preceded and attended as before, the organ sounding the Dead March in Saul, was conveyed, through a crowd so numerous and dense that the procession only moved by aid of the police, to the vault, which, with the great staircase leading to it, was illuminated; and the reading of the remaining portion of the funeral service concluded the impressive ceremony.

Mr. Attwood has left a widow, three sons, and one daughter. His eldest son, a lieutenant in the engineers, was assas sinated some years ago at Seville. His second, the Rev. George Attwood, M.A. late Fellow of Pembroke hall, Cambridge, has the rich living of Framlingham, Suffolk. His third, a solicitor, lost his life by a fall from a horse. His fourth is the manager of a great estate in Jamaica; and his fifth is curate of Saxthorpe in Norfolk. The daughter is unmarried.

The creations of his genius, his compositions, are very numerous. Early in life he devoted much of his time to the theatre, and produced several operas, among which the most popular are, The Prisoner, The Adopted Child, The Castle of Sorento, and The Smugglers. He likewise contributed the music to Tobin's Honeymoon. The Curfew glee in this, to which Italian words, beginning "Qual Silenzio," were afterwards adapted, is one of the most generally and justly admired of his works. Of his many glees, "In this fair vale," "The harp's wild notes," "In peace love tunes," "Begin the charm," and Oh heavenly sympathy!," form part of the wealth of all musical societies. A long list might be given of his canzonets, &c. but it would be inexcusable not to mention The Soldier's Dream, a composition of the highest order, "Sweet Charity," "

," "The Coronach," and "The Convent Bells." His two grand anthems have already been noticed: the author lived to see them admitted, by universal consent, among the British musical classics. The invention and science to be found in these, are not less conspicuous in Mr. Attwood's other sacred compositions, in his Services and Anthems, written for the use of the Royal Chapel, wherein are united the gravity of our old unrivalled cathedral music, with the gracefulness of the modern school. Some few have thought them too secular in their style, but the same objection was once made to many admirable works of the kind now consecrated by time and use,to the church music of Child, Greene, Nares, and Arnold.

That Mr. Attwood was a man of rare genius in his art, is well known; his judgment, his fine feeling, his correct and elegant taste, never have been, and most

likely never will be, disputed: but only those personally acquainted with him could form a perfect estimate of his private character. Affectionate to his family, faithful to his friends, benevolent to all, and honourable in every transaction of life, he was no less to be valued as a member of society than as an artist who did honour to the country of his birth. "It will not be easy to supply his place, either in point of musical talent, or of moral worth," says the Dean of St. Paul's, (Dr. Copplestone, Bishop of Llandaff) in a letter of condolence to the Rev. George Attwood. "He was," continues the well-judging prelate, “a sincerely religious and conscientious man ; and this consideration ought soon to reconcile his family to the loss-for he is doubtless gone to his reward.”

THOMAS MORTON, ESQ.

March 28. In his 74th year, Thomas Morton, esq. one of the most successful of modern dramatists.

The

He was born in Durham in 1764. early death of one or both of his parents placed him under the care of an uncle of the name of Maddison, after whom he named his second son, and by whom he was provided for when young. He was

sent to the then celebrated school in Soho-square, which is remarkable for having produced several popular actors and dramatists. Holman was Morton's class-fellow, and had the character of Alonzo in his first play, Columbus, in which the father of the present lessee of Covent Garden had likewise a part. Morton acquired his earliest theatrical taste while at school; at the proper age he was entered by his uncle a student of Lincoln's-inn, but he was never called to the bar. While keeping his terms he was a constant play-goer, and it ended in his own experiment as a play-writer, and his abandonment of the profession for which he was destined, but for which he had no predilection. He accordingly became a dramatist, and was singularly successful.

Had the Dramatic Copyright Act been in existence twenty years earlier, Mr. Morton would have realised a fortune by his writings. To shew the confidence placed in his abilities by the managers of our theatres, it need only be stated that when his Town and Country was to be brought out, in March, 1807, Mr. Harris, of Covent Garden, before the parts had been written out for rehearsal, agreed to give him a draft for 1,0007. for it, the theatre taking all risks of success or failure. Mr. Harris was well rewarded for his liberality, for Town and Country is one of the stock pieces of every theatre in the

kingdom. John Kemble was the original Reuben Glenroy, but it was also a favourite part with Kean. Morton had previously written Columbus, The Children in the Wood, Zorinski, The Way to get Married, A Cure for the Heartache, Speed the Plough, Secrets worth Knowing, The Blind Girl, and The School of Reform. Every one of these, excepting Columbus and Zorinski, still keeps possession of the stage. Columbus was produced as long since as 1792.

