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39. At Tatton park, Cheshire, the lady of Wilbraham Egerton, esq. of a son and heir.

At Winchester-house, Chelsea, the lady of the rev. William Garnier, of a daughter.

31. At Southampton, the wife of capt. Foote, of the royal navy, of a daughter.

January 4 A Cheltenham, the lady of Charles Shaw Lefevre, esq. M. P. for Reading, of a still-born child.

7. At the pars nave-house, Great Witchingham, in the county of Norfolk, the lady of col. the hon. William Fitzroy, of a sǝn.

10. The lady of brigadier-general the hon. Alexander Hope, of a son.

At Knowle, in Sussex, the lady of lieut. colonel Alexander Beatson, of a

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A. Harvey, esq. to miss E. Dodd, daughter of R. Dodd, esq. marine painter, Parliament street.

At the Collegiate church, Manches ter, William Warner, esq. of Uttoxeter, William Norris, esq. of Manchester. to miss Norris, daughter of the late

29. By the rev. John Gilpin, at Bolder church in the New Forest, John Wilson, esq. of the island of St. Chris topher, to miss Irwin, eldest daughter of the late James Irwin, esq. of Haje. Ligh-hall, Essex, and one of the East. India directors.

January 1. At Edinburgh, Thomas Hodgson, esq. of the hon. East-India company's service (Madras establishment), to Isabela, youngest daughter of the late Dr. Alexander Hamilton, physician in Edinburgh

3. At Morpeth, James Downing, esq. of Church-hou-e, Merton, Surry, Capt. in the 81st regiment, to miss Isa bella Tylor, youngest daughter of the late James Tylor, of Whotton, in the county of Northumberland.

At Mary-la-bonne church, lieut. colonel J. Conway, late of the 53d regi ment, to miss Elisabeth M'Arthur, only daughter of John M'Arthur, esq. of York-place, Portman-square.

6.

At St. Michael's church, in the

city of Coventry, by the rev. Thomas Cox, rector of Baghorn, the rev. Robert Simson, LL.B. vicar of St. Michael's and chaplain to the right hon. lord Lardley, to miss Tandy, daughter of D. Tandy, es, of London.

8. At Gisbrough, by the very rev. the dean of York, Marmaduke Constable, esq. to miss Octavia Hale, of the Plantation, eighth daughter of the late general IIale, of that place.

14. Anthony Galwey, esq. of Carrick on Suir, to miss Costelio, of Well. beck-street.

19. At Mary-la-bonne church, Samuel Otto Baijer, csq of the island of Antigua, to miss Edwards, eldest daughter of the late F. B. Edwards, esq. of Jamaica.

DEATHS.

December 24. In his 72d year, Mr. Thomas Wilkinson, cf Kennington. At Perthshore, in Worcestershire,

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27. At Brecon, in the 72d year of her age, Mrs. Bold, wife of Hugh Bold the elder, esq. and one of the coheiresses of the late John Philips, esq. of Tregare, Breconshire.

29. At his seat at Godwood, in Sussex, his grace the duke of Richmond, in the 73d year of his age, being born on the 22d of February, 1734. His grace was of royal extraction, being descended from Charles Lennox, natural son of king Charles II. by lady Louisa Renne de Penencourt, a French lady, who came to England with the duchess of Orleans, the king's sister; and whom his majesty not only created duchess of Portsmouth, countess of Farnham, and baroness of Petersfield, in England, but prevailed on Lewis XIV. to confer on her the title of duchess of Aubigny in France The late duke was the third in succession, and possessed the titles conferred on his grandfather in the reign of Charles II. viz, duke of Richmond in England, duke of Aubigny in France, (confirmed and registered by the parhament of Paris), duke of Lennox in Scotland, earl of March in England, and Darnley in Scotland, baron of Settringxon in England, and Turbolton and Methaen in Scotland: besides which he was created by his present majesty a knight of the garter. He was also a field-marshal of Great Britain, and a colonel of the royal regiment of horse guards blue. He bore the arms of king Charles II. ;'and his motto was En la rose je fleurie.'-In the rose I flourish. He married April 1, 1757, Mary, eldest daughter and co-heiress to the late earl of Aylesbury.

Lately in a deep decline, in his 21st year, universally and most deservedly beloved and regretted, lieut. William Charles Billinghurs', RM. only son of the late highly respected and worthy

George Billinghurst, esq. R. N. (nephew of the late admiral Brodericks) and grandson of the late William Bilinghurst, esq. of Mytchen-hall, in the county of Surry. Before he had attained his 16th year he was in the battle. off Copenhagen, on board the Defiance, where his brave conduct gained him the high approbation of his friend sir T. Graves and all his brother officers. He was interred with every mark of military honour and respect in the governor's chapel, Portsmouth.

January 1. Mr. John Thomas, solicitor, of Fen-court, Fenchurch-street.

2. At Woodstock, Joseph Brooks, esq. aged 71, many years an alderman of that borough.

3. The rev. William Gilbank, rector of St. Ethelburgh, London, and chaplain to his royal highness the duke of Gloucester.

4. At Weymouth, Sarah, wife of J. Palmer, esq. one of the representatives in parliament for Bath.

At Mrs. Vassal's, at Clifton, in the 29th year of her age, of a rapid decline, Mrs. Archer, wife of J. G. Archer, esq. of Barbadoes, and daughter of the late John Vassal, esq. of the Crescent, Bath.

