ing, and in both these arts produced
specimens of the highest excellence.
For upwards of fifty years he quitted
his bed only three times, and on these
occasions his house was either inun-
dated with water, or threatened with
danger from fire. His curiosity, which
was unbounded, prompted him to hatch
different kinds of birds' eggs by the na-
tural warmth of his body, and he after-
wards reared the motley broods with all
the tenderness of a parent: so that on
visiting him it was no unusual thing to
see various singing birds, to which he
may be said to have given birth, perched
on his head, and warbling the artificial
notes he had taught them.

Naturally possessed of a good consti-
tution, and an active, cheerful turn of
mind, his house was the general coffee.
room of the village, where the affairs of
the Church and State were discussed with
the utmost freedom. In consequence of
long confinement, his countenance had
rather a sickly cast, but it was remark-
ably expressive, and would have afforded
a fine subject for the pencil of Wilkie,
particularly when he was surrounded
by his country friends. This singular
man had acquired, by his ingenuity and
industry, an honourable independence,
and died possessed of considerable pro-
perty. In short, his history holds out
this very instructive lesson, that no dif-
ficulties are too great to be overcome by
industry and perseverance; and a ge-
nius, though it should sometimes miss
the distinction it deserves, will seldom
fail, unless by its own fault, to secure
competency and respectability. He was
married only about three weeks before
his death, which took place on the 3d
of May 1819, at Alyth.

SANDERS, Joseph, Esq., principal
partner of the Exeter bank, 17th Sept.
1819. He died at the advanced age of
89.

SETON, Archibald, Esq. was born
in 1758, and educated in Scotland. At
the
age of about 22, an appointment hav-
ing been obtained for him, as a Civilian,
he repaired to Bengal, and remained
there during an almost unexampled pe-
riod of thirty-eight years. After being
employed as is usual, in some inferior
offices, he was at length entrusted with
the collection of the Revenues and admi-
nistration of the Civil and Criminal Jus-
tice in the Districts of Bhangolpore and
Behar. He was then promoted to a
seat in the Provincial Court of Justice
in the Province of Behar; and on the
occasion of the cession of a portion of
the dominions of his Excellency the

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Nabob Vizier to the East India Com-
pany, in the year 1801, he was removed
to the same station in the ceded pro-
vinces, and was one of the Gentlemen
selected by Marquis Wellesley to assist
the Right Honourable Sir Henry Wel-
lesley, G. C. B. in the discharge of the
trust of the office of Lieutenant-governor
of those Provinces. In the year 1806,
Mr. Seton was appointed to the office
of President at the Court of his Majesty
Shah Allum, at Delhi, and performed
the grateful duty of securing the happi.
ness of the last few months of the life of
that interesting Prince, and also of pro-
viding for the comfort of his son and
successor, the present Emperor of Hin-
dostan, on the accession of the latter to
the Musnud. The arrangements made
by Mr. Seton for the management of
the territory to the Westward of the
Jumna, assigned for the maintenance
of the Royal Family at Delhi, during
the years in which he retained the
office of President at his Majesty's
Court from 1806 to 1811, were equally
honourable to his own character, and
well calculated to promote the welfare
of all classes of the inhabitants of that
territory, and their advantages have
been permanent. In the year 1811,
Mr. Seton accompanied the late Earl of
Minto on the expedition against the
Island of Java; and after the success-
ful conquest of that island, he was ap-
pointed to the office of Governor of
Prince of Wales's Island. From that
station he was promoted, in the year
1812, by the Court of Directors of the
East India Company, as the reward of
his long services, to a seat in the Su-
preme Council at Fort William in
Bengal, which he filled with much
credit for five years, and was
on his
return to his native country in 1818 at
the period of his death. During the
long period of Mr. Seton's services, he
had the happiness to possess in succes-
sion, and in the fullest extent, the well-
merited confidence of every Governor
under whom he acted, after he had ob-
tained a certain distinction in the ser-
vice, viz. the Marquises Cornwallis and
Wellesley, and the Lords Minto and
Teignmouth. Early in the last year,
Mr. Seton determined to return to Eu-
rope. He was extremely anxious once
more to behold the country that had
given him birth, as he had been at length
enabled by means of a competent for-
tune to enjoy all the comforts it afforded.
But such was not the will of Provi-
dence, for he died at sea, March 30,1818,
on board the William Pitt East India-

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soon

treat, was a younger son of John Vis.
count Bolingbroke, by Ann, daughter,
and co-heir of Sir Robert Furnese,
Bart. Being destined from early life,
to the military profession, he
rose to the first station in the British
army, having in due time, attained
the rank of General, together with a
Colonelcy of a regiment of the line. In
1771, he married Barbara, daughter of
Thomas Bladen, Esq. and sister to
Henrietta, Countess Dowager of Essex,
and died in 1818.

General St. John was a man of the
world. He possessed easy manners, a
genteel address, and an amiable dispo-
sition. But he stood too high in the army
list, perhaps, to be employed during the
late contest with France; and indeed,
whatever might have been his merits,
his increasing years and infirmities must
have prohibited any appointment of this
kind.

STEWART, the Rev. Charles Ed-
ward, M.A. Oct. 8th, 1819, in his 71st
year. He was educated at Magdalen
College, Oxford, and obtained the Rec-
tory of Wakes, Colne, Essex, and Rede,
Suffolk, in succession. This gentleman
possessed a lively poetical imagination,
and was author of "Trifles in Verse,"
&c.

