at sea." This produced from Dr. Maskelyne some "Remarks on Hadley's Quadrant, tending principally to remove the difficulties which have hitherto attended the use of the Backobservation, and to obviate the errors that might arise from want of parallelism in the two surfaces of the Index Glass."

In 1779, the Astronomer Royal also banded to the Royal Society an Account, by Mr. Peter Dollond, "of an Apparatus applied to the Equatorial Instrument for correcting the Errors arising from the Refraction in Altitude."

In 1789 he published "Some Account of the Discovery, made by the late John Dollond, F. R.S. which led to the grand Improvement of Refracting Telescopes, in order to correct some misrepresenta tions in Foreign Publications of that discovery; with an attempt to account for a Mistake in an Experiment made by Sir Isaac Newton; on which Experiment the Improvement of the Refracting Telescope intirely depended."

This

was written to secure to his father, as well as to the country, the honour of so valuable a discovery. It was read to the Royal Society; but was not printed in their Transactions. In this Paper the cause of the difference of the results of the 8th experiment of the 2d part of the first book of Newton's Optics, as related by himself, and as it was found when tried by John Dollond in 1757 and 1758, is fully and ingeniously accounted for.

Mr. Peter Dollond has left two daugh ters; one the widow of the late Rev. Dr. John Kelly, Author of the Triglott Celtic Dictionary, and a Translator of the Bible into the Manks Language (of whom see vol. LXXX. i. pp. 84, 128); the other, the wife of the Rev. Mr. Waddington, Rector of Tuxford, Notts.

The subject of this brief memoir, though ripe in years, will be most sincerely lamented by a large circle of friends; and so extensive was his benevolence, that numerous are the individuals who will deeply feel the loss of his generous patronage and assistance.

DEATH S.

IN February last, after an illness of only three days (whilst on his return from the expedition in the Persian Gulf), Edmund, youngest brother of Sir Tyrwhitt Jones, Bart. April 1. Edw. Pellew Wilkes, Esq. Surgeon of H. M. S. Myrmidon.

April 8. Beloved by all who knew her, Jane, wife of William Combes, esq. of Henley on Thames. May 22.

In the Moro Castle, Ha

vannah, the Spanish Gen. Renovales.He had of late resided in New Orleans, but proceeded to the Havannah, on hearing of the recent events in Spain. He was there arrested, with several other officers, on a charge of having attempted a conspiracy to overthrow the present Government, and establish the independence of Cuba.

May 31. After many years illness, aged 67, the widow of the late William Bussard, esq. of Manchester, most justly beloved.

June 5. At All-Stretton, co. Salop, in his 66th year, deeply regretted by his family, his parishioners, and all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance, the Rev. Richard Wilding, M.A. Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, Rector of Easthope,

Curate of Wolstanton and Smethcott, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the county of Salop, Surrogate for the diocese of Hereford, one of the Trustees of the Free Grammar School, Shrewsbury, and of Church - Stretton in the same county. As a Clergyman, he had an extensive share of learning, and was sin. cerely and firmly attached to the doctrines and discipline of the Church of England. As a Magistrate, he was possessed of a quick discernment, solid judgment, and strict integrity. In domestic life, he was a most tender husband, affectionate father, and sincere friend. Society has lost in him a valuable member, the poor a humane benefactor; his numerous workmen and labourers, a kind and indulgent his numerous friends, a most pleasing and master; his tenants, a good landlord; and instructive companion. He was a regular reader of Mr. Urbau's pages, and a contributor to some of the earlier Volumes.

June 14. At Cambridge, in his 53d year, Henry Hodges, esq. of Emanuel College, B. A. 1789, M. A. 1792.

June 18. In his 63d year, the Rev. William Calcott, of Cainham Court, co. Salop, and many years Rector of Great Witley in Worcestershire. His unaffected piety, extensive charities, and zeal for the Established Church, of which he was an able advocate, will long be had in remembrance by all who had the advantage of his acquaintance.

June 21. In Lombard-street, aged 84, Capt. John Mann.

June 23. At Aldbury House, Cheshunt aged 82, John Russell, esq. of Thruxton's Court, Hereford.

June 25. In Argyll square, Edinburgh, Alex. Christison, esq. late Professor of Humanity in the University of Edinburgh.

