manager of Drury Lane Theatre. This lady survives him, with one son, who has become a Moravian minister. The latter has, however, a large family, one of whom, regularly educated for the church, will probably be hereafter pre- sented to Pertenhall.
In 1773 appeared in 4to., "The An- tiquities of Herculaneum, translated from the Italian, by Thomas Martyn and John Lettice, Bachelors of Divi- nity, and Fellows of Sidney Col- lege, Cambridge. Vol. I. contain- On this laborious ing the Pictures." work Mr. Martyn and his co-adjutor (now D.D. and vicar of Peasemarsh, in Sussex), had been employed for five
Its original had been printed at the expense of his Neapolitan Ma- jesty, and his royal jealousy was unac- countably excited by the English tran- slation, which he imagined was the pro- duction of the university of Cambridge as a body, and considered it would in- jure the sale of his own work. Majesty accordingly was pleased to or- der, that instead of the high price it was before sold at, for fear of it losing its value, the original, in order to undersell the translators, should be sold consi- Nor did derably under its prime cost. the translators meet with the encourage ment they expected in their own coun try; so the work was discontinued, though it was announced in the preface to the first volume, that the transla- tions, and the engravings, were at length finished.
Mr. Martyn's next work was, "Ele- ments of Natural History, 1775," 8vo. On the 23d Dec. 1776, he was preferred to the vicarage of Little Marlow, Bucks, by his pupil, Admiral Sir John Bor- At this period, or lase Warren, Bart. probably an earlier period, Mr. Martyn resided at Triplow, near Cambridge, engaged as private tutor to four or five On Aug. 6, young men of fortune. 1777, the Rev. Mr. Tyson wrote to Mr. Gough: "Martyn is about a Flora Cantabrigiensis, to be published next Spring. I have the sheets to make additions to, and to correct." (Nichols's Whether this Lit. Anec. viii. 628). work was actually published, or the ma- terials incorporated in another work, does not appear. In 1785 he published in 8vo. a translation of Rousseau's Let- ters on the Elements of Botany, accom panied by additional Letters; a second In the lat- edition appeared in 1787. ter year he was presented by the Earl
of Coventry to the perpetual curacy of Edgware, which he retained till his death. In 1778 he edited "Thirty- eight Plates, drawn and engraved by F. Nodder, botanical painter to his Majesty, with explanations to illustrate the Linnæan System of Vegetables, and particularly adapted to the Letters on the Elements of Botany," 8vo. professor occasionally attended on Queen Charlotte in the gardens at Kew.
About this time Mr. Martyn accom- panied through France, Switzerland, and Italy, Mr. Hartopp Wigley, of Dalby Hall, Leicestershire, who was another of his pupils. These travels produced from the professor three pub- lications: "A Sketch of a Tour through Switzerland, &c. 1787," 8vo; a new edition (the ninth) of "The Gentleman's Guide in his Tour through France, &c.” 8vo. ; and a most useful "Tour through The latter contains Italy, 1791," 8vo. "full directions for travelling in that interesting country, ample catalogues of every thing curious in architecture, painting, sculpture, &c.; some observ- ations on the natural history, and very particular descriptions of the four prin- cipal cities, Rome, Florence, Naples, and Venice, with their environs; and a coloured chart."
After his return, Mr. Martyn resided about three years on his living at Little Marlow, and during that time issued his "Flora Rustica," 2 vols. 1792-4; and first published his "Language of Bo- tany, being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linnæus, with familiar explanations, and an attempt to establish significant English terms," 1793, 8vo. 2d edit. "A Description 1796, 3d edit. 1807. of Hemanthus Multiflorus, with an en- graving," appeared as a separate 8vo. pamplet. From Little Marlow the professor removed to London, on ac- cepting the honorary office of Secretary to the Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture.
