which it appears that the committee obtained plans and estimates for the chapel, the lodge, and the fences, which being adopted, were laid before the Archbishop, the Archdeacon, and the Dean of York, who signified their approbation of the whole. The committee afterwards obtained, by public advertisement, tenders for the greater part of the works, which have been let satisfactorily; the costs of the chapel, vaults, iron railing, and wallfencing being about 30007. The committee have offered two premiums to landscape gardeners for the best designs for ornamenting the grounds; and it is expected that the whole of the buildings will be completed and ready for use by the 1st of next August.

Mr. Faulkner's manufactory at Manchester has been burnt, and property in value exceeding 10,000l. destroyed. It is supposed to be the work of an incendiary.

Loughton-hall, Essex, the seat of Mr. William Whittaker Maitland, the High Sheriff for the county, was, with the exception of a portion of the eastern wing, totally destroyed by an accidental fire, and property to the amount of between 20,0001. and 30,000l. consumed. Amongst the property burnt were upwards of 10.000 volumes of valuable books, comprising a quantity of scarce works, many of them unique.

Nov. 22. A very numerous meeting of the clergy and gentry of the diocese was held in the Council Chamber, Salisbury, for the purpose of forming a Diocesan Association, in aid of the Incorporated Society for Promoting the Enlargement, &c. of Churches and Chapels. The chair was filled by the Earl of Shaftesbury. Before the meeting broke up, the subscriptions amounted to upwards of 24007. At different times, within a few years, there have been thirty-eight grants to churches in this diocese, from the parent society, amounting together to 69007. which sum has been the means of providing 8973 additional sittings.

Dec. 20. A small chapel was consecrated near High Beech Green, Essex, by the Bishop of London, called St. Paul's, Waltham. The venerable Archdeacon Hamilton and many of the neighbouring gentry attended the ceremonies.

The

edifice has been built by the private subscriptions of Capt. Sotheby, R.N., the lord of the manor, and his friends, there being no place of worship nearer than Loughton or Walham Abbey.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.

A preliminary meeting of booksellers

took place Dec. 16, at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street, for the purpose of entering into resolutions, and taking into consideration, the means of establishing an institution for the support and assistance of decayed Booksellers, their widows, and assistants. The meeting was numerously and respectably attended. Cosmo Orme, esq. of the firm of Longman and Co. was in the chair. Several resolutions for the purpose of carrying the objects of the meeting into effect were unanimously agreed to, and a committee appointed to draw up rules and regulations. It was announced that the Chairman had sent a denation of one hundred guineas. Letters were also read from Mr. Murray, Messrs. Longman and Co., and other eminent booksellers, approving of the objects the meeting had in view.

Nov. 29. The metropolis, in common with many other parts of the kingdom, experienced the effects of a tremendous storm, which was productive of frightful damage; stacks of chimneys were blown down in all directions-in several instances the roofs of houses were wholly carried off or fell in. The whole stack of chimneys on the west side of Brownlow House, Belgrave-square, was carried by a sudden tremendous gale of wind directly through the roof of the mansion, precipitating the ponderous materials into the lower rooms. In the suburbs generally a great number of modern houses were unroofed, or the walls forced in by the hurricane. The utmost confusion prevailed among the shipping in the River, many of which went adrift, and it was reckoned that 200 boats above and below bridge were either sunk or broken. In the Parks and Kensington Gardens nearly 200 trees were uprooted.

The

number of persons taken to the Metropolitan Hospitals, who suffered from accidents during the gale, were 23-Saint Bartholomew 12, London 3, Guy's 1, Westminster 3, North London I, and Middlesex 3. The accounts from all parts of the country of the disasters arising from the hurricane were of the most dis. tressing character. At Brighton he chain pier sustained so much damage, that several months must elapse before it can be completed again. At Plymouth the new church was partly unroofed, as well as the Theatre and the Royal Hotel. Indeed, there is scarcely a town or village in the country which has not suffered more or less.

Dec. 14. The opening of the London and Greenwich Railway was celebrated, attended by the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Aldermen, several Foreign Ministers, and many gentlemen connected with the sci

Oct. 22. In Portland-place, the wife of Harry Hoyle Oddie, esq. a son.

