THE DUKE De Bourbon. Aug. 27. At his chateau of St. Leu, in his 75th year, Louis Henry Joseph de Bourbon, Duke of Bourbon, and Prince de Condé. This unfortunate Prince terminated his existence by hanging himself. He is supposed to have committed the fatal act while labouring under derangement, produced by the excitement which the late revolution occasioned, of which, however, he seems not to have disapproved. It appears, that he was sadly annoyed by some of the ex-functionaries of Charles X., who had by letters, and in one instance personally, repudiated his claim to the name of Condé, reminding him how gloriously it had been sustained by his father, who had in the former revolution cast his shield before the fallen fortunes of the Bourbons, and made it the rallying point of the Royalists, until their throne was re-established; again quitting the capital, though borne down by infirmity and the weight of years, with Louis XVIII. during the 100 days of Napoleon, rather than compromise his allegiance. Harassed thus on one side by the bigots of the old Court, and on the other pressed to come in, and take the oath to the Orléans dynasty, the individual members of which were his personal favourites, he weakly rushed out of existence, to escape these conflicting importunities. He had promised to repair to Paris, to take the oath, on the morning when he was found dead in bis chamber. On the previous night, he desired his valet not to enter his apartment as early as usual; the man obeyed his master's order, but when two or three hours had elapsed after bis usual time, and he had knocked repeatedly without obtaining an answer, he then, with the assistance of others, burst through the panels of the door, and found the unhappy Prince suspended by his own neckerchief, from the iron central fastening of the window; he used a stool to stand upon, and then kicked it down. He was in his ordinary clothes, and the body quite cold. Thus has perished the last member of the illustrious house of Condé. He was born April 13, 1756, and married April 24, 1770, the Princess Maria Theresa d'Orleans, who died in Jan. 1822. He was the father of the Duke d'Engbien, (whose barbarous murder at Vincennes, upon the memory of Buonaparte,) and only son of the illustrious and venerable Louis Joseph Prince of Condé,* on whose death, in 1818, he should in due course have assumed the title, which, however, he declined, from a feeling of modesty, as not being worthy to succeed a prince of so high a personal character as his noble father; and particularly as the prospects of his house. were for ever extinguished by the murder of his only son. This shews him to have been a quiet, unambitious man; though he was not deficient in military spirit. In 1776 a duel took place between Charles X. when Count D'Artois, and the Duke de Bourbon. The Count having a lady with him was followed by the Duchess de Bourbon. She seized his mask by the beard, and the strings snapped; the Count seized the Duchess's mask, and. broke it. The Duke de Bourbon, conceiving that the sex of the Duchess should have preserved her from rude retaliation, sent the Count d'Artois a message. The duel took place at the Boisde Boulogne, near the Port de-Princes. They fought with swords; and the Count, d'Artois having made a lunge, in which. his sword seemed to pass under the arm of the Duke de Bourbon, the Chevalier de Crussol, who was one of the seconds, believed the Duke to be wounded; and on the seconds interfering, the parties were reconciled. On the breaking out of the first civil" disturbances in Paris, the Duke quitted' France, in July 1789, with the rest of the family of the Prince de Condé, and retired to Brussels, whence he proceeded by way of Switzerland to Tunis. A great number of gentlemen accompanied them, all ready to fight in the cause of royalty. In 1792 the Prince de Condé opened the campaign, with his brave and loyal army, against the Republican forces; and in 1793, he was joined by his son, the Duke of Bourbon, and his grandson, the Duke d'Enghien, in the Black Forest; where three generations of heroes were seen combating together. The poet Delille thus notices this singular fact: Condé, Bourbon, Enghien, se font d'autres Rocrois, Et, prodigues, d'un sang chéri de la victoire, See an excellent memoir of the Prince in 1804, will ever remain the foulest blot de Condé in our volume LXXXVI. i. p. 563, The most remarkable affairs, in the campaign of 1792 and 1793, in which these three illustrious heroes performed prodigies of valour, were the battles of Jockrim, Pfortz, Barbelroth, Berstheim, Weissemburg, and Haguenau. On the Prince of Condé commanding a charge on the village of Berstheim, where the republican armies were concentrated in great