In 1799 he obtained the first accessit for an essay Sur l'influence des signes relativement à la formation des idées, which was written for a prize, adjudged to the celebrated Degerando, proposed by the Institute of France: and he was shortly afterwards elected a corresponding mem.. ber of that body. His Essais de philosophie, et études de l'esprit humain, appeared in 1804, to which were appended some very remarkable Essays of his friend and ancient preceptor Le Sage, of whom he published a most interesting life in the following year. He likewise published, in very rapid succession, translations of the Rhetoric of Blair, the Essays and posthumous works of Adam Smith, the Elements of Philosophy of Dugald Stewart, the Essay on Population of Malthus, Salt's Travels in Abyssinia, the Conversations on Political Economy, by his wife's sister-in-law, Mrs. Marcet, and many other works of less importance and interest. In 1823, at the age of 72, though still vigorous and active both in body and mind, he resigned the professorship of natural philosophy, in wise anticipation of the approach of that period of life when men naturally feel reluctant to acknowledge the decline of their faculties, or incompetent to perceive it. From this time, though still consulted by his colleagues and fellow-citizens on every important subject connected with the Academy or the State, he retired into the bosom of his family, which contained within itself, in a very uncommon degree, every element of tranquillity, contentment, and happiness. His own temper was singularly equable and tranquil; and his tastes and pursuits, which rarely left his time unoccupied, saved him from that tædium vitæ which sometimes renders old

age querulous and discontented. Thus happily disposed and happily circumstanced, it is not wonderful that his life should have been prolonged beyond the ordinary limits of humanity. He died on the 8th of April, 1839, in the 88th year of his age, surrounded by his family, and deeply regretted by all who knew him. The phi losophical character of M. Prevost had been greatly influenced by that of his master Le Sage, a man of great originality and profundity of thought, but whose speculations, particularly those which attempted the explanation of the cause of gravity, trespassed somewhat beyond the proper limits of philosophy. We consequently find him disposed to explain the laws of the propagation of heat and light on the most simple mechanical principles, and to trace their origin and progress much further than the experiments or facts

will properly warrant; thus giving to his conclusions, in many cases, a much more hypothetical character than would otherwise have attached to them. M. Prevost had little acquaintance with the more refined resources of modern analysis; and his researches on many important branches of experimental and philosophical inquiry were consequently limited to reasonings which could be carried on by the most simple algebraical or geometrical processes. But, notwithstanding the restrictions which were thus imposed on his progress, the range of his philosophical researches was unusually extensive and various, and his discoveries on heat must always be considered as constituting a most important epoch in a branch of science which has recently received so extraordinary a developement in the hands of Fourier, Forbes, Melloni, and other philosophers.

DEATHS.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY. March 18. At the residence of her daughter Mrs. M'Culloch, at Kensington, Louisa-Sarah- Anne, widow of William White, esq. formerly of Salisbury.

Robert Bayer Patch, esq. M.A. late Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, eldest son of the late Robert Patch, esq. of Exeter. He took the degree of M.A. Dec. 2, 1813.

March 20. In Upper Grosvenor-st, in her 82d year, Catharine-Louisa Shipley, fifth daughter of the late Right Rev. Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of St. Asaph.

March 21. At Percy-st. Bedford-sq. aged 85, William Newton, esq.

March 22. At Kensington, aged 48, Harrison Gordon Codd, esq. one of the magistrates of the Marylebone Police Court, a deputy lord lieutenant of the county of Middlesex, and equerry to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. Mr. Codd was the eldest son of the late Major Codd, of Kensington, and Rumsey Court, Kent, and for many years held a situation in the War-office, at the Horse Guards. Some years since he was appointed one of the commissioners to inquire into the operation of the then existing poor laws; and from the abilities he displayed in the course of the inquiry, and the strict attention he paid to his magisterial duties as chairman of the Kensington bench of local magistrates, he was appointed, about two years since, by Lord John Russell, one of the magistrates of Worship-street Police-office, and in August last, after the passing of the Metropolis Police Courts Act, Mr. Codd was

transferred to the Marylebone Police Court.

