family-three beloved sons, natives of
India, and a no less beloved daughter,
a native of America, by his wife Miss
Anne Curtis of South Carolina. He
himself has gone down to the tomb full
of years, the latest of which have been
troubled with disease, and overclouded
by domestic privations. He has left
behind him friends who appreciated his
many valuable qualities, and sincerely
respect his memory. Gentleman's
Magazine.
LEONARD, Lieutenant-Colonel
Richard; Oct. 31. 1833; at Lundy
Lane; near the falls of Niagara.

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He entered the army as an Ensign
in the 54th foot, in Dec. 1796, and
became Lieutenant in the February
following. After serving in Ireland
during the rebellion of 1798, he em-
barked from Southampton, and joined Sir
Ralph Abercromby in the Mediterra-
nean. He served the campaign of
1801 in Egypt, and was Assistant En-
gineer during the siege of Alexandria.
In 1803 he was appointed Town Major
of New Brunswick; and in 1805 he
obtained a Company in the New
Brunswick regiment, afterwards the
104th foot, and continued to hold both
those appointments until 1813, when
he resigned the former, on his regiment
being ordered to Canada. In April
he was appointed Deputy Assistant
Adjutant-general; and in that situation
obtained permission to head his com-
pany in the attack made on Locket's
Harbour on the 29th of May, in which
his company suffered severely, and he
was himself wounded.

In the campaign of 1814 he was
again actively employed. He bore a
part in the action of the 25th of July
at Lundy Lane, and was honourably
mentioned in Sir Gordon Drummond's
despatches of that action. In the as-
sault on Fort Erie, on the 15th of
August, he was severely wounded, and
disabled from further service in the
campaign. He succeeded to the Ma-
jority vacated by the death of Lieut-
Col. Drummond, who was killed at
Fort Erie, and served with the 104th
in Lower Canada until it was disband-
ed in 1817. He subsequently retired
to a small property he had purchased,
part of the ground on which the action
of Lundy Lane was fought, and there
closed his honourable career. Royal
Military Calendar.

LUKIN, Lionel, Esq.; Feb. 16.
1834; at Hythe; in his 92d year.

This gentleman was a native of
Essex, and for many years an eminent
coach builder of Long Acre. In that
capacity he had frequently the honour
of waiting upon his late Majesty, when
Prince of Wales; and his Royal High-
ness condescended to take an interest in
his scientific pursuits, and particularly
in the safety-boat of which he was the
inventor. His first experiments for
this purpose were made on a Norway
yawl, which he purchased in 1784;
and, having completed the alterations
he deemed necessary, and proved their
efficacy as far as practicable on the
Thames, he procured a patent for the
invention, which bore date the 2d of
November, 1785, and the specification
was printed in the third volume of the
Repertory of Arts.

About the same time, in addition
to his conversation on the subject
with the Prince of Wales, he had
interviews with the Dukes of Northum-
berland and Portland, Adm. Sir R.
King, Adm. Schank, and other in-
fluential persons; and, above all, with
Lord Howe, then first Lord of the
Admiralty, who gave him strong verbal
approbation, but was not induced to take
any official steps to further his views.
Shortly after, he was recommended
by Capt. James, then Deputy Master
of the Trinity House, to entrust his
boat, which he had named the Experi-
ment, into the hands of a Ramsgate
pilot, then in London, in order that its
powers might be put to the utmost test
in violent weather. This was done;
but he never heard any more from the
man, nor received any remuneration for
the Experiment and its furniture! He
heard, indeed, that the boat had frequently
crossed the Channel at times when no
other could venture out; and it was
surmised that, having been detected in
illicit traffic, it had been confiscated and
destroyed abroad.

Having thus disposed of his first
boat, Mr. Lukin immediately built a
new one for his own use (about 20 feet
long, like the former), which, from the
prodigies it performed, he named the
Witch. It was let to several persons,
and among others to Sir Sidney Smith,
who in repeated trials found that it
could neither be overset nor sunk; and
its rapidity of sailing (from its ability to
carry a greater quantity of canvas than
usual) was triumphantly proved by Mr.
Lukin himself at Margate.

