A.

ACLAND, Lieut.-General Sir W. R.
Palmer, K. C. B. Colonel Commandant of
1st Battalion 60th foot, March 8.

ALEXANDER, Wm. Esq. F. S. A.
and L. S. of the British Museum, of a
brain fever, at Maidstone, July 23. He
was the son of a coachmaker in that town,
where he himself was born, April 10, 1767.
Having evinced a fine taste for the pencil,
in 1792, he was appointed assistant
draughtsman to the embassy to China; in
1802, he became Professor of Drawing to
the Royal Military College; in 1805, he
published his Costume of China; and was
snatched prematurely away, when meditat-
ing still greater attempts in his art.

ALLEN, Right Hon. Joshua, fifth
Viscount Allen, Feb. 1, in Merrion Square,
Dublin. His Lordship was born April 26,
1728, and served during all the German
campaigns. He retired from the service
in 1770, on a pension of 600l. per annum.

ANNESLEY, Right Hon. Arthur, Earl
of Mountnorris, F.R.S. F.S.A. in Paris,
July 2, of an apoplectic attack, in his 72d
year. His first countess was Lucy, only
daughter of George Lord Lyttleton; and
his second, Sarah, daughter of the Right
Hon. Sir H. Cavendish, Bart.; by both of
whom he has left issue. Lord Valentia,
the celebrated traveller in the East, has
succeeded to the honours and estates.

APTHURP, Rev. East, D.D. on April
16, in the 84th year of his age. This

eminent divine was a native of America;
but having been educated with distinguish-
ed reputation at Cambridge, and patron-
ized by Archbishop Secker, he obtained
considerable preferments, added to a high
reputation in this country.

ARNOLD, Thomas, M. D. at Leices-
ter, aged 74, Aug. 28. He was fellow of
the Royal College of Physicians, and of
the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh,
senior physician to the Infirmary, and
sole physician to the Lunatic Asylum,
Leicester. He was author of "Disserta-
tio de Pleuritide," 1766, 8vo. "Obser-
vations on the Nature, Causes, and Pre-
vention of Insanity," 1782, 2 vols. 8vo.
"A Case of Hydrophobia successfully
treated," 1793, 8vo. "Observations on
the Management of the Insane," 1809,
8vo. He was father of Dr. T. G. Arnold,
of Stamford. In his neighbourhood, and
among an extensive circle of private friends,
no man could be more sincerely or more
deservedly beloved; while, in his public
character, he always proved himself an un-
shaken friend of civil and religious liberty,
and the anxious promoter of every design
which tended to meliorate distress. In a
word, he was an enlightened ornament of
his native town, and his station in society
will not easily be filled again by a similar
union of estimable qualities. He married
a sister of the celebrated Mrs. Macaulay
Graham, which more closely allied him to
literature.

B.

BACON. John, Esq. Feb. 26, aged
78, at Friern Barnet. Few men have
been more generally known, or universally
respected. He was in very early life ad-
mitted a junior clerk to the Deputy Re-
membrancer of the First Fruits Office;
where he was also Deputy Receiver and
Deputy Comptroller. In 1774 he was
elected F. S. A.; in 1778, on the death
of John Hetherington, Esq. he became
senior clerk in the Office of First Fruits;
and, in 1782, on the death of Edward
Mulso, Esq. was appointed Receiver. He
was Treasurer also to that very excellent
Society which celebrates an anniversary for
the Sons of the Clergy; and the fond as-
siduity which he for a long series of years
displayed on those occasions, at St. Paul's
Cathedral, and at Merchant Taylors' Hall,
will long be gratefully recollected.

His

general benevolence indeed was proverbial;
whilst his uncommon flow of spirits, his
convivial habits, and easy pleasantry of
manners, rendered him at all times a wel-
come visitant, and a cheerful host. Mr.
Bacon, in 1786, re-published, with great
improvements, Mr. Ecton's "Thesaurus."
under the title of Liber Regis; vel,
Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum. With
an Appendix, containing proper Directions
and Precedents relating to Presentations,
Institutions, Inductions, Dispensations,
&c. and a complete Alphabetical Index."
Of this useful work he had prepared a copy,
very much augmented and corrected, for a
new edition. His remains were deposited
in a small vault on the outside of the
church; and were attended to the grave by
some of his oldest and sincerest friends.
Gent. Mag.

