actually possessed by his great uncle, as well as those further ones intended for that distinguished commander, and only intercepted by his premature death. It is almost unnecessary to add, that this is, and ever has been, a distinguished whig family.

Lord Viscount Anson died in 1818, and is succeeded by his eldest son, Thomas William, late M. P. for the borough of Yarmouth, in Norfolk.

ATKINS, Mr. Richard, was born in 1747, and bred a printer. In this capacity he repaired to Eton, and was employed during the long period of fifty-five years as a compositor of the Greek and Latin books published for the use of that celebrated institution. He died there in 1819, at the age of 72, and is said never to have been known to spend an idle day, or even an idle hour, during the last half century of his life.

B.

BAKER Richard. This appears to have been a very singular character; and it is evident, that he could not have practised such a series of impositions with impunity, in perhaps any other county in the kingdom.

wizard, that the educated as well as the uninstructed of all classes, were in the habits of resorting to him from all parts of this and the neighbouring counties for the exercise of his cabalistic skill, and on a Sunday, which was the day for his high orgies, vehicles of superior as well as of lowly descriptions were found to bring him an eager throng of votaries.

.His reputation was universal, and his gains proportionate. The wonders of his head would fill the Alexandrian library. Bad crops, lost cattle, lost treasure, and lost hearts, brought their respective sufferers in ceaseless crowds to his door. They were all overlooked, he said; and they overlooked his knavery in their confidence of his skill. He foretold to the Southcottonians that the Shiloh could not come, and who but a conjurer would have known this? The tenant of sterile land was, after a careful inspection of his presiding star, advised to provide a certain quantity of manure, which being spread over his ground in the form of ram's horns at 12 o'clock precisely on the full moon night, would infallibly secure a good crop. This astonishing prediction has been repeatedly verified! Strayed stock, and mislaid property, has been strangely recovered, by only being well looked after, provided the wise man had once taken the matter in hand; and many a relenting Phillis, who had parted with her Strephon in a huff, has been heard to exclaim on finding him return at the very hour calculated by the conjurer, that "sure Baker and the devil ́were in partnership."-If to juggling, artifices, and petty fooleries of this description, the man had limited his imposture he might have left the world with the simple reputation of a knave; but his avarice led him to delude the victim of disease into a fatal reliance on his affected skill, and very numerous are the instances of this description. Charmed Powders, and Mystic Lotions were confided in, to the exclusion of rational advice and proper remedies, and the death of the old and young has been the consequent penalty of such deplorable imbecility. A child, sometime since, died at Wellington, a martyr to its mother's folly. She consulted the heartless villain, and was assured that the infant was "overlooked." ders were given to her, accompanied with the slang verbosity of his craft, which the little sufferer was compelled to swallow, notwithstanding the mother declared that "it made her heart bleed to see the agonies of her child while

Richard Baker, of Westleigh, in the parish of Burliscombe, Somersetshire, a small farmer (but better known by the name of " Conjurer Baker"), died in 1819, full of years and iniquities, being 70 years old, and having, during the far greater part of his life, practised the gainful tactics of the "Black Art."In noticing the death of a character, who, for nearly a half a century, has been daily and hourly employed in alternately counting the wages of his villainies, and in laughing at the follies of a cheated multitude, it would be no unfit opportunity for taxing the risibilities of our readers, by pourtraying the deceased knave with all the mirthful embellishments of which his life and occupations are so abundantly susceptible.

In common justice, we might for once laugh at him, who has, in so many thousand instances, amused and profited himself by making a jest of others; but his life is too much clogged with the heaviness of a guilty account, to allow one redeeming ray to qualify the lurid aspect of his mortal reckoning.

It may surprise a northern or southern resident, whose ears have never been afflicted with the doleful superstitions of the western counties, to be informed, that such was the fame of the deceased

Some pow

taking the dose." The consequence
was as we have stated; and thus the
guilt of a cold-blooded murdererer, is
superadded to the atrocities which have
marked the career of this miscreant

through life. His habits were those of
an unsocial drunkard; but his Necro-
mancy, notwithstanding the expence of
his selfish indulgence, has enabled him
to leave some property.

BENTINCK, Lord C. Cavendish
at his house near Brussels, in the 76th
year of his age. He was brother to the
late, and uncle to the present Duke of
Portland.

