doned altogether his mercantile pursuits, faliing back upon some property which he possessed in the North, and enjoying society at his ease.

It was chiefly through his influence that the patronage of Southey and Capel Lofft was extended towards Henry Kirke White, and the poet Bloomfield, author of the "Farmer's Boy." He was for many years the joint proprietor, with Mr. Lichfield, of the magazine called the "Monthly Mirror," and, at various times, held other literary and newspaper property. For a long period he favoured the " Morning Chronicle," and since the "Herald," with short, well condensed, and neatly worded paragraphs and criticisms on remarkable new works, accounts of eminent book and other auctions, literary negociations between celebrated authors and publishers,

&c.

He wrote a remarkably neat, small hand, and never used spectacles. But the principal feature of Mr. Hill's literary character rests upon his great zeal as a liberal collector of old English poetry, few persons having exceeded him in that pursuit, either as regarded industry or expenditure. The gems of his collection were purchased by Messrs. Longman and Co., and they formed the chief bulk of their celebrated catalogue of old English lore, entitled, "Bibliotheca AngloPoetica," (issued in 1815,) which will always rank as one of the most valuable catalogues of books ever published.

"In politics (remarks the Literary Gazette) he was ever moderate and liberal; in letters, ever warm and encouraging. Full of anecdote, he was a welcome guest in every quarter, and few men were ever more sought and invited to the genial board. His own little foible of curiosity, which, we believe, caused him to be set for the portrait of Poole's Paul Pry, often amused his laughing friends at his expense, and never injured a human being. He happened to know' so many people, and so many things, that listeners were often jocular, if not sceptical, upon his statements; but the real truth was, that he had been so widely and so confidentially trusted, that his information was almost incredible. If he has preserved a journal of his daily remarks, and the conversations he has heard, and the circumstances in which he took part, we will venture to say that a more singular and interesting record was never offered to the public notice. We have been told that he did keep such a diary."

Mr. Hill was of a florid complexion, of active habits, and general good health, and bore his age so remarkably well, that he scarcely looked above sixty, till within a few years of his decease, when his

health first began to decline. He is supposed to have completed his eightieth year. His precise age must, however, remain in that uncertainty in which be ever delighted to involve it, saying, facetiously, that the register of his birth was destroyed in the fire of London!

He died remarkably easy, and his old, faithful, and inseparable friend, Edward Dubois, esq. the barrister, was with him at the time of his decease.

FRANCIS REYNARD, Esq.

Nov. 21. At the house of his son, the Grammar School, Andover, in his 64th year, Francis Reynard, esq. late of Reading.

Mr. Reynard was born at Knaresborough in the year 1777; and from an early age evinced great partiality for the study of the mathematics, and a predilection for the scholastic profession. In 1800 he was engaged as tutor of the mathematical classes in Reading Grammar School; and, in 1806, established a mathematical school in Castle-street, Reading; which, subsequently, he removed to Brunswick-House Seminary, a large and spacious house, near that town. In the meantime, he published an Historical Chart, which, for its originality and arrangement, has been much praised, and is extensively used. About that period also he suggested many useful additions and improvements to Mr. Pinnock on the preparation of his Cathechisms, Histories, and Geography for Schools. In the year 1813 he published "An Elementary System of Theoretical Geometry, for the use of beginners in the Mathematical Sciences, in eight books, including the doctrine of Ratio; to which were added for exercise, Quæstiones Solvendæ." He introduced this work to the world by a Preface, in which he set out his reasons for preferring the system he had adopted; and advocated the "Direct Method" of demonstration as most appropriate and useful for Schools. In the year 1818, he published "Geometrical Solutions," being a key to the "Quæstiones Solvendæ," which, with the previous work, formed two volumes. The production of this work gained him some celebrity, and established his name as a geometrician and a tutor. His qualities soon became known; and many of the principal gentry of the country sent their sons to his school, among whom were members of the families of Hill, Cotton, Anson, Popham, Mainwaring, Egerton, Washington, Bellasis, Leycester, Norcott, Taylor, Bramston, Hume, M.P. and Mr. Morton the dramatist. also private mathematical tutor to the

