40th foot, 1st batt.-Lieutenant Galway. 48th foot, 1st batt.-Lieutenant Lima, Ensign Parsons. British Officers killed at the Siege of St. Sebastian. Royal Engineers.-Lieutenant Machell. Royal Scots, 3d batt.-Major Frazer, Captain Cameron, Lieutenants Clarke, Anderson, and Massey, Adjutant Cluff. 9th foot, 1st batt.-Captain Woodham, Adjutant Thornhill. 38th foot, 1st batt.-Lieutenant Carlisle. British Officers killed on the 50th of July. 68th foot.-Major Crespigny. 74th foot.-Captain Whitting. Chasseurs Britanniques.-Captain Tournefort. British Officers killed on the 2d of August. 6th foot, 1st batt.-Captain Brownlow. 20th foot, 1st batt.-Ensign Warren. Total killed, wounded, and missing, by these returns, 8339 men; the precise total, Spaniards included, being perhaps at least 10,000 men! A bulletin of the British Government made the loss of the French 11,000, to which they added 4000 prisoners; but they name no officers taken, and ex-parte statements are not to be trusted. Letter from General Rey, commanding at St. Sebastian, to his Excellency the Duke of Feltre, Minister at War, dated 25th July, 1813. This morning the 25th, at four o'clock, the enemy took advantage of the pipe for the conveyance of the water from the fountain of the town, to establish a mine, with which he blew up the place of arms which entered the covered way. Upon this sig nal, some columns of attack were put in motion. The direction of the fire from his batteries on the 24th, made me presume I should be attacked during that night or in the morning, and I male my dispositions accordingly. Every where the enemy was received with the greatest vigour; all who reached the breaches were killed or wonnded; the columns which had distributed themselves in the covered way were as quickly driven from and prevented from establishing themselves in it. This deed of arms does the greatest honour to the garrison of St. Sebastian, and I shall have the honour of acquainting your excellency, in my first report, of the names of the brave men who particularly distinguished themselves. I estimate that the English have lost from 14 to 1500 men,* either in the breaches or in the covered way, from the fire of artillery, howitzers, and shells which were thrown on them near the Fausse Braye of St. Jean's Bastion, or on approaching the breaches. The English General asked me brought in 584 wounded, of whom 13 are to bury his dead, I granted an hour; I have officers of those found upon the breach or at the foot of it, besides 237 prisoners. The enemy carried off his more distant wounded. The wounded assure us the enemy had 50 officers killed, of whom the Major-General commanding the first column was one. I beg your Excellency to accept, &c. (Signed) REY. *The London Gazette makes it but 1250; but private accounts carry it much higher. INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS, IN AND NEAR LONDON: With Biographical Memoirs of distinguished Characters recently deceased. T concerns us to observe a further at tempt to confound Vice with Virtue, by the erection of another monument at the public expence, to the last William Pitt. We are aware of the obligation under which he laid his adherents, by dispensing among them "the loaves and fishes" of his corrupt administration, and we admire the practice of gratitude too much to find fault with its exertion as a private virtue, even on this occasion; but it should be understood, that these monuments are the mere tributes of the gratitude of a party, and no indication of the sense of this enlightened nation. The author of the inscription on this new monument in Westminster Abbey, has kindly saved the feelings of the public by a grammatical construction, which applies the eulogy to the remoter or elder Pitt, in whose praises we ardently join. The following is a copy of it, applicable alone, in sense and WILLIAM PITT, Son of WILLIAM, EARL of CHATHAM, In testimony of Gratitude for the eminent Public Services, And of Regret for the Irreparable Loss of that Great and disinterested Minister, He died on the 23d of January, 1806, in the 47th year of his age. Fossils of an extraordinary nature have recently been found in the neighbourhood of Brentford. The soil, as far as it has been dug, consists of five distinct beds. The uppermost is a gravelly loam; the second, sand and gravel; the third, a calca reous loam; the fourth, sand; and the fifth, blue blue clay. The uppermost bed contains no fossil remains whatever. The next three contain the tusks of elephants, both African and Indian, of the hippopotamus, the horns and jaws of oxen, the horns of deer, pearl shells, and the shells of fresh water fish; but no sea animals. The clay contains the fossil remains of sea animals alone; as echini, shells, &c. These fossils are scattered withont order in the beds. On the first of June the following plan of Parliamentary Reform was proposed in the Hampden Club, by MAJOR CART WRIGHT. 