of the Heber Ballads; and the only known copies (two in number) of Lodge's "Defence of Plays and Players," in answer to Gosson, form a part of the collection. The Shakespeare Society had long ineffectually endeavoured to obtain permission to reprint Lodge's Defence (which is only known by name); now, however, there can be no objection.

This valuable collection Mr. Miller has left to the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh. Its market value is nearly equal to the recent Grenville gift to the British Museum, so that this is no common bequest. However we may regret that its unique copies should be lost to the national collection, it must be allowed that any condition for keeping entire would in many cases have merely added duplicates and triplicates to the present library.

The bulk

Mr. Miller was a bachelor. of his property, which, including land, is estimated at 300,0007. is left to his cousins the two Misses Marsh, who resided with him. His books, valued at 60,000l., are left, as before-mentioned, to the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh, accompanied, it is said, by a bequest of 20,000l. to erect a room for its reception; and 20,0001. is expected to be required for a mausoleum, to be erected on his estate at Craigentinny (where his body was buried, by his own desire, six weeks after his death,) the architect of which is directed to proceed to Italy for his model.

MRS. STRONG.

Nov. 24. In the Minster precincts at Peterborough, in the 93rd year of her age, Margaret, relict of the Rev. William Strong, D.D. late Archdeacon of Northampton.

She was daughter of the Rev. John Wakelin, then Rector of Flitton and of Yaxley, in the county of Huntingdon, and traced her lineage to the Wakelyns, a family once of great consideration in Northamptonshire. In the year 1785 she was married to her only husband, by whom she had two children; a daughter, who died in youth, and a son, who survives her. That, at her advanced period of life, time had made inroads both on mind and body, it were superfluous to record. It is fit, however, and more pleasing, to relate, that almost to the last enough of intellectual and of physical energy remained to leave within her reach many sources of comfort, and some even of enjoyment. Weather permitting, she derived gratification from a drive in her carriage; and the solitude of home could still be relieved by animated conversation, by hours of reading, which her perfect eyesight enabled her to continue, and by epistolary correspondence, a

style of writing in which she had greatly excelled. One generation of her correspondents had, indeed, passed away; but the blank was in some degree supplied by the kind assiduity of younger friends: and numerous applications for charitable aid, which never passed unnoticed, and rarely without a favourable reply, engaged much of her time and attention. Her views of religion were those of a humble Christian, nurtured in the bosom of the Established

Church; and the hope of recognition in a future state threw a sunshine over the prospect, which her low estimate of her own spiritual attainments might otherwise in some degree have clouded. It affords perhaps the strongest evidence of the natural vigour of her constitution, mental and corporeal, that only six years since she survived and surmounted the disruption of those ties which had been wound round her sensitive heart, by a union of half a century with a husband who was beloved by all who knew him, and most by the wife of his affections. Of the good Archdeacon, some notice will be found in our Magazine for September, 1842. But, to assist the reader in forming an estimate of the magnitude of the trial which she endured, subjoined is a copy of his epitaph in the cathedral, from the pen of a learned and distinguished prelate.

His

"Near this spot are deposited the remains of the Venerable WILLIAM STRONG, D.D., Canon of this cathedral church, and for the space of forty-five years Archdeacon of Northampton. Throughout a long and active life he was a firm supporter of the institutions of his country, and a zealous and discreet servant of its church. devout and unaffected piety, his liberality to the poor, and his daily practice of all other Christian virtues, secured to him the love and veneration of the clergy in his archdeaconry, and of all classes in this city and neighbourhood. As a magistrate for nearly half a century, he dispensed justice, tempered with mercy and kind

ness.

In the private relations of life, he was the most affectionate of husbands and fathers, a warm and unshaken friend, and a never-failing protector of the afflicted and distressed. He died universally beloved and lamented, September the 8th, 1842, in the eighty-seventh year of his age. This monument is erected by her who for fifty-seven years was the faithful and devoted partner of his life."

Nor as a sequel-for which she evidently intended it-may it be inappropriate to annex a characteristic specimen of her thoughts and feelings, discovered since her decease:

"Near also are the mortal remains of his afflicted widow, who is gone in the joyful

MR. CHARLES HEATH.

Nov. 18. In his 64th year, Mr. Charles Heath, the eminent line engraver, known by the books of Beauty which bear his name and the costly Annuals which he conducted.

