House of Commons as a Reformer, but occasionally voted with the Opposition, and on the dissolution in 1835, was ejected by the present Member, Mr. T. S. Duncombe.

The Rev. Samuel Pugh of Brilley vicarage, Herefordshire. He was found dead near the church-house Michaelchurch, Radnorshire, having fallen down a slight precipice on his head; the night being dark, it is supposed that he had missed his road.

4. The Rev. Thos. Brooksby, Rector of West and South Hanningfleld, Essex; and the senior magistrate of the Chelmsford Bench, where he had sat for thirty-three years.

5. At Bournemouth, aged 83, the Rev. Thomas Causton, D.D., the senior Prebendary of Westminster, and Rector of Turweston, Bucks.

- In Whitehall-place, in his 76th year, Sir John Cross, Knt., Chief Judge of the Court of Review in Bankruptcy. He was the second son of William Cross, esq., of Scarborough. After the usual course of school education, he became a student of Trinity college, Cambridge, entered at Lincoln's-inn about the year 1791, and was called to the bar November 16, 1795. He was advanced to the rank of a Serjeant-at-Law in Hilary term 1819, and for several years enjoyed a considerable share of the practice belonging to that order of the profession in the Court of Common Pleas. In Trinity term 1827, he was appointed a King's Serjeant. When Lord Abinger resigned the office of Attorney-Gen. of the counties palatine of Durham and Lancaster, Mr. Cross became his successor in those offices, which he continued to hold till his appointment as one of the judges of the Court of Bankruptcy, by letters patent dated the 2nd December 1831. On this occasion he received the honour of knighthood. On the day of his death, he had been all the morning engaged in his judicial duties at the Court in Westminster, and had left home in the morning in good health. On entering the drawingroom on his return from court, he took his seat on the sofa, and in a moment fell back and immediately expired.

6. At Great Chart, Kent, in his 67th year, the Rev. Thomas Waite, LL.D., Rector of that parish, and chaplain to H.R.H. the Princess Sophia Matilda.

At Wengrug, near Aberystwith, aged 31, the Rev. Ebenezer W. Davies,

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At Tottenham, aged 63, Mr. Wm. Hone, the well-known author of the Every Day Book," and other works. Mr. Hone was born in Bath. His father was an occasional preacher amongst the Dissenters, and so rigid in his notions on religion that the son was taught his letters and ultimately to read from the Bible alone. At the age of ten years he was placed in an attorney's office in the metropolis, and when very young im bibed many of the principles disseminated by the London Corresponding Society. From some distaste, he quit ted the law; and having married, in July 1800, he commenced business as a print and bookseller, with a circulating library, in Lambeth-walk. From thence he removed to St. Martin's Churchyard, near Charing-cross, where he had the misfortune to be burnt out and sustained considerable loss. Upon the threats of French invasion he enrolled himself in the Prince of Wales's volunteer corps; and about this time became intimately acquainted with the celebrated Mr. Towneley, and many other gentlemen of learning and taste, who highly esteemed him for his great natural talents and companionable qualities. He suffered various vicissitudes both in and out of business; but his mind was not idle, for in 1806 he published his first literary effort, "Shaw's Gardener," and for a long period he devoted much study to the great na tional advantages that might be derived from the establishing of Savings-banks. To effect this object he had several interviews with the Right Hon. George Rose, and by way of experiment, in conjunction with his friend Mr. John Bone, one was opened in Blackfriarsroad; but, the principles being but little understood, the plan failed from want of support. He next became a bookseller, in partnership with Mr. Bone, but his general spirit was not accustomed to habits of trade; he loved the society of men of talent, and, being gifted with great humour, joined in some

of the foibles of the day. This tended to withdraw him from the counter, and he became a bankrupt; but again started in May's-buildings, St. Martin's-lane, from whence he removed to High-street Bloomsbury, where he compiled the index to Lord Berners' Froissart. In 1811 he was selected by the booksellers, on the retirement of Mr. John Walker, to officiate as the trade auctioneer, having a counting-house in Ivy-lane. But again the loss of time spent in some public engagements, particularly an investigation of lunatic asylums, involved him in embarrassments, and a second failure was the consequence-his family having in the interval increased to seven children, who were taken to a humble lodging in the Old Bailey, where the father struggled hard to maintain them by his contributions to the Critical Review and the British Lady's Magazine. He next occupied a small shop in Fleetstreet, as a bookseller, which, on two different nights, was plundered of the most valuable works, many of which had been borrowed for the purpose of displaying stock. This greatly disheartened him, but about 1815 he became publisher of the Traveller newspaper. In 1816 he commenced a weekly paper called the " Reformist's Register," in which he very ably combated the doctrines promulgated by Mr. Owen. Soon after this, when party spirit ran very high, he was induced to write a series of political satires; one of which, the "Political House that Jack Built" went through more than fifty editions. Its great attraction consisted perhaps in its woodcuts from the clever designs of George Cruickshank, whose talents were first made extensively known in these publications of Mr. Hone. Like everything that becomes popular in London, the "House that Jack Built" was soon imitated by a swarm of rival "Houses." Another of Mr. Hone's cleverest productions, was "A Slap at Slop," a burlesque on the newspaper called "The New Times," and printed in the newspaper form; it ridiculed principally the editor of that journal, Dr. Stoddart, and the Constitutional Association, whom he called the Bridge-street Gang. A third satire on the government of the day, Mr. Hone was unadvisedly led to write in the form of a parody upon the liturgy; and he was consequently prosecuted by the Attorney-General and brought to trial on three separate

