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the passage alluded to did not embrace any error of doctrine. Mr. Tolley, if he saw it expedient, might now give notice of a motion to the effect that the sheet in which the exceptionable passage was to be found be destroyed. Mr. Tolley then gave notice of a motion for February, and the meeting adjourned.

Jan. 22. An open Meeting of the British Catholic Association was held at the Freemason's Hall, to consider the following resolution of the Irish Association:-"That Mr. Eneas Macdonnell do take measures to have the question of conditions brought before the Catholic Association of England, and if that body should not reject the sentiments expressed by their Secretary, Mr. Blount, on that subject, that he do cease all intercourse with them as our agent." The "sentiments "referred to were contained in a letter addressed to Mr. Macdonnell by Mr. Blount, inquiring why the expressions which fell from him, respecting securities, when the petition was adopted in November, should have been so severely animadverted upon by the Irish Association-and declaring at the same time, that if it were blameable to consider it inexpedient to reject all conditions before any were tendered, he pleaded guilty. Mr. Eneas M'Donnell introduced the subject for discussion in a very long speech, and concluded by moving a resolution to the effect that the Catholics sought a total repeal of the penal laws, but must ever deprecate and resist the imposition of any securities or conditions accompanying such repeal, as innovations on the Constitution, which requires no other securities from British subjects than their solemn oaths and submission to the laws. Mr. Stapleton 'contended that securities were essential, and moved an amendment approving of the sentiments avowed by Mr. Blount. A debate of nearly eight hours' duration ensued. The amendment was carried by 18 to 17. There were between five and six hundred persons present, the majority of whom consisted of the lower order of Irish Catholics; and the proceedings were repeatedly interrupted during the last three or four hours, by the tumultuous applause with which they greeted the speakers in favour of Mr M Donnell's resolution. whilst those on the other side could with difficulty obtain a hearing.

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for his apprehension. He was accompanied by Lloyd, a clerk in his house, and an accomplice in his nefarious proceedings, for whose apprehension a reward of 300l. was offered. It appears that Mr. Cope, the City Marshal, and two Police Officers, traced Stephenson and his clerk Lloyd to Clovelly, where they remained three days. They ascertained that on the 2nd instant, Stephenson and his companion took a skiff and arrived at Milford Haven, from whence they went into Angle Bay (an inlet on the south side of Milford), next day. On Sunday the 4th of January, they embarked on board the Brig, Kingston, and sailed the next Jay for Savannah. At a late meeting of the creditors a paper was exhibited, containing a rough sketch of the state of the Company's affairs. The amount of assets was about 344,3851.; the debts, 425,5517. 10s. 5d. The estate was liable for property abstracted by Stephenson to nearly 70,000l., which would increase the Company's liabilities to about 500,000l. The deficiencies in Rowland Stephenson's private accounts had no reference to the general accounts of the estate.

Mr. Rowland Stephenson was a Member of Parliament for Leominster, and Treasurer of St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

At the Old Bailey sessions January 16th, an indictment was preferred against Rowland Stephenson. The indictment charges the bankrupt with embezzlement, and it is preferred as a preliminary to a writ of outlawry, or otherwise with the ulterior view of inducing the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench to issue a warrant under his seal for the apprehension of the ab

sentee.

THEATRICAL REGISTER.
DRURY LANE.

Jan. 12. A tragedy by Mr. Walker, author of "Wallace," and the "Fall of Algiers," produced under the title of " Caswallon, or the Briton Chief." The scene is laid in Wales, during the reign of our Edward II. Eva, daughter of Lewellyn, the last independent prince of Wales, is the heroine, and the insurrectionary chief, Caswallon, is the hero. All the situations are terrible. The catastrophe ends in Eva's The Journals have been engaged, during dying by poison, to escape the violence of Sir Roger Mortimer, and Caswallon of a the greater part of the past month, with the stoppage of the banking-house of Reming-vourable, but it is only a melodrame exbroken heart. Its reception was most faton, Stephenson, aud Co.; and their columns have been crowded with details respecting the frauds of which Rowland Stephenson has been guilty. He seems, from the concurrent testimony of all the papers, to have been a consummate villain, and to have committed unheard of depredations on the property of the house and its customers.— A reward of one thousand pounds was offered

tended to the length of a tragedy.

COVENT GARDEN.

