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OBITUARY.-Captain Monke, R.N.

The remainder, consisting of La Valeur 26 guns, La Récluse 24, La Dieppe 16, and several smaller vessels, were destroyed.

In the following year the Captain commanded the Ulysses, of 44 guns, on the Jamaica station, when (Oct. 2) that ship lost all her masts in a dreadful hurricane, which extended its rage to almost all the other islands. He continued on the station until the conclusion of the war in 1783, but since that time has lived in retirement. He was promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral, 1795; Vice-Admiral, 1799; and Admi ral, 1805.

CAPT. G. P. MONKE, R. N.

Nov. 14. At Dunkirk, George Paris Monke, esq. Captain R. N.

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This officer was the only son of a Captain in the Royal Horse Guards. entered the Navy in June, 1775, as a midshipman, on board the Worcester, 64, commanded by Capt. Mark Robinson, and forming part of a small squadron of observation then about to proceed on a cruize off Cape Finisterre, under Commodore Sir Peter Parker.

In March, 1777, Mr. Monke was transferred to the Fox, of 28 guns, Capt. P. Fotheringham. That ship was captured by two American frigates, June 8th following (though afterwards retaken on its way to Boston by Capt. John Brisbane, of the Flora frigate). Mr. Monke was taken in one of them to Boston, where be remained in close confinement for several months. After that period be and his fellow-prisoners were changed, and reinstated in their former posts on board the Fox, which ship returned to England in February, 1778.

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We next find the subject of this memoir serving in the Courageux, 74, and acting as aide-de-camp to Capt. Lord Mulgrave, in the action off Ushant, between Keppel and d'Orvilliers.

In Sept. 1780, being strongly recommended by Lord Mulgrave, Mr. Monke was appointed to act as Lieutenant of the Harpy fire-vessel, in which he continued until Nov. 1781, when he received a commission for the Warrior 74, Capt. Sir James Wallace, under whom be served as fourth of that ship in Rodney's battle with De Grasse, April 9 and 12, 1782; on which days her total loss amounted to five killed and 21 wounded. He also assisted at the capture of two French 64-gun ships, one frigate, and a corvette, in the Mona Passage, on the 19th of the same month.

On the arrival of the victorious fleet at Jamaica, Lieut. Monke was appointed first of Le Jason 64, Capt. John Aylmer,

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with whom he returned home in the month of October following, that ship having miraculously weathered the tre mendous hurricane, which proved so fatal to the Centaur, Ramillies, Villede-Paris, Glorieux, and Hector, as well as to numerous merchant-vessels which had sailed for England under the protection of Rear-Admiral Graves.

In 1790, Lieutenant Monke was appointed to command the Speedwell cutter, and employed on various services, under the orders of Lord Howe. In 1792, while cruising on the Yorkshire coast, he captured the Hell-afloat, a very fine smuggling cutter of 14 guns, the exact number mounted by his own vessel.

A short time previous to the commencement of the French revolutionary war, Lieut. Monke proceeded to Hamburgh, for the purpose of bringing over a number of British sailors, who had recently been wrecked in different vessels on the coast of Jutland, and he succeeded in prevailing on a hundred of them to embark with him in the Speedwell. During the passage home, a very stormy one, and prolonged by contrary winds, he found himselt obliged to keep the deck night and day, in order to secure these men for the navy, it being known that they intended, if possible, to seize the cutter, run her ashore, and thus avoid impressment. In consequence of the fatigue he endured on this occasion, his health was so seriously injured as to render it necessary for him to resign his desirable command in Aug. 1793.

Lieutenant Monke's subsequent appointments were to the Maidstone frigate and Ville de Paris, of 110 guns, from which latter ship he was promoted to the rank of Commander, in March, 1797.

Finding himself now possessed of much unwished-for leisure, Captain Monke compiled, and in 1799 published, "A Vocabulary of Sea Phrases, and Terms of Art used in Seamanship and Naval Architecture." The work consists of two pocket volumes, in English and French, containing all the orders necessary for working a ship, and carrying on the duty, as well at sea as in port; by means of which an English prize-master, however ignorant of the French nautical language, may navigate a ship of that nation with part of her own crew, whenever circumstances, for a while, prevent a sufficient number of British seamen being put on board for that purpose. In July 1808, Captain Monke was appointed to the Centurion 50, armed en flute, and ordered to con

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vey naval stores to Halifax. We subsequently find him commanding the Statira frigate, pro temp. and assisting at the reduction of Guadaloupe. His post commission bears date Jan. 12, 1810.

