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cleverness clings to his name. I would gladly burn almost every thing I ever wrote, if so be that I might start now with a mind that has seen, read, thought, and suffered, somewhat at least approaching to a preparation. Alas! alas! we all sacrifice the palm-tree to obtain the temporary draught of wine! We slay the camel that would bear us through the desert, because we will not endure a momentary thirst.

"I have done nothing to live, and what I have yet done must pass away with a thousand other blossoms, the growth, the beauty, and oblivion of a day. The powers which I feel, and of which I have given promise, may mature-may stamp themselves in act; but the spirit of despondency is strong upon the future exile, and I fear they never

will

I feel the long grass growing o'er my heart.

"My Three Histories' has most of myself in them, but they are fragmentary. Public report has fastened the 'Julia' upon me; the childhood, the opening years, and many of the after opinions are correct; but all else is fabulous.

" In the best of everything I have done, you will find one leading idea Death: all thoughts, all images, all contrasts of thoughts and images, are derived from living much in the valley of that shadow; from having learned life rather in the vicissitudes of man than woman, from the mind being Hebraic. My poetry, except some half dozen pieces, may be consigned to oblivion; but in all you would find the sober hue, which, to my mind's eye, blends equally with the golden glow of sunset and the bright green of spring and is seen equally in the temple of delight' as in the tomb of decay and separation. I am melancholy by nature, cheerful on principle."

We can add little to these interesting confessions of one whose sincerity could well be relied upon. In conversation Mrs. Fletcher was brilliant and eloquent: she was active in serving others as well as herself - and we feel, as we record her untimely death, that a friend has been taken away from us, as well as a bright ornament from the female literature of this country. - The Athe

naum.

FLINT, Sir Charles William; Jan. 19. 1834; at his house in Bolton

Row, Piccadilly; in the 56th year of his age. He was placed, when a very young man, as a clerk in the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and at an early period of the French revolution, when Mr. Wickham was appointed our Minister in Switzerland, he took Mr. Flint with him as his Secretary. Mr. Flint was so young that Lord Grenville, then Secretary of State, at first rather objected to Mr. Wickham's selection, thinking that the very arduous, delicate, and confidential nature of the duties of the office required a person of more mature age to perform them. Lord Greaville, however, gave way to Mr. Wickham's solicitations, and we have seen a letter from his Lordship to Sir Charles Flint in the year 1832, when the latter retired from office, in which his Lordship adverted to that circumstance, but added that Sir Charles's subsequent conduct amply justified Mr. Wickham's choice. On the return of Mr. Wickham from his mission, he was accompanied by his secretary, who was almost immediately placed at the head of the Alien Office, which was just established. When the union with Ireland took place, Mr. Flint was appointed the Under-Secretary for Ireland resident in this country. This office he filled for upwards of thirty years, until his retirement in 1832, to the entire satisfaction of all the different secretaries for Ireland, from all of whom, who were alive at that time, he received the warmest testimonials of approbation and esteem. Mr. Flint was knighted in May, 1812, having acted as proxy for Sir Henry Wellesley (now Lord Cowley) at the installation of the Knights of the Bath.

Sir Charles was possessed of very considerable abilities. He thoroughly understood the duties of his office, and executed them with a degree of acute ness, precision, and regularity seldom surpassed. In private life Sir Charles was an affectionate husband and father, and a most amiable, friendly, and worthy man. - Private Communication.

FULLER, John, Esq., of Rose Hill, Sussex, formerly M. P. for that county, April 11. 1834; in Devonshire Place; aged 77.

This gentleman was the son of John Rose Fuller, Esq. He succeeded in estate his uncle Rose Fuller, Esq. M. P. for Rye (ob. 1777), who was the younger son of Mr. Thomas Fuller, the pur

chaser of the estate, and builder of the
house of Rose Hill, by Elizabeth,
daughter of Mr. Rose, of Jamaica.

Mr. Fuller was first elected to par-
liament for Southampton, in Feb. 1780,
and having been rechosen at the gene-
ral election of the same year, he sat for
that town until the dissolution in 1784.
He served the office of Sheriff of Sus-
sex in 1797.

