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allowed his brotherhood. His best compositions are sweetly natural as well as national; and many of them stirring and spirited, contrasting finely with the melancholy strains of others, wherein dole and misfortune supersede the mar tial theme. His "British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects," in five volumes of the Family Library, deservedly became a popular work; since, though its writer falls short of that calm and farsighted knowledge which is every year increasingly demanded of the English critic, the spirit of poety is everywhere present in it. One of the memoirs "The Life of Blake "—is a contribution to our national biography, which will live, as being, after its kind, little less exquisite than Johnson's famous apology for Richard Savage. Besides this work Mr. Cunningham pub. lished, during the last fifteen years, a series of illustrations to "Major's National Gallery of Pictures;" "The Maid of Elvar," a poem; "The Life of Burns;" and "Lord Roldan," a romance. It was generally understood that he had made considerable progress in an extended edition of Johnson's "Lives of the Poets ;" and he put the finishing touches to his "Memoirs of Sir David Wilkie" but two days before his own decease. We have spoken of his friend Sir David Wilkie, his friend Sir Walter Scott, and we might add a long list of other eminent men who loved and esteemed Allan Cunningham; for few persons ever tasted the felicity of passing through the world with more of friendship and less of enmity, than this worthy and well-deserving individual. He was straight-forward, rightminded, and conscientious; true to himself and to others. A rare share of sound common sense accompanied his poetical faculties; and as a man fit for business and the most ordinary concerns and duties, he was so regular and attentive, that it would hardly have been supposed he could so palpably claim a right to exercise or play off the eccentricities of the poet. In his domestic and private life he was equally deserving of praise.

30. At his residence in Dorchester, aged 82, Edward Boswell, esq., Treasurer for the co. of Dorset, and Clerk to the Lieutenancy of the same county.

At Mount Nebo House, near Taunton, aged 72, the Rev. Richard Winsloe, Rector of Minster and Forra

bury, Cornwall, and Perpetual Curate of Ruishton, Somersetshire.

31. At his residence in Bury-court, St. Mary Axe, after a long and severe illness, aged 82, Solomon Herschell, D.D., Chief Rabbi of the Polish and German Jews in England. Dr. Herschell was the Rabbi of the Great Synagogue for a period of forty-one years. About eighteen months ago, he met with a serious accident by slipping off the step of an omnibus and spraining his ancle. Since then he dislocated his arm by falling against a bed post, and both these accidents were the cause of seriously affecting him. The Rabbi was a most benevolent man. He was ever busy in alleviating the distresses of the poor of all persuasions. He was a majestic figure, with the look of one of the "Old Fathers." His long white beard, and tall dignified person, rendered him an object of considerable mark in the streets of London. His obsequies were performed on the 2nd November, with great solemnity. The descendents of the late Rabbi include about twenty-eight grandchildren, and twenty-four great-grandchildren, in addition to those of his family surviving, who consist of one son, located at Jerusalem; and two daughters.

Aged 50, the Rev. Hugh Monckton, M.A., Rector of Seaton, Rutland, and Vicar of Harringworth, Northamptonshire.

Lately. Colonel Sempronius Stretton, C. B., half-pay 84th Foot; brother inlaw to Lord Castlemaine.

Aged 34, John Dawson, M.A., late of Jesus College, Cambridge, and of Higham Lodge, Suffolk.

At Dublin, the relict of W. Kenny, esq., of Kilclogher, Galway, sole representative of Gerald Fitzgerald, esq., last male of the branches of Rathrone and Ticrahan, Meath, lineally descended from Thomas seventh Earl of Kildare.

