July 24. Sir Charles J. Peshall, lately his Britannic Majesty's Consul for North Carolina.

Aug. 10. At Paris, Caroline, fifth dau. of Sir Anthony Buller, Bart., of Pounds. Aug. 13. Åt Sierra Leone, aged 50, Octavius Temple, esq. Lieut.-Governor of that island, (which he held only eight months), and son of the late Vicar of Gluvias, Cornwall; leaving a widow and six children.

Aug. 29. At Philadelphia, the wife of G. Robertson, esq. British Consul. Lately. The reigning Duke of Anhalt Bernburg, father of the Princess Frederick of Prussia.

At Frankfort, the Abbé Hennecart, a

French emigrant, who was long editor of the Frankfort French Journal, and on whom Louis XVIII. conferred the Order of the Legion of Honour.

At Thonom, near Geneva, General Dessaix, one of the most distinguished of the officers of Napoleon. He quitted the service of France at the time of the Restoration, and has since constantly refused to acknowledge either that or the present Government.

In America, a German woman, named Betty Brantham, aged 154. When 120 years old she lost her sight, but subsequently recovered it, and during the last 28 years of her life could see as well as in her youth.

VOL. I. P. 118.-Dr. Milligan was in his 50th year. This self-taught philosopher was a native of Kirkbean on the Forth of Solway. Only twelve years before his death he was a country shoemaker. Like Gifford and Bloomfield he grew weary of the last and the awl; he then went to Edinburgh, attended the College, became an instructor in his turn, amassed some property, and was distinguished among the learned and polite.

P. 332.-Dean Woodhouse became a widower in 1826. There is the following epitaph to his wife in Lichfield cathedral: In memory of Mercy, wife of the Very Rev. Dr. Woodhouse, Dean of this Cathedral, who departed this life on the 7th of January 1826, in the 80th year of her age. Her never failing piety towards God will long be remembered within these sacred walls, as will her charity to the poor in every place of her residence." The Dean's daughter, EllenJane, was married first to the Rev. William Robinson, B.C.L. Prebendary of Lichfield, and Rector of Swinnerton and Stoke-upon-Trent, by whom she was mother of two daughters, Ellen-Jane and Marianne (the one drowned and the other burnt to death), the subjects of Chantrey's exquisite figures in Lichfield Cathedral. Mr. Robinson died March 21, 1812, aged 35; and his widow was married secondly to Hugh Dyke Acland, esq., next brother to Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Bart., by whom she has one son, Hugh.

P. 338. The Rev. Stafford Smith, some time previous to his death, executed a trust deed, whereby he gave one thousand pounds, the interest thereof to be annually expended in coals, flannel, and books, which are to be distributed, at the

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discretion of the Trustees, to certain in Fladbury and the adjoining hamlets, provided the Parish also contribute a portion of money towards forwarding the same desirable object; in failure of which the interest is to go to the Worcester Infirmary. He bequeathed 1001. to that institution, and 100%. to the Gloucester Infirmary, which were paid by his widow, in full, without deducting the legacy duty.

P. 437. The present Lord Exmouth is the Rt. Hon. Percy-Taylor, second son of the late Lord. His elder son, Edward, died in India.

P. 454.-Lady Lyndhurst died at Paris, not at Boulogne; for Garcy read Garey.

P. 558.-The monument to Dr. Alexander Murray is to be constructed on the Doon rock, a conical eminence of considerable height, within a quarter of a mile of his birth-place, and commanding a view of the vale of Palneur, and the whole eastern coast of Wigtonshire. It will be constructed of granite, and eighty feet in height.

P. 560.-We are told the name of the Rev. Latham Wainewright should be spelled with the e; which orthography is supported by the List of Cambridge Graduates.

