regiment of cavalry, and employed in Oude against the rebels whom Vizier Ally had stirred up. In October of the following year he commanded the escort which, at considerable risk, conveyed Vizier Ally prisoner from Jeypoor through the Mahratta territory to the For this British camp at Futtehgurh. service he received the public thanks of the Marquis Wellesley.

He attained the rank of Major in 1800, and of Lieut.- Colonel in 1802; and on the latter promotion was posted to the second cavalry, which he commanded under Lord Lake during his first campaign, and in the second campaign had the command of a brigade. Under the walls of Deeg he commanded a brigade with Major-Gen. Fraser, who was mortally wounded in the action.

In 1807 Lieut.- Col. Brown was removed to the command of his former regiment, the 1st cavalry; and in 1809 he joined the force assembled at Bundlecund, to oppose Meer Khan. In the following year he was detached to oppose a popular marauding chieftain, named Gopal Sing, and spent nearly two years in pursuing and harassing that active leader, whose forces, whenever Colonel Brown attempted to draw them together, were dispersed. At last Gopal Sing was so wearied out with Col. Brown's incessant pursuit, that he came and surrendered bimself to the Governor-general's agent. Col. Brown received repeatedly the thanks of government for his judgment and exertions in this very fatiguing and difficult service; and the Court of Directors afterwards expressed their high approbation in a letter which was published in general orders.

He received the rank of Colonel in 1811, and at the siege of Callinger, in Jan. 1812, he commanded a covering force. After the place surrendered, his regiment was sent to Muttra, where Col. Brown commanded; and in the same year he was appointed to the government command of the Muttra and Agra frontier, which he held until his embarkation for Europe at the end of 1814. During this time he was appointed second in command under Major-Gen. Marshall, of a force assembled against the Rajah of Alwarand. was promoted to the rank of Major-General June 4, 1814.

He

In May 1816, after a visit to Europe, Major-Gen. Brown returned to Bengal, and was immediately placed on the staff, and appointed to command a division of the army in the field. At the siege of Hatras in Feb. 1817 he commanded the cavalry ; and in Oct. 1817, when the Marquess of Hastings took the field

against the Pindarries, he was appointed to command the centre division of the grand army, with which his Lordship fixed his head quarters. From this situation he was selected to command a light force, chiefly of cavalry, with which he was detached to the westward. In Jan. 1818 he successively took the towns of Rampoorah and Jawnd by assault. The latter achievement was of most essential service; as it deterred many of the native chiefs who were inclined to be trimmers, from secretly favouring the Pindarries. Lord Hastings thanked Gen. Brown in public orders for his services in this detached command; and soon after, the campaign in that quarter being over, the centre division of the grand army was broken up, and Major-Gen. Brown returned to command the Caunpoor division of the army. He subsequently commanded the Dinapoor division. In 1822 he returned to England; since which period he had been promoted to the rank of Lieut.General; and on the 26th July 1823 was nominated a Knight Commander of the Bath.

COLONEL HICKS, C.B.

April 18. At the Abbey house, Malvern, Colonel John Hicks, C.B. late of the 32nd foot.

He entered the army by purchasing an ensigncy in that regiment in Feb. 1786; joined at Gibraltar, and served there until 1788, when he was sent on the recruiting service to England. In Nov. 1789 he purchased a Lieutenancy, and in 1791 he re-joined at Gibraltar. In 1793 he was again ordered to England on the same service as before, and in 1794 he joined the regiment at Jersey. In Feb. 1795 he purchased his company; and in Feb. 1796 embarked for the West Indies, and served at St. Domingo and New Providence. In 1799 the regiment returned, and in 1801 went to Ireland. In 1804, being promoted to a majority, he joined the second battalion of his corps, then forming at Launceston. He was afterwards in Guernsey and Ireland, until, in June 1811, having received the brevet of Lieut.Colonel, he sailed with the regiment for the Peninsula. He was present at the investment of Ciudad Rodrigo, the battle of Salamanca, and siege of Burgos. In 1813 he commanded the regiment at part of the battle of Pampeluna, and on the 28th July, at the battle of the Pyrenees, Lt. Col. Wood being mortally wounded, the command of the regiment devolved upon this officer, who, with four companies of it, drove the enemy from an advantageous position they had taken on the river Lanz, his horse being wounded

under him. Two days after, he led the regiment when it was ordered to drive the enemy from the village of Sorausen, which it immediately accomplished, and for that service Lieut. Col. Hicks received a medal. On the 10th Nov. he commanded the regiment at the battle of Nivelle, where he had his horse again wounded under him; and for his service on that occasion he received a clasp. In Dec. 1813 he again commanded it at the battle of the Nive; and in Feb. 1814 at the battle of Orthes. On the peace he sailed with the regiment from Pouillac, near Bourdeaux, to Ireland.

