the premature loss of one thus highly
and amiably gifted more intensely felt
or more deeply deplored. The Ceylon
Gazette contained the following tribute
to his memory: -

"Colombo, Saturday, May 24. 1828.
"It is with feelings of no common
regret, in which we are sure that our
readers will fully sympathise, that we
have to announce the death of the
Honourable Henry Matthews, Esq.,
Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of
Ceylon. This melancholy event took
place at his house at Mutwall, at one
o'clock in the morning of last Tuesday,
20th May; and in the evening of that
day, his remains were interred in St.
Peter's Church, in the Fort of Colombo,
with the honours due to his rank.
funeral was attended (his Excellency
the Governor being absent from Colom-
bo) by the Chief Justice, the members of
His Majesty's Council, the gentlemen
of the several services, civil and military,
and other European inhabitants of the
place; by the second Maha Modeliar,
and many of the principal Modeliars
and Chiefs, as well as a considerable
number of the most respectable natives,
desirous of testifying their respect to
the memory of the deceased. Mr.

The

Matthews was born in 1789.
He was
educated at Eton, and afterwards be-
came a Fellow of King's College, Cam-
bridge. In 1817 he left England for
the Continent on account of ill health;
and on his return in 1819, published his
"Diary," which is well known, and
generally admired. In the latter end
of 1821, having been previously called
to the Bar, he was appointed Advocate
Fiscal of Ceylon, and fulfilled the duties
of that office, with the warm and un-
qualified approbation of His Majesty's
Government, till last October; when he
was promoted to the Bench, on the
vacancy occasioned by the death of Sir
Hardinge Giffard. The short period
during which it was permitted to Mr.
Matthews to exercise his judicial func-
tions, fully realized the expectations
even of those who had been in the habit
of listening to and admiring his brilliant
efforts as an Advocate. His natural
talents were of the very highest order.
Strength of mind, quickness of percep-
tion, and accuracy of judgment, directed
and tempered a warmth of feeling which
influenced every action of his life, and
an ardour in the discharge of his public
duties which neither fatigue nor bodily
suffering could damp, nor any thing but

death itself extinguish. His attainments,
independently of such as were incidental
to his profession, were those of an elegant
scholar and a polished gentleman. It is
scarcely necessary to add, that the death
of such a man is a severe loss not only
to his profession, but to the public. But
it was in the private relations of life, and
above all in the bosom of his family,
that it was most pleasing to contemplate
his amiable and endearing qualities. As
a husband and a father, his conduct was
above all praise. Such indeed was his
devotedness to the dearest objects of his
affections, that he might have been sup-
posed to be wholly absorbed in them,
if the number of his friends, who now
deplore his loss, did not testify that his
heart was as capacious as it was open
and accessible. His highly cultivated
mind and extensive information, his
manly and generous sentiments, and
the playfulness of his imagination, ren-
dered him the charm and delight of so-
ciety; and not to love him, was scarcely
possible. Kind and affectionate as was
his life, his end was in every way worthy
of it. On the bed of sickness and of
death, his body worn down by lingering
disease, he was still the same;
thoughts still fixed on every one, rather
than himself. Fortitude the most un-
daunted, resignation the most exem-
plary, marked his last moments ; and
gave proof, cheering and undeniable, of
a mind calmly conscious of its own
rectitude."

his

New Monthly Magazine.

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MAWE, Thomas, Esq. Author of
"Travels in the Interior of Brazil," &c.
and Member of the Mineralogical Society
Jena; Oct. 26, 1829; at his residence
in the Strand, after an illness of severe
and protracted suffering. Mr. Mawe
was in the 65th year of his age; and,
through a long life of honourable and
successful exertion, few individuals have
been more actively or usefully engaged
in literary and scientific pursuits.
his enterprise and talent this country
was indebted for the most faithful and
interesting description of the Brazilian
States, which he traversed in the year
1810, under the sanction and auspices
of the Prince Regent of Portugal (after..
wards King John VI.), for the purpose
of inspecting the extensive gold and
diamond districts of that empire; being
the first Englishman to whom such a
permission was granted. His "Travels
in the Interior of Brazil," which first ap-
peared in 1812, took immediate rank
amongst the most valuable standard

