dies are heavy and unpoetical; beside this, they want all moral tendency. We understand that Mrs. Shelley is about to edite the posthumous works of her father; amongst these is an Autobiography, for the publication of which he has himself left instructions.

Of the portraits of Mr. Godwin, the best and most approved is by Northcote, painted in 1800; this Mr. Godwin had retained in his own possession. Sir Thomas Lawrence's portrait, now in the possession of Dr. Batty, is good-it is the head of an enthusiast-but excelled by his very spirited sketch of Godwin and Holcroft, taken as they were sitting side by side after the trial of the latter. Their heads form a fine and effective contrast; and the sketch, exclusive of its merits as a work of art, will ever be considered an interesting memorial of these two remarkable and powerful men.

From an interesting and valuable catalogue of Mr. Upcott's MS. treasures, we find that Mr. Godwin received for his great work on "Political Justice," 7001.: for "Caleb Williams," 847. ; and for "St. Leon," 400 guineas. This is a curious illustration to his history, shewing the comparative consequence of Godwin's name at different periods of his life.

JOHN BELL, Esq.

Feb. 6. In Bedford-square, aged 71, John Bell, esq. M.A. one of his Majesty's Counsel, and a Bencher of Gray's Inn.

Mr. Bell was a native of Cumberland. He was educated at Trinity college, Cambridge, where he became Fellow; he was the Senior Wrangler and first Smith's prizeman of the year 1786, and proceeded M.A. in 1789. He was called to the Bar by the Hon. Society of Gray's Inn Feb. 1, 1792; and was nominated a King's Counsel in Easter Term 1816. For many years he was the most distinguished ornament of the Chancery Bar, and held the highest rank in his profession for profound learning and eminent acuteness. He was a Whig in politics, but never courted or received any favour at the hands of his party. He retained throughout his whole professional career his native Cumberland dialect in all its unalloyed and broad provin. cialism; and, in addition to the disadvantages arising from that circumstance, he had to contend with some physical defect in his utterance, speaking with great hesitation, repeating his words and stuttering, in such a manner that it was really painful to listen to him. The proceedings in the Chancery Courts are, as our readers are generally aware, carried on in a very quiet conversation-like

manner. The advocate seldom aims at eloquence. To tell a plain tale in a plain manner is all that is attempted. Even that was beyond the power of John Bell. And yet, with all these defects, such was the reputation he acquired for sound discretion and solidity of judgment, that he managed to maintain a very high rank at the English Bar at a time when it was adorned by such men as Sir Samuel Romilly, Sir William Grant, and Sir John Leach. Probably there never was a more extraordinary instance of superiority of intellect making itself known and appreciated, in spite of obstacles which would generally be thought, and indeed be found, altogether invincible, than the one exhited by Mr. Bell.

George the Fourth, while Prince Regent, is related to have asked the Lord Chancellor (Eldon), Who was considered at that time the greatest lawyer?-to which the Chancellor is reported to have replied, "Please your Royal Highness, the greatest lawyer we have at this time, is a gentleman who can neither read, write, walk, nor talk."-And if the words are to be understood with reference to doing any one of these things well, they are true to the very letter.

He laboured from his infancy under a distortion of one of his feet, which made walking a painful operation. Another singularity attached to him was, the extraordinary illegibleness of his handwriting; so that, though his opinions were more sought for than those of any man of his time, it frequently happened that his clients were obliged to resort to himself or his clerk to decypher them. In reference to this defect he used facetiously to say, when asked what sort of a hand he thought he really wrote, that he had three sorts-one that be himself could read-one that his clerk could read -and one that neither he nor his clerk could read. It certainly was most extraordinary writing-only paralleled by the late Dr. Parr's hieroglyphics.

Out of Court he was a very good-tempered and affable man, easily accessible, painstaking, and laborious; in Court he very frequently obtained advantage over more brilliant and showy opponents, by the exactness with which he was accustomed to make himself acquainted with the facts of his cases, and his skill in bringing forward analogous cases which had been previously decided. plication of cases was indeed his great forte, and in that respect, perhaps, no man was ever more skilful.

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In person he was a little man, stout, and round-shouldered; with a very prominent mouth and large teeth.