At the latter end of April 1815, the regiment under his command embarked for the Netherlands, and he had the honour of commanding it at the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo, in both of which it was actively engaged from the commencement to the end, charging the enemy several times, and uniformly with success; and when the 32nd regiment made their last charge, late on the evening of the 18th, it completely routed the French, who never rallied again. On these two days Lt. Col. Hicks's horse was five times wounded under him; twice on the 16th, and three times on the 18th; several balls also passed through his coat, and one grazed his forehead.

He afterwards commanded the regiment on the advance of the army to Paris; where Lieut.-Colonel Hicks was appointed by the Duke of Wellington one of the commandants of the city, and he held that appointment until the treaty of peace on the 20th Nov. 1815.

For commanding the 32nd regiment in the four general actions of the Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, and Orthes, Lt.-Col. Hicks received a cross, and was nominated a Companion of the Bath; and for the battle of Waterloo he received the order of the second class of St. Anne of Russia. He attained the brevet rank of Colonel in 1825; and shortly after retired from the majority of the 32nd regiment and sold his commission, with permission to retain his rank.

He entered the Royal Navy in 1778, on board the Prince of Wales, bearing the flag of Rear-Adm. Barrington, and shortly after proceeded to the West Indies, where, on his arrival, he joined the Boreas 28, commanded by Capt. Sir Charles Thompson, in which he saw much active service.

On the 7th of May 1780, he joined the Sandwich, bearing the flag of Sir G. B. Rodney. In July following he was appointed acting Lieutenant of the Magnificent 74, which was soon after ordered to convoy a valuable fleet from Jamaica to England. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in 1781.

In March, 1783, he was appointed to the Iphigenia, commanded by Capt. James Cornwallis, and employed on the Jamaica station. During the Dutch armament, in 1787, Lieut. Daniel was employed in raising men for the fleet in the Thames ; after which, he remained on half-pay until 1790, when he was appointed to the Illustrious, 74. His next appointment was to the Courageux, 74, in which ship he assisted in the occupation of Toulon, by the forces under Lord Hood, and had one of his legs broken, and received three contusions in his head, breast, and left foot, when engaging the batteries near St. Fiorenzo.

Whilst at Gibraltar, he became seriously ill, and returned to England, in the Colossus, 74, in 1794. A vacancy occurring, at this time, in the Impress Service, at Gravesend, he was induced to accept an appointment under bis father, who was then employed as regulating Captain at that place.

During the mutiny in the North Sea fleet, Lieut. Daniel's conduct was con. spicuous for zeal, activity, and daring behaviour, which was particularly noticed by the court martial which tried the mutineers, who strongly recommended him, through his Royal Highness the Duke of York, for promotion, but it was refused, on the ground that his appointment at Gravesend rendered him ineligible.

Lieut. Daniel immediately applied for employment afloat, and he was accordingly appointed to the Glory, 98, on board of which ship, the spirit of disaffection, though apparently quelled, was by no means eradicated. When cruising off Ushant, a diabolical plan had been formed to throw all the officers overboard, and to take the Glory into Brest harbour; Lieut. Daniel's conduct on that occasion was prompt and spirited, and when a court martial had taken place on the mutineers, the Court strongly recommended him to the favourable consideration of the Admiralty, and he was accordingly promoted to the rank of Commander, in Oct. 1798,

Five seamen and three marines, belonging to the Glory, were executed in Cawsand Bay.

