472 OBITUARY.-N. B. Halhed, Esq.-—Mr. Klose. space enough in the Appendix," (which, however, was not the case). With his schoolfellow, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, he composed "The First Part of the Love Epistles of Aristaetus, translated from the Greek into English metre." This was published by Wilkie in 1771; and the Preface thus concludes: "The original is divided into two parts; the present essay contains only the first; by its success must the fate of the second be determined. H. and S." [Halhed and Sheridan.]. The second part never appeared. Mr. Halhed started in life as a civil servant of the East India Company at Bengal, and published the following works relative to the East: A Code of Gentoo Laws, or Ordinations of the Pundits, from a Persian translation,' 1776, 4to, 1777, 8vo; "A Grammar of the Bengal Language," printed at Hoogly, in Bengal, 4to, 1778; Narrative of the Events which have happened in Bombay and Bengal relative to the Mahratta Empire since July, 1777," 8vo, 1779. "A After his return to England, in 1790, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the borough of Leicester, but in May, 1791, on a vacancy, obtained a seat in Parliament for Lymington. In 1793-4 be published in four parts, in 4to. "Imitations of the Epigrams of Martial." In 1795 he afforded a melancholy and memorable instance of the occasional eccentricity of men of talent, by becoming the avowed champion of the soi disant prophet, Richard Brothers, and publicly professing his belief in the pretended mission of that wretched fanatic. In this character he put forth in the course of that year, the following publications: "The whole of the Testimonies to the Authenticity of the Prophecies of Richard Brothers, and of his Mission to recall the Jews;" "A Word of Admonition to the Right. Hon. Wm, Pitt, in an Epistle occasioned by the Prophecies of Brothers;""Two Letters to the Right Hon. Lord Loughborough;" " "Speech in the House of Commons, March 31, 1795, respecting the confinement of Mr. * In 1778, the Rev. George Costard published "A Letter to Nathaniel Brassey Halhed, Esq., containing some Remarks on his Preface to the Code of Gentoo Laws lately published." "A letter evidently dictated, not by the spirit of criticism, but by the love of truth, and for which Mr. Costard deserved the thanks of every friend to revelation."Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, Vol. ii. p. 431. Brothers, the Prophet; [May, "A Calculation of the Millenium, with Observations on the Pamphlets entitled, 'Second Arguments,' &c., and the Age of Credulity,' together with a Speech delivered in the House of Commons, March 31; an original Letter written by Brothers in 1790 to P. Stephens, Esq.; and also a paper pointing out those parts of his prophecies that have already been fulfilled;" "Answer to Dr. Horne's second Pamphlet, entitled, Occasional Remarks;' """Second Speech in the House of Commons, April 21, 1795, respecting the detention of Mr. Brothers, the Prophet." Such as may feel any curiosity respecting these bygone wonders, will find a long examination of some of these pamphlets in our volume for 1795, pp. 223-229, and in the Monthly Review of the same year. In the latter is the following paragraph "Mr. Brothers has no pretensions to literature: -but to see a gentleman eminent for his mental abilities, and extensive attainments in classical, and particularly in oriental, literature and science; to behold such a man a convert to the unparalleled reveries of the prophet of Paddington, is an object of such novel appearance, that we are almost at a loss for words to express our surprise, and indeed concern, on the occasion! What a strange alliance is here between knowledge, taste, and wit-and ignor ance, infatuation, and perhaps insanity, "Who would not laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep if Atticus were be?" By this foolish business, and the dissolution of 1796, Mr. Halhed's public career was closed, and he