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EMPRESS OF THE BRAZILS. Early in December, at Rio de Janeiro, her Majesty Leopoldina Carolina, Empress of the Brazils.

She was born Jan. 22, 1797, the second daughter of Francis the Second, the present Emperor of Austria, by his second Empress, Maria Theresa, daughter of Ferdinand the Fourth, King of Sweden. She lost her mother in 1807, and was married May 13th, 1817, to Pedro d'Alcantara, then Prince Royal of Portugal, and declared in 1822 Emperor of the Brazils. She gave birth, April 4, 1819, to Maria da Gloria, the present Queen of Portugal, who acceded to that throne on the abdication of her father, May 2, 1826; and to three other children. The Empress died in childbed.

SIR J. LISTER-KAYE, Bart. Feb. 28. At Denby Grange, near Wakefield, after a short but very severe illness, aged 64, Sir John Lister-Kaye, -Bart.

This family was first honoured with a Baronetey in 1641, which expired in the person of Sir Richard Lister Kaye, D.D. Dean of Lincoln, the sixth who enjoyed it, in 1809. The Baronet now deceased, having been appointed sole heir to the estates of Lister and Kaye, under the will of Sir John Lister-Kaye, elder brother of the Dean, was advanced to the dignity which the family had enjoyed through so many generations, Dec. 28th,

1812.

He married at Bowden, in Cheshire, Oct. 18th, 1800, Lady Amelia Grey, sixth daughter of George-Harry, late Earl of Stamford and Warrington, and sister to the present Peer. By this lady he had four sons and seven daughters: JohnLister, born in 1801, who has succeeded to the title; Amelia-Mary; GeorgeLister; Arthur-Lister; Sophia (who died young); Sophia Charlotte; Louisa; Henrietta; Maria; Henry-Lister; and Georgiana.

ADMIRAL MARKHAM.

Feb. 13. At Naples, John Markham, Esq. Admiral of the Blue, and late M. P. for Portsmouth.

This officer was a younger son of the late venerable and learne! Abp. Markham. He was educated at Westminster School, while his father presided over that institution; and entered the service at an early age. He obtained the rank of Post-Captain Jan. 3, 1723, and in the

following year commanded the Sphinx of 24 guns, on the Mediteranean station. At the commencement of the war with the French republic, he was appointed to the Blonde frigate, and served in her during the West India campaign. On his return from the Leeward Islands be cruized sometime in the channel, and then removed into the Hannibal of 74 guns, in which ship he joined the squadron on the Jamaica station, where he captured la Gentille, a French frigate of 40 guns, and several privateers.

On the 17th Nov. 1796, Capt. Markham married the Hon. Maria Rice, third and youngest daughter of George Rice, Esq. and Cecil, late Baroness Dynevor, and sister to the present Lord Dynevor. By that lady he had several children, and Mrs. Markham died in childbed Dec. 22, 1810. (See vol. LXXX. ii. 666.)

In 1798 we find Capt. Markham commanding the Centaur, 74, on the coast of Ireland, under the orders of Commodore Duckworth, whom, towards the latter end of that year, he accompanied to the Mediterranean, and assisted at the reduction of Minorca.

Early in 1799, the deceased was entrusted by his friend Eail St. Vincent with the command of a flying squadron, with which he attacked the town of Cambrelles, on the coast of Catalonia; and, after driving the Spaniards from their battery, landed a party of men under Lieut. Grossett, who dismounted the guns, burnt five setrees, and took five others laden with staves, wine, and wheat. About the same period the Centaur captured la Vierga de Rosario of 14 guns, and 90 men,

On the 16th March, the Centaur, in company with the Cormorant, drove El Guadaloupe, Spanish frigate of 40 guns, on shore near Cape Oropesa, where she was totally wrecked. In the month of June following, the squadron under Capt. Markham captured the following French men of war, on their return to Toulon from the coast of Syria: la Junon, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Perée, mounting 40 guns, 400 men; l'Alceste, 36 guns, 300 men; le Courageux, 22 guns, 300 men; la Salamine, 18, and l'Alerte, 14 guns, each carrying 120 men.

