abating his rents, and generously forbearing to his tenants, though often years in arrear. As a master, he was kind and considerate; and, did the true character of a man depend upon the testimony of his servants (as is the opinion of Dr. Johnson and St. Evremond), no one could stand this test with more advantage. As a philanthropist, his bounty was constant and extensive; of course he was often imposed upon; but his observations on these occasions have generally been"Well, 'tis so; but perhaps it is better that I should have given to two worthless objects than have left a deserving one unrelieved." The flow of his benevolence was never stopped, nor his heart deadened to the cry of distress. The charitable institutions of the metropolis have to regret the loss of an old and liberal supporter. As an encourager of literature and patron of the arts, his extensive and valuable library, and splendid collection of prints and paintings, amply testified his taste and liberality. He was never married, and his large possessions will therefore be inherited by his only brother, George Peter Holford, esq. formerly Member of Parliament for Queenborough; and his son, Robert Stainer Holford, esq. of Weston Birt, Gloucestershire, where, in the family-vault, bis remains were interred.

THOMAS JERVIS, ESQ. Q. C. Aug. 6. At Beaumaris, the residence of his son John Jervis, esq. M.P. aged 69, Thomas Jervis, esq. Queen's Counsel, Recorder of Lichfield, and a Bencher of the Middle Temple, formerly Chief Justice of Chester.

He was a grandson of Matthew Jervis, esq. of Trowbridge, Wilts, one of the uncles of the illustrious Admiral, John Earl of St. Vincent.

He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple, Jan. 23, 1795. Whilst his cousin the Earl of St. Vincent was First Lord of the Admiralty, he acted as his counsel; and he was also one of the commissioners of bankrupts, on the eleventh list, and for many years a leading counsel on the Oxford circuit.

At the general election of 1802 he was returned to Parliament for the Admiralty borough of Great Yarmouth; and he took a leading part in conducting the legal business of the Navy in the House of Commons. He sat in the house until the dissolution of 1806.

Mr. Jervis received a patent of precedency in Hilary term 1806, and was appointed a King's Counsel in Trinity vacation 1830. He enjoyed a pension of 11007. a-year,

His second son, John Jervis, esq. of Beaumaris, a barrister at law, and author of some valuable legal works, is now M. P. for Chester on the extreme liberal interest. He married in 1824 Catharine, daughter of Alexander Mundell, esq. of Great George-street, Westminster.

REV. JOHN JAMIESON, D.D.

July 12. At his house in Georgestreet, Edinburgh, aged 80, the Rev. John Jamieson, D.D. F.R.S. Edinb. and F.S.A. Sc.

This gentleman was formerly minister to a congregation of Seceders from the church of Scotland, at Forfar, where he resided for many years; but for the last forty-three years he officiated in a church of the same persuasion at Edinburgh.

He first came forward as an author in 1789, in "The Sorrows of Slavery, a Poem, containing a faithful statement of Facts respecting the Slave-trade." His only other poetical work is "Eternity, a Poem, addressed to Freethinkers and Philosophical Christians," 1798.

In theology and religious matters he published," An Alarm to Britain ; or an inquiry into the causes of the rapid progress of Infidelity," 1795; " Vindication of the Doctrine of Scripture, and of the primitive Faith concerning the Divinity of Christ, in reply to Dr. Priestley's History of Early Opinions," 1795, two vols. Svo.; "Remarks on Rowland Hill's Journal," 1799; "The Use of Sacred History," 1802, two vols. 8vo.; "Important Trial in the Court of Conscience," 1806, 12mo.; "The Beneficent Woman, a sermon," 1811; "The Hopes of an Empire reversed, or, the night of pleasure turned into fear, a Sermon on the death of the Princess Charlotte," 1818; "Three Sermons, concerning Brotherly Love," 1819.

His great and excellent work, "An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language," was published in two volumes 4to. 1808, 1809. It illustrates the words in their different significations, by examples from ancient and modern writers; shows their affinity to those of other languages, and especially the Northern; explaining many terms which, though now obsolete in England, were formerly common to both countries, and elucidating national rites, customs, and institutions, in their analogy to those of other nations. It has been long out of print, but he made an Abridgment of it in 1818, in one volume 8vo.