charges. The first day Mr. Justice Abbot occupied the bench, and Mr. Hone, who defended himself, was acquitted. On the second and third days Lord Chief Justice Ellenborough presided, certainly with no very favourable feelings for the accused, but Mr. Hone was again acquitted on each chargethree distinct juries taking the same view of the cases brought before them. The extraordinary powers of language and of argument displayed by Mr. Hone, in each defence, excited considerable sympathy in his behalf, and subscriptions were entered into, and a handsome sum realised, which enabled him to remove from a contracted shop in the Old Bailey to a large house on Ludgate-hill, where he gradually withdrew from his political line of publication, and attempted to resume the business of a book auctioneer, but with less success than before. In 1823 Mr. Hone published a very curious volume, entitled, "Ancient Mysteries described;" containing the results of his researches in the way of precedents when he had been called upon to defend himself from the charge of basphemy. It is only just to him to say that this work is strictly historical, and that personally at least, he did not repeat the offence. In 1826 he commenced the publication, weekly, of his very interesting and instructive miscellany, entitled, the "Every Day Book;" but though the sale was large, yet he did not derive sufficient to maintain his family, now comprising ten children, and he was arrested for debt and thrown into the King's Bench, where he finished the "Every Day Book," and then successfully carried on its sequels, the "Table Book," for two years 1827 and 1828, and the "Year Book," for one year 1829, the whole of which from their deep research and varied interest, have been generally admired, and called forth the warm commendations of Mr. Southey the poet. The difficulties under which Mr. Hone. laboured once more aroused the energies of his friends, and he was enabled to take the Grasshopper coffee-house, in Gracechurch-street; but after a few years this speculation also failed, and he was thrown upon the resources of his mind; till becoming acquainted with an Independent minister, the Rev. T. Binney, that gentleman persuaded him to try his powers in the pulpit, and he frequently preached in the Weigh-house

chapel, Eastcheap. At the starting of the "Penny Magazine," he wrote the first article, and be likewise edited "Strutt's Sports," &c. In 1835 whilst at the above-mentioned chapel, he was attacked by paralysis, and had a renewal of it in 1837, at the office of the Patriot (which paper he sub-edited) in Bolt-court, and soon afterwards suffered a third attack. From this period nature has been gradually decaying, though his intellect remained unimpaired till within a few hours of dissolution, when insensibility came on and prevented all further converse. His resignation under suffering was Christian-like, and his departure calm and tranquil. In society Mr. Hone was a cheerful companion, and his heart was never closed against the complaints of his fellow

At Gravesend, aged 65, George Canning, esq., Comm. R.N.

10. At his seat Ystrad Lodge, Carmarthenshire, in his 66th year, John Jones, esq., a Magistrate and Dep.Lieut. for that co., and one of its representatives in Parliament.

11. At Grantham, aged 56, the Rev. Robert Gordon Andrews, M.A., Vicar of Haugh-on the-hill, and formerly Head Master of Grantham Free Grammar School.

At his town residence in Dublin, the Right Hon. Charles Vereker, second Viscount Gort (1816) and Baron Kiltarton, co. Galway (1810), one of the Representative Peers and a Privy Councillor of Ireland, Governor of the co. of Galway, Constable of the Castle of Limerick, and Col. of the city of Limerick militia. Lord Gort was origi

