duced, and armed, according to his suggestion, with twenty-eight long 32-poun. ders, the same number of 42-pr. carronades, and one long 12, as a chase gun. He joined the squadron of Sir J. B. Warren, on the Halifax station, and was charged with the blockade of Boston, in which port the Constitution 44 was then lying, ready for sea. On the 3d Feb. 1814 he captured a French frigate in the vicinity of the Azores, whither he had gone in quest of the American forty-four, which had eluded his vigilance during a snow-storm on the 1st of the preceding month. On the 22d May following, he captured the American letter of marque Dominica, (formerly H. M. schooner of that name); and shortly after he was sent with a small squadron (the Endymion and Pomona frigates) to intercept Commodore Decatur, who was to sail from New York with an armament intended to annoy the British commerce in the East Indies and China seas. After having been repeatedly blown off the coast by gales, he at length, on the 13th Jan. 1815, encountered the President, bearing the Commodore's pendant, and, after a long chase, it was captured by the Endymion. At the termination of the war with America, the Majestic was paid off. Her commander received the insignia of C. B. at the enlargement of the order in 1815.

In April 1819 Capt. Hayes was appointed to superintend the ordinary of Plymouth. He published a pamphlet on Naval Architecture, developing a plan for building a thousand vessels, if required, from a given section, without the variation of a needle's point, reducible from a first-rate ship to a cutter, each possessing powers and advantages of every description, in their respective class. Two vessels were subsequently built, in a royal dockyard, on his projection; one, a cutter of about 160 tons, and the other a sloop of war of 36 guns, the Inconstant, which is pronounced by all who have been on board her to be the finest man of war of her class in the Royal navy. It is now commanded by Capt. D. Pring, on a particular service.

It may be justly stated that Rear-Adm. Hayes was one than whom a better seaman, a braver officer, or more scientific nautical architect, does not belong to his glorious profession. His body was interred at Farlington, Hants.

[Fuller details of his services will be found in Marshall's Royal Naval Biography, vol. ii. pp. 673-683.]

CAPT. PATERSON, R. N. May 18. At Manheim, William Pater son, esq. Capt. R. N. and C. B.

He was a son of George Paterson, esq. of Castle Huntley, co. Perth, by the Hon. Anne Gray, youngest daughter of John twelfth Lord Gray, of the kingdom of Scotland. He entered the navy at an early age, under the auspices of Sir Alex. Cochrane; and served as a midshipman on board his patron's flag-ship, the Northumberland 74, at the Leeward Islands; he was rapidly promoted to be Lieutenant 1805, Commander 1808, and Post-Captain 1810. At the close of the war, in 1814, he commanded the Myrmidon of 20 guns; on the 25th April 1815 he was appointed to the Eridanus frigate, and on the 6th March, 1816, to the Minden 74, fitting for the flag of Sir Richard King, commander in chief on the East India station. Previously to proceeding thither, Capt. Paterson accompanied Lord Exmouth to Algiers, where the Minden sustained a loss of 7 killed and 37 wounded, on the memorable 27th August 1816. this service he was nominated a Compan ion of the Bath on the 21st of the following month. The Minden returned home from India, Oct. 16, 1820; and was shortly afterwards put out of commission,

For

In April 1825 he was appointed Presi dent of the Civil Court at Newfoundland, for the adjudication of all disputes respecting the Fisheries on the coast of Labrador.

WILLIAM MELLISH, ESQ.

June 8. At his residence in Bishops gate-street, aged 73, William Mellish, esq. of Bush hill Park, Edmonton, formerly M.P. for Middlesex.

Mr. Mellish was descended from a family seated at Blythe in Nottinghamshire. He was a younger son of William Mellish, esq. formerly Receiver-general of the Customs and Joint Secretary of the Treasury, and the second son of that gentleman by his second wife, Anne, daughter of John Gore, esq. of Bush-hill, Edmonton, Governor of the Hamburgh Company and M.P. for Grimsby (a son of Sir William Gore, Lord Mayor of London in 1702; see a pedigree of the family of Gore in Clutterbuck's Hertfordshire, vol. i. p. 502). His half-brother Charles Mellish, esq. F.S.A. who was a Commissioner of the Excise, and died in 1796, left issue, which continued the family at Blythe, but that estate was afterwards sold to the late Joshua Walker, esq. The eldest son of his own mother was John Mellish, esq. who was shot by a highwayman on Hounslow-heath, on his return from the royal hunt, in 1798, leaving a daughter, the heiress of his estates in Hertfordshire. We believe the late Dean of Hereford, the Very Rev.

