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DEATHS.

1816. ON his way from the Cape of July 27. Good Hope to England for, his health, Capt. Richard Higgott, of the East India Company's service. His character stood eminently high, as a soldier, a friend, and a gentleman.

July 31. At Sierra Leone, John Donovan, esq. H. M. advocate. He had resided in that colony only a few months before he was attacked by the fever of the African Coast, in the form of an intermitteut, under which he laboured a fortnight, when the disorder suddenly assumed the form of remittent, and, after much suffering, he expired. He was a member of the Irish Bar, and of a respectable family in the county of Wexford. A more upright, honourable, kindhearted man never existed.

Aug. 29, At Florence, the son of Lord Burghersh, British Minister to the Court of Tuscany. Sept. 12, At Barbados, Mr. Richard Maltby, merchant.

Sept. 13. At Tattingstone, near Ips. wich, in his 80th year, Rev. Andrew Grant, A. B. upwards of 40 years rector of Tattingstone and Troston, Suffolk.

At the Mansion-house, Cork, Capt. Henry Sadler, 8th or King's Own regt. only son of the chief magistrate of that city. Sept. 14. The wife of Heury Peters, esq. of Betchworth Castle, Surrey.

At his seat near Oswestry, aged 72, Sam. Harwood, M. D. in the commission of the peace for Salop, and physician extraordinary to the Salop Infirmary.

At Enniscorthy, in his 29th year, D. Tuckey, esq. sovereign of that town, son of Rev. Chas. Tuckey, of Tipperary. His death was caused by the bursting of a blood vessel, owing to his horse falling with him into a sewer, which had been unguardedly left open, in the town of Armagh, through which he was passing at night-fall, on his return from the North.

Sept. 15. At Feltham-hill, in his 62d year, J. Camroux, esq.

At Hastings, Alex. Mackenzie, esq. brether of Coliu, Mackenzie, esq. surveyorgeneral of Bengal.

At his seat, Corsham-house, Wilts, aged 54, Paul Cobb Methuen, esq in whose character, were exemplified all the social virtues which endear the husband and the parent, with the charities and graces of the Christian; while the purity of his taste was evinced by the possession of one of the first collections of pictures, in this country. His dissolution was preceded by severe bodily affliction, but it was borne with becoming, fortitude. He was, father of P. C. Methuen, esq. M, P. for Wilts, who by this event inherits very considerable landed property.

8. Gent. Mag. November, 1816.

At Whitelaw, Mr. John Walker, merchant, many years one of the magistrates of Edinburgh.

At Ripon, aged 77, Wm. Tancred, esq. formerly captain in the 2d drag. guards, afterwards colonel in the yeomanry cavalry. He bad served his Majesty upwards of 50 years.

At Neston, Cheshire, in his 67th year,, Stephen Bond, esq. M. D.

At Dunbar, in his 65th year, William Wightman, M. D., fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.

Sept. 16. At Widford, co. Gloucester, aged 82, Mr. Henry Secker.

At Swanage rectory, co. Dorset, aged. 69, Rev. Samuel Gale, a native of Scruton, co. York, and precentor of Llandaff.

Sept. 17. At Rev. H. Charle' on's, Woodhouse, co. Glouc. at a very advanced age, Mrs Honor Pigott,second and last surviving daughter of the late Robert Pigott, esq. of Chetwinch, Salop. She was a lady of considerable mental endowments, and one, who might justly be styled a perfect gentlewoman. She possessed liberality without ostentation, friendship without flattery, and religion without hypocrisy.

At Thame, Oxon, in his 82d year, Mr. H. Dimmock, a most interesting member of society, and highly respected.

Sept. 18. At Clifton, Edw. Wm. Morse, esq. of Pit hanger, Middlesex.

In Dublin. John Reid, esq.

Sept. 19. At Squerries Lodge, Kent, Anne, wife of C. Warde, esq. sister of Arth. Annesley, esq. of Bletchington Park, Oxon.

At Frankville, near Ayre. Scotland,, Lieut. col. Francis Cuuynghame, late of the Coldstream guards, and deputy governor of Hull.

