Lieut.-col. Pierce to Miss Lester. Rev. W. C. Clack, rector of Moretonhampstead, to Miss Naylor, of Coombe Royal, Kingsbridge, Devon. Rev. B. Lumley, rector of Dalby, Yorkshire, to Miss Bennett, dau. of the late John B. esq. of Barton, Lincolnshire. Martin Diederich Rucker, esq. of Upper Thames-street, to Sarah, 2d dau. of J. Evans, esq. of Walworth. Mr. C. Holder, of Nailsea, to Miss Cary, dau. of M. Cary, esq. of Kingston, with a fortune of 30,000l. Lieut.-col. Walsh, to the widow of C. Hopkins, esq. J. C. Winder, esq. of East Lenham, to Frances, dau. of the late Rob. Harrison, esq. of Acton-hall, Charing, Kent. Rev. E. W. Ingram, rector of Stanford, Worcestershire, to Miss J. Onslow, 24 dau. of the very reverend the Dean of Worcester. Henry Patterson, jun. esq. to Auna eldest dau: of Sir Thos. Turton, bart. M.P. Rev. Charles Mosey, rector of Southwick, Hants, to Charlotte, eldest dau. of Francis Fownes Luttrell, esq. Richard Curran, esq. eldest son of the Right hon. John P. C. master of the rolls in Ireland, to Mrs. Wiysel, of York-place. The Hon. Thos. Mullins, 2d son of the Right hon. Lord Ventry, to Mrs. Archer, dau. of Mrs. Reader, of Brunswick-square, and widow of the late Major-gen. Archer. August 1. Wm. Bolland, esq. of the Middle Temple, to Elizabeth, third dau. of John Bolland, esq. of Clapham. 2. Rev. Edw. Allen, son of Wm. A. esq. of Lewisham, to Anne, the youngest dau. of John St. Barbe, esq. of Blackheath. Rev. John Cholmeley, rector of Brandiston, Norfolk, to Selina Eliza, third dau. of Richard Puller, esq. Rev. Wm. Hammersley, vicar of Cheswardine, Salop, to Constantia, second dau. of the Rev. Dr. Davenport, rector of Bardwell, aud minister of Sapiston, Suffolk. 4. Lieut.-gen. Sir David Baird, bart. K. B. to Miss Preston Campbell. 6. At Woodford, Michael Henry Perceval, esq. to the eldest dau. of Sir Charles Flower, bart. Robert Foster Grant, esq. to Mary Slade, only dau, of Nathanael Dalton, esq. of Stranks-house, Somersetshire. 9. At Snarestone, George Moore, jun. esq. of Appleby, to the only dau, of John Drummond, esq. of Snareston-ball, Leicest. John Clarke, of Wigston-hall, co. Leic. esq. to Catharine Martha, eldest dau. of Thomas Baddeley, of Newport, Salop, esq. 11. At Barton under Needham, Staffordshire, George Birch, esq. of Blakenhall, to the only dau. of Thos. Cockayne, esq. of Ickleford-house, Herts. 13. At Little Horsted, Sir George Clark, bart. of Penniwick, to Maria, second dau. of Ewan aw, esq. and niece of Lord Ellenborougn. 14. At Northfleet, Benj. Sharpe, esq. of Fleet-street, banker, to Anne, eldest dau. of Benj. Kennet, esq. Story, esq. At Aldenham, Herts, to Mrs. Amherst, widow of the late John A. of Kent, esq. and one of the daughters of Caleb Lomax, esq. 15. At Ufford, Suffolk, Christopher Armstrong, esq. to Sarah, second dau. of Rev. Jacob Chilton, rector of Eyke. At Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire, at 2 o'clock P. M. by the Rev. Simon Lepseker, Mr. Jonas Lazarus, silversmith and jeweller, of Lincoln, to the beautiful and accomplished Miss Rosceia Nathan, dau. of Mr. M. L. Nathan, silversmith and jeweller, of the former place. The marriage ceremony was performed in Mr. Nathan's garden, in the presence of a numerous company of Jews and Christians (at least 200 persons), under an elevated canopy supported by four youths. A band of musick, playing a grand martial air, preceded the bridegroom, who was attended by the bride's father and grandfather: some minutes after, they were followed by the bride (veiled), attended by her mother and grandmother. Four green wax tapers were burning during the ceremony. The bride was led several times round the bridegroom; and the ring was put on the forefinger of her left hand, where it remained till the next day, and was then placed on the usual finger appropriated for that purpose. At the conclusion, a glass was handed round to the happy couple and their relations, out of which they all drank; it was then laid under the bridegroom's feet, and by him stamped to pieces. After the ceremony a large party of their friends sat down to a handsome dinner provided for the occasion. 16. J. Egerton, esq. of Gray's-inn, to Mrs. Forbes, dau. of the late Col. Sir John Cumming, and widow of Arthur Forbes, esq. Evelyn John Shirley, esq. of Eatington, Warwickshire, to the only dau. of Arthur Stanhope, esq. 18. Mr. Robert Wm. Herring, of Fleetstreet, to Miss Morgan, dau. of Mr. John M. of Ludgate-hill. John Guise, esq. of Lower Grosvenorplace, to Maria, 2d dau. of the late Rich. Westmacott, esq. 19. Hon. Philip Sydney Pierrepoint, youngest son of the Earl Manvers, to Georgina, only dau. of the late H. G. Browne, esq. of Imley-park, Northamptonshire, and widow of the late Pryce Edwards, esq. of Talgrath, co, Merioneth. 21. Rev. Benj. Maddock, B. A. to Miss Walker, dau. of the late Rev. Dr. W. of Leicester. 