C. DEMEIRIADES.

In the 70th year of his age, at his lodgings in St. Peter-le-Bailey, Oxford, Constantine Demetriades, a native of Greece. This very extraordinary character was born in September 1755, at Naupactus, now called Enebect or Lepanto, which gives its name to the Corinthian Gulf. He came to England several years ago, with Lord Elgin, since which he has resided at Reading and Oxford. He professed to be a teacher of languages, and had, occasionally, a few pupils. He was well acquainted with his own language, the modern Greek, and also with Italian. He was penurious in the extreme, and chiefly lived on the contributions of the humane, who pitied his apparently helpless and miserable condition; yet he was in possession of considerable property (upwards of 10007. in the Bank of England), which he has left to four holy fathers, papas or patriarchs of the Greek church, with directions that his soul, and the souls of his father and mother, may be prayed for continually during 100 years after his decease. His executor is a gentleman of respectability at Reading, in whose hands he had deposited money for his funeral expenses, which were not to exceed eight pounds; and also for his occasional wants, from which fund he drew with great sparingness and compunction, and only when he was unable to draw on the compassion of others. He had a great antipathy to any portrait being taken of him. This was effected, however, some time since, by stratagem; bnt he consigned all the parties concerned in the contrivance, more particularly the artist, to perdition, and excommunicated them in the names of all the Saints in the Greek church; which written excommunication he caused to be exhibited in some of the shops of Oxford. He was about five feet high, always wore a long brown great coat, closely buttoned; and halfboots; walked rather stoopingly, with a stick, and had a red blotchy face. An engraving from his portrait has been taken by Mr. Whessell, of Oxford. Whatever he received was laid by, and not one penny, except eighteen pence a week for lodging, was ever expended by him for years. He lived upon the victuals given him by those who, perhaps, had at that moinent no money to offer him; and even of late when confined to his bed, no power of remonstrance or persuasion could induce him to expend more than an occasional penny for a roll, or two-pence for a little brown sugar, of which he was

immoderately fond, and upon which latterly he chiefly lived. Demetriades was buried in Oxford, and attended to the grave by his executor and a gentleman of the University, who had taken considerable interest in him.

THOMAS GIDDY, ESQ.

Lately at Penzance, Cornwall, aged 84, Thomas Giddy, Esq. He was born on the 9th of October, 1741, (O. S.)— the youngest son of Mr. John Giddy, of Trelayse, near Truro, and brother of the Rev. Edw. Giddy of St. Erth, the father of Davies Gilbert, Esq. M. P. for Bodmin. His classical education he owed to the master of the Grammar-school at Truro, Mr. George Conon; and such was his ardour in the pursuit of knowledge, that in running the schoolboy's race, he soon left all competitors behind him. His early inclination was to the Church; but as one of the family was already destined for the clerical profession, he was placed with Mr. G. Treweek, at Penzance, an eminent surgeon. Among the celebrated men of his day, on visiting London, were Dr. Hugh Smyth, and Dr. William Hunter; of Hunter's splendid abilities, both as a Lecturer and an Orator, Mr. Giddy spoke with admiration. From London returning to his native county, Mr. Giddy commenced bis medical career at Truro, and not long after married Mary, daughter of Mr. John Wolcot, of Penryn, who was nearly related to Dr. John Wolcot, the celebrated Peter Pindar. She is now the last lineal descendant of the Wolcots. His professional skill was soon appreciated and crowned with success. About ten years he resided at Truro; whence, owing to a pulmonary affection, he removed, in 1774, to Penzance, where he had formerly enjoyed uninterrupted health. When he left Truro he was apparently in the last stage of pulmonary consumption. Yet from that time to the age of 84, be passed through life without the least complaint, except slight casual attacks of gout.

MR. H. JONES.