At Pentonville, aged 68, James Culverwell, esq.

March 23. Aged 59, Henrietta-Carolina, wife of W. K. Jenkins, esq. of Nottingham-place.

In his 69th year, George Le Boutellier, esq. of Bow.

At Kensington, Helen Hutchins, wife of Barrington Tristram, esq. only dau. of the late Major-Gen. John Bellasis, Commander of the Forces at Bombay; and grand-daughter of the Rev. John Hutchins, the Historian of Dorsetshire.

March 24. At John-st. Bedford-row, J. King, esq.

At Paddington-green, aged 28, William James Benjamin Hall, of Brynterion, near Cardigan, esq.

March 25. Aged 23, Marianne, wife of the Rev. G. Weight, Curate of St. George the Martyr, Southwark, eldest daughter of the late Rev. H. L. Mansell, Rector of Cosgrove, Northamptonshire.

At the residence of J. Stratford Best, esq. Wilton-crescent, Anne, widow of Captain Halliday, R.N.

În Chesham-place, aged 85, Lady Mary Hussey, widow of Thomas Hussey, of Galtrim, co. Meath, esq. and aunt to the Earl of Orford. She was the last surviving daughter of Horatio Earl of Orford, by Lady Rachael Cavendish, youngest daughter of William third Duke of Devonshire, and was married in 1777.

March 26. John Brown, esq. of Dorset-place, Regent's-park.

At Torrington-square, aged 79, Mrs. General Rayne.

At Great James-st. Bedford-row, aged 29, Emma, wife of G. F. Shipster, esq. She was buried at the Highgate Cemetery.

İsabella, widow of Major-Gen. Barrow. March 27. In Nottingham-place, Frances, wife of Sir Edward Hamilton, Bart. Trebinshum House, Brecon. She was a dau. of James Macnamara, of Llangoed, co. Brecon, esq. was married in 1804, and has left two sons and two daughters.

Aged 75, Thomas Hunter, esq. of Theresa-terrace, Hammersmith.

March 28. At Davies-street, aged 65, John Barrow, esq.

C. B. Palmer, esq. late of Calcutta, aged 40.

In Doughty-street, aged 85, Mrs. Jane Mitchell.

Mr. Robert Chipchase, aged 80, one of the brethren of the Charter House, much respected by all who knew him. He was a native of the city of Durham, and formerly a merchant in London. The

Duke of Wellington presented him to the Charter House in 1829.

March 29. Aged 23, Mr. Edward Harraden, medical student in the London University, and second son of Mr. R. B. Harraden, of Cambridge.

In Montagu-pl., Henrietta, eldest dau. of the late Mr. Justice Gaselee.

In Manchester-st. Sarah- Amelia Stewart, sister of the late J. H. Stewart, esq. of the Grange, South Ockendon, Essex.

March 30. Aged 50, Sarah, wife of William Fox, esq. of Chester-terrace, Regent's-park, and sister to Guy Thomson, esq. banker, Oxford.

In Cadogan-place, by his own hand, aged 52, Captain Ellers Parnell Hopkins, late of the 4th foot. He was completely blind, but could find his way about the house, and always shaved himself. At a coroner's inquest, Major L. M. Bennett, 64th foot, said, he had known the deceased from 1808, and had never noticed any thing insane in his manner until the evening before his death, when he was in a strong fit of hysterics, which lasted during a few minutes. All the time deceased appeared violently excited, and with uplifted arms he frequently exclaimed, "My mother, my mother! She is burning-save her, save her!" About five years ago deceased's mother was burned to death in her bed-room, whilst deceased was in the house, unable to save her on account of his blindness.

She

March 31. In Gloucester-place, the Right Hon. Sarah Lady Thurlow. was the only daughter of Peter Hodgson, esq. was married to Lord Thurlow in Nov. 1836, and leaves issue two sons.

Lately. At Kensington, in her 70th year, Frances Elizabeth Selwyn, youngest daughter of the late W. Selwyn, esq. K.C.