He was

late and present Lord Newborough, bro. thers. Of these, he sent many as candidates for examination at the Colleges of Woolwich, Sandhurst, and Addiscombe, and ever experienced a successful result. Nor were his labours or his usefulness thus confined; for, in the course of his life, he educated the sons of many opulent merchants in London, and of the best families of his neighbourhood, as well as natives of France, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, and the Gold Coast, Africa. Mr. Reynard's course of study in mathematics was in Bonnycastle, Dr. Hutton, and Euclid: in classics, that of Eton. The rules of his school have been much admired for their style and matter; and he ever demanded a strict attendance at church, and the daily use of prayers. His liberality will be long remembered in the dramatic exercises which, at the wish of his pupils, he indulged them in, previous to the Christmas vacations. The selections were chiefly from Shakspere, and the style in which the plays were represented, evinces that he was a correct and enlightened reader of that author. On one occasion he reprinted Moliere's "Les Fourberies de Scapin," which was played throughout by his scholars, in the original language, being assisted by their tutor, L'Abbé de Lanöe. The prologues and epilogues which he wrote on these occasions, with other fugitive pieces, shew considerable talent; and that, in the relaxation from severer studies, he courted the Muses with some success. In 1834 he was presented, at a dinner at which Adam Washington, esq. barrister-at-law, presided, by his pupils, with a handsome silver Tea and Coffee Service, inscribed with an elegant and classical eulogium. On the occasion of the performance by his scholars of "The Merchant of Venice," an epilogue, written by the late Thomas Morton, esq. opened thus:

"Thanks, Gentles all; and, most of all, I bend To you, my honour'd Master and my Friend! That tribute, so sincere, so just, so fond, Lies nearest to my heart- So says the bond."" And in true spirit was it written; for be it said, much to the honour of this estimable man, that in the latter years of his life he frequently received visits from his old pupils (many of them having served as officers in India), who came to tender him an expression of their thanks for his kindness and attention to them in their youth.

Mr. Reynard was industrious in his habits, and laboured with great zeal in his vocation his parental kindness - his earnest and impressive admonitions-his philosophical and improving conversations

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-his patience in the study-his cheerfulness in the hours devoted to pleasurewill be long remembered. As a Christian, he was moral and devout-as a citi. zen, he firmly adhered to the Church and Constitution of his country-as a scholar, he merited and obtained the consideration of the mathematicians of his day. A course of more than 30 years in scholastic labour, combined with the periodical attacks of a constitutional asthmatic complaint, left him but a short retirement. "His end was peace." He had journeyed through life in a course of rectitude, and without blame-he smiled at the approach of death, and died with composure.

WILLIAM HAZLEDINE, ESQ.

Oct. 26. At Dogpole-house, near Shrewsbury, in his 77th year, William Hazledine, esq.

Mr. Hazledine was born at Shawbury, in Shropshire, and his parents removed, while he was very young, to a house at Sowbatch, near a forge at Moreton Corbet, now Moreton Mill, about seven miles from Shrewsbury. His father was certainly not wealthy; but his ancestors were highly respectable, their remains occupying tombs in the churchyards of Shawbury and Moreton Corbet; and these tombs the deceased, with filial regard, caused to be repaired a few years ago; he also presented two handsomely carved oak chairs for the altars of both those churches.

During sixteen or seventeen of his early years he worked around the vicinity as an operative millwright. His uncle, under whom he was chiefly brought up, was a man of considerable ability as a millwright and engineer, and discerning the steadiness and talent of his nephew, he recommended young Hazledine, when only 16 or 17 years old, to superintend the erection of machinery at Upton Forge, the property of the Sundorne family: this was executed most satisfactorily. He afterwards became the tenant of this forge, and the farm belonging to it, and so continued in after-life.

After the patronage of his uncle he removed to Shrewsbury, and entered into partnership with Mr. Webster, then a clockmaker, but afterwards an ironmonger and the patentee of a washing machine. Their first foundry was in Cole-hall, or Knucking street, in that town; but the speculative and energetic mind of Hazledine having increased the business, more space for workshops, and an increased expenditure for that purpose, amounting to about 2000l. were necessary: his partner being cautious and timid, a dissolution of partnership took place.

Mr. Hazledine purchased the ground in Coleham, where his present foundry is situated, which has now four gables front ing the road. He prudently first erected one workshop, which occupied only one of these gables; but as business increased he extended his shops, and numerous other erections in the vicinity. He subsequent ly occupied a foundry near Ruabon, Ironworks at Calcott, Limeworks at Llanymy. nech, Timber-yards, Brick-yards, and Coal-wharfs, in various places.