has since lived in retirement. A portrait of him, drawn from the life, by J. Cruikshank, and engraved by White in 8vo, was published by Crosły in 1795. MR. KLOSE. March 8. In Beaumont-street, Marylebone, Mr. F. J. Klose, an eminent musical composer, performer, and teacher. This gentleman was born in London, the son of a well-known member of the same profession, and studied composition and the piano-forte under the celebrated Francesco Tomich, and others. In the course of his life he was a member of most of the orchestras in London, particularly of the King's Theatre, and the Concert of Ancient Music. As a piano-forte teacher he was eminently skilful, and as a composer he was much esteemed for facile works, of a description calculated to promote the end of 1830.] OBITUARY.-Rev. T. Prince, D.D.—Rev. J. B. Sanders. instruction. He also excelled in ballads REV. THOMAS PRINCE, D.D. Jan. 22. He was At Bremmel House, Brompton, aged 42, the Rev. Thomas Prince, D.D. alternate Morning Preacher at Oxford Chapel, and Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. Dr. Prince was the second surviving son of the Rev. J. Prince, the present venerable Chaplain of the Magdalen, and distinguished himself while at Oxford, not only by his brilliant talents, but by a spirit of independence, which, had he not been a man of principle, would have put him at the head of the malcontents of the University. Although plucked, as it is technically called, at his first examination for honours, because he, perhaps imprudently, remonstrated with the examiners for giving him a corrupted passage in (we think) Lucretius, he was nevertheless put into the second high class, though he had the temerity to don his cap, and to quit the theatre, and to refuse to return when summoned. Soon after taking holy orders, 1811, he was appointed preceptor to the two sons of the hero of Quatre Bras, the Duke of Brunswick Oels, over whose establishment in England he had unlimited control during the space of nearly five years, at the expiration of which he returned with them to Brunswick in 1815. After the fall of that illustrious soldier, Dr. Prince retained his high office, in conformity with the Duke's will, until it was resolved by the government of Brunswick to give a German the lead in the education of the youths, a determination which was followed by the resignation of the preceptor, to the great regret of his spirited charge. Returning to England, he projected some reforms at Oxford, and by a veto in the convocation, on a subject of interest, again drew upon him the angry notice of those in power; but he was saved from further contest in England by being suddenly called, by the late Duke of Kent, to Brussels, to become Chaplain to himself and the British residents. Here he found a powerful opposition making to the royal interest by a party of which the late Duke of Richmond appeared the head, and Dr. Prince soon became involved in the broils of one of the most violent disputes on record. By the GENT. MAG. May, 1830. 473 interposition, however, of the King of the Netherlands, the storm at length abated, and his Majesty offered to the Doctor, for his congregation, one of the churches frequeuted by himself and the royal family. From Brussels he removed, at the invitation of the Countess of Athlone, to the Hague, where he became her ladyship's chaplain, and the conductor of a flourishing school. His state of health compelled him, in 1825, to return to England; from which period until his decease, he has occasionally taken clerical duty in the chapels at the west-end of the metropolis, and assisted in the education of youth. Dr Prince was much noticed by the late Princess Charlotte, who encouraged him to expect her unqualified future favour and patronage. In like manner, the late King of Bavaria, the Margravine of Baden, and other members of the continental great families, both made him their confidential friend and adviser, and promised him their countenance and notice. The ruthless