Nov. 6. The wife of the Rev. Archd. of Cork, a son.-10. At Alwalton rectory, Huntingdonshire, the wife of the Rev. John Hopkinson, a son.At Ilfracombe, the wife of the Rev. R. Gould, a son.-13. At the Parsonage, Daresbury, Cheshire, the wife of the Rev. C. Dodgson, a son. -18. The wife of the Rev. W. Waldegrave Park, of Ince Hall, Cheshire, a son.- 20. At Sion Hill, Bath, the wife of Capt. Geo. Gosling, R.N. a son.-21. At Buckland, Faringdon, the Countess of Carnarvon, a son.- -At Drove, the wife of Col. Geo. Wyndham, a dau.-23. At Shrewsbury, the wife of the Rev. Dr. Kennedy, a dau.-At Shelford, at the house of her father, Lieut.Gen. Sir Chas. Wale, K.C.B. the lady of Sherlock Willis, esq. a son.-24. In Eaton-place, the Countess of Denbigh, a dau.-25. At Loverton House, near Totnes, the wife of T. W. C. Whitbread, esq. of Loutham Park, Suffolk, a son.--In Arlington-street, the Countess of Brecknock, a dau.-26. The wife of the Rev. R. Stephens, of Culver House, Exeter, a dau. At Gittisham, the wife of the Rev. T. L. Marker, a dau.- The wife of the Rev. G. L. Benson, Vicar Choral of Salisbury, a dau. 27. The wife of the Rev. W. H. Bathurst, Rector of Barwick in Elmet, Yorkshire, a son. 29. The wife of Alexander Crombie, esq. of Thornton Castle, Kincardineshire, a son. At Heanton Satchville, Devon, the Right Hon. Lady Clinton, a dau.-30. In Bryanstone-sq, the wife of G.S. Harcourt, esq. of Ankerwycke House, Buckinghamshire, a son.

Dec. 1. In Bryanstone-square, the Lady

Emma Portman, a son.-2. At the vicarage, East Stoke, near Newark, the wife of the Rev. J. Hutchinson, a son.-3. In South Audleystreet, the Lady Louisa Finch, a dau.-At Plumstead hall, Norfolk, the wife of Henry Stracy, esq. a dau.-4. At Lower Wallop vicarage, Hants, the wife of the Rev. W. B. Tate, a son. At Paris, the lady of the Right Hon. R. Cutlar Fergusson, a son and heir.-At Yeovilton rectory, Somersetshire, the Hon. Mrs. Towry Law, a son.-In Melville-street, Edinburgh, the wife of Col. John Mayne, a son.

son.

-9. At Clifton, co. Gloucester, the wife of Robert Rankin, esq. Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, a son.-11. At the rectory, East Lavant, Sussex, the wife of the Rev. H. Legge, a -In Arlington-street, Mrs. Beresford, a son.-13. The Viscountess Deerhurst, a dau. -14. At Reading, the wife of John Richards, jun. esq. F.S.A. a dau.-15. At Raleigh House, Brixton, the wife of the Rev. C. Jollands, of Little Munden rectory, Herts, a son.

MARRIAGES.

Nov. 9. At Whitehaven, the Right Hon. Lord Thurlow, to Sarah, only dau. of P. Hodgson, esq.-15. At Cardiff, G. Allan, esq. of the Colonial Bank, Kingston, Jamaica, to Charlotte, dau. of the late Rev. W. F. Ireland, D.D. 19. At Hampton, Capt. Courtney Boyle, R.N. to Miss Wallace Ogle, dau. of W. W. Ogle, esq. of Causey Park, Northumberland.- -At St. James's, Chas. Towneley, esq. to Lady Caroline-Harriet Molyneux, dau. of the Earl of Sefton.-22. Capt. John Evans, to Mary Jane Baily, eldest dau. of the Rev. John Turner, Vicar of Hennock, Devon.

-At Bristol, Mr. Keene, of Penhow Castle, to Ellen Maria Ford, eldest dau. of the Rev. S. Williams. -23. At St. James's, Westminster, the Rev. C. Rawlins, Vicar of Thornton, York, to Eleanor, dau. of the late G. Kickards, esq. of Piccadilly.-24. The Rev. P. H. Lee, Rector of Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire, to Mary, dau. of R. Willis, esq. of Halnead, Lancashire.-J. Dawson, esq. of Limehouse, to Caroline, eldest dau. of the Rev. Dr. Rudge, Rector of Hawkchurch, Dorsetshire. At Baughurst, Hants, the Rev. R. Pole, second son of Sir Peter Fole, Bart. to Eliz. Anne, dau. of Ric. Elmhirst, esq. of Cleathorpe, Lincolnshire.-29. J. Howell Blood, esq. of Witham, Essex, to Harriett, eldest dau. of the Rev. J. Lewis, Rector of Ingatestone, Essex.

-26.

