he visited Italy, and on his return to this country entered himself a student of the Royal Academy. The first works by which he became extensively known, were his Forsaken and his Lovers' Quarrel, engraved in the Literary Souvenir' of 1826; his Prince of Spain's Visit to Catalina, engraved for the same work in 1831, and painted for the Duke of Bedford; and a Scene from the Vicar of Wakefield.

6

Though Newton acquired skill both in drawing and colour, and became acquainted with the fine proportions and harmonious unities of the antique, he was more remarkable for delineations in which beau-ideal drawing had little to do, but expression everything. He had less inclination for the stern and the severe, than for the soft, the gentle, and the affecting. His favourite model for imitation was Watteau. He contented himself with painting small pictures; and the subjects which he embodied were either drawn from nature around him, or found in the pages of our novelists and poets.

The chief works of Newton were painted while he resided in Great Marlborough-street: he occupied the first floor of the house No. 41, (next door to his friend Chalon); and though extremely neat, nay, fastidious about his dress, he was far from paying the same attention to his chambers, for his compositions were scattered carelessly around, the finished and unfinished were huddled together, and broken models and bits of ribbon and withered flowers abounded. To enumerate all his pictures would be difficult, for they are scattered over England, and may be found in the most select collections: many are in his native America, where it is to be hoped their simplicity and their beauty will not be unfelt. To name a few of them, will be sufficient to awaken pleasing recollections: 1. Portia and Bassanio, from the Merchant of Venice; 2. Lear attended by Cordelia and the Physician; 3. Lady Mary Fox; 4. Abelard; 5. Jessica and Shylock; 6. The Vicar of Wakefield restoring his daughter to her mother; 7. Sir Walter Scott. His happiest works are of a domestic and poetic kind; he loved to seek expression in a living face, and, moulding it to his will, unite it to a fancy all his own: some of his single figures, particularly females, are equal in sentiment and colour to anything in modern art. They are stamped with innocence as well as beauty. He was a slow workman, and accomplished all by long study and repeated touches. He sometimes received high prices for his works. The Duke of Bedford gave him 500 guineas for the Prince of Spain's

Visit to Catalina,' and Lord Lansdowne paid him 500 guineas for his Macheath.'

Mr. Newton was tall and well proportioned, and somewhat affected in his manner; but a perfect gentleman, and a very respectable scholar.

About three years ago be visited America, where he married a young lady of considerable personal attractions. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1834. Shortly after his return to England he exhibited signs of unequivocal insanity, which increased until it became necessary to send him from home. A few months ago his wife, with her child, quitted England for America, leaving her unhappy husband, with an almost moral certainty that she would never see him again. Four days before his decease he recovered the exercise of his reason, spoke of his approaching end with calmness and resignation, and exhausted nature finally sunk into the sleep of death without a struggle or sigh. His remains were interred in Wimbledon churchyard on the 13th August, followed by a few of his most intimate friends.

MR. POPE.

March 12. In Store-street, aged 72, Mr. Alexander Pope, late of the theatres royal, Covent-garden and Drury-lane.

Mr. Pope was a native of Cork, and first trod the stage in the theatre of that "beautiful city." In 1784 he procured an engagement at Covent-garden, and made his debut Jan. 8, as Oroonoko, which character he repeated for several nights with considerable applause. On the death of Mr. Henderson and the secession of Mr. Holman, Mr. Pope was for a few seasons the principal tragedian; but on the return of Holman in 1799, he went to Edinburgh, where he became a great favourite. After a short absence, he resumed his situation at Covent-garden, which, till the season of 1801-2, he retained both with credit to himself and with advantage to the theatre. He was then suddenly dismissed; but was immediately engaged by the Drury-lane wards belonged for many years. managers, to which company he afterfinally retired, without a fortune, and received an annuity of 801. from the Coventgarden Theatrical Fund.

He

In his prime he possessed a fine manly figure and a powerful and melodious voice. He was for some time without a rival in Othello; and in his latter time he was one of the most perfect representations ever seen of Henry VIII. He used a pencil with considerable skill.

