drawings one, and the paintings, vases, and bronzes one. The coins, &c. will be probably sold in London, at a later date.

G. F. BELTZ, Esq. K. H. Oct. 23. At Basle, George Frederick Beltz, esq. Lancaster Herald, Gentleman Usher of the Scarlet Rod and Brunswick Herald of the Order of the Bath, Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, and F.S.A.

Mr. Beltz was for many years in the office of Sir Isaac Heard, Garter King of Arms, who in July 1814 resigned in his favour the office of Gentleman Usher of the Scarlet Rod of the Order of the Bath, to which is annexed that of Brunswick Herald. During the same month he was appointed Secretary to the mission sent to Vienna to invest the Emperor of Austria with the insignia of the Garter; as he had been in the previous year to that sent to Toeplitz for the investiture of the Emperor of Russia with the same order. He was appointed Portcullis Pursuivant on the 22d May 1817; and promoted to be Lancaster Herald on the 4th June 1822. He was honoured with the knight, hood of the Guelphic order in 1836.

Mr. Beltz was not only very accurate in his professional labours, but also exercised a love of historical research for its own sake, and a neat and happy method of developing its results to the literary world. His "Memorials of the Order of the Garter," for which he had been forming collections during a long series of years, was completed only in the present year, and is noticed in our Magazine for July last. His only previous work was, "A Review of the Chandos Peerage Case, adjudicated 1803, and of the pretensions of Sir S. E. Brydges, Bart. to designate himself Per legem Terræ Baron Chandos of Sudeley." (See our vol. VIII. p. 535.)

Besides these, Mr. Beltz communicated, in 1822, to the Gentleman's Magazine, a description of the armorial decorations of Fonthill Abbey (vol. XCII. ii. 201, 317, 409); in 1823, to the Retrospective Review (New Series, vol. ii. pp. 500-510)," Notices relating to the Ancient Collars of the King's Livery, and in particular those which are still denominated Collars of SS. ;" and the following papers to the Society of Antiquaries:

In 1833, Observations on the Coffin Plate and History of Gunilda, sister of the Saxon King Harold II.; printed in the Archæologia, vol. xxv. pp. 398-410.

In 1837, the Original Record of the form of Public Entry of King Henry

VIII. into Tournay, after the Surrender in 1513; and the Notification, by Queen Catharine of Arragon, of the Birth of the Princess Mary, to the Municipal Authorities of Tournay; printed in Archæol; vol. xxvii. pp. 257-261.

In 1838, Memorials of the last Achieve, ment, Illness, and Death of Sir Philip Sidney; printed in vol. xxix. pp. 27-37.

In 1839, An Inquiry into the existing Narratives of the Battle of Cressy, with some account of its Localities, Traditions, and Remains; ibid. pp. 171-192.

Mr. Beltz was the heraldic friend of the late Sir Richard Hoare, and many of the most full and complete pedigrees in the History of South Wiltshire were from his hands.

It may also be mentioned that Mr. Beltz, in conjunction with the late Rev. Thomas Rackett, F.R.S. and S. A. was one of the executors of Mrs. Garrick, the widow of David Garrick. Dying in 1822, she bequeathed to him books and prints to the value of 507. and 1007. in money; and Mr. Beltz wrote the memoir of Mrs. Garrick, which is printed in the Gentleman's Magazine for Nov. 1822.

Mr. Beltz left England early in the month of August last, and was first attacked at Zurich, while on his return from a brief visit to Upper Italy, by the fatal distemper abdominal typhus, -which occasioned his unexpected dissolution.

He was distinguished, and very generally respected, for his superior professional talents, classical and literary attain ments, and uncommon proficiency in the northern as well as the more universally known languages of Europe. To the friends most intimately acquainted with his habits and character, and especially to those connected with him by the bond of natural affection, he was endeared chiefly by long and close observation of his more estimable qualities-purity of mind and heart, integrity of purpose, a disposition peculiarly gentle, kind, and benevolent.

His mortal remains are deposited (immediately beneath a small marble tablet erected to his memory), in the cemetery of the parish of St. Peter at Basle,

FRANCIS BAUER, ESQ. F.R.S. Dec. 11, 1840. At Kew Green, in his eighty-third year, Francis Bauer, esq. F.R. and L.S.S.

