In 1770 he was appointed lieutenant in the Marines; and, in 1772, was with the late Admiral M'Bride, in the Southampton frigate, when the unfortunate Matilda, Queen of Denmark, was rescued from the dangers that awaited her by the energy of the British Government, and conveyed to a place of safety in the King her Brother's Hanoverian dominions. On that occasion he commanded the guard that received her Majesty, and had the honour of kissing her hand. In 1775, he was at the battle of Bunker's Hill; in which the first battalion of Marines, to which he belonged, so signally distinguished itself, having its commanding officer, the gallant Major Pitcairne, and a great many officers and men, killed in storming the redoubt, besides a very large proportion of wounded. In 1777, he was Adjutant of the Chatham Division; and, in 1782, Captain of Marines on-board the Courageux, of 4 guns, commanded by the late Lord Mulgrave, and participated in the partial action that took place with the enemy's fleet, when Lord Howe relieved Gibraltar. Reduced to half-pay at the peace of 1782, he resided at Rochester, in Kent, (having previously married an American lady, who survives him, but without issue); and, on its being determined to found a colony, by sending convicts to Botany Bay, he was appointed Judge Advocate to the intended settlement, and in that capacity sailed with Governor Philip in May 1787 (who moreover appointed him his Secretary), which situation he filled with the greatest credit to himself and advantage to the Colony, until his return to England in 1797. The History of the Settlement, which he soon after published, followed by a second volume, a work abounding with information, highly interesting, and written with the utmost simplicity, will be read and referred to as a book of authority, as long as the Colony exists whose name it bears. The appointment of Judge Advocate, however, proved eventually injurious to his real interests. While absent, he had been passed over when it came to his turn to be put on full pay; nor was he permitted to return to England to reclaim his rank in the corps: nor could he ever obtain any effectual redress; but was afterwards compelled to come in as junior captain of the corps, though with his proper rank in the Army. The difference this made in regard to his promotion was, that he died a captain instead of a colonel-commandant, his rank in the Army being merely brevet. He had then the mortification of finding that, after 10 years' distinguished service in the infancy of a colony, and to the sacrifice of every real comfort, his only reward had been the loss of many years' rank, a vital injury to an officer. A remark which his wounded feelings wrung from him at the close of the second volume of his History of the Settlement, appears to have awakened the sympathy of those in power; and he was, almost immediately after its publication, offered the Government of the projected Settlement on Van Diemen's Land, which he accepted, and sailed once more for that quarter of the globe, where he founded his new colony; struggled with great difficulties, which he overcame; aud, after remaining there eight years, was enjoying the flourishing state his exertions had produced, when he died suddenly, after a few days' confinement from a slight cold, on the 24th March, 1810.-His person was remarkably handsome*, and his manners extremely prepossessing; while, to a cultivated understanding, and an early fondness for the Belles Lettres, he joined the most cheerful and social disposition. How he was esteemed by the inhabitants of the Colony over which he presided, will appear from the following extract of a letter announcing his decease. By the death of Cel. Collins "this Colony has sustained a loss it will take a number of years to get over. I have known and served with him from the first establishment of the Colony; and, when I speak the feelings of my heart on this melancholy occasion, I am sure that it is not my single voice, but that of every department whatsoever in the Settlement, who, with the most hearfelt regret, universally acknowledge him to have been the father and friend of all." Vol. LXXX. p. 677, line 40, b. for "died 6th June," read "died 9th June." Vol. LXXXI. p. 90. Mr. Robert Bishop, whose premature death is here recorded, was the youngest son of Chas, Bishop, esq. of Doctors Commons, and of Russel-place, Fitzroy-square. He was, for many years, together with his elder brother Charles, at the Rev. Mr. Gilpin's, Cheam, near Epsoin, Surrey (see vols. LXXIX. Parts 