1. That legislative representation is that "happiest discovery of political wisdom," whereby national feeling, knowledge, and will, are concentrated in council, for preserving liberty, protecting property, and promoting the common interest. 2. That the office of each Representative separately, and of the whole of the Representatives collectively, is to do in the assembly, for his or for their Constituents, that which the said Constituents, if present, would do for themselves. 3. That all the maxims, touching an inseparable connexion between representation and property, or representation and taxation, are mere figurative abbreviations of speech, in which the persons who own the property, or the persons who pay the taxes, are to be understood; for to talk of representation doing that for inanimate matter, which inanimate, if present, would do for itself, were glaringly absurd. 4. That a people, for the management of whose affairs no law can be made without their own consent, given either in person, or through representatives whom they have really chosen, are free; but a people who are subject to laws made in any other manner, are not free. 5. That all the people of England have a right to be free. 6. That individual freedom is the material of which collective freedom is composed; wherefore national freedom is that aggregate, that whole, of which the separate freedom of each individual person is a part. 7. That Sir Thomas Smith, in De Rebulica Anglicana, lays it down as law, that 186 every Englishman is intended to be present in Parliament, either in person or by procuration and attorney, of what preeminence, state, dignity, or quality, soever The be, from the prince to the lowest person of England, and the consent of the Parliament is taken to be every man's congent." 8. That when a respectable proportion of working people have evinced without any dissent of others-that, in their opinion, their protection would be well provided for, if the foundation of public liberty were so extended as to secure the franchise of election to all who are directly taxed, that foundation being still farther improved, by there being diffused through all the parts of it equal solidity and strength; it is for the objectors to explain how a less extended, or a less compact and solid foundation would be preferable; and it is for such objectors also to reflect on the prudence, respecting their own views, of provoking a discussion on the proper limits of representation agreeable to the principles of civil government and of the English Constitution, alike derived from the law of nature. 9. That it is also for the objectors of Parliament of a continuance not exceeding one year, to recollect that Parliaments of a longer continuance have not been known to our country more than one tenth part of the time the English Constitution has existed. 10. That such objectors ought to consider that "an Englishman at twenty-one years of age enters on his inheritance, whatever it may be-that a greater inhe ritance descends to every one of us from right and the laws, than from our parents; that right is the best birth-right the subject hath, for thereby his goods, lands, wife, children, his body, life, honour, and estimation, are protected from wrong." 11. That the Legislature, in the sixth year of William and Mary, did, for the first time since the birth of the Constitu. tion, and in violation of its principles, give a direct sanction, by a statute, to Parliaments of a continuance exceeding one year, whereby the "inheritance" and "best birth-right" of all those individuals who, since the period of a preceding election, had arrived at twenty-one years of age, were unjustly withholden, and the whole nation (how perfect soever might be the distribution of the electoral franchise) was divested of its political liberty for two parts in three of human life; since, by another unconstitutional statute, extended to six parts in seven of human life. 12. That when Parliaments of "too long continuance" have proved the scourge and curse of our country, and when Parliaments of "three years continuance," while we had them, were offensively corrapt, and crowned their perfidy by consigning the nation to Parliaments of "seven years continuance;" were we now to return to triennial Parliaments, it would neither be consistent with liberty, nor in the smallest degree likely to prove a cure for corruption; such Parliaments, as we know, being as unknown as abhorrent to the Constitution. 