those who ever had an opportunity of forming any with accuracy. Spirit and highmindedness had ever been his characterifticks. A life marked by activity and generous firmness would have fufficiently proved this, without the fad conviction of it which the marner of his death fo forcibly impreties. His ftation had been honourable, for in him had been repofed one of the highest trusts which a man can receive from his fellowcreatures, the power of deciding upon the rights of property. As a judge of the Admiralty Court at Gibraltar, he obtained and preferved a character highly diftinguished for integrity and faithfulness, for clearness and precision: few of his decrees were appealed from, and thofe few were always confirmed. Upon the ceffion of Minorca, at the peace of Paris, with an honest ambition to promote his fair fortune, he embraced the fame fituation in that island. But, however difappointed in his hope of receiving fuperior advan tage, the character he had raised accompa nied him thither; and though the accumulation of misfortune, at the end of a life which had once known eafe and happinefs, depreffed him into fuch glooms as deprived him of his reafon; yet the respect of thote who knew him attended him, after those things had been loft which in general are nece ary to command it. He was a man whofe heart was largely extended; his benevolence led him to confider mankind as his friends; and for his friends were never wanting his abilities, his good offices, nor (while he had one) his fortune. Many who are gone before him to their great account, many who now furvive, and have pafled him in the race for fortune and honour, could afford strong teftimony of this. In garrifons of fuch importance as thofe in which he ferved, a large portion of the army are fettled in fucceflion; and not a few among the military, as well as the navy, will perhaps willingly bear witness, that his houfe, his table, and his purfe, were open to all who deferved them. Probably, had his virtues been of a kind more prudent and lefs fhining, he would not have been driven to the only act of his life which his friends will be unhappy in remembering. But poverty alone was not the only caufe of his defperation. The bravery of his heart, and the fpirit of his mind, had formed him to be peculiarly and even fiercely jealous, when his claims to the characters of a patriotic citizen and loyal fubject came to be attacked; and it may be faid, that his fenfibility never recovered the wound that had so been given to it. By whom, and for what purpose it was inflicted, it would be now as needlefs to enquire as to difcover. It may, however, be truly faid, that an arbitrary removal from his office was the root of all his misfortunes. What a British jury thought of his case, is upon record; and he has been one among feveral inftruments of proving that the language of a

Military Governor, and the strong arm of Power, can only be exerted with impunity in other climes than thefe. On his first trial with General Murray they gave him 300. damages; upon the fecond they gave him 5cool. As his mind, however, was formed to honour, it was not money that could reftore him to happiness; he ftill languished under the idea that he continued to be misreprefented to thofe whom he had not of fended. The last effufions of his mind thew what was uppermoft in it, nor have they perhaps been in one point unavailing. He who could be fo anxious for fixing the belief of his attachment to one little community," when he was going to a ftate where nations, and even worlds, are loft in the infinitude of space and of eternity, could never have been other than loyal and dutiful. In the mafs of mankind his anxiety for his own fame will not perhaps be much regarded; but let us not forget that it is this individual anxiety which is the great fpur to the general practice of honour, and that men will cease to be virtuous when they ceafe to be ftudious of character. Of his particular claims upon Government it may not be improper decently to speak. He had been charged with dif patches of high confequence from Lord Weymouth to the Governor of Minorca; they were of magnitude enough to employ the strictest attention of the French. To avoid difcovery he proceeded by a circuitous out to his deftination; and in Italy, for his better concealment, he hired a Savoyard veffel to convey him. But he was fo carefully watched that he was immediately arrested in his voyage, and the enemy thought his miffion of fufficient importance to justify the violation of an amicable flag. He destroyed his difpatches, but was forced to pay the price. of the vetfel, which he, in fact, had been the means of lofing. He remained many months in the horrors of a French prifon; and to this day his expences from his departure from England to the end of his captivity have never been reimbursed. claims have been allowed, and the justice of the Miniftry would certainly have relieved him; but the lofs of his place, and the failures he experienced in occupations to which he was wholly a ftranger, and which he had begun when funk into the vale of years, had reduced him to what was in no wife congenial with his mind, to importunity, which wa only urgent becaufe it was neceffary. Thus depreciated with his Sovereign, and preffed by poverty, his spirit began to droop, his intellects became deranged, and he perithed in a manner which, however it may be blameable, must always be affecting.

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The following lines on tas melancholy event have been fent us by Dr. Crane: "Ill-fated Sutherland! lamented friend! Whofe foul indignant burits its fetters here; No herald's leave 1 afk to weep thy end, Or point out to the crowd the fricken deer. "Ilb fated

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"In the moment that my heart's blood is leaving it, I express my forrow that you have allowed yourself to be impofed upon, and that you should still perfift in retaining fuch prejudices against me. With fpirited and dutiful appeals, and humiliating fupplications, I have addreffed you and your Ministers. Allegiance and protection are conftitutionally reciprocal; and as the former never was forfaken by me, I had a right to expect that you would afford the latter.

"The idea of a ftake being driven through my body, has not terror to make me with that the act which I now perform should be confidered in any other light but of deliberate reafoning.

"Inftead of going abroad, the means of which were not left me, I have long intended to shoot myself. I did not merit degra dation. My confcience told me I was entitled to honour, favour, and reward. I I for. give General Murray; but cannot refift, even at this time, the wish I have to fet your Majefty right with refpect to myself. The fubjoined extract will fufficiently explain to your Majesty my innocence. Parliament accepted the petition of General Murray, but repeatedly threw out mine; for the ftern commands of Prerogative were obliged to yield to the milder ones of Influence.

"Let me recommend, Sire, to you to collect the letters written by me to Mr. Stephens of the Admiralty; you will there fee the abuse of authority and irregularity of General Murray. I did not at that time know that none fhould refide in the island of Minorca but fuch as pleased the General. But I was willing to facrifice every thing but juftice and honour to keep him quiet. At his inftance I filled up but one commission inftead of two, for two privateers to cruize againft the two ftates we were then at war with; by which I was fome hundreds of pounds out of pocket.

"I had long determined that my diffolution fhould take place in the fame manner, and on the fame spot, that I now fall. When my hard cafe shall be published, how will the world be shuddered to hear that inhumanity had deprived me of every refource but death. Yet, in the midft of all my misfortunes, 1 fubfcribe myself your Majefty's loyal fubject, JAMES SUTHERLAND. "Written on the 13th, though dated the 17th, of Auguft, 1791; it being the day on which I intend to shoot my felf in the Greenpark, as the King paffes to his levee."

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ter which he fent to General Murray, refpecting his being fufpended from his appointment It fates, as the cause of the General's difpleasure, that, on the evening when the news arrived in Minorca of the taking of Charles-town, there were general illuminations and rejoicines. Mr. Sutherland was among the foremost in demonstrating his joy on that occafion, by a large bonfire, &c. His daughters, lømtelf, and an officer, walked through the town to fee the lights; and in paffing the General's house, without any defign in the world, they happened to laugh louder than ufual, which, he fuppofes, gave offence, as, next morning, although it was Sunday, he received notice that he was fufpended from his appointment. As it required a court martial to cafhier the officer, he met with no punishment.]

"Extract of a letter which I wrote to Mr.

Pitt, when my petition was thrown out of Parliament.

"From the 21st of December laft, the day on which my petition was prefented (but not accepted) to Parliament, I have existed by felling every little thing of value I had; and now I have nothing left to fell. Let me then, Sir, implore you, by every thing you hold dear, to preferve from the effects of despair a perfon who, fince he is driven to egotize, holds himself up as a man of worth and honour, and who merits nothing from his King and Country fo much as favour and reward; and who adds, that, were it not that he is a father, would rather perish than be importunate. J. SUTHERLAND.”

See his "Letter to the Electors of Great Britan," in our Review, p. 843.

P. 782. A falfe and invidious account having been given in a public paper of a refpectable character, now no more, we are requested to lay before the publick a more just and honourable teftimony, where the reputation of a late very dignified Prelate is fo nearly concerned.-Dr. T. is faid by this ill-natured writer" to have been first ftruck with her charms when he was weeding a garden belonging to a gentleman with whom he was dining; and that, after baving had her called into the hall, the, with her finging and native beauty fo much enraptured him, that he fent her to a boarding-fchool, and foon after married her."-That fuch was the fituation in which the worthy Prelate found the future partner of his comforts and hi forrows is abfolutely falfe. found her an adopted daughter, in a gentleman's family; a well-educated, polite, and amiable member of it, with a very genteel fortune: poffeffed of charms, both perforal and intellectual, which fully justified the preference which he gave to her -except that he was ten years younger than might have been withed. His Lordship's enquiries went not back to her origin; the was what the appeared to be; elegant in her perfon, affable in ht. eportment, engaging

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in her manners, polite in her accomplishments, and calculated, as he believed, and as experience afterwards proved, to render his Jife as happy as its viciffitudes allow any reasonable person to expect to be. Every day of her life juftified the opinion which his Lordthip had formed of her: as a wife, the was most dutiful and affectionate; as a mother, most unwearied in her attention to her lovely and numerous offspring; the was indefatigable in her endeavours to inculca e principles of religion and virtue in their tender minds, and perfonally attentive even to the minutiae of their foo', their dref, and all thofe neceffary circumftanti.ls, which fervants, left to themfelves, would too frequently difregard. In the courfe of a tedious and painful fick nefs under which her muchloved and refpected lord languished and died, ber toilfome days and fleepless nights did honour to her feelings, but proved deftructive to herself, and, no doubt, fo fatally impaired her conftitution as to reader her an early facrifice to the calls of duty and affection. A. midft thefe cares and forrows the found amufement in fome of the most curious arts, by which the diftinguished herself among her female acquaintence; and specimens of her foll will attract the admiration of the curious, whenever they are infpected: yet none of thefe ornamental employments were fuffered to interfere with her fiel duties; in thefe the confcientionfly perfined to the luft day of her ability to attend to them. The Sunday which preceded her diffolution was devoted to her children's improvement in the principles of religion; the bleilings of which the is now receiving, and is, happily, far beyond the reach of that malevolence which dictated an article in the new.s-paper, calculated only to milead and mifinform, and in which there is fo rely a single particle of truth, from the place of her death at Wanstead in Sulx, to the duration of her nine hours' illness, and the fwelling under her breaft, which no one, except this well-informed writer, ever knew was the caufe of her death; the immediate caufe of which was an inflammation in her bowels, fucceeded by a rapid mortication.

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12. The Lady of William Frazer, efq. of Queen fquare, a daughter.

13. At Northumberland-house, Charingcroís, her Grace the Duchefs of Northumberland, a daughter.

14. At Duffield, near Derby, Mrs. Harrifon (late Mifs Cantelo) a daughter.

15. At his house in Bolton-street, Picca dilly, the Lady of Scrope Bernard, esq. M.P. for Aylesbury, a fon.

In New Burlington-Atreet, the Lady of Col. Glyn, of the first regiment of footguards, a daughter.

19. At Rambury, Wilts, the Lady of Col. Read, a daughter.

20. At his Lordship's houfe in Hill-street, Berkeley-fquare, Lady Herbert, a daughter. The Lady of Henry Gill, efq. of Ething, Surrey, a fon.

21. The Lady of Wm. Cooke, efq. one of the directors of the Bank, a fon. At Weemyfs caftie, Mrs. Weemyfs, of Weemyfs, a fon.

22. At Chatham-barracks, the Hon. Mrs. Henry Fox, a fon.

24. In Brook-street, the Lady of John Moore, efq. a ton.

At his Grace's houfe, in Clarges-ftreet, the Duchefs de la Paine, a ftill-born child.,

The Lady of Alexander Davifon, efq. of Harpur-itreet, a daughter.

June

MARRIAGES.

BIRTHS. Ag.THE Lady of Charles Bridges Wood21. cuck, efq. of Brentford Butts, a dau. 30. At her house in Park-lane, Lady Petrie, a ftill-born child.

The Lady of Mr.-Mills, of Harley-ftrett, Cavendith-fquare, a daughter.

Sept. 1. Mrs. Higginton, of Harley-street, a daughter.

At Newport, in the isle of Wight, JohnRobert Cocker, eiq. of Nailau-street, Sohofquare, to Mus Harriet Roberts, of Newport.

Mr. Thomas Moore, jun. brewer, to Mits Martin, both of Windfor.

near Berwick upon Tweed, late a captain in the 31ft regiment, to Mifs Polly Selby, only daughter of Geo. S. efq. of Alnwick.

At Bristol, Mr. Tho. Hull, of that city, to Mifs Mary Bennett, daughter of the late Ju. B. efq. of Danbury, Effex.

15. At the Quakers' meeting, at Chefhunt, Mr. W. Pryor, of the Poultry, to Mifs E. Squire, of Hertford.

At Hackney, Rev. Samuel Hoole, M. A. fon of Mr. John H. late of the Eaft Indiahoufe, to Mifs Eliza Young, daughter of Arthur Y. efq. of Bradfield-hall, Suffolk.

Right Hon. George Marquis of Blandford, eldeft fon of the Duke of Marlborough, to Lady Sufan Stewart, fecond daughter of the Earl of Galloway.

At Sosthrepps, co. Norfolk, Rev. James Hodgson, rector of that parish, to Mifs Whitcombe, eldest daughter of Robert W. efq. of Kington, co. Hereford.

19. At Storrington, Suffex, Hen. Chivers Vince, efq. eldeft fon of H. C. V. efq. of Clift-hall, Wilts, to Mifs Bifchopp, eldest daughter of Harry B. efq. and grand-daughter of the late old Sir Cecil B. bart.

20. Wm. Brander, efq. of Morden-hall, Surrey, to Mifs Barnett, of Vauxhall.

At Northwood church, ifle of Wight, Geo. Poore, efq. of Portfmonth, to Mifs Naomi Collins, daughter of Daniel C. efq. of Egypt, Dear Cowes.

22. Tho. Lodington, eiq. of Lamb's Conduit-street, one of the fecondaries of the Court of Common Pleas, to Mifs Day, of New Norfolk-ftreet, daughter of the late John D. efq. of the ifland of Antigua.

Mr. Edward Clark, fhip-broker, to Mifs Anne Drake Juratt, daughter of John J. efq. of the Cultom-houfe.

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DEATHS.

T Oldenburgh, George Chriftian von Oeder, author of the "Flora Danica." He was born at Anfpach, Feb. 3, 1728, and studied phyfick, but more particularly botany, at Gottingen, under the celebrated Haller, through whofe recommendation he was appointed profeffor of botany at Copenhagen. He was induced, by the patronage of the unfortunate Struenfee, who, in 1773, procured for him a confiderable appointment in the College of Finances, to quit his medical and botanical pursuits; but Struenfee being executed foon after, he retained this place only a few months. He was afterwards appointed to the office of "Landvogt" at Oldenburgh, which he retained till his death. March.... At fanjore, in India, in his 36th year, Mr. Edward-Thomas Bayly, of the civil eftablishment at Madras, and only fon of the late Mr. B. of Hereford.

June 13. At the Cape of Good Hope, on his pattage home, in the Worcester Indiaman, Lieut. Drummond, of the 75th reg. July 19. On board the Hope, Capt. Fufs, GENT. MAG. September, 1791.

of Bristol, from Jamaica, James Douglas, efq. of that island.

23 (not the 30th, as printed in our last). At Maidstone, in his 6;th year, Jn. Brenchley, efq. a confiderable brewer, and one of the jurats of that corporation.--The day before Mr. B's death, the Commonalty Society of Maidftone went down the Medway to New Hithe, according to annual cuftom. On their return, a little before they reached the wharf, where fire-works are ufually difplayed on this occafion, the stewards received information that he was worfe, and that his fpeedy diffolution was inevitable. The colours were immediately ftruck; no bells were rung; no fire-works were dif played; and the company filently difperfed, from motives of refpect to a man whofe death, by the inhabitants of Maidstone and its neighbourhood, is confidered as a public lofs. 29. At Barham, in Kent, Mr. Thomas Culling, fen. formerly of Canterbury.

Aug. 8. At Molfheim, in Alface, aged 88, and in full poffettion of his faculties, M. Jeoffroy Bouitliliere He was mafter of almoft all the learning of modern times, and had employed the latter part of his life in exploring the mysteries and phænomena of nature, by the laws of mathematicks.

13. At Overbury, co. Worcester, in her 22d year, the Lady of Joseph Smith, esq. private fecretary to Mr. Pitt.

15. Mr. Jofeph Clarke, ftationer, late of Lynn.

17. At Vicenza, near Venice, Sir Francis Vincent, bart. of Stoke Dabernon, in Surrey, a feat inherited from a long line of ancestors. About a year ago, he was appointed his Majefty's refident at Venice. He married Mary, only child of Richard Muilman Trench Chifwell, efq. of Dibden, co. Eflex; by whom he has left one fon, Francis, and a daughter.

After a long and painful illness, aged 76, Rev. Dr. Cha. Bagge, rector of Syderstone, and perpetual curate of St. Margaret's, with the chapel of St. Nicholas, in King's Lynn, and Barmer, in Norfolk.

18. At York, Mrs. Beaumont, relict of Rich. B. efq. of Whitley-hall, co. York. Mr. John Morris, formerly a liquor-merchant at Lynn.

19. At his chambers in the college, the Rev. Digby Marth, D. D. fenior fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, profeffor of modern history, register of the University, and member of the Royal Irish Academy.-Whether we confider the greatnefs of his mind, the ftrength of his talents, or the number of his virtues, we cannot hesitate to pronounce him amongst the first characters of which the univerfity, or perhaps the nation, can boast. Calm, deliberate, and reierved; his calmness was fortitude; his deliberation wifdom; his referve modefty. That magnanimity which raifed him above the reach of pathon gave to every action of his life decifion and intrepi

dity;