1. and II. LXXX. and LXXXI. p. 394.) His peculiarities, and the good-nature of disposition exhibited during his stay at Cheam-school, will long live in the recollection of his schoolfellows. P. 240. The scholars on Dr. Bell's new foundation are to be the sons, or the orphans, of those Clergymen of the Church of England whose circumstances and situations are altogether such as not to enable them to bear the whole expence of sending their sons to the University of Cambridge. The first election is to take place between Nov. 12 and Dec. 25, 1810; when there will be elected two * An engraved portrait of him is prefixed to the second edition of his work, published in 1804. Scholars Scholars of the third year of standing, that is, who were admitted between commencement of 1807 and 1808; profits to commence from July the 6th, 1810, and to be continued for two years. At the same time will be elected two other Scholars of the second year, who were admitted between commencement 1808 and commencement 1809; profits to continue for three years. The second election will be on the Friday after Midlent Sunday, 1811, of two Scholars of the first year; profits to continue for four years. The fourth election will be on Friday after Midlent Sunday, 1813, of two other Scholars of the first year, to succeed those two of the third year, who were two of the four first chosen, and so on for ever: the profits to continue for four years, and no more. Every Scholar is to take the degree of A. B. in the most regular manner. No Scholar to be elected from King's-college, or from Trinity-hall. The electors are- the Vice Chancellor, the Regius Professor of Divinity, the Regius Professor of Civil Law, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, and the Public Orator. P. 309. a. lines 8 and 9 from the bottom, instead of "the line from the second Viscount," read, "the line proceeding from the second marriage of the first Viscount." P. 390. b. For Richard read Nicholas Fennell. P. 392. a. The late John Williams, esq. was a native of Carmarthen. He was a man gifted by nature with extraordinary powers of memory, and an excellent understanding. To these happy endowments he added the most patient and persevering application to the study of the Law: his labours were crowned with success; he became one of the most eminent Lawyers of modern times. His luminous expositions, sound deductions, clear reasoning, profound and accurate knowledge in his profession, were justly appreciated, in Westminster-hall, byhis contemporaries, and will long be recollected by them with admiration and merited eulogy; but his professional and posthumous fame will not rest on the frail basis of living testimony. His edition of Lord Chief Justice Saunders's Reports will remain to afterages a proud and splendid monument of his intimate acquaintance with the Laws of his Country, his deep research and erudition, and his indefatigable and successful industry in the pursuit of Legal knowledge. P. 393. b. read, "After a very long and painful illness, which he bore with the greatest fortitude, aged 78, William Darnell, esq, of Hail Weston, Huntingdonshire, and Bermondsey, Surrey." P. 396. b. The late Sir Benjamin Sullivan was for a series of years one of the judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Madras. He was a man of unaffected benevolence, and blessed by Providence with a fortune which gave him the happy means of exercising that amiable quality : a quality which, comparatively speaking, is so rarely possessed by the affluent and the great. No man, perhaps, was better qualified to appreciate the weight of the claims, the sufferings, or the merits, of those whose cases came before him for assistance: consequently, whatever object enjoyed his protection, was never to be found otherwise than altogether worthy. The large fortune which he had acquired by his protracted stay in the East Indies, he would, we doubt not, had he lived, have used, after the example of his kinsman Sir Richard S. in the exercise of that best and most god-like of virtues, Charity; but, no sooner had he arrived in this country, than it pleased the Almighty, in pity to his bodily sufferings, to call him off the stage of life. The Right hon. John Sullivan, M. P. (who is married to Lady Harriet Hobart) will, by the death of this worthy man, receive a large addition to his already noble fortune, and will be enabled, by this unexpected event, to extend more widely the sphere of his generosity. P. 398. b. line 9. read "parishioners." DEATHS. 