who heard it can picture the effect that its delivery produced.

In 1797 Mr. Jebb obtained two of the three Divinity premiums established that year on the foundation of Dr. Downes; and in 1799 he left the University, and was admitted to holy orders by Bishop Young. But to his college life, Jebb looked back with fondness and regret; his eloquent assertion of its merits in the House of Lords, in 1824, was manifestly an outpouring of treasured affection, casting back 66 a longing, lingering look."

"The University," he said, “which, in its earliest days, produced Usher, the most profoundly-learned offspring and ornament of the Reformation; and Loftus, in Oriental letters rivalled only by his great coeval Pococke; which afterwards sent forth, to shine among the foremost of our Augustan age, Parnell the chastest of our poets, Swift, the purest of our prose-writers, and Berkeley, the first of our metaphysicians; which formed, nearly in our own time, perhaps within the recollection of some noble lords who hear me, Goldsmith, our most natural depictor of life and manners; Burke, the greatest philosophic statesman of his own or any other age or country-and why should I not add, Grattan, the eloquent assertor of his country's rights, the parent of Irish independence? The University which sent forth such men is not now degenerating, nor likely to degenerate, from her ancient rank and name, and needs not blush to be compared with either University of England."

For about five years Mr. Jebb continued curate of Swanlinbar, and like Heber at Hodnet was universally beloved; by the Catholics he was revered as highly as by the Protestants; in works of charity he knew no religious difference, and his spirit was too mild for controversy.

The late Archbishop of Cashel embraced the earliest opportunity of removing Jebb to his diocese, by presenting him to the rectory of Abington; and he consulted him in his plans for rendering the Irish church more truly national. Great obscurity rests over this important project; it has been said, that the union of the rival churches of Rome and England was seriously contemplated, but to what extent the arrangement of preliminaries was carried, it is difficult to discover.

In January, 1823, Dr. Jebb was consecrated Bishop of Limerick. This diocese, one of the most extensive in Ireland, contained in it some of the most miserable and disturbed districts. It had also its full share of neglected curates, and a slight sprinkling of negligent rectors. The gentle mind of Jebb seemed ill calculated to en

counter such a complication of difficulties, but he soon showed that mildness is not inconsistent with firmness, and that the meek, when principle is concerned, manifest a strength of resolution which cannot be shaken. The new Bishop declared that he would disregard aristocratic influence, and he kept his word; in bestowing patronage, his choice was guided by merit alone; the unostentatious claims of the working clergy were with him more powerful than the pressing solicitations of the great; and the curate who despaired of reward, because he had no patron, found that his labours were his best introduction, and his most powerful advocate the heart of his diocesan.

In 1824, Dr. Jebb, for the first and it is believed for the only time, addressed the House of Lords; the professed object of his speech was the defence of the Irish Church, but he added to it a terrible exposure of the inhumanity of Irish landlords, resident and absentee. His name became at once popular in England; inquiries were made respecting his literary productions, their value for the first time was made known; and, at the same moment, he came into possession of the fame of an accomplished orator and a sound theologian.

His original works are not numerous, but they are all of sterling merit. His first publication was a Sermon preached in 1803 before the Lord Lieutenant and the Members of the Irish Association for discountenancing Vice. In 1815 he published a volume of "Sermons on subjects chiefly practical." His "Essay on Sacred Literature" is his most finished and valued performance; it is one of the finest specimens of sacred criticism in our language. The discovery of a metrical structure in the hymns and discourses preserved by the Evangelists, at once affords a key to the interpretation of difficult passages, and establishes their genuineness beyond all question. The learning displayed in the work will remind the reader of Usher, Hooker, and Taylor; nor does the resemblance stop there: in the rare union of rich fancy with simplicity of language, Jebb attained as high an eminence as those ancient worthies. "Practical Theology" was his last original work: it contains Sermons, occasional Tracts, his Address to the Historical Society, and his Speech in the House of Lords; the great charm of his Sermons is the spirit of love breathing in every line; he remonstrates as a father with an erring childhe advises as a brother to a brother-he reasons as a friend with a friend.

