Died.] At Hartham House, the seat of his father-in-law, the Right Hon. Archibald Colquhoun, lord register of Scotland, and M. P. for Dumbarton.

WORCESTERSHIRE.

Birth.] At Hadsor House, the lady of the Rev. H. Amphlett, of a daughter.

Married.] At Dudley, Mr. J. Brettell, of Netherend, to Miss M. Shaw, of Brierly Hill. Died.] At Chacely Hall Park, Mr. J. Lane.

YORKSHIRE.

Births.] At Cottingley Bridge, the lady of C. F. Busfield, esq. of a daughter-At East Hall, Middleton Tyas, the lady of Capt. Cumby, R.N. of a son-At Howden, the lady of R. A. Worsop, esq. of a daughter-At Cantley, near Doncaster, the lady of G. Vernon, esq. of a daughter-At Stockeld Park, the lady of P. Middleton, esq. of a son.

Married.] At Selby, Mr. J. Dobson, to Miss H. Hawdon-At Halifax, Mr. Lawton, to Miss Stead At Leeds, W. W. Maitland, esq. to Miss A. Gott-At Huddersfield, Capt. W. Allenson, to Miss H. Proctor-At York, T. Dowker, esq. to Miss Jessie Kitchingman-Rev. E. Litchford, to Miss M.J. Bunbury-At Leeds, Rev. T. Hawkins, to Mrs. A. Thackarah.

Died.] At Scarborough, Mr. H. Hodgen-At Hull, Mrs. Threadgold-W. Parker, esq. 77— Lieut. A. Breary, R.N.-Mrs. A. Ashton-At Leeds, Miss E. Jaques-Elizabeth, wife of Roger Stevenson, of Birstall. Her death was occasioned by her clothes having accidentally caught fire-At the Lodge, near Wakefield, J. Armitage, esq. 64-At the Rectory-house, Kirkheaton, Thomas Harrison, esq. 73, late of Leeds. Mr. Harrison was of an ancient and respectable family; so far back as the incorporation of this populous and extensive borough, one of his progenitors, Henry Roundell, was numbered amongst its first aldermen. The strict and uniform integrity of his character as a member of society, will be long remembered with the sincerest feelings of attacliment, and regarded by a numerous and extensive circle of friends and relatives.

WALES.

A turtle-dove, as described in Mr. Pennant's Zoology, was shot a short time ago, by Mr. Rd. Griffith, of Maes Mawr, near Clynnog, in Carnarvonshire. It is now stuffed, and in the possession of Mr. Broster, of Bangor.

Married.] At Myfod, J. Roberts, esq. of Llanfyglo, to Miss A. Jones-At Denbigh, Rev. 'T. W. Edwards, to Miss Gardner.

Died.] At Mold, Mrs. Mary Hughes, 96-At Cardigan, Wm. Morgan Williams, esq.

SCOTLAND.

The total number of schools in Scotland, of all descriptions, is 3,556, in which are taught 176,803 children.

We understand that a very superior steam vessel, 300 tons, 80 horse power, copper-bottomed, copper boilers, to run between Leith and

Aberdeen, touching at the intermediate ports, is contracted for, and will be launched in the beginning of March next.

Married.] At Edinburgh, P. Ramsay, esq. to the Hon. Miss S. M. Hamilton-T. Hamilton, esq. to Miss A. M. Campbell-At Lauries. ton Place, Rev. J. Harper, to Miss B. Peddie-At Aberdeen, J. Smith, esq. to Miss J. Shireffs-In Lanarkshire, Sir Guy Campbell, to Pamela, eldest daughter of Lord E. Fitzgerald-At Holmhill, Dumfrieshire, A. Mossman, esq. to Miss H. Douglas.

Died.] At Aberdeen, Rev. Wm. Stuart, 79The Dowager Lady Bannerman, 76-At Edinburgh, Col. Maxwell-Mrs. Eliz. Ord, relict of Lord Chief Justice Macqueen-Mr. K. Mackenzie, W. S.-Thomas Adair, esq.-At Magdalen college, Edinburgh, Rev. B. Pats, D.D.-In York Place, Edinburgh, J. Kettle, esq.

IRELAND.

The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and counci have issued a proclamation, declaring the value of sovereigns to be twenty-one shillings and eight-pence, Irish; half sovereigns, ten shillings and ten-pence; crowns, five shillings and fivepence; half-crowns, two shillings and eightpence halfpenny; shillings, thirteen-pence; sixpences, sixpence halfpenny.