Among Morton's later productions were, A Roland for an Oliver, acted for the first time in 1819, and The Invincibles, brought out in 1828. Of the one Miss Foote was the heroine, and Madame Vestris of the other. His judgment was so good, his skill so great, and his popularity so general, that he was always the surest card" in the hands of a manager, and his School for Grown Children, which is by no means one of his best comedies, was played twentyfour times at Covent Garden in the season of 1826-7.

Mr. Morton was always a man of respectable and regular habits. His conversation was full of anecdote and sprightly humour, never deviating into grossness. To the younger aspirants of the stage, whether as authors or actors, he invariably attributed their full proportion of merit; and his charitable estimate of others, and too severe criticism of himself, was now and then carried almost to a fault. Yet he was as sincere a man as ever lived, and if he did not constantly say all he thought, he never uttered what he did not think. He was not only steady but ready in his friendships, and never forgot, when it was in his power, to give that assistance which he had sometimes needed himself.

From early youth to the last year of his life Morton was remarkably fond of the noble and manly game of cricket, and he was a constant attendant at Lord's ground, being the senior member of the Marylebone club. He had seen all the great players, from the Beldams and Walkers of former days to the Wenmans and Pilchs of our own, and as he delighted to talk about their achievements, there was no man living who could give a more lively and characteristic account of their peculiar styles and qualifications. was never himself, it is believed, much distinguished either as a batter or a bowler, but he was an admirable judge of the best mode of disposing a field, so that the excellence of the whole eleven players might be adapted to their situations in it. About two years ago he was elected an honorary member of the Garrick club-a distinction seldom bestowed.

He

His theatrical reminiscences extended as far back as the time of Henderson, and he recollected the first introduction of the Kembles to the metropolis.

He was devotedly beloved by the various members of a very united and amiable family. He has left behind him a widow, three sons, and one daughter. One of the sons holds an office in a public depart. ment, and is besides the author of several excellent farces; another is an artist of distinguished talents, and among his performances we may point out the portrait just published of Charles Kean as Hamlet, which he drew upon stone from Chalon's design. The eldest son was for some years in India, whence he returned not very long since in bad health; and his daughter was married in that country.

MR. J. B. SWAINE.

March 28. In Queen-street, Golden Square, after a severe illness of more than three years, aged 23, Mr. John Barak Swaine. He was the only son of Mr. John Swaine, engraver; and was about to enter into his father's business, when he shewed such a decided preference to the superior walks of art, that his father allowed him to become a student at the Royal Academy, where he much dis. tinguished himself and gained a prize, and also two prizes at the Society of Arts.

At that early age he also exhibited a true antiquarian feeling in delineating monuments, stained-glass, and other remains of ancient art, as is shewn in the "Archæologia" of the Society of Antiquaries, vol. XXV. p. 122, and vol. XXVI. p. 432. In 1833 he also drew etched, and published a most correct large coloured print of the celebrated painted window in St. Margaret's church, Westminster, (see Gent. Mag. May, 1833, p. 453, and June, p. 545); and in 1837 he etched a very elaborate private plate of the Altar window at Hampton Lucy, Warwickshire, from a design of T. Willement, esq. F.S.A. and erected in that church at the expense of its rector, the Rev. John Lucy, M.A. in 1835, (see our Magazine for Dec. 1837, p. 625).

About four years since he directed his attention to painting in oil; and was with some other young artists employed by Mr. Jones, an American, to copy some of the best pictures at the Hague, and also at the Louvre, for the gratification of our Transatlantic brethren. He performed the greater part of the journey from Holland to Paris on foot, and in his way made many sketches, which, had he lived, would have formed beautiful pictures.

Whilst at Paris, besides painting nu

merous pictures in oil, such was the versatility of his talent, that, to fill up his leisure time beneficially, he took to engraving in wood, in which, as in all other branches of art, he succeeded admirably, though without any previous instruction. At Paris, unfortunately, the effects of that disease which had long lain dormant in his constitution, shewed themselves with such violence, as soon to deprive him of the use of his limbs, and ultimately to cut him off in the flower of his age. It may be added, that even amidst the greatest bodily suffering, his love of art afforded him amusement; and when he could do little else, he etched many professional plates for his kind medical friend, Mr. Chalk the surgeon of the General Sea-bathing Infirmary at Margate. One of his last efforts was a pleasing mezzotinto engraving of his early patron and friend, A. J. Kempe, esq. F.S.A. our well-known and respected correspondent. This was to young Swaine an untried branch of art, but from this specimen, and from other large mezzotinto plates, which he began but left unfinished, it is evident he would have succeeded admirably. Thus has died untimely an ingenious young artist, who would doubtless, had it pleased Providence to spare his life, from his excellence in various departments of art, have justified the warmest expectations of his friends.

