secondly, July 8, 1801, Elizabeth eldest daughter and coheiress of William Henry Finlay, of Gynnets, co. Meath, esq. and by that lady, who survives him, he had issue one son and two daughters-5. the Hon. and Rev. William Stear Blackwood, who married in 1832 Eliza, daughter of the late Robert Hamilton, of Clonsilla, co. Dublin, esq. but we believe has no issue; 6. the Hon. Marianne, married in 1831 to the Ven. WalterBishop Mant, M. A. Archdeacon of Connor, eldest son of the Lord Bishop of Down and Connor; and 7. the Hon. Sophia-Louisa, married first in 1832 to the late Hans Hamilton, esq. who died in 1833, and secondly in 1837 to Alexander Grant, esq. of the Hon. East India Company's military service in Madras.

LORD GEORGE BERESFORD. Oct. At the palace, Armagh, aged 57, the Right Hon. Lord George Thomas Beresford, a Privy Councillor, Custos Rotulorum of the county of Waterford, a Lieut.-General in the army, Colonel of the 3rd Dragoons and of the Waterford Militia, and G. C. H.; brother to the Lord Archbishop of Armagh, and uncle to the Marquess of Waterford.

He was born on the 12th Feb. 1781, the fourth son of George the first Marquess of Waterford, by Elizabeth only daughter and heiress of Henry Monck, esq. of Charleville, by Lady Isabella Bentinck, second daughter of Henry first Duke of Portland. His Lordship was appointed a Cornet in the 13th light dragoons in April 1794; a Lieutenant in the 111th in July following, and a Captain in the 124th in September of the same year. He exchanged from the last regiment to the 88th in July 1796. As Captain he served two years and eight months in the East Indies. Lord George obtained the Majority of the 6th dragoon guards the 3rd Dec. 1800; the Lieut.-Colonelcy of Dillon's regiment the 24th Sept. 1803: he was removed to the 71st regiment in Aug. 1804, and to the 2d dragoon guards the 30th July 1807. He attained the brevet of Colonel Jan. 1, 1812; that of Major General June 4, 1814; and that of Lieut.-General, July 22, 1830.

Lord George Beresford was first returned to Parliament for the county of Londonderry at the general election of 1802; he was rechosen for the same in 1806 and 1807, but defeated by the Hon. William Ponsonby in 1812, when he was returned for Coleraine. In 1818, and again in 1820, he was elected for the county of Waterford; was defeated by GENT. MAG. VOL. XIII.

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After Mr. Stuart's retirement, he again sat in the single-session Parliament of 1830; since which time the agitation of O'Connell has been sufficient to surmount entirely the formerly preponderating influence of the house of Beresford.

Lord George was appointed Comptroller of the Household of the Prince Regent August 12, 1813, and he continued to hold that office, in which he was highly respected, during the reign of George the Fourth.

His Lordship married Nov. 22, 1808, Miss Harriet Schutz, by whom he had issue four daughters, 1. Elizabeth-Harriet Georgiana; 2. Harriet-Susan-Isabella; 3. Caroline-Susan- Catharine; and 4. Rose-Georgiana, who is deceased.

His body was interred at the family burial-place at Clonegam, co. Waterford, on the 4th of November. The Marquess, Lord William, and Lord John Beresford; the Rev. Mr. Jones, the lord primate's domestic chaplain; Dean Lee; Robert Uniacke, John Stephens, Joseph Malcomson, esqrs. &c. were present.

LT. GEN. THE HON. SIR H. KING.

Nov. 25. Near Winkfield, Berkshire, the Hon. Sir Henry King, K. C.B. a Lieut.-General in the army, and Colonel of the 1st West India regiment; younger brother to the late Earl of Kingston (whose death is also recorded in our present number) and to General the Viscount Lorton.

He was appointed Ensign in the 47th foot on the 7th of Feb. 1794, and Lieutenant in the same corps the 2d Sept. 1795. He joined the regiment at New Providence, and served there till Oct. 1796, and afterwards at St. Domingo to Oct. 1798. In 1799 he was employed in the Helder expedition, and severely wounded in the action of the 19th Sept. He was appointed Captain in the 56th foot the 27th of Feb. 1796; from thence removed to the 1st guards the 21st of Dec. 1799, and to the 43rd foot in 1802. The 24th Aug. 1804 he succeeded to a Majority in the 5th foot, in which he was appointed Lieut.. Colonel the 16th of Jan. 1809. He was wrecked and made prisoner of war on his way to Hanover in 1805. He subsequently served under Brig. Gen. Crawfurd in South America, and commanded in the attack on Buenos Ayres. His next service was in Portugal and Spain; he was present at the battles

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of Busaco and Salamanca, for which he had the honour to wear a medal and one clasp. The 4th of June 1814 he obtained the rank of Colonel in the army. He was appointed Colonel of the 1st West India regiment, July 19, 1834; and attained the rank of Major-General at the Coronation brevet last year.

