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of heart. His ruling principle was love
to God, displayed in a warm and disin-
terested love of man, wholly free from
party spirit and narrow distinctions.
Devotion was his delight, studying the
Scriptures his dearest employment, and
his hope rested on the mercies of God in
Christ. Perhaps Dr. A. did not entirely
agree with any denomination of Chris-
tians; but serious reflection, and patient
investigation, led him to a conviction
of the truth of the leading tenets of
Unitarianism; and from the time of
his settling in the vicinity of Leicester,
he joined the congregation assembling
at the "Great Meeting" in that town.
In politics he embraced the liberal side
of the question, and was always the
firm and strenuous advocate of civil and
religious freedom. Every project for
the benefit of his country, and the ad-
vancement of knowledge, liberty, and
truth, obtained his zealous support.

His judgment of those who differed
from him was uniformly candid and
generous; and never did he retain the
slightest malevolent or unkind senti-
ment against persons, from whom he
had experienced undeserved or injurious

treatment.

The subject of this brief imperfect
outline was the younger son of the late
John Alexander, M. D. of Halifax, was
born Nov. 25. 1767, and received his
classical education at Hipperholm school,
which then was, and still is, under the
superintendance of the Rev. Richard
Hudson, who, for more than half a cen-
tury, has officiated as afternoon lecturer
at the parish church in Halifax.

Dr. A. possessed the advantage of
being well initiated in the various
branches of his profession during his
early youth. At the usual period, he
went to London to pursue his anatomi-
cal studies, and there became a pupil of
Sir William Blizard. Having accom-
plished his object in the metropolis, he
repaired to Edinburgh, and finally took
his degree at Leyden, with the highest
honour, in October 1791.

In the year 1793 he married his first
cousin Ellen, the eldest daughter and
co-heiress of the late Samuel Water-
house, Esq. of Halifax, one of the jus-
tices of the peace for the West Riding
of the county of York, and a deputy
lieutenant for the same district.

Dr. A. fixed at Stafford, and was di-
rectly appointed physician to the county
infirmary. He removed into the neigh-
bourhood of Leicester, October 1797,

where he continued to reside till his
deeply-lamented death. All who knew
him must regret him, and to his im-
mediate friends his loss is irreparable.

ARROWSMITH, A. Esq. April
16th; in Soho-square; aged 73; the
eminent geographer, celebrated as a
constructor of maps and charts, through-
out Europe and America.

ASGILL, General Sir Charles,
Bart. Colonel of the 11th regiment of
Foot. He was the third child and only
son of Sir Charles, first baronet, by his
second wife, a daughter of Daniel
Pratville, Esq. secretary to Sir Benj.
Harris, ambassador at the court of
Madrid.

Sir Charles entered the service on the
27th of February, 1778, as an Ensign in
the 1st Foot Guards, and obtained a
Lieutenancy, with the rank of Captain,
in the same regiment, on February 3.
1781. He went to America in the same
year, joined the army under the com-
mand of the Marquis Cornwallis, served
the whole of the campaigns, was taken
prisoner with the army in October, at
the siege of York Town in Virginia,
and sent up the country, where he re-
mained till May 1782, at which period
all the Captains of that army were or-
dered by General Washington to assem-
ble and draw lots, that one might be se-
lected to suffer death, by way of retalia-
tion, for the death of an American officer,
Captain Hardy, whom our Govern-
ment refused to deliver up, for political
reasons, although General Washington
demanded it. The lot fell on Sir
Charles Asgill, and he was, in conse-
quence, conveyed under a strong escort
to the place intended for his execution,
in the Jerseys, where he remained in
prison, enduring peculiar hardships
for the space of six months, expect-
ing daily that his execution would take
place.

Sir Charles was unexpectedly released
from his confinement by an Act of Con-
gress, passed at the intercession of the
Queen of France, who, deeply affected
by a most eloquent and pathetic appeal
from his mother, Lady Asgill, humanely
interfered, and obtained his release. He
returned to England on parole, and
shortly after went to Paris to make his
acknowledgments to the Queen of
France, for having saved his life.