DEATHS.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.

Feb. 11. Aged 40, Capt. R. Hamilton, late of the 38th foot, brother of the late Sir J. Hamilton of Englefield-green.

Feb. 15. In Everett-st. aged 70, Jane, widow of R. Dover, esq.

Feb. 18. At Pentonville, aged 62, W. Headington, esq. late of Walbrook.

Feb. 25. At Allsop-terrace, Newroad, aged 68, Major J. L. Jones, of the Hon. East India Company's Madras establishment.

Feb. 25. In Bedford-place, aged 56, H. Braaksma, esq.

Feb. 27. In Upper Berkeley-street, at the residence of her son-in-law Col. Campbell, of Kilmartin, Mary, widow of T. Hemsworth, esq. of Abbeville, co. Tipperary, mother of H. D. Hemsworth, esq. of Shropham Hall, Norfolk.

March 1. In Smith's-buidings, Leadenhall-st. in his 63rd year, T. Hitchcock, esq. Major West London Militia.

March 2. In John-street, Oxford-st. aged 85, J. Putnam, esq.

March 5. At Kennington, aged 75, Mrs. Elizabeth Berry, and on the following day, at same place, aged 60, her sister Catharine, wife of W. Fuller, of Lewes. GENT. MAG. VOL. IX.

March 7. At Pentonville, aged 52, Ann, relict of M. Robertson, esq. R.A.

March 9. At the Vicarage, Kentish Town, Margaret, wife of the Rev. Johnson Grant, M.A.

March 10. At Bayswater, aged 81, R. Kershaw, esq.

March 13. In Upper Baker-st. aged 70, George Wallis, esq.

March 20. In Sloane-st. aged 66, Dr. Geo. Robertson Bailie, deputy-inspectorgen. of army hospitals.

March 22. In Berkeley-sq. the infant son of H. Baring, esq.

March 23. At Hammersmith, aged 65, William Penley, esq. formerly of Connaught-terrace.

March 25. In Farringdon-st. aged 78, Charles Dodd, esq. late of Lymington, Hants.

At Parson's-green, Fulham, aged 31, Mary Masterman, wife of Thomas Mist, esq.

March 26. In Park-st. Grosvenor-sq. aged 70, the Hon. Louisa Harbord, aunt of Lord Suffield.

At Spring-gardens-terrace, aged 84, Elizabeth, relict of James Hatsell, esq.

N. P. Nathan, esq. formerly of the Commissary Department at Malta and Messina, eldest and last surviving son of the late P. Nathan, esq. merchant, of Portsmouth. In consequence of his demise, a considerable sum has devolved to the Mile-end Benevolent Institution.

In Burton-st. Margaret, relict of Walter Trevelyan, esq. of Nether Witton, Northumberland, daughter of the late Richard Hichens, esq. of Poltair, Cornwall.

Of typhus fever, Charles James Johnstone, M.D. Physician to the Foundling Hospital, London, and fellow of Gonville and Caius Coll. Camb.

In Liverpool-st. aged 85, Sir W. Rawlins, Knight, senior member of the Corporation, and 51 years the representative of the ward of Bishopsgate in the common council. He was formerly treasurer of the charity schools of the ward, and in addition to other donations, he some time previous to his death presented them with the sum of 4,0002. He served the office of Sheriff of London and Middlesex in the years 1801-2, and received the honour of knighthood, May 13, 1802.

March 27. In Upper Montague-st. the wife of John G. Rowley, esq. dau. of Gen. Northey Hopkins.

In Upper Belgrave-place, John Jolly, esq. organist of St. Philip's, Regent-st.

Morch 28. In Charles-st. St. James's, Elizabeth, wife of John Howell, esq. of Wickham Place, West Wickham, Kent. 4 B

March 30. At Chiswick, aged 76, Mary-Read, wife of William Pyke, esq.

March 31. Aged 68, John Parker, esq. of Old Broad-st. and Bloomsbury

square.

Aged 61, P. Richardson, esq. of Chiswell-street brewery, eldest son of the late John Richardson, esq. of Welton, near Hull.

Lately. At Greenwich, aged 80, Elizabeth, widow of the Rev. J. Mawle, chaplain of the Royal Hospital, and Rector of Horseheath, Cambridgeshire.

In Bishopsgate-st. aged 78, Mr. Alexander Callendar, an extraordinary man, long known about town as the philosophical chairmaker.

