St. Bartholomew's. Patients admitted, cured, and discharged last year: Cured and discharged last year:-In-patients.... 2948 Received last year as vagrants, under commitments of the Apprentices sent to solitary confinement by the Cham- Received into Hospital on being passed to their respec- 216 Remaining in Hospital, Dec. 31, 1822, including those on leave:-Curables. Incurables Criminals Total...... 162 103 70 53 226 388 221 OBITUARY. Feb. 10. At his house in Bedford-Row, CHARLES HUTTON, LL.D., F.R.S., &c., an eminent mathematician, and author of many valuable and useful works. He was formerly a schoolmaster at Newcastleupon-Tyne, where he was born on the 14th of August, 1737. In 1764 bis first work appeared, under the title of " A Practical Treatise on Arithmetic and Book-keeping," to which he afterwards added a Key for the use of Tutors. In 1770 he published, in quarto, his “Treatise on Mensuration in Theory and Practice," which led to his admission into the Royal Society, and his appointment as Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, a station which he filled with great advantage to the institution and the public, until the year 1807, when, in the 70th year of his age, he retired from it on account of ill health, with a pension from government, no less well merited than it was liberal; and a just eulogy from the Board of Ordnance, the department of the executive best able to appreciate his lengthened services. Of the Royal Society he was for some years Foreign Secretary, but, shortly after the succession of Sir Joseph Banks to the presidency, resigned his post in disgust, under circumstances which it was no very pleasant part of our duty to explain, in our biographical sketch of the late president of the Society. Besides the works already mentioned, Dr. Hutton published, "The Principles of Bridges," 8vo. 1773; "The Diarian Miscellany," 5 vols. 12mo; a selection of useful and entertaining articles from the Ladies' Diary, of which he was for a long time the editor; "Elements of the Conic Sections," 8vo. 1777; "Tables of the Products and Powers of Numbers," folio, 1788; "Mathematical Tables, (Logarithms)," 1785; "Tables of interest," 8vo. 1786; "Tracts, Mathematical and Philosophical," 4to. 1786; "Compendious Measurer," 12mo. 1786; "Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary," 2 vols. 4to. 1796. He published also several other treatises and tracts on various abstract parts of the Mathematics and of Natural Philosophy; translations from Despian, Ozanam, and Montucla; and, in conjunction with Drs. Shaw and Pearson, edited the Abridgment of the Philosophical Transactions, (to which he himself was a valuable contributor,) in 18 vols. 4to. He also for many years conducted the calculations for the principal almanacks published by the Stationers' Company. Dr. Hutton was to the last exceedingly cheerful in his conversation and manner, although deliberate in expressing himself. His voice was clear and firm, but it had a slight Northumbrian accent. He appears in every thing to have displayed his taste for his favourite study. Shewing a friend, not long before his decease, a bust of himself, he said, "There, Sir, is a bust of me by Gahagan-my "friends tell me it is like me, except that it is too grave, though "gravity is a part of my character. As to the likeness and expres"sion, I cannot myself be the judge, but I can vouch for the accuracy, "for I have measured it in every point with the callipers." Upon the same person taking leave, the Doctor insisted on accompanying him to the door, and on remarking to him that the street was broad, light, and very airy, he stepped two or three paces on, and, pointing to the end of the row, said, "Yes, it is a very agreeable place to work in. 66 "From the chair in my study to that post at the corner, is just forty 66 yards; and from that post to the other post at the other end of the row, is exactly the eighth part of a mile: so that when I come out "to take my walk, I can walk my eighth part of a mile, the quarter "of a mile, half of a mile, or my mile, as I choose. When I return to 66 my seat, I know what exercise I have taken. I am in my eighty"sixth year, and, thank God, have my health in a remarkable way at "such an age. I have very few pains, but am a little deaf." The Doctor bequeathed the original marble bust of himself, presented to him but a short time before his death by a number of friends and of the admirers of his talents, to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, as a testimony of his respect for the place of his nativity. PROVINCIAL AND MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. Deaths.-Aug. 3. At Tilliepally, in Ceylon, Rev. James Richards, a Missionary of the American Board of Missions.