GAZETTE PROMOTIONS. War-Office, June 25.-4th Reg. of Foot, to bear on their colours and appointments the word << Bladensburg."-The Ceylon Reg. to bear the name of the "Ceylon Rifle Reg."-40th ditto, Lt.-Col. Tho. Valiant, 82d Foot, to be Lieut.-Col.-53d ditto, Major Jonathan Peel, 69th Foot, to be Lieut.-Col.-82d ditto, Brevet Col. Henry Thornton, 40th Foot, to be Lieut -Col.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. The Hon. and Rev. Hugh Percy, to be Bp. of Rochester, vice King, dec. The Right Rev. Dr. Carr, Bp. of Chichester, to be a Canon Res. of St. Paul's. Rev. E. Mellish, to be Dean of Hereford. Rev. Dr. Millingchamp, to be Archd. of Carmarthen.

Rev. W. King, to be Archd. of Rochester. Rev. Dr. Sumner, to the Golden Preb. at Durham.

Rev. F. W. Bayley, to a Preb. in Rochester Cath.

Rev. W. C. Leach, a Minor Canon and Precentor of Ely Cath.

Rev. J. Bluck, Bower's Gifford R. Essex.
Rev. R. Cockburn, Barming R. Kent.

Rev. J. Greenwood, Gainscolne R. Essex. Rev. R. Lucas, Edith Weston R. Rutland Rev. W. Michell, Barwick R. Somerse Rev. J. Rudd, to Hallaughton Preh in the

Coll. Church of Southwell.

Hon. and Rev. M. J. Stapleton, Tuder cum-Capel V. and Mereworth R. Kent. Rev. T. Symonds, Stanton Harcourt V.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Lord Graves, to be a Commissioner of Ex

cise.

Lord Plunkett, Chief Justice of the Com

mon Pleas in Ireland, vice Lord Norhary Henry Joy, esq. Attorney-gen. for Ireland. John Wylde, esq. Doctor of Laws, Chief

Justice of the colony of the Cape of Good
Hope.

Lord W. Bentinck, Governor-general of
India.

Sir John Malcolm, Governor of Bombay. S. R. Lushington, esq. Governor of Madras. John Peter Grant, esq. one of the Juiges

of the Supreme Court at Bombay, Rev. G. P. Richards, to be Master of Bever ley Free Grammar School.

June 16. The wife of Dr. Turnbull, of Hull, a son.-18. In Baker-st. Portman-square, the wife of W. Codrington, esq. a son.-20. At Howsham, the wife of Col. Cholmley, a son and heir.- 22. The wife of Chas. Harrison Batley, esq. M.P. Beverley, a son and heir. 23. The wife of W. Heygate, esq. a son. At Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire, the wife of G. Stevenson, esq. a son and heir.The wife of W. Kendall, esq. Harrow, à son and heir. -At Gilston Rectory, Herts, the wife of the Rev. W. H. Wilkinson, a son 94.

At Ibornden, Kent, the wife of C. Tylden Pattenson, esq. a dau. At Salinggrove, Essex, the wife of Capt. Harange, R.N. a son-At the Vicarage, Great Staughton, Hunts, the wife of the Rev. Tho. Clare, a dau.-25. The wife of

G. Sigel, jun. esq. a son The wife of Win. Bowles, esq. of Fitzharris House,

Berks, a dau.- -The wife of R. Blagden, esq. of Albemarle-street, a dau Wootton Bassett, the wife of the Rev. The Hyde Ripley, a son-At Gifford's Hall, the wife of P. Power, esq. a dau.6. At Lyneham, the seat of J. Bulteel, esq. Devonshire, lady Eliz. Bulteel, son aud heir-In Sloane-street, the wife of the Rev. H. Clissold, a son.—The wife of C. Marryat, esq. Clarence-terrace, Regent's-park, a son of a dau the wife of Chas. Brereton, esq. surgeon, of Beverley.At Camberwell, the wife of Tob Browne, esq. a dau.-27. The wife of £ Downes, esq. of Soho-square, a dau. At Preston Rectory, near Bath, the wife of the Rev. John Hammond, a son,-99. Mrs. J. K. Hooper, of Queenhithe, a son, At Hoole, Cheshire, the wife of Capt. C Hutchinson, R.N. a son.