In 1785 be married Miss Young, who died in 1797; afterwards Miss Cam

who died in 1803; both these ladies were eminent actresses: and subsequently heentered the bands of matrimony a third time.

In Mr. Mathews's collection of portraits, now possessed by the Garrick Club, there are three portraits of Mr. Pope, one in the character of Henry VIII. by Sharpe; another as Hamlet, by Dupont; and a third, by Stewart.

PIGAULT LE BRUN.

Lately. At Paris, aged 83, M. Pigault Le Brun, author of the inimitable history of "Jerome;""Monsieur Botte;" "Mon Oncle Thomas ; " " The Barons de Felsheim;" "Nous les sommes tous," and a score of other unrivalled novels.

His

Pigault Le Brun was the French Fielding; he possessed the same humour, the same truth to nature, the same graphic powers of description, the same occasional coarseness, and a far greater richness of imagination. In his delineations of low life-for he rarely attempted to pourtray, except in ridiculing, the manners of the higher classes-he stands unrivalled and alone. The rigid moralist may, perhaps, condemn many of his works, and prudery affect to blush at the homeliness of many of his expressions and characters; but take him for all in all, the good man's "failings leaned to virtue's side." was the kindly satire and the laughing reproof which are often found to be more effective in putting vice to shame than the more elaborate and more bitter denunciations of natures less philanthropic. In all the novels of Le Brun we neither find a complete hero nor a complete villain-nothing either above or below the standard of humanity. He was an observer too exact and too patient ever to destroy the charm of his characters by departing in the least from the reality of nature. It is now sixty years since Pi. gault began to write. He was the best novelist of the day during the Revolution, and in his own peculiar department the best after it. Unmindful of the warfare of politics, and the dethronement of kings, he has pursued the even tenor of his way, Scourging folly wherever it was to be found, and narrating, in simple and unaffected language, the loves, the sorrows, and the frailties of the poor. His Mademoiselle Javotte, in the amusing "History of Jerome the Foundling," is, notwithstanding all her errors, a creature whom it is impossible not to love-as sweet a creation as ever was pourtrayed by the imagination of a poet. Corporal Brandt, in the "Barons de Felsheim," is in nowise inferior, and quite as good in his way as the inimitable Caleb Balderstoun of Sir Walter Scott.

CLERGY DECEASED.

Aged 70, the Rev. John Watson Beadon, Rector of Christian Malford, Wilts, and Farley Chamberlain, Hants, Precentor and a Prebendary of Wells, and Precentor of Brecon. He was a son of the late Richard Beadon, D.D. Bishop of Bath and Wells; was formerly a Fellow of Jesus college, Cambridge, where he graduated B. A. 1788, M.A. 1791; was collated by his father to the prebend of Litton in the church of Wells in 1805, to the Precentorship of Wells in 1812, and to the rectory of Christian Malford 1815; and presented to the rectory of Farley Chamberlain, Hants, in 1813, by Sir H. St. John Mildmay, Bart. He was also Precentor of Brecon, and Prebendary of Llanfynydd.

The Rev. William Brotherhood, Vicar of Rothwell with Orton, Northamptonshire. He was of Magdalen coll. Camb. B.A. 1793, and was instituted to his living in 1828.

Aged 70, the Rev. Eduard Cage, Rector of Eastling and Badlesmere, and Vicar of Newnham, Kent. He was of Eman. coll. Camb. B.A. 1786 as 12th Junior Optime, M. A. 1789; was presented to Newnham in 1813, by Miss Thorncroft and Mrs. Hill, to Badlesmere in 1818 by Lord Sondes, and to Eastling in the same year by the late Earl of Winchelsea.

The Rev. Robert Leeke, Perpetual Curate of March Chapel.

The Rev. Connolly O'Neill, Rector of Killorglin, co. Kerry.

Aged 65, the Rev. Thomas Parker, Perpetual Curate of Rainow and Saltersford, Cheshire, and teacher of writing and mathematics at the Free Grammar School, Macclesfield. He was presented to Rainow in 1796, and to Saltersford in 1815, both chapels are in the gift of the Vicar of Prestbury.