works of that class; and have not only
gone through numerous editions in
England and the United States of
America, but have also been translated
into almost all the continental languages,
and published in France, Sweden, Ger-
many, Russia, Portugal, and Brazil.
Mr. Mawe also contributed essentially
to Lamarck's Conchology; published
Lessons on Mineralogy and Geology,
which volume has gone through many
editions; a Treatise on Diamonds; the
Linnean System of Conchology; and
other useful and successful works. As
a mineralogist, Mr. Mawe was deserv-
edly held in the highest estimation, for
the variety and importance of his in-
formation, and the facility with which he
developed the principles of his favourite
science. In the domestic relations of
life, as a husband and as a father, he
was warmly affectionate, and fondly
solicitous for the happiness of his family;
as a friend, he was kind, sincere, and
stedfast; and in his intercourse with
mankind, the cheerfulness of his dispo-
sition, the unblemished integrity of his
character, the instructiveness of his con-
versation, and the suavity of his man-
ners, won for him the respect, the
esteem, and the regard of all who knew
him. Literary Gazette.

MONCKE, George Paris, Esq.
Captain R. N.; at Dunkirk; Nov. 14.
1828.

This officer was the only son of a Cap-
tain in the Royal Horse Guards. He
entered the Navy in June, 1775, as a
midshipman on board the Worcester
64, commanded by Capt. Mark Robin.
son, and forming part of a small squa-
dron of observation then about to proceed
on a cruize off Cape Finisterre, under
Commodore Sir Peter Parker.

In March, 1777, Mr. Monke was
transferred to the Fox, of 28 guns,
Capt. P. Fotheringham. That ship was
captured by two American frigates,
June 8th following (though afterwards
retaken on its way to Boston by Capt.
John Brisbane, of the Flora frigate).
Mr. Monke was taken in one of them
to Boston, where he remained in close
confinement for several months. After
that period he and his fellow prisoners
were exchanged, and reinstated in their
former posts on board the Fox; which
ship returned to England in February,

1778.

We next find the subject of this me-
moir serving in the Courageux 74, and
acting as Aid-de-camp to Capt. Lord

Mulgrave, in the action off Ushant, be-
tween Keppel and D'Orvilliers.

In Sept. 1780, being strongly recom-
mended by Lord Mulgrave, Mr. Monke
was appointed to act as Lieutenant of
the Harpy fire-vessel, in which he con-
tinued until Nov. 1781; when he re-
ceived a commission for the Warrior 74,
Capt. Sir James Wallace, under whom
he served as fourth of that ship in Rod-
ney's battle with De Grasse, April 9
and 12. 1782; on which days her total
loss amounted to five killed and 21
wounded. He also assisted at the cap-
ture of two French 64-gun ships, one
frigate, and a corvette, in the Mona Pas-
sage, on the 19th of the same month.

On the arrival of the victorious fleet
at Jamaica, Lieut. Monke was appointed
first of Le Jason 64, Capt. John Aylmer,
with whom he returned home in the
month of October following; that ship
having miraculously weathered the tre-
mendous hurricane, which proved so
fatal to the Centaur, Ramillies, Ville-
de-Paris, Glorieux, and Hector, as well
as to numerous merchant vessels which
had sailed for England under the pro-
tection of Rear-Admiral Graves.

In 1790 Lieutenant Monke was ap-
pointed to cominand the Speedwell cut-
ter, and employed on various services,
under the orders of Lord Howe. In
1792, while cruising on the Yorkshire
coast, he captured the Hell-afloat, a
very fine smuggling cutter of 14 guns,
the exact number mounted by his own
vessel.

A short time previous to the com-
mencement of the French revolutionary
war, Lieut. Monke proceeded to Ham-
burgh, for the purpose of bringing over
a number of British sailors, who had
recently been wrecked in different ves-
sels on the coast of Jutland, and he
succeeded in prevailing on a hundred of
them to embark with him in the Speed-
well. During the passage home - a very
stormy one, and prolonged by contrary
winds-he found himself obliged to keep
the deck night and day, in order to se-
cure these men for the Navy, it being
known that they intended, if possible,
to seize the cutter, run her ashore, and
thus avoid impressment.
In conse-
quence of the fatigue he endured on
this occasion, his health was so seriously
injured as to render it necessary for him
to resign his desirable command in Aug.
1793.

Lieutenant Monke's subsequent ap-
pointments were to the Maidstone fri-

gate, and Ville-de-Paris, of 110 guns,
from which latter ship he was promoted
to the rank of Commander, in March

1797.

