centre ornament is after the much-admired Warwick Vase, upon an appropriate pedestal, with the following inscription on two sides:

JACOBO M'GRIGOR, Equiti, M. D.

Coll. Reg. Med. Edin. Soc.
Societ. Reg. Edin. Sod.
Nosocomiorum Regalium Inspectori
Generali.

Viro admodum insignito, sive acumen ingenii nativum respicias, sive strenuam illam atque indefessam muneribus inspectoriis navatam operam; in quibus, apud Lusitaniam, Hispaniam, Galliam,

longè latéque fungendis, Bon bono solum publico cum integritate prope singulari,

verùm etiam Sociis suis co-operantibus comitate quadam, et benignitate propria nunquam non consuluerit; cui denique sacros Hygeia fontes aperire atque Artis Medendi divina studia vim æmulam ingenuas apud scientias eliciendo

promovere feliciter omnino contigerit: hocce monumentum, quale quale pignus! summæ in Ducem suum dignissimum observantiæ

sacrum ac perenne vult Status Major Nosocomiensis Wellingtonianus.

Anno Dom. 1814.

A number of workmen are employed cutting a sewer, to extend from the Regent's Park to the Thames. The excavation was commenced in Scotlandyard, where the sewer will fall into the River. In three or four places it is already 15 feet deep, and about 10 wide. The soil, which has not been cut during many hundred years, presents a very curious appearance. Within five or six feet of the surface, there are strata of different sorts, such as gravel, chalk, black and yellow mouid, &c.; deeper down there is fine blue clay. The direction it takes at present is through Scotland-yard in a line with the Admiralty.

Lincoln's-inn Gateway.-That venerable monument of antiquity has recently been repaired and ornamented, and the arms splendidly emblazoned. As this structure now attracts much notice, the following brief account may be gratifying: Over the Gateway are three circular compartments, containing in the centre the arms of England, encicled with the Garter, and its motto, "Honi soit qui mal y pense," in letters of gold. The arms on the dexter side are those of Lacy Earl of Lincoln, in a garter, with the motto; and on the sinister, those of Sir Thomas Lovel, K. G. On a label beneath, in Arabic characters, is inserted Auno Dom. 1518, to which the following inscription is added: "Insignia hæc refecta et decorata Johanne Hawles,

Armiger. Solicitore Generali, Thesaurar 1695."--Over this entrance Oliver Crom. well had chambers.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

Foreign Office, Dec. 26. Edw. Davids, esq. his Majesty's Chamberlain and Chancellor of South-Wales, vice H. Lloyd, esq. Jan. 7. Hon. W. Temple, Secretary of Legation at Stockholm.

Foreign Office, Jan. 13. Mr. Wm. Davenport, Consul at Londonderry for the Sovereign Prince of the Netherlands.

CIVIL PROMOTIONS.

R. H. Williamson, esq. Chancellor of the county palatine of Durham and Sadberge, vice Sir S. Romilly, resigned.

Sir John Thomas Duckworth, K.B. Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth, vice Adm. Domett, resigned.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS, Rev. F. E. Witts, M. A. Stanway with Upper Slaughter R. both co. Glouo. Rev. Daniel Davies, Minister of Emsworth, Hants, vice Henville, resigned.

Rev. Joseph Boughton Coley, M. A. Drayton perpetual curacy, Oxou.

Rev. Tho. Clarke, M. A. Broadwas R, co. Gloucester, vice Roberts, deceased. Rev. Tho. Heynes, B. A. Wolverley V. co. Gloucester, vice Digby, resigned.

Rev. Henry Scawen Plumptre, B. A. Lamblethian V. with Cowbridge and St. Donat's Chapel, co. Glamorgan.

Rev. M. W. Jones, B. D. Ospringe V. Kent, vice Jackson, resigned.

Rev. John Edwards, M. A. South Fer riby R. co. Lincoln.

Rev. Walter Kitson, Marksbury V. ao. Somerset, vice Baker, deceased.

Rev. Thomas Grylls, Cardynham R. Cornwall.

Rev. J. W. Newton, M. A. Hemblingdon perpetual curacy, Norfolk.

Rev. T. O. Linley, B. A. Trowse V. with Lekenham, Norfolk.

Rev. W. F. Drake, B. A. Stoke Holy Cross V. Norfolk.

Rev. J. Surtees, M. A. Taverham top medieties R. Norfolk.

Rev. John Robinson, M. A. Faldingworth R. with Ulceby cum Fordington B. both co. Lincoln.

