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1834.] OBITUARY.--Col. Wardle.--W.A. Brooke, Esq.--A. Aufrere, Esq. 555

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Union, of which measure he had been a warm advocate. He resided at Ballynahinch in that county; and commanded troop of yeomanry, and a corps of infantry. He was also particularly attached to the sports of the field. But his fame chiefly rests upon his devoted patronage, in his latter days, of those members of the brute creation, which are doomed to suffer in the streets of the Metropolis. In their defence he obtained an Act of Parliament which is known by his name; and, whilst he continued in London, he was indefatigable in bringing before the magistrates cases in which it might be put into execution.

At length, however, in the year 1826, Mr. Martin lost his election for the county he had then represented in six parliaments; and his embarrassed circumstances consequently drove him abroad. His son, Richard Martin, esq. of Ballynahinch, is the present Member for Galwayshire.

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the inquiry terminated with a majority of 278 to 176, in favour of the Duke, yet the objects of faction were sufficiently answered, by the popular clamour which drove his Royal Highness, for a time, from his office. Col. Wardle thereupon acquired a sudden and extraordinary popularity; his portrait was blazoned in every little print shop, medals were struck in his honour; and the sapient corporation of London voted him the freedom of the city, in a box of 100 guineas' value.

Not six months, however, had elapsed before Mrs. Mary Ann Clarke, who had been the prime mover of his proceedings, broke off her acquaintance. An uphol sterer prosecuted him for the expenses of furnishing the lady's house, and he was cast in several hundred pounds damages. By this circumstance his real motives and character were sufficiently exposed. However, he continued for a time to prosecute his military inquiries in the House of Commons; but by degrees the whole business faded away from the public mind, and the principal agent relapsed

into obscurity. It was doubtless convenient for him to retain his seat in Parliament as long as possible, which he did until the dissolution in 1812; but he was not elected a second time. He subsequently employed himself, for a time, in farming near Tunbridge in Kent, but was finally obliged to escape from his creditors by taking flight to the Conti

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W. A. BROOKE, Esq.

July 31. At Benares, in the East Indies, William Augustus Brooke, esq.

This Gentleman went to India in the civil service of the East India Company in the year 1768, and was, at the time of his decease, the oldest servant on the Bengal Establishment. After filling various minor offices he became, about the year 1796, Senior Judge of the Court of Appeal, or Superior Court at Calcutta. In January 1804 he was transferred in the same capacity to Benares, where he continued till his decease. He held the office of Senior or Presiding Judge of the Court of Appeal, in conjunction with tha of agent or representative of the Governor-general in Benares, till March 1829; when he relinquished his duties as a criminal judge, retaining his civil functions only till March 1833. He then wholly resigned his judicial appointments; but continued to reside in Benares, as the Governor-general's agent, till his de

cease.

He was a man profoundly versed in the laws and institutions of the natives of India, and is one of the few instances which have occurred of that complete alienation or expatriation of mind, and indifference to their native country, which has sometimes appeared in persons who have been long resident in India.

ANTHONY AUFRERE, ESQ.

Nov. 29. At Pisa, in his 77th year, Anthony Aufrere, esq. of Old Foulsham Hall, in the county of Norfolk.

He was the eldest son of Anthony Aufrere, esq. of Hoveton Hall, Norfolk, who died in 1814, in his 85th year, having been for more than fifty years an acting magistrate for that county. His mother was Anna, only daughter of John Norris, esq. of Witton in Norfolk, and sister to John Norris, esq. the founder of the Norrisian professorship at Cambridge, and the last male descendant of the antient family of Norris of Speke near Liverpool. Mrs. Aufrere died April 11, 1816, having just entered her 82d year, and a memoir of her will be found in the Gentleman's Magazine, vol. LXXXVI. i. 381.

Early in life Mr. Aufrere acquired a

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taste for German literature, and he translated and published the following works; A Tribute to the memory of Ulric von Hutten, from Goëthe, 1789. Travels through the Kingdom of Naples in 1789, from the German of Salis., 1795. A warning to Britons against French perfidy and cruelty; or, a short account of the treacherous and inhuman conduct of the French officers aud soldiers towards the peasants of Suabia, during the invasion of Germany in 1796, selected from well authenticated German publications, with an Address to the people of Great Britain, by the Translator, 1798.

