A.

ACKERMANN, Rudolph, Esq.; March 30. 1834; in the 70th year of his age.

It is impossible to permit such a man to descend to the grave without some more particular notice than the bare announcement of his decease. His, indeed, was a character which we should deem it a public wrong not to hold forth as an example to persons of every profession.

Born at Schneeberg, in the kingdom of Saxony, in 1764, and bred to the trade of a coach-builder, he came, early in life, to England, shortly before the commencement of the French revolution, and for some time pursued in London the occupation of a carriage draftsman, which led to an acquaintance with artists, and to his settlement in business as a printseller in the Strand. Here, by indefatigable industry, intelligence, and enterprise, combined with inviolable honour and integrity in all his transactions, he created that flourishing establishment, which has made his name perhaps more extensively known, both at home and abroad, than that of any other tradesman in the British metropolis.

In the early part of his career, when the French revolution had driven many clever and ingenious persons to this country, and when even some of the old noblesse were obliged to exercise their talents for a subsistence, Mr. Ackermann, by the extensive encouragement which he gave to the manufacture of elegant fancy articles by them, raised that branch of business to an importance which it had never before attained.

His speculative and enterprising dis

position showed itself in various ways unconnected with his trade. We believe that we are correct in stating that his was the first private establishment in which, before the formation of gas companies, an apparatus was erected for making gas for the purpose of domestic illumination. To him the country is certainly indebted for the original introduction of the lithographic art, to which he directed the public attention not only by a translation of the work of Senefelder, its inventor, but also by the specimens which he produced from his own presses. As a publisher his illustrated topographical works, especially the Histories of Westminster Abbey, the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and the Public Schools, are monuments of his spirit and taste. It is well known that his successful attempt to furnish in "The Forget Me Not" a worthy offering to an object of kindness and affection has generated in this country a new class of elegant works- the Annuals which in the last ten years have caused the circulation of a very large sum among those whose talents are required for their production. The ardour in which he embarked in the preparation of books, chiefly elementary, for the instruction and enlightenment of the people of the Spanish American States, and in the formation of establishments in some of their principal cities, is also deserving of mention.

But it is not for his spirit, activity, intelligence, and honour, as a tradesman, that his surviving friends will venerate the character of Mr. Ackermann, so much as for that genuine kindness of heart, that cordial hospitality, that warm beneficence, and that ac

tive philanthropy, in which it abounded.
Never, perhaps, was the latter quality
more strikingly displayed, and never
were the exertions of an individual in
behalf of suffering humanity crowned
with such signal success as when, after
the decisive battle of Leipzig, Mr.
Ackermann stood forward as the advo-
cate of the starving population of many
districts of Germany, reduced to the
utmost destitution by the calamities of
war. By his indefatigable efforts, com-
mittees were organised, and a public
subscription set on foot, the amount of
which was increased by a parliamentary
grant of 100,000l. to more than double
that sum. To the honour of the Society
of Friends be it recorded, that their
contributions, withheld from the en-
couragement of war, were most muni-
ficently poured into this fund for the
alleviation of the miseries inflicted by
that scourge.

On Mr. Ackermann, as
Secretary to the Western Committee,
devolved, in fact, almost the whole of
the arduous duties connected with this
subscription: the perusal of claims
transmitted from abroad, the direction
of the extensive correspondence to
which they led, and the apportionment
of relief to the suffering districts. By
these labours his time was absorbed,
during the spring and summer of 1814,
to such a degree that he abridged him-
self of many hours of natural rest every
night to pursue them, till his general
health and his sight in particular were
materially impaired. How entirely his
benevolent heart was engrossed by this
business may be inferred from a joke of
his old friend Combe's (the author of
"Dr. Syntax"), who one day observed,
"I cannot imagine what has happened
to our friend Ackermann; meet him
when you will and ask him how he
does, the only answer you can get is
'Leipzig!'"

It is not surprising that when he
soon afterwards visited his native coun-
try, he was hailed as a public benefactor
who, under Providence, had been the
means of saving thousands of his fellow
creatures from perishing. The scenes
which he every where encountered dur-
ing this journey were deeply affecting
as well as gratifying to his feelings:
and often have the tears started from
his eyes on reverting to them in con-
versation with his most intimate friends.
The city of Leipzig expressed its gra-
titude to him by a valuable present of
vases and figures in Meissen porcelain;

the King of Prussia sent him a costly
ring; and the King of Saxony, who
invited him to a personal interview,
conferred on him the Order of Civil
Merit, which he had just instituted.

