because in religion he was serious without bigotry. From the retirement of a college he stepped at once into the circle of a court; but he has not been dazzled by its glare, nor tainted by its corruptions. As a prelate, he does honour to the gratitude of a patron who was once his pupil, and to the dignity of a station where, in his wise and honest judgment upon things, great duties are connected with great emoluments, If, from general description, I were permitted to descend to particular detail, I should say, that in one instance he exhibited a noble proof of generosity, by refusing to accept the legal and customary profits of his office from a peasantry bending down under the weight of indigence and exaction. I should say, that, upon another occasion, he did not suffer himself to be irritated by perverse and audacious opposition; but, blending mercy with justice, spared a misguided father for the sake of a distressed dependent family, and provided, at the same time, for the instruction of a large and populous parish, without pushing to extremes his episcopal rights when invaded, and his episcopal power when defied. While the English universities produce such scholars, they will indeed deserve to be considered as the nurseries of learning and virtue. While the church of Ireland is adorned by such prelates, it can not have much to fear from that spirit of restless discontent and excessive refinement which has lately gone abroad. It will be instrumental to the best purposes by the best means. It will gain fresh security and fresh lustre from the support of wise and good men. It will promote the noblest interests of society, and uphold, in this day of peril, the sacred cause of true religion.

"Sweet is the refreshment afforded to my soul by the remembrance of such a scholar, such a man, and such a friend, as Dr. Wm. Bennet, Bishop of Cork."

DR. JOHN MURRAY.

July 22, died, at his house, in Nicolsonstreet, Edinburgh, Dr. John Murray, Lecturer in Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy, at Edinburgh.

The death of this distinguished philosopher, snatched from us in the prime of life, and full vigour of his faculties, will long be felt as a national loss. His works, now of standard celebrity at home and abroad, have, from the spirit of profound and accurate analysis which they every where display, and from the force, clearness, and precision of their statements, most essentially contributed to advance Chemistry to the high rank which it now holds among the liberal sciences. His very acute, vigorous, and comprehensive mind has been most successfully exerted in arranging its numerous and daily multiplying details, defining its laws, and, above all, in attaching to it a spirit of philosophical investigation, which, while it

lays the best foundation for extending its practical application, tends at the same time to exalt its character, and dignify its pursuit. As a Lecturer on Chemistry, it is impossible to praise too highly the superior talents of Dr. Murray: always perfectly master of his subject, and very successful in the performance of his experiments, which were se lected with great judgment, his manner had a natural ease and animation, which shewed evidently that his mind went along with every thing he uttered, and gave his lectures great freedom and spirit. But his peculiar excellence as a teacher was a most uncommon faculty, arising from the great per spicuity and distinctness of his conceptions, of leading his hearers step by step through the whole process of the most complex investigation, with such admirable clearness, that they were induced to think that he was following out a natural order which could not be avoided, at the very time when he was exhibiting a specimen of the most refined and subtle analysis. With him the student did not merely accumulate facts, note down dry results, or stare at amusing experiments: he was led irresistibly to exercise his own mind, and trained to the habits of accurate induction. To those solid attainments which entitled Dr. Murray to stand in the first rank as a man of science, was united a refined taste, and a liberal acquaintance with every subject of general interest in literature. His manners were easy, polite, and unpretending, regulated by a delicate sense of propriety, with much of that simplicity which so often accompanies strength of character and originality of mind. He rose to eminence by the intrinsic force of his talents; he was above all the second-hand arts by which so many labour to attract attention; and a native dignity of sentiment, and manly spirit of independence, kept him aloof from all those petty intrigues which are so often employed with success to bolster-up inferior pretensions.

Dr. Murray published Elements of Chemistry, 2 vols. 8vo. 1801, 2d edit. 1810. Elements of Materia Medica and Pharmacy, 2 vols. 8vo. 1804.-A System of Chemistry, 4 vols. 8vo. 1806-Supplement A System of Materia Medica, and Pharmacy, to the System of Chemistry, 8vo. 1809.——

2 vols. 8vo. 1810.

SIR HOME RIGGS POPHAM.

Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham, K.C.B. had but recently returned from his command on the Jamaica station, where he lost his daughter and his health. Few men had seen more service, or have displayed more talent. He rose entirely by his own merits. This gallant officer was born in Ireland, about the year 1762. His father had a numerous family, and his means being slender, the boys were obliged to seek their fortunes in different parts of the globe. Sir Home, who was a younger son, entered the British Navy

as a Midshipman. During the American war he attained the rank of Lieutenant. On the return of peace he visited his eldest brother, Major, now General Popham, in India, and having evinced a genius for nautical topography, he was appointed, at the special recommendation of Lord Cornwallis, one of a Committee sent in 1778 to survey New Harbour, in the river Hoogly. He also appears, in 1791, to have commanded a country ship. He was afterwards appointed to the command of the Etrusco, an Imperial East Indiaman, which was seized, on her return from Bengal to Ostend, by an English frigate, as a prize, on the ground that a considerable portion of the property on board belonged to British subjects.

The French Revolution soon afforded an opportunity of again restoring him to his profession, and opening a new road to fame and fortune. The communication between the Duke of York and Nimeguen, when that place was besieged by Pichegru, in 1794, having been cut off, Lieutenant Popham proceeded thither from Ostend, and repaired the damage, and thus protracted the fate of the town. For this service he was rewarded, in 1795, with the rank first of Master and Commander, and then of a Post Captain in the British Navy. In that year he acted as naval agent for the British transports on the Continent; and under his inspection the British troops, which had been serving in Holland, were embarked and escorted to England by the Dædalus and Amphion frigates. In 1798, an armament was prepared in Margate Roads, which sailed under his command on the 14th of May, and appeared off Ostend on the 19th. The troops, under the command of Major-General Coote, having made a descent, blew up the sluice'gates; but the roughness of the sea prevented them from re-embarking, and they were forced to capitulate. He was next sent 'to Russia in the Nile frigate, to the Emperor Paul, who had evinced a disposition to join in an attempt to drive the French out of Holland. On this occasion he was to superintend the embarkation of the Russian troops, in quality of British Commissary. In 1800 he sailed for the East Indies with a small squadron, including the Romney, 50 guns, and three other frigates; and after performing various and valuable services, he returned in the Romney, in 1803. His public employments and services have since been on a larger scale, and, as matter of history, are generally known.

CAPT. JOHN WOOD, R. N.

Died, at his residence, Bramling-House, near Wingham, in the county of Kent, on Saturday the 24th of June, in the 54th year of his age, Capt. John Wood, of the Royal Navy. A long and active service in the yaried and opposite climates of the North Sea and the tropical ocean, produced a severe hepatic affection, which, after 30 years service, compelled him to seek, under a tempoNEW MONTHLY MAG.-No. 81.

rary retreat in the bosom of his family, the restoration of his health; but his happiness in this retirement was considerably embittered by the unconquerable nature of his complaint, which has at length, in the prime of his life, in the full enjoyment of his faculties and fortune, and after attaining to a high rank in his profession, thus prematurely terminated his existence.

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Captain Wood (then a commander) had the honour of serving under the late glorious Lord Duncan during the whole period of his Lordship's command in the North Sea, and, at the mutiny at the Nore, was the happy instrument of detaching many of the disaffected scamen from that alarming and threatening confederacy; of securing the ring-leaders of some of the most refractory crews; and of carrying two of his Majesty's line of battle ships into Sheerness harbour. The prompt zeal and activity so invariably displayed by Capt. W. during the period of his services in the North Sea, insured him the flattering approbation of Lord Duncan, which his Lordship took an early oppor tunity to testify by advancing him to the rank of Post-Captain. Capt. Wood subsequently commanded the Concord and the Phaeton, in the East Indies, under Admirals Rainier, the present Lord Exmouth, and Sir Thomas Trowbridge.

MR. RAE.