In Germany, aged 67, the Right Hon. Sir Richard Hussey Vivian, Baron Vivian of Glynn and Truro, Cornwall (1841), a Baronet (1828), and G. C. B. Knight of the Foreign Orders of the Guelphs of Hanover, Maria Theresa of Austria, and of the third class of St. Vladimir of Russia; a Privy Councillor of England and of Ireland; a Lieut.-Gen. in the army, and Colonel of the 1st Dragoons; a Commissioner of the Royal Military College and Royal Military Asylum; and D. C. L. Lord

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Vivian was born on the 28th of July, 1775, and entered the army as an ensign on the 31st of July, 1793, promoted to Lieutenant on the 20th of October, 1793, Captain on the 7th of May, 1794, Major on the 9th of March, 1803, Lieut.Colonel on the 28th of September, 1804, Colonel on the 20th of February, 1812, Major-Gen. on the 4th of June, 1814, and Lieut.-General on the 22nd of July, 1830. The Lieut.-General served in Flanders and Holland under the Duke of York from June, 1794, until the return of the army in 1795. He was present in the sortie from, Nimeguen, and was left with a picket of the 28th reg., in conjunction with other pickets, to hold it after the retreat of the army. He was present in the affair of Geldermalsen, in which his regiment (the 28th) suffered severely, and in other skirmishes. He was also present in all the different battles which took place during the expedition to the Helder, excepting in the landing. Commanded the 7th Hussars in the campaign under Sir John Moore in 1808, and 1809. Commanded a brigade of cavalry in the Peninsula from September, 1813, until the return of the army, including the battles of Orthes, Nive, and Toulouse. He was severely wounded in carrying the bridge of Croix d'Orade, near Toulouse, and served at the battle of Waterloo, where he commanded the 6th Brigade of Cavalry, consisting of the 1st Dragoons, 10th and 18th Hussars. He attained the rank of Lieut.-General on the 22nd July, 1830; and was appointed to the Colonelcy of the First Dragoons, the 20th January, 1837. Sir Richard was created a Baronet by patent dated January 19, 1828. He had also a grant of arms allusive to his military services. Sir Hussey Vivian came forward as a candidate for the borough of Truro, on the Whig interest, at the general election of 1818. He was unsuccessful, but was returned at the next election in 1820. At the general election of 1826, he was elected for Windsor, which seat he vacated in favour of Lord Stanley, on being appointed commander of the Forces in Ireland. On the 4th May, 1835, he was appointed Master-General of the Ordnance and a Privy Councillor. In 1837, he was returned one of the Members for the co. of Cornwall, from which he retired in 1841, and was soon afterwards raised to the dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom. He

was a highly esteemed and popular officer, and honourably distinguished as a politician and senator.

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2. At Chilmark Rectory, Wilts., aged 47, the Rev. George John Majendie, B.D., Rector of Headington, Wilts., a Prebendary of Salisbury, and a Rural Dean.

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In Russell-square, aged 68, Rob. Spankie, esq., one of her Majesty's Serjeants-at-Law, and late M.P. for Finsbury. Mr. Serj. Spankie, was a Scotchman by birth, and commenced his career in this country as reporter for the Morning Chronicle. He continued in that capacity for some time, and was considered one of the aptest and most accurate short-hand writers of his day. Subsequently he undertook the duties of editor of the same journal; but on turning his attention to the bar, gave up all connection with the paper. His name was entered as a student of the Inner Temple in the year 1804, and he was called to the degree of Barrister-atLaw, by that society, July 1st, 1808; and some years after he received the appointment of Attorney-general of Bengal. He in consequence repaired to India, and for several years practised there with the greatest success. was rapidly gaining his way both to fame and fortune, when he was unfortunately seized with an affection of the liver, which compelled him to return to England. He was unable to follow up the duties of his profession for some time after his return home, but his health being at length re-established by the change of climate, his name again appeared before the public; and, amongst other appointments which he received, he was selected by the EastIndia Company as their standing counsel, a post which gave him considerable influence, and a very handsome income. He was raised to the degree of the coif in 1824, and practised upon the Home Circuit. Although a powerful and clever speaker, his address was injured by a broad Scotch accent. On the passing of the Reform Bill, Mr. Spankie contested the representation of Finsbury, on which occasion he was returned with the Right Hon. R. Grant; the unsuccessful candidates being Messrs. Babbage, Wakley, and Temple. Mr. Spankie entered the

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House of Commons as a Reformer, but occasionally voted with the Opposition, and on the dissolution in 1835, was ejected by the present Member, Mr. T. S. Duncombe.