The following memoir of this distin guished naturalist is derived from the last annual address of the President of the Linnæan Society, the Bishop of Norwich.

Francis Bauer was born at Feldsberg,

in Austria, October 4, 1758. His father, who held an appointment as painter to Prince Lichtenstein, died while he was yet a boy, and the care of his education devolved upon his mother. So early was his talent for botanical drawing manifested, that the first published production of his pencil, a figure of Anemone pratensis, L. is appended to a dissertation by Störck, "de Usu Pulsatillæ nigricantis," which bears date in 1771.

In 1788 he came to England, in company with the younger Jacquin, and after visiting his brother Ferdinand, who was then engaged in completing the beautiful series of drawings, since published in the Flora Græca," was about to proceed to Paris. But the liberal proposal made to him by Sir Joseph Banks on the eve of his intended departure, diverted him from this resolution, and induced him to remain in England, and to take up his residence in the neighbourhood of the Royal Garden at Kew, in which village he continued to dwell until the termination of his life.

It was the opinion of Sir Joseph Banks, that a botanic garden was incomplete without a draughtsman permanently attached to it, and he accordingly, with the sanction of his Majesty, fixed Mr. Bauer in that capacity at Kew, himself defraying the salary during his own life, and providing by his will for its continuance to the termination of that of Mr. Bauer. In fulfilment of this engagement with Sir Joseph, Mr. Bauer made numerous drawings and sketches of the plants of the garden, which are now preserved in the British Museum.

A

selection from his drawings was published in 1796, under the title of " Delineations of Exotick Plants cultivated in the Royal Garden at Kew," and this was intended to be continued annually; but no more than three parts, consisting wholly of Heaths, and containing thirty plates, were published.

In the early part of 1801, Mr. Bauer made for Mr. Brown, who had then been for some years engaged in a particular study of the Ferns, drawings of many genera of that family which Mr. Brown regarded as new. His drawings of Woodsia, made some years after, were published in the 11th volume of the Linnæan Transactions, in illustration of Mr. Brown's paper on that genus. At a later period he again directed his attention to that tribe of plants, his labours in which have within these few years been given to the world in Sir William Jackson Hooker's" Genera of Ferns." The 13th volume of the Linnæan Transactions is enriched with his elaborate drawings,

accompanying Mr. Brown's memoir on Rafflesia; and the part published last year contains a paper by Mr. Bauer" On the Ergot of Rye," from materials collected between the years 1805 and 1809.

The plate which accompanies the lastmentioned paper is derived from drawings which form part of an extensive series in the British Museum, illustrative of the structure of the grain, the germination, growth, and development of wheat, and the diseases of that and other Cerealia. This admirable series of drawings constitutes perhaps the most splendid and important monument of Mr. Bauer's extraordinary talents as an artist and skill in microscopic investigation. The subject was suggested to him by Sir Joseph Banks, who was engaged in an inquiry into the disease of corn known under the

name of " Blight," and the part of Mr. Bauer's drawings which relates to that disease was published in illustration of Sir Joseph's memoir on the subject, and has been several times reprinted with it. Mr. Bauer has himself given, in the volume of the "Philosophical Transactions" for 1823, an account of his observations on the Vibrio Tritici of Gleichen, with the figures relating to them; and another small portion of his illustrations of the Diseases of Corn has since been

published by him in the " Penny Magazine" for 1833. His figures of a somewhat analogous subject, the Apple-blight, and the insect producing it, accompany Sir Joseph Banks's Memoir on the Introduction of that Disease into England, in the 2nd volume of the "Transactions of the Horticultural Society."

Before the close of the last century, Mr. Bauer commenced a series of drawings of Orchidea, and of the details of their remarkable structure, to which he continued to add, as opportunities offered, nearly to the termination of his life. A selection from these, which form one of the most beautiful and extensive series of his botanical drawings, was lithographed and published by Professor Lindley between the years 1830 and 1838, under the title of Illustrations of Orchidaceous Plants."

"Some Experiments on the Fungi which constitute the colouring matter of the Red Snow," published in the "Philosophical Transactions" for 1820; and, 4. The Plates to the Botanical Appendix to Captain Parry's first Voyage of Discovery, published in 1821. One of the last productions of his pencil, illustrating the structure of a plant growing at Kew, which produces perfect seeds without any apparent action of pollen, will appear in the forthcoming part of the Linnæan Transactions.

