matters of pride and honour
in British history.--19th. Sir Nesbit Josiah Willoughby, Rear-admiral
of the White. This gallant officer served both by land and sea, having,
when not engaged by the British Admiralty, joined the Russian army, in
which, as a colonel, he greatly distinguished himself. He was born
in Warwickshire, at the family seat, and died in London, in the
seventy-third year, of his age.--21st. At Edgeworthstown, county
of Longford, Ireland, in her eighty-fifth year, Miss Edgeworth,
so celebrated as a novelist, and deserving equal celebrity as a
metaphysician, for her novels abound with the most accurate and acute
speculations in mental philosophy, incidentally occurring in the course
of her narratives. She was small in stature, lively in disposition,
vivacious in thought, a good correspondent, and an affectionate
friend. The opinion has gained currency since her death, that the more
intellectual portions of her writings were the products of her father's
genius, whose hand appeared in nearly all her novels.--22nd. At his
house in Pall Mall, aged seventy-five, William Vernon, Esq., an artist
and a tasteful collector of pictures. He had been a successful man of
business, and left a large fortune to the nation in works of art, the
productions of native artists, which reveal the talent prevailing among
native painters, whom it was the fashion to undervalue.

June 4th. The Countess of Blessington. This beautiful and accomplished
lady, so well known as the friend of Byron, was born at Curragheen,
county Waterford, Ireland, and she was distinguished through life for
literary eminence as well as personal beauty. She possessed a noble
generosity, especially to obscure men of talent. Her house at Kensington
Gore, near London, was for many years the resort of the most eminent
literary men. She died at Paris.

July 8th. Mr. Wilson, the celebrated Scotch vocalist, at the early age
of forty-nine. He was born in Edinburgh, and died at Quebec.--12th.
Horace Smith, the author, known in connection with "The Pic-nic
Papers," "The Rejected Addresses," &c. He was born in London, and died
at Tunbridge Wells, at the age of seventy.

Sept. 12. William Cooke Taylor, LL.D. This learned and gifted man was
born in Youghall, county of Cork, Ireland. He fell a victim to cholera,
in Dublin, in the fiftieth year of his age.

Nov. 3rd. Mr. Duncan, the African traveller, on board her majesty's ship
_Kingfisher_. He was a native of Wigto