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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.

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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 distinguish ed 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

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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. 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. He 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

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.

END OF THE EIGHTH VOLUME.

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