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THEATRICAL REGISTER.
LYCEUM THEATRE.

July 2. Highgate Tunnel; or, the Secret Arch! a burlesque operatic Tragedy. This piece is said to be the production of Mr. Lascelles Smith; and its object is to ridicule those dramatic productions in which spectacle and bombast are substituted for every quality which the entertainments of a legitimate Theatre should possess.

COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. July 2. Trick for Trick; or, the Admiral's Daughter; an Afterpiece, performed this evening only. July 6. A Touch at the Times; a Comedy, a first attempt at the drama, by Mr. Jameson.

July 8. The Treacherous Baron; an Afterpiece, performed this evening only.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

July 8. The Child of Chance ; a Farce. July 23. The Fortune Hunters; a Comedy, the first dramatic essay of a very young Author, Mr. Hewlett.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS. Foreign-office, June 17. John Crispin, esq. Consul at Oporto.

Carlton-house, July 1. The Prince of Wales has been pleased to appoint Joseph Jekyll, esq. one of His Majesty's Counsel learned in the Law, his Royal Highness's Attorney-general.-Samuel Shepherd, esq. bis Majesty's eldest Serjeant at Law, his Royal Highness's Solicitor-general.

CIVIL PROMOTIONS.

June 23. Right hon. Charles Bragge Bathurst, Chancellorof the Duchyof Lancaster, vice Earl of Buckinghamshire, resigned. Sir T. Tyrwhitt, Ranger of His Majesty's Little Park at Windsor.

Charles Dyson, M. A. Professor of Anglo-Saxon Literature at Oxford, vice Conybeare.

Mr. John Brown, Yeoman Bedell of Physic and Arts, vice Wise, deceased.

Mr. Edward R. Roberts, of Barnstaple, Collector of his Majesty's Customs at that Port, vice Pitt, dismissed.

Mr. Nicholas Glass, of same place, Comptroller, vice Oram, superseded.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMents. Rev. Francis Baker, vicar of Coombe Bisset, Wilts, South Newton V. Rev. C. Chisholm, M. A. Eastwell R. Kent, vice Parsons, deceased.

Rev. J. Blackburn, Aysgarth V. Yorksh. Rev. Mr. Blackall, M. A. North Cadbury R. Somerset, vice Askew, deceased. Rev. M. G. Edgar, M. A. St. Nicholas Perpetual Curacy, Ipswich, vice Coyte, deceased.

GENT. MAG. July, 1812.

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Rev. J.-B. Jenkinson, M. A. Leverington R. Cambridgeshire, vice Dr. Sparke, Bp.Ely. Rev. Henry Bate Dudley, LL. D. chan'cellor of the diocese of Ferns in Ireland, Willingham R. Cambridgeshire, vice Dr. Law, Bp. of Chester.

Rev. A. Rogers, Rolvenden V. Kent, vice Morphett, deceased.

Rev. Henry Rice, Great Holland R. Essex, vice Ives, deceased.

Rev. E. Crosse, M. A. Mount Bures R. Essex.

Rev. J. Brooke, B. D. (curate of Newark 25 years) Gamston R. Notts.

Rev. T. Singleton, Elsdon R. Northumberland, vice Dutens, deceased.

Rev. Wilfred Clarke, Castle Camps R. Cambridgeshire, vice Jauncey, deceased. Rev. Henry Arthur Atkinson, Barton and Chetwood Perpetual Curacies, Bucks. Rev. J. Curry, Preacher of the Charter-house.

Rev. Ralph Ord, Semly V. Wilts, vice Barker, deceased.

Rev. Henry Kett, B. D. Sutton Benger V. Wilts.

Rev. John Cox, LL. B. Stockland V. with Dalwood annexed, in the diocese of Bristol; and Chaddington R.; both vice his uncle, Wm. Trevelyan Cox, deceased.

BIRTHS.

1812, July 8. In Hamilton-street, the Duchess of Bedford, a daughter.

15. At Great Marlow, the wife of Hon. Alex. Hope, esq. M. P. a son.

Lately, In Lower Seymour-street, Lady Williams, a daughter.

In York-place, the wife of Lieut.-col. Wheatley, 1st guards, a daughter.

At Eltham, the wife of the Hon. H. Gardiner, a daughter.

At Cossey-hall, Norwich, Lady Jerningham, a son.

At Clifton, the wife of Lieut.-col, Morgan, R. Glamorgan Militia, a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

1812, June 18. At the Cove of Cork, Capt. Young, to Mary, daughter of the late Sir Edwin Jeynes, of Gloucester.

