EARL MEXBOROUGH. Feb. 3. At Methley Park, near Leeds, aged 68, the Right Hon. John Savile, second Earl Mexborongh, of Lifford, co. Donegal, Viscount Pollington of Ferns, and Baron Pollington, co. Longford, M. R. I.A. LORD HENRY SEYMOUR. Feb. 5. At Norris, Castle, near Cowes, in the Isle of Wight, aged 83, the Right Hon. Lord Henry Seymour, M. A. Joint Clerk of the Crown in the King's Bench of Ireland, Craner and Wharfinger of the Port of Dublin; uncle to the Marquis of Hertford, to the Marquis of Drogheda, to the late Marquis of Londonderry the Premier, and great uncle to Lord Southampton, &c. &c. Lord Henry Seymour was the third of the thirteen children, and the second son, of Francis first Marquis of Hertford, K. G. and Lady Isabella Fitzroy, third and youngest daughter of Charles 2d Duke of Grafton, K. G. and Lady Henrietta Somerset. He was educated at Eton, where his talents were so His Lordship was born April 8, 1761, the eldest son of John the first Earl, by Sarah sister of John Lord Delaval, and succeeded his father in his titles Feb. 27, 1778. He married, Sept. 25, 1782, Eli zabeth, daughter and sole heiress of John Stephenson, of East Burnbam, in Buckinghamshire, esq. and by that lady, who died June 7, 1821, had one son and two daughters: 1. the Right Hon. John now Earl Mexborough, and late M. P. for Pontefract; be married in 1807 Lady Anne Yorke, eldest daughter of Philip third and present Earl of Hardwicke, K. G. and has six sons and a daughter; 2. the Right Hon. Sarah Elizabeth Countess of Warwick, and mother of Lord Monson; married first in 1807 to John George fourth and late Lord Monson, and secondly in 1816 to Richard Henry Whatever were his talents, Lord Henthird and present Earl Brooke and Warry's disposition appears to have been alwick, K.T.; 3. Lady Eliza, who died at the age of five in 1794. The remains of the Earl were interred in the family vault of the Saviles at Methley. His Lordship, by will, executed some years since, has bequeathed the whole of his real and personal property, with some slight exceptions, to his only son and successor, the present Earl. The Saviles are a Yorkskire family, unconnected with Ireland: so, when Sir John Savile was raised to his Irish-or nominal-peerage, his object was to take an English title, from Mexborough in Yorkshire, and the style is correctly Earl Mexborough, as above written, though in most modern authorities it is printed Earl of Mexborough, which makes it appear more like an English earldom, In the same way the present representative of the Thanes of Fife, though deriving his title from that county, is (in consequence of the Royal prerogative of creating Scottish peers having been resigned at the Union) not Earl of Fife, but only Earl Fife in the peerage of Ireland. Some families have attained a similar object by naming their Irish seats after places in England. highly estimated, that the head-master ways for retirement. His next brother, Lord Robert, had sat in Parliament for five and twenty, and his two younger brothers, Lord William and Lord George, had also both represented Orford, before he was induced to enter the House. He sat for that borough, together with his brother the late Marquis, during one Parliament, from 1796 to 1802; and then retired to the Isle of Wight, where the greater number of his days have been spent in building Norris Castle, and laying out the grounds of bis estate. His Lordship never entered the married state; but he has left behind him a name blooming with all the charities that dignify our nature. His habits were eccentric, but his mind was of the most enlightened and liberal cast; it was characterized by the purest benevolence, the most generous feelings of friendship, and the strongest sympathy for misery and distress. His Lordship's remains were deposited in his parish church at Whippingham. LORD SEMPILL. Jan. 25. At Boulogne, aged 71, the Right Hon. Hugh thirteenth Lord Sempill. His Lordship was born July 1, 1758, the eldest son of John the twelfth Lord, 364 Sir T. Wheler.-Sir J. H. Maxwell.