Dec. 1. At Bristol, N. W. Simons, esq. of Swansea, to Frances, fourth dau. of the late Rev. J. Collins, Rector of Oxwich and Loughor, Carmarthenshire.--7. At Dean, Lancashire, E. R. Gale Braddyll, esq. eldest son of Lieut.Col. Braddyll, of Conishead Priory, to Sophia, second dau. of W. Hutton, esq. of Hutton Park. -At Melcombe Regis, Thomas, second son of the Rev. M. Onslow, Rector of Bradford Peverell, Dorsetshire, to Lucy Ann Katharine, dau. of the late Rev. John Cutts Lockwood, Vicar of Croydon, Surrey.-8. At Clifton, Gloucestershire, James Wallis, esq. late Major 46th reg. to Mary Ann, eldest dau. of the late Thos. Breach, esq. of Hendon, Middlesex.-10. At St. George's, Hanover-sq. the Hon. Mr. Stanley, second son of the Earl of Derby, to Miss Campbell, dau. of Sir Henry Campbell.-13. At Shrivenham, Berks, the Rev. T. Mills, Rector of Stretton, Suffolk, to the Hon. Elizabeth Frances Barrington, sister of Viscount Barrington.-14. At Chelsea, G. Dod, esq. of Manor-terrace, to Hermione, fourth dau. of the late Major Cotton Worthington.-15. At St. George's, Hanover-square, John Clark, esq. Major 54th reg. to Charlotte Sophia, third dau. of the late Major-Gen. Sir John, and sister to the present Sir Hugh Dalrymple, Bart. of North Berwick.

CHARLES THE TENTH, EX-King of

FRANCE.

Nov. 4. At Goritz, in Illyria, in his 80th year, his Majesty Charles the Tenth, late King of France, and K. G.

Charles-Philippe de Bourbon was born Oct. 9. 1757, the fifth and youngest son* of the Dauphin Louis, son of King Louis the Fifteenth, by his second wife Maria Josepha of Poland, third daughter of Augustus the Third, King of Poland, and Elector of Saxony. The title of Comte d'Artois was given to him in infancy, and he retained it until the accession of his brother Louis XVIII. when he assumed that of Monsieur.

The Comte d'Artois was married on the 17th November, 1773, to the Princess Maria Theresa, daughter of Victor Amedeus III. King of Sardinia, and sister to the consort of Louis XVIII. at which period he was only in the 17th year of his age. By this Princess, who died at Gratz, in Hungary, the 2d June, 1805, he had two children-Louis Antoine, Duc d'Angoulême, born the 6th of August, 1775, who, on his father's succession to the Throne, became Dauphin of France, and who married Theresa Charlotte, his first cousin, the only daughter and only surviving child of Louis XVI. but by whom he has no issue; and Henry Charles, Duc de Berri, who married, in 1818, Maria Caroline, daughter of Francis I. late King of the Two Sicilies, by whom he had two children, viz. Maria Theresa Louisa (called Mademoiselle), born 28th September, 1819, and Henry Charles Dieudonné d'Artois, Duc de Bordeaux (a posthumous Prince), born the 29th September, 1820.

The

Duc de Berri was mortally wounded by an assassin in Paris, on the 14th of February, 1820, and died the following morning.

The Comte d'Artois was never favourably spoken of with reference to his domestic relations. On the contrary, he acquired a character for dissipation and extravagance, which rendered him highly unpopular, especially when contrasted with the conduct of Louis XVI. and of Monsieur; the private character of the former was not only untainted, but highly estimable; the latter, though somewhat luxuriously inclined, had conducted himself in a way which secured to him considerable public respect, whilst the ease

* The sons of the Dauphin were, 1. Duc de Bourgogne, 2. Duc d'Acquitaine, who both died young; 3. King Louis XVI.; 4. King Louis XVIII.; 5. Charles X.

and affability of his manners contributed to render him highly popular. He was enabled, in consequence, to brave the first storm of the Revolution, and it was only when its demagogues hurled their insane fury against the very name of Royalty, that he took refuge in flight. The Comte d'Artois found it necessary for his own personal safety to quit France at the onset of the Revolution. He visited the Court of his father-in-law, the King of Sardinia, at Turin, and subsequently other parts of Europe; but at length sought an asylum in England, where he resided for a considerable period. Becoming deeply involved in pecuniary embarrassments, and some of his creditors being very clamorous and urgent, it was found necessary to assign him, as it were, a refuge; and Holyrood-House, Edinburgh, being a privi leged place, where the stern ministers of the law could not enter for the purpose of enforcing pecuniary claims, it was fixed upon by the British Government as a residence for the Comte and some of his family, as he might be there enabled to live without molestation.

