THE DUKE D'ANGOULEME. June 3. At Goritz, in Austria, aged 68, Louis Antoine Duc d' Angoulême.

He was born Aug. 6, 1775, the elder of the two sons of Charles Philippe Comte d'Artois, afterwards Charles X., by Maria-Theresa, daughter of Victor III. King of Sardinia.

The youthful Dauphin, Louis XVII., having, as it is tolerably well ascertained, perished in the dungeon wherein the ruffians of the revolutionary government had immured him, and the Salique law prohibiting the descent of the crown to the Princess Royal of France, she was united on the 10th June, 1799, to the Duc d'Angoulême. Louis XVIII. ascended the throne on the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty, in the year 1814; and dying without issue in 1824, the succession devolved upon the Comte d'Artois, who reigned as Charles X. In 182he was placed at the head of the army which made a demonstration, rather than a campaign, in Spain. His exploits, however, were the subjects both of the French painters and sculptors of that period.

The events of 1830 are too well known to require even a cursory notice. An unsuccessful attempt was made on the third of the " great days of July," by M. Jacques Laffitte, and the leading members of the newly-elected Chamber of Deputies, to induce a withdrawal of the obnoxious ordinances which had been issued by the ministry of the Prince de Polignac. The government hesitated, and when their misguided sovereign became willing to accede to the proposal of the deputies, M. Laffitte declared that it was then too late. Ultimately Charles X. signed an abdication at Rambouillet, and his son the Duc d'Angoulême resigned his right of succession in favour of his young nephew, the Duc de Bordeaux, whose father, the Duc de Berri, was assassinated in 1820.

The Duc d'Angoulême seems to have been a harmless character, of no marked talent, and of no decided propensities. During the government of Charles X. he was content with doing what he was bid -at the revolution of 1830 he was content with doing nothing—and during the exile of his house he was content with being nothing. In private life he appears to have been an amiable man.

When he perceived his death approaching, he sent to the archives of the War Department at Paris an important work which he had got executed during the

Restoration, giving, in folio, plans, draw. ings and full descriptions of all the fortified places in France, showing their weak points, the best modes of attacking them, and the proper manner of defence.

The cause of his death was a cancer in the pylorus. On the 8th of June bis funeral was celebrated in the cathedral of Goritz, and thence proceeded to the chapel of the Franciscan convent, situated on a height at the west of the town. The Duc de Bordeaux followed the car on foot, in a mourning cloak. Count de Montbel, Viscount de Champagny, and the Duke de Blacas, also in mourning cloaks, walked behind the Duke; next came the French now at Goritz, the authorities, and the inhabitants. The body was placed in the vault where the mortal remains of Charles X. rest.

JOSEPH BONAPARTE.

July 28. At Florence, aged 76, Joseph Bonaparte, Count de Survilliers, the elder brother of Napoleon, and formerly King of Naples and King of Spain.

He was born in 1768, at Corte, in the island of Corsica ; and attended his brother in his first campaign of Italy in 1796. Having been appointed a member of the legislative body, he was distinguished for his moderation and good sense, and gave proofs of generous firmness, when he undertook to defend General Bonaparte, then in Egypt, against the accusations of the Directory. Under the Consulate he was member of the Council of State and one of the witnesses to the treaty of Luneville. On the accession of Napoleon to the empire the crown of Lombardy was offered to and refused by him. A few days after the battle of Austerlitz he assumed the command of the army destined to invade the kingdom of Naples, penetrated without striking a blow to Capua, and, on the 15th of February, 1806, he made his entrance into Naples, of which kingdom the Emperor appointed him Sovereign. The government of Joseph as King of Naples, though short, was not sterile. In the space of less than two years he drove the English from the kingdom, reorganised the army and navy, and completed many public works. In 1808 he proceeded to occupy the throne of Spain; which he abandoned after the battle of Vittoria. On his return to France he took the command of Paris, and, faithful to the orders of the Emperor, he accompanied the Empress regent to Chartres, and subsequently to

Blois, after the invasion of the Allies, and assembled around her all the disposable troops. After the abdication of Fontainebleau, Prince Joseph Napoleon was obliged to withdraw to Switzerland. He returned to France in 1815, the same day the Emperor arrived at Paris. After the battle of Waterloo he embarked for America, where his brother, whom he was never more to see, appointed to meet him. In 1817 the State of Jersey, and in 1825 the legislature of the State of New York, authorised him to possess lands without becoming an American citizen.