Mr. Bell retired many years ago from

the Chancery Bar, but he lent his aid to the Chancery Law Commissioners. He is supposed to have acquired a princely fortune by his professional labours, which devolves upon a widow and only son. His will has been proved at Doctors' Commons, and the personalty sworn under 80,000l. The executors are Lord Langdale, Mr. Justice Littledale, Mr. Wyatt, Mr. Spranger, and the testator's widow.

J. W. KNAPP, Esq.

May 18. At Leesons, Chiselhurst, the seat of his uncle Lord Wynford, aged 33, Jerome William Knapp, esq. D.C. L. Barrister at Law, of Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn.

He had been actively engaged in his professional duties until Saturday afternoon, when he rode to Leesons from London. On the following day he was attacked by scarlet fever, and before Wednesday morning he expired.

He was the eldest son of Jerome Wil. liam Knapp, esq. D. C.L. Barrister at Law, and Bencher of the Middle Temple, whose still more sudden death (the day following his attendance in Court) is recorded in our Magazine for October 1815. His grandfather Jerome Knapp, esq. was also a Barrister at Law, and was Treasurer of the Middle Temple. A short biographical memoir of him appears in this Magazine for June 1792, at which period he died. His great-grandfather, Jerome Knapp, esq. of Haberdashers' Hall, was in 1724 appointed under the Great Seal of Great Britain a member of the Lieutenancy of the city of London. He died Dec. 25, 1740.

The subject of this memoir was born on the 23d Jan. 1803, and in 1816 was elected a Fellow of St. John's coll. Oxford, as kin to Sir Thomas White the Founder; by virtue of his descent from his grandmother Miss Saran Noyes, (the wife of Jerome Knapp, esq.) who was descended from the Buckeridges and Kibblewhites.

Mr. Knapp took his Bachelor's degree with honours at the early age of 17, and, in due course, obtained his degrees of M.A. and D.C.L. He also retained his fellowship to the time of his death, when he was one of the Senior Fellows.

In Feb. 1826 he was called to the Bar, having previously been admitted a member of the Middle Temple.

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In 1829 he published Reports of Cases argued and determined before the Committees of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council." In 1833, conjointly with another gentleman at the Bar," Cases of Controverted Elections,',

which have been continued down to July 1835; and in 1834, a second volume of his Cases before the Privy Council.

To talents above the ordinary degree, Mr. Knapp added a great thirst after knowledge of every description, with unwearied assiduity in the attainment of it; and the result was, of course, corresponding to such qualifications. It may be doubted whether he has left his equal at the Bar in an acquaintance with the Native laws of India, to which his attention had for some short time been directed. Endowed by nature with a most amiable disposition, he added to it an integrity of, life which increases the loss of his relatives and friends at his sudden and early death, but which ought, at the same time, to diminish their regret. He died un married, and was buried in a vault of his ancestors (the Colletts and Howlands), at St. Magnus, London Bridge.

CHARLES MILLARD, ESQ.

May 7. Of consumption, at his house in Abingdon-street, Westminster, in the 27th year of his age, Charles Millard, esq. Surgeon.

He was the second son of the Rev. C. F. Millard of Norwich, and grandson of the late Chancellor of that diocese. Having commenced his professional studies at Norwich, under the tuition of Mr. Crosse, and completed them in London and Paris, he became Demonstrator of the Webb Street School of Anatomy, where, though young in years, he obtained great celebrity as a teacher, being (in the opinion of his professional colleagues) distinguished not only by his superior acquirements, and extraordinary industry, but especially by the very lucid and yet comprehensive manner in which he conveyed to his hearers the details of even the most intricate branches of human anatomy. The high estimation in which his character, private as well as profes. sional, was held by his pupils, had been evinced during his life-time by a lasting memorial of their grateful respect, and was marked after his death, in an interesting and affecting manner, by their spontaneous and very numerous attendance (headed by two of the Lecturers of the School) at the gate of St. Margaret's Churchyard, from whence they preceded the funeral into the Church, the ceremony being performed by Professor Milman. It is but a twelvemonth since we recorded Mr. Millard's marriage with the second daughter of Mr. Amyot, of James Street, Buckingham Gate, who survives him.

DEATHS.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.

Jan. 7. Lieut. Holgate, Ceylon regt. Feb. 26. Aged 73, Mr. Daniel Boileau, author of many useful elementary works in the French and German languages. He was formerly a master in Mr. Snowden's academy, at Hull. He latterly suffered much both from disease and poverty, and terminated his life by cutting his throat at the Royal Institution.

