REV. ADAM ANNAND.

April 1. Died at Aberdeen, the place of his nativity, the Rev. Adam Annand, Episcopal Clergyman, St. John's Chapel, in his 30th year. This unexpected and mournful event has inspired the deepest sorrow in every class of the community, both rich and poor; nor has any similar instance, in our recollection, drawn forth the expression of the public grief in terms more unaffected or sincere. After receiving the early part of his education in this city, he was entered at Baliol College, Oxford, where he took a degree; and where his elegant mind received that classical polish, which a residence at that seat of learning is so well calculated to produce. He returned to Aberdeen, with his mind richly stored by a familiar acquaintance with the best Divines of the English Church; and having soon after entered into Holy Orders, he became Clergyman of St. John's Chapel, where his fervent piety, the singular propriety and devotedness with which he directed the service of the Church, and the earnestness and feeling with which he delivered his discourses to an attentive and now sorrowing auditory, have left an impression that will not soon be effaced. His style was chaste and elegant; his zeal fervent, yet discreet; and ever mild and gentle in his exhortations, his constant aim in order to give efficacy to his precepts, was to edify and improve by his own example. In private life, he exhibited a bright pattern of every Christian virtue: he was blessed with a singular sweetness and amenity of disposition; and, with a competent fortune, possessed a hand "open as day to melting charity." So much innate and genuine worth, thus early snatched away, leaves a void in society not easily to be filled up; there is, however, one consolation remaining to those relatives and friends who are chiefly afflicted by his death; and that is, to cherish a love of those virtues which they so much admired in him while in life.

ELEGY

On the Death of the Rev. ADAM ANNAND, Minister of St. John's Chapel, Aberdeen. AH! what new victim to thy confines [pain, Is borne, regardless of our grief and Invidious Death! thou lov'st a shining mark, [plain. And struck the brightest object on our Accomplish'd youth, endow'd with every worth, [stay; While every bliss combin'd to court thy Sent but to shew the vanity of earth, Then, like a shining meteor, pass away. GENT. MAG. April, 1818.

And Fortune's favourite walk direct to The poor must mourn thee; for that fund shall cease [plead; To which their wants could never vainly The tongue that to their woes still whisper'd peace,

mourn,

return,

The hand still open to their every need: But chief, thy sad, thy sudden loss shall [round, They, who with mute attention gather'd And heard thee, on each Sabbath's blest [expound. With copious love the sacred page who saw thy youthful brow, and placid eye, [divine; Flush'd with the radiant glow of love Heard thy smooth accents wake repentance' sigh, [line. And felt the force of each harmonious But, to persuasive eloquence alone,

Thy happy ministry was not confin'd; Thy kind and pious deeds (tho' oft unkuown)

Have left a bright example to mankind. Who, now, shall teach, in this our greatest need,

glorious meed

pay

Calm resignation, fortitude serene ? Who with bright tints shall paint the [scene? Of virtue suffering in this transient But-cease the selfish wail, and let us [doom; Submission due to heaven's mysterious The social virtues that enhanc'd thy stay, Alike prepar'd thee for an early tomb. Thy Master saw thee, without pride or boast, In humble faith, fulfil thy mission here; And has advanc'd thee to a higher post, Still, still to serve him in a brighter sphere. ADMIRAL

ADMIRAL SIR G. C. BERKELEY.