June 27. At Ebony, in the Isle of Oxney, Mr. Isaac Cloke, brewer, of Tenterden, aged 72 years: by his testamentary directions, his remains were followed to the grave by 72 aged men, all in white frocks

frocks and white stockings, and each was to be the father of six living children.

June 27. In Pullen's-row, Islington, the Rev. Lemuel Kirkman.

At Wykeham, Hampshire, in her 75th year, Henrietta, relict of the late Samuel Atkins.

At Holyhead (Anglesey), in his 69th year, Richard Griffiths, esq. late Agent for Post Office Packets on the Holyhead and Dublin station.

In Manchester-square, in his 94th year, Lewen Smith, esq.

At Portsmouth, aged 34, Sarah, wife of Major Macdonald, of the Royal Marines.

At Moulton, near Spalding, aged 60, Miss Harston, a maiden Lady, for many years a schoolmistress; a very eccentric character, parsimonious to an extreme, living on bread and water and a few vegetables for more than two years preceding her death; yet she has left a considerable property, which comes to a near relation, a poor labouring woman.

At Islington, near Birmingham, in his 62d year, Thomas Laugher, esq.

At Kensington, in his 71st year, Capt. Thos. Riches, late of Great Yarmouth.

At Rye, Sussex, aged 81, Mrs. Meryon; and on the next day, aged 40, Mr. Tuos. Meryon, of the same place.

At Fulham, aged two years and four months, the Hon. Arthur Jones, son of Viscount Ranelagh (see p. 85).

At Caher, Ireland, aged 106, the Rev. Jas. Keating. Parish Priest of Kilgobinet (Waterford), 70 years ago, and afterwards was Parish Priest of Clogheen.

Aged 28, Mrs. John Paradise, of Newcastle-street, Strand.

June 28. Septimus, seventh son of Cecil Becke, esq. of Devonshire-street, Queen-square, solicitor.

Of apoplexy, Mr. Thomas Glossop, of High Holborn, wine and brandy mer chant.

June 30. At Newcastle upon Tyne, in her 70th year, Anne, daughter of the late Mr. Ralph Waters, painter.

Lately, Mr. Alexander Bisson, Chief Clerk at Marlborough street Police office.

Mr. Salmon, a market gardener, in Park-place, Little Chelsea. After eating a hearty breakfast, he walked out into his garden, and fell down and expired.

Devonshire.-At Tor Crossin, aged 73, John Henry Southcote, esq. formerly of Buckland-tout-Saints, and of Stoke Fleming, Devonshire.

Gloucestershire.-Wm. Hopton. While mowing a field for H. Eycott, esq. at Stonehouse, he suddenly dropped down dead; he was 52 years old, and has left a wife and seven children.

Hampshire-At Horndean, Edw. Oliver Osborn, esq. Vice Admiral of his Majes.

ty's Fleet. This gallant Officer was the last of three brothers, all Flag Officers in the Royal Navy, who have died within the course of a few months.

Huntingdonshire-At Stonely, near Kimbolton, in her 89th year, Mrs. Jane Welstead, formerly of Berners-street.

Lincolnshire.-John Skinner, the sexton of Barton-on-Humber. While walking

along the street in apparent health, he suddenly dropped down, and instantly expired. He had been sexton 35 years; during which period he had dug between 15 and 1600 graves.

Oxford. At his rooms in Magdalene Hall, aged 60, the Rev. Wm. West Green, D. D. Rector of Husband's Bosworth, Leicestershire (to which rectory he was presented in 1813), one of the Lecturers of Oxford, and for 29 years Vice Principal of Magdalene Hall.

Somersetshire.-At Bath, the Rev. Joho Lyster; Rector of the living of Clonpriest in the Diocese of Cloyne. It is said, that Lord Ponsonby has served notice on the Vicar General of his intention to present to the living: the rectory to which he was presented by his College in 1796, has also laid claim to it. The Diocesan was the last who presented it.

Surrey. The Rev. Willoughby Bertie, late Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Rector of Buckland.

Sussex.-At West Stoke, aged 62, Mr. Mark Cobden, gamekeeper to his Grace the Duke of Richmond; in which family he had spent the whole of his life. He was at one time esteemed, according to the Cricketers' phrase, the longest arm in Englaud. In 1792, he was matched to throw a five and a quarter ball, in Goodwood Park, for a considerable wager, with the Earl of Winchelsea, whom he beat by three yards, pitching his ball the first throw 119 yards.-His Lordship had never before been beaten.