We now arrive at the unfortunate conclusion of Captain Monke's professional career. In Oct. 1810, he assumed the command of the Pallas 32, and proceeded from the Frith of Forth to cruise for a month on the coast of Norway, where his boats, under the direc tion of Lieut. M'Curdy, captured, in the cove of Siveraag, two Danish cutter-privateers of inconsiderable force. Returning to Leith Roads, pursuant to his orders, he had the misfortune to be wrecked near Dunbar, in the night of Dec. 18, his pilots having mistaken the light issuing from a lime-kiln for the light on the Isle of May, and the latter for that on the Bell Rock. It is not a little singular that, at the very same time, the Nymph 36, Capt. Edw. Sneyd Clay, though not in company with the Pallas, went ashore under exactly similar circumstances, and was also totally wrecked within a short distance of her. Capt. Monke was not afterwards employed.

GEN. SIR BALdwin Leighton, Bart.

Lately. At Carrickfergus, in his 82d year, Sir Baldwin Leighton, sixth Bart. of Watlesborough in Shropshire, a General in the army, and Governor of Carrickfergus.

Sir Baldwin was son of Baldwin Leighton esq. (second son of Sir Baldwin the second Baronet), by Anne daughter of Capt. Smith; and succeeded to the title only in 1819. His family have for generations been distinguished members of the army; and he entered the service by purchasing a Lieutenancy in Capt. Jenkins's independent company, which formed, with other companies, the 96th regiment, the 12th of Julv, 1760. In March 1761 he sailed for the East Indies, and after doing garrison duty for some time in Fort St.George, he took the field, and was at the siege of Madura and two small forts. After an active campaign, his Majesty's troops were ordered home in consequence of the peace, in the year 1763, and in 1765 this officer arrived in England, and was placed on half-pay.

In 1768, be purchased promotion on

Frances, youngest daughter and coheiress of Gen. Francis Leighton (halfuncle to Sir Baldwin's father), is the lady of Gen. Sir Hew Dalrymple, Bart. GENT. MAG. January, 1829.

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full pay in the 46th regiment; in 1770 a Captain-Lieutenancy, and in 1772 a company. In 1775, he was appointed Captain of grenadiers, and in October sailed with the regiment for North America, and was in the action of Brooklyn, on Long Island, the taking of New York, the action on York Island and the White Plains, the storming of Fort Washington, the taking of Rhode Island, the action of Brandywine, the action near Monmouth Court House, where he was severely wounded; besides in many skirmishes, night attacks, and foraging parties. In November, 1778, his health was much impaired from the fatigue and hardships incident to active service, and he was therefore ordered to England, to the command of a recruiting company. In 1782, he obtained the rank of Major in the army, and in 1787, he purchased the Majority of the regiment, in the command of which he went in 1792 to Gibraltar; and in the following year he obtained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the army. In November, 1794, he sailed in command of the regiment to the West Indies; in March following succeeded to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy, of the 46th and in the beginning of the year 1795, he was ordered in command of that regiment from Martinico to St. Vincent's, in which island he was senior officer. He was there actively employed against the French and Charibs, who carried on a cruel and savage war; the 46th regiment was engaged with them together, and in detachments, thirteen times, and in the short period of eight months suffered a loss of 400 men out of 520. In 1796, the few remaining men of the regiment were drafted, and the officers and non-commissioned officers came to England in October.

In 1797, this officer was appointed Colonel in the army; and in 1798 Brigadier-General in Portugal, where he commanded a brigade of the British auxiliary army. In 1802, be returned to England; and in the following year he was appointed Major-General, and placed on the Home Staff at Sunderland and NewCastle on Tyne. In January, 1807, he was placed on the staff in Jersey; and appointed Colonel of the 3rd, afterwards the 1st garrison battalion, and since disbanded. In 1899 he attained the rank of Lieut.-General, and was placed in command of Jersey, during the absence of Gen. Don, who was ordered to WalcheHe was relieved by Gen. Don, in May 1810, and on quitting the island received a very handsome letter from

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OBITUARY.-Capt. Tom.-Dean Waddilove.

the Adjutant-General, notifying the Commander-in-Chief's approbation of bis conduct during his command. Since the last named period this officer has not been employed. He received the brevet of General in August 1819, having succeeded to the family Baronetcy (conferred in 1692) on the death of his first cousin Sir Robert Leighton, the fifth Baronet, on the 21st of the preceding February.*

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Sir Baldwin was twice married; first, to Anne, daughter of the Rev. William Pigott, Rector of Edgmond in Shropshire, by whom he had no issue; and secondly, Nov. 25, 1802, to Louisa-Margaret-Anne, sister of Sir John-Thomas Stanley, the present Baronet of Alderley Park in Cheshire. By her he has left a son and successor, now Sir Baldwin Leighton, born in 1805.