At Bagshot, Geo. H. Mitchell, esq. of West Hill, near Titchfield, in, the commission of the peace for Southampton.

At Bath, the wife of Wm. Maxwell, esq. daughter of the late Hon. Edw. Bouverie, At Englesham, aged 66, Rev. W. Findlay, minister of that parish.

Sept. 20. At the Abbey House, Tavistock, aged 68, Edward Bray, esq. Sept. 21. At Old Bridge, co. Meath, in his 88th year, Henry Coldingham, esq. At Crediton, aged 51, Major W. Laugworthy, late of the 24th foot.

Sept. 21. At Antigua, Lieut. J. Adamson, of the Royal Marines. He was on

his return home from Trinidad, where he had been to settle, his Black Corps as American Refugees, when, driven by a storm into Antigua, he was attacked by the fever then raging there, which ter minated his existence after an illness of three days.

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of signatures, he was a frequent Correspondent in the Gentleman's Magazine.

Mr. Wodhull's mother (the relict of John Wodhull, esq.) died at the great age of 92, Dec. 12, 1794, (see vol LXIV. p. 1157.)- Mr. Wodhull married Miss Ingram, of an antient and highly respectable family, seated at Wolford in Warwickshire. This excellent lady, universally loved and admired, Mr. W. had the misfortune to lose, May 28, 1808, (see vol. LXXVIII. p. 563.)-A just charaeter of Mrs. Ingram, a sister of Mrs. Wodhull, a venerable and respectable lady, who died in 1812, may be seen in vol, LXXXII. p. 493.

Mr. Wodhull left no family, and has bequeathed the bulk of his property to Mrs. Mary Ingram, another sister of Mrs. Wodhull, who is sole executrix. His Collection of Books, we understand, will not be sold.

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We know not whom Mr. Dibdin had in his mental eye, when he sketched the character of ORLANDO, in his truly-amusing Bibliomania," but, in our opinion, it assimilates in so many points with the highly-respectable subject of this brief notice, that we cannot help fancying that Mr. WODHULL sat for at least some feature of the Portrait. At all events, whether we are right in our conjecture or not, we are inclined to think our readers will more than pardon our inserting the extract: "Last year I went with my uncle to pay Orlando our annual visit. He appeared quite altered and shaken, from the recent misfortune of losing his wife.The eyes of Orlando were sunk deeply in his forehead, yet they retained their native brilliancy and quickness. His cheeks were wan, and a good deal withered. His step was cautious and infirm. My wife, said he, has recently left me for a better place; and I confess, that I begin to grow desolate, and anxious to take my depar ture to join my family. In my solitude, dear Philemon, I have found these (point ing to his books) to be what Cicero, and Seneca, and our own countryman De Bury, have so eloquently and truly described them to be our friends, our instructors, and our comforts. Without any affectation of hard reading, great learning, or wonderful diligence, I think I may venture to say, that I bave read more valuable books than it falls to the lot of the generality of book-collectors to read; and I would fain believe I have profited by my studies. Although not of the profession of the Church, you know that I have always cherished a fondness for sacred literature; and there is hardly a good edition of the Greek Testament, or a Comimentator of repute upon the Bible, fo

reign or domestic, but what you will find some reference to the same in my.inter. leaved copy of Bishop Wilson's edition of the Holy Scriptures. A great number of these Commentators themselves are in my library; as well as every authoritative edition of the Greek Testament, from the Complutensian to Griesbach's.