He was the son of James Heath, eminent in the same art, and well known to the print-collector by his "Death of Major Pearson" after Copley, his "Riots in Broad Street" after Wheatley, his fulllength of General Washington after Stewart, and his book-plates after Stothard and Smirke, for Harrison's Novelists' Library. The father laid the foundation for that fine taste in the embellishment of books which his son carried to greater perfection. Mr. Charles Heath excelled in small plates; as in those which he excuted after Newton, and in the beautiful engraving of Lady Peel after Sir Thomas Lawrence. He was not so successful when his plates were of a large size as in the Europa "after Hilton, where that dexterous laying of lines for which he was so distinguished is somewhat insipid, and fails to compensate for the bolder cuttings for which Strange and Sharp and Burnett and Raimbach are so pre-eminently distinguished. Mr. Doo and Mr. Watt were pupils of Mr. Charles Heath; and in those large and rarer excellences which contribute so much to the beauty of a line engraving of a size larger than a book-plate have certainly excelled their master.

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Mr. Heath, besides being eminent for the power of his own hand, may be said to have exercised a marked influence over his own department of art. In his hands that species of serial artistic publication known as the "Annual "-which, originating with others, he was nevertheless one of the earliest to copy-has survived to the present day. Such publications had their use in familiarizing the general mind with the productions of art, and in making the latter accessible to moderate means. To balance their appeal to somewhat trivial tastes, it must not be forgotten, either, that they called into action the talents of the most celebrated engravers at a time when the engraver was too little in request, and led the way to the long host of illustrated books which have finally supplanted them all except the publications of Mr. Heath. This action upon art-in the praise of which, as we have said, Mr. Heath must share-led, itself, to that healthy re-action which has

followed a surfeit of such sweetmeats. The engraver is now more profitably employed, for his reputation as well as-it is to be hoped-for his pocket. Mr. Heath has quitted the scene at a time when the class taste which he did so much to promote is all but extinct. In all that relates to the getting-up of these periodicals he displayed ability, and in his relations with his brother artists liberality and good faith. Of late years, we believe, his own hand wrought little :-his time having been too much devoted to the necessary arrangements for the many publications on which he was engaged. His extensive undertakings led him to employ many pupils :-and as his works still increased in number he formed at last another manufactory of artists on almost as extensive a scale as the Messrs. Finden.

Mr. Heath has left a large family to lament his loss. One son is favourably known as an engineer; and another is already eminent in the same line of art in which his father and grandfather acquired their well-earned reputations. Athe

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We add an anecdote published in Feb. 1839, soon after the time of its occurrence. Mr. Heath having completed his great national work, "Turner's England and Wales," presented a splendidly bound copy to the King of the French. Louis Philippe sent for Mr. Heath, presented him personally with a magnificent gold snuff-box, with the initials L. P., surmounted by the crown in brilliants, and a large diamond at each corner; conversed with him affably on his art and his projects; and gave him permission to take drawings of the interior of Fontainebleau, and all the other royal palaces-promising to furnish him with historical and descriptive materials, written by his chief librarian, M. Vatout.

JOHN MACKENZIE.

This unassuming writer died in August last in his native parish, Gairloch, a district in the western division of the county of Ross, where his relations are respectable, cut off at the age of 42, it is believed from over exertion in his literary studies.

Mackenzie was more distinguished as an industrious compiler than an original writer, being an ardent collector of those effusions of the Highland bards that he found floating in oral tradition among his countrymen.

A pastoral people are proverbially fond of poetry, and cultivate the art as a means of record; hence the scanty notices of the more early history of nations are found in the remains of their bardic lore. Now that, from the facilities of printing, the

land is teeming with publications of every description, Gaëlic literature has obtained a share of attention, if not sufficient for its importance, commensurate, perhaps, with the amount of readers and their means. The publication of the Ossianic Poetry by MacPherson, induced several others to commence research for similar remains which were known to exist, and Clarke, MacCallum, Dr. Smith, &c. rescued a considerable number of pieces from impending oblivion; but the pursuit was unremunerative, and the work was but partially accomplished.

