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AACKEN, Baron Ewald Charles, by
shooting himself with a pistol in a hackney
coach, at the gate of Carlton House. He
was descended fron one of the first families
in Prussia. Prince Leopold of Saxe-Co-
bourg, father of our late amiable Princess
Charlotte's husband, was his godfather.-
His brother-in-law, Baron Leopold de
Lillier, is a resident at Weillic, in Prussia.
He had been upwards of 20 years in the
army, ten of which he had been in the
Prussian service, and the remainder in the
Hanoverian. Notwithstanding he had dis-
tinguished himself in every way possible
in the army, yet his services remained un-
noticed by his own Government or any of
the Allies, either as to honours, promo-
tion, or emolument; and in consequence
he became a desperate man. When he
arrived in England, about three months
since, he was possessed of about 200 Louis
d'Ors, when he met with a friend whom
he consulted on the best way of sending
100 of them abroad to his mother. His
friend endeavoured to persuade him from
such an undertaking, telling him his
mother was not in need of them; to which
the Baron replied, his mother could give
them away among the poor, and after he
had spent all his money in this country he
would shoot himself; which he verified,
as he paid his last note to the hackney-
coachman; and, it appearing before the

It appears from his papers that he was
the original instrument, previously to the
arrival of the Duke of Wellington in the
field from Brussels, in gaining the victory
in the memorable battle of Waterloo, by
regaining the position of the Allied Army,
which they had lost by the French having
succeeded in attacking and breaking a
square. A certificate to that effect has
been found since his untimely end, from
Major-General Von Bothemer, who took
the command of the battalion of Bremen
and Verdun, after Lieut.-Colonel Von
Schkopp was wounded in the memorable
battle of the 18th of June, 1815, testifying
that after the battalion of Verdun, which
was formed in squares, had been compelled
to retire to Waterloo by the fire of the
enemy, Baron Von Aacken highly dis-
tinguished himself, and having assembled
a small body of men, succeeded in regain-
ing the position which the square originally
possessed, and that in consequence the re-
mainder of the brigade which had already

retreated as far as Waterloo, returned at
nine o'clock in the evening, and joined
Baron Von Aacken's party for the night,
in their original position; dated Orchies,
14th April, 1817. All the exertions of
the other Officers to restore order had
been in vain. There is a certificate to the
same effect by General Sir Colin Halkett,
endorsed as unsolicited by Baron Von
Aacken. There are five certificates speak-
ing of him in the highest terms of praise
as an officer and a gentleman, and coun-
tersigned by command of his Excellency
General Count Alten, commanding his
Hanoverian Majesty's troops in France,
&c. the 13th of April, 1817.

APLIN, Peter Esq. Admiral of the
White, at Charlton Kings, county of
Gloucester, June, 1817, in the 64th year
of his age.

He commenced his naval

career at a very early age, and served dur-
ing the American war as a midshipman on
board the Roebuck, of 44 guns, com-
manded by Sir A. Hammond, Bart. on
that station. He received his first pro-
motion from the death of the First Lieu-
tenant of that ship whilst forcing a pas-
sage past the batteries of Washington and
Fort Lee. His subsequent conduct soon
attracted the notice of Lord Howe, the
Commander-in-Chief, who rapidly ad-
vanced him to the rank of Post-Captain,
and appointed him to the Fowey, of 24
guns, which ship he was obliged eventu-
ally to destroy at York Town, then be-
sieged and blockaded by the French and
Americans. His conduct in the batteries,
where with his crew, he was apppointed to
command, drew forth a warm eulogium
from Lord Cornwallis, which induced the
Admiralty to confirm him in his rank. He
next commanded the Hector, of 74 guns,
forming one of the fleet employed in the
blockade of Cadiz under Earl St. Vincent.
During the time the fleet was refitting at
Lisbon, advice was received of the Spanish
fleet having escaped out of port, which
occasioned an order for every ship to get
ready immediately for sea. The Hector
at this conjuncture was the first ship man-
ned, and dropped down below Balem that
night; for which example and exertion
Captain Aplin received a letter of thanks
(through the medium of the then Captain
of the Fleet, Sir R. Calder), from Lord St.
Vincent. The latter years of his life were
passed in the domestic circle of his family
and friends.

ARTHUR, Captain Thomas, of the
engineer corps, Madras establishment,
lately at Travancore, India, in the 38th
year of his age. He was son of the Rev.
Mr. Arthur, Risolis, Ross-shire. Captain
Arthur began his military career under

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General Harris, in the memorable cam-
paign of 1799, and was one of the party
which that year stormed Seringa patam.
After the consequent conquest of Mysore,
he was one of those selected to make a
survey of the conquered country, which
occupied him several years. While en-
gaged in this undertaking, he was one day
on a high hill nearly surprised by a royal
tiger; but the animal being, for the time,
scared away, Captain Arthur soon after
went in pursuit of the monster, whom he
found and killed in the most cool and dar-
ing manner, without any assistance
sepoy and native who accompanied him,
having fled, on seeing the animal advance
open-mouthed, and with hideous roaring.
In the course of his survey, he discovered
a copper-inine, from which great expect-
ations have been entertained. Captain
Arthur remained in India after the year
1799 till his death; bore his share in the
different wars which have since taken
place there; and his name appeared more
than once in the general orders issued by
the Governor-General, thanking the army
for their gallant exertions.

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BLACKFORD, Mrs. at Dublin, 24th
November, 1817. She was grand-daughter
of the Earl of Darnley.