General King was twice married; first, in Jan. 1802 to Mary, eldest daughter of the late Hon. and Very Rev. John Hewitt, Dean of Cloyne, and cousin to Viscount Lifford. By this lady, who died in 1821, he had issue four daughters and three sons: 1. Caroline, married in 1827 to John Odell, esq.; 2. Louisa; 3. Henry; 4. Capt. John Wingfield King, 5th foot, who married in 1831 Alicia, only daughter of Chidley Coote, esq. and has issue; 5. Capt. Edward Roberts King, 36th foot; 6. Sidney-Jane, married in 1835 to Henry Coe Coape, esq.; and, 7. Alicia.

Having lost his first wife in 1821, Sir Henry married secondly, in 1832, Elizabeth, widow of J. Richardson, esq. and youngest daughter of the Rev. Edward Philipps.

ADM. SIR PETER HALKETT, Bart. Oct. 7. At Pitferran, co. Fife, aged 74, Sir Peter Halkett, a Baronet of Nova Scotia (1697), Admiral of the Blue.

Sir Peter was the second son of Sir John Halkett, the fourth Baronet, by his second wife Mary, daughter of the Hon. John Hamilton, grand-uncle of the present Earl of Haddington. At the commencement of the war with France in 1793, we find him serving as Lieutenant of the Syren, in which frigate the Duke of York proceeded to Holland for the purpose of taking the command of the British troops sent thither to co-operate with the Dutch against the republican armies ; and his Royal Highness was so much pleased with the zeal and activity displayed by Mr. Halkett in assisting the garrison of Williamstadt, at that time besieged by the French, that he soon after obtained for him the rank of Commander; and on his return from the Continent, that of Post-Captain. The Prince of Orange also, as a mark of the high sense he entertained of the eminent services performed by him in the gun-boats, ordered him to be presented with a medal, with a suitable inscription, value 500 guilders.

Capt. Halkett's post commission bore date Aug. 13, 1794; he was soon after appointed to the Circe, of 28 guns, stationed in the North Sea; where nothing material occurred until the alarming mu

tiny in Adm. Duncan's fleet (and at the Nore), in the spring of 1797, when the Circe happily escaped the contagion, and Capt. Halkett received the thanks of the Admiralty, and the freedom of the town of Hull, for the conduct of his ship during that alarming period.

Early in Oct. 1797, the Circe formed part of the squadron left off the Texel under Sir Henry Trollope, to watch the Dutch fleet; and at the battle of Camperdown, on the 11th of that month, she was one of Adm. Duncan's repeaters.

Capt. Halkett's next appointment was to the Apollo, a fine frigate, in which he had the misfortune to be wrecked, Jan. 7, 1799, on the Haak Sands, while in chase of a Dutch ship. The crew were saved by a Prussian vessel that went down to their assistance. On the 15th Capt. Halkett was tried by a Court Martial for the loss of the Apollo; and, nothing appearing to criminate him in the least, a verdict of acquittal was pronounced, but the pilot was dismissed from the King's service.

In the course of the same year, he obtained the command of a new frigate of the same name, in which he was sent as convoy to the outward-bound West India fleet. On his passage he captured the Aquila, of 4 guns, pierced for 22, with a valuable cargo from Buenos Ayres, bound to Corunna. During his stay on the Jamaica station, he also took the following vessels Cantabrian, Spanish corvette, of 18 guns and 100 men, with a cargo, off the Havannah; Resolution (formerly a British cutter), 18 guns, and 149 men; and Vigilante, French privateer, of 14 guns, in the Gulf of Mexico.

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The Apollo arrived at Portsmouth, March 12, 1802. Capt. Halkett subsequently commanded the Ganges, of 74 guns; and on the 12th Aug. 1812 was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral. In 1815 his flag was flying on board the Gladiator, in Portsmouth harbour. He attained the rank of Vice- Admiral in 1821, and that of Admiral in 1837.

On the death of his brother Sir Charles Halkett, Jan. 26, 1837, he succeeded to the title of Baronet. At that period he was holding the command of the North American station.

