its various duties, public and private. In the line of his profession, whether as Curate or Rector, he was exemplary in his attention to the spiritual, and even temporal concerns of the flock under his charge. Scrupulously punctual and zealous on the Sabbath, he was equally the vigilant pastor through the week, watchful over the moral conduct of those around him, and ever prompt to administer the consolations of Religion, as well as pecuniary assistance, to the afflicted. His admonitions were not confined to the pulpit, but, where occasions warranted, were given in private. In two instances (known to the writer of this) the parties took great offence at what they considered the officious and un-official interference of their parson; but both have since gratefully acknowledged the delicacy and kindness of the expostulations, and expressed their lasting obligations to their best friend. This may afford a useful hint to the younger Clergy, as to the propriety of their attending to this most difficult part of their professional duty, the delicacy required in the performance of it, and the probability of a good effect eventually resulting from it. It deserves mention, that, as Curate, he was attentive to the repair of the buildings in his occupation, liberally defraying from his own funds, as soon as he had the ability, expenses which might with strict propriety have been expected from his Rector. To account for this, it is necessary to observe, that from ill health he was unable to reside at Chadwell, and that, after an experiment of 18 months, which endangered his life, he had resided as Curate at Cranham, Southweald, Ingatestone, and Chipping Ongar, all in Essex. Still greater liberality was shewn in regard to the Manse and Church of Borley, of which he died resident incumbent, aud in which, not being patron, he had only a life-interest. It is equally creditable to both parties, that during his residence at Chipping Ougar, Bp. Porteus tendered him the Living of a very populous parish near the metropolis, with the flattering intimation, that he owed the tender to the Bishop's earnest wish to collect around him some of the best parish priests he could find in his diocese. So high a compliment from so discriminating a patron must have been highly gratifying. For various reasons the offer was declined, and soon afterwards the Bishop presented him with the Prebend of Mara. The certain annual value of the Prebend was very trifling. The lease of the prebendal estate was wearing out. On the renewal a considerable fine was paid: but the annual value has been materially increased to succeeding prebendaries. How far he was a free agent in the arrangement, I am not able to state: but the presumption

is, that in proportion as the reserved annual payment was increased on the renewal, the amount of the fine must have been diminished. In justice to the parishioners of Chipping Ongar, as well as to the subject of this Memoir, it should be told, that, on his quitting them and removing to Borley, after a residence of 14 years, they presented him with a handsome piece of plate, with an inscription, bearing honourable testimony to the excellence of his professional and private character. And it may be added, that, since his death, the parish of Chadwell have transmitted to his family a letter expressive of their gratitude for his attentive concern to his clerical duties (for though he could not reside with them, he seldom failed in his monthly attendance), and for the friendly intercourse, which for more than 36 years had subsisted between them without interruption. In his office of Justice of the Peace, he was extensively useful to the town and neighbourhood of Chipping Ongar, punctual in his attendance at the weekly Bench, and accessible at all times at his own house. By his firmness, tempered with conciliating moderation, he well deserved and fully gained the respect and esteem of conflicting parties. In this character his loss has been severely felt.

Among his other public functions may be classed that of Treasurer of the Essex Charity for the relief of Poor Clergymeu and their widows and children. To his unremitting and zealous attention to this interesting Institution the whole body of the surrounding Clergy bear ample and willing testimony.

Upon authority that cannot be questioned, it may be asserted, that he was equally exemplary in the discharge of the duties of private life. As a husband and father, ever solicitous for the present comfort and permanent welfare of his nearest and dearest connections; as the master of a family, watchful over the moral conduct of his dependants, and ready to promote their best interests.

It is no slight proof of the high estimation in which he was generally held, that, for the greater part of his life, he was engaged in executorships, frequently called upon as mediator in family and other differences, and as umpire in cases of disputed dilapidations.