At the rectory, Tankley, Yorkshire, the Rev. John Sanderson, M. A.

The Rev. John Torr, Vicar of West Leigh, Devonshire, to which benefice he was presented in 1803 by the Dean and Chapter of Exeter.

Aged 69, the Ven. John Ussher, D.D. Archdeacon of Raphoe.

At Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire, aged 41, the Rev. Charles Williams, LL.B. eldest son of the late John Williams, esq. Serjeant-at-law.

Aug, 25. At Bridgford hill, Notts, aged 81, the Rev. Thomas Beaumont, M. A. for many years an active magistrate for that county. He was of Jesus coll. Camb. B A. 1778.

Aug. 30. At Oxford, aged 39, the Rev. Charles Wheeler, M. A. Chaplain

of Merton College, and Perpetual Curate of Stratton Audley, in that county, to which he was presented by the Dean and Chapter of Christ church in 1831. He was son-in-law of James Naylor, esq. of Cheltenham.

Aug. 28. At Youlgrave, Derbyshire, aged 67, the Rev. Benjamin Pidcock, Vicar of that parish, and Perpetual Curate of Elton. He was of Wadham coll. Oxford, M. A. 1793; was presented to Elton in 1811 by the Burgesses of that place, and to Youlgrave in 1812 by the Duke of Devonshire.

Sept. 2. In his 75th year, the Rev. Edward Picton, of Iscoed, near Carmarthen; the only surviving brother of the late General Sir Thomas Picton. He was presented to the vicarage of Great St. Bride's super Ely, with Wick, co. Glamorgan, in 1798. Distinguished for the excellence of his private and public character-as a kind husband and warm friend as an indulgent landlord and a humane benefactor to the poor-as a clergyman and a magistrate; his loss is unfeignedly deplored by his widow and relatives, and the very extensive circle of friends who always found Iscoed the abode of hospitality and kind heartedness.

Sept. 4. At Little Chelsea, aged 70, the Rev. Wilisam Jones Armstrong, formerly Rector of Termonfecken, co. Louth. Previously to his collation to that benefice by the late Primate Stuart, he was nearly 20 years a constant resident and active Magistrate in the county Tyrone, and on more than one occasion received the thanks of the Grand Jury for his impartial and upright conduct, more particularly during the troubled period of 1798.

Sept. 12. Aged 80, the Rev. William George, Vicar of North Petherton, Somerset, and for many years an acting magistrate for that county. He was of Jesus coll. Oxford, M.A. 1783, and was presented to North Petherton in 1801.

At Leamington, aged 32, the Rev. Joseph Green Round, M. A. Rector of Woodham Mortimer, Essex. He was of Balliol coll. Oxford, and was presented to his living in 1822.

Sept. 13. At Bath, aged 88, the Rev. John Bowen, Rector of Bawdrip_near Bridgewater, and senior Deputy Lieutenant and magistrate for the county of Somerset. He was for thirty-three years officiating minister of Margaret's Chapel, Bath, whence he retired at an advanced age. He was presented to the rectory of Bawdrip in 1827.

Sept. 16. At Chelsea, aged 57, the Rev. Edmund Staunton, M. A.

GENT. MAG, VOL. IV.

DEATHS.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.

July 18. At Lambeth, Ensign Turner, h. p. 1st foot.

July 27. At Poplar, Thomas Favell, esq. Commander R. N. He served as Master's Mate of the Minorca sloop, in the Mediterranean, in 1809, became a Lieut. 1809, and Commander 1827. He was the fifth brother who has died in his Majesty's service.

Lately. At Woolwich, Edward Rundle, esq late Capt. 4th regiment.

At St. Pancras, Mr. Francis Kerby, assistant to Dr. Lardner and Dr. Ritchie at the London University, and a gentleman very conversant with Natural Philosophy. He was formerly a dancing master at Gloucester. In Lisle-st. Leicester-square, aged 54, Mr. W. Smith, printseller.

Aug. 4. In Albemarle-st. Mr. Chas. Wild, a clever and well-known architectural artist.

Aug. 18. In Down-st. Piccadilly, aged 20, Miss Sarah Kay Ashton.

