferments] Rev. J. BRETT, to the rectory of Mount Bures, Essex. Rev. C. E. J. DERING, to be chaplain in ordinary to the King. Rev. P. S. FISHER, to the vicarage of Hurstbourne Tarrant, Salisbury. Rev. HENRY FOORD, to the living of Seamer, York. Rev. T. FORESTER, to the vicarage of St. John, in Bedwardine, Worcester. [May 1, Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Edward Gco. Collings, esq. to Mrs. Rhode, widow of the late Capt. R. of the East India service. Peter Clement Cazalet, esq. of Petersfield, to Olympia, only daughter of the late Chas. Cazalet, esq. of Bedford square. The Rev. J. C. Fisher, of Merton, Devon, to Harriet, third daughter of R. Litchfield, esq. of Torrington. The Rev. G. Butler, D. D. Head Master of Rev. P. C. GUISE, to the vicarage of Long- Harrow School, to Sarah, eldest daughter of rey, Gloucestershire. Rev. AUGUSTUS EDW. HOBART, to a prebend in the collegiate church of Wolverhampton. Rev. PHILIP KELLAND, to the rectory of Lancross, Devon. Rev. JOHN KINGDON, to the rectory of Marhamchurch, Cornwall. Rev. JAS. THOS. Law, to a prebend in Chester cathedral. Rev. J. LEETE, to the rectory of Bletsoe, Beds. J. Gray, esq. of Wembly Park, Middlesex. Thos. Snowden, esq. of Gray's-inn, to Licut. G. Drew, R. N. to Charlotte, daughter of Ely Stott, esq. of Hart-street, Bloomsbury-square. Lieut. Col. Dick, of the s2d Highlanders, to Eliza Ann, daughter of J. Macnabb, esq. Rev. Tuos. RUSSEL, to the vicarage of of Arthurstone, Perthshire. Lugwardine, Hereford. J. Barkworth, esq. of Ilull, to Emma, Rev. CHRISTOPHER SMEAR, to the vicar- eldest daughter of J. Boulderson, esq. of age of Wenhaston, Suffolk. John-street, Bedford-row. Rev. THOS. TIREMAN, to the vicarage of Holy Trinity, York. Rev. CHAS. TURNER, to a prebend in Births.] Lady Emily Drummond, of a son The lady of Viscount Ebrington, of a son and heir. The lady of Admiral Sir Chas. Hen. Knowles, bart. of a son. Lady Eleanor Lowther, of a son and heir. The Countess of Warwick, of a son and heir. Married.] W. Walker, esq. of Gray's-innsquare, to Catherine, youngest daughter of the late Rev. John Newman, of Sudbury. Edmund Foster, esq. youngest son of Rich. F. esq of Clewer, to Maria, only daughter of Arthur Benson, esq. of Helling ton. W. Buckler Astley, esq. second son of F. D. Astley, esq of Everley, Wilts, to Elizabeth Assheton, daughter of T. A. Smith, esq. of Tedworth, Hants. Mr. Berj. Bensley, of Bolt-court, Fleetstreet, to Sarah, only child of Mr. Pook, of Mansion House-street. Mr. W. Williams, solicitor, of Wrotham, to Miss L. Kettel, third daughter of the late W. K. esq. of Wateringbury. Mr. G. Lockett, of Grosvenor Terrace, to Miss Marianne Clement, of Vincent-square. W. Grassett, esq. to Eliza, daughter of the late J. Hen. Barrow, esq. Mr. Alfred Mason, of the Commercialroad, to Miss H. Eastfield, of the East India Docks. Mr. Chas. Chapple, of Shoreditch, to At Chelsea, Geo. Baster, esq. of Wantage, to Lucy, only daughter of Thos. Dreweatt, esq. of Winterborne. At Stoke Newington, Thos. Eyre Lee, esq. of Birmingham, to Miss Hodgson, of Newington Green. At Bethnal Green, Mr. J. Brind, surgeon, to Eliza, daughter of the late Mr. W. King, of Shaftesbury. At Lambeth, the Rev. J. Young, of Brasennose college, Oxford, to Catherine, third daughter of A. B. Bellairs, esq. of Stamford. W. Spencer, esq. of Somers Town, surgeon, to Miss Thompson, daughter of the late W. T. esq. of Kentish Town. Did.] On the 31st March, Mrs. Thorpe, wife of Robert T. L.L.D. late Judge of Sierra Leone, the able though persecuted champion of the abolition of slavery in that Island. In Duke street, West Smithfield, April 3d Mr. Charles Tanner, son of the Rev. T. Tanner, of Bradninch, Devon, aged 22. He had just completed with credit his education as a surgeon, and was about to return into the country, when an erysipelas hurried him to a premature grave. Elis religious and moral character, amiable disposition and generous heart, have secured to him the love and regret of his relatives and acquaintances. His remains were deposited on the 9th in the yard of St Bartholomew the Great. On board the Searcher smack, which was to sail from Miller's wharf, Lower East Smithfield, to Aberdeen, Walter Blacket Trevelyan, esq. nephew of Sir John Trevelyan, Bart. Wm. Tanner, esq. of Berwick, 73. In Baker-street, Lieut-Gen. W. St. Ledger, late of the 24th Iight Dragoons, 58. 1818.] Some Account of Sir Richard Gamon-Chapple Norton, &c. 359 In St. James's Palace, Miss H. Finch, daughter of the late Lady C. Finch, and sister to the Earl of Winchelsea, In Wimpole-street, Lady Anne, wife of H. Hudson, esq. and daughter of the late Marquis Townsend. At Melbourne House, Whitehall, VisCountess Melbourne. In Upper Baker-street, Thos. Kentish, esq. of Antigua. In Fulwood's Rents, Mr. Jos. Arden, 54. In Northampton-square, John Sowerby, esq. 80. In Woburn-place, Mary, wife of John Delafield, esq. Jas. Lawson esq. F. R. S. Director of the In Abingdon-street, B. J. Johnson, esq. esq. Mrs. Dowdeswell, widow of the Rt. Hon. Thos. D. of Pully-court, Worcestershire, Chancellor of his Majesty's Exchequer, in the Rockingham administration, and sister to the late Sir