Such, and thus various, have been the engagements, the conduct, and the merits of my departed friend. The governing principle of his life appears to have been a steady determination to perform to the best of his power every duty attached to his particular profession and situation. And it was his peculiar merit, to turn to good account every talent committed to his charge. No opportunity of being useful

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was slighted; his energies were uniformly directed to some beneficial end. Whatever object was in view, if attainable, engaged every effort, and the result seldom deceived him. Not long before his decease, he observed, apparently with great satisfaction, that his constitution and bodily powers had not been suffered to rust, but were fairly worn out-and under the pressure of several formidable complaints and the apprehension of a surgical operation, only deferred on account of excessive debility, he retained his characteristic cheerfulness, contributing, as formerly, from his inexhaustible store of anecdote, to the amusement of those around him.

His sense of Religion was serious, firm, and practical. His conviction of the sinfulness of the fallen nature of man, and the necessity of a Divine Redeemer, appeared ever present to his mind; but he loved to contemplate the Deity in his attributes of goodness and mercy, and he was happily free from the many fears and apprehensions which embitter the last moments of the more timid and gloomy. In humble confidence in the merits and intercession of his Saviour, he calmly awaited the summons of his heavenly Father, and finally received it with entire resignation and perfect tranquillity of mind. J. O.

HUGH MOISES, A. M. & M. D. May 17. Justly lamented by those who knew him, aged 46, Hugh Moises, A. M. & and M. D. late of the Royal Artillery, and youngest son of the late Rev. Edward Moises, Vicar of Masham, Yorkshire, and Rector of Kirby Malzerd, near Studley Park, in the same county.

He endured a most painful and protracted illness with the firm bearing of a Christian, habitually resorting to the only source from whence fortitude can be derived, and during the acute and lingering mental and bodily sufferings of the last five years, gave a bright example of faith and patience.

He entered the world with all those advantages of birth and education which generally ensure a good reception therein; by his talents or his application to study (which was intense) he acquired very superior views of medical science while he was yet a minor, which procured him at that early age, unsolicited, the appointment of full surgeon in the army. He devoted his life to the benefit of the service in this responsible situation, fulfilling the duties of it with fidelity, zeal, and integrity. He had no line of demarcation between his pleasures and his duty; they were so intermingled and melted into each other, that the one was always rendered

conducive to the other. But beyond the adventitious and extraneous gifts which he had received from birth and culture, he possessed qualities which he owed to God alone. He possessed an understanding vigorous, clear, and acute; a heart warm, tender and true; a temper cheerful and conciliating; a soul above meanness, subterfuge, or chicanery. To these qualities were united the most polished manners, the kindest dispositions. gave proof of his intellectual endowments in several works of science and of taste, and those few faithful friends who enjoyed bis confidence can bear ample testimony to the endearing qualities of his heart.

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Thus while they mourn his loss, for society and themselves, they "sorrow not as those without hope," assured that such qualities as he possessed were not bestowed to perish in the grave. "There is a spirit in man" over which death has no dominion

"Now is the drama ended-not till now, So full of chance and change is all below, Could we pronounce him happy.-Now se[endure,

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From pain, from grief, and all that we He sleeps in peace-say rather soars to Heaven."

His Works are: "An Inquiry into the Abuses of the Medical Department in the Militia of Great Britain, with some necessary amendments proposed," 8vo. 1794. -"On the Blood, or a General Arrangement of important Facts, relative to the Vital Fluid," 8vo. 1794.-"An Appendage to the Toilet, or an Essay on the Management of the Teeth," 8vo. 1799.

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1818. is with concern we have to March 21. record the death of Mr. John Donaldson, Missionary at SURAT-his decided piety, ardent zeal, and the progress he had made in the study of the native language, during the short period of five months since his arrival, under the pressure of severe infirmities, evince the extent of the loss which the Mission at Surat sustained by that event. He died at Bombay (to which place he had been advised to repair for the benefit of the seaair) at the house of the Rev. Mr. Horner, the Wesleyan Missionary. He was well caculated in every requisite for the promotion of the great cause in which he had engaged, by the most unaffected piety and simplicity of manners, warm devotion, and consistent life!