Rev. John Cutler, M. A. master of the free-grammar-school in Sherborne, Dorset, Patney R. Wilts, vice Lancaster, deceased.

Rev. Wm. Bartlett, vicar of East Stoke, Newark-upon-Trent V.

Rev. J. Hammond, B. A. Hannington R. Hants, vice Tabourdin, deceased.

Rev. T. R. Jolliffe, one of the Prince Regent's Chaplains in ordinary.

Rev. Dr. Barrow, to a Stall in the Collegiate Church of Southwell, Notts, vice Berdmore, deceased,

Rev. H. Salmon, B. A. a Minor Canon of Lichfield Cathedral.

Rev. C. M. Babington, M. A. rector of Peterstow, co. Hereford, Withington Prebend.

Rev. W. Curwen, Harrington R. Cum-cberland.

Rev. J. Whitelock, Deerham V. Cumberland.

Rev. John Seagram, M. A. Godmanston R. Dorset.

1. Rev. Charles Champness, a Minor Canon of St. George's Chapel, Windsor.

Rev. Mr. Doyle, son of Sir John D. bart. Stony Stanton R. co. Leicester.

Rev. John Davis, M. A. vicar of Cerne, -Dorset, Horsey Melcombe R. co. Dorset.

BIRTHS.

1814, Nov. 12. In Fitzroy-square, the Right-hon, Lady Thurlow, of a son and heir.

1815, Jan. 1. Mrs. J. H. Butterworth, Fleet-street, a son aud heir.—5. In Upper Harley-street, the wife of G. Smith, esq. M. P. a son.-21. The wife of M. D. Duffield, esq. of Carlton, near Middleham, Yorkshire, a son and heir.

Lately. The lady of Sir John Owen, bart. a son and heir (since dead.)—At Winchester, the wife of Capt. Moses, 7th fusileers, a dau.-At Linton Spring, near Wetherby, Hon. Mrs. Butler, a dau.At Kippax Park, Hon. Mrs. Bland, a son. 13. In Berkeley-square, the Dutchess of Newcastle, a son.-16. In Northumberland-street, the wife of Major-gen. John Hope, a dau.-At Pounsford Park, Hon. Mrs. Wellman, a son and heir.-At the Rectory of Haughton-le-Skerne, the wife of Rev. Mr. Le Mesurier, a dau.-In Weymouth-street, Lady Harriet Blaquiere,

a son.

MARRIAGES.

Dec. 13. Henry Smedley, esq. of Lincoln's-inn, barrister at law, to Elizabeth, daughter of the late Richard French, esq, of Abbotts Hill, Derby.

Robert Lindsay Anstruther, esq. eldest son of Hon. David Anstruther, to Elizabeth, second daughter of Rey, Charles Gardner, of Stoke Hammond, Bucks.

26. At Margate, Mr. R. Brasier, jun. to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. Z. Cozeus, of that place.

27. Hon. Hen. Charles Howard, heir to the Dukedom of Norfolk, to Lady Charlotte Gower, eldest daughter of the Marquis of Stafford.

Jan. 2. By special license, at Seaham Hall, the seat of Sir Ralph Milbanke, bart. George Gordon, Lord Byron, to Anne Isabella, only daughter of Sir Ralph and Hon. Lady Milbanke, and niece to Lord Viscount Wentworth.

3. At Winterbourne, Alfred Hardcastle, esq. second son of Joseph Hardcastle, esq.

of Hatcham House, Surrey, to Anne, only daughter of the late Edinund Cobb Hurry, esq. of Holly Hill, Hants.

2. At Liverpool, Col. R. Munro, (E. I. Company's service) to Miss Jane Dickey, of Dublin.

11. Major Gore, of the Dragoon Guards to Mary Jane, daughter and sole heiress of Owen Ormsby, esq. of Porkington, Salop.

12. By special licence, Sir Henry Wm. Carr, K. C. B. Lieut.-colonel of the 83d foot, to Hon. Mrs. Perceval.

14. Col. Bathurst, son of the Bishop of Norwich, to Lady Catherine Stewart, daughter of the Earl of Londonderry.

Richard Pollen, esq. of Lincoln's-ina, brother of Sir John Pollen, bart. to Anne, eldest daughter of Samuel Pepys Çockerell, esq. of Westbourne.

17.

At Greenwich, Major Harriott, of the E. I. Company's service, to Matilda, eldest daughter of the late Thomas Norris, esq. of Greenwich.

