Molyneux, Secretary of Legation at Frankfort.-10. Lady Katharine. The present Earl was born 10th July, 1796, and married, June 1834, Mary- Augusta, only dau. of R. G. Hopwood, of Hopwood, esq. and has with other issue a son and heir, William Philip now Viscount Molyneux, born 14th Oct. 1835. LORD FARNHAM. Oct. 19. In Rutland-square, Dublin, in his 65th year, the Right Hon. and Rev. Henry Maxwell, sixth Baron Farnham, of Farnham, co. Cavan. His Lordship was the younger son of the Hon. and Right Rev. Henry Maxwell, Lord Bishop of Meath, by Margaret, only daughter of the Right Hon. Anthony Foster, Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland, and sister to the first Lord Oriel. He succeeded to the peerage only one month before his death, on the death of his brother John fifth Lord Farnham, of whom a brief mamoir was given in our last Magazine, p. 546. His Lordship married Sept. 5, 1798, Lady Anne Butler, eldest daughter of Henry-Thomas, second Earl of Carrick, and sister to the present Earl; and by that lady, who died on the 29th May, 1831, he had issue nine sons and three daughters: 1. the Right Hon. Henry, now Lord Farnham, born in 1799, and M. P. for the county of Cavan in the present and five preceding parliaments; he married in 1828 the Hon. Anna Frances Esther Stapleton, youngest dau. of Thomas Lord Le Despenser, and sister of the Countess of Roden, &c. but has no issue; 2. the Hon. Sarah-Juliana, married in 1828 to Alexander Saunderson, of Castle Saunderson, co. Cavan, esq.; 3. the Hon. Somerset Richard Maxwell, who has succeeded to all the unsettled estates of his uncle the late Lord, and will probably succeed his brother as Member for the county of Cavan; he is at present unmarried; 4. the Right Hon. Harriet-Margaret dowager Viscountess Bangor; who was married in 1826 to Edward third and late Viscount Bangor, and was left his widow in 1837, having had issue the present Viscount, and five other sons; 5. JohnBarry, a Lieut. in the 14th regiment, who died in 1833, in his 26th year; 6. Charles-Robert, who died in 1825, in his 17th year; 7. the Hon. Anne, married in 1836 to William Morris Bayley, esq.; 8. the Hon. Edward- William Maxwell; 9. the Hon. James Pierce; 10. the Hon. Richard-Thomas; 11. the Hon. RobertThomas; and 12. the Hon. WilliamGeorge, born in 1821. We take this opportunity to append a few notes on the late John Lord Farnham: "His Lordship was the first man who, with boldness unexampled, and at cost incalculable, broke through the charm of interest and influence which made the Irish representative peerage a close government borough. He was the man who bestowed upon the peers of Ireland the liberty and power they now enjoy, of electing a representative of their own choice, instead of obeying the congé d'elire of this, or that, or any other ministry. The personal friend of the late Duke of York, John Barry Maxwell, Baron Farnham, had the talents, the courage, the principle which qualified him for the arduous undertaking. He succeeded for himself and his compeersand has left behind to the Irish aristocracy a legacy of freedom and independ ence. "His Lordship was as much admired for his mildness in private, as respected for his energy in the senate. The loyal, the brave, and the true, crowded round his bier, on which were shed the tears of old and young. The inhabitants honoured him when among them, and paid every respect to his remains; they revere his memory, and are honoured that his corpse is placed, not at Farnham, but at Newtownbarry. His coffin was lowered into the vault by Serjeant Hamilton, of the Cavan Malitia, and three serjeants of the Newtownbarry Yeomanry. The former fought under the late Lord Farnham (then Col. Barry), in the Irish rebellion. At the battle of Arklow, Col. Barry had his regimental cap shot off, and he wore the forage cap of one of his men during the remainder of the engagement. At Wexford, the Cavan serjeant, with twelve men, kept the bridge during two hours' hard fighting, and literally strewed it with the bodies of cows, horses, and men." RIGHT HON. SIR ROBERT GRANT. July 9. At Dapoorie, in his 53d year, the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Grant, G. Č. H. Governor of Bombay. He was the brother of Lord Glenelg, now Secretary of State for the Colonies, being the second son of Charles Grant, esq. for many years M. P. for Invernessshire, and one of the most distinguished directors of the East India Company, by Jane, daughter of Thomas Fraser, esq. a younger son of Fraser, of Balnain, co. Inverness. Of his father very long memoirs, by the late Thomas Fisher, esq. F.S.A. Searcher of the Records at the East India House, were published in the Gentleman's Magazine for Dec. 1823. Mr. Robert Grant, as well as his brother Lord Glenelg, was a member of Magdalene College, in the University of Cambridge, of which they both became Fellows. They took their B. A. degree together in 1801, when Charles was third and Robert fourth Wrangler, Charles 1st, and Robert 2d Medallist, so even were their studies and attainments, and so parallel their success. In addition, the present Lord Glenelg obtained in 1802 the second Bachelor's prize. Mr. Robert Grant had in 1799 obtained a Craven scholarship. He took his M.A. degree in 1806, having been in that step preceded two years by his brother. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, Jan. 30, 1807. He published in 1813 a pamphlet, entitled, "The Expediency maintained of continuing the system by which the Trade and Government of India are now regulated," 8vo. ; and also "A Sketch of the History of the East India Company from its first foundation to the passing of the Regulation Act of 1773," 8vo. Mr. Robert Grant subsequently obtained the office of King's Serjeant in the Duchy Court of Lancaster, and was one of the Commissioners of Bankrupts. In 1826 he was returned to Parliament for the Inverness district of burghs. In 1830 he was elected for Norwich, and again in 1831. When his brother became President of the Board of Control, he was appointed one of the Commissioners; in 1831 he was sworn a Privy Councillor, and in 1832 appointed Judge Advocate General. At the first election for the new borough of Finsbury in 1831, he was returned as one of its first members, and that by a very large majority, the numbers being Rt. Hon. R. Grant. 4278 2848 2311 2151 787 In June 1834 Sir Robert Grant was appointed Governor of Bombay. He left the Presidency in good health for the hills on 19th June last. Having imprudently ridden out during a heavy fall of rain, he was attacked by fever. The disorder abated, and his recovery was expected; but he suffered a relapse, his brain became affected, and he sunk under its effects. Sir Robert Grant married Margaret daughter of the late Sir David Davidson, of Cantray, co. Nairn, and has left an infant family. SIR EDWARD POORE, BART. Oct. 13. In Norfolk-street, Park-lane, in his 44th year Sir Edward Poore, the second Baronet, of Rushall, co. Wilts (1795). He was the eldest son of Edward Poore, esq. by his first wife MarthaAnn, second daughter of George Wolff, esq. Danish consul in London, and succeeded to the title of Baronet June 1st, 1820, on the death of his great-uncle Sir John Methuen Poore, to whom it had been granted with remainder to his brother Edward, and the heirs male of his body. Sir Edward married, Jan. 6, 1818, Agnes, third daughter of Sir John Majoribanks, Bart. by whom he has left issue Sir Edward, his successor, born in 1821, and five daughters. His body was interred in Salisbury cathedral, where there are already some very handsome monuments to the memory of his family. MAJOR-GEN. ADYE, C.B. Sept. 13. At Woolwich Common, Major-General Stephen Galway Adye, C.B. Chief Firemaster in the Royal Laboratory. He was appointed First Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, Jan. 1, 1794; Captain Lieutenant in 1798; Captain 1803; brevet Major 1810; Major in the Royal Artillery 1812; Lieut.-Colonel 1814; Colonel R. A. 1825; and brevet Major-General 1837. In 1809 he served as Brigade-Major to Major-General Lawson, in the Kent district. He was also in the expedition to Walcheren, and there received a serious wound from the effects of which he never thoroughly recovered. Subsequently, on the plains of Waterloo, he added another wreath to his well-earned honours, and received the cross of the Bath. On the day before his death the general accepted an invitation from his friend and companion in arms, General Drummond, R. A. to meet a few brother soldiers at dinner, and he returned about 11 to his house in perfect health, but about two o'clock in the following morning, Mrs. Adye discovered he was a corpse ! This event caused a great gloom over the military circles at Woolwich, the garrison being deprived of an amiable friend and gallant soldier. The men have lost a firm protector of their rights and privileges, although a strict disciplinarian, and the poor of the surrounding neighbourhood a real benefactor. the 7th Fusiliers, June 16, 1803; and in 1807, as Captain in that regiment, was present at the taking of Copenhagen; he continued in active service through the whole of the Peninsular war, and on many occasions gave signal proof of his courage and military skill. Among other scenes of glory and renown, Captain Crowder distinguished himself at the Battles of Oporto and Talavera in 1809, at Busaco in 1810, at Albuera in 1811, and at Salamanca in 1812. At the last he was severely wounded, and, having been appointed to two of the light companies ordered