In June 1799 Capt. Daniel accompanied Sir Home Popham on a particular service, and proceeded to Revel, where they found a Russian squadron, with 8,000 troops, bound to Holland; and proceeded with them to the Texel. During the two ensuing months, Capt. D. served on shore, as naval aide-de-camp to Lieut.- Gen. Sir Ralph Abercromby, and was employed in a variety of services. On the 29th Nov. 1799, just seven days after his arrival in England, he was again ordered to place himself under the direction of Sir Home Popham, and proceeded to Norway, Sweden, and St. Petersburgh, at an inclement season of the year, experiencing great hardships and peril; he returned to England in June, 1800. His promotion to Captain took place April 29, 1802; and to that of retired Rear-Admiral, Jan. 10, 1837. He married in Sept. 1800, Miss A. Edge, dau. of Capt. Edge, of the 53rd regt. by whom he had three sons and three daughters. Rear-Adm. Daniel was an officer of great merit and bravery; a gentleman of mild and amiable manners; and has died universally regretted by a numerous circle of friends and acquaintances.

[A longer memoir of this officer's services will be found in Marshall's Royal Naval Biography, vol. ii. pp. 656—665.]

REAR-ADM. HAYES.

April 7. At Southsea, aged 71, RearAdmiral John Hayes, C.B.

He was educated under the superinten.. dance of his great-uncle, Adam Hayes, esq. Master Shipwright of Deptford dockyard, who was to bring him up to his own branch of the public service; but on the death of the old gentleman he preferred more active employment, and embarked on board the Orion 74, commanded by Sir Hyde Parker, under whom he served during the Dutch armament in 1787. He subsequently joined a brig under the command of Capt. Cobb, with whom he continued on the Channel station, until 1790; when he was entrusted with the charge of a watch on board the Pearl, commanded by his friend Capt. G. W. A. Courtenay, whom he ultimately accompanied to the Newfoundland station, as an acting Lieutenant in the Boston 32. In an action with l'Ambuscade French frigate near New York, July 31, 1793, Capt. Courtenay was killed; and Mr. Hayes returned to England, having been appointed one of the Captain's executors. In consequence of the gallantry displayed in the battle (though the Frenchman was

not taken) a pension of 500l. was settled upon the widow, and the Board of Admiralty granted a dispensing order, enabling Mr. Hayes to anticipate the usual time of passing for Lieutenant. In the following month he received a commission in the Dido 28, commanded by Sir Charles Hamilton, Bart. with whom he afterwards removed into the St. Fiorenzo frigate, on the Mediterranean station. His next appointment was to the Brunswick 74, in which he served in the Channel fleet, and subsequently went to the West Indies, and joined the Queen, the flag-ship of Sir Hyde Parker, who promoted him to the rank of Commander in 1799. From that period he was actively employed in various sloops of war on the Jamaica station, till his advancement to post rank in 1804.

In Jan. 1809 he commanded a small squadron left by Sir Samuel Hood at Vigo, to cover the embarkation of part of Sir John Moore's army; and on his return from that service he was removed from the Alfred 74, in which he had been acting, to the temporary command of the Achille, attached to the expedition then about to sail for the Scheldt, from whence he brought home 700 French soldiers who had been taken prisoners at Flushing. Immediately on his return, he obtained the command of the Freija, as a reward for his zealous conduct in having volunteered and successfully accomplished the task of navigating the Achille to and from the Roompot, when a pilot could not be procured, though he had never before been on the North Sea station.

At the close of the same year, Captain Hayes proceeded to Barbadoes, and joined the flag of Sir Alexander Cochrane, who entrusted him with the command of a squadron employed on the north side of Guadaloupe, during the operations which terminated in the surrender of that colony. In Sept. 1810 the Freija returned home, and was put out of commission.

After remaining on half-pay until the autumn of 1812, Capt. Hayes was appointed pro temp. to the Magnificent 74, in which his excellent seamanship was again displayed in the preservation of that fine ship and 500 men from the most imminent peril when she found herself among the reefs off the Isle of Rhé, during a heavy gale on the 17th December follow. ing.

