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POPE LEO XII.

Feb. 10. At Rome, aged 68, his Holiness Pope Leo the Twelfth.

Annibal della Genga was born Aug. 2, 1760, at the Castle of Genga, the property of his family, situated between Urbino and the March of Ancona. He entered the church very early, and soon obtained very considerable preferment. It was about the period of the first invasion of Italy by the French, however, that he first entered into a conspicuous public situation. He was then sent as Nuncio to the Court of Bavaria and the States of a second rank in Germauy, which high office he filled for fourteen years. In 1807 he was sent by the Pope to Paris, on a mission to Napoleon, and on his return to Rome he was obliged, when the French took possession of that city, as well as the other Prelates who were not natives of the Roman States, to remove away. In 1814 he was again sent to France to compliment Louis XVIII. and was afflicted at Paris with a long illness. In 1816 he was elevated to the dignity of Cardinal; and on the death of Pope Pius the Seventh, in 1823, he was elected to the papal chair. The election was terminated so quickly, that there was scarcely time to intrigue. Pius VII. died on Aug. 20, the operations of the scrutiny commenced on Sept. 3. and on the 27th the election was declared. Few conclaves have been so speedily closed; the Italian Cardinals understanding that it was necessary to make haste, if they wished to escape the effects of foreign influence, which might have prolonged the day of decision. Many were surprised at the title of Leo the Twelfth, assumed by the new Pope, Every body is familiar with the celebrated name of Leo X, but few knew that there was ever a Pope called Leo XI.: the Pope so designated reigned for a space not quite amounting to a month, he having been chosen on the 1st of April, 1605, and dying on the 27th of the same month.

Pope Leo was tall, and well made: a patron of the Arts, and accustomed to business; of a firm and independent character, having a will of his own, and address sufficient to accomplish his plans. In the diplomatic stations he filled, he showed a great deal of knowledge, and a perfect acquaintance with men and with business.

A private letter from a student in the English College at Rome, dated March 3, contains some curious particulars of the ceremonies which followed the denise:

"The Lord Chamberlain, one of the cardinals, went in state from his palace, and entering the apartment where the corpse reposed, called upon it by name, and receiv

ing no answer, approached the bed, and having ascertained that it was the dead body of the Pope, fell on his knees and prayed for the departed soul. He then took into his own hands all the temporal power of the Pope, and retired. But at the door, as is usual on such occasions, he found drawn up the Pope's Swiss guard, who refused to let him pass, saying that, as their master was dead, there was no one to pay them. He, however, promised them that he would be their master, and told them to follow him he then ascended into his carriage, round which the Swiss ranged themselves, and conducted him to his house, where he is guarded as sovereign.

The body was immediately embalmed, and late on Wednesday, the entrails of the defunct Pontiff, enclosed in a mortuary, or vase, were carried to the Church of St. Vincent and St. Anastase. On the morning of the following day the body of his Holiness was embalmed, and, being dressed, was exposed to the view of the people in the Chapel of Sixtus. The corpse was robed in pontificals, and on each side a party of the Pope's guard noble, with arms reversed, and crape scarfs. Large wax lights were burning around, and the clergy attached to St. Peter's were in constant attendance, reciting prayers for the deceased. On Friday morning we were in St. Peter's at an early hour, and large as that church is, it was soon crowded to excess. A large couch had been prepared in the middle of the church, and after waiting there some time, the gates were thrown open and we heard the solemn tones of the Pope's choir approaching. A troop of the Swiss guard advanced up the Church, dressed in armour, then followed the clergy and cardinals in their purple dresses, the guard noble in splendid uniform, and lastly the body, borne by six of the clergy, attended by the choir chanting in the most solemn and affecting strains The body was then laid upon the couch prepared, dressed in all the robes peculiar to the Pope. After the recital of some prayers, and sprinkling the body with holy water, it was removed to one of the side chapels. On Sunday, the body, raised on a large and sumptuous bed, was placed near the gate of the chapel, so near that persons approaching could kiss the foot, and thousands on thousands performed this ceremony. At about seven on Sunday evening, a large body of soldiers entered the church, and formed in two semicircular ranks from the chapel where the body reposed to another opposite, and the procession soon began to move, and after the fu neral service had been performed, it was

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placed in the coffins and sealed up by the Lord Chamberlain. Shortly afterwards the body was placed in a particular part of the church, where the Pope is generally laid until the death of his successor. This Pope will, I believe, remain there but one year, as it was his request to be then buried in another church.

