distinctions of that profession which was his pride, and the full attainment of every other happiness.

At Antigua, in the twenty-third year of his age, Major George Gordon, of the eighth West India regiment, nephew of Colonel Gordon, military secretary to the Earl of Harrington. His career was short, but brilliant. He served in the expedition to Zealand, was aidde-camp to General Anstruther, in the memorable battle of Vimiera; and commanded, with great credit to himself, the sixth regiment, during the campaign in Spain, which corps was the last of the British army that embarked at Corunna. A higher eulogium cannot be pronounced upon Major Gordon, than to say, that he was patronised by those great and good men, the late Sir John Moore and General Anstruther, who honoured him with their friendship. Though snatched away at such an early age, he lived long enough to gain the affectionate esteem, as his immature death has occasioned the deepest regret, to all who knew him.

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In his sixty-seventh year, Townley Ward, Esq. solicitor, of Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, and Monkey Island, Berks, one of the oldest and most eminent practitioners in the profession. He was the son of the Rev. Henry Ward, by Janet his wife, one of the three daughters and co-heiresses of Henry Townley, late of Dutton Hall, in the county of Lancaster, Esq. Mr. Ward commenced business in Henrietta Street, in the year

1766, and his eminent abilities, aided by a persevering disposition and strong mind, acquired him that distinction in his profession, which he maintained to his last moments. In politics, he was a staunch whig, and took a very active part in Mr. Fox's first election for Westminster, and his zeal was unabated when in conjunction with Edmund Burke, Esq. and other distinguished characters, he warmly espoused the cause of his friend, Lord John Townsend, in his opposition to Lord Hood. Mr. Ward was married, in 1772, to Miss Eleonora Hucks, a lady distinguished for personal charms and accomplishments, who died in 1800, and by whom he had no children. Mr. Ward not having left any issue, or any consanguineous relation, he has devised the Willows, and all his real and personal property to Patrick Crawfurd Bruce, Esq. of Taplow Lodge, with whom he has, for many years, been on the most intimate terms of friendship. He has also bequeathed upwards of 20,000l. to his friends, confidential clerks, and old servants.

Aged twenty-six, the Hon. William Frederick Eden, eldest son of Lord Auckland, M. P. for Woodstock, Deputy Teller of the Exchequer, and Lieutenant-Colonel of the St. John's and St. Margaret's volunteers. This gentleman had been missing ever since the evening of January 19th, and his body was found in the Thames on February 25th. During this interval, every possible enquiry was made, and rewards offered for the discovery of him, by his anxious parents. On the last mentioned day, a bargeman perceived the body floating in the

river, opposite to the Horseferry, Milbank, and conveyed it to the Brown Bear public house. From the description of the person and dress, previously given in public advertisements, he was soon recognized. The melancholy fate of Mr. Eden is the more difficult to be accounted for, as in evidence before the coroner's inquest, it appeared that there was no symptom of mental derangement in any part of his conduct; but that to the very hour of his leaving home, he was engaged in transacting business with that precision and punctuality for which he was remarkable.

At Edgeworth's town, in the centre of Ireland, the widow Burnet, aged 116 and upwards. She had been wife to an honest laborious mason, and she was a woman of uncommon shrewdness and activity. The winter before last she was seen mounted on a ladder, mending the thatch of her cottage. Though she was thus careful of her worldly goods, she was uncommonly good natured and charitable. Her mind was never fretted by malevolent passions. She was always ready to give or lend what little money she possessed, and she was careful to do these services to her distressed neighbours when no witness was present; so that accident alone discovered some of her good deeds and bad debts. In her habits of diet she was very temperate; she lived chiefly on potatoes and milk, and stirabout; never drank spirits or beer, but sometimes drank a glass of sweet wine, of which she was fond. She was (like most other long-lived people) au early riser, and took regular but not violent exercise. For the last twenty years of her life she seldom failed VOL. LI.

