the good man had been learning all his life long, and he had so learned it, that the "last enemy" had no terrors for him. He remarked to a friend a few days previous to his decease, that he was waiting his call, not impatiently, yet longing for it; it did not, therefore, come suddenly. Death was to him but the removal of the veil which divided him from a world in which he had for years "habitually dwelt in heart and mind."

His constitution had been for some years gradually giving way under the increasing infirmities of age, and, a few days before his death, seemed so visibly sinking that his friends prevailed with him to allow an attendant to watch by his bed-side during the night; but, on his last evening, he felt himself so much better that, after being assisted to bed between nine and ten o'clock, he insisted on being left alone for the night, directing his attendant to return next morning at seven. In the morning he was found not only dead, but actually laid out for burial, by himself. He had closed his eyes with his own hand, had drawn a napkin over his face, and folded his arms over his breast in the form of a cross, to show the faith in which he died; showing that the good man had not been insensible to the approach of dissolution, but had resigned himself to it consciously, with that calm and deep devotion for which he was through life distinguished. Thus closed a life of primitive simplicity, piety, and self-denial, worthy of the purest ages of the Church.

On Thursday, 5th July, the remains of the Bishop were deposited, according to his own desire, in the grave of his brother, in the churchyard of Turriff, in presence of a numerous assemblage of the clergy, and of the people of his late flock at Fraserburgh, as well as of the Episcopal congregation at Turriff, of which he had at one time been pastor. The services were read by the Right Rev. Bishop Skinner, assisted by the Rev. James Walker of Huntly, Dean of Moray. By a late arrangement of the Episcopal College, the See of Moray, founded in the 12th century, exists no longer; the clergy and congregations composing it constitute parts of other dioceses.

SIR HENRY OXENDEN, BART. Sept. 22. At his estate, Broome, near Dover, aged 82, Sir Henry Oxenden, the seventh Baronet of Dene, co. Kent, (1678), a Commissioner of Dover Harbour, &c.

Sir Henry was born May 14, 1756, the only son of Sir Henry, the sixth Baronet, by Margaret, younger daughter and coheiress of Sir George Chudleigh, of Hal

den, co. Devon, Bart. He was a member of St. John's college, Cambridge, where he took the degree of B.A. in 1778. He succeeded to the title on the death of his father, June 15, 1803.

He had been for fifty years a very active Commissioner of Dover harbour, and he gave an almost daily superintendance to the works. His tenantry have lost a kind, considerate, liberal landlord; and East Kent has to regret parting with one of the few remaining perfect Old English country gentlemen. He paid great attention to the breeding of South Down sheep, and for many years his flocks had been among the most celebrated in the South of England.

He married June 20, 1793, Mary, daughter of Colonel Graham, of St. Lawrence, near Canterbury, and had issue by that lady six sons and three daughters: 1. Mary-Graham, married in 1815 to William Osmund Hammond, esq.; 2. Sir Henry Chudleigh Oxenden, who has succeeded to the title; he was born in 1795, andis unmarried; 3. GeorgeChichester; 4. the Rev. Montague Oxenden, Perpetual Curate of Wingham, Kent; he married in 1824 Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Wilson, esq. and has issue; 5. Charles, who married in 1823 Elizabeth - Catharine, only daughter of the Rev. Dr. Holcombe, a Prebendary of Westminster; 6. Graham, who died unmarried in 1826; 7. Frances, married in 1825 to Thomas Papillon, of Acrise Place, esq.; 8. Charlotte; and 9. Ashton. The body of the late Baronet was removed from Broome on the 28th Sept. for interment at Barham church. The hearse was followed by a long line of carriages. The pall was borne by_his Grace the Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Guildford, Sir Francis Mulcaster, Hon. W. Eden, and several other gentlemen, friends of the deceased.

ADM. SIR PULTENEY MALCOLM, G. C.B. July 20. At East Lodge, Enfield,

aged 80, Sir Pulteney Malcolm, Admiral of the Blue, G.C.B. and G.C.M.G.

