LIEUT.-GEN. GORDON.

Sept. 9. At Bagnères de Bigorre, his chateau, near Paris, aged 72, Lieut.General Benjamin Gordon, of Balbithan, co. Aberdeen.

He was the eldest son of William Forbes, esq. late of Skellater, co. Aberbeen, esq. and assumed the name of Gordon a good many years ago pursuant to the will of his maternal great-uncle, General Benjamin Gordon, of Balbi than; but he did not receive the royal license for so doing, until the 26th Aug. 1836, when he was permitted to continue to use the name of Gordon only.

He was appointed Lieutenant in the 73d regiment in Aug. 1779, and reduced in 1783; Lieutenant in the 75th in 1787; Capt.-Lieut. in the same, Sept. 1791; brevet Major, 1795; and Lieut.-Colonel, 1800; Major in the 77th 1801, and removed to the 80th in 1802; Lieut. - Colonel of that regiment in 1805; and Colonel in the army in 1810. He served in India from 1788 to 1811, with trifling intermission; and during that time was in most of the battles under Lord Cornwallis, Sir Robert Abercromby, Generals Stuart, Hartley, and Harris. He commanded the grenadiers of the 75th at the storming of Seringapatam; was one of the Prize Agents there, and afterwards commanded the provinces of Malabar and Canara. He commanded the light infantry of the 75th regiment at the capture of the French fortress of Mahé, on the Malabar coast, in 1793, and was appointed one of the Prize Agents for the capture. During a short leave to Europe, he was sent in command of a battalion of detachments belonging to India regiments, to the defence of Jersey; and after his final return from India he was for some time on the Irish staff. He was made Major-General, 1813; and Lieut.-General 1825. He was one of the twenty-one general officers receiving reward pensions for distinguished service.

COLONEL HENRY SULLIVAN, C.B. Sept. 4. At Clifton, Colonel Henry Sullivan, C.B., late of the 6th regt.

He was intended for the East India Company's service, for which he had been educated, and to which he was nominated a cadet on the Madras establishment. The success of the British arms in Europe, however, induced him to change the Company's service for that of the King's, with a view of going on immediate service; he therefore resigned his cadetship, and purchased, 17th May, 1798, at the age of sixteen, an ensigncy in the 81st regiment, with which he was stationed at Guernsey. He purchased,

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20th Sept. following, a Lieutenancy in the same corps, and sailed with it in October to the Cape of Good Hope, where he remained until 1800; his services in this colony were most active, being in the Light Infantry: he was employed under Gen. F. Dundas, and T. Vandeleur, during the rebellion of the Dutch settlers, and the Caffre war, in which there were several smart skirmishes, particularly at Botus. He assisted also in the defeat of the French frigate La Preneuse, of 48 guns, in Algoa Bay, when opposed to the Rattlesnake sloop of war, during a night-action of seven hours, being stationed at the batteries thrown up on the beach for the sloop's protection. At the conclusion of the Caffre war he exchanged into the Scotch brigade in India, and immediately departed to join that corps at Madras. He remained in

India until Sept. 1802, when he returned to the Cape to rejoin the 81st, into which regiment he had purchased his company, 10th July, 1801, a few weeks before the colony was ceded to the Dutch. He returned to Portsmouth in March, 1803, and from thence was removed to Jersey, when he obtained the Light Infantry company. At the latter end of 1803, the corps was removed to Plymouth; and on the 21st of July, 1804, he was appointed Major of Brigade to the forces in Ireland, stationed at Londonderry. On the 5th April, 1805, he resigned his staff appointment to join his corps, then embarked at Portsmouth, on an expedition to the Mediterranean, under Gen. Sir James Craig. From this period he was stationed at Lisbon, Gibraltar, Malta, and Sicily, and then joined the expedition of Sir John Stuart to the Bay of St. Euphemia, where the army disembarked and bivouacked for the night, after some skirmishing with the enemy; and on the next day, 4th July, 1806, he was present at and commanded a division of his regiment in the battle of Maida. On the 6th July, he commanded the escort in charge of the French prisoners taken at the battle, and conveyed them to Sicily. On his return through the Straits of Messina, he observed RearAdmiral Sir Sidney Smith bombarding Scylla, to whom he volunteered his services, with the two companies of the 81st under his command; his services were embraced, and the marines of the flagship, and a detachment of seamen, with two lower-deck guns of the Pompée, were disembarked under Capt. Sullivan's command, which was shortly after joined by a brigade of British Artillery, and two thousand levy-en-masse (Calabrese), when the fort was closely invested and besieged. On the 8th day, whilst a flag of

truce was flying for surrender, he was joined by Brig. Gen. Oswald, with a brigade of infantry, which of course deprived him of a command so unusual for a captain to possess. He then joined bis corps at Reggio, in Calabria.