13. That for bringing to one opinion all sincere friends of Parliamentary Reform, we cannot do more wisely than to proceed in that course in which no inconsiderable progress progress towards national unanimity hath actually before our eyes taken place, having produced four hundred petitions, the prayer of every one of which, in the very same words, claims, 1st. Representation co-extensive with direct taxation; 2dly. That such Representation, as a common right, be throughout the community fairly distributed; and, 3dly. That Parliaments have henceforth only a constitutional continuance, that is, not exceeding one year. The large cabinet manufactory of Messrs. Gillows, George-street, Oxford-road, was burnt down on the 15th. Land and property in houses in the city of London, were declared, by an eminent surveyor, during the trial of a cause in Westminster-Hall, to have fallen in nominal value 20 per cent. since 1810!-What would have been their nominal worth, if money in the same period had not sunk 20 or 50 per cent? The following codicil to a will of Lord Vernon was proved on Friday the 30th of July, in Doctors' Commons:-" I hereby give to my dear son-in-law, the Hon. Edward Harbord, one sum, not exceeding five thousand psunds, towards the purchase of a seat in Parliament !" PROMOTIONS. The Rev. Wm. Howley, D. D. Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford, and a Canon of Christ-church, to be Bishop of London. Lieut. Gen. the Hon. Alex. Hope, knighted, and invested with the ensign of the Order of the Bath. Earl of Delaware, and the Right Hon. Lord Graves, lords of his Majesty's bedchamber. Right Hon. Thomas Maitland, Lieut. Gen. of his Majesty's forces, Governor and Commander-in-chief in and over Malta aud its dependencies. Henry Dampier, esq. a Puisne Judge of the Court of King's Bench, vice Mr. Justice Grose, retired. Alderman Magnay and Coxhead Marsh, sheriffs of London and Middlesex. Oxford, July 7. In a Convocation, Frodsham Hodson, D.D. principal of Brasennose College, was admitted Pro Vice-Chancellor, vice James Griffith, D.D. master of University College. MARRIED. Hart Davis, esq. M.P. for Ipswich, to Charlotte, fourth daughter of the Lady Eleanor Dundas, of Carron-Hall. Mr. Phillips, of the Theatre Royal Drury-lane, and the Lyceum, to Mrs. Rhames, relict of F. R. esq. The Rev. John Warneford, of Mickeham, to Charlotte Anne, second daughter of H. Sweeting, esq. The Rev. G. Green, to Miss Key, daughter of J. K. esq. of Denmark-hill. B. Currey, esq. of Lincoln's Inn-fields, to Anna, second daughter of R. Pott, esq. The Rev. F. Lateward, rector of Perrivale, Middlesex, to Mary, youngest daugh ter of the late Rev. J. Kirby, of Mayfield. The Earl of Darlington, to Miss Eliz. Russell, of Newton-house, Yorkshire. James Dundas, esq. of Dundas, to the Hon. Mary T. Duncan, daughter of the late Lord Viscount Duncan. At Acton, the Rev. D. Evans, B.A. to Miss Essex, daughter of T. E. esq. Mr. Forrester, to Lady Louisa Vane, eldest daughter of the Earl of Darlington. The Hon. E. Stourton, second son of Lord S. to Maria, daughter of J. L. Fox, esq. Lieut.-Col. Jones, late of the 2nd regiment, to Richarda, daughter of the Rev. N. Wetherell, D.D. late dean of Hereford. The Rev. J. M. Staples, to Miss Alexander, daughter of the Lord Bishop of Down. Capt. Carroll, R.N. to the eldest daughter of Capt. Dacres, governor of the Royal Naval Asylum at Greenwich. At Chelsea, the Rev. J. T. Salusbury, to Mary, widow of J. Slack, esq. At St. Mary-le-bone Church, Richard, eldest son of T. Parry, esq. of Bansted, to Mary, eldest daughter of the late S. Gambier, esq. At Greenwich, T. Sunderland, esq. of Dean-street, Soho, to Miss C. F. Campbell, of Blackheath. At Carshalton, Wm. Charles Levin, esq. of Clapham, to Martha James Weatherall, second daughter of the late J. W. esq. T. M. Keats, esq. of Upper Tooting, to Sarah, second daughter of T. Burne, esq. of Walworth. At St. Pancras Church, T. Piper, esq. to P. Friend, third daughter of G. Friend, esq. of Birchington. Twigg, esq. of Russell-square, to Eliza, daughter of the late Rev. W. Wil kins. Capt. Colin Pringle, to Anne, daughter of John Dowse, esq. of Boswell-court, Lincoln's-inn. At Greenwich, J. Beames, esq. of Lincoln's-inu, to Mary, only child of T. Carnarvon, esq. Mr. W. Peacock, of Salisbury-square, to Miss Sarah Findlay, daughter of Mr. R. Findlay. The Rev. George Townshend, B.A. to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Samuel Tyler, esq. of Twickenham. Mr. Henry Butterworth, to Eliz. Henry, daughter of the late Henry Whitehead, esq. of Lambeth. At Chigwell, T. Champion, esq. of Westhatch hatch-house, to Harriet, daughter of the Rev. T. Leighton. D. Price, esq. of Hermitage-street, to Miss Chafe, of Totness. The Rev. Wm, Church, of Hampton, to Miss Huse, of