Jan. 15. Mr. Dimond's opera, called the "Nymph of the Grotto, or a Daughter's Vow," with music by Liverati and Lee, was very well received. The scenery particularly effective.

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PROMOTIONS AND PREFERMENTS.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS, &c.
Jan. 8. The Hon. Harriet Anne Curzon,
One of the two surviving daus, and coh. of
Cecil, late Baron Zouche of Haryngworth,
to be Baroness Zouche of Haryngworth.

Jan. 19. Lieut.-Gen. Sir James Kempt, 81st Foot, to be Colonel.-81st ditto, Ma

jar Gen. Sir Rich. Downes Jackson, Royal

Staff Corps, to be Colonel.

Garrisons-Lieut.-Gen. Sir Wm. Inglis, to be Governor of Cork.-Lieut.-Gen. John Sulivan Wood, to be Lieut -Gov, of Kinsale. Jan. 20. Duke of Wellington, K.G. the office of Constable of His Majesty's Castle of Dover; and Warden and Keeper of the Cinque Ports.-John Vaughan, Esq. Baron of the Court of Exchequer, knighted.

Jan. 22. 26th Foot Major A. S. H. Mountain, to be Major.-42d ditto, Capt. J. Malcolm to be Major.

Member returned to serve in Parliament. Cumberland.-Sir Jas. Robt. Geo, Graham, Bart. of Netherby, vice John Christian Curwen, Esq. dec.

NAVAL PREFERMENTS.

Sir M. Seymour, bart. K. C. B. is appointed Commissioner of Portsmouth Dockyard; Commissioner Ross (from Malta), to the Dock-yard of Plymouth; and Commissioner Briggs (from Bermuda) in the Sheerness Yard.

Rear-Adin. Tho. Baker to supersede Sir Rob. W. Otway, K.C.B. in the command of

our naval force on the coast.

Capt. Geo. Mundy, C. B. to the Royal Yacht, vice Hoste.

Capt. Wm. Parker, C.B. to the Prince Regent Yacht, vice Mundy.

Capt. John F. Devonshire to the Warspite, 76, vice Parker.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. Dr. Wilson, Rural Dean of Southamp.

ton.

Rev. J. Graham, a Preb. in Lincoln Cath.

Rev. T. Singleton, a Preb. in Worcester Cath.
Rev. H. Banks, Cowlinge C. Suffolk.
Rev. T. Best, East Barkwith R. co. Linc.
Rev. W. H. R. Birch, Roydon V. Suffolk.
Rev. J. Buckingham, Doddiscombsleigh R,
Devon.

Rev. T. Burnett, Church of Daviot, co.
Aberdeen.

Rev. J. C. Clark, Fyfield P. C. Berks.

Rev. C. H. Collyns, Stokeinteigahead R.
Devon.

Rev. J. Field, Braybrooke R. co. Northampt.
Rev. B. Gilpin, St. Andrew's R. Hertford.
Rev. W. Harding, Bubbenhall C. co. Warw.
Rev. W. Heberden, Broadhembury V. Devon."
Rev. J. J. Lowe, Fletton R. co. Hunts.
Rev. J. Maingy, Shotwich P.C. co. Chester.
Rev. C. Nairne, Carrington C. co. Chester.
Rev. W. Nicholson, Branshot R. co. Hants,
Rev. C. Pitt, Malmesbury V. Wilts.
Rev. J. T. Price, Loys Weedon V. co.
Northampton.

Rev. W. R. Taylor, West Beckham P. C.
Norfolk.

Rev. W. Young, Aller R. Somerset.

CHAPLAINS.

Rev. W. Church, to the Countess of Erne.
Rev. E. P. Henslowe, to Visc. Hood.
Rev. J. Proctor, to the Military Asylum,`
Southampton.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. J. Boskett, Mast. of the Free Grammar School of Wootton Underedge, co. Gloc. Rev. J. Hughes, Mast. of the Free Grammar School at Abergavenny.

Rev. F. E. Gretton, Mast. of Oakham Free Grammar School.

The Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor (Alderman Thompson) to be Pres. of Christ's Hospital. Wm. Helps, esq. to be Treasurer of St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

Joseph Timm, Esq. to be Solicitor to the Stamp-office.

Mr. Baron Field, to be Advocate Fiscal at Ceylon.

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BIRTHS.

