A Thanksgiving Sermon for the Peace. 1802.

A Secular Essay, containing a View of Events connected with the Ecclesiastical History of England during the Eighteenth Century. 1802, 8vo.

The Restoration of Family Worship recommended, in Discourses selected, with alterations, from Dr. Doddridge. 1804, 8vo.

Lectures on the Acts of the Apostles, delivered at Stockton, during Lent 18036. 1806, two vols. 8vo.

Of the Religious Improvement of Prisons, an Assize Sermon. 1808.

Meditations for the Aged, adapted to the progress of Human Life. 8vo. 1810, 4th edit. 12mo.

Meditations for Penitents. 1813, 8vo. Reflections adapted to the Holy Seasons of the Christian and Ecclesiastical Year. 12mo.

Reflections upon the Ordination Service. 12mo.

Contemplations on the last Discourses of our Blessed Saviour with his Disci. ples, as recorded in the Gospel of St. John. 1822, 8vo.

A Sketch of the History of Churches in England, applied to the purposes of the Society for Promoting the Building and Enlargement of Churches and Chapels. To which is added, a Sermon on the Honour of God in places of Public Worship. 1818.

An Abridgment of Cave's Primitive Christianity. 18mo.

The merits of Mr. Brewster have been already recorded in the permanent pages of the History of Durham, by Mr. Surtees, where he is characterised as having been long and justly respected for the exemplary discharge of his parochial duties."

Mr. Brewster married Frances, youngest daughter of Leonard Robinson, esq. of Stockton, merchant, by Priscilla, second daughter of Peter Consett, esq. of Brawith, co. York. Mrs. Brewster died in 1818.

G. W. COUNSEL, Esq. Jan. 19. At Gloucester, aged 85, George Worrall Counsel, esq. solicitor. This excellent and much respected gentleman was one of the oldest inhabitants of that city, a well-known antiquary, and author of a "History and Description of the City of Gloucester," 1829, 12mo.

Mr. Counsel was one of the most intimate friends of the late Mr. James Wood, the banker, who left him 10,0007. in the codicil to his will. Probably no one knew "Jemmy Wood" so long or so well; and it is believed that the deceased

made some (we know not what) progress in a history of the life of the millionaire, for which he was offered a considerable sum. Mr. Counsel has also left a large and valuable collection of MSS. illus-. trative of the local history and antiquities of Gloucester.

WILLIAM HARDWICK, ESQ. Feb. 18. At Barmouth, co. Merioneth, in his 72nd year, William Hardwick, esq. formerly of Bridgnorth, Shropshire.

This gentleman, with a singleness of purpose almost unequalled, devoted the whole time, when unoccupied in his profession, for the last 40 years and upwards, to the compilation of voluminous collections for the history of Shropshire, his native county, together with a genealogy of all its leading families. He had not, however, appeared before the public, except in periodicals, and occasionally in the Gentleman's Magazine. His unaf fected simplicity of manners and desire to gain and impart knowledge, secured to him, wherever he went, the respect of all whose respect was worth possessing, and during his historical researches amongst the registers in the different parishes of his native and other counties, he received the most attentive kindness from the clergy and others. A sound lawyer, endowed with a mind very superior to most of his profession, he was in receipt of a considerable professional income, which, after satisfying the calls of his family, was generously applied to prosecuting his pursuits, and in objects of benevolence, being one of the leading contributors to the numerous charities and public institutions of the town and neighbourhood. No time, trouble, or expense was ever spared by him in his undertakings, even to the injury of his own private fortune, till circumstances induced him to leave Bridgnorth, and seek a retreat from the noisy din of politics more congenial to his health, habits, and taste. He has left a widow and numerous family. It is hoped the aristocracy of Shropshire will not allow the produce of his unremitting labours to be lost to the world. He was the survivor of two sons, the only children of William Hardwick, esq., late of Burcote, co. Salop, by Mary, daughter and at length heiress of Joseph Purton, esq. His elder brother, John Bell Hardwick, esq. died at the family residence, Burcote, on the first day of March, 1842, in his 77th year.