to walk from the cottage where she lived to Edgeworth's town, a distance of about an English mile, over a rough stony road. She preserved all her organs of sense to the last; could hear what was said in a low voice, could distinguish the changes of countenance of those to whom she spoke, as she plainly proved by changing her topics of conversation when she found they did not please her auditors; her sense of smell had not failed; the summer before her death she took pleasure, as she said, in the smell of a rose, and shewed that she perceived the odour, by asking where it came from, before she saw the flower. Her intellectual faculties were, at this advanced age, acute and vigorous; she narrated with uncommon clearness and vivacity; and it was remarkable of her memory, that it was not only retentive of things that had passed ninety years ago, but of recent facts and conversations. She had the habit, common to very old people, of continually talking of her approaching death, and yet making preparations for life. She was as eager about the lease or rent of her farm, as if she felt sure of continuing many years to enjoy what slie possessed. She was very religious, but her religion was not of a melancholy cast. The following epitaph is inscribed over her tomb. "Here lies, in hopes of a blessed resurrection, the body of Elizabeth Burnet, of Lignageeragh; born 1693; married 1733; died September 14, 1809, aged 116.

At Surat, in India, in the prime of life, Captain Henry Young, of his majesty's seventeenth light dragoons, second son of the late Bishop of Clonfert. This gallant offiвь

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cer distinguished himself at the siege of Seringapatam, Assaye, and Vellore, receiving, while serving with the nineteenth light dragoons at the latter place, at the head of his regiment, for most meritorious conduct, the thanks of Colonel Gillespie. In 1800 he returned to this country with his regiment, after an absence of eleven years; preferring however an active situation, he exchanged into the seventeenth light dragoons, then on their way to India, whither he proceeded to join them, and on the day of his reaching quarters was seized with a fever, which, after seventeen days, terminated an existence honourable to his memory. The whole garrison of Surat attended his funeral.

At Arnheim, in Holland, Matthys Bademaker, at the great age of 110 years. He worked at his trade, as a shoemaker, until the age of ninety. He was only once married, and had no more than two children, both females. Both of these however, having married, the old man died grandfather to twelve persons, and great-grandfather to twenty, the eldest of whom was twenty-one years of age at the time of his decease. He retained his faculties and health until within three weeks of his death. When King Louis visited Arnheim last year, he settled a pension of 400 guilders on him.

On his passage to Madeira, the Rev. Lewis Roberts, the younger son of an opulent merchant settled at Lisbon. He was born in that city about 1772, and was brought up in the persuasion of the church of Rome, of which both his parents were communicants. At the proper age he became a member of a college of celebrity, where he

was soon distinguished by the uncommon vigour of his mind, the fertility of his genius, and the aptitude with which he acquired all kinds of erudition. His passion for knowledge was unbounded; and he applied himself with unwearied zeal in the study of the classics, of ethics, of divinity, and all the higher branches of science. Having stored his mind with these important attainments, he did not disdain the lighter pursuits of literature. History, poetry, and the belles lettres, opened a wide field to his imagination; and such was the facility with which he acquired the modern languages, that before he attained his twentieth year, he spoke and wrote with equal propriety and elegance the English, French, Portuguese,Spanish, and Italian. Thus qualified to fill any situation with credit, he was induced, by the advice of a tutor who had early been intrusted with the care of his education, to become a catholic clergyman, contrary to the inclinations of his family, who had hoped that his abilities might be displayed in a more active scene of life. His exertions in the pulpit challenged the applause of all who heard him; and while the public did justice to his oratorial abilities, his private friends were not less delighted with the charms of his conversation, which was at once amusing from its variety, instructive from the information it afforded, and interesting from the simplicity with which it was expressed. Having established a high reputation as a preacher and a man of letters at Lisbon, he removed with his father's family to England, and settled in London. But though he henceforward resided principally in the British metropolis, he took opportunities

portunities of visiting Paris, Berlin, and other continental capitals, in the polished circles of which he was always an admired and a welcome guest. Fond of the pleasures of refined society, for which he was particularly calculated by the urbanity of his manners, the sweetness of his temper, and the brilliancy of a ready but never offensive wit, he still devoted the greater part of every day to the discharge of his. professional duties, or the cultivation of letters. He was for some time an officiating minister at the Spanish chapel in Manchester Square; but the continued attacks of a pulmonary complaint, to which he was early subject, soon compelled him to relinquish his situation as a regular preacher; but, as often as an interval of health occurred, he willingly lent his aid in the catholic pulpits of this town. Whenever he did so, the place of worship was crowded, and christians of all denominations, listened with pleasure and edification to his discourses. In literary composition his abilities were not less conspicuous, but his modesty was extreme; and while most of his works were sent into the world anonymously, even their success did not persuade him to claim the praise to which he was justly entitled. He affixed, how ever his name to an admired Defence of the Principles of the Church of Rome, which he conceived had been misrepresented in a pamphlet supposed to be written by an Irish prelate of high reputation, under the assumed title of "Melancthon." Ill health marred his fairest prospects; aud the growing symptoms of decay, which neither the aid of medicine, nor the habits of extreme temperance were able

