highest rank to which a company's officer can rise. From the rareness of female adventurers, more than want of inclination, officers seldom had a chance of marrying a lady of their own cast, and were led to lefthanded marriages with native women, often of the first rank and connections in India; and, as the progeny of such nuptials frequently became orphans by the father's side, and the mothers had enough ado to provide for themselves, a plan was suggested and arranged by the General in 1778, of providing for the orphan half-cast children of the officers and soldiers of the Bengal army; and, at the very easy rate of six rupees a month from a captain, then in rank and responsibility equal to the present full colonel, and three rupees from a subaltern, a fund was established for lodging, clothing, feeding, educating, and putting out to trades, all children of that description; and never was a charitable institution better conceived and executed, or more successful and flourishing, than this has continued to be ever since. Ten thousand individuals have been educated as Christians, in Bengal, without the aid of a Bell or Lansaster; and a race established, from which, in the event of European colonization in India, we may supply recruits for our white army of men, possessing all the vigor and activity of the European, and the enured constitution and passive habits of the native. The general himself married early; and has left behind him his four daughters, Lady Lewis, Mrs. C. Buller, and Mrs. Strachey, and one unmarried, as well as an aged father, to deplore the untimely loss of an affectionare parent and dutiful son. After he became a captain, ill-health obliged him to return to England, where he for some time enjoyed his father's company, renewed his knowledge of the European world, and reIcruited his constitution. In 1785, he returned to Bengal as military and private secretary to General Sir Robert Sloper. In those days this was an appointment of much political importance and emolument; but he Just it next year by Marquess Cornwallis have ặng been nominated Commander-in-Chief as well as Captain-General of India! While at home he projected a Hindoo Dictionary and Grammar, in eight parts, and published the seventh part before he left England; and cafried along with him to India his printer and publisher, Messrs. Cooper and Stuart, whose great skill and experience much improved the typographical art in India. But the laborious and learned works of Doctor 1. B. Gilchrist, superseded the immediate call for the General's Dictionary; and diplo matic and political engagements of the first magnitude occupied his entire time during his remaining stay in India; for he was soon after appointed ambassador and resident with The Nizim at Hydrabad, and at the courts of Madajee Scindiah, and Shah Allum, the great Mogul, at Agra and Delhi, and had

charge of the deposed Rajah of Napaulė; situations that require not only all the knowledge and address of such noblemen and gentlemen as occupy those important stations in Europe, but a peculiar and critical acquaintance with the languages, manners, customs, and history of the superiorly refined nations of the East; and it has long been a subject of regret, that the then Mr. Dundas's liberal idea of remunerating such gentlemen with titles, as he did in the instances of Sir John Kennaway and Sir Charles Mallet, had not been followed up; and pensions granted them as have been uniformly done with the meanest envoy to every petty court of Europe. On his way out, Marquess Wellesley met him at the Cape of Good Hope, and selected Colonel Kirkpatrick as his right-hand adviser, and had the second Government House, at Calcutta, fitted up for his accommodation, and a bridge of communication made, that he might, without the interruption of his retinue, consult with him at all hours. There the colonel devised his ample and extensive plans of reducing the French army with the Nizam at Hydrabad, the extinction of the dynasty of Tippoo Sultan, and the seques. tration of half the Vizier Nabob of Oude's hereditary dominions; and which he remained long enough in India to see so ably carried into effect; and, could he also have staid to accomplish his equally wise plans of settling the nabobship of Arcot, and re-instating the paishwa or sovereign of the Ma. rattahs, in his power paramount, the depnsition and consequent death of the former might have been avoided, and also that tedious and destructive war with Holcar, and other Marattah chieftains, which shook our Indian empire to its base, and led to the Marquess Wellesley's own recal, and the reappointment and demise of that venerable patriot and statesman, Marquess Cornwallis. Early in 1802, the General embarked for Madras, with the view of settling the Arcot business and accompanying that army, which was so ably led to victory and conquest afterwards by our present hero of Portugal; but ill-health obliged him to proceed to turope, still with only the rank of Lieutenant-Colonels where, however, the Company made him very handsomely easy for lite, by allowing him to attain the steps of fuil colonel and major-general, without complying with their rule of establishing his right to those ranks by a positive return to India; and entitled him to 13001. a year as colonel of a regiment, an addition to his fortune, which his small means otherwise rendered extremely convenient. Latterly he became a perfect cripple to the rheumatism, to which a residence of two years in the relaxing and moist air of Devonshire, much contributed; but, having been advised to remove to the more bracing air of the metropolis, and put himself under the care of Mr. Cheshire, he had the flatsering prospect of getting the use of his limbs,

