April 11. Died, at his house in Kensington-square, the Rev. William Beloe, B. D. F. S. A. rector of Allhallows, London Wall, prebendary of Pancras in St. Paul's Cathedral, and prebendary of Lincoln.

"Of the Father of this benevolent Divine an honourable anecdote is related in our vol. LXI. p. 492. He was a respectable tradesman in Norwich; and, sensible of the disadvantages of the want of education, resolved that his son should in this particular have no cause of complaint. Of his Mother also, see vol. LXXIII. pp. 94, 189.-After receiving the first rudiments at a good school in Norwich, Mr. Beloe was placed under the care of the Rev. Matthew Raine, at Hartforth, near Richmond, Yorkshire, father of the late Dr. Raine of the Charter-House, and of Jonathan Raine, esq. now M.P. for Newport in Cornwall, and an eminent barrister. He remained some years with Mr. Raine, under whom he was admirably grounded in the Classicks, and afterwards removed to Stanmore, where he spent about four years under the tuition of Dr. Parr. From this seminary, which has produced so many excellent scholars and accomplished men, he proceeded to Cambridge, and was a Member of Bene't College. In this place he so far distinguished himself, that he obtained the Declamation Prize, and in 1779 was the senior member of his college on taking his degree. Soon after he became A.B. Dr. Parr was elected to the head-mastership of Norwich Free School; and Mr. Beloe was invited by his highly eminent instructor to become the Under Master; this he accordingly accepted, and retained the situation about three years.

In this interval he married the daughter of William Rix, esq. townclerk of London. Whilst in Norfolk, he was curate of Earlham, in the vicinity of Norwich; which is so far to his honour, that the Patron of the Vicarage promised him the living whenever it should be vacant, and his successor fulfilled his promise. This was the first preferment Mr. Beloe obtained. From Norwich he removed to London, where he was elected Master of Emanuel Hospital, Westminster, and continued so for upwards of twenty years. In 1792 he was elected F.S.A. In 1796 the Lord Chancellor Rosslyn presented him to the Rectory of Allhallows, London Wall; and in 1797 the Bishop of Lincoln also made him a Prebendary of his Cathedral, In 1804 be was appointed to be one of the Librarians of the British Museum; which situation he lost, by an act of treachery and fraud on the part of a person admitted to see and examine the books and drawings, so audaeious and extraordinary, that it will here

after hardly obtain belief. The tale is pathetically told by Mr. Beloe himself, in the Preface to his first volume of "Anecdotes of Literature ;" and has been copied in our vol. LXXVII. p. 17. Whilst at the Museum, the venerable Bishop Porteus, in 1805, appointed him to the Prebend of Pancras; and from the produce of his preferment, which, however it may sound from its title, was very unimportant in the amount, Mr. Beloe continued to live with respectability at Kensington.-His Works are very numerous; but those only which are more known, as having been greatly honoured by public approbation, need here be specified. The first of consequence is the Translation of Herodotus;" of this book two large editions have been published. It has been generally admired for the simplicity and elegance of the style; was favourably represented in all the Critical publications of the day; was commended by L'Archer. the best Greek scholar of France, whose version of the same Author is the most perfect work of the kind; and is received as a standard book in English Literature. The "Translation of Alciphron's Letters," which soon followed the above, was the joint production of Mr. Beloe and Mr. Mouro. The latter portion, with the "Essay on the Parasites of Greece," was by Mr. Beloe.-Mr. Beloe's next work of reputation was bis " Translation of Aulus Gellius," the very learned and excellent preface to which was written by Dr. Parr. This production was from its very nature less popular than the Herodotus; but it has silently made its way, and now is out of print, and unquestionably should be re-printed. The part which Mr. Beloe took in the British Critick, the difficult and dangerous times in which it was undertaken, the vigour and perseverance with which it was conducted, are things sufficiently known. Mr. Beloe was joint proprietor with Mr. Archdeacon Nares, and the respectable house of Rivington. The editorship was entrusted to the judgment, sagacity, learning, and acuteness, of Mr. Nares; in all and each of which qualities that gentlemau has proved himself eminently excellent. Mr. Beloe, in conjunction with Mr. Nares, conducted this work to the end of the 42d volume, and then resigned it to others. In its early Numbers are many valuable Essays from the pens of some of the most enlightened men of the age, who formed the school of Pitt.. The next work of magnitude in which Mr. Beloe engaged was, "Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books," which he recently completed in six volumes 8vo. This has been very favourably received, but probably