In 1801, on the elevation to the
peerage of the Rt. Hon. T. Pelbam
(by the title of Earl of Chichester),
Mr. Fuller became a candidate for the
representation of the county of Sussex,
and was successful after an arduous
contest with Col. Sergison, which
lasted sixteen days, and cost him
20,000/. in addition to a subscription
purse for 30,000l. made by the county.
He was rechosen in 1802, 1806, and
1807, and sat until the dissolution of
1812. He generally voted with Mr.
Fox; and is said to have indignantly
• refused the offer of a peerage from Mr.
Pitt, deeming it a trial of his integrity.
It is related that he threw the Minis-
ter's letter into the fire in the presence
of a large party of friends, declaring
"I was born Jack Fuller, and Jack
Fuller 1 will die!"

In 1810, during the enquiry on the
Walcheren expedition, Mr. Fuller got
embroiled in an indecorous contest with
the supreme authority of the House of
Commons. On the 22d of Feb. he was
repeatedly called to order; but on the
27th no appeal from the Speaker or re-
monstrances from his friends, could re-
strain him within the bounds of pro-
priety. The House was in conse-
quence resumed from the committee
into which it had resolved itself, and
Mr. Fuller was immediately voted into
the custody of the Sergeant at Arms;
when he violently rushed into the
House, vehemently asserting that the
Speaker, whom he designated as "the
little insignificant fellow in the wig,"
was the servant of the House, and had
no authority over the members who
had converted him into their master.

He was at length carried off the field
by the united efforts of four of the mes-
sengers of the House. He remained
two days in custody; and was then dis-
charged with a very severe reprimand
from the Speaker, who threatened him
with summary expulsion on a repetition
of his offence. After this memorable
scene, he was not returned to another
Parliament.

VOL. XIX.

Mr. Fuller was distinguished through
life by much eccentricity; but it was
mingled with a kind heart, that dis-
played itself in deeds of princely muni-
ficence. The favourite object of his
liberality was the Royal Institution,
where he first founded a Professorship
of Electricity, in the year 182.., and
subsequently, a few weeks before his
death, a Professorship of Comparative
Anatomy and Physiology. He also
gave the Institution at the same time
the sum of 3000/ to accumulate in the
funds; making the sum total of his
benefactions amount to 10,000L. On
the 21th of March last the members
were specially convened to thank him;
and it was resolved that a subscription
should be made for a bust of their mu-
nificent patron, to be placed in a pro-
minent situation in this Iustitution.

Mr. Fuller erected an observatory at
his house of Rose Hill. About twenty
years ago it was expected that he would
promote the publication of a history of
the three eastern rapes of Sussex; for
which it was supposed that the large
collections of the Rev. Mr. Hayley,
which were in his possession, would
furnish very extensive materials.

Mr. Fuller has died extremely rich.
The bulk of his fortune, consisting of
estates in Sussex and in the island of
Jamaica, are left to Augustus Elliot
Fuller, Esq. brother to Capt. Fuller,
R. N. and a nephew of the deceased,
as also of Lord Heathfield. The es-
tates in London are left to Sir Pere
grine Palmer Ackland, Bart, another
nephew. He has also left very nume-
rous legacies. His remains were taken
to the family vault at Brightling in
Sussex for interment, attended out of
London by twenty-four private car-
riages. - Gentleman's Magazine.

G.

GALLOWAY, the Right Hon.
George Stewart, sixth Earl of (1623)
and Lord Garlies (1607) in the peer-
age of Scotland, second Baron Stewart
of Garlies in the stewartry of Kirkcud-
bright (1796) in the peerage of the
United Kingdom, the fifth Baronet of
Nova Scotia (1627), K. T., and an
Admiral of the Blue; March 27. 1834;
at Hampstead, Middlesex, aged 66.

His Lordship was born March 24.
1768, the eldest son of John the seventh
Earl, and K. T., by his second wife,

EE

Anne, second daughter of Sir James
Dashwood, the second Bart. of Kirk-
lington Park, Oxfordshire, and M. P.
for that county; sister to Elizabeth
Duchess of Manchester, and niece to
Anne Duchess of Hamilton and Bran-
don.

He entered the Royal Navy in
March, 1780, under his uncle the Hon.
Keith Stewart, and served in the Ber-
wick 74, in the action with the Dutch
fleet off the Doggerbank in 1781, and
the relief of Gibraltar in 1782.