BAWDWEN, Rev. William, B. A.,
Sept. 14, at Hooton Pagnell, near Don-
caster. Mr. B., who was Vicar of Hooton
Pagnell, appears to have been a good Saxon
scholar, he having, in 1812, given a tran-
slation of vols. I. and II. of Domesday
Book, which was published in conse-
quence of a vote of the British Parliament.
The remaining eight volumes are said to
be complete for the press; and it is truly
lamentable to reflect, that this learned and
industrious divine did not live long enough
to complete the whole of this splendid
work for the benefit of his widow, and
twelve children.

BEAUCHAMP, Right Hon. William
Lygon, Earl B. suddenly, Dec. 21, in his
67th year. He was for many years M. P.
for Worcestershire; and, in consequence

of his great property, added to his steady
support of Mr. Pitt during the French war,
was ennobled as a Baron in 1808. In 1815,
he was further advanced in the Peerage to
the rank of Viscount and Earl.

BELL, Reverend William, D. D., se-
nior prebendary of St. Peter's, on Septem-
ber 29, at his prebendal residence, in
Little Dean's Yard, in his 85th year. He
was educated at Magdalen college, Cam-
bridge, and obtained many of the prizes.

BENNETT, Reverend Thomas, D. D.
August 24, aged 73; one of the minor
canons of St. Paul's and Westminster, and
vicar of Tillingham, &c.

BETTY, Samuel, Esq. at St. James's
palace, February 12. He was for many
years clerk to the Lord Chamberlain of the
household.

BIRCH, John, Esq. surgeon extraordi-
nary to the Prince Regent, one of the sur-
geons of St.Thomas's Hospital, late of New
Street, Spring Gardens, February 3, in his
70th year. He was one of the first to call in
electricity to the assistance of medicine;
and during his whole life opposed the Vac-
cine Institution with unabated zeal.

BLOMFIELD, Reverend Edward V.,
October 9, in Emanuel College, Cam-
bridge. He was the son of C. Blomfield,
Esq. of Bury St. Edmund's, and brother to
the celebrated scholar of the same name,
(Reverend Charles James Blomfield, B. A.
late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge,
and editor of Prometheus.)

This gentleman attained not only great
skill in the Greek and Latin languages,
but also such a facility in the modern Ger-
man, as to have translated Matthias's
Greek Grammar from that language. He
was also engaged in a new Greek and Eng-
lish lexicon, a work of great importance to
the English scholar.

Meanwhile, he endeavoured to refresh
his mind, and assist his literary pursuits,
by means of foreign travel; but on land-
ing from the continent, the friend of the
Greek Professor, Monk, the companion of
Dr. Kaye, master of Christ's College, and
the admirer and eulogist of Porson, was seiz-
ed with a fever, that by rapid strides con-
ducted him, at an early age, to the tomb!

BRERETON, Lieut.-General R., at
New Abbey, Kildare, June 30, an officer
of more than 50 years standing in His Ma-
jefty's service, and a victim to a liver
complaint, contracted in tropical climates.

BRYDGES, Edward William George,
Esq. in his 18th year, at Lee Priory, June
3, after a month's illness. He was third son
of Sir Egerton Brydges, Bart., M.P. for
Maidstone, a person of distinguished li
neage, and well known also for his literary

attainments. The death of this very ami-
able

young man was caused by some inter-
nal complaint, which it is suspected may
have arisen from bruises received in hunt-
ing the preceding winter. His premature
fate is very deeply lamented by his parents
and family, to whom he was endeared by
the kindest temper, the sweetest disposi-
tion, and the most lively, heroic, and un-
selfish spirit. His abilities were good, and
his sagacity quick; though his attention
had been hitherto careless and unfixed.

BUCHANAN, Robertson, Esq. civil
engineer, in his 46th year, July 22.
He
was the author of ingenious Essays on the
"Economy of Fuel," and "Mill-work
Machinery," &c.

C.

CLARK, Mr. Thomas, September
6, in his 79th year, at his house, near
Chelsea.