In the year 1816, he commenced lending the assistance of his pencil to the late Sir Everard Home, in the various angtomical and physiological investigations in which that distinguished anatomist was engaged; and in the course of ten or twelve years furnished, in illustration of his numerous papers in the "Philosophical Transactions," upwards of 120 plates, which were afterwards reprinted with Sir Everard's "Lectures on Comparative Anatomy." These plates, which form together the most extensive series of his published works, embrace a great variety of important subjects, chiefly in microscopic anatomy, and afford abundant evidence of his powers of observation and skill in depicting the most difficult objects.

It is this rare, and previously almost unexampled union of the observer and the artist, that has placed Mr. Bauer foremost in the first rank of scientific draughtsmen. His paintings, as the more finished of his productions may well be termed, are no less perfect as models of artistic skill and effect, than as representations of natural objects. Of all his predecessors, Ehret alone approaches him in these particulars; among his contemporaries, none but his brother Ferdinand can be regarded as his equal.

Mr. Bauer became a fellow of the Linnænn Society in 1804, and of the Royal Society in 1820. He died at his residence on Kew-Green, and was buried in the churchyard of that parish on the 16th Dec. 1840.

A sale of Mr. Bauer's drawings took place at the rooms of Messrs. Christie and Manson on the 1st Nov. 1841. Among the principal purchasers was his Majesty the King of Hanover, who bought many valuable lots, particularly the original sketches of vegetation and diseases of Wheat, for £27. 6s. Generally, the drawings produced high prices: a dozen sketches of Roses, £9, and six of Camellias, £14 10s. Forty drawings of Indian orchidaceous plants, copied from originals, made by Dr. Buchanan Hamilton's artist, £19 19. The highest price

given for microscopes was £17 17s. for a compound instrument, by Plössl of Vienna.

F. ROSASPINA.

Lately. At Bologna, aged 79, Francesco Rosaspina, the celebrated engraver.

Rosaspina was born in 1762, in Monte Scudolo, near Rimini, where his father, Giambatista Rosaspina, a notary by profession, and a magistrate, resided. When almost an infant, he came with his parents to Bologna, where very early his taste for the beautiful began to develope itself, and turned to the art of engraving. But at that period Bologna did not possess one artist in that department who deserved a name; there were only Fabbri, Caponi, Foschi, and Nerozzi, who have left some very poor productions. The first rather excelled the others, and from him Rosaspina learned how to prepare the plate, and little else. He was his own teacher; some engravings by Bartolozzi having fallen into his hands, he formed his style in emulation of them in his greater works; in his smaller ones, he adopted the graceful manner of Bossi. His studies were truly labours, for he found his art in its infancy; how he left it may be judged by all who can appreciate the free and light manner of his line engravings, the careful study of the extremities, and a clearness in the flesh parts, which seems rather to be produced by the touch of the pencil than the burin. He used aquafortis with singular success; and some of his engravings, in imitation of the drawings of the old masters, can scarcely be distinguished from the original. Many of his best engravings are stippled; among these is the "St. Francis," from the Zambeccari Gallery, which, if famous as possessing that picture from Dominichino, is no less so from the engraving of it by Rosaspina.

It was this engraving that first spread his fame over Europe; and many commissions were sent to him. Among his celebrated large works may be named, "The Dancing Children," after Albano; "The Repose in Egypt," Guercino; "The Deposition from the Cross," Correggio ; "The Last Judgment," Rubens. One very beautiful work, "Abraham receiving the Angels," after L. Carracci, is dedicated to H. R. H. the Duke of Sussex, who visited Bologna at the time it was published. One of Rosaspina's greatest labours is the work known as

The Gallery of Bologna," being engravings of one hundred of the best paintings in the Pinacoteca of that city. All the drawings were executed by his own hand, and most of the engravings;

the rest are by his brother Giuseppe, and his pupils Tomba, Asioli, Marchi, and Guadagnini. We cannot avoid observing with what admirable skill, the style-we we may almost say the touch-of the different masters are characterised in this work; it is a mine of study for those who would become acquainted with many of the greatest Italian painters. The whole of the letter-press is written by himself in a simple and clear style, and with reflections so just and appropriate, that every judge of art must be charmed with them. If Rosaspina was great as an engraver, he was equally great as the head of a school of engravers.