But Mr. Martyn's grand labour was a much improved edition of "Miller's Gardener's and Botanist's Dictionary," in 4 vols. folio, 1803-7, dedicated to To this he, for the Sir Joseph Banks. first time, added " A Complete Enume- ration and Description of all Plants hitherto known, with their generic and specific characters, places of growth, times of flowering, and uses, both me- dicinal and economical; with the addi- tion of all the modern improvements in
landscape gardening, and in the culture of trees, plants, and fruits, particularly in the various kinds of hot-houses and forcing-frames." His plan for this work he had communicated to the Gen- tleman's Magazine as long before as
At one time, Mr. Martyn intended to reprint "Stillingfleet's Miscellaneous Tracts" (see Nichols's Lit. Anecd. vol. vIII. p. 409.); but this was pre- vented by more important avocations. The task was, however, afterwards ably performed by Mr. Archdeacon Coxe.
In 1818 he removed to Pertenhall, the place of his decease, being presented to that rectory, (a family living,) by the Rev. John King Martyn.
As a preacher of the Gospel of Christ, which he adorned by his life and doc- trines, he was distinguished by strong sense, accurate knowledge of human nature, and comprehensive scriptural learning. Candid, courteous, and affa- ble, he conciliated the friendship and esteem of many eminent men ofall parties. Practical benevolence, and charity were conspicuous traits in his character, and the exercise of them was confined neither to place nor to party. Gentleman's Magazine.
MATURIN, the Rev. C., Curate of St. Peter's, at Dublin; Oct. 30. 1824; in that city.
This eccentric character was undoubt- edly a man of genius, though it mani- fested itself, even in its most successful efforts, more in the extravagancies of an overweaning imagination, than in the refinements of a correct taste or the coherency of intellectual power. His conduct and deportment as a man cor- responded with his character as an author. Both were strongly marked with the same affectation and eccentricity; the same mixture of folly and inspiration - or, perhaps, we ought rather to have said, possession for there was a sort of be- wilderingness, even in the brightest sal- lies, whether in his intercourse with mankind or with the muse.
Before the tragedy of "Bertram" was produced at Drury-lane Theatre,* and received with such distinguished appro- bation, Mr. Maturin was the humble, unknown, and unnoticed curate of
It was presented and performed, through the influence of Lord Byron, who may be said to have brought him before the public eye.
St. Peter's, Dublin; from which he derived a stated income of 701. or at the utmost 100l. per annum. Mr. Matu- rin, however, was at no period depend- ent upon the emoluments of his
curacy. Before the dramatic perform- ance already mentioned conferred éclat upon his name and works, he had pub- lished one or two novels, which obtained an ordinary rank in the catalogues of our circulating libraries, although they afforded as little profit as fame to their author; and he besides prepared a few young gentlemen to pass the entrance examinations of Trinity College, who for that purpose resided with him in his house, York-street, Dublin. But, not- withstanding these combined resources, Mr. Maturin's aspirations surpassed them; and, like men of talent in gene- ral, whose purses are mostly dispro- portionate to their desires, he was con- stantly beset with duns and difficulties. Still these sublunary trifles had even then no serious effect upon the Rev. Gentleman's notion of his own import- ance. The person calling at No.- York-street, on indifferent business, or the creditor who, "for the last time," demanded an audience, was ushered into an apartment studiously indicative of the owner's several pursuits, and having waited a sufficiently fashionable time, was received, answered, and dismissed with a sovereign air of superiority, which was at least as much calculated to sur- prise as to satisfy. The curate of St. Peter's, in short, though at that period not a very young man, was, as he ever after remained, exceedingly vain both of his person and accomplishments; and as his income would not allow him to attract attention by the splendour of his dress and manners, he seldom failed to do so by their singularity. Mr. Matu- rin was a tall, slender, but well propor- tioned, and, on the whole, a good figure, which he took care to display in a well- made black coat, tightly buttoned, and some odd light-coloured stocking-web pantaloons, surmounted in winter by a coat of prodigious dimensions, grace- fully thrown on, so as not to obscure the symmetry it affected to protect. This tame exhibition, however, of an elegant form in the street, the church, or the drawing-room, did not suffice. The Reverend Gentleman sang and danced, and prided himself on perform- ing the movements and evolutions of the quadrille, certainly better than any other divine of the Established Church,
and equal to any private lay-gentleman of the three kingdoms. It often hap- pened, too, that Mr. Maturin either laboured under an attack of gout, or met with some accident, which compel- led the use of a slipper or a bandage on one foot or one leg; and, by an unac- countable congruity of mischances, he was uniformly compelled on these occa- sions to appear in the public thorough- fare of Dublin, where the melancholy spectacle of a beautiful limb in pain, never failed to excite the sighs and sympathies of all the interesting persons who passed, as well as to prompt their curiosity, to make audible remarks or inquiries respecting the possessor.
