letter, in which all the subtleties of dogmatic theology were clothed in the most powerful and argumentative language, he took a review of the Reformation, tithes, pluralities, the appropriation of Church property, and, finally, denounced the Church itself as a usurpation, and the Bishops as usurpers, maintaining that the Apostolical right of succession could never be transferred from the Catholic Church to the Protestant. From this period he continued at intervals to publish various letters and pastoral addresses. He was a strong advocate for the introduction of a well regulated system of poor laws into Ireland, and succeeded in bringing over Mr. O'Connell to his opinions; but that gentleman having subsequently changed his mind on that subject, Dr. Doyle addressed a most severe and sarcastic letter to him, pointing out his inconsistencies, and proving both from the Sacred Writings and from general history, that a man capable of so constantly changing his opinions, was not fit to be intrusted as the leader of a great party, and ought not to possess the confidence of his countrymen. It was in answer to this letter that Mr. O'Connell denounced consistency as a "rascally doctrine."

It is surprising that a prelate so eminently gifted should have been the first to promulgate the Hohenlohe miracles in this country, in the existence of which he appears to have placed implicit belief: indeed, were it not for the powerful influence of Dr. Doyle's name, it is thought that, even among the Roman Catholics, few believers in the Hohenlohe miracles would have been found.

A grand cathedral was built at Carlow under the auspices and by the exertions of Doctor Doyle. For many years he laboured to collect funds and contributions for this magnificent object of his ambition, which he lived to see completed. He lies buried in its aisle. No ecclesiastical structure of equal splendour and extent has been raised in Ireland within the present century. Near the town is Braganza House, a handsome residence, which the public bought for Dr. Doyle and his successors in the see of Leighlin. It was built by Sir Dudley St. Leger Hill, now the Governor of St. Lucie, who is a native of Carlow. He it was who gave it the name of Braganza, in honour of the Royal Family of Portu

successor.

Dr. Doyle died after a long and painful illness. A correspondent of the Standard says, " I have just come from seeing the remains of Dr. Doyle. The body was lying as he died, on a narrow truckle bed, not six inches wider than his body apparently, and with only a straw mattrass beneath him: thus, it would seem, that bodily penance was added to his emaciating illness." In the Globe it is stated, that Dr. Doyle had never the command of money, and died not worth a farthing. The greater part of his income went in charity, or was devoted to the building of a Catholic cathedral in Carlow. The funeral of Dr. Doyle took place at Carlow on the 19th of June. The procession consisted of about 500 children of the Nunnery School, a like number from the National School, the members of the Philanthropic Society, the boys of the College School, the collegians, the farmers, tradespeople, shopkeepers, the priests, &c. followed by the hearse, with the body, drawn by six horses. The pall was borne by Mr. Blackney, M.P., Mr. Wallace, M.P., Messrs, Archbold, Tench, Vigors, T. Haughton, and Cassidy. The hearse was followed by Dr. Nowlan, Bishop elect, and some others as mourners, members of Dr. Doyle's family. - Gentleman's Magazine.

DUFIEF, N. G., Esq.; April 12th, 1834; at Pentonville.

Mr. Dufief was a native of Nantes. His mother was remarkable for her attachment to the French royalist cause, and her heroism in the Vendean War: for which she was honoured at the restoration by the riband of the order of St. Louis, the only female on whom it was ever conferred.

Driven to America by the events in France, he, though but a youth, entered into the society of literary men, among whom was the celebrated Dr. Priestley. For a period of about twenty-five years he was an able teacher of the French language in America and in this country; his system being distinguished for its simplicity, perfection, and application to large classes.

He was the author of "Nature Dis played in her Mode of teaching lan guage to Man," the "French-English Dictionary," and other useful and philosophical works applicable to the purposes of instruction.

His character was remarkable for sinplicity and integrity, benevolence to all, and great zeal in the cause of education. He just survived the production of his last great work, the Pronouncing Dictionary, and closed a useful life, passed in promoting communication between man and man, and nation and nation. - Gentleman's Magazine.