His last pupils are his best-Guadagnini, who succeeds him in his professional chair at the Academy, Marchi, Spagnuoli, Martelli, Paradisi, and others who now shed lustre on the Felsinean school. Rosaspina was a member of many academies, including those of France and Turin. In private life his character was singularly amiable in all its relations; he was unwearied in instructing the young to the last day of his existence; he loved to be surrounded by them, not from the vain glory of having many pupils, but that he might assist youths of talent and advance art. He used to say, "As an artist or a master, I know not what I am; but as an old patriarch I deserve to be remembered." All his colleagues in the academy, his friends, and the students of the fine arts, assembled at his funeral in the church of St. Magdalene; and the family were not permitted to be at any expense on the occasion.

MR. THOMAS DIBDIN. Sept. 16. At his house in Myddelton Place, Pentonville, in his 70th year, Mr. Thomas Dibdin, the dramatic author.

His father was the celebrated Charles Dibdin, the naval song-writer, and author of the "Padlock." Thomas Dibdin had for his godfather the illustrious David Garrick, and was introduced to the stage in the year 1775, being then only four years of age, in the pageant of Shakspere's "Jubilee," in the character of Cupid. Mrs. Siddons personated Venus on the occasion. He received the rudiments of a good classical education with Mr. Galland, in the North; and was, at the age of sixteen, placed as an apprentice to Mr. Rawlins (afterwards Sir William Rawlins), in Moorfields, to learn the trade of an upholsterer. But he inherited other predilections. After a servitude of four years he quitted his apprentice

ship, and joined a small company of actors, under the management of Mr. Rickland, at Folkestone; this was in 1789. After six years spent in various theatres, during which time he had performed in every department of the drama, and written more than 1,000 songs, he returned to London in 1795, and after writing a number of dramas for the different minor theatres, all of which had met with success, he was engaged at Covent Garden, in the season of 1799, when his first production was acted, a piece founded on passing events, and called "The Mouth of the Nile." For fourteen years he continued a member of that theatre; and amongst his numerous comedies, operas, farces, &c. were " The Cabinet,' 99 66 The English Fleet," "Birthday," "Mother Goose," "Jew and the Doctor," "Valentine and Orson," and "Past Ten o'Clock," pieces that are expected to keep possession of the stage. The number of his various dramatic writings during a period of fifty-nine years would form a very long catalogue.

He lived in intimacy with the most eminent men of the theatrical circles; but passed the last few years of his life in comparative indigence. At the period of his death he was employed in arranging and compiling a complete edition of his father's Sea Songs, by order of the Lords of the Admiralty, under the patronage of Lord Minto, for which a weekly sum was paid to him, and shortly before his death he received the sum of 1007. from the Royal Bounty Fund. He was married twice. One of his sons by his first wife holds a respectable employment in the Post Office. By the second wife (who is only thirty-five) he has left three children, the eldest not eleven years old, quite unprovided for; and it is hoped that some of the managers whose treasuries his writings have enriched,* and the actors whose present popularity his patronage aided so materially, will not permit the widow and children to endure the winter's blast, now that "poor Tom's a-cold."

His body was interred on the 21st of Sept, in the burial-ground of St. James's, Pentonville, close by the grave of his old friend Grimaldi.

CLERGY DECEASED.

Aged 30, the Rev. Henry Hamer, Rector of Pointington, Somersetshire. He was the eldest son of Henry Hamer, esq. of Liverpool, and was presented to that living in 1836 by Lord Willoughby de Broke.

At Thame, Oxon, aged 42, the Rev. Frederick Lee, for seventeen years curate of that place, Rector of Easington, Oxon, and Vicar of Lullington, co. Derby. He was brother to the Rev. Charles Lee, Vicar of Yaxley, Hunts. He was presented to Easington in 1832 by the Bishop of Lincoln.

At his residence, Abercamlais House, co. Brecon, the Rev. John Williams, Canon of St. David's, Rector of Aberedw, and Vicar of Trallong. He became a Canon of St. David's in 1800; was collated to Aberedw by Bishop Burgess in 1814, and to Trallong by the Prebendary of that place in the collegiate church of Brecon in the following year.

