Viscount Kingsland. His second wife was Mary Anne, eldest daughter of John Bradshaw, of Cork, esq.; and he married thirdly, Jan. 2, 1820, Julia, daughter of John Willis, of Walcot-place, Lambeth, esq.

ADM. SIR HERBERT SAWYER, K.C.B.

Nov. 13. At Bath, in his 70th year, universally regretted by his family and friends, Sir Herbert Sawyer, K.C.B. Admiral of the White.

This officer was the eldest son of Admiral Herbert Sawyer, of whom the following anecdote has been related:"Captain Sawyer of the Active frigate, and Captain Pownall of the Favorite sloop, paid their addresses at the same time to two sisters, and were favourably received by them; but their father, a merchant of immense property at Lisbon, although sensible of their personal merit, objected to their want of fortune, and desired that they would discontinue their courtship until their circumstances were much improved; which was shortly the case, by the prize money gained by the capture of the Hermione, a Spanish register ship, in 1762. Soon after, the earthquake happened at Lisbon, and deprived the merchant of all his property. The generous Captains, immediately on hearing it, repaired to that place, where yielding to the full and noble gratification of love and friendship, they settled an annuity on the father, and married his daughters."

Sir Herbert Sawyer served under his father during the war with our TransAtlantic colonies, at the conclusion of which he commanded the Porcupine sloop, at Jamaica. His commission as a Post-Captain bore date Feb. 3, 1789, and in the following year he commanded the Pegasus of 28 guns, on the Newfoundland station. At the commencement of the contest with France, in 1793, he commissioned the Amphion frigate; from which he removed about the year 1795, into the Nassau of 64 guns, and cruized in ber on the coast of Ireland, and with the North Sea fleet, until the autumn of 1797, when he was appointed to the Saturn, 74, attached to the Western squadron. In the spring of 1799, he succeeded Sir Henry Trollope in the command of the Russell, also a third-rate, and continued in that ship till the beginning of 1801, when he joined the Juste, of 80 guns, and accompanied Sir Robert Calder to the West Indies, in pursuit of a French squadron that had escaped from Brest, but which instead of crossing the Atlantic had proceeded up the Mediterranean.

Subsequently to his return to England,

Captain Sawyer was appointed to superintend the payments of the ships at Plymouth, where he remained until advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral, Oct. 2, 1807. About the month of May, 1810, he hoisted his flag as second in command at Portsmouth; and on the 31st of July, 1810, was promoted to the rank of ViceAdmiral. Towards the latter end of that year he proceeded in the Africa of 64 guns, to the Halifax station, where he held the chief command for nearly three years.

Towards the latter end of 1813, ViceAdmiral Sawyer hoisted his flag as Commander-in-Chief at Cork; and on the 2d Jan. 1815, he was nominated a K. C.B. He has left a son, a Lieutenant in the Navy.

VICE-ADM. STIRLING.

Nov. 7. At his residence, Woburn Farm, near Chertsey, aged 73, Charles Stirling, esq. the senior Vice-Admiral of the White, and F.R.S.; brother to Sir Charles Stirling, Bart. F.R.S.

He was the youngest son of Sir Walter Stirling, Knt. Capt. R. N. by Dorothy, daughter of Charles Willing, esq. of Philadelphia. After passing through the intervening ranks of the naval service, he was promoted to that of Commander; and on the 6th Sept. 1781, being on a cruize off Charlestown in the Savage, of 14 guns and 125 men, fell in with and maintained a spirited action with the Congress, American privateer, of 20 guns, and 215 men. Captain Stirling did not surrender his ship until his mizenmast was shot away, the main-mast tottering, several of the guns rendered useless, 8 men killed, himself, a Lieutenant, 3 Midshipmen, and 12 of the crew wounded. The enemy's loss amounted to 11 men slain, and 30 wounded. For his gallantry in the above action, our officer was made a Post-Captain, by commission, dated Jan. 15, 1783, and appointed to the Unicorn, of 20 guns, stationed in the West Indies. Some time after the commencement of the war with republican France, he commanded the Venus frigate, and subsequently the Jason, of 44 guns and 281 men, employed in the Channel, The latter frigate formed part of the expedition to Quiberon, under Sir John Borlase Warren, in the summer of 1795.