At Coward college, Torrington-sq. aged 58, the Rev. Thomas Morell, late Theological tutor of the college, well known by his useful contributions to educational literature.

April 1. At Kensington, Catharine, youngest daughter of the late J. W. Skyrme, esq. and grand-niece of the late Sir John Woolmore, K.C.H.

April 2. At Islington, Mary, wife of George Watkinson, youngest dau. of the late Capt. Richard Dorrill, R.N.

In Burton-crescent, Anne, eld. daughter of the late Daniel Mellan, esq.

April 4. At Old Brompton, aged 72, Mrs. Frances Louisa Griffith, relict of the Rev. John Griffith, M. A. Fellow of Christ Church, Manchester, a dependant of the celebrated Evelyn, the author of " Sylva."

In Alfred-place, Bedford-sq. in her

85th year, the relict of Chas. Nevinson, esq. only sister of the late Rev. H. K. Bonney, Rector of King's Cliffe, near Stamford, and aunt to the Archdeacons of Bedford and Leicester.

At Bayswater, aged 60, Miss Tracy, late of Stormont House, Kensington.

April 6. Aged 85, Mr. Richard Le Keux, a mathematical instrument maker and chart-seller, who had resided in Highstreet, Wapping, for the last fifty years, and had amassed wealth to the amount of upwards of 100,000l. sterling being noted for his eccentricities and his penu. rious habits. He was of French extraction, and educated in Christ's Hospital, to which institution it is said he has left the great bulk of his fortune.

April 7. At Peckham, aged 78, Wm. Fry, esq.

At Hampstead, aged 45, Mr. William Heath, artist.

At Highgate, aged 77, Elizabeth, relict of J. F. Throckmorton, esq.

April 8. At Blackheath, aged 70, Ann, widow of R. Woodmass, esq. of Montagu-sq.

In Euston-square, at the house of her son-in-law Mr. James, aged 79, Charlotte, relict of the Rev. Edw. Lewis, formerly Rector of Newtown, Montgomeryshire.

April 9. At Kensington, in her 87th year, Elizabeth Wallace, relict of the late B. W. Gould, esq. of Brentford-butts.

April 10. At Cadogan-place, aged 81, Jacob Henry Franks, esq. of Misterton Hall, Leic.

April 11. At Clapton, aged 65, John Maddox, esq.

At Islington, aged 54, Matthew Percy Dove, esq.

Elizabeth, wife of W. H. Ashpitel, esq. of Clapton-sq.

At Stanhope-st. aged 39, Ellen, wife of the Rev. J. S. Boone, M.A. late Student of Christ Church.

April 12. At Eaton-square, in his 75th year, Jeremiah Harman, esq.

The Hon. Thomas Arundell, infant son of Lord and Lady Arundell. April 14.

In Prince's-st. Hanoversq. Mary Charlotte, wife of Findlay Anderson, esq. Madras Civil Service, second dau. of the late Colonel C. M. Edwards, and niece to the Countess of Lindsey, and the Rev. B. V. Layard.

At Titchfield-terrace, Portland Town, Harriet Farrer, widow of Major-Gen. J. M. Hadden, R. Art., eldest dau. of the late D. F. Hillersden, esq. April 15. In Regent-st. Elizabeth, wife of J. H. Gledstanes, esq.

In Harley-street, aged 81, Ann dowager Lady Rodney, mother of Lord Roddey, and sister to the dowager Countess of GENT. MAG. VOL. XIII.

Kinnoull. She was the second daughter of the late Right Hon. Thomas Harley, son of Edward third Earl of Oxford, and alderman of the city of London, by Ann, dau. of Edward Bangham, esq. In April, 1781, her ladyship married the late Lord Rodney, by whom her ladyship had a family of fourteen children, five of whom survive her ladyship.

Mary, wife of James Toplis, esq., of New Bridge-st. and St. Paul's Churchyard.

April 17. At Islington, aged 61, Elizabeth, relict of Jams Whalley, esq. of Gloucester.

April 18. In Regent-st. Sarah, second and last surviving dau, of the late James Pearce, esq. of Lydbrook, Glouc.

