f Mrs Macquarie's health; but in the utumn of last year he retired once aore to his estate in Mull, where he ntended to rusticate for a few years, ntil his son was prepared to enter Eton College. But, alas! how vain are the deterninations of man! In April 1824, General Macquarie came up to town, with the view of getting his colonial Iccounts finally settled, and to ascerain the determination of ministers in egard to the remuneration to which he had become entitled by his long and faithful services as governor of New South Wales. His accounts, being regularly and correctly kept, were soon brought to a close; and his merit so fully allowed, that a pension for life, of a thousand a-year, was granted him; and, as he states in a note to a friend, in the end of June, his cares were now at an end. In four short days from the date of that note, they were, indeed, at an end for ever. Dining at a friend's house, on a wet day, about the beginning of June, he was unable to procure a hackney coach, and as the rain had nearly ceased, he ventured to walk home to his lodgings. He was immediately seized with a suppression of urine, which, in the end, baffled the skill of the most eminent of the profession to remove or alleviate, and on the 1st July, 1824, he breathed his last. Mrs Macquarie, impressed with some impending misfortune, and having information from a faithful black servant who had been many years the attendant of the General, fortunately left Mull to join her husband in London, and arrived a few days before his death, so that she had the consolation, though a melancholy one, of witnessing the last moments of him whose loss is irreparable, but who died as he had lived, a hero and a Christian. General Macquarie was ever more desirous of a good name than of riches; he returned to England in 1822, a much poorer man than he had left it in 1809. He did not live to enjoy his pension a single day; so that the regulated price of a lieutenant-colonelcy of infantry, which, a few days before his death, he was advised, under the new regulation, to sell, was all that he received for a faithful service of nearly half a century. We have little doubt, however, that when his merits become fully known to his majesty, and are fairly appreciated by his country, as one day they must be, some permanent mark of royal favour will be granted to his orphan son. General Macquarie has left one brother, a distinguished officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Macquarie, who retired from the service a few years ago on account of bad health, and is now resident upon his property in his native isle. The General's remains were sent down to Scotland for interment, and have been deposited in the family vault of the Macquaries, at Iona. MAJOR CARTWRIGHT. The right of free political discussion is one of the essential features of the British constitution. It is by the collision of opinions that this country has obtained its present enviable condition of rational liberty. The arguments urged by the advocates of the various modes of government which enter into the composition of our own, heard in turn, have gradually enabled us to reject many of the evils, and to combine most of the advantages, which exist in the respective forms of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy, singly considered. Our history affords few examples of men who have, through life, so warmly and perseveringly maintained the popular side of such questions, as the late Major Cartwright. Of the soundness of his doctrines, carried to the extent to which he proposed to carry them, there may justly be grounds for more than doubt; but, we believe, no one could ever deny that he was a most consistent politician, and a most benevolent and honourable man. Mr Cartwright was born on the 28th of September, 1730, and was third son of William Cartwright, Esq., of Marnham, in the county of Nottingham. His elder brother George, author of " A Journal of Transactions during a residence of Sixteen Years in Labrador," was a man of remarkable strength of intellect as well as of personal courage and bodily activity; his next brother, Edmund, of mechanical and poetical celebrity, is also well known to the public; and the fact of three brothers living to upwards of eighty years of age, and preserving to the last moment not ontheir vigour of mind, but all their accustomed energy of character, is a circumstance which we may safely assert has been seldom paralleled in the history of any family. y From the gentleness of his disposition, John Cartwright was a particular favourite in his family, and his father earnestly desiring to retain him at home, wished to turn his attention to agricultural pursuits; but the ardour of his mind made such a destination disgusting to him, and in a moment of boyish enthusiasm, excited by the military fame of Frederick the Great of Prussia, he left his house with the intention of becoming a volunteer in the army of that prince. He had not gone many miles before he was overtaken by the steward, who represented the distress his departure had occasioned, and easily prevailed on him to return. He was afterwards allowed to enter the naval service of his own country; a service The circumstances of his saving the life of a brother officer, of his being present at the capture of Cherbourg, and the sea-fight between Sir Edward Hawke and Conflans, together with many proofs of his zeal and ability, have been so often and so accurately related, that it is not necessary to dwell on them at present; we will, therefore, pass rapidly to the time when he sacrificed to a noble feeling for American rights, all the advantages which family connexions, and the friendship of Lord