Births.] At Dublin, Lady Killeen, of a sonThe Hon. Mrs. Vereker, of a daughter-At Kilcoursey House, King's co. Mrs. Bagot, of a son -At Miles Town, co. Lowth, Mrs Plunket, of a daughter-Mrs. Crawford, of the Lodge, Belfast, of a daughter-At Carmichael, Lady Gibson Carmichael, and at Ringabella House, co. Cork, Mrs. Hodder, of sons.

Married.] At Dublin, A. Wills, esq. to Miss J. F. Nugent-H. Slade, esq. to Miss E. A. Hamilton-R. Booker, esq. to Miss D. O'Halloron, Queen's co.-C. Perceval, esq. to Miss C. Perceval-In Galway, G. Martin, esq. to Miss J. French-E. White, esq. to Miss M. O'Brien -W. H. Worthington, esq. to Miss A. Brownrigg-C. W. Williams, esq. to Miss Henry— Mr. W. Egan, to Miss W. F. Bentley.

Died.] In Dublin, Col. Nesbit-At Bishopscourt, W. Ponsonby, esq. only son of the late distinguished statesman-C. Annersley, esq. 90, of Ballysax-At Carlow, A. Johnson, esq.-Rev. Dr. Bray, Roman Catholic archbishop of Cashel, 73, much regretted-At Balcarres, Anne Countess of Balcarres, 94-At Kilkenny, E. G. Ryan, M.D.-At Bondon, T. Quin, esq.-At French Park, A. French, esq. M.P.-At Sligo, P. Dawson, esq.

BIRTH ABROAD.

At the Hague, the Countess of Athlone, of a

son.

MARRIAGE ABROAD.

On the 5th of July last, in Ceylon, W. Grauville, esq. deputy secretary, to Frances, daughter of the late Hon. G. Turnour, of that island, and niece of his eminence the late Cardinal Duke de Baussett, of Paris, and the Earl of Wintertou.

THE office vacant by the secession of Mr. Canning from the Cabinet, has been filled by the Right Hon. Charles Bathurst, who has been appointed President of the Board of Controul for the Affairs of India; Mr. Peel, to whom the place was first offered, having declined its acceptance. Immediately upon his resignation Mr. Canning wrote a letter, explanatory of the circumstances attending it, to Mr. Bolton, of Liverpool, which he requested might be laid before his constituents there. This letter, which has not hitherto appeared, we feel great pleasure in being enabled to lay before our readers :

"Tuddenham, Norfolk,

Dec. 22, 1820.

"MY DEAR SIR,-I left town on Wednesday a few minutes after I had written to you, not thinking that I should be quite so soon set at liberty to make to you the communication promised in my letter of that morning. I had hitherto forborne to make that communication, in order that I might not any way embarrass others by a premature disclosure; and I certainly expected, in return, due notice of the time, when it might suit them that the disclosure should be made. I have no doubt that the omission of such notice has been a mere oversight. I regret it only, as it has prevented me from anticipating, with you and the rest of my friends at Liverpool, the announcement in a newspaper, of an event, in which I know your kind partiality will induce you to feel a lively interest. The facts stated in the Courier of Wednesday evening, are stated in substance correctly. I have resigned my office. My motive for separating myself from the government (however reluctantly at a conjuncture like the present) is to be found solely in the proceedings, and pending "discussions," respecting the Queen. There is (as the Courier justly assumes) but this "one point of difference" between my colleagues and myself. Those who may have done me the honour to observe my conduct in this unhappy affair from the beginning, will recollect that on the first occasion on VOL. III. NO. II.

which it was brought. forward in the House of Commons, I declared my determination to take as lit dle part as possible in any subsequent stage of the proceedings. This declaratic n was made advisedly. It was made, not only after full communication with my colleagues, but as an alternative suggested on their part, for my then retirement from the administration, So long as, there was a hope of amicable adjustment, my continuance in the administration might possibly be advantageous: that nope was finally extinguished by the failure of Mr. Wilberforce's address. On the same day on which the Queer 's answer to that address

was received by the House of Commons, I asked an audience of the King; and at that audience (which I obtained the following day), ifter respectfully repeating to his Majesty the declaration, which I had made a fortnight before in the House of Commons, and stating the impossibility of my leparting from it, I felt it my duty humbly to lay at his Majesty's feet the tender of my resignation.