force, his son the Duke of Bourbon, at the head of the second and third division of cavalry, made a charge on the enemy's cavalry, and drove it before him. Impelled by the ardour of the moment, the Duke rushed forward with only a few followers, when the Republicans, taking advantage of the circumstance, immediately surrounded him. The contest was bloody, and the Duke was severe. ly wounded; but the rest of his "Après le malheur cruel dont j'ai été accablé, mon cher Jacques, je ne pouvais éprouver d'adoucissement mieux senti à ma vive douleur que de vous savoir vous-même hors de danger, vous qui méritez, à tous égards, la confiance et l'amitié de ce cher enfant que je pleurerai toute ma vie. Les larmes me suffoquent, et je ne me sens pas la force, en ce moment, mon cher Jacques, de parler affaire avec vous. M. de Contye veut bien se charger de cette pénible commission. Vous pouvez prendre confiance en ce qu'il vous dira de ma part, et vous conformer ponctuellement aux ordres qu'il vous transmettra, tant de la part de mon père que de la mienne. Croyez, mon cher Jacques, à mon entière confiance et bien sincère amitié pour vous.' troops coming up, the enemy took to flight, leaving their artillery in possession of the Royalists. The Duke de Bourbon commanded the cavalry in his father's army, with distinguished honour, from 1792 to 1796; but Austria having made peace with France, the troops of the Prince de Condé passed in 1797 into the service of Russia. The following letter from Louis XVIII., dated Verona, June 24, 1795, will show the estimation in which the services of the Duke were held : "MON COUSIN, Je suis fort sensible à la part que vous prenez à ma juste douleur; elle en adoucit un peu l'amertume. Je suis bien sûr que vous combattrez pour moi comme vous avez combattu pour le feu Roi, mon seigneur et neveu*; mais j'espère que ce ne sera pas au même prix; votre sang est trop précieux pour l'Etat et pour moi, pour que je ne désire pas vivement qu'il plaise à Dieu de l'épargner. Comptez toujours sur l'estime et l'amitié véritables avec lesquels je suis, mon cousin, votre très-affectionné cousin, "LOUIS." After the campaign of 1800, we believe the Duke de Bourbon accompa nied his father to England, as he was resident at Wanstead House in Essex, at the time of the murder of his son in 1804. In a letter from Wanstead House, dated Feb. 3, 1805, addressed to M. Saint-Jacques, private secretary to the Duke d'Enghien, he feelingly adverts to this atrocious affair, † which appears to have blighted all his happiness: Louis XVII. The following bold assertions relative to the execution of the Duc d'Enghien, are extracted from Barry O'Meara's Journal:- Buonaparte informed Barry O'Meara, that Prince Talleyrand retained a letter written by On the restoration of the royal family in 1814, the Duke returned to France, where his life was passed in comparative retirement until bis death. The obsequies of the Duke de Bourbon took place on Sunday Sept. 6; the religious ceremonies were performed at St. Leu. Their royal highnesses the Dukes d'Orleans and de Nemours, Prince de Joinville, and Duke d'Aumale, a number of Peers, Deputies, General Officers, and persons attached to the suite of the Prince, assisted. The procession set out from St. Leu for St. Denis. The 1st regiment of bussars, a battalion of the 5th of the line, and the national guards of St. Leu and neighbouring communes, led the procession, which was brought up by a troop of the national guards, the 1st bussars, and the 5th of cuirassiers. They were received at the gate of the city by the Mayor of St. Denis, accompanied by the municipal body. The national guard and the veterans kept guard. The procession having marched to the church, the coffin was deposited in one of the vaults, near the remains of the father of the deceased. the Duke to Napoleon, which might in all probability have saved his life. "The Duke (observed Buonaparte) had written to me, offering his services, and asking a command in the army from me, which that scelerato Talleyrand did not make known until two days after the execution. Talleyrand is a briccone, capable of any crime. I caused the Duc d'Enghien to be arrested in consequence of the Bourbons having landed assassins in France to murder me."-Talleyrand proposed to cause all the Bourbons to be assassinated, and even offered to ne gociate for its accomplishment. He demanded a million of francs for each." 1830.] OBITUARY.-Earl of Rochford.