Feb. 25. Died, in South Audley-street, the Hon. Sir George Cranfield Berkeley, G. C. B. Admiral of the White, and Lord High Admiral of Portugal. He was the only brother of the late Earl of Berkeley, born in 1753, educated at Eton, and entered into the naval service at the early age of 12 years. He commenced his professional career by accompanying his relative Admiral Keppel in the Mary yacht, which was appointed to convey the unfortunate Caroline Matilda to Denmark. He next went out in the Guernsey of 50 guns under Commodore Palliser, then Governor of Newfoundland, and assisted in the surveys of that island and the Gulf of St. Laurence; some parts of the best charts of these coasts are understood to be the performance of his pencil. He afterwards served in the Mediterranean, where he received his first commission as Lieutenant of the Trident, the flag-ship of Sir Peter Denys, in 1772. Soon after his return to England in 1774, he presented himself as a candidate for the representation of the County of Gloucester; the election occasioned a warm contest, which cost the parties upwards of 100,000l. By thus engaging in politics, and taking part with his friends who were then in opposition, Mr. Berkeley remained unemployed till 1778, when Admiral Keppel selected him to be one of his lieutenants in the Victory, in which he was present in the action which took place in July, the same year, and which furnished such a fruitful theme of party clamour and acrimonious invective. Having been appointed to the Mary sloop of 14 guns, he was sent in 1780 to Newfoundland, where his activity and gallantry in the capture of numerous privateers obtained him the command of the Vestal frigate of 28 guns. In 1781 he particularly distinguished himself in the relief of Gibraltar; and in 1782 he was appointed to the Recovery of 32 guns, one of the squadron under Admiral Barrington, in which he shared in the glory of capturing two French ships, Le Pegase of 74, L'Actionnaire of 64 guns, and ten or eleven transports and store-ships of their convoy. As a reward for his activity, Capt. Berkeley was promoted to the command of Le Pegase. During the peace which followed, he was, in 1786, appointed Surveyor General of the Ordnance; and in 1792 he sailed in the Niger frigate, as President of a board of Engineers and Commissioners, for the purpose of enquiring into abuses and frauds committed against government in the West Indies a service which he performed with honour to himself and to the entire satisfaction of his employers.

In the memorable naval engagement of the 1st of June 1794, Capt. Berkeley com

manded the Marlborough of 74 guns. It was his lot to be opposed to the French ship L'Impetueux, which, after having been pretty well handled, was relieved by the Mutius Scævola: but both were obliged to strike to the Marlborough. Immediately after their surrender a French ship of 120 guns came under the stern of the Marlborough, and raked her with a broadside, which did much mischief, and wounded, among the rest, her gallant captain in the head and leg, so that he was obliged to quit the quarter-deck. In this severe action the Marlborough was wholly dismasted, and 29 of her crew were killed, and 90 wounded. Capt. Berkeley had the satisfaction to receive for his conduct on this day the highest encomiums from the commander in chief, Earl Howe, the thanks of both Houses of Parliament, and the medal of merit from his sovereign; in addition to which he was rewarded, at the next promotion of flag-officers, with the appointment of Colonel of Marines. In 1795 he was removed to the Formidable, of 98 guns, and in 1798 appointed to the command of the sea-feucibles on the coast of Sussex, from Emsworth to Beachy Head. In 1799 Capt. Berkeley was promoted to a flag which he hoisted in the Mars of 74 guns, and was employed with the Channel Fleet during the remainder of the war in blockading the ports of Rochfort and Brest. Some time after the recommencement of hostilities, Adm. Berkeley was sent out as Commander-in-Chief on the Halifax station. During his residence there in 1807 his flag-ship was dispatched in pursuit of an American frigate. The captain of the latter having refused to permit a search for deserters, an action ensued, and this event led to discussions which terminated in a rupture with the United States.

This officer represented the county of Gloucester in parliament from 1781 till 1812. He was one of those members who in 1784 assembled at the St. Alban's Tavern, with a view to effect a union of parties; he afterwards supported the politics of Mr. Pitt, and belonged to the opposition by which Mr. Addington's administration was overpowered.

He married, in 1784, Emily Charlotte, daughter of Lord George Lennox, and sister to the present Duke of Richmond, by whom he had issue: 1. Sir George Henry Frederick, K. C. B. K. T. S. and K. T. W. Lieutenant-colonel of the 25th regiment of foot, who married the eldest daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas Sutton, Bart. 2. Anne-Louisa-Emily, married to Captain Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, Bart. 3. Georgiana-Mary, married to G. F. Seymour, R. N. son of the late Lord Hugh Seymour, and nephew of the Marquis of Hertford. 4. Mary Caro

line, married, at Lisbon, to the Earl of Euston, eldest son of George Henry, Duke of Grafton. 5. Another son, about eleven years of age.

GENERAL COUNT PLATOFF.

