The Press.
London, England, 1857-01-17 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

Baltic stations he sailed for the East Indies, where
he remained from September, 1798, until April, 1803.
He was promoted on the Ist of February, 1812, to the
rank of commander. His last appointment was to
the Dover troopship, the command of which he re-
tained from the 30th of July, 1814, until the oth of
August, 1810. During that period, besides visiting
the West Indies and the Baltic, he accompanied the
expedition against New Orleans, where he served on
shore in the breachinc, batteries and in command of
a body of seamen, and was particularly noticed for
his exertions by Sir E. T. Troubridge. He attained
the rank of captain on the 2nd of September 1810,
and accepted the retirement on the Ist of October,
1840. On the 11th of June, 1851, he was placed on
the list of retired rear.admirals.
MAJon•GENERAL WILLIAM Cox' K.H., died at St.
Leonard's.on•Sea on Tuesday. He was a very dis•
tinguished officer, having served in the old 95th at
Copenhagen, and throughout the whole of the Penin-
sular war, from 1808 to 1814. He was present at
the actions of Roleia, Vimiera, the retreat to Coruuna,
battles of Vittoria, Nivelle, Nieve, passage of the
Bidassoa, and battle of Orilies, receiving three severe
wounds during the war. In the Kaffir war of 1835
he had the command of a division under Sir Benja-
min D'Urban, and was subsequently employed in
Canada during the insurrection of late years. Major-
General Cox was on the staff in Ireland. He had
the war medal and seven clasps for his Peninsular
services.

SIR HUGH RICHARD HOARE, BART., died on the
10th inst., at his seat, Stourhead, Wilts, in his 70th
year. He was born Nov. 27, 1787, and succeeded as
fourth baronet on the death of his father, August 18,
1841. He married in 1819, Anne, daughter of
Thomas Tyrwhitt Drake, Esq., formerly M.P. for
Amersham ; but as he had no issue the title has
passed to his nephew, Henry Ainslie Hoare, Esq.,
of Wavendon house, Bucks, who is married to the
second daughter of the late Sir East George Clayton
East, Bart., by whom he has issue a son, Charles
Peregrine Louis, born 1846, now heir presumptive to
the title and estates at Stourhead.

MR. PELHAM, THE SOI.ICITOR, died on Saturday
morning, at six o'clock, at his residence in Arbour•
square, Stepney. The deceased gentleman was in his
fifty-sixth year, and practised at the various police-
courts for a period of twenty-seven years, though in
the early period of his professional career he attended
to the common-law practice in the courts at West-
minster only. His extensive knowledge of maritime
law, and his superior talent as an advocate, caused
him to he retained in almost every shipping and
mercantile case of importance at the Whiteehapel
and Bow County Courts, the Thames Police-court,
and the Mansion-house. He was consulted by the
Lords of the Admiralty and their solicitor in 1850,
when the Mercantile Nlarine Act was introduced, and
he framed the principal discipline clauses, which
were subsequently embodied in the Merchant
Shipping Act of 1554. The late Mr. Pelham was
also engaged for a period of twenty-five years in
criminal prosecutions and the defence of prisoners at
the Central Criminal Court, the Clukenwell Sessions,
and the assizes. Mr. Pelham conducted the defence
of the notorious Noah Pease Foulger, master mari-
ner, who shot Mr. Mellish, the eminent contractor, on
the Royal Exchange, and the defence of Oxford, who
shot at the Queen. It will be recollected that in
both cases a plea of insanity was established. Mr.
Pelham was much respected by the profession and
by the judges and magistrates before whom he so
frequently appeared.