Yet do

not suppose that my Theological books are equal in measure to one fourth part of those in the Imperial Library at Paris *. My object has always been instruction and improvement; and when these could be obtained from any writer, whether Roman Catholic or Protestant, Arminian or Calvinistic, I have not failed to thank him, and to respect him too, if he has declared his opinions with becoming diffidence and moderation. You know, that nothing so sorely grieves me as dogmatical arrogance, in a being who will always be frail and capricious, let him think and act as he please. On a Sunday evening I usually devote a few hours to my Theological studies (if you will allow my Sabbath-meditations to be so called), and almost every summer evening in the week, saunter amidst yon thickets and meadows by the river side, with Collins, or Thomson, or Cowper, in my hand. The beautiful sentiments and grand imagery of Walter Scott are left to my in-door avocations; because I love to read the curious books to which he refers in his notes, and have always admired, what I find few criticks have noticed, how adroitly he has ingrafted fiction upon truth. As I thus perambulate, with my book generally open, the villagers treat me as Sir Roger De Coverley made his tenants treat the Spectator-by keeping at a respectful distance; but, when I shut up my volume, and direct my steps homewards, I am always sure to find myself, before I reach my threshold, in com. pany with at least half a dozen gossiping and well-meaning rustics. In other departments of reading, history and poetry are my delight. On a rainy or snowy day, when all looks sad and dismal without, my worthy friend and neighbour PHORMIO Sometimes gives me a calland we have a rare set-to at my old favourite volumes-the Lectiones Memorabiles et Recondita' of Wolfius, a commonplace book of as many curious, extraor dinary, true and false occurrences, as ever were introduced into two ponderous folios. So much, dear Philemon, for my desultory mode of studying: improve upon it but at all events, love your books for the good which they may produce; provided you open them with sin gleness of heart - that is, a sincerity of feeling."

*Il y a 300 pieds cubes de livres de Theologie."

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DEATHS.

1816. ON his way from the Cape of July 27. Good Hope to England for his health, Capt. Richard Higgott, of the East India Company's service. His character stood eminently high, as a soldier, a friend, and a gentleman.

July 31. At Sierra Leone, John Donovan, esq. H. M. advocate. He had resided in that colony only a few months before he was attacked by the fever of the African Coast, in the form of an intermitteut, under which he laboured a fortnight, when the disorder, suddenly. assumed the form of remittent, and, after much suffering, he expired. He was a member of the Irish Bar, and of a respectable family in the county of Wexford. A more upright, honourable, kindhearted man never existed.

Aug. 29. At Florence, the son of Lord Burghersh, British Minister to the Court of Tuscany.

Sept. 12. At Barbados, Mr. Richard Maltby, merchant.

Sept. 13. At Tattingstone, near Ips. wich, in his 80th year, Rev. Andrew Grant, A. B. upwards of 40 years rector of Tattingstone and Troston, Suffolk.

At the Mansion-house, Cork, Capt. Henry Sadler, 8th or King's Own regt. only son of the chief magistrate of that city. Sept. 14. The wife of Henry Peters, esq. of Betchworth Castle, Surrey.

At his seat near Oswestry, aged 72, Sain. Harwood, M. D. in the commission of the peace for Salop, and physician extraordinary to the Salop Infirmary.

At Enniscorthy, in his 29th year, D. Tuckey, esq. sovereign of that town, son of Rev. Chas. Tuckey, of Tipperary. His death was caused by the bursting of a blood-vessel, owing to his horse falling with him into a sewer, which had been unguardedly left open, in the town of Armagh, through which he was passing at night-fall, on his return from the North.

Sept. 15. At Feltham-hill, in his 62d year, J. Camroux, esq.

At Hastings, Alex. Mackenzie, esq. brcther of Colin Mackenzie, esq. surveyorgeneral of Bengal,

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At Whitelaw, Mr. John Walker, merchant, many years one of the magistrates of Edinburgh.

At Ripon, aged 77, Wm. Tancred, esq. formerly captain in the 2d drag. guards, afterwards colonel in the yeomanry cavalry. He had served his Majesty upwards of 50 years.

At Neston, Cheshire, in his 67th year,, Stephen Bond, esq. M. D.

At Dunbar, in his 65th year, William Wightman, M. D., fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.. Sept. 16.

At Widford, co. Gloucester, aged 82, Mr. Henry Secker.

At Swanage rectory, co. Dorset, aged 69, Rev. Samuel Gale, a native of Scruton, co. York, and precentor of Llandaff.