Lately. At Stafford, John Kenderden, esq. Lieut. R.N. to Eliz. Harriett, dau. of Mr. Brutton, Governor of Stafford County Prison.At Berrynarbor, the Rev. W. Bickford Coham, of Colam, near Oakhamp

ton, Devonshire, to Augusta Mary Davie, eldest dau. of Joseph Davie Bassett, esq Heanton Court, near Barnstaple.-At Highworth, W. H. Hitchcock, esq. Gower-st. Bedford-sq. to Eliza, eldest dau.

of

of James Crowdy, esq. of the former place.

June 5. At Dublin, Geo. Nesbit Tredennick, esq. of Fort William, Donegal, to Lydia Magee, dau. of the Abp. of Dublin, -6. At Norton, Fred. Francis Findon, esq. of Ripston, co. Worc. to Clara, third dau. of John Hawkes, esq. of Norton Hall, Staffordshire.-9. Tho. Welsh, esq. of Duchess-street, Portland-place, to Miss Wilson, formerly of Drury-lane Theatre. -11. At Gretna, John-Moulton Bence, esq. son of the late J. B. B. of Holy House, Gloucester, esq. to Georgiana Eliza, only child of W. Jenkins, esq. of East Heath, near Oakingham, Berks ——At Oxted, near Godstone, Surrey, Stephen, third son of Tho. Duke, esq. of Blakehurst, near Arundel, to Frances, second dau. of the late Lieut.-Col. Francis W. Bellis, E. I. C.

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-At

The Rev. Wm. Doncaster, Rector of Winterbourn Bassett, Wilts, to Miss Williams, dau. of Lieut.-Col. Williams.St. Marylebone Church, the Hon. Capt. Arthur Legge, brother to the Earl of Dartmouth, to the Right Hon. Lady Anne Cath. Holroyd, sister to the Earl of Sheffield.-16. At Cheltenham, Capt. Alice Campbell, R.N. of Ardpatrick, Argyleshire, to Harriet, youngest dau. of James Royds, esq. of Mount Falinge, Lancashire.-19. At North Ferriby, Matthew Babington, esq. son of Tho. Babington, esq. of Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, to Fanny, dau. of the late Nicholas Sykes, esq. of Swanland, near Hull.-Chas. Wager Watson, esq. son and heir of Sir Chas. Watson, bart. of Wraking, Cambridgeshire, to Jemima Charlotte Garth Collerton, eldest dau. of the Countess Morel de Champemont, by the late Chas. Garth Collerton, esq. of Haines Hill, Wilts.- -20. The Rev. H. Proctor, B.A. only son of the late Gen. Proctor, to Sarah, fifth dau. of Col. Sherwood, of the Bengal Artillery.At St. George's Hanover-square, Sir Alex. Campbell, bart. to Miss Malcolm, eldest dau. of Major-Gen. Sir John Malcolm, G.Č.B.

At Great Horkesley, Essex, D. B. Chapman, esq. to Charlotte Anne Dorothea, eldest dau. of Rev. Dr. Ward, Prebendary of Salisbury, and rector of Great Horkesley and of Alphamstone.At Croydon, Surrey, Rich. Maurice Bonner, esq. to Anna Maria, second dau. of Matthew Harrison, esq.At St. George's, Hanover sq. Edw. Mostyn Lloyd, esq. eldest son of Sir E. Price Lloyd, bart. to the Lady Harriet Scott, eldest dan. of Earl of Clonmell.- -Tho. Gibson Inman, esq. barrister, to Lonisa, eldest dau. of late Rev. W. Batchellor, of Grosvenor-place, Bath.- —21. At Chatham, T: A. Perry,

-esq.

of Cheltenham, to Maria, eldest dau. of Tho. Greenaway, esq. of Southampton; also, the same day, the Rev. A. Donald, A.M. to Harriet, youngest dau. of the same GENT. MAG. Suppl. XCVII. PART I.