Gen. Fox having granted him three months' leave of absence for the recovery of his health, he embarked in the Halcyon sloop of war, Capt. Pearse, and whilst off Cape St. Mary's, 13th Dec. 1806, was attacked by a Spanish squadron of eight sail, which terminated in the capture of their commodore. On this occasion Captain S. commanded the marines, on his volunteering his services: his name is noticed in the Gazette detailing this action. The destination of the Halcyon being changed at Gibraltar by Lord Col lingwood, Capt. S. was landed at Faro, in the south of Portugal, from whence he travelled to Lisbon, and thence sailed to England. On the 15th Feb. 1807, his leave of absence was renewed for six months.

He then joined the army depôt for the purpose of returning to the Mediterranean, but his promotion to a Majority in the 67th reg. by purchase, 21st July, 1808, altered his destination to Alderney, where he joined his new regiment. He was removed to Guernsey, 8th Aug. 1809, and continued there till 3d Aug. 1810, at which period he was compelled (as the first for duty) to take charge of the regimental depot at Ringwood, on the embarkation of the troops for Cadiz.

In April, 1811, he sailed for India to join the 1st batt. of the 67th regiment, stationed at the Bengal Presidency; and shortly afterwards took the field in command of the left wing of the regiment against the Pindarees. In March, 1812, Sir G. Nugent appointed him Deputy Quartermaster-general in India, with the rank of Lt.-Colonel in the army. This appointment, however, was cancelled by another officer being nominated in England; but Sir G. Nugent provided a similar appointment for him in Java, and named him for the vacant Lieut.-Colonelcy in the 78th regiment. He took charge of his appointment on the 27th Dec. 1813; the Lieut.-Colonelcy was not confirmed, owing to his promotion in England to the 56th reg. under date 1st July, 1813. He continued, however, to remain at Java, in the exercise of his duties as Dep.- Quartermaster- Gen. until the 26th June, 1815, when he was compelled to return to Europe, under the dreadful effects of the climate, which had produced the Batavian fever, from the great personal exertions he encountered during the expedition to the islands of

JOHN GARDINER, ESQ.43 POST Nov. 17. At his residence in the Close of the Cathedral, Lincoln, in his 72d year, John Gardiner, esq. one of Her Majesty's Deputy Lieutenants for the county of Lincoln.

He was the youngest child of the late Major Gardiner, of Mount Amelia in the county of Norfolk, by Ann, daughter of Benjamin Bromhead, esq. of Thurlby Hall, near Lincoln, and entered as surgeon in the navy early in life; being devoted to the profession, for which he was thoroughly prepared, he soon rose to the highest eminence, and after a successful career in ameliorating the excess of human suffering inseparable from a state of warfare, was appointed to the command of the Naval Hospital at Gibraltar, and subsequently held an honorary place in the household of the Duke of Clarence, afterwards King William IV. Since his retirement from public life he chiefly resided at Lincoln, where his talents rendered him an acquisition to society, and his benevolence a blessing to the poor.

Mr. Gardiner by his will made the following munificent bequests to charitable institutions. To the County Hospital at Lincoln, 2001. The Church Missionary Society, 1007. The Royal Humane Society, 1007. The British and Foreign Bible Society, 1007. The Lincolnshire Coast Shipwreck Association, 501. The Lincoln Dispensary, 50%. The poor of St. Mary Magdalene, Lincoln, 107. 10s.; and the poor of St. Peter's at Gowts in Lincoln, 101. 10s.

THOMAS HILL, ESQ.

Dec. 20. At his chambers, Jamesstreet, Adelphi, where he had long resided, Thomas Hill, esq. a gentleman much respected for his kind-hearted attentions to authors, artists, and men of taste in general.