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does not correspond with the idea which Mr. Belge himself encouraged, from the situation which he held in its commence. ment. Productions of minor interest, which exercised Mr. Beloe's earlier labours, were, Translations from the French of Bitaube, Florian, and some part of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments; three volumes of Miscellanies, of which parts seem deserving of more notice than they have received; a volume of Poems; Pamphlets; and Sermons, Mr. Beloe also gave his assistance in editing various books of considerable popularity and importance, which it is less expedient to specify; and to the Volumes of Sylvanus Urban, had been from a very distant period a very highly acceptable contributor." *

With much sorrow, the Writer of the above article sits down to conclude this short Memoir, by relating the death of his learned and ingenious friend; an office which, in the course of nature, Mr. Beloe should rather have performed for him. It was otherwise appointed. A constitution of body, delicate and irritable to an unu sual degree, proved unable to sustain the repeated shocks of grief and vexation, which sound Religion had disciplined the mind to bear. Bodily disease, of a painful and incurable kind, had for a few years been added to his other sufferings. Yet his intellectual powers were never clouded, nor his spits often depressed; not ever, when he had the company of a friend to cheer them. Mr. Beloe continued to write, on a variety of subjects, with his wonted facility and elegance; and though he could no longer study with continued application, yet his literary curiosity was never diminished. Never soured for an instant by any species of suffering, the thing least possible to his mind, at all times, was to persist in resentment against any person whatsoever.

But the time was now come, when na⚫ture could no longer struggle against so many causes of decay; and in the latter end of March 1817, he had a seizure, which from the first was threatening, and soon after deprived him of the use of the lower limbs. Three weeks from that time he lingered; at first in much pain and irritation, but for the last ten days in ease of body, and perfect tranquillity of mind. On the 11th of April, surrounded by his family, he passed into another state of being, full of religious hope; and with such ease, that the exact moment of his departure was hardly ascertained. Mr. Beloe had very recently entered into his 60th year; and has left a widow, with four sons, a daughter, and several grandchildren, to lament his loss. He was buried in his

* Nichols's Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, vol. IX. pp. 94-96.

own Church of Allhallows, London Wall, attended only by his sons, and three or four select friends. Qn his character it is unnecessary to expatiate, after what has been said above.

THOMAS HEARNE, Esq. F. S. A.

He

April 13. Died, in Macclesfield-street, Soho, in his 73d year, Thomas Hearne, esq. F. S. A. This excellent Artist was born in the year 1744, at Brinkworth, near Malmsbury, in Wiltshire. came to London when very young, and was first intended for trade; but, having a disposition to the Arts, he was ultimately articled to that celebrated engraver, the late William Woollett, with whom he continued six years, and assisted him in many of his works. He did not long continue the practice of engraving; for, soon after he left Mr. Woollett, he was engaged as draughtsman to the late Lord Lavington, then Sir Ralph Payne, when appointed Governor of the Leeward Islands, and accompanied that Nobleman to the West Indies, where he remained nearly five years. On his return to England in 1776, his fondness for Antiquity led him to the study of Gothic Architecture, combined with Landscape; and in 1778, he engaged with the late Mr. Byrne in that well-known and valuable work, "The Antiquities of Great Britain," for which he made the whole of the Drawings. He also made various drawings for other publications. But it is in private collections that his works are chiefly to be found; and though, from the care and fidelity with which they are executed, they are not remarkably numerous, they are eminently distinguished for some of the best qualities of the

art.

He seldom attempted the bolder effects of Nature; but for truth, a chaste and mild tone of colouring, and an admirable judgment in the arrangement of the whole, they have seldom been surpassed; and it is not too much to say, he was the father of all that is good in that species of art (Landscape in water colours) which has so widely and conspicuously diffused itself, and is peculiar to this country.

His works in pencil are a matchless combination of accuracy and tasteful execution. As a man, his character was of the highest respectability : he possessed a sound and uncommonly vigorous understanding, joined to a memory remarkably retentive and correct; his integrity was unimpeachable, and his manners were agreeable, gentlemanly, and marked by a modesty and decoram that never left him; a great admirer of, and strong advocate for, truth; and on subjests of a political nature, upon which he bestowed much attention, a constant and strenuous supporter of good order and established go

vernment,

Pray call immediately on the friends of Capt. Miller, and inform them of the fatal accident hereunder related. Poor Capt. Miller, it seems, arrived yesterday by the subscription coach, at the Heathfield Arms, near the Madhouse, at Five head, where I visit as a Magistrate. This morning he visited his old friend, Lieut. Fleming, at Fivehead-house, where they dined together in the most friendly manner, retired soon after to Mr. Fleming's bedroom, and in less than a quarter of an hour the explosion of pistols were heard, and those two old friends were immediately found lifeless. This is a brief relation of this horrid business. I have seen the bodies, the place, &c. this afternoon, and, after every examination of the circumstances, have no doubt Lieut. Flem-· ing first murdered his friend, partly by a sword, and lastly by a pistol-shot, and then murdered himself. J. GALE.

