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D.D. of Grove Hall, Bow, Middlesex,
upwards of 35 years minister of the
Fresbyterian Meeting, Monkwell street,
He had, with other Protestant dissent-
ing ministers of the three denominations,
assembled at Dr. Williams's library, in
Red Cross-street, with a view of con-
sidering the projected bill of Mr.
Brougham, on the subject of education.
Several ministers had expressed their
sentiments, and among the rest, Dr.
Lindsay. A friendly conversation hav-
ing been finished, the secretary, the Rev.
Dr. Morgan, was proceeding to read to
the meeting a series of resolutions, when
the attention of the company was ar-
rested by an appearance of severe in-
disposition in Dr. Lindsay: he fell in-
sensible into the arms of those around
him. Medical aid was instantly called
in; but it was too late, the spirit had
fled to God who gave it. The whole
company was too much affected by this
awful stroke to proceed with business.
The Rev. Dr. Waugh, attended by a
large company of ministers, offered an
appropriate prayer. The ministers de-
parted deeply impressed with this power-
ful admonition on the uncertainty of
life, and the necessity of being always
ready for the stroke of death.

Dr. Lindsay was a native of Scot-
land, and was educated at Aberdeen.
He succeeded the celebrated Dr. James
Fordyce, about the year 1782, as pastor
of the congregation at Monkwell-street;
in which chapel he preached a sermon
on the occasion of Dr. Fordyce's death,
in 1796, which was printed. He also
published "A Sermon on the Influence
of Religious Knowledge, as tending to
produce a gradual Improvement in the
social State, preached at Monkwell-
street," 8vo. 1813; and " A Sermon at
* Salter's Hall Meeting House, on the
Death of the Rev. Hugh Worthington,"
8vo. 1813. An elegant and most im-
pressive funeral sermon was preached,
on occasion of Dr. Lindsay's death, the
25th inst. by Dr. Rees, at Monkwell-
street Chapel.

LIVERPOOL, Countess of, June 12,
at Fife House, in Whitehall, Theodosia
Louisa, Countess of Liverpool. She
was the daughter of Frederick late Earl
of Bristol and Bishop of Derry, and
sister of the present Earl of Bristol; and
was married to the Earl of Liverpool,
March 25, 1795, but had no issue. The
melancholy event had been long expect-
ed, her ladyship having been seriously
ill for many months; but we believe it

was only within the last few weeks that
the noble earl, whose attachment for
the countess was of the most affectionate
kind, despaired of her recovery.

Her ladyship was a female of excel-
lent endowments; her natural talents
had been improved by education, by
reading, and reflection; she had a clear
and comprehensive mind; a sound and
discriminating judgment. Her religion
was without any bigotry; her humanity
without the least ostentation; it was not
of that passive kind which gives only
when it is asked; it sought out and se-
lected its objects with diligence and
care; it relieved them with a secrecy
and a delicacy which almost doubled the
blessings it conferred. Many persons
will only now, for the first time, know
the source from whence they were re-
lieved.

On the 19th the remains of this
deeply lamented lady were removed from
Whitehall for interment in the family
vault at Hawkesbury, in Glocestershire,
in the following order: - Six horse-
men, two and two; the plume of
feathers; the hearse, drawn by six
horses, the pall of which bore the ar-
morial escutcheons; three mourning
coaches and six, followed by upwards of
seventy noblemen and gentlemen's car-
riages; amongst which were those of the
Dukes of York, Clarence, Devonshire,
and Wellington, Marquess of Hertford,
Earls of Bridgewater, Harcourt, Spen-
cer, Verulam, &c.

LONDONDERRY, Robert, Mar-
quess of, April 8, at Castle Stewart, in the
county of Down, in his 83d year. He
was born Sept. 27, 1739, returned to par-
liament for the county of Down 1780;
sworn of the privy council, and appointed
a trustee of the linen board during the
administration of the Marquess of Lans-
downe; advanced to the dignity of Baron
of Londonderry in 1789; of Viscount
Castlereagh in 1795; of Earl of Lon-
donderry in 1796; and of Marquess of
Londonderry in 1815.
His lordship

