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

1788.

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.

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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

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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,

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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

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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

once.

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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.

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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