April 1. In Hunter-st. aged 75, Elizabeth, widow of George Atkinson, esq. late of Jamaica, merchant.

D. A. Massinghi, esq. of Green-st. Grosvenor-sq.

In Devonshire-st. aged 77, William Charles Alston, esq. late Lieut.-Col.in the Bengal establishment.

April 2. Of apoplexy, Charles Shuttleworth, of Leadenhall-st. and of Great Bowden, Leicestershire, esq.

April 3. Aged 27, J. F. Fergus, M.D. Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in King's College, London. He had lectured but one season, but had nevertheless earned for himself a high reputation among his colleagues and pupils.

April 6. In Park-st. Grosvenor-sq. aged five weeks, Charles Julian, son of the Hon. Wm. Fraser.

April 9. In Castle-st. Leicester-sq. M. Caiman Duverger, an eminent French architect and engineer, who committed suicide in a fit of temporary derangement brought on by over-exertion.

At Notting-hill, aged 31, Elizabeth, eldest dau. of Alexander Macdonald, esq. wife of Francis Bayley, esq. youngest son of the Right Hon. Sir. John Bayley, Bt.

At his residence, in the Charterhouse, aged 52, Thomas Gatty, esq.

April 10. In Woburn-square, Jane, wife of Wm. Stevenson, esq. barrister-atlaw.

Joseph Chitty, jun. esq. Special Pleader, of the Middle Temple, and Bedford-place Russell-square.

Aged 36, Miss Jane Elizabeth Wilson, sister to Sir T. M. Wilson, Bart.

April 11. At Camberwell, aged 72, Mrs. Elizabeth Pennington, sister of the late Rev. G. Pennington, of Basingbourne, Camb.

In Dorset-sq. aged 66, William Plunkett, esq, deputy chairman of Her Majesty's Board of Excise.

At Brandenburgh place Hammer

smith, aged 33, S. F. Green, third son of Mr. Green, of Green's Hotel, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields.

April 12. In Canterbury-buildings, Lambeth, in his 70th year, Mr. James Rousseau, printer. He was apprenticed to the late John Nichols, esq.; in whose employ, and that of his successors, he ever afterwards remained; and to whom he always proved himself a most devoted friend and faithful assistant. For the last twenty years he nightly superintended the printing the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons; in which arduous duty it was his pride and satisfaction to gain not only the approbation of his employers, but the patronage and good will of the principal Clerks of the House.

April 13. At Woburn-sq. aged 87, I. A. Goldwin, esq.

April 14. Aged 26, Caroline, wife of Samuel Arrowsmith, esq. of Soho-sq. April 16. Elizabeth, relict of J. P. Smith, esq. of Upper Berkeley-st.

BERKS.-Lately. At Black Nest, Brimpton, aged 76, Wm. Goddard, esq. BUCKS.-March 23. At Wendover, at an advanced age, Samuel Edmonds, esq. M.D.

March 26. At Ankerwycke House, aged one year and four months, Philip Simon, third son of G. S. Harcourt, esq. M.P.

Lately. At Haddenham, Thos. Hill, esq. CAMRIDGE.-March 23. At Cambridge, aged 67, Richard Comings, esq. one of the most considerable and respectable merchants of that place.

April 5. At her mother's house, Cambridge, aged 41, Alicia, youngest daughter of the late C. A. Wheelwright, esq. of Highbury-terrace.

CORNWALL.-Jan. 24. At Truro, in her 82nd year, Wilhelmina, relict of Rev. R. Hole, Rector of Favingdon and Inwardleigh, co. Devon.

DEVON.-Jan. 15. At Alphington, aged 70, Captain Notter, R. N.

Jan. 21. At Hood house, near Totnes, Lieut.-Col. John Humphrey Edward Hill, C. B. He was made Second Lieut. 23rd foot 1796, First Lieut. 1797, Captain 1803, Major 1812, and brevet Lieut.. Colonel 1813. He served in Spain and Portugal, and was attached to the Portuguese army; he received a cross for the battles of Salamanca, Nivelle, and Nive, and the siege of St. Sebastian, at which he commanded Portuguese regiments; he also served in Flanders, and was present at Waterloo.

Jan. 24. At Exeter, aged 69, Captain John Greenway, R. N. He was a sailor

from his very boyhood-was Flag-Lieutenant to Sir Richard Strachan, on board the Cæsar, in the memorable engagement of the 4th of November, 1805, with the runaway portion of the enemy's fleet, from Trafalgar; and belonged to the Queen Charlotte at the time that ship was burnt.

March 17. At Exeter, aged 74, Mary, relict of Joseph Hutchison, esq. formerly of Bermuda.