was twice married; first, to Lady Fran-
ces Seymour Conway, daughter of the
late Marquess of Hertford, (and sister to
the present,) by whom he had issue, 1st,
Alexander-Francis, was born in 1767,
and died young; 2d, Robert Viscount
Castlereagh (now Marquess of London-
derry). His lordship was secondly mar-
ried to Lady Frances Pratt, daughter of
the late Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor
of England, and sister to the present
Marquess Camden, by whom he had

issue Charles-William, a lieut.-general,
now Lord Stewart, ambassador to the
court of Vienna; 2d, Alexander-John,
who was an officer in the navy, and
fought at the battle of St. Vincent, since
dead; 3d, Thomas-Henry, who served
in the army under the illustrious Duke
of Wellington, and died in Portugal;
4th, Frances- Ann, married to Lord C.
Fitzroy, son to the late Duke of Grafton,
also dead; 5th, Elizabeth, who died un
married; 6th, Caroline, wife of Colonel
Wood, son to Thomas Wood, Esq. of
Lyttleton, and M. P. for the county of
Brecon; 7th, Georgiana, married to
Geo. Canning, Esq., now Lord Garvagh,
also dead; 8th, Selina, married to David
Ker, Esq. of the county of Down, and
M. P. for Athlone; 9th, Matilda, mar-
ried to Edward Ward, eldest son of the
Right Hon. Robert Ward, of Bangor;
10th, Emily, married to the late John
James, Esq, son of Sir Walter James
James, Bart. of Langley Hall, in Berk-
shire, secretary of embassy at the court
of the King of the Netherlands; and
11th, Octavia, married to the present
Lord Ellenborough, also dead.

In 1801, his lordship was appointed
governor and custos rotulorum of the
county of Down, and of the county of
Londonderry in 1803. He is succeeded
in his title, and the principal part of his
extensive estates in the counties of
Down, Derry, and Donegal, by Robert
Viscount Castlereagh, now Marquess of
Londonderry, His Majesty's Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs. By his death
there is a vacancy in the representation
of the county of Down, in the room of
Lord Castlereagh, and also for a repre-
sentative peer in the Imperial Parlia-
ment. His lordship was in the 83d year
of his age.

The family of the marquess, which
was originally Scotch, (being a branch of
the Lenox family,) settled in Ireland in
the reign of James the First, who granted
to his kinsman,
Stewart, Duke

of Lenox, and his relations, that large
tract of land in the county of Donegal,
lying between Lough Foyle and Lough
Swilly, (forfeited during his reign, and
that of Queen Elizabeth,) which he
erected into eight manors, two of which
he granted to the Duke of Lenox, and
one, by the name of the manor of Stew-
art's Court, otherwise Ballylawn, toge-
ther with the territories and precincts of
Ballyveagh, to John Stewart, Esq., and
his heirs, for ever which manor, toge-
ther with the whole of the lands annexed
to it, descended in regular lineal succes.

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sion to the late marquess.

On his ma
nor the said John Stewart erected the
castle of Ballylawn, and settled it with
Protestant inbabitants, whereby he be-
came entitled to hold a court baron, to-
gether with other ample privileges. The
great-grandson of the late John Stewart,
and grandfather of the late marquess,
Colonel William Stewart, of Ballylawn
Castle, raised a troop of horse at his own
expense, during the siege of the city of
Londonderry by King James Second,
and was of essential service to the Pro-
testants, by protecting those who were
well affected to King William, and
checking the depredations of King
James's army, whose supplies he com-
pletely cut off on that side, and consi-
derably cramped the operations of the
siege; and we accordingly find, that in
the parliament held in Dublin by King
James, he was expressly attainted by
name, and his estates declared forfeited;
which estates, however, descended un-
impaired to his son, Alexander Stewart
(father of the late marquess). Alex-
ander Stewart, son of the above William
Stewart, (and a daughter of William
Stewart, of Fort Stewart, Esq.) was born
in 1700, and succeeded to his father's
estate of Ballylawn. He served in par-
liament as representative for the city
of Londonderry; and in 1737 married
his cousin, Mary Cowan, sister and heir-
ess of Sir Robert Cowan, governor of
Bombay, and afterwards transferred his
residence to Mount Stewart, in the
county of Down, where he had pur-
chased the Colville (formerly the Mount
Alexander) estate. He died in 1781,
and was succeeded by his eldest son,
Robert, the late Marquess of London-
derry, the subject of this article.