On returning to port, Captain Hayes proposed the cutting down of some ships of the line, and fitting them out for the purpose of coping with the heavy American frigates. His plan being approved, he was appointed, in Jan. 1813, to the Majestic, a third-rate, crdered to be re

duced, and armed, according to his suggestion, with twenty-eight long 32-poun. ders, the same number of 42-pr. carronades, and one long 12, as a chase gun. He joined the squadron of Sir J. B. Warren, on the Halifax station, and was charged with the blockade of Boston, in which port the Constitution 44 was then lying, ready for sea. On the 3d Feb. 1814 he captured a French frigate in the vicinity of the Azores, whither he had gone in quest of the American forty-four, which had eluded his vigilance during a snow-storm on the 1st of the preceding month. On the 22d May following, he captured the American letter of marque Dominica, (formerly H. M. schooner of that name); and shortly after he was sent with a small squadron (the Endymion and Pomona frigates) to intercept Commodore Decatur, who was to sail from New York with an armament intended to annoy the British commerce in the East Indies and China seas. After having been repeatedly blown off the coast by gales, he at length, on the 13th Jan. 1815, encountered the President, bearing the Commodore's pendant, and, after a long chase, it was captured by the Endymion. At the termination of the war with America, the Majestic was paid off. Her commander received the insignia of C. B. at the enlargement of the order in 1815.

In April 1819 Capt. Hayes was appointed to superintend the ordinary of Plymouth. He published a pamphlet on Naval Architecture, developing a plan for building a thousand vessels, if required, from a given section, without the variation of a needle's point, reducible from a first-rate ship to a cutter, each possessing powers and advantages of every description, in their respective class. Two vessels were subsequently built, in a royal dockyard, on his projection; one, a cutter of about 160 tons, and the other a sloop of war of 36 guns, the Inconstant, which is pronounced by all who have been on board her to be the finest man of war of her class in the Royal navy. It is now commanded by Capt. D. Pring, on a particular service.

It may be justly stated that Rear-Adm. Hayes was one than whom a better seaman, a braver officer, or more scientific nautical architect, does not belong to his glorious profession. His body was interred at Farlington, Hants.

[Fuller details of his services will be found in Marshall's Royal Naval Biography, vol. ii. pp. 673-683.]

CAPT. PATERSON, R. N. May 18. At Manheim, William Paterson, esq. Capt. R. N. and C. B.

;

He was a son of George Paterson, esq. of Castle Huntley, co. Perth, by the Hon. Anne Gray, youngest daughter of John twelfth Lord Gray, of the kingdom of Scotland. He entered the navy at an early age, under the auspices of Sir Alex. Cochrane; and served as a midshipman on board his patron's flag-ship, the Northumberland 74, at the Leeward Islands he was rapidly promoted to be Lieutenant 1805, Commander 1808, and Post-Captain 1810. At the close of the war, in 1814, he commanded the Myrmidon of 20 guns; on the 25th April 1815 he was appointed to the Eridanus frigate, and on the 6th March, 1816, to the Minden 74, fitting for the flag of Sir Richard King, commander in chief on the East India station. Previously to proceeding thither, Capt. Paterson accompanied Lord Exmouth to Algiers, where the Minden sustained a loss of 7 killed and 37 wounded, on the memorable 27th August 1816. this service he was nominated a Companion of the Bath on the 21st of the following month. The Minden returned home from India, Oct. 16, 1820; and was shortly afterwards put out of commission.

For

In April 1825 he was appointed President of the Civil Court at Newfoundland, for the adjudication of all disputes respecting the Fisheries on the coast of Labrador.

WILLIAM MELLISH, ESQ.

June 8. At his residence in Bishopsgate-street, aged 73, William Mellish, esq. of Bush hill Park, Edmonton, formerly M.P. for Middlesex.

Mr. Mellish was descended from a family seated at Blythe in Nottinghamshire. He was a younger son of William Mellish, esq. formerly Receiver-general of the Customs and Joint Secretary of the Treasury, and the second son of that gentleman by his second wife, Anne, daughter of John Gore, esq. of Bush-hill, Edmon ton, Governor of the Hamburgh Company and M.P. for Grimsby (a son of Sir William Gore, Lord Mayor of London in 1702; see a pedigree of the family of Gore in Clutterbuck's Hertfordshire, vol. i. p. 502). His half-brother Charles Mellish, esq. F.S.A. who was a Commissioner of the Excise, and died in 1796, left issue, which continued the family at Blythe, but that estate was afterwards sold to the late Joshua Walker, esq. The eldest son of his own mother was John Mellish, esq. who was shot by a highwayman on Hounslow-heath, on his return from the royal hunt, in 1798, leaving a daughter, the heiress of his estates in Hertfordshire. We believe the late Dean of Hereford, the Very Rev.