Wm. Codrington, bart. of Dodington-Park. She has left three sons, the eldest of whom was late Governor of the Bahama Islands, and the youngest at present represents the borough of Tewkesbury, in Parliament. At Paddington, Wm. Abington, esq. A. Tottenham, Chas. Pratt, esq. 66. esq. 71. In Audley-square, the Hon. Gen. Henry St. John, 80. He was brother to the late Viscount Bolingbroke, colonel of the 36th regiment, and had been 63 years in his Majesty's service. He married in 1771, Barbara, daughter of Thos. Bladen, esq. In Dean-street, Fetter-lane, Mr. William Preston. He was born in 1742 at Edinburgh, and received his education at the High School and University of that city, after which he became amanuensis to the celebrated Ruddiman, whose brother, a printer, took him as apprentice. In 1760 he came to London with recommendations to the late Mr. Strahan, who engaged him in his office as a corrector of the press, and at his death left him an annuity. Mr. Preston was afterwards admitted into partnership by his son, the present head of the firm, and so continued till his decease. He very early in life became a member of the fraternity of Freemasons, and in 1772 published " Illustrations of Masonry," 12mo. of which twelve editions have been printed. He also instituted "The Freemasons' Calendar." SIR RICHARD GAMON. Died in George-street, Hanover-square, Sir RICHARD GAMON, Bart. He was the son of Richard Gamon, Esq. by a daughter of John Grace, Esq. of Grace Castle, in the county of Kilkenny, Ireland. He was bora in 1748, and educated at Winchester School. At the earnest request of the electors of Winchester, he resigned the office of Commissioner of the Salt Duties, that he might be eligible to become their representative in Parliament, which trust he faithfully discharged nearly 30 years. With him originated that useful and humane law for regulating the number of outside passengers on stage coaches. In 1795 he was created a Baronet. Sir Richard married Grace, daughter of James Jefferys, Esq. half sister to the late Duke of Grafton and the first Lord Southampton, by whom he had no issue. In 1796 he was united to Lady Amelia, relict of Thos. Ivie Cooke, Esq. daughter of the late and sister of the present Duke of Athol. This lady died in 1806, leaving one daughter born in 1797. The Baronetcy devolves, agreeably to the patent, in failure of male issue, to Richard Grace, of Grace Castle, Ireland. A sister of Sir Richard's married the last Duke of Chandos, by whom she was mother to the present Marchioness of Buckingham. GENERAL THE HON. CHAPPLE NORTON, Died at Wonersh, Surrey, the seat of Lord Grantley, the Hon. Chapple Norton, a General in the Army, Colonel of the 36th regiment, and Governor of Charlemont, 71. He was third son of the well-known public character, Sir Fletcher Norton, many years Speaker of the House of Commons, and first Lord Grantley, by Grace, eldest daughter of Sir W. Chapple, one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench. He served with great credit in America during the war in that country, and represented the borough of Guildford in several successive Parliaments. HUMPHREY REPTON, ESQ. Died at Hare-street Cottage, near Romford, HUMPHREY REPTON, Esq. He was born in 1752 in Norfolk, on the estate of the late Mr. Windham, and bred to the business of a stocking-manufacturer, and his sister and daughters for many years kept a hosier's shop at Hare-street. Mr. R. had the good fortune to obtain the patronage of Mr. Windham, whom he accompanied as his Secretary to Ireland. On his return, about thirty years ago, he adopted the profession of landscape gardening, as he expresses it in one of his publications, " under the first patronage in the country." At that time the celebrated Brown had been dead ten years; Mr. Repton avowed himself his successor, and defended his principles against the attacks made on them by Mr. Price and Mr. Knight. After some years experience, however, as the writings of these gentlemen began to effect a change in the public taste, Mr. R. gradually conformed to that taste, and recognizes it in his "Observations on the Changes of Taste in Landscape Gardening and Architecture," published in 1806, 360 Some Account of George Dempster, Esq. and subsequently more fully in "Fragments on Landscape Gardening and Architecture," 4to. which appeared in 1817. Mr. Repton was an artist of elegant attainments and good taste, more calculated to follow than to lead, and more attached to the beautiful and pretty than to the grand style of art. He was evidently more at home in Gothic Architecture than landscape gardening. Besides the publications mentioned above, he was the author of "The Hundred of North Erpingham," in the History of Norfolk, 8vo. 1781 Variety, a Collection of Essays," 12mo. 1788- The Bee, a Critique on the Shakspeare Gallery," 8vo. 1789"Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening," 8vo. 1794-" A Letter to Uvedale Price, Esq." on the same subject," 8vo. 1794" Observations on Landscape Gardening," 4to. 1803-" Variety, with the addition of a Comedy and other Poems," 8vo. 1804-" On the Introduction of Indian Architecture and Gardening," fol. 1808.Several of these were embellished with plates from designs by the Author, who also furnished for twenty years the vignettes for the Polite Repository. To these fruits of his taste and industry may be added not fewer than 300 M.S. collections on various subjects, accompanied by drawings to explain the improvements suggested by him at different places, with numerous letters written on the art of Landscape Gardening to different persons.