Hans-place. Mr. Carlton, of Mill-street, to Louisa, only daughter of the late James Weale, esq. of Edward street. Mr. Thomas Dignum, Suffolk-street, to Miss Isabella Park, of Devonshire-street. Mr. John Oakeley, of the General Post Office, to Miss Mary Johnson, of Blackman-strect. DIED. In Beaufort-buildings, Strand, Mrs. Fortescue. At his apartments, in the British Museum, G. Shaw, M.D. F.R.S. a very amiable man, and the author of many valuable works of Natural History, particularly of an extensive and accurate system of Zoology. At Richmond Green, Mrs. Robson, widow of Colonel R. late Governor of St. Helena. At her house in Pali-mall, 78, the Hon. Mrs. Keppel, relict of the late Hon. Dr. K. Bishop of Exeter, and aunt to the Duke of Gloucester. At Clapham Common, 24, H. F. Luttrell, esq. of the Middle Temple, and Sccretary to the Vice Chancellor of England. On a visit at Mr. Thompson's, Denham, near Uxbridge, where he had not been more than an hour, Capt. O'Byrne. In Broad-street, A. Guledniki, esq. esq. "At Richmond, Dowager Lady Heathcote, relict of Sir G. H. bart. In Great Cumberland-place, Lady Topps, wife of Sir G. T. Tapps, bait. 76, Mr. T. Robson, king's tax-collector, and formerly one of the proprietors, and sole manager, of the Theatre Royal, Margate. Mr. K. was, about forty-five years ago, a respectable member of the York and Hull company of comedians. Aged 48, J. Mears, esq. of Windlesham, Surrey. In Wigmore-strect, 72, Mrs. Olivér, late of Layton. In Great Charlotte-street, Blackfriarsroad, 71, Mrs, C. Gray, widow of the late Capt. G. of the 60th reg. In Bishopsgate-street, Georgiana Barleigh, wife of Mr. T. B. and eldest daughter of Mr. G. C. H. Munnings, of Thorpe. At Holloway, Mr. D. Brewman, proprie. tor of the Sunday Monitor, &c. and many years an active printer and publisher of the metropolis. At Norwood, 31, W. Thompson, esq. of the Inner Temple, eldest son of W. T. esq. of Brunswick-square. In Great Marlborough-street, Mr. Huet 3 Villiers, an artist, who arrived in England during the reign of terror in France, of which country he was a native. In Craven-street, 58, G. Byfield, esq. architect. At his house at Southgate, 44, the Rev. W. Beckett. Aged 66, the Right Hon. and Right Reverend John Randolph, D.D, and F.R.S. Lord Bishop of London. His lordship was on a visit to his son at Much Hadham, Herts, and at a quarter before five o'clock, the bishop and a friend agreed to take a ride. When he had mounted his poney, it appeared he was without his hat. The servant said, "My Lord, you have not your hat," and immediately went for it. The bishop put it on and took off his cassock, at the same moment he exclaimed, "I want--I want-I want"-apparently under some inward convulsion. The servant could not make out the want of his master, but supposing he wanted his stick, went for it and gave it to him; he took the stick and let the reins of the pouey drop. He rode quietly to the church-yard, a short distance from his son's residence, and articulated something that was not distinctly heard, at the same instant he dropped from his horse. Four persons took him home, and he ap peared recovering; a professional gentle. man wanted to bleed him, but the bishop, by signs, indicated his disapprobation, and died immediately after. The whole of the melancholy event did not occupy more than an hour and a half. Dr. Ash, the bishop's physician, was sent for on the first appearance of illness, but on his arrival the bishop was no more. Dr. Randolph succeeded Dr. Porteus, Bishop of London, in 1809, and had augmented the revenue of the see of London, from 7 to near 12,000l. per annum. At his chambers, in Furnival's Inn, Mr. 1. Morton, attorney at law. Near Godalming, 48, Admiral Pierpoint. In Upper Brook-stiect, Mrs. Crawley, of Ragnall Hall, near Tuxford. At Hackney Wick, John, eldest son of J. Christie, esq. of Mark-lanc. At Chiswick, Joseph Fletcher, gent. aged 65 years, steward to the late Duke of Portland, at Welbeck, twenty years to the late Duke of Devonshire, at Chatsworth, twelve years and to the late and present Duke of Devonshire, at Chiswick, sixteen years. Sir Henry Vane Tempest, of Wyniard, in the county of Durham, bart. He was M.P. for the county of Durham, which county he first represented in 1807, and son of the Rev. Sir Henry Vane, created a baronet in 1782, descended from Sir George Vane, third son of the celebrated Sir Henry Vane, who was beheaded in 1662, His mother was Frances, daughter and heiress of John Tempest, Tempest, esq. for whose estates he added that name in 1796. He married Anne Catherine Macdonnel, Countess of Antrim. The family of Tempest represented the city of Durham in 1707, and again from 1754 to 1784 inclusive. Sir Henry has left only one