DUNDAS, Rear-Admiral, the Hon. George II L., fourth son of the late Lord Dundas, by Lady Charlotte Wentworth, sister of Earl Fitzwilliam; October 6th, 1834; at Upleatham Hall.

The first material incident that appears in his nautical life, was the awful and fatal conflagration of the noble Queen Charlotte, on board which he was then serving as a Lieutenant. On this distressing occasion he exerted himself to the very last in endeavouring to quench the flames, remaining on the lower-deck even till some of the middle-deck guns broke through froin overhead, when, finding it impossible to remain any longer, he went out at the bridle-port and gained the forecastle. In this perilous situation he remained about an hour; and then finding all efforts to extinguish the fire unavailing, he leaped from the jib-boom end, and swam to an American boat. But there were lost no fewer than 673 out of a complement of 840 inen, and one of the finest threedeckers in the British fleet.

The marked intrepidity of Lieutenant Dundas during this disaster secured him preferment, and he was appointed to the Calpe of 14 guns, and stationed at Gibraltar to assist convoys. This little vessel was with Sir James Saumarez in the actions with the combined squadrons on the 6th and 13th of July, 1801, and on both occasions received the thanks of the Commanderin-Chief. Nor was this all, he made himself so particularly useful to Captain Keats, in securing the San Antonio, of 74 guns, after her surrender, that he was sent to England in her, where he received Post rank on the 3d of August, in the same year, to enable him to retain her command.

The peace which now took place

allowed our officer to retire to shore life, and he appears to have had no command till February, 1805, when he was appointed to the Quebec frigate. From this ship he removed in the following January into the Euryalus, a crack 38, and joined the fleet under Collingwood, on which station he remained to the close of 1807. After being docked and refitted, the Euryalus was ordered to convey the Duc d'Angoulême to Gottenburg, and while in the Baltic embarked several other members of the French royal family, and brought them to Harwich, soon after which they obtained refuge in Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, till their restoration to France.

The Euryalus was one of the grand armament which sailed against Walcheren, under Sir R. Strachan, in 1809, and afterwards cruized in the Channel till the spring of 1810, when she joined the Mediterranean fleet. In the autumn of 1812, a line-of-battle ship becoming vacant, Captain Dundas was obliged, however loth, to quit his favourite frigate, and assume the command of the Edinburgh, 74. In this ship he rode for some time in the Bay of Palerino, and was a great favourite with the authorities there; he was also distinguished by his activity on the coasts of Rome, Tuscany, and Genoa, where he destroyed convoys, and assisted the operations of the land forces in the liberation of Italy from the French.

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On the termination of hostilities, Captain Dundas resigned the mand of the Edinburgh to Captain Manley, and returned home overland. He was nominated a Companion of the Bath in 1815, subsequently sat in Parliament for the counties of Orkney and Shetland, and became a Lord of the Admiralty on the dissolution of the Wellington Cabinet. - United Service Journal

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EDMONSTONE, R., Esq.; at Kelso, September 21st, 1834; in the 40th year of his age.

Mr. Edmonstone was born in Kelso; his parents were highly respectable in their line of life, and though he was apprenticed to a watchmaker, his attach. ment to painting was so strong that he soon devoted, under many difficulties, his whole time and attention to the study

and practice of the art. He brought out his first productions in Edinburgh, where they attracted considerable attention, and procured him the patronage of Baron Hume and other gentlemen of taste, whose friendship he afterwards enjoyed. His success soon induced him to settle in London, where he speedily attained an honourable distinction.

At this period, about the year 1819, our knowledge of Mr. Edmonstone commenced; he was then, after some practice under Harlowe, a diligent student at the Royal Academy, remarkable for his steady deportment and regular habits. As his powers of execution and maturity of judgment increased, his pictures became proportionably esteemed; and when he determined on visiting the Continent, Mr. Edmonstone was regarded as a young artist of the highest promise. He remained abroad for some years, residing at Rome, Naples, Florence, and Venice, at all of which places he pursued his studies with so much assiduity as materially to injure his health. Among his productions painted at Rome, is the picture of the "Ceremony of Kissing the Chains of St. Peter," which was exhibited and sold at the British Gallery in 1833. The studio of Edmonstone at Rome was generally visited, and his works obtained for him that marked respect and consideration from artists and amateurs which a clever student is always sure to enjoy there. He was also distinguished in that city by the notice of his countryman Sir Walter Scott.