Died, lately, at Novotscherkask, at a very advanced age, the gallant Hetman of the Cossacks, and General of Cavalry, Count Platoff; one of the veteran warriors whose exploits against the common enemy engrossed a few years since the attention of Europe, and a view of whose person was sought after with the greatest earnestness by persons of all descriptions in this Country. The honest ardour with which this brave and loyal Chief led on his irregular bands to the defeat and discomfiture of the unprincipled Tyrant of Europe reflects immortal honour upon his memory, and will hand his name down to posterity as one of high rank among the illustrious Heroes of his day. Nothing could more strongly prove his honest detestation of the ferocious enemy and unrelenting ravager of his country, than his promising his daughter in marriage to any man who would bring the unprincipled Napoleon a prisoner to his camp.

The following observations have appeared in a respectable London newspaper: "We have not yet received any particulars relating to the precise time, or to the particular disease, which deprived the world of so bright an example of military virtue as the late Hetman Platoff. But we know, from unquestionable authority, that he was in a declining state so early in the last year as September. About that time we were informed from Tcherkash, that his Excellency was then far from well. The fatigues of the campaign of the year 1812 began to manifest their effects after the stimulus of martial ardour, and that of travelling, had subsided; the state of exhaustion was, in proportion, extreme; and he laid himself upon his bed of thickly-gathered laurels, to rest, and to find refreshment; but the attempt was in vain. Nature had been over-tasked, and he sleeps in death. We must all remember this hero of the Don, pursuing the enemies of his Country like the blast of the desert. We must all remember him in his visit to England, mild of aspect, and gentle in manners more like the Patriarch of his people than the Champion of Nations, winged with the energy of youth in its primest vigour. Only a few months have intervened between the death of this venerable Chief of the Cossacks, venerable in years and in honours, and the death of Alexander Prince Scherbattoff, his second in command, a man in the meridian of his days, and of his comprehensive services to Russia, who had also to date the germs of his fatal illness from the victorious fields of 1812. These two illustrious warriors had

the satisfaction of sharing, side by side, the dangers and the glories of that campaign. They have both died victims to its severity; and both will have a tomb in every brave heart, a memorial that must exist when marble monuments are no more. -But the reputation of a consummate General was not the only excellence in the character of the Hetman of the Cossacks. During the investment of the Invader's territory by the Allied troops, and their consequent inroads upon the French country, he heard that, near one of the spots destined for pillage, might be found the residence of Thaddeus Kosciusko, late General of the Poles, who lived there in the occupation and seclusion of a peasant. Platoff dispatched a party of his Cossacks to protect the person and the property of that great man; once the adversary of three invading Sovereigns; but now, even more illustrious in his obscurity and helplessness, than when at the head of his Sarmatian troops. Kosciusko and Platoff met; -it was the embrace of two brave hearts, as honest as brave. Such hearts are well understood in England. When Platoff related the incident to the narrator of this paragraph, it was with more than one tear in his eye; and precious are the tears which are drawn by the admiration of virtue. He knew how to value Kosciusko; for he knew that he had not only defended his Country against a press of foreign usurpation, but had refused wealth from the late Emperor Paul, and twice rejected the throne of Poland from Napoleon Buonaparte. Rather than receive a pension from the enemy of his country, or be the crowned satellite of any Emperor upon earth, he retired to a miserable village in France, and fed himself on bread and water by the labour of his hands. If this be not honest patriotism, where is it to be found? He, too, is in his grave. Nay, let us, as Christians, hope that he has rejoined the heroes who were his personal friends, if his political enemies, in another and a better world."

Mr. THOMAS PLEASANTS.

March 1. Died, this morning, in Camden-street, Dublin, the charitable and munificent Mr. Thomas Pleasants, in the 90th year of his age. Of his Stove Tenter House, and other donations, we have given an account in the Magazine for February, p. 113. Mr. Pleasants was descended from a most respectable family in the county of Carlow, and was educated for the Bar, but was never called to it. The strong powers of mind which he possessed, his classical attainments, natural eloquence, and profound knowledge of the laws of his country, would have assured him success; but, enjoying an independent property, he preferred, through a long life, the shades of quiet and privacy. At

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almost self-taught) had long previouly raised the school to much celebrity, while his liberality had materially increased its endowment; and the successor also (his former pupil) happily gave full proof, in the sequel, of his possessing those various qualifications which the peculiar exigencies of the appointment called for.

