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-twill 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 his mind, the few simple circumstances here related will furnish a faint picture. Of his person it were frivolous to speak; since a face and a form which were most animated and pleasing are now invested with angelic beauty. His acquirements, for his age, were perhaps extraordinary; being only just turned of twelve when the disastrous 5th of Novem 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 driuks 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 one hand, much of the flesh, and all the nails, having been burnt off the other*, in his endeavours to extinguish the flames which were consuming him; yet with this single hand would he retain, 'till the close of day, some volume that was calculated to improve and adorn his mind. And the reader may be assured that the Volume of Inspiration was not by him neglected; for every other kind of knowledge was considered but subordinate to that "which maketh wise unto salvation."-One day, during his long and painful confinement, when conversing with him on some im ber arrived. In Latin and French he had made a considerable progress. Of his own language he had an accurate and critical knowledge. In arithmetic he had proceeded as far as decimal fractions and the cube root. He wrote and drew beau-portant topicks of religion, and after tifully. And, that he was well versed in Geography, the following little anecdote will demonstrate. News having just arrived of the capture, by our forces, of a particular island in the West Indies, his master and medical attendants, after communicating to him an account of the pleasing event, entered into an argument respecting the geographical situation of the island; one stating it to lie in such a latitude, and the others somewhat differing in opinion: when the juvenile pupil and patient (though writhing with torture at the time, from the painful process of dressing his wounds) said, "Sirs, I beg your pardon; but I think you are all wrong: for, if I mistake not, you will find it lies so many degrees," &c. On the gentlemen returning to the parlour, where I was anxiously waiting to know the state * This was the only injured part of his wards praying with him, I said, "I hope, my dear boy, you do not neglect your private devotions; since one fervent prayer from your own heart will be of much more avail than a thousand from mine." To which he replied, with great earnestness, "Neglect them! no, surely not, Papa; for I am convinced none but God can restore me." On asking him whether he suited any part of his prayers to his then present situation? he said, "Yes, always; as well as I can." "Give me a specimen," said I. "Why," he answered, "I pray that God, who, for some wise purpose, has been pleased to permit this calamity to befall me, may also be pleased, in his mercy, to support me under it; and either in his own good time to restore me from it, or take me to himself." The pious reader must suppose 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 filea-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. Yet such was the young suffering Saint's humility, and mistrust of his own perform ances, 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 symptoms 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 unclet? 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 XXXVIII. 2. Ezek. xxxiv. 16. ↑ John Partridge, of Monmouth, esq. who died just a month after his nephew. See p. 189, forts." Soon afterwards some very fa- Accipe et hæc, manuum tibi quæ monu- * Virgil. L. B. Vol. LXXX. pp. 195, 292. The sum left by the late Mr. Cavendish to Lord George Cavendish, and his three sons, proves to be full 700,000/. His brother, the kind-hearted and charitable Mr. Frederick Cavendish, of Market-street, succeeds to a landed estate of 6000/. a year, a sum which can no way add to his comforts, except that it enables him to extend the sphere of his boundless benevolence. 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 then 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 tumb-stone, at the back of St. Martin's Church, in the small piece of burying ground in Church-court: Sacred to the memory of aged 38 years; A victim, like thousands of our gallant Countrymen, to the fatal consequences of the • unfortunate Expedition to the Scheldt, commanded by Jous 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 sigriature,) 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 Emanswasborn 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 bearded, cut out, and carried away the Bienfaisant and another ship of the line, with their conquered erews, 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. He 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, But 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 in London, educated at Mile-end acade-town-house (built by her father, the late my; 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 Dr. William Battie) in Great Russel-street, Bloomsbury, additional to her Ladyship's