-Bishop Majendie. The Duke has left a will, entirely written with his own hand, dated 30th August, 1829, by which his whole fortune passes to Henry Eugene Philippe d'Orleans, Duc d'Aumale, the son of the King of the French, and Dame Sophia Dawes, Baroness of Feucheres, an Englishwoman with whom he lived, and who slept in the same house at the time of his death. He has bequeathed, 1st, to the Baroness of Feucheres, two millions of money; 2nd, the chateau and park of St. Leu; 3rd, the chateau and estate of Boissy and all their dependencies; 4th, the forest of Montmorency and all the dependencies; 5th, the chateau and estate of Morfontaine and all its dependencies; 6th, the Pavilion occupied by her and her servants at the Palais Bourbon, as well as its dependencies; and 7th, the furniture contained in this pavilion, and the horses and carriages appertaining to the establishment of this lady, all free from charge and expenses chargeable on bequeathed property. These various legacies to Madame Feucheres are valued at 12 or 15 millions (francs). The residue of his property, except some private legacies, he has left to the Duke d'Aumale, third son of Philip King of the French. An excellent likeness of the Duke de Bourbon, when he first came over to this country, was painted by Mr. H. P. Danloux, and engraved by Mr. Philip Audinet (size 13 inches by 10). It was never published, and is therefore an extremely rare print. The Duke is represented in the military costume of the army of the Prince de Condé. The painter first represented the Duke with a mutilated hand, he baving had some of his fingers cut off with a sabre in an engagement; but the modesty of the Duke wishing to conceal that circumstance, the artist was directed to cover the hands with military gloves, as they now appear in the print. THE EARL OF ROCHFORD. Sept. 3. At his seat, the White House, in Easton, Suffolk, in his 77th year, the Right Hon. William Henry Nassau, fifth Earl of Rochford, Viscount Tunbridge, and Baron of Enfield, co. Middlesex. His Lordship was born on the 28th of June, 1754, and was the eldest son of the Hon. Richard Savage Nassau, one of the Clerks of the Board of Green Cloth, and a representative in Parliament for the borough of Maldon, by Elizabeth his wife, the sole daughter and beiress of Edward Spencer, of Rendlesham, in Suffolk, Esq. and the relict of James the fifth Duke of Hamilton. At the decease GENT. MAG. September, 1830. 273 of his uncle, on the 28th of Sept. 1781, his Lordship succeeded to the family honours; and dying, unmarried, the titles became extinct. For some further account of this noble family the reader is referred to a biographical notice of his Lordship's only brother, the late George Richard Savage Nassau, Esq. in vol. xc. part ii. p. 178. DR. MAJENDIE, BISHOP OF BANGOR. July 9. At the house of his son the Rev. Stuart Majendie, at Longdon near Lichfield, aged 75, the Right Rev. Henry-William Majendie, Lord Bishop of Bangor. Bishop Majendie was the son of the Rev. John James Majendie, D.D. Canon of Windsor, the instructor of Queen Charlotte in the English language. The latter was not a German, as it has been frequently stated; but born in England, the son of a French protestant minister who took refuge in this country on the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and settled at Exeter. Dr. Majendie died in 1783, aged 75: and a short memoir of him then appeared in our vol. LIII. p. 716. The Bishop was a member of Christ's College, Cambridge. He took his Bachelor's degree in 1776; and soon after had the good fortune to follow his father's steps as a royal tutor. The object of his care was Prince William Henry, our present Sovereign. Mr. Majendie accompanied his Royal Highness to sea, and visited with him many distant parts of the globe. In 1783 he was appointed one of the King's Chaplains in ordinary. On the 11th of April 1785, he married Miss Routledge and at the same time was made a Canon of Windsor. With that dignity he held the vicarage of Hungerford in Berkshire, where for five years he fulfilled all the duties of a parish priest with great fidelity and success. He proceeded M.A. 1785, D.D. 1791. In 1798 he resigned his Windsor canonry for a residentiary prebend of St. Paul's; and Hungerford vicarage for that of New Windsor; for so great was the attachment of King George the Third to Dr. Majendie, that his acceptance of the vicarage of New Windsor was made the condition of this change of preferment, in order that he might still continue to reside in the immediate neighbourhood of his Majesty. In 1800, on the death of Bishop Warren, and consequent translation of Bishop Cleaver to Bangor, Dr. Majendie was preferred to the see of Chester, with which he retained both bis canonry and living; he resigned both in 1806, when on the death of Dr. Horsley, Bishop of St. Asaph, he again followed Bishop Cleaver at Bangor. Dr. Majendie printed the following professional tracts: A Sermon at the anniversary of the Sons of the Clergy, in St. Paul's, 1800. A Sermon before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Westminster Abbey, on the Thanksgiving for the Peace, 1801. A Charge to the Clergy of the Diocese of Chester, 1804. Bishop Majendie had a numerous family. Henry-William Majendie, Esq., his eldest son, died Feb 7, 1824, aged 34. Edward, his youngest son, died July 15, 1825, aged 23. J.