PRINCESS Borghese. June 9. At the Borghese Palace, near Florence, after a long and painful illness, the Princess Paulina Borghese, sister to Napoleon Buonaparte. She has left a will, in which, after deducting the legal part coming to her mother, Letitia Buonaparte, she appoints her two brothers, the Count of St. Leu (Louis), and the Prince of Montfort (Jerome), her principal heirs. To Lucien she bequeaths only her pardon for his treatment of her. The daughters of Madame Murat are to have 30,000 piastres each, except the Countess Pepoli, who is married at Bologna. The eldest son of the Count of St. Leu is to have her villa near the Porta Pia at Rome, and Prince Borghese the use for his life of another villa near Viareggio, in the Duchy of Lucca. Several Cardinals, among whom are her Uncle Fesch, Pacca Spina, and Ricarola, and many gentlemen and ladies of Rome who used to frequent her societies, have remembrances of more or less value. She bas left also considerable legacies to Madame Dumenil her companion, to M. Vamitelli her homme d'affaires, and to M. Gozzani, the agent of Prince Borghese at Rome. A considerable capital is set apart, the interest of which is to be applied to enable two young men of her native town, Ajaccio, to study surgery and medicine. The value of the whole property is esti mated at about two millions of francs. Of the Princess Paulina, Canova made a statue-naked, as Venus. See an anecdote respecting it in vol. LXXXVI. i. 555. JACOS MOUNTAIN, D. D. BP. OF QUEBEC. June 16. At Marchmont House, near Quebec, in his 75th year, the Right Rev. Jacob Mountain, D. D. Lord Bishop of Quebec, formerly of Caius College, Cambridge, where he proceeded in the degrees of B.A. 1774; M.A. 1777; D.D., 1793. His Lordship was the second son of Jacob Mountain, Esq. of Thwaite Hall, in the county of Norfolk, and enjoyed in early life the honour of a particular intimacy with Mr. Pitt. At the time of his being selected by that Statesman, in 1793, for the See of Quebec, the preferment which he held was the livings of Holbeach, Lincolnshire, and Buckden, Hunts, together with the Prebendal Stall of South Kelsey in Lincoln Cathedral, all in the gift of the present Lord Bishop of Winchester, to whom, when Bishop of Lincoln, he was Examining Chaplain. He was the first Protestant Prelate in the Canadas, where he presided over the Church, with apostolic zeal and piety, for GENT. MAG. August, 1825. 32 years. During this period he was, in concurrence with his Majesty's Government and the venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, the instrument, in the hands of Providence, of raising a regular Episcopal Establishment in the two Canadas, and promoting the formation of Missions and the erection of Churches, in all the more populous townships, which he regularly visited, even when age and infirmity rendered so vast and fatiguing a circuit a most arduous and painful undertaking. The Cathedral Church at Quebec, erected under his auspices, and in consequence of his exertions, will serve as a monument to his memory; and his name will be honoured in the North American Colonies, as long as respect remains for high and culti vated talent, for dignity and suavity of manners, for integrity, for benevolence, for loyalty, for religion. It would be a difficult task, indeed, to describe the distress of his family, the grief of his friends and dependents, the lamentatious of the poor, and the regret which pervades all parties and denominations in the country. In 1819 Bp. Mountain preached the Anniversary Sermon of the Royal Humane Society, which he afterwards printed. SIR HENRY CARR IBBETSON, BT. June 5: In Conduit-street, aged 56, Sir Henry-Carr Ibbetson, Bart. of Denton Park, Yorkshire. This family is of great antiquity in the county of York. He was the eldest son of Sir James Ibbetson, 2d baronet, by Jane, daughter of John Caygill, Esq. of Shaw, co. York; and on the death of his father, S pt. 4, 1795, succeeded to the title. In 1801 he was Captain of a troop of dragoons, and Lieut.-Col. of a battalion of West York Militia; and in 1803 he served the office of High Sheriff for the County, as did his father in 1769. On the 14th of November, 1803, the deceased married Alicia- Mary, only daughter of WilliamFenton Scott, of Wood-hall, co. York, esq. and niece of Sir John-Lister Kaye, of the Grange, co. York, bart. He was a gentleman highly distinguished in the Agricultural world. His remains were interred on the 18th, in the family vault at Denton Church. ADM. SIR THOMAS BERTIE, KNT. June 13. At Twyford Lodge, Hants, the residence of his brother, George Hoare, Esq. aged 66, Sir Thos. Bertie, Kut. Admiral of the Blue; and Knight Commander of the Swedish Order of the Sword, He 178 OBITUARY.