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OBITUARY.

EARL BATHURST.

July 26. In Arlington-street, aged 72, the Right Hon. Henry Bathurst, third Earl Bathurst, of Bathurst in Sussex (1792), and Baron Bathurst of Battlesdon, co. Bedford (1711), second Baron Apsley, of Apsley, in Sussex (1771); K. G. a Teller of the Exchequer, Clerk of the Crown, an Elder Brother of the Trinity House, D.C.L. F.R.S. F.S. A. &c. &c.

He was born May 22, 1762, the elder son of Henry second Earl Bathurst, and Lord Chancellor of England, by Tryphena, daughter of Thomas Scawen, of Maidwell in Northamptonshire, esq. On his coming of age, a seat in Parliament was provided for him, in the family borough of Cirencester, by the retirement of his uncle James Whitshed, esq. July 9, 1783; and before the close of the same year Lord Apsley was appointed a Commissioner of the Admiralty. In July 1789 he removed to the Treasury, at which board he sat until June 1791.

In May 1790 he succeeded the Earl of Hardwicke as one of the Tellers of the Exchequer, of which office he had previously obtained the reversion. In 1793 he was appointed a Commissioner for the affairs of India, and sworn of the Privy Council. He sat at that board until the change of ministry in 1802. He continued to sit for Cirencester until his accession to the Peerage, on the death of his father, Aug. 6, 1794.

On the meeting of the new Parlia ment in 1796, Earl Bathurst moved the Address to the King. In 1804 he was appointed Master Worker of the Mint; in 1807 he became President of the Board of Trade, and in 1809 his Lord ship was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, which he held only from the 11th of October to the 6th of December. On the 11th of June 1812 he was appointed Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, and he discharged the duties of that office for a period of nearly sixteen years. In 1828 he was appointed President of the Council, which high office he retained till the resignation of the Wellington Administration in 1830, since which time he has taken no very prominent part in public affairs.*

* It is, we believe, regulated by Act of Parliament that the Tellership of the Exchequer shall not be filled up, by which a saving to the public will be derived of 2,7007. per annum. The office of Clerk of the Crown has also become subject, GENT. MAG. VOL. II.

His Lordship was elected a Knight of the Garter in 1817.

In his various public employments, Earl Bathurst was attentive to business, and much esteemed by his party. His talents, though not brilliant, were useful, and he had a competent knowledge of diplomacy; his manners were conciliating, and as a political adversary he conducted himself without asperity. His Lordship was in office when the battle of Waterloo was fought, and was the only civilian invited annually to the military festivals given by the Duke of Wellington in commemoration of that great event.

In the Biographical Peerage 1806, Sir Egerton Brydges made the following remarks on his character:-" He seems too much to have indulged in a life of indolence, for his friends speak of him as a man of very superior talents; of which, however, he has not given the world much opportunity to form a judgment. He is said to be sagacious and sarcastic: full of acute sense and cutting humour."

His health had been gradually declining for some months. His death was unaccompanied by pain; he expired in the bosom of his family, and was perfectly sensible of his approaching dissolution.

His Lordship married April 1, 1789, Georgiana, youngest daughter of Lord George Lennox, and aunt to the present Duke of Richmond. By her Ladyship, who survives him, he had issue five sons and two daughters: 1. the Right Hon. Henry George now Earl Bathurst, D. C. L. and M.P. for Cirencester from 1812 to the present time'; his Lordship was born in 1790, and is unmarried; 2. the Hon. William Lennox Bathurst, Clerk to the Privy Council, and Secretary to the Board of Trade, also unmarried; 3. Lady LouisaGeorgiana; 4. the Hon. Seymour-Thomas, a Colonel in the army, who died on the 10th of April last, leaving a son (see p.

in consequence of his death, to the Act passed last session for regulating the offices of the Court of Chancery. It has ceased to be a sinecure, and is converted into an effective office, which can no longer be executed by deputy. The salary also is reduced to an amount which, after payment of the necessary expenses of the establishment, can hardly be estimated beyond 2007. per annum. The Lord Chancellor has appointed his Chief Secretary, Mr. Le Marchant, to the office, but it is understood that the appointment is only temporary.