-Sept. 4. At Calcutta, Rev. Henry Lloyd Loring, D.D., archdeacon of Calcutta. Some of his sermons, on public occasions, were printed at the request of his congregations, and are very creditable to his talents, 38.-Dec At Paris, Count d'Escairs.-Jan. At New Orleans, Gen. Humbert, a distinguished officer of the French Republic, who, at the commencement of the war in 1798, landed in Ireland with a small force, and defeated General Lake, &c. Emigrating to the United States in 1812, he acted under General Jackson, when New Orleans was attacked by the British forces. For the last five years his mind had been disordered, and a deep melancholy preyed upon his spirits, the consequence of a poverty which left not sufficient to pay the expenses of his funeral.-18. At Clarendon, Jamaica, Rev. Theophilus Donne.-19. At Rouen, Edward Berkley Portman, Esq., M.P. for Dorsetshire, 51.-29. Rev. W. Mead, minister of St. Marylebone parish chapel, and rector of Dunstable, Bedfordshire.-25. Suddenly, in a coach, on his way to the Italian Opera-house, Mr. Peter Bailey, late editor of the weekly periodical paper called the Museum. He was the son of an attorney at Nantwich, in Cheshire, and after receiving his education at Rugby, and at Merton College, Oxford, entered at the Temple; but preferring music, company, and plays, to the law, soon found his way into the King's Bench Prison, where he collected information for the satirical poem, which he published anonymously, under the title of "Sketches from St. George's Fields, by Georgiani di Castel Chiuso." He published also anonymously, a Spencerean Poem, called the "Queen's Appeal," and wrote an epic on the conquest of Wales, intitled "Idwal," part only of which has been printed, but not published, though the greater portion of it remains in a finished state in manuscript. At the end of the specimen, privately printed, is a Greek Poem, originally published in the Classical Journal a few years since.-Feb. 1. At Nice, Hon. Edward Spencer Cowper, brother of the present and late Earl Cowper, and formerly M.P. for Hertford.-3. At Paris, Henry Grey Mc Nab, M.D., physician to his late Royal Highness the Duke of Kent. He was the author of several works, and, shortly before his death, had finished a treatise on education, founded on the word of God. He was interred in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, an eloquent oration having been pronounced over his ashes by his intimate friend, Count Laffau Ladebat.-16. In Portland-Place, Gilbert Walker Jordan, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., one of the benchers of the Inner Temple, and colonial agent for the island of Barbadoes. In 1804 he published "The Claims of the British West Indian Colonists to the right of obtaining Supplies from America, stated and vindicated," 8vo., 65.-21. In the workhouse of St. George the Martyr, aged 106, Mary Dolby, who, up to the time of her decease, retained her mental faculties to an astonishing degree, and could see to read the smallest print, and even to thread a needle.-22. At Hamburgh, in the 67th year of his age, the celebrated John Louis Von Hess, well known as a writer, by his travels, his history of the city in which he dwelt, and various other political and statistical works. As a philosopher, he was also celebrated, from his being the chosen friend of Kant; but is perhaps still better known than in either character, as the leader of the gallant Hamburghers, when they stood forward to defend their country from the tyranny of Buonaparte, a short time before his overthrow.-26. At Lausanne, in Switzerland, John Philip Kemble, Esq. the celebrated tragedian. He was an author as well as an actor, having produced, besides several tragedies, comedies, and farces, of no great merit, (his Alterations from Shakspeare and the older dramatists, excepted,) the "Palace of Mersey, a Poem,” and a volume of "Fugitive Poetry," consisting of juvenile productions, with which he was so much discontented when he saw them in print, that the very day after publication he destroyed every copy that he could recover from the publisher, or elsewhere, though it is said that he need not to have been ashamed of their appearance. A copy of them was afterwards sold at Mr. King's auction rooms for £3. 5s. One peculiarity in the character of this eminent actor deserves to be recorded-the reverential and impressive tone with which he always named the Supreme Being in private conversation, and which he was accustomed to make the more marked, by uncovering his head, or by some similar acknowledgment of humility and respect.-27. In a fit of apoplexy, Rev. John Bartlam, M.A., vicar of Bisley, Worcestershire, P. C. of Studley, Warwickshire, and V. of Pontiland, Northumberland.