P. 564.-Mr. Page was a Bencher of the Middle, not the Inner Temple.

P. 566.- The Rev. John Davison was the author of the following works:"Some account of a recent work entitled, Elements of General Knowledge' (by Rev. Henry Kett), 2 parts. Oxford, 1803-4. A Sermon preached at St. Mary's, Oxford, March 6, 1817, at the Lent Assizes, before Sir Allan Park and Sir James Burroughs, 4to. Considerations on the Poor Laws, 1817, 8vo. Re

ply to an Article in the Edinb. Review (LXIV.) entitled Parliamentary Inquiry,' to which is subjoined a Letter commented upon in that article, 1820. Discourses on Prophecy, being the substance of twelve Sermons preached in the Chapel of Lincoln's Inn, in the Lecture founded by Warburton, 1824. An Inquiry into the Origin and Intent of Primitive Sacrifice, and the Scripture Evidence respecting it, 1825. Considerations on the Piety, or religious Principle, of conciliatory measures towards Ireland (two parts), one addressed to the Electors of the Uni versity of Oxford, 1829. A small Edition of Catullus, printed at Oxford. Mr. Davison was Fellow, and for some time Tutor of Oriel. Lord Liverpool gave him a living in Lincolnshire, which he left for that of Washington, in Durham, his native county. He was then made Prebendary of Worcester, and afterwards held the living of Upton on Severn, where he resided, and where a public subscription has been formed for a monument to his memory. His body was interred in the Lady Chapel of Worcester cathedral. Mr. Davison was a person of very eminent talents, and of acquirements peculiarly recondite and refined.

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was a very finished scholar, a learned Divine, and a most sound and acute reasoner. To this he added a fine imagination, and a style forcible, idiomatic, and elegant. His volume of sermons preached at the Warburtonian Lecture, is distinguished for the ingenuity of the reasoning, and the beauty of the language. seventh discourse, on the Divine Foreknowledge, is a masterpiece of subtle and convincing logic. The little tract on the Poor Laws is far superior to most writings on the same subject, for the solidity of the arguments, the happiness of the. illustrations, and the excellence of the style. We may say indeed of Mr. Davison, as was said of Conyers Middleton,

Literæ fuerunt illi non hæ vulgares, et quotidiana; sed uberrimæ, et maxime exquisitæ.' He was indeed a very admirable scholar, and a person of extensive inquiry, and powerful understanding. He was at Oxford contemporary with the present Bishop of Llandaff, and of the same college.

P. 657. At the Bridgewater Sessions a motion was made, and unanimously carried, that a monument be raised to the memory of the late J. Phelips, esq., and that a subscription, to defray the expense thereof, be immediately commenced, in sums of not less than 10s. and not exceeding 51.

P. 665.-The Rev. William Forster,

Rector of Ayston, had also been Rector of Thiselton for sixty-three years. Both livings are in the patronage of George Fludyer, esq., to whom he has left the bulk of his large fortune.

P. 669.-The following is an extract from the will of the late William Watson, esq. F.S. A. "Whereas in the course of my life I have had (undeserving as I feel of such marks of regard), the satisfaction of receiving certain very friendly tokens of respect from those with whom I had the pleasure of acting in public life, one of which is a handsome sword, presented to me by the officers of the Wisbech Volunteer Regiment of Infantry, which I had the honour to command as Lieut.-Col. Commandant, in the year 1808; and the other is a splendid golden cup, presented to me in the year 1819; both of which I give to my wife for her life, and after her decease, I give the same sword and cup to the capital burgesses of Wisbech in their corporate capacity, to be preserved amongst their valuables, as a mark of my respect to the inhabitants of the town where I received such courtesies:" and he directs that his trustees shall, after his wife's decease, raise out of his personal estate, "the sum of one thousand pounds, either towards forming a fund to establish a Dispensary within the town of Wisbech Saint Peter, for the benefit of the poor inhabitants thereof, or in case such institution shall be already established before such sum of one thousand pounds shall become payable, then that the same shall be paid in aid of the funds then raised for such benevolent purpose."

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VOL. II. p. 106.-John Fuller, esq., of Rosehill, was the only son of the Rev. Henry Fuller, of Stonham, Hants, who was younger brother of John Fuller, esq., of Brightling, who died in 1775, and of Rose Fuller, esq. M.P., of Brightling, who died in 1777. Their father's name was John, not Thomas. The wife of the Rev. Henry Fuller, and mother of the late John Fuller, esq., was Frances, dau. of Thomas Fuller, esq., of Cutfield, another branch of the family. Fuller was an only son: he had two sisters, Elizabeth, the wife of Sir John Palmer Acland, Bart., and Frances, wife of the Rev. George Lewis. The family of Fuller- Elliott Drake (see the Baronetage), to whom Mr. Fuller has left his West India estates, are descended from his uncle Thomas Fuller, esq the fourth son of John Fuller, of Brightling, who died in 1745, by Elizabeth, eldest daughter and coheir of Fulke Rose, esq.