19. Mr. Hen. Bennett, jun. to Anne, second daughter of Samuel Fish, esq. of Highbury Terrace.

Lately. At the Oaks, Surrey, the seat of the Earl of Derby, Capt. Hornby, H. M. S. Spartan, to Miss Burgoyne, daughter of the late Lieut.-gen. B.

Harrison, eldest son of P. Codd, esq. of Kensington, to Sophia, eldest daughter of the late John Lateward, esq. of Brook Acre-house, Ealing.

At Kingston, Norfolk,Major-gen. Borsse, King's German Legion, to Mary Anne, eldest daughter of Capt. Woodham.

Rev. Hen. Atlay, rector of Wakerley, co, Northampton, and of St. George in Stamford, to Elizabeth, second daughter of the late James Hovell, esq.

Rev. J. K. Raudell, of Gussage St. M chael, Dorset, to Emma. third daughter of J. Devey, esq. of Pennis House, Kent.

James Taylor, esq. to Louisa, second daughter of the late S. Skey, esq. Spring Grove, near Bewdley.

Joseph Meredith, esq. of Knighton, to Elizabeth Matilda, niece of Jaines Roberts, esq. Pykorner Hall, co. Radoor.

Lieut. Jos. Crouch, H. M. S. Hannibal, to Miss Bowyer, daughter of Capt. B. R.N.

Lieut.-col. Hewitt, 24th Portuguese Infantry, to Eliza, second daughter and one of the co-heiresses of the late R. Gillam, esq. of Bandon.

IT is not uncommon to see prefixed to the works both of dead and living authors, an engraving of their face and form; and, as many persons are solicitous to know all that can be known of those whose hours have been devoted to the instruction or amusement of the world, such exhibitions of the external appearance of writers are probably surveyed with interest and attention, however insignificant the sketch, and however imperfect the resemblance. It is this conviction that has led me to undertake the difficult, though soothing task, of endeavouring to delineate the character of the lamented and admirable woman whose manuscript work, "Duty, a Novel, interspersed with Poetry," I am about to give to the world; for, if the person of an author be interesting to the reader, the character and the conduct must be infinitely more so; especially as we gaze on the portrait prefixed to a work, chiefly, perhaps, with a desire of tracing in it some clue to the mind and disposition of the being whom it represents.

MARGARET ROBERTS was the youngest daughter of a respectable clergyman of the name of Wade, who resided at Boxford, in Suffolk; and in the year 1792 she became, after a long and mutual attachment, the wife of the Rev. Richard Roberts, third son of Dr. Roberts, late provost of Eton*. Immediately after their union, she went to reside with her husband at the village of Mitcham, in Surrey. I have passed over the period of my lost friend's residence under the roof of her father, because, though well aware that she must have been all a daughter ought to be, as virtue is commonly consistent with itself, and the duties are usually inseparable companions, I am most anxious to exhibit her as a wife ;-that character which is best calculated to call forth the virtues of a woman, and in which the heart and the temper are most tried, and most displayed to view.

Mrs. Roberts had not the happiness of being herself a parent; but the situation which it was her lot to fill, was such as to awaken in her affectionate nature much of the tender anxiety of the maternal character, as Mr. Roberts had under his tuition seventeen or eighteen boys, (chiefly sons of the Nobility,) from the age of seven to fourteen, over whose health and comfort she watched with tenderness the most endearing. This tenderness was repaid by them by feelings of affectionate gratitude, which survived the presence of the object that called them forth, since

* Author of "Judah Restored," and

other poetical pieces.

GENT. MAG. January, 1815.

many a youth and many a man has continued eager to own, and anxious to return, his obligations to that care which constituted so great a part of the comforts of his childhood. On this scrupulous attention to the welfare of the children committed to the care of her husband, I might rest Mrs. Roberts's pretensions to the character of an excellent wife; but her claims to that title did not end there. The manner in which she fulfilled her arduous duties as mistress of a family, was equally worthy of imitation. Like one of the heroines of her own Novel, she was never idle, never for a moment unemployed; and to the conscientious employment of her time is to be attributed her power of doing more in a day, with less apparent effort, than any one who had not witnessed it can be easily led to believe. Though she had to conduct a very large and troublesome establishment; though, during the occasional short absences of Mr. Roberts, she had to preside in the school; no one heard her complain of want of time for any useful or pleasant occupation. No one staying at the house ever missed her at the hour of projected amusement; and, though every domestic duty was regularly fulfilled, she seemed, when in the company of her guests, to have nothing to do but to amuse herself and them. Never were her necessary avocations an excuse for any neglect of her person or her dress. She was neat, even to Quaker neatness, in her appearance and her apparel; and the same presiding spirit of nicety was visible in her house and in her grounds. It was remarkable also, that, though she had so many serious claims on her time, she had more correspondents, and wrote more and longer letters, than almost any other person in a private situation. Such is the practical usefulness resulting from a resolution allot to every passing moment some rational employment, or some salutary res creation. It was this resolution which enabled Mrs. Roberts to be, in the space of one little day, the superintendant of a large family, the delight of a circle of friends, the punctual correspondent, the elegant work-woman, the instructive writer, and the admirable reader of poetry or prose.

