out any official authority from the British government, and afterwards proceeded simply as a traveller to Bokhara, the capital of Asiatic Tartary. The following statement is derived from authentic sources :-Upon the return of Mr. Ellis, Col. Stoddart remained attached to the mission in Persia under Sir J. M'Niell. Those conversant wlth Eastern affairs will remember the activity and efficiency of Col. Stoddart's services in inducing the Shah of Persia to raise the siege of Herat in 1838. From Herat he was dispatched by orders from government on a friendly mission to the Ameer of Bokhara. For a few days after his arrival in Bokhara he was treated with a show of hospitality. At this period many false rumours prevailed in Toorkestan respecting the designs of the English in marching an army to Affghanistan, and probably occasioned the object of his visit to be suspected. Col. Stoddart was treacherously seized in his host's house, with his attendants, stripped and thrown into a pit, where he was left for two days without food; from thence he was taken and strictly imprisoned for nearly two years, during which time, but for the kindness of the Meershub, a police-master, and one Futoollah Beg, the gaoler, who took compassion on him, he would have perished from starvation. After months of imprisonment the state executioner was sent to put him to death, unless he would become a Mahomedan, and his grave was dug before his eyes; but he evinced no fear, and appeared to have calmly resigned all thoughts of life, when the Meershub and Futoollah Beg, the kind gaoler, most earnestly besought him to avert so foul a murder by repeating the form required by the Ameer, saying, "It is well known to all that your faith will remain unchanged," and on their solicitations the disguise was adopted. On the arrival of dispatches from the Indian government, the Ameer was convinced of the authenticity of Colonel Stoddart's commission, and releasing him from prison treated him with the highest consideration during eight or ten months, making repeated promises, alas! but delusive ones, of release. During the time of his liberation from restraint, Colonel Stoddart laboured most devotedly to promote the interests of his country and the enlightenment of the barbarians. At one period the intervention of Russia in behalf of his liberation was declined, from a chivalrous feeling of honour that he would await dispatches from his own country; but the arrival of applications for his release, both from our government in England and India, as well as others from Russia, GENT. MAG. VOL. XIX.

Constantinople, Khiva, and other neighbouring states, were equally disregarded, nor were the hopes which were entertained from her Majesty addressing a letter to the Ameer, destined to be realised.

In consequence of the intelligence which reached Bokhara of the disasters which had befallen our troops in Cabool, the tyrant threw Colonel Stoddart, a second time, together with Capt. Conolly, an English officer recently arrived at Bokhara, into confinement, in the house of Topshee Bashee, where they remained till June. At that period a letter arrived from Akhbar Khan and other chiefs at Cabool, intimating that if the Bokhara chief feared to put the two English officers to death, as they had done those at Cabool, he had better deliver them up to the writers of the letter. Thus stimulated, the Ameer no longer hesitated. On the 13th of June, 1842, both the officers were seized and removed to the common prison. In stripping Colonel Stoddart, a pencil and some papers were discovered round his waist; the Ameer insisted upon knowing from whom they were received. Upon Colonel Stoddart's resolutely refusing to betray another to the despot's fury, he was beaten with heavy sticks, and this treatment repeated for two or three days, but in vain; no revelation escaped him. On the 17th of June the Ameer gave orders that Colonel Stoddart should be put to death in the presence of Captain Conolly. They were both led into a small square near the prison, where Colonel Stoddart's head was cut off, and on Captain Conolly refusing to embrace Mahomedanism, he also fell under the headsman's knife. Their bodies were buried on the spot, in the graves which had been dug in their presence.

From Colonel Stoddart's earliest career to the time of his death, whether pursuing his studies at the Royal Military College, as an officer in the Royal Staff Corps, in which he obtained his commission in 1823, and served in New South Wales and Canada; in his post as secretary to the Naval and. Military Museum, secretary to the Institution of Civil En. gineers, or as a member of the mission in Persia; it is not too much to assert that he gained general esteem. He was indefatigable in the pursuit of general and professional knowledge, and was present within the French lines at the siege of Antwerp. Deeply devout in his principles and conduct, unshaken under his severe trials, and even acknowledging in them a spiritual blessing, after a short but eventful career his arduous duties are closed at the age of 36, beloved and 2 T

mourned, not only by his relations, but by a large circle of friends, as a sincere Christian, and a soldier devoted to his Sovereign and country.