The Centaur returned to England soon after the above capture, and Capt. Markham continued to command her until the early part of 1801, when he was nominated one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and at the ge

neral election in the same year, was chosen M.P. for Portsmouth. In the same year, Dec. 13th, he brought in a Bill for appointing Commissioners to inquire into the abuses, frauds, and irregularities practised in several of the Naval Departments, and in the business of prize agents, &c. During the progress of the above Bill through its usual stages, it encountered much opposition; however, it finally passed both Houses, and received the Royal Assent on the 29th of the same month.

In 1804, when Earl St. Vincent left the Admiralty, our officer accompanied that Nobleman in his retirement. He was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral, April 23, in the same year; and on the change of ministry occasioned by the death of Mr. Pitt, in 1806, he became a Commissioner of the new Board of Admiralty, under Mr.T.Grenville, but again retired from office with his friends in 1807.

With the exception of the short interval that ensued between the general election in 1818, and the dissolution of Parliament occasioned by the demise of his late Majesty, in 1820, Admiral Markham continued to represent the borough of Portsmouth till the dissolution in 1826. His promotion to the rank of Admiral of the Blue took place Aug. 12, 1819.

ADMIRAL DILKES.

Feb. 25. At his house in Exeter, aged 82, John Dilkes, esq. Admiral of the B'ue.

This officer was made a commander during the war with our trans-Atlantic 'colonies; subsequently to which, in consequence of some temporary disgust, he entered into the Portuguese service, and obtained the rank of Rear-Admiral; but, brighter prospects opening, he returned to that of his native country, and became a Post Captain, Sept. 21, 1790. In 1795, Captain Dilkes commanded the Madras of 54 guns, stationed in the North Sea. He afterwards proceeded to the West Indies, and was present at the reduction of St. Lucia, by the forces under Sir Hugh Christian and Sir Ralph Abercromby, The Madras continued about two years on the Leeward Island station, and on her arrival in England, was again ordered to join the North Sea fleet. About the latter end of 1799, Captain Dilkes sailed with the trade for the Cape of Good Hope and the East Indies; and in the spring of 1801, we find him commanding the Raisonable of 64 guns, in the expedition against Copenbagen, under Sir Hyde Parker. On the renewal of the war in 1803, he was appointed to the Salvador del Mundo, bear

ing the flag of the Port Admiral at Plymouth, where be continued until autumn of the following year, when he was nominated Resident Commissioner at Jamaica, which we believe to have been his last public employment.

He was appointed to the rank of RearAdmiral, April 28, 1808; Vice-Admiral, August 18, 1812; Admiral of the Blue, May 27, 1825.

Admiral Dilkes married in 1804, a daughter of the late Rear-Admiral Epworth, and sister to the present Farmery Predam Epworth, esq. Capt. R.N.

GENERAL TWISS.

March 14. At Harden Grange, Yorkshire, aged 82, General William Twiss, Colonel Commandant of the Royal Engineers.

This officer entered the military department of the Orduance, in July 1760; he obtained a commission in the corps of Engineers in November 1763; and was promoted to a lieutenancy in April 1771. From 1762 to 1771 he did duty as an Engineer in the garrison at Gibraltar, and from 1772 to the end of 1775 was employed on the new fortifications constructing for the defence of the dockyard at Portsmouth. Early in 1776 be embarked with Gen. Burgoyne, and the army be commanded, for Canada, and landed at Quebec in June, when he was nominated Aide-de-camp to Major-Gen. Phillips. He was with the army in pursuing the Americans up the river St. Lawrence, and was in the affair at the Three Rivers on the 8th of June, and proceeded with the army until the Americans were driven out of Canada, and embarked in their fleet and boats on Lake Champlain in July. He was then appointed by Sir Guy Carleton, the Cummander in-chief, to be Comptroller of Works, and to superintend the construe tion of a fleet for Lake Champlain, with gun-boats and batteaux, for conveying the army over the lake, and with the able assistance of the naval department, over which the late Admiral Scbank was made Commissioner, they began in the middle of July the necessary preparations for so arduous an undertaking, and at a time that Government had neither vessel nor boat on Lake Champlain, nor the smallest building for barracks, store-houses, or work-shops. Notwithstanding all which, a numerous fleet was constructed, which fought and defeated the enemy at Valcour Island on the 11th and 12th of October, and obtained the naval superiority during the whole war. He then proceeded with the army to Crown Point, and with it returned and wintered in Canada.