In 1841 Mackenzie brought out " Sàr Obair nam Bard Gaëlach," or, The Beauties of the Highland Poets, which was not only intended to form a well selected compendium of the choicest flowers of Gaelic poesy, but to present a biographical account of each composer; a very interesting department of the work. The second part, on which he was engaged at the time of his death, promised to be much more valuable, as it was to comprise specimens of the talent of those bards hitherto inedited, several of whom were known but to few modern Highlanders. An elaborate Introduction to volume I. in English, was drawn up by James Logan, esq. F.S.A. &c. which is much more comprehensive than its name would lead us to infer. It forms a highly appropriate contribution on a subject, the knowledge of which is necessarily confined to a very limited number of readers. It is indeed an Essay on the Institutes of Bardism, and its influence on the Celtic nations, their Language, Literature, Poetical and Musical genius, with specimens of the various modes of versification in use among the Gaëlic tribes.

Mackenzie was accounted a scholar of credit in his mother tongue, and edited many works in it. His latest was a new edition of MacAlpine's Gaëlic and English Pronouncing Dictionary, to which he made the important addition of an EnglishGaelic part, which it is allowed he executed with much ability. A few years ago he published "Eachdraidh a' Phrionnsa," or History of Prince Charles Stewart, which met with great favour from the reading portion of his countrymen.

The orthography of this ancient language, so recently, it may he said, brought into print, seems to be still unsettled, there being no established means of imparting a grammatical education in Gaëlic even to schoolmasters or clergymen ! A literary discussion on this grave subject was carried on with much keenness in Glasgow some years since, in which Mackenzie took an active part. A primitive language may appear from an antiquated

orthography, where numerous consonants are retained, although entirely quiescent, rugged and uncouth, but it would be perfectly unwarrantable to venture on discarding them. All but the general opinion of Gaëlic scholars is, that in many cases it might be done without detriment to etymology. Were this to be done how could the roots of words be traced? What also would become of all the books now extant? they would become useless, and in a short time unintelligible. The objection to silent consonants may be urged against the English language itself, which has been purified by the cultivation of ages.

Mackenzie was a frequent contributor to Gaëlic periodicals, and was much employed in translating for publishers. He was a Fellow of the Ossianic Society of Glasgow, the Gaelic Society of London,

&c.

CLERGY DECEASED.

Sept. 14. At Kirton, Notts. aged 67, the Rev. Joseph Blandford, Rector of that place, Perpetual Curate of Maplebeck, Notts. and Vicar of Carlton-le-Moorlands

and Stapleford, Lincolnshire. He was of Trinity hall, Cambridge, LL.B. 1808; was presented to the chapelry of Maplebeck in 1820, by the Duke of Newcastle; to Kirton in 1821 by the same patron; and to the two churches in Lincolnshire, abovenamed, in 1827, by Lord Middleton.

Oct. 15. At Whitchurch, Shropshire, aged 49, the Rev. Robert Broughton Clay. He was of Sidney-Sussex college, Cambridge, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1833.

Nov. 6. At Elstree, Hertfordshire, aged 70, the Rev. John Morris, D.D. Rector of that parish, and Rural Dean of Watford. He was formerly Fellow of Queen's college, Oxford, on the Michel foundation; and took his M.A. degree in 1802; and was presented to the rectory of Elstree by Lord Chancellor Eldon, in 1822. He married a daughter of Augustus Everard Brande, esq. apothecary to Queen Charlotte, sister to William Thos. Brande, esq. F.R.S. the celebrated chemist; and was father of the Rev. John Brande Mor. ris, Fellow of Exeter college, Oxford, who some time since seceded to the Church of Rome.

Nov. 7. At Bristol, aged 38, the Rev. Henry Rogers, M.A. Vicar of All Saints, to which church he was presented by the Dean and Chapter of Bristol cathedral in 1841.

Nov. 10. At the vicarage, Raunds, Northamptonshire, aged 54, the Rev. Barr Dudding, Curate of that parish. He was of St. Catharine's hall, Cambridge, B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825.

Nov. 13. At Collipriest house, Tiverton, aged 60, the Rev. Thomas Carew, B.D. Rector of Bickleigh and Haccomb, Devonshire. He was the third son of Sir Thomas Carew, the sixth Bart. of Haccomb, co. Devon, by Jane, daughter of the Rev. Charles Smalwood, of Kirk Oswald in Cumberland. He was of Sidney-Sussex college, Cambridge, B. A. 1809, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1819, and was presented to Bickleigh in 1826 by his brother Sir Walter Palk Carew, Bart. He married in 1820 Holway, only daughter of Robert Baker, esq. of Collumpton, and had issue three sons and one daughter. His charity and unostentatious piety had endeared him both to rich and poor. As a mark of respect, the shops of Tiverton were closed on the day of his funeral.

