468 OBITUARY.-Rear-Admiral Sayer. Lieut.-Col. Walker arrived in England in July 1810, and on the 24th June 1812, he retired from the service. In 1822 he was appointed by the Court of Directors, Governor of St. Helena, with the rank of Brigadier-General, which command he afterwards resigned. REAR-ADMIRAL SAYER, C.B. April 29. In Craven-street, Strand, aged 57, George Sayer, esq. Rear-Admiral of the Blue, and C.B. Adm. Sayer was a native of Deal, where his father resided as Collector of the Customs for upwards of thirty years. He entered the navy as a Midshipman in the Phoenix frigate, commanded by Capt. Geo. Anson Byron, with whom he proceeded to the East Indies. In 1790 and 1791 Mr. Sayer served on shore with a body of seamen and marines, at the reduction of Tippoo Saib's posts and other possessions on the Malabar coast. He was also employed on various boat services, in co-operation with the army; and bore a part in the action between the Phoenix and La Resolu, in Nov. 1791. The Phoenix returned to England in July 1793, and Mr. Sayer was soon after made a Lieutenant into the Carysfort 28, commanded by the present Sir Francis Laforey, in which he assisted at the capture of the Castor frigate, after a close action of an hour and a quarter, off Brest, May 29, 1794. From that period he served as Capt. L.'s First Lieutenant in the Carysfort, Beaufort frigate, and Ganges 74, until March 1796; when he was promoted by that officer's father to the rank of Commander, and appointed to the Lacedæmonian sloop of war, on the Leeward Islands station, in which he was present at the capture of St. Lucia. Capt. Sayer subsequently commanded for a short time the Albicore sloop on the Jamaica station; and in 1797 was attached to the flotilla equipped for the purpose of acting against the mutinous ships in the Nore. During the two ensuing years, and part of 1800, he commanded the Xenophon sloop of war, stationed in the North Sea. In 1799 he brought the notorious Irish rebel, Napper Tandy, and his principal associates, as state prisoners from Hamburgh to London. His next appointment was to the Inspector of 16 guns, in which he conveyed the Prince of Orange and suite from England to the continent. In consequence of a representation by the mercantile community, of Capt. Sayer's zeal and activity in affording protection to the trade of his country, he was at [May, length advanced to post rank, Feb. 14, 1801. Capt. Sayer was not again called into service until the latter end of 1804, when he was appointed to the Proselyte 28, in which he sailed in the following year to the West Indies, with 150 merchant vessels and three regiments of infantry under his protection. In 1805 be was removed to the Galatea 32, in which he assisted in the capture of the Danish islands in Dec. 1807. During the year 1808 be was entrusted with the command of a detached naval force employed at the Virgin Isles and off the Spanish Main. He returned to England in the spring of 1809, when the Galatea, being found very defective, was put out of commission, and taken to pieces at Woolwich. In November following, Capt. Sayer was appointed to the Leda, a new frigate of 42 guns; and at the commencement of the ensuing year was ordered to convoy a number of transports to Cadiz, whence he returned with the flag of Vice-Adm. Purvis. He subsequently escorted a fleet of Indiamen to Bengal, and joining Vice-Adm. Drury at Madras, in Jan. 1811, was directed by that officer to assume the command of a squadron, having on board 500 men, part of the expedition against Java. For his exertions on this important service, Captain Sayer received the thanks of the Supreme Government of India, and all the other authorities; and, on the 10th Jan. 1812, the thanks of both houses of Parliament were voted to him, in common with the other naval and military officers employed in the capture of Batavia and its dependencies, " for their skilful, gallant, and meritorious exertions." Captain Sayer also received a gold medal, and in 1815 was nominated a C. B. He remained as senior officer of a squadron for several months after the subjugation of the island. In January 1813, Capt. Sayer was detained in command of an expedition to the island of Borneo, where, in conjunction with Col. James Watson, he succeeded in taking the town, and subduing the whole province of Sambas. On the death of Vice-Adm. Sir Samuel Hood, at Madras, Dec. 24, 1814, the command devolved on Captain Sayer. He accordingly hoisted a broad pendant on the Leda; and made so judicious a disposition of the force under his orders, that Rear Adm. Sir George Burlton, on his arrival from England in June 1815, to assume the chief command, sent him from Madras to the straits of Sunda and the China sea, for the purpose of directing the movements of the ships he 1831.] OBITUARY.