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108); 6. Lady Emily-Charlotte, married in 1825 to Major-general the Hon. Sir F. C. Ponsonby, K. C.B. second son of the Earl of Besborough, and his issue; 7. the Hon. and Rev. Charles Bathurst, Vicar of Limber, Lincolnshire; he was born in 1802, and married in 1830, Lady EmilyCaroline Bertie, youngest daughter of the Earl of Abingdon,

The body of Earl Bathurst was removed on Saturday Aug. 2 from Arlington-street to Cirencester, where the funeral took place on the Tuesday following. The solemn ceremony was rendered the more affecting and impressive through the circumstance of the body of his Lordship's late son, Colonel the Hon. Seymour Bathurst, who died in London in April last, having been disinterred from the vault in which it was deposited in the new cemetery, on the Harrow-road, and borne to be interred in company with that of his honoured and much-lamented parent. The utmost respect was paid to the memory of his Lordship by the inhabitants of Cirencester.

The remains of the noble earl, and those of his son, lay in state during six hours on Monday, in the hall of the family mansion, and were seen by many thousand persons, several of whom had travelled considerable distances to witness the imposing ceremony.

At the early hour of 6 o'clock on Tuesday morning, the bell of the Abbey Church began to toll, and towards 9, the hour appointed for the funeral, a large body of gentlemen and tenantry, all in deep mourning, amounting to nearly 300, assembled to join the train of mourners. The arrangements having been made, the procession proceeded towards the Abbey church. The corpse of the Hon. Seymour Bathurst preceded that of the Earl. The pall-bearers were Lord Thynne, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Cripps, M,P., Mr. Edward Cripps, Mr. Croome, and Mr. Warner. The chief mourners were his Lordship's three sons- -Earl Bathurst the Hon. William Bathurst, and the Hon. and Rev. Charles Bathurst.

THE COUNTESS OF ANTRIM. June 30. In Park-lane, aged 56, the Right Hon. Anne-Catherine Macdonnel, Countess of Antrim, and Viscountess Dunluce, in the peerage of Ireland; mother of the Marchioness of Londonderry, and half-sister to Viscount Dun, gannon.

Her Ladyship was born Feb. 11, 1778, the elder daughter of Randal- William Marquis and sixth Earl of Antrim, by the Hon. Letitia Morres, daughter of Henry first Viscount Mountmorres, and widow of the Hon. Arthur Trevor (by

whom she had an only child, the present Viscount Dungannon).

On the death of her father, she succeeded to the title already mentioned, which had been created by a patent granted to him in 1785, with remainder to his daughters, and the heirs male of their bodies.

She was first married, April 25, 1799, to Sir Henry Vane-Tempest, Bart. by whom she had an only child, Lady-Frances-Anne-Emily, who became in 1819 the second wife of Charles- William, second and present Marquis of Londonderry. The Countess was left a widow Aug. 1, 1813; and was married secondly, May 27, 1817, to Edmund Phelps, esq., who in consequence took the name of Macdonnel, and survives her Ladyship.

The titles have devolved on her Ladyship's sister Charlotte, wife of Rear-Adm. Lord Mark Kerr, uncle to the Marquis of Lothian. They have a numerous family; of whom the eldest died on the 28th of July, having borne the title of Lord Dunluce for the brief period of four weeks (see our last number, p. 333).

LORD GLENTWORTH.

Aug. 7. At Killaloe, aged 45, the Rt. Hon. Henry-Hartstonge Pery, Lord Glentworth, eldest son of the Earl of Limerick. This clever but imprudent young nobleman fell a victim to a career of reckless indulgence. Born to an earldom, with a fortune of not less than 40,000l. a-year, and gifted by nature with great natural talents, which were cultivated in no ordinary degree, he com menced life, not only under the most favourable but the most splendid auspices. Notwithstanding, the greatest part of his life, after he became of age, was spent in prison. His father, at various times, gave large sums to free him from difficulties, but unfortunately the Earl's intentions were continually frustrated. It is said that policies of insurance to the amount of 186,000l. were effected on Lord Glentworth's life. During the period of his Lordship's confinement in the Four Courts' Marshalsea, in Dublin, he was involved as defendant in an action respecting the wife of a gentleman who was a prisoner for debt; and, after his release, he suffered incarceration in London. Some years ago he was a candidate on the liberal interest for a town in the south of Ireland, but he failed. Could his lordship, who was a man of considerable energy and fine appearance, have redeemed himself from those habits which paralysed his powers, he might have attained an honourable place, by the force of his natural talents, in the estimation of the country. He

was married on the 11th May, 1808, to Arabella, second daughter of Tennison Edwards, esq., of Old Court, in the co. of Wicklow; his lady survives him, with eight children. His eldest son, EdmondHenry, now Lord Glentworth, is a Lieutenant in the 7th foot.