hand of death lay heavily on his patrons; and his own somewhat proud spirit stooped not to ask advancement. Limited as Dr. Prince's means of doing good were, by the loss of his powerful friends, he was by no means slow in the performance of acts of kindness, not to say beneficence; which, though they often lowered his purse, proved him to possess a feeling heart and a most Christian philanthropy. Inconsistent he might have been, with many other honest and good men; but his errors were the result of circumstance and situation; and had he been less irritable in constitutional structure, he had yet lived to show himself an ornament to his country and to mankind. His death was somewhat sudden. Resident in the house of a kind and indulgent friend, he so far neglected his health as to make little observation of a common symptom of catarrhal affection-sore throat. Abscess took place, and delirium ensued, and in three days he was no more. REV. JOHN BUTLER SANDERS, M.A. March 15. At the Rectory, Bread-streethill, the Rev. John Butler Sanders, M.A. He was the only son of the Rev. Henry Sanders, formerly curate of Shenstone in Staffordshire, assistant master of the freeschool, Birmingham, and afterwards master of the free grammar school at Hales Owen, Salop, and perpetual curate of Oldbury chapel. He died in 1785. He married Miss Elizabeth Butler, an amiable lady whom he had the misfortune to lose after a happy union of a very few years. They left an only son, the subject of this memoir. He was educated at Birmingham free-school, and afterwards at Worcester college, Oxford, where he took the degree of M. A. 1780. 474 OBITUARY.-Rev.J.B.Sanders, M.A.-T. Collins, Esq. F.S.A. [May, In 1786 Mr. Sanders was minister of the English church at Gottenburg; but about forty years since returned to the metropolis; where he officiated as a laborious curate till his death. He was in 1794 curate of St. Alban's Wood-street, and lecturer of St. Olave's, Old Jewry; he afterwards was curate of St. Faith's; and died city curate in Bread-street-hill. Mr. Sanders was also second master of the free grammar school of St. Olave, Southwark. Mr. Butler, sen. wrote "the History and Antiquities of Shenstone, Staffordshire," which was published after his death by his son, in 1794, and to which he prefixed a short account of his father and his family. This work is now very rarely to be met with. From this account it appears, that it was at his mother's earnest wish Mr. Butler was bred to the ministry. The evening before she departed, she desired to see her only child, who was not five years old; after giving him some important instructions for his future life, it was her express order, that he should choose no other profession than a minister of Christ; that, be his fortune ever so small, he should disregard lucre, care of preferments, &c. for that that employment, properly discharged, was superior to any other in the world. Mr. Sanders was formerly an active manager of the Royal Humane Society, and frequently advocated the cause of that excellent charity in the pulpit. THOMAS COLLINS, ESQ. F.S.A. May 3. Aged 95, Thomas Collins, Esq. of Berners Street, and of Finchley, Middlesex, F.S.A. If a long life, spent in the exercise of all the duties of society, claim a record, this memorial cannot better be merited than by the late Mr. Collins. His career in life commenced in business; he undertook, with the late Mr. White and others, the continuation of the excellent houses in Harley Street, Marylebone, which they accomplished successfully. In the pursuits of business he did not neglect the cultivation of his mind, so that he became a desirable member of the society of Dr. Johnson, Sir William Chambers, the architect (to whom he was executor), Mr. Baretti, Major Rennell, Rev. Dr. Burney, Mr. Strahan, Mr. Nichols, and others. He was foreman of the jury at the trial of Lord George Gordon, and the writer of this article has heard the late Lord Erskine express how much he owed to his