had had good opportunities of observing his merits. In 1806 he became Resident Commissioner of Deptford and Woolwich Dockyards; and he filled that arduous situation for a period of nearly seventeen years, with a spirit and activity which were manifest in all the various departments under his direction. In 1823, on the reduction of those establishments, the Commissioner was removed to Chatham Yard: from the superintendence of which he retired on the 4th of May 1829 with the rank of Rear-Admiral, having then almost incessantly served the public for fifty-four years. He was treated with the greatest consideration by the authorities; and on the 24th Oct. 1832, his Majesty conferred upon him the honour of knighthood, with the insignia of Commander of the Hanoverian order. The loss of his son (Charles-Proby, a promising youth who died while serving as a midshipman, Nov. 11, 1822, aged 20 years), was a severe blow to his connection with the Navy, and he latterly resided with his daughter in retirement.

Adm. Cunningham was a spare wellbuilt man, with hard but good features; of an active disposition, firm principles, and correct conduct. In society his conversation was various and animated; his hospitality and kindness were remarkable, and his attachments warm and faithful. He was twice married; first to Miss Boycott, who like himself was a native of Eye; and secondly to a daughter of Commissioner Proby, one of the companions of Anson. This lady died suddenly at Chatham, in the same room where her father expired.

[This article has been abridged from a longer Memoir of Rear-Adm. Cunningham, which appeared in the United Service Journal for May.]

JOHN FULLER, ESQ. April 11. In Devonshire place, aged 77, John Fuller, Esq. of Rose Hill, Sussex, formerly M. P. for that county.

This gentleman was the son of John Rose Fuller, esq. He succeeded in estate his uncle Rose Fuller, esq. M. P. for Rye (ob. 1777) who was the younger son of Mr. Thomas Fuller, the purchaser of the estate, and builder of the house, of Rose Hill, by Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Rose, of Jamaica.

Mr. Fuller was first elected to Parliament for Southampton in Feb. 1780, and having been rechosen at the general election of the same year, he sat for that town until the dissolution in 1784. He served the office of Sheriff of Sussex in 1797.

In 1801, on the elevation to the peerage of the Rt. Hon. T. Pelham (by the

title of Earl of Chichester), Mr. Fuller became a candidate for the representation of the county of Sussex, and was successful after an arduous contest with Col. Sergison, which lasted sixteen days, and cost him 20,000l. in addition to a subscription purse for 30,000l. made by the county. He was re-chosen in 1802, 1806, and 1807, and sat until the dissolution of 1812. He generally voted with Mr. Fox; and is said to have indignantly refused the offer of a peerage from Mr. Pitt, deeming it a trial of his integrity. It is related that he threw the Minister's letter into the fire, in the presence of a large party of friends, declaring "I was born Jack Fuller, and Jack Fuller I will die!" In 1810, during the inquiry on the Walcheren expedition, Mr. Fuller got embroiled in an insane contest with the supreme authority of the House of Commons. On the 22d of Feb. he was repeatedly called to order; but on the 27th no appeal from the Speaker or remonstrances from his friends, could restrain him within the bounds of propriety. The House was in consequence resumed from the Committee into which it had resolved itself, and Mr. Fuller was immediately voted into the custody of the Sergeant at Arms; when he violently rushed into the House, vehemently asserting that the Speaker, whom he designated as "the little insignificant fellow in the wig," was the servant of the House, and had no authority over the Members, who had converted him into their Master. He was at length carried off the field by the united efforts of four of the messengers of the House. He remained two days in custody; and was then discharged with a very severe repri mand from the Speaker, who threatened him with summary expulsion on a repetition of his offence. After this memorable scene, he was not returned to another Parliament.

Mr. Fuller was distinguished through life by much eccentricity; but it was mingled with a kind heart, that displayed itself in deeds of princely munificence. The favourite object of his liberality was the Royal Institution, where he first founded a Professorship of Electricity, in the year 182.., and subsequently, a few weeks before his death, a Professorship of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology. He also gave the Institution at the same time the sum of 30007. to accumulate in the funds; making the sum total of his benefactions amount to 10,000l. On the 24th of March last the members were specially convened to thank him; and it was resolved that a subscription should be made for a Bust

of their munificent Patron, to be placed in a prominent situation in this Institution. Mr. Fuller erected an observatory at his house of Rose Hill. About twenty years ago it was expected that he would promote the publication of a history of the three Eastern rapes of Sussex; for which it was supposed that the large collections of the Rev. Mr. Hayley, which were in his possession, would furnish very extensive materials.