In 1811 he published "An Historical Account of the Ancient Culdees of Iona, and of their settlement in England, Scot

land, and Ireland;" in 1814 " Hermes Scythicus, or the radical affinities of the Greek and Latin languages to the Gothic," 8vo.; and in 1818 "A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature."

In 1817 he contributed to the Edinburgh Philosophical Transactions, a paper "On the origin of Cremation, or Burning of the Dead."

NATHANIEL BOWDITCH, LL.D. F.R.S. Lately. At Boston, in America, Nathaniel Bowditch, LL.D. F.R.S. President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

From a "Discourse on the Life and Character" of this distinguished philosopher, published at Boston by the Rev. Alexander Young, the clergyman of the church of which he was a member, we derive (through the medium of the Athenæum) the following particulars.

Dr. Bowditch was considered by the Americans as their greatest scientific man since Franklin, whose fellow citizen he was. He rose, like Franklin, from humble life, and was an illustrious instance of a self-educated man. All the little school education he ever had was received ere he was ten years old. He then went into a ship-chandler's employment, in which he soon distinguished himself by his figuring. After going to sea at an early age, he endeavoured, in the intervals of his voyages, to pick up a little knowledge of navigation, and, as preparatory to that, to acquire the elements of geometry. It so happened, that an elder brother of his, who likewise followed the sea, was then attending an evening school for the same purpose. On returning home one evening, he informed him that the master had got a new way of doing sums and working questions; for, instead of the numerical figures commonly used in arithmetic, he employed the letters of the alphabet. This novelty excited the curiosity of the youthful navigator, and he questioned his brother very closely about the matter; who, however, did not seem to understand much about the process, and could not tell how the thing was done. But the master, he said, had a book, which told all about it. This served to inflame his curiosity; and he asked his brother whether he could not borrow the book of the master and bring it home, so that he might get a sight of it. (It should be remembered that, at this time, mathematical books of all sorts were scarce in America.) The book was obtained. It was the first glance that he had ever had at algebra. "And that night," said he, " I did not close my eyes.' He read it, and read it again, and mastered its contents, and

copied it out from beginning to end. Subsequently he got hold of a volume of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, which he treated pretty much in the same summary way, making a very full and minute abstract of all the mathematical papers contained in it; and this course he pursued with the whole of that voluminous work. He was too poor to purchase books, and this was the only mode of getting at their results, and having them constantly at hand for consultation. These manuscripts, written in his small neat hand, fill several folio volumes.

It is a curious fact that he derived, in early life, very valuable and timely aid in his pursuits from a fine library belonging to the celebrated Dr. Kirwan, which was captured in the British channel, by an American privateer, during the revolutionary war.

He

In 1800, when only twenty-three years of age, he first published his " Practical Navigator," which is now universally used in American ships, and to a considerable extent in those of Great Britain. had, before that time, made several long voyages in various subordinate situations. Mr. Young remarks, that "the French mathematician, Lacroix, acknowledged to a young American that he was indebted to Mr. Bowditch for communicating many errors in his works, which he had discovered in these same long India voyages ;” he also taught himself several languages during the same opportunities of study. It was in undertaking to correct Hamilton Moore's well-known "Navigator" for fresh publication, that Dr. Bowditch took up the idea of making one of his own. His qualifications for such a work may be judged in some degree, from the fact, that in the two editions of Moore's which he published, he corrected more than 8000 mistakes. Some of these were highly important-there is no kind of scientific labour, indeed, in which accuracy is equally indispensable. Several ships were known to be lost by one of Moore's blunders. In the summer of 1802, at the age of twenty-nine, his ship lying wind-bound in the port of Boston, Bowditch went to Cambridge to attend the exercises of Commencement Day; and whilst standing in one of the aisles of the church, as the President was announcing the honorary degrees conferred that day, his attention was aroused by hearing his own name called out as a Master of Arts. The annunciation came upon him like a peal of thunder; it took him wholly by surprise. He has been heard to say that that was the proudest day of his life; and that of all the distinctions which he

subsequently received from numerous learned and scientific bodies, at home and abroad, (among which may be mentioned his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, an honour to which few Americans have ever attained,) there was not one which afforded him half the pleasure, or which he prized half so highly, as this degree from Harvard.

