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On the 3rd of December, 1831, died at Croft, in the county of York, in the 72nd year of his age, the rev. John Harriman, perpetual curate of Ash and Satley, Durham, and fellow of the Linnæan Society. This distinguished botanist was a native of Maryport, in the county of Cumberland. In his 17th year he commenced the study of medicine, with the design of pursuing it as his profession. But abandoning it on account of ill health, afterwards entered holy orders. In 1787, he was ordained a deacon, and in the following year was appointed to the curacy of Bassenthwaite, in his native county, and afterwards to that of Barnard Castle, in the county of Durham. In 1795, he removed to Egglestone, and afterwards to Gainford, both in the same county. In 1808, he married Miss Ay of King's Lynn, in the county of Nor folk. In 1813, he took the curacy of Long Horsely in Northumberland, and, afterwards, at the request of his dio cesan, that of Heighinton and Croxdale. In 1821, having previously resigned these engagements, he was inducted into the small perpetual curacies of Ash and Satley, which he held to the time of his decease. As a botanist and mineralogist he early became distinguished for the extent and accuracy of his researches; was elected a fellow of the Linnæan Society, and had his acquaintance and correspondence sought for by the most eminent botanists of this and other countries; including amongst this number the late president of the Linnæan Society, sir J. E. Smith, Withering, Sowerby, Hooker, &c. and professors Acharius and Swartz of Sweden, &c. By these and other eminent men of his time, he was frequently consulted, particularly on the order of

Lichens.

6. At Glasgow, in his 43d year, the rev. Edward Irving, M.A. the celebrated preacher. This extraordinary man was born at Annan, in Dumfries. shire, and educated at the University of Edinburgh. In 1811, he was appointed to superintend the mathematical school

at Haddington, whence he was removed in 1812, to instruct the higher classes at Kirkaldy. On being afterwards engaged by Dr. Chalmers as his assistant, in St. John's parish, Glasgow, he gained so much reputation, that on a vacancy occurring in the ministry of the Caledonian church, in Cross Street, Hatton Garden, he was invited to London, and took possession of the pulpit in August,

1822.

Here he very soon attracted very large congregations, by the force and eloquence of his discourses, and, also, by the singularity of his appearance and gesticulation. The chapel was actually thronged by persons of rank and fashion, and the influx of strangers became so inconveniently numerous that it was found necessary to close the doors to the public in general and admit those only who had previously been furnished with tickets. But this extraordinary tide of popularity almost as quickly decreased after it had attained its height. The gay, the fashionable, and the learned world were not converted by the eloquence they went to admire as an exhibition of something wonderful, and which would supply them for a short time with a fresh theme of conversation. The reverend orator too, seemed on his part, to be more anxious of making a display, and exciting a sensation, than was altogether consistent with his sacred office. The peculiar characteristic of his style was a straining after originality of ideas, and the expressing them in the language of Milton, Jeremy Taylor, and the old divines; embellishing his discourse with the metaphors of poets and philosophers, and adding to the piquancy of his censures by personal allusions and homely truths. Desirous of providing for him a handsomer church, Mr. Irving's more enthusiastic admirers raised a subscription for that purpose, and one accordingly erected in Sidmouth Street, Regent Square. It was completed in 1829; but before that time had arrived, the preacher's popularity had nearly passed away: his eccentricities were become familiar, the curiosity of the noveltyhunters was completely satiated; and his more discreet admirers might perhaps feel that there had been somewhat of the appearance of charlatanism in his career, if nothing of the reality of it. Besides this, the publication of his "Oracles of God," &c., proved that he had been more indebted to manner, and powers

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of delivery, than to ability of matter, or felicity of composition. Hardly was he established in his new pulpit, when his thirst for notoriety urged him to the adoption of more dangerous eccentricities. He was charged with heresy; and at a Meeting of the Presbytery of London, November 29, 1830, the report of the committee appointed to examine his work on "Christ's Humanity," was brought up and read. Mr. Irving was therein charged with holding Christ guilty of original and actual sin, and denying the doctrines of atonement. The further proceedings of ecclesiastical censure were prolonged for eighteen months, during which his religious errors were neither corrected nor modi fied; but, on the contrary, he proceeded to all the extravagance of the Unknown Tongues. At length the trustees of the church in Rogent Square, completed his ejection on the 3rd of May, 1832. Mr. Irving was married to Miss Martin, of Kirkaldy, in 1823, and has left her a widow with several young children. In his pri vate intercourse he was an amiable man; and his original powers, had they been prudently and consistently exercised, would, undoubtedly, have achieved a more desirable and more permanent fame than that of a 'uine day's won der' of pulpit oratory, or a high priest of a wild set of enthusiasts. "The constitutional basis, and ground-work of his character," says Dr. Chalmers, "was virtue alone, and notwithstanding all his errors and extravagances, with both, in jured him in the estimation of the world, and threw discredit upon much that was good and useful in his writings, I believe him to have been a man of deep and devoted piety. Besides the "Oracles of God," &c., before-mentioned, he published in 1827, "The Coming of the Messiah in Glory and Majesty, by Juan Josafat Ben Ezra, a con. verted Jew," translated from the Spanish, in which his heretical opinions were first betrayed; in 1828," A Letter to the King on the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts," a measure he earnestly opposed; in the same year, "Last Days, and Discourses on the Evil character of these times," besides some sermons, lectures, &c.; " Church and State, responsible to each other, a Series of Discourses on Daniel's Vision of the Four Beasts," 1829; "Lectures on the Book of the Revelation," 1830; "The Orthodox and Catholic Doctrine

of our Lord's Human Nature," 1830. "The Day of Pentecost; or the Baptism with the Holy Ghost, in three parts," 1831. "The Confessions of Faith, and the Books of Discipline of the Church of Scotland.