The effect upon a person of this tem- perament of the unexpected success of "Bertram" led to some untoward con- sequences. The profits of the repre- sentation, and the copyright of that tra- gedy, exceeded, perhaps, 1,000l., while the praises bestowed upon its author by critics of all classes, convinced Mr. Ma- turin that he had only to sit down and concoct any number of plays he pleased, each yielding him a pecuniary return at least equal to the first. He had, there- fore, scarcely arrived in Dublin with his full-blown dramatic honours and riches, when tradesmen of all hues and callings were ordered to York-street, to paint, furnish, and decorate, with suitable taste and splendour, the mansion of the great new-born tragic poet of Ireland. The Reverend Gentleman's proceed- ings in other respects, of course, took a corresponding spring. Unfortunately the brightest hopes of genius are often the most fallacious, and so it proved in the present instance. A few months produced a second tragedy, which failed, and with it not only faded away the dreams of prosperity in which the author of "Bertram" so fondly in- dulged, but his house was assailed by importunate creditors, who lodged ex- ecutions, and every other disagreeable sort of legal inmates, in that abode of genius and merit. Time enabled Mr. Maturin gradually to extricate himself from these embarrassments, and having thus had the wings of his ambition somewhat shortened, he in future pur- sued a safer flight. A pupil of Mr. Maturin informed a friend of ours, that Lord Byron, in consequence of an un- *favourable review of one of Maturin's works, sent him 500l. with a note, that he was better qualified to review the reviewers than they him. His ec-
centricities, however, remained in their former vigour, and in the coteries of Lady Morgan, or the romantic solitudes of Wicklow, the vain oddities of the curate of St. Peter's continued as re- markable as during the height of his tra- gic triumphs. Of late years his pen was chiefly employed on works of ro- mance, in which he evinced great powers of imagination and fecundity of lan- guage, with evident and lamentable carelessness in the application of both. He wrote, in fact, for money, not for fame, and succeeded in drawing a con- siderable revenue from the sale of his productions. In 1821 he produced his poem, "The Universe," which is writ- ten in blank verse.
As a preacher, Mr. Maturin was highly esteemed; his sermons were masterly compositions, his reasoning incontrovertible, and his language the most calculated to subdue the heart, and to demand attention. His six Con- troversial Sermons, preached during Lent, 1824, show the author to have been a profound scholar aud an acute reasoner; never since Dean Kirwan's time were such crowds attracted to the Parish Church as during the delivery of these sermons; neither rain nor storm could subdue the anxiety of all classes and all persuasions to hear them; and did he leave no other monument whereon to rest his fame, these sermons alone would be sufficient.
It is said, that Sir Walter Scott, in a letter of condolence to the widow, has gratuitously offered his editorial servi ces in bringing before the public some of her late husband's unpublished ma- nuscripts.-Gentleman's Magazine.
MEYER, Dr. John, late of Broad- street, Buildings, at the Marine Parade, Brighton; July 30, in the 75th year of his age.-Dr. Meyer was born at Lindau, an imperial city of Germany, on the lake of Constance, on the 27th of December 1749. He was the eldest son of Mr. Daniel Meyer, the principal in the firm of Meyer, Hey, and Co. Bankers, at Vienna.
He was early in life destined for the medical profession, and in order to pur- sue the requisite course of studies went to the University of Strasburgh, where he remained under the instruction of the ablest professors of that time, and after the usual examinations, was ad- mitted to the highest degree in medi- cine. His advancement in professional knowledge was, during this period, not
more conspicuous than his proficiency in classical studies, which he continued to cultivate through the whole course of his life.
