in this gallant officer, that humanity always dwells in the breast of him who is truly brave; with the little assistance he was enabled to get from England, did he minister by stealth to the alleviation of his fellow sufferers. So great was the interest exerted for him at home, that the English Government offered the exchange of any two French officers of equal rank at that time in England; but it was refused. In the removal from one prison to another, he sometimes made a march of 36 miles a-day on crutches. While we execrate a system of tyranny, we must be just to individuals, and to the sisters of Generals Soucheé and Brémediére he was indebted for many little medicinal remedies, which their sympathy induced them to bestow.

Eminently conspicuous as he was for heroic valour, he was no less so for the milder virtues; and he closed a long and useful life, in firm reliance on that Providence which had been his guide through its dark and stormy paths.

MR. ALDERMAN ATKINS. Oct. 26. At his seat, Halstead Place, Kent, aged 78, Mr. Atkins, esq. one of the Aldermen of the city of London.

Having realised a considerable fortune by attention to commerce, Mr. Atkins first appeared in public life as Member of Parliament for Arundel, at the general election of 1802. He voted for the prosecution of Lord Melville, and generally with the Whigs. He was not in the Parliaments of 1806 and 1807. In 1808 the was elected Alderman of Walbrook Ward, on the death of Thomas Rowcroft, esq. In the following year he served the office of Sheriff, together with the present Sir Matthew Wood; and in 1818 he was Lord Mayor.

At the general election of 1812 he was elected one of the representatives of the City of London; but at the following election, which took place during his Mayoralty, so far had his popularity declined, that on the fifth day (the election lasted seven) he retired from the poll, in which even the late Sir William Curtis was on the same occasion defeated.

Mr. Atkins filled the office of Chief Magistrate in very unpleasant times, but he succeeded in preserving the public peace in a very resolute manner, and at the close of his office was offered a baronetcy in the name of his Sovereign, which he respectfully declined.

In 1826 Mr. Atkins was again returned to Parliament for the borough of Arundel; and he was re-elected in 1830 and 1831, being one of the last two members for that borough, which was half-disfran

chised by the Reform Act. His political opinions had apparently changed from those he held when first a member of the Senate, for he opposed Catholic Emancipation, the repeal of the Test Act, and Parliamentary Reform; and was generally constant to conservative politics.

Alderman Atkins was highly respected for his talents, integrity, and independence as a magistrate. He was particularly attentive to the duties of his office, and for more than thirty years had never been absent from the annual wardmote on St. Thomas's day. He was firm, inflexible, and impartial in the administration of justice, and very strict in regulating the conduct of the marshals and policemen.

His body was interred at Halstead on the 2nd Nov, when all the neighbourhood evinced the utmost respect to his memory.

By his will he has bequeathed the whole of his property to his son and sole executor, John Pelly Atkins, esq. with the exception of the interest of two sums of 10,000l. each, which he gives to his two daughters for life, and after their deaths to their children, if any; if not, the 20,000l. reverts to his son. Property sworn under 90,0007. independent of large freehold estates, together with a very large property in Bermuda: the will, which is short, is dated in 1837.

Mr. J. P. Atkins is the Alderman's only son, and by his first wife; by his second wife Miss Burnaby, daughter of the Rev. Andrew Burnaby, D.D. Archdeacon of Leicester, and Vicar of Greenwich, he has left two daughters, who are both married.

His brother, Mr. Abraham Atkins, married first the sister of Capt. J. N. D'Esterre, who was shot in a duel by Mr. Daniel O'Connell in 1815. She died at Leghorn, and Mr. A. Atkins married secondly a widow lady named Hall.

CAPT. G. W. H. KNIGHT. Nov. 7. At Jordanstown, Perthshire, George William Henry Knight, Esq. a Post Captain R. N.

This officer was the eldest son of the late Sir John Knight, K.C.B. by his first wife. He entered the Navy at an early age, and served for some time under the command of his father, with whom he sailed for the Mediterranean, May 22, 1793, as midshipman on board Lord Hood's flag-ship, the Victory of 100 guns. He was consequently present at the occupation and evacuation of Toulon; likewise at the reduction of St. Fiorenzo, Bastia, and Calvi, in 1794.

On the 13th July, 1795, Mr. Knight witnessed the capture and_destruction of l'Alcide, French 74. In Dec. follow

ing, he was promoted to the Princess Royal 98, bearing the flag of Vice- Ad. miral Robert Linzee, which ship return ed home in Sept. 1796. He then joined the Montague 74, commanded by his father, on the North Sea station, and which formed part of Admiral Duncan's fleet at the battle of Camperdown, on which memorable occasion Mr. Knight received a severe contusion. She was subsequently employed off Cadiz under Lords St. Vincent and Keith.