firmness and discrimination in that important event. He afterwards became an active magistrate of the county of Middlesex, and the father of the vestry of St. Marylebone. Mr. Collins had the happiness to be united to a lady whose views in life were quite accordant with his own; she lived till the end of the year 1824, a bright example of conjugal affection and urbanity. Such a life, employed in the exercise o virtue, was attended with considerable wealth; this he has distributed among his relations, without forgetting the friends with whom he associated. The Memoirs of John Sampson, Esq. the late highly-respected Solicitor-general at Sydney in New South Wales; Dr. Lister, the Rev. Joseph Cassan, Joseph Hayes, Esq., and others, are unavoidably deferred to our next. DEATHS. LONDON AND ITS VICINITY. Jan. 31. In the King's Bench prison, Mr. Revet, son of the late John Pytches, esq. formerly M. P. for Sudbury, who died last June in the same place (see a memoir of him in our last volume, pt. i. p. 569). Mr. Revet took that name as heir to the property of his maternal ancestors the Revets of Brandeston-hall, and the wreck of the property, which is still considerable, devolves on his son, who is a very fine lad. Feb. 11. In Sussex-place, Regent's-park, aged 54, Peter Latouche, esq. of Belle Vue, co. Wicklow. He was one of the sons of the Rt. Hon. David Latouche, and brother to David Latouche, esq. late M. P. for co. Carlow, and the late Countess of Lanesborough. He was M. P. for the county of Leitrim from 1802 to 1806; and succeeded to the estates of his uncle Peter Latouche, esq. in the county of Wicklow, in 1828 (see vol. XCVIII. ii. 650). Feb. 28. Lady Augusta de Ameland. Her ladyship was the fourth daughter of John 4th Earl of Dunmore, by Lady Charlotte Stewart, 6th dau. of Alexander 6th Earl of Galloway. She was married at Rome, April 4, 1793, to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex; the ceremony was repeated at St. George's, Hanover-square, in the December following; but, in consequence of the Act 12 Geo. III. ch. 11, prohibiting the descendants of George the Second to marry without permission from the Crown, the alliance was declared null and void by the Prerogative Court in August 1794. Her ladyship gave birth by the Duke to a son, Col. Augustus D'Este, and a dau. named Augusta, both still living. After her ladyship's separation from the Duke, she had the Royal license, in Oct. 1806, to use the name of de Ameland. Feb. 26. In Grafton-steet, aged 88, H. Gray, esq. In the Regent's - park, aged 76, Mrs. Morritt. March 13. At Chelsea, aged 16, George third and youngest son of the Rev. Weeden Butler, M. A. March 15. In Spring-gardens, aged 79, Mrs. Jane Burn. 1830.] OBITUARY. March 18. At his brother's, Upper Gowerstreet, aged 60, S. S. Chancellor, esq. late of the East India-house. At Kentish-town, James Newbon, esq. of Doctors' Commons. March 20. In Queen-sq. Bloomsbury, Nicholas Power, esq. At Hackney, aged 88, Mrs. Sarah Roberts. March 22. At Vauxhall, aged 77, John Lyon, esq. March 27. In Regent's-park, aged 20, Augusta-Maria-Selina, dau. of Hon. Mrs. Graves, and niece of Lord Say and Sele. At Belmont-house, Vauxhall, aged 81, Thomas Evance, esq. Bencher of the Middle Temple; upwards of 50 years Recorder of Kingston-upon-Thames, and late one of the Justices of Union-hall. March 28. Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Crook, esq. of Battersea Rise. Aged 34, David Latouche, esq eldest son of late Col. David Latouche, esq. M. P. for co. Carlow, and Lady Cecilia Leeson, dau. of Joseph 1st Earl of Miltown, nephew to Peter Latouche, esq. above noticed, and brother to Lady Branden. March 29. Iu Montagu-place, aged 78, Wm.