Finding himself now possessed of
much unwished-for leisure, Captain
Monke compiled, and in 1799 pub-
lished, "A Vocabulary of Sea Phrases,
and Terms of Art used in Seamanship
and Naval Architecture." The work
consists of two pocket volumes, in En-
glish and French, containing all the
orders necessary for working a ship, and
carrying on the duty, as well at sea as
in port; by means of which an English
prize-master, however ignorant of the
French nautical language, may navigate
a ship of that nation with part of her
own crew, whenever circumstances, for
a while, prevent a sufficient number of
British seamen being put on board for
that purpose.
In July 1808 Captain
Monke was appointed to the Centurion
50, armed en flute, and ordered to con-
vey naval stores to Halifax. We sub-
sequently find him commanding the
Statira frigate pro temp. and assisting
at the reduction of Guadaloupe. His
post commission bears date Jan. 12.
1810.

We now arrive at the unfortunate
conclusion of Captain Monke's profes-
sional career. In Oct. 1810, he assumed
the command of the Pallas 32, and pro-
ceeded from the Frith of Forth to cruise
for a month on the coast of Norway,
where his boats, under the direction of
Lieut. M'Curdy, captured, in the cove
of Siveraag, two Danish cutter-priva-
teers of inconsiderable force. Returning
to Leith Roads, pursuant to his orders,
he had the misfortune to be wrecked
near Dunbar, in the night of Dec. 18.,
his pilots having mistaken the light
issuing from a lime-kiln for the light on
the Isle of May, and the latter for that
on the Bell Rock. It is not a little
singular that, at the very same time, the
Nymph 36, Capt. Edward Sneyd Clay,
though not in company with the Pallas,
went ashore under exactly similar cir-
cumstances, and was also totally wrecked
within a short distance of her.

Capt. Monke was not afterwards em-
ployed. Abridged from Marshall's
Royal Naval Biography.

MONTGOMERIE, Lieut.-Gene-
ral James, Colonel of the 30th foot,
M. P. for Ayrshire; youngest brother
to the late, and great uncle to the pre-
sent, Earl of Eglintoun; April 13.
1829; at Bath.

Lieut.-Gen. Montgomerie was the fifth
and youngest son of Alexander Mont-
gomerie, of Coylsfield, Esq. (great grand-
son of Alexander sixth Earl of Eglin-
toun), by Lillias, daughter of Sir Robert
Montgomerie, Bart. Ile was appointed
Ensign in the 51st foot, Sept. 13. 1773,
and joined the regiment at Minorca early
in 1774. At the close of 1775, he ex-
changed into the 19th foot, and was
appointed Adjutant by Gen. James
Murray. In 1776 he returned with his
regiment to England, and succeeded to
a Lieutenancy July 22. 1778. In Fe-
bruary 1780 he was appointed- to a
Company in the 93d, and sailed with an
expedition to the West Indies. Soon
after arriving at Jamaica, the 95d was
drafted and sent home; Capt. Mont-
gomerie remained in that island on the
Staff, as Major of Brigade to Gen.
Garth, but returned to Europe at the
end of 1781.

On

On the reduction of the corps at the
peace of 1783, Capt. Montgomerie was
placed on half pay; but in November
1786 purchased into the 10th foot, and
joined in Jamaica. In 1790 he was sent
to England on the recruiting service; in
February 1793 he rejoined his regiment,
and continued with it until 1794.
his return to Great Britain, he was ap-
pointed Major of Brigade to Major-Gen.
Bruce; and in March 1794 received the
brevet of Major. In May 1795, having
been appointed Lieut.-Colonel of the
6th West India Regiment, he sailed
with the officers to Martinique, in order
to raise that corps; but not succeeding,
he offered his services in the expedition
under Sir Ralph Abercromby in 1796,
was removed April 5. that year to the
31st Light Dragoons, and appointed by
that General to command the troops at
St. Kitt's. He remained there till ex-
changed in 1798 into the 45th, which
regiment he joined at Dominica, but
was shortly after obliged to return to
England from ill health.

