bridge, and in fitting up this vessel, Mr. Frost, depending on the above illustrious patronage for support, was indiscreet enough to become personally responsible to a heavy amount, and at length finding himself disappointed of the assistance upon which he had relied, to avoid the importunities of his creditors, he fled to Paris, where he resided for some months under the assumed name of James FitzJames. Quitting Paris he proceeded to fix his abode at Berlin, and there commenced practising as a physician, under the name of Sir John Frost, and is reported to have obtained considerable practice, and where, after a long and painful illness, he expired, aged 37 years.

Mr. Frost married Mademoiselle Harriet Yosy, only daughter of Madame Yosy, the well-known authoress of "Switzerland and its Costumes," by whom he had no children.

Mr. Frost's literary works consist of: Orations delivered on various occasions.

Bingley's Introduction to Botany. Some papers read before the Society of Antiquaries of London (but not printed). Remarks on the Mustard Tree of the Scriptures; and other trifles.

He also commenced a History of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order; a History of all the existing Orders of Knighthood; Memoirs of the Court of George IV.; but none of these were ever completed.

Mr. Frost undoubtedly enjoyed considerable talents, united to great perseverance, and a degree of self-confidence, in some cases amounting to impudence. In illustration of this it may be mentioned that on applying to Prince Leopold to become a member of the Medico-Botanical Society, after meeting with nine successive positive denials, he still continued his application, and on a tenth trial succeeded in effecting his object.

Mr. Frost's chief faults were his extreme presumption, and unbounded pride and vanity; but when we consider the very early age at which he acquired such distinguished honours, some little allowance for these may surely be made (since, in the end, these failings caused his ruin, we may pity rather than condemn), and lament that in the plenitude of his selfconceit he forgot that the surest way of obtaining respect for himself was by paying respect to others.

HUGH HAMMERSLEY, ESQ. Oct.... In Pall Mall, aged 65, Hugh Hammersley, esq.

The death of this gentleman has led to the abrupt termination of the business of

Hammersley's bank, of which it appears he was the sole surviving partner. In the words of a publication entitled The Circular to Bankers, "a great London bank has stopped payment, holding deposits which are stated to amount to £650,000, and having promissory notes circulating in all parts of the Continent of Europe, amounting to a very considerable sum; and, as we believe, it is brought to this state, not from any misconduct on the part of the late possessor and director of the office, as far as the management of the funds entrusted to him is concerned, but from the misconduct of those who preceded him. Mr. Hugh Hammersley inherited a lucrative business, encumbered with dreadful losses."

"Some fifty or sixty years ago, the old and eminent banking house of Herries and Co. were the only firm in England who had adopted the practice of issuing notes payable on presentation or at a few days' sight at various large towns throughout the Continent of Europe; it was a circulation of the greatest possible convenience, safety, and utility to travellers and temporary residents in foreign countries, and it was very properly, and with much foresight as to the consequences, so arranged by the introducers of the practice, as to render the accommodation to the applicants or the public easy and economical to them; so that they always felt obliged for the opportunity of resorting to it. It was also, no doubt, a lucrative kind of business to the issuers of the notes. The amount of this circulation must have been greatly curtailed by the French revolutionary war; but still it was almost an exclusive field, and it had, as may fairly be assumed, rendered a good return to the enterprising firm with whom the practice originated. The war must terminate; and those who were in possession of the field of operation, and were acquainted with all the circumstances, places, persons, and details necessary to the conduct and management of such a business, would have great advantages on the renewal of intercourse with the Continent of Europe. Few persons knew anything about the extent of the profits of this kind of banking business; but among these few would be the confidential clerks of Messrs. Herries, and one of them was the late Mr. Thomas Hammersley, the father of Mr. Hugh Hammersley, just deceased.