April 19. At Tavistock-sq. aged 62, John Bowden, esq. of Ednaston Lodge, Derby.

April 21. In Great Russell-st. Bloomsbury, in her 93d year, Sophia, relict of Mr. Whitbread, of St. Alban's.

April 22. Aged 40, Anne, wife of John Warburton, M. D. of Clifford-st. Bond-street.

BEDFORD.-March 26. At Bedford, aged 24, Caroline Frances, youngest dau. of the late Capt. Danger, 11th foot.

Lately. At Bedford, aged 88, Thomas Kidman, esq.

BERKS.-April 5. At Hones-green, near Wokingham, aged 82, Sarah, relict of the Rev. G. K. Whalley, of Trin. Coll. Camb.

March 27. Martha, wife of the Rev. Dr. Williams, Vicar of Bucklebury.

BUCKS.-April 10. In her 77th year, Martha, wife of the Rev. John Haggitt, Curate of Denham.

CAMBRIDGE.-April 4. At Cambridge, aged 22, accidentally, in endeavouring to save a fellow-collegian from drowning, Temple Frere, esq. of Trinity College, eldest son of the Rev. Temple Frere, Rector of Roydon, in the county of Norfolk, and Prebendary of Westminster, and nephew to the late Dr. Frere, Master of Downing College. The deceased was educated at Eton, and was an excellent swimmer. Most probably death ensued almost instantaneously from apoplexy, caused by the sudden immersion in the water. By a singular and melancholy coincidence, it is little more than a year since a younger brother of the deceased lost his life in an attempt to save that of a fellow-scholar when the school and vi. carage of Warfield, Berkshire, was destroyed by fire.

Feb. 28. At Cambridge, aged 93, Mr. Samuel Francis, an Alderman of the old Corporation. He served the office of

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Mayor four times, viz. 1788, 1790, 1792, and 1794.

CHESHIRE.-March 21. At Parkgate, Anne, relict of the Rev. Oswald Head, Vicar of Chollerton, Northumberland.

CORNWALL.-April 4. At Falmouth, aged 20, Henry, third son of the late James Mill, esq. author of the History of British India.

At Penzance, aged 77, A. Scobell, esq. CUMBERLAND.-March 14. Aged 13 months, Emily, youngest dau. of the Rev. C. E. Dukinfield, Vicar of Edenhall and Longwathby.

DEVON.-March 8. At Plymouth, aged 74, Benjamin Couch, esq. late timber and store receiver in her Majesty's dock-yard, Devonport.

March 12. In a fire at Elliott's Royal Hotel, Devonport, aged 74, Major John Doidge Horndon, late of the Cornwall militia. He was a brother of the late Col. Horndon of St. Dominick, near Callington, and of the Rev. D. Horndon, of Bicton, Devon. He accompanied the 4th Foot in the Duke of York's expedition to Holland, and was severely wounded.

March 14. At his grandfather's, the rectory, Bradninch, aged 18, JohnCharleton-Tanner, eldest son of the late J. C. Yeatman, esq. of Garstons, Frome.

March 20. At Exmouth, in his 75th year, Colonel Pell, late of Tiverton, a magistrate for the county, and a brother of the late Serjeant Pell.

March 21. At Torquay, aged 40, Martha, wife of the Rev. Henry Venn, of Holloway, sister to Joseph Sykes, esq. of Kirkella.

March 25. At Primley Hill, Elizabeth, wife of Thomas D. Belfield, esq. of Parson's Green, Middlesex.

March 26. At Torquay, Augusta, fifth and youngest dau. of the late Dr. Winterbottom, of Newbury, Berks.

March 29. At Exmouth, aged 70, Colonel Adolphus Hinuber.

At Stoke, aged 26, Eliza Frances, eldest dau. of the late Major-Gen. Geo. Mackie, C.B. Governor of St. Lucia.

April 9. At Torquay, aged 15, Eliza Jane Devereux, eldest child of Sir W. S. R. Cockburn, Bart.

April 10. At Stonehouse, aged 73, George Mottley, esq. late agent of the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar.