dowry; and their amiable daughter an ample fortune. Amongst the different legacies to other relatives and friends, he has willed a handsome one to Admiral Sir Thomas Boulden Thompson. P. 136. We take the earliest possible opportunity of counteracting the injurious effects of a misinformation, with respect to a gentleman of a most blameless and exalted character. We have been informed that he was not related to the celebrated Bishop mentioned in our last Magazine; and that he certainly never was a Scotch clergyman, but in reality that he, and his father before him, and all the family, were Dissenters from the Scotch Establishment, and uniformly of the Episcopal persuasion; and above all, that it was a most injurious insinuation, that he was deeply infected with infidel principles, or ever so much as suspected of infidelity by any one who knew him in the large town in which he lived, respected, and most respectable, as a firm believer in Christianity; as can and may be well ascertained by the surviving son of the worthy minister Dr. Gordon, who is a worthy minister at present in the Established Church of this Kingdom, and by Dr. Gordon's successor in the Episcopal Chapel of Aberdeen, now an eminent minister in an Episcopal Church of this Metropolis. DEATHS. 1809, N the Fort of Luft, in Persia, Νου. 27.- near the Gulph of Bussorah, Lieut. Standish Weld, of his Majesty's 47th Regiment, youngest son of Edmund Weld, esq. of Molesworth-street, Dublin. This young officer was engaged in the attack and destruction of Rass al Khyma, in Persia, on the 12th and 13th days of the month, in which he unhappily fell. He was also present at the siege and reduction of Buenos Ayres, on the East Coast of South America and he had to boast of what falls not to the lot of many; namely, that in the short space of a year and six months, he bore, as Ensign, the British standard through the four quarters of the Globe. 1810, Feb. 26. Of an inflammation in the lungs, in his 30th year, at St. Ippolits, Herts, the Rev. Christopher Craddock, youngest son of Sheldon Craddock, esq. of Harferth House, Richmond, Yorkshire. May.... At St. Helena, on his return from the East Indies, Fred. Gilchrist, esq. surgeon of the Warren Hastings Indiaman. 11. At Berbice, Wm. Bedingfield, of Needham Market. June 1. At Islington, Mr. Joseph White, eminent for his knowledge of coins, as well as of Natural History. His fine series of Saxon Coins, he disposed of in his life-time; the remaining part of his collection has lately been brought to the hammer, except the Natural History, and his books, which, we understand, will be sold in one of the Winter months. 5, At.Malta, aged 26, Theodore, the second son of S. Galton, esq. of Dudson, near Birmingham. The amiable and shining qualities of this young man had endeared him to an extensive circle of aequaintance, who anticipated the maturity of a manly and noble character. Desirous of increasing his knowledge by an intercourse with foreign nations, he had travelled through Spain, the Grecian Archipelago, and Asia Minor. Arrived at Malta, on his return to his native country, Death reaped the early and rich harvest of his cultivated mind, and whelmed the hopes of his expecting friends in sorrow and disappointment. 7. At Malta, in his 18th year, Louis Lardy, Lieutenant of De Meuron's regiment, and son of Lieut.-col. L. commanding the said regiment. 13. In Philadelphia, the celebrated Major Hogan. After leaving this country, it appears, he was some time in the capacity of a Planter at Cuba, whence he went to Washington, and other parts of the Continent, and arrived at Philadelphia only a short time previous to his decease. July 3. At New-York, aged 46, Thomas Gilliatt, esq.; a native of England, but for many years past an inhabitant of Richmond, Virginia. 9. At Monmouth, after a long life, devoted to usefulness and beneficence, John Partridge, esq. 10. Dr. Cuthbert Gordon, brother of the late George G. of Leith. On the Plains of Almeida, at the head of eight squadrons of the 14th and 15th, Light Dragoons, whilst gallantly charging the French cavalry, supported by 300 of their infantry, Lieut.-col. Talbot. The. French fired, and killed two subalterns of the 16th, and about ten privates; both the fore legs of Col. T.'s horse were broken; the animal plunged forward and fell, and the Colonel fell over his head on the bayonets of the Enemy, who instantly dispatched him. He was born at Malahyde, near Dublin, and was brother to R. W. Talbot, esq. M. P. for the county of Dublin. 13. At Knightsbridge, the Hon. Mr. Fitzwilliam, (brother to Viscount F/) attorncy-at-law. 14. At Maidstone, Mrs. Jane Punnett, relict of Thomas Durraut P. esq. At Inverness, aged 71, John Watson, esq. late British Consul at Venice. 17. Leonard Ellington, esq. of Old Broad-street, merchant. 