to the attack upon the village of Arapiles, was promoted to the brevet rank of Major for his conduct upon the occasion. Continuing still with his regiment, Major Crowder was present in 1813 at the battles of Vittoria and the Pyrenees, where he received another wound; and, in 1814, at the battles of Orthes and Toulouse. In the following year, Major Crowder exchanged from the 7th to the 23rd Fusiliers, when he retired on half-pay; and in 1825 got his promotion as Lieutenant-Colonel. It was not until the brevet of 1838 appeared that he obtained his rank as full Colonel, a short time previous to which he had received the distinction of K. H. honours to which his long and gallant services fairly entitled him. He had for nearly twenty years been a resident of Cheltenham, where an extensive circle of friends and acquaintance will long and sincerely deplore his loss. In private life he was respected and esteemed by all who knew him. CAPT. SIR WILLIAM ELLIOT, C. B. Sept. At Plymouth, aged 55, Sir William Elliot, C.B. K.C.H. K.T.S. Captain of the flag-ship at that port. Sir. W.Elliot was of humble origin, and was born at Cawsand, near Plymouth, Dec. 15, 1782. His daring atchievements during the war, in the West Indies, obtained him the name of "fire-eating Elliot," and procured for him every step in the naval ladder of promotion. He entered the service on the 21st Feb. 1795, as a volunteer, on board the Irresistible, 74, which sailed from Spithead, with the Channel-fleet, early in June; his only friend being Mr. P. Ellery, the Captain's clerk, as an assistant to whom he was allowed to join the ship. On the 22d of that month they fell in with the enemy's fleet off L'Orient, and in the action which ensued, the French national ship, Alexandre, of 74 guns, struck to the Irresistible. In this action he received a wound which occasioned his return home, in company with his commander, Capt. Grindall, who was severely wounded. Early in 1796 he joined the Carnatic at Plymouth, to which Capt. Grindall had recently been appointed; and he followed the same officer in his subsequent commands of the Colossus and Russell. In the latter he was present in Adm. Duncan's memorable action on the 11th Oct. 1797, off Camperdown; after which the Russell rejoined the Channel fleet, and remained in the Channel until the latter end of 1800, when she was ordered to the Baltic, and was in the memorable action of the 1st of April, 1801, at Copenhagen, under Lord Nelson. In reward for his services during this period, Mr. Elliot was, in March 1802, promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, by Lord St. Vincent; and, in March 1803, he was appointed First Lieutenant of the Plantagenet, commanded by Capt. G. E. Hammond, in which he remained until March 1805, employed in cruising in the Channel, when he was appointed First Lieutenant of the Rattler, commanded by Capt. Mason, employed on the French coast, between Calais and Dieppe, until May, when she was ordered to the Newfoundland coast. On her way thither she fell in with a brig, in a heavy gale of wind, lying on her beam-ends, and the crew lashed fast to her; and by the energy and intrepidity of the subject of this memoir, who volunteered his services, ten men were saved from destruction, only half-an-hour before the brig sunk. For this signal act of heroism he received the medal of the Royal Humane Society; as he did a second time, for having jumped overboard from the same vessel, and saved the lives of three men who could not swim. On the Rattler's return to England, in 1806, Capt. Mason being appointed to the Daphne, Lieut. Elliot followed him into that ship, and sailed for the river Plate, where he was present, and commanded a party of seamen, at the storming of the town of Monte Video, and was also at the attack on Buenos Ayres. In Jan. 1808 he returned to England, and was afterwards employed on the coast of Jutland. In April he commanded a boat attack on a Danish convoy, lying under the batteries of Fladstrand, mounting ten long 18-pounders, aud after a severe action, he succeeded in capturing the whole of them, consisting of ten brigs and schooners. In this action he was severely wounded. In 1809 he served in the West Indies, on board the Castor; and on the 16th Oct. in that year he received his promotion to the rank of Commander, and was appointed to the Pultusk, of 12 guns, and 75 men. On the 11th December he chased an enemy's brig into the Port des Hayes, Gudaloupe, where she was protected by heavy batteries. The Thetis having joined two days after, Capt. Elliot volunteered to command a party to storm the battery. The landing was effected at noon, and, after six hours' march through a thick wood, the party arrived, unperceived, at the back of the battery, which was