The great scientific work, however, which gave to Dr. Bowditch his higher and more lasting fame was his translation of the "Méchanique Céleste" of La Place, accompanied by an extensive explanatory comment. It was completed in four quarto volumes, of about 1,000 pages each, excepting merely the final revision of a few sheets of the last volume, of which Mr. Young says, "he persevered to the last in his labours upon it, preparing the copy and reading the proof-sheets in the intervals when he was free from pain. The last time I saw him, a few days previous to his death, a proofsheet was lying on his table, which he said he hoped to be able to read over and correct." We are not aware that any other translation of this great work has been made into any language. A sort of acknowledgment of the propriety of attempting such a labour has, in this country, appeared in the shape of three partial efforts, never followed up to any show of completion. The Edinburgh Review, when Dr. Bowditch's first volume appeared, some ten years since, remarked, that there were, probably, not a dozen men in Europe who could even so much as read it understandingly. The Quarterly called it a work" savouring of the gigantesque" in design, and adds, of the execution, "it is, with few and slight exceptions, just what we could have wished to see an exact and careful translation into very good English-exceedingly well printed, and accompanied with notes appended to each page, which leave no slip in the text of moment unsupplied, and hardly any material difficulty either of conception or reasoning unelucidated. To the student of Celestial Mechanism' such a work must be invaluable, and we sin cerely hope that the success of this volume, which seems thrown out to try the feelings of the public, both American and British, will be such as to induce the speedy appearance of the sequel. Should this unfortunately not be the case, we shall deeply lament that the liberal offer of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, to print the whole at their expense, was not accepted."

Regarding this offer of the Academy (of which Dr. Bowditch became the President in 1829) Mr. Young's Discourse

exhibits the Doctor's character in an admirable point of view. He knew there "was not sufficient taste in the community for such studies to justify an enter prise which would involve a great outlay, and, as he thought, would bring him under pecuniary obligations to others. I recollect (says Mr. Young) conversing with him once on this subject, when he said to me, in his usual ardent way, Sir, I did not choose to give an opportunity to such a man (mentioning his name) to point up to his bookcase and say, I patronised Mr. Bowditch by subscribing for his expensive work,'-not a word of which he could understand. No. I preferred to wait till I could afford to publish it at my own expense. That time at last arrived; and if, instead of setting up my coach, as I might have done, I see fit to spend my money in this way, who has any right to complain? My children I know will not.'"

Mr. Young speaks elsewhere of the Doctor's good fortune in his second wife, "who, by her entire sympathy with him in all his studies and pursuits, lightened and cheered his labours, and by relieving him from all domestic cares, enabled him to go on, with undivided mind and undistracted attention, in the execution of the great work, on which his fame, as a man of science, rests. He has been heard to say, that he never should have accomplished the task, and published the book in its present extended form, had he not been stimulated and encouraged by her. When the serious question was under consideration as to the expediency of his publishing it at his own cost, at the estimated expense of ten thousand dollars (which it actually exceeded), with the noble spirit of her sex, she conjured and urged him to go on and do it, saying that she would find the means, and gladly make any sacrifice and submit to any self-denial that might be involved in it. In grateful acknowledgment of her sympathy and aid, he proposed, in the concluding volume, to dedicate the work to her memory-a design than which nothing could be more beautiful or touching. Let it still be fulfilled." This expensive independence and liberality will be better appreciated, when it is known, that even at his decease the Doctor's personal property amounted to little more than 30,000 dollars.

In his private character this great man was distinguished by his sincerity-his simplicity-his temperance-his method -his sound, quick common sense-his fidelity to every engagement-his warm love of domestic quiet-and his firm attachment to public order and law. In a remarkable degree he united the practical man with the scholar. There never was

a more accurate, devoted business mind than his; he could be all business one day, and all science the next. He died having the universal esteem and respect of his countrymen; and a monument is to be erected to his memory in the cemetery of Mount Auburn.

MR. FREDERICK ACCUM.

Lately. At Berlin, aged 69, Mr. Frederick Accum, formerly a distinguished operative chemist in London.

Mr. Accum was a native of Buckelburg in Westphalia. He first came forward in London as an assistant to Dr. Garnett, the first professor at the Royal Institution, who always spoke highly of Mr. Accum's talent. He soon after opened a shop in Compton-street, where, by experiments and public courses of lectures on Experimental Chemistry, he acquired a very considerable reputation. He after wards lectured for many years at the Surrey and London Institutions; until at length his career was prematurely closed by its having been discovered that, to save himself the trouble of transcription, he had mutilated many valuable books at the latter establishment. He was then obliged to quit the country.

