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nInTE. At Brecon, on Monday last, the lady of Capt. Wharton, 73d regiment, of a son. DIAILILIED- On Monday, the 10th inst., at the residence of the Countess Dowager of Howth, the Viscount Diingarvan, eldest son of the Earl of Cork and Orrery, to the Lady Catherine St. Lawrence, sister to the Earl of Howth. At Lanishen church, in this county, on the 15th instant, by the Rev. W. P. Lewis, Henry Charles, eldest son of Col. Vernon Graham, of Hilton Park, Staffordshire, and Hockley-House, county of Armagh, Ireland, to Catherine, daughter of the late Rich. Rice Williams, Esq. of Gweruilwyn, Glamorganshire, and niece of Wyudham Lewis, Esq. M.P. On the 17th inst. at Northfleet Church,by the Rev. G.Whittaker, A.M. Walter David Jones, Esq. M. D., of Haverfordwest, to Anu, youngest daughter of Thos. Harman, Esq. of Wombwell Hall, Kent. On the 18th inst. at St. George's Church, Bloomsbury, Sir George Provost, Bart. to Jane, the only daughter of Isaac Lloyd Williams, Esq. of Southampton-street, London, and of Cwmcynfelin, Cardiganshire. On the 11th inst., at Llatisaintffiead Church, near Aberystwith, the Rev. John Jones, eldest son of the late Hugh Jones, Esq. of Lampeter, and Curate of Denbigh, to Jane, daughter of the late, and sister to the present J. Hughes, Esq. of Alltlwyd, Cardiganshire. On the 14th inst. W. H. Roger Palmer, Esq. eldest son of Sir William Henry Palmer, Bart., of Castle Lacklen, county of Mayo, to Ellen, youngest daughter of the late John Matthews, Esq., of Plas Bostoc, and co-heiress of the late F. Matthews, Esq., of Eyarth, in the county of Denbigh. On Thursday se'nnight, at St. George's, Hanover-square, by the Rev. riios. Salway, Vicar of Oswestry, Lieut.-Col. Salway, of the Coldstream Guards, third son of Theophilus Richan: Salway, Esq. of the Lodge, in the county of Salop, to Eliza Philippa, eldest daughter of John H. Holder, Esq. of Stanton Lacy, in the same county. DIES. On Monday last, at his residence in London, in the 87th year of his age, Walter Wilkins, Esq. M. P., of Maeslongh, in the county of Radnor. He had been the Representative of that county for a great number of successive Parliaments, and his public conduct was always marked by the most disinterested feeling and independence. In private life he was unostentatious and unassuming, though possessed of immense wealth. On Saturday last, after a longillness, borne with much patience and resignation, Mrs. Osier, wife of Mr. Edward Osler, surgeon, late of Swansea. Last week, aged 9], Mr. John Palmer, formerly a respectable master- tailor of Swansea. On Monday, the Jitb inst. at Neath, in the 32ft year of his age, Mr. William Davies, saddler. On Wednesday se'nnight, aged 62, Anne, the wife of 1\I: Joe. Pierce, of Brecon. On the 13th inst. aged Sa years, Mr. David Jenkins, shOPm:.ker. of Aberystwith. On the 13th inst. aged 6g years, Mr. Alexander Newman, of Aberyst- with, a superannuated Officer of the Customs, London, leaving a moih;:r in the one hundred and fifth year of her age, to survive the loss of a kind and affectionate son. On Sunday se'nnight, at her residence at the Spa, near Gloucester, after a short illness, in the 85th year of her age, Mrs. Raikes, relict of Robert Raikes, Esq., formerly the highly respectable Proprietor of the Gloucester Journal. She was a lady of a pious and benevolent dispo- sition, with an active and well cultivated mind, and a heart open as day to melting charity. Her death will be long lamented by iier surviving relatives and numerous friends. a On Wednesday se'nnight, aged 19, Charles, fourth son of ML John Heath, coach-proprietor, of Southgate-street, Gloucester, much esteemed and reg/etted by his family and friends. On Sunday, at Leominster, Sarah Baker, sister of the late Lieut.-Col. W. Baker, of the Hon. East India Company's Service. In her 90th year, Anne, relict of Rd. Sainsbury, Esq. of Chippenham, and mother of the Rev. W. R. Sainsbury, of Pickwick, Wiils. On the 9th inst. at Holcrofts, Fulham, at a very advanced age, Lient.- Gen. Sir Alan Cameron, K.C.B. Colonel of the 79th, or Cameron High- landers(raised athis own expense), and father of Lieut.-Colonel Cameron, of Dan-y-Graig, near Swansea. The following interesting Memoir of this gallant and veteran Officer we copy from The Times newspaper:—1".Among the military men who have distinguished themselves during the last half century, perhaps few individuals have equalled the late Sir Alan Cameron in uraveryard energetic zeal. By birth a Highlander,—in heart and soul a true OIW, in form and frame the bold and manly mountaineer,-he early acquired considerable influence in his native glens. Ardent and persevering in whatever he undertook, when the American war began he devoted him- self enthusiastically in his country's cause. Unfortunately, however, when on detached service, he was taken prisoner of war, and immured vindictively, for nearly two years in the common gaol of Philadelphia, under the plea that he had been engaged in exciting the native tribes in