19. At Hohenzierletz, the country-seat of the Duke of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz, after a severe illness, which commenced June 30, arising from an abscess in the lungs, Louisa Augusta Wilhelmina Amelia, Queen of-Prussia. Her Majesty was the second daughter of the reigning Duke of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz, and niece of our most gracious Queen. She was born March March 10, 1776; and married, Dee. 21, 1793, to the Prince Royal of Prussia, now King; and has left six children to lament the loss of so good a parent. The eldest, the Prince Royal, is in his 15th year; the youngest, born at Koningsberg since the peace of Tilsit, only 18 months. She has been allowed to have been one of the most tiful women in the world. At Oakham, aged 44, Mr. Edward Pyne, jan. draper, &c. 20. At Tickhill castle, Yorkshire, aged 40, Harriett, wife of the Hon. Frede vick Lumley. Her remains were interred, on the 26th, in the Earl of Scarborough's family vault at Saxilby, co. Lincoln. At Barn Elms, Surrey, aged 5, Henry Montague Hoare, youngest son of Henry Hugh Hoare, esq. On her passage to England, for the recovery of her health, the wife of Mr. J. W. Orderson, the Island of Barbadoes. Aged 45, Mrs. Eliz. Wardell, wife of Capt. T. W. of Patriot Square, Hackney, and daughter of B. D. Duppa, esq. of Malmaine Hall, Kent. 21. At Exeter, aged 39, Loftus Otway Bland, esq. R. N. and late Captain of his Majesty's ship Africa. He was the nephew of Gen. Bland, and distinguished for his judgment and intrepidity in the line of his profession, as well as for the milder moral duties of humanity. His illness, contracted in a damp prison in Holland, where he was confined after the loss of the Flora on that coast, was confirmed by an extended eruize in the Baltic during the last autuen, and rapidly hastened his death, which he inet with the calm fortitude of a truly Christian Hero. In Magpie-lane, Oxford, aged 78, Mrs. Susauna Stevens, a maiden lady, of exemplary pious life. Very suddenly, aged 75, Mrs. Harris, of Hull, a maiden lady, daughter of Rev. John H. formerly a Dissenting minister at Beverley. 22. On his passage from Lisbon, Lieut.col. Drummond, of the 3d or Old Buffs. At Perth, John Stewart, esq. second son of the late Sir John S. of Granderilly, bart. At Manby hall, near Louth, the wife of Wm. Welfit, esq. 23. At Serlby hall, near Bawtry, Notts, Right hon. Robert-Monckton Arundel, Viscount Galway, Baron of Killard, co. Clare, one of His Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, K. B. His Lordship was born July 4, 1752; succeeded his brother Henry-William, March 2, 1774. He married, first, March 1779, Miss Mathew, daughter of Daniel M. esq. of Felix-hall, Essex; by whom (who died Nov. 19, 1801) he had issue Elizabeth, born Jan. 1, 1780; Henrietta Maria, born Dec. 5, 1780; William-George (who now succeeds to the title and estates) born March 28, 1782; Robert-Henry, born May 4, 1785; Charlotte-Penelope, born Νον. 22, 1784; Frances-Jane, born June 18, 1786; Charles-Frederick, born Aug. 16, 1787, died Sept. 4, 1788; AugustusPhilip, born July 2, 1789, died Aug. 20, 1802. Carleton-Thomas, born Jan. 9, 1797. The Viscount married, secondly, Mrs. Drummond, relict of P. A. D. esq. of Bawtry. His remains were interred in the family vault at Felkirk, near Hemsworth. At Tiverton, Capt. Geo. Andrews, whose services on-board the Agamemnon gained him the esteem and friendship of the late Lord Nelson. At Clifton, aged 90, Jeremiah Hill, esq. At St. George's Bristol, aged 96, Mary Hulbert. At Stamford, aged 36, Miss Banks, daughter of the late Mr. B. of Barholm. Her death was occasioned by drinking a considerable quantity of cold small beer, while in a state of extreme perspiration from dancing. 24. Aged 70, Mr. Henry Freame, of Corsham, Wilts. At his residence near Newcastle, Anthony Hood, esq. one of the aldermen of that town. He was in apparent health on the day preceding, and in the procession of the gentlemen assembled for the purpose of laying the foundation-stone of the New Court-house, &c. for Northumberland. In Westmoreland-street, Dublin, aged 40, John Ball, esq. Suddenly, Rev. John Skelton, vicar of Dunstbourn Rous, Gloucestershire, and late fellow of Corpus Christi college, Oxford, M.A.1780; B. D. 1789. 25. At Newington, Surrey, aged 28, Charles-John Wye, esq. late of Lincoln's Inn. At Islington, Mr. Francis Walsh, many years chief clerk of the Three per Cent. Consol. Office, in the Bank of England. Suddenly, just as he had sat down to dinner, aged 50, Mr. W. Daggon, boatswain of the Carnatic, lying in ordinary at Plymouth. The wife of Wright Coldham, esq. the present mayor of Nottingham. Aged 87, Mrs. Manton, of Grantham. 26. At Hastings, after a long-iliness, Mr. John Downes, of Dyer's-buildings, Holborn. At Stratford-green, aged 75, John Hawes, esq. Aged 73, Mr. John Hammond, an opulent farmer and grazier, of Boston.. At Leeds, aged 70, the Rev. W. Sheepshanks, M. A. formerly fellow and tutor of St. John's college, Cambridge; B. A. 1766; M. A. 1769; prebendary of Carlisle; rector of Ovington, in Norfolk; perpetual curate of Sebram, in Cumberland, and minister of St. John's, Leeds. As a tutor he had the honour of educating some of the most exalted characters in the empire, viz. Lord Ellenborough, Sir Soulden Lawrence, Dr. Tomline, Bishop of Lincoln, |