The Count de Survilliers did not return to Europe until 1832. He then came to England, where he resided several years. A painful malady, which required a milder climate, obliged him to demand permission of the foreign powers to fix his residence at Florence, where he breathed his last. He was attended on his dying bed by his brothers, Louis and Jerome. There remain of the Emperor's brothers but the two latter princes-Louis, formerly King of Holland; and Jerome, formerly King of Westphalia.

LORD HUNTINGFIELD.

Aug. 10. At Heveningham-hall, Suffolk, aged 66, the Right Hon. Joshua Vanneck, Baron Huntingfield, of Heveningham-hall, in the Peerage of Ireland (1796,) and a Baronet of England (1751.) He was the eldest son of Joshua first Lord Hunting field, by Maria, second daughter of Andrew Thomson, esq. of Roehampton.

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He was born on the 12th of August, 1778, and at his death was within two days completing his 66th year. He succeeded his father on the 15th Aug. 1816. was twice married, namely, first, 2nd April, 1810, to Frances Catharine, eldest daughter of Chaloner Arcedeckne, esq. of Glevering hall, Suffolk, who died in 1815; and secondly, 6th January, 1817, to Lucy-Anne, third daughter of Sir Charles Blois, Bart., who survives his lordship. He leaves an only daughter by the first marriage, the Hon. Mrs. Rowley, wife of Captain Robert Charles Rowley; and an only son by the second lady, namely, the Hon. Charles Andrew Vanneck, now Lord Huntingfield, who was born the 12th Jan. 1818, and married on the 6th of July, 1839, Miss Louisa Arcedeckne, only daughter of Andrew Arcedeckne, esq. and has issue. There was another son by the first marriage, the Hon. Joshua Vanneck, who died in 1833, in his 22nd year.

HON. JAMES ERSKINE MURRAY. Feb. 17. At Borneo, in his 35th year, James Erskine Murray, of Aberdona, co. Clackmannan, esq. Advocate; uncle to Lord Elibank.

He was born May 4, 1810, the third son of Alexander seventh Lord Elibank, and the eldest son of his second marriage with Catharine, daughter of James Stewart, esq.

He was called to the Scotish bar as an advocate; and published in 1836 an interesting account of a Summer Tour across the Pyrenees. This tour was performed on foot, for Mr. Murray had an extraordinary physical constitution, naturally good, and strengthened by frequent exercise in the Scottish highlands.

In conjunction with Mr. C. W. Bowra, he undertook a commercial expedition from China to the island of Borneo, where he met his death.

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After their arrival on the coast the two vessels, the schooner Young Queen and the brig Anna, entered the river Coti for about 80 miles, and anchored off TongarDuring the ascent no opposition was offered; and on arriving at the town named, where the Sultan resides, he expressed himself gratified by the visit, and willing to trade with the vessels. ceived by these friendly appearances, they were moored; but after some time having elapsed, there appeared no intention on the part of the inhabitants to buy or sell. From the large body of armed men congregating around the Sultan's house, suspicions began to be entertained that all was not right. These suspicions were soon confirmed by attempts being made to board on two several nights, which were prevented by the vigilance of those on the watch. The Sultan had now thrown aside every appearance of friendliness, and there was no longer any doubt of his intention to destroy the vessels, if possible. Mr. Murray, deeply impressed with their dangerous position, addressed a letter to the captains of the Young Queen and the Anua, stating his conviction that they could only escape by fighting their way through the gun-boats and floating batteries with which they were surrounded: he also endeavoured to get hostages from the Sultan, for a safe passage down the river in this he failed. The attack commenced upon the vessels on the 16th of February while they were still at anchor, by masked batteries from the shore and gun-boats. They slipped their cables, and commenced their almost hopeless attempt to fight their way out of the river, surrounded by numerous boats which kept up an incessant fire from their long brass guns. On every turn of the

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river they found a fresh battery to contend with, the boats keeping up the pursuit out of range of the swivels, but not of the long guns, from which in the Young Queen there were fired 550 shot, and a proportionate number from the Anna. At one time the Anna got on a mud bank, but her consort nobly bore up and ranged alongside for her protection, until she got off. But for this she would inevitably have been taken. The night being calm, with a strong ebb tide, the two vessels were lashed together, and allowed to drift with the current, determined to escape or perish in company. Ahead of each was a boat to pull them round when they got broadside on to the current ; the men in these boats state positively that they heard English voices hailing them from the shore. After 36 hours of continuous fighting, they reached within a few miles of the mouth of the river, and escape appeared certain. But they found a numerous fleet of boats ahead of them, which had entered through some unknown creek. This was the last and most desperate attack, and the number of pirates killed must have been immense. With personal safety almost within his grasp, here poor Murray was killed, in the Young Queen. He was fighting the midship guns when he was struck by a two-pounder on the breast; death was instantaneous.