The Rev. Samuel Pugh of Brilley vicarage, Herefordshire. He was found dead near the church-house Michaelchurch, Radnorshire, having fallen down a slight precipice on his head; the night being dark, it is supposed that he had missed his road.

4. The Rev. Thos. Brooksby, Rector of West and South Hanningfleld, Essex; and the senior magistrate of the Chelmsford Bench, where he had sat for thirty-three years.

5. At Bournemouth, aged 83, the Rev. Thomas Causton, D.D., the senior Prebendary of Westminster, and Rector of Turweston, Bucks.

In Whitehall-place, in his 76th year, Sir John Cross, Knt., Chief Judge of the Court of Review in Bankruptcy. He was the second son of William Cross, esq., of Scarborough. After the usual course of school education, he became a student of Trinity college, Cambridge, entered at Lincoln's-inn about the year 1791, and was called to the bar November 16, 1795. He was advanced to the rank of a Serjeant-at-Law in Hilary term 1819, and for several years enjoyed a considerable share of the practice belonging to that order of the profession in the Court of Common Pleas. In Trinity term 1827, he was appointed a King's Serjeant. When Lord Abinger resigned the office of Attorney-Gen. of the counties palatine of Durham and Lancaster, Mr. Cross became his successor in those offices, which he continued to hold till his appointment as one of the judges of the Court of Bankruptcy, by letters patent dated the 2nd December 1831. On this occasion he received the honour of knighthood. On the day of his death, he had been all the morning engaged in his judicial duties at the Court in Westminster, and had left home in the morning in good health. On entering the drawingroom on his return from court, he took his seat on the sofa, and in a moment fell back and immediately expired.

6. At Great Chart, Kent, in his 67th year, the Rev. Thomas Waite, LL.D., Rector of that parish, and chaplain to H.R.H. the Princess Sophia Matilda.

At Wengrug, near Aberystwith, aged 31, the Rev. Ebenezer W. Davies,

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At Tottenham, aged 63, Mr. Wm. Hone, the well-known author of the Every Day Book," and other works. Mr. Hone was born in Bath. His father was an occasional preacher amongst the Dissenters, and so rigid in his notions on religion that the son was taught his letters and ultimately to read from the Bible alone. At the age of ten years he was placed in an attorney's office in the metropolis, and when very young imbibed many of the principles disseminated by the London Corresponding Society. From some distaste, he quitted the law; and having married, in July 1800, he commenced business as a print and bookseller, with a circulating library, in Lambeth-walk. From thence he removed to St. Martin's Churchyard, near Charing-cross, where he had the misfortune to be burnt out and sustained considerable loss. Upon the threats of French invasion he enrolled himself in the Prince of Wales's volunteer corps; and about this time became intimately acquainted with the celebrated Mr. Towneley, and many other gentlemen of learning and taste, who highly esteemed him for his great natural talents and companionable qualities.

He suffered various vicissitudes both in and out of business; but his mind was not idle, for in 1806 he published his first literary effort, "Shaw's Gardener," and for a long period he devoted much study to the great national advantages that might be derived from the establishing of Savings-banks. To effect this object he had several interviews with the Right Hon. George Rose, and by way of experiment, in conjunction with his friend Mr. John Bone, one was opened in Blackfriarsroad; but, the principles being but little understood, the plan failed from want of support. He next became a bookseller, in partnership with Mr. Bone, but his general spirit was not accustomed to habits of trade; he loved the society of men of talent, and, being gifted with great humour, joined in some