"Mr. C. was born in the year 1737,
at Bossel Common, near Warwick, and
brought up with his father, who was a
farmer, until after the age of twenty, when

he came to London. Whether accident
or enterprise first led him to the metropolis,
we are uninformed; but learning that a
stall was to let in Exeter 'Change, he im-
mediately took it, and there, in the year
1765, laid the foundation of that immense
fortune which he afterwards realized. We
have indeed heard, that the first hundred
pounds which enabled him to extend his
business, was generously advanced by a
gentleman who had accidentally overheard
Mr. Clark deplore the want of such a sum,
and who the next day most unexpectedly
brought it; while such was his confidence
in Mr. C.'s integrity of principle, that
the usual form of bond, receipt, or even
written acknowledgment, was, in this ex-
traordinary negociation, entirely dispensed
with. We need not add, that the debt so
honourably contracted, was as honourably
and gratefully discharged.

"As his stock was thus augmented,
his custom proportionably increased. What
he sold was good; the price asked, was
invariably the price taken; and this excel-
lent rule, added to the moderation of his
profits, secured him that rapid retail cus-
tom which ultimately enriched him with
the golden fruits of fair industry. But
what, perhaps, added to his wealth still
more, was the very moderate nature of his
habits. Every day he dined with his plate,
not indeed on the bare board, but upon
a sheet of paper, in his little closet, and
probably the expence of his meal, with a
pint of porter included, never reached the

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sum of one shilling! After dinner, he was
accustomed to take one glass of spirits in
water, at the public-house opposite the
end of the 'Change, and thence returning,
resumed the business of the day. Morn-
ing and evening saw him on his old horse,
which, with its rider, was as well known at
Charing-cross as King Charles himself.
Latterly, however, he came to town, from
his residence at Pimlico, and returned in
his son's carriage.

"In 1814, Mr. Clark completed his se-
venty-seventh year, and then, for the first
time, celebrated his birth-day. His visi-
tors were his children and grand children;
and though the viands resembled those of
a feast one hundred years ago, yet the de-
sert possessed some features entirely novel.
The cloth being drawn, the old gentleman
presented each of his grandchildren twelve
in number, with a five-guinea piece in gold,
a Bible, Dodsley's Economy of Human
Life, Pope's Essay on Man, and Dr. Frank-
lin's Life and Works. He then addressed
his youthful auditors thus,— My chil-
dren! sometimes articles of the least value
have the strongest powers of attraction. -
Gold is a slippery article, it is frequently
here to-day and gone to-morrow.
In mo-
deration, and under the controul of dis-
cretion, it is good:- but an abundance
of it has proved injurious to more states
and families than it has ever mended; an
attention to the books that I have pre-
sented you with, will do you good, as they
will be a pleasant guide through life's short
journey, by teaching the adoration you
owe to God, the duty you owe to your
neighbour, and the advantages which
you owe to yourselves, by enabling you to
lay down your heads in peace with a joyful
hope of futurity; which, that you may do,

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all.'

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is my earnest prayer to God for you

"He then called on his eldest grand-
daughter to read the laft chapter of Pro-
verbs, and on his eldest grandson to read
the 23d verse in the 4th chapter of the
same book.

"The whole family having assembled and
retired in health and good humour, the ve-
nerable founder of the feaft ever considered
this as the most satisfactory day that he
had passed in seventy-seven pleasant years;
and it was evident, that neither time nor
age had divested him of that inherent cheer-
fulness which thus shed its twilight beams
even over the confines of the grave.

"We have heard many stories of Mr.
Clark; some of them founded on his pe-
culiarities, but not one to his discredit.
Though addicted to the accumulation of
money, it was by honeft means; and what
appeared to others hard self-privation, was

probably to him, who relished few higher
pleasures, an enjoyment, because it was
a second nature. Nor was he incapable
of performing, at times, actions of the most
liberal and honourable kind. Among the
numerous anecdotes told of him, it is re-
ported, that when the income tax was first
imposed, he gave in his schedule at 60007.
The tax-collector returned it to him for
amendment, under the supposition that he
had returned (and over-rated too) his whole
stock, instead of his annual income. Mr.
Clark hitched on another thousand, and
assured the collector that he was sure it was
the full amount." Aye, but," said the
other, "I want your income, not your

property." "Are you content?"-
"Yes!"- "So am I," replied the old
merchant, and wished the astonished cul-
lector a brief good morning.
In his will,
Mr. C. remembered all his friends and
faithful servants in a handsome manner.
On the occasion of his death Exeter
'Change was partially shut, and had, from
its wonted light and bustle, a strange ap-
pearance.

