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father of the corporation; and had the honour three times of declining the Alderman's gown, and of having procured the return of H.C. Combe to be Alder. man of the Ward of Aldgate. He had the happiness of seeing his son successively Sheriff, Alderman, Governor of the Irish Society, Lord Mayor, and representative in Parliament for the city of London. Mr. Thorp was a complete gentleman of the old school; a whig in the genuine sense of the denomination; but his politics were never obtrusive; and both in public and in private life his urbanity of manners secured him universal esteem and respect. He spent Christmas-day with his family, retired early, and was next morning found in his bed a corpse. His increasing infirmities induced him a few years ago to retire from the Common Council. In his latter days he enjoyed all the happy results of a virtuous character and well spent life, in the society of a prosperous family, and in the affections of his neighbours and fellow citizens.

TOWNLEY, Richard Greaves, esq. of Fulbourn, one of the deputy Lieutenants and Magistrates of the county of Cambridge; Feb. 15; at the Corkstreet hotel, London, aged 72. Mr. Townley was not, in the common acceptation of the term, "an active magistrate," but he was an upright one. In his political life he was a whig of the old school; and such was his nice sense of the high degree of liberty the people ought to enjoy, that, although possessed of extensive property, he would never even ask a tenant or a tradesman with whom he dealt, for a vote in the support of that interest to which he himself was attached. Mr. T. is succeeded in his principal estates by his eldest son, Greaves Townley, Esq.

TROY, Dr. John Thomas, the venerable and learned Titular Archbishop of Dublin, May 10, at his house in Cavendish Row. He was a Bishop forty-seven years, and filled the metropolitan see thirty-seven. Doctor Troy was born in the city of Dublin, in July, 1739.-appointed Bishop in December, 1776, consecrated the following year, and translated to the archdiocese of Dublin in 1786. He possessed a sound understanding, extensive information, and great virtues. The whole of his long life was exclusively devoted to the duties of his sacred calling. He was aged 83 years and ten months.

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resolved that his funeral should be a pub. lic one. He made himself conspicuous many years ago by a prosecution against the proprietors of the Antijacobin Review, for a supposed libel, in which he gained a virdict, with 50%. damages. He published "A Pastoral Letter, addressed to the Catholics of his Diocese, 8vo. 1793.

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VINCENT, George N. Esq. Mar. 18, By this gentleman's death many of our establishments founded for charitable purposes, for promoting habits of industry among the poorer classes of society, and instructing them in their moral and religious duties, have sustained the loss of one of their most useful and active members.

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WADE, the Rev. Nicholas, A. M. June 24. 1822; at Bombay, of an apoplectic fit; aged 56. Mr. Wade was senior Chaplain at Bombay Presidency. He was in his place in the church on Sunday morning; in the afternoon, he attended at the burial-ground in the performance of his duty; in the evening, dined with his family, and retired to bed at his usual hour of nine; on Monday morning, at half-past six, he was a corpse! Mr. Wade's remains were interred in the chancel of St. Thomas's church, of which he had been a Chaplain nearly 31 years, attended by a numerous and respectable concourse of sorrowing friends.

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WARD, the Rev. William, Mar. 7. at Serampore, in the East Indies. was ill only one day, and the progress of the disease was so rapid and violent as to incapacitate him for conversation, The literary labours of Mr. Ward, his efforts for upwards of 20 years in printing the sacred Scriptures in the languages of the East, and his indefatigable ardour in evangelising the natives of Hindostan, endeared him to thousands; and his death will be deplored as a serious loss to the Christian world. About twenty-five years ago he resided at Hull, and edited the Hull Advertiser.