BLUCHER, Field Marshal, Prince
of Wahlstadt, terminated a life of glory,
at his seat, of Kriblowitz in Silesia, at
10 o'clock in the evening of the 12th of
September, 1819, in the 77th year of
his age.

This officer entered the Prus-
sian service at an early period of life,
and was from the beginning attached to
the cavalry. Rising by degrees during
the late war with France, he distin-
guished himself on a variety of occasions,
at the head of a body of light horse,
armed and accoutred after the Cossack
fashion, so that he at length became
formidable to the enemy. But it was
at the battle of Waterloo that he
acquired the best title to public admira-
tion, by sustaining, with his own divi-
sion, the charge of the whole French
line. The King of Prussia, who had
made him a prince and presented him
with a large estate, visited him on his
death bed, and certified his high appro-
bation of his conduct. His Highness
was born December 16, 1742, and had
served 45 years in that army which has
gone into mourning for his loss.

BOYLE, Hon. William, youngest
son of the Earl of Glasgow, at Rams-
gate, died Sept. 6, 1819, in the 17th
year of his age.

BRAIDWOOD, Mrs. Isabella, Au-
gust 1st, 1819, in her 57th year. This
lady, born in 1752, was the widow of
Mr John Braidwood of Hackney, and
mother of Mr, Braidwood, Instructor of
the Deaf and Dumb, at Birmingham.
Her father, Mr. Thomas Braidwood of
Edinburgh, was the first who systemati-
cally attempted in this country, to infuse
the pleasures and benefits of education
into those unhappy children, who were
deprived of the powers of speech, and
hearing. This lady employed also the
greater portion of her life, in the same
laudable endeavours.

BROWNE, Major of the Royal
Marines, at Charlton, in Kent, in a fit
of mental derangement, Oct. 15, 1819.

BROWN, George, Esq. at his house
in Baker Street, Portman Square,
May 1, 1819. He was born in 1776, and
repaired at an early age to India, where
he rose to be a member of the counsel
of Bombay.

BUCHAN Hepburn, Sir George, of
Smeaton and Letham, Bart. late one of
the barons of the Exchequer in Scot-
land. This gentleman, who was a native
of Scotland, was born in March, 1739.
By his father's side, he claimed his
descent from the Earls of Buchan; and
by his mother's from James Hepburn,
Earl of Bothwell, and Duke of Orkney,
husband of Mary Queen of Scots.

Being destined for the bar, Mr.
Buchan, as he was then called, was
educated accordingly, and made consi-
derable advances in every branch of clas-
sical learning. According to the custom
of that day, when the sciences of law and
medicine, were both studied in Holland,
he spent one whole year at Leyden to
study the Civilians; and after this he
completed his course at the University
of Edinburgh. Luckily for him, at
this period, he formed an intimacy with
Henry Dundas, afterwards Viscount
Melville, which proved eminently ser-
viceable in future life. In 1763, the
subject of this memoir was admitted a
Member of the Faculty of Advocates,
and in 1764, the estate of his maternal
uncle having devolved to him by will,
he assumed the addendum of Hepburn.

An increase of fortune produced
no diminution of professional diligence.
In 1767, Mr. Buchan Hepburn was no-
minated Solicitor to the Lords of Session
as Commissioners of Teinds (Tithes),
and in 1790 he was appointed Judge of
the High Court of Admiralty of Scot-
land; and in 1800, was constituted one
of the Barons of Exchequer. This im-
portant station was filled by him with
equal dignity and effect until the close
of the year 1814, when he retired with
a Baronetcy, and a considerable pen-
sion, to enable the legislature to intro-
duce the trial by Jury into his Court,
Sir George was twice married; and, by
his first wife, has left a son and suc-
cessor Sir John. Soon after his acces-
sion to the Hepburn fortune Sir George
built a charming country house, and was
accustomed to entertain his friends there,
in the most hospitable manner.
was greatly addicted to agriculture, and,
at the request of the board of agricul-
ture, drew up the first report relative to
the county of Haddington.

He

A few months since, alarming symp-
toms of illness began to disclose them-

selves, and, after a long and severe strug-
gle, he died June 26, 1819, in the 81st
year of his age.