1810. AT Mangalore, in his 19th year, Charles Brown, esq. of the 10th Native Infantry, eldest son of Col. B. of Amwell Bury, Herts. May 28. His Highness Mobarek-uDowlah, Nawab of Bengal. His remains were conveyed, on the following day, with due solemnity, from the palace at Moorshedabad to the burial-place of his family at Jaffiergange. His eldest son succeeds to the vacant Musnud. In May last, while accompanying Gen. Malcolm's embassy to Persia, Alex. Fotheringham, esq. fourth son of Alex. Ogilvy F. esq. of Fowrie. June 1. In the West Indies, in his 21st year, Lieut. Richard Bowen, son of the late Captain Richard B. of the port of Bristol. He gave in his conduct a very fair promise of being a credit to his country and an ornament of his profession. July 5. Shot by some person unknown, Dr. James Niblock, a native of Ireland, but for six or seven years last past an inhabitant of Brunswick county, Virginia. From the posture in which he was found, it appeared he instantly fell dead the moment he received the shot. He had obtained great celebrity and practice as a physician: has a father now living in Ireland, but no relation in Brunswick that is known of. Aug. 14. At Harwich, aged 76, Mr. Robert Enefer, parish clerk of St. Nicho las, las, which situation he had filled upwards of 30 years; a man of mild manners, and greatly esteemed. Aug. 27. At Paris, the wife of Mr. Saladin de Crans, 2d dau. of the late Col. Wm. Egerton, and sister to the Hon. Arriana Margaret Egerton, of Berkeley-square. Aug. 29. At Buff Bay, Jamaica, Mr. Thomas Scriven, late of Henbury, near Bristol. Sept. 23. At Bristol, Mr. Richard Bent, son of Mr. B. of Paternoster-row. At Corderia, George Hume Yeats, esq. assistant-deputy paymaster to the Forces serving under Lord Wellington. Sept. 24. Aged 47, Aline, the wife of James M. Siordet, esq. of Cadogan-place. At Cheshunt, Henry Aspinall, esq. of Lincoln's-inn. In Mortimer-street, Richard Church, esq. late of the civil service, Bombay. At Maryport, aged 59, Mary, the wife of Capt. Robert Buchanan, of the brig Hawke, of Maryport, and sister-in-law to the Rev. Dr. Claudius B. famed for his literary researches in the East. At Boston, aged 70, very generally respected, Mr. Robert Marshall, draper and tailor. He had lately retired from business, with a comfortable independence, to enjoy the close of a well-spent life. Aged 62, Mr. Southam, of Ensham; a member of the common-council at Oxford, and formerly a baker there. He was found drowned in the river Isis, near Bablake Hythe; and is supposed to have fallen in accidentally, while crossing the river late in the evening. Lately, On Colston's Parade, Bristol, Mrs. Barry, widow of the Rev. Dr. B. At Crowcombe, Somerset, Mr. William Biss, many years a respectable shopkeeper. Miss Wagstaff, sister to the Rev. Mr. W. of Goadby, Leicestershire. At Harleston, Norfolk, universally respected, J. Redgrave, gent. Aged 21, Mr. John Clark, one of the clerks in the bank of Messrs. Pitt and Co. of Cirencester. His death was occasioned by swallowing an apricot-stone in the course of last summer, which lodged in a part not likely to create serious injury; but, on jumping into the water a few days since to bathe, the concussion caused its removal to so dangerous a part that his dissolution became inevitable. Suddenly, Mr. Humphrey Giles, corndealer, of Langford, Wilts. Aged 74, the wife of Jacob Preston, esq. of Yarmouth, Norfolk, Mr. Baker, coach proprietor, of Lincoln, much respected. At Beverley, aged 78, Mr. Thomas Johnson. At Spittal, near Berwick, after a life of strange vicissitudes and wonderful escapes, aged above 90, T. Gordon. It is related of him, that at one period of his life, being under sentence of death in Edinburgh gaol, one of the county magistrates, speaking warmly about the prisoner, said that "all the Gordons should be hanged." This speech was conveyed to the then Duchess of Gordon, who, feeling for the honour of the name, immediately exerted all her influence in behalf of Gordon, and succeeded in getting his sentence changed to a few years' solitary confinement. At Lutterworth, Mr. Chamberlain, attorney. At Countesthorpe, co. Leic. aged 63, deservedly esteemed, Mr. Rich. Basset. Aged 52, Mr. John Marwood, lately owner of the ship William and Mary, of Whitby. In the Wells road, Bristol, Mr. Robert Smith, sen. formerly an eminent brewer of Bath. At Duddlestone, near Taunton, Mr. William Buncombe. Mr. Ethersey, attorney, of Worcester. At Milborne Port, aged 84, Mr. James Hyde. In Dublin, Mr. Charles Campbell, for 33 years editor