DUC DE CADORE.

July.. At Paris, aged 78, Jean-Bap> tiste de Champagny, Duc de Cadore, the favourite Minister of Napoleon.

He was born in Rouanne, of a noble family. He entered the French navy under Louis XV., was a Midshipman in the fleet of the Count de Grasse, and wounded in the action so celebrated for the discomfiture of that Admiral. In 1789, he was returned a Deputy from the Noblesse of Forez, to the States-General. He was one of the first who soon afterwards went over to the Tiers-Etat, and he was successively a Member of the National Assembly and National Convention. During the Reign of Terror he was imprisoned, because he belonged to the proscribed order, and he narrowly escaped being guillotined. After this, he retired into private life, and was drawn from it into office by Napoleon; and his administrative successes are contemporaneous with the most brilliant of the military achievements of his patron. He succeeded Bernadotte in the embassy to Vienna in 1801, was Minister of the Interior from 1804 to 1807, and lastly Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1807 to 1811. In this capacity he had the good fortune to be acting when, in 1809, Bonaparte so completely prostrated the Austrian power, and he heartily assisted in the enforcement of Napoleon's "Continental system." His diplomatic address is said to have secured for the Emperor rewards for his victories, which even the conqueror of Austerlitz and Wagram himself was surprised at. He also mainly negotiated the inauspicious marriage of Napoleon with the Emperor's daughter; and, when all was lost in Russia, contributed to favour and secure the flight of the Empress. In 1811 he was deprived of his portfolio, and entrusted with the management of the imperial domains; being consoled for his loss of power, by the riches he had amassed, a present lucrative post, and the title of Duc de Cadore. Under the Restoration he was -made a Peer; but, having acted for Napoleon during the Hundred Days, he was deprived of his peerage at the second Restoration. In 1819 it was restored to him, and he held some office under Government at the time of his death; and it is remarked that he served under every King, and every other description of Go

vernment in France, from the time of Louis XV. to the present time. His manners are said to have been mild, and his acquirements considerable.

MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE.

May 20. At Paris, aged 76, General the Marquis de Lafayette.

The wondrous scenes in both the New World and the Old, in which the name of Lafayette was prominently distinguished, are among the most remarkable in modern history. Without any immediate connection with the causes of those great convulsions which have shaken the world for the last half century-for he was an actor, not a plotter-Lafayette was present at the birth, and acted as the godfather to most of them. His interferencé in North American affairs greatly influenced the ultimate secession of the United States from this country, and he is found prominently mixed up with all the extraordinary scenes which occurred in his own country some few years after. Lastly, he took a leading part in the second Revol lution of 1830.

Gilbert Motier de Lafayette was born at Chavaniac in Auvergne, Sept. 6, 1757. His family had been distinguished both in arms and in letters; his father was slain at Minden. After going through his studies at the college of Plessis, he married, at the age of sixteen, the daughter of the Duke d'Ayen, still younger than him self, who was afterwards justly celebrated for her conjugial attachment and courage during his proscription. Through the interest of her family, the princely house of Noailles, he might have at once obtained distinguished preferment at Court; but this he refused with an innate passion for liberty, and at the age of nineteen espoused the cause of American independence. Lafayette arrived at Charlestown in the beginning of 1777; and the Congress immediately offered him the rank of Major-General, which he accepted, on the condition that he should serve as a volunteer, at his own expense. He was wounded in the first battle, that of Brandywine. In the following winter, being appointed to the Command-inchief in the North, which a cabal had rendered independent of Washington, he accepted it only on condition of remaining under the orders of that great man, to whom his fidelity was at this period very serviceable. After two years' absence from France, during which his military skill was distinguished on several occasions, he returned home, honoured with a sword, which was presented to him by the Congress, through the hands of Franklin, having engraved on it several

of his most brilliant achievements, and a representation of himself wounding the British lion, and receiving a laurel from America delivered from her chains.