He

He was appointed Colonel by brevet
April 29. 1802, and in 1804 Lieut.-Co-
lonel of the 64th foot. In February of
the latter year he was appointed Briga-
dier-General in the West Indies.
sailed in March with Sir William Myers,
Commander of the Forces, and was se-
lected by him to hold the civil and
military command at Tobago. In 1805
he was removed to the Colonies of De-
merara and Berbice, where he remained
until November, 1808; during the great-
er part of which time he acted as Go-

NARES, the Rev. Robert, M.A.,
F. R.S., F.S.A., V. P. R.S.L., Arch-
deacon of Stafford, Canon Residentiary
of Litchfield, and Rector of Allhallows,
London Wall; March 23. 1829; at
his house in Hart Street, Bloomsbury;
aged 75.

Few individuals have departed from
this life more deeply and universally
lamented by the literary world, and the
private circle of attached and distinguish-
ed friends, than this accomplished man.
Anexemplary divine, a profound scholar,
a laborious and judicious critic, and an
elegant writer, his intimacy was courted
as earnestly for the instruction it sup-
plied as for the taste and vivacity of
manners by which it was embellished;
and the merit of these varied talents was
exalted by that unassuming modesty
which uniformly marked and adorned
his character.

He was born at York, on June 9th,
1753; the son of Dr. James Nares, an
eminent composer and teacher of music,
and who was for many years organist
and composer to Kings George II. and
III.* His uncle, the Hon. Sir George
Nares, was for fifteen years one of the
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas.
Educated at Westminster School, he
became a King's Scholar at the head of
his election in 1767; and was subse-
quently elected in 1771 to a studentship
of Christ Church, Oxford, where he took
the degree of B. A. 1775, and M. A.
1778, and about the same time took
orders. From 1779 to 1783 he resided
in the family of the late Sir Watkin
Williams Wynne, as tutor to his sons,

Of this gentleman, there is a satis-
factory memoir in the " Biographical
Dictionary." He died Feb. 10. 1783.

the present Baronet and his brother the
Right Hon. Charles Williams Wynne ;
and from 1786 to 1788 they were under
his tuition at Westminster School.

Christ

In 1782 he obtained from
Church the living of Easton Mauduit in
Northamptonshire, and shortly after that
of Doddington in the same county, and
in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor.
In 1787 he was honoured by the ap-
pointment of a Chaplaincy to his late
Royal Highness the Duke of York; and
in the ensuing year he was nominated an
Assistant Preacher of the Honourable
Society of Lincoln's Inn, where for
fifteen years a learned auditory duly ap-
preciated his powers of argument and
depth of erudition. In 1790 he assisted
in completing Bridges's "History of
Northamptonshire," and wrote the pre-
face to that work. In 1795 he was
elected F.S. A., and in the same year
became one of the assistant Librarians of
the British Museum; and afterwards
Librarian for the MS. department,
where he prepared the Third Volume of
the Harleian Catalogue of MSS. pub-
lished by the Record Commission. This
situation he resigned in 1807. In 1798
he was presented to the Rectory of
Sharnford, in Leicestershire, which he
resigned in 1799, on being collated to
the Fifth Stall of the Canons Residen-
tiary of Litchfield; and in the following
year was appointed Archdeacon of Staf-
ford. In 1804 he was elected F. R. S.
In 1805 he was presented to the living of
St. Mary, Reading, which he resigned
in 1818 for that of Allhallows, London
Wall.

The Archdeacon was thrice married,
and left no issue. In 1784 to a daugh-
ter of Thomas Bayley, Esq. of Chelms-
ford. In 1794 to a daughter of Charles
Fleetwood, Esq. In 1800 to a daugh-
ter of the Rev. Dr. Smith, many years
Head Master of Westminster School;
and she survives to lament her loss.

His publications were as follows:
1. " Periodical Essays, No 1. Dec.
2. 1780. No. X. Feb. 3. 1781."

2. "An Essay on the Demon, or
Divination of Socrates," 8vo. 1782.

3. "Elements of Orthoëpy; contain-
ing a distinct view of the whole Analogy
of the English Language, so far as it
relates to Pronunciation, Accent, and
Quantity, 1784," 8vo.

4. "Remarks on the favourite Ballet
of Cupid and Psyche; with some Ac-
count of the Pantomime of the Antients,
1788," 12mo.

5. "Principles of Government de-
duced from Reason, &c. 1792," 8vo.

6. "An Abridgement of the same,
adapted to general instruction and use ;
with a new Introduction, 1793," 8vo.

7. "Man's best Right; a serious
Appeal in the name of Religion, 1793,"

8vo.