Mr. Hill was born in the north of England; and, whilst carrying on an extensive business as a drysalter in Queenhithe, became at the west end of the town a great book collector, a patron of rising merit, a lover and encourager of art, and one of the leading critics and supporters of the drama. Having met with some severe losses in business, he aban

doned altogether his mercantile pursuits, faliing back upon some property which he possessed in the North, and enjoying society at his ease.

It was chiefly through his influence that the patronage of Southey and Capel Lofft was extended towards Henry Kirke White, and the poet Bloomfield, author of the "Farmer's Boy." He was for many years the joint proprietor, with Mr. Lichfield, of the magazine called the "Monthly Mirror," and, at various times, held other literary and newspaper property. For a long period he favoured the "Morning Chronicle," and since the "Herald," with short, well condensed, and neatly worded paragraphs and criticisms on remarkable new works, accounts of eminent book and other auctions, literary negociations between celebrated authors and publishers, &c. He wrote a remarkably neat, small hand, and never used spectacles. But the principal feature of Mr. Hill's literary character rests upon his great zeal as a liberal collector of old English poetry, few persons having exceeded him in that pursuit, either as regarded industry or expenditure. The gems of his collection were purchased by Messrs. Longman and Co., and they formed the chief bulk of their celebrated catalogue of old English lore, entitled, "Bibliotheca AngloPoetica," (issued in 1815,) which will always rank as one of the most valuable catalogues of books ever published.

"In politics (remarks the Literary Gazette) he was ever moderate and liberal; in letters, ever warm and encouraging. Full of anecdote, he was a welcome guest in every quarter, and few men were ever more sought and invited to the genial board. His own little foible of curiosity, which, we believe, caused him to be set for the portrait of Poole's Paul Pry, often amused his laughing friends at his expense, and never injured a human being. He happened to know' so many people, and so many things, that listeners were often jocular, if not sceptical, upon his statements; but the real truth was, that he had been so widely and so confidentially trusted, that his information was almost incredible. If he has preserved a journal of his daily remarks, and the conversations he has heard, and the circumstances in which he took part, we will venture to say that a more singular and interesting record was never offered to the public notice. We have been told that he did keep such a diary."

to Mr. Hill was of a florid complexion, of active habits, and general good health, and bore his age so remarkably well, that he scarcely looked above sixty, till within a few years of his decease, when his

health first began to decline. He is supposed to have completed his eightieth year. His precise age must, however, remain in that uncertainty in which he ever delighted to involve it, saying, facetiously, that the register of his birth was destroyed in the fire of London !

He died remarkably easy, and his old, faithful, and inseparable friend, Edward Dubois, esq. the barrister, was with him at the time of his decease.

FRANCIS REYNARD, ESQ.

Nov. 21. At the house of his son, the Grammar School, Andover, in his 64th year, Francis Reynard, esq. late of Reading.

Mr. Reynard was born at Knaresborough in the year 1777; and from an early age evinced great partiality for the study of the mathematics, and a predilection for the scholastic profession. In 1800 he was engaged as tutor of the mathematical classes in Reading Grammar School; and, in 1806, established a mathematical school in Castle-street, Reading; which, subsequently, he removed to Brunswick-House Seminary, a large and spacious house, near that town. In the meantime, he published an Historical Chart, which, for its originality and arrangement, has been much praised, and is extensively used. About that period also he suggested many useful additions and improvements to Mr. Pinnock on the preparation of his Cathechisms, Histories, and Geography for Schools. In the year 1813 he published "An Elementary System of Theoretical Geometry, for the use of beginners in the Mathematical Sciences, in eight books, including the doctrine of Ratio; to which were added for exercise, Quæstiones Solvendæ." He introduced this work to the world by a Preface, in which he set out his reasons for preferring the system he had adopted; and advocated the "Direct Method" of demonstration as most appropriate and useful for Schools. In the year 1818, he published "Geometrical Solutions," being a key to the "Quæstiones Solvendæ," which, with the previous work, formed two volumes. The production of this work gained him some celebrity, and established his name as a geometrician and a tutor. lities soon became known; and many of the principal gentry of the country sent their sons to his school, among whom were members of the families of Hill, Cotton, Anson, Popham, Mainwaring, Egerton, Washington, Bellasis, Leycester, Norcott, Taylor, Bramston, Hume, M.P. and Mr. Morton the dramatist. also private mathematical tutor to the