T. C. HOFLAND, Esq. Jan. 3. At Leamington, aged 65, Thomas Christopher Hofland, esq. landscape painter. The following memoir, written

by his widow, is extracted from "The Art-Union."

Thomas Christopher Hofland was born on Christmas-day, 1777, at Worksop, in Nottinghamshire. His father was a skilful Iand extensive manufacturer of cotton-mill machinery. He removed to Lambeth about the year 1780, where he became a partner in a very important business, which unfortunately failed, when his son (who continued an only child) was in his 19th year.

After this time, the subject of this memoir devoted himself to landscape-painting as a profession; but he never had the advantage of any instruction, save what he received in three months from Rathbone, then an artist of considerable celebrity; but, in consequence of these les

sons, be produced two pictures, which were favourably hung at the Royal Academy. He did not exhibit for ten years afterwards, as he soon found that, by teaching alone, he could ensure the means of existence; for there was at that time no British Gallery for the disposal of pictures, and it is well known that the great exhibition was no place of sale.

At this period every man was a volunteer, and young Hofland was in the King's Own Company, at Kew; being fugleman, bis singular agility and soldier-like carriage attracted the attention of the Sovereign, who, on learning his profession, desired the Rev. Dr. Willis to bring him and his drawings to the Palace, and he had the honour to receive his Majesty's commands to prepare a series of drawings of new plants and flowers then newly received for the Royal gardens. The King rewarded him by an appointment to be his Majesty's draughtsman on board a vessel about to set sail on a voyage of discovery, but his mother's extreme distress prevented him from profiting by it, and he was superseded by W. Westall, esq. A.R.A. The King also designed him a commission in the army, which was lost to him by a mistake in the name, and fell to the lot of the late Colonel Haverfield, a brave officer and good man.

Having an opportunity of entering on a superior line of teaching at Derby, he availed himself of it, and resided several years in the country, where he married; but after visiting London, for the purpose of copying in the British Gallery, the desire of entirely devoting himself to painting became irresistible. The flame was so fanned in the following year, that he resolved on removal; and, after settling all his affairs, he arrived in town at the close of 1841.

His copies made in the gallery had sold well; his pictures, which were views of

the lakes, which he had closely studied two preceding summers, did not sell immediately, but they were much spoken of, and occasioned him to receive many commissions from Miss Richardson Currer, at whose seat in Yorkshire he spent most of the ensuing summer, and for whom he painted, amongst others, two views of night scenes, in which fire of extraordinary truth and brilliancy was introduced, and which were much praised when hung at the Royal Academy the year following. In this season of exhibition he was very fortunate; and, eager to seize every medium of improvement, he spent between three and four months in the Highlands of Scotland. One picture, the fruit of that exertion, remains with me: it is a view of Stirling Castle, and is much im. proved in colour since then, being indeed beautifully clear and mellow in tone. I can have no doubt many others are equally benefited by time.

In 1814 he had the honour to receive from the Governors of the British Gallery the award of one hundred guineas for the best landscape, "A Storm off the Coast of Scarborough," purchased by the Marquess of Stafford. His lake views, painted about this time, were considered very excellent, and the copies he continued to make at the British Gallery of Claude, Wilson, Poussin, and Gainsborough, were purchased with avidity, being considered (particularly the Claudes) as perfect fac-similes of the originals.

In 1816 he removed to Twickenham, being always passionately attached to country air and sunshine; and being engaged by the late Duke of Marlborough to paint a series of pictures intended to illustrate a description of his seat of White Knights, a residence in London seemed no longer strictly necesssary. During several successive years he was principally engaged in this business,-to his great loss in every sense of the word; for his health, always delicate, became decidedly bad, in consequence of his having (confiding in the Duke's assurances) given his own bills to different engravers, all of whom he was compelled to pay. In fact, no man could be more cruelly circumstanced than he was for many-yes! many years; nor can this portion of his history be dwelt on further than to say, that the integrity of the poor painter was as decisively proved as that of his noble patron was deficient.