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the Vicarage, Ogbourne, near Marlborough, the wife of the Rev. Bradford Deane Hawkins, a dau.— -15. At Anspach House, Southampton, the lady of Sir Matthew Blackiston, a son.-18. At the Warden's lodgings, Merton College, Oxford, Lady Carmichael Anstruther, a son.-19. At the Manor-house, Hertingfordbury, the wife of the Hon. and Rev. Robert Eden, a son.

-At Wrotham-park, the seat of George Byng, esq. M.P. Lady John Thynne,a dau. -24. At Ashton Giffard, the wife of W. Codrington, esq. a son.

MARRIAGES.

Nov. 12. At Quebec, the Rev. Edmund Willoughby Sewell, second son of Chief Justice Sewell, to Susan Stewart, second dau. of the Hon. Montgomerie Stewart, and niece to the Earl of Galloway and Bishop of Quebec.-27. At Malta, Capt. J. Cramer Roberts, A.D.C. to Major-Gen. the Hon. F. C. Ponsonby, Governor of Malta, to Marian, second dau. of David Ross, esq. of Calcutta, deceased, eldest son of the late Lord Ankerville.

Dec. 29. At Brighton, Timothy Cooke, esq. of the Foreign Post-office, to Cath. youngest dau. of the late Benj. Tayler, esq.

-30. The Rev. Rich. Beadon Bradley, of Leversdown-house, Thurloxton, Somerset, to Mary, dau. of the late Edw. Baker, esq.-31. At Chelmsford, John Harriss, esq. banker, of Reading, to Mary, dau. of the late James Sewell, esq. of Boreham.

Lately. At Charlton, Oliver Lang, esq. to Charlotte, eldest dau. of Lieut. Col. Rogers, R. A.-Capt. Rodney Shannon, R. N. to Fanny, dau. of the late Capt. Jas. Nash, R. N.- -At Bath, the Rev. John Keane to Madame Leonora Garciar.The Rev. John Cox, Rector of Belchamp Otten, to Mary, dau. of the late Gen. Elwes.

-At Rickmersworth, James Wm. Clutterbuck, esq. of Micklesfield Hall, to Miss C. F. Bache.

Jan. 1. At Glasgow, the Rev. John Alex. Wilson, M. A. of Childwall, Lancashire, to Mary-Anne Stewart, dau. of the late Matthew Taylor, esq. of Glasgow. The Rev. J. Atkinson, Vicar of Owerby, co. Linc. to Sarah, eldest dau. of the late G. Pollard, esq. of Stannery Hall, Halifax.

-At Abberley, co. Worcester, the Rev. H. Somers Cocks, Rector of Leigh, only son of the late Hon. Reginald Cocks, to Frances Mercy, dau. of H. Bromley, esq. of Abberley Lodge.At Lewisham, the Rev. Edwin Kempson, of Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire, to Mary, youngest dau. of Jasper Thomas Holmes, esq. of Blackheath.

-At Wimbledon, John Sanford, esq. to Louisa, dau. of the late Cha. Bicknell, esq. of Spring-garden-terrace.At St. Mar

-At

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garet's, Westminster, the Rev. Tho. Husband, of South Moreton, Berks, to Hearietta Cath. second dau. of P. T. Lightfoot, esq. of James-street, Westminster. Marden, Kent, W. James Conolly, esq. E.I.C. to Matilda Frances, third dau of the Rev. Philip Le Geyt, Vicar of Marden.8. At Dean, co. Lancaster, L. B. Hollingshead, of Stanwell, Middlesex, esq. to Eliza, second dau. of the late Rev. W. Hampson, Justice of the Peace for Lancashire.Leeds, Wm. Osburn, jun. esq. to Aune, dau. of the late David Rimington, esq.At Bristol, John Jones, esq. of Rudloe, Wilts, to Elizabeth, only dau. of Thomas Goldney, esq. of Bristol.- -At Leyton, Tho. Dowker Woodall, esq. of Scarborough, to Sarah Pitt, third dau. of B. Nind, esq. of Leytonstone, Essex.-18. At St. George's, Hanover-square, Geo. Whittam, esq. jun. to Lucretia, eldest dau. of F. R. Parslow, esq.- -At Christ Church, Marylebone, the Rev. W. Holled Hughes, of Horley, Surrey, to Agnes Clara, youngest dau. of John Williams, esq. of the North Bank, Regent's Park.- -Lieut. V. Beadon, Royal Marines, to Sarah, dau. of Thomas Chippen Faulconer, esq. of Newheaven, Sussex.-14. At Hayes, Capt. Currie, R N. to Jane, third dau. of the late Chas. Boynton Wood, esq.-15. At Bexley, James, son of H. Stone, esq. to Mary-Charlotte, widow of the late Capt. Johnson, of the Bombay Artillery- At Woburn, the Rev. Henry Ward, Vicar of Feversham, to Mary-Anne, eldest dau. of the late Mr. Land, surgeon, of Exmouth, Devon.17. At Brighton, W. Champion, esq. 15th Hussars, to Harriet, eldest dau. of T. R. Kemp, esq. M. P.-At Cheltenham, E. Mathews, esq. to Constantia, dau. of John Chichester, M. D. of Cheltenhain.-19. At Winchester, Charles Seagrim, esq. to Mary, only dau. of the late Capt. J. Smith, 6th W. I. reg.- -20. At Islington Church, the Rev. Wm. Marshall, Perpetual Curate of St. John's, Holloway, to Harriet, youngest dau. of the late George Witherby, esq. of Birchin-lane.

