s_, by Mr. Toulmin Smith. He was sixty-three
years of age.

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HEBERT RODWELL, for many years known in musical and literary circles as
a composer and author died in London early in January. He possessed
considerable taste and feeling, and produced ballads and concerted
pieces of much sweetness. As a dramatic author, his efforts were
principally confined to performances of a light and humorous cast,
including burlesques and the openings of pantomimes. He produced two
serial works of fiction, each of which had a fair success--_Old London
Bridge_ and _The Memoirs of an Umbrella_, Some scenes from the latter
were dramatized, and had a run at the Adelphi.

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GENERAL SIR FREDERICK PHILIPSE ROBINSON, G.C.B., Colonel of the
thirty-ninth Regiment, died at Brighton on the 1st instant, in his
eighty-eighth year. He was the oldest soldier in the British army,
having been within a month of seventy-five years in the service. He was
a native of New-York, and a son of the well known royalist, Colonel
Beverly Robinson, whose name is associated with that of Andre in the
treason of Benedict Arnold, by a daughter of Frederick Philipse. He
entered the British army as an ensign, in February, 1777, and for five
years he was in the first American war, and was present in the principal
battles fought during that period. Subsequently, in 1794, he went to the
West Indies, and shared in the capture of Martinique, St. Lucia, and
Guadaloupe; he was also at the storming of Fleur d'Epee and the Heights
of Palmiste. In 1812 Philipse Robinson joined the army in the Peninsula.
At the battle of Vittoria he commanded the brigade which carried the
village of Gamazza Mayo, without firing one shot. He also was present at
the first and second assaults on San Sebastian, and was severely wounded
at the second attack. He took part in the passage of the Bidassoa, the
grand reconnaissance before Bayonne, the battle of the Nive (being there
again severely wounded), in the blockade of Bayonne, and in the repulse
of the sortie from that place, when he succeeded to the command of the
fifth division of the army. In June, 1814, Major-General Robinson went
to North America in command of a brigade, and he led the forces intended
for the attack on Plattsburg, but received orders to retire, after
having forced the passage of the Saranac. After the end of hostilities,
he came from Canada to this