Howe, offered to his ambition. In 1774, he began to publish his opinions on the dispute between the mother country and her American colonies, and great were the apprehensions of his family, that in so doing he might endanger his own safety; but he was, through life, a stranger to every fear, save that of acting against the dictates of his conscience. In 1775, he published his "American Independence the Glory and Interest of Great Britain," and in the same year became major of the militis of his native county. After seventeen years of meritorious service, for which he was unanimously thanked by the deputy-lieutenants, he was, in the year 1792, superseded in his rank. In 1780, he effected, with the assistance of Dr Jebb and Granville Sharpe, the formation of the "Society for Constitutional Information," which boasted among its members some of the most distinguished of that day, with whom he was in habits of intimacy and constant correspondence. In the same year married the eldest daughter of Samuel men he Dashwood, Esq., of Well Vale, in the county of Lincoln, who was for forty-four years, as he himself emphatically termed her, "his dearest and best friend, to whom he was indebted for the chief happiness of his life." Soon after this marriage his father died, and Captain George Cartwright (already mentioned) succeeded by will to the family estate. Being also named executor, this gentleman found himself involved in difficult and perplexing business, to which his own losses in Labrador materially contributed; he, therefore, a year after, gladly accepted his brother John's offer of purchasing the property, which was accomplished by borrow ing a large sum of money, and by the sale of an estate which he as a qualification for the majority. It possessed may not be improper here to mention, that though these two brothers were diametrically opposite in their political opinions, and though the elder was a man of warm character, and occasionally indulged in intemperate expressions, yet their attachment to each other continued through life. In fact, no man ever possessed a more placable disposition than Major Cartwright. His brother's vehemence only occasioned a benevolent smile; and the good old tory himself was known to declare, that though, as a loyal subject, it was his duty to hate his principles, yet as a brother he was bound by every tie of gratitude to love and respect him. During the last illness of Captain Cartwright, the subject of this memoir, then in his eightieth year, travelled into Nottinghamshire, and remained for a considerable time by his sickbed, administering his medicines, and watching him with all the assiduity of a nurse. It would be unnecessary to mention these particulars, had it not been for an anecdote industriously circulated by means of the public 297 press, a few days after Mr Cartwright had breathed his last, tending to show that these two brothers were not on good terms with each other. sold the estate at Marnham, and made In the year 1788, Mr Cartwright purchase of Brotherlop, near Boston, a very fortunate speculation in the in Lincolnshire. By his judicious improvements and skill in agriculture, this estate became so profitable to him, that it enabled him to stand against many severe losses occasioninto which he entered with several ed by the failure of a large concern other gentlemen, as well as those still more severe, which he incurred by assisting his favourite brother, Dr Cartwright, in bringing to perfection his many ingenious inventions. In 1803, he settled at Enfield, in in 1810, to James Street, WestminMiddlesex, from whence he removed, ster. In 1819, he changed his abode to Burton Crescent, from motives of kind consideration for the health of his niece, the youngest daughter of ther when an infant, was brought up Dr Cartwright, who, losing her moby him and his excellent wife with even more than parental tenderness; that she experienced, during the lifeand who delights to acknowledge, time of her adopted father, that generosity which is generally deferred to a testamentary bequest. In this with several others, for unlawfully year he was indicted at Warwick, mons; and was found guilty on the electing a representative to the Com4th of August, in the following year. ceived his sentence in the Court of On the 1st of June, 1821, he reKing's Bench, and was fined a hundred pounds. It was supposed, and probably with reason, that his great age and high character saved him on this occasion from imprisonment; but though his family and friends, including those who shared in the indictment, rejoiced in his freedom, he himself would have preferred incarceration, to what he considered as an unjustifiable attack upon his purse. In February, 1823, he carried his resolutions at a county meeting at Hackney by a large majority; and in March, 1823, he travelled to Lincoln at a very unfavourable season of the year, in order to attend a county meeting, in which he proposed his resolutions in favour of annual parliaments and universal suffrage-those doctrines with which he began and ended his political career; and though he did not succeed in his object, he had the satisfaction of being greeted by many kind friends, among whom were many in the lower ranks of life, who had walked a distance of above fifty miles to have one more look at their old and respected friend. It was one of Mr Cartwright's peculiarities, that he rarely appeared to notice any popular demonstrations of respect, so absorbed was he in the object nearest his heart; but on this occasion he observed to the relation who attended him on the journey, that his kind friends did not know how to express with sufficient warmth their pleasure in seeing