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THE EARL OF LIVERPOOL, K.G.

Dec. 4. At his seat, Combe Wood, near Kingston, aged 58, the Right Hon. Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool and Baron Hawkesbury, co. Gloucester, eighth Baronet of Walcot in Oxfordshire; K.G.; a Privy Counsellor, Constable of Dover Castle, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, an Elder Brother of the Trinity-house, High Steward of Kingston-upon-Thames, a Governor of the Charter-house, M.A. F.R.S.; and late First Lord of the Treasury.

This illustrious statesman was born June 7, 1770, the only issue of the first marriage of Charles first Earl of Liver pool with Amelia, daughter of William Watts, Esq. Governor of Fort William in Bengal. He was born June 7, 1770, and lost his mother while an infant.

His first school was one on Parsons Green, Fulham. At the age of thirteen he was removed to the Charter-house; and thence he became an inmate of Christ-church, Oxford, where he was created M. A. May 19, 1790, and where be formed an intimacy with the late Mr. Canning, which was of an unusually per manent character, and had more than once a very important influence on the events of Mr. Canning's life.

In the mean time his father availed himself of the opportunity to sow the seeds of that attachment to state affairs, and that acquaintance with the best models and means of political governmeut, which have since sprung up into a barvest of utility to these realms, during a season of the most pressing importance. A catalogue of the best writers on the different branches of public economy was put into his hands, and a selection from their purest and most perfect works was prepared for him, to blend with his other college exercises. Commerce and finance were especially attended to; and while the more abstract departments of knowledge were not neglected, chief attention was paid, by both father and son, to the more practical and popular.

Mr. Jenkinson paid a visit to the metropolis of France about the period of the breaking out of the revolution. He was at Paris when the Bastile was demolished by the mob, and, it is said, was an eye-wtness to many of the worst excesses which the streets of the city exbibited at that time.-Nor was he an GENT. MAG. January, 1829.

idle spectator of what was then going forward. Intimately acquainted with Mr. Pitt, and in all probability requested by him to watch the progress of the revolution, and communicate every fresh form which it assumed, Mr. Jenkinson's residence at Paris was at that time of essential service in preparing the British Government for the firm and effectual stand which it made against French ascendency in this country.

At the general election of 1790 Mr. Jenkinson was returned member both for Appleby and Rye. He made his election for the latter, for which Cinque Port he was also returned at the three subsequent elections of 1796, 1801, and 1802, that is, until summoned to the House of Peers. His election, it is remarkable, took place full twelve months before his age allowed him to sit in the House, and he returned to pass the intervening time in acquiring fresh continental information. At the commencement of the session at the close of 1791, having reached his 21st year, he took his seat under the avowed patronage of the Minister, and early in the following year, made his first speech, in opposition to the resolutions of Mr. Whitbread on the question of the Empress Catharine persisting in her claim to Ochzakow and the adjoining district. His address manifested a profound knowledge, not only of the subject in dispute between Russia and Turkey at that juncture, but also of the general affairs and prospects of Europe, and the proper duty of Eng land with reference to the continental nations. No doubt was entertained from this first effort, that Mr. Jenkinson would rise to be a distinguished parliamentary speaker; and it scarcely required the lapse of even a few years, to confirm the good opinion entertained by the House of bis ability to render essential service to the Government.