At Rome, Mr. Edmonstone experienced a severe attack of fever, from the effects of which his constitution never recovered, and which obliged him to relinquish painting for a considerable time. On his return to London, however, at the close of 1832, he again zealously commenced his professional labours, and every successive picture he produced was an evidence of lis increasing skill, and more fully developed the peculiar quiet beauty of his mind. A bright carcer of fame, and consequent emolument, seemed to be the undoubted reward of his perseverance and industry; but consumption, the too frequent disease of the imaginative and studious, "bad marked him for her own." His health, injured by unremitting application, gave way, and, in the vain hope of deriving benefit from his native air, he left London for Kelso, where he died. Of Mr. Ednonstone's character as a

man, the high respect and esteem with which he was regarded by all who knew him is a sufficient testimony; although it was only his most intimate friends they who had pierced the sensitive and somewhat proud reserve, which it was his nature to wear towards the world-who could truly estimate his innate worth, his elevated cast of mind, and amiable disposition. As a painter, Mr. Edmonstone practised both in portraits and in works of imagination; but it was chiefly in the latter he excelled, and to which his inclination turned so forcibly as to induce him almost totally to resign the other more lucrative branch of his profession. His works are remarkable for the elevated sentiment which he infused into the most simple action or attitude

for a fine tone of colouring - and for that love of tranquil beauty which no doubt originated in the bias of his own mind and feelings. He was extremely fond of children, and of introducing them in his pictures-so much so, that, with one or two exceptions, he may be said never to have painted a picture in which a child did not form a prominent object. Their infantile attitudes, traits, and expressions, were his continual study and delight; and few artists, however celebrated, can be said to have been more true or happy in rendering their artless graces upon canvas. The painter who was most admired by him, and to whom he may perhaps be in many points compared, was Correggio--the same refined taste, the same quiet, elegant, and unaffected grace, the same beautiful sentiment and amiable feeling, seem to have inspired both. Deeply, therefore, do we lainent, that a man who had begun to walk in a path so elevated - who was approaching with successful originality a standard of excellence so high and difficult of attainment - should have been prematurely snatched from the world and from his labours.

The last two pictures which Mr. Ed. monstone's health allowed him to finish were that called "The White Mouse," exhibited last year at the Suffolk Street Gallery, and the portraits of "Three of the Children of the Hon. Sir E. Cust," exhibited at Somerset House. At the time when illness obliged him to suspend his labours, he was employed upon, and had nearly completed, two pictures, which promised to be his chef-d'œuvres; the subjects are both Italian - one he was painting for Lord Morpeth, the

other for Mr. Vernon. - Kelso Mail.

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FANSHAWE, Miss Catherine Maria, of Berkeley Square; April 17. 1834; on Putney Heath; in the 69th year of her age.

Miss Fanshawe was a lady whose society was long prized and courted by the cultivated part of the higher ranks of the metropolis; she was the second of the three daughters of John Fan shawe, Esq. First Clerk of the Board of Green Cloth in the Household of George III. A ready sparkling wit and playful imagination made her company delightful; and from her talent for conversation, she would long have been remembered by her contemporaries, had she possessed no other. She was also distinguished by a genius for poetry peculiar to herself, in which flashing thoughts, sportive fancy, and whimsical grotesque conceptions, chastened and corrected by her high sense of religion and very refined taste, mingled most harmoniously. Few of her poems have been printed; and, but for the earnest entreaties of a friend engaged for a useful purpose, some years ago, in publishing a collection of poems, they would not in her lifetime have been known to the public. These are " Lines on the Letter H.," which were at first ascribed to Lord Byron; "An Epistle to Earl Harcourt," and " An Elegy on the Death of Minnet." Long after, in March, 1833, she wrote " Provision for a Family," and "The Speech of the Member for Odium," both of which appeared first in " The Morning Post," without her name, and afterwards had an extensive circulation. She seemed to consider her talents as bestowed upon her only for the amusement of her friends, and as having no reference whatever to public notice or celebrity. Yet her very modest estimate of herself will not, it is to be hoped, prevent a selection from her poems and letters from being published at some future time. But she was not indebted to her pen alone for expressing the changeful forms of her imagination. In drawing she had attained a high degree of excellence, especially in her representation of children; and she occasionally induiged in humorous subjects, though always most carefully abstaining from personal caricature. She spent several years in Italy, for the benefit of her she could carry with her half the books in the British Museum." Alas! the eager and active spirit to which such aspirations were a second nature, is now at rest for ever!

