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
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.
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
"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.
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
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.'
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.
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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