Aug. 1. At Bellary, in the Madras Presidency, Mrs. Hands, late Mrs. De Granges; an event which will prove a serious loss to the Mission to that place. Her health had been declining for about a year. During the latter part of this period,

period, she was visited several times a day by Dr. Owen, the garrison surgeon at Ballary, who left no means untried for her restoration. As death drew nigh she deeply. lamented that she had not been more spiritually minded, but her departure was peaceful and happy. She had been engaged in various useful labours at Visagapatam and Bellary, especially in the superintendance of a school at the latter place, and had so conducted herself as to gain universal respect. Her funeral was numerously attended by all classes, who seemed anxious to testify their esteem for the departed, and sympathy for her bereaved husband and family. Among those who were present on this melancholy and affecting occasion were General Long, with the officers of his staff, and nearly all the officers and ladies at Bellary. The interment took place in the burialground belonging to the garrison.

1819, Jan. 20. Near Poonah, in the East Indies, Caroline, wife of Capt. Peter Lodwick, of the Company's Military Service,

Mar. 1. At Madras, the wife of the Right Hon. Hugh Elliot, Governor of Madras. She was universally esteemed; and while her death was a severe affliction to her own family, it excited general regret in the settlement. - The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Calcutta arrived at Madras on the 2d of March, and was thus accidentally enabled to celebrate the funeral obsequies of Mrs. Elliot.

March 20. On board H. M. S. Minden, on her passage to Bombay, the Lady of Rear Admiral Sir Richard King, Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies.

April 25. At the Cape of Good Hope, aged 22, Anna Maria, wife of Major Watsou, 14th regt. infantry, and daughter of John Hollier, esq. of Thame, Oxfordshire. May 8. At Angostura, the benevolent and patriotic Don Manuel Palacio, well known in the scientific circles of London and Paris.

May 31. At the Hope Estate, Jamaica, aged 140 years, Roger Hope Elletson, a negro. His own account (which is strongly corroborated by living and written testimony) is, that he was born at Merryman's Hill, an old sugar estate, in St. Andrew's, and was a father at the time of the great earthquake in 1692, which destroyed Port Royal; that he was at home when that event took place, and perfectly remembered the violence of the shock.

June 24. At New York, George Young, esq. late of London.

June 26. In Spanish Town, Jamaica, B. Milnard Burge, esq. Barrister-at-Law. June 28. At Lisbon, in his 77th year, Edmond Power, esq.

GENT. MAG. August, 1819.

July 1. At Penn yan (New York), of a dropsy, aged 66, Jemima Wilkinson, commonly called "The Universal Friend." She, a few moments previous to her death, placed herself in her chapel, and called in her disciples one by one, and gave each a solemn admonition, then raised her hands, closed her eyes, and gave up the ghost.

July. 4. In his 8th year, Garnault Bowles, third and youngest son of Henry Carington Bowles, esq. Bull's Cross, Enfield.

July 9. At Madeira, Catherine, wife of Dr. Gomlay, physician of the island, and daughter of the late Col. Van Cortlandt, of the Manor Corlandt.

July 10. At Grey Abbey (Down), Wm. Crosbie Ward, esq. of Castle Ward, in the same county.

July 11. Of a decline, aged 17, Emma, daughter of Mr. Goodwin, of Framlingham, Suffolk.

At Spittlegate, near Grantham, aged 87, Mr. John Bass. He was taken speechless while eating his dinner, and died in a few hours.

July 12, At Brandeston, aged 94, the widow of the late Mr. Chenery, surgeon, of Earl Soham, Suffolk.

July 15. At the Manse of Pittenweem, in the Presbytery of St. Andrew's, the Rev. Dr. James Nairne, of Claremont, minister of that parish, in the 69th year of his age, and in the 44th of his ministry.