He was appointed a Lieutenant
Aug. 8. 1789, and served in that year,
in the Aquilon frigate, on the Medi-
terranean station, from whence, in the
following spring, he returned to Eng-
land as a passenger in one of the Smyrna
traders, having been promoted to the
rank of Cominander. He afterwards
commanded the Vulcan fireship, from
which he was promoted to post rank in
1793. Being soon after appointed to
the Winchelsea frigate, he accompanied
the expedition destined for the conquest
of the French islands in the West
Indies, and materially assisted at the
reduction of Martinique, St. Lucia,
and Guadaloupe. Sir John Jervis,
in his despatches relative to the landing
of the forces in Guadaloupe, April 11.
1794, wrote to the Admiralty that
"Capt. Lord Viscount Garlies ac-
quitted himself with great address and
spirit on the occasion, although he re-
ceived a bad contusion from the fire of
a battery, against which he placed his
ship in the good old way, within half
musket shot." The three guns of the
battery were, in consequence, soon si-
lenced.

At the general election in 1790,
Lord Garlies was chosen Member for
Saltash; but in Feb. 1795, he resigned
his seat to his brother the Hon. Wil-
liam Stewart.

In 1795, Lord Garlies was removed
into the Lively 32, in which Sir John
Jervis sailed from England to assume
the command in the Mediterranean;
and which shared in the glorious vic-
tory off Cape St. Vincent, Feb. 14.
1797. His La.dship brought home
the news of that signal action, with Sir
Robert Calder and Lord Minto, Vice-
roy of Corsica, and suite, who were on
board during the battle.

About Nov. 1799, Lord Garlies
commissioned the Hussar frigate, at
that time fitting out in the Thames;
and he commanded that ship in the
Channel and on the Irish coast, to the

spring of 1801, when he removed into
the Bellerophon 74, employed in the
blockade of Brest, on which service he
remained until the suspension of hos-
tilities. After the renewal of the war
he commanded the Ajax, 80. On the
30th of April, 1805, he was appointed
one of the Lords of the Admiralty, and
in the following July he was returned
to Parliament on a vacancy for Cocker.
mouth. On the change of adminis-
tration in Feb. 1801, he quitted the
Board of Admiralty. At the general
election of 1806, he was chosen for
Haslemere; but, before the meeting of
Parliament, he succeeded to the peer.
age on the death of his father, Nov. 14.
1806.

On the 28th of March, 1807, the Earl
of Galloway was appointed Lord Lieu-
tenant and Sheriff Principal of the
county of Wigton.

On the meeting of Parliament in
1808, he moved the address to the
King. He attained the rank of Rear-
Admiral 1810, Vice-Admiral 1819,
and Admiral 1830.

His Lordship married at London,
April 18. 1797, Lady Jane Paget,
second daughter of Henry first Earl of
Uxbridge, and sister to the Marquis of
Anglesey, the late Countess of Ennis-
killen, the dowager Lady Graves, Rear-
Admiral the Hon. Sir Charles Paget,
G. C. H. &c. &c. By her Ladyship,
who survives him, he had issue four
daughters and four sons: 1. The Most
Hon. Jane Marchioness of Blandford,
married in 1819 to her cousin-german
George Marquis of Blandford, and has
a daughter and three sons; 2. Lady
Caroline; 3. The Right Hon. Ran-
dolph, now Earl of Galloway, Lord
Lieutenant of Wigtonshire and of the
Stewartry of Kirkcudbright; he was
born in 1800, and married in 1838
Lady Blanche Somerset, seventh
daughter of the Duke of Beaufort;
4. Lady Louisa, married in 1829 to
the Hon. William Duncombe, eldest
son of Lord Feversham, and M. P. for
North Yorkshire; and has issue four
sons and three daughters; 5. The Hon.
Arthur; 6. The Hon. Alan; 7. Lady
Helen, who all three died in childhood;
and 8. The Hon. Keith Stewart, s
Lieut. R. N. born in 1814.