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late and present Lord Newborough, brothers. Of these, be sent many as candidates for examination at the Colleges of Woolwich, Sandhurst, and Addiscombe, and ever experienced a successful result. Nor were his labours or his usefulness thus confined; for, in the course of his life, he educated the sons of many opulent merchants in London, and of the best families of his neighbourhood, as well as natives of France, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, and the Gold Coast, Africa. Mr. Reynard's course of study in mathematics was in Bonnycastle, Dr. Hutton, and Euclid: in classics, that of Eton. The rules of his school have been much admired for their style and matter; and he ever demanded a strict attendance at church, and the daily use of prayers. His liberality will be long remembered in the dramatic exercises which, at the wish of his pupils, he indulged them in, previous to the Christmas vacations. The selections were chiefly from Shakspere, and the style in which the plays were represented, evinces that he was a correct and enlightened reader of that author. On one occasion he reprinted Moliere's "Les Fourberies de Scapin," which was played throughout by his scholars, in the original language, being assisted by their tutor, L'Abbé de Lanöe. The prologues and epilogues which he wrote on these occasions, with other fugitive pieces, shew considerable talent; and that, in the relaxation from severer studies, he courted the Muses with some success. In 1834 he was presented, at a dinner at which Adam Washington, esq. barrister-at-law, presided, by his pupils, with a handsome silver Tea and Coffee Service, inscribed with an elegant and classical eulogium. On the occasion of the performance by his scholars of "The Merchant of Venice," an epilogue, written by the late Thomas Morton, esq. opened thus:--

Thanks, Gentles all; and, most of all, I bend To you, my honour'd Master and Friend! my That tribute, so sincere, so just, so fond, Lies nearest to my heart-So says the bond."" And in true spirit was it written; for be it said, much to the honour of this esti

mable man, that in the latter years of his life he frequently received visits from his old pupils (many of them having served as officers in India), who came to tender him an expression of their thanks for his kindness and attention to them in their youth.

Mr. Reynard was industrious in his habits, and laboured with great zeal in his vocation his parental kindness : his earnest and impressive admonitions-his philosophical and improving conversations

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-his patience in the study-his cheerfulness in the hours devoted to pleasurewill be long remembered. As a Christian, he was moral and devout-as a citi. zen, he firmly adhered to the Church and Constitution of his country-as a scholar, he merited and obtained the consideration of the mathematicians of his day. course of more than 30 years in scholastic labour, combined with the periodical attacks of a constitutional asthmatic complaint, left him but a short retirement. "His end was peace." He had journeyed through life in a course of rectitude, and without blame-he smiled at the approach of death, and died with composure.

WILLIAM HAZLEDINE, Esq.

Oct. 26. At Dogpole-house, near Shrewsbury, in his 77th year, William Hazledine, esq.

Mr. Hazledine was born at Shawbury, in Shropshire, and his parents removed, while he was very young, to a house at Sowbatch, near a forge at Moreton Corbet, now Moreton Mill, about seven miles from Shrewsbury. His father was certainly not wealthy; but his ancestors were highly respectable, their remains occupying tombs in the churchyards of Shawbury and Moreton Corbet; and these tombs the deceased, with filial regard, caused to be repaired a few years ago; he also presented two handsomely carved oak chairs for the altars of both those churches.

During sixteen or seventeen of his early years he worked around the vicinity as an operative millwright. His uncle, under whom he was chiefly brought up, was a man of considerable ability as a millwright and engineer, and discerning the steadiness and talent of his nephew, he recommended young Hazledine, when only 16 or 17 years old, to superintend the erection of machinery at Upton Forge, the property of the Sundorne family: this was executed most satisfactorily. He afterwards became the tenant of this forge, and the farm belonging to it, and so continued in after-life.