-Admiral Sir Thomas Bertie. He was the sixth child and fourth son of George Hoare, of London, formerly of Middleton Era, co. Durham, Esq. by Frances, daughter of William Sleigh, of Stockton upon Tees, Esq.; was born July 3, 1758. He first went to sea in 1773, in the Seahorse frigate, in which vessel he first met, and became the messmate of the late Lord Nelson and Sir Thomas Trowbridge, with whom he enjoyed the strictest intimacy and an unbroken correspondence till their death. In 1777 Mr. Hoare was removed to the Salisbury, bearing the broad pendent of Sir Edward Hughes, with whom he returned to England. On the 21st of May he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, and appointed to the Monarch of 74 guns, Capt. Rowley. Whilst belonging to this ship, Lieut. Hoare introduced the life-buoy into the service. On the 27th of July, in the same year, the Monarch led the van division in the action between Keppel and d'Orvilliers. In December following, Lieut. Hoare removed with Captain Rowley into the Suffolk, and sailed from Spithead with a squadron to reinforce Admiral Byron in the West Indies, joining that officer at St. Lucia about the latter end of March 1779. In the action off Grenada, July 6, in the same year, the Suffolk sustained considerable damage, and a loss of 32 men killed and wounded. In December following, the boats of that ship, under the order of Lieutenant Hoare, destroyed two vessels close to the shore of Martinique. In March 1780, Lieut. Hoare accompanied Admiral Rowley from the Suffolk into the Conqueror, which ship formed part of Sir G. B. Rodney's fleet in the actions with de Guichen, April 17, and May 15 and 19. In these engagements the Conqueror had 18 meu killed and 69 wounded. In the ensuing month of July, Mr. Hoare became Flag Lieut. to Admiral Rowley, and in 1782 was made Commander in the Duc d'Estitac sloop. During the remainder of the war we find him actively employed on a variety of services, both on the coast of America and in the West Indies. He returned to England in 1783. Mr. Hoare on the 20th May, 1788, married Catharine-Dorothy, daughter of Peregrine Bertie, of Low Leyton, Essex, Esq. (of the late Duke of Ancaster's family,) whose name he assumed, and has since borne alone, agreeably to the will of that gentleman. Capt. Bertie was advanced to post rank Nov. 2, 1790, and appointed to the Leda: that frigate, however, was soon after put out of commission, and he was not again called till the autumn of 1795, when he obtained the command of the Hindostan, 54 guns, then at Spithead, under orders for the West Indies, where he arrived with [Aug. a squadron commanded by Captain (now Admiral) George Bowen. Capt. Bertie was seized with the yellow fever whilst commanding at Port-au-Prince, and being invalided he left the West Indies in an American ship in October 1796. In March 1797, after he had recovered his health, he was appointed to the Braakel of 54 guns, stationed at Plymouth. la October he succeeded to the Ardent 64, vacant by the death of his old shipmate Capt. Burgess, who fell off Camperdown. It may here be proper to mention an improvement which this gallant officer effected on the 42 pounder carrovades belonging to the Ardent's main deck, particularly as it was afterwards generally adopted in all his Majesty's ships having that description of ordnance on board. Observing when he was first appointed to the Ardent, that the inclined plane of the carriage was in a contrary direction to what he conceived it ought to be, being within board instead of without, Captain Bertie communicated his ideas on the subject to the Board of Ordnance, and in a correspondence which ensued, be had the satisfaction of convincing the Heads of that department of the utility of his proposed alteration. Orders were consequently given for fitting up the carronades according to his directions. The alteration consisted simply in depressing the chock two inches; this not only imparted to the gun the good property of being worked and run out with a smaller number of men, but it also checked the recoil, and necessarily added to the force of the shot. The Ardent was employed under Lord Duncan, in the blockade of the Texel fleet, until the expedition to Holland took place in August 1799. Captain Bertie then received orders to place himself under the command of Vice-Admiral Mitchell, who on the 30th of that month, passed with his squadron through the Nieuve Diep, up to the Vlieter, near to which the Dutch fleet, consisting of eight sail of the line and four frigates, commanded by Admiral Storey, were lying at anchor. The enemy were allowed one hour's deliberation to fight or to surrender, and the latter having been agreed to in consequence of the disaffection reigning amongst the Dutch seamen, Captain Bertie was ordered to take possession of the Admiral de Ruyter of 68 guns, and afterwards to escort the whole of the prizes to the Nore, where he arrived on the 10th September. In the following month Captain Bertie assisted at the evacuation of the Texel. He afterwards, in common with the other officers of the fleet, received the thanks of Parliament for his services in the abovementioned expedition. The Ardent formed one of the squadron under