embittered by harsh terms of altercation, took place between the Supreme Board and the Madras Government under Lord Hobart, regarding the Omdut ul Omrah, Nabob of the Carnatic. In October, 1795, Lord Hobart endeavoured to prevail upon the Omdut to cede all his territories on payment of a stipulated sum, - a measure in which the Governor-General acquiesced; for, by the mortgage of his territorial possessions to his creditors, and the assignment to that rapacious body of claimants of all their forthcoming produce, the Nabob became unable to pay his annual kists to the Company. But Lord Hobart failed in his object, and proposed to the Supreme Government the forcible occupation of Tinnevelly and the cession of the Carnatic forts as security for the liquidation of the cavalry debt incurred by the Nabob with the Madras government. The Governor-General strongly discountenanced and protested against such a measure, as an infraction of treaty. In his minute, Lord Hobart urged the necessity of the procedure, on the principle of self-preservation - the decay and depopulation of the Carnatic-and the breach of treaty on the part of the Nabob himself, by the assignment of districts to which alone the Company could look for payment. This dispute was aggravated by the awkward circumstance of the subordinate functionary being of higher rank than the supreme. Lord Hobart appealed to the Court of Directors, but their decision was superseded by the return of Lord Hobart, who was succeeded by Lord Clive; and in the beginning of 1798, Sir John Shore, who, a few months before his retirement, was raised, as we have seen, to the peerage*, returned to England, having been succeeded by Lord Mornington. Lord Teignmouth lived in habits of familiar intercourse with Sir William Jones at Calcutta, and succeeded him as president of the Asiatic Society. In that capacity he delivered, on the 22d of May, 1794, a warm and elegant eulogy on his predecessor, and in 1804 published memoirs of his life, writ • His patent was dated October 24th, 1797.. ings, and correspondence. It is, upon the whole, a pleasing piece of biography, recording almost every thing interesting in his public and private character, partly in his own familiar correspondence, and transferring to the reader much of the respect and admiration for that extraordinary man with which the writer was himself impressed. The work is closed with a delineation of Sir William Jones's character, which, though it might have exhibited greater force and discrimination, could not well have been presented in chaster and more interesting colours. On the 4th of April, 1807, Lord Teignmouth was appointed a Commissioner for the Affairs of India, and was sworn one of the Privy Council on the 8th of the same month. His activity and zeal in the formation of the Bible Society, in 1804, are prominent features of his life, and strong indications of his sincere convictions and warmth of piety as a Christian believer. He had the honour of being fixed upon as the fittest person to preside over the new institution; the high names of Porteus, Fisher, Burgess, Gambier, Charles Grant, and Wilberforce being associated with his own. Lord Teignmouth presided over the society in a catholic and amiable spirit of good-will and benevolence towards all sects and communities of Christianity. He conducted it through many difficulties and controversies, some of which were unusually stormy and contentious. We must not forget to observe, that Lord Teignmouth was earnestly bent on converting the natives of India to Christianity; and in 1811 he published a tract on that subject, entitled " Considerations on communicating to the Inhabitants of India the Knowledge of Christianity." His recorded opinions concerning the moral character of the Hindus approached the lowest possible estimate that has yet been framed of it. It is probable, therefore, that his earnestness in that important though difficult aim was strengthened by the notions he had imbibed of the Hindu character. They are recorded in a paper he presented to the Governor-General in 1794, and printed in the minutes of evidence on the trial of Mr. Hastings. In 1786 he married Charlotte, only daughter of James Cornish, Esq., a respectable medical practitioner at Teignmouth. By this lady, who did not long survive him, his Lordship had issue three sons and six daughters: 1. the Hon. Charlotte; 2. and 3. Caroline Isabella and Emily, who both died young; 4. the Right Hon. Charles John now Lord Teignmouth, born in 1796, and at present unmarried; 5. the Hon. Anna Maria, married in 1821 to the late Colonel Sir Thomas Noel Hill, and left his widow in 1832; 6. the Hon. Frederick John Shore, Assistant to the Secretary to the Commissioners in the ceded provinces of Bengal, he married, Jan. 25. 