-Rev. Dr. Gabell.-Francis Hayward, M.D. 469 had already dispatched thither. On his voyage he heard, at Java, of the ratification of peace with the United States, and having proceeded to the China sea, was returning thence, when he experienced a ty-foong, in which the Leda was nearly lost. Thus retarded in his progress, Capt. Sayer did not enter the Straits of Malacca until Nov. 19, 1815, when he received intelligence of the Rear-Admiral's death at Madras, on the 21st Sept., by which event he again found himself authorised to hoist the broad pendant, and assume the denomination of Commodore. On the arrival of Rear-Adm. Sir Richard King, at the close of 1816, he resigned the command to that officer, and returned to England after an absence of nearly seven years. REV. H. D. GABELL, D. D. April 18. At Binfield, Berkshire, aged 67, the Rev. Henry Dison Gabell, D. D. Rector of that parish, of Ashow, Warwickshire, and of St. Laurence, Winchester; and formerly Head Master of Winchester College. We believe the father of this gentleman to have been the Rev. Henry Gabell, who, having been a Fellow of Magdalen college, Oxford, was Rector of Stanlake, Oxfordshire, and a magistrate of that county. He died Jan. 4, 1802 (see our vol. LXXII. p. 182); and his widow Oct. 7, 1810. Another of the family, the Rev. T. Gabell, was Rector of St. Peter's and St. John's in Winchester, he died in 1803. He was educated at Winchester school, and thence elected a Fellow of New College, Oxford, where he proceeded only to the degree of B. A. before he was elected master of Warminster school. In 1788 he was presented to the rectory of St. Laurence in Winchester, by Lord Chancellor Thurlow; and in 1793 he came to make his permanent residence in that city on being appointed second master of the school. In 1796 he published a pamphlet "On the expediency of altering and amending the Regulations recommended by Parliament for reducing the high price of Corn;" and in 1802 a Fast Sermon, preached at St. Laurence, Winchester. He proceeded to the degree of M. A. as a member of St. John's college, Cam. bridge, in 1807; and succeeded to the Head Mastership of the School on the resignation of Dr. Goddard in 1810. In 1812 he was presented by Chandos Leigh, esq. to the rectory of Ashow in Warwickshire; and in 1820 by Lord Chancellor Eldon, to that of Binfield in Berkshire. He resigned the Mastership of Winchester at the close of 1823; when the scholars presented him with a magnificent present of plate; consisting of a candelabrum weighing 200 ounces, the Latin inscription on which is printed in our vol. XCIII. ii. 543; and two massy tureens. The only two occasions on which Dr. Gabell appeared as an author, are those already named. In the "Works" of Dr. Parr, vol. VII. pp. 469-500, is printed some correspondence between that great scholar and Dr. Gabell, to which the editor, Dr. John Johnstone, has prefixed the following remarks:- "In bringing the correspondence of Dr. Parr and Dr. Gabell before the reader, I have to rejoice that the whole is committed to me by the kindness and liberality of Dr. Gabell. To this distinguished divine and preceptor's acuteness, erudition, judgment, and taste, Dr. Parr's testimony is unbounded; and indeed the critical discussions contained in their letters, could only take place between real scholars. There are no less than ten elaborate letters on one of Bentley's Canons, and other metrical and philological subjects, from the pen of Dr. Parr; and these are answered and discussed by Dr. Gabell. What, then, must the reader's regret be, that there is no room to insert them all! I fully sympathise with it, not without a gleam of hope springing up in my mind that all will yet appear." Dr. Gabell married Jan. 11, 1790, Miss Gage, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Gage, of Holton in Oxfordshire. Maria, his third daughter, was married July 18, 1818, to the Rev. William Scott, second son of Sir Joseph Scott, of Great Barr Hall in Staffordshire, Bart. 470 OBITUARY.