In the spring of 1777 he was appointed Commanding Engineer under Gen. Burgoyne; and in July was with the army at the investment of Ticonderoga, where the Americans had employed many thousand men, during eight months, in fortifying Mount Independence; but, from the position which the army took, these works were immediately abandoned. He served with the army the whole of the campaign, and was present at all the general actions, and was inIcluded in the convention of Saratoga, but was, with other officers, exchanged a few days afterwards, and returned to Ticonderoga, when he assisted in the evacuation of that port in November, 1777.

In 1778, he was sent by Gen. Sir F. Haldimand to Lake Ontario, to form a naval establishment on the east side of that lake; and in December that year he was promoted to the rank of Captain. He was afterwards employed in different parts of Canada as Commanding Engineer, until the peace in 1783, when he obtained leave to return to England.

In 1785 he was employed as Secretary to the Board of Land and Sea Officers appointed under the King's sign manual, to report upon the defences of the dockvards at Portsmouth and Plymouth. From 1785 to 1792 he was employed as an engineer at Portsmouth, where many new works were being constructed, particularly Cumberland Fort, at the entrance of Langston Harbour. In June, 1794, he obtained the rank of Lieut.Colonel, and in the same year he was appointed Lieut. Governor of the Royal Academy at Woolwich, which station he held until he succeeded to be ColonelCommandant of Royal Engineers in 1810, when, by the rules of the service, he was removed. During this period, however, he was employed on various services. Between 1792 and 1799, he was engaged in augmenting the defences on the coasts of Kent and Sussex, particularly at Dover Castle. In 1799, upon Col. Hay, of the Engineers, being killed in Holland, he was sent as commanding Royal Engineer, under the late Duke of York, and remained there till the evacuation of that country was comple: ed. In 1800 be was sent to visit the islands of Guernsey and Jersey. In 1802 he was ordered to make the tour of Ireland, and report respecting its defences. In 1803 he was again sent to the coasts of Kent and Sussex; and in 1805 was directed to carry into execution the system of detached redoubts and towers which Government had adopted for the defence of that sea-coast, and was finished about the year 1809: he was also one of the

engineers sent to report how far the same system was applicable to the eastern coast. In 1810, after an active service of fifty years, he obtained leave to remain unemployed, and retired into the country. He had been appointed Brigadier-General in 1804; and Major-Ge neral in 1805; and be acquired the rank of Lieut-General in 1812; and General, 1825.

LIEUT.-COLONEL RADCLIFFE.

Feb. 24. In Connaught-square, aged 53, Lieut.-Colonel Charles-Edward Radcliffe, Major of Brigade to the cavalry in Great Britain.

This distinguished officer was appointed Adjutant of the first Dragoons, June 25, 1796; Cornet, April 12, 1799; Lieutenant, May 4, 1800; and Captain, Dec. 1, 1804. He served under the Duke of York in Flanders, and in Sept. 1809, he embarked with his regiment for the Peninsula. On taking the field in the ensuing spring, he was selected by Lord Hill to occupy with his troop a post of some difficulty and hazard, near Elvas; and thence to make a reconnoisance across the Guadiana; and he was subsequently employed on similar duties under the Quarter-master-general of the army. In June 1810, he was appointed Major of Brigade to the brigade formed of the Royals and 14th Dragoons, under MajorGeneral Slade, in which situation he continued during the campaigns in Spain, to the battle of Toulouse inclusive, without a day's absence, except on two occasions of dangerous attacks of fever, brought on by the fatigue incident to the duties of his situation. After the battle of Toulouse, he was appointed Assistant-adjutant-general to the cavalry, and in that situation be accompanied it on the march through France, and attended the reviews of the several brigades and regiments before his present Majesty, on their return to England. During his services in the Peninsula, he was present at the battles of Salamanca, Vittoria, Busaco, Fuentes d'Onor, the blockade of Pampluna, and the attack of Bayonne, besides numerous engagements of minor note, in which the cavalry was concerned; and be acted twice as Deputy Judge-advocate to General Courts Martial in the cavalry. While serving with his corps, he submitted to its commander the result of his observation and experience on the use of the sword in the hand of the heavy cavalry soldier, urging the necessity of the application of the point as much more efficient than any cut however powerfully given: and under his direction give iustruction to the men in the thrusts

quarte and tierce; he had afterwards the satisfaction to see this idea taken up and enforced by the highest cavalry authorities; and the tremendous execution of this arm so applied at Waterloo, fully justified the adoption of the principle. He published a small work on the subject.