July 1. At Eskgrove, Scotland, C. P. Hay, esq. Captain in East India Company's service, to Helen, eldest daughter of Sir David Rae, bart.

3. In Dublin, Lieut.-col. Wardlaw, 76th reg. to the Hon. Anne, youngest daughter of the late Viscount Lake.

4. By special licence, Col. Serle, of the South Hants militia, to Miss Sophia Fortescue, of Charlotte-st. Fitzroy-sq.

5. J. Weld, esq. of Cowfield-house, Wilts, to the Hon. Julia Petre, daughter of Lord Petre.

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At Clifton, James-William Crutwell, 83d foot, to Mary, only daughter of Nicholas Hurst, esq. of Hinckley.

7. Rev. H. Powell, rector of East Horndon, to Anne, eldest daugter of Rev. J. Birch, rector of Corringham, `Essex.

At Colwich, Rev. C. Prowett, nephew of the Bishop of Norwich, to Cecilia, youngest dau. of Sir W. Wolseley, bart. Rev. Henry Cripps (second son of Jos. C. esq. M. P.) to Judith, second daughter of Wm. Lawrence, esq.

9. Capt. Sir G. Hoste, to Mary, dau. of the late J. Burroughes, esq. of Burlingham-hall, Norfolk.

At Southill, the Hon. Capt. Waldegrave, R. N. to Miss Whitbread, daughter of Samuel Whitbread, esq. M. P.

11. Viscount Mountjoy, to Mrs. Brown, widow of the late Major Wm. Brown.

15. At Dublin, John Ferguson, esq. of Londonderry, to Georgiana, daughter of the late Sir G. Ribton, bart.

18. T. Raikes Newbery, esq. (fourth son of F. N. esq. of St. Paul's Churchyard) to Elizabeth, daughter of W. Sutton, esq. of Colney Hatch.

21. By special licence, Hen. Vansittart, esq. of Bruton-street (nephew to the Chancellor of the Exchequer), to Lady Turner, widow of the late Sir Charles Turner, bart.

23. By special licence, Lord Walpole, to Mary, eldest daughter of the late W. Fawkener, esq. clerk of the Privy Council.

Freeman W. Eliot, esq. to Margaret, elder daughter-and W. Rose Rose, esq. to Maria-Isabella, younger daughter, of Rev. George Strahan, D. D. prebendary of Rochester.

Lately, At Wanstead, James-Wilmot Lush, solicitor, to Charlotte, daughter of Major Wright, esq. of Woodford.

Rev. Wm. Bradford, A. M. rector of Storrington, Sussex, to Martha, daughter of Edward Wilmot, esq. of Clifton.

BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF THE LATE DR. REYNOLDS.

Dr. Henry Revell Reynolds, whose death is noticed in our First Part, p. 302, was born in the county of Nottingham, on the 26th of September, 1745; and his father having died about a month before, the care of him devolved, even from his birth, on his maternal great-uncle and godfather, Mr. Henry Revell, of Gainsborough; by whom he was sent, at an early age, to a school at Beverley in Yorkshire, then in great repute under the government of Mr. Ward. Having early shewn a disposition for his profession, his uncle placed him, at the age of eighteen, as a commoner at Lincoln college, Oxford. It was in the second year of his residence at this University that he had the misfortune to lose his uncle and benefactor, the memory of whom was ever cherished by him with a pious and grateful affection, and who left him a small landed property in Lincolnshire, by which he was enabled to prosecute the object that he had in view. continued at Oxford till the early part of the year 1766, when, in order to the obtaining of his medical degrees sooner, he was admitted, by a beng decessit from Oxford, ad eundem to Trinity College, Cambridge, and he kept a term at that University. Intent upon his professional pursuit, he went, in the summer of this year, to Edinburgh, and resided there two years, for the express purpose of going through a course of medical studies. In the autumn

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of the year 1768, he returned to Cambridge, when the degree of bachelor of physic being conferred upon him, he went to London, and attended as pupil at the Middlesex Hospital. His education may, at this period, be considered as concluded;