T. Greenaway, esq -At St. Luke's Chelsea, the Rev. W. Cowlard, of Lamerton, Devonshire, to Miss Falkland, of Sloane-st.

-At Clowne, Derbyshire, Rich. Machell, esq. of Broughton Grove, co. Lane. to Harriet, only dau. of the late Joseph Pawsey, esq. of Silsoe, Bedfordshire.At Great Malvern Abbey Church, Capt. Rich. Rollo Houghton, 73d Reg. to Maria, eldest dau. of the late Rev. Dr. Hardy, Rector of Loughborough.- -At St. Marga ret's, Westminster, Wm. Fagan, esq. of Temple-hill, near Cork, to Mary, only dau. of Chas. Addis, esq.— -At St. George's, Hanover-square, Geo. eldest son of Geo. Palmer, of Nazing Park, Essex, esq. to Eliz. Charl. dau. of John Surtees, late of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, esq.- 25. At Alverstoke, Henry, fourth son of Dr. Batney, of Gosport, to Frances, fourth dau. of the late Rev. J. W. Dodd, Rector of North Runcton, Norfolk, and many years one of the masters of Westminster School-At George's Church, Gibbs Crawford Antrobus, esq. of Eaton Hall, Congleton, M.P. to Jane, second dau. of Sir Coutts Trotter, bart.At Ensham, Oxfordshire, John Grandin, esq. of Frith-street, Soho, to Miss Sarah Attwood, of Newland House, Ensham.- -26. At St. George's, Hanoversquare, Felix Ladbroke, esq. of Grosvenorstreet, to Eliz. only dau. of the late Marcus Beresford, esq. and the Lady Frances Beresford.-The Rev. Geo. Aug. Montgomery, to Cecilia, third dau, of Dr. Geo. Markham, late Dean of York.- At Wardour Castle, the seat of Lord Arundell, Edw. Doughty, esq. of Snarford Hall and West Barkworth, co. Linc. brother to Sir Henry Tichborne, bart. to the Hon. Katharine, sister to Lord Arundell. At Crediton, Rev. Henry Strangways, Rector of Rewe, Devon, to Hester Eleonara, sixth dau. of James Buller, esq. of Downes.-27. In London, Capt. Geo. Fred. Ryves, R.N. C.B. son of late Adm. Ryves, and nephew of the late Lord Arundel of Wardour, to Charity, third dau. of Thos. Theobald, esq. of the Grays, Essex- -At St. Pancras New Church, Geo. Francis Travers, esq. to Mary, widow of the late Lieut.-Gen. Trent.

At

28. At Chelsea, Joseph Jessopp, esq. of Waltham Abbey, Essex, to Euphemia Frances, youngest dau. of the late Capt. Drummond. 28. At St. James's Church, Chas. Blackburn, esq. of Portsea, Hants, to Eliz. second dau. of Chas. Rivington, esq. of Waterloo-place.-30. St. Mary's, Bryanstone-square, Henry Baring, esq. to the Lady Augusta Brudenell, fifth dau. of the Earl of Cardigan. Cookham, Berks, Capt. Aug. Chas. Skynner, to Maria A. Robbins, eldest dau. of the late Lieut.-Col. Price Robbins, by his 2d wife Anna Maria, now wife of Lodge Morris Prior, esq. Paymaster 12th Lancers.

At

zee. In 1798 and 1799, the deceased commanded the Standard of 64 guns, and subsequently the Defiance, 74. He was advanced to the rank of Rear-Adm. April 28, 1808, Vice-Admiral, Aug. 12, 1812, and Admiral, May 27, 1825.