This respectable performer died on the 8th Sept. in his 39th year. His loss in the secondary walk of tragedy will be sensibly felt. His remains were deposited in Covent-garden Church-yard; and although it was a private funeral, we recognized many of his colleagues, who were anxious to testify their regard without parade or ostentation. They were no actors here-their silent sympathy, in the deprivation of an associate, cut off in the very prime of life, spoke most eloquently their estimation of his worth, their regret for his loss, their respect for his memory; and his survivors had the consolation of knowing, that though useless forms and ceremonies were dispensed with, his remains were embalmed with the genuine tears of grateful sensibility. We regret that he has left his family (consisting of a wife, one son and two daughters) totally without provision; though we have, at the same time, the satisfaction of knowing, that the greatest interest is excited on behalf of his now destitute widow and children. Mr. Elliston has most liberally offered the use of his Theatre, and his brethren are most anxious to come forward to further his benevolent intentions. We know that, to a liberal public, such an appeal will not be made in vain; and as Mr. Elliston's offer has been gratefully accepted, we are assured that all the talent and ability of the profession will shortly be exe erted, under distinguished patronage, at once to testify their philanthropy for the living, and the high estimation in which they held their departed friend.

because in religion he was serious without bigotry. From the retirement of a college he stepped at once into the circle of a court; but he has not been dazzled by its glare, nor tainted by its corruptions. As a prelate, he does honour to the gratitude of a patron who was once his pupil, and to the dignity of a station where, in his wise and honest judgment upon things, great duties are connected with great emoluments, If, from general description, I were permitted to descend to particular detail, I should say, that in one instance he exhibited a noble proof of generosity, by refusing to accept the legal and customary profits of his office from a peasantry bending down under the weight of indigence and exaction. I should say, that, upon another occasion, he did not suffer himself to be irritated by perverse and audacious opposition; but, blending mercy with justice, spared a misguided father for the sake of a distressed dependent family, and provided, at the same time, for the instruction of a large and populous parish, without pushing to extremes his episcopal rights when invaded, and his episcopal power when defied. While the English universities produce such scholars, they will indeed deserve to be considered as the nurseries of learning and virtue. While the church of Ireland is adorned by such prelates, it cannot have much to fear from that spirit of restless discontent and excessive refinement which has lately gone abroad. It will be instrumental to the best purposes by the best means. It will gain fresh security and fresh lustre from the support of wise and good men. It will promote the noblest interests of society, and uphold, in this day of peril, the sacred cause of true religion.

"Sweet is the refreshment afforded to my soul by the remembrance of such a scholar, such a man, and such a friend, as Dr. Wm. Bennet, Bishop of Cork."

July 22, died, at his house, in Nicolson street, Edinburgh, Dr. John Murray, Lecturer in Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy, at Edinburgh.

The death of this distinguished philosopher, snatched from us in the prime of life, and full vigour of his faculties, will long be felt as a national loss. His works, now of standard celebrity at home and abroad, have, from the spirit of profound and accurate analysis which they every where display, and from the force, clearness, and precision of their statements, most essentially contributed to advance Chemistry to the high rank which it now holds among the liberal sciences. His very acute, vigorous, and comprehensive mind has been most successfully exerted in arranging its numerous and daily multiplying details, defining its laws, and, above all, in attaching to it a spirit of philosophical investigation, which, while it

lays the best foundation for extending its practical application, tends at the same time to exalt its character, and dignify its pursuit. As a Lecturer on Chemistry, it is impossible to praise too highly the superior talents of Dr. Murray; always perfectly master of his subject, and very successful in the performance of his experiments, which were selected with great judgment, his manner had a natural ease and animation, which shewed evidently that his mind went along with every thing he uttered, and gave his lectures great freedom and spirit. But his peculiar excellence as a teacher was a most uncommon faculty, arising from the great perspicuity and distinctness of his conceptions, of leading his hearers step by step through the whole process of the most complex investigation, with such admirable clearness, that they were induced to think that he was following out a natural order which could not be avoided, at the very time when he was exhibiting a specimen of the most refined and subtle analysis. With him the student did not merely accumulate facts, note down dry results, or stare at amusing experiments: he was led irresistibly to exercise his own mind, and trained to the habits of accurate induction. To those solid attainments which entitled Dr. Murray to stand in the first rank as a man of science, was united a refined taste, and a liberal acquaintance with every subject of general interest in literature. His manners were easy, polite, and unpretending, regulated by a delicate sense of propriety, with much of that simplicity which SO often accompanies strength of character and originality of mind. He rose to eminence by the intrinsic force of his talents; he was above all the second-hand arts by which so many labour to attract attention; and a native dignity of sentiment, and manly spirit of independence, kept him aloof from all those petty intrigues which are so often employed with success to bolster-up inferior pretensions.