He was received in France with enthusiasm, by the Court as well as the republican party; and before his return persuaded the government to take an active part themselves in this attack upon England, through her principal colonies. Never did more signal retribution befall a country than that which shortly visited France after this dastardly conduct.

During the campaign of 1780 Lafayette commanded the light infantry, and his services were indefatigably bestowed, until the close of the war, upon the capture of York-town, in Oct. 1781.

Having returned to France, Lafayette was joined in the great expedition from Cadiz, destined first for Jamaica, and afterwards for New York and Canada. Their departure was obviated by the peace of 1783, which he contributed to negociate at Madrid, and of which he himself sent the first news to the American Congress.

Shortly after, he visited the United States; and in 1785 the courts and armies of Germany.

In 1787 he was a member of the assem bly of the Notables, in which he denounced various abuses, proposed the abolition of lettres-de-cachet and state prisons, obtained a decree favourable to the civil condition of the Protestants, and made alone the formal demand of the convocation of a National Assembly. "What!" said the Count d'Artois, addressing him, "do you move for the assembling of the States General?" "Yes," answered he, "and for something still

better."

When deputed to the States-general, he proposed, on the 11th of July 1789, his famous declaration, of Rights, which was made the basis of that of the Constituent Assembly. When that assembly declared itself permanent, he was appointed Vice-President. On the 15th of the same month, he was proclaimed Commandant-general of the Burgher Guard, and the next morning published the order for destroying the Bastille. He had the credit of having saved the lives of the Royal Family at Versailles on the 5th and 6th of October, and of preserving for two years the general tranquillity of Paris. On the 8th of Oct. 1791 he took leave of the National Guard, and retired to his country seat.

It was not long before the Legislative Assembly determined to raise three armies of 50,000 each, to the command of which they appointed Luckner, Rocham

beau, and Lafayette; war was declared, and Lafayette sent to the Netherlands. On the 16th of June 1792 he wrote a letter to the National Assembly, denouncing the Jacobin clubs; and they very shortly returned him the compliment. The storm he had contributed to raise now raged beyond his control. It was at this crisis that he might have attained the chief power by leading the party which sacrificed the King; but that his princi ples of justice and of mercy alike forbad, and more violent and reckless politicians soon surpassed him in the career of popularity. The majority which at first supported him in his demonstration against the Jacobins fell away like melted snow, and, by the 19th of August, he had no resource left but either a dishonourable recantation, a death inglorious and unavailing, or the chance of a retreat into some neutral territory. He had adopted the last alternative; when he was intercepted by an Austrian corps at Liege, and imprisoned by the Coalition. He continued to suffer the miseries of a rigorous confinement for four years; and after his release, and return to France, he retired to his country residence at Lagrange, not being inclined to participate in the policy of Buonaparte.

The various changes after the fall of Napoleon again brought him forward in the Chamber of Deputies; and he made several propositions, in accordance with his principles of liberty, but with only partial success. In 1824 he paid another visit to the United States, where he was received with unabated enthusiasm.

He witnessed with gratulation the popular demonstration of July 1830, and again placed himself at the head of the movement, by calling out his favourite National Guard. His measures, however, were again characterized by a moderation which evinced that his ambition was not that of an usurper; his model was evidently that Washington, with whom he had co-operated, and whose actions he had witnessed with admiration; not that Napoleon, from whose politics he had withdrawn, and whose career he had watched with disgust. When Lafayette might have declared himself" Head of the French Republic "he was contented with the more humble title of "Chief of the National Guard," a distinction which in a very few months he abandoned in disgust. The Memoirs of these events were published by his Aid-de-camp M. Sarrans, in 1832, under the title of "Lafayette, Louis-Philippe, and the Revolution of 1830," and a translation was published in London, in 2 vols. 8vo.