At Arundel, in her 82d year, Catharine, widow of the late Rev. John Griffiths, of Kingston-on-Thames, and mother of Capt. A. J. Griffiths, R. N.

Westmoreland.-At Kendal, Mr. Hind, auctioneer. His death was occasioned by a dreadful accident that occurred there on the day of celebrating the anniversary of Mr. Brougham's first contest for Westmoreland. In order to give additional eclat to the day, two cannon were placed on an eminence, on the West side of the town. Mr. Hind was ramming one of the guns, which had been before discharged; when the powder exploded, and blew off his left hand and part of his arm, and so dreadfully lacerated his other hand, that it was amputated.

Yorkshire-At Thirby, Thos. Hintoff, a weaver. He had been married six times. His sixth wife surviving-exactly the num

ber

ber that Henry VIII. boasted of having led to the Altar.

IRELAND-Lately. Mary Tyre, wife of Thomas Young Lester, esq. of the City of Dublin, and daughter of William Reece, esq. of Ledbury, co. Hereford. To mental powers of the first order, she added all those useful and ornamental acquisitions which dignify the female character. She was conversant with the French, Italian, Spanish, and German languages; but all her accomplishments were eclipsed by her genuine piety.

John Anderson, esq. of Fermoy, Cork. July 1. Aged 42, John Atkinson, gent. of Peterborough.-He had been holding an Inquest at Pilsgate; and on returning home, about nine in the evening, was thrown from his horse in Thorpe-lane, within half a mile of Peterborough, and killed on the spot.

Mr. Wishart, a surgeon, of Baynes-row, Clerkenwell. He was in high spirits, when he fell back in his seat and expired without a groan.

In her 35th year, Anne, wife of J. Bennet, esq. of Dimsdale, Laucashire. She was in the morning all health, activity, and loveliness, and in the evening a lifeless corpse.

In his 74th year, Mr. Edward Death, merchant; during half a century in the house of Todd, Henderson, and Co.

At Sidmouth, Edward Thomas, son of Robert Hesketh, esq. of Rossall, Lancashire.

July 2. In Hatton garden, in bis 75th year, Mr. Chas. Cox.

At Clifton Hot Wells, the wife of John Mytton, esq. of Halston, Shropshire, only surviving daughter of Lady Jones, and sister of Sir Tyrwhitt Jones, bart.

In the Grove, Kentish Town, the wife of Mr. Robins, seu. auctioneer, Coventgarden.

At the Manor House, Paddington, Elizabeth, relict of the late Rev. Henry Waring.

At Lee, Kent, Henrietta Maltby, daughter of the late Jos. Leacock, esq. of Mount Brevitor, Barbadoes.

From the rupture of a blood-vessel, John Scales, esq. of Hanger's-laue, Stamford Hill.

In her 24th year, Frances Anne, daughter of Richard Allnutt, esq. of South Park, Penshurst, Kent.

Aged 88, Anne, widow of the late Ed. ward Ives, esq. of Titchfield, Hants. July 4. In his 22d year, Robert, son of Mr. Wm. Leonard, surveyor, Parson's Green, Fulham.

At Epsom, aged 23, Susan, wife of John Ashley Warre, esq.

Aged 69, Elizabeth, wife of Wm. Clarke, esq. of Brunswick-place, Lewisham-road,

formerly of the Brewery in Bermond

sey.

At Lomond's Pond, Southwark, aged 58, Mr. George Cole. He was deaf and dumb from his birth.

July 5 At Dawlish, Devonshire, aged 21, Catherine, daughter of Rev. J. H. Hall, of Risley Hall, Derbyshire.

At Wick, in his 80th year, Wm. Macleay, esq. late Provost, and during 40 years chief residing Magistrate of that Borough; also one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, and a Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Caithness.

At Dalston, Jane, wife of Mr. Joseph Boord, many years resident in Watling

street.

Aged 20, Eliza Anne Frances, wife of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, esq.

July 6. At Brighton, Catherine, daughter of the late Fred. Charles Street, esq. Aged 44, Christopher Barber, esq. of the General Post Office.

On Woolwich Common, Barbara, widow of Lieut. col. Baynes, of the Royal Artillery.