and how usefully these years of youth were passed in the acquirement of knowledge, in the cultivation of amiable feelings, and in the formation of virtuous habits, his character in manhood sufficiently denotes. The following year saw him a resident physician at Guildford ; and he married his present widow, then Miss Wilson, in the month of April 1770. By the advice, however, of his friend, Dr. Huck, afterwards Dr. Huck Saunders, he resolved on adventuring his fortune in the metropolis; and he settled in London, in Lamb's Conduit-street, in the summer of 1772. The next year he took the degree of doctor of physic at Cambridge, and was immediately afterwards elected physician to the Middlesex Hospital. In 1774 he was chosen a fellow, and at the same time a censor, of the College of Physicians, He soon became the object of particular notice and regard by the eminent physicians of that day, Doctors Huck, Fothergill, and Sir Richard Jebb; and the high opinion which the latter gentleman had formed of his professional abilities, and personal character and manners, and the consequent expression of that opinion, and recommendation of Dr. Reynolds to his Majesty, were the original cause of his being called into attendance upon the King in the year 1788. In 1776 he was appointed to speak the Harveian oration; and, although his modesty would not suffer him to print it, it may, without disparagement of any of the like compositions which have appeared before the public, be com pared with the most classical among them. In the course of this speech, he has so exactly described that mode, which he ever

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observed, of performing the various duties of his profession, and of dispensing its various benefits, that the following extract will be acceptable to the readers of this slight and imperfect sketch: having spoken of the just pretensions to high fame to which they who serve their country, as warriors, moralists, or statesmen, are entitled, he says" At si dignitatem utilitate metiamur, quibus laudibus efferenda est medicina, quantam sibi vindicabit gloriam? Hæc enim miseris opem, ægris salatem præbet, animamque jam jam fugacem non rarò sistit, verùm etiam ubi fractis naturæ viribus præsens et ineluctabile fatum imminet, non tamen ejus irritus labor; consilio enim, benevolentiâ, pietate, morborum acerbissimos dolores lenit, adimitque quicquid est in ipsâ morte reformidandum.”—In the year 1777, Dr. Reynolds was elected physician to St. Thomas's Hospital; and from this period his business gradually increased, till, in the progress of a few years, he attained to the highest fame and practice in his profession; and that he preserved both, undiminished, to the latest period of his life, is a proof that, even in this capricious world, a reputation founded on the basis of virtuous principle, professional ability, strict integrity, and good manners, is not to be shaken. In every successive illness with which our revered Sovereign has been afficted since the year 1788, Dr. Reynolds's attendance on his Majesty has been required; and his public examinations before Parliament are recorded proofs of his high merits as a physician, a gentleman, and a scholar; while his appointments to the situations of physician-extraordinary to the King in the year 1797, and physician in ordinary in the year 1806, evince the estimation in which his Sovereign held his character and his services. We proceed to the sad detail of those cireumstances which marked the latter months of his valuable life: When he was called into attendance at Windsor, he was suffering under a rheumatic affection, which had been oppressing him for some time. The anxiety attached to such an attendance as the illness of his Majesty requires, may be estimated, to a certain degree, by such as reflect on the subject, but can duly be appreciated by those only whose intimate acquaintance with the physicians enables them to see those gentlemen under the influence of those cares: certain it is, that on Dr. Reynolds they had a very powerful, if not a fatal, influence. first day that he seriously felt the fatigues of mind and body was, after his examination before the House of Lords; the etiquette of this branch of Parliament not allowing a witness to sit down, Dr. Reynolds, who, by consequence of his having attended his Majesty in all his previons similar illnesses, was examined at greater

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length than his other brethren were, was kept sta ling for two hours, and the next day was re.. ctantly compelled to remain the whole of it in his bed. On the following, however, he returned to Windsor; but from this time his appetite began to fail, and his strength and flesh visibly to diminish. In the month of March, these symptoms had so much increased, that his friends besought him to retire from his anxious attendance at Windsor, to spare his mind and body entirely, and to devote himself solely to the re-establishment of his own health: unfortunately for his family, his friends, and the publick, he would not be persuaded. How apposite is the exclamation of Cicero! "Quis dubitat, quin ei vitam abstulerit ipsa legatio? secum enim ille mortem extulit; quam, si nobiscum remansisset, suâ et medicorum curâ, liberorum fidelissimæque conjugis diligentiâ vitare potuisset." Never did man feel more reverence and regard for another than did Dr. Reynolds for his Royal Patient; and while any powers were left to him, to his Majesty's service he resolved that they should be devoted: thus, with slowly, yet too surely, diminishing strength, he persevered till the 4th of May, when he returned to London extremely ill; and from that day his professional career was stopped, too soon to be arrested altogether. Having been confined to his room for nearly three weeks, he was prevailed upon, by his excellent friends Dr. Latham and Dr. Ainslie, to go to Brighton. He went, and remained there two months, Sometimes during this anxious period he would seem to rally, but the appearances were deceitful; they were the mere struggles of a naturally good constitution, unimpaired by any intemperances, against the inroads of a disease. At the end of the month of July, he returned to his house in Bedford-square, never, alas! to quit it again alive. From this time till the 22d of October last he lingered and lingered on without rest from pain, except when under the dominion of opiates, and without the smallest appetite, nay even with a distate for food; his powers of body were debilitated to the greatest weakness, and his frame emaciated almost beyond what could be imagined capable of being united to a living being. The concluding scene of such a man as we are now describing should not be altogether passed by unnoticed, though piety may draw the sacred veil over the more minute particulars. Before his last return from Windsor, on the 4th of May, he had imparted to his trembling family his firm conviction that he should not recover; and for a considerable time before his death, those who had hoped the most changed that hope for despair; and the apprehension was entertained, that his in tellectual powers might sink before the fi