-Henry Crowder, esq. March 30. At Herne-hill, aged 72, Chas. Terry, esq. late of Bedford row. March 31. In Sloane-st. aged 85, Thos. Barnard, esq. formerly of the Civil Service, Madras. Lately. Aged 54, G. B. Downing, esq. son of the Rev. Mr. D. Rector of Quainton, Bucks. John Staniforth, esq. of Norton - hall, Suffolk, a merchant of London, formerly a Bauk Director, and M.P. for Hull from 1802 to 1818. April 1. In Charlotte-street, Blackfriarsroad, aged 86, Alex. Lean, esq. many years Secretary to the Hudson's-Bay Company. April 3. Aged 42, George Beloe, esq. of the Ordnance Department, third son of the late Rev. William Beloe, B. D. F. S. A. April 4. Mrs. Ogle, eldest dau, of P. J. Miles, esq. M. P. Margaret-Eve-Sophia, youngest dau. of John Mitchell, esq. Charles-st. Berkeley-sq. April 5. At Kennington, aged 45, Harriett, widow of Mr. John Thornton, of East Retford, Notts, and dau. of the late Capt. Becks, Adjutant of the Notts. Militia. April 6. In Brunswick-street, Blackfriarsroad, Mrs. Burchett. She was buried at Caversham, near Reading, on the 21st, and has bequeathed the following in charity: 3,000l. to the British and Foreign Bible Society; 2,000l. to Missionary Societies; 500l. to the British and Foreign School, Borough-road; 1,500l. in trust to her own Chapel at Caversham, in Oxfordshire, (which she built at her own expense,) to support a minister for ever; 500l. to the almshouses of Wottonunder-Edge; 100l. to the poor of Caversham; 100l. to the Blind School, St. 475 George's-fields; and 100l. to the Bath Infirmary for curing diseases of the eye. At Whitehall, the Hon. Louisa-Mary Smith, dau. of Lord Carrington. At his mother's, in Torrington-sq. aged 33, James T. Smoult, esq. April 7. At the Treasurer's, Guy's-hospital, Mary, widow of Captain Chas. Pelly, Royal Navy. April 11. In Hampstead-road, A. Frankinet, esq. April 12. At Kennington, aged 57, Ann, wife of Lewis Wolfe, esq. In Gower-st. aged 71, Catherine, widow of the Rev. Robert Blayney, of Pitsford, Northamptonshire, and half-sister to Lord Howard of Effingham. She was the elder dau. of Henry Howard, of Arundel, esq. by his first wife Catherine, dau, of the Rev. John Carlton, D.D. April 14. At her son's, in Great Georgest. the relict of Major Blundell, esq. and sister of the late J. Houghton, M.D. F.R.S. In Upper Norton st. aged 74, Major Kendillon, of the 9th cavalry. April 16. Aged 62, Mr. Harriss, sen. of Saville-house, Leicester-sq. April 17. At Kensington, aged 22, Mark, eldest son of the late Hon. George Winn, M.P., of Warley Lodge, Essex, (of whom we gave a memoir in vol. xcvII. ii. p. 559.) He has left one younger brother, who now becomes the heir presumptive to the Barony of Headley. April 18. At Walham-Green, aged 82, universally lamented and respected, Mr. John Faulkner, sen. who was one of the oldest inhabitants of that parish. His remains were interred in the vault in Fulham church-yard, in which the family have been deposited for more than a century. (See Faulkner's History of Fulham.) April 21. Aged 68, Margaret, wife of C. Connell, esq. of York-gate, Regent'spark. In Cadogan-place, Charles Hopkinson, esq. Banker in Regent-street. In Regent's-park, Helen, eldest dau. of late W. Sinclair, esq. of Breck, Orkney. April 23. In Grosvenor-sq. in his 5th year, the Rt. Hon. Thos. Grey, Viscount Grey-de-Wilton, only child of the Earl of Wilton. April 24. At the house of her uncle Thos. Gore, esq. Nottingham-place, Ellen, dau. of late Charles Orlando Gore, esq. of Tring Park, Herts. April 26. In Upper Bedford-place, aged 19, Harriot, eldest dau. of Edw. Dod Colville, esq. April 27. At Camberwell, Mary, youngest dau. of late Capt. Henry Geary, R.A. Aged 59, Joseph Dickenson Croskey, esq. Mansion-house-street. April 28. In Craig's-court, aged 12, Nicholas, second son of John Pearse, esq. M.P. for Devizes. In Great James-st. Bedford-row, in her 82d year, Mrs. Frances Clarke. April 29. In Hertford-street, May Fair, aged 37, having given birth to a daughter on the 26th, Charlotte-Marianne-Harriet, wife of Nathaniel Micklethwait, esq. of Taverham, Norfolk, and sister to the Earl of Stradbroke. Her Ladyship was the second dau. of John first Earl of Stradbroke, by Charlotte-Maria, dau. of Abraham Whittaker, esq. and became the second wife of Mr. Micklethwait, Dec. 