-The artist of the next longest standing in Mr. Repton's line is Mr. Loudon, of Bayswater, whose works on the subject are generally known, and who has lately made the tour of Europe with a view to improvement in his profession. One of Mr. Repton's sons is a solicitor at Aylsham, Norfolk; another, who has devoted himself to the study of architecture, is in the office of Mr. Nash, and was lately united to a daughter of Lord Eldon. GEORGE DEMPSTER, ESQ. Died on the 13th February at his seat Dunnichen, Forfarshire, in his 86th year, GEORGE DEMPSTER, esq. He was born at Dundee where his grandfather acquired a considerable fortune by commerce, and where his father also was largely engaged in the same pursuits. After receiving his education at the grammar school of his native town, he finished his studies at the university of Edinburgh, chose the law for his profession, and in 1755 was admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates.While at Edinburgh Mr. Dempster associated with all the men of letters and frequented all the celebrated societies of that day. Among these was the Select Society, founded in 1756 by Allan Ramsay, the painter, and intended not only for philosophical inquiry, but for the improvement of its members in public speaking. In 1759 they amounted to 130, and included all the literati of the Scottish capital, as well as [May 1, many of the nobility and gentry. In 1761, this celebrated society undertook the Herculean task of refining the language spoken in Scotland from the vernacular idiom, and rendering it English both in purity and pronunciation. "What gave rise to this chimerical project," says Ritchie," was the important incident of old Sheridan's arrival at Edinburgh, who had made the tour of Great Britain as an itinerant lecturer on elocution. This gentleman announced his appearance in the Scottish capital, and his plan of instruction in his usual style of arrogance, vanity, and self-conceit; indeed the lofty notion he entertained of the vast importance of the art which he professed to teach, and his own abilities for teaching it, appear in every page of his flimsy publications. Mr. Sheridan's lectures continued for four weeks, and such was the rage for speaking with an English accent, that more than 300 gentlemen, among whom were the most eminent in the country for rank and learning attended him. Availing himself of this kind reception, he gave notice that he proposed to publish his lectures on elocution with several tracts relative to the subject in one volume quarto. Most of the gentlemen subscribed for copies; and a similar project for improving the education of females was welcomed by them with a similar subscription. The long interval which elapsed between Sheridan's receiving the subscription money and the publication of this book exposed him to a paper warfare in the public journals. These lectures were delivered in St. Paul's Chapel, and during their continuance the church was crowded with ladies and gentlemen, most of whom began to affect a nicety of pronunciation in their ordinary discourse. Even the grave academic gave way to the prevailing fashion of the day; and Dr. Robertson was so much enamoured with it that he sported on all occasions his progress in speaking English, and to the day of his death persevered in the practice of enunciating his words with the most pointed correctness.” Mr. Dempster was one of the most active promoters of this improvement, and laboured in conjunction with all who were accounted either wise or learned to introduce the new language. Indeed the whole body of the Select Society contributed warmly to the advancement of this plan, and he was nominated one of the 16 directors of the " Society for promoting the Reading and Speak ing of the English Language in Scotland." This epidemic, however, was not of long continuance, for it abated quite as rapidly as it arose, and the vernacular tongue of North Britain still continues to be spoken in guage and accent in the "gude town of its original purity both in respect to lan Edinbro." Dempster quitted the bar for the senate, After advocating a few causes, Mr. having been in 1762 elected representative 1818.1 Same Account of George Dempster, Esq. of the district of boroughs with which he and his family were more immediately connected, after a struggle which is said to have cost 10,0001. So well satisfied were his constituents with his conduct in this situation, that he was returned in the four succeeding parliaments, and retained his seat for 28 years, till he voluntarily withdrew at the general election in 1790. As a member of the House of Commons his sentiments were always heard with extraordinary attention. This did not proceed