The following is a list of Mr. Accum's publications, most of which passed through several editions, and many of them were translated into the German, French, and Italian languages.

A System of Chemistry. 1803, 2 vols. 8vo.

Essay on the Analysis of Minerals. 1804, 12mo.

Manual of Analytical Mineralogy. 1808, 2 vols. 12mo.

Elements of Chrystallography after the method of Haüy. 1813, 8vo.

A Practical Treatise on the use and application of Chemical Re-agents and Tests. 12mo.

A Practical Treatise on Gas Light, exhibiting a summary description of the apparatus and machinery for illuminating streets, houses, and manufactories, with Coal Gas. 8vo. 1815.

Chemical Amusement, comprising a series of curious and instructive experiments in Chemistry. 12mo.

A Guide to the Chalybeate Spring of Thetford. 12mo.

A description of the process of manufacturing Coal Gas, with elevations, sections, and plans of the apparatus now employed at the Gas-works in London.

A Treatise on adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisous. 12mo. This, on a subsequent republication, attained great popularity under the title of " Death in the Pot."

Treatises on Brewing; on making

Home-made Wines; and on making Bread. 12mo.

Mr. Accum also made translations of some foreign chemical works; and communicated many papers to Nicholson's Journal, and other periodical publications.

MR. SAMUEL TERRY.

Lately. At Sydney, New South Wales, Mr. Samuel Terry, who was transported as a convict about fifty years ago. The Sydney Gazette gives the fol. lowing account of his funeral and vast accumulated property.

"The funeral of the late Mr. Samuel Terry took place on Sunday morning. The deceased was followed to the grave by a large number of his friends; and at his particular request was buried with masonic honours. The band of the 50th regiment headed the procession, playing the Dead march in Saul. Mr. Terry's will was brought yesterday from the Bank of New South Wales (where it had for a considerable time been deposited), by Mr. Black, the cashier, to the residence of the deceased in Pitt Street, where it was read by Mr. Unwin in the presence of the executors and all the members of the family. Three codicils have been added to it. By the will it appears that the Sydney rental of upwards of 10,0007. a-year has been left to Mrs. Terry for her life, and after her decease to his son, Edward Terry, for his life, and to the heirs of his body; and in case of bis death without lawful issue, to the children of John Terry and Mrs. John Hosking, as tenants in common. The bulk of the landed property, estimated at 150,000l., has been left to Edward Terry, his son, for life, and to the heirs of his body, and in case of his death without lawful issue, as in the case of the Sydney property. The personal estate, valued at 250,000l. is left, one moiety to Edward Terry, and the other moiety to John Terry, of Boxhill, Mrs. Terry Hughes, and Mrs. John Hosking, share and share alike. Specific legacies are bequeathed to a considerable amount, among which is 10,000l. to Mrs. John Hosking, his daughter, and 5,000. to Mrs. Terry Hughes, and one hundred guineas to each of his executors. All his charitable subscriptions are desired to be kept up ten years from the date of his decease, and various annuities are bequeathed to his relatives in England. The dwelling house in Pitt Street, and all his household furniture, carriages, &c. are left to Mrs. Terry. The whole estate is valued at half a million. Mrs. J. Norton, T. W. M. Winder, J. Terry Hughes, and Mrs. Terry, have been appointed executors and executrixes, and Mr. Unwin solicitor to the estate."

CLERGY DECEASED.

Aug. 13. At Wincanton, the Rev. William Carpendale, Perpetual Curate of that parish, and Rector of Silton, Dorset. He was the youngest son of the late Rev. Thomas Carpendale, of Armagh; and was presented to Wincanton in 1829 by Messrs. Messiter; to Silton, we believe, more recently.

At Ovingham, Northumberland, aged 40, the Rev. James Birkett, M.A. Perpetual Curate of that place, to which he was presented in 1834 by C. W. Bigge,

esq.

