A.

ABRAHAM, Rev. Richard, lately,

aged 63. He was of King's Coll.
Cambridge, M. A. 1792; and was pre-
sented to the vicarage of Ilminster,
co. Somerset, in 1791, by the Earl
of Guildford, and to the Rectory of
Chaffcombe in the same county, in 1792,
by Earl Poulett.

ADDIS, William, June 18, at
his mother's house, in the parish of
Much Birch, Essex, belonging to the
3d battalion of the Grenadier Guards.
This brave fellow bore his share in the
glorious battle of Waterloo in 1815,
where he was wounded. In conse-
quence of ill health, a short time since
he obtained leave to visit his friends,
with the hope that his native air would
prove beneficial to his shattered frame,
but a rapid decline left recovery hopeless;
and he contemplated the approach of
death with the firmness of a man, and
the resignation of a Christian. On the
18th (the anniversary of the battle of
Waterloo), he requested his mother to
decorate his room with laurel, and place
his medal on his breast: he also received
the sacrament; and after surveying the
reward of his bravery with evident ex-
ultation and pleasure, desired it to be

laid on his coffin when he should be bu
ried, thanked his mother for all her

attentions to him, and in the evening
resigned his gallant spirit for a better
world, observing with a smile of satis-
faction, just before he expired," that it
was a day on which a soldier ought to
be proud to die!"

ANDREWS, Mrs. E. A., July 13,
at her seat, Shaw Place, near Newbury,
Berks, beloved, respected, and lamented,
in the 52d year of her age. She suc-
ceeded her brother, the late Sir Joseph
Andrews, Bart., of Shaw Place, in his
estates and property, in February last;
and as at that time she apparently en-
joyed an excellent constitution, and had
the flattering prospect before her of a
long possession, she now affords a strik-
ing instance of the "changes and chan-
ces of this mortal life." She was the
widow of Charles Henry Hunt, Esq., of
Goldicot, co. Warwick. In compli-
ance with her brother's wishes, as she
was the last of his family, she obtained
his Majesty's permission to assume the
name and arms of Andrews only.

She

is succeeded in her estate of Shaw Place,
and in her personal property, by the
Rev. Dr. Penrose, late Fellow of New
Collège, and Vicar of Writtle in the
county of Essex.

on particular Occasions," 1789, 8vo.—
"A Letter on the Practice of Boxing,
addressed to the King, Lords, and
Commons." 1789.

BASIRE, Mr. James, May 13,
at Chigwell Wells, aged 52, engraver
to the Royal and Antiquarian Societies.
His grandfather, Mr. Isaac Basire, and
his father, Mr. James Basire, were of the
same profession. The latter was parti-
cularly eminent; and a good portrait
and memoir of him are given in Nichols's
Literary Anecdotes. The ingenuity and
integrity of the elder James were inhe-
rited by the late Mr. Basire, who was
his eldest son by his second wife (still
living, at a great age), and was born
Nov. 12, 1769. Of the late Mr. Ba-
sire's works, it may be sufficient to no-
tice his splendid engravings for the
Society of Antiquaries, particularly the
English Cathedrals, after the drawings
of Mr. John Carter, F. S. A. For several
years he has been the person principally
entrusted with the engravings of the nu-
merous plates illustrative of the various
Parliamentary Records and Reports.
His unaffected diffidence was not his
least merit; and he was deservedly a
great favourite with all who knew his
talents, particularly with that eminent
antiquary (the late Richard Gough, Esq.
who bequeathed to him a legacy of 500l.
He married May 1, 1795, Mary Cox,
by whom he had several children; of
whom the eldest, a third James Basire,
is his father's successor in business, and
has given several proofs of superior ex-
cellence in the arts of drawing and en-
graving. Ill health had compelled him
of late years to leave much of the labo-
rious part of his business to his son, and
to retire into the country.

BEADON, Dr. Richard, bishop of
Bath and Wells. Dr. Beadon was
educated at Jesus College, Cambridge,
of which college he became a fellow,
and rose to be master. The present
Duke of Gloucester being sent to study
at that college, was placed under the
care of Dr. Beadon, who attended so
closely to his pupil, that his conduct
procured him the favour of the late
king. His first preferment of any im-
portance was the archdeaconry of Lon-
don. In 1789 he was nominated to the
see of Gloucester, and in 1802 trans-
lated to that of Bath and Wells.
lordship's only publication is a Fast-day
Sermon, preached before the House of
Lords, in Westminster Abbey, April
19, 1792.

VOL. VII.

His

BELL, Henry Nugent, Esq., in
Whitehall-place, after a lingering and
painful illness, which he bore with
Christian fortitude, sincerely regretted
by his high and numerous acquaint-
ance, and an irretrievable loss to
those by whom he was professionally
employed. This gentleman recovered
for Hans Francis Hastings the earl-
dom of Huntingdon, by which noble-
man he will be long and gratefully
remembered. He was also the author
of the Huntingdon Peerage. He fell
a sacrifice at the early age of twenty-
nine, to his over exertions in behalf of
his clients, leaving his family to regret
the loss of a kind and indulgent father,
and his acquaintance of a sincere friend.