He succeeded his father in the baro-
netcy in 1778; married in 1788 Jemima
Sophia,daughter of Admiral Sir Chaloner
Ogle, Knight. He was soon after ap-

pointed Equerry to his Royal Highness the
Duke of York, and promoted on the 3d of
March, 1790, to a company in the Guards,
with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
He was ordered, towards the end of
1793, to the Continent, joined the army
under the Duke of York, served the
campaign in Flanders, was present
during the whole of the retreat through
Holland in the severe winter of 1794,
and subsequently returned to England.
He received the rank of Colonel on the
26th of February, 1795, and command-
ed a battalion of the Guards the same
year, at Warley Camp. He was ap-
pointed, in 1797, Brigadier-General on
the Staff in Ireland; received the rank of
Major-General the 1st of January, 1798,
and was very actively employed during
the rebellion of that year. He was ap-
pointed Colonel of the 46th foot the 9th
of May, 1800, and placed in the com-
mand of the garrison of Dublin, and oc-
casionally of the Camps of Instruction,
which were formed on the Curragh. He
was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant-
General on the 1st of January, 1805,
and appointed Colonel of the 5th West
India regiment in February, 1806. He
obtained the Colonelcy of the 85th foot,
in October, 1806, and that of the 11th
foot, on the 25th February, 1807,
for
which regiment he raised a second bat-
talion in the space of six months.

Sir Charles Asgill continued on the
Staff till 1812, and was promoted on the
4th of June, 1814, to the rank of Ge-
neral.

He was educated in a thorough know-
ledge of the multifarious services and
duties of a military life, which he car-
ried into practice to his own fame, and
the advantage of his country. His ser-
vices in the American war, as a Captain
of the Guards, were of a pre-eminent
nature, and he also distinguished him-
self in the revolutionary war,
and par-
ticularly during the rebellion in Ireland.

ASHBURNHAM, Sir William,
bart. Aug. 21st, at his seat, Broom-
ham Place, Guestling, aged 87 years.
He was eldest son of the Right Rev.
Sir William Ashburnham, bart. Lord
Bishop of Chichester, by Margaret,
daughter of Thos. Pelham, of Lewes,
co. Sussex, esq.; succeeded his father,
Sept. 4. 1797; married Anne, daughter
of Rev. Francis Woodgate, of Mount-
held, co. Sussex, by whom he had issue
four sons and one daughter.

His death will be long lamented by
the poor, who, when ill, were always al-

lowed nourishment from his house; and
on Doling-day, Sir William had for se-
veral years made a practice of giving
each poor family flour, in proportion to
their number. So liberal was he to-
wards his tenants, that they paid only
the same amount of rent for their farms
as they did to his father.

ASHBURTON, the Right Hon.
Richard Barré Dunning, Baron of; Feb.
15th; at Friars Hall, near Melrose, in
his 41st year. He was youngest, but
only surviving son of John, 1st Lord,
by Elizabeth, daughter of John Baring,
Esq. of Larkbear, county of Devon, and
was born Sept. 20. 1782. On the death
of his father, Aug. 18. 1783, who was
one of the most distinguished pleaders of
the English Bar, he, then only eleven
months old, succeeded to the title and
estates. He married, September 17.
1805, Anne, daughter of the late Wil-
liam Cunningham, Esq. of Lainshaw,
but leaving no issue, the title becomes
extinct. The death of this respectable
Nobleman will be felt in the county of
Sutherland, to which he was long and
sincerely attached, as an irreparable
loss. His Lordship was a kind and
steady benefactor to all the poor in the
neighbourhood of his romantic seat of
Rosehall, and spent annually large
sums of money in beautifying and im-
proving his property there, whereby he
gave constant employment to all his in-
dustrious tenants.

B.

BABINGTON, Stephen, Esq. of
the Bombay Civil Service, May 19th,
1822, at Tannah, in his 32d year. Mr.
Babington's death was occasioned by an
accident which occurred while assisting,
with his characteristic humanity, to ex-
tinguish a fire.
He was the son of Dr.
Babington, of London, and grandson
of Stephen Hough, of Tavistock-street,
Bedford-square, the amiable and excel-
lent friend of every charity in the me-
tropolis.

Mr. Babington was educated at the
East India College, at Hertford, where
he highly distinguished himself. He ar-
rived in India in 1808, and was succes-
sively Private Secretary to the Governor,
Secretary to the government, Judge and
Magistrate of the Northern Concan, and
fourth Judge of the Court of Sudder
Adawlut and Sudder Foujdary Adaw-
lut.