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In the new edition of Debrett's Baronetage (just published) the family of Leighton is confused with that of Lighton, which enjoys an Irish Baronetcy. Sir Thomas Lighton, who died a child April 30, 1817, is incorrectly made by the Editor the cousin and predecessor of Sir Baldwin Leighton; and the Sir Thomas Leighton thus called into a visionary existence is furnished with a wife, Sylvia, daughter of Thomas Brandon, esq. of Lincoln's Inn Fields. It may be noticed by the way that this lady's father is in our record of the marriage in 1811 (where also for Leighton read Lighton) styled Mr. John Brandon, Treasurer of Covent-garden Theatre. Which statement of the two is correct in this point we cannot say; but the lady was certainly mother, not wife, of the infant Sir Thomas Lighton, the announcement of whose death in 1817 seems to have caused the misapprehension of Debrett's editor; and wife of Sir Thomas, the second Baronet of Merville, co. Dublin, who died May 11, 1816.

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successively joined the Assistance 50, flag-ship of Sir Charles Douglas; Thisbe 28, Echo 16, Fly 16, Tisiphone 12, and Amphitrite 24; from which latter ship he was promoted into the Conflagration fire-vessel, at Toulon, in Nov. 1793.

During the operations against Calvi, Mr. Tom served on shore as a volunteer, the Conflagration having been burnt at the evacuation of Toulon. From Corsica he returned home passenger in the Aquilon frigate; and he subsequently served for upwards of five years as second Lieutenant of the Polyphemus 64, bearing the flag of the late Sir Robert Kingsmill, Bart. on the Irish station.

Lieutenant Tom's next appointment was to be first of the Glatton 54, in which ship he assisted at the capture and destruction of the Danish line of defence before Copenhagen, April 2, 1801. The Glatton's loss on that occasion amounted to 18 killed and 37 wounded. His promotion to the rank of Commander took place on the 27th of

the same month.

During the late war, Capt. Tom successively commanded the Royalist defence-ship, stationed in the Downs; the Gorgon 44, employed as an hospital ship in the Baltic; and the Castilian brig, of 18 guns, from which vessel he was posted, Oct. 21, 1810.

[This Memoir is extracted from a new volume of Marshall's Royal Naval Biography, being Part ii. of the Supplement, and of which we are happy to announce the publication.]

DEAN WADDILove.

Aug. 18. At the Deanery, Ripon, aged 91, the Very Rev. Robert Darley Waddilove, D.D. F.S.A. Dean of Ripon, Archdeacon of the East Riding of Yorkshire, Prebendary of York, Rector of Cherry Burton, and Vicar of Topcliffe, in the same county.

The long life of this very respectable divine was distinguished throughout its course by a steady attachment to the regular duties of his sacred profession, whilst his classical attainments, and taste in the polite arts, found many occasions of exertion in his progress.

He was of Clare Hall, Cambridge, B.A. 1759, M.A. 1762. In 1771 he became Chaplain to the late Lord Grantham, when Ambassador at the Court of Madrid. Here he appears to have formed an intimate friendship with the late Abbè Bayer, the preceptor to the Infant Don Gabriel of Spain; and a Spanish Translation of Sallust being made and published by the Prince in a very superior style of elegance, two copies of this

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work were in the late Dean's possession; having been presented to him by the

friend above-mentioned.

Whilst thus engaged at Madrid, he was apprised of a remarkable MS. of Strabo in the library of the Escurial; and, the Oxford edition of that author being in preparation by Mr. Falconer, Mr. Waddilove, at the request of Archbishop Markbam, undertook, with the assistance of a learned Spaniard, probably the Abbe Bayer, to collate the MS.

For his attention to this business, the delegates of the Clarendon Press presented to him, in 1808, a copy of their two magnificent folios of the Strabo. These volumes the late Dean has bequeathed in his will to the library of York Cathedral, together with another very curious and recondite work in two volumes folio-"Bibliotheca Arabica del Eseuriale."