On the 19th Feb. 1791, Mr. Aufrere married Matilda, youngest daughter of Gen. James Lockhart, * of Lee and Carnwath in North Britain, a Count of the Holy Roman Empire; in consequence of which connection he became the editor of the "Lockhart Letters," in 2 vols. 4to. containing much curious correspondence between the ancestors of that family, and the confidential supporters of the Pretender, previous to and during the Rebellions of 1715 and 1745, which correspondence was locked up for more than half a century, in order that every one concerned in it might be defunct before its publication.

Mr. Aufrere was an excellent modern scholar, and a master of the Italian and French as well as German languages. He was formerly a frequent Correspondent of the Gentleman's Magazine under the signature of Viator A.

By his lady, who survives him, he had one son, and one daughter, the former married to the youngest daughter of the late Mr. Whertman, an opulent merchant of Hamburgh; and the latter, in 1818, to George Barclay, esq. merchant, of New York, son of Colonel Barclay, his Majesty's Commissioner for the American Boundary.

LIEUT.-COL. LEONARD.

Oct. 31. At Lundy Lane, near the falls of Niagara, Lieut.- Colonel Richard Leonard.

He entered the army as an Ensign in the 54th foot, in Dec. 1796, and became Lieutenant in the February following. After serving in Ireland during the rebellion of 1798, he embarked from Southampton, and joined Sir Ralph Abercromby in the Mediterranean. He served the campaign of 1801 in Egypt, and was Assistant Engineer during the

* See an account of this family, now represented in the male line by Sir Charles Lockhart, of Lee and Carnwath, Bart. in Gent. Mag. Aug. 1816.

siege of Alexandria. In 1803 he was appointed Town Major of New Brunswick; and in 1805 he obtained a Company in the New Brunswick regiment, afterwards the 104th foot, and continued to hold both those appointments until 1813, when he resigned the former, on his regiment being ordered to Canada. In April he was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant-general; and in that situation obtained permission to head his company in the attack made on Locket's Harbour on the 29th of May, in which his company suffered severely, and he was himself wounded.

In the campaign of 1814 he was again actively employed. He bore a part in the action of the 25th of July at Lundy's Lane, and was honourably mentioned in Sir Gordon Drummond's despatches of that action. In the assault on Fort Erie, on the 15th of August, he was severely wounded, and disabled from further service in the campaign. He succeeded to the Majority vacated by the death of Lieut.- Col. Drummond, who was killed at Fort Erie, and served with the 104th in Lower Canada until it was disbanded in 1817. He subsequently retired to a small property he had purchased, part of the ground on which the action of Lundy Lane was fought, and there closed his honourable career.

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CAPT. J. R. LAPENOTIERE, R.N. Jan. 26. At Fannyvale, near Liskeard, Cornwall, John Richards Lapenotiere, esq. Capt. R.N.

This officer's great-grandfather, Frederick de la Penotiere, was the son of a French nobleman, but held the rank of Colonel in the English army, and married Bridget, daughter of the Hon. John Fielding, D.D. fifth and youngest son of William third Earl of Denbigh.

Mr. J. R. Lapenotiere was born at Ilfracombe, in 1776, and went first to sea in 1780 with his father Lieut. Fred. Lapenotiere. In 1785, his great-uncle Samuel Salt, esq. M. P. then Deputy Governor of the South Sea Company, being a warm patron of the King George's Sound Company, a new design for carrying on the fur trade on the western shore of America, he went out thither with Mr. Nathaniel Portlock, one of the fellow voyagers of Capt. Cook. The expedition returned there years after, with very indifferent success.

In 1791-3 he again sailed with Lieut. Portlock in the Assistance 110, in the voyage described in Portlock's " Voyage round the World."

In March 1794 he joined the flag-ship of Sir John Jervis, under whom he served at the reduction of the French

West India islands, after which conquests he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, and appointed to command the Berbice schooner. He returned home as first of the Resource frigate.