Sept. 17. At Rev. H. Charleton's, Woodhouse, co. Glouc. at a very advanced age, Mrs Honor Pigott,second and last surviving daughter of the late Robert Pigott, esq. of Chetwinch, Salop. She was a lady of considerable mental endowments, and one, who might justly be styled a perfect gentlewoman. She possessed liberality without ostentation, friendship without flattery,, and religion without, hypocrisy.

At Thame, Oxon, in his 82d year, Mr. H. Dimmock, a most interesting member of society, and highly respected.

Sept. 18. At Clifton, Edw. Wm. Morse, esq. of Pitshanger, Middlesex.

in Dublin, John Reid, esq.

Sept. 19. At Squerries Lodge, Kent, Anne, wife of C. Warde, esq. sister of Arth. Annesley, esq. of Bletchington Park, Oxon.

At Frankville, near Ayre, Scotland,, Lieut. col. Francis Cunynghame, late of the Coldstream guards, and deputy go-vernor of Hull.

At Bagshot, Geo. H. Mitchell, esq. of West Hill, near Titchfield, in the commission of the peace for Southampton.

At Bath, the wife of Wm. Maxwell, esq. daughter of the late Hon. Edw. Bouverie, At Englesham, aged 66, Rev. W. Findlay, minister of that parish.

Sept. 20. At the Abbey House, Tavistock, aged 68, Edward Bray, esq.

Sept. 21. At Old Bridge, co. Meath, in his 88th year, Henry Coldingham, esq. “ At Crediton, aged 51, Major W. Laugworthy, late of the 24th foot.

Sept. 21. At Antigua, Lieut. J. Adamson, of the Royal Marines. He was on his return home from Trinidad, where he had been to settle, his Black Corps as American Refugees, when, driven by a storm into Antigua, he was attacked by the fever then raging there, which terminated his existence after an illness of

At his seat, Corsham-house, Wilts, aged 54, Paul Cobb Methuen, esq in whose character, were exemplified all the social virtues which endear the husband and the parent, with the charities and graces of the Christian, while the purity of his evinced by the possession of one of the first collections of pictures, in this country. His dissolution was preceded by severe bodily affliction, but it was borne with becoming, fortitude. He was, father of P. C. Methuen, esq. M, P. for three days. Wilts, who by this event inherits very considerable landed property. ***Gent. Mag. November, 1816.0

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Northamp Sept. 22. At Horton, near ton, in his 87th year, Sir Robert Gunung,

ning, bart. K. B. He was nominated, in 1765, his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Denmark, where he resided till 1771, when he was named Minister Plenipotentiary to the late King of Prussia; and in the following year went, with the same character, to the Court of Petersburgh, where his conduct meeting with the approbation of his Majesty, he was.honoured with the ensigns of the Order of the Bath; and, at the request of the King, was invested with them in the most distinguished manner by the Empress of Russia. After some years' residence there, he had, upon his return home, a further mark of his Majesty's gracious sense of his services, being created a Baronet, Oct. 17, 1778. He married, in 1767, Anne daughter of Robert Sutton, of Scofton, co. Lincoln, esq. and by her had issue: Charlotte, wife of the Hon. Stephen Digby, deceased in 1794; and George William, his successor in the title, M. P. for Wigan in 1796, and for Hastings in 1802.

On the day she attained her 19th year, Mrs. Shaw, formerly Miss Rennell, of Covent Garden Theatre.

Sept. 24. At Peckham, in his 76th year, W. Peacock, of Salisbury-square, the original manufacturer of those elegant pocket-books which bear his name.

At Ealing, Mrs. Pitt, widow of the late Joseph Pitt, esq.

At Plymouth, John Manley, esq. viceadmiral of the red.

At Longridge, at an advanced age, Mr. John Hayhurst, late of W hittingham, near Preston. By his will he directed that a sermon should be preached at his funeral at Longridge Chapel, and that his executors should afterwards distribute a loaf to each poor person in the neighbourhood that applied: which was accordingly done, and upwards of 300 loaves delivered.

Sept. 25. Maria, wife of Thomas Lechmere, esq. of Bath.