DORSET.-March 6. At Charmouth, Sophia, eldest dau. of the late Major Ballmer, of Lymington.

March 26. At Lytchett House, aged 92, Mrs. Elizabeth Trenchard, sister of the late Wm. Trenchard, esq. and last survivor of the ancient family of Trenchard, of Wolveton House, near Dorchester.

Lately. Mary Anne, wife of the Rev. James Hargraves, of Morcomblake, near Charmouth.

ESSEX.-March 19. At Layer Marney rectory, aged 78, Susannah, relict of Colonel Kelso, of Dankeith, Ayrshire.

March 20. At Ardleigh, Elizabeth, relict of Major-Gen. Borthwick, R. Art. eldest dau. of the late Rev. T. Warbur ton, Archdeacon of Norfolk.

March 22. Suddenly, whilst attending divine service in Chelmsford church, aged 62, Mary, widow of Mr. Meggy,

sen.

March 29. At Newton-hall, near Great Dunmow, at an advanced age, Mary, relict of Major-Gen. Sir Bridges T. Henniker, Bart. She was the eldest dau. of Wm. Press, esq. was married in 1791, and left a widow in 1816, having had issue the late and present Baronets, and one daughter, Mrs. Wythe.

At Pulham Hall, Essex, at an advanced age, the relict of Sir Freeman Barton, who was knighted by King George III.

April 1. At Albyns, aged 61, John Rutherforth Abdy, esq.

April 11. Elizabeth, relict of Joseph Knight, esq. of Saffron Walden, and formerly of Fulham.

April 19. At Southend, Samuel Shaw, esq. formerly of Lloyd's, and Brunswicksquare.

At Plaistow, aged 43, G. Turner, esq. GLOUCESTER.-March 14. Aged 68, Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Bliss, esq. banker, of Bristol.

March 15. At Bristol, in his 70th year, Edw. Stephens, esq.

March 18. By falling through a trap in the stage of the Bristol theatre, during the rehearsal of an opera of his own composition, entitled " Lundy," Mr. Cornelius Bryan, the Organist of St. Mary Redcliff, and also of the Mayor's Chapel. He stood in the first rank of the Musical Professors of Bristol, and was a man of mild and unassuming manners.

March 21. At Cheltenham, aged 27, Mr. Robert Harvey Place, of Lynwood, Upper Canada, fourth son of the late Rev. John Conyers Place, of Marnbull, Dorset.

At Prestbury, aged 51, Mrs. Mary Bradbury, mother of the Rev. Leonard Bradbury, Perp. Curate of Tong, Salop.

Aged 89, John Baker, esq. of Iron Acton, formerly of Bristol, one of the Society of Friends.

March 22. At Clifton, aged 93, Martha, relict of Thomas Hopkins, esq. of Tynrheal, near Neath.

March 27. At Clifton, aged 41, Elizabeth Anne, widow of Major R. H. Orde, R.A.

March 31. At Bristol, aged 48, Myles Ariel, esq.

At Bristol, aged 64, John Bush, esq. Lately. At Cheltenham, aged 74, Elizabeth, relict of Richard Clement, esq. April 1. Mary, widow of Capt. William Reynolds, R.N.

At Clifton, aged 78, Rachel, relict of Richard Robinson, esq.

At Clifton, in her 72nd year, Dinah, wife of William S. Jacques, esq.

April 4. At the rectory, Burton-onthe-Hill, in her 65th year, the wife of the Rev. Dr. S. W. Warneford, dau. of Edward Loveden Loveden, esq. of Buscot Park, Berks. By the meek endurance of protracted illness, and the exemplary discharge of the duties of piety and benevolence, she practically applied the precepts of her faith, and by the evidence of an union of forty-four years' duration, she proved that between herself and the pious and philanthropic Dr. Warneford there was a community of principles, feelings, and affections.

April 6. At Berkeley, at an advanced age, the mother of W. J. Ellis, esq. Coroner for the county.