-Sir J. Johnson. [April, by Janet, only daughter and heiress of Hugh Dunlop, esq. of Bishoptown, co. Renfrew. He was appointed to an Ensign's commission in the 3d Foot-guards, Dec. 24, 1777, to a Lieutenancy in 1781, and continued in that regiment until 1793. His Lordship succeeded his father in the peerage, Jan. 15, 1782. He polled twenty-two votes at the election of Scottish Representative Peers in 1806: but, we believe, never had a seat in either House of Parliament. His Lordship married at London, Jan. 24, 1787, Miss Mellish, daughter of Charles Mellish, of Ragnal, co. Nottingham, esq. and by that lady, who died Sept. 16, 1806, had two sons and two daughters: 1. the Right Hon. Selkirk now Lord Sempill, born in 1788, and who was formerly a Captain in the Renfrewshire militia; 2. the Hon. Francis Sempill, who died in Bengal, Jan. 2, 1823; 3. the Hon. Maria-Janet ; and 4. the Hon. Sarah. SIR TREVOR Wheler, BarT. Feb. 4. At Woodseat, Staffordshire, suddenly, after a protracted illness, Sir Trevor Wheler, eighth Baronet, of Leamington Hastang, co. Warwick. Sir Trevor was the eldest son of the Rev. Sir Charles Wheler, the seventh Baronet, a Prebendary of York and Vicar of Leamington Hastang, by Lucy, daughter and coheiress of Sir John Strange, Master of the Rolls. Sir Trevor succeeded his father July 12, 1821. He married Harriet, daughter of Richard Beresford, of Ashbourne, in Derbyshire, esq. and had issue two sons and five daughters: 1. Sir Trevor Wheler, who has succeeded to the baronetcy, and is a Major in the 5th dragoon-guards; he is married and has issue; 2. Francis ; 3. Harriet ; 4. Lucy, marrried May 15, 1828, to James Molony, of Killanon, co. Clare, esq.; 5. Maria; 6. Charlotte; and 7. Agnes. LT.-GEN. SIR J. H. MAXWELL, BT. Jan. 29. Aged 57, Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Shaw Heron Maxwell, fourth Baronet, of Springkell, co. Dumfries. He was born June 29, 1772, the only son of Sir William Maxwell, the third Baronet, by Margaret, only daughter of Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, second Baronet, of Blackhall, co. Renfrew. He was appointed Major in the 23d light dragoons 1795, Lieut.-Colonel in the army 1797, Colonel 1805, Major-General 1811, and Lieutenant-General 1819. He was for many years on the half-pay of the 23d dragoons. Having married Jan. 4, 1802, Mary, only surviving child and heiress of Patrick Heron, esq. of He ron, in the stewartry of Galloway, M. P. (by Lady Elizabeth Cochrane, the eldest sister of the present Earl of Dundonald) Lieut.-Colonel Maxwell, on the decease of that gentleman, in 1803, assumed the additional surname and arms of Heron; he succeeded his father in the Baronetcy on the 4th of March in the following year. Sir John Heron-Maxwell had five sons and four daughters: 1. Sir Patrick, born in 1805, who has succeeded to the title; 2. John, in the Royal Navy; 3. Michael, 4. Robert; 5. Edward; 6. Elizabeth, who was married in 1819 to Sir James Hay Dalrymple, the present and second Baronet, of Glenluce, co. Wigton, and died in 1821; 7. Margaret; 8. JaneStuart; and 9. Elizabeth-Catherine. SIR JOHN JOHnson, Bart. Jan. 4. At St. Mary's, Montreal, aged 88, the Hon. Sir John Johnson, second Baronet (of Twickenham in Middlesex), Superintendant-general and Inspectorgeneral of Indian Affairs in British North America. Sir John was the elder son of General Sir William Johnson, who went to America under the patronage of his uncle Sir Peter Warren, K. B. and was created a Baronet in 1755 for his conduct in the expedition against Crown Point, which was under his command. He died at bis seat, Johnson's Hall, in New York, in 1774, and was succeeded in his title by the gentleman now deceased. Sir John had married, in the year perevious to his father's death, Polly, daughter of John Watts, Esq. of New York; and by that lady he had ten sons and four daughters; I. Anne, married in 1797 to Lieut.-Col. Macdonnel, deputy Quartermaster-general in Canada, who died in 1812; 2. William, Lieut.Colonel in the army; he married Sarab, daughter of Stephen de Lancey, Esq., and died in 1811, leaving three daughters, but no male issue; 3. John, who died young; 4. Warren, a Major in the 60th regiment; 5. Catherine, who died young; 6. Sir Adam-Gordon Johnson, born in 1781, who has succeeded to the Baronetcy; 7. John; 8. Christopher, who died young ; 9. James-Stephen, who was a Capt. 28th foot, and slain at the siege of Badajoz in April 1812; 10. Catherine-Maria, married in 1805 to Major-Gen. Foord Bowes, who was slain at the siege of Salamanca in Sept. 1812; 11. Robert-Thomas, Capt. in the 100th foot, drowned in Canada 1811; 12. Charles-Christopher, Major in the army, married in 1818 Susan, eldest daughter of Rear-Adm. Edward Griffith, of North 1830.] OBITUARY.