The remains of the Earl were in-
terred on the 2d of April, in the New
General Cemetery in the Harrow
Road, attended by the present Earl and
others of the family, and by fourteen
carriages of intimate friends. This is

the first peer laid to rest in this new
establishment: a vault and suitable
monument will be built on the spot. -
Gentleman's Magazine.

GUISE, Sir Berkeley William, the
second Baronet (1783), D. C.L., M. P.
for the Eastern Division of Gloucester-
shire, and one of the Verderers of the
Forest of Dean; July 23d, 1834, at
Rendicomb Park, Gloucestershire;
aged 59.

He was born July 14th, 1775, the
eldest son of Sir John the first Baronet,
by Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of
Thomas Wright, Esq. and niece to Sir
Martin Wright, Knt. He succeeded to
the title on the death of his father, in
1794; and was created D.C. L. as a
member of Christ Church, Oxford,
Oct. 29th, 1796.

He was returned to Parliament as
member for Gloucestershire at the ge-
neral election of 1812, and has ever
since continued to represent the county.
He was favourable to reform in Par.
liament, and advocated the immediate
abolition of slavery.

At the last election there were three
candidates for the Eastern Division, for
whom at the close of the poll the num-
bers were - Sir B. W. Guise, 3313;
me Hon. H. F. Moreton, 3185; and
Mr. Codrington, 2675.

Firm and disinterested in his public
career, he was as highly respected by
his opponents as he was deservedly be-
loved by his supporters: in every office
of friendship he was without dissimu-
lation, and in acts of piety without os-
tentation; through life, he was the poor
man's friend, and in the exercise of
power abhorred oppression; as he lived,
so he died - adorned with all the vir-
tues of a private inan and a Christian.

Having died unmarried, he is suc-
ceeded by his next brother, now Sir
John Wright Guise, a Major-General
in the army; who, by Diana, daughter
of John Vernon, of Clontarf Castle,
county Dublin, Esq., has a numerous
family.

The friends of Sir William purpose
to erect a monument to his memory in
Gloucester cathedral. - Gentleman's
Magazine.

H.

HAKEWILL, Mr. Henry James,
a very able young sculptor; March 13.
1834; in his 21st year.

He was the third son of Jantes Hake-

will, Esq. and born at Grove Road, St.
John's Wood, on the 11th of April,
1813. He was originally destined for a
different profession; but his taste and
inclination directed him to the art of
sculpture. His early studies in draw-
ing and modelling were made under
Mr. Sass, and he was entered a student
of the Royal Academy in June, 1830.
At the distribution of premiums in the
following year, he received the second
silver medal for a model of the Apol-
lino, and was admitted to study in the
Life Academy. In 1832 he exhibited
a whole-length model of Sir Richard
Beaumont, in armour of the time of
Richard the First; and shortly after
completed the model of Lady Beau-
mont, intended for the alins-houses at
Cheshunt, of which they were the ori-
ginal founders.

The passing of the Reform Bill ap-
pearing to offer him an opportunity for
exerting himself in the higher depart-
ment of portraiture, he modelled a small
statue of Earl Grey, of which his friends
thought so well as to form a committee
for carrying it into execution on an en-
larged scale. Lord Duncannon having
consented to act as chairman, the reso-
lution of the 13th of July approved the
model, and public means were immedi-
ately taken for carrying it into effect.
The subscriptions, however, not reach-
ing the required sum, the plan remained
suspended. Two circumstances con-
nected with this statue, equally credit-
able to the good sense of the noblemen
concerned, the liberality of the Royal
Academician, and the talent of the young
sculptor, deserve mention. The Duke
of Bedford, on being applied to for his
support, replied by letter from Devon-
shire: "A statue of Earl Grey, to
be placed in a conspicuous part of the
new borough of Marylebone, ought to
be by a first rate artist; and as I have
never before heard the name of Henry
J. Hakewill as a sculptor, you must
allow me to pause till I have made some
further enquiries." On his Grace's ar-
rival in town, he called to see the model,
expressed his almost entire satisfaction,
enquired the highest sum subscribed by
any individual, and ordered his name to
be put down for the same amount. On
a similar application being made to Earl
Pomfret, his Lordship desired himself
to be considered as a subscriber of five
pounds. Soon after he requested Mr.
Baily, the sculptor, to call and see the
model, and immediately informed the

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secretary that that gentleman's report
was so favourable to the talent of the
artist, that he desired that his subscrip.
tion might be raised to ten pounds.