He received the brevet of Major, June 4, 1814. The staff of the army in France ceased Sept. 24th following, and on the 25th of the same month, Sir H. Fane was appointed inspector of cavalry, and this officer was named his Brigademajor.

On the renewal of the war in 1815, Major Radcliffe's regiment was ordered to France; he therefore gave up his staff appointment, and accompanied it. On the 17th June, his troop formed the rear-guard of the column under the command of the late Sir Wm. Ponsonby, and covered its retreat from near Genappe, to its position. It was singly opposed to two squadrons of chasseurs à cheval, and some light infantry; its conduct was highly approved, and our officer received the thanks of the MajorGeneral for the manner in which he conducted it.

At the immortal field of Waterloo the deceased received a severe wound from a musket-ball, which lodged in his -knee, and the constant pain and irritation of which, as it could not be extracted, led to the premature conclusion of his life. His brevet of Lieut.-Colonel took date from the day, and on his return home he was appointed a Brigademajor on the Home Staff. So entirely was his mind devoted to his profession, that almost the last words he spoke (only two hours before his death), in answer to a question from his physicians as to how be felt, were "I am retreating, retreating, retreating; I cannot advance." He was a sincere and ardent friend, a conscientious Christian, and a brave and good man.

Lt. Col. Radcliffe married Mary, eldest daughter of the late Henry Crockett, esq. of Sbusions, in Staffordshire. and sister to the present gentleman of that name, resident at Little Onn Hall in the same county. This lady, by a lamenta ble fatality, died on the same day in the week previous to her husband's decease.

JOHN SMITH, Esq.

March 10. At his brothers', Kelsey Park, Beckenham, of apoplexy, John Smith, esq. of Seagrove, in the Isle of Wight; for many years Pay-master of his Majesty's Navy, and one of the Commissioners of the Alienation Office.

He was educated at Eton, where he

highly distinguished himself by his general abilities and classical knowledge. He had the happiness early to attach himself to many and distinguished friends, who remained such to the period of his death. In conjunction with three of these, the Right Hon. George Canning; the Right Hon. John Hookham Frere, and Robert Smith, esq. late Judge Advocate at Bengal, and with occasional assistance from other able colleagues, he, in 1786 and 1787, produced "The Microcosm;" his papers in which are marked A. His removal from Eton to King's College, Cambridge, in 1787, and the departure of the other contributors, for the same, or Sister University, put a period to the publication.

Being intended for the bar, Mr. Smith, on leaving the University, for some time studied the law, under a theu eminent special pleader, Mr. Giles, but disliking the profession, be, in 1793, entered the army, and in October of the same year was ordered with part of his regiment (the Queen's own) on board the Royal George, Sir Alexander Hood, to act as Marines; in which service he was presnt at the victory of the 1st of June 1794, as well as the previous actions. In 1795, his regiment (the 14th, in which he was then Captain) formed part of the unfortunate expedition against the West India Islands, which was sent out under Sir, Ralph Abercrombie and Admiral Christian; in all the disasters and attacks of which he was a sufferer and a sharer.

In 1797 Mr. Smith left the army, and in May 1799 was elected M.P. for East Looe; but two months after he resigned his seat, on being appointed Postmaster-general of Jamaica and the neighbouring Islands. He resided in the former Island, discharging his official duties, with benefit to every body except himself, until 1802 or 3, when he returned to England (owing to ill-health), and was shortly afterwards appointed by his early and steady friend, Mr. Canning (on Mr. C.'s accepting the Treasurership of the Navy) the Pay-master of the Navy, an office which he has continued to hold, under all the since successive Treasurers, with the exception of the short interval, during which the Right Hon. R. B. Sheridan was at the head of this department of our Naval affairs.

Mr. Smith's abilities, and his tried and proved integrity in this station, were felt, and acknowledged by all his superiors in office, Mr. Canning, the late Mr. Rose. and Mr. Robinson; and no long time has elapsed since Mr. Huskisson, the present Treasurer of the Navy, paid in Parliament a most high and just culo

gium to him, in answer to some charges which were volunteered against him.