At Leadenham, at a very advanced age, Thomas Fowler, esq. one of the few remaining officers of the Old Lincoln Militia, and upwards of 40 years high constable of the Hundred of Loveden.

Sept. 26. At Nottingham, Mr. Alderman Coldham. Little more than twelve months ago he lost his brother: his mother died shortly after; a few months since two of his daughters were committed in one day to the same grave; and now, by his own decease, he has left a family of female orphans awfully bereaved, within the short space of thirteen months, of an uncle, a grandmother, two sisters, and a father.

In Limerick, Mrs. Preston, wife of the very Rev. the Dean of Limerick, daughter of the Abp. of Tuam, and niece of the late Earl of Clare.

Sept. 27. At Teignmouth, owing to the bursting of a blood-vessel, Lieut. James Arscott, R. N. Sept. 28.

In Southwark, aged 75, Robert Kent, esq.

At an advanced age, Mrs. Barnett, relict of the late Charles B. esq. of Stratton-park, co. Bedford.

At Alphington Lodge, near Exeter, aged 33, Capt. Samuel Ashmere, R. M.

At Chirton, near North Shields, in his 100th year, Mr. William Elliott, who never knew a day's illness till his death, and could read without spectacles to the last. A few years ago he lost his hearing, but recovered it again, and enjoyed it during the rest of his life.

At Shooter's-hill, a victim to the effects of disease contracted in the service of his country in the Island of Ceylon, in the prime of life, Col. Paulet Welbore Colebrooke, R. A. He possessed a truly benevolent heart, and comprehensive mind, and supported a lingering, painful illness with the greatest firmness, never shrinking from his duty. In him his King and Country have lost an indefatigable and intelligent officer; the soldier a zealous friend; and to his disconsolate family his loss is irreparable.

In his 59th year, Thomas Jones, esq. of Castellmai, near Carnarvon, coroner of that county, and secretary to the Carnarvonshire Agricultural Society.

Sept. 29. At Nottingham, aged 62, Mr. John Severn.

Oct. 1. In his 82d year, Mr. Ballard, of Presteign, co. Radnor.

Oct. 2. At Worthing, the wife of Lieut.col. Hankey.

At Edinburgh, lately arrived from India, after an arduous service of more than 20 years, Major Samuel Sinclair Hay, Bengal artillery, second son of the late Dr. Thomas Hay. This gallant and meritorious officer had, by uncommon perseverance, brought that very useful corps Golaudanzes or Native artillery, to a state of perfection which has excited the admiration of the Bengal Army. He possessed a truly benevolent heart. In him his country has lost a most intelligent officer; and his family an invaluable friend.

Oct. 3. At Lockington, co. York, suddenly, in his 67th year, Rev. F. Lundy, M. A. upwards of 40 years rector of that parish, vicar of Lund, and many years in the commission of the peace for the East Riding of York.

On-board the Queen Charlotte, of wounds received off Algiers, aged 23, Lieut. J. F. Johnston, R. N. youngest son of the late Major Johnston, York Hussars, and grandson of Lady Cecilia and the late Gen. Johnston, colonel of the 6th, or Inniskillin dragoons.

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At Margate, Frances, daughter of Jobu Thompson, esq. of Frognall Priory, Hampstead.

At Newport, Salop, at an advanced age, John Jones, esq of Chilton-grove.

Oct. 6. At Newington, Surrey, aged 64, John Allen, esq. formerly of Kingston, Jamaica.

At his apartinents near Chelsea Hospital, Rev. T. Norris, late chaplain to the Forces in the Leeward Islands.

John Goodere, esq. of South Okendon, Essex.

At Bath, aged 82, Robert Harvey, esq. M. D.

At Auteuil, near Paris, at an advanced age, H. B. Sharp, esq.

Oct. 7. In Tenterden-street, Hanoversquare, John Theodore Wratislaw, esq.

At Brighton, in her 23d year, Charlotte, eldest daughter of Joseph Marryat, esq. M. P.

At Bath, Mrs. Ellis, relict of Thomas Ellis, esq.