ADMIRAL ALEXANDER. Jan. 10. At his residence in Hampshire, Thomas Alexander, esq. Admiral of the Blue.

This officer was appointed a Lieutenant in 1790; commanded the Hope sloop of war at the capture of a Dutch squadron in Saldanha Bay in 1796; and subsequently the Carysfort frigate in the East Indies, where he captured l'Alerte French corvette, of 16 guns. His post commission bore date Dec. 27, 1796. He was afterwards appointed in succession to the Sceptre 64, Sphynx, a 20 gun ship, and Braave frigate. On the 23d Aug. 1800, the Braave, in company with the Centurion, Dædalus, and Sybille, the whole under the orders of Capt. H. L. Ball, entered the Batavia Roads, captured five Dutch armed vessels, and destroyed two merchant ships, fourteen brigs, five sloops, and one ketch. Some time previous to this affair, Capt. Alexander had intercepted la Surprise, French vessel of war, bound to Europe with two ambassadors from Tippoo Sultaun, whose treachery, while he was expressing a desire to receive an ambassador from Lord Mornington, the Governor-General, was fully established by the papers taken at Seringapatam. Captain Alexander being obliged to resign the command of the Braave on account of ill health, came home a passenger in l'Imperieuse frigate, and arrived in England June 12, 1802.

His next appointment appears to have been to the Renown, of 74 guns, which ship he left in the summer of 1808; and soon after joined the Colossus, of the same force, the command of which he retained until the peace. On the 19th Aug. 1815, he was appointed to the Vengeur, stationed as a guard-ship at Portsmouth; and on the 12th Aug. 1819, advanced to the rank of RearAdmiral. He became Vice-Admiral, 22nd July 1830, and Admiral of the Blue, 23rd Nov. 1841. He was a brave officer, a man of the highest honour and integrity, distinguished by his benevolence, and universally respected.

VICE-ADM. H. EVANS. Dec. 13. At his residence, Old Town, co. Cork, Henry Evans, esq. Vice-Admiral of the Red.

This officer was, it is believed, a protegé of the late Sir Peter Parker, Bart. Admiral of the Fleet. He was made

Lieutenant March 13, 1782; and Commander Oct. 2, 1794. He commanded t'he Fury sloop of war, and captured 1Elize, a French schooner of 10 guns, in 1795; assisted at the reduction of St. Lucia, in May, 1796; and was present at the unsuccessful attack upon Port Rico in the following year. His post commission bore date June 20, 1797. During part of the late war he commanded the Cork District of Sea Fencibles. On the 9th of March 1819, he was chosen M.P. for Wexford, which place he represented, until the dissolution of Parliament in the following year, and again from the general eleetion of 1826 until June 1829, when he resigned his seat. He was made a retired Rear-Admiral July 26, 1821; and promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral in 1841.

LIEUT. WALTER SCOTT TERRY.

Nov. 9. In the camp, near Peshawaur, in consequence of a wound received on the 6th, Lieut. Walter Scott Terry, of the 1st Troop of the Bombay Horse Artillery.

He was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Terry; to the former of whom so many friendly and familiar letters, published in the Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott, are addressed. And he was also the godson of Sir Walter.

He is reported by the surgeon, who attended him in his last moments, and who wrote to communicate the afflicting intelligence to his family, "to have gone through the whole campaign with the greatest credit; his gallant conduct having frequently called forth the praises of his superiors. On the march from Ali Musjeed, he was left with a gun to protect the baggage and the rear. A hill was occupied by the enemy, which could not be commanded by the gun, and as there was some difficulty in dislodging them, poor Terry gallantly put himself at the head of a party and charged up. In this advance he received the fatal wound-a ball in the chest. Thus he fell by one of the last shots fired in the Affghan war. His loss is sadly felt by all, as he was beloved by his brother officers, and his loss is sadly regretted by the whole camp."

REV. JOHN NATT, B.D. Feb. 12. At his house in Mecklenburghsquare, in his 65th year, the Rev. John Natt, B.D., Rector of St. Sepulchre's,

London.