April 7. Aged 75, Abraham Bagnell, esq. M.D. the oldest Physician in Bristol, -a man of considerable literary attain

ments.

April 12. At Cheltenham, aged 82, James Clutterbuck, esq. a deputy lieutenant, and one of the oldest magistrates for Gloucestershire.

HANTS.-March 25. Anne, widow of N. A. Halliday, esq. youngest daughter of the Rev. Henry White, formerly Rector of Tryfield.

March 28. Aged 88, at Fareham, Hants, the widow of Adm. Prescott.

March 29. At Winchester School, Hugh R. F. Hoare, only son of Capt. Richard Hoare, R. N. and grandson of Sir H. Hugh Hoare, Bart.

April 2. At Portsea, aged 72, David Spicer, esq. a magistrate and alderman of Portsmouth.

April 6. At Ridgway, near Southampton, aged 48, Mary, wife of the Rev. John Fowler, Rector of Rampton, Camb. April 8. At Portsea, Mary Jane, wife of Capt. W. S. Griffiths, of Welbeck-st. April 9. At Portsmouth, aged 20, Colin Campbell, eldest son of the late Capt. R. Heslop, 60th Rifles, and grandson of Jacob Owen, esq. of Dublin.

April 10. At Osborne House, near Ryde, aged 26, Fitzroy Blachford, esq. nephew of the Duke of Grafton; being the son and heir of the late Barrington Pope Blachford, esq. who died in 1816, by Lady Isabella FitzRoy. matriculated a Commoner of Brasenose

He was

College, Oxford, in 1832; proceeded B.A. 1836; and M. A. 1839.

April 13. At Fairy Hill, near St. Helen's, Susan, widow of the Rev. Wm. Glynn, sister to Sir William Oglander, Bart. of Nunwell House.

April 15. At Ryde, aged 33, the Hon. Caroline, wife of Henry Every, esq. (son of Sir Henry Every, Bart.) and second daughter of Viscount Ashbrook. She was married in 1829, and was Mr. Every's second wife.

HERTS.-March 31. At Boxmoor, aged 29, Charlotte, wife of the Rev. F. W. Gotch, B.A.

April 11. At Bushey Heath, in his 83rd year, Charles Lawrance, esq. formerly of Oxford.

KENT.-March 19. At Sevenoaks, aged 85, Martha, relict of J. Curteis, esq. of Tenterden, and fourth dau. of the late Rev. T. Curteis, D.D. Prebendary of Canterbury, and Rector and Vicar of Sevenoaks.

March 25. At Charlton, Sarah, relict of Charles Whalley, esq.

March 26. At Canterbury, aged 85, Thomas Foord, esq.

Lately. Baker, esq. April 1. At Forest-hill, Sydenham, the relict of John Williams, esq. of Jermyn-st.

At Folkstone, aged 90, T.

April 12. At Margate, aged 42, William Frith, esq.

April 15. Aged 86, Mrs. Radcliffe, widow of the Rev. Dr. Radcliffe, Archdeacon of Canterbury.

April 16. At Tunbridge Wells, aged

83, Mrs. Anna Catharina Poole. LANCASHIRE.-March 5. Aged 20, Anna Parker, wife of T. J. Parker, esq. son of Colonel Parker, of Lancaster, drowned, with Eliza Kirkby, daughter of Mr. B. Kirkby, shoemaker, of Ulverston, on Ulverston Sands.

Lately. At Liverpool, La Petite Ducrow, an interesting little girl, niece to Mr. Ducrow. She died from injuries received in the latter end of January, while sitting near a fire in a room adjoining the Amphitheatre, where, fatigued after her exertions, she fell asleep, and a spark or cinder caught her clothes.

April 4. At Chaddock Hall, aged 86, Elizabeth, relict of the Rev. D. Birkett, Vicar of Leigh, Lanc.

April 14. At Eton House, near Liverpool, aged 80, Mary, the widow of Dr. Crompton. April 21. At Liverpool, aged 78, John Stewart, esq.

LEICESTER.-March 14. Aged 57, Anne, wife of the Rev. Robert Marriott, Rector of Cotesbach.