Oct. 20. At Malta, aged 41, the Rev. Vere Monro, B. A. late Commoner of University college, Oxford; last surviving child of the late Rev. Thomas Monro, Rector of Little Easton, Essex.

Oct. 22. At Tutshill house, Glouc. aged 67, the Rev. William Seys, Vicar of Trelleck, Monmouthshire. He was of Jesus college, Oxford, M.A. 1799, and was presented to Trelleck by the Prince of Wales in 1800.

Oct. 23. At Uffculme, Devonshire, aged 70, the Rev. Edward Manley, for 37 years Master of the Endowed Grammar School at that place, and formerly for 31 years Curate of the adjoining parish of Welland. He was formerly Fellow of St. Peter's college, Cambridge, and graduated B.A. 1794, as 15th Senior Optime, M.A. 1797.

Oct. 26. At Cheltenham, aged 87, the Rev. John Neale, for forty-nine years Rector of Mary-le-Port. Bristol, for forty-seven years Vicar of Staverton with Boddington, Gloucestershire, and for more than thirty years a magistrate of that county.

Oct. 27. At Otham parsonage, near Maidstone, aged 52, the Rev. John Hol lams. He was of St. Peter's college, Cambridge, B. A. 1821.

Oct. 27. The Rev. Mr. Swain, Chaplain to the Earl of Harrington. He was returning on foot from Derby, when he fell down and suddenly expired.

Oct. 28. At Brighton, aged 40, the Rev. Nathaniel Best, M. A. He was the younger son of George Nathaniel Best, esq. a Bencher of the Middle Temple; entered a Commoner of Balliol college, Oxford, in 1820, proceeded B.A. 1824, and M.A. 1827.

Oct. 29. At the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, aged 66, the Rev. William Wheeler, D.D. for thirty-seven years Chaplain to that institution, and for thirty-four years Rector of Saltfleetby All Saints, Lincolnshire, Chaplain to the Earl of Munster, and formerly to the late Duke of York. He was of Magdalene college, Oxford, M.A. 1799, and was presented to Saltfleetby by that society in 1807.

Oct. 31. Aged 73, the Rev. Henry Sainsbury, Rector of Beckington, Somersetshire, and one of the oldest magistrates of that county. He was presented to Beckington in 1792, by a member of his own family.

Nov. At Lynchburg, Virginia, the Right Rev. Richard Channing Moore, D. D. Bishop of the diocese of Virginia for nearly twenty-eight years.

Nov. 1. At Ottery St. Mary, Devon, aged 78, the Rev. George Smith, Vicar of that parish, Rector of Charlton, and one of the oldest magistrates for that county. He was presented to the former living in 1794, by the Lord Chancellor, and to Charlton in 1808, by Lord Boringdon (now Earl of Morley).

Nov. 9. Aged 76, the Rev. J. K. Cleeve, D.D., Rector of St. George's, Exeter. He was presented to that church in 1818, by the Dean and Chapter of Exeter.

Nov. 11. At Camberwell, aged 33, the Rev. Henry Geary, M. A. Minister of Christ Church, Herne Bay. He was of Trinity college, Camb. B. A. 1831.

At Lewes, aged 34, the Rev. Henry Watkins, M. A. of St. Peter's college, Cambridge, incumbent of South Malling, Sussex. He was the eldest son of the Rev. Henry Watkins, Rector of Silkstone, Yorkshire.

Nov. 13. At Chawson, in the parish of Roxton, Beds, in his 63d year, the Rev. William Lambert Aspinwall, B.A. late Curate of Roxton and Great Barford. He was son of the Rev. James Aspinwall, formerly Vicar of Kempston, in the same county. The deceased had recently lost his wife and daughter nearly together, and before that, all his other children but one, a son, who remains tó lament his loss.

At the vicarage, Ganton, Yorkshire, the Rev. R. B. Scholefield, sen. He was presented to Ganton in 1830 by Sir T. D. Legard, Bart.

Nov. 17. At Great Waldingfield, Suffolk, aged 79, the Rev. Francis Cresswell, B. D. Rector of that parish. Mr. Cresswell was born at Babworth, near Retford, and was the only brother of George Cresswell, esq. of East Retford, at which place he received the rudiments