March 18. Aged 45, Henry Marshall, esq. solicitor, of Plymouth.

March 29. Aged 88, Peter Clark, esq. of East Budleigh, formerly a Surgeon of that place.

March 30. At Torquay, where he had gone for the benefit of his health, E. O'Connor, esq. brother of the O'Connor Don, M.P. for Roscommon.

At Plymouth, in his 60th year, John Drake Pridham, esq. banker.

March 31. At Stoke, near Devonport, Anstruther Charles Flint, esq. recently a Captain 68th Reg. son of the late Sir Charles Flint, knt.

April 4. At Stert Cottage, Henry D. Morrison, esq. R.N. many years of the Royal Naval Hospital at Malta, Haslar, and Plymouth.

April 8. At Bradninch, Mary, widow of Ellice Bowden, esq.

April 13. At Sidmouth, Sarah, wife of Thomas Bonville Were, esq. a few days after giving birth to a son.

April 14. At Hill's Court, in his 85th year, Samuel Nesbitt, esq. for many years Secretary in the Bahamas.

April 18. At Lympstone, after a long illness, W.C.Callow, esq. M.D. of the sixth or Inniskillen Dragoons, who had for more than 30 years devoted his persevering atto his professional duties.

At Pilton, near Barnstaple, in his 63rd year, Thomas Heathcoate, esq. proprietor of the lace manufactory at Rawleigh, leaving a widow and 9 children.

April 12. At Totness, James Luscombe, esq. late of Yealmpton; leaving a widow and 2 children.

DORSET.-March 23. At Dorchester, aged 22, Mr. George Thomas Simonds, late of St. John's College, Cambridge.

April 10. At Poole, aged 53, William Cox, esq. for many years an eminent merchant of that port.

ESSEX.-March 31. Aged 53, Capt. Aldham, of Springfield, near Chelmsford; late of E. I. Co.'s service. He died suddenly, after having seen Mr. Payne's harriers turned off at Nutfield Bury. He has left a widow and three children.

April 10. At Bocking, aged 20, at the house of her daughter Mrs. Wakeham, Susanna, widow of Joseph Rogers, esq. of Norwich.

GLOUCESTER.-March 18. At Bristol, in his 35th year, John W. Cornish, esq. solicitor.

March 21. At Clifton, aged 48, James Ford, esq.

March 22. At Cheltenham, aged 12, John Plantagenet Edward Henry, fourth son of Lord William Somerset.

March 25. At Alscot Park, aged 63, James Roberts West, esq.

March 30. At Ampney Park, aged 37, George Graham Blackwell, esq. a magistrate for the counties of Gloucester and Wilts, and related to the families of the Duke of Norfolk and the Earl of Suffolk. Mr. Blackwell was in good health on the previous day, and was taken ill while hunting with Lord Moreton's hounds. He married in 1829, Elizabeth Emma, eldest dau. of Sir John Eardley Wilmot, Bart. M.P.

Lately. At Gloucester, aged 65, the Rt. Hon. Elizabeth dowager Countess of Massereene. Her maiden name was Lane; she was first married to Clotworthy 2nd Earl of Massereene, who left her his widow, without issue, in 1805; secondly, to George Doran, esq.; and thirdly, to the Hon. George Massy, to whom she was third wife, and who died in 1834.

Aged 81, Priscilla, relict of John Beach, esq. of Quedgeley, near Gloucester. April 5. At Clifton, in her 82nd year, the Right Hon. Maria Eliza dowager Viscountess Strangford. She was the eldest dau. of Frederick Phillips, esq. was married in 1779, and left a widow in 1801, having had issue the present Viscount, one other son who died young, and two daughters.

April 7. At Cirencester, aged 86, the widow of the Rev. R. D. Cumberland, Vicar of Driffield and Harnhill.

April 19. At Bristol, the widow of Capt. Young, 33rd regt.

HAMPSHIRE.-Jan. 9. At Southampton, aged 57, Capt. E. L. Stephens, R.Ñ. His services to the promoters of the Southampton Railway, and the projected Docks, had been of the first importance.

March 6. Lost, in a heavy squall near the Ower's Light, with Her Majesty's schooner Pincher, and a crew of more than 40 souls, Lieut. Thomas Hope, R.N.

March 17. At Yarmouth, I. W., in consequence of her clothes catching fire, Miss Traquehair, neice to the late Lord Holmes.

At Southsea, Joseph Simmonds, esq. Commander R.N. who distinguished himself at Trafalgar, on board the Royal Sovereign, of which he was third Lieutenant, and fired the first shot that opened that ever-memorable action.

March 18. At Deane House, aged 87,