27. Visc. Falmouth to Anne Frances, eldest dau. of Henry Bankes, esq. A FEW BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE LATE MASTER J. R. BOOKER. ALTHOUGH recollection swells with many circumstances highly interesting to a parental heart, they will chiefly be "kept and pondered there," till that heart shall cease to beat, and the tender intercourse, which has been interrupted by death, shall be renewed in a state of bliss; where will be no more sorrow or separation. Only such incidents will, therefore, here be recorded, as may have an useful or instructive tendency. And one of those incidents occurred when the youthful subject of these brief memoirs was not more than five years old,-proving that the principles of Religion cannot too soon be implanted. "For, whom shall we teach knowledge?" says the Prophet: "Whom shall we make to understand doctrine? even them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts." Isaiah xxviii. 9.-Having done something which his tender mother (who is now a Saint in heaven) judged deserving of punishment, she gently corrected him; at the same time telling him "that, by the fault, he had offended his Heavenly Father." Soon afterwards the child was missing; and his mother and aunt became somewhat alarmed respecting his safety: when the latter (without his perceiving her) discovered him, in one of the most retired places he could find, prostrate upon his knees, with his little hands uplifted in a most earnest manner, in the act of devout supplication to God to pardon. When about the same age, while walking with him in the fields, a dead hedge-hog was observed near the path, which greatly excited his wonder and curiosity. After giving him some information concerning its former habits and economy, I concluded by observing, "that it probably owed its death to a persuasion, very generally received, that hedge-hogs sucked the teats of cows while lying down in their pastures." Inmediately on hearing this (before I had expressed my own disbelief of the circumstance) he began, with a small stick which he had in his hand, very attentively to examine the mouth of the dead animal'; cautiously asking, at the same time, whether it had attained its full growth? On being told that I never saw one e larger in my life, he exclaimed, "Why, Papa, it is impossible! for look at the size of the poor thing's mouth, and look at the size of the teats of a cow. Its mouth would hardly take in one of my fingers: while the teat of a cow is as thick as my wrist." Then, plaintively commiserating it, he said, "Poor creature! poor creature! if upon that charge thou hast been killed, thou hast suffered most unjustly*." The reader will conclude the little Naturalist was caressed and commended for his ob servation. May thousands of ill-judging men learn wisdom from this child, and spare, in future, a persecuted, harmless species of animals, physically incapable of committing the wrongs, imputed to them! On the contrary, they are beneficial to man; being destructive only of slugs and noxious reptiles, which secrete themselves by day in banks and hedges, and at night sally forth to devour the fruits of the garden or the labours of the field. The same accuracy of observation distinguished the dear boy throughout his short and innocent life. Nor did any one ever converse with him without being frequently astonished, and always delighted. Of Natural History and Agriculture he was particularly fond: and a respectable gentleman, of extensive knowledge and experience in husbandry, near the place where he was at school, declared that he had often been taught something by him worth remembering, relative to land or crops, sheep or cattle, whenever his little favourite became his companion round his farm." The concern evinced by that gentleman and his family at the melancholy disaster which befel him, was of no common kind. Indeed, all who knew him felt a tender interest in his fate.-When first taken to school (being then not quite ten years old) his indulgent friends had supplied his box with a plentiful stock of dainties; which, he was told, were to last him a long while. But, before I left him, he came and whispered this request in my ear: "Papa, will you give me leave to divide my cake and gingerbread among my schoolfellows?" In a few minutes they were thus disposed of, without reserving for himself the smallest portion. On embracing and quitting him, Some natural tears he dropt, but wip'd them soon," and entered, with all the vivacity and sweetness of disposition which were so peculiar to him, into the sports and amusements of his new companions. At the first vacation, when he came home from school, he one day said to me--" Father, I shall be obliged to you if, in future, you will not let me be a parlour-boarder : for I think the little distinctions and indulgences I receive make my schoolfellows envious. Indeed, I am sure they do not like me so well as they would if I were treated just as they are; and I do This sentiment and remark will apply to some communications lately inserted in the pages of the Gentleman's Magazine on this subject. GENT. MAG. August, 1810. not not wish to be treated otherwise." About two years afterwards, on