Though for a time Mr. Lukin's

Spaniards the restitution of Nootka. Whilst the negociations were pending at that place, Mr. Manby was appointed to act as Master of the Chatham tender, in which situation he encountered the perilous navigation of those seas with so much skill, that, in September, 1794, Captain Vancouver promoted him to act as Second Lieutenant of the Discovery. He filled that station until the return of the expedition to England, in October, 1795, when his commission was confirmed by the Admiralty.

Lieutenant Manby was serving in the Juste, of 80 guns, when Lord Hugh Seymour was appointed to command a squadron in the South Seas, on which occasion his Lordship applied for Lieutenant Manby's assistance in such terms, that he was made a Commander in 1796, and appointed to the Charon, which was commissioned as a storeship to attend the squadron. The expedition did not take place, but our officer retained his command on the Channel station, until he obtained the rank of Post Captain, in January, 1799. His services in watching the safety of convoys had recommended him to notice, and he was shortly after nominated to the Bourdelais, of 24 guns.

On the 1st of December, 1800, the Bourdelais sailed from Portsmouth with the Andromeda and Fury, and a large convoy of West Indiamen ; but the fleet was dispersed by a furious gale. On the 8th of January he retook one of the merchantmen, which had been captured by the Mouche privateer, and another two days afterward. Having gained his station off Barbadoes, on the 29th of the same month he was chased by three sail, and, having shortened sail to save them trouble, engaged with the largest brig, the Curieux, of 18 guns, which, after an action of about thirty minutes, was so completely riddled, as shortly after to sink, unfortunately with two midshipmen and five seamen, who were assisting in removing the wounded enemy. In the meantime the consorts of the Curieux effected their escape. Captain Manby remained in the West Indies during the remainder of the war, and returned to England, in command of the Juno frigate, in July,

1802.

After the recommencement of hostilities, Captain Manby obtained the command of the Africaine, a fine 28gun frigate; and he afterwards com

manded the Uranie and Thalia, and tried all the vicissitudes of climate, between the West Indies and the coast of Greenland. His health at length became so broken, that he was compelled to resign his ship at the close of 1808, and he was never after commissioned. Although never restored to perfect health, he enjoyed many years of comparative ease and happiness in the quiet of domestic life. He attained the rank of Rear-Admiral in 1830.

He married in 1800 Miss Hammond, of Northwold, by whom he had two daughters, one of whom was married in 1827 to James Dawes, Esq. of Hampshire, who, in the following year, was created Baron de Flasson, with letters of naturalisation under the great seal of France, enabling him to hold the royal domain of Flasson, presented to him by the Prince of Condé. Abridged from Marshall's Royal Naval Biography.

MARTIN, Richard, Esq, formerly M.P. for the County of Galway; January 6th, 1834; at Boulogne; in his 80th year.

This eccentric personage was originally a gentleman of good fortune, and was elected to represent the county of Galway in the first parliament after the Union, of which measure he had been a warm advocate. He resided at Ballynahinch in that county; and commanded a troop of yeomanry, and a corps of infantry. He was also particularly attached to the sports of the field. But his fame chiefly rests upon his devoted patronage, in his latter days, of those members of the brute. creation, which are doomed to suffer in the streets of the metropolis. In their defence he obtained an Act of Parliament, which is known by his name; and, whilst he continued in London, he was indefatigable in bringing before the magistrates cases in which it might be put into execution.

At length, however, in the year 1826, Mr. Martin lost his election for the county he had then represented in six parliaments; and his embarrassed circumstances consequently drove him abroad. His son, Richard Martin, Esq. of Ballynahinch, is the present member for Galwayshire. Gentleman's Magazine.

MILLS, the Rev. William, B. D., Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and late Professor of Moral Philosophy in that University; May 8. 1834; at

Madeira, whither he had gone for the
recovery of his health.