March 20. In Charlotte-st. Fitzroysq. aged 70, Mrs. Ross, formerly wellknown as a portrait painter, and equally successful in historical subjects. She was sister to the late Anker Smith, engraver, niece to John Hoole, the translator of Ariosto, and mother of Mr. W. C. Ross, artist, now of Charlotte-street. Lately. Capt. Felix M'Donough, the author of a clever work entitled "The Hermit in London," which originally appeared in weekly numbers in the Literary Gazette, and afterwards in 3 vols. 182.. Also of the Hermit in the Country, and many other works in light literature. He was a man of quick observation, considerable talent, and gentlemanly demeanour ; though, latterly steeped in poverty, he had dragged on existence as a "bookseller's back."

By suicide, Mr. R. Seymour, the caricaturist, who, it appears, with all his relish for, and quick perception of, the humourous, was subject to dreadful fits of melancholy and despondency, in one of which he committed suicide. He was, undoubtedly, a man of considerable talent; at his outset there was too much of mannerism in his design, and that manner was not original; but latterly, especially in his illustration of "The Book of Christmas," and "The Library of Fiction," he gave good promise of becoming a distinguished artist.

He supplied, we believe from its commencement to his death, a period of nearly five years, the political sketches of the weekly sheet called "Figaro in London." April 2. At Edmonton, aged 71, the Rev. John Coates, late librarian of Dr. Williams's Library.

Mary, wife of C. H. Pilgrim, esq. of York-terrace, Regent's Park.

April 16. In New Ormond-st. aged 42, Mr. Edmund Edmonds, formerly editor of an unstamped weekly Paper called the Metropolitan Gazette, but latterly an attorney's clerk at the policeoffices and in the Central Criminal Court. A Coroner's Jury returned a verdict, "That the deceased destroyed himself in a state of temporary mental derange

April 29.

Aged 66, Mr. Thos. Wilson, bookseller, St. Paul's Church-yard. April 30. At Fulham, Anne, widow of Col. W. Fenwick, Royal Engineers. In Spring Gardens, aged 83, Anne, widow of Henry Tansley, esq. of Littleport, in the isle of Ely.

May 1. John-Hasler, second son ; May 3, Capron, third son; and May 6, Anthony-Tenterden, eldest son of Hasler Hollist, esq. barrister-at-law.

May 3. In Grosvenor-sq. in her 70th year, the Right Hon. Emilia Countess dowager of Glengall. She was the youngest dau. of James St. John Jeffreys, of Blarney Castle, co. Cork, esq. by Lady Anabella Fitzgibbon, eldest dau. of John first Earl of Clare; was married in 1793, and left a widow in 1819, having had issue the present Earl of Glengall, the Countess of Belfast, and two other daughters. She was the patroness of many useful establishments for the promotion of industry among her son's tenantry in co. Tipperary. Her Ladyship was found dead in her bed.

In Grosvenor-square, aged 63, Lady Louisa Clements, sister to the Earl of Leitrim. She was the second and last surviving dau. of Robert first Earl, by Lady Elizabeth Skeffington, eldest dau. of Clotworthy first Earl of Massarene.

At Chandos-street, aged 83, William Young Knight, esq. many years Vestry Clerk of St. James's, Westminster.

May 4. In Park-st. the infant son of Lord Arthur Lennox.

In Argyll st. Elizabeth, eldest dau. of the late Professor Young, of Glasgow.

May 5. In Park-st. aged 63, the Rt. Hon. Lady Elizabeth Talbot, sister to the Duke of Beaufort. She was the eldest dau. of Henry fifth Duke, and

DORSET.-April 11. At the Knoll. Tor, aged 33, W. Vivian, esq. April 12. At Wimborne, aged 74, Jane, relict of the Rev. J. Mayo. May 5.

Wm. B. Best, esq. of Poole. ESSEX.-March 18. At Walbury, aged 49, Colonel Johnson.

April 15. At Laytrinstone, aged 98, Anne-Esther, widow of David Privat,

esq.

May 4. Aged 66, Joseph Shepherd, esq. solicitor, of Saffron Walden.