On the 29th June, 1798, being in company with the Pique and Mermaid frigates, they gave chase and captured la Seine, a large frigate of 42 guns, though the Pique was, unfortunately, lost during the contest from running a-ground. Captain Stirling was again wounded on this occasion.

On the 11th Oct. in the same year, the

Jason being in pursuit of a French convoy near Brest, struck upon a rock with such force, as to baffle every exertion of her officers and men to get her off; she in consequence soon filled: the crew got on shore, and surrendered themselves prisoners of war, excepting 6, whom Captain Stirling permitted to take a boat, by which means they effected their escape, and arrived safe at Plymouth on the 15th. During the time Captain Stirling commanded the Jason, he captured the following French privateers:-La Marie, 14 guns, 60 men; la Coureur, 24 guns, 150 men; la Bonne Citoyenne, 12 guns, 65 men; and l'Arrogante, 6 guns, number of men not known.

In the month of Feb. 1799, our officer was appointed to the Pompée, of 80 guns, which ship he commanded in the battle off Algesiras, July 6, 1801. This action was not of the most fortunate stamp; but the failure was attributable to causes which no prudence could foresee, and which no valour could control.

Captain Stirling placed the Pompée with great judgment abreast of the inner ship of the enemy, bearing the Admiral's flag; and such was the effect of his fire, that she was nearly silenced, when a sudden flaw of wind broke the Pompée's sheer, and from that moment she was able to bring but a very few of her guns to bear. The Pompée returned to England at the latter end of the same year, and was paid off at Plymouth in the month of Feb. 1802.

Soon after the renewal of the war, in 1803, the subject of this memoir was appointed Resident Commissioner at Jamaica, where he remained until advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral, April 23, 1804.

In the summer of 1805, Rear-Admi ral Stirling, with his flag in the Glory of 98 guns, assumed the command of the squadron stationed off Rochefort; from whence he was despatched by Admiral Cornwallis to reinforce Sir Robert Calder, then cruising to intercept the French and Spanish squadrons on their return from the West Indies. He formed a junction with the Vice-Admiral July 15; and on the 22d, an engagement took place between the hostile fleets, which ended in the capture of two Spanish line-of-battle ships. The success would probably have been greater but for the prevalence of a thick fog. Sir Robert Calder was censured by a court-martial for this imperfect

success.

In 1806, Rear-Admiral Stirling was appointed to the command of a squadron in the Rio de la Plata. And on the 16th of April, 1807, on the motion of Lord Mulgrave, the thanks of the House of

Lords were voted to Rear-Admiral Stirling, and to the officers, seamen, and marines under his command, for their services at the capture of Monte Video; and the same day, in the House of Com.. mons, on the motion of Lord Castlereagh, a resolution was passed, acknowledging and highly approving the diligence and skill manifested by the Rear-Admiral, in landing the troops, &c. Lieut.-General Whitelocke, the military commander on this unfortunate expedition, was soon after cashiered.

On leaving South America, RearAdmiral Stirling proceeded to the Cape of Good Hope, to the command on which station he had been previously appointed. He was advanced to the rank of ViceAdmiral, July 31st, 1810; and on the 10th of the following month received the Freedom of the Goldsmiths' Company, unanimously voted to him for his important public services. Toward the latter end of the year 1811, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief at Jamaica; but, in consequence of certain representations made to the Admiralty, an order was sent for his return from that station long before the usual period; and in May, 1814, he was tried by a courtmartial at Portsmouth, on the charge of having received 2000 dollars for the convoy of a schooner that was to sail under the protection of the Sappho sloop of The court agreed,―That the charge had been in part proved against ViceAdmiral Stirling, and did adjudge him to remain on the half-pay list of ViceAdmirals of the Royal Navy, and not to be included in any future promotion.

war.

Admiral Stirling married Charlotte, second daughter of Andrew Grote, esq. banker in London.

JAMES BROUGHAM, ESQ. M.P. Dec. 22. At Brougham Hall, Westmoreland, aged 53, James Brougham, esq. M. P. for Kendal; brother to the Lord Chancellor.

He was the second son of Henry Brougham, esq. by Eleanor, daughter of Rev. James Syme, D. D. and niece to Dr. Robertson, the historian of Scotland.

He had sat in Parliament from the year 1829, having been elected in that year for the borough of Tregony, in 1830 for Downton, in 1831 for Winchelsea, and in 1832 for Kendal. He held two offices, granted in 1852-namely, Registrar of Affidavits, salary 1,7007.; Clerk of Letters Patent, salary 7501.;-total 2,450. Duty performed by deputy.