The following character, is from the
pen of one of his own friends:

"Sir George, in his younger days,
spent most of his time with his grand-
father at Longniddry, a place where
husbandry was studiously exercised; he,
at an early period, entertained a predi-
lection for agricultural pursuits, which
never left him whilst he was capable of
attending to the business of the field.
The principles which he held concern-
ing the first of all arts were not only sin-
gularly correct, but, what was of more
importance, his practice was equal to
that of the first rate farmer. In short, he
not only farmed well, but he also
farmed with profit, circumstances too
often overlooked by landed gentlemen
when any considerable part of their
estates is taken under their own ma-
nagement.

"As a leading man in the politics of
the county, Sir George Buchan Hep-
burn had for many years acted a distin-
guished part. But, without entering
upon this wide field, it may only be said,
that to his influence may justly be
ascribed the uncommon and unprece-
dented harmony which long prevailed
in his native county. Trained early to
business, and gifted by Nature with
mild and liberal dispositions, he was
eminently qualified to take a lead in
public matters. Few persons, in fact,
were more capable than Sir George of
managing business at a public meeting.
Intimately acquainted with the laws of
his country, and endowed with sufficient
powers to explain and illustrate them in
a satisfactory manner, he was at all
times listened to with attention by the
justices and freeholders, especially as he
was quite free of that bigotted obstinacy
which too often induces others to persist
in measures after their popularity is dis-
covered and ascertained, In a word,
the death of this respectable gentleman
may justly be considered as a great loss
to the county of Haddington.

BURCHARDT, Rev. Christopher.
This Missionary Clergyman, who has
been preaching the gospel in foreign
parts, and dispensing bibles, and reli-
gious tracts, with a liberal hand, was
a native of Switzerland. He died at
Aleppo, in Jan. 1819; and the follow-
ing account of him has been transmitted
from Mr. Naudi, who is now at Malta.
"After his persevering travels from the
distribution of the Holy Scriptures in
Egypt, Palestine, and Syria, he had

scarcely arrived at Aleppo, when a fatal
fever, then raging in the neighbour-
hood, put an end to his most valuable
life. He left Malta in a Greek vessel,
with six large cases of Bibles and Tes-
taments, in various languages, without
any of those fears which had deterred
others, and courageously distributed
them in Alexandria, where he openly
conversed with peasants, strangers, and
merchants; and where so many seamen
applied to him, that he said, "The
Greek Testament which he had dis-
persed would only be like so many
drops thrown into the sea." He thence
departed for Grand Cairo, where Jews,
Turks, Syrians, Copts, Christians, and
Pagans, visited him; and where he
could have dispersed a far greater num-
ber of copies if he had possessed them.
From Cairo he went to Jerusalem, where
he visited all the convents and public
places, and furnished them every where
with copies. Leaving Jerusalem, going
by Syria, and visiting the places on the
road, he came to the great commercial
city of Aleppo, in the neighbourhood of
which the fever attacked him, and closed
his life and labours."-The personal
exertion and fatigue of such a journey
may readily be conceived; but the in-
cessant labour of speaking, and re-
commending with urgency the great
work in which he had embarked, on
every step of his journey, and to every
party to whom he was introduced, may
scarcely be imagined; and of him it
may now be said, that he rests from his
labours and his works do follow him.

BURROUGH, Lady, wife of the
Hon. Mr. Justice Burrough, Oct. 9,
1819, in Bedford-Row, London, aged 57.

BUTSCHER, Rev. Leopold at the
settlement of Sierra Leone, on an emi-
nence, called Leicester mountain, July
17th, 1818.