of the Dublin Evening Post. Suddenly, Mr. William Reynolds, attorney-at-law, at Folkestone, co. Kent. Aged 76, John Mills, of Bury, gent. At Newcastle-upon-Tyne, aged 80, Mr. Seth Johnson, one of the chamberlains of that town. Aged 26, Mr. Richard Plummer, of Dalton, only son of John P. esq. of Shiremoore house, Tynemouth. At Stamfordham, aged 81, Mrs. Mable Johnson, relict of Mr. W. J. who for 60 years kept the Masons' Arms public-house in that place with much credit. near At York, aged 76, Margaret wife of Mr. Alderman Rhodes. At Leeds, aged 72, Mr. Christopher Smith, formerly an eminent cooper. At Barnsley, Mr. Richard Rock, surgeon. His professional abilities, and humane disposition, will be long remembered. At Liverpool, aged 70, Mr. Henry Ashcroft, stonemason. At the same place, aged 93, Mrs. Moulton; who retained her faculties till the last. At Moston, near Chester, aged 52, Mr. Stephen Howard, land-steward to Massey, esq. of Moston-hall, in whose and his father's employ he had been upwards of twenty years. At Erdswick-hall, Cheshire, aged 75, Mrs. Davies, whose example through life was worthy of imitation. At an advanced age, Mr. Woolridge, of Calveley-hall, Cheshire. At Heaton-house, Cheshire, Mrs. Parker, upwards of 30 years housekeeper to the Earl of Wilton. Suddenly, at Peckforton, Cheshire, aged 67, Mr. Alexander Kelly, well known in that and the neighbouring counties, as a travelling linen-draper. He was a native of Scotland, a man of great strength of mind, sound judgment, and facetious disposition; his quaint observations on political and polemical subjects, will long be remembered by a wide circle of admiring friends and acquaintance. At Cromford, aged 72, Mr. Robert Mason, who formerly kept the Old Bath at Matlock. At Nottingham, aged 72, Mr. John Harvey, schoolmaster. Suddenly, at Pickworth, Lincolnshire, aged 70, Mr. John Middleton, grazier. At Long Sutton, aged 90, Mrs. Anne Collishaw. At the Rakes House, in Heckington Fen, aged 70, Mr. Baker. At Burford, near Tenbury, Mr. E. Ford, brother to the late Admiral F. At Hereford, aged 80, Mr. William Payne, shoemaker; the oldest tradesman and shopkeeper in that city, having been in business in the same street 55 years. At Folkestone, aged 89, Mr. Robert Spicer. At Lewes, aged 77, Mr. Aaron Lempriere, many years a respectable plumber and glazier. At Bath, Mrs. Burleigh, relict of Rev. R. B. of Badesley, Hants. At Alphington, aged 90, Mrs. Warden, aunt to the present Bishop of Bangor. Oct. 6. At Newtown, near Kilmacthomas, in his 95th year, Denis Macnamara, commonly known by the name of Ruadh, or Red-haired. During 70 years, at least, of such a rare course of longevity, this extraordinary man had been looked up to by his contemporaries in Irish literature, as possessing that poetical eminence which ranked him among the most celebrated of the modern Bards. At Hertford, Mary, eldest daughter of Henry Bradley, esq. Suddenly, Mr. Brown, watchmaker, of Charing-cross. He ate a very hearty supper, and appeared in perfect health and spirits. On getting up, he began to complain, and in about an hour afterwards was a corpse! At Blackheath, William Churchill Lawrie, only son of Peter L. esq. Aged 85, Mrs. Delafosse, of Collyweston, near Stamford. This venerable gentlewoman lost her life in consequence of her clothes catching fire on the 3d inst. when her sister was present, but so infirm as to be unable to afford her any assist Oct. 7. At Reading, aged 21, Miss Henrietta Josepha Robinson Thornton. daughter of H. F. T. esq. At Grantham, the wife of Mr. Turner, grocer, alderman elect for that borough. At David Mustard's, esq. at Romanhill, Essex, where she was on a visit, after a short illness, Mrs. Ram, relict of the late Mr. James R. of Monkwick, Essex. In George-street, Manchester-square, Mrs. Halliday, widow of the late William H. esq of the island of St. Christopher. At Loughborough, aged 66, Mr. William Palmer, upwards of 30 years landlord of the Plough-inn; from which he had retired a few years. At Souldern Cottage, of a paralytic stroke, aged 71, Mrs. Gabell, relict of the late Rev. Henry G. rector of Standlake. Oct. 8. Aged about 25, Mr. Platt, son of the Rev. Mr. P. of Wilmot-square. He dropped down dead while conversing with a friend in Bartholomew-lane. Aged 77, Mrs. Elizabeth Burden, widow, many years landlady of the Woolpack-iun, Boston. Oct. 9. At Walworth, Mr. John Fry, of Birchin-lane. At Old Brompton, aged 76, Mrs. Naylor, relict of Col. N. At Hastings, Elizabeth the wife of Joseph Cockfield, esq. of