saying I had an intention of placing him at another seminary, for the sake of having him nearer to me, he replied, "I think, Papa, it will be best to let me remain where I am another year; for Mr. T-- will make us work: and, in that space of time, I shall go with more credit to the school you mention." Unfortunately, I acquiesced and, before the expiration of that year, the dreadful calamity happened! a calamity which deprived me of a son-too amiable and too good for the present world! "Thus Heav'n doth oft convey Those first from the dark prison of their clay, Who are most fit for Heav'n." of my dear boy, his master related the circumstance, and said, "Now let us see who is right" and immediately turned to the terrestrial globe, which stood upon a table in the room; when the intelligent little sufferer was discovered to have given an opinion perfectly accurate. Nor was his recollection less perfect with respect to history, whether antient or modern; and especially natural history, of which he was remarkably fond, making whatever he read, on these and other subjects, his own; eagerly imbibing knowledge, as the thirsty earth drinks in the dew. His feeble hands, though trembling with the fatigue of holding his books, while lying in bed, would scarcely ever quit them when he had nobody to converse with. Nay, for a long time he had only the use Of his mind, the few simple circum- of one hand, much of the flesh, and all the stances here related will furnish a faint nails, having been burnt off the other*, picture. Of his person it were frivolous in his endeavours to extinguish the flames to speak; since a face and a form which which were consuming him; yet with this were most animated and pleasing are now single hand would he retain, 'till the close invested with angelic beauty. His ac- of day, some volume that was calculated quirements, for his age, were perhaps to improve and adorn his mind. And the extraordinary; being only just turned of reader may be assured that the Volume of twelve when the disastrous 5th of Novem- Inspiration was not by him neglected; ber arrived. In Latin and French he had for every other kind of knowledge was nade a considerable progress. Of his considered but subordinate to that "which own language he had an accurate and maketh wise unto salvation."-One day, critical knowledge. In arithmetic he had during his long and painful confinement, proceeded as far as decimal fractions and when conversing with him on some imthe cube root. He wrote and drew beauportant topicks of religion, and aftertifully. And, that he was well versed in wards praying with him, I said, "I hope, Geography, the following little anecdote my dear boy, you do not neglect your will demonstrate. News having just ar- private devotions; since one fervent rived of the capture, by our forces, of a prayer from your own heart will be of particular island in the West Indies, his much more avail than a thousand from master and medical attendants, after com- mine." To which he replied, with great municating to him an account of the pleas- earnestness, "Neglect them! no, surely ing event, entered into an argument re- not, Papa; for I am convinced none but specting the geographical situation of the GOD can restore me." On asking him island; one stating it to lie in such a la- whether he suited any part of his prayers titude, and the others somewhat differing to his then present situation? he said, in opinion: when the juvenile pupil and "Yes, always; as well as I can." "Give patient (though writhing with torture at me a specimen," said I. "Why," he the time, from the painful process of answered, "I pray that God, who, for dressing his wounds) said, "Sirs, I beg some wise purpose, has been pleased to your pardon; but I think you are all permit this calamity to befall me, may wrong: for, if I mistake not, you will find also be pleased, in his mercy, to support it lies so many degrees," &c. On the me under it; and either in his own good gentlemen returning to the parlour, where time to restore me from it, or take me to I was anxiously waiting to know the state himself." The pious reader must suppose *This was the only injured part of his delicate frame which I had fortitude enough ever to see; and, on first seeing that (which was not till the young nails and flesh began again to grow) my countenance expressed, I believe, the wounded feelings of my mind when, in a lively encouraging tone, he said, "My dear Father, I never cared much about this" (holding up his mangled, emaciated arm) "I never cared much about this, otherwise than as it made me more helpless-this was but a mere flea-bite." May no other parent ever suffer anguish like that which wrung my heart through all the stages of his suffering! And, as similar disasters have recently occurred at Eton, at Winchester, and at Hereford, occasioned by gunpowder, may those disasters, as well as the one which destroyed my son, operate as a lasting caution to heedless youths, in every place, how they use so dangerous an article! This