Edward Mellish, was another brother of the member for Middlesex.

Mr. Gore, his maternal grandfather, had three daughters, one of whom died unmarried in 1795, and the eldest, Catharine, was the wife of Joseph Mellish, esq. younger brother of William, and who succeeded Mr. Gore as Governor of the Hamburgh Company and as M.P. for Grimsby, and also resided at Bush-hill Park. He died in 1790. Mrs. William Mellish and Mrs. Joseph Mellish both died in 1794; and after the death of the latter, we presume the estates at Edmon.. ton devolved on the subject of this memoir.

Mr. Mellish was during a long life an eminent merchant of the city of London, and for nearly half a century a Director of the Bank of England. At the general election of 1796 he was returned to Parliament for the borough of Great Grimsby, which had been previously represented by his grandfather and uncle. At the gene

ral election of 1802 John-Henry Loft, esq. was returned in his room, but Mr. Mellish recovered his seat by the decision of a Committee in April 1803. He was appointed a Captain of the Bank of England Volunteers, on the formation of that corps, May 26, 1803. At the general election of 1806 he became one of the members for the county of Middlesex; which he continued to represent on the Tory interest, until ejected by Mr. Whitbread in 1820. He was much esteemed for his courtesy and personal worth; and was liberal in his contributions to the charities both of the metropolis and the country. His fine estate at Bush Hill, near Enfield, is inherited by a nephew.

SAMUEL THORNTON, ESQ. July 3. At his house in Brighton, aged 83, Samuel Thornton, esq. F.S. A. late of Clapham Park, Surrey, and M.P. for that county.

He was the eldest son of the celebrated John Thornton, esq. of Clapham, and brother to the late Henry Thornton, esq. M.P. for Southwark, and the late Robert Thornton, esq. M.P. for Colchester. Few men have passed through a long life of greater usefulness and benevolence than Mr. Thornton. He was an active member of parliament during nearly forty years, the greater portion of that time (from 1784 to 1806), the able, zealous, and indefatigable representative for the town of Kingston-upon-Hull, and subsequently for the county of Surrey, from 1807 to 1818.

In 1807 he defeated Lord William Russell, who had previously sat for Surrey

For the extraordinary period of fiftythree years he was a Director of the Bank of England, in which institution his sagacious and prudent counsels had always great influence. Mr. Thornton was Governor of the Bank in the year 1797, when the famous stoppage of cash payments occurred. He was for many years a Governor of Greenwich Hospital, Governor of the Russian Company, President of Guy's Hospital, &c. He had not

of late years had any connexion with trade, except as head of the two highly respectable firms in Hull-Messrs. Thornton, Watson, and Co. and Messrs. Crosse and Co. His death will be deeply felt, not only by a large and numerous circle of friends, but by the orphan and the widow, to whose necessities his purse was ever open.

G. H. SUMNER, Esq.

June 26. At Hatchlands, near Guildford, aged 77, George Holme Sumner, esq. late M.P. for Surrey, Colonel of the First Royal Surrey Militia, and for forty-five years a magistrate for that county.

Mr. Sumner's great-grandfather was a merchant of Bristol; of whose younger son, the Rev. John Sumner, D.D. Canon of Windsor, and Provost of King's college, Cambridge, the present Bishops of Chester and Winchester are grandsons. His elder son resided at Windsor, and was father of William Brightwell Sumner, esq. who having acquired a fortune in the civil service of the East India Company, purchased the estate of Hatchlands of Adm. Boscawen in 1768, and by Catharine, daughter of John Holme, of Holme hill, co. Cumberland, esq. was father of the gentleman now deceased.

In 1794, on the death of his maternal uncle, Thomas Holme, esq. he inherited the estates of that family; and in consequence assumed the name of Holme before his own, by authority of the royal sign manual.

He was first returned to Parliament, in Nov. 1786, for the borough of Ilchester; at the general election of 1790 he was elected for Guildford; but retired in 1796. In 1806 he was again chosen for that borough; and in 1807 he was elected for Surrey, (see the preceding memoir of

1838.]