He received a part of his early edu-
cation under the Rev. Dr. Ellerton, at
Magdalen School, and was elected
Demy in 1810. After passing a bril-
liant examination in the schools, and
obtaining his degree of B. A., he con-
tinued for several years as tutor in the
family of General Sir Alexander Hope,
with whom he resided at Dresden and
at Florence, and acquired during his
stay in those capitals a great command
of the German and Italian languages.
He afterwards resided, until a short
time before his death, principally at
Oxford, and, during the latter portion
of the time, held the office of College
Tutor. In him the University has sus-
tained the loss of one of its brighest or-
naments a man who conciliated the
regard of all that knew him, by the
qualities of the heart no less than of the
head; and who, in the capacity, whether
of Public Examiner, of Select Preacher,
or of Professor, displayed talents of a
high order, and such as are but rarely
seen united. An elegant and correct
scholar, in the ordinary acceptation of
that term, he evinced likewise an exten-
sive acquaintance with the languages
and literature of modern Europe. With
a mind sufficiently subtle to relish and
to apprehend the refined investigations
of the Grecian and German metaphysi-
cians, he possessed the power of render-
ing them clear and attractive to others,
by the charms of a luminous and po-
lished style; retaining a due respect
and preference for established opinions,
he showed himself candid and discrimi-
nating in his appreciation of those
which were novel. Such were his claims
to the regard and esteem of the Univer-
sity at large; but by the individuals of
his own college his loss is still more
deeply deplored. The junior portion
of the Society has, by his death, been
deprived of an instructor, endeared to
them by the amenity of his manners,
and both willing and able to lead them
forward in the paths of sound learning;
whilst the older members have to lament
the loss of a friend, whose sound and
acute intellect might be appealed to on
graver occasions, and whose various ac-
complishments served to enliven and
diversify the daily intercourse of life-
of one whose piety, untinged with either
fanaticism or exclusiveness, supplied
them with a model for imitation, and
whose kindly feelings and liberal views

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extended their genial influence over the
circle in which he moved, and reflected
a lustre upon the Society to which he
belonged. His only publications are,
an able ❝ Disquisition on the Notions
of the Jews and Heathens respecting a
future State;" and a Sermon preach-
ed in the pulpit of St. Mary's immedi-
ately after the meeting of the British
Association in 1830, entitled "Chris-
tian Humility as opposed to the Pride
of Science," which was printed at the
express desire of some of the leading
members of the Association.

It is to be hoped, however, that his
Lectures on Moral Philosophy will not
be altogether lost to the public, but may
meet with some competent editor.
Gentleman's Magazine.

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MURRAY, John, Esq., M. D.;
Sept. 12. 1833; at his house in West-
gate Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
aged 65.

He was the son of the Rev. James
Murray, who was the first minister of
the meeting-house now occupied by a
congregation of Scotch Presbyterians
in the High Bridge, Newcastle; and
also author of numerous works on re-
ligion and politics; to whose memory
there is a gravestone in St. Andrew's
churchyard, bearing this inscription :
"The congregation of Protestant Dis-
senters, assembled at the High Bridge
in this town, have placed this testimony
to their late faithful and esteemed mini-
ster, the Rev. James Murray, who
fought a good fight, kept the faith, and
finished his course the 28th June, 1782,
aged 50 years. Dr. Murray's mother
was Miss Sarah Weddle, whose father
had an estate near Belford in Northum-
berland, from whom it was inherited
by the subject of this memoir and his
brother William, who is a silk manu.
facturer in Manchester. He had also
two sisters, Jane, wife of Mr. Charles
Hay of Newcastle, and Isabella, now
residing at North Shields.