In the spring of 1830, when at his
delightful retreat at Fulham, he expe-
rienced a sudden attack of paralysis;
and though his life was preserved
through the prompt assistance, skill,
and decisive measures adopted by his
medical attendants, yet he never reco-
vered sufficiently to return to business.
A drier air than that of Fulham being
deemed beneficial for his complaint, he
removed to Finchley; and soon after-
wards transferred to his three younger
sons and to Mr. Walton, his principal
assistant, the establishment which he
had founded, and which, by the unre-
mitting labour of forty years, he had
brought to its present prosperous con-
dition, the eldest son being already
established in Regent Street.
attack of his complaint, in November,
1833, produced a gradual decline of
strength; and at length terminated his
useful and honourable life on the 30th
of March, 1834. His remains were
deposited, on the 7th of April, in the
family grave in the burial ground of
St. Clements, in the presence of his
afflicted family, and his sorrowing
friends, one of whom dedicates this
brief and very inadequate tribute to his
memory. The Observer.

ATKINS, Mr.

A fresh

; at Malta.

He was an artist of great promise as
a portrait painter, for some years a re-
sident at Rome, where, from his talents
and amiable disposition, he had rendered
himself a general favourite, and his
premature loss is much regretted by his
fellow students there. When perform-
ing quarantine in the Lazaretto, at
Malta, on his return to Italy from Con-
stantinople, he imprudently sat for some
time in a draught without his coat,
which produced a fever and his conse-
quent speedy death. The circumstances
attending his visit to the capital of
Turkey are somewhat curious. During
a season of some dulness at Rome,
some of his friends, amongst the most
intimate of whom was Gibson the
sculptor, started the idea of his pro-
ceeding to Constantinople with the view
of gaining an introduction to the Sultan
for the purpose of painting his portrait.
Being naturally of an enterprising dis-
position, the somewhat romantic enter-
prise met with his instant approbation:

B.

'BANNATYNE, Sir William Mac-
leod, one of the retired senators of the
College of Justice; Nov. 30. 1833; at
Whiteford House, co. Ayr, aged 90.

This venerable man was descended
from an ancient and honourable family,
and born Jan 26. 1743, O. S. Having
enjoyed and profited by the advantage
of a liberal education, he gave early in
dications of future eminence. He was
admitted Advocate Jan. 22. 1765, and
at the bar he deservedly acquired the
character of a sound and able lawyer.
He was the intimate friend and com-
panion of Blair, Mackenzie, Cullen,
Erskine, Abercromby, and Craig;
and one of the contributors to the
Mirror and Lounger. His accom-
plishments as a gentleman, and his
attainments in general knowledge and
belles lettres, were such as to excite an
opinion that, had he devoted his talents
exclusively to literary pursuits, he would
have arrived at no ordinary degree of
eminence. He was the last survivor of
that phalanx of genius which shed so
brilliant a lustre on the periodical
literature of Scotland half a century

He was promoted to the Bench on
the death of Lord Swinton, and took
his seat as Lord Bannatyne, May 16.
1799; and his judicial career for
twenty-four years reflects high honour
on his memory. He resigned in the
year 1823, and was succeeded by the
late Lord Eldin.- Gentleman's Mag.

BARNE, the Rev. Thomas, M.-A.,
of the Manor-house, Crayford, county
of Kent, one of the Chaplains in ordi-
nary to their Majesties George III.,
George IV., and William IV., and
sometime Rector of Sotterley; July 22.
1834; suddenly of apoplexy, at the
seat of his brother, Sotterley Hall, co.
Suffolk; aged 68.

He received his education at West-
minster School and at Oriel College,
in Oxford, where he took the degrees of
B. A. in 1783, and M. A. in 1786.

Mr. Barne was the youngest son of
Miles Barne, of Sotterley, Esq. M.P.,
by Elizabeth, daughter of George
Thornhill, of Diddington, co. Hun-
tingdon, Esq., and was twice married;
first to Elizabeth, daughter of Richard
Wyatt, of Wilton Place, Egham, Esq.,
who died in 1812, without issue; and
secondly, in 1815, to Sarah, only
daughter of the Hon. and Rev. St.
Andrew St. John, D. D., sometime
Dean of Worcester, who survives him.

His attainments as a classical scholar
and divine were of the highest class,
nor were they more conspicuous than
the mildness and urbanity of his dis-
position. He had "the ornament of
a meek and quiet spirit," and has en-
deared his memory to his friends by his
unwearied kindness and benevolence,
and to the poor by his frequent and
ready acts of charity. Private Com-
munication.

BARRETT, Thomas Barrett
Brydges, Esq. of Lee Priory, near Can-
terbury, late Captain and Lieut.-Col.
of his Majesty's regiment of grenadier
guards; June 1. 1834; on the French
coast, near Boulogne, after a few days
illness; aged nearly 45.

He was born June 20. 1789, the
eldest son of Sir Samuel Egerton
Brydges, Bart. (who asserts the barony
of Chandos of Sudeley as his right by
the law of the land,) and Elizabeth,
sole daughter and heiress of the Rev.
Dejovas Byrche, by Elizabeth, only
sister of the late Thomas Barrett, of
Lee Priory, Esq.

He succeeded to the estates and
name of his maternal great-uncle Tho-