-Francis Hayward, M.D. Dorothy his wife, a daughter of Ralph Markland, esq. of the Meadows, to whom he was married Nov. 25, 1682. He was born Feb. 5, 1695-6, entered Brasenose College, Oxford, March 3, 1712-13, took the degree of B.A. Oct. 10, 1716, and of M.A. July 9, 1719. On March 4, 1722, he was instituted to the Vicarage of Garstang, in his native county. This preferment he resigned in 1731, and about that time removed to Warrington, where he was Master of the Grammarschool, and Curate of the Chapel of Sankey, till his death in 1757. His burial is registered at Warrington, Sept. 2, in that year. The biographer of one of his pupils who attained to a distinguished eminence, Dr. Percival of Manchester, has described him as an able but severe master. He was an admirable scholar, and a very useful man. The Rev. Thomas Hayward married at the Church of St. Sepulchre, Northampton, Nov. 28, 1717, Elizabeth, the only child of Jarrett Lestock, esq. of Ashton near Northampton, the son of Richard Lestock, who was a Captain in the Navy in King William's wars, and brother of Richard Lestock, Vice Admiral of the Blue, whose suspension in 1745 by Admiral Matthews, and subsequent acquittal by a Court Martial, created at the time a very extraordinary sensation. The late Dr. Hayward was one of the younger children of this marriage. He was born Jan. 25, 1738-9, and baptized at Warrington, Feb. 21 following, when the name of Francis was given to him by his godfather, Dr. Francis Annesley, the Rector of Winwick. To the instruction of his accomplished father, was to be attributed the purity of taste in elegant literature by which he was distinguished, as well as those attainments, which were considerable, in science and classical literature. The profession of Medicine was his own choice, and he seems to have had from his sixteenth or seventeenth year, the direction of himself to the acquirement of the means by which it was to be prosecuted with success. But he fell in London into very able hands, and the admirable skill, the sound sense, and the eminent success and high reputation which he enjoyed, while in the practice of it, showed at once how think that he was an Attorney. The tradition is, that he was born at Daresbury in Cheshire. The time of his death is also unknown, but he survived his wife, who died in 1707, as appears by acquittances given to the Marklands for his wife's fortune. [May, ably his studies had been directed, and the eminent powers of his own mind. He settled at Hackney about the year 1760, and there he continued till 1805, when he abandoned a very extensive practice, and left a numerous circle of friends, many of whom were eminent for their literary and scientific attainments, for the enjoyment of that honourable repose which was looked for rather through a natural inclination, than from any sense and feeling of failure in the corporeal or intellectual powers. It was at this period of his life that his friend Dr. Tate obtained for him the diploma of M.D. from one of the Scotch Universities. With the world before bim, he first elected Taunton as the place of his residence; but he soon discovered, what so many others have found, that England presents no place which is equally eligible with Bath, as a retirement in the period between the burry and the end of life. He removed thither in 1806, and at Bath the whole evening of his long day of life has been past, in the enjoyment of many intellectual pleasures, for which his well-stored and wellexercised mind had prepared him, with fewer infirmities, except that great one of the loss of sight, than usually falls to the share of persons of such very advanced years, and in the frequent serious but unostentatious meditation on his end. Dr. Hayward married a sister of the late Nathaniel Green, esq. who was many years the British Consul at Nice; by whom he had nine children, four sons and five daughters :-1. Thomas, who was trained under Mr. Wales, an eminent nautical mathematician, and was sent early in life to sea. He was a midshipman on board the Bounty, in Captain Bligh's unfortunate voyage to Otaheite, and when on the return the mutineers seized the ship, he was the first person put down by them into the launch. He bore all the hardships of the long exposure in the open boat, and returned with Captain Bligh. When the Pandora was sent out to bring home the mutineers, under the command of Captain Edwards, he went as third Lieutenant, with the charge of the mathematical instruments, and the making astronomical observations and a chart of the voyage. On its return the vessel struck on a reef of rocks on the north of New Holland, and was wrecked. Most of the crew were saved; and after nineteen days of suffering, which he was accustomed to describe as severer than those which he sustained in the launch of the Bounty, they reached Timor in the ship's boats. At the beginning of 1831.] OBITUARY.