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of the foibles of the day. This tended to withdraw him from the counter, and he became a bankrupt; but again started in May's-buildings, St. Martin's-lane, from whence he removed to High-street Bloomsbury, where he compiled the index to Lord Berners' Froissart. In 1811 he was selected by the booksellers, on the retirement of Mr. John Walker, to officiate as the trade auctioneer, having a counting-house in Ivy-lane. But again the loss of time spent in some public engagements, particularly an investigation of lunatic asylums, involved him in embarrassments, and a second failure was the consequence-his family having in the interval increased to seven children, who were taken to a humble lodging in the Old Bailey, where the father struggled hard to maintain them by his contributions to the Critical Review and the British Lady's Magazine. He next occupied a small shop in Fleetstreet, as a bookseller, which, on two different nights, was plundered of the most valuable works, many of which had been borrowed for the purpose of displaying stock. This greatly disheartened him, but about 1815 he became publisher of the Traveller newspaper. In 1816 he commenced a weekly paper called the " Reformist's Register," in which he very ably combated the doctrines promulgated by Mr. Owen. Soon after this, when party spirit ran very high, he was induced to write a series of political satires; one of which, the "Political House that Jack Built" went through more than fifty editions. Its great attraction consisted perhaps in its woodcuts from the clever designs of George Cruickshank, whose talents were first made extensively known in these publications of Mr. Hone. Like everything that becomes popular in London, the House that Jack Built "" was soon imitated by a swarm of rival "Houses." Another of Mr. Hone's cleverest productions, was " A Slap at Slop," a burlesque on the newspaper called "The New Times," and printed in the newspaper form; it ridiculed principally the editor of that journal, Dr. Stoddart, and the Constitutional Association, whom he called the Bridge-street Gang. A third satire on the government of the day, Mr. Hone was unadvisedly led to write in the form of a parody upon the liturgy; and he was consequently prosecuted by the Attorney-General and brought to trial on three separate

charges. The first day Mr. Justice Abbot occupied the bench, and Mr. Hone, who defended himself, was acquitted. On the second and third days Lord Chief Justice Ellenborough presided, certainly with no very favourable feelings for the accused, but Mr. Hone was again acquitted on each chargethree distinct juries taking the same view of the cases brought before them. The extraordinary powers of language and of argument displayed by Mr. Hone, in each defence, excited considerable sympathy in his behalf, and subscriptions were entered into, and a handsome sum realised, which enabled him to remove from a contracted shop in the Old Bailey to a large house on Ludgate-hill, where he gradually withdrew from his political line of publication, and attempted to resume the business of a book auctioneer, but with less success than before. In 1823 Mr. Hone published a very curious volume, entitled, "Ancient Mysteries described;" containing the results of his researches in the way of precedents when he had been called upon to defend himself from the charge of basphemy. It is only just to him to say that this work is strictly historical, and that personally at least, he did not repeat the offence. In 1826 he commenced the publication, weekly, of his very interesting and instructive miscellany, entitled, the "Every Day Book;" but though the sale was large, yet he did not derive sufficient to maintain his family, now comprising ten children, and he was arrested for debt and thrown into the King's Bench, where he finished the "Every Day Book," and then successfully carried on its sequels, the "Table Book," for two years 1827 and 1828, and the "Year Book," for one year 1829, the whole of which from their deep research and varied interest, have been generally admired, and called forth the warm commendations of Mr. Southey the poet. The difficulties under which Mr. Hone laboured once more aroused the energies of his friends, and he was enabled to take the Grasshopper coffee-house, in Gracechurch-street; but after a few years this speculation also failed, and he was thrown upon the resources of his mind; till becoming acquainted with an Independent minister, the Rev. T. Binney, that gentleman persuaded him to try his powers in the pulpit, and he frequently preached in the Weigh-house

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chapel, Eastcheap. At the starting of the "Penny Magazine," he wrote the first article, and be likewise edited "Strutt's Sports," &c. In 1835 whilst at the above-mentioned chapel, he was attacked by paralysis, and had a renewal of it in 1837, at the office of the Patriot (which paper he sub-edited) in Bolt-court, and soon afterwards suffered a third attack. From this period nature has been gradually decaying, though his intellect remained unimpaired till within a few hours of dissolution, when insensibility came on and prevented all further converse. His resignation un der suffering was Christian-like, and his departure calm and tranquil. In society Mr. Hone was a cheerful companion, and his heart was never closed against the complaints of his fellowcreatures.