immediately stormed, and completely destroyed. The battery mounted 22 guns, and was garrisoned by 300 soldiers, the greater part of whom made their escape in the dark. The French national brig, Nisus, of 18 guns and 150 men, was subsequently taken possession of. On this occasion Capt. Elliot was severely wounded in the right knee and breast, being knocked down by a sentinel with the butt-end of his masket, and received a musket-shot above the right ancle. In Jan. 1810, after having recovered from his wounds, he was appointed to command the Hazard; and on the 30th of that month he led the second division of men of war and transports into Ansc la Barque, Gaudaloupe, to attack the island. The batteries of this port were taken possession of by the crew of the Hazard, before any other ship came in ; she also captured the national schooner La Mouche, of 16 guns. After rendering other active services. in the subjugation of the island, Capt. E. sailed with the despatches of its surrender to England, and arrived on the 13th March at Plymouth, where he found a letter acquainting him, that in consequence of his services the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty had been pleased to direct that he should be promoted to the rank of Post Captain on the day when he should have completed a twelvemonth as Commander. He was then employed on the Newfoundland station, where he remained until Jan. 1811. In June 1812, Captain Elliot was appointed to command the Crocodile 28, and was employed on the coast of Spain and Portugal till Jan. 1813; and from that time to Dec. 1814 on the Labrador coast. He then returned to England, and the Crocodile was paid off at Portsmouth on the 1st Feb. 1815. On the 5th Sept. following Capt. Elliot received an appointment to the Florida 20, from which he was removed April 8, 1816, to the Scamander frigate, employed in the West Indies until 1818, in November of which year she was paid off at Portsmouth. On the 23d Nov. 1823 he was appointed to the Lively of 46 guns, in which he escorted Don Miguel, then an exile, from Lisbon to Brest, and on his return received from the new Sovereign of Portugal the insignia of a Knight Commander of the Tower and Sword, set in diamonds. He afterwards sailed to South America, on his return from whence, in Jan. 1828, the Lively was paid off. Soon after a public dinner was given to him at Devonport by the officers of that frigate, "to evince their sense of his kindness to them, while under his command, and as a mark of their high esteem for the man and for the officer." Subsequently, he had made a three years' cruise in the Mediterranean, in command of the Revenge 76; and in 183- he received the appointment of flag Captain to the Commander-in-chief at Plymouth, which he held at the period of his decease. In Jan. 1835 he was made a Commander of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order. Capt. Elliot married first in 1806, Lucretia, daughter of the Rev. John Harries, of Newfoundland, and by that lady, who died at Barbadoes in 1818, he had four children, all of whom are deceased; secondly, a daughter of Mr. John Parkin, ship-builder, at Frank Quarry, co. Devon, by whom he had two sons and a daughter. He had three brothers in the naval service, John, a purser; and Thomas and James, Lieutenants. One of his sisters married in 1817 Capt. F. W. Lieut. Lapidge, R.N. The decease of this gallant officer was awfully sudden. He was sitting at the dinner-table of his brother-in-law, H.T. Smith, esq. in Morice-square, surrounded by some of his nearest and dearest relations, apparently in good health, and conversing with his accustomed cheerfulness, when, almost instantaneously, he ceased to exist. The estimation in which he was held by those of his brother officers who served with him is an index to his. gallantry as an officer, and his excellence as a man. In his manners he was dignified without austerity; retiring, perhaps, but courteous; and though he might, pardonably, have been proud of his signal success in life, yet he never forgot the frankness of a British sailor. The remains of Sir William Elliot were interred on the 20th Sept. at Maker, in the church of the parish in which he was born. The procession was formed on Morice-square, and moved through the streets in the following order :-Ply. mouth division of Marines, with arms reversed-Royal Marine Band playing Dead March in Saul-Mates of the Royal Adelaide bearing the arms of the deceased on velvet cushions-The Corpse borne by the barge crew; the pall borne by Captains of H. M. Service; the coffin enveloped in a union jack, and on it the deceased's cocked hat and sword-Ply mouth Humane Society-Clergy-The relatives Inhabitants of the townSeamen-Warrant officers-Naval officers of the commissioned ships in port -Seamen-Military officers of the regiments in garrison.