On the fifth March, 1799, Mr. Knight was appointed a lieutenant of the Montague; and we soon afterwards find him conducting a prize to Gibraltar, where he volunteered his services in a gun-boat, sent with three others to repel an attack made by 17 of the Algeziras flotilla, upon a valuable fleet of merchantmen. After a severe action of nearly two hours, his boat was carried by boarding, and one of her companions sunk; but he had the satisfaction to see all the convoy, except three sail, escape. When exchanged, he was tried by a court-martial, honourably acquitted, and highly complimented on his gallantry and perseverance in maintaining so unequal a conflict. The Montague subsequently followed the enemies' combined fleets up the Mediterranean, and from thence to Brest, off which port Captain Knight remained for some time in command of the in-shore squadron.

On the 12th April, 1800, the Montague brought seven French frigates to action in Berthaume bay; but from their being protected by numerous batteries, was unable to capture either. He was also meritoriously engaged in several boat services.

Lieut. Knight's next appointment was about July 1801, to be first of the Surprise frigate, on the North Sea station, where he continued antil the conclusion of the war.

In April, 1805, he was appointed to the Guerriere 74, armée en flute, bearing his father's flag, at Gibraltar. In the following month, he received an order to act as commander of the Childers brig, and was despatched on a particular mission to the Russian Admiral at Corfu. His subsequent appointments were, Feb. 1806, to the Sea Fencible service in Ireland; April 1810, to be flag-lieutenant to the Prince of Bouillon, at Jersey; and in Sept. same year, to be first of the Dragon 74. He obtained the rank of Commander, Oct. 21, 1810.

On the 21st March, 1812, Captain Knight was nominated to the command of the Romulus 36, armée en flúte, which ship appears to have been successively employed in conveying troops to Lisbon,

Catalonia, and North America. In July, 1813, she assisted at the capture of Portsmouth and Ocracoke islands, on which occasion a beautiful brig mounting 18 long 9-pounders, and a schooner of 10 guns, were taken by the boats of the squadron under Rear-Admiral Cockburn.

The Romulus being put out of commission at Bermuda about Dec. 1813, Captain Knight was then appointed by Sir John B. Warren to command the Surprise 38, in which frigate he visited the Azores, the coast of Africa, the Cape de Verd Isles, and the West Indies; and assisted at the capture of the Yankee wass, American privateer schooner, of 9 guns and 80 men, May 1, 1814. His post commission was confirmed by the Admiralty, on the 7th of the following month.

In July 1815, Captain Knight, then commanding the Falmouth 20, accompanied the Pactolus and Hebrus frigates in an expedition up the Gironde, for the purpose of furnishing the French royalists with arms, &c. and opening a communication with Bourdeaux. After conveying the senior officer's despatches to England, he returned to that river, and remained there for some time in attendance upon the Duke and Duchess of Angoulême.

Captain Knight resigned the command of the Falmouth in Sept. 1815; received an appointment from the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury to the Preventive Water Guard on the Sussex coast, in Dec. 1817; and was placed as InspectorGeneral of the Coast Guard in North Britain, in 1821.

Capt. Knight married, in Aug. 1804, the daughter of John Thomson, of Green Hill, co. Waterford, Ireland, esq. by whom he had issue four sons and three daughters.

MRS. CATHERINE BRANT.

Lately. Aged 78, at the Mohawk Village, on the Grand River, Upper Canada, Catharine Brant, relict of Capt. Joseph Brant, the celebrated leader of the Six Nations.

She was the third wife of the distinguished chief, whose name during the war of the American revolution carried terror into every border hamlet; and was moreover, in her own right by birth, the head of the Great Indian Confederacy of the Six Nations. Hence, on the death of her husband, in 1807, upon her devolved the naming of a successor to the head chieftaincy of the alliance. The post was conferred on her youngest son, the late John Brant, who died of the cholera in 1832. On the decease of this noble fellow, who was the favourite son, she appointed to

the chieftaincy an infant grandchild, the son of Colonel William J. Kerr, of Branthouse, Wellington-square, New York, who married the youngest daughter of Joseph Brant. The chief is a sprightly little fellow, three-quarters Mohawk, and inheriting his white-blood from Sir William Johnson, of whom he is the great-grandson. Mrs. Brant, the deceased, was a true Mohawk. She was very handsome when young, and was married to Capt. Joseph Brant, at Niagara, in the spring of 1780. When the old chief visited England the first time, in 1775-6, having resolved to take up the hatchet in the cause of the Crown, he procured a large gold finger ring, upon which his name, Joseph Brant Thayendanegea, was engraved, in order that, in the event of his fall, his body might be known. Soon after his death this ring was lost, and was not seen again until ploughed up in a field, two years ago. Its discovery gave great joy to the old lady, who happened to be on a visit to her daughter when it was found. After the war, her husband built a mansion at the head of Lake Ontario, where he adopted the English style of living to a considerable extent; but on his death Mrs. Brant resumed the Indian mode of life, and returned among her people on the Grand River, where she has resided ever since, with the exception of occasional visits to her accomplished daughter at New York.