As a Judge, his patience, his un-

ruffled temper, his longsuffering with
the ignorance, and even with the inevit-
able vices of those among whom he had
to administer the laws in mercy, were
quite exemplary. They acquired him
in the first instance the confidence, and
finally, combined with his unwearied
benevolence, the love of all around him,
He became venerated as the father of
his district, where his advice was a law
with persons of every rank. His cool
and unimpassioned judgment, his wide
and accurate range of observation, his
singular rectitude of understanding in
all he did or thought, his sound and
liberal views of public law and policy,
became daily more visible; and excited
the respect not unmixed with surprise,
even of many who had long known him,
but who had not detected the uncom-
mon powers of his mind, under the veil
thrown over them by his modesty, and
by the simplicity of his habits. Young
as he was, he rose rapidly without envy
to the very first rank in the esteem of
his fellow servants, and he had hardly
attained the high station that was his
due, when he was torn from his friends
and his country by an untimely fate. He
had for some time been engaged in su-
perintending a revisal of the regulations
of the Presidencyof Bombay, for which
his temper of mind and the extent of
his knowledge eminently qualified him.
The sense entertained of his merits in
that task by a Government that knows
how to appreciate excellence, may be
discovered by the terms in which his
loss is commemorated, and which now
form his best eulogium.

Extract of a Letter to the Court of Sudder

Adawlut; dated the 29th May, 1822.
"The Honourable the Governor in
Council has received intelligence of the
death of the fourth Judge of your
Court, Mr. Babington, while on cir-
cuit at the Northern Concan, on the
19th instant, and directs me to express
to you his sense of the loss which the
Service has sustained by that melancholy

event.

"Mr. Babington's intelligence, pa-
tience, and knowledge of the natives,
eminently qualified him for his judicial
duties; and in the more important task
of revising the code, his views were as
sober as extensive; his temper both firm
and candid; and his judgment of what
was due to the Government was not
sacrificed even to his characteristical
tenderness to his people."

It is still more difficult to do justice
to his private than to his public virtues.
A mild and cheerful benevolence per-
vaded and tempered the whole of his
character. He was perhaps somewhat
inclined to indolence, unless when he
had a friend to serve or a duty to per-
form. His character then seemed to
be changed, and all his faculties were
lighted up with ardour and activity.
He had nothing of selfishness in his
composition; and what, in one of his
warm attachments and ardent feelings
is even more rare, he seemed hardly to
know what resentment meant. The
disagreeable occurrences that met him
in life, he softened by good-humoured
raillery, and disarmed by temper.
probably has not left a single enemy
behind him. He died as he had lived,
imbued with a sober and sincere sense
of religion and though called away
from the prospects of honour and repu-
tation that were inviting him, the en-
dearments of an affectionate family to
which he was fondly attached, and the
affection of friends by whom he was
tenderly beloved : he resigned them all
as became a good and a brave man,
with unalterable firmness; not certainly
without regret, but without repining.

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The estimation in which a man is
held may sometimes be known by slight
incidents. Mr. Babington at the time
of his death, was only on a casual visit
to Tannah in the discharge of his duty
as Judge of Circuit. It was singular
that so circumstanced, he should have
received his last summons in the midst
of those among whom he had passed so
many years respected and revered. The
natives of India are generally accused
of coldness of temper and of ingrati-
tude. If such be the case, his singular
virtues had the power to dissolve even
their indifference. The inhabitants of
Tannah, from the time he sustained the
fatal injury, remained in crowds near
the house of his friend, Mr. Mariott, to
which he had been carried, waiting with
the keenest anxiety for intelligence re-
garding him, and messengers passed
backward and forward to report the state
of his health till he had breathed his last.
The crowd then silently dispersed, but
in the evening, watching the hour for
his funeral, they assembled to the num-
ber of several thousands, and followed
his remains to the grave with every de-
monstration of respect and sorrow.