"The King, with a generosity, which I can never sufficiently acknowledge, commanded r ne to remain in his service, abstaining, as completely as I might think fit, from any share in the proceedings respecting the Queen; and gave me full authority to plead his Majesty's express command for so continuing in office.

"No occasion subsequently occurred in Parliament (at least no adequate occasion) for a vailing myself of the use of this authority; and I should have thought myself inexcusable in seeking an occasion for the purpose. But, from the moment of my receiving his Majesty's gracious commands, I abstained entirely from all interference on the subject of the Queen's affairs. I did not attend any meetings of the cabinet upon that subject: I had no share whatever in preparing or approving the Bil of Pains or Penalties: I was (as you know) absent from England during the whole progress of that Bill, and returned only after it had been withdrawn.

"The new state in which I found the proceedings, upon my return to England, required the most serious consideration. It was one to which I could not conceive the King's commands of June to be ap

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sword of state, and the Marquis of Winchester the cap of maintenance, both when the King entered, and when he retired from, the House.

The Earl of Belmore moved the address in answer to the speech, which was seconded by Lord Prudhoe. On the question for the address being put, Earl Grey rose, and observed upon the statements made in the speech, that they were not borne out by facts. He attacked the policy of ministers, and shewed that what the speech had asserted, relative to the improvement of the revenue and manufactures of the country, was fallacious in the general result. He was also dissatisfied that no notice had been taken of the embarrassed state of agriculture. His Lordship next contended, that no mention had been made in regard to the late occurrences at Naples, which it became a great and liberal nation to make; and he lamented that we had no accredited minister there, a circumstance that was ominous to our peace. He affirmed, that Great Britain had little cause to boast of her influence on the Continent, if she could not venture to remonstrate with the Allied Powers regarding the maintenance of the independence of the minor States. The Earl of Liverpool, in reply, asserted, that great improvements had taken place in the state of the country that his Majesty's ministers were ready to meet any discussion on the subject of the agricultural interest; in favour of which, his Lordship observed, that parliamentary enactments could do little good. Respecting Foreign Powers, he said, that the declaration in the speech was clear and explicit. It was the interest of Great Britain to preserve the peace of other countries, in order to maintain her own; and a war which arose out of an interference with the internal affairs of Foreign States, was ever to be deprecated. An abstinence from interference, his Lordship thought, was the wisest policy. Lord Liverpool then justified the late sudden prorogation of parliament, by referring to a precedent which occurred in 1785, when the Irish proposition was the subject to be discussed; and affirmed, that no disrespect was intend

ed, nor indecorum exhibited, by that measure. In regard to that, or any other subjects alluded to by Earl Grey, he (Lord L.) "should ever be anxious for a full investigation of them." Lord Holland reiterated the arguments used by Earl Grey, and dwelt particularly upon the situation of Naples and the conduct of Austria; and having alluded to what he denominated the moral assistance given by England to Austria, he inquired if there were at present any accredited minister of Great Britain at Naples? Whether the articles of the treaty of 1815 were communicated from Austria to the British Government? and, lastly, if any, and what portion of the loan borrowed by Austria of England had been repaid? Lord Liverpool declined answering the queries of the noble Lord; and after some farther discussion, the answer to the address being agreed to, the House adjourned.

In the House of Commons, after some preliminary business had been gone through, Lord A. Hamilton, having given notice of a motion respecting the omission of the Queen's name in the Liturgy, Mr. Wetherell rose, and moved for the production of all collects in any Liturgy or Litany, printed by authority, since the reign of James I. up to the present time, in which the name of the Queen Consort occurs; together with the 13th and 14th of Charles II., usually called the Act of Uniformity in the Church service, with the blanks which have been made therein, and likewise the order in council, of the 12th of February last, for excluding her Majesty's name from the Litany of the Established Church." This motion was seconded by Mr. Calcraft: upon which Lord Castlereagh immediately arose, and requested the postponement of the motion until a future evening, only giving at present the usual notice. He hoped the hon. member would not press his motion against an established custom of the House; which if he still persisted in doing, he (Lord C.) should move the previous question. Mr. Wetherell said, he was determined to follow up the motion, and Mr. Bathurst rose to answer him; when Mr. Hume called