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used to consider as perfect models of genuine Christian devotion. His 'remains were deposited in the old burial ground, Clifton; and were attended to the grave by the Rev. Dr. Nott, Dr. Davies, Mr. J. Coulson, and the Rev. Dr. Woodward. His medical acumen and powers of discrimination were of the very highest order. Few persons were more eminently gifted than he was in this respect, and his medical knowledge alone would have been sufficient to perpetuate his name. His original compositions shewed him to have been endowed with an elegant and exquisitely feeling mind. His translation of Catullus proves what his acquirements as a scholar were, and how well he was qualified as a poet, to enter into the beauties of that truly classic writer. In conversation, especially on literary topics, he was unrivalled: no one, who ever lived in habits of social intercourse with him, can ever forget the pleasure they derived from his company; the stores of his information were vast, and his ready command of what he knew, could not but excite admiration, especially as all his observations were cloathed in language remarkable for its neatness and precision. It seemed as if he had transfused into his conversation the peculiar charm of his three favourite writers; while it possessed the tenderness and feeling of Petrarch, it united the pure, simple ease of Catullus, with the classic elegance, playfulness, and penetration of Horace.

The following list will best shew the extent of his knowledge and the versatility of his talents:

Alonzo; or the Youthful Solitair; a poetic tale, 4to. 1772.-Basia; or a poetic translation of the Kisses of Johannes Secundus, 8vo. 1775.-Leonora ; an Elegy on the Death of a Young Lady, 4to. 1775.-Sonnets and Odes from the Italian of Petrarch, 8vo. 1777.-Poems; consisting of Original Pieces and Translations, 8vo. 1780.-Heroic Epistle in Verse, from Mons. Vestris, in London, to Madm. Heimel in France, 4to. 1781. Propertii Monobiblos; or that book of the Elegies of Propertius entitled Cynthia, 8vo. 1782.-Select Odes from the Persian of Hafiz, 4to. 1787.-A Chemical Dissertation on the Thermal Waters of Pisa and the Acidulous Spring of Asciano, 8vo. 1793. On the Hotwell Waters, near Bristol, 8vo. 1793.-The Poems of Caius Valerius Catullus, in English verse, with the Latin Text versified, and Classical Notes, 8vo. two vols. 1794.-Belinda; or the Kisses of Bonefonius of Auvergne, with the Latin Text, 8vo. 1797.-The First Book of Titus Carus Lucretius on the Nature of Things, with the Latin Text, 8vo. 1799. The Lyrics of Horace, with the Latin Text revised: 2 vols. 8vo. 1803.

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Sappho, after a Greek Romance; 12mo.. 1803. On the Influenza, as it prevailed in Bristol and its vicinity, in the Spring of 1803; 8vo. 1803. Petrarch; a Selection from his Odes, and Sonnets translated with Notes; 8vo. 1808.-Select Poems from the Hesperides, or Works both human and divine, of Robert Herrick; 8vo. 1810. (See vol. 80. i. p. 563.)-A Nosological Companion to the London Pharmacopoeia; 12mo, 1811.-The Gull's Horn Book, by T. Decker; reprinted with Notes and Illustrations; 4to. 1812.

Besides these published works, Dr. Nott supplied many valuable articles to the Gentleman's Magazine, and other literary and medical journals. Previous to his last illness, he had finished a complete Translation of Petrarch's Sonnets, Canzoni, and Triumphs, with copious Notes, as well historical as critical and explanatory; with a Life, and a Dissertation on the Genius of Petrarch; which translation, had his life been spared, it was bis intention to have published. We hope that so interesting a work, which was the result of many years labour and investigation, will not be lost eventually to the public. Dr. Nott had also long contemplated a Poetic Version of Silius Italicus; and amused himself in translating select passages, during his last illness, but no great or connected progress was made in the undertaking.

BENJAMIN HARENC, ESQ.