May 2. Emma, fourth dau. of the late Rev. Lewis Way, of Spencer Farm. GLOUCESTER.-April 20. At Clifton, William Clifford, esq.

April 24. Emily-Freeman, wife of James Elton, esq. recorder of Tiverton, youngest dau. of the late Thos. Oliver, esq. of Bristol.

April 30. Aged 59, Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Hardwicke, esq. of Grange House, Tytherington.

May 6. At Tewkesbury, Sarah, widow of James Kingsbury, esq. many years an alderman.

May 9. At Cheltenham, aged 30, Daniel, youngest son of G. H. Tugwell, esq. banker of Bath.

May 11. At Bristol, in her 83d year, the widow of William Kelly, esq. of St. Christopher's.

May 13. At Cirencester, aged 53, Mrs. E. P. Tudway, widow of the Rev. C. Tudway, formerly of Wells, sister to T. Calley, esq. of Burderop-park, Wilts. HANTS.-April 13. At Southsea, Com. Henry Deacon, R.N. He served in Adm. Byng's fleet in the action off Minorca in 1758, and was present at the execution of that officer in the following year in Portsmouth harbour. He attained the rank of Commander in 1787, and was at the head of the list.

April 24. At Southampton, the widow of Colonel Fare.

Lately. At Forton House, near Gosport, Joseph Carter, esq. eldest son of the late Joseph Carter, esq. of Bury, Hants.

HEREFORD.-May 7. At Hereford, Sarah, widow of Peter de Lamotte, esq. third dau. of the Rev. Digby Cotes, late rector of Dore Abbey, and cousin to the late Duchess of Norfolk, of Home Lacy, and to the Earl of Digby.

KENT.-March 19. Aged 78, Mul. ton Lambard, esq. of Sevenoaks. He was sixth in descent from William Lambard, the old Topographer of Kent, and was the eldest surviving son of Tho. mas Lambard, esq. by Grace, dau. of Sir William Parsons, Bart. He was formerly a student of Christchurch, Oxford, and was the senior M. A. of that society at his death, having taken that degree in 1781.

April 10. At Margate, aged 85, Judith, widow of James Taddy, esq. and previously of Thomas Flesher, esq. of Fenchurch-st. She was accidentally burnt to death.

April 19. At Canterbury, Selina, wid. of Dr. Daltry, of Ireland; great-aunt to Sir Edward C. Dering, Bart. She was the eldest dau. of Sir Edward the 6th Bart. by Selina dau. and cob. of Sir Robert Furnese of Waldershare, Bart.

April 20. At Tunbridge Wells, aged 29, Lydia- Whitefoord, wife of J. Laing, esq. late of Baker st.

April 25. At Wouldham, aged 21, the Hon. Francis de Grey, of Worcester College, Oxford, youngest son of Lord Walsingham. He imprudently entered the water with all his clothes on, to secure a boat that was drifting down the Medway. He was unable to reach the boat, and becoming exhausted, he sank.

May 1. At Tunbridge Wells, aged 23, E. H. Finley, esq. member of the Royal College of Surgeons, youngest surviving son of the Rev. J. Finley.

May 12. Aged 24, Capt. A. A. Cotton, 7th Hussars, son of C. B. Cotton, esq. of Kingsgate, Isle of Thanet.

LANCASHIRE.-Jan. 30. Drowned at Liverpool, aged 51, Lieut. Joseph Walker, R.N.

Feb. 18. At St. Helen's, Lieut. Greenhalgh, h. p. 71st reg.

Lately. At Wigan, aged 28, Lieut. George Bell, 77th regt.

At Pendleton, in her 79th year, the widow of the Rev. T. Gaskell, Incumbent of Newton Heath, Manchester.

April 12. At Slyne House, near Lancaster, Lydia, wife of Robert Greene Bradley, esq. barrister-at-law.

April 18. At Lytham, aged 62, Edmond Peel, esq. late of Church Bank and April 22, aged 62, his widow, dau. of Jonathan Peel, esq. of Accrington.

May 6. At Fairfield, near Manchester, aged 78, the Rev. Christian Ignatius Latrobe, many years Secretary of the Brethren's Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel among the Heathen.

May 10. At the vicarage, Ormskirk, aged 34, Harriet, wife of the Rev. J. T. Horton, eldest dau. of Sir T. D. Hesketh, Bart. of Rufford Hall,