About eight or nine years ago, she was induced to write, and then to publish, a little work called "The Telescope, or Moral Views," for Children; which was a promising proof of those talents for that line of writing, which she afterwards displayed in "Rose and Emily," a work with her name to it, published two years ago. She has left behind her some other manuscripts,

manuscripts, among which are several admirable Songs; but, at present at least, the work which I am editing is the only one designed for the public eye.

But to return to the contemplation of her as a woman and a wife. Though constant occupation was the great secret by which she effected so much, method and order were two of her principal agents; and, like the magic wand whose touch made the labours of Psyche easy in a moment, method and order operated on every busy department in her household; and every thing was ready at the hour appointed, as if guided by some certain though invisible agency. It must be supposed that superintending a family, consisting of so many children of various dispositions and habits, must have been very trying to the temper as well as to the feelings. But the temper of Mrs. Roberts was equal to any trial; and, unimpaired, or rather perfected by trials, it shone in the benign expression of her dark and animated eye; it dimpled her cheek with a smile the most endearing and benevolent, and spoke in the mild and tuneful accents of a voice which no one ever heard without feeling disposed to love the being who possessed it. Nor was the benevolence which irradiated her countenance, which gave grace to her manner and sweetness to her voice, displayed in a less positive degree in her sentiments and her actions: with her, kindness was not a habit of manner, but a habit of mind. She spoke affectionately, because she felt benevolently.

I scarcely know any one so averse as she uniformly was to believe a tale to the disadvantage of another; and, when forced to give credit to such tales by incontrovertible evidence, it is certain that she never took pleasure in repeating them. When communications were of doubtful authority, she never fell into that common fault of saying to her conscience, “I am sure I do not believe it, it cannot possibly be true, but I have heard so and so :" weakly imagining, as persons in general do, that the affected candour of disbelieving the tale takes away the guilt of relating it. And, when indisputable evidence authorized her to relate what she had heard, she was never eager to spread the information; for her good taste, as well as her good feelings, made her dislike to dwell on the crimes or foibles even of those of whom she had no knowledge; and as she was certainly not less generous to her acquaintances and friends, she inspired confidence as well as affection in all who approached her. Those who knew her the best were the most inclined to rely upon her candour, as on a staff which would always support them; and they also knew that hers was the "charity that covereth a multitude of sins ;" and

hers the piety which led to that forbearing charity also, which suffereth long, and is kind, which is not easily provoked;" but which thinketh no evil, but ever keeps in remembrance that holy rule for the government of the tongue, "Judge not, that ye be not judged."

The most suspicious, the most apprehensive, left her presence devoid of fear Jest their departure should be the signal for an attack on their manner, their person, their dress, or their character; they knew that, if she spoke of them at all, it would be to praise them, and to call into notice some good or some attractive quality. Yet her kindness to the absent was not the result of want of power to amuse the person by exhibiting the foibles or peculiarities of the departed guests in a Judicrous or powerful manner; for, if ever justice warranted her to be severe on the vices or follies of others, no one could hold them up to ridicule with more wit, or greater success. Indeed, it is commonly those who are most able to be severe with effect, whose benevolence and whose principles forbid them the frequent and indiscriminate use of their power.

If it was thus safe and pleasant to be the acquaintance of Mrs. Roberts, how much more delightful was it to be her friend and her companion?

She always seemed to prosper herself in the prosperity of her friends; she identi. fied herself so intimately with them, that their joy was her joy, their sorrow her sorrow, their fame her fame. Never did

'she abuse the familiarity of friendship so far as to wound the self-love of those whom she professed to regard, by needlessly uttering to them mortifying truths; never did she make herself the vehicle of others' malice, by repeating to them a cruel or severe remark which she had heard concerning them.

Her lips, her eyes, were guiltless of
"The hint malevolent, the look oblique,
The obvious satire, the implied dislike,
The taunting word whose meaning kills."