Mr. Fuller has died extremely rich. The bulk of his fortune, consisting of estates in Sussex and in the island of Jamaica, are left to Augustus Elliot Fuller, esq. brother to Capt. Fuller, R. N. and a nephew of the deceased, as also of Lord Heathfield. The estates in London are left to Sir Peregrine Palmer Acland, Bart. another nephew. He has also left very numerous legacies. His remains were taken to the family vault at Brightling in Sussex for interment, attended out of London by twenty-four private carriages.

T. B. BRYDGES BARRETT, ESQ. June 1. On the French coast, near Boulogne, after a few days illness, aged nearly 45, Thomas Barrett Brydges Barrett, Esq. of Lee Priory, near Canterbury, late Captain and Lieut.-Colonel of H. M. regiment of Grenadier Guards.

He was born June 20, 1789, the eldest son of Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, Bart. (who asserts the barony of Chandos of Sudeley as his right by the law of the land,) and Elizabeth, sole daughter and heiress of the Rev. Dejovas Byrche, by Elizabeth, only sister of the late Thomas Barrett, of Lee Priory, esq.

He succeeded to the estates and name of his maternal great-uncle Thomas Barrett, esq. in January 1803, when a minor at Harrow School. His great-grandfather was that Thomas Barrett, esq. (who is noticed in Nichols's Illustrations, vol. vi. p. 788, 790, and in Dibdin's Decameron, who has given his portrait), a great collector and virtuoso; and who was grandson of Sir Paul Barrett, Serjeant at Law, and Recorder of Canterbury, &c. &c. Col. Barrett was also great-great-great-great-grandson of the celebrated physician Sir George Ent, the pupil and biographer of William Harvey.

He entered the army as an Ensign in the grenadier guards in 1807. During his twenty years service, he was engaged in some of the severest dangers and hardships of the Peninsula War, and was distinguished as a soldier for his bravery, his skill, his endurance of all privations and all fatigues. He was in the retreat

with Moore, which ended in the battle of Corunna; he was at Walcheren; he was at the siege of Bayonne, and various other engagements. He loved his profession, and understood it scientifically. He was, by the universal admission of all who knew him, one of the most benevolent, amiable, and virtuous of human characters. His probity, his self-denial, his generosity, his utter disregard of all worldly vanity and show; his resolute avoidance of all selfish luxuries; his devoted affection for his family; his kindness to every human being; were, by general admission, such as had no parallel. He had great talents, and was an excellent classical scholar. He was buried at Boulogne, on Tuesday June 3d.

The Barrett estate, being strictly entailed, goes to his next brother, John William Egerton Brydges, formerly a Lieutenant in the 14th dragoons, with which he served in the Peninsula, where in 1812, at the battle of Fuentes d'Honor, he received a coup de soleil from which his health has never recovered; though he rejoined his regiment, and was taken prisoner at New Orleans; but on his return was so ill as to be put on half-pay Priory will now therefore be to let.

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THOMAS EDWARDS, ESQ. May 26. At Southport, Thomas Edwards, Esq. formerly a considerable bookseller at Halifax, in Yorkshire.

He was the youngest son of Mr. William Edwards, a character of very great eminence in the same profession, and of no common estimation for the energies of his mind. His skill in collecting rare books, not less than his exquisite taste in rich and expensive bindings, will long be remembered in the annals of Bibliography. He died Jan. 10, 1808, aged 86. He brought up four sons to his own business; most of whom eventually retired from trade to enjoy the comforts of wellearned fortunes. In 1784 Mr. Edwards, sen. when 64 years of age, set up his eldest son James with a younger brother John, in business in Pall Mall, under the firm of Edwards and Sons. Mr. John Edwards died in early life, and the business was conducted for some years by Mr. James Edwards with great reputation. By success in trade, and particularly by the purchase of several whole libraries in Italy, and selling them by auction, (amongst others the far-famed Pinelli Library), in about 20 years, Mr. J. Edwards acquired a considerable fortune, and, retiring from trade, was succeeded by Mr. R. H. Evans, the celebrated book auctioneer. Mr. James Edwards died Jan. 2, 1816, at his seat at Harrow on

the Hill, to the great regret of his numerous friends. A memoir of him appeared in our Magazine for February 1816. He had previously disposed of his valuable Library: an account of which is in our volume for 1815, part 1. pp. 135, 254, 349. Among the rarities in it, was the celebrated Bedford Missal.