-March. At Boulogne, Sir Arthur Forbes, of Craigiver, N.B.-5. In Baker-street, Lieutenant-General G. Deare, 71.-8. Sir William Duff Gordon, Bart., leaving issue by his wife Caroline, daughter of Sir George Cornwall, Bart., Alexander Cornwall Duff, the present baronet, and one other son and a daughter, 50.-Rev. John Escereet, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, and curate of Sisted, Essex, 26.-12. In Sloane-street, Right Hon. Baron Best, one of his Majesty's Privy Counsellors, K.C.H., F.R.S., 67.-11. At his house, Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury, after a short illness, Rev. William Bingley, A.M., F.L.S., of Christchurch, Hants. He was author of several popular works, the chief of which are, A Tour through North Wales during the Summer of 1798," 2 vols. 8vo.; "Animal Biography, or Anecdotes of the Animal Creation," 3 vols. 8vo. 1802, a work which has since frequently been reprinted, and of which two German and a French translation have been published; "The Economy of a Christian Life," 2 vols. 8vo. 1808; "Memoirs of British Quadrupeds," vol. 1. 8vo. 1809; "Biographical Dictionary of the Musical Composers of the three last Centuries," 2 vols. 8vo. 1813. He edited also "The Correspondence of the Countesses of Pembroke and Hertford," and made considerable progress in a History of Hampshire, which, had he lived to complete it, would have been a work of great merit.-19. Gen. James Balfour, Col. of the 83d regiment of foot; -20. Right Hon. Gen. Sir George Beckwith, G.C.B., Colonel of the 89th regiment of foot. This gallant veteran, (for he died in the 70th year of his age), after having distinguished himself in the American war, was successively governor and commander-in-chief of Bermuda, St. Vincent's, and Barbadoes. Whilst in the last post, he effected the conquest of Martinique and Guadaloupe with such despatch, that the thanks of both Houses of Parliament for its gallant achievement very properly noticed the signal rapidity of his movements. Nor was he distinguished alone as a military officer, for the vote of thanks which he received from the legislature of Barbadoes, very justly characterized his, as "the most unsullied administration which the annals of the island can boast." This vote was followed by a present of a service of plate, of the value of no less than £2500. In consideration of his services, both in civil and military capacities, he was created a Knight of the Bath, and honoured with some heraldic bearings, highly flattering to his talents and his valour. He was afterwards for four years commander-in-chief in Ireland, a post in which he acquitted himself with the greatest credit.-23. John Haighton, M.D., F.R.S., for many years lecturer on Midwifery, Physiology, and Comparative Anatomy, in the Medical School of the united Hospitals, Southwark.-25. At Ghent, Sir Thomas Constable, Bart., of Tixall, Staffordshire, and of Burton Constable, Yorkshire. He was the eldest son of the late Hon. Thomas Clifford, of Chudleigh, and of the Hon. Barbara Aston, youngest daughter of Lord Aston, of Forfar, Scotland, by whom the estate of Tixall passed into the Clifford family. About two years ago, by the death of Francis Constable, Esq., he came into possession of the great estates of Burton Constable and Wycliffe, Yorkshire, on which occasion, he assumed the name of Constable, and although a Catholic, was soon afterwards created a baronet, at the particular request of Louis XVIII. He is succeeded in his title and estates by his only son, a youth of 17, who is now Sir Thomas Aston Clifford Constable. Educated at Liege, and in the famous college of Navarre in Paris, the late highly respectable baronet afterwards travelled over Switzerland on foot, and there formed an acquaintance with the late Mr. Whitbread. On his return from this tour, he conceived an ardent passion for botany, in which he exhibited satisfactory proofs of his extensive knowledge, in the Flora Tixalliana, appended to his "Historical and Topographical Description of the parish of Tixall," which he composed, in conjunction with his brother Mr. Arthur Clifford, but for which he himself furnished nearly the whole of the materials. It was printed at Paris in 1818. At a later period of his life, he imbibed a taste for the study of history, antiquities, topography, heraldry, and genealogy, in all of which he was conversant, and had conceived the plan of a history of the Normans, in the execution of which he had made considerable progress. His leisure hours were, however, frequently amused with lighter pursuits, for he translated into English verse, the Fables of La Fontaine, and had contrived to hit off with remarkable felicity, the almost inimitable naiveté, and indescribable |