is my principal motive, Mr. Urban, for troubling you and your readers with these mournful particulars. I could I could not but commend this prayer. forts." Soon afterwards some very fa Yet such was the young suffering Saint's humility, and mistrust of his own performances, that he requested "a proper one might be composed for him." I told him his own was a very proper one; and desired he would continue to use it, embodied in his usual forms, and varied as favourable or unfavourable symptons might require. Nevertheless, I said, another should be prepared for him, to use occasionally; and accordingly gave him the following: "O almighty and most merciful God! in whose hands my breath is, and from whom cometh my salvation, I, thy youthful servant, looking up to Thee, in my present state of suffering, as the Author of life, of health, and every human comfort, do humbly beseech Thee to bless the means used for my recovery. Thy Holy Word informs me that, without thy permission, not even a sparrow falleth to the ground: therefore, I know that, for some wise purpose, Thou hast permitted my present trials to visit me. Oh! may they conduce to my temporal good, and work for me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory! Thy Holy Word informs me also, that Thou "givest healing, and bindest up them that are bruised*." Lord, heal my wounds, I pray Thee, and support my feeble nature; that, restored by thy mercy to strength and soundness, I may live to thy praise; and never (like the nine ungrateful men whom my Redeemer recovered from their leprosy) be forgetful of thy goodness; but, after the example of the tenth, "who returned and fell down at his feet, giving him thanks," may I retain a lasting sense of thy favour. And, like him whose crippled limbs were strengthened at the beautiful gate of the Temple, may I joyfully pour forth my thanksgivings; evermore acknowledging Thee my gracious restorer and deliverer, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen." After his removal, in a litter, to the residence of his excellent grandmother, where he died, on a pitying friend observing to him that he had suffered, she was afraid, a great deal, and particularly by so long a confinement to his bed (about 18 months having then passed over him in that state) he replied, "Yes, my confinement has been long: but what is it compared with that of my good uncle+? He has seldom been out of his bed for several years; and I have not yet been confined to mine for two. You speak also of my sufferings: it is true I have suffered a great deal, and still must suffer. But I think not of evils that are past, nor of evils that are to come. I consider only my present com* Ecclesiasticus XXXVII. 2. Ezek. xxxiv. 16. † John Partridge, of Monmouth, esq. who died just a month after his nephew. See p. 189, vourable symptoms appearing in his case, the most sanguine hopes were entertained of his speedy recovery; when, by his desire, the following thanksgiving prayer was prepared for him:-" Almighty and allgracious God! from whom cometh every good and perfect gift; who art able to bring down the strongest, and to raise up the weakest, by thy power; I bless Thee for the happy change which has taken place in my condition. Oh! be pleased to perfect what Thou hast begun, and give me still greater cause to praise Thee, as the God of my salvation! Be Thou my guide and guardian even unto death. Should the life Thou sparest be lengthened to hoary hairs, grant that it may be spent in holiness and virtue, and every good work; in piety towards Thee, a. in usefulness and integrity towards my fellow-creatures! As I grow in years, my I grow in grace; and, like thy holy child Jesus, increase in wisdom as well as in stature, and be in favour both with God and man! Oh! enable me, I pray Thee, to follow his steps here; and, hereafter, may I be received into thine everlasting kingdom, through the merits of the same Jesus Christ, my only Mediator and Redeemer. Amen." The favourable symptoms just alluded to were, alas! but of delusive nature. A fever soon afterwards seized his enfeebled frame, and filled his anxious friends again with sorrow and alarm. Still he continued the same amiable, resigned, and engaging creature. Not long before his gentle spirit took its flight for the realms of bliss, an affectionate relative overheard him moaning as if in extreme pain; and tenderly endea vouring to soothe him, he said, "I am in pain, and cannot help expressing it: but I do not murmur. No: I have borne, and I will bear, whatever God may please to do with me.' "" When every hope of recovery had vanished, and the only concern of those who loved him was, that his pas sage, from a state of suffering, might be smoothed into one of unending felicity, I prayed over and passionately kissed him, commending his spirit into the hands of the God who gave it. On which, he fixed his dying eyes upon me, with a look that was more than mortal, with a sweetness and vivacity that told me "the bitterness of death was passed;" or rather