mistry, 2 vols. 8vo. 1801, 2d edit. 1810. Dr. Murray published Elements of Che

-Elements of Materia Medica and Pharmacy, 2 vols. 8vo. 1804.-A System of to the System of Chemistry, 8vo. 1809.— Chemistry, 4 vols. 8vo. 1806.-Supplement A System of Materia Medica, and Pharmacy, 2 vols. 8vo. 1810.

SIR HOME RIGGS POPHAM.

Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham, K.C.B. had but recently returned from his command on the Jamaica station, where he lost his daughter and his health. Few men had seen more service, or have displayed more talent. He rose entirely by his own merits. This gallant officer was born in Ireland, about the year 1762. His father had a numerous family, and his means being slender, the boys were obliged to seek their fortunes in different parts of the globe. Sir Home, who was a younger son, entered the British Navy

as a Midshipman. During the American war he attained the rank of Lieutenant. On the return of peace he visited his eldest brother, Major, now General Popham, in India, and having evinced a genius for nautical topography, he was appointed, at the special recommendation of Lord Cornwallis, one of a Committee sent in 1778 to survey New Harbour, in the river Hoogly. He also appears, in 1791, to have commanded a country ship. He was afterwards appointed to the command of the Etrusco, an Imperial East Indiaman, which was seized, on her return from Bengal to Ostend, by an English frigate, as a prize, on the ground that a considerable portion of the property on board belonged to British subjects.

The French Revolution soon afforded an opportunity of again restoring him to his profession, and opening a new road to fame and fortune. The communication between the Duke of York and Nimeguen, when that place was besieged by Pichegru, in 1794, having been cut off, Lieutenant Popham proceeded thither from Ostend, and repaired the damage, and thus protracted the fate of the town. For this service he was rewarded, in 1795, with the rank first of Master and Commander, and then of a Post Captain in the British Navy. In that year he acted as naval agent for the British transports on the Continent; and under his inspection the British troops, which had been serving in Holland, were embarked and escorted to England by the Dædalus and Amphion frigates. In 1798, an armament was prepared in Margate Roads, which sailed under his 'command on the 14th of May, and appeared off Ostend on the 19th. The troops, under the command of Major-General Coote, having made a descent, blew up the sluice'gates; but the roughness of the sea prevented them from re-embarking, and they "were forced to capitulate. He was next sent to Russia in the Nile frigate, to the Emperor Paul, who had evinced a disposition to join in an attempt to drive the French out of Holland. On this occasion he was to superintend the embarkation of the Russian troops, in quality of British Commissary. In 1800 he sailed for the East Indies with a small squadron, including the Romney, 50 guns, and three other frigates; and after performing various and valuable services, he returned in the Romney, in 1803. His public employments and services have since been on a larger scale, and, as matter of history, are generally known.

CAPT. JOHN WOOD, R. N.

Died, at his residence, Bramling-House, near Wingham, in the county of Kent, on Saturday the 24th of June, in the 54th year of his age, Capt. John Wood, of the Royal Navy. A long and active service in the varied and opposite climates of the North Sea and the tropical ocean, produced a severe hepatic affection, which, after 30 years service, compelled him to seek, under a tempoNEW MONTHLY MAG.-No. 81.

rary retreat in the bosom of his family, the restoration of his health; but his happiness in this retirement was considerably embittered by the unconquerable nature of his complaint, which has at length, in the prime of his life, in the full enjoyment of his faculties and fortune, and after attaining to a high rank in his profession, thus prematurely terminated his existence.