He married Oct. 14, 1802, Elizabeth, daughter of William Tod, of London, esq. Mrs. Halkett died at Clifton in 1814. Their son, now Sir John Halkett, Bart. is married, and has issue.

MAJOR-GEN. SIR F. H. DOYLE, BART.

Nov. 6. In Wimpole-street, in his 57th year, Sir Francis Hastings Doyle,

Bart. a Major-General in the army, Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower of London, and Chairman of the Board of Excise.

Sir Francis was born Jan. 3, 1783, the eldest son of Major-Gen. Welbore Ellis Doyle, Colonel of the 53d foot, the younger brother of the late Gen. Sir John Doyle, Bart. G. C.B. who died in 1834. He was appointed Captain in the 106th foot, Nov. 1, 1794, removed to the 2d garrison battalion Feb. 1805; became Major by brevet Jan. 1805, Lieut.-Col. Jan. 1, 1812, and Major-General at the last Coronation brevet. He was created a Baronet by patent dated 18th Feb. 1828.

He married June 2, 1804, Diana-Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir William Mordaunt Milner, of Nun Appleton, co. York, Bart.; and by that lady, who died Jan. 14, 1828, he had issue, one son and four daughters. The former, now Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle, Bart. was born in 1810. The daughters are, 1. Diana - Emma Flora; 2. FrancesMary; 3. Emily-Josephine, married in 1834 to William Leveson Gower, esq. of Titsey Place, Surrey; and 4. Selina.

MAJOR-GEN. SIR JOSEPH MACLEAN. Sept. 19. At the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, Major-General Sir Joseph Maclean, K. C.H. and C.B. Directorgeneral of the Field train of the Artillery department, and Inspector-general of the Brass-foundry establishment in the Ar

senal.

He was the eldest son of Allan Maclean, Esq. for many years Secretary to the Commissioners of Accounts and to the Board of Customs in Ireland, by his first wife Miss Attwood (see the History of the Clan Maclean, 8vo, 1838, p. 289).

He entered the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich in 1779, and obtained his commission of Second Lieutenant in the Royal regiment of artillery in the year 1781. He served alternately at home and abroad until 1790, when he obtained the rank of First Lieut. On the appointment of the first two troops of horse artillery, he was promoted to the rank of First Lieutenant to the senior troop; and, by the special request of the Prince of Wales, was appointed to the command of a detachment of light artillery at Brighton. Ever after this period he had the honour to enjoy marked attention from his Royal Highness. In 1794 he was promoted to the rank of Captain, and subsequently served on the Staff of the eastern district as Aide-decamp to the late Gen. Marquess Townshend. In the expedition to the Helder he served as Aide-de-camp to Gen, Far

rington, commanding the artillery; and he subsequently served in that capacity with the army under the command of his Royal Highness the Duke of York, until his Royal Highness's return to England, when the ship in which he was in passage was wrecked, and very nearly lost, in the Yarmouth Roads.

In 1800 he was elected member of the Irish Parliament, and was appointed at the same time Brigade-Major to the artillery serving in Ireland, in order that the Government might avail itself of his experience in the measure of incorporating the Irish with the British artillery on the Union of the Kingdoms. He continued in Ireland, having previously obtained the respective promotions of Major and Lieut.-Colonel, until the year 1812, when he was further promoted to the rank of Assistant Adjutant-general, which he held until 1821; when, on being appointed Chief Fire-master to the Royal Laboratory, he removed to Woolwich. In 1814 he obtained the rank of Colonel. In 1825 he became Major-General, and in 1832 was appointed to the command of the Royal Artillery in Ireland. While in Ireland he twice officiated as Commander of the army there, during the temporary absence of the Commander-inchief, to whom he was next in seniority. He removed from Ireland in May 1834, on being nominated to the command of the royal artillery at the head quarters of the corps: and on the melancholy death of the late Lt.-Gen. Millar he succeeded to the lucrative and scientific post of Director-general of the field train department of the royal artillery, and Inspector-general of the brassfoundry establishment.

When General Maclean assumed the command of the artillery at Woolwich, his Majesty William IV. was graciously pleased to confer upon him the honour of knighthood, with the insignia of a Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic Order.

Sir Joseph Maclean married, in 1797, Charlotte, youngest daughter of Lieut.Gen. Sir William Congreve, Bart. and sister to the late Sir William Congreve, the celebrated inventor of the rocket system; by whom he had issue fourteen children, of whom two sons and four daughters survive, 1. Allan, 2. WilliamCongreve, 3. Margaret, 4. Julia, 5. Anne, and 6. Caroline.