In 1800 Lieut. Lapenotiere obtained the command of the Joseph hired cutter, in which he was several times engaged with the enemy, near Brest, and when employed in affording protection to the Mediterranean trade. She was paid off in the spring of 1803, and Lieutenant Lapenotiere was soon after appointed to the Pickle schooner, which was attached to Lord Nelson's fleet at Trafalgar. He had the honour of bringing home ViceAdmiral Collingwood's despatches announcing that glorious victory; he was immediately promoted to the rank of Commander, and was presented with a sword of 100 guineas value from the Patriotic Fund at Lloyd's.

In 1806, Capt. Lapenotiere was appointed to the Orestes 16, employed on the North sea until the summer of 1807, when he was attached to the armament sent

against Copenhagen. He was subsequently employed on the Plymouth station, where, besides other captures, he took in 1810 the Loup Garou privateer, of 16 guns, in a very honourable manner. He was advanced to post rank Aug. 1. 1811.

Capt. Lapenotiere was twice married. His first wife was Lucie Rohanna Margaretta Shean, daughter of a gentleman in Brecknockshire, by whom he had four daughters. The eldest surviving daughter is the wife of the Rev. W. Cuthbert, M.A. of Beech Field house, Doncaster. He married secondly, in 1805, Mary Ann, daughter of the late Lieut. John Graves, by whom he had seven children.

[A more extended memoir of Capt. Lapenotiere will be found in Marshall's Royal Naval Biography, Suppl. Part II. pp. 384-390, from which the present has been abridged.]

LIEUT. T. A. WATT, R. N. Lately. In London, Lieut. Thomas Alexander Watt, R.N. formerly Commander of the Cæsar Indiaman.

Lieut. Watt entered the Royal Navy as Midshipman in Nov. 1799 in the Beaver, C. B. Jones, Commander, and was removed by Sir Charles Saxton Bart. who had been an old shipmate of his father's, to join Captain Totly, in the Saturn 74, in which he served in the battle of Copenbagen. He served with Adm. Totly until the death of that officer, on the Leeward Islands station; and then returned to England in the Castor, Capt. R. Peacock, and was paid off in 1802. In 1803 he served in the Seahorse, Capt. the Hon.

C. Boyle, by whom he was often employed in boats, and was wounded at the capture of a convoy, inside of la Vendome; on which occasion he had the honour of being noticed by Lord Nelson, and received a grant from the Patriotic Fund.

In Jan. 1805, when at Jamaica, he was appointed to the Franchise, in the boats of which he was employed on several occasions, particularly at the capture of the schooner El Carmen in 1806. On the Franchise leaving that station he was removed into the Veteran, the flagship, as Acting Lieutenant, and afterwards also, in 1806, to the command of the Gypsey schooner of 6 guns; in which, early in 1807, he captured the Julia, a Spanish schooner of nine guns and 89 men, after an action of two hours and a half, in which more than half of the enemy's crew were killed and wounded. Upon this, Admiral Dacres nominated him Lieutenant of the Pert; but he was not confirmed in that rank until eighteen months after, in the Favourite, in which he remained until the middle of 1810. In August of that year he was appointed to the Undaunted, from which he exchanged in 1813 to the Leviathan, in order to return home to recruit.

On his arrival in England, he heard of the loss of his brother, George Watt, first Lieutenant of the Shannon, in the battle with the Chesapeake; and he had scarcely joined his family, when the news arrived of the death of another brother, Capt. J. E. Watt, commanding the Surinam, and returning from seven years' service in the West Indies. Having thus lost both his brothers, and the former in so memo. rable an action, by a shot from his own ship, while in the act of hauling down the colours of the enemy, Lieut. Watt memorialized the Admiralty for promotion,as was the custom of the service; but received only an appointment as Lieutenant of the Spencer 74, bound to the American station, in which ship he remained until it was paid off at Plymouth in 1815; when, having again applied to the Admiralty for preferment, without effect, he undertook the command of a fine ship trading to the West Indies and South America, in which he made nine voyages from the port of Liverpool, and four to the East Indies from the port of London. afterwards obtained a larger ship in the East India free trade, and made five more voyages in her. During this service he experienced many alternations of good and bad fortune, but the latter prevailed, and left him at last in ill-health, without the means of supporting his numerous family, though he had the gratification of re

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ceiving the highest testimonials from his employers, whom he served for thirteen consecutive years. He has left a widow, the daughter of the celebrated mathematician, Thomas Keith, esq. (preceptor in the sciences to the Princess Charlotte of Wales) and six children, with strong claims upon the country for support.