When, on the 15th of December following (1792), Mr. Fox moved an Address to the King, praying “that_his Majesty would be graciously pleased to give directions that a Minister might be sent to Paris, to treat with those persons who exercised provisionally the functions of the Executive Government of France, touching such points as might be in discussion between his Majesty and his allies, and the French nation," Mr. Jenkinson, in the temporary ab sence of Mr. Pitt (who had vacated his

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seat in the House of Commons, by accepting the Wardenship of the Cinque Ports), replied to Mr. Fox, in a speech of great animation and power.

"On this very day," he exclaimed, "on this very day, while we are here debating about sending an Ambassador to the French republic-on this very day is the King of France to receive sentence; and, in all probability, it is the day of his murder. What is it, then, that gentlemen would propose to their Sovereign? To bow his neck to a band of sanguinary ruffians, and address an Ambassador to a set of murderous regicides, whose hands were still reeking with the blood of a slaughtered monarch, and who, he had previously declared, should find no refuge in this country? No, sir; the British character is too noble to run a race for infamy; nor will we be the first to compliment a set of monsters who, while we are agitating this subject, are probably bearing, through the streets of Paris-horrid spectacle !-the_unhappy victim of their fury." Mr. Fox's motion was rejected without a division. The talents and efforts of Mr. Jenkinson on this occasion were warmly complimented, especially by Mr. Burke. From that time, he rapidly rose in the consideration of all parties; and began commonly to take a prominent part in combating the arguments of the Opposition. In April, 1793, he was appointed one of the Commissioners of the India Board, the duties of which situation he performed until 1806 with equal satisfaction to the Company and the Govern

ment.

When Mr. Grey, on the 6th of May, 1793, brought forward his memorable petition on the subject of Parliamentary Reform, Mr. Jenkinson stood foremost in the rank of its opposers; defending with great acuteness the existing state of the representation, and maintaining that the House of Commons, constituted as it was, bad answered the end for which it was designed.

On the 6th of March, 1794, Mr. Grey moved an Address to the King, expressive of the concern of the House that his Majesty should have formed a union with powers whose apparent aim was to regulate a country wherein they had no right to interfere. Mr. Jenkinson, in reply, rapidly sketched the real views of the combined powers, whose object, he insisted, was both real and practicable. On the 10th of April, Major Maitland having proposed to the House to resolve itself into a Committee, to investigate the causes of the failure of the army at Dunkirk; and having entered into an elaborate examination and condemna

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tion of the measures of Ministers

throughout the whole of the preceding year, Mr. Jenkinson contended in opposition to the Major, that no exertions had been wanting on the part of the Ministry. It was on this occasion that Mr. Jenkinson observed, "he had no difficulty in saying, that the marching to Paris was attainable and practicable; and that be, for one, would recommend such an expedition." It will be remembered that our young statesman was long twitted in Parliament, and elsewhere*, with this memorable suggestion; but it is even less likely to be forgotten, that he lived to see the idea realised by the measures of himself and his colleagues !

It is impossible for us closely to follow Mr. Jenkinson throughout his subsequent exertions in Parliament. The period at which we are now arrived was one of the most active in his life; but in the next Session Mr. Jenkinson was absent from his place in Parliament, urging a debate of a character more personally interesting than any in which he had previously engaged; and on the 25th of March, 1795, he married the Hon. Lady Theodosia-Louisa Harvey, third daughter of Frederic-Augustus, fourth Earl of Bristol, and Bishop of Derry.

The Address at the opening of the Session of 1795-6 was remarkable for being seconded by the late Marquis of Londonderry, then Mr. Stewart, in the first speech delivered by him in the English House of Commons. He was answered by Mr. Sheridan, who threw out many invectives against Ministers, advising them to declare themselves willing to treat with the French Republic. Mr. Jenkinson replied to Mr. Sheridan, and repeated, with great force and success, his former arguments in justification of the measures of Govern

ment.

Upon commercial subjects, Mr. Jenkinson might be expected, in the language of Mr. Sheridan, to have some claims to "bereditary knowledge." He always entered upon them with confidence; and, on Mr. Grey's motion in the House of Commons, March 10, 1796,

"The conquest of France!" said Mr. Fox, in his letter to the Electors of Westminster, "Oh! calumniated crusaders, how rational and moderate were your objects! Oh! tame and feeble Cervantes, with what a timid pencil and faint colours have you painted the portrait of a disordered imagination!"Risum teneatis? may be a triumphant reply.

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