The ships at length passed the bar and flats at the mouth of the river, though at sunset the boats were still in chase. During the whole affair the conduct of the officers and men was excellent. An unflinching determination was evinced to escape or die in the attempt. Mr. Murray was the moving spirit by which they were all influenced, and it is deeply to be regretted that he was cut short in the very vigour of life: with his talents and energies he might have done much to retrieve past misfortunes. Two lives were lost in the other vessel, and four were wounded in the Anna, and one in the Young Queen.

Mr. Murray married in 1832 Isabella, only child of the late James Erskine, esq. of Aberdona, son of James Lord Alva, of the Earl of Mar's family. He thereupon assumed the name of Erskine before his own. He has left issue a son and heir, Alexander-Erskine, born in 1832, another son, and two daughters.

SIR JOHN MAXWELL, BART. July 30. Aged 76, Sir John Maxwell, the seventh Bart. of Nether Pollok, co. Renfrew (1682).

Sir John was born in 1768, the eldest son of Sir James Maxwell, the sixth Baronet, by Frances, second daughter of

Robert Colquhoun, esq. of St. Christopher's. He succeeded his father in 1785.

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Sir John was educated in the most liberal principles of the Whigs, to which he stood true and faithful at all times and seasons. In the memorable struggle for the Reform Bill, few gentlemen in his part of the kingdom occupied so prominent a position as did Sir John Maxwell, in favour of that national measure. all public meetings in Glasgow, or in the neighbouring counties, in which he had a deep stake, Sir John was ever found in the front ranks of the people. After the Reform Bill became the law of the land, he was elected the first member for Paisley. Subsequently, after his retirement from the representation of Paisley, on the death of Sir M. S. Stewart, in 1836, he contested the county of Renfrew with Mr. Houston, but was unsuccessful. Since that period he has not been much before the public in his political character, but on every occasion where his vote and influence could be of use to the Liberal cause in his native country, they were freely given. In private life, nobody could be more remarkable for strict integrity. He was easy of access, courteous in manner, a friend to the poor, and to mankind in general-and resided almost constantly on bis patrimonial estates, which yielded him a rental of from 15,000l. to 20,000l. per annum. His leisure hours were devoted to agricultural pursuits, and few could excel him in the knowledge of practical farming. Being a kind and truly indulgent landlord, he was universally beloved by his numerous tenantry. His death was calm and serene. He had been complaining slightly of a palpitation at the heart; but he arose at his usual hour on Tuesday the 30th July to take a carriage drive with his friend and relative, Mr. Wallace, of Kelly, to whom he was very much attached, and who was paying a short visit to him. He was proceeding to the carriage to join Mr. Wallace, but he faltered for a moment or two in the lobby, his head drooped, his faithful body servant, Archibald McDonald, who had served him for the long period of 45 years, sprang to his assistance; so did Mr. Wallace; but their efforts were unavailing. The venerable Baronet had breathed his last.

He married Hanway- Anne, daughter of Richard Gardiner, of Mount Amelia, co. Norfolk, esq.; and is succeeded in his title and estates by his amiable and only son, now Sir John Maxwell, who has sat in Parliament successively for the counties of Renfrew and Lanark. He married in 1839 Lady Matilda Harriet Bruce, second daughter of the late Earl of Elgin and

Kincardine. The late Baronet has also left two daughters, the younger the wife of Archibald Stirling, esq. of Kenmure.

RALPH JOHN LAMBTON, ESQ. July 29. At Morton house, Durham, Ralph John Lambton, Esq. great-uncle to the Earl of Durham.

He was the second son of MajorGeneral John Lambton, M.P. for Durham, by Lady Susan Lyon, daughter of Thomas Earl of Strathmore. He was elected M.P. for the city of Durham, after his elder brother's death, in 1798, and was rechosen in 1802, 1806, 1807, and 1812. He retired in Dec. 1813.