Edward Mellish, was another brother of the member for Middlesex.

Mr. Gore, his maternal grandfather, had three daughters, one of whom died unmarried in 1795, and the eldest, Catharine, was the wife of Joseph Mellish, esq. younger brother of William, and who succeeded Mr. Gore as Governor of the Hamburgh Company and as M. P. for Grimsby, and also resided at Bush-hill Park. He died in 1790. Mrs. William Mellish and Mrs. Joseph Mellish both died in 1794; and after the death of the latter, we presume the estates at Edmonton devolved on the subject of this memoir.

Mr. Mellish was during a long life an eminent merchant of the city of London, and for nearly half a century a Director of the Bank of England. At the general election of 1796 he was returned to Parliament for the borough of Great Grimsby, which had been previously represented by his grandfather and uncle. At the general election of 1802 John-Henry Loft, esq. was returned in his room, but Mr. Mellish recovered his seat by the decision of a Committee in April 1803. He was appointed a Captain of the Bank of England Volunteers, on the formation of that corps, May 26, 1803. At the general election of 1806 he became one of the members for the county of Middlesex; which he continued to represent on the Tory interest, until ejected by Mr. Whitbread in 1820. He was much esteemed for his courtesy and personal worth; and was liberal in his contributions to the charities both of the metropolis and the country. His fine estate at Bush Hill, near Enfield, is inherited by a nephew.

SAMUEL THORNTON, ESQ. July 3. At his house in Brighton, aged 83, Samuel Thornton, esq. F.S.A. late of Clapham Park, Surrey, and M.P. for that county.

He was the eldest son of the celebrated John Thornton, esq. of Clapham, and brother to the late Henry Thornton, esq. M.P. for Southwark, and the late Robert Thornton, esq. M.P. for Colchester. Few men have passed through a long life of greater usefulness and benevolence than Mr. Thornton. He was an active member of parliament during nearly forty years, the greater portion of that time (from 1784 to 1806), the able, zealous, and indefatigable representative for the town of Kingston-upon-Hull, and subsequently for the county of Surrey, from 1807 to

1818.

In 1807 he defeated Lord William

Russell, who had previously sat for Surrey

Mr. Thornton and Mr. Sumner were both new candidates; Lord William's colleague had been Sir John Frederick, Bart.

For the extraordinary period of fiftythree years he was a Director of the Bank of England, in which institution his sagacious and prudent counsels had always great influence. Mr. Thornton was Governor of the Bank in the year 1797, when the famous stoppage of cash payments occurred. He was for many years a Governor of Greenwich Hospital, Governor of the Russian Company, Presi dent of Guy's Hospital, &c. He had not of late years had any connexion with trade, except as head of the two highly respectable firms in Hull-Messrs. Thornton, Watson, and Co. and Messrs. Crosse and Co. His death will be deeply felt, not only by a large and numerous circle of friends, but by the orphan and the widow, to whose necessities his purse was ever open.

G. H. SUMNER, Esq.

June 26. At Hatchlands, near Guildford, aged 77, George Holme Sumner, esq. late M.P. for Surrey, Colonel of the First Royal Surrey Militia, and for forty-five years a magistrate for that county.

Mr. Sumner's great-grandfather was a merchant of Bristol; of whose younger son, the Rev. John Sumner, D.D. Canon of Windsor, and Provost of King's college, Cambridge, the present Bishops of Chester and Winchester are grandsons. His elder son resided at Windsor, and was father of William Brightwell Sumner, esq. who having acquired a fortune in the civil service of the East India Company, purchased the estate of Hatchlands of Adm. Boscawen in 1768, and by Catharine, daughter of John Holme, of Holme hill, co. Cumberland, esq. was father of the gentleman now deceased.

In 1794, on the death of his maternal uncle, Thomas Holme, esq. he inherited the estates of that family; and in consequence assumed the name of Holme before his own, by authority of the royal sign manual.

He was first returned to Parliament, in Nov. 1786, for the borough of Ilchester; at the general election of 1790 he was elected for Guildford; but retired in 1796. In 1806 he was again chosen for that borough; and in 1807 he was elected for Surrey, (see the preceding memoir of