from his delivery, though easy and fluent, or from his person and address, though the one was handsome and the other winning; but from the integrity of his character, which impressed full conviction on all who heard him that he was not influenced by any personal or paltry considerations. Though he accepted in 1765 the office of Secretary to the Order of the Thistle, the emoluments of which are rated at 3001. per annum, and which was conferred on him during the administration of the Marquis of Rockingham with whom Mr. Dempster constantly acted; this circumstance does not seem to have in the least degree biassed his conduct at any period of his life. Mr. Dempster did not retire from public affairs for the enjoyment of inglorious ease; but on his return to his own estate, he soon began to exhibit, by a practical example, what might be achieved in the country at large. His improvements were by no means on a small scale, as he commenced by the inclosure of the farms around his paternal mansion, the draining of a lake, and the building of a village. Neither were his views confined to the improvement of his private property: he was always eager to embark in every scheme likely to promote the prosperity of his native land. He was accordingly one of the first to engage in a society for extending the fisheries of Scotland, was chosen one of the directors, and in that capacity, both in 1788 and 9, he delivered a" Discourse," to the members, which he afterwards published," containing a summary of the proceedings for extending the fisheries, and improving the sea-coasts of Great Britain, together with some thoughts on the present emigrations from the Highlands." In this publication, he gives the outline of a project for putting a stop to emigration, by building towns, erecting quays and wharfs, and establishing cod and herring fisheries on the coasts of Scotland. This project the society to which he belonged attempted to reduce to practice. Considerable tracts of land were obtained for trifling quit-rents in the islands of Mull, Skye, &c.; towns were planned out; subscriptions to the amount of 150,000l. were raised, or expected, in aid of the scheme; but, partly owing to the new war, which soon afterwards broke out, and partly to the disadvantages necessarily incident to a joint stock company, the zeal of individuals began to cool, and 361 their hopes ended in general disappointment... This was not the only mortification of the kind that Mr. Dempster was doomed to experience. Acting on the principle, that where labour is cheap, manufactures may be carried on with the greatest advantage, he had, jointly with his brother, who had realized a considerable-fortune as commander of an East Indiaman, purchased an estate in the county of Caithness, and begun the necessary erections; but in consequence of the war, and the pressure of the times, this speculation also was not attended with that success which it merited. If, however, he had the pain of witnessing the failure of these more distant enterprizes, he was amply indemnified by the success which attended his efforts to improve his paternal estate. Here he drained the moss of Dunnichen, and besides adding to the cultivated surface of his domain, was rewarded with abundance of marl, formed by the deposition of innumerable shell-fish, though at an elevation of nearly 400 feet above the level of the sea. The peat-bog of Resteneth, consisting of about 70 acres, was afterwards brought into cultivation, and marl, to the value of 14,000l. was dug from its bottom in the space of fourteen years. Within a short distance of the family mansion, the village of Letham rose as if by magic at his command; he feued out the land to the sons of toil; and the place has now a stamp-office and a weekly market for the sale of yarn and brown linen manufactures, which he zealously exerted himself to promote. By what means he achieved these improvements, is touched upon in a very interesting manner in a communication addressed by him to the Farmer's Magazine, in Feb. 1803, of which the following is an extract: "How much depends upon mankind thinking soundly and wisely on agricultural topics, which, in point of extent, surpass all others, and which may be said to embrace the whole surface of the globe we inhabit! I would be still more lavish in my commendation of your design, were it not that I should thereby indirectly make a panegyric on myself. For the last forty years of my life, I have acted in the management of my little rural concerns on the principles you so strenuously inculcate. I found my few tenants without leases; subject to the blacksmith of the barony; thirled to its mills; wedded to the wretched system of out-field and in; bound to pay kain and perform personal services; clothed in hodden, and lodged in hovels. You have enriched the Magazine with results of your farming excursions. Pray direct one of them to the county I write from; peep in upon Dunnichen; and if you find one of the evils I have enumerated existing---if you can trace a question, at my instance, in a court of law, with any tenant as to how he labours his farm, or find one of them not secured by a |