Sept. 13. At Sevenoaks, Benjamin Harenc, esq. a Magistrate aud Deputy Lieutenant for Kent. He was the only son of Benjamin Harenc, esq. formerly of Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square, and of Footscray-place, in Kent, whose family came originally from the South of France, the first ancestor in England having been ́ one of the numerous Protestant gentlemen who were driven to find an asylum here, from the folly and bigotry of their own Goverument, on the revocation of the edict of Nantes. A branch of the family still exists in France, one of the members of which was the amiable and accomplished Madame Harenc, of whom mention is made in the Memoirs of Baron Grimm, &c. &c. Mr. Harenc, the father, was in early life much known in the literary and fashionable society of London, and his house was peculiarly the resort of the most distinguished foreign residents. In 1773, he became the purchaser from the trustees of Sir George Young, of the mansion and estate, called Footscrayplace, a house which is distinguished as being one of the three English villas, built on the model of Palladio's celebrated "Rotonda," near Vicenza, About the same time he also purchased a consider.. able estate, in the county of Kerry, baving

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been led to a connection with Ireland from his intimacy with the late Right Hon. Thomas Conolly and other distinguished characters of that Country. Mr. Harenc resided near 40 years at Footscray Place, where his memory as a kind and hospitable neighbour, a benevolent friend to the poor, and an active and enlightened magistrate, will be long held in reverence.

Benjamin Harenc, the son, was born at Footscray, in the year 1780. The early part of his education and (owing to a delicate state of health) to a later period than is usual, was conducted by his father, who was well qualified to give him not only the rudiments of classical literature but also to guide and improve his taste. At the age of ten or eleven years he was placed at Cheam School, then under the direction of Mr. Gilpin, the son and successor of the well-known Rector of Boldre, and author of Forest Scenery, &c. In this school, at which many men who have since become eminent in the world, about the same time received their education, Mr. Harenc formed many valuable friendships which continued through life. On quitting Cheam he was placed for a short time with the Rev. William Jones of Nayland, the pious and learned author of numerous highly esteemed theological and philosophical works, and did not fail to derive much benefit from the varied and accurate information which that excellent and accomplished man knew so well how to infuse into the minds of his pupils. With the advantage of this tuition he entered at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, a College which was then, and still is, under the government of Dr. Turner, the Venerable Dean of Norwich, who was one of the earliest and most valued friends of the family. Although Mr. Harenc, from natural liveliness of disposition, entered a good deal into the amusements and gaieties of academic society, he did not omit the principal object of his residence, and as the time of examination for his degree drew near, he exerted that energy of application, which always formed a distinguishing feature in his character, and his name appears in the list of "Wranglers," for 1803.

On quitting the University, he made a short excursion on the Continent, in which be bad the advantage of travelling in company with Mr. Goddard, the very exemplary Archdeacon of Lincoln, and the intercourse thus commenced, led to a subsequent intimacy, from which Mr. Harenc could not fail to derive the greatest benefit and gratification. Shortly after his return to England in 1804, Mr. Harenc married Sophia-Caroline, the youngest daughter of Joseph Berens, esq. of Kevington, an old friend and near neighbour of his father, and with whose family he had from his earliest

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life been in habits of intimacy. A small house adjoining the grounds of Footscray Place, was built for his reception on his marriage, and he resided there until the death of his mother and increasing infirmity of his father, rendered it desirable that he should devote to him his immediate and constant care; for this object his family was moved to Footscray Place, where they remained in dutiful attendance on their aged parent during the remainder of his life. On the death of Mr. Harenc, the father, in 1812, his son came into possession of the family residence and pro. perty, and from that period it appears to have been one of the leading purposes of his life to make the pecuniary resources, and the influence he possessed, as extensively useful as possible. The poor in his immediate neighbourhood were the peculiar objects of his concern; the most abundant and seasonable assistance in food and clothing was constantly supplied from his house to those whose circumstances required it. To provide for the spiritual and intellectual wants of his district he engaged earnestly in establishing a large national school for boys and another for girls, for the adjoining parishes of Footscray ond Chislehurst. He not only gave the ground on which the school rooms and master's house were built, but contributed largely towards the expenses of the buildings, and was active in soliciting and obtaining contributions in money and materials from his friends and neighbours, and it was under his individual superintendance that the buildings were commenced and completed, and the establishment was finally arranged.