Oct. 8. In Grafton-street, in bis 94th year, Thomas Scott, esq. of Shepperton, Middlesex.

In Red Lion square, the wife of John Hodgson, esq. of Lincoln's-inn.

At Greenwich, in his 78th year, James Hurdis, M. D. last surviving son of the late Thomas Hurdis, D.D. canon of Windsor, and canon residentiary of Windsor.

At Bristol, the widow of the late worthy rector of St. Michael's, Rev. Geo. Wilkins; having survived her husband one month.

Oct. 9, At Haseley House, Oxon, in his 65th year, F. Wastie, esq. late one of the deputy lieutenants of the county, and lieutenant-colonel of the third division of the Oxfordshire local militia. His remains were interred at Church Cowley, attended by many neighbouring gentlemen. The sincere regret testified for his loss, affords the strongest proof of the estimation in which he was held by all classes who had witnessed a life dedicated not only to the correct discharge of all social obligations, but to the most zealous and assiduous attention to those duties which either resulted from his situation as an officer, or as a country gentleman, during the arduous struggle in which this country has been for so many years engaged.

At Preston, in his 60th year, Henry Fielding, esq. deputy lieutenant of Lancashire, senior partner in the house of Fieldings and Co. calico printers, Catterall, Lancashire, distinguished by his en

gaging manners, talent, integrity, and

Virtue.

Oct. 10. John Hall, esq. of Halkin'street, Grosvenor-place, and Notting-hill, Kensington.

At her brother's, Charterhouse-square, in her 75th year, Mrs. Sarah - Maria Shackleford, sister of Rev. Dr. Shackleford, vicar of St. Sepulchre's.

At Bitton, Rev. John Batchellor, vicar of that parish, with the chapelries of Olands and Hanham annexed, co. Gloucester; and vicar of Chitterne St. Mary, Wilts. He was in the commission of the peace for Somerset, and one of the sons of the late Rev. Batchellor, of Freshford, near Bath.

At Matlock, in his 24th year, John, eldest son of John Hague, esq. of Crownest, near Dewsbury, co. York.

At ber son-in-law's, Leeds, the wife of John Gee, esq. of Haldenby Park, York.

Oct. 11. At Fleming Villa, Old Brompton, Rt. Hon. Joseph-Henry Blake, Baron Wallscourt, Baron of Ardfrey, co. Galway, 1800. He was born July 23, 1795, succeeded his uncle Joseph-Henry, the late Lord, in 1803; and is succeeded in his title and estates by his first cousin Lieut. Joseph Blake, 85th regt.

Oct. 12. In the Clapham-road, Catherine, wife of J. P. Crowder, esq. She possessed a truly benevolent heart and comprehensive mind.

Ambrose Rigg, esq. formerly of Hampshire and Sussex.

In Dublin, aged 43, Thomas Richard Babington, esq. barrister-at-law, and ope of the magistrates of the head police-office, Dublin; whose valuable services to the publick, whose piety and domestic qualities, whose gentleness and benevblence, endeared him to all who knew him.

At Paris, Mrs. Caroline Amherst, relict of the late Wm. Kerril Amherst, esq. of the Bengal Civil Establishment.

Oct. 13. In Bridge-street, Blackfriars, Richard Smaler, esq.

At Homerton, aged 67, Wm. Hood, esq.

In his 76th year, Rev. Samuel Strong, rector of Marchwiel, and a canon of the Cathedral Church of St, Asaph.

Near Mold, co. Flint, Thomas Bury, esq. late major of the Royal Welsh Fuzileers, and paymaster in the Royal Flintshire militia (Rifle corps).

Oct. 14. In Hanover-street, Hanoversquare, aged 64, Dr. S. H. Jackson.

At Isleworth, Mrs. Elizabeth Bland, widow of the late Lieut.-general Homphrey Bland.

General Thomas Bland, general of His Majesty's forces, and colonel of the 5th dragoon guards.

At Rev. Robert Halifax's, Standish, co. Gloucester, Robert Crafton, esq. of Dulwich Common.

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