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of that gentleman, Miss Anna Maria Shepherd; a lady of great beauty and accomplishments, by whom he had two children, a son and a daughter. Of the former, a youth of great promise, he was bereaved in 1810. In Hilary Term 1778, he was called to the bar by the society of the Inner Temple; and in Michaelmas Term 1787 was called to the degree of serjeant at law.

The motto on his ring was-" Paribus se legibus." Soon after his call to the bar, he was appointed deputy judge of the Marshalsea Court, where he manifested those talents for judication, which have since been more extensively displayed.

He took a very active part in the politics of 1784, on the side of the old Whigs; when be advised, and ultimately succeeded in the action brought by Mr. Fox, against the high bailiff of Westminster, for his conduct in granting and continuing the scrutiny on the election for that city in the same year; the whole responsibility of that action rested upon Mr. Runnington, and his conduct on that occasion recommended him so strongly to the notice of Mr. Fox, that the latter became extremely anxious for his promotion; and had that great statesman lived but a short time longer, he would no doubt have

effected it.

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Bench, of the Corporation of Lynn against the City of London, in Error, and succeeded in reversing the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas. He was Counsel together with Sir Sámuel Shepherd, the late Mr. Clifford, and other gentlemen, in the actions which Sir Francis Burdett brought against the Speaker of the House of Commons, Mr. Colman, and Earl Moira -upon the judgment of the first cause, a writ of error was brought in the Exchequer chamber, which was argued in Easter Term 1812, by Mr. Clifford on the part of Sir Francis Burdett, in the most luminous and impressive manner. The substance of that argument was said to have been communicated by Mr. Serjeant Runnington to Mr. Clifford.

In 1813 Mr. Pooley resigned the office of Recorder of Colchester, upon which the Corporation solicited the Serjeant to accept that office; this, we understood, he agreed to do, thinking that the appointment was in the select body of the Corporation only-but being in the free Burgesses at large, he was opposed by Mr. Harvey, and after a hard contest of several days, was, on the 17th of July 1813, chosen by a considerable majority; but as the Mayor who swore him into that office, was not Mayor de jure, an information in nature of quo warranto, was afterwards filed against the Serjeant; in consequence of which, he was obliged to disclaim the office.

The residence of the Serjeant was principally at Brighton, where since 1812, he took a most active part as a Magistrate for the county of Sussex. His firm, prompt, and impartial manner of administering the duties of that office, added to his great temper, knowledge, and humanity, was certainly of the highest benefit and importance to that place; and was more than once acknowledged in the most liberal manner by his present Majesty.

On the 19th of April 1815, on the death of the late Mr. Serjeant Palmer, Mr. Runnington was appointed his Majesty's commissioner for the relief of insolvent debtors in England; which he resigned in 1819.

Serjeant R. published, "Sir Matthew Hale's History of the Common Law," 8vo. 1779; a new edition with consider«Gilable additions, 2 vols. 8vo. 1794. bert's Law of Ejectments," 8vo. 1781. "Ruffhead's Statutes at large, from Magna Charta to the 25 Geo. III," 14 vols. 4to. 1787. "The History, Principles, and Practice of the legal remedy by Ejectment, and the resulting action for Mesne Process," 8vo. 1795.

REV. FREDERIC THRUSTON, M.A. Jan. 9. At his house in Park-place, Mary-le-bonne, aged 33, the Rev. Frederic Thruston, M.A. third son of the late Framingham Thruston, Esq. of Weston Hall, Suffolk, and officiating Minister of Bayswater Chapel.