THOMSON, Lieut.-Col. Richard,
at Clifton, Sept. 30th, 1819. This
gallant officer had reluctantly retired
from the service, in consequence of the
loss of his right arm at the siege of
Flushing, in 1809.

THORPE, Lieut.-Col. Peregrine
Francis, at Bath, Oct. 10, 1819, in the
69th year of his age. He was formerly
an officer of the 4th Regiment of Foot,
and of late years has enjoyed the pro-
fitable appointment of Military-Auditor-
General on the Island of Ceylon.

TUCKER, William, Esq. at Down
St. Mary, Devonshire, Sept. 30, aged 79.

Lord Audley was born Feb. 14th, 1758.
He was the son of the celebrated Gover-
nor Thicknesse,by Lady Betty,the daugh-
ter of the Earl of Castleton, and early
in life obtained a commission in the
army by means of Lord Bateman, in
consequence of which he repaired to
Gibraltar. After a short residence
there, he returned to England.

At the age of 19, Mr. Thicknesse
succeeded his uncle, John, the last
Earl of Castleton, as Baron Audley,
(April 28th, 1777,) and, by permission
of his Majesty, assumed the arms and
name of Tucket, (April 3, 1784,)
about seven years after.

His Lordship was twice married,
first, on May 19, 1781, to Elizabeth
daughter and co-heiress of the late
John Lord Delaval, who died in 1785.
By this lady he had issue: 1. Elizabeth
Susannah, who afterwards became the
wife of John Cousens, Esq.; 2. George-
John, now 17th Baron Audley, born in
March, 1783, and lately married at
Brussels, to a daughter of Admiral
Donelly.

The late Lord Audley had, for his
second wife, Mrs. Moorhouse, the opu-
lent widow of a distinguished officer,
Lieut.-Col. Moorhouse, who was killed
at the siege of Maryalore, in the East
Indies, who survives him. After occa-

sionally residing at Edinburgh and
Dublin, his Lordship died at his seat at
Sandridge Lodge, Wiltshire, in his 61st
year, on Aug. 23, 1818.

V.

VANSITTART, Mrs., in 1819, at
her house at Blackheath, in the 81st
'year of her age. She was the widow of
the late H. Vansittart, Esq. who was
lost, many years since, on his passage to
India, and mother of the Chancellor of
the Exchequer. It is said that this lady
refused to wear mourning for her hus-
band, who she supposed was wrecked on
some uninhabited island; and would
return at length to his native country.

W.

WALLACE, Robert, Esq. Sept. 12,
1819, at Rosslane Fort, in the county

of Wexford, for many years a justice of
the peace for that district. He died
suddenly, while in the act of shaving.

WARDEN, Lieut. Col. Francis,
died at his apartments in Somerset street,
April 14, 1819, at the age of 40. He
repaired to Bombay at a period when he
had scarcely attained his 16th year. The
disease that proved fatal, was an enlarge-
ment of the heart, obtained during hard
service, in an unfavourable climate.

WATSON, Lady, the widow of the
late Sir Brook Watson, Bart., at East
Sheen, Surrey, Sept. 10, 1819.

WHITE, the Rev. John, M. A.
Mr. White who was a native of North
Walsham, county of Norfolk, was
born in 1745. After the usual pre-
liminary education he repaired to Caius
College, Cambridge, and in 1765 was
the senior Wrangler of the Tripos.
As a fellow of that society for some
years, Mr. White, who was in or-
ders, obtained the livings of Cheving-
ton and Hargrave, both in Suffolk.
This gentleman not only proved an
ornament to the University in which he
was educated, but to society at large.
He accordingly died Dec. 4, 1818, in
his 74th year, greatly respected and
lamented.

WILLIS, Henry Norton, Esq.,
F.R.S. F.S.A. This gentleman, the son
of a medical practitioner, at Andover,
Hants, was originally an officer in the
Hants militia. He afterwards obtained

a place in the King's household, by the
intervention of Earl Talbot, then High
Steward, and at length became Secre-
tary to a former Duke of Dorset, when
that nobleman filled the same station.
Having been reduced in consequence of
Mr. Burke's Reformation Bill, in 1783,
he retired on a pension, and settled at
Sunning Hill, Berks.

Mr. Willis, who had a house in that
village, was nominated Lieut.-Col. of
the Kensington volunteers at the com-
mencement of the war with France; he
afterwards superintended the household
of the late Princess Charlotte, and on
her marriage, became Privy Purse.
This gentleman, who was one of the
founders of the Alfred, an Association
where play is unknown, published a
description of Knole Park, in Kent, the
residence of the Dukes of Dorset. He
left a widow and three children behind
him, and his only son, is Chaplain
General in India. Mr. Willis died in
1819,

WISHART, Lady Theresa Coch-
rane, at Edinburgh, Sept. 4, 1819.
She was wife of Sir Thomas Cochrane,
Knt. K. B. and daughter of the late
Sir Charles Ross of Balnagown, Bart.

WOLSELEY, Sir Robert, Bart. at
Paris, Sept. 2, 1819. He was a man of
an ancient family, originally called
Wolf-slay, from having encountered and
killed a ferocious animal of that species.