At Denbigh, Mr. Hugh Jones, formerly of Maes-y-glaseu, in the county of Merioneth, in the 75th year of his age. He might justly be denominated a literary character; for, from his childhood up to the advanced age which he attained, he addicted himself with incessant application to the study of books. At one time, his parents intended to bring him up to the church, and he was actually sent to a seminary for that purpose; but he thinking that too great a restraint on his in

nate inclinations, abandoned it. Several lucrative situations were offered him at different periods; but he declined all in order to enjoy his favourite pursuits, and avoid the bustle of the world, which he was peculiarly averse to. In his youth, he was an ardent votary of the Muse, and made a considerable display of poetical talent, so much so that his whole neighbourhood rang again with his stanzas, many of which run on the tongue of the inhabitants to this time. He also evinced a degree of aptitude to suit bis compositions to the taste of his day, when those of the dramatic style were so much in vogue in the Principality. In Psalmody, also, he was an adept. But the chief part of his time was spent in the publication of different Treatises in the Welsh Language, chiefly in Divinity, some of his own compilation, and others translated from the English. To crown his labours, he completed a translation of Josephus into Welsh, which was one of the most elaborate translations in the language, and was published some six or seven years ago. Since that he completed a translation of Buchan's Domestic Medicine. He also commenced translating Matthew Henry's Commentary, and proceeded as far as Leviticus, when, owing to the extent of the undertaking, and his then advancing years, he was induced to relinquish it. He had in hand a translation of Watts's World to Come, when death came to put a termination to his labours.

DON PABLO IGLESIAS

Was an officer of infantry in the constitutional army of Spain during the Peninsular war. On this being terminated, and the constitution having been changed for king Ferdinand, Don Iglesias gave up his military employment, and returned to Madrid, where he had property, and established himself there. In 1820, when the constitution was restored, Iglesias became a volunteer in the national militia of Madrid. A short time afterwards he was elected Regidor of the junta of the capital; and when the Government retreated to Seville, he went with a body of Cacadore volunteers to accompany the Cortes to that city. When the Government removed to Cadiz, Iglesias united himself with a moving column commanded by the brave Marconchini, and went with it to Carthagena, with the view of assisting in the defence of that place. On the capitulation of the place, Iglesias preferred emigration to falling under the swords of the destroyers of his country. He went to Gibraltar, and from thence, with thirty of his countrymen, he projected a descent on Ceuta, where he hoped Jan.-VOL. XVII. NO. LXI.

something might be done. A violent storm drove the vessel ashore at Almeria, where, after he had been denounced by the royalists for contumacy, and seeing himself and companions surrounded on all sides, they entered a wood, and though he had only one cartridge remaining, they prepared for their defence. The enemy attacked the fifteen who alone remained alive: although they were already wounded, and indeed covered with blood, their courage supplied their wants, and they even fought with their teeth, according to official accounts circulated in Spain at the time. Iglesias was taken and carried to Spain by Count Salio, who a short time before was also an emigrant at Gibraltar. Iglesias was kept for a year buried in a miserable dungeon, without a particle of light, without a bed, nourished with scanty fare, and loaded with chains. His wife, to mitigate his sufferings, was obliged to sacrifice all his remaining property, both in money and furniture. At length he perished on a scaffold, under that brutal exhibition of ferocious vengeance which constitutes the delight of the infamous tyranny which curses his courtry. He died a good Spaniard, a valiant soldier, and like an heroic descendant of the immortal Padillo.

LIEUT.-COL. DOWNMAN.

Lately, at West Malling, aged 85, Lieut.-col. Francis Downman. This officer entered the Royal Artillery in June 1757; in 1758 he was with the army, at that time commanded by the Duke of Marlborough, at the destruction of the French shipping and stores at St. Maloes; he was at the demolition of the works and batteries of Cherburg, and afterwards at the unlucky affair at St. Cas, commanding the only two six-pounders that were on shore. He sailed for the West Indies the same year with the army under the old Gen. Hopson; was with the troop that made a landing on Martinique, and was very actively employed in the reduction of Guadaloupe, where he remained till the peace of 1763, except attending the troops that captured Dominique; he came to England at the end of the year 1763. went to New York in June 1764, remained there till November of the same year, when he was ordered with a small detachment of artillery to Pensacola, in the gulf of Mexico, to take possession of that miserable place; he had the misfortune to remain in this province till the end of the year 1767, at which time he was ordered to St. Augustine, in the gulf of Florida, where he remained till Jan. 1772. He then sailed to New York, remained there till August, and arrived in England in November of the same year.