to arrest, induced him to try the effects of a warmer climate, and through the friendly recommendation of the Chevalier de Susa, the Portuguese ambassador, he obtained permission to embark on board the frigate which conveyed Mr. Villars, his majesty's envoy, to Portugal. That gentleman soon discovered the uncommou qualities which distinguished his companion, and on their arrival at Lisbon, he offered him, in the handsomest manner, the situation of his private secretary. He cheerfully accepted the appointment, and devoted himself with unceasing assiduity to the discharge of its duties. His weakened constitution sunk under the pressure of business; and the excessive heat of summer in Portugal compelled him, though most reluctantly, to take his leave of Mr. Villars and of Lisbon. He returned in August last to England, a greater invalid than ever; and as winter approached, he determined to go to Madeira, with little hope of recovery, but anxious to save his family and his friends the pain of witnessing his dissolution. He embarked towards the end of October, on board the Larkins; and, after interesting his fellow passengers by the admirable patience which he displayed under the increasing attacks of pain and sickness, and by the social spirits which amidst all his sufferings never abandoned him, he expired on the thirteenth of November, three days before the ship reached the Island of Madeira,

At Vizagapatam, in the East Indies, Benjamin Roebuck, Esq. (son of the late Dr. Roebuck, of Kinniel) of the honourable company's civil service. A more faithful and zealous servant the company did Bb 2

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not possess; his active, well-inform ed, and enterprising mind, amply stored with ancient and modern literature, was ever exerted for their and the public good. The miut of Madras, and the public docks at Coringa, are monuments not less of his ingenuity than of his indefatigable and unceasing labours. Pub lic and private charity ever met a most liberal support from his hands. In mechanics, chemistry, and mineralogy, he had few superiors; in other polite and useful attainments his comprehensive mind had acquired very considerable knowledge; Political economy had ever been with him a most favoured study, and few men were better acquainted with that interesting subject. Hos pitable, without ostentation, his table was ever the resort of the best-informed and most worthy members of society, and few ever left it without gaining some useful knowledge from his conversation; his address was polite, agreeable, and engaging.

Caleb Whitefoord, Esq. of Argyle Street. He was born at Edinburgh in the year 1734, and was the only son of Colonel Charles Whitefoord, third son of Sir Adam Whitefoord, Bart. in the shire of Ayr, in North Britain. He was placed, at an early age, under the tuition of Mr. Mundell, then a distinguished teacher in the capital of Scotland, at whose seminary he soon eclipsed all his school-fellows, by his rapid progress in the Latin tongue, and other branches of education, which he completed at the university of Edinburgh, the alma mater of so many eminent literary characters. This uncommon proficiency in classical knowledge, induced his father to breed

him up for the church; but to the clerical profession he entertained such strong objections, that the colonel was obliged to relinquish his intentions, and to send him to London, where he was placed in the counting-house of his friend, Mr. Archibald Stewart, an eminent wine merchant in York Buildings, where young Caleb remained about four years, and then went over to France, and staid there near two years more, until he became of age.

While he remained in Mt. Stewart's counting-house, his father had died at Galway, in Ireland, colonel of the 5th regiment of fool, bequeathing the principal part of his fortune to him and his daughter Mrs. Smith. With this patrimony, on the expiration of his minority, he commenced business in Craven Street, in the Strand, in partnership with Mr. Thomas Brown, a gen tleman universally esteemed for his amiable qualities and convivial disposition. Mr. W. early in life, evinced a lively wit, combined with a certain peculiarity of humour, which rendered his company and conversation desirable to the most celebrated beaux esprits of his time. Nor was it only in conversation that his talents were conspicuous. Hit essays were equally admired for novelty of idea, correctness of style, and sprightliness of satire; and to those we are in some measure indebted for the emancipation of our diurnal prints from that dulness which, till then, universally pervaded them. Mr. Whitefoord having conceived a great friendship for Mr. Henry Woodfall, sent his productions to the Public Advertiser, which soon became the political arena where all the combatants en

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