At The Views, Huntingdonshire, Vice-Adm. Sir Richard Hussey Hussey, K.C.B., G.C.M.G.

8. At Sandy-park House, Drewsteignton, aged 30, Edwardus Wyndham, esq.

Aged 80, the Rev. Samuel Oldacres, Rector of Gonalstone, Nottinghamshire. He was of Emanuel College, Cambridge.

At Coltishall Hall, Norfolk, the Rev. James Ward, D.D., formerly Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, and Senior Chaplain at the Presidency of Bengal ; in his 76th year.

9. At Toddington, Gloucestershire, aged 85, the Rev. John Eddy, for fiftyfour years Vicar of Toddington and Didbrook, Gloucestershire, and fifty-three years Rector of Whaddon, Wilts.

At Gravesend, aged 65, George Canning, esq., Comm. R.N.

10. At his seat Ystrad Lodge, Carmarthenshire, in his 66th year, John Jones, esq., a Magistrate and Dep.Lieut. for that co., and one of its representatives in Parliament.

11. At Grantham, aged 56, the Rev. Robert Gordon Andrews, M.A., Vicar of Haugh-on the-hill, and formerly Head Master of Grantham Free Grammar School.

At his town residence in Dublin, the Right Hon. Charles Vereker, second Viscount Gort (1816) and Baron Kiltarton, co. Galway (1810), one of the Representative Peers and a Privy Councillor of Ireland, Governor of the co. of Galway, Constable of the Castle of Limerick, and Col. of the city of Limerick militia, Lord Gort was origi.

nally intended for the naval profession, and at the age of fourteen was entered as a midshipman in the Alexander, then under the command of the late Lord Longford. A short time after he had joined his vessel, she sailed for the Mediterranean, and formed one of the fleet under Lord Howe. His conduct throughout won the marked and public acknowledgments of Lord Longford. On the return of the Alexander, Lord Gort quitted the naval service, and purchased a commission in the Royals. Shortly afterwards he was appointed to the Lieut.-Colonelcy of the Limerick Militia; and in this capacity he highly distinguished himself in opposing the progress of the French under General Humbert, at Colooney, 5th September 1798, for which he obtained an honourable augmentation to his family arms by a grant of supporters bearing the flag of the Limerick Militia, with the motto of "Colooney," and the date September 1798 inscribed thereon. The thanks of Parliament too were voted to him for his gallant conduct throughout the engagement, in which he was se verely wounded. He had been elected to the Irish Parliament as one of the members for the city of Limerick from the year 1790, and he was one of the few who to the last maintained what they conceived was the cause of their country in opposition to the Union. After that measure had been consummated, he was again elected, then as the sole member, and he continued to represent the city in Parliament for a period of twenty-seven years until his accession to the peerage, which took place on the death of his uncle 23rd of May, 1817. He was elected a representative peer in 1820, and always supported the Conservative party, but without any slavish adherence to the policy of its leaders. Principles and not party had his vote, and on two memorable occasions in the political history of modern times, viz. on the Catholic Relief and the Corporation Bills, he felt himself bound to dissent from that party with whom he was usually found associated in politics.

14. The Rev. James Henry Stone, Perpetual Curate of Eye, near Peterborough, in his 40th year.

15. At his residence, Fitzwilliamsquare, Dublin, the Right Rev. Dr. Sandes, Lord Bishop of Cashel and Waterford in his 64th year,

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