44. Entrance Lock and Wharf Walls 65. Holyhead Road, Cross Sections, &c. 66. Ditto, Sections, Drains, Fences, of ditto. 45. Map of Gotha Canal (Sweden). 46. Double Lock and Gates, &c. on ditto. &c. &c. 67. Ditto Toll Houses and Gate. 47. Double Stop Gate and Drawbridge 69. Menai Bridge. on ditto. 48. Craig Eliachie Bridge. 49. Helmsdale and Allness Bridges. 50. Conon and Potarch Bridges. 51. Laggan Kirk Bridge. 52. Dunkeld Bridge. 53. View of Dunkeld. 70. Elevation and Sections of Main Pier and Pyramids. 71. Side Elevation and Cross Sections of ditto. 72. Section of Roadway Main Chains adjusting Links of ditto. 73. Hoisting Tackle, Saddles, &c. 54. Fiddler's Burn and Johnstone Mill 74. Proving Machinery and Tackle Bridges. used in the Menai Bridge. 55. Birkwood Burn and Hamilton 75. Sundry Tackle and Machinery Bridges. 56. Cartland Craigs Bridge. 57. Centering of ditto. 58. Toll House on ditto. 59. Glasgow old Bridge widened with cast iron. 60. Glasgow Bridge (Broomielaw). 61. Dean Bridge. 62. Centerings of Dean Bridge and Gloucester Bridge. 63. Pathhead Bridge. 64. Morpeth Bridge. used in the Menai Bridge. 76. Conway Bridge. 77. Holyhead Harbour. 78. Howth Harbour. 79. Tewksbury Bridge. 80. Gloucester Severn Bridge. There are to be two Tail Pieces : 1. Hermitage Castle (from Scott's Border Antiquities). 2. Caerlavarock Castle (from Vol. IV. of Scott's Poetical Works). The immediate cause of Mr. Telford's death was a repetition of severe bilious attacks, to which he had for some years been subject, and which at length proved fatal. He died at his house in Abingdon Street, Westminster, on the 2d of September, 1834. His remains were deposited in Westminster Abbey on the 10th of the same month, next to those of the late distinguished geographer, Major Rennel. The funeral was conducted in the most unostentatious manner, but was followed by about sixty of his personal friends, among whom were Sir Henry Parnell, Bart., Captain Beaufort, Mr. Milne, Commissioner of Woods and Forests, and the Vice Presidents and Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers. The latter body have since published the following judicious, eloquent, and well-earned tribute to Mr. Telford's memory: "The Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers feel themselves called upon to address the members of that body on the occasion of the great loss they have sustained by the death of their venerable President, to express their high sense of his talents and eminence as a professional man, and their heartfelt respect for his memory. His various works are conspicuous ornaments to the country, and speak for themselves as the most durable monument of a well-earned fame: in number, magnitude, and usefulness, they are too intimately connected with the prosperity of the British people to be overlooked or forgotten in future times; and the name of Telford must remain permanently associated with that remarkable progress of public improvement which has distinguished the age in which he lived. "The boldness and originality of thought in which his designs were conceived has been equalled only by the success with which they have been executed, and by the public benefits which have resulted from their use; whilst the general admiration with which his structures are regarded is an evidence of his good taste, in giving elegance of appearance to the most substantial fabrics. "The profession in which, during a long and successful career, Mr. Telford was one of the brightest ornaments, has been greatly advanced in public estimation by his unceasing efforts for its improvement. The members of that profession can never forget the liberality with which he patronised and encouraged young men, his ready accessibility, and the uniform kindness of feeling and urbanity of manners evinced in his intercourse with every one. "The Institution of Civil Engineers has been particularly indebted to Mr. Telford, who was chosen President at an early stage of its formation, and has always exerted his influence to promote its objects and consolidate its foundation; his presents to the library and collection have been most liberal, his attendance at the meetings constant, and his conduct in presiding has been in every way calculated to promote mutual good feelings, harmony of sentiments, and co-operation of talents." For the materials of which the foregoing memoir is composed we are chiefly indebted to "The Imperial Magazine," "Dr. Cleland's Enumeration of the Inhabitants of Glasgow and the County of Lanark, for the Government Census of 1831," "The Repertory of Patent Inventions," and "The Mechanic's Magazine." 220 No. XVII. THE RIGHT HON. JOHN SHORE, BARON TEIGNMOUTH, IN THE PEERAGE OF IRELAND, AND A BARONET; A PRIVY COUNCILLOR, F.S. A.; AND PRESIDENT OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY. THERE have been few lives passed in the laborious and honourable duties of the East India Company's service in India more deserving of commemoration than that of Lord Teignmouth. The executive administrators of India, amidst the records of the Bengal government, for a long and eventful series of years, have before them ample testimonies of his public services: the few surviving friends who lived in familiar intercourse with him will attest his private and social virtues. His Lordship was descended from a Derbyshire family, but, we believe, was born in Devonshire. His father, Thomas Shore, Esq., was sometime of Melton, in Suffolk; he died in 1759, leaving issue by Dorothy Shepherd, the late Lord Teignmouth, and the Rev. Thomas William Shore, vicar of Sandal in Yorkshire, and of Otterton in Devonshire, who died in 1822. Mr. Shore went early in life to India in the civil service of the East India Company. On his arrival at Calcutta, in May, 1769, the young civilian was stationed at Moorshedabad, as an assistant under the council of revenue; and, in 1772, served as an assistant to the resident of Rajeshaye. He devoted himself with considerable assiduity to the Persian language, and obtained, by means of his proficiency in it, the office of Persian translator and secretary to the pro vincial council of Moorshedabad. In 1774 he obtained a seat at the Calcutta Revenue Board, where he continued till its dissolution in 1781, when he was appointed second member of the general commitee of revenue. In January, 1785, he came to England with Mr. Hastings, with whom he had contracted an intimacy, and in the April of the following year returned to Calcutta, having been appointed by the Court of Directors to a seat in the Supreme Council, as an acknowledgment of his distinguished talents and integrity. The most prominent feature of Mr. Shore's early life in India was his participation in the financial and judicial reforms of Lord Cornwallis. In 1787 that nobleman, on his departure for the government of India, received from the Court of Directors a code of instructions relative to the improvements they sought to introduce into the financial administration of the country. In fact, these instructions authorised, or rather enjoined, a new arrangement. The failure of the revenue, and of every successive attempt to enhance it, the frequent changes, and the substitution of farmers for the permanent zemindars, and the exclusion of the collectors from all interference with the assessments of their several districts, above all, the heavy arrears outstanding for the four preceding years, and the consequent impoverishment of the provinces, were the evils to be redressed. For this purpose an equitable settlement was directed to be made with the zemindars; and the experiment, in the first instance, was to be made for ten years, and to become permanent should it be successful. The collectors were also to be invested with judicial powers. Mr. Mill, perhaps in too severe a tone of reprehension, remarks that, at this time, the grossest ignorance prevailed upon every subject relative to revenue among the civil servants of Bengal. They understood neither the nature of the land-tenure, nor the respective rights of the different classes of cultivators, and those who enjoyed the produce; the whole of their knowledge being the actual amount annually collected of the resources of the country they knew nothing. Lord Cornwallis, therefore, determined to : |