-Routledge, then his youngest, was married in 1828 to Harriet-Mary, second daughter of the late George Dering, Esq., and first cousin to Sir Edward Dering, of SurrendenDering, Bart. The Rev. Stuart Majendie was presented by his father in 1824 to the Rectory of Llanruddlad in Anglesey. The Rev. Henry-William Majendie, Prebendary of Bangor and Salisbury, and Vicar of Speen, is, we believe, nephew to the Bishop, and son of his brother Lewis Majendie, Esq. F.S.A. of Hedingham Castle, Kent; he was also, we think, son-in-law to the late Dr. Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury. ADMIRAL SIR H. NICHOLLS. Aug. 17. At Clifton, co. Gloucester, in his 72d year, Sir Henry Nicholls, Admiral of the White. This distinguished officer embraced the naval profession when quite a child; and may be truly said to have been "Born on the winds, and cradled in the storm." His zeal, perseverance, and abilities, during a long and arduous service, raised him to the highest rank and honours of his profession. Subsequent to the war with the colonies, this officer commanded the Echo sloop, on the Newfoundland station. On the 1st Dec. 1788, he was promoted to the rank of Post-Captain, and soon after appointed to the Amphion frigate, stationed at Jamaica. During the Russian armament in 1791, he served as FlagCaptain to the late Hon. J. L. Gower, in the Formidable of 98 guns, which ship was put out of commission in the autumn of the same year. At the commencement of hostilities against France, in 1793, Capt. Nicholls was appointed to the Royal Sovereign, a first-rate, bearing the flag of Admiral Graves, in the Channel fleet; and on the memorable 1st June, 1794, when that officer was wounded, his place was ably supplied by Captain Nicholls, who had the happiness of contributing in a véry eminent degree to the success of this brilliant encounter. The Royal Sovereign was among the first ships in ac tion, and at its conclusion was at the head of eleven sail of the line, well formed, and in pursuit of fourteen of the enemy's ships, when the last signal was made by Earl Howe for his fleet to close. In this battle the Royal Sovereign had 14 men killed, and 44 wounded. Capt. Nicholls's conduct was specially noticed by the commander-in-chief, in his public letter; and he was one of those officers to whom George the Third ordered a gold medal to be presented. The wound received by Admiral Graves causing him to retire for a time from active service, Captain Nicholls commanded the Royal Sovereign as a private ship until the spring of 1795, when he was removed into the Marlborough, of 74 guns, where he continued until the period of the mutiny at Spithead, which created a considerable degree of alarm throughout the kingdom. On this occasion the Marlborough's crew committed the most daring outrages, and evinced a spirit of disaffection in a greater degree than that of almost any other ship. In the summer of 1801, when Sir Charles Morice Pole was sent to relieve the late Lord Nelson in the command of the Baltic fleet, Captain Nicholls accompanied that officer, and continued with him during the remainder of the war. In 1802 he was appointed one of the Commissioners of the Board of Naval Inquiry, and afterwards Comptroller of the Navy; which latter office, howe ver, he enjoyed but a short time. Capt. Nicholls was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral in 1807; ViceAdmiral in 1810; Admiral of the Blue in 1825; and Admiral of the White in 1830. He was also, for a short time, Comptroller of the Navy, which he re signed, and on the 20th May, 1820, was elected a Knight Commander of the Bath. Sir H. Nicholls, though a strict oficer, was still admired and respected, not more for his uniform zeal, perseverance, and ability, than for his excellen disposition, which displayed the kindest heart of a rough seaman in all his dealings with mankind. SIR LUCAS PEPYS, BART. M.D. June 17. In Park-street, Grosvenorsquare, aged 88, Sir Lucas Pepys, Bart. M. D. Physician-general to the Army, the senior Fellow of the College of Physicians, F.R.S. and S.A. Sir Lucas Pepys was born May 26, 1742, the younger son of William Pepys, Esq. of London, banker, and of Ridgley 1830.] OBITUARY.-Sir L. Pepys, Bart.-Lieut.-Gen. Guard. 