Upton, in Essex. Aged 85, Mrs. Jane Wilson, of Chorley-wood, Herts. In his 80th year, Mr. R. Morley. At At Clifton, Mrs. Clarke, relict of Rev. John C. vicar of Hungerford, Bucks. In Caithness, Mr. Marcus Gunn, tacksman, of Dalemore, within one day of completing his 95th year. He and his predecessors have possessed that farm for seventeen generations in succession; and he is succeeded in it by his son, who makes the eighteenth. Oct. 10. At Sunbury, aged four years, Theresa Caroline, dau. of C. Bishop, esq. At her daughter's in Kentish Town, aged 92, Mrs. Mary Hough. At Gainsborough, aged 25, of a rapid fever, Miss Heywood, daughter of J. H. esq. lately an eminent and respectable solicitor at Nottingham. Oct. 11. At Kilburn, aged 69, the wife of Mr. Thomas Calladine, of Catharinestreet, Strand. At Sutton-place, Hackney, aged 64, Mrs. Sarah Chambers, relict of the late Mr. Jarvis C. of Gutter-lane, Cheapside. At Wincanton, in Somersetshire, Miss Catharine Messiter, daughter of the late Moulton M. esq. At Grove Cottage, Fulham, aged 70, Mrs. Frederica Louisa Parr, relict of Thomas P. esq. late of Portland-place. Aged 79, Mrs. Bands, of St. Peter le Bailey, Oxford. At Haverfordwest, the wife of John Colthurst, esq. and widow of the late Thomas Jones, esq. of Carmarthen. At Brighton, John James, the eldest son of Sir David Wedderburn, bart. of Ballindean. Oct. 12. At Islington, aged 26, Mr. J. Gibson, formerly of Middleton Teasdale, Durham. Very suddenly, at Buxton, co. Derby, at which place she had arrived only the day before, the wife of Joseph Mellor, esq. an eminent solicitor, of Ashton-under-Line, near Manchester. It is supposed that she broke a blood-vessel in plunging too precipitately into one of the baths. At his brother's house, near Whetstone, co. Leic. aged 29, Mr. John Simkin, draper, of Manchester. Very suddenly, aged 49, Mr. William Barton Robinson, of New Malton, attorney-at-law. Oct. 13. At the Dockyard, Portsmouth, on his way to Madeira, for the recovery of his health, Capt. Thomas Smyth, R. N. son of the Hon. John S. of Heath, near Wakefield, and grandson of the Duke of Grafton. Aged 42, Mr. Thomas Leigh, drawing master. At Mr. Barkley's, Highbury - grove, Miss S. A. Urquhart. Aged 19, of a decline, James Pulbrook, printer, son of Mr. P. of Holywell, Oxford. At Polesworth, Warwickshire, Mr. William Lythall, one of the society of Friends. At Sleaford, aged 39, Lieut. George Wynne, of the 45th regiment of infantry. At Bryn, near Beaumaris, Anglesea, in his 79th year, Sir Samuel Brooke, bart. Oct. 14. Aged 67, Mrs. Farrel, of Clapton. At Thatcham, Berks, aged 24, John Whiting, esq. At Ensham, Oxon, aged 68, Mr. John Druce. At Witney, Oxon, aged 15, Henry, youngest son of Mr. Turner, bookseller. Aged 73, Mr. William Smalley, of Wisbech. Very suddenly, owing to the rupture of a blood-vessel, aged 57, Mr. James Wright, ship-broker and ship-owner, of Hull. At Plymouth, Mr. George Sinclair, formerly an ironmonger at Hull. Mary-Ann, aged 6, and, on the 24th, Jane, aged 9, of the scarlet fever, daughters of Samuel Deverell, esq. of Winchester. Oct. 15. In George-street, Hanoversquare, the wife of Nicholas Hall, esq. of Brighton. Mr. John Page, auctioneer, of High Holborn. At North Kilworth, co. Leic. after going to bed in good health, Mr. J. Kilbourn, mill-wright. Oct. 16. At Ashburton, Devon, Mrs. Soper Dempster, of Skillo, Sutherlandshire. Aged 64, the wife of Mr. Francis Walton, of Horseley-down. At Cottingham, near Hull, after being confined to her bed 12 weeks, the latter three of which she lived nearly without any sustenance, aged 75, Mrs. Anne Ringrose, widow of the late Mr. Martin R. Oct. 17. Mr. J. P. Du Roveray, a respectable merchant. He seated himself at a table in Tom's coffee-house, complaining to the waiter of a violent pain in his stomach; and had scarcely finished the sentence, when, reclining against the back of the seat, he expired. At Thame, Oxon, aged 86, Mr. C. Wakelin. Aged 30, Mr. De Rippe, lately a grocer at Stamford. Being on a journey to London, he had proceeded on the coachbox but a few hundred yards from Stamford, when he complained of sudden and violent illness. He alighted immediately, and, being conveyed back to the town, died a few hours afterwards, at the George and Angel inn. He was of a respectable family at Wakerley, co. Northampton. Oct. 18. At Ripley, Surrey, the wife of the late Capt. Middleton, R. N. Aged 63, Mr. Richard Wilson, of George-street, Minories. At Glasgow, John M'Taggart, esq. of Mincing-lane and Knoits Green, Essex. Mr. |