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and of long enjoying better health, and the pleasant society of many old and respectable London friends, when one of those misfortunes, which oftener befall invalids than the community at large is aware of, brought him unexpectedly to his grave. Though he had discontinued its use, he had long been in the habit of having a phial of laudanum placed by his bedside, and, having occasion to take black dose, the servant by mistake gave him the laudanum. He kept walking about till medical advice could be procured, and had remained on his legs neat four hours, when the physician entered his chamber to see him drop down, overcome with fatigue, and the victim of this unlucky mistake; having only an hour before added a codicil to his will and got his servants to witness it. Among his early works, his Biography of the Persian Poets by Dowlat Shah, the Lamentations of Unwari, and an Imitation of the Mujnum of Juani, are translations well worth republication; and latterly he published an interest ing account of the Kingdom of Napaul, whi, ther be accompanied the deposed Rajah, to reinstate him on his Musnud: also a selection of Tippoo Sultan's political, commercial, and familiar Letters: and he left some other valuable works in such forwardness for the press, as must enable his executors to publish them with little trouble to them, selves, much emolument to his heirs, and to the instruction and entertainment of the public, and particularly the oriental part of it. His most valuable collection of Persian and other oriental MSS. he deposited himself in the Great Library at the India House; which, with much liberality, has long been open to the public. Of his public virtues enough has been said to ensure our admiration and respect; and, of his private virtues, it were unnecessary to add that it but required to know him, for him equally to command our love and esteem. He had a brother, Major I. A. Kirkpatrick, of the Madras establishment, who succeeded him as ambassador at Hydrabad, and carried his plan of reducing an army of 14,000 organized French men, under Monsieur Raymond, so ably, and without bloodshed, into effect. On Marquess Cornwallis's last return to India, he was selected, by that ornament of India, to attend him as his factotum; but died of a fever on his way to join him. His father is consider, ably above eighty, was a colonel on the Madras establishment, and now resides at Brom ley: he is from the west of Scotland.]

DEATHS ABROAD.

In December last, in the Island of Ceylon, after an illness of a few days, Mr. Samuel Daniell, the nephew and brother respectively of the Members of the Royal Academy of that name. At a period like the present, when the labours of circumnavigators and travellers are, in all countries, viewed with a degree of interest proportionate to the in disputable importance of those exertions to

mankind, we are confident that a short no tice of the gentleman whose death we record, cannot fail being acceptable to our readers. Early in life Mr. Daniell embarked for the Cape of Good Hope, whence, after some stay, he passed into the interior of Africa, collect, ing much valuable information on his way, and making drawings of all the objects worthy of his attention, even white continually asp sailed by hardships, and exposed to danger, in various shapes. In this journey, Mr D. was accompanied by two other scientific tra vellers; and this small party succeeded in penetrating farther to the north-east than any Europeans had previously reached in the same direction. Of these drawings, many have been engraved and given to the world, in his publication entitled, African Scenery, a work which, for design and execution, as well as novelty and variety of materials, haş obtained very distinguished approbation. By all those who are capable of duly appre ciating such labours, this volume alone would have been regarded as a testimonial not less honorable to Mr. Daniell's zeal and industry, as a lover of natural history, than to the spirit and fidelity of his pencil as an artist, but, during a residence in Africa of more than four years, he was so eager in the pursuit of this, his favourite, study, that he amassed another very large collection of drawings, also illustrative of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants of that interesting quarter of the globe. These, which have not yet: been published, he brought with him to Eng., land, in the year 1804. Actuated by the. desire of adding to his knowledge in this department of science, Mr. Daniell, in the year 1806, embraced the opportunity which presented itself of visiting the Island of Ceylon, which, the fruitful in every species of curiosity, was, at that time, very little known to the European world. Here, during a

residence of nearly six years, he found abundant means of gratifying his favorite inclination, and of increasing his graphic stores.. One volume of the Scenery, Animals, and Native Inhabitants, of Ceylon, has been already submitted to the public; in addition to which, he has left in trust, a most extensive collection of drawings, particularly of the natural history of the istand, all executed with exquisite taste and fidelity. Aware of the inaccuracies which frequently pervas embellished works of natural history, some, times from the traveller trusting implicitly to the accounts of his predecessors, but more frequently from an inability to draw with correctness; Mr. Daniell was ever anxious, with his own eye, to explore every object worthy of research, and with his own hand to convey to the world a faithful representation of what he saw. Unhappily, while tra versing, and occasionally taking up his abode, in swamps and forests, the strength of his constitution, which he too much confided in, did not enable him to resist the approaches

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of disease, nor to triumph over its malignity. And, at the early age of 36, his friends have to mourn the death of one who was endeared to them by every social and amiable quality; and the public to regret the loss of a traveller equally intrepid and indefatigable, from whose exertions, much, both of instruction and entertainment, will have already been derived; but from whose skilful eye and practised hand, much more might reasonably have been expected, had the blessings of life and health been longer continued to him.