WARREN, Mr. Charles, the eminent engraver, April 21. at Wandworth. He was conversing cheerfully at the time, but the stroke of death reached him without pain, and he stooped his head down to expire in an instant. Long actively employed in the business

of life, Mr. Warren was generally known, and his works were as generally admired. Mr. Warren was a useful member of the Society of Arts, was one of the chairmen of the committee of Polite Arts, and lately contributed a communication to the society on the practicability of engraving on steel. The following particulars are from the report of the Secretary. "Many attempts of that nature had been made, from the time of Albert Durer to the present day. It was supposed that the difficulty of engraving on so hard a substance would be compensated by the durability of the work. It had been usual to try the experiment on a thin plate of steel, but the extreme hardness of the article blunted the different instruments which were employed in cutting it, and there. fore no work of art had, for a long period, been engraved on steel. Mr. Warren, however, heard that the buttonmanufacturers of Birmingham used a process by which they lowered the hardness of steel. He then turned his whole attention to the subject, and one by one, overcame every difficulty, and made some exquisite engravings on steel. He laid before the Society copies of these engravings, and where 4,000 and even 5,000 prints had been struck off, scarcely any difference could be observed between the first impression and the last. They all had the appearance of proofs. If he had kept the discovery to himself, it would have tended greatly to his advantage; but he preferred the improvement of the art to his personal interest, and he communicated to any person, who requested it, all the knowledge he had to bestow. As a compliment to the Society, he had laid the discovery before them, and it had been investigated on three different evenings, with the most satisfactory result. Death suddenly snatched him away, in the full vigour of mind, and the gold medal awarded to him by the Society of Arts during the last year was therefore delivered to his brother, in trust for his orphan daughter, on the 28th of May, by his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, who, when he presented it said "In the midst of your affliction, however, it must afford you great consolation to know how highly your brother's character was esteemed by the Society."

WESLEY, Mrs. Sarah; Dec. 28, 1822; in Nottingham-street, Mary-lebone; in her 97th year. Mrs. Wesley was relict of the Rev. Charles Wesley,

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M. A. celebrated for his sacred poetry, author of the well known hymn, “Jesus, lover of my soul," and brother to the late Rev. John Wesley, M. A. was daughter of Marmaduke Gwynne, Esq. of Garth, Brecknockshire; and was married, April 9, 1749, to the Rev. C. Wesley, with whom she lived in the most agreeable manner till her husband's death, March 29, 1788. of her brothers, the late Roderick Gwynne, Esq. was Governor of Tobago. She was a woman of good sense, piety, and useful accomplishments; and devoted her youth to God, when surrounded by worldly attractions; and his providence and grace were her sup port and consolation to extreme old age. WEST, Mr. Thomas, Jan. 23; at Little Bowden, Northamptonshire, in his 67th year. He was conversing as usual with his family, when a sudden accéss of water on the chest, a disease under which he had long laboured, changed his countenance, and he expired without a struggle or a groan. Thus quietly exchanging infirmity and sorrow, for, it is humbly hoped, eternal rest.

The deceased was nearly allied to Admiral West, distinguished by his share in the mournful events attached to the relief of Minorca in 1756; and also to Gilbert West, author of the immortal treatise on the Resurrection. His maternal ancestors and elder brother constituted an unbroken chain of Rectors of Little Bowden for above 150 years, one of whom, in the reign of Charles the First, claims remembrance as a confessor in the cause of unshaken loyalty.

The predominant features of Mr. West's character were kindness of heart and placability of temper. Though from great natural sensibility, depressed spirits, and irritability of the nervous system consequent on his disorder, he was disposed to feel too keenly what he deemed unkind or illiberal behaviour, it was impossible for him to entertain lasting enmity - he would rather anticipate the relentings of an adversary by spontaneous advances to reconciliation. Peculiar correctness in moral conduct and conversation was in him united with a truly English hospitality, and an unaffected simplicity of manners and deportment. A kind and faithful husband, a fond indulgent father, a lenient considerate master to his servants (several of whom have grown grey in his family)-deep and lasting are the regrets

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WILFORD, Lieut. Col. Sep. 3. 1822; at Benares, of debility. By this event the community of letters in the East have sustained a great loss. This eminent scholar has been long celebrated as a most learned and indefatigable cultivator of the Asiatic History and Literature of the Hindoos. He was one of the earliest members of the Asiatic Society, and soon distinguished himself by his contributions to their researches; his extensive erudition and unwearied diligence received the highest encomiums from Sir William Jones, and secured the favourable notice of Warren Hastings, by whose encouragement Lieut. Wilford was induced to address his whole attention to those studies to which he perseveringly devoted the rest of his life.