Lafayette was avowedly the head of

the Republican party in France; at once the most influential and the most respectable of that political sect. His name and virtuous private character were as a host to that faction, or fraction; but his counsels, on the other hand, which were invariably those of peace, contributed much to keep within bounds its insurrectionary excesses. His disposition was mild, and revolted from scenes of blood; whilst he was weak enough to think that the most violent excesses might be perpetrated in an innocuous and peaceful manner. He would not hurt a fly, and could yet approve of convulsions which unsettled all the guarantees of life, liberty, and property. Vain, superficial, and theatrical, he could parade at the head of a Parisian mob, and before that ignorant audience clamour about freedom, equality, and popular rights; but knew not, or cared not, that the speeches he was making and the tumults he was countenancing, were the certain preludes to galling despotisms, under which all freedom and all right were sure to be crushed. He was the last of that theoretic school which received its notions of sedition from the writings of the philosophers. Weak and inconclusive in council, he was straightforward and formidable in action, most commonly the slave of his own impulsive attachment to abstract liberty; or a tool in the hands of somebody more cunning and less principled than himself. It is to him, and others like him, that France owes the governments of Robespierre, of Napoleon, and of Louis-Philippe.

His funeral took place on May 28, and from his public character both as a Member of the Chamber of Deputies and a General, was invested with all the imposing pomp of numerous bodies of military and of the National Guards, who came forward in immense numbers, to join in giving effect to this parting act of their homage. The hearse was decorated with 12 tricoloured flags, three at each corner; it was surmounted by plumes, and had the letter L on various parts of the drapery; and was drawn by four black horses. It was preceded by muffled drums, the deputations from various legions of the National Guards of Paris and the Banlieu, the 61st regiment of the line, and a regiment of red lancers; and succeeded by the deputations of the Chambers of Peers and Deputies, and from various public bodies of foreigners, particularly Americans and Poles. Four of the Royal carriages, three private ones of the General, followed by another regiment of lancers, seven private carriages, and a body of Municipal Guards, wound up the procession. The religious part of the ceremony was performed in the

church of the Assumption, the parish of the deceased, and the interment took place in the private burying-ground of Picpas, within the walls of Paris, where the General was laid by his own request in the same grave with his wife and mother-in-law.

A simple slab of black marble marks the spot where his remains repose. It bears this inscription;-" Here lies M. P. J. R. G. M. de Lafayette, Lieut. - General, Deputy; born at Auvergne, in 1757; married, in 1796, Mdlle. de Noailles; died in 1834. Requiescat in pace.”

M. DE BOURIENNE.

Feb. 7. At Caen, aged 64, M. de Bourienne, formerly Minister of State.

Louis Anthony Fauvelet de Bourienne was born at Sens, July 9, 1769. He was brought up in the military school at Brienne with Napoleon Buonaparte, and there formed an intimate friendship with the "child of destiny." However, being intended for diplomacy, he was removed from Brienne to Leipsic, and in 1792 was appointed Secretary of Legation at Stuttgard, from whence he was recalled on the breaking out of the German war. Having returned to Leipsic (where he married) he was shortly after arrested by the Court of Dresden, on suspicion of corresponding with the French emissaries, and, after an imprisonment of seventy days, was commanded to quit the electorate.

In 1797 General Buonaparte invited Bourienne to become his Secretary; he was consequently with the Conqueror in all his Italian campaigns, and also in Egypt. In conjunction with Gen. Clarke, he drew up the memorable treaty of Campo Formio.

When Buonaparte was appointed to the Consulate, M. de Bourienne was nominated a Counsellor of State; and subsequently he was sent to Hamburgh as Chargé d'Affaires, and Envoy Extraordinary to the circle of Lower Saxony. He continued to reside at Hamburgh until the fall of Napoleon, when he returned to Paris. On the 3d of April 1814 the Provisional Government appointed him Director-general of Posts; and in the course of the same year he published a pamphlet, entitled "A History of Buonaparte, by a Man who has not quitted him for Fifteen Years." His larger work, the Memoirs of Napoleon, is well known by an English translation; it is valuable in those portions in which he was personally concerned, but is spun out with many matters with which he had nothing to do.

When Louis XVIII. returned to Paris, M. de Bourienne was removed from the office of the Posts, which was given to

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