The present Lord Lovat is, it seems, the first Catholic
who has been Created u Peer since the Revolution in 1688.
Sir George Murray has addressed a letter to the Morning Chronicle, contradicting the statement of Colonel Napier that he had taken away cer- tain military plans from the Quartermaster-General's Office, to prevent the Colonel having access to them. Sir George proves, by copies of entries from the books of the Office, that he took away the plans, not the day before, but some years before Colonel Napier applied for them ;
and that he returned them in 1826, two years before the appearance of the first volume of Colonel Napier's History. This relates to one set of plans only. Those which we mentioned last week, and which were made by Captain Mitchel, Sir George seems to have still in his pos- session ; but on this point he is not explicit. We shall see what Colonel Napier has to say in reply to Sir George Murray.
The Honourable Fulke Greville, who lately died at Dover, the father-in-law of Lord Combermere, has left the gallant General's eldest son the bulk of his estate.
The Dutchess of Somerset, it is asserted, receives an accession of 100,000/. to her private fortune by the death of her brother, the late Sir Michael Shaw Stewart.
Lord Ponsonby, his Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople, baying obtained leave to come home for a short time on urgent private affairs, Sir C. Vaughan, late his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington, is about to proceed to Con- stantinople, as Ambassador Extraordinary whilst Lord Ponsonby is away ; it being not thought right to leave so important a post without an AOhassador. Jut Lord Ponsonby's absence will only be tempo- ram, and will probably not exceed a few mouths.—Circular to the itli- gasifrial Papers.
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