Driven by this circumstance back to London, he both painted much, and extensively engaged in teaching. His most remarkable pictures were a "Lake View on Windermere," bought by the Earl of Durham; a composition "Jerusalem at the

time of the Crucifixion," commissioned by Lord de Tabley, and repeated for the Earl of Carysfort, the original remaining with himself; several much admired moonlights, and numerous views in the lakes of Scotland, Cumberland, Wales, and Ireland. It was somewhat singular that having been so successful in his pictures where fire was a prominent object, he did not renew them, but the difficulty of obtaining studies in the country prevented him.

In his 63rd year he set out for Italy, which he had long desired to visit with all the ardent solicitude so natural to an artist, being enabled to do so by the commissions given to him by the Earl of Egremont. He made at Naples, Castellamare, Pompeii, Rome, Tivoli, and Florence, between 70 and 80 beautiful sketches, but became at the latter city so exceedingly ill that he set out suddenly, in a hope, which appeared almost vain, of reaching home_again. Happily as he passed though France the fever left him, but its ravages were terrible; more than twenty years seemed added to his age during five months' absence; nevertheless, his spirits were elated, and be hastened to lay the fruit of his labours before his noble patron, of whose judgment he had the highest opinion, and whose approbation was most important.

But from this time he was sensible that, in addition to his usual affliction of distressing pain in the stomach, he had also the infirmities which belong to age, though his energies remained unimpaired, and therefore tempted him to exertions beyond his strength. His passion for angling, known from the book he wrote on that subject, still existed in its wonted force; and it is consolatory to remember that during the last two summers (in which he resided at Richmond, a place to which he was fondly attached) he still enjoyed it. But, alas! in October last he suddenly became incapable of any fatigue, and he lost not only appetite, (which was in him always delicate,) but even the power of swallowing anything save liquids. After ten or twelve weeks of suffering, be resolved on going to Leamington, to take the advice of Dr. Jephson, where he died, as above stated, of cancer in the stomach.

Mr. Hofland, in conjunction with Mr. Young, originated the "General Benevolent Society of Artists," though he always belonged to the first excellent institution. He afterwards, together with Mr. Linton, projected, and with the assistance of Messrs. Glover, Holmes, &c. carried into effect, the building of the Gallery in Suffolk-street, by which many of

his brother artists were much benefited. He had the great and somewhat singular satisfaction of saving three lives from drowning. One was the wife of a drummer at Kew, a suicide who chose a place in the river that rendered rescue extremely difficult. When taken out she seemed dead; but the persevering humanity of the present King of Hanover restored her. For this the society gave their two medals. Another was a child saved at Brentford. The third, a youth, taken out of the Trent, near Nottingham.

One of Mr. Hofland's oldest and most accomplished friends has thus expressed his opinion of Mr. Hofland's professional reputation :—

"With whatever peculiarities of manner the critics may charge some of his more recent works, when in the decline of health, there was an elevation both of style and thought which pervaded his larger compositions not unworthy of Poussin. His "Richmond Hill" is a bold and effective landscape, and will be esteemed as long as the material endures; his Jerusalem " had a solemn and unaffected grandeur about it. Hofland was a man of reading, and did not confine all his hours to the drudgery of the easel; he had a high idea of his art, and sought to convey an impression of its mental power in all his compositions. He had very little value for little prettinesses, but aimed at a well-studied and poeticallyconceived whole. His conversations upon art were always highly intelligent, and he was ever an eloquent advocate of its claims on the respect of the educated and the refined; while no one could discourse more fairly and unprejudicedly respecting the deserts of his contemporaries. He was an enthusiastic lover of the angle, and a first-rate practitioner, and he invariably united his art with it in all his piscatory expeditions."

This promising young artist was the son of a painter of established repute in Yorkshire. From his earliest youth Mr. Rhodes showed strong indications of that taste and application in the Arts, by which he afterwards distinguished himself. He was a close and accurate observer, and an admirable imitator of natural objects, even in his childhood. These indications of talent were not, however, encouraged by his father, who had experienced the up-hill work of an artist's career, and the disappointments arising from inadequate remuneration. He there fore endeavoured to direct his attention

to some more lucrative and certain means of obtaining a living; but when the time of decision came, no persuasion could prevail upon the boy to be anything but a painter. He was then allowed free scope with his pencil and crayon (for as yet he had not been allowed the use of colours), and assisted his father in making lessons for the use of his pupils in teaching.