After the patronage of his uncle he removed to Shrewsbury, and entered into partnership with Mr. Webster, then a clockmaker, but afterwards an ironmonger and the patentee of a washing machine. Their first foundry was in Cole-hall, or Knucking-street, in that town; but the speculative and energetic mind of Hazledine having increased the business, more space for workshops, and an increased expenditure for that purpose, amounting to about 2000l. were necessary: his partner being cautious and timid, a dissolution of partnership took place.

Mr. Hazledine purchased the ground in Coleham, where his present foundry is situated, which has now four gables fronting the road. He prudently first erected one workshop, which occupied only one of these gables; but as business increased he extended his shops, and numerous other erections in the vicinity. He subsequent ly occupied a foundry near Ruabon, Ironworks at Calcott, Limeworks at Llanymynech, Timber-yards, Brick-yards, and Coal-wharfs, in various places.

About this time Billingsley Iron-mines, near Bridgnorth, were offered for sale in Chancery. Hazledine attended the sale in London, and found there was some jockeyship employed to depreciate the property, and prevent the sale: certain parties being anxious to purchase the works without any competition. Hazledine's sagacity saw the trick; he bid with spirit: at length one of the parties who wanted to purchase, came to him, and whispered, "Do you know what you are doing? These mines and works have not a good title, and you will have to pay the expenses in Chancery if you purchase them." In an audible voice, Hazledine answered, "A bad title to the property, is it, eh? and a Chancery suit, too, eh? Well, I have bought many things, and I will now try to buy a Chancery suit." He did purchase the property, but immediately sold it, gaining several thousand pounds. The property finally turned out ruinous to the speculators.

In Nov. 1804, at midnight, a fire took place in a room which was the receptacle for his patterns for castings. Mr. Hazledine was from home, but his wife (a daughter of Mr. Brayne, of Ternhill), an uncommonly strong-minded woman, heard the cry of Fire in Hazledine's Foundry," whilst in bed with her infants, and, imme diately getting up, gave directions for saving the books, papers, and other valuables, which caused their rescue from the flames, whilst a vast quantity of other property was consumed with the building. Mr. Hazledine was then the Cap. tain of a company of Volunteers; and his company, comprising chiefly his own workmen, was merrily called "the Vulcans." The Colonel, Sir Charles Oakeley, Bart., and the whole corps, were roused, and much property was saved. It was estimated that the loss was 15007., and that about two-thirds were covered by insurance.

Undaunted by the calamity, he rebuilt and extended his foundry, and carried on his various speculations, above enumerated, with great energy. Thomas Telford, who in after-life became the celebrated engineer, had been patronised by

Sir William Pulteney, and employed in reconstructing some parts of " The Castle" in Shrewsbury, became acquainted with Hazledine, and these kindred spirits formed an intimacy which lasted through life.

Telford soon after was engaged in constructing the Ellesmere and Chester Ca nal, and Mr. Hazledine became the contractor for the Chirk and Pont-y-cyssylte Aqueducts-the latter being one of the most magnificent works of the kind in Europe, which he completed so entirely to the satisfaction of Mr. Telford and the proprietors, that he was immediately engaged in all the national works then undertaken by government. The erection of the stupendous locks on the Caledonian Canal was entrusted to him, and executed to the entire satisfaction of the engineer and the country. His fame was now established, and he was employed in a series of great works: the following is a summary:

Pont-y-cyssylte cast-iron aqueduct over the river Dee, and the valley at Llangollen, in 1802.

A bridge, 150 feet cast-iron, over the river Bonar, in Scotland.

A bridge, 150 feet ditto, over the river Spey, in Scotland.

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The lock-gates on the Caledonian Ca

The beautiful "Waterloo Bridge," 105 feet span, near Bettws-y-Coed, on the Holyhead-road.

The swivel bridges at Liverpool Docks. The Liverpool New Market columns. A bridge, 150 feet span of one arch, and two arches of 105 feet, over the river Esk, near Carlisle.

The Menai suspension chain bridge. The Conway suspension chain bridge. The roofs for the Dublin Customhouse and Store-houses.

The roofs for Pembroke Stores, &c. Many swivel bridges for Sweden. A large quantity of three-feet pipes for India, Demerara, &c.

A bridge built for Earl Grosvenor, 150 feet, at Eaton Hall.

A bridge over the Severn at Tewkesbury, 170 feet span.

A new bridge over the Dee, 105 feet