In 1813, Mr. Smith published anonymously, an Essay on Architecture, entitled" Metrical Remarks on Modern Castles, and Cottages, and Architecture in general ;" and in 1819, he produced an 8vo volume (with a Preface "on the structure and moral principles of the ancient Greek Tragedy,”) entitled "The House of Atreus and the House of Laïus," selected from the Geek Tragedians, and freely translated into English verse.

He has left bebind him.

a very numerous collection of MSS. on various and widely differing subjects, some of which, especially those on Classic Literature, will probably be published hereafter. Amiable and estimable in private life, and equally so in all his public functions, he has been called to his Maker suddenly and awfully, leaving behind him few who are his equals or superiors in every duty that devolves to our lot in our présent state.

C. W. LE GEYT, Esq. March 12. At St. Helier's, in Jersey, aged 93, Charles William Le Geyt, esq. chief of the ancient and distinguished family of that name.

He was born May 12, 1733, the eldest son of Charles Le Geyt, esq., eldest son of Philip Le Geyt, esq., who for a long series of years filled the office of Attorneygeneral, and afterwards of Jurat and Lieutenant Bailly of Jersey, and who was the nephew and heir of the celebrated Philip Le Geyt, esq., also Lieutenant Bailly, and author of those commentaries on the laws and customs of that Island, which are reckoned a master piece on this subject, and often acted upon as law before the Royal Court. The manuscripts of that great man have been kept by the family as a precious treasure, which the worthy gentlemen whose death we now announce, carefully preserved.

Charles William Le Geyt, esq. hap. pened to be at Bristol, when yet very young, at a time when a disturbance broke out at that eity, and being natu

In saying this, it is not meant to depreciate those of the learned Lieute aut Bailly Paingdestre, which have also great merit, but as he was fifty-eight or fifty-nine years of age before he was elected Jurat and appointed Leuten ant Bailly, and then took to the law, it cannot be supposed that he could obtain so profound a knowledge of the laws and customs of the Island, as Mr. Le Geyt, who had studied them from his youth throughout the whole of his protracted life.

rally of a brave and gallant disposition, be put himself at the head of a band of volunteers, and succeeded in quelling the riot; for which service the Corporation voted him their thanks and freedom. Finding, moreover, that he was martially inclined, they procured him a commission of ensign in the army, in which he afterwards rose by purchase to the rank of captain in the 25th foot. He commanded the grenadier company of that regiment, at the battle of Minden in 1759, and much distinguished himself in the engagement. When in the prime of life, Captain Le Geyt was considered the most accomplished gentleman, and as such gave the ton, in the Island of Jersey. He was uniformly a strenuous supporter and defender of the liberties and franchises of his fellow citizens, and ready at all times to oppose any who would dare to infringe them. In the year 1772 or 1773, the States passed some Acts to raise certain duties upon such wines and liquors as were not included in the royal patent of King Charles II., which caused great and general dissatisfaction, especially in the town of St. Helier. A memorial from the merchants and other inhabit ants, to his Majesty in Council, was in consequence prepared, humbly praying that the execution of the said Acts might be prohibited. On this occasion Captain Le Geyt was considered, from bis zeal and devotion to the welfare to his country, bis great abilities, and his interest with several members of his Majesty's Government, as the fittest person to support and prosecute the petition; and when applied to, he most readily and cordially yielded to his country's call, and went to London, where he succeeded in obtaining the desired order to amul those oppressive Acts, and to direct them to be erased from the Records of the Island. On the news of this successful issue, Captain Le Geyt was hailed as the champión, protector, and defender of his country's rights; bonfires were made on the townhill, on the sands, and in different other parts round the town; and the cry of "Vive Le Geyt," "Le Geyt for ever!" resounded everywhere throughont the country. During the party troubles, headed by the late Sir John Dumaresq, from 1779 to 1794 Mr. Le Geyt stedfastly supported the patriots of those days, and during the last struggle about elective franchise in 1811, he again adhered to, and stood up as the friend, the supporter, and defender of that franchise. He was truly a warm and loyal subject, sincerely attached to the British Constitution in Church and State, a tender husband, an affectionate father, and a most sincere friend.

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