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 10, 1813, Diana, fourth daughter of the late T. Hammersley, Esq. a London banker.

Agents.– Messrs. Cooke, Halford, and Son. 

 officer is the eldest son of the late General Fanshawe, who, after attaining the rank of colonel in the British army, entered the service of Russia, during the reign of the Empress Catharine II. by whose successor he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general, and appointed Governor-General of Kieff, in the year 1800. By the Emperor Alexander he was removed to the government of the Crimea, and presented with several decorations. In 1812, he served as volunteer under the Duke of Wirtemberg, at the blockade of Dantzic; and at the termination of the campaign he returned to St. Petersburgh, where he was named a senator, and received an arende in consideration of his long services. His declining health obliged him to solicit, from the late Czar, the permission of visiting some foreign watering places; but every attempt of art to prolong life proved vain, and after a painful and protracted illness, he expired at Warsaw, aged 72, leaving behind him five sons, three of whom are in the Russian service, and one a clergyman in England.

Mr. was born at Shiplake, in Oxfordshire, Dec. 9, 1778. He commenced his professional career in the Russian marine, and did not enter the British navy until 1708, when we find him joining the Kent 74, bearing the flag of Lord Duncan, in the North Sea, from which ship he followed Sir Richard Bickerton into the Royal Sovereign, of 100 guns, on the Mediterranean station. His commission as lieutenant bears date May 25, 1805; at which period, we believe, he was appointed to the Courageux 74. His promotion to the rank of commander took place May 2, 1808; and on that occasion he appears to have received an appointment to the Grasshopper brig, of 18 guns, the fate of which