In the month of May, 1827, Dr. Jebb was suddenly attacked with apoplexy,

whilst seated at dinner. The attack was so violent that little hopes were for some time entertained of his recovery; but by the very skilful aid which was promptly afforded, life was preserved, and his medical advisers enjoined his removal to England, as a means not only of bringing him within the reach of the ablest of the faculty, but also for the purpose of withdrawing him from the immediate pressure of his professional anxieties. He was accordingly conveyed to the neighbourhood of London, and very soon began to experience the benefit of the change. His general health gradually improved, and he again felt himself equal, if not to professional, at least to literary exertions. With the design of serving his brethren, by editing those works most likely to serve the church of Ireland and the whole Christian community, he published the Protestant Kempis, Townson's Sermons, Phelan's Remains, and Burnet's Lives. On the second edition of the last-mentioned work, he was occupied during his last illness. He continued, from his first attack to be deprived of the use of his right side, and was therefore obliged to write with his left hand. But his mind survived his body, and, while an invalid, scarcely able to move about his room even with assistance, he continued an anxious and watchful care over his diocese. He was never married.

GENERAL FROMONT.

Nov... By his own hand, aged 62, General Fromont, lately in the service of Don Pedro.

He had served with distinction under Napoleon, and followed his friend General Solignac to assist the liberal cause in Portugal. Having been absent to recruit, on his recent return, instead of a hospitable reception, as he had reason to expect from the Emperor's invitation and promise, he met with a very cold and very repulsive one on the part of Don Pedro and of his Minister of War. The latter, when importuned by the General, told him at last that it was his Majesty's intention not to admit any more foreigners into his service, and that, in consequence of this resolution, he (the General) was enjoined to go back to France with his personal staff. Despairing, after so many examples under his eyes, of seeing the Government reverse a decision which compromised his honour, forced as he was to fail in his private engagements, and being made wretched by having induced other officers to accompany him from France, the General determined to destroy himself. The order of the Minister of War, for seizing and putting GENT. MAG. VOL. I.

on board, without any form of legal proceeding, 81 French and English officers, whose only offence was that they were creditors of the Government for the arrears of their pay, gave the finishing stroke to his resolution. He was found dead next morning in his chair, in the attitude of a man sleeping, although two balls passed through his chest. His obsequies, by the order of Don Pedro, were ordered (contrary to the usual custom, and which was an intentional insult) to take place in the forenoon. They were performed by his companions in arms with all due solemnity, the English and French officers, military and naval. The pall-bearers were four French officers. The principal mourner was Count Will. de Wilberg, Aide-de-Camp to the General. Amongst the foreigners who honoured the funeral with their presence was the brave Sir John Milley Doyle, Aide-de-Camp to Don Pedro.

GENERAL STACK.

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Dec. At Calais, at a very advanced age, General Edward Stack. He was an Irishman by birth, and his life was full of adventure. In his youth he was one of the Aides de Camp of Louis XV. and went to America with General Lafayette. He was on board Paul Jones's ship Le Bon Homme Richard, when she took the Serapis, Captain Pearson. He afterwards went to the East Indies with the Marquis de Bouillé, and there distinguished himself in supporting the honour of the flag under which he served. At a later period he was the companion in arms of General Clark, afterwards Duke de Feltre. then commanded the regiment of Dillon, in the Irish Brigade, which he did not leave till the Revolution, when it ceased to exist. He was at Coblentz with Charles X. then Count d'Artois. He afterwards entered the service of his native country, and was one of Buonaparte's detenus, first remaining a prisoner at Biche for three years, and afterwards at Verdun, where he was detained till the Restoration. Not only was he the fellow prisoner of the Duc d'Enghien, for secret service to his own government while in France, but it was intended he should suffer death immediately after that Prince, in the same manner and on the same spot. He was fully prepared for it, when only half an hour before the appointed time a countermand was received, for which various motives were alleged; but the General attributed it to fear of retribution.

At the period of his promotion to the rank of Major-General in the British

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service, Roman Catholics were not eligible to hold a higher commission than Colonel, and an official letter was written to him from the Horse Guards, to know if he was of that religion; his answer was short and plain, and was as follows:-

"SIR,-I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, and beg to acquaint you, for the information of his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief, that I am of the religion that makes General Officers, and have the honour to be your obedient servant,

"EDWARD STACK, Major-General. "To the Military Secretary."

He was tall and thin in person, sprightly and elegant, his manners most accomplished, and he might be said to be learned. Nothing in all his varied career was forgotten, and there is reason to believe he has left some curious memorials behind him.

SIR GEORGE ROBINSON, BART.