10. In Throgmorton-street, aged 75, Alexander Chalmers, esq. F.S.A. A well-known literary character.

17. In Clarendon Square, at a very advanced age, Henry Bone, esq. R.A. an artist distinguished for his ability in enamel painting which branch of art he carried to a degree of excellence hitherto unknown in this country.

19. At Lea-hall, Yardley, within a few days of completing his 80th year, John Blount, esq. a justice of the peace for the county. He was for many years a medical practitioner in Birmingham. His extensive literary attainments, amiable disposition, and great urbanity of manners, acquired for him the esteem and affection of a very extensive acquaintance.

22. At his residence at Brighton, aged 80, Prince Hoare, esq. secretary to the Royal Academy, F.S.A. and M.R.S.L This clever writer, who was born at Bath, in 1755, was the son of Mr. William Hoare, a painter, and one of the original members of the Royal Academy. He began his career as an artist under the instructions of his parent; came to London at the age of seventeen, as a student at the Royal Academy; and afterwards continued his professional education by visiting Rome in 1776, where he studied under Mengs, and had Fuseli, and Northcote among his com panions. On returning to England, in 1780, he devoted himself for a while to the practice of his profession in London, but ill health compelled him to relinquish the arts, and for the recovery of his strength, he took a voyage to Lisbon. On his return he directed his attention to dramatic composition, and with such success, especially in small after pieces, that many of his productions still retain their popularity. His first attempt was a tragedy, entitled "Such Things Were," founded on the history of Kirk's cruelty in the reign of James II.; and brought out at Bath, January 2, 1788; and in the same year, his lively and popular comic opera, "No Song No Supper," was first acted at Drury Lane. "The Prize;" "My Grandmother;" "Lock and Key," a musical farce; Sighs, or the Daughter," from Kotze

bue; "Indiscretion," a comedy, &c. &c. In consequence of being appointed in 1799, to the honorary post of foreign secretary to the Royal Academy, he published in 4to, 1802, "Extracts from a Correspondence with the Acade mies of Vienna and St. Petersburgh, on the cultivation of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture," a work afterwards continued at intervals under the title of "Academic Annals." To this succeeded in 1806, his "Inquiry into the requisite cultivation, and present state of the Arts of Design in England ;" and in 1809 and 1810, he edited in two volumes, 4to. "The Artist," a collection of Essays written chiefly by professional persons, and containing several papers by himself. A year or two afterwards he published another work on art, entitled "Epochs of the Fine Arts." Mr. Hoare was also author of a poem entitled "Love's Victims ;" and of a "Life of Granville Sharp." His last production was an Essay on the moral power of Shakspeare's Dramas," read before the Royal Society of Literature, and printed in their transactions. With this elegant and thoughtful paper, he closed his literary career, establishing by arguments and facts, the indispensable union of moral truth, with dramatic and all literary excellence. Benevolence, integrity, and sincerity, distinguished Mr. Hoare no less than did his intellectual attainments; and they won him the respect and affection of the circles admitted to his intimacy. He bequeathed his library to the Royal society of Literature." A likeness of him was published in 1814, in “ Dance's Portraits."

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29. At Brighton, Eleanor, widow of William Dawson, esq. for many years a magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire, and formerly Consul for Maryland; she was the daughter of the hon. Richard Lee, president of the last British Council for the State of Maryland.

31. At Gloucester, on her 81st birthday, Mrs. Phillpotts, mother of the bishop of Exeter, and of John Phillpotts, esq. M.P. She was mother of twentyfour children.

31. At Cirencester, aged 39, Mr.

Thomas Beverley, late of Brompton, near Scarborough, an able mathematician and astronomer.

At Gloucester, at the advanced age of 109, Elizabeth Yates, widow. With the exception of her hearing, she was in the full enjoyment of her faculties.

-At Canterbury, aged 72, majorgeneral George Ramsay, colonel commandant of the 4th Battalion of the Royal Artillery.

At Bushfield, county of Kerry, aged 71, sir John Godfrey, the second baronet, of that place (1786).

At the Mauritius, in consequence of injuries received during a violent hurricane, captain David Thompson, the well-known computer and author of the Lunar and Horary Tables, and inventor of the longitude scale. The work which has brought captain Thompson's name into note among men of science, is his solution of the problem of clearing the apparent distance of the moon from other celestial bodies, from the effects of parallax and refraction-one of the most useful in nautical astronomy; and he received from the late celebrated baron de Zach, high commendation for his skill and success in this investigation, and from the late Board of Longitude a tardy acknowledgement of the high merit of his tables. All methods which solve this problem by approximative formulæ being in some particular cases defective, captain Thompson undertook the arduous task of resolving the spherical triangle, for every case which can occur in practice. The correction to one of the approximative formule which he adopted, was thus obtained, in every individual case: and these single results were classed in a table of triple entry, embracing all the cases which can possibly occur. The seaman takes out from the table the number required for each case, with great ease, and adds it to the calculated numerical value of the approximative formula, the defect of. which captain Thompson's Table is intended to supply, and he thus obtains a perfectly correct solution. Captain Thompson also invented a scale adapted to the solution of the same problem, which is made use of by many mari.

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