Captain Wood (then a commander) had the honour of serving under the late glorious Lord Duncan during the whole period of his Lordship's command in the North Sea, and, at the mutiny at the Nore, was the happy instrument of detaching many of the disaffected seamen from that alarming and threatening confederacy; of securing the ring-leaders of some of the most refractory crews; and of carrying two of his Majesty's line of battle ships into Sheerness harbour. The prompt zeal and activity so invariably displayed by Capt. W. during the period of his services in the North Sea, insured him the flattering approbation of Lord Duncan, which his Lordship took an early opportunity to testify by advancing him to the rank of Post-Captain. Capt. Wood subsequently commanded the Concord and the Phaeton, in the East Indies, under Admirals Rainier, the present Lord Exmouth, and Sir Thomas Trowbridge.

MR. RAE.

This respectable performer died on the 8th Sept. in his 39th year. His loss in the secondary walk of tragedy will be sensibly felt. His remains were deposited in Covent-garden Church-yard; and although it was a private funeral, we recognized many of his colleagues, who were anxious to testify their regard without parade or ostentation. They were no actors here their silent sympathy, in the deprivation of an associate, cut off in the very prime of life, spoke most eloquently their estimation of his worth, their regret for his loss, their respect for his memory; and his survivors had the consolation of knowing, that though useless forms and ceremonies were dispensed with, his remains were embalmed with the genuine tears of grateful sensibility. We regret that he has left his family (consisting of a wife, one son, and two daughters) totally without provision; though we have, at the same time, the satisfaction of knowing, that the greatest interest is excited on behalf of his now destitute widow and children. Mr. Elliston has most liberally offered the use of his Theatre, and his brethren are most anxious to come forward to further his benevolent intentions. We know that, to a liberal public, such an appeal will not be made in vain; and as Mr. Elliston's offer has been gratefully accepted, we are assured that all the talent and ability of the profession will shortly be exerted, under distinguished patronage, at once to testify their philanthropy for the living, and the high estimation in which they held their departed friend.

Sept. 15. The ceremonial of laying the foundation-stone of the New Church at Windsor took place this day.

Mr. John Lathom is elected mayor of Abingdon for the year ensuing; and Mr. William Stephens, mayor of Reading.

Married.] At Faringdon, Mr. Thos. White, of Clanfield, to Miss Jane Gerring, of Northfield, Faringdon At Hurley, Edm. Gardiner, esq. of Remenham, to Anne, third daughter of John Mangles, esq.-At Speen, Mr. Chittle, to Miss Hiscock, late of Reading-At Padworth, Alfred Smith, esq. of Steanbridge House, Gloucestershire, to Miss Harriet Stephens, of Padworth-At Wargrave, Mr. Wm. Pither, of Early, to Miss Whitfield, of the former place The Rev. Herbert Randolph, vicar of Marcham, to Mary, second daughter of the late Philip Doble Burridge, esq. of Stoke House, Somerset.

Died.] At Newbury, Anne, relict of Mr. S. Grigg At Hurley, Mrs. Eliza Maunde, relict of the Rev. J. Maunde, of Kenilworth, Warwickshire, 62-At Cranhill Farm, Mr. Joseph KingAt Wantage, Mrs. Sarah Chapman, 76, relict of George Chapman, esq.: her remains were deposited in the family vault at Ampney Crucis, Gloucestershire-At Baylis, near Windsor, in her 70th year, the Dowager Marchioness of Thomond. Her ladyship was niece to the late celebrated Sir Joshua Reynolds-At Purley, Mrs. Ann Humphries, 82.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.

Married.] At Great Marlow, Mr. Lovegrove, of Slough, to Miss Hatch-At St. Pancras, Middlesex, Mr. Charles Marins Hardy, of Newport Pagnell, to Mrs. Lyncham, of London.

Died.] At Amersham, Mrs. Rumsey, wife of James Rumsey, M. D.-Mr. George Bradford, town. clerk of the borough of Buckingham: he was returning home from the Isle of Wight with his wife and children, in a post-chaise, when his death took place between Marlow and Amersham-At Little Missenden, Thomas Wynne Williams, son of Mr. Thos. Williams, of Cannon-street-In London, John Skottowe, esq. late of Chesham and of Notton Lodge, Wilts.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE.