-Adm. Sir Eliab Harvey. brook House, Hants; 13. Marianne; and, 14. Archibald-Kennedy, born 1792. ADM. SIR ELIAB HARVEY, G.C.B. : Feb. 20. At Rolls Park, Chigwell, aged 71, Sir Eliab Harvey, G. C. B. the senior Admiral of the Blue, Knight in Parliament for the county of Essex, and F. R. S. Sir Eliab was the last male descendant of a family which settled at Chigwell in the person of Sir Eliab Harvey, brother to William Harvey, M.D. the immortal discoverer of the circulation of the blood. His father, William Harvey, esq. was member for Essex from 1722 to 1727, and from 1747 till his death in 1763. William Harvey, esq., elder brother to Sir Eliab, was elected in 1775, but died in 1779, at the age of thirtyfive. After his death, the subject of this memoir was under the guardianship of his uncle, Gen. Edward Harvey, Adjutant-general of the forces. Eliab, another uncle, was a King's Counsel, and some time M. P. for Dunwich. Mr. Eliab Harvey entered the naval service in 1771, as a Midshipman in the William and Mary yacht; and was thence removed to the Orpheus frigate, commanded by Captain (afterwards Adm.) M'Bride. He served in the same capacity in the Lynx, of 10 guns, at the Leeward Islands; and subsequently with Lord Howe in the Eagle 74, whom he joined in 1775 on the coast of North America, at the eventful period of the revolt of the American provinces. Whilst on that station, he was occasionally lent to the Mermaid and Liverpool, and had the misfortune to be cast away in the latter, upon Long Island. He returned to England with Lord Howe, Oct. 25, 1778, and was soon after promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. In 1781, be joined the Dolphin, of 44 guns, on the North Sea station; and from that ship he removed into the Fury at Spitbead, a few days prior to his being made a Commander in the Otter brig, then recently launched, and fitting at Deptford. In this vessel, Capt. Harvey was employed in the North Sea until Jan. 1783, on the 20th of which month he was advanced to post rank by the express command of his late Majesty, but does not appear to have served again afloat until the Spanish armament in 1790, when he obtained the command of the Hussar of 28 guns. At the commencement of the French revolutionary war, Capt. Harvey was appointed to the Santa Margaritta, a fine frigate, in which he served at the reduction of Martinique and Guadaloupe. In the autumn of 1794, he as 365 sisted at the destruction of La Felicite, French frigate, and two corvettes, near the Penmarks. Early in 1796, he removed into the Valiant, of 74 guns; and on the 11th of August in the same year, sailed for the West Indies, in company with Vice-Adm. Sir Hyde Parker, and the trade bound to that quarter. After remaining some time at the Leeward Islands, he proceeded to the Jamaica station, and invalided from St. Domingo in 1797. On the first establishment of the Sea Fencibles, in the spring of 1798, Capt. Harvey was entrusted with the command of the Essex district, on which service he continued about fifteen or sixteen months, and then received an appointment to the Triumph of 74 guns. He served with the Channel fleet during the remainder of the war; and on the renewal of hostilities in 1803, he assumed the command of the Temeraire, a second rate, in which ship he greatly distinguished himself at the battle of Trafalgar, Oct. 21, 1805. The Temeraire was that day the next vessel a-stern of the Victory, bearing Lord Nelson's flag, and had no less than 47 men killed and 76 wounded; 43 of her crew likewise perished in the prizes. A few days after the battle Capt. Harvey received the following handsome communication from Nelson's brave and worthy suc cessor: Euryalus, Oct. 28, 1805. "My dear Sir, I congratulate you most sincerely on the victory his Majesty's fleet has obtained over the enemy, and on the noble and distinguished part the Temeraire took in the battle; nothing could be finer; I have not words in which I can sufficiently express my admiration of it. I hope to hear you are unhurt; and pray send me your report of killed and wounded, with the officers' names who fell in the action, and the state of your own ship, whether you can get her in a state to meet Gravina, should he again attempt any thing. I am, dear Sir, with great esteem, your faithful humble servant, CUTHBERT COLLINGWOOD." At the general promotion that took place on the 9th of the following month, in honour of the victory, Capt. Harvey was advanced to the rank of RearAdmiral; and on the change of administration in the ensuing spring, he hoisted his flag on board the Tonnant of 80 guns, in the Channel fleet, under the orders of Earl St. Vincent. Previously to his sailing he attended the funeral of his late heroic chief, and was one of the supporters of the pail at that memorable solemnity. 366 OBITUARY. Adm. Harvey.