Other notices occur of his willing exertions to promote the cause of literature. Dr. Robertson, in the Preface to his History of America, acknowledges his obligations to Dr. Waddilove, for his services in that respect rendered during his Chaplaincy.

Mr. Waddilove became Chaplain to Archbishop Drummond; and after his death in 1776, to Archbishop Markham. He was presented to Topcliffe in 1774 by the Dean and Chapter of York, and collated to Cherry Burton in 1775.

In 1775, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries; and at the beginning of 1779 we find the Rev. Michael Tyson thus writing to Mr. Gough: -"Waddilove, Chaplain to the Embassy at Madrid, has bimself translated the Essay on Painting by Mengs, and seems to desire I should hold my hand. Without doubt I shall; he is too great a knight for me to enter the lists with. He promises great assistance if I will undertake Don Ulloa."* And again at the same period Mr. Tyson writes, "Lort tells me that Waddilove has sent him a sheet of remarks on Charles the First's Catalogue, compared with the pictures at the Escurial. You remember the King of Spain is supposed to have purchased great part of the Royal Collection."*

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In 1808, Dr. Waddilove communicated to the Society of Antiquaries "A Description of a Font in the Church of South Kilvington in Yorkshire," which is printed in the Archeologia, vol. xvI. pp. 341-345, with a plate of the font, which is remarkable for its heraldic ornaments. See also some additions to the communication in vol. xvi. of Archæologia, p. 334.

In 1810, he sent to the same learned body "An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Ripon Minster," which is printed in the Archeologia, vol. xvII. pp. 128-137; and, revised and corrected, was reprinted at Ripon, in 8vo. 1827. And in 1825 he communicated a drawing representing four small figures of minstrels in the exercise of their profession, in the church of St. Mary, Beverley, engraved and described in the Archæologia, vol. XXI. p. 554.

On the Dean's nomination to the church of Ripon, his active disposition shewed itself in an undeviating attention to every circumstance that might promote its welfare. He regulated the public service, and enforced it by his own constant attendance; and much improved the fabric of the Minster by various alterations,-by ornamenting the West towers with a range of gothic battlements of coeval character; and by attention to the embellishment of the whole structure.

At the same time, he was active in all public and private charities; and especially as President of the Society for the Relief of the North Riding Clergy, his kindness was shewn in unremitting endeavours towards its prosperity. In the East Riding his humane and useful exertions as the Archdeacon, were equally valued and esteemed. And few lives, extended to so long a period, can be shewn, as exhibiting such a continued and valuable application of the best principles to the best objects of piety and religion.

The will of S. Marryatt, Esq. has been proved at an estimate of 180,000/ personal property; besides freeholds, which will yield an aggregate of nearly 300,000l. Besides the house and furniture in Russell-square, and other valuable items, and leaving her residuary legatee, he bequeaths his wife the interest of 100,000l. stock, with the power to dispose of 25,000l. The bulk of his fortune goes to the children of his late hrother, Joseph Marryatt, Esq. M.P. for Hythe.

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DEATHS.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.

OBITUARY.

Dec. 27. In the Marshalsea prison, James Stamp Sutton Cooke, husband to Mrs. Cooke, now under sentence of transportation in Newgate. Cooke laid claim to the Stafford Peerage, and served the tenants of Sir George Jerningham, now Lord Stafford, with ejectments, for which he was tried at Glocester, and received nine months imprisonment in the House of Correction. afterwards arrested for a small sum, which being unable to pay, he was obliged to go to the Marshalsea, where he died after a confinement of one month. The jury returned a verdict, "Died by the visitation of God," and he was interred at St. George's. Church, in the Borough.

He was

Dec. 29. At Stockwell, Augusta, wife of Thomas Glover, esq.

At Hampstead, aged 67, the hon. Mrs. Tyler, cousin to Lord Teynham, and sister to Henry and John, the 12th and 13th Lords. She was married to Francis Henry Tyler, esq. Jan. 1. In Wimpole-st. Anne, widow of James Taylor, esq. of Southampton.

Jan. 2. In Newman-st. Cath, wife of Joseph Slater, esq. and only dau. of late Rev. James Bean.

Jan. 3. In Baker-st. aged 82, the relict of Wm. Campbell, esq. Commissioner of the Navy.

At Camden-town, Henry Harrison, esq. late treasurer of the Opera House.

