The
great success of _Tom Thumb_, in which Dowton played _King Arthur_ very
humorously, stimulated him to this attempt. His two principal
Shakspearian characters were _Sir John Falstaff_ and _Dogberry_. As _Dr.
Cantwell_ in the _Hypocrite_ he was inimitable. His other best parts
were _Sir Anthony Absolute_ and _Major Sturgeon_. With the proceeds of
his farewell benefit at Her Majesty's Theatre a few years since, an
annuity was purchased, on which he has lived to a fine green old age,
happy in the bosom of his family and a large circle of professional and
private friends.

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ADMIRAL SIR EDWARD CODRINGTON died recently in London. He entered the
naval service in 1783, and bore a part in some distinguished affairs. He
was lieutenant of the Queen Charlotte in Howe's victory of the 1st of
June, 1794, and captain of the Babet in Bridport's action, July, 1795.
At the memorable victory of Trafalgar, he was captain of the Orion. He
commanded on the Walcheren expedition; was afterwards employed at the
defence of Cadiz, and commanded a squadron co-operating with the Spanish
patriots on the coast of Catalonia. He was also captain of the fleet in
the Chesapeake, and at New Orleans in 1814. In October, 1827, with the
combined fleet, he destroyed the Turkish fleet in the harbor of
Navarino. He was gazetted on five occasions, viz., in 1805, 1809, 1811,
1814, 1815. For some period he commanded on the Mediterranean station.
He has also held other naval appointments. He represented Devonport in
Parliament from 1832 to 1840. In politics he was a "liberal."

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The death of EARL COTTENHAM, late Lord Chancellor, took place at the
small town of Pietra Santa, in the duchy of Mucca, on the twenty-ninth
of April. Charles Christopher Pepys was born in Great-Russell street,
Bloomsbury, in 1781. The family was originally of Diss, in Norfolk, but
early in the sixteenth century it removed to Cottenham, in
Cambridgeshire, from which place the deceased derived his title. Amongst
his ancestors may be mentioned Samuel Pepys, author of the _Diary_, and
Secretary of the Admiralty in the time of Charles the Second; and
Richard Pepys, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland in 1664. William Weller
Pepys, the father of the late Lord Chancellor, who held the office of a
Master in Chancery, was created a baronet in the year 1801. Lord
Cottenham was in the seventy-first year of his age, havi