In a province not abounding in wealth, and situated at a distance from the two Universities, it has been found expedient to admit Candidates for Holy Orders, with out invariably insisting on the previous regular, but expensive graduation at either of the Universities. In this state of things, the qualifications of the Master of this School, as a place of preparatory study, became an object of no small consequence; and, in this instance, the Master proved himself to be particularly and respectably prepared: not only by his classical attainments, but also, by an extensive knowledge in scriptural and ecclesiastical learning. Even in early life, he was well versed in the antient Fathers, and thoroughly conversant in the writings of the principal Luminaries of the English Church (among whom, the judicious Hooker, and the able and well-discriminating Bishop Bull, were his favourites): and in his own religious principles, well matured by study and reflection, he was, in no common degree, qualified to superintend and direct the studies of young men preparing for the Church. To promote this end, there is attached to the School, for the use of the Students, a tolerably well-furnished Library.

In the general result, for the last five and thirty years, the several Bishops, in succession, who have presided over the diocese of St. David, particularly Dr. Warren and Dr. Horsley, have repeatedly spoken handsomely, in general, of the qualifications, both in Classic Literature, and in Theology, of the Candidates that came before them from this quarter; and, at a more recent period, Dr. Cleaver, in the adjoining diocese, was decided and open in similar commendations.

Long flattered, however, as the Master was, by the respect and civil expressions of several Bishops in succession, he still remained without any substantial proof of their favourable sentiments, till the arrival of Dr. Horsley; whose discernment soon marked him with particular notice and distinction; who, on his presenting him to a small benefice, kindly assured him, that it was by no means what he wished and intended for him. But being soon after translated from the Diocese, he had no opportunity of further realizing his declarations. The present pious and learned Prelate, however, kindly took an early opportunity of making some improvement in his Church appointments.

His state of health declining for some years, he had an opportunity of contemplating, at his leisure, the end of his labours. It may not be altogether either uninteresting or unedifying to know how such a man met the apparently approaching dissolution of his earthly tabernacle.

In the course of the year 1815, in a letter to his brother, he writes thus :-" My constitution is now become so nice, that the least trifle deranges it, and throws it off its balance. I am somewhat doubtful about the issue; it may deliver me up to a gradual decay, or it may be the means of renewing me for some time longer God's will be done! I hope and trust that I may say without presumption (I know it to be the result of much thought) that I am, in some degree, in utrumque paratus - for life or death. I shall, at all events, endeavour to join you. Perhaps it may be the last time when the three Brothers may have an opportunity of meeting."-His words proved propheticone of the party, after that meeting, saw him no more. At parting, the convalescent invalid repeated, with more calmness and cheerfulness than the other could meet his address, "Farewell, my Brother. Of our meeting again I have somehow a strong persuasion; but I do not expect it in this world."

About this time a number of his former pupils, consulting together, unanimously determined on presenting him with some testimony of their gratitude and respect; and soon after sent him a handsome silver cup, or vase, with a suitable inscription: the circumstances are recorded in the 3d vol. of the Cambrian Register. Not long after, the same grateful respect pressed on him the united request of numbers, that he would submit to sit for his Portrait, to be placed in the Library at Ystradmeyric; and with that view, he was much solicited to pay a visit to London. Though to visit a Brother residing in Town (a respectable Bookseller in the Strand) would have given him much pleasure; yet so averse were his sentiments from making the sitting for his Portrait the inducement of such a journey, that he begged to decline it. An artist from town attended him in the country, and, it is said, succeeded in a tolerable likeness.