WILKIE, Patrick, Esq. late his Majesty's Consul at Carthagena; in Sloane-street; deeply lamented by his widow and numerous circle of friends. This highly respected gentleman is well known to have been of very material service to Lord Nelson,during his Lordship's command in the Mediterranean.

WOODDESON, Richard, Esq. D.C.L. Fellow of St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford; and Bencher of the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple; Oct. 29, 1822, London; in his 77th year.

Dr. Wooddeson was born at Kingston-on-Thames, May, 15, 1745, and educated solely by his father, the Rev. Richard Wooddeson, who was for many years Master of the Grammarschool in that town, and distinguished as well by several elegant poetical compositions, as by the formation of many eminent scholars, amongst whom may be mentioned the late Mr. Gilbert Wakefield, and the celebrated Mr. George Hardinge.

At the age of fourteen, young Richard was entered at Pembroke College, Ox

ford, and shortly after in the same year (1759) elected to a Demyship in Magdalen College, of which his father had been a Clerk, and his grand-father a Fellow and an Incumbent. He proceeded B. A. in 1762, and at the Enconia held in the Theatre at Oxford, the following summer, he performed a Latin trialogue, with two other members of his society, in honour of the birth of his present Majesty.

In 1766, the year after he had taken the degree of M. A. he became a candidate for a scholarship on Mr. Viner's Foundation of Common Law, and being chosen by a majority of voices, was admitted to the situation, by what appears to have been an unusual construction of the statutes.

Having succeeded in 1771, to a college fellowship, Mr. Wooddeson was proposed in convocation the next year, to be the Deputy Vinerian Professor, which appointment, though he was then rejected, he some time after obtained, and held for three years, being during that time only a scholar on that foundation. He succeeded, in 1776, to a Vinerian Fellowship, and the succeeding spring, on the resignation of Sir Robert Chambers, was elected Professor in his room, after a sharp contest, in which he obtained a majority of five votes only, over his opponent, Mr. Giles Rooke, then Fellow of Merton College, afterwards knighted, and raised to a seat on the judicial bench.

The duties of this office were performed by the subject of the present memoir, then Doctor of Civil Law, in a very meritorious and conscientious manner, for the space of sixteen years; at the end of which he resigned it, not however without giving to the world a proof of his sedulous attention to the task imposed on him, in two publications; the first in 1789, entitled "Elements of Jurisprudence, treated of in the preliminary Part of a Course of Lectures, on the Laws of England;" the second in 1792 and 1793, "A systematick View of the laws of England, as treated in a course of Vinerian Lectures at Oxford;" dedicated to the late King. Besides these two books, nothing appeared from the pen, at least in the name, of Dr. Wooddeson, except a small tract in 1779, called "A brief Vindication of the Rights of the British Legislature, in answer to some Positions advanced in a Pamphlet entitled Thoughts on the English Govern

ment. But the following extract from the advertisement prefixed by the late Sir Samuel Toller, to his popular work on Tithes, shews that Dr. Wooddeson was by no means an inactive man, but had turned his thoughts to the elucidation of the laws and customs so highly affecting the temporal interests of the Established Church, and the peace of its members.

"Dr. Wooddeson having collected a variety of notes with a view to extend and prepare them for a publication on the subject, was compelled by an ill state of health to relinquish his purpose, before it was much more than half accomplished, and he did me the honour of communicating to me his papers, with a request that I would revise them, and complete the work. Encouraged by the confidence reposed in me by my learned friend, I comply with his approbation, and beg leave to submit to the public the result of our joint labours."

The course of Lectures read at Oxford, following so close upon the steps of the pre-eminent work of his predecessor Judge Blackstone, could not fail of appearing in public with great disadvantage, but it is well known that Chief Baron Skinner spoke in high terms of Dr. Wooddeson's view of the Laws of England; and in addition to the general estimation in which he was held as an able and honest member of his profession, we have heard, on indisputable authority, that the late Lord Ellenborough styled him one of the best surviving lawyers of the old school. He had the honourable office of counsel to the University of Oxford for many years, indeed till towards the end of his life, though his silent and retired habits confined him, principally to the more private, though not less useful duties of a chamber counsel. As a Commissioner of Bankrupts, he was constant and regular in his attendance at Guildhall, as long as his health would permit.