Mr. James Brougham was highly respected for his good sense and intelligence, and amiable manners, by those who had the pleasure of his acquaintance; and,

although he seldom spoke in Parliament, was far from being inactive as a public man. In the various contests for the representation of Westmoreland, there was no man whose efforts were more vigorous and effectual than his; and he was exceedingly popular with the yeomanry of that county. His remains were interred on the 28th Dec. in the family vault at Skelton, Cumberland. The funeral

was strictly private, being attended only by the Lord Chancellor and Mr. Brougham, M.P. for Southwark, his sole surviving brothers.

DR. WOODHOUSE, DEAN OF LICHFIELD.

Nov. 17. At the Deanery, Lichfield, in his 85th year, the Very Rev. John Chappel Woodhouse, D. D. Dean of that cathedral, Rector of Donnington, Shropshire, and of Stoke upon Trent, Staffordshire.

Dr. Woodhouse was formerly a member of Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated M. A. 1773, B. and D.D. 1807. He was presented to the Rectory of Donnington in 1773 by Earl Gower (the first Marquis of Stafford). He afterwards became Residentiary of Lichfield; and in 1807 Archdeacon of Salop. He was presented to the Rectory of Stoke upon Trent by the Dean and Chapter in 1814. In 1806 he published "The Apocalypse, or Revelation of St. John, a new translation, with Notes ;" in 1808, a Sermon preached at the annual meeting of the Charity Children in St. Paul's; and in 1814 a Sermon preached at the parish church of Walsall. Another vo lume of Annotations on the Apocalypse was a still more recent production.

In youth, through manhood, and up to the limits of an extreme old age, the late Dean of Lichfield lived an example of cheerfulness, benevolence, and, above all, of piety, the radiating source of all his good qualities and of their practical development.

His person was tall, graceful, and dig nified, and his countenance a fit representative of the heavenly mind which animated it. His manners were elegant, gentle, and unobtrusive: and to all who had communication with him, they carried a conviction that their possessor had "good will towards men." Yet he could be firm when justice required it; and, if necessity demanded, could assume a loftiness which commanded respect. In the relations of domestic life, all his public virtues met in concentration.

To his friends at large (whom he selected cautiously by reason rather than by impulse, and to whom he was attached by the bonds of religion rather than by

those of mere human feeling he was always their best friend-whether in advancing their worldly or their religious interests, or in assisting them out of their earthly or moral difficulties. As a Theologian he was most learned and most discreet, and no bad authority pronounced that his work on the Apocalypse is the most original, and the most true, that any commentator on that mysterious book has yet produced. The errors of the splendid Michaelis were gently but perfectly removed; and his translator, Dr. Marsh, acknowledged with the candour ever attending Christian learning, that it was so.

Dean Woodhouse presented to the cathedral of Lichfield the painted glass of the north transept window, representing nine of the most remarkable benefactors to the Church.

His death took place after an illness of only eight days. He was on horseback a fortnight before, when, it is supposed, he took cold, by which, added to his extreme old age, his frame became exhausted. His funeral took place Nov. 23; and, in conformity with his wish, was as plain as was consistent with the dignity and rank he held in the Church. The ceremony was attended by the Bishop of the Diocese, the Ven. Archdeacons Hodson and Hamilton, by the latter of whom the service was read; the Rev. Chancellor Law, the Rev. Canons Newling and Madan, and by all the other officials of the Cathedral. Among the Parochial Clergy who attended were, the Rev. T. Levett, Rev. T. G. Parr, Rev. Dr. Harwood, Rev. H. G. Lonsdale, and others. H. D. Acland, esq. son-inlaw to the lamented Dean, was Chief Mourner, and was supported by two grandsons of the deceased. The bells of all the churches in the city were tolled, and the shops all closed.

Dr. Woodhouse had one son, Chappel Woodhouse, esq, who died Feb. 8, 1815, in the 35th year of his age, having married in 1812 Amelia, youngest daughter of Sir Charles Oakeley, Bart. by whom he left two children.

REV. JOHN INGLIS, D. D.

Jan. 2. At Edinburgh, aged 71, the Rev. John Inglis, D. D. Dean of the Chapel Royal, and of the order of the Thistle, and one of the Ministers of the Greyfriars' church.