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He was placed under the tuition of his
friend, Dr. Wood, of Perth, when almost
a child, being only ten years old. Soon
after his being put there, it happened
that the price of meal had greatly risen,
and a merchant of the town, wishing to
take the benefit of the markets when ad-
vantageous, was loading a vessel at Perth
with that article. The inhabitants of the
town became apprehensive that if their
meal should be taken away, the same
want would afflict them which oppressed
their neighbours; and therefore resolved
that none should leave the place.
this patriotic, but lawless, purpose, they
assailed the merchant's house, and de-
molished his store. The riot increased
to such a degree as to oblige the magis-
trates to call on the military for assist-
ance. Their attention being directed to
the harbour, where the unfortunate vessel
lay, among others who were drawn
thither by the occurrence, was Dr. Wood,
when, to his astonishment he saw his
young pupil, M'Leod, there, the foremost
of the rioters, on the top of the mast,
cutting away the rigging, and cheering
up a companion of his, (also a pupil of
Dr. Wood's,) with, Cut the cables,
Dan Stuart; cut the cables, Dan, and
then she cannot go." The doctor, how-
ever, soon allayed the ardour of his
young patriots, by the denunciation of a
good whipping.

"In the year 1798, government hav-
ing held out great inducements for me-
dical men to enter the naval service, Mr.
M'Leod embarked on board a ship bear-
ing Lord Gardner's flag, as surgeon's
mate. He was subject for a short time
to the tricks played off on all green-horns
who first enter into that classical place,
the cock-pit, from which have emerged
so many thousand brave and learned men,
Hawkes, Howes, St. Vincents, and Nel-
sons, Smollets, Trotters, and Blanes; and
from which we hope many more will
yet arise.

He did not, however, long
remain the passive subject of their mirth,
but soon became a chief actor in all their
rude hilarity: on one occasion, they
having exceeded the bounds of propriety,
it became necessary to punish severely
the inhabitants of the midship birth, of
whom he was one; it was therefore,
entirely pulled down. To satirize this
severe punishment, Mr. M'Leod wrote
over the ruins, Additional encourage-
ment for surgeons' mates.' Fortunately
for him, this sarcasm did not reach the
ears of the captain, or it might have been
attended with something still more un-
pleasant.

VOL. VI.

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"In 1801 he was made a surgeon, and
soon after was reduced in consequence
of the peace.

"The younger surgeons of the navy
having at that time no half-pay, and
M'Leod being too high-minded to de-
pend on any one but himself, he went
into the African trade. This voyage he
has related with great vivacity. * On
his arrival afterwards in the West Indies,
the war having re-commenced, he was
appointed by the commander-in-chief at
Jamaica, surgeon of the Pickle schooner.
On one of her cruizes, she was attacked
by a superior force; it became necessary
for every one to exert himself, and al-
though it was his particular place to be
out of the combat, he chose to be in it.
The commander put into his hands the
only musket which was fired during the
action. They beat off the enemy, and
soon afterwards heard that the only loss
had been from musketry: a proof of his
skill, as well as cool intrepidity.

"He served in the Volontaire, in the
Mediterranean, in 1808 and 1809; and
whenever her boats were sent on any
fighting duty, he generally contrived to
be of the party, under pretence of being
ready to afford surgical aid, but really
for the delight he had in naval enter-
prise; for had any been called on, it
would have been more particularly the
assistant-surgeon.

"A convoy from Toulon, for the relief
of Gerona in Spain, was escorted by a
large naval force, but was intercepted,
and afterwards destroyed. He was then
surgeon of the Tigre, one of the ships
detached for the purpose. All on board
being strangers to the coast near Cette,
in Languedoc, he piloted the ship close
in to the place from a drawing which he
had made in the Volontaire, when that
ship was meditating an attack on it.

"I must now however observe, that he
was no less attentive to his medical duty,
than partial to naval enterprize. Although
exceedingly gay, and fond of being on
shore, yet when his duty called him on
board, no one was more indefatigable.
It happened that the Volontaire, when at
Malaga, had several men dangerously
ill of the bilious fever. The principal
Spanish nobility and gentry, in their de-
lirium of joy at their recent escape from
French domination, were endeavouring
to show all the civility in their power to
the officers of the English frigate, and
the latter were enjoying it: yet nothing

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would induce M'Leod to leave his pa-
tients, although he might with much pro-
priety have occasionally trusted to his
assistant for a short time.