Aug. 19. At Cirencester-place, aged 27, Mr. James Mitchell, Secretary to the Oriental Translation Committee, and translator of the Oriental MSS. in the British Museum. He was nephew to Mr. Mitchell, of Silver-street, Leicester. Aug. 22. At Maida-vale, aged 58, J. North, esq. of Great Portland-st. Aged 81, J. F. Garling, esq. of Highbury-place.

In Woburn-square, aged 43, Evan Jones Cruchley, esq. Lieut. R.N.

In Bedford-row, in his 50th year, George Thackrah Lambert, esq. solicitor. Aug. 24. Aged 75, Mrs. Sarah Wright, of Sloane-st. widow of Nath. Wright, esq.

Aug. 25. At Ash Cottage, Old Brompton, aged 32, the Hon. Frances Stapleton, daughter of the late Right Hon. Lord Le Despenser.

At Greenwich, aged 84, the widow of G. Mackay, esq. of Bighouse, N. B.

At Pentonville, aged 86, Mr..Evan Williams, upwards of 40 years of the Strand, as a Cambrian bookseller, and for 53 years a most active member of the Welsh Charity School.

Aug. 26. Aged 87, Robert Slade, esq. of Doctors' Commons, and of Walcot-pla. Lambeth; for many years an active member of the Common Council for the Ward of Castle Baynard.

Aug. 27. In Albany-st. Regent's-park, aged 73, Mrs. Cuthbert, relict of the Rev. George Cuthbert, A. M. Prebendary and Sub-Dean of York. Aug. 28.

Aged 72, Mr. Chater, of 3 L

the respectable firm of Grosvenor and Chater, stationers, of Cornhill. While giving evidence before the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house, in favour of his servant, he was so affected that he burst a blood vessel internally, and immediately dropped into the arms of the Marshal, and expired.

Aug. 30. Aged 69, Thomas Nelson Pickering, esq. Chief Clerk and Secretary to the East London Water Works Company. He was the Solicitor when the Act of Parliament was obtained by which the Company was established in 1807, and held the above situation from that time with high honour and integrity.

Aug. 31. In Park Crescent, the Rt. Hon. Clementina Countess of Airlie and Lintrathen. She was the only child of the late Gavin Drummond, esq. was married Oct. 7, 1812, and has left a son, Lord Ogilvy, and four daughters.

Sept. 1. In Albemarle-st. aged 87, Catherine, widow of Jonathan Worrell, esq. of Juniper Hall, Mickleham.

Sept. 2. At the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-st. Alexander Rogerson, esq. of St. Petersburg.

In his 80th year, John Nesham, esq. of Spencer place, Brixton-road.

At Dulwich, in his 21st year, John William, only child of Charles Ranken, esq. of Gray's Inn.

Sept. 4. At Deptford, aged 85, Arthur Putt, esq. Sept. 6. In Conduit-st. J. Orange, esq. of Goodshill, near Tenterden. Sept. 7. At Clapham Common, aged 83, Mary, the wife of T. Poynder, esq. Sept. 11. At Sydenham, in her 80th year, Elizabeth, widow of Francis Kemble, esq. of Clapham Common.

Sept. 12. At her brother's (the Hon. Colonel Townshend), Charles-st. Berkley-sq. in her 75th year, the Hon. Georgiana Townshend, 34 years housekeeper at Windsor Castle; aunt to Viscount Sydney, the Duke of Buccleuch, Viscountess Marsham, the late Viscountess Stopford, &c. sister to Lady Dynevor, to the late Duchess of Buccleuch, and to the late Countess of Chatham.

At Bayswater, aged 71, Edward Owen, esq. late of the firmn of Messrs. Wilcoxon and Co. Lombard-st.

At Fair-oak Lodge, aged 12, FredericaGeorgiana-Augusta, daughter of RearAdm. the Hon. Sir C. Paget.

Sept. 13. At Camberwell, aged 72, Catherine, relict of J. Alcock, of Kings. wood, esq.

In Upper Brook-street, aged 7 months, Mary, inf. dau. of Sir J. M. Burgoyne, Bt. Sept. 4. In Tavistock-square, A. M'Donnell, esq. formerly of Belfast.