The acquirements of Dr. Wooddeson, independent of his professional knowledge, were of no ordinary kind, and he was accustomed in early life to meet and associate with the most distinguished men of literature of the day, who assembled for a series of years at Mr. Payne's, at the Mews Gate, amongst whom were Dr. Akenside, Mr. Tyrrwhitt, Mr. Cracherode, the late Dean of Christ Church, the Duke of Leeds, and others whom it is not necessary to enumerates

In the year 1808, when he was at Brighton for his health, a fire accidentally breaking out in his house in Chancery-lane, destroyed the whole of his property, in which was a valuable library of books, which he never replaced. At no long period after this misfortune, he was shut out from all active life by the increase of his bodily infirmities, which he continued to bear with great patience and cheerfulness till his 77th year, when he left the world in perfect resignation, and with all his faculties unimpaired. Dr. Wooddeson died on the 29th of October, 1822; at his residence in Boswell Court, Lincoln's-inn-fields. He was buried in the Benchers' vault in the Temple Church. In the disposal of his property, he was induced, by his warm feelings of active benevolence, to leave sums of money to many charitable institutions; nor did he fail to acknowledge the kind assistance invariably afforded him by his colleagues in the Commissions of Bankruptcy, by numerous testamentary bequests, as he had already done by handsome presents during his life. To the University of Oxford he left 300l. as a mark of his grateful regards, for the use of the Clarendon Press; 400l. also to Magdalen College, of which he had been the Senior Fellow for many years, down to the period of his decease, and where his name is always mentioned by his fellow collegians and associates with the utmost respect and attachment. With him the family of Wooddeson is supposed to be extinct.

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YARBOROUGH, Charles Anderson Pelham, Lord; at his seat at Brocklesby Hall, Lincolnshire, aged 75. Mr. Anderson, which was his patronymic name, assumed the name of Pelham on succeeding to the fortune of Charles Pelham, his great uncle. served in several parliaments for the county of Lincoln, till the year 1792, when, by the interest of Mr. Pitt, to whom he had attached himself, he was, by the King, created Baron Yarborough. His lordship soon, however, changed his politics, and for many years voted with opposition. He was not distinguished as an orator in either house of parliament. He is succeeded in his title and estate by his son, the Hon. Charles Anderson Pelham, of

Appledurcombe, in the Isle of Wight; that gentleman having succeeded to that estate as heir at law to the late Sir Richard Worsley. Mr. Pelham, in the House of Commons, has steadily voted with opposition. Lord Yarborough was LL. D. F.R. S. and F.A.S.

YOUNG, Charles, Esq. at Southampton, 17th of December, 1822; in the 26th year of his age. Mr. Young,

who was the fourth son of the celebrated Professor Young of Glasgow, was a gentleman, of whose future literary eminence his natural talents and early attainments afforded the most flattering promises. He acquired the rudiments of classical instruction under the roof of his father's intimate and learned friend, the Rev. Dr. Charles Burney, of Greenwich, and passed through the course of languages and philosophy in the University of Glasgow, with uniform approbation, and on several occasions with public marks of distinction. Afterwards he was a student for some years at Balliol College, Oxford, but his delicate health obliged him to leave

that University and his country, and to repair to the milder climates of France and Italy. After spending two years in them, gratifying and cultivating his taste for the fine arts, extending his knowledge of classical and modern literature, and enjoying the society and friendship of many eminent men of learning, in Paris, Rome, and Naples, he returned home with no common share of refined and elegant accomplishments, but without any essential benefit to his health. His complaints compelled him to abandon the prospect of succeeding his father in those academic and literary occupations, for which his taste and his talents rendered him

eminently qualified. To these complaints he fell a victim, and ended his short and virtuous life with the most perfect composure and resignation, retaining to the last hour of it the exercise of those faculties, and of those kind and gentle manners, which had so much endeared him to his family, his friends, and his acquaintance.

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