With his pencil, chalk, or sepia, he would luxuriate during the long winter's evenings; and sketches of wonderful power and beauty floated from his fingers. But it was his oil paintings which established his fame, and brought out his full powers of colouring and design. The subjects he usually selected were from humble life-groups of cattle, with occasional figures of rustics in their ordinary garb, and he painted with great beauty and fidelity all the natural and artificial accessories of rural scenery. Many of his pictures appeared both in the provincial and London exhibitions, and were always favourably received. His principal patrons in his native neighbourhood were, Mrs. Jas. Brown, of Harehills, Mr. Staniforth Beckett, late of Barnsley, and Mr. Neale, of Newstead Hall, near Wakefield.

He re

Some years ago Mr. Rhodes moved to London; his fame as an artist was rapidly rising, and he was himself buoyant with aspiring hope of future eminence and emolument, when, like Girtin, Liver seedge, and Bonington, he was attacked with inflammation in the eyes, and general bad health, the consequence of his close study and application in his art. turned to Leeds in the hopes that his native air would revive him. A partial improvement took place, and several beautiful pictures, painted in the neighbourhood during his sojourn, though under the most afflicting circumstances, bear ample testimony to his intense devotion to his art. Like Girtin, he worked on in spite of his affliction, even to the day of his death, when an attack of epilepsy overpowered his feeble constitution, and finished his short career.-(Art Union.)

MR. KENNETH T. KEMP. Lately. At Edinburgh, aged 36, Mr. Kenneth T. Kemp, Lecturer on Practical Chemistry in the University of Edinburgh.

This amiable and highly-gifted gentle man died of a disease of the heart, under the effects of which painful affliction he had laboured for several years of his brief existence.

His temperament, at all times ardent, was early directed to the study of chemistry, in the practical departments of which

he proved himself an original and daring investigator, particularly in experiments on the theory of combustion, and the liquefaction of the gases. Many will remember the brilliant display of those interesting preparations exhibited by him before the British Association at its meeting in Edinburgh in 1836. He was the first chemist who in this country succeeded in solidifying carbonic acid gas. Electricity and magnetism, in all their forms and combinations, constituted a favourite portion of his studies; and to him galvanic electricity is indebted for the introduction of amalgamated zinc plates into galvanic batteries, an improvement by which the agency of that powerful fluid can be modified and sustained almost at pleasure, a discovery so important as to call forth the testimony of a recent writer of eminence on the subject in the following words:"Let us never forget to whom we owe this discovery, which of itself enables galvanic batteries to be used in the arts. Ages to come will, perhaps, have to thank the inventor, whom we are too apt to forget; yet still the obligation from the public to Mr. Kemp is the

He was also the discoverer of several new chemical compounds, the details of which were published in scientific periodicals. Energetic in the pursuit of his favourite studies, and acute to an unusual degree in his perception of their principles, he gave an impetus to chemical research in his native country. Possessing a most kind and amiable disposition, strict integrity, and talents of a very high order, he endeared himself to all who enjoyed the happiness of his acquaintance.

MR. JOHN BELLAMY.

Nov. 14. In Wells-street, Gray's-innroad, aged 87, Mr. John Bellamy, author of the New Translation of the Bible, &c.

Besides several papers in Valpy's Classical Journal, Mr. Bellamy was the author of the following works:

"The Ophion, or the Theology of the Serpent, and the Unity of God." 1811, 8vo.

Description of all the different Professions of Religion from the beginning of the Antediluvian Churches to the present day; comprehending the accomplishment of the prophecies of the Person of Christ; the origin and cause of Idolatrous Worship; reasons assigned for the different forms of Idols," &c. 1812, 8vo. 2nd edit. 1814.

"An Answer to the Bishop of St. David's (Burgess) Reasons why a New Translation of the Bible should not be published." 1816.