BENYON, S. Y., Esq., in Russell-
square, aged 64, Vice Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster, Recorder of Ches-
ter, and His Majesty's Attorney-Ge-
neral for the Chester circuit. Mr.
Benyon was born at Ashe, in Shrop-
shire, and bred a Dissenter. In politics
he was attached to the Whigs, and he was
always a steady friend to the civil and
religious rights of his countrymen. He
was a warm admirer of the late Sir Saml.
Romilly, and zealously advocated his
plans for the reformation of the criminal
code, and the amelioration of prison
discipline; and as a judge, in his office
of Recorder of Chester, he always
evinced his anxiety to apportion punish-
ment according to the degree of actual
rather than technical criminality. Ofa
man of such principles and practices, it
is difficult to speak in adequate terms of
praise.

BERILLE, Rev. William, M. A.,
July 16, at Colert House, Berkshire,
where he resided during the summer
months, of King-street, Portman-
square, Rector of Exford, in the county
of Somerset, Domestic Chaplain to his
Grace the Duke of Manchester, and
formerly fellow of St. Peter's College,
Cambridge.

Few persons will be more lamented
than this truly amiable and excellent
man, of whose meritorious life, perhaps
the following sketch may not be unac-
ceptable.

Descended from an antient family, of
which he was the sole representative,
Mr. Berille was born in the city of
Lincoln, where he received the first ru-
diments of a classical education, and
was at an early age admitted a pen-
sioner of Peter House, in the Univer-
sity of Cambridge. Here by talents

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and assiduity he commanded the esteem
of his seniors; and when at the usual
time he took his first degree, his name
stood high in the list of Wranglers,
Shortly after obtaining these academi-
cal honours, he was elected a fellow
of his college, and receiving holy
orders, settled in London, where for
many years he excited the attention
of the public as an admired preacher,
first at the chapel of Great Queen-
street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, and after-
wards at that of Spring Gardens.

Firmly

He was also the author of several
successful literary efforts, though in
consequence of a want of confidence
in his own abilities, he would never
allow his name to be affixed to any of
his works. Besides other productions
of equal merit, the public is indebted
to his pen for a very able defence of
Hammond, whom Dr. Johnson had
unmercifully criticised in his "Lives
of the British Poets," and for an ele-
gant translation of "Numa Pompi-
lius," from the original French of
Monsieur de Florian. His sermons,
which had always practical utility for
their object, were free from sectarian
violence, and breathed the genuine
spirit of Christian charity.
attached to the Church of England, he
avoided all subjects of theological con-
troversy, and contented himself with
teaching the truth of the Gospel, and
enforcing the virtues it inculcates.
His delivery was dignified, and his
language, always correct and classical,
often displayed the higher powers of
impassioned eloquence. It is but jus-
tice to add, that in a review of the
comparative merits of the then con-
temporary preachers of the metropolis,
published not long before his death,
by the late Mr. Jerningham, no trifling
praise was allowed to the lamented
subject of this article, who at that time
was the proprietor and morning preach.
er of Spring Gardens Chapel. Hav-
ing been presented by his College to a
living in Somersetshire, Mr. Berille
resigned his fellowship, and married
the widow of the late William Roch-
fort, Esq., and daughter of Henry
Sperling, of Dyns Hill, in the county
of Essex, Esq. From his first arrival
in London, and more particularly after
his union with this lady, he lived in
the most polished circles of the capital,
where his hospitality and urbanity will
be long remembered. As a compa-
nion, a scholar, and a preacher, he

cannot fail to be generally regretted;
while to the few who enjoyed his inti-
macy, the loss is irreparable.

That suavity of manners which was
his peculiar characteristic, seemed only
the index of a mind of corresponding
benevolence. The firmest friend, the
most devoted husband, and the fondest
father, he extended his good wishes
and good offices to all mankind. He
was in the strictest sense a philanthro-
pist; and the author of this article,
after a familiar intercourse of more
than forty years, can take it upon him-
self to assert, that from the lips of
Mr. Berille (who was always the zeal-
ous advocate of the absent, the injured,
and the helpless) he never heard drop
an expression calculated in the re-
motest degree to give pain to his fel-
low man.

To scientific and classical attain-
ments of the highest order, he united
an extensive knowledge of modern li-
terature; and to the purest morals, the
most liberal principles. That with
such pretensions to clerical preferment,
he should not have attained the first
honours of his profession, which no
one deserved better than himself, can
only be attributed to a noble inde-
pendence of conduct, which made him
disdain to solicit favours, and to an
excess of modesty and diffidence inhe-
rent in his character, which kept from
the world at large a full knowledge of
those qualities of mind and heart which
endeared him to his family, and to a
small circle of attached fsiends; among
whom no one loved him better, or la-
ments him more, than he to whom the
melancholy task has devolved of offer-
ing this tribute to his memory.

BLANE, Captain G. R., of the
Bengal Engineers, at Loodeanah, in
the East Indies, on the 18th of May
last, aged30, the second son of Sir Gilbert
Blane, Bart. He received his educa-
tion at the Charter-house, and the Mi-
litary College at Marlow, which he
joined in 1804, as a cadet of the East
India Company. He went there on
the department of the line, but was
transferred to that of the ordnance, on
account of his superior talent in ma-
thematics; and on this occasion, he at-
tracted the particular notice and pa-
tronage of Mr. Pitt, then prime mi-
nister. He completed his education
at Woolwich, and embarked for India
in 1807; where, on his arrival, he was
selected for the corps of engineers.