27, 1810. The elegant monument by Bacon, in Sprowston church, near Norwich, to Mr. Micklethwait's first wife, Lady Wilhelmina-Maria Waldegrave, is described in our vol. lxxvii. p. 1118. April 30. In Abingdon-street, aged 71, George Pink, esq. of the Ordnance depart ment. May 1. At his Lordship's, in Grosvenor-sq. aged 56, Isabella, Marchioness of Bath. Her Ladyship was the third dau. of George Viscount Torrington, was married to the present Marquess in April, 1794; by whom she has had a numerous family, of whom seven sons and three daughters survive her. In the walks of fashionable life, the Marchioness of Bath was ever esteemed a woman of the highest accomplishments, and spotless virtue. When at Longleat (commonly more than half the year), her charities were extensive, and of a superior order of usefulness. Food, raiment, and medical aid to the necessitous poor, and education, with clothing and instruction, to their children, were largely distributed by her in person throughout the surrounding villages; and in one parish a dairy was maintained at her expense expressly for their comfort. May 2. At the house of his brother Dr. Ainslie in Dover-street, aged 71, Montagu Farrer Ainslie, esq. F.S.A. Bencher of Gray's Inn, and Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. May 3. Mrs. Middlemist, of Great Russell-street. In Drury-lane, John Ripkey, at the age of 108 years. He served in America, under Gen. Wolfe, in 1759, and at Bunker's-hill, in the 13th foot. He quitted the army in 1791, and was an out-pensioner of Chelsea Hospital. He had three wives, but no family. He retained his faculties. The whole of his teeth were gone, with the exception of one (a very large one) in the centre of the upper jaw; his eye-sight remained good till the last. Aged 37, Susannah, wife of the Rev. J. P. Bean, second Master of St. Paul's School, and sister to Mr. Joseph Slater of Oxfordstreet. A coroner's inquest recorded, "that the deceased precipitated herself from a window, while in a state of temporary delirium, produced by bodily illness." Mrs. Bean had been married 16 years, and had two children, who died young. [May, At Brompton, Jane, only dau. of late Walter Hamilton, esq. May 4. Aged 72, Mr. Thiselton, many years of Goodge-street, bookseller. May 5. At Brixton, aged 72, Joseph Cooper, esq. May 11. At North Brixton, Catherine, widow of James Cross, esq. of Southwark. May 13. In Essex-st. aged 74, Edward Smith Foss, Esq. F.S A. many years a solicitor of eminence, and Secretary to the Society of Guardians for the Protection of Trade. In private life, Mr. Foss was very justly esteemed by a numerous circle of friends. He married one of the daughters of the late Dr. Rose, of Chiswick. She died in 1808. Mr. Foss has left two daughters and two sons; the eldest (Edward) was his partner in business, and the youngest (Henry) is partner in the well-known firm of Payne and Foss, booksellers, in Pall-Mall. May 14. In Woburn-place, aged 69, Jacob Wood, esq. May 16. In Manchester-sq. in his 80th year, Wm. Lowndes Stone, esq. of Brightwell House, Oxon. Aged 61, James Greensill, esq. of Manchester-buildings. BERKS.-April 11. At Reading, in her 80th year, Mrs. Elizabeth Abbott, sister to Mr. Edward Abbott, who died in Nov. 1791 (see vol. LXI. p. 1069), and last of the family. A woman of exemplary piety and probity of conduct. April 18. At Reading, aged 85, Peter Pineau, esq. April 20. At West Ilsley, aged 15, Caroline Mary, only dau. of Rev. G. S. Evans, and grand-dau. of John Ireland, esq. M.D. of Iffley, near Oxford. DEVON.-March 18. At Kenton Lodge, aged 68, Lt.-Gen. Charles N. Cookson. He was appointed Gentleman-Cadet in the Royal Artillery 1772, 2d Lieutenant 1777, 1st Lieutenant 1779. From 1783 to 1785 he served under Gen. Elliot at Gibraltar; thence he removed to Jamaica, where, and at St. Domingo, he remained until his promotion to the rank of Major in 1803. He was promoted to be Lieut.-Col. in 1804, Colonel 1809, Major-Gen. in 1812, and Lieut.-Gen. |