Mr. Kidnock, who lately left Bengal, in the Lady Lushington Indiaman, after leaving St. Helena, was attacked with a dysentery and died, leaving a fortune of 50,0001. acquired in the company's service; 40,0001. of which he has left to wounded Scotchmen, and 10.0001. to two friends.

At Kingston, Jamaica, Esmina Diamond, a free black woman, aged 150 years.

The late Major-General Le Marchant, who gallantly fell at the head of his brigade in the battle of Salamanca, was a native of the Island of Guernsey. He embraced the milicary profession at an early period of life, and served principally in the cavalry. He was considered as an officer of great activity, and strictly attentive to all the duties connected with his station. In the British army, officers hitherto have been seldom furnished with a sufficient field adapted to the display or per fection of their military talents; and, in common with many officers of acknowledged tactical skill, the subject of this biographical sketch may be said, in the common army expression, not to have seen much service of an active kind. He appears to have served his first campaign in the continental expedition of 1793 and 1794, under his Royal Highness the Duke of York. It was while employed en this service that he witnessed the great advantages to be derived in action from the skilful use of the cavalry sword, long practised by the Hungarian hussars; and became convinced of the decided superiority of this skill over the awkward and unscientific mode of their using the sword by the cavalry, whether as a weapon of offence or defence. On his return from the continent, he employed himself with great assiduity and perseverance in improving, and reducing into a system, all that his own experience had taught him on this useful and important point, as well as what additional information he was enabledto derive from other sources. In accomplish ing this great object, he is said to have received no inconsiderable assistance from the Adjutant of the 16th Light Dragoons, who, we believe, was the officer first selected for initiation into the Austrian sword exercise, with a view to its future introduction into the British service. Major Le Marchant had, however, the honor of first perfecting and digesting that system which was published

at the War Office in 1796, by his Majesty's command, and has since been adopted by the British cavalry. The public spirit and perse verance of Lieutenant-Colonel Le Marchant were next conspicuous in the share which he had in the framing and institution of the Royal Military College-a public seminaty, founded on a plan similar to that of the aeademy at Woolwich, but more extensively applicable to the education of every rank and description of army officers. It is well known that a military school had long existed in France, which, no doubt, gave origin to the idea of an establishment of a somewhat similar academy in England: but regulations adapted to the genius of the French, were inapplicable to Britain; and therefore peculiar laws become necessary. In this great undertaking he is supposed to have availed himself of the friendly observations and experience of officers capable of affording use ful information on a point of so much ima portance. As a reward for his zeal and exertions, manifested in the foundation of this great national academy, he was raised to be its lieutenant-governor, a situation of considerable honour and emolument. The die rect military services of Lieutenant-Colonel Le Marchant may now be said to have ceased for a period of many years, his attention being entirely devoted to the duties of his new appointment. In October 1805, he was promoted to the rank of a Colonel, and in 1811, to that of a Major-General. last promotion, in consequence of an existing regulation, rendered it incompatible for him to retain the situation of Lieutenant-Governor of the Royal Military College. In return for this loss, however, he was appointed to a command no less honorable, namely, to that of a brigade of cavalry, when on the eve of embarking for service in Portugal, for which country he immediately set out. In a field so extensive, and at a period unexampled. in British history, the services of such an officer could not be long unappropriated. Major-General Le Marchant was soon distinguished as an active and enterprising officer;' and on several occasions, besides that ou which he so gallantly fell, he received the public approbation of the Marquess Welling ton, commanding that army. He had been but a short time in Portugal when he received the afflictive and most unexpected news of the death of Mrs. Le Marchant, whom the general had been obliged to leave far advanced in pregnancy. His grief at so deplorable an event was now only to be soothed by the bustle and activity of a fatiguing and protracted campaign, involving the most impor tant consequences to European politics; and fortunately he was not long in obtaining op portunities to distinguish himself, no less honorable to himself than useful to the ser vice in which he was engaged.

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