This amiable man was the son of a highly respectable clergyman, the Rev. Nathan Natt; he was born July 6, 1778, at Netswell, in Essex, and educated in Merchant-taylors' School, from which

he was elected to a scholarship at St. John's College, Oxford, in June, 1795, being then in his 17th year. He was in due course admitted Fellow; proceeded B.A. April 3, 1799; M.A. March 4, 1803; and not long after became one of the public tutors of his college. In 1808 he proceeded B.D., and, resigning the tutorship, accepted the vicarage of St. Giles's, in Oxford, where he laboured with great zeal and assiduity, establishing charitable societies, superintending Sunday schools, and performing the responsible duties of a parochial minister in a most exemplary manner, and with much practical discretion, for full twenty years. Upon the rectory of St. Sepulchre's becoming vacant by the death of Dr. Shackleford in 1829, he succeeded to that benefice, and retained it till his death.

In 1841 Mr. Natt published a small volume of "Sermons, preached in the Parish Church of St. Sepulchre." Most of these had been previously delivered at Oxford, and will now be read with a deep interest by both his congregations. They are very characteristic of the author; plain and practical, earnest and impressive; abounding in good sense and charitable feeling.

Mr. Natt was an ardent admirer of the fine arts, and had a small collection of good pictures; among them were two excellent Vernets, and a Wilson of high character. His own portrait was painted at the personal request of, and for, bis intimate friend, Dr. Wilson, the present Bishop of Calcutta, a few years since, by Mr. Bridges, of Great Marlborough street; who relates an anecdote of him during the time of his sitting for the likeness, which all who knew and loved him will not be displeased at our recording. It had been decided that Mr. Natt should be represented as sitting holding a book, and that book was to be the Bible. When the artist, who knew him intimately, had placed him in the proper position, he said, "Now, Mr. Natt, where shall we put the book ?" "Where!" said Mr. Natt, clasping it with great fervour to his breast, "here, here, next my heart!"

Mr. Natt's decease was awfully sudden. He had preached at his church in the morning, and dined early, as was his custom on Sundays, when his servant, being surprised at not receiving a summons as usual, went into the room, and there found his master on the floor, and a corpse. Medical assistance was immediately called in, but in vain; it being the opinion of the gentleman who promptly attended, as well as that of Dr.

Farr, the usual physician and intimate friend of Mr. Natt, that he had expired instantaneously, either from apoplexy, or the rupture of a vessel in the heart. He will be much regretted in St. Sepulchre's; for having an ample private fortune, and a most generous and benevolent disposition, his charities were very extensive, and they were rendered the more estimable from the uniform urbanity of manner and kind consideration with which they were accompanied.

RICHARD SMITH, ESQ.

Jan. 24. Suddenly, of apoplexy, at the Philosophical and Literary Institu tion, Bristol, in the 71st year of his age, Richard Smith, esq. of Park-street; for nearly half a century one of the surgeons, and for many years the senior surgeon of the Bristol Infirmary.

He was the eldest son of Mr. Richard Smith, an eminent surgeon of that city. His mother was the daughter of the Rev. Alex. Stopford Catcott, LL.B., Master of the Grammar School, and Rector of Saint Stephen's, Bristol, and sister of the Rev. Alexander Catcott, Vicar of Temple, and of Mr. George Catcott, of Chattertonian notoriety. Mr. Smith was descended, on his mother's side, from the pious and benevolent Alderman John Whitson. At an early age, having received a liberal education at the Bristol Grammar School, under the Rev. Nathaniel Lee, and at Reading School, under Dr. Valpy, and having evinced a more than ordinary degree of talent, he was apprenticed to his father; and, that gentleman dying two or three years afterwards, Mr. Smith served the remainder of his time with Mr. Godfrey Lowe, the father of the present Mr. Richard Lowe, of Park-street, Bristol. He had scarcely completed his professional education when, in conjunction with the late Mr. Francis Bowles, he delivered a course of Anatomical Lectures in Bristol, which at once established his professional reputation, and may be regarded as the germ of one of the first, if not the very first, provincial anatomical schools in England. Shortly afterwards, in 1796, he was elected one of the surgeons of the Bristol Infirmary, which appointment he held till the time of his death (46 years), dur. ing a great part of which period he was the senior surgeon. Mr. Smith was very successful as an operator, and for a lengthened period of his valuable life was constantly consulted by most of his brethren of the profession in cases of difficulty. During his professional career he was ever careful to preserve whatever was curious or instructive, and thus collected

a valuable museum of preparations of diseased parts and morbid anatomy, grafted on one handed down to him from his father, who was also senior surgeon of the Infirmary, and which he deposited in that institution.