ALEXANDER MURRAY, D.D. Lately. The Rev. Alexander Murray, D.D. Professor of Oriental Languages in the University of Edinburgh.

Born in obscurity, amidst the bleak mountains of Galloway, Murray rose above all the difficulties of his birth and education; and at an early age he had made great attainments, not only in his own language, but in the dead languages, the knowledge of many of which he had acquired before he went to school. While prosecuting his studies at Edinburgh, he was selected by Mr. Constable to arrange the papers of Bruce the traveller; and before he could begin, he had to acquire a knowledge of various languages and their dialects, which he did with wonderful facility. When a communication came to this country from the court of Abyssinia, the academies of the south failed to give it an interpretation, and they were under the necessity of applying for a translation to the humble minister of Urr. This led to his appointment to the chair of Oriental Languages in Edinburgh, a situation from which he was soon removed by death.

A subscription is now raising for the erection of a monument to his memory; and at a meeting which was lately held at Glasgow for the furtherance of this object, the Rev. Thomas Brown, D.D., who presided, remarked, that "Murray walked, lived, and acted as a man of God, and a candidate for heaven. He was not only a man of profound intellect, but one whose mind was imbued by the spirit of God."

A gentleman present urged the choice of Minnigaff as a site for the contemplated monument, in preference to the sequestered birthplace of the scholar.

THE REV. DANIEL LYSONS, F.S.A. Jan. 3. The Rev. Daniel Lysons, M. A. F.R., A. L., and H. SS.; of Hempsted Court, Gloucestershire.

He was the elder brother of that very able and distinguished antiquary, Samuel Lysons, esq. F.R. S. and S.A. Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London. They were the sons of the Rev. Samuel Lysons, M. A. Rector of Rodmarton in Gloucestershire, who was a younger son of an old family long seated at Hempsted in the same county.

Mr. Lysons was educated at Glou

cester, and afterwards at St. Mary's hall Oxford, where he took the degree of M.A. in 1785. He first appeared as an author in the year 1790, when he published a Sermon preached on the Anniversary of Edward Colston at Bristol. In the same year he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, four years after his distinguished brother. About the same period he served for some time the curacy of Putney; and during his residence there commenced his survey of the Environs of London. In this design he was encouraged by the countenance and approbation of the Earl of Orford (the celebrated Horace Walpole), who complimented him with the appointment of his Chaplain, and to whom he dedicated the "Environs." The first volume was printed in 4to, 1792, the fourth in 1796. It comprises the parishes within a circuit of twelve miles round the metropolis; and in 1800 Mr. Lysons published in a separate volume an historical account of those parishes in Middlesex which were not described in the Environs. A new edition of the Environs was published by Mr. Lysons in 1811; and in the same year he printed "A Supplement to the First Edition," consisting of very impor tant Additions and Corrections. whole forms a work of great value and interest; and the copious extracts from the parochial registers are particularly useful to the biographer and genealogist.

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He afterwards engaged, in conjunction with his brother, in that great undertaking, a Magna Britannia. Of this the first volume was published in 1806, containing Bedfordshire, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire; and it was continued in the alphabetical order of the counties, with material additions to the plan during its progress, as far as Devonshire, which appeared in 1822; but after the death of his brother in 1819, Mr. Daniel Lysons had not sufficient strength to continue this laborious work further, five years having elapsed from the production of Derbyshire to that of Devonshire.

His other publications were a History of the origin and progress of the meeting of the three Choirs of Gloucester, Worcester, and Hereford, 8vo, 1812; and a Sketch of the Life and character of the late C. B. Trye, esq. F. R.S. 4to, 1812. Mr. Trye, an eminent surgeon at Gloucester, was brother-in-law to Mr. Lysons.

On the death of his uncle, Daniel Lysons, M.D. of Bath, in the year 1800 (see Gent Mag. LXX. p. 392) the Rev. Daniel Lysons succeeded to Hempsted Court and the family estates in Gloucestershire. In 1804 he succeeded to the family living of Rodmarton, which he. held until he resigned it in favour of his

son in the course of the last twelve. month.