Mr. Butscher had occupied an im-
portant post there under the Church
Missionary Society for several years, and
had been one of its earliest Missiona-
ries. His constitution had become in-
ured to the climate by a residence of
nearly eleven years. After an illness of
about a fortnight, at first slight, but
ending in a severe Cholera Morbus, his
terrestrial labours were closed!
Garnon had caused him to be removed
from Leicester mountain to Freetown,
that he might have every advantage and
comfort; but this very benevolent de-
sign proved abortive!-great respect was
paid to his memory; his loss has been
deeply regretted, and he is gone to reap
the rich harvest of his pious and exem,

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Mr.

plary zeal in the cause and promulgation
of Divine truth! He had by his exer-
tions laid the foundation of the Chris-
tian Institution in that colony. A large
Church, capable of containing all the
children, as well as the people of Lei-
cester Town, had been nearly finished
under his direction. The neighbouring
land was beginning to be cultivated, and
many of the children had learnt useful
trades. This Institution, the only one
of the kind in Africa, will ever remain
an undeniable evidence of the anxiety of
the Society, and of their pious servant,
to promote, to the utmost of their power
the civilization of Africa; and it must,
and ever will, command the gratitude of
the African race. The boys, 200, and
gils, 50, at their last examination pre-
vious to his death, went through the
different exercises in the Church on Lei-
cester mountain, in a manner creditable
both to themselves and to their teachers.
The site of the church commands a most
extensive view of the town, harbour, and
sea. It will stand as a land-mark of
Christianity. The sailor, on seeing its
spire from afar, will return praise to God,
and bless his country for having thus
afforded an asylum to the oppressed
African. The view of a Church on
British ground, in Africa, proclaims the
liberty of the subject:-where true
Christianity reigns, slavery is banished.
The work has been very great to
civilise and Christianise this colony, but
it has prospered in the hands of Mr.
Butscher and other ministers, happy
and able instruments, called to this
office, who have now established a regu-
larity in the temporal and spiritual du-
ties of these people which nothing dis-
turbs, but the attempts of Slave dealers
on the coast! But a very short time
since, these pupils, now decently clothed,
and receiving instruction, and passing
Christian examinations, were brought to
this Colony naked, ignorant of God,
and yoked as beasts for labour, or for
sale! This once barren wilderness now
sings for joy!

C.

CADELL, William, Esq. at Carron
Park, aged 82, September 17, 1819.
He was one of the original founders of
the great Carron Iron Works, and lived
long enough to see that establishment
supplying cannon for most of the great
states of Europe.

COKER, John, Esq. D. C. L. was
bred, first, at Winchester, and then at
New College, Oxford, where he took the
degree of M. A. in 1776, and discharged

the office of proctor in 1786. He after-
wards discharged, for some years, the
duty of Chairman of the Quarter Ses-
sions in the county of Oxford, and died
at his seat, Boxley, Kent, June 14,
1819. The following lines, by Cowper,
are said to have been characteristic of
his dress and manners:

"An honest man, close button'd to
the chin,

"Broad cloth without, and a warm
heart within."

COLE, the Rev. John, D. D. Chap-
lain to his R. H. the Duke of Clarence,
Pro Vice Chancellor of the University
of Oxford, &c. at Merazion, in Cornwall,
in October, 1819, in the 63d year of his
age.

COLLINGWOOD, Lady, at Tyne-
mouth, September 17, 1819. She was
the widow of the late Admiral Lord
Collingwood.

COLLINS, William, Esq. was born
in 1751, and died April 27, 1819, at his
house, on Maize Hill, Greenwich, in the
county of Kent, aged 68.

This gentleman united in his own
person a taste for both the elegant and
the useful arts. In painting, particularly,
he exhibited equal skill and discrimin-
ation, and attained a mastery in the
delicate art of crayon portraits. But his
services to his country have been con-
spicuous in another point of view.
Gifted with a good mechanical genius,
he has been engaged ever since the year
1777 in the improvement of machinery
connected with the docks; and he long
held a contract for the supply of these
with pumps for the use of His
Majesty's navy. But it is in ship-
sheathing that he produced effects highly
beneficial to the public. The chemical
action of the iron bolts, when in contact
with the copper which they were intended
to fasten, produced a corrosion that
threatened the entire abolition of this
most useful practice; but he so con-
trived as to remedy the inconvenience,
by a most ingenious but simple me-
thod.

CORNWALLIS, Hon. Admiral,
G. C.B. and Vice-Admiral of England.
This distinguished naval commander,
one of the very last remaining of the old
school, was born on the 25th of
February, 1744. After a long life,
devoted to the service of his country, he
died at Newlands, in the immediate
vicinity of Southampton, in the 76th
year of his age. Want of space prevents
the insertion of a regular memoir of
this gallant admiral in the present, but
one shall appear in our next volume.