"His person and features were by no
means of a common cast, and his sagacity
and sense were obvious in his conversations
on almost every subject. Upon the whole,
he was an eccentric man, but one in whom
eccentricity was not vice-odd in his man-
ners, but upright in his intercourse with
the world and capable of many most be-
neficent and disinterested acts of humanity
and charity. Let the idle imitate his in-
dustry, and the avaricious copy his bene-
volence, then will his life have been not
less honourable to himself, than useful to
society at large, while the example will
not cease to actuate, even when its origi-
ginal is forgotten.". Europ. Mag.

D.

DALE, Thomas, M. D., February 21,
in Devonshire-street, Bishopsgate, aged
67, a Licentiate of the College of Physi-
cians, &c. &c. He was the son of Thomas
Dale, M.D., of South Carolina, and a
native of America; but having repaired to
London at an early age, he was educated
at St. Paul's school; after which, he stu-
died during five years at Edinburgh, where
he obtained a medical degree.

On his return to the capital, he was one
of the eight individuals who instituted the
Literary Fund, to which he not only be-
eame a subscriber, but the register.

DAMPIER, the Hon. Mr. Justice,
February 3, in Montagu-place, Blooms-
bury, in his 58th year, one of His
Majesty's Justices of the Court of King's

Bench, who possessed talents and qualities
of so pre-eminent a nature, that few
can justly appreciate them; and no one
can too highly extol them. He was
thought to be a classical scholar scarcely
inferior to any of the most learned of his
contemporaries. In his legal practice he
secured universal esteem. Unassuming in
his behaviour, he conciliated the regard of
all who were connected with him. In con-
versation he was brilliant, communicative,
and instructive. He attained not to his ex-

alted station by adherence to any political
party, but was selected wholly on account
of his exalted abilities. Eminently dis-
tinguished as his legal qualifications were,
yet they were not confined to the mere line
of his profession; for he was known to be
as well acquainted with ecclesiastical as
with common law. Nor was he less versed
in theology than in every other branch of
science; and while many of his leisure
hours were devoted to this study, he evin-
ced the firmness of his belief of the sacred
truths of Christianity by a conduct corre-
spondent with its precepts. In whatever
point of view we behold him, whether in
public or in private life, we shall see much
to admire, and very little to condemn. And
should this tribute to the memory of such
an excellent man be ascribed to the par-
tiality of friendship, an appeal may confi-
dently be made to public opinion, which
has avowedly declared, that, by the death
of Mr. Juftice Dampier, the Law has lost
one of its brightest ornaments, and Society
one of its most valuable members.
has left a widow and five children.

He

The following is a copy of the preamble
to the will of the late Sir Henry Dampier,
Knight: -

"This is the last will and testament
of me, Henry Dampier, one of the Jus-
tices of His Majefty's Court of King's
Bench.

"I recommend my soul to God, in
humble hope that he will, of his infinite
mercy, pardon my enormous sins, and
sanctify me by his Holy Spirit, through the
mediation and intercession of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ, whose name be bles-
sed for ever. I return my most affectionate
thanks to my dearest wife, and all my chil-
dren, for the kindness and attention they
have shewn me in sickness, and in health,
earnestly exhorting my children to be dili-
gent, virtuous, and religious, as the sure
road to happiness here, and hereafter."

E.

Gent. Mag.

EATON, James, Esq., at Pimlico,
January 5, in his 85th year.

ESSINGTON, Vice-Admiral Sir W.,
K.C. B., July 12, in his 63d year.

F.

FITZWILLIAM, Richard Lord Vis-
count, of the kingdom of Ireland, F.R.S.
and Vice Admiral of Leinster, February 4.
at his apartments in Bond-street, in his
71st year.