About the time that Mr. Harenc was engaged in these benevolent pursuits the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge was endeavouring to make its existence and objects more generally known, and to render the diffusion of its benefits more extensive, by the establishment of Diocesan and District Committees in the several parts of the Kingdom. Mr. Harenc entered zealously into the views of the Society, and it was very much owing to his exertion that an extensive and well-supported District Society was established at Bromley; he became its first Secretary, and conducted the correspondence incidental to its formation, and for some years prepared its annual reports. He was also One of the most active promoters of the design for forming a Bank for Savings, which has been since fixed at Bromley, and has, under the constant and accurate super❤ intendance of Mr Harenc and other gentlemen of that part of the country, proved one of the most successful of those institutions, producing incalculable benefit to the industrious classes of that populous district.

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It was, however, in the discharge of Iris duties as a County Magistrate, that his public services were most conspicuous. At his own house, at the weekly Petty Sessions at Bromley, and at the Quarter Sessions, and other meetings of Magistrates at Maidstone, Mr. Harenc applied himself to the dispatch of the multifarious and harrassing business of a Justice of the Peace, with a diligence and constancy from which no private pursuit could divert him; no considerations of personal inconvenience or fatigue were permitted to prevent his attendance whenever it was required for public purposes, and his friends have fre quently been astonished by the activity which enabled him to take a principal concern in the business of two distant districts of the County in the course of the same day. One of the objects on which his attention was peculiarly exerted, was the important duty of a Visiting Magistrate of the County Gaol at Maidstone. When this building was first in contemplation, he, with many others of the gentlemen of the county, had been led to oppose the measure from the magnitude of the expence, and the heavy burthen which it would necessarily entail on the farmers and other rated inhabitants: further enquiries however, and personal examination of the state of the existing prison, having satisfied him of the ultimate necessity of the undertaking, he applied himself with indefatigable zeal, to assist in its completion, in the preparation of the Acts of parliament, and the adjustment and distribution of the rates, as well as in the planning and arrangement of the building; during the progress of the work, and in the active personal superintendence of every part of its establishment, and internal œconomy when finished, his services were unceasing, and have mainly contributed to the high reputation which this establishment enjoys amongst similar institutions.

Amongst the latest of the benevolent objects to which his attention was directed, was the formation of a society supported by voluntary subscriptions for the assistance and support of discharged prisoners, with the view of facilitating their return to babits of industry, by affording them the means of communicating with their friends, and by relieving them from that feeling of destitution and abandonment, which had been found in too many instances to drive them to a repetition of crime. The qualifications of Mr. Harenc for these various and important public duties, consisted not only in an uncommon quickness of intellect and readiness of application to all matters of business, but they were also the results of a systematic habit of study directed to the acquirement of knowledge on legal subjects, pursued with a perse

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verance rarely to be met with, except amongst those who engage in such pursuits as a profession. Mr. Harenc was also distinguished in the county by his activity as an officer of yeoman cavalry, and through his exertions the Chislehurst troop, of which he had the command for several years, has always maintained a high character for efficiency and good conduct. The considerations due to a large and increasing family having induced Mr. Harenc to wish for a residence, in which domestic accommodation should be the leading character rather than architectural decoration, he determined upon parting with Footscray-place, and be thought himself most fortunate in finding a purchaser in the person of Lord Bexley, to whom he could make over the property with the fullest conviction, that the various objects of charity or public utility to which his own attention had been directed, would continue to receive the most benevolent and effectual support. In the year 1821, he accordingly removed his family to a convenient house at Sevenoaks, with the intention of remaining there until he should find a suitable house and estate as a permanent residence. Notwithstanding the great personal activity of Mr. Harenc, his constitution, which was never robust, proved to be unequal to the state of continued mental and bodily exertion in which he was engaged. His last illness, though not of a very alarming character, was, in the opinion of his medical attendants, aggravated to its fatal result by a state of great excitement and anxiety of mind arising from his having undertaken the principal superintendence of an extensive and complicated concern, which had been recently formed for the purpose of establishing a direct commercial intercourse by means of steam-vessels between the western coast of Ireland, in the neighbourhood of his estate, and the principal ports of North America. The prospect of combining great public good, with a profitable investment of capital, led him to embark in this undertaking with his characteristic energy. He gratuitously took upon himself the most laborious and difficult part of the arrangements attending its formation, and a variety of unforeseen embarrass'ments and harassing details, which o curred in the progress of these arrangements, involved him in a weight of labour and anxiety under which his strength appears to have failed, and which hastened, if it did not cause, the premature close of his valuable life. On the 19th of September his remains were deposited in the family vault under Footscray Church. Never was there a funeral in which spontaneous testimonies to the merits of the deceased were more strongly drawn forth. The na quivocal marks of respect and grief w ich were evinced in every village

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and almost every cottage by which the melancholy procession had to pass, most impressively depicted the feelings of the inbabitauts for the loss of one whom every individual had probably known and revered, as the author or promoter of some act of private benevolence or public benefit.