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nal end; happily (for there are degrees in wretchedness) for those around him, this affliction was spared to them; his bodily sufferings were much abated, and in his mind nothing failed till all failed. In the last twenty-four hours of his existence he exhibited the clearest indications of the soundness of his memory, ever a most extraordinary one; of his peculiar professional excellencies; of his delicate consideration of the feelings of others; of his benevolent anxiety for the interests of his friends; and of his not-to-be-exceeded love for his family. The hand of Death was on him for many hours, and at last, with the uplifted hands of devout, yet tranquil, prayer, he sighed out his last breath without a pang, and was taken to his great reward.

The public and private character of Dr. Reynolds is worthy of particular mention, not merely for the purpose of recording his many virtues, but also of presenting a useful study to others. Our attention will naturally be first directed to the consideration of those professional qualifications, by which he attained to and preserved the highest reputation and most extensive practice in the, medical world. In the investigation of diseases he was acute, yet cautious; in the application of remedies, fertile in resource, yet not rash in experiment; decided, though gentle, gaining entire ascendancy over the minds of his patients by the rare fascination of his manners, and the confidence with which he inspired them in his skill, and in his zeal to relieve them. Among his peculiar excellencies may be mentioned perhaps an unequalled felicity of combination in his prescriptions: there was something introduced for every symptom, or even inconvenience; yet the whole harmonized, and had immediate reference to the principal complaint. Let those who now are living in the bosom of their families from his care, and have seen him approach their bed of sickness, bear witness, that a ministering angel seemed advancing towards them, in the benevolence of his countenance, the tenderness of his manner, the delicacy of his investigation, the soothing accents of his voice. In his whole deportment as a physician there was excellence: liberality in pecuniary matters is more observable in the medical profession than in any other, but in Dr. Reynolds it was carried to a very great extent. Having early in his career been a witness to the distress of the inferior clergy, of artists, and public performers of all descriptions, he made it a principle to attend them gratuitously. In other cases he regulated his acceptance of the proffered remuneration by the best estimate he could form of the ineans of the family and the duration of the disease; he never repeated his visits on the wealthy beyond what the necessity of the

case required, nor did he forbear from bestowing them on the less affluent when it did. Multitudes there have been, and are, who, having been the objects of his gratuitous professional assistance, became the objects of his pecuniary relief. Distress in body or in mind never applied to him in vain; there never lived the man who could with greater difficulty refuse than he. In the great body of his profession he was respected and beloved; and the times have been, when the influence of his character and temper, and the veneration for his opinion, have composed the risings of serious differences between his brethren; among the younger part there was a kind of filial affection for him; great success and high fame had engendered no pride within him; at his hospitable table they were frequent guests; in his professional intercourse with them, the deference to his judgment which his superior intelligence demanded, was gladly yielded, when the utmost kindness and encouragement of manners invited the most unrestrained communication of opinion;

"For all were glad to follow, whom all lov'd."

In the selection of such of his brethren as he recommended to the notice of his friends, one single principle governed him ; their fitness, from their professional knowledge and private worth; he never paused to inquire whether or not they might in time become his rivals; and when he saw them afterwards either actually so, or advancing to the point, his only feeling was, an honest pride in the merit of his choice, and in the proof of his discernment. By the pharmaceutical part of his profession he was ever greatly esteemed: both in his expressions and in his practice he marked the conviction that be entertained of their usefulness and value; and, as far as in him lay, resisted the growing habit of late in many families, of employing a physician, and sending for the medicines from druggists. There were, he would say, a number of circumstances which would escape the observation of the family of the invalid, and which the attendant apothecary would observe and report to the physician, of great importance in a case. It was a principle with him to forbear from criticism on his brethren-he would indeed praise them, and defend them when attacked; but no one ever heard him speak to the disparagement of another member of his profession. For the existing privileges of the College of Physicians, and for the extension of them, he was most zealous, from the persuasion that the public interest was most essentially connected with their support; yet, as far as the rules of this society would permit, he was kind and liberal in bis conduct to those practitioners who were not members of the College.