July 16. At Paris, the Sieur Guillet, a lodger in the Rue des Lyonnais, aged nearly 75, who hung himself in his apartments. A paper was found near him, in his own hand-writing, stating, in the following terms, his motive for the act: "Jesus Christ has said, that when a tree is old, and can no longer bear fruit, it is good that it should be destroyed." This foolish old man had previously several times attempted his life.

At Castle Hill, Denbigh, North Wales, aged 97, Mrs. Taylor. She retained all her faculties to the last.

Sarah, youngest daughter of Mr. B. Marshall, of Watling-street.

July 18. At Holbrook, Suffolk, aged 83, Mr. Thomas Giles, au opulent farmer. July 19. In Suffolk street, Charing Cross, aged 73, Thomas Gordon, esq. late of Premna, Aberdeenshire.

Anne, wife of John Westbrook, esq. of Chapel-street, Grosvenor-square. July 20. At Walsingham-place, Lambeth, Miss Le Mercier.

At Holyrood house, the Hon. Miss Murray, daughter of the Hon. Mr. Murray, (grandson to the late Duke of Athol), and the Lady Elizabeth Murray, sister to the late Earl of Dunmore.

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At Richmond, Surrey, aged 77, Mary, widow of the late John Knight, esq. of the Strand.

July 20. Isabella, wife of Mr. E. Yates, of North-place, Gray's-inn-road, and of Little Britain.

In Portman-street, in her 70th year, Miss Killegrew.

July 21. At Norwich, in his 58th year, William Ray, esq. of Tannington-place, Suffolk. In him the poor have lost a liberal benefactor, and his surviving family and relations a kind and most affectionate friend.

Rebecca, wife of the Rev. Mr. Collinson, Curate of Ryton, county of Durham. At Aberystwith, of an apoplexy, John Parry, esq.

At Dollar Field, Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of Andrew Wilson, esq. typefounder, Glasgow.

In Fitzroy-street, Fitzroy-square, the widow of the late Major Heitland, of the Madras Establishment.

In Great James-street, Bedford-row, the widow of the late William Webb, esq.

At Laytonstone, in his 73d year, T. 'Hargrave, esq. July 22. At Hammersmith, in his 78th year, John Hayter, esq. of Old Cavendishstreet, St. Mary-la-Bonne.

July 23, aged 66,` Mr. Stephen Couchman, printer, of Throginorton-street.

At Tunbridge Wells, the wife of Mr. Daly, of Upper Thames-street.

Near Exeter, aged 54, Mary Green, widow of the late George Lane, esq. of Croydou Common.

In her 29th year, Frances, wife of Mr. Hastie, Solicitor, of East Grinstead.

In Upper Seymour-street, in his 16th year, Frederick George, youngest son of the late Henry Penton, esq. formerly M. P. for Winchester, &c.

In Park-street, Bath, Mr. James Dibble, of Tottenham Court Road, brandymerchant.

In Norfolk street, Elizabeth, aged 58, wife of Edward Spencer, esq. of Oldcastle, Glamorganshire. July 24. The Rev. Frederic Raymond Barker, Vicar of Teynton, Oxfordshire, and Rector of Little Barrington, Gloucestershire.

In Nottingham-place, the widow of the late John Walker Wilsou, esq. late of Clifton.

In Whitefriars, in his 84th year, T. Hawkes, esq.

At Milbourn, near Malmesbury, Wilts, Edmund Estcourt Gale, esq. of Ashwickhouse, Somersetshire.

In his 58th year, Mr. Thos. Havell, plumber, of Kingston, Surrey.

Aged 24, Harriet Jane, wife of David Okeden Parry Okeden, esq. of Bishop's Teiguton, and daughter of the late Hon. John Thomas Capel.

July 25. Miss Susanna Cruttenden, of Alfred-place, Newington.