P. 221.-Major Francis C. Crotty (not Crofty), was Major of his Majesty's 39th foot, quartered at Bangalore in Madras, whence he lately returned by the ship Wellington. He attained the rank of Major in 1832.

P. 314. The vault of the Lawley family is at Hints, near Lichfield, where Lord Wenlock's body was followed to the grave by his brothers Sir Francis Lawley, Bart., and P. Beilby Thompson, esq., M.P. The name of the mansion is Canwell.

P. 323. We have received a letter from Robert Oliver Jones, esq., of Fonmon Castle, stating that the writer of the memoir of the late Robert Jones, esq., has fallen into an error in stating that Col. John Jones, the Regicide, was a brother to Col. Philip Jones (Mr. Jones's ancestor); they were not related.

P. 432.--The will of Sir R. Wilmot, Bart., was proved in the Prerogative Court on the 22d Oct. The present Baronet, the Right Hon. Sir Robert Wilmot Horton, Governor of Ceylon, succeeds to the Osmaston and Weston estates, in Derbyshire, and becomes possessor of the valuable collection of paintings at Osmaston. The beautiful villa at Great Malvern, recently purchased by the late Baronet, devolves upon Lady Wilmot. The personalities, amounting to 100,000l., together with a considerable sum in foreign securities, will be divided amongst the late Baronet's four younger children.

P. 437.-Mr. Thomas Law was the author of a Sketch of some late arrangements, and a view of the rising resources in Bengal, 1792, 8vo., and an Answer to Mr. Prinsep's Observations on the Mocurrary System, 1794, 8vo.

P. 439.-It is not the Rev. R. W. Povah who is a Minor Canon of St. Paul's, but the Rev. John V. Povah, who is also one of his Majesty's Priests in ordinary.

P. 549. The will of the late Mr. Coleridge is dated Highgate, Sept. 17, 1829.

He bequeaths to Joseph Henry Green, of Lincoln's Inn-fields, surgeon, all his books, manuscripts, and effects upon trust, to invest the produce in the public funds, and pay the dividends to his wife, Sarah Coleridge, and after her death, to his daughter, Sara Coleridge, she being unmarried. If married, the dividends to be equally divided between his three children-Hartley Coleridge, the Rev. Derwent Coleridge, and the aforesaid Sara Coleridge; each to bequeath the third part of the principal, after the death of the last survivor, according to his or

her pleasure. Mr. Green to have the option of purchasing the books at such price as he shall himself determine, inasmuch as their chief value will be dependent on his possession of them; but should he think it expedient to publish any of the notes or writings made in them, or any other manuscripts or letters, the proceeds to be subject to the same trusts as the personal estate. His pictures and engravings in the house of "his dear friends, James and Ann Gilman" (my more than friends, the guardians of my health, happiness, and interests, during the fourteen years of my life that I have enjoyed the proofs of their constant, zealous, and disinterested affection as an inmate and member of their family), I give and bequeath to Ann Gillman, the wife of my dear friend, my love for whom, and my sense of her unremitted goodness and never-wearied kindness to me, I hope and humbly trust will follow me as a part of my abiding being into that state into which I hope to rise, through the merits and mediation and by the efficacious power of the Son of God incarnate in the blessed Jesus, whom I believe in my heart, and confess with my mouth, to have been from everlasting the Way and the Truth, and to have become man, that for fallen and sinful men he might be the resurrection and the life. And further, I hereby tell my children Hartley, Derwent, and Sara, that I have but little to leave them; but I hope and indeed confidently believe, that they will regard it as a part of their inheritance, when I thus bequeath to them my affection and gratitude to Mr. and Mrs. Gillman-and to the dear friend, the companion, partner, and helpmate of my worthiest studies, Mr. Joseph Henry Green. Further to Mr. Gillman, as the most expressive way in which I can only mark my relation to him, and in remembrance of a great and good man, revered by us both, I leave the manuscript volume lettered Arist. Manuscript-Birds, Acharnians, Knights, presented to me by my dear friend and patron, the Rt. Hon. John Hookman Frere, who of all the men that I have had the means of knowing, during my life, appears to me eminently to deserve to be characterized as ὁ καλοκἄγαθος ὁ φιλόκαλος.