"The obsequies of a Pope continue nine days, at which all the dignitaries of church and state attend, together with the Ambassadors of foreign courts. These ceremonies are carried on in a most splendid manner; but the last three days are grand beyond imagination. Soon after the Pope's death, preparations were made to adorn the church (if St. Peter's can be adorned), and in the middle was raised an immense pyramid of mock granite, measuring in height about one hundred and ten feet. On the base were painted the principal actions of the Pope, and inscriptions commemorating his virtues. Large statues on it were placed looking towards the end of the church, and on the summit a beautiful figure of religion. From the four corners arose large branches, each bearing two hundred candles of wax, each weighing one pound. On and around this pyramid there were one thousand lights. It is customary to raise one of these at the death of each Pope, but there never was seen one like the present; it was indeed a splendid sight. The English were lost in admiration. At Christmas there were fifteen hundred English in Rome."

In London a grand dirge has been performed at the Roman Catholic chapel in Moorfields, and was attended by a great number of distinguished persons, including the French, the Spanish, Brazilian, and Neapolitan ambassadors, and many of the Catholic nobility and gentry. The chapel was hung with black cloth, and in the centre, under a lofty canopy, surmounted by plumes of black feathers, was erected a bier, on which was placed a golden mitre and keys. Escutcheons, with the arms of the papal see, were on the pall, which covered the coffin, and in various parts of the chapel. The service was performed by three bishops, assisted by most of the London Papal clergy, who having chanted various hymns and prayers around the bier, proceeded to the high altar to celebrate the mass; and in this part of the service a chalice was used which had been presented to the chapel by the late pontiff, a very splendid cup of massive gold enriched with jewels, and said to be worth 2,000 guineas. The mass and requiem were accompanied by Mr. Le Jeune upon the organ recently built in the chapel, and stated to be the largest in England.

EARL OF CARHAMPTON. March 17. At his house in Devonshireplace, aged 88, the Right Hon. John Lut

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trell Olmius, third Earl of Carhampton, Viscount Carhampton of Castlehaven in the county of Cork, and Baron Irnham of Luttrellstown in the county of Dublin; a retired Captain in the Royal Navy.

The family of Luttrell, which, by the death of this Earl, has disappeared from the ranks of the peerage, was anciently seated at Jrnham in Lincolnshire, an estate which has descended from them, through heiresses of Hilton, Thimelby, Conquest, and Arundell, to the present Lord Clifford. Robert Luttrell (a younger brother of Sir John Luttrell, Lord of Dunster in Somersetshire, and one of the first Knights of the Bath, made at the Coronation of Henry the Fourth in 1399,) died in 1436, seised of the castle and lands of Luttrellstown, co. Dublin (originally granted to Sir Gregory Luttrell by King John); and his great-grandson, Sir Thomas, was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and a Privy Councillor, in Ireland in the reign of Henry the Eighth. Sixth in descent from the Judge was Simon Luttrell, esq. (father of the deceased peer) who was created Baron Luttrell in 1768. In 1737 he had married Maria, daughter and at length heir of Sir Nicholas Lawes, Knt. many years Governor of Jamaica; and on the 2d of October, 1771, their eldest daughter, Anne, the widow of Christopher Horton, of Calton in Derbyshire, esq. was married to his Royal Highness Henry-Frederick Duke of Cumberland, brother to King George the Third. It need scarcely be here remarked, that her strict propriety in her exalted station, her prudence, amiable manners, and virtues, frequently received the commendations of the late ornaments of the British throne. Her father was subsequently created Viscount Carhampton in 1781, and Earl of Carhampton in 1785.

The nobleman now deceased, who was third sou of the first Earl, manifested at a very early period of his life a passion for the Naval profession. He was in consequence entered, at the close of 1752, a student in the Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth; and after a successful completion of this branch of education, he was so highly extolled by the Governor of the Academy for his quickness of perception and striking talents, that in February 1755, the late Earl Howe, then Captain of the Dunkirk of 64 guns, applied to the Admiralty for him. Young Luttrell was discharged from the Academy into that ship accordingly, and continued in her until the spring of 1758; when, upon Lord Howe giving up the command of the said ship to the Hon. Capt. R. Digby, Mr. Luttrell was entered for the quarter-deck of the the Namur, under the heroic Boscawen ; and serving in her at the siege of Louisbourg in 1759, obtained a commission as Lieutenant, in reward for many prompt and courageous exertions in conducting a line of boats to the shore. His. first service ar

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composer and teacher of music, and who was for many years organist and composer to Kings George II and III. His uncle, the Hon. Sir George Nares, was for fifteen years one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas. Educated at Westminster School, he became a King's Scholar at the head of his election in 1767, and was subsequently elected in 1771 to a studentship of Christ Church, Oxford, where he took the degree of B. A. 1775, and M. A. 1778, and about the same time took orders. From 1779 to 1783 he resided in the family of the late Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, as tutor to his sons, the present Baronet and his brother the Right Hon. Charles Williams Wynn, and from 1786 to 1788 they were under his tuition at Westminster School.