H. E. JERMYN, ESQ.

March 2. At Rangoon, occasioned by the amputation of a finger, in his 21st year, Henry Edmund Jermyn, Esq. Chief Officer of the armed ship Satellite, the second son of Matthew William Jermyn, of Bury St. Edmund's, and a descendant of the very antient family of Jermyn, of Rushbrooke Hall. This truly amiable and enterprising young man had been actively employed in the Indian Seas from the age of nine years. He accompanied Lord Amberst to China, and for three years was attached as Surveyor to the Honourable Company's ship Discovery, from which he was appointed to the Dunegan Castle; and in 1823 was promoted to the rank of Chief Officer of the Satellite, in which ship he had been for the last six months of his life engaged in the warfare against the Burmese.

JOHN M'ARTHUR, ESQ.

October 26. Aged 66, John M'Arthur, Esq. This gentleman was for more than thirty years the principal conductor of the business of the King's Printing Office, and, with very few exceptions, attended at the Parliament-office, Westminster, daily, during that period, for the purpose of comparing with the originals all Acts of Parliament, and such public records of the House of Lords as were ordered to be printed. He possessed great urbanity of manners, the kindest and most friendly disposition, and a warm benevolence of heart, which rendered him the patron of the distressed wherever he found them. Of him it may truly be said, that he "did good by stealth, and blushed to find it fame." To his family and friends his death will long be a source of unfeigned regret; and the remembrance of his virtues will be coeval with the existence of all who knew his worth.

DANIEL PARKER COKE, ESQ. Dec. 4. At his house, the College, in Derby, aged 80, Daniel Parker Coke, Esq. descended from an ancient family at Trusley, in that county. He was the only son of Thomas Coke, Esq. Barrister at Law, and Dorothy, daughter and heiress of Thomas Goodwin, Esq. of the same place, who were married at All Saints' Church, in Derby, in the year 1736.

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July 17, 1745, and was educated under the Reverend Thomas Manlove, whom he afterwards presented with the living of Saint Alkmund, in Derby. In the year 1762, he was admitted of All Souls College, Oxford, and during his residence there, attended the Lectures of Doctors Blackstone and Beever, whose discourses (as then delivered) he committed to writing in several quarto volumes, Dr. Beever's Lectures being valuable, the introductory one only having been pub lished. Mr. Coke was afterwards called to the bar, and for many years attended the Midland Circuit. In 1775 he stood a contested election for his native town, against John Gisborne, esq. Mr. Gisborne being elected by a majority of fourteen votes; but in consequence of a petition to the House of Commons, Feb. 8, 1776, Mr. Coke was by the Committee declared to have been duly elected. In 1780 he was returned for the town of Nottingham, jointly with Robert Smith, esq. now Lord Carrington, and continued to represent that place for seven successive parlia. ments, and retired from the representa. tion in 1812, having held his seat in the House for thirty-eight years. Mr. Coke has frequently taken an active part in the House of Commons, particularly during the administration of Lord North. At the close of the American War, he was appointed one of the Commissioners for settling the American claims, but which employment he shortly resigned. He was for some time Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for the county of Derby, from which situation he retired through infirmity in the year 1818, and from that period he declined all public business. Mr. Coke was independent in his principles, and his conduct in Parliament appears to have been upright and conscientious, and he was much respected by his friends and acquaintance.

His remains were interred in the family vault in All Saints Church, in Derby, on Wednesday, the 14th.

CUTHBERT POTTS, Esq.

Nov. 10. At Truro, in his 82d year, Cuthbert Potts, Esq. formerly a surgeon of eminence in Pall Mall, and afterwards in Spring Gardens, and who some years ago retired to Kingsdowne near Sittingbourne and Faversham. Mr.Potts was skilful and humane in his profession; and his latter years were almost wholly devoted to the gratuitous assistance of his necessitous neighbours; being also enlivened by his attachment to Polite Literature-a circumstance we notice, as he was an old and valuable Correspondent to this Miscellany. He married Ethelinda, youngest daughter of John Thorpe, Esq. F. S. A. the well

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known Editor of "Custumale Roffense," of whom see vol. LXII. p. 769, and Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, vol. III. p. 526. Mr. Potts has left one son and a daughter. In 1809 he delivered at Ramsgate a course of Lectures on Health.