MARQUIS DE LA PLACE.
March 5. The Marquis de la Place,

a French mathematician and astrono

mer of the first rank. This distinguished ornament of science was the son of a husbandman, resident at Beaumonten Auge, near Pont l'Evéque. He was born in 1749; and for some time he taught the mathematics at the school in his native town; but he was induced to regard Paris as the only proper sphere for his talents. There, by his skill in analysis, and in the higher geometry, he soon acquired reputation. At the expence and under the immediate patronage of the president, De Saron, he published bis first work, the "Theory of the Motion and Elliptical Figure of the Planets." M. la Place was the successor of Bezout, as examiner of the Royal Corps of Artillery; and he became, successively, member of the Academy of Sciences, of the National Institute, and of the Board of Longitude. In 1796, be dedicated to the Counsel of Five Hundred

his "Exposition of the System of the World ;" and in the same year he appeared before the bar of that assembly, at the head of a deputation to present the Annual Report of the proceedings of the National Institute; and, in an appropriate address, devoted to the memory of men of talents and learning, he paid an affecting tribute to the worth of his generous benefactor, De Saron. Some time afterwards, he was, under the Consular government, appointed Minister of the Interior; from which office he was, in December 1799, transferred to the Conservative Senate, to make room for Lucien Buonaparte. In July, 1803, he was elected President of the Conservative Senate; and, in September, he became Chancellor of that body, with the title of Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour. In September, 1805, he made a report to the Senate, on the necessity of resuming the Gregorian calendar, and discarding that of the Revolution, a piece of mummery which, with all its absurdities, had been stolen from the Dutch colonists at the Cape of Good Hope. M. La Place was, in 1811, named counsellor to the Maternal society; and, in 1813, Grand Cordon of the Re-union. In April, 1814, he voted for a provisional government, and the dethronement of Buonaparte; services for which Louis

XVIII. rewarded him with the dignity of a peer. He was nominated a member of the French Academy in 1816, and President of the Commission for the Re-organization of the Polytechnic School.

Besides numerous articles in the collections of the National Institute, the Academy of Sciences, and the Polytechnic Schools, the principal works of la Place were as follow:-"Theory of the Motion and Elliptical Figure of the Planets," 1784; "Theory of the attractions of Spheroids, and the Figure of the Planets," 1785; "Exposition of the system of the World," 2 vols. 1796; "Treatise on Celestial Mechanism," 4 vols. 1799, 1803, 1805; "Analytical Theory of Probabilities," 1812; "Philosophical Essay on Probabilities," 1814.

The Marquis de la Place was, if we mistake not, the first who analytically proved the existence and extent of the lunar atmosphere, and verified its secular equation. He also determined the reciprocal perturbations of all the principal planets; and he forwarded, by important discoveries, a similar work on the Satellites of Jupiter, commenced by Lagrange, and completed by Delambre. His studies were not, however, confined to the mathematics, geometry, and astronomy: he devoted himself, with considerable ardour, to chemistry; in conjunction with Lavoisier, he invented the calorimeter; and he repeated the experiments of Monge and Cavendish, on the decomposition of water.

BEETHOVEN.

March 31. At Vienna, Aged 57, Ludwig Von Beethoven, the far-celebrated German composer.

He was born at Baun, where his father was the tenor singer in the Elector's chapel. His earliest instructions in music, were received from Neefe, the court organist; and so rapid was his progress, that, at the early age of eleven, he was able to play the far-famed preludes and fugues of the great Sebastian Bach. He was early instructed in composition; as, at the same age, we find published at Manheim and Speyer, under his name, variations to a march, sonatas and songs, all for the piano-forte. The Elector of Cologne, attracted by his youthful genius, became his patron; and, in 1792, he sent him to Vienna, as court organist, under the celebrated Haydn. Two years afterwards, Haydn, on leaving Vienna for London, placed young Beethoven under the care of Albretchtsberger, one of the most learned of modern contra puntists. At this period, however, Beethoven was more

distinguished for his performance than for his compositions: the critics of the Allgemeine Musikalishe Zeitng of Leipsic, the first musical Review in Europe, while they were loud in their praises of him as a player, were proportionately severe in their remarks on his attempts at composition, not allow ing to bim even the merit of framing variations.