In 1782 he obtained from Christ Church the living of Easton Mauduit in Northamptonshire, and shortly after, that of Doddington, in the same county, and in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor. In 1787 he was honoured by the appointment of a chaplaincy to his late Royal Highness the Duke of York, and in the ensuing year he was nominated an Assistant Preacher of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, where for fifteen years a learned auditory duly appreciated his powers of argument and depth of erudition. In 1790 he assisted in completing Bridges's "History of Northamptonshire,' and wrote the preface to that work. In 1795 he was elected F. S. A. and in the same year became one of the assistant librarians of the British Museum; and afterwards Librarian for the MS. Department, where he prepared the Third Volume of the Harleian Catalogue of MSS. published by the Record Commission. This situation he resigned in 1807. In 1798 he was presented to the Rectory of Sharnford, in Leicestershire, which he resigned in 1799, on being collated to the Fifth Stall of the Canons Residentiary of Lichfield; and in the following year was appointed Archdeacon of Stafford. In 1804 he was elected F.R.S. In 1805 he was presented to the living of St. Mary, Reading, which he resigned in 1818 for that of Allhallows, London Wall.

The Archdeacon was thrice married, and left no issue. In 1784, to a daughter of Thomas Bayley, esq. of Chelmsford. In 1794 to a daughter of Charles Fleetwood, esq. In 1800 to a daughter of the Rev. Dr. Smith, many years Head-master of Westminster School; and she survives to lament

her loss.

His publications were as follow: 1.Periodical Essays, No. I. Dec. 2, 1780.-No. X. Feb. 3, 1781."

2. "An Essay on the Dæmon or Divination of Socrates," 8vo. 1782.

Of this gentleman, there is a satisfactory memoir in the "Biographical Dictionary." He died Feb. 10, 1783.

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3. "Elements of Orthoëpy; containing a distinct view of the whole Analogy of the English Language, so far as it relates to Pronunciation, Accent, and Quantity, 1784," 8vo.

4. "Remarks on the favourite Ballet of Cupid and Psyche; with some Account of the Pantomime of the Antients, 1788," 12mo.

5. "Principles of Government deduced from Reason, &c. 1792," 8vo.

6. "An Abridgement of the same, adapted to general instruction and use; with a new Introduction, 1793," 8vo.

7. "Man's best Right; a serious Appeal in the name of Religion, 1793," 8vo.

8. In the same year he commenced the British Critic, in conjunction with the Rev. W. Beloe. The editorship was entrusted to the judgment, sagacity, learning, and acuteness of Mr. Nares; and the vigour and perseverance with which the British Critic was conducted through difficult and dangerous times are well known. To each of the half yearly volumes of the British Critic was prefixed a Preface, always written by Mr. Nares, recapitulating the literature of the period. Mr. Nares proceeded with the work till the end of the forty-second Volume, and then resigned it to others.

9. "Discourses preached before the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn, 1794," 8vo.

10. "A Thanksgiving for Plenty, and a Warning against Avarice; a Sermon, preached at the Cathedral at Lichfield, on Sunday Sept. 20, 1801," 8vo.

11.The Benefit of Wisdom, and the Evils of Sin. A Sermon preached before the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn, on Sunday Nov. 6, 1803, and published at the request of the Bench," 8vo.

12. "A connected and chronological View of the Prophecies of the Christian Church; in 12 Sermons, preached in Lincoln's Inn Chapel, from the year 1800 to 1804, at the Lecture founded by Bp. Warburton, 1806," 8vo.

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Essays and other occasional Compositions, chiefly reprinted, 1810," 2 vols. small 8vo.

14. "Protestantism the Blessing of Britain; a Fast Sermon, preached at the Cathedral of Lichfield, on Wednesday Feb. 28, 1810," Svo.

15. "On the Influence of Sectaries, and the Stability of the Church; a Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Stafford, on the days of Visitation, at Cheadle, Stafford, and Walsall, in June 1812," 4to.

16. "The Veracity of the Evangelists demonstrated, by a comparative View of their Histories, 1816," 12mo.

17. A Glossary; or Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, &c. which have been thought to require Illustration in the