In the year 1802 he married AnnaEugenia, one of the co-heiresses of Henry Creswicke, esq. of Morton-in-Marsh. This estimable lady has survived him. He has left no issue.

When his fellow-citizens took up arms, in 1803, he was appointed surgeon to the regiment, which office be retained till they were disbanded, at the peace of 1814, and he performed this duty with an ardour and delight that threw a halo around everything with which he was associated. Comparatively late in life he joined the Freemasons, embraced the principles and ceremonies of that celebrated craft, con amore; and, long before his death, was invested with the highest honours of the fraternity. For some time past he had been Deputy Provincial Grand Master of the district. About two years since, a faithful portrait of him, as D. P. G. M., was placed in the Masonic-hall, in Bridge. street, at the expense of the craft, from the easel of an excellent artist, Mr. Branwhite.

Mr. Smith was elected to represent the ward of St. Augustine, in the council of the Bristol corporation, at the time of the passing of the Municipal Reform Act, and so continued to his death. As one of the Charity Trustees for Bristol, he devoted much time and attention to the management of the various charities, and particularly of the Red Maids' School, founded by his pious and memorable ancestor, Alderman Whitson, and Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, for boys, commonly called "The City School." During his connection with the newly constituted authorities in these matters, he warmly vindicated their proceedings, through evil report and good report, and never suffered his political opinions to bias him in the slightest degree, either as regarded his colleagues, or the distribution of the charities committed to their care.

In the prosperity of these schools it may be said he truly rejoiced, and no occurrence of the later years of his life afforded more real gratification to his feelings than the consciousness that he, with others, was instrumental in enlarging the benefits of these noble charities, and of seeing at least 100 more than theretofore of the children of his fellow-citizens enjoying the advantages of that sound education, which the deceased worthies of their city had provided for them. In

his descent from one of these founders, Alderman John Whitson, he most particularly prided himself; and if, during the last six years of his life, there was to him, yearly, one day of more expanded feeling than another, it was that of the anniversary of the venerated Whitson, on which, after witnessing the heart-cheering assemblage of 200 children in the House of God, uniting to express their gratitude for the memory of his departed ancestor, he felt himself honoured by taking the chair at the annual festival, which past usage had on this occasion sanctioned. In this, his character of trustee, one subject, most dear to his contemplation, failed to be fully carried out before his death-the re-establishment, in active operation, of the Free Grammar School, of which, in early youth, he had been a scholar. Towards this charity his most ardent expectations were directed: they were so far accomplished as to enable him to see the property of the school restored in prospective to its legitimate purposes; but unhappily the circumstances attending that restoration-the law's delay, and other incidents-withheld from his enjoyment the carrying out of measures which he had most cheeringly anticipated.

His literary attainments were very general and multifarious; he was a good classical scholar, was fond of historical and antiquarian research, had an extensive knowledge of the topics of the day, possessed much wit and humour, and a great facility of composition. In 1804 he became one of the proprietors of the" Bristol Mirror," and continued to be so till 1820, when he disposed of his interest to the present proprietor. During that period he was a regular contributor to its columns; and to his spirited literary productions, at the commencement of the present century, may be attributed the rapid increase of that journal in public estimation. He also wrote the Newsman's Christmas Address for the Mirror to the time of his death. He had made large collections in relation to different portions of Bristol history; those relating to the Bristol stage he had lately ar ranged, and had bound in three or four folio volumes, with the intention to deposit them in the Bristol Library, of whose committee he had long been a member. His collections relating to the history of the Infirmary were undergoing a similar arrangement, which had not been com. pleted. Mr. Smith possessed, through his uncle, Mr. George Catcott, a collection of Chatterton's original manuscripts, several of which have never been published, and will be of considerable im

portance to some future editor of the works of the "wondrous boy." On this subject he made a very interesting communication to our own pages, which was printed in our Magazine a few years since.