About this time Billingsley Iron-mines, near Bridgnorth, were offered for sale in Chancery. Hazledine attended the sale in London, and found there was some jockeyship employed to depreciate the property, and prevent the sale: certain parties being anxious to purchase the works without any competition. Hazledine's sagacity saw the trick; he bid with spirit: at length one of the parties who wanted to purchase, came to him, and whispered,

Do you know what you are doing? These mines and works have not a good title, and you will have to pay the expenses in Chancery if you purchase them." In an audible voice, Hazledine answered, “A bad title to the property, is it, eh? and a Chancery suit, too, eh? Well, I have bought many things, and I will now try to buy a Chancery suit." did purchase the property, but immediately sold it, gaining several thousand pounds. The property finally turned out ruinous to the speculators.

He

In Nov. 1804, at midnight, a fire took place in a room which was the receptacle for his patterns for castings. Mr. Hazledine was from home, but his wife (a daughter of Mr. Brayne, of Ternhill), an uncommonly strong-minded woman, heard the cry of "Fire in Hazledine's Foundry," whilst in bed with her infants, and, immediately getting up, gave directions for saving the books, papers, and other valuables, which caused their rescue from the flames, whilst a vast quantity of other property was consumed with the building. Mr. Hazledine was then the Cap. tain of a company of Volunteers; and his company, comprising chiefly his own workmen, was merrily called "the Vulcans." The Colonel, Sir Charles Oakeley, Bart., and the whole corps, were roused, and much property was saved. It was estimated that the loss was 15007., and that about two-thirds were covered by insurance.

Undaunted by the calamity, he rebuilt and extended his foundry, and carried on his various speculations, above enume. rated, with great energy. Thomas Telford, who in after-life became the cele. brated engineer, had been patronised by

Sir William Pulteney, and employed in reconstructing some parts of "The Castle" in Shrewsbury, became acquainted with Hazledine, and these kindred spirits formed an intimacy which lasted through life.

Telford soon after was engaged in constructing the Ellesmere and Chester Canal, and Mr. Hazledine became the contractor for the Chirk and Pont-y-cyssylte Aqueducts-the latter being one of the most magnificent works of the kind in Europe, which he completed so entirely to the satisfaction of Mr. Telford and the proprietors, that he was immediately engaged in all the national works then undertaken by government. The erection of the stupendous locks on the Caledonian Canal was entrusted to him, and executed to the entire satisfaction of the engineer and the country. His fame was now established, and he was employed in a series of great works: the following is a summary:

Pont-y-cyssylte cast-iron aqueduct over the river Dee, and the valley at Llangollen, in 1802.

A bridge, 150 feet cast-iron, over the river Bonar, in Scotland.

A bridge, 150 feet ditto, over the river Spey, in Scotland.

The lock-gates on the Caledonian Caal.

The beautiful "Waterloo Bridge," 105 feet span, near Bettws-y-Coed, on the Holyhead-road.

The swivel bridges at Liverpool Docks. The Liverpool New Market columns. A bridge, 150 feet span of one arch, and two arches of 105 feet, over the river Esk, near Carlisle.

The Menai suspension chain bridge. The Conway suspension chain bridge. The roofs for the Dublin Customhouse and Store-houses.

The roofs for Pembroke Stores, &c. Many swivel bridges for Sweden. A large quantity of three-feet pipes for India, Demerara, &c.

A bridge built for Earl Grosvenor, 150 feet, at Eaton Hall.

A bridge over the Severn at Tewkesbury, 170 feet span.

A new bridge over the Dee, 105 feet

Several small iron bridges in Shropshire, and many others all over the kingdom, besides the lock-gates on the Ellesmere and other canals.

At the present moment Hazledine's foundry is executing a very extensive work, namely, several pairs of iron lockgates for Newport in Monmouthshire, each pair weighing 120 tons, the largest ever executed.