favour of Great Britain. In attempting to escape from a confinement so much at variance with the usages of war, Sir Alan had both his ancles broken and shattered, and he never perfectly recovered from the painfnl effects of those injuries. Sir Alan was subsequently- placed upon half-pay, as a provincial officer. Roused by the alarms and dan- gers of 1793, Sir Alan Cameron, principally by his personal influence over the minds of Highlanders, in little more than three months patri- otically raised the 79th, or Cameron Highlanders. In accomplishing this, no burden was thrown upon the public. Sir Alan Cameron de: frayed the whole expense out of his own private funds, no bountv money whatever having been drawn from government: his officers also were taken from the half-pay list, nor was any promotion upon that occasion allowed. In August, 1793, Sir Alan was appointed Major- Commandant of this his clan regiment; and in January, 1704, Lieu- tenant-Colcnel Commandant of the same. At the head of his regiment, during the latter year, he joined the army in the Netherlands, under the late Duke of York. In 1795 Sir Alan proceeded to the West Indies, then powerfully menaced. Very severe losses were there sus- tained by his regiment, and the brave soldier had the mortification of seeing the remnant of his corps draughted chiefly into the 42d regiment. Sir Alan, therefore, returned home. So sensible, however, was his late Royal Highness of the value of his services, that he was immediately commissioned to raise the Cameron Highlanders anew, which, by nn- ceasing exertion, and considerable pecuniary sacrifices, he proudly accomplished in little more than six months, notwithstanding the ad- vanced period of the war. In 1799 Sir Alan again served with his regiment on the continent, under his Royal Highne¡,g the late Duke of York, whom he ever considered as his best benefactor. In the battle of Bergen-op-Zoom, Sir Alan was twice severely wounded. In 1800 Sir Alan Cameron served in the expeditions to Ferrol, Cadiz, &c.; and in 1S01 at the head of his brave men, he shared the dangers and glories of Alexandria, and endured the hardships and perils of the Egyptian cam- paign. In 1804 Sir Alan and the officers of his regiment, in the coarse of only a few months, and solely by recruiting, raised a strong 2.1 bat- talion of S00 rank and file, for general service. He was rewarded, in consequence, with the rank of Colonel, on the 1st of January, 1895. Tn the descent upon Zealand, Sir Alan, by the order of Lord Cathcait took military possession of Copenhagen, at the head of the flank com- panies of the army. In 1808, Sir Alan accompanied his gallant coun- tryman, Sir John Moore, as Brigadier-General, on the expedition to Sweden; and in 1803, to the Peninsula. Advancing from Portugal with reinforcements, he was placed in a most critical situation by the sudden and unexpected retreat to Corunna; nevertheless, he suceeded, undergoing great fatigue and enduring great privation, in marching his force, which had been considerably augmented on its route by convales- cents and stragglers, in safety to Lisbon. This very force is generally considered very materially to have assisted the Duke of WelUno-ton in the successful attack which his Grace soon afterwards made upon Souit, at Oporto. At the battle of Talavera, Sir Alan had two horses shot under him, when he took post by the colours of one of the regiments cf his brigade; and throughout that arduous and eventful day never, indeed, were energy and gallantry more conspicuously and effectively- displayed. The action at Busaco was the last in which Sir Alan Cameron was engaged. He commanded a brigade, in which his own resiment, present with him, bore also a part: extreme ill health then compelled' him to retire from the active service of his country for ever. On the 25th of July, 1810, Sir Alan was appointed a Major-General; after the peace, a K. C. B.; and on the 12th of August, 1S19, he was made a Lieutenant-General. A great sufferer in body from severe infirmities contracted by continued exposures and fatigues on service, Sir Alan nevertheless lived to an advanced age. But he was doomed to see his family drop around him-his youngest son, when his aide-de-camp, early in the Peninsula campaign, from privations and fatigues,—his eldest, when leading on the immediate advance of the British army at Fuentes d'Ornor,—his nephew and his orphan grandson, both of whom perished from the baneful effects of West India service the former was he who, holding only the rank of lieutenant, bravely led on the Cameron High- landers at the battle.of Waterloo, when all his superior officers had been either killed or wounded. Of his own immediate male kindred, Sir Alan has left only one son, Lieutenant-Colonel Cameron, who, until the close of the war, when the corps was disbanded, commanded the 2d battalion of the Cameron Highlanders, and who will this day follow to the grave the worn-out remains of his aged and veteran parent."

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