daughter, born in 1800. At Walden, Mrs. Mary Smith, wife of the Rev. R. C. S. and second daughter of the late Newdigate Poyntz, esq. of Hexton. Aged 53, James Willis, esq. one of his Majesty's commissioners of customs. At her house in Jermyn-street, Lady Baker, relict of the late Sir G. B. bart. At Hillingdon, Miss Maud. At Hackney, 78, Mrs. Forbes, widow of T. F. esq. of Watertoun. Aged 40, Mr. C. Loat, of Balaam-Hill, Surrey. At Farnham, of a decline, 24, Lucy, only daughter of Mr. Dalby, professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military College; an amiable and accomplished young woman, much lamented by all her acquaintance. At Pinner, Henry James Pye, esq. the Poet-laureat,formerly member for the county of Berks, and for some years one of the Police Magistrates for Westminster. The family of Mr. Pye came into England with the Conqueror, and settled at a place called the Meerd, in Herefordshire. His great-great-grandfather was auditor of the exchequer to James I. and by virtue of that office, paid the salary of the Poet-laureat, as appears from the subsequent verses of Ben Jonson :- Father John Burges, And that he would venture He loved the Muses, Tho' now he refuses To take apprehension Of a year's pension. His son, Sir Robert Pye, a knight also, married Ann, the eldest daughter of John Hamden, the patriot, of whom the late Poet-laureat was consequently the representative by the female line. The last male heir left the estate in Herefordshire and the name to the Trevors, descended from the second daughter; bnt Sir Robt. Pye purchased Farringdon in Berkshire, which county he twice represented in Parliament. Our author's father, who occasionally resided there, was elected no less than five times, without opposition, for the same county; the poet himself was, however, born in Lon. don, in the memorable year 1745. He was educated at home under a private tutor, nutil he had attained the age of seventeen, when he entered a gentleman commoner of MONTHLY MAG, No. 245. Magdalen College, Oxford, where he continued four years, and had the honorary degree of Master of Arts conferred on him; at the installation of Lord North, in 1772, he was also created Doctor of Laws. His father died within ten days after he came of age, and Mr. Pye married the same year, and lived chiefly in the country, making only occasional visits for a few weeks to London, dividing his time between his stu dies, the duties of a magistrate, and the diversions of the field, of which he was remarkably fond. In 1784 it was his fortune to be chosen member for Berkshire, but the numberless expences attending such a situation, and the contest to obtain it, reduced him to the harsh, yet necessary, measure, of selling his paternal estate. In 1790 Mr. Pye was appointed to succeed his ingenious and worthy friend Tom Warton, as poet-laureat; and in 1792 he was nominated one of the magistrates for Westminster, under the police-act; in both of which situations he conducted himself with honour and ability. From his earliest days Mr. Pye was devoted to reading. When he was about ten years old, his father put Pope's Homer into his hand; the rapture which he received from this exquisite paraphase of the Grecian hard was never to be forgotten, and it completely fixed him a rhymer for life, as he has pleasantly expressed it. To this early love of reading Mr. Pye was indebted for the various learning he possessed. His tutor, though an excellent Latinist, and a strict grammarian, is reported to have possessed no tincture of taste whatever, and to have known little or nothing of Greek. Luckily his fondness for poetry was not accompanied by an attachment to the common trash of novels; his leisure hours were ocenpied with history, geography, and general literature. His tutor continued to teach him the Westminster Greek grammar, and conducted him through the Greek Testament. The year preceding this he went to Oxford, and is known to have expressed his fears lest he should appear deficient in Greek; to obviate which, he persuaded a person well versed in that language to assist him in his studies, and with him the subject of these memoirs went through Homer, and part of Xenophon, with public credit and private satisfaction. At Magdalen College he was under the care of Dr. Richard Scroup; but having no home at the university, and finding no pleasure in hunting on raw-boned Oxford hacks, he made acquaintance with the Parmassian steed, and passed the whole of his time between study and conviviality. Mr. Pye has given to the public, who have duly appreciated them, many compositions, both in prose and verse, even before he went to the university. The first piece to which he put his name was a collection of elegies. Z The |