In 1832, when the present Queen, then Princess Victoria, and her august mother, the Duchess of Kent, honoured the Earl of Liverpool with a visit at Pitchford-park, near Shrewsbury, Mr. Hazledine received, through the Earl of Liverpool, commands to wait upon them, and explain the principles and construction of the Menai suspension bridge-Hazledine's greatest work. The royal party expressed great satisfaction at the lucid and instructive manner in which the explanations were given, and the tact and shrewdness displayed in Mr. Hazledine's answers. Persons who were present described the interview as most interesting. Mr. Hazledine received a present as a token of approbation; and the Duchess of Kent, when she passed over the Menai Bridge, examined every part of it minutely, according to Mr. Hazledine's description, and even entered the caves in which the iron suspension cables are fixed.

This is a slight view of Mr. Hazledine's public works, and it gives a portrait of him as a practical man. There

are other features, which we are unable to paint with the warmth and fidelity which they deserve. His strong affection for the members of his family rendered his fireside one of the most happy round which an English family ever gathered. He was ever devising some simple means of increasing their enjoyments; and he attended personally to everything in which their comforts were involved. At that trying season, when the wheel of the Union coach locked into that of his gig on the Wyle Cop, and overthrew him and shattered his arm in several places, and he was carried home in a state which threw his affectionate wife into such agony as deprived her of life by a disorder aris ing from the grief she suffered from his illness-even in that accumulation of sorrows his presence of mind and affectionate care never for a moment ceased, and whilst suffering extreme agony from the bone of Lis arm having to be again broken by the surgeon-even then he took upon himself the whole preparation for the funeral of his beloved wife, down to the minutest particulars, and what all his own sufferings could not wring from him, he gave way to with the utmost bit

terness when the dead body of her he so much loved was carried into his chamber that he might kiss it before it was for ever removed from his sight!

As a master he was kind and considerate to all employed under him; his workmen, if they conducted themselves well, became grey and died in his service.

A very short time before he was confined to bed by his last illness, a Nobleman, equally distinguished by his literary and legal talents, and filling one of the highest situations which a subject can occupy, arrived in the town, at a little before seven in the morning, and inquired at the Lion if Mr. Hazledine was likely to be up. "Oh yes," was the reply: "he passed here an hour and a half ago, on his way to the Foundry." "I regret that," said his Lordship, "for I wanted a few minutes' conversation with him, which I cannot now have; but tell him from me, that Lord inquired after him, and is happy to hear he is so well. My belief is (added his Lordship) that William Hazledine is the first practical man in Europe."

His body was interred in a vault in St. Chad's churchyard, which he caused to constructed on the death of his youngest daughter; and in which the bodies of his wife and daughter are already deposited. The funeral was attended by the Mayor and Corporation, and a very large concourse of mourners.

The bust of the deceased, by Chantrey, an admirable likeness, will immediately be placed upon the monument, many years ago constructed by himself, in St. Chad's Church, as a companion to that of his friend, Mr. Simpson, who erected the masonry of the Caledonian Canal.

MR. T. B. JOHNSON.

May 5. In London, Thomas Burgeland Johnson, formerly a printer in Liverpool.

He passed the greater part of his life in literary pursuits at Liverpool, where at length his prospects became blighted, and be removed to London in 1834. He was soon after afflicted with ill health, which continued to assail him till he expired, leaving a widow and a daughter, twentyone years of age, in considerable distress. Mr. Johnson was long distinguished as a writer on Field Sports, his principal work of this class being the "Sportsman's Encyclopedia," which is on an extensive plan, combining much original matter and amusing anecdote, with the classifica. tion of the various subjects treated upon. His portrait is prefixed to the work. His other works of the same nature are:The Shooter's Guide; The Complete

Sportsman; The Shooter's Companion; The Hunting Directory; The Gamekeeper's Directory; The Shooter's Preceptor.

He also wrote, in early life, a " History of Europe," in four volumes, and "The Mystery of the Abbey," a novel. In 1839 he published his last work, viz. "Physiological Observations on Mental Susceptibility."

CLERGY DECEASED.

Oct. 24. The Rev. John Maginn, Rec.. tor of Castletownroche, co. Cork, brother to the celebrated Dr. Maginn, of London. He had recently received that preferment.

Oct. 26. Aged 52, the Rev. Anthony Ward, Vibar of Eastrington, Yorkshire, to which he was presented in 1825 by the Lord Chancellor.

Oct. 27. At Fladbury, Worcestershire, aged 25, the Rev. William Preedy, B.A. late a commoner of Wadham college, Oxford; the second son of W. F. Preedy, esq. of Fladbury.