"To Mr. Frere himself I can only bequeath my assurance, grounded on a faith equally precious to him as to me, of a continuance of those prayers which I have for many years offered for his temporal and spiritual well-being. And further, in remembrance that it was under his (Mr. Gillman's) roof I enjoyed so

many hours of delightful and profitable communion with Mr. J. H. Frere, it is my wish that this volume should, after the demise of James Gillman senior, belong, and I do hereby bequeath the same to James Gillman junior, in the hope that it will remain as an heir-loom in the Gillman family.

"On revising this my will, there seemed at first some reason to apprehend that, in the disposition of my books, as above determined, I might have imposed on my executor a too delicate office. But, on the other hand, the motive, from the peculiar character of the books, is so evident, and the reverential sense which all my children entertained of Mr. Green's cha racter, both as the personal friend of their father, and as the man most intimate with their father's intellectual labours, purposes, and aspirations, I believe to be such, as will, I trust, be sufficient to preclude any delicacy that might result from the said disposition.

"To my daughter, Sara Coleridge, exemplary in all the relations of life in which she hath been placed, a blessing to both her parents, and to her mother the rich reward which the anxious fulfilment of her maternal duties had, humanly speaking, merited, I bequeath the presentation copy of the Georgica Heptaglotta, given me by my highly respected friend, William Sotheby, Esquire. And it is my wish that Sara should never part with this volume; but that, if she should marry and should have a daughter, it may descend to her, or if daughters, to her eldest daughter, as a memento, that her mother's accomplishments, and her unusual attainments in ancient and modern languages, were not so much or so justly the object of admiration, as their co-existence with piety, simplicity, and a characteristic meekness; in short, with mind, manners, and character so perfectly feminine. And for this purpose I have recorded this, my wish, in the same or equivalent words, on the first title page of this splendid work.

"To my daughter-in-law, Mary Coleridge, the wife of the Reverend Derwent Coleridge, whom I bless God that I have been permitted to see, and to have so seen as to esteem and love on my own judgment, and to be grateful for her on my own account as well as in behalf of my dear son,-I give the interleaved copy of the Friend, corrected by myself, and with sundry notes and additions in my own hand-writing, in trust for my grandson, Derwent Coleridge, that if it should so please God to preserve his life, he may possess some memento of the paternal grandfather, who blesses him unseen,

and fervently commends him to the Great Father in Heaven, whose face his angels evermore behold.'-Matt. 18, v. 10.

"And further, as a relief to my own feelings by the opportunity of mentioning their names, that I request of my executor, that a small plain gold mourning ring, with my hair, may be presented to the following persons, namely :—To my oldest friend and ever beloved schoolfellow, Charles Lamb-and in the deep and almost life-long affection of which this is the slender record, his equally beloved sister, Mary Lamb, will know herself to be included.-2. To my old and very kind friend, Basil Montagu, Esq.-3. To Thomas Poole, esq., of Nether-Stowey. The dedicatory Poem to my Juvenile Poems, and my Tears in Solitude, render it unnecessary to say more than that, what I then in my early manhood thought and felt, I now, a grey-headed man, still think and feel.-4. To Mr. Josiah Wade, whose zealous friendship and important services during my residences at Bristol I never have forgotten, or while reason and memory remain can forget.-5. To my filial friend, dear to me by a double bond in his father's right, and in his own, Launcelot Wade.-6. To Miss Sarah Hutchinson.

"To Robert Southey and to William Wordsworth my children have a debt of gratitude and reverential affection on their own account; and the sentiments I have left on record in my Literary Life, and in my Poems, and which are the convictions of the present moment, supersede the necessity of any other memorial of my regard and respect.

"There is one thing yet on my heart to say, as far as it may consist with entire submission to the Divine will, namely, that I have too little proposed to myself any temporal interests, either of fortune or literary reputation, and that the sole regret I now feel at the scantiness of my means, arises out of my inability to make such present provision for my dear Hartley, my first-born, as might set his feelings at ease and his mind at liberty from the depressing anxieties of to-day, and exempt him from the necessity of diverting the talents, with which it hath pleased God to entrust him, to subjects of temporary interests, knowing that it is with him, as it ever has been with myself, that his powers, and the ability and disposition to exert them, are greatest when the motives from without are least, or of least urgency. But with earnest prayer, and through faith in Jesus the Mediator. I commit him, with his dear brother and sister, to the care and providence of the