Mr. Richard Edwards, another brother, was sometime a bookseller in Bond Street; but retiring from Trade, obtained an appointment under Government in Minorca.

The late Mr. F. Edwards, after his father's death in 1808, continued as a bookseller at Halifax with high reputation, for many years, but he lately retired from business to Southport. He has left a widow and family to lament the loss of a most worthy man. He was buried on the 2d of June at Trinity Church, Halifax.

April 6. At the house of her uncle Capt. Fane, R. N., Green Park-pl. aged 19, Charlotte-Anne, eldest dau. of Col. Hamilton.

April 10. In Grosvenor-sq. at the house of Sir Wm. Alexander, aged 38, Lieut.-Col. the Hon. Seymour Thomas Bathurst, 3d son of Earl Bathurst. He served at the battle of Waterloo, and was lately Treasurer to the Government at Malta. He married in 1829 Miss Julia Hankey, by whom he has left a son born

in 1832.

April 11. At Brentford, the wife of George Cooper, esq. surgeon, dau. of the late Dr. Nicholas, of Ealing, and of Brynderry, co. Monm.

April 20. At the residence of his brother-in-law Mr. Poulton, in Cadogan

pl., aged 34, Mr. Frederick Read, R.N., and K. T. S.

April 21. Thomas Myers, Esq. LL.D. of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and of Lee-terrace, Blackheath. He was the author of a Compendious System of Modern Geography, 1812; A Statistical Chart of Europe, 1813; Essay on improving the condition of the Poor, 1814.

May 8. In Regent-st., Louisa, widow of George Little, esq., of Pencraig-court, Heref., youngest dau. of the late Wm. Hornby, esq. of Portman-sq. and the Hook, Hants.

May 15. Aged 2 years and a half, the Rt. Hon. William Lord Cavendish, eldest son of the Earl of Burlington.

May 16. In Hans-pl. aged 47, Henry Rolleston, esq. a Senior Clerk at the Foreign Office. May 17. At the residence of her father, Edward Robson, esq., Eliza, wife deley, Staffordshire. of the Rev. J. W. Daltry, Vicar of Ma

Aged 46, Eliza, widow of MajorGeneral Lemuel Warren, who died on the 29th of October last, (see his memoir in our vol. I. p. 226).

Harley-st. one of His Majesty's Counsel, May 18. George Heald, esq. of Upper and a Bencher of Gray's-inn; for several years an eminent counsel at the Chancery Bar.

At South Lambeth, the widow of Luke Hansard, of Great Turnstile, Lincoln'sinn fields, esq.

In Hanover-sq., aged 65, Robert Walpole, esq. 2nd son of the Hon. Richard Walpole (brother to Horatio the 1st Earl of Orford, of the creation of 1806.)

Drowned in the river Thames, from a boat, aged 19, the 2d son of Sir John Pringle, Bart. a Cadet of the Royal Military College, Woolwich.

At Stamford-hill, Elizabeth, wife of John Treacher, esq. in the 75th year of her age, and the 56th year of their marriage.

May 19. At Powis-pl. Anne Angelina, widow of Thomos Wilson Hetherington, esq. of Walthamstow.

May 31. At Walworth, aged 81, Mr. John Clarke, formerly of Banbury, where he was the founder of the first Sunday School, and the Old Charitable Society.

Lately. Of consumption, Mr. John Ducrow, clown of Astley's theatre, and brother of Mr. Ducrow, the celebrated equestrian. His body was conveyed to the burial ground of old Lambeth Church in a plumed hearse, drawn by four horses, and preceded by his two favorite ponies. Six mourning coaches followed.

In Upper Seymour-street, aged 80,