W. J. Denison, esq. C. N. Pallmer, esq.

G. H. Sumner, esq.

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2055

In 1830 he again sat for Guildford. At the general election of Dec. 1832 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Western Division of Surrey, the numbers being, for

William Joseph Denison, esq. 1511
John Leach, esq.
Holme Sumner, esq.

1430

1194

Mr. Sumner married, Nov. 17, 1787, Louisa, daughter of Col. Charles Pemble, commander-in-chief of the East India Company's forces at Bombay, by whom he had issue, besides two daughters who died in infancy, the following children: 1. George, who died at Paris in 1817, aged 21; 2. William Holme Sumner, esq. who has married Mary, daughter of J. Barnard Hankey, esq. of Feltham park, Surrey; 3. the Rev. Charles Vernon Holme Sumner, Rector of Newdigate, Surrey, and of Farnborough, Hants, who married in 1825 Katharine, daughter of William Mason, esq. of Necton hall, Norfolk; 4. Sophia, married to Andrew Henry Thomson, esq. son of John Thomson, esq. of Waverley abbey, Surrey.

E. P. BASTARD, ESQ.

June 8. In Cavendish-square, after a lingering illness, aged 53, Edmund Pollexfen Bastard, esq. of Kitley, Devonshire, formerly M.P. for that county.

He was the elder son of Edmund Bastard, esq. M. P. for Dartmouth (younger brother to John Pollexfen Bastard, esq. M. P. for Devonshire 17841816), by Jane daughter and heiress of Philemon Pownoll, esq. of Sharpham, Capt. R. N. His younger brother, the late John Bastard, esq. Capt. R.N, inherited the Pownoll estates, and died in 1835. (See a brief memoir of him in Gent. Mag. for June, 1835, p. 661).

His uncle died on the 4th April 1816, and his father a few weeks after; whereupon he succeeded to the family estates, and was the same year chosen in his uncle's place as M.P. for Devonshire. He continued to represent that county to 1830, upon independent principles, never giving any pledge to vote upon measures before he had heard their merits fully discussed. His unshaken loyalty, and love of the Constitution in Church and State, were generally acknowledged; and, although he did not possess the gift of oratory, yet, as a practical man of business, with diligent and unwearied atten

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tion to his duties in the House of Commons, he has seldom been surpassed.

Mr. Bastard married, Jan. 22, 1824, the Hon. Anne-Jane Rodney, only surviving daughter of George second Lord Rodney, and by that lady, who died in 1833, he had issue three sons; EdmundRodney, born in 1825; Baldwin-John ; and William-Pollexfen.

CHARLES ROBERT BLUNDELL, ESQ. Oct. 30. Aged 76, Charles Robert Blundell, esq.

He was the last heir male of the very ancient family of the Blundells of Ince Blundell in Lancashire; and was born in May 1761, the only son of Henry Blundell, esq. who died in 1810, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edward Mostyn, of Talacre, co. Flint. His habits were eccentric and irregular, and he has died unmarried. His two only sisters were Catharine married to Thomas Stonor, of Stonor, co. Oxford, esq. and Elizabeth, married in 1789 to Stephen Tempest, of Broughton, co. York, esq. Both these ladies, the former of whom died in 1834, and the latter is still living, had families, but they have been entirely disinherited by Mr. Blundell's extraordinary will.

By this instrument dated 28th Dec. 1834, he has left his extensive landed estates (the manors of Ince Blundell, Formby, Ainsdale, Birkdale, Lydiate, Eggregarth, Melling, Cunscough, and Rainkers, and estates in Preston, Broughton, and Chipping) to the second son of "Edward" Weld, esq. of Lulworth, and his heirs male; with remainders, 1. to the younger brothers of " Edward," in succession, and their heirs in tail male; 2. to Mr. Weld's sister Lady Stourton and her younger sons; 3. to his other sisters and their sons; 4. to the daughters of "Edward" Weld and their sons; 5. to Henry Mostyn, of Usk, co. Monmouth, solicitor, and his sons, each successively in tail male; on condition of inhabiting and keeping in repair the mansion at Ince, and assuming and using the name of Blundell.