From Strasburgh he went to Vienna, where there was a wider field for prac- tical knowledge, and was introduced to the hospitals of that city under the aus- pices of the late Baron Joseph Quarin, who had long been a physician of great experience and reputation; and such was his opinion of Dr. Meyer, that he soon engaged his assistance in his private practice.
After passing some time at Vienna, and visiting other medical schools on the Continent, Dr. Meyer arrived in London, and attended the medical lec- tures and hospitals, particularly Guy's, under Dr. William Saunders, then physician to that hospital. But these pursuits being interrupted by the illness of his father, Dr. Meyer returned to Vienna. He afterwards spent two or three years at Paris, revisiting Eng- land in 1780, in which year he married an amiable lady, now his relict.
He then travelled through Italy, and again prosecuted his studies at Vienna until 1784, when he finally determined to settle in London, and, after the usual forms, became a Licentiate of the Col. lege of Physicians. He now commenced that practice which he carried on with the highest reputation and success, until within a few days of his decease, when he resolved to retire from public life.
As a step to this, he had engaged a house, for three months, on the Ma- rine Parade at Brighton, and after tak- ing a kind leave of many of his patients, left his house in Broad-street Build- ings, apparently in good health, but had scarcely arrived at his new habitation, when an internal inflammation, beyond the reach of cure, terminated a long and useful life, on the 30th of July last. He had nearly reached the seventy- sixth year of his age. He became soon sensible of his approaching departure, and took an affecting leave of his rela- tives and friends with calmness and composure. Such was his happiness in domestic life, that during the space of forty years he had slept from home but
On his arrival at Brighton, he fondly indulged the hopes of long con- tinued relaxation and retirement,-but, what are the hopes of man?
Dr. Meyer was not only eminent for skill in his profession, but had a lasting taste for general reading; for the theory
and practice of music; but particularly for the study of the Greek and Roman classics. Not a day passed, even dur- ing the periods of his greatest practice, in which he did not contrive to spend an hour among his favourite ancients, and his library was amply stored with the best editions. His correspondence with eminent scholars abroad made him well acquainted with the advancing state of classical criticism, particularly among his countrymen; and, without pedantry or obtrusion, he could, in literary circles, prove that true taste and sound criticism had been constantly the objects of his ambition.
These accomplishments, added to great urbanity of manners, much experience of human life and character, and a social disposition, gave a relish and variety to his conversation, which those who en- joyed it will not readily forget; nor cease to regret that they were deprived of it at a time when there was reason to hope that they might have enjoyed his com- pany, undisturbed by professional avo- cations.
But a yet higher praise may be be stowed on the kindness and liberality of his conduct as a physician. In the whole progress of his practice, he dispensed his skill with the most disinterested zeal, not only to the poor, but to a class above them, where remuneration might reason- ably have been expected. Nor was this all; in many striking instances, known to the present writer, his purse was as ready as his advice, but in these cases there was such a total want of ostenta- tion, that few, unless the parties thus delicately relieved, were privy to this admirable feature in his character. Still, it is too well known, and, we trust, too gratefully remembered, not to be ad- mitted into the present feeble tribute to his memory.-Gentleman's Magazine.
MUSKERRY, John Thomas Fitz- maurice Deane, Baron, of the county of Cork, a Baronet C.B. Major-Ge- neral in the army, and formerly Lieut. Col. of the 38th foot; at Caen in Nor- mandy.