Dr. Inglis was a native of Perthshire. In 1796 he was translated from the parish of Tibbermuir to the Old Greyfriars' church in Edinburgh, where he became the colleague of Dr. Erskine and the successor of the celebrated Principal Robertson. For nearly thirty years he was

the leader of the Presbytery of Edinburgh; and though he differed in church politics from what is called the popular party, he lived with all on terms of the most affectionate kindness and cordiality. As a preacher he was strictly Calvinistic; his discourses were occasionally too intellectual for an ordinary congregation.

In 1804 he was chosen Moderator of the General Assembly, the highest honour which the Presbyterian Church has to bestow. In 18. . he was appointed one of the Deans of the Chapel Royal.

His work on the Evidences of Christianity, and his Treatise in defence of Ecclesiastical Establishments, recently published, are exquisite specimens of candid reasoning and unanswerable argument.

His remains were interred in the New Calton Burying ground on the 10th Jan. There were twenty mourning coaches, and about the same number of private coaches. The students of divinity and preachers of the gospel assembled in the college area about one o'clock, and joined the procession as it passed.

REV. DR. BUCHANAN. Dec. 31. At Woodmansterne, Surrey, aged 84, the Rev. Gilbert Buchanan, LL.D. Rector of that parish, and Vicar of Northfleet in Kent.

He was the son of an eminent American merchant, and early destined to the same walk in life. The ruinous effect of the American war diverted him from the pursuit of commerce, and inclined him to the church. Through the patronage of Mr. Pitt he was presented in 1784 to the rectory of Woodmansterne, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, and in 1796 to the vicarage of Northfleet, in the patronage of the King. He graduated at Cambridge as a member of Queen's college, LL.B. 1789, LL.D. 1806. The affection with which he was regarded by his former associates, induced him to accept of the Chaplaincy of the London Light Horse volunteers, of which corps he had been an efficient member at the time of the riots of 1780, and with which he made a point of passing muster whenever it was reviewed.

The ministry to which he was called, was not, however, by any means an object of divided attachment. Beyond the circle of his pastoral charge, that attachment appeared in the laborious collation of the printed copies of the Common Prayer with the Sealed Book in the Tower, from which authorized standard, it is remarkable that not a single edition of the Liturgy was ever printed, until he undertook to superintend one for his friend the. late Mr. Strahan, The earliest signature

of "Clericus Surriensis" to several papers in the Gentleman's Magazine, on points of professional interest, is also understood to have been Dr. Buchanan's.

He was for many years a magistrate for the County of Surrey, and acted as chairman of the Bench at Croydon. To those who delighted in decrying clerical justice, the Doctor supplied ample occasion; for he was certainly apt to get into hot water; but they who had the candour, and would trouble themselves to examine further, invariably found that the principle was generous, if the proceeding was not always well weighed. He would willingly have righted every man, and have suffered none, how humble soever, to be overborne; and the world is apt to class all such as Quixot, to say nothing of the individuals who may be thwarted in their design to wrong and to overbear, and to whom such interposition is a sufficient cause for malignity and slander. All such occasions of irritation Dr. Buchanan had however long outlived. Unhappily, however, he was destined also to outlive many of his children, who sunk to their graves within the last few years. He married a Miss Read, by whom his only surviving issue is one son John, and one daughter, the lady of John Taylor Coleridge, Esq. His eldest son, was an officer of Engineers, and by a daughter of Gen. Smith, left a numerous family; his second son was in the Navy. His deceased daughter was married to Mr. Wollaston, merchant, of London.

THOMAS MILLS, ESQ.

Jan. 5. At Great Saxham Hall, Suffolk, in his 85th year, Thomas Mills, esq. a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieut. for the County.

Few men answered more correctly to the definition of an English country gentleman. Constantly residing upon his estate at Saxham, his attention was devoted to its improvement, and the welfare and comfort of his numerous dependants. In 1798 he rebuilt the church, of which he was the patron, at his own expense, in the windows of which are the family arms, &c. together with some good specimens of antient painted glass, brought from Switzerland in 1816. He served the office of High Sheriff for the county in the year 1807.

On the night of his decease he retired to bed in apparently good health, and in the morning it was found that his was the sleep of death; dying as he had lived, beloved and respected by all who knew him.