the orders of Lord Nelson, at the battle 1825.] OBITUARY.Vice-Admiral John Clements. battle of Copenhagen, in which her com> mander particularly distinguished himself, compelling four of the Danish flatilla, one of which was the Jutland of 60 guns, to surrender. The Ardent received consider able damage, and sustained a loss of 29 men killed, and 64 men wounded. Capt. Bertie again received the thanks of Par liament, and what was equally pleasing, the personal commendation of his heroic Chief. Early on the morning after the action, Lord Nelson went on board the Ardent to thank her commander, officers, and people, for their conduct and exertions on the preceding day, a compliment which was returned with six cheers, on his Lordship's leaving the ship. On the 9th of the same month, Captain Bertie was appointed by the Commanderin-chief Sir Hyde Parker, to the Bellona of 74 guns, in the room of Sir Thomas B. Thompson, who had lost a leg in the battle, and he continued in the Baltic under the orders of Lord Nelson and Sir Charles M. Pole, until the 7th July following, when he left that station in company with the squadron sent home under Sir Thomas Graves, part of which were ordered north about to Cork, and from thence proceeded off Cadiz, where Capt. Bertie remained employed in the blockade of the Spanish fleet till the termination of the war. The Bellona afterwards went to the West Indies, whence Capt. Bertie returned to England in June 1802. On the re-commencement of hostilities, Capt. Bertie was appointed to the Courageux of 74 guns, in which ship Rear-Adm. Dacres soon after hoisted his flag, and in Jan. 1804 sailed from St. Helen's, accompanied by 170 sail of merchantmen bound to the West Indies. Four days after their departure, the wind, which had hitherto been fair, shifted to the S. W. and between the 15th and 28th it blew one of the most tremendous gales ever experienced, dispersing the convoy and reducing the Courageux to a mere wreck, thereby compelling her to bear up for Plymouth, where she arrived with the remnant of her scattered charge on the 1st of February. From some family distress, Capt. Bertie was suddenly obliged, after the Courageux had been docked and nearly prepared for sea, to resign the command of her, and he remained without any other appointment until the latter end of Dec. 1805. He then obtained the command of the St. George, a second rate, attached to the Channel fleet, and continued in that ship until the general promotion of flag officers, April 28, 1808, which included and stopped with him. Rear-Admiral Bertie was soon after appointed to a command in the Baltic, under Sir James Saumarez. He proceeded thither in the Rosamond sloop, and on his arrival 179 off Helsingburgh, hoisted his flag in the Orion of 74 guns, from which ship it was afterwards shifted first into the Vanguard 74, and then into the Dictator 64. He returned to Yarmouth roads Jan. 6, 1809, having been driven from his station in the Sound by the sudden appearance of the ice and its great solidity on the last day of the preceding year. On the 20th March, the Rear-Admiral again sailed for the Baltic in the Stately, another 64 gun ship, and immediately on his arrival resumed his former occupation of blockading the island of Zealand, and affording protection to the coast of Scandia, and to the British and Swedish convoys passing through the Malmoe Channel. From the heavy gales of wind which began to set in about the 12th Dec. 1809, Rearr Admiral Bertie found it advisable to quit his anchorage off Hoganis nearly at the entrance of the Sound, and proceeded with the ships under his command to Gottenburgh, where he received orders from Admiral Dickson to return to England express. On the 19th Feb. 1810, finding his health to be in a very impaired state, our officer was obliged to strike his flag and come on shore. In the month of June 1813, Rear-Admiral Bertie received the honour of knighthood, and the Royal license and permission to accept and wear the insignia of a knight commander of the Order of the Sword, conferred upon him by the late King of Sweden, in testimony of his merits and services. He was advanced to the rank of Vice-Admiral, Dec. 4, in the same year. VICE-ADMIRAL JOHN CLEMENTS. July 1. In Portman-street, Vice-Admiral John Clements. At the commencement of the war with the French republic, Lieut. Clements commanded the Spitfire sloop. He was promoted to the rank of Post-Captain, Oct. 24. 1794. In the summer of 1802 he obtained the command of the Fortunée of 40 guns; and on the 8th Sept. following, sailed from the Downs in company with two other frigates and a sloop, with Dutch troops on board, bound to the Texel. On the 10th, the Fortunée struck on a sandbank, lost her masts and rudder, and was bilged. The next morning she was got into the Texel, where by the great exertions of her commander, officers, and crew, and the assistance rendered by the other ships, she was put in a state of repair sufficient to enable her to proceed to England, under the escort of another frigate. In the following year, Captain Clements was appointed to the Sea F'encible service at Leith. He subsequently commanded the Texel of 64 guns, and 180 OBITUARY.