At Exminster, near Exeter, in the 86th year of his age, Henry Sawbridge, esq. of East Haddon, in the county of Northampton.

5. In the 45th year of her age, Mrs. Smith, wife of Mr. Smith, auctioneer, Windsor, Berks.

At his chambers in Staples inn, Isaac Reed, esq. eminently distinguished for his extensive knowledge of ancient English authors, and for his judicious and learned annotations on Shakespeare.

8. Jane, the wife of Clement Wrin tersley, esq. vice-lieutenant for the councy of Leicester; she was eldest daughter to sir Thomas Parkins, of Bunny, in the county of Nottingham, and sister to the late lord Rancliffe.

15. At Knightsbridge, Mrs. Nevill, wife of Richard Nevill, esq. of Furnice, in Ireland, aged 50 years.

Of a typhus fever, at her house in Eltham, Kent, madame Grant.

17. Francis Gould, esq. one of the proprietors and the manager of the Opera-house.

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16 POETICAL ESSAYS-The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast-The Haunted CottageAddress to Opulence and Compe tence-Sonnet--The Tear-A Winter Scene-The Adien-The Charmer of Leadenhall StreetMary Marton, a Ballad-A Sonnet

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3 On Fashion,

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4 Botany for Ladies,

64

5 Harriet Vernon; wr,

Characters from

real Life,

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6 The Downhill of Life,"

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7 Family Anecdotes,

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8 A Night Walk in February,

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9 London Fashions,

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10 Parisian Fashions,

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L8 Home News,

12 On Modern Empirics,

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19 Births,

13 Extract from the Play of Adrian

20 Marriages,

and Orrila,'

84 21 Deaths,

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This Number is embellished with the following Copper-Plates : VI PORTRAIT of her Royal Highness the PRINCESS of WALES.

V2 BOTANY for LADIES.

V3 Fashionable EVENING and FULL DRESS.

4 A new PATTERN for the HEADPIECE of a CAP.

LONDON:

Printed for G. ROBINSON, No. 25, Paternoster-Row; •

Where Favours from Correspondents continue to be received,

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TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The Family Anecdotes will be concluded in our next: we hope the ingenious writer, to whom we return our grateful acknowledgments, will soon resume her pen, and favour us with other communications.

Elegiac Stanzas, and other contributions of W. M. T., in our next.

Mr I will observe that we do not insert deaths or marriages unless they are properly authenticated.

The Flake of Snow is only a verse of a the alteration of a word or two.

well-known

very

old song, with

The Parody on Thomson's 'Celadon and Amelia is inadmissible in our Miscellany: the author's sense of decorum and decency, if he has any, must surely have told him this.

Daphnis on Kisses is under consideration

The Lines to Miss R. H. the author of The Man to my Mind, had been overlooked; they shall certainly appear in our next, as shall also the Lines addressed to a Young Lady on a dear Friend's going to Sea.

We will endeavour to comply with Dorothée's request respecting the pattern.

*** We have this month presented our Readers with four additional pages, containing a full and authentic account of the låte calamitous accident in the Old Bailey.

THE

LADY'S MAGAZINE.

FOR FEBRUARY, 1807.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of her Royal Highness the PRINCESS of WALES.

(With a Portrait of her Royal Highness, elegantly engraved.)

CAROLINE AMELIA ELIZA BETH, the amiable consort of his royal highness GEORGE PRINCE OF WALES, is the second daughter of the late duke of Brunswick, who died on the tenth of November last, in consequence of the dreadful wound he had unortunately received at the battle of Jena, on the fourteenth of October preceding. Her royal highness was born on the seventeenth of May, 1768, and married to the prince of Wales on the eighth of April, 1795; by whom she has issue the princess Charlotte Carolina Augusta, born January the seventh, 1796.

The

sons and three daughters.
princess of Wales is the second of
these daughters. Her eldest sister,
Charlotte Georgiana Augusta, who
was born the third of December,
1764, was married on the eleventh
of October, 1780, to Frederick
William, son of the duke of Wur-
temberg Stutgard, and died in 1791.
His highness afterwards married, on
the eighteenth of May, 1797, Char-
lotte Augusta Matilda, princess royal
of England.

It is not for us minutely to appreciate the character of the princess of Wales, or to pretend to give an account of the origin of those differHer highness before her marriage ences which appear to have so long was closely allied to the royal family subsisted between her royal highness of England, being the cousin of her and her illustrious consort, of the illustrious consort. Frederick Lewis, real causes of which we can, in fact, the late prince of Wales, and father know so little. Still less do we mean of his present majesty, who was born to enter into any discussion relative January the twentieth, 1707, and died to a certain investigation, as it has March the twentieth, 1751, during been called, of a truly delicate nathe life-time of his father king ture, concerning which rumour has George II., married, on the twenty-so long been employed in circulating seventh of April, 1736, Augusta, the daughter of Frederick II. duke of Saxe Gotha. His eldest daughter Augusta, who was born July the thirty-first, 1737, was married on the seventeenth of January, 1764, to the late duke of Brunswick Wolfenbuttle, by whom she had issue three

what are, there can be little doubt, the grossest falsehoods and most pitiable absurdities. It is sufficient to say, that her royal highness, in the retirement in which she lives at Blackheath, has, by her affability, condescension, and the whole of her conduct, uniformly acquired the most

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