8. In the same year he commenced
the British Critic, in conjunction with
the Rev. W. Beloe. The editorship
was entrusted to the judgment, sagacity,
learning, and acuteness of Mr. Nares;
and the vigour and perseverance with
which the British Critic was conducted
through difficult and dangerous times
are well known. To each of the half
yearly volumes of the British Critic
was prefixed a Preface, always written
by Mr. Nares, recapitulating the litera-
ture of the period. Mr. Nares pro-
ceeded with the work till the end of the
forty-second Volume, and then resigned
it to others.

9. "Discourses preached before the
Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn, 1794,"
8vo.

10. "A Thanksgiving for Plenty,
and a Warning against Avarice; a Ser-
mon, preached at the Cathedral at Litch-
field, on Sunday, Sept. 20. 1801," 8vo.

11. "The Benefit of Wisdom, and the
Evils of Sin; a Sermon preached be-
fore the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn,
on Sunday, Nov. 6. 1803, and publish-
ed at the request of the Bench," 8vo.

12. "A connected and chronological
View of the Prophecies of the Christian
Church; in 12 Sermons, preached in
Lincoln's Inn Chapel, from the year
1800 to 1804, at the Lecture founded by
Bishop Warburton, 1806," 8vo.

13. "Essays and other occasional
Compositions, chiefly reprinted, 1810,"
2 vols. small 8vo.

14. "Protestantism the Blessing of
Britain; a Fast Sermon, preached at
the Cathedral of Litchfield, on Wednes-
day, February 28. 1810," 8vo.

15. "On the Influence of Sectaries,
and the Stability of the Church; a
Charge delivered to the Clergy of the
Archdeaconry of Stafford, on the days
of Visitation, at Cheadle, Stafford, and
Walsall, in June, 1812," 4to.

卓 16. "The Veracity of the Evange-
lists demonstrated, by a comparative
View of their Histories, 1816," 12mo.

17. "A Glossary; or Collection of
Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions
to Customs, Proverbs, &c. which have
been thought to require Illustration in

the Works of English Authors, particu-
larly Shakspeare and his Contempora-
ries, 1822," 4to.

18. "A Volume of Sermons on Faith
and other Subjects, 1825," 8vo.

19. In 1815 Mr. Nares edited Dr.
Purdy's Lectures on the Church Cate-
chism, &c. to which he prefixed a Bio-
graphical Preface, giving some account
of the Author, and of two of his most
intimate friends, the Rev. T. Butler
and Lawson Huddleston, Esq. men of
distinguished talent and worth.

In 1798 Mr. Nares, in conjunction
with the Rev. W. Tooke and the Rev.
W. Beloe, revised and enlarged the Ge-
neral Biographical Dictionary, in 15 vols.
8vo. Mr. Tooke's portion of the work
was Vol. I. to V. Mr. Nares's, Vols.
VI. VIII. X. XII. and XIV.; and
Mr. Beloe's, Vols. VII. IX. XI. XIII.
and XV. This edition was enlarged by
no less a number than 3424 lives, either
entirely new written, or for the first
time added.

To the Sermons of the late Dr. Vin
cent, Dean of Westminster, published
in 1817, Archdeacon Nares prefixed a
Life of that excellent and learned per-

son.

Mr. Nares materially assisted in the
establishment of the Royal Society of
Literature; and in 1823 was elected
one of the first Vice-Presidents. In
1824 he contributed to the Society "An
Historical Account of the Discoveries
that have been made in Palimpsest (or
Rescript) Manuscripts :" and, in 1826,
"A Memoir on the Religion and Di-
vination of Socrates." He contributed,
also, to the Archæologia of the Society
of Antiquaries, "Observations on the
Discoveries of Part of a Sarcophagus at
Reading Abbey, supposed to have con-
tained the Remains of Henry I." (Vol.
XVIII. p. 272.)

To the Gentleman's Magazine Mr.
Nares was a frequent and most accept-
able contributor.

Such is the imperfect memorial of this
estimable man from the pen of one at-
tached to him since infancy, and one
who best knew his virtues and acquire-
ments. Gentleman's Magazine.

NEWMAN, Rich. Newman, M. D.;
at Clifton; Sept. 29. 1829; in his 77th
year.

He was born at Northampton, on the
8th of November, 1752, and was third
son of Ashburnham Toll, Esq. of Pres-
ton Deanery, formerly an attorney of
Northampton, by Miss Geary, daughter