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MEMOIRS OF THE LATE REV. WILLIAM-BENJAMIN PORTAL.

On the 27th of June died, in his 45th year, the Rev. William-Benjamin Portal, B. D. Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, rector of Wasing, Berkshire, and vicar of Sandford, near Oxford. Of whom to say no more, would be injurious to his own memory, to those friends who knew his talents and his worth, and even to that posterity of Scholars and Divines, which might be benefited by a faithful portraiture of his example; though he who, amidst severe regret, affectionately endeavours to trace the following sketch, has to wish, that the memorial due to such a man had been wrought by a more competent Biographer.

William-Benjamin Portal was the eldest son of Mr. Portal, formerly of Cateaton-street, London, and now of Camberwell, Surrey. He was educated at Merchant Taylors school, chiefly under the late wellknown Mr. Bishop, a master whose accurate taste and elegant and varied learning were admirably calculated, not perhaps to teach his pupils the rudiments of the classical languages, but to make them, when in the upper forms, fully understand, and justly appreciate, their excellencies; a master too, who had the talent of discovering and fostering, in the more ingenuous of his scholars, any literary propensities, and who never was so happy as when those propensities manifested themselves in their compositions. Under such an instructor, Mr. Portal's natural inclination towards poetry and the belles lettres was soon displayed; whilst, though not at this time of life a severe student, he acquired a competent share of schoollearning, his opening talents were chiefly visible in the correctness and animation of his exercises; among which the "Grenadier's Cap," spoke by himself on one of the days of public examination, called Doctor's days, deservedly gained him much credit. A poetical club being at this time established by the senior boys of the school, he became a member of it, and contributed to the cúlysmall volume which, in the year 1784 or 1785, it published.

Mr. Portal was elected, from Merchant Taylors, a probationary Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, in June 1785. He was the junior of that election, his contemporaries being the present Dr. Birch, the estimable Dean of Battle, and Mr. Charles Mayo, who was afterwards the first Anglo-Saxon Professor in Oxford, and who is now the justly-respected Lecturer of Highgate. The first two or three years of Mr. Portal's College life were devoted chiefly to classical studies; as he was then ambitious of literary honour, he gave up some of his time to the composition of College exercises, being careful, not only

that nothing incorrect or slovenly might escape from him; but that he might shew his perseverance by accuracy, and his general talents by the strength of his reasoning, or the warmth of his imagination; he became likewise, and continued to be, fond of metaphysical inquiries; not, however, bewildering himself, as too many do, in their intricate and thorny mazes, but keeping his foot right on; and pressing forward with it, as far as any vestiges of common sense, "that science fairly worth the seven," could be traced. Though, however, Mr. Portal, even at this period, studied much on a plan, his mind was still making such profitable excursions out of the track prescribed, as either literary conversation, or books accidentally met with, induced. The love of money is said often to increase by its possession, so with him did that of knowledge; he became more and more enamoured of study; and as he did not wish to deny himself society, or even amusements, he formed a habit of early rising, by which the occasional enjoyment of these was made not incompatible with his literary pursuits; in the winter, his fire being laid for him over night, he would himself light it, at four o'clock in the morning, whilst in summer his books were re-opened at the earliest dawn of day: and this was done on system; it was not an occasional fit of study, arising, as such,fits often do, from the necessity of some immediate preparation, nor from the temporary self-reproach which neglected talents now and then urge: the accumulation of knowledge became more and more the ingrossing object of his attention, and indeed the leading pursuit of his life. The usual probation of three years being past, Mr. Portal was, in June 1788, admitted to a Fellowship in his Society; soon after this he took his Bachelor of Arts degree, the exercises for which then offered no opportunities of distinction; and was successively ordained, as early as his age would permit, Deacon and Priest; nor let it be thought that a mind well-disciplined, acute, reflecting, as his was, approached to the solemn work of the Christian ministry without much serious preparation: he applied himself closely to the study of Theology, gradually giving up the amusements and luxuries of literature, that he might wholly devote himself to what he thought most necessary and useful; even the composition of poetry, "that last infirmity of noble minds," he resolutely abandoned; yet this was one of those great sacrifices, which are at first seldom made without some reluctance, and the " veteris vestigia flamma" were through his life discernible, in the pleasure which he still allowed himself in read

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