The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-05 00:00:00

It is with regret that we announce the death of
General Sir Willoughby Cotton, G.C.8., and
K.C.H., which occurred yesterday morning at his
residence in Lowndes-square. Sir Willoughby, like
his kinsman, Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere,
had achieved an honourable career in the army, his
services having extended over a period of upwards
of 60 years. He was the only son of Admiral Cot-
ton, cousin of Lord Combermere, and a nephew of
Sir Willoughby Aston Willoughby, and was born
in 1783. When in his 16th year he left Rugby
School to enter the 3d Guards as ensign. In 1805
he commenced his active military career, when he•
accompanied his regiment in the expedition to
Hanover. After his return from Germany, he was,
in 1807, engaged with his regiment in the expedi-
tion to Copenhagen, where he was appointed—,
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under the Duke of Wellington, and was present at
the battle of Kioge. In 1809 the gallant officer
accompanied the illustrious Duke to Spain, and
served as Deputy-Assistant-Adjutant-General to the
Light Division during the whole of the campaign
of the retreat to Torres Vedras, and the subsequent
advance, the former containing a series of skir-
mishes, and the battle of the Coa, under General
Crawford. In 1811 he returned, on his promotion,
home, but rejoined the army in the Peninsula in
1813, and served until the close of the war. He
was present at the battle of Vittoria • commanded
the light companies at the passage of the Adour,
and the piquets of the 2d brigade of Guards at the
repulse of the sortie from Bayonne, besides other
engagements of minor importance. He had re-
ceived the war medal and three clasps for Busaeo,
Vittoria, and Nive. For some years he commanded
the 14th Foot. Like many other distinguished or-
naments of the British army, he had seen conside-
rable service in India. The deceased general had
passed many years in that country, having com-
manded a division of Sir Archibald Campbell's
army in the Burmese war. He was appointed to
the command of the Ist division of the Bengal
army destined to take part in the Affghanistan war
in 1838.39 under General Sir Henry Vane, and
afterwards of General Sir John Keane, in which
brave army were many names illustrious in the
military annals of the country—among others
I)ennie, Sale, Willshire, Wheeler, Outran], and
Havelock. Sir Willoughby was present at the
storming and capture of Ghuznee, on July 23, 1839,
at which he commanded the reserve which entered.
the city after the storming party had established
themselves inside. His name was most honourabl3,-
mentioned in the despatches of Sir John Keane and
in those of the Governor-General, Lord Auckland.
In Oct., 1839, he relinquished the command of the
Bengal forces, then in camp near Cabul, to assume
his command within the Bengal and Agra Presi-
dencies. The lamented deceased was subsequently,
namely, from 1847 to 1850, commander-in.chief at
Bombay, and was second member of Council in that
presidency. For his meritorious services he had re-
ceived the Order of the Bath of all the grades, being
nominated a Grand Cross of that Order in 1840.
He was made a Knight Commander of the Royal.
Hanoverian Guelphic Order in 1830, and had con-
ferred upon him the Order of the Dooranee Empire
of the Ist class, at Cabul, in Sept., 1839. The
coloneley of the 98th Foot was given him in 1839,
from which he was removed:to the 32d Foot, in.
April, 1854, which becomes vacant by his death.
His commission bore date as follows :—Ensign, Oct,
31, 1798; lieutenant and captain, Nov. 25, 1790 -
captain and lieut.-colonel, June 12, 1811 ; colonel,'
July 25, 1821 ' • major-general, July 22, 1830 ; lieut.-
general, Nov. 22, 1841 ; and general, June 20, 1854.
The late general married May 16, 1806, Lady
Augusta Maria Coventry, eldest daughter of George
William, seventh earl of Coventry, great grand-
father of the present peer. It is not generally
known that the late Sir Willoughby was the great
friend of the late Gen. Sir H. Havelock. They were
together in the first Burmese. war, and the brave
Havelock was one of his aides-de-camp while he was
with the army in Affghanistan. The late o,eneral
Havelock, then captain in the 13th Regt., modestly
dedicated to the late Sir Willoughby his interest-
ing "Narrative of the War in Affghanistan, in
1838-39," in token of his " grateful recollection of
his numerous acts of persevering kindness since
1825, when Capt. Havelock first served in the same
army with him."

DEATH OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORE.

We deeply regret to announce the death of the
above dignitary of the Church. The Archbishop
of York died last evening at half-past eight
o'clock, at his Grace's residence in Belgrave-
square. We are informed that only a fort-
night yesterday his Grace complained of a dizzi-
ness after entertaining a select circle of friends
at dinner, and although no importance was then
attached to his indisposition, he gradually be-
came worse, and the attack ended with fatal
results. The Right Honourable and Most Rev.
Thomas Musgrave, D.D., was son of a draper in
Cambridge, where he was born in 1788. Atter an
elementary education, he entered as student of
Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1806, and was 14th
wrangler in 1810. His Grace was elected a fellow
of his college, which he held up to 1837. When at
Cambridge he obtained the second member's prize
for Middle Bachelor in 1811 ; proceeded M.A. in
1813 ; became Lord Almoner ; Professor of Arabic
in 1821 ; and was senior Proctor in 1831. The de-
ceased Archbishop was incumbent of St. Mary the
Great, Cambridge, and has also been bursar of his
college. In 1837, Dr. Musgrave was appointed by
the late Viscount Melbourne Bishop of Hereford,
and on the death of the venerable Dr. Harcourt, in
1847, was translated to the archiepiscopal see of
York.

The late archbishop was Primate of England, a
Governor of the Charterhouse and of King's Col-
lege, and Visitor of Queen's College, Oxford ; a
Commissioner for Building Churches, and Elector
of St. Augustine's College, Canterbury. In the
the patronage of the archbishop were 96 livings,
which he dispensed most impartially, and with
credit to his exalted position. The diocese com—
prises the whole of Yorkshire, with the exception of
a portion belonging to the see of Ripon, and. is of
the annual value of £lO,OOO.

The province includes the sees of Durham, Car-
lisle, Manchester, Ripon, and Sodor and Man. The
late archbishop married 12th December, 1839, the
Hon. Catherine, youngest daughter of the late Lord
Waterpark, and sister of the present peer.

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a cargo from Liverpool. The captain expressed his
satisfaction at the prompt and timely arrival of the
lifeboat, and begged of her crew to remain by him
until it could be seen whether the ship would be
got off or not. Shortly afterwards two steam-tugs,
with 30. men on board, made their appearance.
After several hours of exertion the Vanguard was
fortunately got off her perilous situation and taken
to Kingstown for repairs. She had got on this
dangerous bank this morning, owing to the foggy
state of the weather. After having been away nine
hours the lifeboat returned to the shore. Althou,gh
the boat rendered on this occasion no actual sere ice,
yet it would have been a very different affair if
the ship had been a passenger one, like the Po-
mona, which about twelve months ago went to
pieces on the dangerous Blackwater Bank, and
when nearly 400 poor creatures lost their lives on
that disastrous occasion. The National Lifeboat
Institution has now three valuable lifeboats iiethis
neighbourhood, one of them a large powerful sail-
ing lifeboat, which would probably take off a wreck
in one trip 60 people.

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