that its "sting" was taken away. Again having tenderly embraced and blessed him, he faintly articulated "Amen! Amen!" and shortly after he expired without a groan. My lovely boy, may. my last end be like thine! Accipe et hæc, manuum tibi quæ monumenta mearum [amorem Sint, puer! et longum parentis testentur L. B. * Vigil. P. 377. A tomb-stone, with the following inscription, has lately been erected in Aldgate Church-yard: Sacred to the memory of THOMAS EBRALL, Citizen and Corn-meter, who was shot by a Life Guardsman, on the 9th of April, 1810, in the shop of Mr. Goodeve, Fenchurch-st. and died on the 17th of the said month, in the 24th year of his age. The Coroner's Inquest brought in a verdict, Murdered by a Life Guardsman unknown. Thus saith the Lord God, my right hand shall not spare the sinners; and my sword shall not cease over them that shed innocent blood upon the earth."-2 Esdras, xv. 21, 22. P. 487. Memoirs of the early life of Joseph Cooper Walker, esq. were given in our vol. LVII. p. 34. P. 500. The following extraordinary inscription has lately been cut upon a timb-stone, at the back of St. Martin's Church, in the small piece of burying ground in Church-court: Sacred to the memory of JOHN IRWIN, Esq. of Sligo, in Ireland, Surgeon to his Majesty's Forces, who died on the 22d day of April, 1810, aged 38 years; A victim, like thousands of our gallant to the fatal consequences of the unfortunate Expedition to the Scheldt, commanded by JOHN Earl of CHATHAM. P. 507. Of Hornby, the author of Three Letters on Dugdale's Baronage, &c. see our vol. LIV. pp. 264 and 328, where no notice is taken of the pamphlet having ever been ascribed to Dr. Rawlinson. P. 537, col. 2, 1. 15, read Coccinella. P. 538. The paragraph beginning "The ingenious Mr. White of Selborne," with the whole following, (of course without a repetition of the signature,) should have been introduced as a note, at the bottom of the page, referring by an asterisk to the close of the sentence ending facilitate or excite a production in corresponding ratio of benefit." P.677.The late Rev. Peter Emanswas born in London, educated at Mile-end academy; and, after various successive settlements, at Dorking, Ipswich, Nottingham, and other places, finally fixed at Coventry. Through his long life, he had never once lain on the bed of sickness; till, on a visit at the house of his friend, the Rev. J. H. Bransby, in Dudley, he was suddenly seized with a painful disorder; from which, however, probably he might have found, from surgical aid, effectual relief: but another disease, the angina pectoris, unfortunately not rare at this time, discovered its alarming progress and fatal power; and, amidst the kind, attentive, unremitted, but alas! unavailing cares of weeping friendship, and of medical skill, with all the perfect resignation, and calm tranquillity, which nothing but religious principle and Christian hope can inspire, he died, not leaving one surviving relation, near or distant, to lament his loss; but followed to his grave by the deep and lasting regrets of all who had the happiness to know him. Vol. LXXXI. p. 94, Admiral Sir George Young, of the White, who died lately at Formosa Place, his seat in Berks, was one of the oldest and bravest officers in the service. He was of the great Boscawen's school, and during an honourably spent life, performed some brilliant things in general as well as in single actions, both at home and abroad. He sailed under the gallant Sir Charles Saunders, and was honoured by his public thanks for the coolness, intrepidity, and abilities which he evinced in several battles. He was one of those heroes who boarded, cut out, and carried away the Bienfaisant and another ship of the line, with their conquered crews, from under the enemy's batteries of Louisbourgh-harbour in 1758. At Quebec, he distinguished himself in all his co-operations, by land and water, with the brave General Wolfe; whose encomiums of him were officially communicated to his Majesty's Ministers in the course of a glorious campaign, which History has recorded a chef d'œuvre of British valour, served too with great eclat in the East Indies. To be short, he was one of the best of men, one of the best of patriots, and one of the best of officers, as his intimate friend, that excellent man, Capt. Edward Thompson, who was an honour to our nature as well as our Navy, often said: So said our immortal Nelson also, after whom one of Admiral Young's grandsons has been Christian-named Horatio. having been either confined by gout, or bed-ridden, for many years past, his King and Country have consequently been deprived of his services. His only surviving son, Mr. Samuel Young, inherits all his estates and funded property, The ac complished Lady Young is to have his town-house (built by her father, the late Dr. William Battie) in Great Russel-street, Bloomsbury, additional to her Ladyship's dowry; and their amiable daughter an ample fortune. Amongst the different le gacies to other relatives and friends, he has He But |