CLERGY DECEASED.

Sept. 13. Aged 78, the Rev. Robert Hallifax, for fifty-three years Vicar of Standish with Hardwicke, Gloucestershire. He was formerly a Demy of Magdalen college, Oxford, and took the degree of M. A. in 1783, but did not proceed to a Fellowship, having married before there was a vacancy for his native county, Berkshire. He was collated to his living in 1785 by his relative Bishop Halifax. He was for many years Rural Dean of the Gloucester Deanery, and a magistrate for the county. Highly gifted with the powers of genius, he was fond of literary pursuits and literary men, and was a member of the Geological Society. The agreeable and instructive companion, the sincere and steady friend, ever openhearted and generous to all, he was peculiarly a "father to the poor." As a mark of respect his remains were attended to the grave by more than twenty clergymen of the neighbourhood.

At Frickley hall, Yorkshire, aged 76, the Rev. Thomas Cutler Rudston Read, Rector of Full Sutton, in that county. He was of Pembroke hall, Camb. B.A. 1784, M.A. 1787; afterwards took the GENT. MAG. VOL. X.

additional name of Read; and was presented to Full Sutton in 1834, by Lord Feversham.

Sept. 18. At Brandon, Suffolk, after a long and severe illness, the Rev. William Parson, for forty-two years Rector of Brandon with Wangford.

Sept. 22. At his brother's residence in Liverpool, aged 49, the Rev. James Smith, M.A. Vice-Principal and Fellow of Brazenose college, Oxford. He was matriculated July 7, 1809; graduated B.A. 1813, M.A. 1815; was elected a Fellow in 1816, and in 1823 was Junior Proctor of the University.

Sept. 25. At Leamington, aged 26, the Rev. Etheridge James Blyth, Minister of Red-hill church, Havant; and late of Caius college, Cambridge; youngest son of the late Henry Blyth, esq. of Burnham, Norfolk.

Sept. 28. In Kingsland crescent, aged 86, the Rev. William Tunney, who was for many years actively engaged with his friend the Rev. John Wesley.

Oct. 5. At the house of his brother Major Hurst, St. Martin's, Stamford, aged 70, the Rev. Thomas Hurst, Fellow of Eton College, and Rector of Brington with Old Weston and Bythorn, Hunts. He was formerly a Fellow of Clare hall, Camb. where he graduated B.A. 1791, M.A. 1794, and by which society he was presented to his living in 1814. His body was buried in the family vault in St. Michael's, Stamford.

He

Oct. 7. At Walton, Aylesbury, aged 81, the Rev. John Dell, D.C.L. Rector of Weston Longueville, Norfolk. was the son of John Dell, esq. of Aylesbury: was educated at Winchester college, and elected, as of kin to the Founder, to a fellowship at New college, Oxford, in 1775. He took the degree of D.C.L. in 1783; and was presented to his living by New college in 1803. His body was deposited in the chancel of Weston Turville church, of which he had been many years curate.

Oct. 13. In Albemarle Street, the Rev. James Camper Wright, Rector of Walkerne, Herts, and Fellow of Eton College. He was formerly Fellow of King's college, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1797, M.A. 1802; and by that society he was presented to his living in 1817.

Oct. 19. At Collingham, near Wetherby, Yorkshire, aged 41, the Rev. Henry Arthur Beckwith, Vicar of that parish, and of St. Martin's-le-Grand, York. He was presented to Collingham in 1827 by Mrs. Wheeler, and to his church in York in 1829 by the Dean and Chapter.

Oct. 26. The Rev. Thomas Toke, Rec4 Q

At Gloucester, aged 63, the Rev. John Kempthorne, Rector of St. Michael's with St. Mary de Grace in that city. This gentleman was of St. John's college, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1796,as Senior Wrangler and first Smith's Prizeman, M.A. 1799, B.D. 1807, and was elected Fellow of that college. He was presented to his living in 1826 by the Lord Chancellor. Mr. Kempthorne published in 1810, "Select Portions of Psalms, from various translations." 12mo.