In her 67th year, the widow of the late Josias Lister, esq. of Islington.

Aged 65, Mr. Robt. Dinsdale, of Kingsland-road.

July 26. Aged 81, Wm. Chatteris, esq. banker, of Lombard-street.

At Inverness, North Britain, in his 66th year, the Right Rev. Andrew Macfarlane, Senior Bishop of the Scotch Episcopal Church.

At Torquay, Devonshire, in his 51st year, Matthew Mills Coates, esq. late of Clifton; and June 20, at Ghent, when bathing in the river Lys, aged 15, John, his fourth son, a pupil of the Royal College of that place.

Mr. Dan. Todd, many years Teacher of the Mathematics, &c. at Hounslow School. In Dover-street, Piccadilly, aged 68, Mrs. Elizabeth Allcock.

Samuel, eldest son of Sam. Chatfield, esq. of Lavender Sweep, Battersea Rise. July 27. At Ipswich, in her 83rd year, Frances, relict of the late, and mother of the present Thomas Green, esq.

At Pimlico, aged 66, Mr. J. Gibbs, who had been upwards of 20 years an active and respected member of the Police Establishment at Bow-street.

At Yarmouth, in his 46th year, William Cooch Pillars, esq. of Norwich.

In Gardiner-street, Dublin, Mr. Montgomery, late Stage Manager of the Theatre Royal, Dublin.

At Kensington, in his 88th year, Edward Jennings, esq. formerly of Rippon, Yorkshire, and the Middle Temple.

July 28. At Ely, in his 74th year, Jas. Golborne, esq. for nearly half a century Receiver and Expenditor General to the Hon. Corporation of Bedford Level, which office he resigned at the last April Meeting.

In Berkeley-square, Thomas Graham, esq. of Kinross and Burleigh, M. P. for the counties of Kinross and Clackmannan.

At East Dulwich, Margaret Douglas, wife of Mr. Gilbert Barrington.

Aged 42, Mr. James Carter, cook, of Portugal-street.

At Southgate, in her 23d year, Ann, wife of Mr. W. Leaver, of St. John's-lane, Clerkenwell. July 29. At Bamberg, aged 39, Dr. Wetzel, Editor of "The Franconian Mercury;" well known also as a poet. The German Papers speak of very extraordinary attempts made in the beginning of his illness by the Prince of Hohenlohe to convert him to the Roman Catholic Religion.

At Teignmouth, Thomas, eldest son of the late T. Cartwright Slack, esq. July 30. Mrs. White, the wife of a clothier, of Stonehouse. As she was walking by the side of the Stroud Canal, she accidentally fell in, and was drowned.

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She was far advanced in pregnancy, and has left a disconsolate husband and seven small children to lament her loss.

At Halnaby Hall, Yorkshire, aged 42, the wife of J. P. Milbanke, esq. late of Calverton, Nottinghamshire.

Wm. Walker, esq. of High Lands, Bedfordshire.

July 31. At Wells, aged 80, the Hon. Sam. Knollis, Lieut.-colonel in the Army; and one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for Somersetshire.-He was one of the few surviving Officers who fought and conquered on the plains of Minden, where he received a severe wound; from the effects of which, after many years' service, he was compelled to retire, when Major of the 51st regiment.

At Lane's Grove (Queen's County), aged 57, George O'Doran, esq. one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the county of Wexford.

In Upper Clapton, Mr. John Hawkins, of Lombard-street.

Of an apoplexy, aged 28, Allen Marshall, esq. of Nelson-square, and Tooleystreet, Southwark.

At Wandsworth, in his 67th year, Mr. Wm. M'Andrew, of Lower Thames street. At Clapham Common, in her 65th year, Mrs. Rebecca Prior.

Lately. At his house in Bloomsburysquare, Daniel Davis, esq. surveyor.

In Great George-street, Euston square, in his 17th year, Robert, eldest son of Hob. Barry, esq. barrister-at-law.