"Mr. Hammersley quitted his position as clerk, and entered into co-partnership with Messrs. Morland and Ransom, under the firm of Morland, Ransom, and Hammersley. This firm did not remain united many years, and it was understood on its dissolution, that there was a balance

of loss to be borne by each of the several parties. It might not be a very large one, at least not amounting to a sum that could materially impede the operations of a great and substantial London banking firm; but supposing it to be not more than £20,000 for Mr. Hammersley's share, it was to that extent a load on that gentleman's shoulders in his subsequent struggles. He then, upwards of thirty years ago, formed a co-partnership under the firm of Hammersleys, Montelieu, Greenwood, Brooksbank, and Drewe, a union which would seem to promise great results in profit, seeing that Mr. Greenwood was in the high tide of prosperity as the leading army agent, and the confidential friend of the Horse Guards, and that other members of the firm were capable by their connections of introducing valuable business to the new banking office. The new firm, however, for the purpose of acquiring business, granted accommodation too readily. Among these it is said that the accommodation granted to a bank at Honiton, which failed many years ago, at its highest point considerably exceeded £280,000. Before the failure, Messrs. Hammersley had reduced the credit from its highest point, as well as they could, by getting available securities and otherwise, out of the final balance, which amounted it is said to £180,000. They accepted 1s. or 1s. 6d. in the pound; consequently the real loss upon this account would not be less than from £160,000 to £170,000. Whether the then existing partners of the firm of Hammersley and Co. took each his share of this enormous amount of loss, or it was left as an incubus on the bank to be liquidated by the accruing profits of that establishment, we do not know. The latter seems the more probable, seeing that the firm was gradually stripped of every one of its members, except the lamented Mr. Hugh Hammersley. Other losses of considerable magnitude were incurred, one with an office-bearer in His Majesty's Treasury, amounting to a sum approaching to £40,000; another advanced to a firm for the manufacture of soap carried on in the borough of Southwark, little, if anything, short of 80,000l." The history of this concern, of which the principal partners were Mr. Phelps and Mr. Bracebridge, of Aston Hall, near Birmingham, are detailed in the publication from which we quote, which concludes with stating the belief of the writer that under the management of the late Mr. Hugh Hammersley the large amount of loss was in the course of gradual liquidation from regularly accruing profits. "There is no doubt that a very valuable description of business had been attracted

to the office, and we believe if the disaster had occurred a few years sooner, the creditors would have received a smaller dividend the assets being now stated to be equal to the payment of about 15s. in the pound. The rapid sliding away of property from opening the sluice of improvident confidence, and the slow recovery of it by care and circumspection-for a quarter of a century has elapsed since any of the losses here stated were incurred-are notable facts worthy of the consideration of all bankers and merchants."

Mr. Hammersley married in 1822 MariaGeorgiana, eldest daughter and coheir of the late Lewis Montelieu, esq. (grandson of David de Montelieu, Baron de Saint Hippolite in Languedoc, and a General in the British army, who died in 1761,) by Maria-Henrietta, daughter and coheir of James Modyford Heywood, of Meristow, co. Devon, esq. and sister to the late Mrs. Orby Hunter. This lady survives him, with one son, who is sixteen years of age.

THE REV. JOHN THOMSON.

Oct. 27. At the manse of Duddingston, near Edinburgh, aged 62, the Rev. John Thomson, Minister of that parish: a gentleman who had highly distinguished himself as a landscape painter. He was the fourth and youngest son of the Rev. Thomas Thomson, Minister of Dailly, in Ayrshire, in which place he was born on the 1st of September, 1778; he succeeded his father, and was ordained minister of Dailly in 1800, and was translated to the pastoral charge of the parish of Duddingston, in the year 1805, since which time he has continued constantly to reside in that delightful locality; so congenial to his avocations, so suited to his taste; till the period of his death. In his earliest years, he exhibited a strong predilection for Art, which grew with his growth, until, from a charming amateur and dilettante painter, he became the boast and ornament of the Landscape School of his native country, if not of the British Empire. Not being professionally an artist, he, of course, was not eligible for a Mem. ber of the Royal Scottish Academy, but was early admitted as an honorary member, in which capacity he continued to shed a lustre on that body till the day of his death, his works continuing to adorn the walls of the Academy Exhibitions to the last.

He was an early pupil and an abiding friend of the late Mr. Alex. Nasmyth, whose demise he has not long survived; his style, however, was as remote as possible from that of his master, being marked chiefly by great power and breadth of general effect, and the embodyment of

a sentiment suitable to the scene, from which he suffered no consideration ever to divert his attention; hence his works bear incontestible evidence of a preconceived and well-digested design, which has left nothing to accident. The subjects of his delight were to be found in the grandeur and the sublimity of Nature, and with such he enjoyed the felicity of rarest sympathy; he appreciated the sentiment of his subject with the true feeling of a poet, and gave being to the combination with the facility and enthusiasm of an artist.