The grandfather of Sir Pulteney Malcolm was a Scotish minister, ster, of learning and respectability, who, having a large family ily and inadequate means, provided for his sons, including the father of Sir Pulteney, by establishing them on farms, as is usual in Scotland. This patrimony, after having been for upwards of a century in the family, was in the possession of Sir Pulteney. He was born on the 20th Feb. 1768, at Douglan, near Langholm, in Dumfriesshire, the third son of his father, by Margaret, daughter of Mr. James Pasley, of Craig, and sister to the late Adm. Sir Thomas Pasley, Bart. Of

The remarkable success in their various paths which many of Mr. Robert Malcolm's sons attained, was noticed in our memoir of the late Sir John Malcolm in our Magazine for July 1833, p. 81. the seven sons who came to man's estate, Robert, the eldest, who died a few years ago, was high in the civil service of the East India Company. The three next in succession, James, Pulteney, and John, were honoured with the insignia of Knights Commanders of the Bath at the same time; the former for his distinguished services in Spain and North America, when commanding a battalion of Royal Marines; and Sir John (who was afterwards G.C.B.) for his military and diplomatic services in India. The younger sons were Gilbert, Rector of Todenham, in Gloucestershire; David, in a commercial house in India; and Sir Charles Malcolm, now Post Capt. R.N.

Pulteney entered the Navy Oct. 20, 1778, as a midshipman on board the Sybil frigate, commanded by his maternal uncle Capt. Pasley, with whom he sailed to the Cape of Good Hope; and, on returning thence, removed with him into the Jupiter of 50 guns, which was one of the squadron under Commodore Johnstone in the affair at Porto Praya, and at the capture of a fleet of Dutch Indiamen in Saldanha Bay.

In 1782 the Jupiter was ordered to convey Adm. Pigot to his command in the West Indies; and Mr. Malcolm, after serving several months with that officer in the Formidable, a second rate, was by him promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in the former ship, March 3, 1783. During the ensuing peace he was employed on various stations in the Scipio, Pegasus, Bellerophon, and Vengeance; and at the commencement of the French revolutionary war, we find ha serving as first Lieutenant of the Penelope of 32 guns, at Jamaica. In that ship he assisted at the capture of the Inconstante frigate and Gaelon corvette, both of which Lieutenant Malcolm conducted to Port Royal in safety. He also commanded the boats of the Penelope in several severe conflicts, and succeeded in cutting out many ves. sels from the ports of St. Domingo. He subsequently joined the Europa of 50 guns, bearing the flag of Rear-Adm. Ford, by whom he was made a Commander into the Jack Tar, April 3, 1794; and upon Cape Nichola Mole being taken possession of by the British, at the invitation of the French royalists, he had the direction of the seamen and marines landed to garrison that place. Soon after his return to England, Capt. Malcolm was advanced to Post rank, by commission dated Oct. 22, 1794; and on the 14th of the following month appointed to the

Fox frigate. In Feb. 1795, he escorted a fleet of merchantmen to the Mediterranean, after which he went to Quebec, and subsequently served in the North Sea. We next find him proceeding with a convoy to the East Indies; on which station he captured la Modeste of 20 guns. Toward the latter end of 1797 the Fox was actively employed in the China Seas, under the orders of Capt. Edward Cooke of the Sybille. In the same year the Duke of Wellington, then Colonel Wellesley, of the 33rd regiment, took a passage with Captain Malcolm, in the Fox, from the Cape of Good Hope to Bengal.

On the 18th of June 1798, he was appointed to command the Suffolk of 74 guns, bearing the flag of the late ViceAdm. Rainier, Commander-in-Chief in the Indian Seas. He afterwards removed with the same officer into the Victorious, another third-rate, and continued to serve as his Flag-Captain during the remainder of the war. On her passage to Europe, in 1803, the Victorious was found to be in so bad a state, that on encountering a gale of wind in the Bay of Biscay, it was with the utmost difficulty she could be kept afloat till she reached the Tagus, where she was run on shore and broke up. Capt. Malcolm, with his officers and crew, returned to England in two vessels hired at Lisbon for their conveyance.

In Jan. 1804, we find him commanding the Royal Sovereign, a three-decker, in which ship he proceeded to the Mediterranean; and on his arrival, removed into the Kent, of 74 guns, attached to the fleet under Lord Nelson. In the ensuing summer he joined the Renown, a vessel of similar force.