Mr. Smith's remains were honoured with a public funeral, on the 31st Jan. which was witnessed by a large proportion of the population of Bristol. It was attended by the various lodges of Freemasons, by the corporation, the clergy, &c. The pall was borne by Drs. Pri. chard, Wallis, Howell, and Riley, and R. Lowe, N. Smith, J. Harrison, and W. Morgan, esqrs. physicians and surgeons to the infirmary. The service was performed by the Rev. L. R. Cogan, and the body was deposited in a grave at the north-east corner of the Temple church-yard. On the return of the Freemasons to their Masonic hall, a very impressive address was delivered by the Provincial Grand Chaplain, the Rev. Dr. Irvine.

At a meeting of the Trustees of the Bristol Infirmary on the 9th Feb. Mr. Brooke Smith made a communication in reference to the museum formed by the late Mr. Smith, and which had been deposited in the institution. It was always understood to be the property of that gentleman, in proof of which he would state that he had had a communication from the Members of the House Committee of the Infirmary, stating that they had placed it under the care of the housesurgeon, for the purpose of being disposed of to the executors. Now as one of that body he begged to state that he knew Mr. Smith always considered that museum as a gift to the Infirmary, but which he had a legal right to resume whenever he thought proper; still his deceased friend never had any intention to act upon such right; and in confirmation of that he begged to read an extract from that gentleman's will, which is as follows:-"I give and bequeath to the treasurer for the time being of the Bristol Infirmary, (to be payable out of such part of my property as may be legally applicable thereto,) such a sum (free from legacy duty or other expenses) as will be sufficient to purchase the sum of 4007. in the three per cent. consolidated bank annuities, and which stock I declare shall be held upon trust to apply the income thereof in cleansing, preserv ing, and augmenting the museum which has been formed by me, for the promotion of science, at the said Infirmary, and is there known as Mr. Richard Smith's Museum; and I declare that the said income shall be under the control of the

surgeons for the time being of the said institution, who shall be at liberty to apply the same in such manner as they shall think most beneficial for the purposes aforesaid." The executors to the will were the testator's widow, Mr. Goldwyer, and himself. It might be interesting to the meeting to state that amongst the papers which were lying in his deceased friend's desk, at the time of his death, was a paragraph cut from an old newspaper, and which is as follows: "Mr. Richard Smith, one of the sur geons of the Bristol Infirmary, having frequently experienced a want of means for immediate reference to pathological preparations, when called on to perform an operation out of the usual routine, and also the necessity of a library to the institution, has most kindly resolved to place there his admirable museum, and the necessary medical books, as a commencement of establishments worthy the occasion." Amongst his papers and books (continued the speaker) there were several relating to the Infirmary, some of them going back to a distant period, and all arranged with considerable care; and he had the authority of the widow of that gentleman for saying, that such books and papers were at the disposal of the trustees of the charity, to be done with as they or the committee thought proper.

The thanks of the board were then voted to Mrs. Smith, and the other executors, with an expression of their deep sense of the interest which was felt by the late Mr. Smith for the welfare of this charity, and the able services rendered by him to it for so long a period of time.

CLERGY DECEASED.

At Egglescliff, Durham, aged 89, the Rev. John Brewster, for the last twentyeight years Incumbent of that parish, having previously held, successively, the livings of Greatham, Stockton, Redmarshall, and Boldon.

The Rev. James Frith, Rector of Rathusbuck, Queen's County.

Aged 32, the Rev. Western Fullerton, Rector of Edlington, Yorkshire, and late of Emanuel college, Cambridge.

The Rev. G. L. Gresson, Vicar of Ardmurcher, co. Meath.

In his 82d year, the Rev. John Haggitt, Rector of Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire. He was formerly Fellow of Clare hall, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1783, M. A. 1786, B.D. 1796; and he was collated to Fen Ditton in 1804 by Dr. Yorke, then Bishop of Ely.

In consequence of a piece of meat sticking in his throat, at breakfast, the