Of his character as a man and a Christian minister, it is not enough to state that it was altogether irreproachable. To manners, kind, affable, and inoffensive, he joined the practice of warm and generous benevolence. To his eminent talents as a painter he also superadded, in no mean degree, the skill of a musician; in the cultivation of which he took much delight. In the peaceful retirement of the scene of his ministerial labours, his life was spent in contentment and repose; and the calm, unchequered day of his existence was shrouded in the pall of death amidst the scenes which he admired, and in the arms of those he loved. His health, which had for some months been declining, was, at length, shattered and destroyed by a stroke of apoplexy, which carried him off in the zenith of his fame.-(Art Union.)

EDWARD HARDING, ESQ. Nov. 1. At Pimlico, aged 86, Edward Harding, esq.

This gentleman was born March 29th, 1755, in the town of Stafford, where he served his apprenticeship to a hair-dresser; at the age of twenty-one came to London, and followed his occupation for a few years; but, being naturally of a quick and enterprising turn of mind, this mode of life was any thing but satisfactory to the capacity and indomitable perseverance he enjoyed. He therefore, in conjunction with his brother, Silvester Harding, an artist of considerable eminence, opened a print and bookseller's shop in Fleet Street, where they successfully published many spirited prints of considerable reputation on fancy subjects. Finding their business increase, they removed to more spacious premises in Pall Mall, where they received an extensive patronage, and were enabled to inrich their collection by the addition of many valuable works of art and literature, amongst which may be mentioned the Portraits and Views to illustrate Shaks

pere, the 8vo. and 4to. editions; Memoirs of Count Grammont, 4to.; the Biographical Mirror, 3 vols. 4to.; the Economy of Human Life, 8vo.; Dryden's Fables; and Leonora, with plates, from drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk, folio. In 1803 a manuscript was offered to them for publication, which on inspection proved of a vile and infamous character, being a burlesque on the Scriptures; actively alive and zealous in the cause of religion, upon the faith of which he meritoriously lived and died, Mr. Edward Harding thought it a moral duty he owed to himself and society at large, at once to expose this corruption coming from such a fountain of iniquity as Tom Paine. He submitted it to the then excellent Dr. Porteus, Bishop of London, who to coun. teract works of this nature, which were prevalent at that time, commenced the Religious Tract Society, and offered the publication of its productions to Mr. Harding, which would, doubtless, have been a source of great emolument. This was declined, as the late Queen Charlotte had commanded his attendance as her librarian.

Having broken up the establishment in Pall Mall, Mr. Harding now entered upon his duties, and took up his residence at the Royal Lodge at Frogmore, where his zeal and assiduity gained him the approbation of her Majesty, the Princes, and Princesses, with whom he became an especial favourite. The Queen having expressed a wish to possess in print, privately, a Chronological Abridgment of the History of Spain, Germany, &c. &c. on cards from her own manuscript, he undertook to accomplish it, which he did, although he had not been accustomed to the trade. Possessing himself with types and press he succeeded in gratifying the Queen's wishes, and performing that which but few men would have had the industry to have accomplished.

Her Majesty took a great interest in illustrated works, and became possessed, through her librarian, of many beautiful and valuable acquisitions, amongst which may be mentioned the Lives of Cibber and Garrick, in folio; the Visit of Christian the Fourth, King of Denmark, to James I. of England, the Queen's own Manuscript; and also her Manuscript of the advice of James the Second to his son the Pretender, which are both magnificent volumes in folio; besides many others, and some also by the Princess Elizabeth, of equal worth and beauty.

He also completed for George the Fourth (and it may perhaps be considered the finest of his productions), Theatrical

Portraits from the earliest period, with a biography, forming eight folio volumes; the Earls and Dukes of York and Cambridge, with portraits, biography, &c. beautifully executed in two folio volumes, and now in the possession of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and a similar work of the Earls and Dukes of Gloucester, in the possession of the late lamented Dowager Landgravine of Hesse Homburg. These, and many others of equal value, will remain a lasting testimony to the indefatigable exertions of their author. Upon the decease of his Royal Mistress he removed from Buckingham Palace, and was subsequently appointed librarian to his Majesty the King of Hanover, in whose service he died, having lived long and usefully, and died respected and regretted. His natural cheerfulness of disposition and urbanity of manners reudered his society a delight to all his acquaintance.