Married.] At Cambridge, William Eve, esq. fellow of Pembroke Hall, to Susanna, second daughter of Mr. Robert Chalk, of Sawbridgeworth, Herts -Mr. Wm. Bird, to Miss Hannah Reynolds-At Wisbech, Mr. John Curtis, to Miss Frances Humfrey, of Guilford, Surrey-At Newmarket, Mr. Delannoy, surgeon, to Miss Marshall.

Died,] At Papworth Hall, Emma Morland Cheere, daughter of C. M. Cheere, esq. M. P.-At Bottisham, Mr. John King, 47-At Lynn, Mr. Manby, surgeon, 73,

CHESHIRE.

The Rev. Thomas Calvert, B. D. Norrisian Professor of Divinity in the university of Cambridge, to the rectory of Wimslow, or Wilmslow, in the diocese of Chester, the same being vacant by an act of simony-patron, the King.

The Rev. Charles Kendrick Prescott, to the rectory of Stockport, vice his late father-patrons, Lord and Lady Bulkeley.

Married.] At Chester, Mr. Connah, to Miss Owens, of Trafford-Mr. Wm. Blake, to Miss Elizabeth Wilbraham-At Neston, H. L. Rigby, of Hawarden, esq. to Mary Jane, eldest daughter of C. B. Trevor Roper, esq, of Plasteg Park, Flintshire-At Knutsford, Mr. Jacob Hume, of Middle wich, to Miss Hughes, of that town.

Died.] At Chester, Mr. Jacob Dutton-Mr. Kelly-At Sandbach, 20, Miss Colclough, daughter, of the late Mr. James Colclough, solicitor-Suddenly, at Upton, near Chester, Mr. Dunbabbin—At Colshaw, at an advanced age, Mr. Moses Tunnicliffe At Stockport, Mr. Wm. Coppack, 91-At Macclesfield, Mr. Thomas Dickenson.

CORNWALL.

Married.] At Launceston, Mr. John Geak, to Miss Hawkey-Mr. Flamank, to Miss Rowe-At Madron, Mr. Jennings, of Birmingham, to Mrs. Freeman, of Penzance-At Callington, Mr. Webb, of Tavistock, to Miss Pethick, of the same place -At Redruth, after a courtship of thirty years, Captain Richard Remfry, 63, to Miss Fanny Edwards, 61-At Liskeard, Lieut. Ede, R. N. to Miss Susan Adams, of that place.

Died.] At East Looe, Mrs. Edey, 78-At Bodmin, Mr. Hender Mountsteven, 35-At Camelford, Wm. Dinham, esq. 66, senior alderman of that borough-At Bashill, near Launceston, Mrs. LaneAt Castle Horneck, near Penzance, Marianne Mapleton, eldest daughter of the Rev. Geo, TreweekAt Padstow, Mr. John Lodder, 60.

CUMBERLAND.

Married.] At Lanercost Abbey, Mr. Christopher Tweddell, of Askerton, to Miss Maughan-At Hayton, the Rev. Mr. Leach, to Mrs. Wills-At Carlisle, Mr. Robert Thomlinson, to Miss Catherine Williamson-Mr. Robert Scott, to Miss Mary Turnbull-Mr. Judah Middlemoor, to Miss Ann Pattison-Mr. Robert Moffat, to Miss Mary Atkin

son.

Died.] In Carlisle, Mr. Francis Jollie, sen. 65, late proprietor of the Carlisle Journal Mr. Geo. Roper, 42. His death was occasioned by falling down stairs, by which he dislocated his neck-Mr. Geo. Williams, of Bowness, 56-At Cockermouth, Mr. John Ashton, 51-Mrs. Snowden, 42 Mrs. Mary Watson, 45-At Keswick, Mrs. Ashburner, 76-Mr. Wm. Jackson, 44-At Heskett-New-Market, Wm. Irving, esq. surgeon, 68-At Whitehaven, Mr. John Dixon, 25-At Aldley, near Cleaton, Mr. Wm. Dixon, 28.

DERBYSHIRE.