He was the second son of Sir Robert Tilson Deane, first Lord Muskerry and sixth Baronet, by Anne Fitzmaurice, grand-daughter and sole heiress of J. Fitzmaurice, Esq., of Springfield Castle, co. Limerick (nephew of Thomas first Earl of Kerry, grandfather of William, first Marquess of Lansdowne, K. G.); and was born Sept. 27, 1777. In De- cember 1792, he was appointed Ensign
in the 12th regiment then in Ireland; in March 1794, he obtained a Lieu- tenancy in the 94th regiment, a new corps raised by Lord Hutchinson; and May 22d, succeeded to the Captain- Lieutenancy, and remained in Guernsey until 1795. When Sir Ralph Aber- cromby's expedition for the West Indies was fitting out at Southampton Camp, the 94th was drafted, and this officer was appointed, Dec. 23, 1795, Captain Lieutenant in the 38th regiment. He embarked for the West Indies, with Sir Ralph Abercromby's expedition, and remained during and after the capture of the several islands in the Caribbean Seas until 1800, when he returned with his regiment (a skeleton) to England, and was appointed by Lord Cornwallis a Major of brigade to the forces in Ire- land. His regiment came over the following year, and he joined it on the peace of 1802. The 25th of May, 1803, he succeeded to a company in his re- giment, and Sept. 25, following, ob- tained the brevet of Major. He re- mained in Ireland during the rebellion in 1803, and served as Major of brigade to Major-General Clephane, Gen. Floyd, and Lieut. General Colin Campbell. He next served in the expedition against the Cape of Good Hope, in 1805, under Sir David Baird. On the passage, at the Island of Madeira, Lord Beresford appointed him Major of Brigade to his brigade, which situation he filled until the expedition in 1806, from the Cape of Good Hope to Buenos-Ayres, when he was appointed chief of the Staff. He returned home with the despatches of the capture of Buenos Ayres, for which he obtained the rank of Lieutenant-Col., Oct. 2d, 1806; he went back with the reinforcements under Sir Samuel Auch- muty to Maldonado; was at the siege and capture of Monte Video, and af- terwards appointed Military Secretary to the Commander of the forces, in which situation he served, as well as Colonial Secretary, until the arrival of General Whitelocke, when he joined his regiment, and returned to Ireland in December, 1807. The 8th of February in the latter year, he succeeded to a majority in his regiment. He embarked with other troops in June following, at Cove, for Portugal. He commanded the light troops and advance of the army at the battles of Roleia and Vimiera under the Duke of Wellington; and afterwards served with the army under Sir John Moore in Spain; and during the whole
of that campaign commanded the light companies of the division, and covered the retreat and embarkation of the army after the battle of Corunna. He served in the Walcheren expedition in 1809, in the Marquess of Huntley's division, which formed the advanced guard of that expedition. He served in the Pe- ninsular from 1812, until the peace; and in France in 1815. He was wound- ed on the morning of the sortie of Ba- yonne whilst commanding the picquets at the village of St. Etienne, and was promoted to the rank of Colonel, June 4th, 1814. Jan. 17th, 1815, he married the second daughter of M. Haynes, Esq. of Bishop's Castle, co. Salop. On the death of his father, in July 1818, he succeeded to the titles; and was ap- pointed Lieut. Col. in his regiment, the 38th foot, Aug. 12th, 1819. In 1821 he was promoted to the rank of Major- General in the army. He had the ho- nour of wearing a Cross for the follow- ing battles at which he was present, viz. Roleia, Vimiera, Corunna, the Nive, and the Siege of St. Sebastian. — Royal Military Calendar, and the Gentleman's Magazine.
NEWCOMEN, the Right Hon. Thomas Gleadowe Newcomen, Vis- count, Baron Newcomen of Moss-town, co. Longford, a Baronet, a Governor of the counties of Longford and Mays, M. R. I. A., January 15, at his seat, Kil- lester, co. Dublin, in his 49th year. The Viscount was born Sept. 18, 1776; succeeded his father, the Right Hon. Sir William Gleadowe Newcomen, in the title of Baronet, Aug. 21, 1807; and on the decease of his mother, Charlotte, in her own right Viscountess Newco- men, May 16, 1817, to the honours of Viscount and Baron Newcomen.
The ancient family of Newcomen is accurately traced to the Norman Con- quest. Sir Robert Newcomen was in 1613 member for Kilbegan, in the Irish House of Commons, and was created a Baronet by James I. Dec. 30, 1623; his second lady, Elizabeth, Dowager Ba- roness Howth, being the daughter of William Wentworth, Esq. of Pickering, Yorkshire, who was nearly connected with the Lord Deputy Strafford, the celebrated but unfortunate Chief Go- vernor of Ireland. Sir Robert New- comen, the fourth baronet, married
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