him; and added, with a smile, "I thought, my dear, that my poor old arm would have been shaken off." Till the autumn of 1823, Mr Cartwright's health had been remarkably good for one at his advanced age; to which, probably, his early rising, and long habits of temperance, had greatly contributed; and his family fondly hoped he might yet live many years; but, alas! these hopes were soon to be changed into anxiety and apprehension. While on a visit to his nephew, the Rev. Edmund Cartwright, near Chichester, during the month of October, he received in telligence of the illness of one of his sisters; and on his returning to London, the death of his brother, Dr Cartwright, gave an additional shock to his constitution. The fatal reverses in Spain, and the consequent execution of the gallant Riego, with whose wife and brother he was well acquainted, and in whose sorrows he participated with that tenderness of heart which was one of his characteristics, also visibly affected his health; and from that time he perceptibly declined. Sensible of his approaching end, of which he often spoke when not in the presence of his family, he used the expression, "I feel that the old machine is nearly worn out:" and in a letter, dated June 20, he says, "In my old man's chair, surrounded by those I love, whose affection and kindness are far more gratifying to me than I can express, my life glides smoothly towards its close, with a degree of happiness for which I am truly grateful." The impression of the short time which yet remained to him, made him so anxious to forward the great cause for which he lived, that it is to be feared that his exertions increased the feverish complaint which undermined his strength. Change of air being recommended by his excellent friend and physician, Dr Harrison, he removed to Hampstead on the 6th of September; but it was evidently to satisfy the anxiety of his friends, for when there, he calculated that he should not live till his birthday on the 28th; and finding that he grew rapidly worse, he returned, at his own desire, to Burton Crescent on the 16th. From that day, he took to his bed never to rise again; and after a tedious week of lingering, though not acute, suffering, during which his pie ty towards God, his kindness to his attendants, his recollection of his friends, presented a picture not easily forgotten by those who witnessed it, on the 23d of September, 1824, he surrendered his truly Christian spirit into the hands of Him who gave it. The following is a list of Major Cartwright's publications: "American Independence the Interest and Glory of Great Britain," 1774, 8vo. "A Letter to Edmund Burke, Esq. controverting the Principles of Government laid down in his Speech of April 9, 1774," 1775, 8vo. "Take your Choice, &c. &c." 1776, 8vo. ; reprinted 1777, under the title of "The Legislative Rights of the Commonalty Vindicated," Svo. "A Letter to the Earl of Abingdon, discussing a Position relative to a fundamental Right of the Constitution, contained in his Lordship's Thoughts on the Letter of Edmund Burke, Esq." 1777, 8vo. "The People's Barrier," 1780, 8vo. "Letter to the Deputies, of the Associated Counties, Cities, and Towns, on the Means necessary to a Reformation of Parliament," 1781, 8vo. "Give us our Rights," 1782, 8vo. "Internal Evidence; or an Inquiry how far Truth and the Christian Religion have been consulted by the Author of Thoughts on a Parliamentary Reform, (Soame Jenyns,)" 1784, 8vo. "Letter to the Duke of Newcastle," 1792, 8vo. "A Plan for providing the Navy with Timber," 1793, 8vo. "Letter to a Friend at Boston," 1793, 8vo. "The Commonwealth in Danger," 1795, 8vo. "Letter to the High Sheriff of the County of Lincoln," 1793, 8vo. "The Constitutional Defence of England," 1796, 8vo. "An Appeal on the Subject of the English Constitution," 1797, 8vo; 2d edition, greatly enlarged, 1799. "The Trident," 1800, 4to. "Letter to the Electors of Nottingham," 1803, 8vo. "The State of the Nation," 1805, 8vo. England's Egis," 1806, 8vo. "Reasons for Reformation," 1809, Svo. "The 66 Comparison," 1810, 8vo. "Six Letters to the Marquis of Tavistock," 1812, 8vo. "A Bill of Rights and Liberties," 1817, 8vo. "The English Constitution produced," 1823, 8vo. Major Cartwright was also the author of several papers in Young's Annals of Agriculture. CHARLES GRANT, Esq. We know not when the grave has closed over the mortal remains of an individual whose life has furnished more valuable lessons to mankind, or whose death has deprived the world of a larger share of public and private virtues, than that of the subject of the following memoir. Whether viewed as a man of business, as a philanthropist, or as a Christian, his strict integrity, his mature wisdom, his firmness of character, his frank simplicity, his uniform consistency, his love for his fellow-creatures, his zeal for their welfare, and, above all, his deep and truly scriptural piety, were eminently conspicuous. Mr Grant was born in Scotland in the year 1746. By the decease of his father, who fell in the memorable battle of Culloden, a very few hours after the birth of his son, the care of his infancy and youth devolved upon an uncle, at whose expense he received a good education in the town of Elgin. This signal benefit afterwards excited in Mr Grant's mind feelings of the most grateful respect for his uncle's memory, and these he expressed by a memorial placed over his grave. In the year 1767, Mr Grant proceeded to India in a military capacity; but on his arrival there, he was taken into the employ, and under the immediate patronage, of Mr Richard Becher, a member of the Bengal Council. In 1770, he re-visited his native country, where he united himself by 1 |