Nov. 23. In South-street, Park-lane, aged 68, Sir George Robinson, the sixth Baronet, of Cranford, Northamptonshire, and Stretton Hall, Leicestershire (1660).

He was the eldest son of Sir George the fifth Baronet, formerly M. P. for Northampton, by Dorothea, only daughter of John Chester, Esq. of London, and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Chester, Bart. He completed his education at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B. A. 1788, M. A. 1797. He succeeded his father in the title and estates Oct. 10th, 1815, and served the office of Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1818. He was returned to Parliament for Northampton in 1820; and again in 1826, at the head of the poll, which terminated as follows: Sir George Robinson . 1348 W. L. Maberley, Esq. . 1137 Sir Robert Gunning . 1006 Sir George was re-elected in 1830 and 1831, but retired at the last election. In his political career, he proved himself a firm and consistent Whig. So strict was he to his parliamentary duties, that he never missed a single day without remaining to vote, or pairing off with an opponent; and he was even so scrupulous that he would not leave the house for a time without having adopted a similar precaution.

Having died unmarried, Sir George Robinson is succeeded in his title and estates by his nephew, the Rev. George Robinson, Rector of Cranford St. Andrew's, Northamptonshire, son of the late Rev. William Villiers Robinson, Rector of Grafton and Irchester, in the same county, who died Jan. 14, 1829.

MAJOR-GENERAL WARREN.

Oct. 29. In London, suddenly, MajorGeneral Lemuel Warren.

This officer entered the army in 1787 as ensign in the 17th foot, in which corps he obtained a lieutenancy in 1789, and in the latter year embarked with his regiment on board Admiral Lord Hood's fleet. where they were ordered to serve as marines.

In 1793, he raised an independent company, and in the following year exchanged into the 27th regiment, then forming part of Lord Moira's army, encamped at Southampton. The critical situation of the Duke of York in Flanders at this period, occasioned his lordship to be despatched with a reinforcement of 10,000 men to aid his Royal Highness, with whom, though nearly surrounded by much superior armies in point of numbers, Lord Moira, by a well-directed movement, effected a junction near Malines, and thus relieved the British army from the difficulties of its situation, to the mortification of the French general, Pichegru. In this well-conducted expedition, Captain Warren served with the 27th. He was also present at the siege of Nimeguen, the sortie on the evening of the 6th of November, and commanded the advanced piquet of the garrison. In December he accompanied the forces under Lord Cathcart, sent to attack the French army that had crossed at Bommell, and was present in the action of Geldermalsen, the 8th of January, 1796.

The 27th regiment embarked in September, 1796, for the West Indies, and Captain Warren was accordingly present at the siege of Morne Fortunée, St. Lucie, and commanded the grenadiers at the storming of the enemies' advanced posts; at the conclusion of which service he was compelled by sickness to return, on leave, to England.

In 1799 he served in the expedition to the Helder, and was engaged in the actions of the 27th of August, 19th of September, 2d and 6th of October.

In August, 1800, this officer, then senior Major of the 1st battalion 27th foot, served in the expedition to Ferrol. In September following, the 1st battalion joined Sir Ralph Abercromby's expedition before Cadiz; it afterwards proceeded to Malta, where it was disembarked in consequence of sickness. In 1801, Major Warren sailed with the battalion for Egypt, and was employed with it on the whole service against Alexandria, from the beginning of May until the surrender of that place; the battalion forming, on the 27th of Aug. Gen. Sir Eyre Coote's advanced guard,

on his approach to Alexandria on the western side.

In 1804, this officer became LieutenantColonel in the 27th regiment; and in February, 1806, he embarked with it for Hanover, from whence he returned in the April following. He next embarked for Sicily, and was in the expedition to the Bay of Naples, under General Sir John Stuart. From August 1809, when Sir John Stuart returned from the Bay of Naples, until November, 1812, Lieut.Colonel Warren continued in Sicily. He afterwards embarked with the 1st battalion of his regiment for the eastern coast of Spain, where he was immediately appointed to the command of a brigade, with which he served at the battle of Castalla, the 13th of April, and at the siege of Tarragona. In the following year he was at the blockade of Barcelona.

Colonel Warren accompanied the division of the British army facross the Peninsula to Bayonne, and from thence to Bordeaux, where the 27th was immediately embarked for North America. He then obtained leave of absence; but in the following year, 1815, joined the 1st batalion of the 27th regiment before Paris, a few days prior to the entrance of Louis XVIII.