Captain Miller, (eldest son of the late Henry Miller, esq. many years agent victualler at Gibraltar, and of Topsham, Devon; and brother of the Rev. John' Miller, of Blackheath, Kent.) was an Officer in the 65th Regiment of Foot upwards of 20 years; served at the memorable battle of Bunker's Hill, and throughout the greatest part of the American war, until himself and the skeleton of the corps returned to England to raise a new regiment; and in the year 1790 left the regular army, and purchased the Adjutancy of the Staffordshire Militia of the late Earl of Uxbridge, by whom and the whole Regiment he was most justly appreciated as an excellent officer, a most honourable man, and, above all, a most exemplary Christian, which the whole tenor of his life amply testified.

Capt. Miller received, on the 9th instant, a very pressing letter from Lieut. Fleming, entreating him to go down, stating he could not live long, and wished much to see his old friend before he died. The

Captain therefore left town on Friday, to perform the last act of humanity, as he thought, to one whose views through life he had always promoted. - - Alas! that such a man, in the evening of his valuable life, should meet with such a cruel fate for his too great anxiety for an old companion in arms, is indeed a shockingreflection for his relations and friends; but they must bear it, and say, with pious resignation to the wisdom of Heaven, The ways of the Lord are inscrutable, and past finding out. — Some exemplary punishment ought to be inflicted on the conducmaniacks, for having suffered one in their tors of a private receptacle for the care of house to entertain a friend as above stated, without having a proper guard to watch his motions; and moreover to have loaded pistols and a sword in his possession.

DEATHS.

1816, TN the prime of life, Capt. Chas. Jan. 18. Dudley, of H. M. 22d Light Dragoons, sincerely and deeply regretted; one in whom were centered all those qualities that at once adorn human nature, and bind man to man-a true Christian, a firm Patriot, a brave aud intelligent Officer, and a warm, sincere, and affectionate friend. His remains were attended to the grave on the following day by all the military officers, and many other of his late friends, under the usual ceremony.

Tho' deep the wound thy cruel loss has given,

And o'er us all a cloud of sorrow shed; Thy well-known virtues-sure the gift of Heaven, [fled.

Raise all our hopes to where thy spirit's For ah! if truth we here are taught t' ap

plaud,

Celestial grace is now thy soul's reward.

[Java Government Gazette, Batavia, Jan. 20, 1816.]

Oct. 29. At Sierra Leone, of a fever (the effect of the climate), in his 42d year, R. G. Hogan, esq. L. L. D. Chief Justice and Admiralty Judge of that colony. He had been appointed to that situation in the month of March last, and during the short period in which he fulfilled its duties, he secured the universal esteem and admiration of all classes of society. As an enlightened friend of humanity, he uniformly encouraged every attempt to correct the enormities arising from the traffick in slaves; but the prudence that tempered his zeal, prevented it from hurrying him into rash or injurious measures. He was possessed of very considerable literary acquirements; and his excellent taste, united with an enlarged and comprehensive mind, caused his so

ciety to be generally courted. Mr. Hogan was descended from a respectable family in Rathcormack, in the county of Cork, Ireland.

Oct. 31. At Cambay, aged 34, Byrom Rowles, esq. of the East India Company's Bombay civil service.

Dec. 18. At Barbadoes, aged 22, Lieut. Andrew Richmond, of his Majesty's 2d or Queen's own regiment.

Dec. 24. Daniel P. Bernard, esq. late of Jamaica. Dec. 31. In the West Indies, Lieut. George Thomas, of his Majesty's ship Tigris. Though but arrived at the age of manhood, he displayed an example for the Christian, the son, the officer, and the friend. His father was formerly a Lieutenant-colonel in the army.

1817, Jan. 19. At Grenada, of the yellow fever, Jeremiah-Jellicoe Tompson, esq. attorney general of that island.

Feb. 8. At Antigua, in his 77th year, Hon. Edward Byam, Judge of the Court of Vice-admiralty, President of his Majesty's Council, and a Brigadier-general in the West Indies. More than 50 years of his valuable life were devoted to public duties, which were uniformly discharged with distinguished disinterestedness, intelligence, and assiduity. His public and private virtues endeared him to all ranks of people in the colony over which he had so long presided; and have rendered his loss to them, his family, and friends, irreparable. He is succeeded by the Hon. T. Norman Kerby.

