been pleased to mention our endeavours in the service of our

country.

"These colours, my Lord, we receive with gratitude, and will preserve with honour, or fall in their defence."

The battalions of the 15th continued in the lower provinces during the years 1809 and 1810. In 1811 the first battalion, under Lieutenant-Colonel Burrell, proceeded to the post of Purtaubgurh, in Oude; and in 1812 it removed to the post of Tara-Mirzapoor, whence it formed part of a detachment, under Lieutenant-Colonel Burrell's command, for service in Reewah, which province it entered by the Hilliah Pass, and joined a force assembled under Colonel Martindell, who soon after returned to his head-quarters in Bundlecund, when the command of the troops in Reewah devolved on LieutenantColonel Burrell, which he held until relieved by LieutenantColonel Adams, in July, when he returned with his battalion to Tara-Mirzapoor. It next proceeded to the post of Leetapoor, in Oude, where it was variously employed in the Kyrabad district until the middle of 1816, when it removed to the station of Lucknow. From the command at that place Lieutenant-Colonel Burrell was called to join the troops assembled under the personal command of the Governor-General and Commander-in-chief, Lord Hastings, in 1817, in prosecution of the Pindarry war, and was appointed to the command of the 3d infantry brigade of the centre division of the grand army, with which he served until the corps separated at the close of the campaign, and then rejoined his battalion at Lucknow.

In November, 1818, Government was pleased to nominate him a Brigadier, and to the command of all the Honourable Company's troops stationed in the dominions of the Newaub Vizier of Oude. Although this flattering distinction must, no doubt, have been gratifying to the professional spirit of Colonel Burrell, it nevertheless was attended with feelings of sincere regret, as it had the effect of causing his final separation from the comrades of many of his happiest and proudest days.

The gallant subject of this Memoir was promoted to the rank of Colonel, by brevet, in June, 1814, succeeded to a regiment on the Bengal establishment on the 3d of May, 1819, and to the rank of Major-General on the 18th of July, 1821, on the auspicious occasion of the coronation of his Majesty. He continued in the Brigadier's command, in Oude, until the end of 1820, when severe illness obliged him to repair to the presidency for medical advice. Having benefited by the change of climate, he was appointed, in the spring of 1821, to command the troops in the province of Cuttuck, which he retained until compelled, by the pressure of disease, to embark for Europe, on furlough, at the close of the year

1821.

Blessed, in a remarkable degree, with great placidity of mind, and a steady, kind, and equable disposition, General Burrell had always the happiness of exciting the regard of all classes to whom he was known, with the further good fortune of being at the head of corps which were highly distinguished, in peace and in war, by their orderly and steady conduct, cheerful obedience and fidelity, with a conspicuous spirit of zeal and alacrity on every emergency of the public service. His liberality of feeling and goodness of heart endeared him to all who knew him.

After his return to this climate he was seized with a severe paralytic stroke each successive winter for four years, all of which he survived by extraordinary care, recovering the use of his faculties. He at length sank under a gradual decay of nature, exemplifying an equanimity, fortitude, and patience, under protracted suffering, seldom met with. His death took place on the 30th of September, 1827, at his house in Notting-hill Terrace, and in the seventy-fifth year of his age.

We e are indebted to the East India Military Calendar for the foregoing Memoir.

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No. XV.

THE RIGHT REVEREND

SIR GEORGE PRETYMAN TOMLINE, BART.

D.D. F.R.S.

LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, PRELATE OF THE ORDER OF THE GARTER, PROVINCIAL SUB-DEAN OF CANTERBURY, VISITOR OF MAGDALEN, NEW, TRINITY, ST. JOHN'S, AND CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGES, OXFORD, OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE, AND OF ST. SAVIOUR'S SCHOOL, SOUTHWARK.

GEORGE PRETYMAN was born at Bury St. Edmund's, in the county of Suffolk, October 9. 1753, and was the son of a tradesman in that town. He was educated with his brother John (whom he afterwards made Archdeacon of Lincoln) in Bury grammar school; and at the age of eighteen removed to Pembroke Hall, Cambridge.