-Marines. In this order the procession moved, and the roll of the muffled drums sounded mournfully through the crowded streets. At Mount Wise the procession was joined by the Port Admiral, Lord A. Beauclerk, General Ellice, Commander-in-Chief, and Col. Lewes, Commandant of the Royal Marines, who accompanied the procession to the water's edge. At the moment of embarkation, there could not have been less than 10,000 persons assembled on the the slopes of Mount Wise. The boats moved slowly over the mouth of the Tamar, the band still playing; and in order to prevent confusion or interruption, eight government cutters moored in a line; there was also a line of boats, with their colours and pendants hoisted half-mast high. On the beach, at Cremill, the body was received by the Royal Marines of the Royal Adelaide, who escorted the body to the church, and after the service of the church had been performed by the Rev. Mr. Dunning, of Torpoint, they fired volleys over the grave, as is usual on such occasions. were CAPT. GEORGE ROBINSON, R. N. June 27. Capt. George Robinson, R.N. He was paternally a descendant of the Robinsons of Rokeby, in Yorkshire, and his maternal ancestors were the Arnotts, of Arnott, in Fifeshire. His father dying when he was a child, he was adopted by his uncle Matthew Robert Arnott, esq. of South Audley-street, and of Wakefield, in Yorkshire, for 35 years reading clerk to the House of Peers; who, although a Baronet by descent, declined to assume the title, as the estates were heavily encumbered. There is now in the possession of Captain Robinson's family an authentic genealogy of this noble house, as far back as the year 1160; in which it appears that Sir Malcolm Arnott accompanied the Earl of Fife on an embassy to Henry the Third of England; and in the year 1780 a silver seal, of curious workmanship, was dug up in Flodden-field, bearing the arms of Arnott, and which was presented to Mr. Arnott by the Heralds' college. This valuable relic of an ancient family must have been worn by Sir David Arnott, who was standard-bearer to King James, when he fell on that eventful day. At a very early period of Capt. Ro binson's career, he displayed an intrepidity of mind and contempt of personal danger which could not have been surpassed, and to which he was indebted for every step in his promotion. He has been frequently heard to repeat, with heartfelt, pride, that although he had always been offered the most powerful patronage in the appointment to a ship, he had the good fortune to owe it to his opportunities of distinguishing himself; and truly may it be averred, that he earned by his unsubdued personal bravery every laurel with which his brow was encircled. In the ever memorable engagement with the Comte de Grasse, in the Ville de Paris, off Dominique, in 1782, Capt. Robinson, then Second Lieutenant of the Barfleur, bore a conspicuous character. He was selected by Lord Rodney as a boarder, (a distinction usually conferred on the superior officer,) on which occasion he conveyed the enemy's swords to the British vessel. During a period of thirty-two years, his life was devoted to his country, and he served it under Lords Rodney and Hood, in seven general engagements, and in three single actions, the last of which was in the Thames frigate, 1793, which, after a hard-fought battle, was captured by four French frigates, and taken into Brest. On this occasion Capt. R. lost his leg and thigh, the knee of the remaining limb being so severely injured as to render it for many years unavailing. He was detained in France as a prisoner of war for two years, enduring every species of indignity and cruelty which the malice of an ungenerous enemy could suggest. During the "reign of terror," he was under sentence of death for several months; in which period he always laid his uniform under his head, on his bed of straw, that he might, even in death, display the colours which he had so nobly defended. To the latest period of his life he suffered acutely from the unskilful amputation of his limb, performed in the heat of action, himself being the only assistant under the operation. In three years after he suffered another amputation, by Sir James Earle. Under the most acute bodily suffering, he applied to Robespierre for permission to add, by his own means, to the prison allowance. "Grass is too good for you," replied the monster in human form; "you owe it to the justice and humanity of the French nation, that we do not take you into the fields and shoot you like wolves." With 1300 human beings in one common prison, it is no matter of wonder that a fever broke out, which was fatal to hundreds, and on this occasion was it exemplified |