L. C. JANSEN.

Louis Charles Jansen, the brother of Madame Bartolozzi (widow of the celebrated engraver of that name), and uncle to Madame Vestris, was born at Aix-laChapelle about the year 1774. He made his first entrée in London as a musician when quite a young man, and with the brightest prospects. When in the zenith of his prosperity, he kept his own carriage-the best of society-and frequently had the honour of dining with his late Majesty George IV., when Prince of Wales. The late Dominico Corri, the composer, and well-known singing-master, and also the late Maria Clementi (both celebrated about the same period), were among his early professional friends. Clementi, some years ago, the senior of Jansen, was the latter's tutor, who also received some valuable instruction from Dr. Haydn, when that eminent musician was in London. Corri died in 1825, in not very affluent circumstances; Clementi, in 1832, after having accumulated considerable wealth. Jansen, in consequence of some sudden reverses-chiefly owing, he used to say, to the elopement of his wife-gave way to the most determined habits of intemperance, and which seemed to attend him through life; and so inveterate was his course that no sort of assistance or admonition could make on him the slightest impression.

His compositions are very numerous, many of which, written in the early part of his life, display talent of no ordinary merit. No composer, perhaps, has written more but owing to his dissipated and irregular mode of living-never having any settled habitation-his abilities were

often prostituted, and his productions were finished and given to the public in such a careless and incorrect manner (in order to get the money from the cheap publishers), that his name at last got in such bad odour that the music-sellers were compelled to substitute some fictitious name for the real one.

His best efforts were his "Air Tyrolean," with scientific variations for the pianoforte, and his grand vocal scena from the sixth chapter of Revelations, "Death on the Pale Horse," the former of which in publishing he dedicated to his old master, Clementi, and the latter to Mr. Braham, who, it is said, was so much pleased with it, that he offered to sing it gratuitously at the oratorios, provided Jansen would make some alterations, which the latter refusing to do, this esteemed composition is at present unknown to the musical world, except in a very circumscribed circle.

This musician was at last reduced to a state of the greatest distress, wandering through the streets (and not unfrequently would he pass the night in them) literally covered with rags and filth. But such was the singularity of his nature, that when in health, and with only the means in his pocket of affording him sustenance throughout the day, he would scud along the pavement, "in the full blaze of a mid-day sun," assuming all the hauteur and consequence of a purse-proud dandy, though at the same time clad as the veriest beggar. His greatest horror appeared to be the thought of becoming an inmate of a parish workhouse, which disease and griping poverty a few months ago drove him to. "Death," said he, will soon o'ertake me when I get there!" He was once seen out in the pauper's uniform, and very soon after breathed his last in one of those abodes for the destitute, situate in Northumberland-street, Marylebone.

CLERGY DECEASED.

At Drayton, near Retford, aged 82, the Rev. Archibald Galland, for more than fifty years Curate of that parish.

At Mark's Tey, near Colchester, aged 32. the Rev. Robert Smith, B.A. of St. John's college, Cambridge.

Sept. 8. At Dublin, the Rev. W. Downes, Vicar of Laughton-en-le-Morthen, Rector of Dinnington, and Master of St. Mary Magdalene's chapel, Bawtry. Sept. 12. In Union-place, New-road, the Rev. Thomas Cricklow Edgell. Sept. 17. At Tortworth, Glouc. aged 80, the Rev. George Cooke, D.D. Rector of that parish and Didmarton, and one of her Majesty's Deputy Lieutenants and

Justices of the peace for the counties of Gloucester and Wilts. He was of Oriel college, Oxford, M.A. 1786, B.D. 1790, D.D. 1796; was presented to Tortworth by his college in 1799, and to Didmarton, by the Duke of Beaufort in 1803.

Sept. 19. At Salcombe, Devonshire, aged 48, the Rev. Charles Egerton Dukinfield, Vicar of Edenhall, Cumberland; brother to Sir J. L. Dukinfield, Bart. He was the fifth but third and youngest surviving son of Sir Nathaniel the fifth Baronet, by Katharine, sister of John Warde, of Squerries, co. Kent, esq. He was formerly in the service of the Hon. E. I. Company, and was presented to the vicarage of Edenhall in 1833, by the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle.

Sept. 20. Aged 72, the Rev. Robert Sutliffe, Rector of Lambourne, Essex. He was formerly Fellow of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1789, as fifth Senior Optime, M.A. 1792, B.D. 1800; and he was presented to his living by the college in 1815.