The funeral of Sir Joseph Maclean took place at Charlton on the 26th Sept. The hearse was followed by three mourning coaches, containing the Commandant of the Garrison, General Lord Bloomfield, G.C.B., G.C.H.; Major-General

Peter Fyers, C. B., R. A.; Sir Alexander Dickson, K. C.B., K.C.H.; Deputy Adjutant-general Sir John May, K. C.B., K.C.H.; Colonel Cleaveland, C.B., Royal Horse brigade; Col. Jones, Deputy Assistant Adjutant-general; Col. Bastard, and others, fellow companions in the "battle field." The body was deposited in a family vault, which the general had prepared many years ago.

MAJOR-GEN. SIR W. BLACKburne. Oct. 16. At his house in Portland place, aged 75, Major-General Sir William Blackburne, of the East India Company's Madras establishment.

Sir W. Blackburne was appointed a cadet in 1782; he arrived at Madras in June 1783, and joined the 24th battalion of sepoys serving in the southern army, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Fullerton. On the reduction of the army which took place in 1786, he was removed to the 1st battalion of sepoys in garrison of Tanjore, where he applied himself to the study of the Mahratta language, and in consequence was appointed Mahratta interpreter by Sir A. Campbell.

In 1793 he visited England on account of ill health; but after his return he was in 1798 re-appointed to his office of interpreter, and was commissioned to settle a serious dispute between the Rajah of Tanjore and a large body of the native officers, which he effected to the entire satisfaction of the government.

In 1801 he was appointed Resident at Tanjore, and gave the first intimation of the impending insurrection of the Murdoos; on this occasion he took the field unauthorized, with the Rajah's troops, his own escort, and the irregulars raised by the collector; and repelled the invasions of Tanjore by the Poligars, and recovered the province of Ramnad. His services were highly approved by the authorities at Madras and Calcutta, and by the Court of Directors.

In 1804, having discovered a system of fraud and embezzlement in the revenue department, he charged the whole of the collector's servants, and every Mirasdar in the province, with being concerned in it; proved his charges, and received the thanks of government. The amount embezzled was three lacs of pagodas, of which one lac and twenty thousand were actually recovered.

In 1808-9, he was entrusted by government with a commission to endeavour to reconcile the misunderstandings which then prevailed in Travancore, but he was prevented from acting, by the breaking out of the insurrection while he was upon his journey to that province. On

the termination of the insurrection, he was again ordered to Travancore, to receive charge of the Residency from Col. Macauley; but, that officer having withdrawn his resignation, he was employed as a Commissioner to investigate charges of abuses in the factory at Aujengo. He had the entire management of the district of Poodoocottah for a period of twelve years, during the minority of the Rajah Tondiman Behauder, and by the manner in which he executed this trust, he secured the affectionate gratitude of the young chief. But the value of Col. Blackburne's services is not to be estimated merely by the particular duties on which he was employed, but by the whole tenor of his public life. During the long course of twenty-two years, that he was Resident at Tanjore, his judicious, tem. perate, and upright conduct, secured the confidence of the different branches of the royal family, and tended mainly to attach the great body of the Rajah's followers, and of the people, to our government, and to impress them with respect for the national character.

The foregoing particulars have been principally quoted from the Minutes of Council of Madras, signed by Sir Thomas Munro, on Sir William Blackburne's return to England in 1823; but a full memoir of his services, with documents, will be found in the East India Military Calendar, vol. iii. (4to, 1826) pp. 42-66.

His will, dated on the 18th June last, has been proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, by his brother, Blackburne, esq. and the amount of property has been sworn under 45,000. the principal part of which has been bequeathed to his widow. Amongst the different bequests, however, is one of 10007. which is in the following words:"I bequeath to Lord Glenelg, late secretary of the colonies, 1,000l. as a mark of my high respect for his public conduct in the East India colonial department."

REAR-ADM. SIR SAMUEL WARREN. Oct. 15. At Southampton, aged 70, Sir Samuel Warren, Rear-Admiral of the White, Knt., C.B. and K.C.H.

This officer was born at Sandwich, Jan. 9, 1769. He entered the naval service in Jan. 1782; and served as a Midshipman on board the Sampson 64, Busy cutter, Druid frigate, Colossus 74, London 98, and Royal Sovereign of 100 guns. The former ship was commanded by the late Capt. John Harvey, and formed part of the fleet under Lord Howe at the relief of Gibraltar, and in the subsequent action with the combined forces off Cape Spartel.