-James the war of the French Revolution, be served on board the Inconstant, from which ship he removed to the Diomede, then on the East India station, when he again suffered shipwreck, the Diomede having struck upon a rock not laid down in any chart, at the entrance of the harbour of Trincomalee. In December 1796 he was appointed Commander of the Swift, and in July 1797, Captain of the Resistance of 44 guns, and in a few days after to the Trident of 60 guns. But before the Commission reached him in the Indian seas, this scientific and gallant, but unfortunate officer, had perished in the Swift, which had gone down in consequence of being overladen through an act of humanity to the crew of another vessel. Captain Hayward's Charts of the Voyage of the Pandora, and of the Banda Seas, published by Mr. Dalrymple, are proofs of great industry and eminent talent, at a very early age. -2. Francis, formerly Keeper of Naval Stores at Martinique, and afterwards at Barbadoes.-3. William, now Commissary of Accompts at the Cape.-4. Henry, of the Navy Pay Office, Somerset-House, lately deceased. The daughters were: 1. Ann, wife of Cornwall Reynolds; 2. Elizabeth, married, 1 Joachim-Christian Stocqueler, and 2, Henry Till, both deceased.--3. Henrietta, married to CharlesAugustus Hayes.-4. Mary, married in 1815 the Rev. Joseph Hunter of Bath, F.S.A.; and 5. Charlotte. Dr. Hayward was interred in the burial-ground of the parish of Walcot, and the following words are on his tomb : Franciscus Hayward, M.D. obiit Aprilis 18, A.D. 1831, anno ætatis 93. JAMES CHRISTIE, ESQ. Feb. 2. In King-street, St. James'ssquare, after a long illness, aged 58, James Christie, esq. The claims of Mr. Christie on the grateful recollection of posterity are twofold; as a scholar of the first eminence and a valuable contributor to the literature of his country, and as a gentleman whose private character most deservedly secured to him the friendship and respect of contemporaries, themselves of no ordinary rank, and of great moral and intellectual worth. Mr. C. was the eldest son of the gentleman of that name, who was most deservedly at the head of the line of business in which he was engaged, and who probably was intrusted with the disposal of property to a larger extent and of more importance than any one who ever preceded him. Mr. C. was educated at Eton, and originally intended for the church; he passed through that school with a reputation honourable alike to his acquirements and to his correct principles. The advantages thus obtained were followed up with the energy and perseverance which belonged to his studious habits and his literary enthusiasm, and the results of which were seen in those able dissertations which reflect so much honour on his classical talents, and display the soundness of his learning, the depth of his researches, and the purity of his taste. His first production, in 1802, was an Essay on the ancient Greek Game, supposed to have been invented by Palamedes antecedent to the siege of Troy; it is an attempt to prove that the game of Palamedes was known to the Chinese, and was progressively improved by them into the Chinese, Indian, Persian, and European chess. An intimacy with the late Charles Towneley, esq. (whose fine collection of vases and marbles now forms a part of the treasures of the British Museum) directed the attention of Mr. Christie to the use and meaning of those painted vases usually termed Etruscan ; and in 1806 he published a truly classical and beautiful volume, entitled "A Disquisition upon Etruscan vases." In this work the originality of his discoveries is not less conspicuous than the taste and talent with which he explains them. Any attempt to exhibit a specimen of his manner, or to illustrate his theory, would lead us beyond our limits; it is certain that by those best qualified to estimate the merits of this book, it is held in high and deserved regard. A limited number of copies having been printed, the work soon became scarce, and produced a very high price. In 1825, Mr. C., and as he very modestly states "to correct this unfair estimate of its value," published a new and enlarged edition (reviewed in our vol. XCVII. i. 135-140), adding an appendix, in which some most ingenious reasoning is employed to refer the shape and colour of Greek vases to the water lily of Egypt, and a classification is given formed upon this basis. The great knowledge of his subject, in which few are equal to follow him, and the extensive reading which this volume exhibits, place Mr. C. most deservedly in the first rank of classical antiquaries. In connection with this his favourite enquiry, it may be stated that the description of the Lanti vase in the possession of the Duke of Bedford, was written by Mr. Christie, and is printed in the splendid volume which illustrates his Grace's collection of mar 472 OBITUARY.