275 in Cheshire, (great-grandson of John Pepys, made Lord Chief Justice in Ireland in 1665, and descended from an ancient family in Cambridgeshire,) by Hannah, widow of Alexander Weller, Esq., and daughter of Dr. Richard Russell. Of Sir Lucas's elder brother, the late Sir William Weller Pepys, Bart. a memoir appeared, on his death in 1825, in our vol. xcv. ii. p. 85. Both brothers were educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford; where Sir Lucas took the degrees of A.M. 1767, M.B. 1770, M.D. 1774. On settling in London, he fixed his residence in St. Anne-street, Soho; and so early as 1769 he was appointed one of the Physicians of the Middlesex Hospital; in 1770, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. On the 30th of Oct. 1772, the Right Hon. Jane-Elizabeth Countess of Rothes, in her own right a Peeress of Scotland, bestowed her hand (at Brighton) on Dr. Pepys. Her Ladyship had been previously married to George Raymond Evelyn, Esq. by whom she was mother to George-William the tenth Earl of Rothes, who died in 1817, leaving a daughter, who was also Countess in her own right, but died in 1819, and was succeeded by her elder son the present Earl, who was born in 1809. By Sir Lucas Pepys, the first-named Countess was mother of three children, who, as is usual with the offspring of the heiresses of Scottish peerages, took their mother's name: 1. the Hon. Sir Charles Leslie, who has now succeeded to his father's Baronetcy; 2. the Hon. Henrietta, married in 1804 to William Courtenay, Esq. Assistant Clerk of the Parliaments, and elder son of the late Bishop of Exeter; and 3. the Hon. and Rev. Henry Leslie, Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty, Prebendary of Exeter, Rector of Wetherden, Suffolk, and Vicar of Sheephall, Herts. He married in 1816, ElizabethJane, younger daughter of the Rev. James Oakes, of Tostock in Suffolk, but became a widower in the same year, Sir Lucas was appointed Physician extraordinary to his Majesty in 1779; and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society Nov. 9, 1780. In 1781 he was appointed one of the Commissioners for visiting Madhouses. By patent dated Jan. 22, 1784, in which he was styled of Boxbill in Surrey, he was created a Baronet ; with remainder, on the failure of his own issue male, to his elder brother William Weller Pepys, Esq. Master in Chancery; who was, however, afterwards raised to the same dignity, by another patent, conferred in 1801. Sir Lucas was appointed Physician general to the Forces on the death of Sir Clifton Wintringham, Bart. M.D. and F.R.S. in 1794. In 1799 we find him resigning the office of Treasurer to the College of Physicians, when Richard Budd, M.D. was elected his successor. The Countess of Rothes having deceased June 2, 1810, Sir Lucas Pepys married, secondly, June 29, 1813, Deborah, daughter of Anthony Askew, M.D. and has left that lady his widow. A portrait of Sir Lucas, engraved by J. Godby, from a drawing by H. Edridge, was published in Cadell's Contemporary Portraits in 1809. LIEUT.-GEN, GUARD. Lately. Aged 57, Lieut.-General William Guard, Governor of Kinsale. This officer entered the army at the age of sixteen, and was appointed Ensign in the 45th foot, June 13, 1789; Lieutenant in 1790; and Captain in 1795. He purchased the Majority in 1797, and the Lieut.-Colonelcy of the same corps in 1799. After doing duty some time at Chatham, he joined his corps, then stationed in the island of Grenada, in February, 1791. His regiment being draughted the latter end of 1793, he volunteered his services in the expedition against the French West India Islands under Sir Charles Grey. After the capture of Martinique, he returned to Europe, in July 1794; re-embarked with his corps (which had been completed by draughts from Chatham) on the 26th of December, and shortly after sailed again for the West Indies, where the regiment was stationed until 1801, in the summer of which year it finally returned to England. Early in 1802 the battalion was ordered to Ireland, and being then joined by the senior Lieut.-Colonel (the late Lieut.-Gen. Montgomerie), Lieut.Col. Guard was appointed to a light battalion of the line. Early in 1804 he resumed the command of his own corps. In the autumn of 1805 he marched from the camp at the Curragh of Kildare for Fermoy, and embarked shortly after to join the expedition under Lord Cathcart; but the intelligence of the loss of the battle of Austerlitz, which was received by the corps on its arrival in the Downs, caused its destination to be altered, and the battalion was disembarked at Margate in January, 1806, and marched to Brabourne Lees Barracks, in Kent, and shortly after was encamped on the heights of Shorncliffe; from whence it marched in July, 1806, and embarked at Portsmouth on the 24th and 25th of the same month. The regiment finally sailed from the Isle of Wight, on the 12th of Nov. 1806, form |