The Viscount, by his will, has given
the following very noble benefaction to
the excellent seminary where he com-
pleted his education, and where he obtained
the degree of M. A. in 1764. To the
Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the
University of Cambridge, he has bequeathed
all his new South-Sea Annuities; with the
proceeds and dividends of which they are
to build a Museum, a Repository to con
tain all his pictures, portraits, framed or
unframed, prints, books bound or unbound,
manuscripts, music bound and unbound,
busts, statues, gems, precious stones,
bronzes, &c.; and until such Museum is
built, to hire a house to place them in, to
give salaries to the officers appointed by the
University to take care of the collection;
and all the regulations, &c. are to be con-
formable to the statutes.

H.

HAMILTON, Mrs. Elizabeth, at Har-
rowgate, July 23, after a long illness. She
was an author of some celebrity; and all
her works tend to the advancement of re-
ligion and morality. For some years,
this lady was occupied in superintend-
ing the education of the children of a
Scotch nobleman, a circumstance which
afterwards enabled her to describe the do-
mestic scenes and manners of the north
with no small degree of truth and propriety.
Her brother having been an officer in the
service of the East India Company, this
circumstance also induced her to dedicate
her attention to the customs of Asia. The
following is a list of her publications:
"Letters of a Hindoo Rajah," 1796,
2 vols. 8vo. "Memoirs of Modern Phi-
losophers," 1800, 8 vols. 8vo. "Letters

on the Elementary Principles of Educa-
tion," 1802, 2 vols. 8vo. "Life of A-
grippina, wife of Germanicus," 1804,
3 vols. 8vo. "Letters on the Formation
of the Religious and Moral Principle,"
1806, 2 vols. 8vo. "The Cottagers of
Glenburnie," 1808, 8vo. "Rules of the
Annuity Fund for the Benefit of Gover-
nesses," (Anon.) 1808, 4to. "Exercises
in Religious Knowledge," 1809, 12mo.

"Popular Essays, illustrating Principles
essentially connected with the Improve-
ment of the Understanding, the Imagina-
tion, and the Heart," 1813, 2 vols. 8vo.

HEATH, John, Esq. one of the Jus-
tices of the Court of Common Pleas, Ja-
nuary 17, at his house in Mansfield-street,
Portland Place.

This venerable Judge had been for some
time in such an infirm state of health, that
he was about to retire from the Bench, but
his death was extremely sudden. He had
received an invitation from Sir Vicary
Gibbs to an entertainment, and was in the
act of replying, when he dropped down in
a fit of apoplexy, and expired. He for-
merly filled the office of Town-clerk of
Exeter; and has left a legacy of about
20,000l. to his friend Mr. Gattey, the
present Town-clerk of that city. The fol-
lowing testimony to his character was de-
livered in the Court of Common Pleas :-
"Nobody had a higher respect for the
opinions and character of that learned
Judge than myeself [Sir Samuel Shep-
herd]; and nobody more sincerely regret-
ted his loss. He owed it to his own feel-
ings to say, that he always considered him
to be an able and upright Judge, as well
as a worthy and valuable man; and he was
convinced that, in declaring these senti-
ments of respect for his memory, he had
the concurrence of all his Brethren of the
Bar. His duty required from him such a
tribute to the learned Judge, when the
mention of his name furnished the oppor-
tunity of paying it; and he felt a pleasure
in the act."Gent. Mag.

HENRY, Mr. Thomas, apothecary at
Manchester, June 18, in his 82d year.

Mr. Henry was President of the Lite-
rary and Philosophical Society of Manches-
ter; F.R.S. of London; and well known
throughout Europe for his various disco-
veries and improvements in the science to
which he chiefly addicted himself. As a
practical and philosophical chemist, he had
attained a high and merited reputation.
His contributions to that science, besides
a small volume of Essays, and his transla-
tions of the early writings of Lavoisier,
which he first introduced to the notice of
the English reader, consist chiefly of me-
moirs dispersed through the Transactions
of the various Societies to which he be-
Jonged, and relate both to those parts of
Chemistry that are purely scientific, and to
those that have a connexion with the use-
ful arts. The following is a list of his se-
parate publications: -" Experiments and
Observations on the Preparation, &c. of
Magnesia Alba," 1773, 8vo. "Letter
to Dr.Glass, being a Reply to his Exa-
mination of the Strictures on Dr. Glass's