BAILEY, Mr. Peter, Editor of
the Weekly Periodical Paper called

The Museum; January 25; sud
denly in a coach, on his way to the
Italian Opera, by the bursting of an
aneurism of the aorta in his inside. Mr.
Bailey possessed considerable literary
acquirements, and he was about pur-
suing his avocation in attending the
Opera, for the purpose of making his
observations on the same, and on the
performers, for the publication of which
he was the editor, when his sudden death
took place. He left a wife and three
children to bewail their loss.

Mr. Bailey was the son of a solicitor
near Nantwich, who had realised great
property in Cheshire. His scholastic
career commenced at Rugby, and con-
tinued at Merton College, Oxford,
from whence he removed to London,
and entered at the temple to follow an-
other branch of the profession of his
father. Instead of following the law,
Mr. B. seems to have let the law fol-
low him, until it left him, where it
frequently does the more mercurial spi-
rits, carried along in this gay metro-
polis, like atoms in the system of Des
Cartes. We make no hesitation in al-
luding to this period of Mr. B.'s life,
since it enables us to direct the atten-
tion of our readers to a publication of
his, which does equal credit to the pen
and pencil of the author, viz: "Sketches
from St. George's Fields, by Gior-
gione di Castel Chiuso."

Mr. Bailey's first essays were in the
higher flight of epic poetry; some spe-
cimens of his power were shown in a
printed, but not published, volume,
under the title of "Idwal." The poem,
of which only portions are there given,
but the whole, or at least the greater
part, of which has been left in MS. by
the author, was founded on the events
connected with the conquest of Wales.
At the end of the same volume is a
Greek poem, originally published in
the Classical Journal, a few years ago.
The last publication of Mr. B. was an
anonymous poem, called, " A Queen's
Appeal," of 165 stanzas, in the Spenser

measure.

BALFOUR, General Nisbet, Oct.
10th, at Denbigh, co. Fife, at an ad-
vanced age.
General Balfour was Co-
lonel of the 39th Foot. He entered the
service as an Ensign in the 4th Foot, in
1761, obtained his Lieutenancy in 1765,
and his company in 1770. He was at
the battle of Bunker's Hill in 1775, and
wounded, in the action at the landing
on Long Island, at the capture of Brook-

lyn, and at the taking of New York in
1776, on which occasion he was sent
home by the Commander-in-chief with
dispatches, and received, in consequence,
the brevet of major. He was present
in the action near Elizabeth Town, in
the Jerseys, in the spring of 1777, in
the engagements of Brandywine and
Germantown, at the siege of Charles-
town, and served under Lord Cornwal-
lis part of the campaign after the sur-
render of the latter place. He was
appointed Lieut.-colonel of the 23rd
Foot in 1778, and Colonel and Aide-
de-Camp to the King in 1782. He
served part of the campaign in 1794 in
Flanders and Holland; received the
rank of Major-general, 12th October,
1793; the Colonelcy of the 39th Foot,
2d July, 1794; the rank of Lieut.-gene-
ral 1st Jan. 1798; and that of General,
the 25th Sept. 1803.

General Nisbet Balfour had never
been on half-pay.

BAMFYLDE, Sir Charles Warwick,
bart. D. C. L., of Poltimore, in the
county of Devon, and Hardington park,
in the county of Somerset, and formerly
M. P. for Exeter; April 19th.

Sir Charles's death was occasioned
by being shot by a man named Morland,
whose wife lived in the service of Sir
Charles; and who, after he had shot
him, discharged the contents of another
pistol in his own head, which killed him
on the spot. Sir Charles having ex-
pressed a wish that the cause of his death
should be ascertained, his body was
opened, and the following is the correct
report.

"The ball entered on the left side
between the eleventh and twelfth ribs,
fracturing the articulation of the former
with the spine, and then passed across,
grazing the diaphragm or floor of the
chest, but not injuring the lungs, and
lodged on the inside of the interior part
of the cavity between the ninth and
tenth ribs, a part of the ball being un-
covered and visible from the inside.-
Signed, &c.'

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It appeared that his death was not
produced so much by the injury occa-
sioned by the ball, as from a piece of
brass wire which was carried into the
wound along with the ball, which wire
formed part of the spring of his braces.
Every attempt to extract it proved abor-
tive; it corroded and gangrened within
the wound, and ultimately produced
mortification.