Sept. 17. In Harley-st. aged 33, Robert Peter Laurie, esq.

Sept. 19. In Abingdon-st. aged 57, Edward George Walmisley, esq. Clerk of the Journals of the House of Lords. He was the eldest son of William Walmisley, esq. many years Clerk of the Papers in the House of Lords, who died Jan. 17, 1819.

In Ebury-street, Pimlico, aged 73, Wm. Knapman, esq. one of his Majesty's Deputy Marshals.

BEDS. Aug. 23. At Milton Bryan, aged 77, Mary, widow of Sir Hugh Inglis, Bart. and step-mother to Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart. M. P. She was the only surviving dau. and heiress of George Wilson, esq. became the second wife of Sir Hugh Inglis, May 8, 1794, and was left his widow Aug. 21, 1820.

BERKS. Aug. 16. At Speenhamland, aged 70, Joseph Tanner, esq.

Aug. 23. At Ray Lodge, near Maidenhead, aged 54, Isaac Pocock, esq. a Deputy Lieutenant, and Justice of the Peace for the county.

Sept. 10. At the residence of Capt. Bremer, C.B. Compton, aged 72, Mrs. Blackiston, widow of Dr. T. B. Blackis

ton.

BUCKS.-Aug. 20. At Little Missenden, aged 80, Mrs. Cleaver, widow of the Bishop of St. Asaph. She was the sister of William Asheton, esq. of Lancashire, was married in 1779, and had a large family. The Bishop died in 1815.

CHESHIRE.-Sept. 7. At Chester, aged 86, Mrs. Anne Glynne, great-aunt to Sir S. R. Glynne, Bart. and aunt to Sir W. E. Welby, Bart. She was the 5th dau. of Sir John Glynne the 6th Bart. by Honora, dau. of Henry, son and heir of Sir John Conway, of Boadrydden, co. Flint, Bart.

CORNWALL.-Aug. 17. At Bonythonhouse, aged 73, Jonathan Passingham, esq. of Hendur, Merionethshire, and one of the Deputy Lieutenants of Cornwall.

Aug. 21. Aged 49, Lieut.- Col. Loftus Gray, Lieut.-Governor of Pendennis castle. He was appointed Ensign 1799, in a rifle corps 1800, Lieut. 95th foot 1803, Captain 1807, brevet Major 1814, Lieut. Col. 1830.

CUMBERLAND.Sept. 2. At Irthington, aged 41, Ruth, dau. of the Rev. J. Topping, Vicar.

DEVON.-Aug. 26. At Newport, near Barnstaple, aged 50, Lieut. John Gibbs Bird, R.N.

Sept. 7. At Southmolton, aged

65, Harriet- Prestwood, widow of the Rev. Wm. Radford, Rector of Lapford and Nymet Rowland, eldest dau. of the

Rev. John Froude, Vicar of Knowstone

and Molland.

Sept. 13. At Alphington, near Exeter, aged 73, George Scott, esq. formerly of Purley Oaks, Surrey.

DORSET.-July 27. At Leweston, in her 15th year, Jane, only dau. of the Rev. J. Ward, Rector of Compton Greenfield, Glouc.

Lately. At Weymouth, aged 3 years, Mr. Eliot, son of the Archdeacon of Barbadoes.

At Weymouth, Major-Gen. Martin Campbell Cole. He was a son of Capt.

Cole, R.N. and entered the Royal Marines as Second Lieut. 1776, became First Lieut. 1778, Captain 1793, brevet Major 1802, in R. M. 1803, Lieut.-Col. R. M. 1816, Colonel in the army 1814, and Major-General 1821. He was in constant employment during the war.

ESSEX.-Aug. 28. At Leyton, aged 44, Elizabeth, wife of R. Barclay, esq. of London, banker.

Sept. 8 At Ilford, aged 57, R. Bagster, esq. formerly of Piccadilly.

GLOUCESTER. Lately. At Berkeley, Lieut. A. Robertson, R.N.