In 1819, this officer obtained the brevet of Major-General: he maintained throughout his career the character of a brave and skilful regimental officer.

SERJEANT ONSLOW.

Oct.... In London, at an advanced age, Arthur Onslow, esq. his Majesty's Ancient Serjeant, and Recorder of Guilford.

The family of Onslow, the branches of which, descended from several Speakers of the House of Commons, and honoured by a peerage, has principally settled in Surrey, was originally derived from a place called Onslow, in Shropshire; and the gentleman whose death we now record was a member of a branch of the family which lingered in that county; but he obtained the patronage of the Onslows of Surrey, and allied himself to them by marriage. Indeed, he had evidently been named Arthur in commemoration of the celebrated Speaker. He was a member of the Middle Temple, and called to the degree of Serjeant at Law in 1799. He was for some years Recorder of Guilford, near which town he had a house called Send Grove; and he was one of the representatives of that borough in parliament from 1812 to 1830: he then relinquished the honour, in consequence of a total loss of sight.

Serjeant Onslow married firstly, April

9th, 1793, Mary, daughter of Francis Eyre, esq. and aunt to the present Earl of Newburgh; she died May 14th, 1800. He married secondly, June 13th, in the following year, Dame Pooley, widow of Rear-Adm. Sir Francis Samuel Drake, Bart. and only daughter of John Onslow, esq. of Dunsborough-house, Surrey, descended from a brother of the first Lord Onslow; this lady died June 13th, 1801. Mr. Serjeant Onslow's remains were interred, Oct. 12, according to his will, with those of his first wife, in the vault of the Derwentwater and Newburgh families, at St. Giles's in the Fields.

REV. JOHN WOOLL, D.D.

Nov. 23. At Worthing, the Rev. John Wooll, D.D. for twenty-one years Head Master of Rugby school.

He was educated at Winchester, under Dr. Warton, and at New College, Oxford, where he graduated M. A. 1794, B. and D.D. 1807. Whilst at Oxford, he published in 4to, 1793, a poem entitled "The King's House at Winchester; " an edifice which had then been recently appropriated to the reception of the French refugees. In 1796 he was presented by Lord Stowell to the rectory of Blackford in Somersetshire, which he held for several years. In 1806, he published in 4to. Memoirs of his old master, Dr. Warton, (see the Monthly Review, N. S. vol. lii. pp. 225 -235).

From 1799 to the close of 1806, Mr. Wooll was Master of the Free Grammar School at Midhurst, in Sussex, the character of which he considerably raised by introducing the system of tuition practised at Winchester. In 1807 he succeeded the late Dr. Henry Ingles at Rugby, and he remained in that situation until 1828. During his mastership the school was entirely rebuilt, and the boys increased to the unprecedented number of 380. The many very excellent scholars who, from his previous tuition, have distinguished themselves at both our Universities, will long continue to bear ample testimony to his merits as a teacher; and he had most justly the reputation of being so excellent a Disciplinarian, that he had rarely occasion to resort to that extremity of punishment-expulsion, either private or public. Firm and consistent in his conduct, he duly upheld the dignity of his station; whilst, mild and forbearing in practice, he commanded the love and esteem of his scholars. Courteous and pleasing in his manners, in conversation entertaining and instructive, as a neighbour hospitable, as a friend kind, so long as a Rugbeian taught by him shall survive, so long will his memory be respected.

We are obliged from want of space to defer our Memoirs of Lord Grenville, the Hon. George Lamb, Dean Woodhouse, Edward Upham, Esq. and several others.

DEATHS.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY. Nov. 13. At Walworth, aged 67, Capt. Robert Pettet, R.N. He was made a Lieut. 1794; promoted to the command of the Termagant sloop, on the Mediterranean station, Jan. 2, 1804, and in May following, captured the Felicité privateer. In 1808 he was appointed to the Briseis, the boats of which, with those of the Bruiser, captured El Courier a Danish privateer in May 1809, and for some time after continued to serve in the squadron of Lord George Seymour at the mouth of the Elbe.

Nov. 19. Capt. Charles C. Massey, 7th Bombay Native Infantry.

Nov. 20. Col. Francis Rey, Royal Art. He was appointed 1st Lieut. 1793, Capt.Lieut. 1796, Captain 1802, Major 1808, Lt. Col. 1813, and Col. 1825. He for some time commanded the Artillery at Malta.