He married Susanna, eldest daughter and coheiress of Christopher Harris, esq. of Belle Vue, Devon, by whom he had seven children. I. William, married Clara

Jane, daughter of the Rev. Richard Huntley, of Boxwell Court, Gloucestershire. 2. Susanna, married to John William Hicks, esq. 3. Christopher John, married first Harriet, daughter of John Butts, esq. of Kensington; secondly, Jemima, daughter and coheiress of James Hatch, esq. of Clayberry Hall, Essex. 4. Elizabeth, died unmarried. 5. MaryAnne, married to Edward Harman, esq. of Clay Hill, Enfield. 6. Thomas, in holy orders, Rector of Great Saxham and Stutton, Suffolk, and Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty; he has married Ann, daughter of Nathaniel Barnardiston, esq. of the Ryes Lodge; and 7. Julia, married to the Rev. Arthur J. Carrighan, Rector of Barrow, Suffolk.

GEORGE WILLIAMS, M.D.

It was wont to be the peculiar praise of the English physician that he combined in his person, not only the qualifications necessary for the successful practice of physic, but those which give dignity to his professional, and respectability to his private character; he was distinguished by large attainments as a scholar, by sound religious principles as a Christian, by practical worth and virtue as a good member of society, and by polished manners as a well-bred gentleman. Instances are no doubt to be found in the annals of ancient as well as modern practice, in which some of these characteristics are wanting; but then the deficiencies are always felt and perceived, censured and regretted, not simply by reason of the deformity thereby brought upon the character and conduct of the individual, but because they are departures from an established usage, violations of a general rule, and disappointments of a well-grounded expectation.

Without referring to the pages of Medical Biography, or appealing to the lives of the Fellows of the College from Lin. acre and Caius to Freind, Heberden, and Halford, enough will be found for the illustration of these remarks in the virtues, talents, and attainments of George Williams, M.D. deceased, late Fellow of Corpus Christi College, in the University of Oxford, Regius Professor of Botany, Keeper of the Radcliffe Library, and one of the Delegates of the University Press, who died at his residence in the High Street, Oxford, on the 17th of January.

The ancient qualifications of an English Academic Physician cannot be better exemplified than by a reference to the classical scholarship, and extensive and exact erudition, which were combined with his professional knowledge, to his Christian principles and practical goodness, his moral habits and gentlemanly

manners.

Dr. George Williams was the son of an able and excellent clergyman, beneficed in Hampshire, the author of a very valuable little work, entitled "Education of Children and young Students in all its branches, with a short Catalogue of the best books in Polite Learning, and the Sciences, and an Appendix concerning the usefulness of Natural Philosophy to Divinity, taken out of the celebrated writers on that subject." It is a work which shows great soundness of judgment, most extensive information, much diligence in the selection, and an equal skilfulness in the distribution of its materials.

When the son of this literary and philo sophical divine was admitted upon the foundation at Winchester, his repetitions of the verses of the Iliad excited no small surprise, till it was discovered that his natural abilities had been diligently cultivated, and his powers of memory exercised and strengthened by his father's assiduity. From Winchester, at a very early age, and after the usual severities of examination, he was elected to a Hampshire scholarship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Having passed through Arts, according to the academic phrase, that is, having finished his studies in general literature and science, he confined his attention to the study of physic, and entered his name as physician's pupil at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1788 he was. admitted to the degrees of M.B. and M.D.; he then became a Fellow of the College of Physicians, but continued to discharge various important duties within the walls of Corpus Christi College, as a Resident Fellow, practising at the same time as a physician in the University and City of Oxford. In 1789 he was elected one of the physicians of the Radcliffe Infirmary. In 1796, on the death of Dr. Sibthorpe, he was elected by the Fellows of the College of Physicians, according to the terms and conditions of Dr. Sherard's benefaction, Sherardian Professor of Botany, to which appointment is annexed the Regius Professorship in that science-for this office he was well prepared by the previous attention which he had given to this branch of natural science, and on which he lectured with the greatest exactness of demonstration, a singular facility and perspicuity of language, and an earnest desire to promote the study of botany in the University. But he found it difficult to remove the impediments thrown in the way of this and all other studies in physiology, by reason of the necessity imposed upon the academic youth to prepare themselves for biblical, classical, and mathematical examinations, and more particularly by the prevailing practice of quitting the Uni