-Vice-Adm. Penrose. On the retirement of Earl St. Vincent from the command of the grand fleet, his Lordship addressed the following letter to the Rear-Admiral: “Mortimer-street, April 22, 1807. "Sir, cannot retire from the com mand of the Channel fleet, without ex pressing the high sense I entertain of the ability, zeal, and perseverance dis played by you in the command of a detached squadron during an unexampled long cruise off the north coast of Spain; and assuring you of the esteem and regard with which I bave the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, ST. VINCENT." : Rear-Adm. Harvey continued to serve in the Channel fleet until the spring of 1809, at which period a serious misun derstanding took place between him and Lord Gambier, who at that time held the chief command. The subject of our memoir was in consequence brought to trial by a Court Martial, a report of which will be seen in our vol. LXXIX, p. 472. The sentence was that "the charge of using threatening language to Lord Gambier, as well as speaking dis respectfully of him to several officers, had been proved, and that Rear-Adm. Harvey should be dismissed his Majesty's service." The character, however, of both parties engaged in this lamentable affair, was so unimpeachable, that a veil was thrown over the circumstance; and Rear-Adm. Harvey was duly promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral 1810, nominated a K. C. B. 1815, made a full Admiral 1819, and a G. C. B. 1825. Sir Eliab Harvey first entered Parlia ment in May 1780, as a Burgess for Maldon, on the death of the Hon. Rich ard S. Nassau; he was re-chosen at the general election in that year, and sat till 1784. He was elected a Verdurer of Waltham Forest on the death of Sir William Wake, Bart. in 1786; but was not again returned to the House of Commons until chosen for the county at the general election in 1803, when he succeeded Thomas B. Bramston, esq. whose son is now elected in his room. Sir Eliab has not, however, represented Essex from that time without interruption; he was re-elected in 1806, and 1807: but retired in 1812. In 1812 and 1818 John Archer Houblon, esq. was returned; but in 1820 Sir Eliab was again successful, and was re-elected in 1826. In his political opinions, as descended from an old Tory family, he gave a steady but not servile support to the administrations of Mr. Pitt aud the late Earl of Liverpool; but was in the minority on the great question of Ro man Catholic Emancipation. [April, Sir Eliab Harvey married, May 15, 1784, Lady Louisa Nugent, younger daughter and coheir of Robert Earl Nugent, and aunt to the present Duke of Buckingham and Earl Nugent. His eldest son, Capt. Harvey, was slain at the siege of Burgos in 1812; William, the younger, died soon after the completion of his 21st year, in 1823. Six daughters survive, of whom the eldest was married, Oct. 8, 1804, to William Lloyd, of Aston in Shropshire, esq.; Georgiana, the fourth, April 22, 1816, to John Drummond, jun. esq. banker; and Emma, the second, Feb. 16, 1830, only four days before her father's death (see p. 170), to Col. William Cornwallis Eustace, C. B. The remains of Sir Eliab were deposited on the 27th Feb. in the family mausoleum at Hempsted Church, where also repose those of his great relative the celebrated Dr. William Harvey. A numerous tenantry, by whom he was most highly respected and beloved for his liberality, preceded the procession. The carriages of Viscount Maynard, the Lord Lieutenant of the county, and other neighbouring gentlemen, followed the corpse. VICE-ADMIRAL SIR C. V. Penrose. Jan.... At his seat, Ethy St. Winnoe, near Lostwithiel, Cornwall, aged 70, Sir Charles Vinicombe Penrose, K. C. B., G. C. M. G., and K. F. M. Vice-Admiral of the White. The family of Penrose is of great an tiquity in Cornwall, deriving its name from a place so called, of which was Richard Penrose, who was Sheriff of the county 18 Henry VIII. The subject of this memoir is the second son of the Rev. John Penrose, a truly Christian and eloquent divine, who was for thirtyfive years Vicar of St. Gluvias. Mr. C. V. Penrose was born June 20, 1759, and placed in 1772 at the Royal Academy, Portsmouth; from whence be was discharged, early in 1775, into the Levant frigate, Capt. George Murray (uncle to the present Duke of Atholl), under whom he completed his time as a midshipman, on the Mediterranean, Channel, and North Sea stations; where be assisted at the capture of several American and French privateers, together with many merchantmen. In Aug. 1779, Mr. Penrose was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant; and shortly afterwards he was appointed to the Cleopatra 32, commanded by the same excellent officer; in which frigate he witnessed the battle between Sir Hyde Parker and Adm. Zoutman, Aug. 5, 1781. 