In this respect also the characters of the two surviving brothers were strongly contrasted-Louis XVIII. contrived to live at Hartwell, in Buckinghamshire, without being subject to any of the inconveniences just alluded to, and maintaining a character which was always considered highly respectable, whilst his personal conduct conciliated the esteem of all those who approached him, or in any way came in contact with him. The Comte d'Artois, on the other hand, was by no means liked; there was a hauteur in his manner which was not at all pleasing, or calculated to insure him respect or esteem; and his careless and improvident habits, especially situated as he then was, were very ill adapted to raise his character. His fixed sojourn at Holyrood-House was of necessity rather monotonous. Some arrangement having been effected with his creditors, he was subsequently enabled to live at Hartwell, with his brother Louis XVIII.; but here there was very little difference between one day and another, except what was afforded by an occasional journey to London, or to the other quarters, and those very rarely. They lived pretty much a retired life, nor could it be otherwise; and, indeed, for a considerable period, their prospect, with reference to restoration, seemed so shrouded in gloom, that they might have almost calculated upon passing the remainder of their lives in this country.

One of the incidents, however, that oc

curred whilst in England to the Comte d'Artois, deserves to be recorded, as it is said to have altered the frame of his mind, and to have brought on that sort of gloomy moroseness which marked some parts of his subsequent conduct. The Comte had a great many mistresses, but the one to whom he was most tenderly attached was Mme. de Polastron. This lady, in her connection with the Comte d'Artois, felt all that excess of sentiment natural to a woman of southern climes, and the Prince met these sentiments with equal intensity of feeling. Some time before her death, the Chaplain in ordinary of the Comte d'Artois died, and a substitute was sought for. M. de Latil, then only at Abbé, was preparing to embark for America, when the vacant appointment was offered to him. It was then but a poor provision, but the young Abbé preferred it to taking the chances of a voyage to America. Mme. de Polastron, who was then in a dying state, wished to prepare for her approaching end, but she had lost her ordinary confessor, and had but a limited confidence in the young chaplain. She, however, desired to see him, and after frequent interviews, made her confessions. Upon this she entreated the Comte d'Artois to promise to comply with a last request she would make to him. The Prince entered into the engagement. It is said that Mme. de Polastron then made him solemnly swear he would never give his affections to another woman. This ceremony left a deep impression on the weak mind of the Comte. Madame de Polastron, having thus enchained the future life of her lover, died contented. Charles X., who was then only 45 years of age, remained ever after faithful to his sacred engagement. From this time M. de Latil (afterwards a Cardinal) became the confidant of every thought of the Prince, and bis ascendancy increased with the age of his penitent, until it attained an extent impossible to describe, and to which may be attributed many of the faults of the reign of Charles X. In 1814 he was frequently urged to marry again. The friends to the dynasty, seeing with pain that the Duke d'Angouleme had no child, and not knowing whether the Duke de Berri would be as fortunate in his marriage as he had been in his previous amorous adventures, were induced by the perspective of a failure of the elder branch of the family, to reiterate appeals to him to contract a new alliance, but he as contantly refused.

In the conduct of the Comte d'Artois, or Monsieur, subsequent to the second restoration, whilst he was the heir presumptive, there was nothing particularly striking or remarkable; but be never en

joyed any popularity at all approaching to that which was conceded to his brother, his sentiments being known to approximate too much to the exploded dogmas of the old regime, and his manners and deportment, though polite and courteous, betraying evidence of great constraint, and evincing that he was more playing a character which he had assumed, than speaking or acting from the dictates of his heart.

On succeeding his brother as King of France, by the title of Charles X. he made his public entry into Paris on the 27th of September, 1824. Had he then formed a resolution to be in reality a Constitutional Sovereign, and adhered to it permanently, the greetings of the people with which he was then hailed, might have lasted during his life, and all might have been well; but his devotion to priestly influence got the better of whatever sense he had, and thus was gradually brought on the catastrophe. Not possessing, or contemptously spurning, that tact of which his brother Louis XVIII. had successfully availed himself, he lost a throne, which common prudence might have enabled him to retain, and secure for his family.

On the 25th of July 1830, in consequence of the result of a general election, Charles the Tenth issued his two fatal ordinances, one abolishing the freedom of the press, and the other changing the mode of election, and greatly contracting the number both of electors and of their representatives. The Three Days of riot ensued, which have since been called the "glorious Revolution of 1830." The King retreated from St. Cloud to Rambouillet, where he offered to abdicate in favour of his grandson the Duc de Bordeaux, and requested from the Provisional Government a safeconduct to a sea-port. He embarked at Cherbourg, and arrived off Spithead on the 17th August. On the 23d he landed at Poole, and for a time he took up his residence at Lulworth Castle, the mansion of Cardinal Weld (see a full account of his reception, with a view of the castle, in Gent. Mag. vol. C. ii 202). He immediately began to console himself with field sports, of which he was passionately fond. After two months he removed to Edinburgh, and resumed his old quarters at Holyrood-House; where he continued, we believe, for less than a twelvemonth, and then removed to the dominions of Austria.

There were many remarkable coincidences in the histories of Charles X. and James II. Both spent their youth in exile, and both returned without being rendered wiser by adversity. They each endeavoured to govern on principles which