Mr. Warren obtained the rank of Lieutenant, Nov. 3, 1790; and served as such successively in the Argo of 44 guns, Ramillies 74, and Royal George, a first rate. The Ramillies bore a part in the battles of May 29 and June 1, 1794. The Royal George bore the flag of Lord Bridport in the action off l'Orient June 23, 1795.

Lieut. Warren was promoted to the rank of Commander in March 1797; and from that period to July 1800, he commanded the Scourge sloop of war at the Leeward Islands, on which station he captured several large privateers and merchantmen. Previously to his return home he received the thanks of the Council and Assembly of Tobago, for the great attention he had paid to their interests, whilst employed in the protection of the trade of that island. The Scourge arrived in England Aug. 22, 1800.

Capt. Warren's next appointment was to the Vesuvius bomb, fitting at Portsmouth. His post commission bore date

April 29, 1802.

In the summer of 1805 he was selected by Rear-Admiral Domett to serve as his Flag-Captain in the Channel fleet; but ill health preventing that officer from going to sea at that period, the Glory of 98 guns, which had been fitted for his reception, was ordered to receive the flag of Rear-Admiral Stirling, under whom Captain Warren served in the action between Sir Robert Calder and M. Villeneuve, on 22d July in the same year. In the ensuing year, Capt. Warren accompanied Rear-Adm. Stirling to the Rio de la Plata, as a passenger, on board the Sampson 64; and on his arrival off Maldonado, he assumed the command of that officer's flag-ship, the Diadem, of similar force. His services during the siege of Monte Video, on which occasion the Diadem was frequently left with only 30 men on board, were duly acknowledged in the naval and military despatches announcing the capture of that fortress.

Some time after his return from South America, Capt. Warren was appointed to the Bellerophon 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Adm. Lord Gardner, in the North Sea. He was very actively employed on the Baltic station under the orders of Sir James Saumarez.

His next appointment was about Sept. 1810, to the President frigate, in which he assisted at the reduction of Java and its dependencies by the military and naval forces under Sir Samuel Auchmuty and Rear-Admiral Stopford. Whilst on that service he was sent to the fort of Cheribon with a flag of truce, to demand the surrender of that place; and, after hoist

ing the English colours, succeeded in securing the persons of Gen. Jamelle, Commander-in-chief of the enemy's troops, M. Knotze, Aide-de-camp to the Governor of Java, and M. Rigaud, an officer of infantry, who had nearly effected their escape. He afterwards commanded in succession the Blenheim and Bulwark, third rates, and Seringapatam of 46 guns. The latter ship conveyed Sir Benj. Bloomfield as Ambassador to Stockholm in the summer of 1823; and was paid off at Portsmouth, Feb. 5, 1824. Previously to their separation, her officers gave Capt. Warren a sumptuous farewell dinner, and presented him with a gold snuff box, value 30 guineas, as a token of their attachment and respect. In 1831 he was Commodore in the Thames, and became a Rear-Admiral in 1837. He was nominated a Companion of the Bath in 1815, and received the honour of knighthood Aug. 5, 1835.

Sir Samuel Warren married, in Dec. 1800, a daughter of Mr. Barton, Clerk of the Cheque at Chatham, and by that lady he had seven children.

SIR ANDREW HALLIDAY, M.D. Sept. 7. At Dumfries, Sir Andrew Halliday, K.H., M.D., F.R. S. Edinb. and Gottingen.

He had not long survived the wasting climate of the West Indies, where he was inspector of hospitals. He retired to the air of his native country; but it was only to droop and die. His life from his youth up was one of action. He was educated for the church; but afterwards changed that profession for physic. After travelling through Russia and Tartary, he settled at Halesworth, near Birmingham, where he for some time pursued his practice. He afterwards served on the staff of the army, both in Portugal and Spain; was at the assault of Bergen-op-Zoom, and at the battle of Waterloo; and accompanied William IV. when Duke of Clarence, in his journeys abroad in quest of health, in his professional capacity. He was a good scholar as well as a skilful physician, and his varied and almost general intelligence obtained him high esteem with princes abroad as well as at home. Like his dalesman, Telford the engineer, whom he knew and loved, he was of humble parentage, though of good and ancient blood, for he came from that brave" Thom Halliday, my sister's son so dear," as he was called by the renowned Sir William Wallace. He knew most of the episcopal history of Scotland, and was familiar with his country's antiquities; he knew as much of the poetry and traditions of the land as if they had