Feb. 10. At Malta, John Erskine, esq. comptroller of army accompts.

Feb. 11. At Antigua, in her 22d year, Louisa-Jane, wife of Lieut. Morgan, 1st West India regiment, and eldest daughter of the late Mr. F. Hobson, of Wordsley, Staffordshire.

Feb, 26. Mr. Robert Wilkinson, of Grosvenor-street.

Feb, 28. In the East Castle-street, Bridgnorth, co. Salop, aged 61, Mrs. Henrietta Rhodes, a single lady, only daughter of Nathanael Rhodes, gent. formerly of Cann-hall in that town. She at all times assumed an air of gaiety and cheerfulness till near the close of life; and possessed a comprehensive mind, endowed with considerable literary attainments. In early life she was author of several small poetical pieces, which were presented to some of her select friends. She translated a small Work written by her nephew, which she edited, with a Novel. In 1811 she published the novel of "Rosalie, or the Castle of Montalabretti," in four small volumes, with the following extract in the title-page: "Led through a sad variety of woes :"-of the merits of this Work the publick were divided in opinion. In 1814 she ushered

into the world her Poems and MiscellaDeous Essays, in a thin royal octavo, consisting of 80 pages. This little Work she published by subscription: the subscribers were numerous, consisting of many of the first nobility and gentry of the land; such a profusion of illustrious names is rarely to be seen, being principally obtained through the interest and connexions of a few particular friends in the higher circles, who were much devoted to her welfare. These Poems cannot be said to exceed mediocrity; but those in imitation of Bp. Percy's "O Nanny wilt thou gang with me," and the answer, with that on the word Romantic, are not without their merits. The account of Stonehenge is curious, ingenious, and interesting. The detail of the Druidical remains at Burcote was a newly-dressed-up performance from the original account drawn up by a person on the spot, who presented her with a perusal thereof. She shone forth in animated zeal for her Naval Friend at the contested election for the borough of Bridgnorth in 1784; but he was the unsuccessful candidate. Several families of distinction in that neighbourhood always shewed her great kindness and attention; and though she resided in the midst of benevolent and respectable neighbours, she lived a recluse and solitary being in a great measure, owing to her unhappy and changeable disposition, a temper unforgiving and relentless, with a mind possessed of strong and violent prejudices.

Feb. At Grenada, Lieut. Humphrey Grey, of the Royal York Rangers, son of Mr. B. Grey, of Kilkenny.

March 2. At Low Mill, near Egremont, aged 75, Thomas Birley, esq. late of Kirkham, Cumberland.

March 3. At Northallerton, aged 100, Mrs. Dorothy Dodds, formerly of Yofforth.

March 5. At Morley, Watson Scatchard, esq. one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the West riding of the county of York.

March 8. At Doncaster, in her 80th year, Mrs. Dunhill, relict of the late John Dunhill, esq.

March 11. At Hull, Miss Newton, dau. of Wm. Newton, esq. of Stagwoodhill, Huddersfield,

At Tickhill, aged 76, Geo. Bates, esq. March 12. Aged 73, Captain James Kempthorne. Bristol Paper.

In his 82d year, Philip Sandys, esq. of Azerley, near Ripon, Yorkshire.

The wife of Dr. Jarrold, of Manchester. March 13. At Edinburgh, Lt.-col. John Ainslie, of the East India Company's service. At Kirbymoorside, aged 50, Mr. Wm. Lister, attorney at law, son of the late Wm. Lister, esq. of Ayton, near Scarborough.

Aged

Aged 87, Mrs Egginton, relict of Gardiner Egginton, esq. of Hull,

March 14. At Wrexham, Mrs. Fryer, relict of John Fryer, esq. of Aldermanbury, and Taplow, Bucks.

In his 35th year (a very awful instance of the uncertainty of human life), Mr. James Gibson, printer and bookseller of Malton. He went to York assizes as a witness, in apparently perfect health, was suddenly seized at his inn during the evening, and died the following morning. He was most exact and punctual in all his transactions as a tradesman, and in all his public duties: a cheerful companion; a warm, sincere friend; never forgetful of benefits received; and exemplary in all the relative duties of life.

At Greenock, in his 43d year, Jobu Colquhoun, M.D.

At Riverford, Hugh Ross, esq.