Sept. 23. At Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, aged 61, the Rev. T. Coles, M.A.

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Sept. At St. Christopher's, West Indies, aged 35, the Rev. John Penny, Rector of Sandy Point in that Island, and Chaplain to the Garrison.

Oct. 1. At Park-road, Regent's-park, aged 41, the Rev. T. H. Walpole, Vicar of Winslow, Bucks.

Oct. 3. At Chudleigh, Devonshire, in the prime of life, the Rev. Charles Kendall, eldest son of Mr. Kendall, solicitor, of that place.

Oct, 4. At Westerham, Kent, the Rev. William Moreton Moreton.

Oct. 19. At Park house, near Whitehaven, aged 57, the Rev. Thomas Harrison, Rector of Corney, Cumberland, Perpetual Curate of the Holy Trinity church, Whitehaven, and a magistrate of the county. He was of Queen's college; Oxford, M. A. 1806; and was presented to both his livings by the Earl of Lonsdale, to his church in Whitehaven in 1808, and to Corney in 1814.

Oct. 21. At Ellesmere, Salop, aged 73, the Rev. William Hobson, Perpetual Curate of Welch Hampton, to which he was presented in 1827 by C. K. Mainwaring, esq.

Oct. 23. Aged 77, the Rev. Edward Barnard, M.A. Rector of Alverstoke, Hampshire, to which church he was collated in 1825 by Dr. Tomline, then Bishop of Winchester.

Oct. 24. Aged 83, the Hon. and Rev. Daniel Finch, B.D. Fellow of All Souls' college, Oxford, Rector of Harpsden, Oxfordshire, and for fifty years Rector of

Cwm, Flintshire, and a Prebendary of Gloucester; uncle to the Earl of Aylesford. He was the fifth son of Heneage third Earl of Aylesford, by Lady Charlotte Seymour, youngest dau. of Charles 6th Duke of Somerset; was matriculated of Christchurch, Oxford, June 20, 1774; took his B. A. degree in 1778, and soon after was elected on the foundation of All Souls' college, of which he lived to be the senior Fellow. He proceeded M.A. 1782, B.D. 1790 and served the office of Junior Proctor in 1786. He was collated to the Rectory of Cwm in 1790 by Dr. Hallifax, then Bishop of St. Asaph; to a prebend in the cathedral church of Gloucester in 1792 by Bishop Beadon; and presented to Harpsden by the Warden and Fellows of All Souls' in 1801.

DEATHS.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.

Oct. 9. Aged 41, Robert Haymes, esq. of Gray's-inn, barrister-at-law, eldest son of Robert Haymes, esq. of Great Glen, co. Leicester. He was called to the bar Feb. 11, 1829.

Oct. 14. Aged 64, Mrs. E. Barlow, late of Portman-pl. Edgeware-road.

Oct. 16. At Alfred-house, Clapham, the residence of his son-in-law Major Head, aged 72, Mr. Weeden Dawes, formerly an attorney and solicitor at Rye, Sussex.

Sarah, wife of John Ray, esq. of Brecknock-crescent, New Camden Town.

Aged 81, G. D. Johnston, esq., of Harleyford-place, Kennington.

At Hampstead, aged 59, Maria Catharina Johanna, widow of the late J. Robertson, esq. of Demerara.

Oct. 17. At Dorset-sq. Mary, relict of John King, esq.

Oct. 18. At Harleyford-road, Vauxhall, Angelo Solari, esq.

At Brook Green, Hammersmith, aged 13, Maria Harriet, eldest dau. of the late Lieut. Col. Gardiner.

At Hounslow, aged 78, Pitt Cobbett, esq., late of Bedford-st. Covent-garden. Oct. 19. At Clapham, aged 21, Selina, third dau. of John Thornton, esq.

In South-st., Park-lane, aged 91, Mary, relict of Robert Lovejoy, esq., of Jamaica.

Oct. 21. At Connaught-terrace, Edgeware-road, aged 30, James Large, esq.

Oct. 22. Aged 26, Margaret, wife of Mr. Robert Isherwood, Ludgate Hill.

At Twickenham, aged 88, Francis Lind, esq.

Manuela, eldest dau. of D. Meinertzhagen, esq. of South-st. Finsbury-sq. At Spring-garden-terrace, Ann, wife of Sir George Harrison, K.C.H.