Young as was this Divine, and little as he had been exhibited to the public, be ought not to pass away unnoticed, and slide into oblivion in the common list of an obituary.-Providence had endowed him with some peculiar talents, which his industry had highly improved, and his early piety had directed to the service of his Creator. His endeavours to qualify himself for his professional duties were unremitting, and his zeal in the performance of them often beyond his bodily strength. Blessed with an unusual flow of spirits, he never hesitated to encounter what he saw was required. This was strikingly evinced in the extraordinary attention he paid to two parishes under his care at the very commencement of his ministerial career; performing double duty in both, establishing and attending Schools, visiting the sick, and fulfilling every parochial claim; whilst, at the same time, such was his ardour, and such his powers of mind, that he was induced to take up the discussion of the mysterious and intricate subject of Prophecy, which Mr. Faber's noted work had then brought forward to the public.-Whatever he undertook he resolutely devoted himself to; and he had a patience of mind which could fix itself undeviatingly upon one subject. To this subject he returned day after day, during the hours not devoted to parochial claims, and in a few months produced two 8vo volumes, which evince his powers for acute research, and his ability for brilliant composition. A more than ordinary acuteness of mind pushed him into other speculations also, and his ingenuity was displayed in a small tract, entitled "The Night of Treason," which appeared soon after his work on the Prophecies. In the composition and delivery of his Sermons, he united a touching simplicity, and at the same time emphatic style, with the most elevated views which Christianity encourages her disciples to look forward to. A purified heart, and well-directed affections, had taught him personally to contemplate without dismay, even through "the grave and gate of death," the bright and interminable prospects of the Christian's course, and to these prospects he was ever earnest to direct the hearts and minds of his congregation.

GENT. MAG. January, 1821.

During part of a two years' residence in Switzerland, he undertook the duty of the English Churches there, and his peculiar qualifications for pulpit eloquence were fully appreciated, and will be recollected with pleasure by the numerous congregations who attended him.

His career was short, but his labours were extensive; his days were few, but they were crowned with no ordinary service to God and man. He had laid the foundation for most comprehensive utility in his profession, and had given promise of the most essential service in the cause of our Holy Faith. But "God's ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts.' He has called his righteous servant to himself, and for his labours in the vineyard, Faith points to a bright reward.

With regard to his personal merits, these can alone be estimated by his personal friends. The public, however, will always be interested to hear of private virtues associated with public duties. In these respects his peculiar traits of character were a singularly devotional turn of mind; benevolence and affability to all within his reach; with a remarkable affection for and kindness to little children, whose purity of heart and simplicity of manners seem to have been the model upon which he formed his own.His body is buried in the dust, but his name will live for ever amongst those who knew him, and ought not to be unnoticed by the Church and country in general, whom he loved and served so ardently and so extensively.

MRS. JOHN HUNTER.

Jan. 7. In Holles-street, Cavendishsquare, in the 79th year of her age, Mrs. Anne Hunter, widow of that distinguished physiologist, John Hunter,Native genius was never more pleasingly united with female modesty and delicacy than in Mrs. John Hunter; nor can any one more truly have deserved the eulogies of her surviving friends. With every grace that could make her interesting in society, she had every personal and social virtue that could command respect and attachment. As a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother, and a friend, she was anxious always to exceed, rather than in the smallest degree to fail in any of her duties. The natural warmth and energy of her heart prevented, indeed, the possibility of such defect. In social intercourse, she had the happy talent of pleasing without effort; and in the conversation-parties which, in Mr. Hunter's life-time, she frequently

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frequently received, she succeeded per fectly in banishing affectation, pedantry, and every symptom of dullness or forma lity. Connected by long friendship with Mrs. Carter and Mrs. Delany, she well deserves to have her name recorded with those amiable as well as eminent females not, indeed, for deep learning, which she neither possessed nor affected, but for poetic genius, sagacity, and good taste.

Mrs. Hunter was the eldest daughter of Mr. Robert Home, an eminent Surgeon, first in the army, and latterly at the Savoy. He had several other children; among whom another daughter was married to Mr. Mylne, the architect of Blackfriars Bridge; and a third, though no less amiable than her sisters, died unmarried. His sons were, Robert, bred as an artist, and now painter to the King of Lucknow, in India; Colonel Home, an officer on the Bombay esta blishment, now retired; and Sir Everard Home, bart. the very eminent pupil of his brother-in-law. In 1771, Miss Home was married to Mr. John Hunter, and in the ensuing year, her younger brother, Everard, then leaving Westminsterschool, devoted himself to the studies and profession of that new relation, under the auspicious influence of his instruction and encouragement.