LIEUT. J. C. JELLICOE, R. N. Aug. 14. On board H. M. S. Sybille, Capt. Pechell, on the Mediterranean Station, between Zante and Corfu, in the 27th year of his age, Lieut. Joseph-Chitty Jel. licoe, R. N. He was one of the sons of Adam James Jellicoe, esq. of Wandsworth Common. He fell while in actual service a victim to the malignant fever, which has been very prevalent; he was educated for and served in His Majesty's Navy from his earliest years, and had conducted himself on several stations on the Coasts of Africa and in the Baltic, during which he was twice severely wounded, with merit and deserved approbation. As a young officer he was esteemed for his firmness and gallantry; as a man he was respected for his honour and integrity, the excellence of his principles, and his amiable and polished manners; and as a British seaman he was beloved for his urbanity and unremitted regard to his duty. He had by his study and practical experience acquired an accurate knowledge of bis profession, and had on all occasions signalised himself by those qualifications which would, if life had been spared, have raised him to eminence and distinction.

THOMAS HINDERWELL, ESQ. Oct. 29. At Scarborough, aged 80, T. Hinderwell, esq. many years a principal member of that Corporation. In 1798 he published a quarto volume on the "History and Antiquities of Scarborough, and the Vicinity," illustrated with views and plans; which was reprinted in medium and royal octavo, in 1811. He had a most kind and benevolent heart, and an intelligent and well-cultivated mind ;-he was one of the best of men and of Christians he was ever alive and zealous to promote the best interests of mankind, and of Scarborough, the place of his nativity and residence, in particular;-and he died universally respected and lamented. "His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him, that nature might stand up And say to all the world-This was a man!" He has bequeathed the following sums to the undermentioned charitable institutions in that town, viz. :-Towards re-building the Trinity Alms Houses, 100%; to the Amicable Society, 50%.; to the Lancasterian School, 201.; and to the School of Industry, 201.

W. F. HOLSE, ESQ.

Aug. 7. At Cossington, co. Leicester, aged 55, William Fisher Hulse, esq. Lieut.-colonel of the Leicestershire Militia, a Magistrate, and Deputy Lieutenant of that county. His military conduct was marked by a zealous discharge of his duty maintain the high character and honour as an officer, and by an anxious desire to of the regiment to which he had for more than thirty years belonged. At the call of his country, during the late war, he was one of those, with many others of the regiment, who instantly volunteered to join the British armies, then on service in Spain. That he had conciliated the good opinion and esteem of his brother officers may be inferred, from the warm friendship which mutually subsisted between them, as well as from the deep interest and sympathy for his sufferings, which they all manifested towards him during a long and As a Deputy Lieudistressing illness. tenant and a Magistrate, he was upright and impartial in the exercise of his pub. lic duty. In his social intercourse, the amenity uf his manners, the kindness of his disposition, and his honourable conduct, acquired him the regard of a

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MR. JAMES THORNELEY.

Oct. 30. At Disley, Mr. James Thorneley, formerly of Stockport. The funeral of this most eccentric being, for which he left particular directions, took place on Saturday last, at the parish church; the procession was headed by eight freemasons (of which order he was a member), followed by two mutes and several friends of the deceased on horseback; after them came his relations, on foot; the hearse, drawn by six black horses, and a mourning coach, drawn also by six horses, followed, on the pannels of which were painted the armorial bearings of the family; and the procession was closed by a chaise and four.

Every thing about this singular individual bore the marks of his eccentric character. On the plate of his coffin, as well as on the tomb-stone which covers his remains, he strictly ordered that his age should be inscribed not by the number of years he had lived, but by the number of moons, which amounted to 1145. This order, of course, has been complied with. Seventy-two years ago he was one of the four of his brothers and his uncle were also ringers at the parish church, at which time ringers; and his eldest brother, who died in the year 1800, was sexton at the parish church upwards of 60 years.

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