Mr. Lysons was twice married: first, at Bath, May 12, 1801, to Miss Hardy, eldest daughter of Colonel Hardy. By this lady, who died at Hempsted Court, Jan. 24, 1808, in her 28th year (see Gent. Mag. vol. LXXVIII. p. 94) he had two sons and two daughters. He married secondly July 2, 1813, Josepha, daughter of John Gilbert Cooper, esq. of Thurgarton Priory, Nottinghamshire. His eldest daughter was the second wife of the Rev. John Haygarth, Rector of Upham, Hants, and died in 1833.

WILLIAM SOTHEBY, ESQ., F. R.S. & S. A. Dec. 30. In Lower Grosvenor Street, aged 76, William Sotheby, Esq., F.R.S. and S. A.

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Mr. Sotheby was a gentleman of considerable fortune and a liberal education, and the author of several poetical works, which, although they never rendered him a popular writer, were written with taste and elegance; and obtained for him a considerable reputation, particularly as a close, judicious, and nervous translator. His publications appeared in the following order :-Poems; consisting of a through parts of North and South Wales, sonnets, odes, and an epistle on physiognomy, 4to. 1790. In the first and longest of these poems, the author describes, in blank verse, the most remarkable features of Welch scenery; and in a second edition, which was printed in a splendid style at Bath in 1794, (where the author then resided,) they were illustrated with plates by Alken.

Mr. Sotheby's next production was Oberon, a poem, from the German of Wieland, 1798. This poem is faithfully rendered sentence for sentence, and stanza for stanza, in a style well adapted to metrical romance, not widely different from that of Spenser.

The Battle of the Nile, 1799. This was perhaps the best production drawn forth by that signal and important victory; it possesses much nerve, considerable põetry, and a wide range of detail.

The Siege of Cuzco, 1800.

The Georgics of Virgil, translated into English verse, 1800.

Julian; or the Monks of the Great St. Bernard, a tragedy, as performed at Drury Lane Theatre, 1801. The object of the author in this play was stated to be "to endeavour to strengthen the bond of virtuous affection, by holding forth to public view the miseries attendant on the indulgence of criminal passion."

Poetical Epistle to Sir George Beaumont, on the encouragement of the Bri

tish School of Painting, 1801. In this poem, Mr. Sotheby at once celebrated the patriotic project of Sir George Beaumont, for an exhibition of celebrated pieces of the British school, and paid deserved commendation on our native artists.

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Oberon, or Huon de Bourdeaux, a masque; and Orestes, a tragedy, 1802. Saul," an epic poem, in two parts, 1807. Constance de Castile, a poem, 1810. A Song of Triumph on the Peace, 1814. Tragedies; viz. the Death of Darnley; Ivan; Zamorin and Zama; the Confession; Orestes, 1814. The Monthly Reviewers were very complimentary on these Tragedies, which they considered calculated to replace Mr. Sotheby on the eminence to which he was entitled at his first appearance; and from which he had temporarily fallen, not only from the overwhelming popularity of less classical writers, but also from his own less successful original attempts, particularly his unlucky choice of a sacred subject, in his poem of "Saul." Ivan, a tragedy,altered and adapted for representation, 1816. Ellen, or the Confession, altered and adapted for representation, 1816. These reprints of the two tragedies have many improvements, and in "Ivan" an entirely new scene is introduced.

Mr. Sotheby's translation of the Georgics of Virgil has been already mentioned. It is at once flowing and harmonious, and particularly close to the original. A few years since he republished the Georgics in a Polyglott edition, that is to say, in Latin, German, Spanish, English, Italian, and French and at the same time entered into a calculation to demonstrate that the English is the most concise language.

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His last great work was the translation of Homer. This occupied the latter years of his life, and the most remarkable portions have been frequently read before the Royal Society of Literature.

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time of his death, he had nearly completed an edition of the Iliad and Odyssey, in four volumes octavo, illustrated by the designs of Flaxman; and it is now pub

lished.

Mr. Sotheby was the oldest English poet. His Oberon, from Wieland, is an excellent performance, and his translations of Virgil and Homer rank in the first class of that difficult and rarely successful branch of literature. He was not only an elegant scholar, but a good man, and a kind and liberal benefactor to those who required his pecuniary aid.

Mr. Sotheby was one of the earliest and warmest supporters of the Literary Fund, and was for many years one of the council of that excellent Society. He

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