Mrs. J. Hunter became the mother of four children, of whom only two survive; but both the living and the dead have been the subjects of her poetical effusions. This talent, in which for elegance of lyric strains, she has seldom been surpassed, was very early developed. Her well-known stanzas of "Queen Mary's lament," were produced so long ago, that they are frequently thought to have belonged to a prior age. Her song, "In airy dreams," stands almost in the same predicament. The death song of Alknomook, the Indian Warrior, was written before many of those who sing it now were born: and throughout her life, whatever strongly moved her feelings became the occasion, of some expressive strains. For her father, she wrote a short, but characteristic epitaph. The education, marriage, or death of children, produced similar. effects; and never surely was there a mother who more affectionately watched, or more sincerely

felt for all the various fortunes of her

offspring. Notwithstanding this facility of writing, she never assumed, or in the least affected, the character of a poetess; but with modesty delivered her productions in manuscript to a favoured few. At length, on the suggestion of friends, she collected those which she most approved, in a small but elegant

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volume, which she inscribed to her son, then stationed as an officer at Gibraltar.

When Haydn passed a season in London, Mrs. Hunter became the Muse of that celebrated composer; and all (if we mistake not) of his beautiful English canzonets, were composed on words which she supplied. Most of these are original, and particularly the pathetic song of "My mother bids me bind my hair *." The beautiful Mermaid's Song, in the same set, was founded on an Ita. lian original, freely translated. This small volume of Poems was noticed in the British Critic of October 1802, with commendations, strong indeed, but not · at all exaggerated; giving one or two specimens which amply justified the praise. Since Mrs. H. became a widow, she has lived in quiet retirement, though in London; consoled by her near relations and select friends, and mutually consoling them, in all the vicissitudes of life. It is probable that her pen has not been laid aside, in this last period, but the fruits of its exertions have not yet been seen.

Mrs. H.'s daughter, Lady Campbell, now the widow of General Sir James Campbell, has of late years been at once her chief care, and ultimately her chief consolation, as by her she was attended to the latest moment of her life. The decline of her health was very gradual, and her intellects were never impaired. By those who best knew her, she will be lamented, in proportion to the admiration and attachmen1 which she could not fail to inspire; and it may be said with confidence, that she has not left a survivor in the world, who can have either a right or a wish to detract the smallest particle from the commendations, here or elsewhere bestowed, upon her genius, her understanding, or her heart.

DEATHS.

1820. AT Moorshadabad, in the East May 26. Indies, Major Henry Bellingham, of the 1st Battalion 1st Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, commanding Officer at the above station, and nephew to Sir William Bellingham, bart. June 8. At Seegovee, in India, in his 33d year, Lieut. J. Brett, of the Ranghur battalion, son of Mrs. Brett, of Peckham.

June 11. At Jaulnah, in the East Indies, after a few hours illness, Capt. G. W. Poignand, of the Artillery.

*First written as accommodated to an air of Pleydell's; and then beginning with what is now the second stanza, ""Tis sad to think the days are gone;' which, for the effect of the words, was preferable.

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June 17. At Jaula, Thomas Larkins Starr, Assistant Surgeon on the Madras establishment. andymas June 18. Col. John Griffith, of the 2d battalion of Artillery at the Presidency of Bombay.

Aug.. At Madras, Lieut. Benj. Stow, of his Majesty's ship Leander. - During his attention to a sick friend, he caught the fever from him, and in a few days was hurried to an untimely grave.

Aug.... At Nassau, New Providence, Lieut.-col. Tomkins, of the 59th regiment, Governor of that island.

Aug. 8. At Cuddapah, Madras Presidency, John Benward Travers, esq. of the Hon. East India Company's Civil Service.

Aug. 29, In Georgia (United States), John Stevens, esq. late of Abchurch-lane, London, merchant, and formerly of New Providence, Bahama, leaving a widow and five children.