His death will be felt as a serious loss

by the University of Dorpat. He was born at that city in 1814. În 1837, having completed his studies, he accompanied the scientific expedition of M. von Baer to Nova Zembla. On his return he was commissioned to undertake a series of scientific investigations connected with the province of Orenburg. In 1839 he joined the Russian expedition against Khiva, and his health is believed to have been seriously impaired by the hardships to which he and his companions were exposed in consequence of the unexpected severity of the climate. He next accompanied the embassy to Bokhara, and ou his journey thither he was again subjected to many hardships. From Bokhara he undertook several scientific excursions to Samercand, and to the Alpine regions of the Carnatic, where he collected a vast store of information respecting the botany and geology of that part of Asia. On his return home he was attacked at Simbirsk by a severe nervous fever, and died there on the 12th of September last. It is thought that his papers relating to Central Asia have been left in a condition to admit of their being published with very little delay.

CLERGY DECEASED.

Dec. 3. At Oakhill, Staffordshire, aged 72. the Rev. Charles Benjamin Charlwood.

At his residence in York, the Rev. Lamplugh Hird, M. A. a Prebendary of York, Vicar of Paull, and a magistrate for the West Riding of York. He was the younger son of Henry Wickham, of Cottingley, co. York, (some time Lt. Col. 1st foot guards,) by Elizabeth, dau. of the Rev. William Lamplugh, Vicar of Dewsbury, Yorkshire; and brother to the Rt. Hon. William Wickham, formerly a Lord of the Treasury. He was of Christ Church, Oxford, M.A. 1793: and took the name of Hird, Feb. 2, 1795, on his marriage with Sarah-Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Hird, of Rowdon. He was collated to the vicarage of Paull in 1793, by Archbishop Markham; and to the prebend of Botevant in the cathedral church of York, in 1802. By his wife

already mentioned, who died in 1812, he had issue five sons and five daughters. 1. Richard-Lamplugh, died 1798; 2. Harriet; 3. Annabella; 4. William, in R.N. died 1816; 5. Henry-Wickham; 6. Christiana, married to George Brooke Nelson, of Leeds, and has issue; 7. Lamplugh, who married in 1834, Frances, daughter of Col. William Hale, of York; 8. Sarah-Elizabeth, married to the Rev. Joshua Fawcett, of Bradford, and has issue; 9. Mary-Anne, who died an infant; and 10. Charles-Wickham, deceased. The two surviving sons have, since their father's death, resumed the name of Wickham (see p. 309). Mr. Hird married, secondly, Hannah-Frances, dau. of the Rev. Lascelles-Sturdy Lascelles, of Hunton, near Bedale, who died on the 14th Oct. last, leaving one daughter, born in 1818.

Jan. 1. Aged 83, the Rev. George Cardale, M.A. Rector of Millbrook, and Vicar of Flitwick, Bedfordshire. He was only son of the Rev. George Cardale, D.D., Rector of Wanlip and Vicar of Rothley, Leicestershire, who was second son of Joseph Cardale, M.A. formerly Vicar of Hinckley, in the same county, and of Bulkington, Warwickshire. He was of St. John's college, Cambridge, B.A. 1785; as third Junior Optime, M.A. 1788; was presented to Milbrook by Lord Holland, in 1790, and to Flitwick by the Duke of Bedford, in 1820. The deceased married Judith Carter, one of the sisters of John Edward Carter, esq. late of Leicester. She died before him; and they have left issue a son and daughter now living.

Feb. 5. In the Isle of Guernsey, the Rev. Nicholas Peter Dobree, Rector of Wigginton, Oxfordshire, and of Furthoe, Northamptonshire. He was of Jesus college, Oxford, M.A. 1783; and was presented to both his livings by that society, in 1789.

Feb. 19. At Brackenbottom, Yorkshire, in his 45th year, the Rev. Thomas Borrowdale, for 21 years Head Master of the Free Grammar School at Horton, in Ribblesdale.

Feb. 22. At Caen in Normandy, aged 76, the Rev. T. Deterville, a well-known and respected inhabitant of Norwich, for upwards of forty years, having retired but a few months ago to end his days in his native country.

Aged 79, the Rev. Egerton Stafford, for fifty-six years Rector of Thenford, and forty-one years Vicar of Chacombe, Northamptonshire. He was formerly of Christ church, Oxford, where he took the degree of M.A. in 1788; was presented to Thenford in 1787, by Lord