Capt. Malcolm's next appointment was, March 16, 1805, to the Donegal, another third-rate, the command of which he retained during the period of six years. In that ship he accompanied his gallant chief in the memorable pursuit of the combined squadrons of France and Spain to the West Indies; and on his return from thence to the Channel was sent, under Sir Robert Calder, to reinforce Vice-Adm. Collingwood off Cadiz. On the 17th Oct. 1805, four days previous to the decisive battle of Trafalgar, the Donegal being short of water, and, in consequence of the extraordinary length of time she had been kept at sea, greatly in need of a refit, was ordered to Gibraltar. On the 20th, Capt. Malcolm received information that the enemy's fleets were quitting Cadiz. His ship was then in the Mole nearly dismantled; but by the greatest exertions, he succeeded in getting her out before night, and on the 23rd joined ViceAdm. Collingwood in time to capture El Rayo, a Spanish three-decker, forming part of the division under Admiral Gravina, which on its return to port after the battle, had been immediately ordered to sea again for the purpose of attempting the rescue of some of the disabled prizes. The Donegal continued off Cadiz, under the orders of Sir John Duckworth, until towards the close of 1805, when she accompanied that officer to the West Indies in quest of a French squadron that had sailed for that quarter. In the battle fought off St. Domingo, Feb. 6, 1806, the loss sustained by the Donegal amounted to 12 men killed, and 33 wounded. After the battle she pro. ceeded with the prizes to Port Royal, Jamaica, and from thence to England. On his arrival in England Capt. Malcolm was honoured with a gold medal for his conduct in the action, and, in common with the other officers of the squadron, received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament. He was also presented by the Committee of the Patriotic Fund with a vase, valued at one hundred pounds.

In the summer of 1808, Capt. Malcolm escorted the army under Sir Ar. thur Wellesley from Cork to Portugal. Some days after the arrival of the transports in Mondego Bay, the troops were all landed in safety, notwithstanding a heavy surf; the same good fortune attended Captain Malcolm's exertions in disembarking the various reinforcements which afterwards arrived; and there can be no doubt that the extraordinary efforts he made on those occasions, and for which he received the warm approbations and thanks of Sir John Moore and Sir Arthur Wellesley, contributed to the happy commencement of those glorious successes which afterwards attended the British Arms in the Peninsula. The Donegal was subsequently attached to the Channel fleet, at that time commanded by Lord Gambier; and after the memorable discomfiture of the French ships in Aix

as Captain of the Channel fleet under Lord Keith, which honourable post he held, occasionally commanding a detached squadron, (and receiving the appointment of a Colonel of Marines, Aug. 12, 1812, and the rank of Rear-Admiral, Dec. 4, 1813,) until June 1, 1814; when he hoisted his flag in the Royal Oak and proceeded with a body of troops under Brigadier-Gen. Ross from Bourdeaux to North America. Soon after his arrival in that quarter, he accompanied Sir Alex. Cochrane on an expedition up the Chesapeake, and regulated the collection, embarkation, and re-embarkation of the troops, &c. employed against Washington, Baltimore, and New Orleans, a service requiring indefatigable efforts, and which he performed in a manner that called forth the warmest acknowledgments of the Commander-in-chief. He was afterwards employed at the siege of Fort Boyer, on Mobile Point, the surrender of which by capitulation on the 14th Feb. terminated the war between Great Britain and the United States of America.

At the extension of the order of the Bath into three classes, Jan. 2, 1815, Rear-Adm. Malcolm was nominated (with his two brothers, as before mentioned) a Knight Commander; and upon his arrival in England, hostilities against France having been renewed, in consequence of the return of Buonaparte from Elba, he was appointed Commander-in-chief of the naval force ordered to co-operate with the Duke of Wellington and the allied armies, on which service he continued until after the final restoration of the Bourbons. He struck his flag Sept. 26, 1815; and a few days after had the gratification to receive the following letter from the Duke of Wellington, with whom he had been four times associated in the public service.

"SIR,

Paris, Sept. 30, 1815. "I have received your letter, in which you have informed me of your return to

Malcolm was entrusted with the command of a squadron sent on a cruize, during which, however, nothing particular occurred. We next find him commanding the blockade of Cherbourg, on which station the ships under his orders captured a number of privateers; and on one occasion drove two frigates on shore near Cape La Hogue; but the protection afforded them by the batteries, rendered it impossible to attempt their destruction with any probability of success. On the Donegal being paid off in 1811, Captain Malcolm was appointed to the Royal Oak, a new 74, in which he continued off Cherbourg until March 1, 1812, when he removed into the San Josef, 110 guns,

best thanks for the cordial and useful assistance I have invariably received from you in all the situations in which we have been placed together, and to assure you that it will always give me the greatest satisfaction to be placed in a situation to be in communication on service with you,

" I have the honour to be, Sir, "Your most obedient humble servant, "WELLINGTON."

