thereof, as if just tied. On being exposed to the air, the greater part of the body mouldered away to dust, leaving nothing but the principal bones. There was no inscription on the coffin. The remains are supposed to be those of one of the De Clares, which family formerly possessed the castle and manor of Tunbridge. Near the spot where the above was found, two other graves were discovered. The bodies did not appear to have been in coffins, but were merely laid in a grave lined with stone, and another stone laid over the surface. BIRTHS. In St. James's-square, the Duchess of Northumberland, of a still-born child. The Lady of Colonel Affleck, of Pelham, Norfolk, of a daughter. MARRIED. Mr. Harrison, of Oxford street, to Elizabeth, second daughter of George Hitchcock, Esq. of Horley, Oxfordshire. DIED. his hat with his remaining shattered arm, and waving it round him, cheered his companions amidst the dying and the dead. The Duke of Wellington being then close by him, desired he might be carried to his tent. It must be some consolation to his afflicted family, that he must have distinguished himself in the opinion of his great commander, as he was immediately recommended by him for the rank of Major, though a very young officer, and in a year afterwards to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, with the appointment of Adjutant-General in Ceylon. He was only 25 years of age, and has left three sons and a daughter, and an infant of a few months old. At Novotscherkask, the gallant Hetman of the Cossacks, Count Platoff. The honest ardour with which this brave and loyal chief led on his irregular bands to the defeat and discomfiture of the unprincipled tyrant of Europe, reflects immortal honour upon his memory, and will hand his name down to posterity as one of high rank among the illustrious heroes of his day. Nothing could more strongly prove his honest detestation of the ferocious enemy and unrelenting ravager of his country, than his promising his daughter in marriage to any man who would bring the un principled Napoleon a prisoner to his camp. He died at a very advanced age. Peace to his illustrious manes! At Melville-house, Fife, Jane, Countess of Captain Fitzclarence, eldest son of the Duke of Clarence. He was a young man of uncommon energy of character, and of talents and acquire-Leven and Melville. ments. He was an admirable linguist, and, as we understand, was about to return to England, with the view of being employed in the diplomacy, for which he was peculiarly qualified. On his passage to Ceylon, Lieutenant-Colonel Erskine, Lord Erskine's youngest son. He served throughout the campaigns in Spain as a Captain of Light Infantry in the 51st Regiment, and behaved with great gallantry in the battle of the Pyrenees, where, being shot in the thigh, he was sent home by the Medical Board, and on his recovery was placed by the Duke of York on the Staff of the Army in the Adjutant-General's department, when the Duke of Wellington took the command in Flanders. He was in the battle of the 16th of June, and afterwards on the 18th, at the battle of Waterloo, where his station placed him in the dangerous position of being attendant on the Duke, around whom almost every officer was either killed or wounded. Amongst the rest this brave young man had his left arm carried off by a cannon ball, which, passing along the other, laid bare the whole of it, by which he lost the use of two of his fingers, but that arm was saved. When the cannon shot had thrown him from his horse, and as he lay bleeding on the ground in this mangled condition, the Prussian musketry and trumpets being heard at a distance, he seized At her house in New Norfolk-street, the Right Hon. Lady Mary Ker, in the 72d year of her age, third sister of his Grace the late John, Duke of Roxburgh, groom of the stole to his present Majesty. At his house in South Audley-street, the Hon. Sir George Berkeley, G. C. B. This gallant Admiral was the first person, we believe, who gave the popular toast, "A long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether." Of a typhus fever, Mr. John Firmin, of Hatfield Broad Oak, aged 42; and on the following morning, Miss Grange, aged 27. They were to have been married a few days preceding, every preparation having been made for that purpose; but, after an illness of only fourteen days, they patiently resigned themselves to the Divine will. At Yarmouth, aged 84, Mr. Robert Oliver.He was a petty officer on board his Majesty's ship Orford, in 1759, and was with a party of seamen and marines attacking the Heights of Abraham, to favour the approach of General Wolfe, at the taking of Quebec in that year. At Colsterworth, aged 75, Mr. William Taylor, formerly a farmer of that place, and only surviv ing relative of the great Sir Isaac Newton, who was born at the little hamlet at Woolsthorpe, attached to that parish. London: Printed by and for JOHN BELL, Proprietor of this MAGAZINE, and of the WEEKLY MESSENGER, Corner of Clare-court, Drury-lane. BEING Bell's COURT AND FASHIONABLE MAGAZINE, FOR MAY, 1818. A New and Improved Series. EMBELLISHMENTS. I. A Correct Likeness of her Royal Highness the PRINCESS ELIZABETH OF HESSE HOMBERG, 2. A beautiful WHOLE-LENGTH PORTRAIT FIGURE in a MORNING DRESS. 3. A beautiful WHOLE-LENGTH PORTRAIT FIGURE in a WALKING DRESS. 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