Mr. Murray studied medicine in
Glasgow; and for many years practised
with great success and celebrity as a
surgeon. He was an intimate friend
of Drs. Clarke and Young, and medi-
cal adviser to themselves and families.
Dr. Ramasy had also a high opinion of
his medical talents. Prior to his death
he had been 33 years surgeon to the
Newcastle Dispensary, the last report
for which bears this honourable testi-
mony to his character, and zeal for the
interests of that admirable institution :

“His valuable services for a period
of 33 years; his talents and merits in
the faithful discharge of his professional
duties; his numberless acts of bene-
ficence and private charity towards the
poor; and his constant endeavour to
promote the essential objects of the
department he so ably upheld, will be
long remembered and deeply appre-
ciated with gratitude, not only by the
Committee and Governors, but by all
classes of the community."

Mr. Murray, in the early period of
life, had a strong passion for scientific
and literary pursuits. In 1792 he was
a member of a small society of friends,
who met weekly for mutual improve-
ment in various departments of science,
and who were the auspicious planters
of that broad and umbrageous tree of
knowledge," the Philosophical Society
of Newcastle." Chemical science at
that time was just beginning to unfold
its wonders and its benefits to the in-
habitants of that place; and Mr. Mur-
ray was the first who prepared soda
water there for sale. This he did by
the common mode of pressure then in
use. Finding this method tedious and
inconvenient, he fell upon the expe-
dient of disposing of it in strong glass
bottles, which were made under his
direction by the late Isaac Cookson,
Esq.

The Gateshead corps of Volunteers
was formed in 1803, under the com-
mand of Lt. Col. Ellison, and with
Mr. Murray for its Adjutant, in
which important office his turn for
military tactics was so strikingly dis-
played, that at every review the in-
specting officer was delighted with his
tact and skill in carrying his corps
through its various evolutions. In
music, too, he was a master; and be-
sides various pieces, such as the airs of
"Tsadi the Moor,' "The Poor Vil-
lage Maid," "The Blue Bell," "Dear
Mary, my Love," "The Merry Sa-
voyard," &c. &c. which have been pub-
lished, he was the author of many other
admired compositions still in manu-
script.

notice, because his modesty threw a
veil over his own perfections; but
which could not be hid from the emi-
nent practitioners who were his con-
temporaries. And it must not be for-
gotten to mention that while, in his
office of Surgeon to the Dispensary, his
skill and attention were unremittingly
exerted among the poorest and most
wretched of his patients, his benevolence
often supported whole families where
disease had destroyed the means of
their subsistence. In domestic life he
was docile and obliging; and in his
habits systematically regular and abste-
mious.

Milk, coffee, and tea were his
common beverage; all fermented and
distilled liquors he hated, and never
tasted; still, however, for many years
he could not be said to have enjoyed
good health: for at times he suffered
much from gout; and for the last two
years of his life, some organic affection,
it is supposed, in the brain, gradually
deprived him of all consciousness of
what was passing around him; and
friendship and affection, for some
months before his death, could only
gaze on the living ruins of one who, in
the prime of his intellectual powers,
was the soul of the society he moved
in, and the charm of domestic life.

He married Mary, daughter of Mr.
Stoddart Rotherford, a wine-merchant
in Newcastle, and widow of Mr. Clark,
but died without issue. His remains
were interred near those of his wife and
father in St. Andrew's churchyard.—
Gentleman's Magazine.

MURRAY, the Rev. Alexander,
D. D., Professor of Oriental Languages
in the University of Edinburgh.

Born in obscurity, amidst the bleak
mountains of Galloway, Dr. Murray
rose above all the difficulties of his
birth and education; and at an early
age he had made great attainments,
not only in his own language, but in
the dead languages, the knowledge of
many of which he had acquired before
he went to school. While prosecuting
his studies at Edinburgh, he was se-
lected by Mr. Constable to arrange the
papers of Bruce the traveller; and be-
fore he could begin he had to acquire
a knowledge of various languages and
their dialects, which he did with won-
derful facility. When a communica-
tion came to this country from the
court of Abyssinia, the academies of
the south failed to give it an interpret-
ation, and they were under the neces-