"His African voyage shews his happy
disposition: and in some of the scenes
which he describes in his ' Narrative of
the Alceste's Voyage,' he was a principal
actor; particularly in buoying up the
spirits of his shipwrecked companions on
the island of Pulo-Leet with the hopes
of succour, and encouraging them to
second the efforts of their brave com-
mander to resist the attacks of their fiend-
like foes, the Malays. He was equally
active in extinguishing the fire which
broke out in the Caesar, on their passage
home, and threatened them with destruc-
tion after all their perils. We have lately
had a truly appalling and pitiable proof
of their danger, in the destruction of the
Abeona transport, under very similar cir-
cumstances: for the fire broke out in
both vessels in the same place, and was in
́each equally rapid in its progress; but
there being more presence of mind and
vigour in the former case than in the
latter, they were saved. A delay of five
minutes more would have destroyed the
Cæsar.

"The voyage of the Alceste, so pleas-
ing from the liveliness of its descriptions,
is well known to most readers. A little
while after its publication, M'Leod had
the honor of doctor of physic conferred
on him by the University of St. Andrews.
He was about this time appointed sur-
geon to the Royal Sovereign yacht.
The royal passengers were much de-
lighted with him.

"Always ardent in his friendships, he
proved, both by pen and personal exer-
tions, a most active and successful par-
tisan of Sir Murray Maxwell, when that
gallant officer stood candidate for West-
minster. In the disgraceful outrages
which took place during that celebrated
contest, he received a serious injury in
his lungs from a bruise. It produced
a spitting of blood, and he seems never
to have been thoroughly well afterwards.

"He retained his vivacity to the last,
though labouring under two depressive
diseases, dysentery and ulceration in the
lungs. Getting very thin,' as he ex-
pressed it, he took lodgings in a small
house at Chelsea, to be near the kind
attentions of Mrs. Hoppner. "Well,"
said he to a friend, who called on him,
"if I am really to go, I trust I shall
not need to be ashamed to show my face
in the other world." He expressed to
me a wish to have a Bible, and the mis-

one.

tress of the house brought him a family
She had shown him much atten-
tion; and, after his decease, on open-
ing her Bible, she found a five-pound
note folded in a leaf, which contained
the 5th chapter of the Epistle to the
Romans. There was the mark of a
large cross, apparently made with a
finger-nail, against the 10th verse. He
does not seem to have had a conviction
that the disease would terminate fatally
till about the last hour. In the middle
of the night the nurse heard him say,
"Stop, stop till I get my hat, and I'll
come. About seven he said to her,
"I am really going now. Run for
S,"
I set out instantly, but ere I
reached his lodgings, he was gone aloft.
"He died on Thursday, the 9th of
November 1820. He was only 38 years
of age.

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We buried him at Chelsea;
and in his funeral we adopted that sim-
ple unostentatious mode of which he was
so characteristically fond in all things
during life. Sir Murray Maxwell, Mr.
Murray, Dr. Hutchinson, Mr. Gray,
and two officers of the yacht bore the pall.

"Dr. M'Leod had a very quick per-
ception and strong memory, and retained
a most accurate idea of what he had seen.
He formed his opinions almost intui-
tively: yet he must be considered rather
a sciolist than a profound man. Had
he been less quick, in all probability he
would have been more scientific. His
practice as a surgeon partook of his cha-
racter. It was bold and prompt; and
he was very successful. His humanity
was most conspicuous, and he uniformly
attended his patients with the greatest
solicitude.

"You will perceive, I have endea-
voured to put a few anecdotes of our
late friend; but as I was not with him
in the more active scenes of life, my ac-
count is very imperfect. I am, with the
greatest esteem, your devoted friend,

J. S.

MORGAN, Rev. Thomas, LLD.,
at Dr. Williams' library, Redcross-street.
A notice of this gentleman in our next
volume.