CLOGHER, Bishop of, Right Rev.
Father in God, Dr. John Potter, in the
kingdom of Ireland.
Dr. Potter was,

by birth, an Englishman. Having
been educated at the University of Cam-
bridge, he became, first, a Fellow, and
then a Tutor, at Trinity College; where
he took the degrees of A. B. 1773, A.M.
1776, and became S. T. P. perfit. Reg.
1792.

It was his good fortune to have the
present Marquis of Camden for a pa-
tron. That nobleman having repaired
to Ireland as Viceroy, nominated Dr.
Potter one of his Chaplains. His first
episcopal promotion was to the Bishopric
of Killaloe, in 1795; and, in 1796, his
lordship was translated to the richer see of
Clogher. The Bishop died intestate,
July 27, 1819, and, in consequence of
the sale of many beneficial leases, apper-
taining to his see, has left an immense
sum of ready money behind him.

CROKER, Charles, Esq. late a
Captain in the 89th Regiment of Foot.
This gentleman was the second son of
Thomas Croker, of Glanaboy, in the
county of Waterford, Esq. and de-
scended from one of the most ancient
families in the south of Ireland.

Having made choice of the army as a
profession, he commenced his career as
an ensign in the 89th foot, and shortly
after his arrival in the East Indies was
appointed Aid de-camp to his uncle, the
late Lieutenant-general Robert Croker,
whose military talents were duly appre-
ciated by the intrepid Sir Eyre Coote,
under whom, in the early part of his
life, he had the honour to serve.

In consideration of his uniform bra-
very and humanity as an officer, Captain
Croker's conduct was such as endeared
him to the respect of all ranks, for un-
deviating principles of rectitude, un-
assuming manners, and, above all, those
accomplished feelings which should
ever designate the soldier, while they
adorn the scholar and the gentleman.

He died early in life, at Cork, in
Ireland, on the 9th of April, 1819, of a
liver complaint, contracted during his
residence in India.

exceeded his means. By this gentleman
she had two sons, one late Knight of the
Shire for the county of Herts; the
other, early in life, obtained a com-
mission in the Coldstream Guards, and
soon attained the rank of Lieutenant-
colonel. The former of these brothers,
now Lord Dacre, by a noble exertion
of filial piety, paid all the debts of his
father, soon after he had come of age.
Mrs. Brand succeeded her brother, the
late Right Hon. Charles Trevor Roper,

in 1794.

Her Ladyship died at her house at
Wimbledon, Oct. 5, 1819, in the 69th
year of her age.

DAUNCEY, Philip, Esq. B. A.
King's Counsel, &c. Mr. Dauncey,
born in 1759, was the son of a respect-
able clothier, at Wotton-under-edge,
in the county of Gloucester. He was
educated, first, at the College School of
the City of Gloucester, and then entered
a commoner at Oriel College, Oxford.
After taking the degree of Bachelor of
Arts, he was elected a Fellow of
Merton.

The bar being the object of his pur-
suit and his ambition, Mr. Philip Daun-
cey repaired to town, and entered him.
self of Gray's Inn. After receiving a
call from this ancient society, he attended
sessions at home, and followed both the
Oxford and Carmarthen circuits.
tience, industry, and a considerable share
of talents, soon induced clients to flock
around him; and on the retreat of Mr.
Palmer he suddenly found himself a
leader.

Pa

The Court of Exchequer proved the
scene of his forensic labours in the
capital, and Mr. Edmunds, a very
respectable officer of that Court, having
taken him under his immediate patron-
age, he soon obtained considerable emin-
ence there. In 1807 he obtained a silk
gown, and from that moment began to
be employed on the part of the crown.
Indeed we have not only seen him
assisting the late Attorney General
(Sir Samuel Shepherd), but also en-
trusted with the sole care of causes of
great importance during that gentle-
man's absence in the other Courts. He
had, before this, married Miss Dubri-
son, by whom he had a promising family
of two sons and two daughters, but the
premature death of that lady, in 1805-6,
filled his bosom with the most poignant
affliction. At length, during the sum-
mer of 1818, Mr. Dauncey himself
began to feel the pressure of disease,
yet he continued to practise until
obliged to be led out of court by two