In his 75th year, the Rev. William Percy, D.D. rector of St. Paul's Church, Charlston, South Carolina, and formerly of Queen's-square Chapel, Westminster.

Cheshire-In his 80th year, the Rev. J. Tomkinson, 22 years rector of Davenham. Devonshire- -At Sidmouth, aged 68, Eliza, relict of the late Wm. Dashwood, esq. of Green Bank, Falmouth.

Dorsetshire-Mary Rawes, of Marnbull, in the 98th year of her age; one of the Society of Friends.

Essex- At Weathersfield, Essex, the Rev. Thomas Mark, more than twenty years pastor of the Dissenting congregation at that place.

Gloucestershire- Rev. George Brown, late of Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, and of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Hants At Ryde, in the Isle of Wight, Hester Maria, only daughter of Wm. Purton, esq. of Faintree, near Bridgenorth.

Kent-At Tenterden, Mrs. Dyer, in an advanced age. She had lived for many years in a state of poverty; but it is since discovered that she died possessed of considerable property. Lincolnshire In consequence of a fall down the steps out of the Debtors' room, Mr. William Lee, Gaoler of Grimsby. -Somersetshire In Sydney-place, Bath,

in her 85th year, the widow of Humphrey Prideaux, esq. of Place House, Padstow, Cornwall. This Lady gave upwards of 1000l. per annum to relieve the wants of her distressed fellow creatures. Mrs. Prideaux, we understand, has bequeathed legacies to the following Institutions:The General Hospital, Casualty Hospital, National Schools, Penitentiary, and the National Benevolent Institution in Bath; the Blind Asylum in Bristol; and the Deaf and Dumb Asylum in London.

In Sydney-place, Bath, at an advanced age, Edward Forbes, esq.

In New King-street, Bath, Elizabeth, widow of the late Rev. Baldwin Wake.

Aged 70, the Rev. John Fewtrell, rector of Stocklinch Ottersey, Broadway, and vicar of Pile Abbots, Somerset. Wilts In her 73d year, the widow of Mr. Solomon Sweetapple, late of West Harnham, near Salisbury.

Worcestershire-In Palace row, aged 92, the widow of the late W. Illingworth, esq. of Nottingham.

WALES- At Newton, Glamorganshire, the Rev. R. Knight, vicar of Mickleton, in Gloucestershire; rector of Baynton, Worcestershire, and brother of Colonel Knight, of Tythegstone, in the former county.

Rev. Robert Maurace, rector of Llanbedr, vicar of Rhuddlan, and one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the counties of Denbigh and Flint.

At Haverford West, aged 61, John Harding, esq. of Clynderwyn.

IRELAND-At the Palace of Ferns, Georgiana, wife of Jas. Boyd, esq. of Roplace (Wexford), and second daughter of the late Hon. George Jocelyn.

At Fort Frederick (Cavan), suddenly, Sneyd Sankey, esq. High Sheriff of the County, and only son of Col. Sankey, of the Royal City of Dublin Militia.

ABROAD-At La Isla, on the river Apure, Col. Jas. Rooke, who fell a sacrifice to his exertions in the cause of the Patriots in South America, from the severe duties of the Staff Appointment he held under the Supreme Chief, General Bolivar.

On-board his Majesty's brig Beaver, off Jamaica, Lieut. Henry P. Taylor, R. N. second son of Mr. Taylor, surgeon, of Kingston.

At Negapatam, Capt. Wm. Griffinhoofe, Jate of the 9th regiment of Native Infantry, Madras Establishment.

Aug. 1. At Blackheath, aged 81, the widow of Henry Vansittart, esq. formerly Governor of Bengal, and mother of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

At Sevenoaks, after a very short indisposition, the Rev. Robert Parsons.

Aug. 2. At his seat at Lisanally, near Omagh, Ireland, by a tremendous stroke of lightning, Arthur Galbraith, esq. a gentleman