nally intended for the naval profession, and at the age of fourteen was entered as a midshipman in the Alexander, then under the command of the late Lord Longford. A short time after he had joined his vessel, she sailed for the Mediterranean, and formed one of the fleet under Lord Howe. His conduct throughout won the marked and public acknowledgments of Lord Longford. On the return of the Alexander, Lord Gort quitted the naval service, and purchased a commission in the Royals. Shortly afterwards he was appointed to the Lieut.-Colonelcy of the Limerick Militia; and in this capacity he highly distinguished himself in opposing the progress of the French under General Humbert, at Colooney, 5th September 1798, for which he obtained an honourable augmentation to his family arms by a grant of supporters bearing the flag of the Limerick Militia, with the motto of "Colooney," and the date September 1798 inscribed thereon. The thanks of Parliament too were voted to him for his gallant conduct throughout the engagement, in which he was se. verely wounded. He had been elected to the Irish Parliament as one of the members for the city of Limerick from the year 1790, and he was one of the few who to the last maintained what they conceived was the cause of their country in opposition to the Union. After that measure had been consummated, he was again elected, then as the sole member, and he continued to represent the city in Parliament for a period of twenty-seven years until his accession to the peerage, which took place on the death of his uncle 23rd of May, 1817. He was elected a representative peer in 1820, and always supported the Conservative party, but without any slavish adherence to the policy of its leaders. Principles and not party had his vote, and on two memorable occasions in the political history of modern times, viz. on the Catholic Relief and the Corporation Bills, he felt himself bound to dissent from that party with whom he was usually found associated in politics.

14. The Rev. James Henry Stone, Perpetual Curate of Eye, near Peterborough, in his 40th year.

15. At his residence, Fitzwilliamsquare, Dublin, the Right Rev. Dr. Sandes, Lord Bishop of Cashel and Waterford in his 64th year.

At his residence, in Chelsea Hospital, in the 78th year of his age, Gen. Sir George Townshend Walker, Bart., G.C.B. K.T.S., &c., Lieut.-Governor of that Hospital, and late Commander-inChief of the forces at Madras. General Walker was the eldest son of the late Major Nathaniel Walker, of the Royal American rangers. Sir George was an accomplished soldier, and in all the relations of life a worthy man. In all the various stations which he filled he acquitted himself with honour and probity.

16. Aged 42, the Rev. William Hen. Prescot, M.A., of Bradshaw-hall, in the parish of Cheadle, Lancashire.

17. At Douglas Isle of Man, aged 68, the Rev. Rowland Wingfield, of the Rhys-pont, near Oswestry, a Canon of St. Asaph, and Vicar of Ruabon Denbighshire.

At the house of a friend in the neighbourhood of Cavendish-square, in his 64th year, Mr. John Varley. Mr. Varley, one of the patriarchs of our school of water-colour painters, was one of the earliest members and original founders of the Water-colour Society, of whose exhibitions his drawings continued to the last to be among the chief attractions. Some of his finest works, indeed, were the productions of the last two years. In the outset of the society, he was perhaps its greatest support, contributing as many as sixty pictures at a time to one exhibition. Of all water-colour painters, none preserved greater freshness, purity, and simplicity of colouring than Mr. Varley; he surpassed, in this respect, even Turner and Girtin; and even amid the temptations of modern practices, seems steadily to have eschewed the lavish use of bodycolour, the rock on which water-colour painting seems destined to split. The range of his imagination was not very large, and oftentimes his treatment verged on mannerism; yet a fine classical feeling and grandeur pervaded his compositions, at times not unworthy of Gaspar Poussin himself.. Mr Varley published some manuals of his art, which, though technical, are suggestive and useful. He notoriously indulged in astrological vagaries, which must have tended to distract his attention from his art; indeed, his first thought seemed to be about "nativities," and his second about his pictures. Many are the stories told of the visits of fashionable

young ladies to him, made ostensibly to buy a picture, but in reality to have their nativities cast.

18. At Stoke Newington, the Rev. Dr. Povah, Rector of St.James's, Duke'splace, City.

At Bristol, Charles Edward Bernard, esq., M.D. As a physician he held, during a long course of years, a decidedly superior place in the public estimation, and more especially in the confidence of the medical profession, the senior as well as the junior members of which were glad to consult him in cases of extraordinary emergency and difficulty. No man ever attained the high position which he held in medical practice more entirely through the force and preponderancy of his talents than Dr. Bernard.

19. At Clapham, Surrey, aged 45, the Rev. F. Goode, Morning Preacher at the Female Orphan Asylum, and Evening Lecturer of Clapham. Mr. Goode was the author of a volume of "Sermons on Christian Doctrines, Practice, and Experience;" of "The Better Covenant," and of some other theological works.

At Romsey, the Rev. John Lewis, Vicar of Timsbury, Hants.

21. At his residence, Berwick Lodge, Henbury, aged 65, Jeremiah Osborne, esq., an eminent Solicitor of Bristol.

The Rev. Zacharias Henry Biddulph, Vicar of New Shoreham, Sussex, and of Backwell, Somersetshire.