His furniture, &c. including the busts, casts, statues, pictures, coins, and other works of art and curiosities, together with his library, are to be preserved as heir looms. His farm in Aughton in the possession of Thomas Heskyne, and his farm in Lydiate, called Shacklady's, are bequeathed to the Rev. Thomas Robinson of Liverpool, and his heirs. To the Rt. Rev. Dr. Walsh of Wolverhampton 50007. for the purposes of Oscott college in Staffordshire; to Rev. T. Robinson for the use of Ampleforth college, Yorkshire, 40007.; for Downside

college, co. Somerset, 4000l.; for Old Hull Green college in Hertfordshire, 40007.; for the use of Roman Catholic priests in and near London, 15,0007.; and for Lydiate chapel, 20007. To the incumbent Priest of Formby Chapel an annuity of 607. for life, and to the incumbent Priest at Ince an annuity of 1007.

To each of the daughters of Charles Brown Mostyn, esq. 500l. To the Rev. Francis Mostyn of Wolverhampton, 3007. To Richard Willis, esq. of Halsmead, 3001. To John Gladstone, esq. of Fasque, N. B. 80007. and two landscapes by Wilson, the Phaeton and Lake of Nemi, a tripod, and an ancient head of the Indian Bacchus. To Ince school 601. per annum, two-thirds to the master and one-third for books.

All the residue of his personal estate is left to the Rt. Rev. Doctor Bramstone of London and the Rt. Rev. Dr. Walsh, their executors, administrators, and assigns, absolutely and for ever. John Gladstone, esq. Robert Gladstone, esq. of Liverpool, and the Rev. Thomas Robinson, are named executors.

Such is the substance of Mr. Blundell's will, with the exception of provisions for the continuance of various beneficial leases to old or favourite tenants; and some minor legacies to servants. The families of his sisters, it will be perceived, are not even mentioned: but the most extraordinary feature of the whole is, that the name of the principal legatee is a misnomer, as no such person as Edward Weld is in existence. The

more immediate relatives of the deceased have taken steps to oppose the will, on the grounds of the insanity of the testator, and not, as the newspapers have incorrectly stated, on the plea of the property being largely devoted to superstitious uses. The estates are valued at more than 90007. a-year, and the residue at 200,000l. The deceased was of very eccentric habits. Soon after his death, the executor or his son caused a strict search to be instituted, and found, scattered here and there, in various places about the house, sums of money amount. ing altogether to no less than 22,8007.

At Ince there is one of the most valuable private collections of works of art in the kingdom, consisting principally of specimens of ancient and modern sculpture. It was made by the father of the late Mr. Blundell. The fine specimens of sculpture are arranged in a building which he erected for the purpose, exactly resembling the Pantheon at Rome, though one-third less in size. The collection consists of about 100 statues, 150 busts, 110 basso relievos, 90 sarco

phagi and cinerary urns, 40 ancient fragments, besides marble pillars, tables, and other antiquities, and about 200 pictures. In the chapel is a monument of Henry Blundell, esq. executed by Mr. John Gibson, of which an engraving is given in Gregson's Fragments of Lancashire.

C. J. CLAVERING, Esq.

June 20. At his residence, Axwell Park, co. Durham, aged 76, Charles John Clavering, esq. the senior magis. trate of Northumberland, and a magistrate for Durham.

He was the eldest son of Major-Gen. Sir John Clavering, K.B. Commanderin-chief in the East Indies, Governor of Berwick, and Colonel of the 52nd foot (the youngest son of Sir James Clavering the sixth Baronet, of Axwell Park), by his first wife Lady Diana West, daughter of John Earl Delawarr. His only brother was General Henry Mordant Clavering, Col. of the 98th foot, and brother-in-law to the Duke of Ar. gyll, and his three sisters were married to Thomas Lord Napier, Sir Thomas Pechell, Bart. and Adm. Sir J. B. Warren, K.B.

Mr. Clavering resided the greater part of his life at Ridlamhope in Northumberland, and served the office of High Sheriff of that county in 1795. He was also High Sheriff of Durham from 1829 to 1833, the last appointed by the Palatine jurisdiction of the Bishop. He resided at Axwell, as tenant to his cousin Sir Thomas John Clavering, Bart.

Mr. Clavering was, in many respects, an excellent specimen of the "fine old English gentleman." It was only three months before his death that a public meeting of his friends took place at Whickham, and it was unanimously resolved to present to him his portrait and a piece of plate, "as a testimony of the high estimation in which his character is held." He died without the portrait having been painted.

He married Diana, daughter of Robert Adair, esq. by Lady Caroline Keppel, daughter of William second Earl of Albemarle; and had issue an only daughter, Diana-Mary.

J. H. THURSBY, ESQ.

July 17. At his house, Catharineplace, Bath, aged 70, John Harvey Thursby, esq. of Abington House, Northamptonshire.