DEATHS.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.

Oct. 11. In London-st. Fitzroy-sq. aged 75, William Cantis, esq. late of Old-park, near Canterbury.

Oct. 13. At Upper Bedford-pl. Frances, wife of W. C. Hood, esq.

Aged 59, James Oridge, esq. of Kentish-town.

Oct. 14. In King-st. Holborn, aged 86, James Roche, esq.

In Half-moon-st. aged 59, George Frederick Lockley, esq. surgeon.

Oct. 15. At Middlesex-place, Newroad, aged 76, William Browne, esq. many years Master Attendant at the several dockyards of Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Sheerness.

Oct. 17. At Tottenham, John Holt, esq.

Oct. 18. At Snaresbrook-house, aged 87, Judith, relict of James Scratton, esq. At Clapham, aged 42, Ann, relict of Thomas Stone, esq. M.D.

James Lansdown, esq. of Chesterplace, Regent's Park.

Oct. 21. At Chelsea, aged 55, Timothy Bramah, esq.

Oct. 22.

In Upper Belgrave-place, aged 54, W. Skillington, esq. late of Dorking.

Aged 72, Ann, wife of William Williams, esq. of Moliniere-house, Wandsworth.

At Herne-hill, aged 78, George Litster, esq.

Oct. 23. In Upper York-st. Bryan. ston-sq. aged 72, Thomas Denning, esq. At Camberwell, aged 71, Mrs. M.A. Chippindale.

At Brompton, aged 54, Edw. Knowles, esq. Chief Clerk in the Transport Department of the Admiralty.

Oct. 24. In Lamb's Conduit-place, in her 80th year, Margaret, relict of William Radley, esq. of Winchmore-hill.

Oct. 25. At Denmark-hill, aged 66, Thomas Walker, esq.

In Liverpool-st. aged 33, James Hendersou, M.Ď.

Oct. 26. Between Hendon and Edge.

ware, aged 18, James, son of David Missendon, esq. at Hampstead, accidentally shot by his brother, in climbing a bank. Oct. 27. At Canonbury, W. Hale, esq. of Petworth.

Oct. 28. Aged 63, Robert Oldershaw, esq. for 35 years vestry-clerk of Islington. He committed suicide by hanging himself to the bed-post, having been for some time much distressed in mind from pecuniary difficulties. A coroner's inquest returned "Temporary Insanity." His son, Mr.Robert Oldershaw, has since been most honourably elected to fill his father's office.

At Camberwell, aged 75, Mary, relict of Robert Dryden, esq. of Lake's-grove, Mile-end.

Oct. 29. Aged 33, Maria, wife of the Rev. Hugh Hughes, Lecturer and Curate of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch.

Aged 55, Dr. John Sim, of Great Ormond-st.

At Pentonville, at the house of Mr. Jas. Ansted, her brother-in-law, aged 74, Mrs. Ann Prior, eldest daughter of the late Rev. John Prior, B.D. Vicar of Ashby de la-Zouch, and Packington.

In Camden town, Mr. R. Rhodes, an eminent engraver.

Oct. 30. In Duke-st. Portland-place, Major-General William Brooks, of the Hon. East India Company's Service.

In John-st. Bedford-row, Richard Van Heythuysen, esq. sen.

In Belgrave-sq. Elizabeth-Favell, wife' of W. K. Dehaney, esq. dau. of the late Vice-Adm. M. H. Scott.

Oct. 31. Richard Bassett, esq. late of the Ordnance-office, Pall Mall.

In Chester-terrace, the widow of John Wilson, esq. Wandle Grove, Mitcham.

Nov. 1. Aged 85, Daniel Robinson, esq. of Montagu-place, Montagu-square, and on the 18th, Mary, his widow, aged 82.

Aged 33, Edward Tanqueray, esq. of Gordon-st. Gordon-sq.

Nov. 2. Mrs. Pearson, of Upper Clapton, sister of the Dean of Salisbury. At Wandsworth, Hugh M. Bunbury, esq. formerly of Demerara.

At Pentonville, aged 79, James Godin Bigot, esq.

Nov. 3. At Balham-hill, aged 68, Elizabeth, relict of Edw. Mawley, esq. Nov. 4. At Stoke Newington, aged 67, Johanna, relict of Robert Wilson, esq. of Woodhouse, East Ham.

In Wyndham-st. James Matthew Molineux, esq. formerly of the King's Own Stafford Reg.

Nov. 5. At Greenwich, aged 87, Charles Duncan, esq.

Nov. 6. At St. Anne's, Barnes, aged 19, the Hon. Thomas Hope, sixth sur