Applying to the great branch of study in that University, on taking the degree of B. A. in 1772, he was Senior Wrangler, and obtained the first of Dr. Smith's two mathematical prizes. In 1773 he was elected Fellow, and immediately appointed Public Tutor of the College. It was in the same year that he fortunately became connected with the Hon. Wm. Pitt, and was thus furnished with that future patron, without whom his merits might not ever, and certainly would not so early, have raised him to the distinguished rewards which were the consequence of this connection. He was not indebted for his introduction to any private interference; but, as he himself states in his Life of Pitt, "Lord Chatham wrote a letter to the Master, in which he expressed

a desire that each of the two public tutors, which were then Mr. Turner (now Master of Pembroke Hall and Dean of Norwich*) and myself, would devote an hour in every day to

his son.

This plan was accordingly adopted; but after Mr. Pitt's first three visits to Cambridge, he was entirely under my care and tuition;" and here Mr. Pitt, who went to the University at the singularly early age of fourteen, continued for seven years.

Mr. Pretyman was ordained Deacon by Dr. Yonge, Bishop of Norwich, and Priest by Dr. Hinchcliffe, Bishop of Peterborough, his title in both cases being his Fellowship at Pembroke. In 1775 he proceeded M.A.; and in 1781 he discharged the important and arduous office of Moderator in the University. He continued to reside in college until 1782, when Mr. Pitt, on becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer, proved himself not unmindful of his former preceptor. Aware of his general talents for business, and especially of his great skill in calculation, the Chancellor appointed him his private secretary; and Mr. Pretyman continued in that situation (his patron in the following year attaining the post of First Lord of the Treasury) until his elevation to the bishopric of Lincoln in 1787.

While his Lordship was private secretary to Mr. Pitt, he was most severely and unjustly satirised, by the author of the work entitled "Probationary Odes for the vacant Laureateship." In that work, he was designated as a man destitute of all regard for truth. The reverse of this was the fact; for, in point of integrity, his character was at all times perfectly irreproachable.

In 1782 Mr. Pretyman was collated to the sinecure rectory of Corwen in Merionethshire, the patron being Dr. Shipley, then Bishop of St. Asaph; in 1784 he was appointed to a Prebend of Westminster, the first preferment of which Mr. Pitt had the disposal, and in the same year he proceeded D.D. per literas Regias. In 1785 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and was presented by the King to the rectory * Lately deceased.

of Sudbourn with Orford, in his native county of Suffolk; and in January, 1787, his grateful pupil took the very first opportunity of raising him to the episcopal bench. The vacancy occurred by the death of Dr. Egerton, Bishop of Durham. Dr. Thurlow was translated to that see, and Dr. Pretyman succeeded Dr. Thurlow, both as Bishop of Lincoln and as Dean of St. Paul's. An anecdote is related, that when Mr. Pitt applied to the King on this occasion, the reply of his Majesty was, "Too young, too young-Can't have it, can't have it."—"Oh, but please your Majesty," observed Mr. Pitt, "had it not been for Dr. Pretyman, I should not have been in the office I now hold." "He shall have it, Pitt - he shall have it, Pitt," was the King's immediate decision.

With the exception of Charges, and two Sermons, one preached in 1792 before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, and the other on the Thanksgiving Day in 1796, before the King and both Houses of Parliament, in St. Paul's, Dr. Pretyman's first publication was his celebrated " Elements of Christian Theology," 2 vols. 8vo. 1799. This work, although professedly composed for the use of students in divinity, is also admirably adapted for general perusal. It is at once orthodox, liberal, and rational. An Abridgment for the use of families, by the Rev. Samuel Clapham, now Vicar of Christ Church in Hampshire, was printed by the University of Cambridge in 1803. In the introduction to that Abridgment the Elements of Christian Theology are thus characterised:

"The subjects which solicit the attention of the reader are, indeed, so important in their nature, and so interesting in their consequences, that it must be the wish of every man, convinced of their truth, and living under their influence, to introduce them to the acquaintance, and familiarise them to the minds of all whose expectations in futurity are founded on the declarations of the Gospel."

The Elements of Christian Theology were keenly attacked by Mr. William Frend, in a series of letters to the author.