He was the eldest son and heir of John Harvey Thursby, of Abington, esq. a Verderer of Rockingham forest, by Anna, daughter of William Hanbury of Kelmarsh, esq. and descended through

an heiress, whose marriage took place in the reign of William the Third, in a direct line from the Saxon family of Thoresby of Thoresby, co. York (see the pedigree in Baker's History of Northamptonshire, vol. i. p. 11; Burke's Commoners, vol. i. p. 318.)

Mr. Thursby succeeded to his ancestral estates on the death of his father in 1798. He received the commission of Lieutenant in the Northampton cavalry 1st July 1794; and served the office of High Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1803.

He married May 5, 1792, Emma, daughter of William Pigott, of Doddershall, co. Bucks, esq. and by that Lady, who died April 28, 1836, he had issue seven sons and five daughters: 1. John Harvey Thursby, esq. born in 1793; who married in 1818, Emily, daughter of Matthew Fortescue, of Stephen's-town, co. Louth, esq. and has a son and heir, Harvey, born in 1819, and other children; 2. the Rev. William Thursby, Vicar of All Saints, Northampton, and of Hardingstone; who married in 1824 EleanorMary, daughter of John Hargreaves, of Ormerod house and Bank hall, co. Lancaster, esq. and has a numerous family (see Burke's Commoners, vol. ii. p. 685); 3. Charlotte- Emma, 4. George, and 5. Henry- Walter, who all died infants; 6. Frederick-Spencer, who married in 1831 Miss Lerigens, of Aix-laChapelle; 7. Emma; 8. Charles, who married in 1820, Emily, daughter of Pentland, esq. of Blackhall, co. Louth, and has a daughter, Mary; 9. SophiaFrances; 10. Walter, who died in India; 11. Lucy, married to John Dauncy, esq., and 12. Anne.

DR. FRANCIA.

In our last number, p. 186, we briefly noticed the death and character of this extraordinary modern tyrant; but, from the interest of the details in the following article, we have been induced to adopt it, in a somewhat condensed form, from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.

In

Paraguay occupies a central situation in the lower portion of the South American continent, the population of which is variously estimated at from two hundred thousand to half a million. 1811, it followed the example of the other Spanish provinces in South America, by declaring itself a free republic, when a new government was constituted under a junta, composed of a president, two assessors, and a secretary. It was soon found that the people-a race of mingled Spanish and Indian blood-were GENT. MAG. VOL. X.

unfit for popular institutions, and for some time the greatest confusion prevailed. The first person who manifested any power of controlling the agitated elements of Paraguayse society, was the individual who officiated in the junta as secretary. This was Francia. He was the son of a Frenchman who had settled in Paraguay, where he was born in the year 1757. Destined for the church, he had proceeded so far in the appropriate education, as to become a doctor of theo. logy, but, in the course of his study of the canon law, a latent taste for jurisprudence was awakened in him, and he ultimately became a barrister before his na. tive courts.

The junta, of which Don Fulgencio de Yegros was president, continued to form the government for two years. Francia, the only member of it who possessed abilities, information, or a love of business, was in fact the sole administrator of affairs; the others chiefly spending their time in country sports. Whenever it happened that they interfered to thwart his will, he had only to intimate his intention of retiring, in order to make them give way. It could not be expected that Francia should long submit to a subordinate situation under such circumstances. In 1813, a convention was called to take into consideration the state of affairs. Ingnorant of history and of political science, they chanced to possess a copy of Rollin's well-known work, into which they looked for a constitution, as they would have looked into a dictionary for a word. Their fancy was caught by the consular government of Rome, and they resolved to appoint Yegros and Francia as the two consuls of Paraguay. Two curule chairs were provided for these officers, one inscribed Pompey, and the other Cæsar: and Francia, taking possession of the latter, indicated to all except the unlettered Paraguayse that he should not long be a half ruler. At the end of the first year of the consulate, when the convention again met, he found it no difficult task, by reference to their favourite author Rollin, to convince them that the country was now in one of those critical situations which induced the Romans to entrust the state to a dictator; and he was accordingly elected to that dignity for a term of three years; Yegros vainly attempting to resist the

measure.

With the title of "Excellency," and a salary of 9000 dollars-of which, however, he gave back two-thirds, under the pretence that the state had more need of money than himself-he now took possession of the house which had formerly 2 U