-Generals Vyse, Bridges, and Burne. and Berwick of 74. He was advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral, Dec. 4, 1813. GENERAL RICHARD VYSE. May 30. At Lichfield, in the house of his sister, Mrs. Madan (the relict of the Bp. of Peterborough), in his 80th year, Richard Vyse, Esq. a General in the Army, Colonel of the 3d Dragoon Guards, and Comptroller of the Household of the Duke of Cumberland. He was son of the Rev. William Vyse, M. A. Canon Residentiary of Lichfield, Archdeacon of Salop, and Rector of St. Philip's, Birmingham, by Catharine, dau. of the Right Rev. Richard Smalbroke, Bishop of Lichfield. (See the epitaph of his parents in Lichfield Cathedral, printed in vol. LXXXI. ii. 255.) The late Rev. William Vyse, D. C. L. also Canon Residentiary of Lichfield, Archdeacon of Coventry, and Rector of Lambeth (of whom see a short memoir in vol. LXXXVI. i. 275), was' his elder brother. He was appointed Cornet 5th drag. Feb. 13, 1763; Lieutenant, Aug. 15, 1766; Adjutant, March 18, 1767; Captain, Nov. 28, 1771; and Major, 18:h Light Drag. Nov. 7, 1777. On the 20th of April, 1780, Major Vyse married Anne, only surviving child of Sir George Howard, K. B. by his first wife Lucy, sister and coheiress of William Wentworth, fourth Earl of Strafford. This lady was first cousin of Alexander-Kenneth, eleventh and present Baron Howard of Effingham. Major Vyse was promoted to be a Colonel in the Army, Jan. 7, 1781; of the 1st Drag. Guards, May 28, 1784; Colonel in the Army, Nov. 18, 1791; Major-General, Oct. 3, 1794; Colonel 29th Drag. March 23, 1797; Lieut. General, Jan. 1, 1801; Colonel 3d Drag Guards, April 2, 1804. As Colonel he commanded a brigade in Flanders, under the Duke of York. At the General Election of 1806, Lieut. General Vyse was elected to Parliament as one of the representatives of Beverley. He had previously become one of the twelve Capital Burgesses of the borough, as provided by its charter. He sat only for the one-session Parliament, and at the General Election in 1807, made room for his son Richard-William-Howard-Howard Vyse, Esq. who has since represented [Aug. tenancy in the Royal Artillery; and in December following, was removed in the same rank to the corps of Royal Engineers. In December, 1777, he proceeded according to orders to the West India Islands, and was there employed on many services during the war, and did not return to England until 1785. The 23d of March, 1786, he was appointed first Lieutenant and Captain Lieutenant, and Captain the 25th Sept. 1793. In May, 1795, he was sent as Commanding Royal Engineer on the first expedition to the Cape of Good Hope, and remained in that country until the year 1801. In the latter end of 1802, he was appointed Commanding Royal Engineer in Ceylon, and there continued eight years. In March 1805, he had the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel; the 4th of June, 1815, that of Colonel; the 21st of July following was appointed Colonel in the Royal Engineers; and the 12th August, 1819, received the rank of Major-General. LIEUT.-GEN. ROBERT BURNE. Lately. At Berkeley Cottage, Stanmore, Lieut.-Gen. Robert Burne. He entered the army in 1773, by purchasing an ensigncy in the 36th regiment, and in January 1777, obtained a Lieutenancy also by purchase. In 1783, the 36th regiment volunteered its services for the East Indies, and this officer embarked: with it, and landed at Madras in July of that year. In 1784 he succeeded to the Captain Lieutenancy, and on the 7th of May of the same year, was appointed Captain of a Company; and upon the Army taking the field against the late Tippoo Sultaun, he was Captain of Grenadiers. He was in the battles of Sattimungulum and Showere, with a detachment of the army commanded by General Floyd, and was afterwards at the storming of Bangalore, Pettah, the fort of Bangalore, the Hill fort of Nundy droog, at the battle of Seringa patam, the attack of the post at Carrigatt Hill, and at the storming of the End Gaw redoubt (part of the lines before Seringapatam) under the late Marquess Cornwallis, and in 1793 he was at the siege and capture of Pondicherry. March 1, 1794, he was appointed Major by brevet, and in 1796 purchased a Majority in the regiment. Jan. 1. 1798, he was appointed Lieut.-Col. by brevet, and in the same year the 36th was drafted into the 76th regiment, and the non-commissioned officers, drummers, &c. under the command of this officer, sailed from Madras, aud landed in England in 1799. An order was issued by the Governor in' Council, and Commander-in-Chief of Madras, on the 36th regiment quitting India, where 1825.] OBITUARY.