BORINGDON, Lord, lately at St.
Maude, near Paris, aged eleven years,
eldest son of the Earl of Morley. A stalk of
rye, which he had inadvertently swallowed
the latter end of July, was the cause of
his sufferings. It was found, after his
death, three inches in length, in its ori-
ginal state, lodged in the intestines.

BRUCE, Mr.W. aged 73, of Old Round-
court, in the Strand, one of the oldest book-
sellers in London. He was originally, it is
believed, a mathematical instrument maker;
but left Scotland about forty years since,
and followed in London the profession of a
bookseller. He was celebrated for his
knowledge of the Hebrew language, and
his attachment to the authors of the
Hutchinsonian school. He possessed strong
natural powers of mind, and was singu-
larly decided in his opinions-a Calvinist
of the higher order, and mingled with all
the philosophical notions of Mr. John
Hutchinson. He had read very consider-
ably, especially in theology, and was more
particularly attached to the writers belong-
ing to the Church of England, to which
church he closely adhered. When the
writer first knew him, about 23 years ago,
he kept a shop in New Inn Passage, near
Clement's Inn. At this time he was visited

by many clergymen and Hebrew scholars,
who used to resort there occasionally, to
listen to his conversation, which chiefly
consisted of books and authors, of divines
and theology. A respectable bookseller,
now alive, and somewhat of a similar taste,
used occasionally to make one of the num-
ber, and who, the writer believes, has like-
wise made some proficiency in Hebrew
learning. Fond of his pipe, you would
often find him in his shop amidst clouds
of smoke, and disputing upon theological
subjects. He was warm and dogmatical,
yet sometimes interesting and intelligent.
Not formed for much business, he was slow,
with a considerable share of literary indo-
lence and indifference; so that, in ad-
vancing life, he became extremely poor;
hut in his appearance always clean, decent,
and respectable. He, however, met with
many friends, and towards the latter part of
his life received the attention of one or two
eminent Prelates in the Church, whose
names stand as much distinguished for their
virtues, as their learning and talents are
eminently and decidedly conspicuous. To
patronize men of talents and learning, is
honourable to the feelings of those who
fill exalted stations; and to assist the
friends of Christianity in distress, is no less
praise-worthy in a Christian Bishop. He
moved from New Inn-passage to Holywell-
Street; from thence to Chancery-Lane, in
which place he met with great difficulties,
through the purchase of a large stock at
very exorbitant prices. From this place
he finally removed to Round-Court, where
he resided during the last twelve years.
He married a second wife, much younger
than himself, by whom he had a young
family in his old age, and two of his chil-
dren now survive. He is a striking proof,
that a man of knowledge and of real attain-
ments, is not so likely to succeed in his
profession as the mere tradesman, ac-
quainted only with the arts of business,
and who can push his way through life,
fearless and indifferent to every object but
that of profit.

C.

Gent. Mag.

CAMERON Hugh, at Lawers, in Bread-
albane, commonly called Cobhau na Pillie,
mill-wright and miller there, at the extraor-
dinary age of one hundred and twelve years.
This singular character was bred a mill-
wright, along with the venerable and in-
genious Deacon Reid, wright at Comrie.
After acquiring a knowledge of his busi-
ness, he settled at Shian of Lawers, where
he built the first lint-mill that ever was
erected in the Highlands of Scotland.

Before his time, only the distaff and spindle
were used for spinning lint and wool in
that part of the country; and he was not
only the first who constructed spinning-
wheels and jack-reels in Breadalbane, but
likewise the first who taught the people
there, how to use them. The number
of lint-mills afterwards erected by him
throughout the Highlands, cannot be
reckoned at less than a hundred, in short
almost all the lint-mills in the Highlands
of Perthshire, and many in the counties
of Inverness, Caithness, and Sunderland,
were of his erecting; he also constructed
the first barley-mill that was built upon
the north-side of the Forth, for which he
was highly complimented by Masa Glasa-
riah, the bard, in a very popular song,
called "Molodh di Cobham Camushran
Mulleir lin." Though he could only be
called a country wright, he was a man of
uncommon genius, particularly in every
sort of machinery and engineering; and,
as a proof of this, there is to be seen of
his construction, at Shian of Lawers, one
water-wheel driving a lint-mill, a barley-
mill, and a spinning and carding-mill, at
one and the same time, and the whole of
that machinery under one roof.

This prodigy of genius was a stout,
healthy man, who took his glass freely, but
never was known to exceed the bounds of
decorum, or neglect his business: he was
a man of very great integrity, and of a very
shrewd and independent mind, yet always
cheerful and remarkably witty; and, to the
last, his house was the resort of all the
young people in the place, whom he used
to amuse with his witty repartees and funny
stories. He was always celebrated for re-
citing Ossian's Poems, of which he had a
great store, which he said he had learned
before he was a dozen years of age. He
was rather singular in his dress, which he
would change for no man, he never had a
glove on his hand, nor a hat on his head,
but always wore a large round bonnet,
made of grey mixed wool, just as it came
off the sheep, with an uncommonly large
wig, of his own making, of black horse-
hair. It is rather to be regretted, that not-
withstanding his wonderful merit, and the
great advantages which the Highlands of
Perthshire, Breadalbane in particular, de-
rived from the fruit of his extraordinary
genius, and though he had no family, he
died in great poverty and indigence.

Scots. Magazine, for July 1817.
CAMERON, Serjeant Alexander, at
Belfast, October 17, Pipe-Major of the
92d, or Cameronian Highlanders. He
served in the Peninsula during the whole
of the late war, and by his zeal attracted
the notice of several officers of high rank.