He was for many years a master of hounds in the North, and gave them up only in Feb. 1837, after meeting with a fall in hunting, which had from that time kept him to his couch. He sold his hounds to Lord Suffield, for a higher price than was ever given before.

Mr. Lambton was the head of a banking house at Newcastle, and has died very rich, and unmarried.

His remains have been interred at Chester-le-Street. The chief mourners were Mr. W. H. Lambton and his son, Mr. Henry Lambton; and the pall bearers Sir M. W. Ridley, Bart., R. E. D. Shafto, Esq., Colonel Tower, W. Williamson, Esq., R. S. Surtees, Esq., John Gregson, Esq., Edward Johnson, Esq., and Thomas Fenwick, Esq. The bulk of Mr. Lambton's large fortune, it is understood, is left to his nephew, Mr. William Henry Lambton, next brother to the late Earl of Durham, and son-in-law of Cuthbert Ellison, Esq. of Hebburn Hall.

VICE-ADM. SIR C. BOYLE.

May 21. Aged 73, the Hon. Sir Courtenay Boyle, K. C. H. Vice-Admiral of the Red, and F.R.S.; brother to the Earl of Cork and Orrery.

He was born Sept. 3, 1770, the third but second surviving son of Edmund the seventh Earl, by his first wife Aenn, second daughter of Kelland Courtenay, esq. and niece to John fourth Earl of Sandwich.

He entered the royal navy Feb. 19, 1781, as a midshipman on board the Latona frigate, commanded by the late Sir Hyde Parker. In this ship he witnessed the action between the squadron under the command of his Captain's veteran father, and that of Holland under Admiral Zoutman; some time after which he had the misfortune to fall from the booms into the orlop, and was obliged to go on shore for his recovery.

He subsequently joined the Goliah 74, and remained in that vessel until April

8th, 1783, when he was sent to the Naval College at Portsmouth, where he continued until March 1784; at which period he re-commenced his professional career, under the auspices of the great Nelson, in the Boreas frigate, and sailed in her to the West Indies, from whence he returned to England in the summer of 1787.

The Boreas having been put out of commission, Mr. Boyle was received, at the recommendation of Captain Nelson, on board the Barfleur 98, bearing Lord Hood's flag; and in that ship he continued until the 25th Nov. 1788, when he was removed into the Leander 50, the flag-ship of Admiral Peyton, by whom, on the 5th June 1789, he was appointed to act as Lieutenant in the Aquilon frigate, on the Mediterranean station. He subsequently served in the same capacity on board the Vanguard 74, and was at length confirmed in that rank, and appointed to the Roebuck, a 44 on two decks.

At the commencement of the war against revolutionary France, in 1793, Mr. Boyle was fourth Lieutenant of the Egmont of 74 guns, commanded by the late Sir Archibald Dixon. This ship, after fitting at Plymouth, proceeded with the squadron under Rear-Adm. Gell to convoy the East India fleet to a certain latitude; and then cruised between the western isles and the coast of Spain. On the 14th April the squadron captured the General Dumourier French privateer of 22 guns and 196 men, and retook the St. Jago register ship, her prize, which, after a tedious litigation, was condemned, when the captors shared largely, each of the lieutenants receiving 1,4001.

On the 27th of the following month, Lord Hood, then at Gibraltar, appointed Lieut. Boyle to the Fox cutter, and charged him with despatches for the Admiralty. He afterwards served in the Excellent and Saturn ships of the line; and in the spring of 1795 accompanied Commodore Payne in the Jupiter of 50 guns, to bring over H.S.H. the Princess Caroline of Brunswick from Cuxhaven. On his return from that service he was promoted, April 1795, to the rank of Commander; and, during the month of October following, obtained an appointment to the Kangaroo, a new brig of 18 guns, in which he cruised with considerable success against the enemy's privateers and other armed vessels on the Lisbon and Irish stations. He obtained post rank June 30th, 1797.