Aug. 15. The Rev. John Barlow Seale, D.D. Rector of Stisted, Essex, and of Anstey, Herts. He was formerly Fellow and Tutor of Christ's college, Cambridge, where, in 1770, he was elected to one of the Craven scholarships; he graduated B.A. 1774 as seventh Wrangler; obtained in that year the second Chancellor's medal; in 1775 one of the Middle Bachelors' prizes; and in 1776 one of the Senior Bachelors' prizes; and he proceeded M.A. 1777, D.D. 1789. He for some time acted as Deputy Regius Professor of Divinity in the absence of Bishop Watson. He was collated to Stisted in 1792, by Archbishop Moore, and presented to Anstey in 1806 by his college.

Lately. At Dover, aged 42, the Rev. William Theophilus Blackburne, M.A. He was a son of the late William Black. burne, M.D. of Cavendish-square, and afterwards of Eastcot house, near Wells.

The Rev. Thomas Browne, late Second Master of the Grammar School, Christ's Hospital. He was educated at that institution, and thence elected to Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, in 1825.

At the Cape of Good Hope, the Rev. Thomas Browning, of White's Hall, near Stroud.

At his glebe, aged 43, the Rev. Eris Davis, Rector of Raheny, co. Limerick. The Rev. C. Dumaresq, Rector of St. Mary's parish, Jersey.

Aged 61, the Rev. N. Dunscombe, Rector of Kilcolly, co. Cork.

DEATHS.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.

June 28. In Connaught-terrace, aged 60, Major-Gen. Sir George Matthias Cox, Bart. of the Bombay army. He succeeded to the title (conferred on his ancestor, Sir Richard Cox of Dunmanway, co. Cork, in 1706), on the death of his brother Sir John Cox, Dec. 23, 1832, (see Gent. Mag. vol. c. ii. 654.) GENT. MAG. VOL. X.

July 14. At Hampstead, Elizabeth, relict of Jonathan Henry Key, esq. whom she survived nine weeks (see the Magazine for June last, p. 666). She was the eldest dau. of Lionel Lampet, esq. of Bridgenorth, and was married Nov. 5, 1817, but had no family.

July 31. Robert Joseph Rookwood, esq. of Coldham-hall, Suffolk, uncle to Sir Thomas Gage, of Hengrave, Bart. He took the name of Rookwood in 1799, having succeeded to the estates of that ancient family (see the Collectanea Topog. et Geneal. vol. II. p. 147). He married 1st, in 1804, Mary, dau. of Thos. Worswick, of Lancaster, esq. and 2ndly in 1809 Eliza, only child of Count Manus O'Donell, a General in the Austrian service; but, having died without surviving issue, is succeeded in his estates by his only surviving brother John Gage, esq. F.R.S. Director of the Society of Antiquaries.

Aug. 7. At Pimlico, Edward, youngest son of the late Rev. George Bass Oliver, Vicar of Belgrave-cum-Birstal, Leicestershire, and of Glynde, Sussex.

Aug. 14. Aged 27, Edward Gray, esq. of Haringay House, Hornsey.

Aug. 16. At Blackheath, aged 78, Margaretta Ann, wid. of John Bridges, esq.

Capt. John Newman Wylde, half-pay 56th regiment, son of the late Rev. S. L. Wylde, of Burrington, Wilts. This officer received a grape shot in the left side, which shattered his hip-bone, whilst gallantly leading the grenadiers of the 56th into the breach at Ciudad Roderigo, from which wound he never recovered.

Aug. 17. In Guildford-st. aged 29, William John Pitt Goodrich, esq. of Lincoln's Inn, barrister-at-law, and late of Oriel College, in which Society he entered as Commoner in 1828, but did not proceed to a degree. He was the eldest son of Wm. Goodrich, esq. of Matson House, near Gloucester.

Aug. 18. At Hammersmith, aged 80, John Frederick Buhl, esq.

At his mother's house, aged 53, James Watson, esq. stockbroker, of Throgmorton-street.

In consequence of an accident, aged 54, Wm. F. Blick, M.D. of Walthamstow, Essex, brother of the Rev. Chas. Blick, of St. John's coll. Cambridge.

At Blackheath Park, aged 68, Elizabeth Ann, widow of Robt. Sowerby, esq.

Aug. 21. In his 65th year, Mr. Henry Fox Cooper, many years connected with the London press, and formerly editor of the John Bull newspaper.

Aug. 22. Aged 76, Elizabeth, relict of Timothy Stansfield, esq. of Field House, New Cross.

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