1830, his cousin, Charlotte Mary, second daughter of the late George Cornish, Esq., and has a son, born in 1832; 7. the Hon. Henry Dundas, who died in 1826, when a Cornet in the 11th dragoons, aged twenty-six; 8. the Hon. Caroline Dorothea, married in 1829 to the Rev. Robert Anderson of Brighton; and, 9. the Hon. Ellen Mary, married in 1830 to Capt. Edward C. Fletcher, of the 1st Life Guards. Lord Teignmouth died at the advanced age of 82, on the 14th of February, 1834. For many years he had lived surrounded by every thing that ministers comfort to life, the attachment of a large circle of friends, and the affections of an amiable family; and his death was rendered cheerful and easy by the consolations of religion. Few men have been more eminently useful in their destined spheres of action; few have more amply merited the honours bestowed on them, or better vindicated their rightful claim to elevated rank by their talent and integrity, than Lord Teignmouth. We might enlarge upon his personal and private virtues, - but we restrain ourselves, in the language of Tacitus; "Abstinentiam et integritatem hujusce viri referre, injuria fuerit virtutum." Principally abridged from "The Asiatic Journal." 230 No. XVIII. THOMAS STOTHARD, Esq. R.A. LIBRARIAN TO THE ROYAL ACADEMY. The lives of artists, generally speaking, are best traced in their works. Quiet and sedentary, their days pass with little interruption but from the common casualties to which all are exposed, and over which none can have any control. The disposition of the amiable and highly-gifted individual whose name stands at the head of the present page was philosophical, temperate, and industrious; never seducing him into extraordinary adventure. He appears to have been " held in thrall" by his love of art, and his admiration of the beauties of nature. These constituted his chief enjoyment, and to transfer the latter to his paper or canvass was his sole occupation. Beyond this " His sober wishes never learnt to stray; But through the cool, sequester'd vale of life Of Mr. Stothard's early boyhood the following interesting account was, sometime before his death, related by himself to a friend, who subsequently communicated it to the Athe næum: " My father was a native of Stretton near Doncaster.* He came to London while a lad; and, when he married †, took a sort of hotel in Long Acre †, which was much fre • The property of Mr. Stothard's father was much reduced by the South Sea scheme. + Mr. Stethard's mother was the daughter of Elizabeth Reynolds, niece to D'Anvers Hodges, Esq. of Broadwell, in Gloucestershire, and the heir in entail under his will, dated 1720. The Stothard family, however, have never yet benefited by this bequest. † Then, and now, known by the name of The Black Horse. quented by coachmakers. I was born there in the month of August, 1755. I was an only child, and a sickly and ailing one: my father, anxious about my health, sent me, when only five years old, to his brother in York; but as he lived in a close part of the city, I was removed to Acomb, a small village two miles north of York, and put under the care of an old douce Scotch lady, - a sound Presbyterian, who loved to keep her house in order, and all that was in it. As this was the Kensington Gravel Pits of York, I soon began to grow strong; and I remember that I also grew solicitous to be doing something: I soon found employment, which has now afforded me full seventy years' pleasure, - I became a painter. This came rather curiously about. "My Scotch friend had two sons in the Temple, London, who had sent her some of Houbraken's heads, with an engraving of "Blind Belisarius," and other prints from the graver of Strange: as they were framed, she had them hung up in a sort of drawing-room, and rarely allowed any one to look at her treasures, as she called them. One day I ventured to follow her into this sanctuary: she was pleased with the earnest looks with which I regarded the heads and groups, patted me on the head, and said I should often see them, since I seemed to like them so much. I became an almost daily visiter to the room; and I began to wonder how such things were done: I was told they were done with pencils. Though the old lady told me this, she little expected the result: in short, she missed me from her side one day, and found me standing on a chair trying to imitate with a pencil one of the heads before me. She smiled, clapped my head, and bade me go on, adding, 'Thomas, ye are really a queer boy.' I did little else now but draw; and I soon began to make tolerable copies. "I lived at Acomb till I was eight years old, when I left my old Scottish dame with tears in my eyes, and went to school at Stretton, the birthplace of my father. I con • The 17th of August. : |