We believe that our friend was a native of Warwickshire. We know that she was early in life deprived of her mother, and thenceforth called upon to take her place at the head of a large family (then removed to Manchester), with the further trial of most precarious health. These circumstances are only mentioned as illustrative of the energy of her mind, which, under the pressure of so many of the grave cares of life, could yet find time to dream dreams of literary distinction, and, in the course of a very few years, to convert those visions into realities. An extract from a private letter which has fallen into our possession, dated but a short time before she left England, gives us an opportunity of referring to the progress of her mind in her own words.

"The passion for literary distinction consumed me from nine years old. I had no advantages - great obstaclesand now, when from disgust I cannot write a line to please myself, I look back with regret to the days when facility and audacity went hand in hand. I wish in vain for the simplicity that neither dreaded criticism nor knew fear. Intense labour has, in some measure, supplied the deficiencies of early idleness and common-place instruction; intercourse with those who were once distant and bright as the stars, has become a thing of course; I have not been unsuccessful in my own career. But the period of timidity and sadness is come now, and with my foot on the threshold of a new life and a new world,

• I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away this life of care.' "

It was at an early period of her life that she ventured to address a letter to Wordsworth, full of the impatient longings of an ardent and questioning mind-it is sufficient proof of its reception to state, that this led to a correspondence, and thence to a permanent friendship. She was also materially assisted in the developement of her talents, and bringing their fruits before the public, by the advice and active kindness of Mr. Alaric Watts, at that time resident in Manchester; an ob

ligation which she was always ready gratefully to acknowledge.

Her first work, we believe, was entitled "Phantasmagoria; or, Essays on Life and Literature," which was well received by the public. This was followed by her " Letters to the Young," written soon after a severe illness; her "Lays for Leisure Hours," and, lastly, her "Three Histories," all of which have been deservedly popular. But many of her best writings are, unfortunately, scattered abroad. She contributed some of their brightest articles to the Annuals during the season of their prosperity: of these we mention at random "The Boor of the Brocken,"in "The Forget Me Not ;" " The Hero of the Coliseum," in " The Amulet;" and "The Lovers' Quarrel," in " The Literary Souvenir." Many of her poems, too, dispersed in different periodicals, deserve to be collected; in particular, "The Lost Spirit," and "The Phantom King," written on the death of George the Fourth. During the years 1831 and 1832 she contributed many delightful papers to our own columns, and we need not remind our readers that " The Oceanides," perhaps her last literary labours, appeared there.

But we think that all these, excellent as they were, are only indications of what she might and would have achieved, had further length of days been permitted to her; that such was her own opinion, may be gathered from further passages in the same letter from which we have already quoted.

"I can bear blame if seriously given, and accompanied by that general justice which I feel due to me; banter is that which I cannot bear, and the prevalence of which in passing criticisın, and the dread of which in my own person, greatly contributes to my determination of letting many years clapse before I write another book.

"Unfortunately, I was twenty-one before I became a reader, and I became a writer almost as soon; it is the ruin of all the young talent of the day, that reading and writing are simultaneous. We do not educate ourselves for literary enterprise. Some never awake to the consciousness of the better things neglected; and if one like myself is at last seized upon by a blended passion for knowledge and for truth, he has probably committed himself by a series of jejune efforts - the standard of inferiority is erected, and the curse of mere