In the prime of life, the Rev. Francis Plummer Giffard Dineley, Curate of Churchill and Peopleton, Worcestershire.

The Rev. Henry Evans, of the Byletts, Herefordshire, and of Stone, Worcestershire.

Nov. 16. At Greenwich, at the residence of his brother, Mr. T. A. Bussell, the Rev. George Bussell, Vicar of Durnford, Wilts, fourth son of the late Rev. J. G. Bussell, of Ryde, Isle of Wight.

Nov. 18. At Cheltenham, aged 44, the Rev. John Hughes, M.A. Vicar of Wombourn with Trysall, Staffordshire, and Rector of Coddington, Herefordshire. He was of Brazenose college, Oxford; was collated to Coddington in 1831 by Dr. Huntingford, then Bishop of Hereford, and presented to Wombourn in 184- by

trustees.

Nov. 20. At Northover vicarage, Somersetshire, aged 59, the Rev. Thomas Evans, Vicar of that parish, to which he was presented in 1833 by J. H. Chichester, esq.

Nov. 21. In Marchmont-street, Russellsquare, the Rev. John Macintyre, late Rector of the parish of St. James, Jamaica.

Nov. 26. At Temple Guiting, Gloucestershire, aged 79, the Rev. Thomas Bowen, Perpetual Curate of that parish, to which he was presented in 1816, by the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford.

Nov. 27. At Clifton Hotwells, aged 42, the Rev. Alexander Reuben Mangin, eldest son of the late Rear-Admiral Mangin.

Nov. 29. In London, aged 86, the Rev. Charles Edward Holden, late Vicar of Great Cornard, Suffolk. He was of Caius college, Cambridge, B.A. 1788; and was presented to his living in 1803 by J. G. Sparrow, esq.

Nov. 30.

At Beaumaris, aged 46, the Rev. Hugh Wynne Jones, M.A. Vicar of Meifod, Montgomeryshire, in the gift of the Bishop of St. Asaph.

DEATHS.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.

Nov. 10. At Clapham, aged 86, Francis Henderson, esq. formerly of Stockwell.

At North Brixton, Ann, widow of Capt. John Halsted, R.N. who died in 1830 (see Gent. Mag. c. ii. 566). Her maiden name was Fowler.

In Great Russell-st, aged 24, Robert, seventh son of the late Matthew Towgood, esq. of St. Neot's, Huntingdonshire.

At Brompton, aged 62, Charlotte, wife of Frederick Thomas Walsh, esq.

In the Albany, aged 80, William Turnbull, esq.

Nov. 11. Suddenly, at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. George Ackermann, Bishop's-road, Westbourne-terr. aged 63, Johanna-Wilhelmina, wife of J. Haefkens, esq. Burgomaster of Leerdam, Holland; also, on the same day, aged 6 months, Ann-Margaret, youngest child of Mr. G. Ackermann.

In Vincent-sq. Westminster, aged 75, William Barnard, esq. for many years keeper of the British Institution for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, Pall Mall.

Aged 45, Joseph Cockerton, esq. of Austin-Friars.

Nov. 12. At the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, aged 42, Frederick Walpole Anson, Major of the 18th Native Infantry, Bengal. He was the second (but eldest surviving) son of Gen. Sir George Anson, G.C.B. Lieut.-Governor of Chelsea Hospital, by Frances, sister to Sir Fred. Hamilton, Bart. He married, in 1827, Miss Catharine Hanson.

At Brompton, aged 39, Anne, wife of John Murray, esq. of Whitehall-pl. and Maida-vale.

At the rectory, aged 79, Sarah wife of the Rev. H. G. Watkins, M.A. Rector of St. Swithin's, London-stone.

At Stamford-hill, aged 60, Charles Brind, esq.

Suddenly, at Chelsea, Mr. Hollands, chief clerk of the Court of Common Pleas. Having been for many years chief clerk to Sir Thomas Wilde, upon the appointment of that learned gentleman to the Chief Justiceship, he was by his lordship inducted into the lucrative office of chief clerk, being of the value of from 1200l. to 15007. per annum.

Nov. 13. In Cumberland-st. Augusta, widow of James Stanley, esq. of Portlandplace.

Nov. 14. In Kentish Town, aged 84, Jane, widow of Sir William Blizard, F.R.S. the celebrated surgeon. He died in 1836 (see his memoir in our vol. V. p. 318).

At Canonbury Villas, aged 57, Thomas Richard Horwood, esq.