On hearing of the dreadful wound of

Sir Charles Bamfylde, lady Bamfylde,
who had lived for several years in a
state of separation from her husband,
repaired to London to attend upon Sir
Charles, and to administer to his com-
fort.

He was descended from one of the
oldest and most distinguished families
in Devonshire; being the fifth Baronet
in lineal descent from the reign of
Charles I. and his ancestors are known
to have been the Lords Poltimore,
near Exeter, as early as 1272. He
was born Jan. 23, 1753; succeeded his
father, Sir Richard-Warwick, Aug. 15.
1776; married in the same year the
eldest daughter of Sir John Moore, Bart.
by whom he had issue, George Warwick
Bamfylde, Esq. who succeeds him in his
title and estates, and one other son.
Sir Charles, after being educated at one
of our great public seminaries, repaired
to Oxford, where he received the degree
of D. C. L. At a proper age he was
returned Member for Exeter, which city
he represented in seven Parliaments.

His remains, on April 28, arrived at
Hardington park, and on the following
day were consigned to the family vault,
in Hardington church, attended by his
two sons, and a few of his intimate
neighbours; also by a vast body of his
tenantry, eager to pay the last tribute
of respect to the memory of one who
always proved himself a most kind and
liberal landlord.-The service was per-
formed in a very impressive manner by
the Rev. J. R. Joliffe, of Ammerdown.
Thus finished the career of a man who
was a generous and indulgent parent,
the life and soul of every social circle,
and whose loss will be most deeply
deplored.

BARRY, Colonel Henry, Nov. 2.
at his lodgings in Bath, in his 73rd year.
Colonel Barry was a gentleman well
known and equally valued among the
higher, scientific, and literary circles of
that city.

He was Lord Rawdon's
(the present Marquis of Hastings)
aide-de-camp and private secretary in
America, and penned some of the best
written dispatches which were ever
transmitted from any army on service to
the British Cabinet. Additional repu-
tion as an officer was reflected on him
by his service in India: on his return
from whence, before the commencement
of the war with France, he retired from
the army.

BARRY, Mrs. Judith, and her sis-
er Mrs. Catharine; the former Jan. 18.
3

the latter Jan. 22, the former 80,
the latter 90 years of age. They were
aunts to the late, and great-aunts to the
present Lord Doneraile, and were in
other instances nobly related. In the
year 1813 both of them underwent the
operation of couching, and retained their
sight to the last.

ment.

BARTLAM, the Rev. John, Feb. 27.
in London, of an apoplexy. Mr.
Bartlam was born at Alcester, War-
wickshire, July 1770. His maternal
ancestors were members of the church
of England; his paternal, down to his
grandfather, belonged to the church of
Rome; his father, with a well-cultivated
understanding and polished manners,
was admitted to an early intimacy with
the late Marquis of Hertford, by whose
kindness he was appointed first to a mi-
litary, and afterwards to a civil employ-
While he was pursuing his fa-
vourite amusement of fishing, in an arm
of the sea, near Orford in Suffolk, the
boat was suddenly overset, and he was
drowned within the sight of his villa,
leaving behind him a wife and three sons.
After the decease of her beloved hus-
band, Mrs. Bartlam fixed her abode at
Alcester, where she received many
courteous attentions, and many import-
ant services, from the noble family at
Ragley. Thomas, the eldest son, after
a short stay as Colleger at Eton, was
removed to Rugby school, where his
brothers Robert and John had been
placed, under the care of the late Dr.
James, who had meritoriously intro-
duced the Eton plan of instruction, and
thus laid the foundations of all the ce-
lebrity which that seminary afterwards
acquired, and now deservedly retains.
In the winter of 1786, he had the mis-
fortune to be in the number of those
boys who, in consequence of disobedi-
ence, were sent away. Hearing that his
case was accompanied by many circum-
stances of mitigation, Dr. Parr made
some enquiries into his general charac-
ter, and finding that he was a good scho-
lar, and had stood high in the esteem
of his master, the Doctor applied for
permission to take him as a pupil. The
request was granted by Dr. James, and
Mr. Bartlam came to Hatton, where he
had comfortable lodgings in the village,
and received the same instruction which
was given to the other pupils of Dr.
Parr. His application there was dili-
gent, his progress in classical learning
was considerable, and his good beha-
viour and good nature so endeared him

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