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LORD CHARLES MuRri^Y.-Mi2solonghii, 30th of July- (August 11), 1824.-1ith deep regret have we heard of the deatfh ot Lord Charles Alurras, son of the Duke of Athell, at Gastouit,i on the 11th of August (New Style), at 10 a. ni.- His death was oc- casioned by a most violent pain in the regions of the hcad. Ile was aged 25 years, and although so young, had evinced from the mo- mient his f6ot pressed our country the most noble and philanthropic Eentiments, with an ardour to fulfil thetm as tar as lay in his power. rllr. Georgio Sessini, in whose house he was lodred, paid him everv attention and assistance, ftr wlhich the nation owved hiii ber thanks. So seon as our Governor, Prince Alexander AMa-,rocordato, heasd of it, lie immediately entreated Dr. Julius icllingen to set oiT for Gastouini, anid endeavouir to save the life of the noble Lord. Fate, however, decreed, that lhe should arrive one hour after Lord Clharles had lied. His body was interred on the 12th instant, General Con- stantine Bozzaris and Gesrgio Sessini, aU the Suliots. and the whole population, following him to the grave. The Archbishop Chirilo pronounced his funeral oratio:n..Extract froao the G,-cek Chronicte. MR. SIIAIIP TLSE ENGRAvER.-The following particu- lars respecting the late IUr. Sharp, the best engraver of this or per- haps any age, are extracted from the Exuxniner :_- We knew the deceased. Ife sused, sorne years ago, to favour us with an oces;onal visit; but, failing to convert tus to the tinte faitb of Johanna, anti finding that we joked, or tern'pted-lo joke, respeaing the lady's prophetic powers and mitaculous conee tions, he withdrew from us the light of his broad, shining, and credulous countenance. Ofa truth he certainly wvas the most voracious believer we ever Inct with. He believed in Bmanuel Swedenborg, he believed in Richard Brothers, he believed in Johanna Southeote. Neither type, nor figtre, nor allegory, nor parable, ever presented a sturnbling-block in his way; nothing moved, nothing disconcerted him. His was, indeed, the faith -to remove mountains. 'Ha witnessed the failure of the pro. phet Brothers' mission, without being shaken in his credulity, and, in the case of Johanna Southeote, not even the evidenc2 oe al" his senses prevailed in convincing him of the errorof his creed. Thoua"h that deceived and deceiving.-Virgin lay dead before him and tee others of thc twelve-thiDugh heo asverted miraculous protuberance had resolved itself into a common dropsical savelling..tLough her watching disciples, fearing cohtagion from the not over-sweet body of their immaculate ladv, had cach frortli himself with a pipe, and were btusily etigaged to thie last momyent before the burial in purifying the air with the fumes froni the best Virginia' notwitli- standing all these significant 'signs and vwonders,' Wllliam Sharp was moteaand more convinced that the promiised Slhiloh would appea- in tritumbh, when all gainsayers and seoffFers wovildhide their abash- ed and diminished heads ! Even after the degrading and mortify- ing endl of the proptetess, so blind and obstinate is fanaticism, titat ilr. Sharp, on meeingtihe writer of this littie notice in the study of an historical painter, -gravely took bum- aside, arid told him, as a -pieceof goodinewB, that a certain lady had actually givea birth to a seton (he. Shilash ofonre), wows-esthen inthekeping-ofart- angels and who would -ert Wy a.pcar on earth in three yersi."l