Oct. 28. At Stone, Staffordshire, Rev. James Farley Turner, B. A. Rector of St. Mary Major, Exeter, and Vicar of Kidderminster, late of Christ's college, Cambridge; he was presented to his former church in 1829 by the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, and to Kidderminster in 1834 by Lord Foley.

In Hans-place, Chelsea, in his 85th year, the Rev. W. H. Vivian, uncle to Sir Hussey Vivian, K. C.B. Master of the Ordnance.

He

Aged 66, the Rev. William Tolbutt Staines, Vicar of Aylesford, near Maidstone, and formerly of Rochester. was a Fellow of Queen's college, Camb. where he graduated B.A. 1797 as 1st senior Optime, M.A. 1800; and was presented to Aylesford in 1832 by the Dean and Chapter of Rochester.

Nov. 2. At Windlesham, Surrey, aged 75, the Rev. H. Hammond, Perpetual Curate of Horsel, in that county, to which he was presented by the trustees in 1801.

Nov. 5. The Rev. William Henry Harvey, second son of the late Sir Robert Bateson Harvey, of Langley-place, Bucks. He was of Jesus college, Cambridge, LL.B. 1819.

Nov. 8. At the house of his uncle in Suffolk, aged 35, the Rev. W. S. Sinclair, leaving a widow and one child (in Cambridge) unprovided for.

Nov. 10. At St. Alban's-place, Regent-street, aged 39, the Rev. William Thomas Thompson, eldest son of C. Thompson, esq. late of Rochester.

Nov. 20. At the Chapter-house, St. Paul's, aged 39, the Rev. Robert Watts, jun. M.A. Rector of the united parishes

of St. Bene't, Gracechureh, and St. Leonard, Eastcheap, London; son of the Rev. Robert Watts, the much respected Librarian of Sion college. He was instituted to his churches (which are in the alternate presentations of the Deans and Chapters of St. Paul's and Canterbury) in 1829.

Nov. 24. At Merston, Isle of Wight, aged 88, the Rev. Wetenhall Sneyd, Rector of Bletchingley, Surrey, and for more than forty years Curate and Vicar of Newchurch, Isle of Wight. He was collated to the vicarage of Newchurch in 1816 by Dr. Mansel, then Bp. of Bristol; and presented to Bletchingley in 1838, on the death of the Rev. Jarvis Kenrick.

Nov. 28. At Southampton, aged 74, the Rev. George Secker, Prebendary of St. Paul's. He was of St. John's college, Cambridge, B.A. 1788, M. A. 1791; and was collated to the prebend of Brownswood (net income in 1831, 6107.) in 1807 by Bp. Porteus.

Nov. 29. At Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, aged 84, the Rev. Thomas Wright, M.A. for fifty-two years the much-respected Rector of that parish. He was of the Univ. of Cambridge, A.B. of St. John's 1779, M.A. of Emanuel, 1782; and was presented to his living in 1788 by Sir Wolstan Dixie, Bart.

Nov. 30. Aged 54, the Rev. C. L. Benwell, Curate of Fairford, Glouc. late Lecturer of St. Mary's Redcliffe, Bristol. He was son of the late Mr. Benwell, of Reading.

Dec. 1. At Hagley, aged 45, the Rev. John Malsby Kirby, B.D. Second Master of the Free Grammar School, Stourbridge, and Chaplain to the Union: formerly of Boston.

Dec. 1. Aged 82, the Rev. George Turner, Vicar of Spelsbury, Oxfordshire. He was formerly a Student of Christ church, Oxford, took the degree of M.A. in 1783, and was presented to his living by that Society in 1792.

Dec. 2. Aged 82, the Rev. William Leonard, Incumbent of Hardwick, and Rector of Hethe, Oxfordshire. He was ordained Curate of Hinton, Northamptonshire, which curacy he held for forty years; was presented to Hardwick in 1799, and to Hethe recently by the Lord Chancellor.

Dec. 4. At Brimfield, Herefordshire, aged 90, the Rev. William Booty, Vicar of Chaddleworth, Berks; for many years Domestic Chaplain to the Duke of Gloucester, the brother of King George the Third, and subsequently to the Duke of Kent. He was presented to Chaddleworth in 1805 by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster.