of Lieut.-Colonel Geary, of the 10th
Dragoons. Mr. Toll's three sons, viz.,
Charles Toll, Esq., the Rev. Ashburn-
ham Philip Toll, and Richard Newman
Toll, M. D., all successively took the
name of Newman, by the King's sign
manual.

Dr. Newman, then Richard Newman
Toll, commenced his medical studies at
his native town, as pupil to the late emi-
nent Dr. Ker, who was at that time
surgeon to the Horse Guards Blue,
generally quartered at Northampton.
Mr. Toll remained three years with
him, and went from thence to St. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital; and afterwards,
for one year, was assistant to Mr. Brom-
field, then Queen's surgeon. Soon after
Mr. Toll passed his examination before
the Royal College of Surgeons; and in
November, 1775, from the excellent
testimonials given him by Mr. Brom-
field and Mr. Percival Pott, he was
recommended to His Majesty for the
purchase of the surgeoncy of the 4th,
or Queen's own Regiment of Dragoons.
His Commission was dated 22d Nov.

1775.

*

On the 16th of June, 1777, Mr. Toll
was married at Hamilton, county of
Lanark, to Miss Purdie, eldest daughter
of Mr. Purdie, of that place. In October,
1778, the University of St. Andrew's
conferred upon him the degree of M. D.;
and in 1790, finding his family increas-
ing, he determined on retiring from the
4th, then at Worcester, in which city he
at one time intended to settle. Honour.
able mention is made of Dr. Toll (with
other army surgeons) in the Gentle-
man's Magazine, for April, 1790 (vol.
lx. p. 305.), when he retired from the

Samwell Newman, Bart., of Fivehead
Magdalen, Dorsetshire.

At the end of the year 1805, Dr.
Newinan retired from practice, and fixed
his residence in the neighbourhood of
Bristol; living quite retired till his death.

In his prime, his taste in music was
very refined and well cultivated; he was
an enthusiast in the works of Handel
particularly; and the ancient authors
were all his favourites. He never neg-
lected, while he was able, to attend Ca-
thedral service, where it was within his
reach; and during his residence in Lon-
don he was acquainted with most of the
great professional and amateur perform-
ers of the day. He was an entertaining and
cheerful companion, and was wrapt up
His intimate ac-
in his family circle.
quaintance with the works of the English
Poets, particularly Shakspeare, and a
retentive memory, tended to enliven
many an hour of his life.

His remains were deposited in his
family vault, in Thornbury Church, on
the 6th of October; his two sons, four
of his sons-in-law, and one grandson,
attended his funeral. His tenants met
and joined the melancholy procession at
Alveston.

Dr. Newman has left two sons, Henry-
Wennan and Ashburnham-Cecil, both
unmarried, and seven daughters: Mary,
the eldest, was married in 1805, to
Captain John Wilson Smith, of the 14th
Regiment of Foot; he died the follow-
ing year, leaving one son: secondly, to
W. Jack, Esq., a merchant in Glasgow,
by whom she has two daughters and one

son.

Anue, the second daughter, died
unmarried in 1804. Eliza-Ann, the
third daughter, was married in 1804, to
Robert Lockhart, Esq., of Castle
Hill and Camnethan, co. Lanark, and
died in 1816, leaving three sons and
four daughters. Charlotte, the fourth,
was married first in 1815, to John
Thomson, Esq., of Kilbank, co. La-
nark, a merchant in Bristol, and had
a son; secondly, to Major James Price
Hely, of His Majesty's service. Susan,
the fifth daughter, was married in 1821,
to James Joseph Whitchurch, Esq. Isa-
bella, the sixth, in 1818, to John Joseph
Goodenough, D.D., Rector of Bow
Brickhill, Bucks, and Master of Bristol
Grammar School. They have two sons
and four daughters. The seventh, and
youngest, Frances, was married in 1826,
to William Killigrew Wait, Esq., of
Westbury Lodge, a merchant in the
city of Bristol, and has two sons.

Dr. Newman's widow survives him,
and he is succeeded in his Gloucester-
shire estates by his eldest son, Henry
Wenman Newman, Esq., who is in the
Commission of the Peace and Lieuten-
ancy of Gloucestershire, and holds the
commission of Captain of a Company
in the militia of the same county. —
Gentleman's Magazine.

P.

PARKE, John, Esq., the cele-
brated musician; and a man alike dis-
tinguished by professional excellence
and private worth; August 2. 1829.

Mr. Parke was born in the year 1745.
For the theory of music, he studied un-
der Baumgarten; and, as an instrumen-
tal performer, under Simpson, the best
hautboy-player of his time. In 1776,
he was engaged by Smith and Stanley,
the successors of Handel, to play the
principal hautboy parts in the oratorios
during Lent; performances which were
then honoured nightly by the presence
of their Majesties. He was next en-
gaged at Ranelagh, where there was a
band of first-rate performers, led by
Hay, first violin to the Queen, Crosdill
playing the violoncello. This engage
ment occupied three nights in the week;
the other three nights Mr. Parke played
at Marylebone Gardens, which were
then in the zenith of their fame, under
Pinto, the celebrated violinist.

In 1768, Mr. Parke was engaged to
play the principal hautboy at the King's
Theatre. About the year 1770, he suc-
ceeded Fischer, the hautboyist from
Dresden, as hautboy-concerto player at
Vauxhall; a situation which he conti-
nued to fill many years with universal
applause. About the same period, Gar-
rick engaged him at Drury Lane The-
atre on the most liberal terms; and
he and Garrick ever afterwards lived
on the most intimate and friendly
footing. Soon afterwards, he was ho-
noured with the patronage and esteem
of His Royal Highness the late Duke of
Cumberland. The Duke, it will be
remembered, was passionately fond of
the science. He would sometimes call
upon Parke in the morning, and order
his band to have some music at his
house, on which occasions His Royal
Highness always played the tenor. Be-
sides this, the Duke generally had mu-
sic three mornings in the week, either at
Cumberland House or at Windsor Lodge,

VOL. XIV.

where Parke frequently attended. To
the Duke's patronage he was also in-
debted for the honour of being musician
in ordinary to His late Majesty.

It was at one of Queen Charlotte's
concerts, at Buckingham House, in the
autumn of 1783, that Mr. Parke was
introduced to our present Sovereign,
then Prince of Wales, who, professing
himself delighted with his performance,
did him the honour to desire his pre-
sence at Carlton House. He accord-
ingly attended, and was immediately
attached to the Carlton House band, on
a salary of 100l. a year.

Mr. Parke was now in high repute.
He performed at the professional con-
cert, -
-at the concert of ancient music,
which their late Majesties attended every
night,—and at many private concerts.
For nearly forty years he was also regu-
larly engaged at all the great provincial
music meetings.

Having long been in the receipt of a
handsome income, and living prudently,
though respectably, Mr. Parke was en-
abled to retire from the duties of his
profession about eighteen years since.
He composed many concertos for his
own performances, but could never be
prevailed on to give them to the world.
Mrs. Beardmore, who died at an early
age, in the year 1822, was his eldest
daughter. She was one of the finest
pianists and orchestral singers of this
country. Mr. Parke has left an amiable
widow, one other daughter, and a son,
who, for his improvement as an archi-
tect, has traversed all the classic and
interesting regions of the globe. It
should be mentioned that Mr. Parke has
left behind him an interesting manu-
script sketch of the general state of mu-
sic in England during the last forty
years. Monthly Magazine.

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PHILLIPS, Wiliam, F. G. S.; 1828.
Mr. Phillips was one of the Society
of Friends, and well known by some
popular works on Geology. These were,
"An Outline of Mineralogy and Geo-
logy," 1815; " An Elementary Intro-
duction to the Knowledge of Mineral-
ogy," 1816; third edition, enlarged, with
numerous woodcuts of crystals, 1823.
Dr. Fitton, in his late annual address to
the Geological Society, thus notices his
labours:

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"Among the members whom we have
lost during the past year, we have had
to regret the death of Mr. William Phil,
lips, who had been for several years
distinguished by his acquirements and
F F

publications on Mineralogy and Geolo-
gy; and whose name stands very credit-
ably prominent in the list of persons,
fortunately numerous in England, who,
though constantly occupied in com-
merce, increase their own happiness,
and promote useful knowledge, by de-
voting their hours to the pursuit of na-
tural science.

"Mr. Phillips was the author of se-
veral papers in our Transactions, all of
them containing proofs of the zeal and
effect with which he pursued his enqui-
ries. It was after the invention of Dr.
Wollaston's reflective goniometer, that
his assiduity and success in the use of
that beautiful instrument enabled him
to produce his most valuable Crystallo-
graphic Memoirs; and the third edition
of his elaborate work on Mineralogy
contains perhaps the most remarkable
results ever yet produced in crystallo-
graphy, from the application of gonio-
metric measurement, without the aid of
mathematics. In our fifth volume, Mr.
Phillips has compared some of the strata
near Dover with those of the opposite
coast of France; and has proved, that
the cliffs on the two sides of the English
Channel, though evidently portions of
strata once continuous, must always
have been separated by a considerable
space.
He was the author likewise of
several detached works, which have ma-
terially promoted the study of mineral-
ogy and geology. But the service for
which he principally claims the grati-
tude of English geologists, is his having
been the proposer of the Geological
"Outlines of England and Wales;" in
which his name is joined to that of the
Rev. William D. Conybeare; a book too
well known to require any new com-
mendation, and to the completion of
which we all look forward with increas-
ing interest and expectation.” - Gentle
man's Magazine.

PLOWDEN, Francis, Esq. LL.D,
at his apartments in the Rue Vaugirard,
Paris; at an advanced age.

This gentleman was a member of the
eminent Catholic family of the name,
and brother to the Rev. Charles Plow-
den, a Roman Catholic priest, and tutor
at Stoneyhurst, author of several pro-
fessional works, and to the Rev. Robert
Plowden, priest at Bristol. The bar-
rister's first works were: "An Inves-
tigation of the Native Rights of British
Subjects, 1784,"8vo.-" A Supplement
to the same, written in relation to the
case of the Earl of Newburgh, a de-

In 1792, Mr. Plowden published
"Jura Anglorum; the Rights of Eng-
lishmen; being an historical and legal
Defence of the present Constitution,"
8vo. ; and at the Encænia at Oxford, on
the 5th of July, in the following year,
the honorary degree of D. C. L. was
conferred upon him. In 1794, it was
attacked by an octavo pamphlet, called
"A Letter to Francis Plowden, Esq.,
Conveyancer, of the Middle Temple, on
his Work entitled 'Jura Anglorum.' By
a Roman Catholic Clergyman." Dr.
Plowden's next publications were, "A
short History of the British Empire
during the last Twenty Months; viz.
from May, 1792, to the close of the year
1793. London. 1794," 8vo. ---" A
friendly and constitutional Address to
the People of Great Britain, 1794," 8vo.
In the title-page of this he styled himself
"LL. D. of Gray's Inn, Conveyancer."
In the same year, John Reeves, Esq.,
another well-known legal and political-
writer, printed "The Malcontents; a
Letter to Francis Plowden, Esq. ;" and
there was also "A Letter from an As-
sociator to Francis Plowden, Esq."

The next productions of Mr. Plow-
den were, "Church and State; being
an Enquiry into the Origin, Nature,
and Extent of Ecclesiastical and Civil
Authority, with Reference to the Bri-
tish Constitution, 1795," 4to. — “A
short History of the British Empire
during the Year 1794. London, 1795,"
8vo." A Treatise upon the Law of
Usury and Annuities," 1796, 1797,
8vo." The Constitution of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
Civil and Ecclesiastical, 1802," 8vo.

In 1803 appeared, in two quarto vo-
lumes, his grand work, entitled "An
Historical Review of the State of Ire-
land, from the Invasion of that Country,
under Henry II., to its Union with
Britain in 1801. London, 1803. Of
this, an elaborate critique, by Sir Rich-
ard Musgrave, the author of the His-

tory of the Irish Rebellion, appeared in
the British Critic, continued through
more than one number; and which was
afterwards published in a separate form,
"with" additions, corrections, and an
appendix, under the title of " Strictures
upon an Historical Review of the State
of Ireland, by Francis Plowden, Esq.;
or, a Justification of the Conduct of the
English Governments in that Country,
from the Reign of Henry the Second to
the Union of Great Britain and Ire-
land."
Mr. Plowden published, in re-
ply, two pamphlets, one entitled, "A
Postliminious Preface to the Historical
Review of the State of Ireland; con-
taining a Statement of the Author's
Communications to the Right Hon.
Henry Addington, &c. upon the Sub-
ject of that Work; Strictures upon the
British Critic, and other Traducers of
the Irish Nation; and, also, Observ-
ations on Lord Redesdale's Letters to
the Earl of Fingal, 1804," 4to. ; and the
other, "An Historical Letter to Sir
Richard Musgrave, Bart., occasioned
by his Strictures on the Historical Re-
view, 1805," 8vo. In 1806, Mr. Plow-
den published "The Principles and Law
of Tithing illustrated, adapted to the
Convenience of all Persons interested in
Tithes," royal 8vo. ; in 1807, “A Re-
futation of the Charge of having impro-
vidently and maliciously advised the
Prosecution in the Case of the King
versus Graham," 8vo.; and, in 1812,
an octavo edition, in five volumes, of
"The History of Ireland, from 1172 to
1810."

At the Lifford Assizes, April 4.
1813, Mr. Plowden was prosecuted by
Mr. Hart for a libel contained in the
History of Ireland. A verdict of 5000l.
damages was obtained against him: the
consequence of which was his retire-
ment to France, where he passed the re-
mainder of his life, we fear not without
pecuniary difficulties.

Mr. Plowden's lady died at her son's-
in-law, the Earl of Dundonald, at
Hammersmith, in July, 1827. She also
was an author; and published, in 1800,
"Virginia; a comic opera, in three
acts. Their eldest son, Captain Plow-
den, was shot in a duel in Jamaica,
where he was aide-de-camp to General
Churchill. The eldest daughter, Anna-
Maria, became the third Countess of
Archibald, ninth and present Earl of
Dundonald, in April, 1819, and died
Sept. 18. 1822; Frances-Penelope, an-
other daughter, died Nov. 16. 1796, aged

14.; and Mary, the youngest, was mar-
ried Feb. 2. 1800, to John Morrough,
Esq. of Cork.-Gentleman's Magazine.
PYTCHES, John, Esq.; May 15.
1829; in the King's Bench Prison; aged
fifty-five.

At

He was born at Gazeley, in Suffolk,
in 1774, and resided for some years at
Groton House, in that county. In
1802 he was returned a burgess in Par-
liament for Sudbury, being elected on
the popular interest. In 1805 he joined
in the vote of censure moved against
Lord Melville by Mr. Whitbread.
the general election in 1806 he was
again returned for Sudbury, as the se-
cond on the poll, having 493 votes. At
the election in 1807 he again offered
himself, but was unsuccessful. The
candidates on this occasion were Sir J.
C. Hippisley, Bart, who polled 460
votes; E. F. Agar, Esq., who polled
433; Mr. Wells, who polled 245; and
Mr. Pytches, who polled 174. He mar-
ried the only surviving daughter of the
late John Revet, of Brandeston Hall,
Esq., by whom he has left issue a son
and daughter; the former of whom bas
assumed the name of Revet. In 1809
Mr. Pytches published proposals for,
and a specimen of, an English Diction-
ary, which should supersede that of Dr.
Johnson's, under the following title,
"Plan of a New Copious English Dic-
tionary," fol. but there the project
ended. His other publications are,
"Speeches in the House of Commons,
from 1802 to 1805," 8vo. ; and " Prize
Enigmas in the Gentleman's Diary.
On the 29th of April, 1818, a petition
was presented by him to the House of
Commons against the oppressive enact-
ments of the copyright act. Gentle-
man's Magazine.

R.

ROCHE, Eugenius, Esq., Editor of
the Courier Newspaper; at his house in
Hart Street, Bloomsbury; November 9.
1829; aged 43.

In recording the death of Mr. Roche,
we have to lament the loss of a gentle-
man whose kindness of heart and amia-
bility of manners endeared him to all
who had the pleasure of his acquaint-
ance. This common-place panegyric,
applied to Mr. Roche, is literally cor-
rect; but his claims upon our recollec-
tion are those of a public character — of
one who laboured, unostentatiously, in

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the field of literature who silently
held forth to his brother-labourer the
friendly hand of assistance—and who
so shaped his course through the
angry
ocean of politics and contending opi-
nions, as to command not merely the
respect but the love of all parties, with
out compromising his own integrity.
Every transaction of his life-nay,
every sentence which fell from his pen
(and this, when speaking of a political
writer, is an extraordinary assertion),
were distinguishable by sincerity of in-
tention, and kindliness of feeling. Few
men, we believe, of purer intention
ever lived.

Mr. Roche was a scion of the house
of Fermoy distinguished in history by
its heroic conduct in the cause of the
unfortunate Charles-its devoted at-
tachment to that cause, Lord Roche
having contributed a large portion of
his pay, obtained from a foreign service,
to the support of Charles II. when in
exile; and, by the profligate return made
by that monarch for such conduct, his
benefactor's widow having been an aged
and miserable beggar in the streets of
Cork.

We can scarcely call Mr. Roche an
Irishman, although he was born in Dub-
lin, in 1786; for his parents emigrated
with their family to France before he
had attained the age of two years. In
France Mr. Roche remained until he
was eighteen, and received there a libe-
ral education; in the course of which he
distinguished himself by obtaining va-
rious prizes. His father (who is still
living) held a situation as professor of
modern languages under the French
government; and strongly enforced on
his children the necessity of studying the
English and Italian languages: so that
Mr. Roche, when he made his way into
England in 1804, was an accomplished
scholar, baving composed various poems
in French (which may be called his own
tongue), in English, Italian, Latin, and
Greek.

Mr. Roche brought with him to Lon-
don the strongest letters of recommend.
ation to Messrs. Hoare, of Fleet-street,
by whom he was received in the kindest
manner, particularly by the late Mr.
Hoare, in whose house he was a guest
for nearly two years.

Before Mr. Roche had attained the
age of twenty, he was editor of The Day,
a morning newspaper; and, as editor of
it, he suffered twelve months' imprison-
ment for a paragraph adjudged to be a

libel on the government, although it was
distinctly understood that such para-
graph had been inserted by the proprie-
tors of that journal without his know-
ledge.

Ön his liberation from confinement,
Mr. Roche bcame editor of The National
Register, a weekly paper; and, subse-
quently, the editor of a magazine called
Literary Recreations. It is a curious
fact, which, we believe, has not been
before mentioned, that in this periodical
were printed some of the earliest pro-
ductions of Lord Byron, Allan Cun-
ningham, and Gaspey. Lord Byron's
verses beginning with," There is a mys-
tic thread in life," were enclosed to the
editor in a note, stating, that if they
were deemed worthy of insertion in his
valuable publication, they were quite at
his service; and, if inserted, his Lord-
ship requested that some copies of the
magazine should be sent to him.

On the demise of his Literary Recre-
ations, Mr. Roche took a distinguished
share in the editorship of the Morning
Post; and it is rather a strange fact in
the history of the press, that, after twenty
years, he should have returned to the
editorship of the Day, the title of which
had been changed into the New Times,
and has since been transformed into the
Morning Journal. Before this latter
change, however, took place, Mr. Roche
became a shareholder in the Courier, and
editor of that paper.

Mr. Roche's death, notwithstanding
he had been for some time past in bad
health, was unexpected. His confine-
ment had not exceeded a fortnight; and
on Monday morning, the 9th of Nov.,
1829, at six o'clock, he expired at his
house in Hart Street, Bloomsbury
Square.

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The only publications of Mr. Roche
that bear his name are two tragedies,
called The Invasion," and "William
Tell: " the latter of which was in re-
hearsal at Drury Lane when that theatre
was destroyed by fire, and was conse-
quently never produced. Mr. Roche
also appeared as the author of words to
a set of French melodies arranged by
Mademoiselle Jams. Of Mr. Roche's
editorial labours, or contributions to
various temporary publications, it is im-
possible for us to speak; but we know
that he has left numerous manuscripts
behind him, which will secure for him
the recollection of posterity. From
these we trust a judicious selection will
be made for publication. One poem,