22. At Sherrington, Bucks, aged 57, the Rev. John Pretyman, Rector of that parish and of Winwick, and a Prebendary of Lincoln.

23. At Ferrybridge, Yorkshire, the Rev. William Richardson, B.D., Chaplain of Sherburn Hospital, Durham, and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, in his 33rd year.

24. At Dunfermline, Capt. Nathaniel Mitchell, R.N., second son of the late Admiral Sir Andrew Mitchell, K.B.

26. At Hinckley, Leicestershire, the Rev. Dr. Woods.

gave a reduction of 10s. per acre to many tenants. He was, besides, a great friend to the labouring poor; he employed above forty every day; and last summer, when the season was most trying, he increased the number to more than eighty; but, though a friend to the vir tuous and good, he was, at the same time, an uncompromising enemy to the idle and disorderly, and to the system of agrarian outrage, that unhappily prevails in his country, and to this cause is attributed his early and cruel death. He had been before fired at and wounded, some time ago, when the offence was attributed to the malice of a tenant, who had left his farm on the pretence of emigrating to America, but was afterwards desirous to return, but disappointed. He had been out shooting ducks on the day of his death with his younger brother, Mr. Rody Scully, in a field about a quarter of a mile from his residence. As rain was falling, the latter returned to the house. After the lapse of some hours, alarm was excited; and on a search being made, the unfortunate gentleman was discovered lying quite dead, with a large orifice in his left side, where some slugs had entered, and his head terribly beaten and mutilated with stones. A double-barrelled gun, which he had taken out, lay beside him, both barrels having been discharged; and it is supposed, when he had fired them at the ducks, the assassins, watching their opportunity, rushed upon him, and effected their diabolical object.

28. At Feniton Court, Frances Duke, wife of the Hon. Mr. Justice Patteson, and only daughter of the late James Coleridge, esq., of Heath's Court.

30. The Rev. John Thompson, Vicar of Thornton Steward, near Bedale.

Lately. In the China seas, aged 26, Lord Edward Pelham Clinton, fifth son of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle. He was recently promoted to a Lieutenancy. His body was committed to the deep at the entrance of the Gulf of Siam.

Aged 62, the Rev. Thomas Reader, Gleadow, M.A., Rector of Frodesley, Salop.

Aged 51, the Rev. James Hoste, Rector of Ingoldesthorpe, and Perpetual Curate of Longham, Norfolk.

Aged 61, the Rev. Thomas Lewis, M.A., Rector of Merthyr, and Perpetual Curate of Llanstephen and Llangunnoch, Carmarthenshire.

1. Aged 49, the Rev. George Augustus Montgomery, M.A., Rector of Bishopstone, in South Wilts., and Prebendary of Ruscombe, in the Cathedral Church of Sarum.

2. At Bishopwearmouth, aged 89, Lady Peat, widow of the Rev. Sir Robert Peat, Chaplain to King George 4th. Her eccentricities as Miss Smith, of East Herrington, and the firing of her house, and murder of her servant girl by some criminal yet unknown, are well remembered.

William Temple Best, esq., of Stepple Hall, late of Kempsey, near Worcester. He was accidentally drowned in the river Rea, in returning home, after dining with the Rev. A. Woodward, of Neen Savage.

At Pointers, Cobham, aged 86, Thomas Page, esq.

3. In Portland-place, the Right Hon. the Countess of Munster.

At his residence, Bootham, York, the Rev. Lamplugh Hird, A.M., Prebendary of York Cathedral, Vicar of Paull, and one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, and Deputy Lieutenant for the West Riding of Yorkshire, in his 76th year.

At Oak Hill, Stafford, the Rev. Charles Benjamin Charlewood, in his 72nd year.

At Halifax, the Hon. Sampson Salter Blowers, for many years Chief Justice and President of Nova Scotia, in his 100th year.

At Dodderhill, Worcestershire, aged 88, the Rev. John Hughes, D.D., Vicar of that parish.

4. In Bedford-square, Peregrine Dealtry, esq., Master of the Crown Office.

Mark Hewitt, esq., of Hever Cottage, Haverstock Hill, Hampstead, and Olson Combe, near Sunbridge, Kent.

6. At York, aged 69, the Hon. Henry Butler, next brother and heir presumptive to the Right Hon. the Earl of Kilkenny.

At Abbey Lodge, Regent's Park, aged 51, Charles Norris, esq., late Chief Secretary to Government at Bombay. At Ockley Court, Dorking, aged 71, Walter Calvert, esq.

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