-Rev. Abraham Rees, D.D. where it had served upwards of fifteen years, highly complimentary to Lieut. Burne and his brave companions. la 1799 he was promoted to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the regiment, and soon after its arrival in England, it was completed with volunteers from the militia, and in 1800 embarked with the troops destined, as was supposed, for the attack upon Belleisle, and after being encamped upon the island of Howas some weeks, he re-embarked with the regiment, and landed in the Island of Minorca, from which island be in 1801, from severe illness, was ordered to England for the recovery of his health (being the first time he was ever absent from the regiment), and upon the conclusion of the peace, the island being restored to the Spaniards, he was ordered to remain in England until the arrival of the regiment at home, when, in the latter part of 1802, he again took the command of it, on its arrival in Ireland. In 1805 be embarked with the regiment for Germany, and upon the termination of the service in that country in 1806, returned to England. In the latter part of the same year, he embarked with the regiment on the expedition to South America, under the late Major-General Crawfurd; and in June 1807, landed in that country, and was with the advance of the army at the operations in the suburbs of Buenos Ayres on the 2d, 3d, 4th, and the attack on the town of Buenos Ayres on the 5th of July. The regiment returned home in 1807, and on the 25th of April 1808, this officer was appointed Colonel by brevet. In July of the same year he embarked with the army destined for the Peninsula, commanded by Sir Arthur Wellesley, landed in Portugal and was present at the battles of Roleia and Vimiera, where he greatly distinguished himself. He was shortly afterwards honoured by his Majesty with the government of Carlisle. After these services, this officer proceeded in command of the regiment with that party destimed to join the late Sir John Moore at Salamanca in Spain, and was present at the battle of Corunna, and then re-embarked with the army for England in 1809. For his services at Roleia, Vimiera, and Corunna, be received the honorary distinction of a medal and clasp. In 1810 he embarked with the expedition to the Scheldt, commanded the regiment at the siege and capture of Flushing in the island of Walcheren, was afterwards appointed Colonel on the Staff at that place, where he continued until the evacuation of the island. In 1811 he was appointed a Brigadier on the Staff in Portugal, and in that country subsequently a Major-General, and landed there prior to 181 the retreat of the French army from Santarem, and was present at the battle of Fuentes D'Onor in Spain, and the other operations in which the 6th division of the army was engaged, until recalled to be employed elsewhere. Upon his return to England, he was appointed on the Home Staff, and was ordered to take the command of the camp near Lichfield. Upon the breaking up of that encampment, he was ordered to the command of the Nottingham district, where he remained on the Staff until Sept. 24, 1814. Major-General Burne commanded the 36th regiment from the year 1793, until his appointment upon the Staff in 1811, and greater unanimity (so essential to discipline) never prevailed in any corps, as some proof of which, the officers who served under him in South America, on their return from that country, voted and presented him with a sword and belt of the value of one hundred and twenty guineas. REV. ABRAHAM REES, D. D. June 9. In Artillery-place, Finsburysquare, in his 82d year, the celebrated Abraham Rees, D.D, F. R. S. F. L.S. &c. The following memoir and character of him are chiefly taken from his funeral Sermon, by the Rev. Thos. Aspland, and an Address delivered over the body by Dr. Thomas Rees. He was the son of the Rev. Lewis Rees, a Dissenting Minister, who contributed during an almost unexampled length of active life to promote the cause of Nouconformity in North and South Wales. His great-grandfather was a Welsh clergyman. By his mother's side he was collaterally descended from the celebrated Penry, who died a martyr to Nonconformity in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. See the article Penry, drawn up by Dr. Rees, in the Cyclopædia. Having received respectable grammar learning in his native country, with a view to the ministry, to which his father had devoted him from the birth, he was placed in the Hoxton Academy for Dissenting Ministers conducted by Dr. Jennings, the learned author of a work on Jewish Antiquities, and Mr. (afterwards Dr. Samuel Morton) Savage. Here he made such proficiency, especially in the mathematics, that, a vacancy occurring in that department of tuition, he was appointed by the Trustees of the Institution to occupy it, before his regular term of study was com pleted. In this arduous situation he gave so much satisfaction, that he was soon after chosen to the more responsible office of resident Tutor, which he continued to hold for 23 years, to the credit of the Academy and the great advantage of the Dis senting |