Sir Pulteney's last appointment was to the important office of Commander-inchief on the St. Helena station, where he continued from the spring of 1816 until towards the end of the following year. The manner in which his conduct at St,

Helena is noticed by Sir Walter Scott in his "Life of Napoleon," is so highly honourable to him, that we must quote it at length:

"The rank and character of Sir Pulteney Malcolm, who commanded the squadron upon the station, set him above the feelings which might influence inferior officers whether of the army or the navy. He visited Napoleon frequently, and was eulogized by him in a description which (though he, who has the advantage of seeing in the features of Sir Pulteney those of an honoured friend, can vouch for its being just) may have been painted the more willingly, because it gave the artist an opportunity of discharging his spleen, while contrasting the appearance of the Admiral with that of the Governor, in a manner most unfavourable to the latter. Nevertheless, we transcribe it to prove that Buonaparte could occasionally do justice, and see desert, even in a Briton. He said he had seen the new Admiral. Ah! there is a man with a countenance really pleasing, open, frank, and sincere. There is the face of an Englishman-his countenance bespeaks his heart, and I am sure he is a good man. I never yet beheld a man of whom I so immediately formed a good opinion as of that fine soldier-like old man.

He

carries his head erect, and speaks out openly and boldly what he thinks, without being afraid to look you in the face at the time. His physiognomy would make every person desirous of a further acquaintance, and render the most suspicious confident in him.' Sir Pulteney Malcolm was also much recommended to Napoleon's favourable judgment by the circumstance of having nothing to do with the restraints upon his person, and possessing the power neither of altering nor abating any of the restrictions he complained of. He was fortunate, too, in being able, by the calmness of his temper, to turn aside the violent language of Buonaparte, without either granting the justice of his complaints, or giving him displeasure by direct contradiction. Does your Government mean, said Napoleon one day to the English Admiral, 'to detain me upon this rock until my death's-day?'_' I am sorry to say, Sir,' answered Sir Pulteney, that such, I apprehend, is their purpose.'Then, the term of my life will soon arrive,' said Napoleon. I hope not, Sir,' answered the Admiral; 'I hope you will survive to record your great actions, which are so numerous, and the task will ensure you a term of long life.' Napoleon bowed, and was gratified, probably, both as a hero

and an author. Nevertheless, before Sir Pulteney Malcolm left the island, and while he was endeavouring to justify the Governor against some of the harsh and extravagant charges in which Napoleon was wont to indulge, the latter began to appeal from his judgment, as being too much of an Englishman to be an impartial judge. They parted, however, on the best terms, and Napoleon often afterwards expressed the pleasure which he had received from the society of Sir Pulteney Malcolm."

Sir Pulteney Malcolm was advanced to the rank of Vice-Admiral July 19, 1821; and to the full rank of Admiral Jan. 10, 1837. He was raised to the Grand Cross of the Bath April 26, 1833.

A few years ago he was attacked by one of our pseudo-economists in the House of Commons, when the following eloquent précis of his honourable career, was delivered in his defence by a friend whose name, we regret to say, we have not preserved:

"He was the son of a humble sheep farmer, and had won his fame, as his brother, Sir John, also had done, without the aid of powerful friends. He had risen to the highest honours of his profession by his own exertions, and his honour, till the other night, had never been questioned; he enjoyed a spotless reputation, and possessed the friendship not only of the great men that were at present in existence, but those who had departed. He was the comrade in arms of the gallant Nelson; and in the last action in which that great man was engaged, he commanded a ship which had the splendid distinction of being called the Happy Donegal. He had the friendship of the first general of the day (the Duke of Wellington.) He had the honour of conveying in the ship under his command the hero of Assaye. Sir Pulteney Malcolm, at Vigo, landed the future conqueror of the Peninsula. At the special desire of the Duke of Wellington, the flag of Sir Pulteney Malcolm was flying at Ostend when the destinies of the convulsed world were decided in the field of Waterloo. As a conqueror, he became the friend of the conquered. His flag was at St. Helena during the time Napoleon was there, and by the cordiality of his disposition and manners, he not only obtained the confidence, but won the affections of that great man, who, in his last moments, acknowledged his generosity and benevolence."

He married, Jan. 18, 1809, Clementina, eldest daughter of the Hon. Wil. liam Fullerton Elphinstone, Director of the East India Company, and a niece of Adm. Lord Viscount Keith.

A subscription has been commenced for a public monument to Sir Pulteney Malcolm.

CAPT. HON. GEORGE DOUGLAS, R.N. Aug. 30. At Douglas Castle, Lanarkshire, aged 50, the Hon. George Douglas, a Post Captain R.N. half-brother of the Rt. Hon. Lord Douglas.

He was born Aug. 2, 1788, the sixth son of Archibald first Lord Douglas, and the third and youngest by his second marriage with Lady Frances Scott, second daughter of Francis Earl of Dalkeith, and great-aunt to the present Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, K. G.

He entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman on board the Excellent 74, Capt. the Hon. Robert Stopford, Dec. 17, 1801, in which he served in the West Indies. On returning thence, he joined the Castor frigate, and subsequently the Spencer 74; in which latter ship he completed his time under Capt. Stopford. The Spencer accompanied Lord Nelson in his pursuit of Adm. Villeneuve, in 1805, but was unfortunately absent at Gibraltar at the time of the battle of Trafalgar. She bore a conspicuous share in Sir John T. Duckworth's action, off St. Domingo, Feb. 6, 1806, on which occasion her loss amounted to eighteen killed and fifty wounded. Mr. Douglas was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant, and appointed to the Horatio, a new 38-gun frigate, Aug. 8, 1807. In her, he visited Quebec, and afterwards served on the Halifax and West India stations.

On the 10th Feb. 1809, the Horatio fought a very gallant action off the Virgin Islands, with La Junon frigate, which terminated, after nearly three hours' contest, in the capture of the Frenchman. On this occasion Lieut. Douglas (in the words of the First Lord, Lord Mulgrave) "so nobly supplied the place of his disabled captain" (Capt. G. Scott) that his promotion was determined upon, as soon as he should have completed the time prescribed by his Majesty's Order in Council. His commission as a Commander consequently bore date Aug. 8, 1809.

On the 18th July 1810, Captain Douglas was appointed to the Brune troopship, and he continued to command her until his promotion to post rank, Feb. 28, 1812. His next appointment was, April 28, 1812, to the Leveret 20, which, with her consort the Cyane 20, made a very heroic defence against the Constitution, an American 44, of more than their united strength, off Madeira, on the 20th Feb. 1815. Both the English ships were

taken, though the Leveret was soon afterwards retaken at Porto Praya. At a Court-martial held at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Captains Douglas and Falcon were "most honourably acquitted" for the loss of their respective shi ships, and justly applauded for the gallant defence they had made.

Since the peace Capt. Douglas has been on half-pay. He has died unmarried.

Lr.-COL. A. C. W. CROOKSHANK, Κ.Η.

Sept. 1. At his residence, Lyncombe, near Bath, aged 57, Lieut.-Col. Arthur Chichester William Crookshank, K.H.

He

He was the youngest son of the late Mr. Justice Crookshank, of Newton Park, co. Dublin. He was appointed Ensign in the 68th regiment, Jan. 12, 1799, and Lieutenant in March following. served in that capacity in the West Indies, chiefly in Martinique, where he embarked with the flank companies of his regiment against the Danish islands, in the expedition commanded by Gen. Sir T. Trigge; after the completion of which he had two attacks of yellow fever, which obliged him to return home. He was promoted to a company in the 38th regiment Sept. 8, 1802; and he served in Ireland during the disturbances of 1803. He accompanied the expedition to the Cape of Good Hope in 1805, under Sir D. Baird; and thence embarked for South America, and was present in the different campaigns under Col. Blackburn, Sir S. Auchmuty, and Gen. Whitelock; he received four wounds at the attack and assault of Monte Video, and was made prisoner with the light troops under Brig.Gen. Crawford, on the storming of Buenos Ayres.

He

On his return from South America, he was appointed to the staff of the Duke of Richmond, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, where he remained until his regiment embarked for Portugal. served in the first campaign in the Peninsula, and was present at the battles of Roleia and Vimiera; he was also in the expedition to Walcheren, and suffered much from that climate. He attained the rank of Major Oct. 29, 1809, and returned with the 2d battalion of his regiment to Portugal in 1810; and from a desire of being more actively employed, entered the Portuguese service under Lord Beresford, with the rank of Lieut.-Colonel. He was present at the battle of Busaco, where he commanded the flank companies of the brigade of Brig. Gen. Spry; also in the pursuit of Marshal Massena, from the lines of Torres Vedras; at the battle of Fuentes d'Onor; and a few days previous to the battle of Salamanca, he re