MURRAY, Charles, Esq. Nov. 8.
At Edinburgh, Mr. Murray, for many
years an actor on the Covent Garden
boards. He was the son of Sir John
Murray, Bart. of Broughton, secretary
to the Pretender, in the rebellion of
1745, who, after the final ruin of the
cause, retired to Cheshunt, in Hertford-
shire, where, in the year 1754, the late
Mr. Murray was born. Under the im-
mediate guardianship of his father, he

received a classical education, and was
at a proper season sent into France, to
perfect himself in the language of that
country. Being designed for the me-
dical profession, he was, on his return
from the Continent, placed with a prac-
titioner of eminence, and entered into
the sea-service, as a surgeon, in which
capacity he made several voyages. Be-

ing tired of his calling, he entered into
an engagement with Mr. Tate Wilkin-
son, and made his first appearance on
the stage at York, in 1775, in the cha-
racter of Carlos, in the Fop's Fortune.
Thence he went to Norwich, and after-
wards to Bath. He subsequently en-
tered into an engagement at Covent
Garden Theatre, where he appeared in

1797.

Mr. Murray has left four children.
His daughter, (Mrs. Henry Siddons) is
the present proprietor of the Edinburgh
theatre, where her brother, Mr. William
Murray, is the acting-manager.

N.

NALDI, Signor, Dec. 15, 1820. the
celebrated performer, his death was oc-
casioned bythe bursting of a newinvented
self-acting cooking apparatus.

NEIL, Mr. James. At Irvine, aged
102. Dec. 1820. He had served in the
navy 65 years, many of these under
Boscawen and Hawke; his faculties were
unimpaired to the last.

NICHOL, Dr., Feb. 9, 1820. minis-
ter of the Scots Church, Swallow-street,
where he had officiated upwards of 25
years. A notice of this amiable and
intelligent gentleman will appear in our
next volume.

P.

PARNELL, William, Esq. M. P.
At Castle Howard, Ireland, April 2,
1820. Mr. Parnell was distinguished
in private society for the amiableness of
his manners, and for the suavity and in-
telligence of his conversation. He de-
servedly ranked high in letters and in
politics for his general acquirements, but
more especially for his writings, "The
Causes of Popular Discontents in Ire-
land," and "The Apology for the
Catholics;" works which have been
greatly esteemed by the highest authorities
for their elegance of style, the statesman-
like principles which they enforce, and the
pure patriotism of the author. Had Mr.

Parnell lived, the attention which he was
in the habit of giving in parliament to
Irish affairs would have been productive,
ere long, of lasting benefit to his country.
Time only was wanting to enable him to
give effect to those plans, which had been
his constant study from his earliest years,
for relieving Ireland from her grievances,
and for ameliorating the condition of all
classes of her people, in wealth, in man-
ners, and in morals. The following lines
are from the Poems of the late Mrs.
Henry Tighe :

To W. P. Esq., Avondale.

"We wish for thee, dear friend! for

Summer eve

Upon thy loveliest landscape never cast
Looks of more lingering sweetness than
the last;

The slanting sun, reluctant to bereave
Thy woods of beauty, fondly seemed to
leave
[past
Smiles of the softest light, that slowly
In bright succession o'er each charm
thou hast
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Thyself so oft admired. And we might
Thine eye of taste should ever wander
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O'er scenes less lovely than thine own;
but here
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Thou wilt return, and feel thy home
More dear the Muses' gentler influence;
When on the busy world, with Wisdom's
[awhile."
And heart uninjured, thou hast gazed
PAUL, Sir G. O. Bart. At Hill
House, Rodborough, Gloucestershire,
Dec. 16, 1820. who succeeded his father
Sir Onesiphorus, Sept. 21, 1774. This
worthy Baronet was highly distinguished
by his philanthropic exertions for the re-
form of prisons, and in other concerns of
a patriotic nature. The active part he
took in the regulation of the county
gaol of Gloucester, rendered that prison
an example worthy of being followed in
all similar establishments. He was the
author of the following publications :-
Considerations on the Defects of Prisons,
8vo. 1784. Proceedings of the Grand
Juries, Magistrates, &c. of the county of
Gloucester, for a General Reform of the
Prisons in that County, 8vo. 3d edit.
1.808. Doubts concerning the Expedi-
ency and Propriety of immediately pro-
ceeding to provide a Lunatic Asylum for
the County of Gloucester, 8vo. 1813.
Sir G. O. Paul also contributed some
communications to the Transactions of
the Society for the Encouragement of
Agriculture.

PERIGORD, Cardinal, Abp. of Paris,
Oct. 20, 1820, in his 85th y From

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