-Rev. Basil Woodd. bles. The catalogue of Mr. Hope's vases, so much admired by scholars, is also from the same masterly hand. A third publication from the pen of Mr. Christie is an Essay on the earliest species of idolatry, the worship of the Elements; the purport of which is to show for what purpose the elements were referred to by early nations; what was understood of the Deity by their means, and by what misconstruction they became objects of worship. In this as in the former work the religious texture of Mr. Christie's mind is every where to be traced, amidst the great learning in which the discussion is involved. In addition to these publications, the active mind of Mr. Christie enriched the best of the Greek and Roman classics with copious notes and illustrations, and his biblical criticisms are profound and acute. To him literary pursuits formed the most agreeable of all recreations, yet there was nothing about them of the character of undigested study. His taste for poetry was refined and chaste; he read it with uncommon beauty and feeling, and though he rarely indulged the "idle calling," he wrote it with facility and vigour. But with all his literary acquirements and the great powers he possessed of adorning any intellectual society in which he might be placed, his habits were retiring, his pleasures and enjoyments simple and domestic. Brought into contact, as he was, with the highest and the noblest, his bearing was that of unaffected dignity, and whilst shrinking almost instinctively from honours that were offered him, he bore them when accepted with graceful propriety. It will not be surprising, then, if he raised the business he followed, to the dignity of a profession. In pictures, in sculpture, in vertu, his taste was undisputed, and his judgment deferred to, as founded on the purest models and the most accredited standard. If to these advantages we add that fine moral feeling and that inherent love of truth which formed the basis of his character, and which would never permit him, for any advantage to himself or others, to violate their obligations, we may then have some means of judging how in bis hands business became an honourable calling, and how that which to many is only secular, by bim was dignified into a virtuous application of time and talents. But let it not be forgotten that the keystone of this arch of moral strength and symmetry, was the religious principle; that principle which, to use the Janguage of Jeremy Taylor, "intends the [May, honour of God principally and sincerely, and mingles not the affections with any creature, but in just subordination to religion;" the happiness that springs from such singleness of purpose and simplicity of heart, was abundantly the portion of Mr. C.; be was singularly blessed in his domestic affections, in his friendships, and in all his engagements, and his good name and his virtuous example will be long cherished and piously remembered. Mr. C. was a member of the Dilletante Society, which it is well known consists of a select body, distinguished for high rank, as well as the taste for learned and scientific pursuits. He was for some years one of the Registrars of the Literary Fund, which was a favourite institution, and to the support of which his exertions very greatly contributed; and was also a member of the Antiquarian Society of Newcastle. THE REV. BASIL WOODD, M.A. April 12. At Paddington Green, aged 70, the Rev. Basil Woodd, for thirtyeight years Minister of Bentinck Chapel, Marylebone, and Rector of Drayton Beauchamp, Bucks. He was born at Richmond in Surrey, Aug. 5, 1760, and educated by the Rev. Thos. Clarke, rector of Chesham Bois. At the age of 17, he became student at Trinity College, Oxford, where he obtained the degree of Master of Arts in 1785, and of which college he remained a member to the day of his death. At the age of twenty-three he was ordained Deacon, at the Temple Church, by Dr. Thurlow, Bishop of Lincoln; and in 1784 priest, at Westminster Abbey, by Dr. Thomas, Bishop of Rochester. He frequently assisted the late Dr. Conyers, Rector of St. Paul's, Deptford. Shortly afterwards he was chosen Lecturer of St. Peter's, Cornhill, in which situation he continued his services for twenty-four years. In February 1785, he received the appointment of morning preacher at Bentinck Chapel. Soon after entering on the labours of that place, he introduced evening preaching, which was at first opposed by many, as a strange and novel proceeding; but he withstood the opposition, and saw his perseverance crowned with success, and his example followed by many other ministers. In 1808, Lady Robert Manners presented him to the rectory of Drayton Beauchamp, to which place he was accustomed to repair for a few months of every year. Mr. Woodd exerted himself very greatly and successfully in establishing |