At Cheltenham, aged 87, Rd. Harrison, esq. Remembrancer of the First Fruits and Tenths of the Clergy.

At Brislington House, near Bristol, aged 74, Edward Long Fox, M.D.

Sept. 2. At Cheltenham, aged 72, the Right Hon. Charlotte dowager Viscountess Doneraile, sister to the Earl of Bandon. She was the 5th dau. of James Bernard, esq. M.P. for co. Cork, by Esther, youngest dau. of Percy Smyth, esq. was married Sept 3, 1785, to Hayes 2d Viscount Doneraile, who died Nov. 8, 1819, having had issue the present Viscount, another son who died young, and three daughters.

HANTS.-July 17. Aged 24 years, Cecilia-Barbara-Harriet, eldest dau. of Major Maughan, of the Royal Marines, Portsmouth; and on the 19th, aged 43, Mary his wife, having survived her dau. only two days.

July 19. At Portsmouth, Lieutenant Browne, R. E.

Aug. 26. At Southampton, Captain William Sargent, R.N. He was a native of Durham, and commenced his nautical life in the merchant service. He obtained the rank of Lieutenant in 1799, and was made Commander in 1813. In the following year he served as a volunteer with Capt. Edmund Palmer, who acknowledged having derived the greatest assistance from his professional ability during the action between the Hebrus and l'Etoile, which ended in the capture of the French frigate after an obstinate

contest of two hours and a quarter. In 1810, Captain Sargent was present at the battle of Algiers, in command of the Cordelia brig, of ten guns; and he subsequently commanded the Mutine sloop, on the Irish station. His promotion to post rank took place Aug. 12, 1819.

At Andover, aged 57, Richard Footner, esq. many years an active magis

trate.

HERTS.-Aug. 19. At the Bury, Hemel Hempstead, aged 73, H. Grover, esq.

Sept. 6. At Childwick Hall, St. Aİban's, Belle- Agnes Durant, third dau. of George Durant, esq. Tong Castle, Salop.

HUNTS.-Aug. 27. At the Priory, St. Neot's, aged 77, Anne, widow of Owsley Rowley, Esq.

KENT.-Sept. 1. At Tunbridge Wells, aged 13, Charlotte-Helen- Augusta, 2nd dau. of Sir Augustus Clifford.

Sept. 6. At the Falcon-hotel, Gravesend, Eliza, wife of the Hon. Charles Petre, of Brentwood, Essex. Two days

before, this lady, with her husband, two children, and a female servant, took boat at Tilbury Fort, to be put on board a Margate steamer; when, by the unskilfulness of the boatman, the boat got under the wheel of the steamer, and the whole were thrown into the water, and narrowly escaped from drowning. She was a natural daughter of Chas. Edw. Howard, esq. brother to the present Duke of Norfolk; and was married May 31, 1822.

Sept. 17. At Eltham, Charlotte-Hyde, third dau. of the late Rev. Francis Wollaston, of Chiselburst.

LANCASHIRE.-July 18. At Rochdale, Lieut. Cutler, h. p. 9th foot.

LEICESTERSHIRE.-Aug. 12. Aged 34, Mary Ann, dau. of William Middleton, esq. banker, of Loughborough.

Aug. 21. At Leicester, aged 74, Matilda, wife of Mr. Alderman Parsons, and only dau. of the late Wm. King Gent. of Stoke Golding.

Aug. 31. At Great Bowden, aged 80, Henry Shuttleworth, esq.

LINCOLNSHIRE -Aug. 23. At Coldham House, near Wisbech, Penelope, wife of John Marshall, esq. dau. of the late Rev. Edw. Orlebar Smith, of Apsley hall, Beds.

MIDDLESEX. Aug. 21. At Isleworth, aged 73, Mr. Michael Keen, the celebrated strawberry grower and market gardener.

Sept. 6. At Twickenham, aged 71, Stephen Thomas Cole, esq. of Stoke Lyne, Oxon, and of Twickenham.

NORFOLK.-Aug. 14. At Necton-hall, aged 79, William Mason, esq. one of the oldest magistrates and deputy lieutenants of the commission; a favourite scholar of the late Dr. Parr.