The wife of Benjamin Hutton, esq. of Newington Green.

In Nottingham-place, in his 64th year, Mr. Isaac Chamberlain, sen. late of Basinghall-street. July 7. In Hornsey-road, aged 58, suddenly, Mr. William Emmett, formerly of Hermes-street, Pentonville.

At Bromley, Kent, Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of the late Rev. Wm. Strong, Rector of Norton, Kent.

July 8. At Cheam, Amelia Catherine, daughter of the late Rev, Henry Peach. At the Moat, Kent, the only daughter of the late Thos. Selby, esq.

At East Dereham, Norfolk, the widow of the late Thomas Wilson, esq. of Camberwell.

In his 23d year, Mr. James Brownsworth Morris, son of Mr. James Morris, of New Brentford, Middlesex.

In Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square, Anna Maria, daughter of the late Majorgen. Thomas Coxe.

At Balgonie Cottage, Fifeshire, Major Douglas, late of the 7th Royal Veteran battalion.

In Black Rock, Cork, the relict of the late Walter Croker, esq. of Clonmel, brother of the Secretary of the Admiralty.

July 9. lu his 78th year, John Hussey, esq. of Richmond Green. His death was sudden and awful; he had dined out with a party on the preceding day, and was found dead in his bed on the following morning, to the inexpressible horror and grief of an affectionate wife and an amiable daughter of most exquisite tender feelings. Didactic lesson, that "in medio vitæ sumus in morte."

He

He was a man pre-eminent in suavity of manners, possessed of every mental requisite to command the admiration and esteem of mankind. When some men die, they die all; but when such a character as this departs, he dies not, but his name and memory are perennially vital!

Wm. Baring, esq. of Lulworth Castle, Dorset, and the Rev. John Bain, Rector of Winfrith, and only son of Dr. Bain, of Hefféton, near Wareham, in that county. Having in the evening walked to the seashore at Arisk Mill, near the Castle, they were induced by the calmness of the sea to row out in a small boat belonging to Mr. Baring; which, unfortunately, upsetting, they were both drowned. This melancholy event becomes more afflictive from the circumstance of Mrs. Baring and the two Misses Bain accompanying them to the shore, and being eye-witnesses of the painful sight. While attempting to change places in the boat it upset within a bundred yards of the shore. The spring tides setting very strong off this rocky coast, probably, prevented their being able to reach the land.

Aged 24, Mr. Charles Barrell, eldest son of Mr. Savage Barrell, of Billericay, Essex.

In his 27th year, Thomas - Tarleton, eldest son of Edward Faulkner, esq. of Fairfield, Lancashire.

July 10. Aged 14, Sarah-Rachael, daughter of John Simpson, esq. of Fair Lawu, Kent.

Jane, wife of Mr. John Bouch, of Monument-yard.

July 11. In Stanhope-street, Mrs. Bamber Gascoyne.

July 12, At Chelsea, aged 79, the Hon. and Right Rev. Brownlow North, D. C. L. Lord Bishop of Winchester; of whom an account shall be given in our next.

In his 25th year, Mr. Chas. Phipps, of Lothbury, solicitor.

Jas. Tyson, esq. of Bernard-street, Russell-square.

July 13. At Northampton, in his 23d year, John St. Mawe, esq. only son of Mr. Mawe, of the Strand, London.-Endowed with talents of the finest order, and blest with a disposition at once affectionate and endearing, this excellent young man afforded a powerful evidence of that firmness in the awful hour of death, which faith in a Redeemer can alone confer. He died sending forth his last breath in humble prayer, and cheering with a heavenly hope the afflicted authors of his being. His literary attainments kept pace with the developement of a mind of extraordinary comprehension; - and his friends have to mourn the premature close of a career which was full of promise.

July 15. William-Henry Harnage, esq. of Belswardine, co. Salop, a gentleman long endeared to his friends by the urbanity of his manners.

July 18. Thos. Jacob White, esq. of Bewdley, Worcestershire.

July 19.

Aged 70, Mr. Joseph Metcalfe, of East Smithfield.

July 20. In his 64th year, Capt. Jonas Rose, R. N.

In Mountagu-square, in his 75th year, Dr. Bennet, Lord Bishop of Cloyne. Of this elegant Scholar and exemplary Divine, further particulars in our next.