It was the constant wish of her benevolent nature to be the means of as much innocent enjoyment as she could to all with whom she associated; and one felt so certain that her kindness was ever on the alert to veil one's foibles, and show one's good qualities to the best advantage, as moonlight casts a favourable shade over mean objects, and adds new beauty and new grandeur to objects of importance, that to be with her was a gala-time to one's self-love; and perhaps some of the charm which her society possessed was owing to her wish, and her ability, not only to appreciate her associates according to the exorbitant demands of self. approbation, but also to her power of making them feel that she did do. Yet

still

She

still she was no flatterer. Where she bestowed praise, or felt affection, she had first reasoned or deceived her understanding into a belief that praise and affection were most righteously deserved. seemed indeed to live, more than any one I ever saw, in a little world of her own creation; whose inhabitants were cloathed, by her beneficent fancy, in virtues, taleuts, and graces, such as real life scarcely ever displays; and, losing her natural acuteness of discrimination in her wish to believe her dreams realities, she persisted often to reject the evidence of her experience —

"And thought the world without like that within."

The other line of this couplet applies to her with equal justice; for her mind was "Se pure, so good, she scarce could guess at sin."

Nor was it likely to run any risk of contamination; since she possessed that quiet, mild dignity of carriage and expression, which had power, without offending, to awe the boldest into propriety, and to give the tone insensibly to the conversation even of the volatile and the daring.

To have known a woman so amiable and so admirable, will always be amongst the most pleasing recollections of my life; and to have lost her so soon, one of my most lasting regrets. Similarity of pursuits endeared us to each other, and did for our intimacy what is usually effected only by the slow hand of Time. When we first met, we soon forgot that we had not met before, and a few years gave to our friendship a solidity and a truth commonly the result of long acquaintance alone. But the regret which I still feel for her loss has been in some measure solaced by my having been called upon, at

the earnest desire of her husband, anxious for the fame and soothed by the contemplation of the virtues of his wife, to pay this tribute to her memory, and give, her excellent manuscript to the world. The latter task is one which I seemed peculiarly fitted to undertake, because my lamented friend read the MS. aloud to me during the last moments which I passed in her society, and she confided to me her intentions with respect to the principal characters.

I have merely to add, that, after an illness of only three weeks duration, and one to all appearance not attended with danger, she sunk unconsciously into the grave, lamented not only by the husband and the friend who fondly watched beside her bed of death, but by a far far-spreading circle of friends and acquaintances, over whose prospects the unexpected loss of such a joy-diffusing being cast a thick and sudden darkness, and which must have been felt in order to be conceived.

She was buried in the family-vault at Boxford, by the side of her parents and of her sister, the sister of her virtues and her talents, Louisa Carter, who departed this life on the 23d of November, 1810, whom she survived only two years and tea months. The memorandum which she left behind her relative to the disposal of some of her effects after her death, began with the following words, which she designed should be her epitaph: "I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come;" testifying thereby her belief in that Gospel, according to whose precepts she regulated her life, and whose hopes, had consciousness been permitted to her, could not have failed to irradiate the closing scene of her existence. AMELIA OPIE.

Mr. Thomas Mullett was born at Taunton, in 1745, an æra memorable in the anaals of British History, for an inef. fectual attempt to restore arbitrary power and spiritual tyranny throughout these kingdoms. His parents belonged to the community of Friends, among whom he was brought up; but on his marriage he relinquished his connexion with that Society. Agreeably to the education which he had received, he soon entered the commercial world. Humauly speaking, he was the arbiter of his own fortune. Providence, indeed, smiled upon his continued and persevering efforts, so that, at length, he attained to an honourable independency. He visited the United States of America three times, and formed connexions in that distant part of the globe upon a large scale and of high respectability. There, as well as in this Country, he was es

teemed by a numerous circle of friends, who knew his worth, and will hold in honour his memory.-In the political world, also, he at one period took a distinguished part; for he had not adopted the absurd opinion, that when men become Christiaus, they are to relinquish all concern for the rights and privileges of the civil community. At Bristol, where he began his career, and where he resided for many years, he took the lead in what included the welfare of that antient and populous city. There it was that, through good and evil report, he opposed that unfortunate war which severed the American Colonies from the Parent Stock; and in every stage of its progress he lifted up his voice against its impolicy and wickedness. It was deplored by every friend to humanity.

Among the many anecdotes with which Mr. Mullett amused and interested his friends,