In 1833 Mr. Hakewill exhibited at
the Royal Academy a basso-relievo
from Lord Byron's Mazeppa, and busts
of James Wadmore, Esq. and of a
Younger Brother. During the spring
and summer of the same year, besides
numerous sketches for future works, he
modelled a bust, of the heroic size, of
Lord Chancellor Brougham; taking the
opportunity of his Lordship's sittings in
his court (to which he paid an almost
daily visit) to complete the likeness;
and during the same period occupied
himself in forwarding his group for the
competition for the gold medal.
Having determined his composition,
and nearly completed his principal
figures, he left town, to relax for a
while from the constant exertion he had
made, promising himself to continue
his group with renewed vigour at his
return. But his hopes, and those of
his near connections, were doomed to a
severe reverse. On his return to town,
the first symptoms of consumption ap-
peared, and from the time of his attack
in the month of September, to the
March following, he gradually sank,
with perfect composure of mind.

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his person he was tall and elegant, and
his manner and address were unas-
suming, but collected. His works will
prove that his friends did not augur too
sanguinely in looking forward (had he
been spared to them) to a successful
career; and that his name would have
ranked high among the sculptors who
have done honour to their country.
Literary Gazelle.

HARDWICKE, the Right Hon.
Philip, Earl of, K. G.; at Tyttenhan-
ger House, near St. Alban's, Hertford-
shire; Nov. 18. 1834; aged 77. We
hope to be enabled to give a detailed
memoir of this distinguished nobleman
in our next volume.

HARDYMAN, Rear-Admiral Lu-
cius Ferdinand, C. B.; April 17. 1834;
in Cornwall Terrace, Regent's Park;
aged 69.

He was the son of the late Capt.
Hardyman of Portsmouth, and brother
to Major-General Hardyman, who died
in India, Nov. 28. 1821. The early
part of his career was passed in several
ships, but the first important occasion
in which he was concerned was on the
1st of March, 1799, when as First

Lieutenant of the Sybille, after his
Captain had been mortally wounded,
he fought that ship against the Forte, a
formidable frigate of fifty guns, which
struck after a very desperate and san-
guinary night combat. India was de-
lighted at the capture of this famous
ship; Capt. Cooke was interred with all
the honours that the Governor-General
could bestow; and Vice-Admiral Rai-
nier cominissioned the prize, and con-
ferred the command of her upon the
brave Lieutenant.

Capt. Hardyman, whose appoint-
ment was confirmed by the Admiralty,
continued to serve in India until June
1801, when the Forte unfortunately
struck on a reef off Jeddah, and, after
bafiling every attempt to get her off,
was abandoned. He afterwards com-
manded the Unicorn, 32, on the West
India station, where in May, 1805, his
boats boarded and carried the Tape-a-
bord, a fine privateer cutter of 6 guns.
The Unicorn was attached to Sir C.
Stirling's squadron in the expedition
against Monte Video, where Capt.
Hardyman successfully covered the
landing. She was afterwards one of
the Basque Road squadron, and assist-
ed at the destruction of the French
ships in Aix roads, April 11. 1809;
shortly after which, Capt. Hardyman
removed into the Armide, 38, on the
same station, where his boats were
very active in annoying the coasting

trade.

He

On the extension of the Order of the
Bath, in Jan. 1815, Capt. Hardyman
was nominated a Companion.
married, Dec. 29. 1810, Charlotte,
youngest daughter of John Travers,
Esq. of Bedford-place, London.
United Service Journal.

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HARRIMAN, the Rev. John, Per-
petual Curate of Ash and Satley, Dur-
hain, and Fellow of the Linnæan
Society; Dec. 3. 1831; at Croft, in
the county of York; in the 72d year of
his age.

This distinguished Botanist, and truly
Christian Minister, was a native of
Maryport in the county of Cumberland
His ancestry were German, his grand.
father having been brought into and
settled in this country when a child.
The name of Harriman is a corruption
of Hermann, which is the ancestral
name of his family in Germany. Two
of this name, and, as it is believed, of
his kindred, were eminent as botanists.
One was Professor of Botany in he

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