Nov. 31. In London, Charles Husband, esq. of Glencairn, 22 years Sheriff Substitute for Perthshire.

Dec. 9. In Wimpole-st. aged 82, Lady Durrant. Her maiden name was Steenbergen she was married in 1799 to the late Sir Thomas Durrant, the 2nd Bart. of Scottowe in Norfolk, and left his widow May 22, 1829, having had issue Sir Henry-Thomas Durrant, the present Bart. and two daughters.

Dec. 10. At Peckham, in her 93d year, Anna Maria, widow of John Perkins, esq. Dec. 11. At Islington, in his 85th year, Robert Browning, esq. formerly of the Bank of England, in which establishment he was employed 52 years.

Dec. 27. In the Regent's-park, aged 76, the Rt. Hon. Eleanor Lady de Blaquiere. She was a dau. of Robt. Dobson, esq. was married Dec. 24, 1775, to John de Blaquiere, esq. who was created a Bart. in 1784, and a Peer of Ireland in 1800, and was left his widow Aug. 27, 1812, having had issue the present Lord, three other sons, and three daughters.

At Wimpole-street, aged 61, Wm. Pulsford, esq.

Jan. 1. In Brunswick-sq. Nathaniel Milne, esq. of the Temple.

In Upper Baker-st. aged 87, Melian, widow of Col. Samuel Howe Showers. Jan. 2. Aged 63, John Calvert, esq. of Islington.

Jan. 3. In Hertford-street, aged 33,

John Henry Cotterell, esq. eldest son of Sir John Geers Cotterell, Bart.

At Gloucester-pl. aged 43, Benjamin Burton, esq. brother to Sir Charles Burton, Bart. of Pollacton hall, co. Carlow; and younger son of the late Sir Charles Burton, by the Hon. Catherine Cuffe, dau. of John 2d Lord Desart.

In Portland-place, Wm.-Ellis, eldest son of Wiliam Gosling, esq.

In Devonshire-st. Queen's-square, aged 74, the widow of Henry Edward Church, esq. of the Secretary of Bankrupts' Office.

In Essex-st. aged 74, Andrew Edge, esq. Clerk of the Outer Treasury in the Court of King's Bench, and Filaser for the counties of Essex and Monmouth.

In Trevor-sq. Knightsbridge, Sarah, widow of W. Snell Chauncy, esq.

Jan. 5. In Upper Harley-st. in his 70th year, Gilbert Neville Neyle, esq. late of Lincoln's Inn.

Jan. 8. The wife of Joseph Clark, esq. of Kensington.

At Brompton, aged 87, Mary, widow of F. Burrowes, esq. of Brighton.

Jun. 10. In Frederick-st. Connaughtsq. aged 69, Thomas Lewis, esq. formerly of Ealing.

In Gower-st. aged 72, Sarah, wife of W. Beckett, esq.

At Peckham, in her 93d year, Anna Maria, widow of John Perkins, esq.

Mary, widow of Mr. Phillips, and niece to the late John Morgan, esq.

Jan. 11. In Portland place, Isabel, wife of John Hardy, esq. M.P. dau. of R. Guthorne, esq. of Kirkby Lonsdale.

At the residence of his father in the Wandsworth-road, aged 28, Mr. Thomas Pierce Denison, Solicitor, late of the Inner Temple.

Jan. 13. At Brompton, aged 54, Harriet, wife of C. H. Tatham, esq.

At Hampstead, aged 80, J. Fenton, esq. At the house of his son in Euston-sq. aged 71, Thomas Mills, esq.

Jan. 16. At John-st. Bedford Row, aged 56, S. Lowell, esq.

In Harley-st. aged 81, Ann, widow of John Blagrove, esq. late of Jamaica, Ankerwyke-house, Bucks, and Great Abshott, Hants.

Jan. 19. In Bolton-st. aged 56, Sir Charles William Flint, late Resident Secretary of the Irish office in London. He was knighted May 29, 1812, on acting as proxy for Sir Henry Wellesley at the Installation of the Bath. He was appointed Under Secretary of State for Ireland 1827, with a salary of 15501. and a house; and retired in March 1832. Jan. 21. At Clapham-common, aged 80, James Rule, esq. Jan. 22.

Aged 57, John Woollams,