But while his young friends were intent on this mark of respect for his person, his thoughts were moving to another direction.-" This bustle about this portrait of mine," says he, in a letter to his Brother at Aberystwith, "only the more strongly impresses upon my mind the far greater importance and necessity of another kind of portrait, so often recommended to us in the Epistles of St. Paulthe portrait, at present in contemplation, county of the kingdom, as well as by his published works, of which the following is a list: - "The Hundred of North Erpingham, in the History of Norfolk, with Preface," &c. 1781, 8vo. - "Variety, a Collection of Essays," 1788, 12mo."The Bee, or a Critique on the Exhibition of Paintings at Somerset House," 1788, 8vo. - "The Bee, a Critique on the Shakspeare Gallery," 1789, 8vo. "Sketches and Hints on Landscape Gardening," 1794, 4to. - " A Letter to Uvedale Price, esq. on the same subject," 1794, 8vo. - "Observations on Landscape Gardening," 1803, 4to. - Observations on the Changes in Ditto," 1806, 8vo. "Odd Whims, being a republication of some papers in Variety, with a Comedy and other Poems added," in 2 vols. 1804, 8vo. -"On the Introduction of Indian Architecture and Gardening," 1808, fol. Several of these have been embellished with plates from the pencil of the author; who also furnished, for twenty years, the vignettes to the Polite Repository. To these fruits of his taste and industry, may be added not less than three hundred MS collections on various subjects, accompanied by drawings to explain the improvements suggested by him at different places, with numerous Letters written on the Art of Landscape Gardening to different persons.

The Artist in Mr. Repton's line, of next longest standing, is Mr. Loudon, whose works are well known, and who, we understand, has lately spent three years in making the tour of Europe for improvement in his profession.

CHARLES TAYLOR, M.D.

(See vol. LXXXVI. ii. p. 377.) A fine portrait of the late worthy Secretary to the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, is prefixed to the newly-published volume of their Transactions, with the following eulogiom:

"The Committee might with reason be accused of neglect, if they allowed the opportunity thus offered to pass by without adding their tribute of respect to the memory of their deceased secretary. The amenity of his manners, the zeal and cordial activity with which he fulfilled the various duties of his station, being yet recent in the recollection of the individual Members of the Society, require no eulogy. In early life he was engaged in the business of calico-printing, at the time when by the concurrent application of chemical and mechanical knowledge to the manufacture of cotton goods, the first impulse was given which has since carried this branch of our national industry to its present almost incredible magnitude. Among the meritorious contributors to the rapid progress of this manufacture, justice re

quires that the name of Dr. Charles Taylor be recorded. The idea of printing by machinery appears to have originated with him, and so active was he in the application of the then recent discoveries of Berthollet, as to be the first who produced for sale in the Manchester market an entire piece of calico bleached by oxymuriatic acid. The opulence which flowed so exuberantly on many of his fellow townsmen did not find its way to him, and he was glad to retire from the various harassing circumstances attendant on the active pursuits of commerce, to the less anxious, though scarcely less active, situation of Secretary to this Institution. The place which he had acquired by an arduous and honourable competition, he occupied with credit to himself, and benefit to the Society, till the advanced pr gress of a mortal and painful disease disqualified him from farther bodily activity: still his heart and his affections hovered round their accustomed resort, and among the last objects of his solicitude was the welfare of a Society to which, from habit and taste, he had become most warmly attached."

THE REV. JOHN WILLIAMS.

Lives, eminently di tinguished by their services and utility in the community, have ever a strong claim on the recollection and gratitude of the passing age.

Of this class, not in the high-sounding career of ambition, but in the unostentatious and noiseless tenor of the more essentially beneficent course, passed the life of the venerable man, whose death we now record.

On the morning of Good Friday last, in the 73d year of his age, the Rev. John Williams, Vicar of Nantmel, in Radnorshire, Prebendary of Brecon, and upwards of 40 years Master of the endowed Grammar School at Ystradmeyric, in the county of Cardigan, closed his mortal course.

Throughout his life, as long as his health permitted, he continued unremitting in the duties of his sacred profession; and his ability in the discharge of them was generally acknowledged in the correspondent effect.

In early life a steadiness of principle and conduct, and a natural unstudied sedateness of demeanour, seemed to designate him as the guide and instructor of youth; and in this arduous task, through a long period of years, he was laboriously and successfully engaged: first at Cardigan, then at Ross, and for the last 40 years at Ystradmeyric.

Invited to this last engagement by the unanimous wishes of the Trustees, he succeeded, in this well-endowed appointment, a man of extraordinary powers and attainments, whose persevering exertion of a singular and powerful genius (though almost