Jan. 4. At Bellesize, Hampstead, aged 67, George Todd, esq.

Jan. 5. Aged 83, Mary, relict of Paul Bernand, esq. of Stoke Newington.

Jan. 6. At West End, Hampstead, aged 69, Cha. Beazley, esq. architect, formerly of Whitehall, and of Walmer, Kent.

At his house, in the Cricket-fields, Islington, aged 90, Mr. Tho. Oldfield, farmer. Jan. 8. The widow of Tho. Nash, esq. of Camberwell.

Jun. 12. Accidentally killed, by a piece of timber, a person known by the name of James Allen, employed as a shipwright at Dockhead. When the body was stripped for the coroner's inquest, it was discovered that this supposed man was a female. She had carried on this disguise, without any apparent motive, and without discovery, for nearly thirty years, and had been married to a woman for 21 years without being detected even by the supposed wife, of whom the deceased was at all times remarkably jealous.

In Bury-st. St. James's, George Thompson, esq. of Bishop's Sutton, Herts.

In Southwark, aged 70, John Vancouver, esq. brother of the celebrated Capt. Vancouver, R.N.

In Albion-pl. Blackfriars, aged 53, Mrs. Frances Woodmeston.

Jan. 13. In Crosby-sq. Joseph Salomons, esq.

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Jan. 15. In his 90th year, Mr. Richard Birkett, of Upper Clapton.

In Queen-st. May-fair, the relict of R. Lyster, esq. of Rowton Castle.

Jan. 16. In Berners-st. aged 77, Tho. Hardwick, esq.

Cath. wife of Mr. C. Stewart, bookseller, Holborn, and dau. of Mr. A. Horn, Great Queen-st.

Amelia-Mary, only child of late Mr. M.. Urquhart, of Great Pulteney-street.

Jan. 17. In Charlotte-st. Portland pl. aged 79, Aun, widow of Wm. Dowding, esq. Jan. 18. In Chancery-lane, aged 32, Mr. Wm. Burch, solicitor.

Aged 64, Mr. Ware, solicitor, Southwark. Jan. 19. In Torrington-sq. aged 70, Eliz. relict of Sampson Hodgkinson, esq. of Upton, Essex,

Jan. 20. Mary-Esther, wife of William Inwood, esq. of Euston-sq.

In Bernard-st. aged 77, John Whitfield, esq. of Dulwich, Surrey.

At Parson's Green, in his 62nd drew Crewe Greville, esq.

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Jan. 21. Aged 27, Sarah Ann, eldest dau. of the late Rev. Daniel Tyerman.

At Limehouse, Kitty, youngest dau. of the Rev. George Williains, many years Lecturer of that parish.

Jan. 21. In Park-pl. St. James's, aged 46, Tho. Rose, esq.

In Artillery-pl. Finsbury-sq. aged 60, Wm. Jourdain, esq.

Jan. 22. In Chandos-st. Covent Garden, in his 40th year, Wm. Alex. Balfour, esq.

BUCKS.-Aug. 2. At Caversfield, aged 88, Anne, relict of Joseph Bullock, esq. Aug. 20. At Wolverton, aged 84, Cath. relict of Thomas Harrison, esq.

DEVON.-Dec. 28. At Exeter, WmHenry Cleiveland, infant son of J. Cleiveland Green, esq.

Jan. 13. At Exmouth, aged 87, Chas. Baring, esq. uncle to Sir Thomas Baring, Bart, and M.P. and younger brother to Sir Francis the 1st Baronet. He married Margaret, dau. and heiress of Wm. Gould, of East Looe, in Cornwall, esq.; and by her had two sons and four daughters; 1. William, 2. Charles, 3. Jaquetta, married in 1791 to sir Stafford Henry Northcote, the present and seventh Bart. of Pynes in Devonshire, and has a numerous family; 4. Frances, married to Wm. Jackson, of Cowley in Devonshire, esq.; 5. Eleanor, 6. Emily, 7. Lucy, 8. Caroline.

Dec. 16. At Tor-hill-cottage, in his 28th year, Robt. Stewart, esq. of Bengal Native Infantry.

Lately. At Barnstaple, at the house of Capt. C. B Gribble, Maria, the wife of Henry Gribble, esq. of E. I. C.'s service.

DORSET.-Jan. 5. At Dorchester, Sarah, wife of Thomas Fisher, esq.

Jan. 20. At Poole, aged 84, Mr. Wm.

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