In the beginning of the ensuing year Captain Boyle was appointed to the Hyena, of 24 guns, and served in her off Cherbourg, St. Maloes, and the Isle of

Bas, until March, 1799, when he was obliged to resign his ship in consequence of an injury he had sustained from being thrown out of a carriage when about to sail for Lisbon. His next appointment was in the ensuing month of June, to the Cormorant, of 24 guns, in which ship, after being for some time in attendance upon the royal family at Weymouth, he was sent to the Mediterranean, and on the passage out captured a Spanish brig of 14 guns and 87 men, and retook an English West Indiaman. On the 20th May, 1800, the Cormorant was wrecked off Damietta, on the coast of Egypt, when on her way to Alexandria, with despatches from Lord Keith to Sir W. Sidney Smith, containing the ratification of the treaty of El Arish. Contrary to the usages of war, Captain Boyle was kept in close confinement for nearly three months, during which period the French General Menou, into whose power he had fallen, treated him in a savage manner, telling him that he must consider himself as an hostage for the safety of Bodot, who had been an aide-de-camp to Bonaparte, and was then in the hands of the Grand Vizier.

Having at length recovered his liberty, Captain Boyle joined Sir W. Sydney Smith at Cyprus, and from thence went to Minorca, where a court martial assembled, Nov. 17, 1800, to inquire into the circumstances by which the loss of the

Cormorant was occasioned. The court were unanimously of opinion that it arose from an error in the reckoning, occasioned by the great incorrectness of the charts, and that the conduct and exertions of Captain Boyle were highly meritorious and exemplary on the unfortunate occasion, and did therefore adjudge him to be fully acquitted of all blame. In the spring of 1803 Captain Boyle was appointed to the Seahorse frigate, and ordered to the Mediterranean, where he was actively employed under Nelson during a very important part of his Lordship's command on that station.

In the summer of 1805 he exchanged into the Amphitrite, a Spanish prize frigate, and returned to England. His last appointment afloat was May 31, 1806, to the Royal William, bearing the flag of the Port-Admiral at Spithead, the command of which ship he retained until June, 1809, when he succeeded Capt. Towry as a Commissioner of Transports. The control of the dockyard at Sheerness was confided to him in the summer of 1814. Some time after he was appointed by an order in council to superintend the bringing up of the arrears of the accounts left unaudited by the Transport Board at

the time of its dissolution, and he subsequently obtained a seat at the Navy Board.

He was made a retired Rear-Admiral in 1831, but in 1840 was restored to the active list, and was promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral of the Red in Nov. 1841. In 1832 he was nominated a Knight. Commander of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order, and he was dubbed a Knight-Bachelor on the 3d Dec. in that

year.

In 1807 he represented the borough of Bandon in Parliament.

Sir Courtenay Boyle married, April 16, 1799, Caroline- Amelia, youngest daughter of the late William Poyntz, esq. of Midgham, co. Berks, and sister to Isabella-Henrietta Countess of Cork

and Orrery, the wife of his elder brother. By that lady, who survives him, he had issue three sons and two daughters-1. Courtenay Edmund William Boyle, esq. Capt. R.N. and Groom of the Privy Chamber, who married, in 1836, Mary, daughter of William Wallace Ogle, esq.; 2. the Hon. Caroline Boyle, Maid of Honour to Queen Adelaide; 3. Charles John Boyle, esq.; 4. Charlotte-Anne, who died in 1816, aged seven; 5. Mary. Louisa; and 6. Cavendish-Spencer, Lieut. 48th Foot.

SIR JAMES GAMBIER.

Aug. 5. In Pall Mall, aged 72, Sir James Gambier, late Her Majesty's Consul-General in the United Nether

lands.

He was son of the late Admiral James Gambier, by his second wife Jane, daughter of Colonel Monpessan, and nephew to the late Admiral Lord Gambier. He was born in Orchard-street, May Fair, Feb. 15, 1772. He first served in the navy, but subsequently, in 1793, entered the army, and was major of the 1st Life Guards. He quitted the army at the peace of Amiens, and in 1802 was appointed Consul General at Lisbon; a situation which he held until the departure of the Portuguese royal family. He was then removed in the same capacity to the Brazils; and thence subsequently to the Netherlands. He was knighted whilst holding the latter situation, April 27, 1808. On the abolition of several consulships general in 1826, he was placed on the retired list with a pension of 12007. a-year.

He married in 1797 Jemima daughter of William Snell, esq. of Salisbury hall, Hertfordshire. She died on the 15th of March last year, aged 67.

Their children were: 1. WilliamMorton, who died an infant in 1800;