In 1801, the death of the elector, and the precarious situation of the court of Cologne during the war, induced Beet. hoven to make choice of Vienna as his future and permanent residence. Original and independant in his modes of thinking, as well as in the style of his musical composition, Beethoven's manners appear to have been rather repulsive than conciliating; his friends were few, and he was in open enmity with many. The court taste at Vienna was in favour of Italian music; Salieri, the Italian, was, at this time, in possession of all the honours and all the emoluments of principal Maestro di Capella to their Imperial Majesties; and Beethoven, without patronage or support, was left entirely to his own resources. Under circumstances thus unfavourable, he was induced, in 1809, to accept an office from the new Westphalian court of Jerome Buonaparte, of the situation of Maestro di Capella; fortunately, however, for the honour of Vienna and of Austria, the Archduke Rodolph, and the Princes Lobkowitz and Kinsky, induced him to rescind his determination. In the handsomest and most delicate manner those princes had an instrument drawn up, by which they settled upon Beethoven an annuity of 4,000 florins, with no other condition, than that, so long as he should enjoy it, he must reside at Vienna, or in some other part of the Austrian dominions, not be ing allowed to visit foreign countries, unless by the express consent of his patrons. With such an income, equal to nearly 4001. a year, we are at a loss to know how it was that the latter period of Beethoven's life was passed in penury, and, as it is said, almost in a state of destitution. Beethoven could not have forfeited his annuity; for, although he had always a great wish to see foreign countries, particularly England, he never even made application for leave of absence: yet early in the present year a subscription was raised for his benefit in this country.

Beethoven had received a regular classical education; Homer and Plutarch were his great favourites among the ancients; and of the native poets, Schiller and Goethe (who was his per

sonal friend), he preferred to all others. For a considerable time he studied more abstruse subjects, such as Kant's philosopby, &c.

We have seen a list of no fewer than 120 of Beethoven's musical composi tions, the greater part of which are allowed to be productions of the highest order. His overture to the "Men of Rome and Lens," and his piano-forte concerto in C minor, 6. p. 37, would alone be sufficient to immortalize him. In many of his orchestral symphonies, overtures, quartettos for the violin, concertos, trios, and sonatas for the pianoforte, he may be ranked with Haydn and Mozart. Of Handel and Mozart Beethoven was a worshipping admirer; to the works of modern composers he seems to have paid but little attention. When asked about "Der Freischutz," his answer was, "I believe one Weber has written it." Of his own productions he thought his second mass was the best.

For many years Beethoven laboured under the affliction of severe deafness; latterly he had a confirmed dropsy. I their neglect of living genius the feelings of the Germans appear to assimilate too closely with those of their brethren the English; for, although Beethoven was allowed to languish and expire in poverty, his remains were honoured with a splendid and ostentatious funeral.

CAPT. MATSON, R. N.

Lately. At Walmer, Henry Matson, esq. Captain R.N. brother to Rear. Admiral Richard Matson, and cousin to ViceAdmiral John Harvey.

This officer was born at Sandwich, and entered the naval service in 1790, as a Midshipman on board the Arrogant of 74 guns, commanded by his maternal uncle the late Capt. John Harvey, whose heroic conduct on the memorable 1st of June, 1794, highly distinguished him.

From the Arrogant Mr. Matson was very soon removed into the Rose of 28 guns; in which ship and the Huzza frigate he completed his probationary term of service on the Halifax station, where he was promoted to the rank of Lieut, in the Rover, a Bermuda built sloop of war, about the month of June, 1796.

In the following year Lieut. Matson proceeded to the West Indics, and joined the Prince of Wales, a second rate, bearing the flag of his uncle, the late Sir Henry Harvey, K.B. by whom he was made a Commander, and appointed to the Cyane of 18 guns, March 22, 1799. His post commission bears date Dec. 15, 1802.