She was

At Exeter, on a visit to an intimate acquaintance, aged 79, Mrs. Mary Barnard Barclay, of Lympston, Devon. related to the ancient family of Barclay, of Urie Castle in Scotland; and after (experiencing various vicissitudes in life, which she bore with great fortitude, she resided for many years in the village of Lympston, highly respected for the urbanity of her mauners, and mild disposition, which procured her the affectionate esteem and regard of all her acquaintance.

March 15. In Bolton-street, Piccadilly, of an inflammation in the bowels, aged 71, John Nesbitt, esq.

Fielding Wallis, esq. father of the wife of Captain Campbell, R. N.

In Tottenham-court-road, in his 64th year, Mr. Arthur Freake, apothecary.

At Bath, Sir Richard Hankey, formerly of Fenchurch-street.

At Chelsfield, Kent, aged 74, Rev. Peter Coryton, D.D. late fellow of All Souls, Oxford, prebendary of Peterborough, and rector of Chelsfield, and St. Dunstan's East.

In Richmond Barracks, near Dublin, Ellen, Lady Dunboyne, wife of Lord Dunboyne, second cousin to the Earls of Westmeath and Clare, and to the Countess of Glengall and Lady Dunally, &c.

March 16.

At Colchester, aged 31, Amy, wife of Lieut. James Lugar, of the East India Company's Service.

At Stanwix, aged 73, W. Woolmar, esq. of the General Post Office, London, superintendant of mail coaches, Carlisle, and surveyor for that district, which office he had held for upwards of 30 years. March 17. James Birch, esq. of the Middle Temple.

Charles Streater Ellis, esq. an eminent solicitor, of North-street, Westminster.

Aged 86, Mr. Jos. Lazarus, upwards of 50 years an inhabitant of Cree Church Lane, Leadenhall-street.

At Bampton, co. Oxford, aged 44, Mr. Joseph Steede,

Rebecca, wife of William Powell, esq. of Highfields, near Halesowen, Salop.

Aged 56, the wife of Mr. George Dawson, of Bridlington, surgeon.

At Langbarne, Carmarthenshire, in her 28th year, Jessie, wife of P. Kelly, esq. M.D. R.N.

March 18. In Coleman-street, in his 53d year, Henry Cohen, esq.

At his house, in Vernon-place, Bloomsbury-square, in his 74th year, Charles Combe, M. D. F. R. S. and S. A. of whom some account will appear in our next Number.

Awfully sudden, whilst at tea with his family, Rev. Thomas Bayley, rector of King-Stanley, co. Gloucester, and formerly fellow of Jesus college. He proceeded B. A. 1782, and M.A. 1785.

In his 18th year, William, eldest son of Mr. Thomas Mecklethwaite, of Iverage Hall, near Leeds.

At Docking, Norfolk, Mary, wife of Rev. H. J. Hare.

At Bristol, aged 80, Mrs. Sterne, relict of William Sterne, esq. late of Salisbury. March 19. George Wood, esq. of Broad-street buildings.

At Topsham, Mary, wife of Henry Cox, esq.

Mrs. White, of the Hermitage, near Woking, Surrey, relict of Joseph White, esq. late solicitor of the Treasury, and eldest sister of Wm. Chamberlayne, esq. of Weston Grove, near Southampton.

March 20. Aged 65, the wife of J. Cooper, esq. of Park house, Highgate.

At his brother's house, in London, Mr. Wm. Chrishop, upwards of 20 years a master in his majesty's navy.

In Upper Wimpole-street, Mrs. Boyce, widow of the late Lieut.-col. Boyce, and eldest daughter of the late Sir Abraham Pitches, of Streatham, Surrey.

In Berkeley-square, in his 75th year, Mr. John Walker.

Near Kingsbridge, J. Torring, jun. esq. At Hitchin, Herts, aged 53, Rev. Mr. Williams, a Dissenting minister at that place.

In her 76th year, the Right. Hon. Lady Carteret, of Haynes House, co. Bedford.

At Uxbridge, at a very advanced age, Mrs. Darby, relict of the late Rev. S. Darby, rector of Whitfield and Breadfield, Suffolk, and the only daughter of the Rev. Dr. Jortin.

At Colchester, in the prime of life, Sturgeon Smith, esq. In returning from West Mersey the preceding Friday evening, his horse threw him with such violence as to produce a Contusion of the brain.

At Chedder, in the prime of life, Mr. James Star, surgeon; whose open manners, generous disposition, and friendly kindness, will leave a lasting regret upon the minds of all with whom he was acquainted.

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