Carlisle Patriot, 10 Dec 1825 - BMD (2)

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Saturday 10 Dec 1825   (p. 3, col. 5)

 

DEATHS.

 

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On the 29th April last, on his way to England, of a dropsy, Captain Richard STAMPER, of the East India Company's Service, youngest son of the late Jacob STAMPER, Waver Bank, Bolton, Cumberland, aged 37. He also held an appointment as Commissary General.

 

At Spottes, on the 22d ult. Mrs. MUIRHEAD. At Capenoch, on the 20th ult. in the 85th year of his age, Wm. KIRKPATRICK, Esq. youngest son of the deceased Sir Thos. KIRKPATRICK, of Closeburn, Bart. Suddenly, at his house, in the vicinity of Stranraer, on the 24th ult. William DOUGLAS, Esq. commonly known by the title of the Duke of Douglas.

 

At Liverpool, on the 25th ult. after a lingering illness, Mrs. Ellen M'GHIE, wife of Mr. John M'GHIE, and daughter of the late Mr. James RODEN, Dumfries.

 

On the 19th ult. at Kirkby Lonsdale, Mrs. Sarah ADAMS, late of Workington, aged 97. Her death was occasioned by her clothes taking fire on the 16th.

 

On the 10th of August, at Bathurst, New South Wales, the Rev. W. BORDMAN, late of Blackburn.

 

A few days [sic], the Rev. Thomas CARR, of Stackhouse, senior fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

 

At Harewood-House, on Tuesday morning, Harriet, second daughter of N. FENWICK, Esq. of Bedford-court, Worcestershire, and niece to the Countess of Harewood.

 

At Geneva, in the prime of life, William Henry LAMBTON, Esq. third son of the late Henry William LAMBTON, Esq. of Lambton, in Durham.

 

At Castlemilk, on the 1st inst. Capt. Wm. STERLING, late of the First Regiment of Dragoon Guards.

 

At Paris, the celebrated oppositionist in the French Chamber of Deputies, General FOY, after a short illness, occasioned by an enlargement of the heart.

 

At Kirk Marown, Isle of Man, Mr. Patrick MAGEE, auctioneer. At Douglas, Mr. Richard SCOTT, stone-cutter, aged 44.

 

At West Wycombe, James HAWES, labourer, at the advanced age of 105 years. He was many years huntsman to the late Lord LE DESPENCER, and retained all his faculties, except hearing, to the last.

 

Death of the Duchess of Rutland.—This melancholy event took place at Belvoir Castle on the forenoon of Tuesday week. "Her Grace (says the Lincoln Mercury) so lately as Friday was engaged in inspecting the progress of the numerous workmen employed in completing the splendid decorations of the grand drawing-room at Belvoir, which it was intended should have been first opened on the occasion of the Duke's approaching birth-day: she also took her accustomed exercise, and wrote several letters. In the evening symptoms of the disease, with which she was severely attacked a year ago, began to manifest themselves; but on the following day they appeared to have abated very considerably. At two o'clock on Sunday morning, Mr. CATLETT, surgeon to the family, who sleeps in the castle, was hastily summoned to her Grace's apartment, and found her state so extremely dangerous as to excite the most alarming apprehensions. Expresses were instantly sent off to Dr. WILSON, of Grantham, Dr. PENNINGTON, of Nottingham, Dr. ARNOLD, of Leicester, and Sir Henry HALFORD. The first three promptly obeyed the summons; Sir Henry arrived at the castle from London at 5 o'clock on Tuesday morning, but the hand of death was already on the Duchess; all the efforts of the faculty had been unremittingly exerted to arrest the progress of the disorder, but in vain—from Sunday there appears to have been no hope. Her Grace, whose self-possession was remarkable, felt perfectly alive to the imminence of her danger, and the fortitude with which she bore her acute sufferings, and viewed her approaching fate, was in the highest degree affecting. The Duke never quitted the bed-side till she had ceased to breathe. Her Grace expired at half-past 11 on Tuesday morning. Dispatches were immediately forwarded, announcing the afflicting event, to his Majesty, to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, and to the various branches of the Rutland and Carlisle families. Her Grace exhibited a union of qualities that are seldom found united in the female character. Of her elevated taste, the Castle of Belvoir will long remain a magnificent monument: from its first commencement, 25 years ago, she had been the presiding genius of the place.

 

          "O! shades of Belvoir, where is now your boast?

          "Your bright Inhabitant is lost!"

 

Nor was it on the Castle alone that her active talents were exhibited—the grounds, the villages, the roads, even the general aspect of the country, assumed a new character; every suggestion for the improvement of this beautiful domain was zealously carried into effect under the personal superintendence of her Grace; she produced in a few years changes which a mind less energetic would have required centuries to effect. The Duchess was a practical agriculturist, and occupied a farm exceeding 800 acres; it furnished a model of careful and successful management. As a proof of her ability in this undertaking, she was frequently complimented with premiums from different agricultural societies. It is somewhat singular that, with predilections so strong for a rural life, her Grace was one of the brightest ornaments of the English Court; no one ever exhibited more of graceful dignity, joined to manners of the highest polish, and a condescension that fascinated every one who came within the sphere of its magic influence. As a wife, a mother, a benefactress, she was most exemplary; her loss is indeed an irreparable one, and will long be mourned with an affliction that admits of no consolation by her bereaved family. Her grace was the fifth daughter of the late Frederick Earl of Carlisle, K. G., by Caroline daughter of Granville LEVISON, first Marquis of Stafford—was born on 13th Nov. 1780, and married April 22, 1790.