1830.] OBITUARY. Vice-Adm. Sir C. V. Penrose, About 1782, Lieut., Penrose first saw the plan of numerary signals on board a Swedish frigate. These had been introduced by French officers into the Swedish marine, and he was much struck with their comprehensive simplicity. Being, then senior Lieutenant of the Cleopatra, and Capt. Murray having a small squadron under his orders, Mr. Penrose, with that officer's approbation, made out a code sufficient for its guidance, adopting the numerary system, instead of the tabular plan of superior and inferior flags, then in general use. A During the Spanish armament, Lieut. Penrose again served under Capt. Murray, in the Defence 74; and at the commencement of the French revolutionary war, he accompanied him to the West Indies, in the Duke 98; which ship formed part of the squadrom under Rear-Adm. Gardner, at the attack of Martinique, in June, 1793. After his return to England he successively follawed his friend, and patron into the Glory 98, and Resolution 74. On the 12th April, 1794, Capt. Murray was advanced to the rank of Rear Admiral; and at the same time his protegé was promoted to the command of the Lynx, a new sloop, recently launchedat Woolwich. Captain Penrose's post commission bore date Oct. 7, 1794, at which period he was appointed to the Cleopatra frigate. When ready for sea, he was sent to Bermuda, to examine the harbour and channel that had been discovered by Lieut. Thomas Hurd; and for his able report thereon he received the thanks of the Admiralty. We next find Capt. Penrose commanding Vice-Adm. Murray's flag-ship, the Resolution, during the absence of Capt. Francis Pender, then acting as commissioner at Bermuda, Towards the latter end of 1796 he again returned to the Cleopatra; and had the melancholy satisfaction of conveying the body of his much respected patron to England, that valuable officer having fallen a victim to a paralytic affection. On his passage be captured, l'Hirondelle French pri vateer, of 12 guns and 70 men; many of whom were young persons of family and fortune, whose dread of being forced into the army as conscripts, had induced them to hazard, their safety on the ocean.. 1 Capt. P.'s next appointment was, early in 1799, to the Sans Pareil 80, then bearing the flag of Lord Hugh Seymour, but subsequently employed as a private ship under Rear-Adm, Pole, whom she joined off Rochefort, on the day previous to the bombardment of a Spanish squa, dron, in Aix road; but which that 367 Admiral found fruitless without fireships. After this he escorted a fleet of merchantmen to the West Indies, where the Sans Pareil again received the flag of Lord Hugh Seymour, and which she continued to bear till the decease of that nobleman, Sept. 11, 1801. Captain Penrose returned home in the Carnatic 74, many of the crew of which ship" had never set foot on land for six or seven years, except in the dockyard at Jamaica." When paid off at Plymouth, the ship's company, exclusive of commissioned and warrant officers, received upwards of 22,000l. wages: but we question whether they left that town with as many shillings in their posses sion, for (as stated by Adm. Penrose in a pamphlet to be noticed hereafter,) "in a few hours some, and in a day or two many of these valuable men, were penniless." At the renewal of hostilities, in 1803, Capt. Penrose accepted the command of the Padstow district of Sea Fencibles; the effects of a coup-de-soleil, which he received previous to his departure from the West Indies, rendering it necessary that he should continue for some time longer on shore. In the summer of 1810, an extensive flotilla establishment was ordered to be formed at Gibraltar, principally for the defence of Cadiz, aud Capt. Penrose was appointed to the chief command, with the rank of Commodore. He accord ing repaired to the rock, and hoisted his broad pendant on board the San Juan sheer-hulk, lying in the New Mole. This flotilla proved of great utility, not only at the defence of Cadiz, but dur-ing the whole of the time that thes French army under Marshal Soult continued in the south of Spain. Commodore Penrose obtained a Colonelcy of royal marines, Aug. 12, 1812; and on his return from Gibraltar, in 1813, he was appointed a joint commissioner with Rear-Adm. T. B. Martin and Capt. John Wainwright, to make a revision, of the establishments for the equipment of ships of war; in which he continued to be employed till his advancement to the rank of Rear-Admiral, Dec. 4, 1813. Previously to his quitting Gibraltar, the British merchants there presented him with a handsome service of plate, as a testimony of their high respect, and as an acknowledgment of his constant attention to their interests, while commanding on that station. In Jan, 1814, Rear-Adm. Penrose was selected to command the naval force employed at the bottom of the bay of Biscay, where the squadron rendered effectual service, particularly in clearing |