Oct. 21. At Demerara, in the West Indies, after a few days' illness of a typhus fever, in his 29th year, Mr. Robert-James Collins, first mate of the ship Ranger. He was adopted by Mr. Neve of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, by whom, and by all his friends, he is most deservedly lamented.

Nov. 1. At George Town, in Berbice, his Excellency Charles W. Bentinck, Lieut. Governor of that colony.

Nov. 6. At Demerara, the wife of Prince Smith, esq. Second Fiscal and King's Ad. vocate of Demerara and Essequibo.

Dec. 14. At Milbank (Kildare), in his 84th year, C. Annesley, esq. of Ballysax. With him became extinct the eldest branch of the family of Annesley, which had formerly enjoyed the rank and titles of Earl of Anglesea in England, and of Viscount Valentia, in Ireland.

Dec. 16. A. Saunders, esq. M. D. of Upper Berkeley-street, Portman-square, many years Senior Fellow of the College of Physicians, in Dublin.

Dec. 17. In London, in her 37th year, Mrs. Martha-Anne Walford, daughter of Field Willett, esq. banker, of Brandon, Suffolk.

Aged 19, Charlotte, 3d daughter of Robert Pretyman, gent. of Belstead bridge, near Ipswich.

Dec. 18. At Brunswick, in his 43d year, the Queen's brother, Duke Augustus, last son of the celebrated Duke Charles William Ferdinand, and uncle of the reigning Duke, General of Cavalry in the service of Hanover, and Great Cross of the Guelphic Order.

Very suddenly, as he was returning from Grantham Fair, which he had attended in his usual good health, aged about 65, Mr. William Smith, for many years an anctioneer. He was seized with apoplexy, and fell from his horse, when be was within a mile of his own house.

· Dec. 20. At Llaiurhaider-hall, Denbighshire, in his 70th year, Richard Wilding, esq.'

Of apoplexy, at the Swan with two Necks, Lad-lane, (having arrived there but a few days before from the Bahama Islands,) in his 46th year, Wm. Richards, esq. Surgeon to the 15th Regiment of Foot, and second son of the late Rev. Thomas Richards, Vicar of Bromham, Biddenham, and Stagsden, co. Bedford. His death was evidently accelerated by a zealous discharge of his official duties; for the Report of the Medical Board upon his case states, "that although he is not labouring under any decided disease, from his long services and residence of several years in a tropical climate, and from the very great fatigue which he endured during the sickly season of last year, when the whole duty devolved upon himself, we find that his general health is very much impaired, both bodily and intellectually, so as to render him inadequate to the performance of his professional duties."

Dec. 21. At Belcamp Cottage, Balbriggan (Dublin), in his 56th year, Philpot Rogerson Wolfe, esq. nephew of the late Right Hon. Lord Kilwarden, and Secretary to the Board of Works in Ireland.

At Little Ponton, near Grantham, aged about 50, James Hewerdine, esq. Captain in the Hampshire Rangers.He took a severe cold in joining his regiment in October last, from which he never recovered.

Dec. 22. At Leek, John Coupland, esq. formerly of Rotherham, Yorkshire. At Lessau (Tyrone), in his 86th year, the Right Hon. John Staples.

Dec. 23. At Newington Terrace, Lambeth, the widow of the late Governor Field.

Aged 15, John Charles, son of Henry Laurence Brochard, esq. of Pratt House Academy, Camden-street, Camden Town. -The body was opened on the 24th inst. and the bursting of an abscess on the upper part of the heart was found to be the cause of his death.

Dec. 24. In his 80th year, John Fuller, gent. of Eriswell, Suffolk.

At Sudbury, aged 59, Mrs. Sikes, relict of John Sikes, gent. of London, and sister of Branwhite Oliver, gent. a Justice of the Borough of Sudbury.

Dec. 31.

Aged 72, Mrs. Burkitt, wife of Mr. John Burkitt, bookseller, Sudbury. Capt. Robertson, of Milford.