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After some service in Scotland he was ordered to New York; he joined the army under Gen. Howe; was constantly at the head of Elk till the entrance of the army into Philadelphia, and principally engaged in taking the Delaware frigate, and the destruction and taking of Mud Island in the Delaware. He was the only English officer with the troops under Count Donop at the unfortunate attack on the works at Red Bank, on the Jersey shore; about this time he was taken extremely ill, and was obliged to go to New York in the hospital ship. He remained at New York till November 1778, when he was ordered to sail with the army under Gen. Grant for the West Indies. He was much employed in the reduction of St. Lucie, where he remained till it was restored to France, except visiting the other islands. He sailed from Grenada and arrived in England the end of the year 1784. Lieut.-col. Downman, which rank he received 1st of March 1794, was also Captain in the invalid battalion of the Royal Artillery.

REV. D. BOGUE.

Lately, at Brighton, in his 77th year, the Rev. David Bogue, D. D. of Gosport. He had been about fifty years pastor of the church of Protestant dissenters at Gosport, was tutor of the Missionary Seminary, and one of the first promoters of the London Missionary Society. The remains of Dr. Bogue were removed from Brighton to Gosport, attended by a deputation of the London Missionary Society, and many other friends. Marks of respect for his memory were manifested by the inhabitants of Brighton, and of the several towns through which the procession passed. At Fareham, the deacons and trustees of the chapel in which the deceased officiated, joined the procession, in mourning coaches, and several private carriages followed in their train; about a mile from Gosport, the body was received by the church and congregation over which the deceased had presided, as well as by the students of the seminary under his care; by whom it was conducted to the vestry-room adjoining the Independent chapel, in Gosport, where it was deposited for the night. The remains of Dr. Bogue were conveyed into the chapel, of which he had been minister nearly half a century, when a funeral oration was delivered by the Rev. John Griffin, of Portsea, to a crowded auditory. And then the funeral procession moved towards Alverstoke; and on reaching the new burialground, the funeral service was read by the Rev. Henry Aubrey Veck, and the procession returned in the same order that it came. In the evening a funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Winter,

when the chapel was crowded to excess, and multitudes were prevented from gaining admission. During the day the shops and houses of the inhabitants were closed, and all seemed desirous of expressing their esteem and veneration for the memory of the deceased. His loss will be as deeply and as extensively felt amongst dissenters as that perhaps of any man of his day. He was one of those men who contribute greatly to influence the character of the public mind.

PROFESSOR DOBREE.

At Trinity College, Cambridge, Sept. 24, the Rev. Peter-Paul Dobree, Fellow of that College, and Professor of the Greek language in that University. He was born in Guernsey in 1782, and was sent at an early age to Reading School, under the care and direction of Dr. Valpy, who sent him to Trinity College, Cambridge. There are Fellowships in Oxford for natives of Guernsey and Jersey; but Mr. Dobree had property which disqualified him for them. At Cambridge he distinguished himself by a depth and accuracy of classical learning, which raised him to the highest eminence. Without making an assertion, which has been too confidently hazarded of other literary characters, that he was the best Greek scholar in England, it may be said, without presumption, that he was exceeded by none in extent of knowledge, in sagacity of criticism, in laborious research, and in exquisite taste in the beauties of the Greek and Latin languages. He was intimately acquainted with Porson, who set the highest value on his talents; and at the death of that great man he was considered as his natural successor. But he was at that time out of the kingdom, and the diffidence of his disposition would not permit him to become an active competitor for any honour. On the promotion of the late Professor to the Deanery of Peterborough, he was unanimously elected to the Professorship. He was preparing public lectures on the Greek language, in which the rich stores of his learning and genius would have been imparted to the Students of the University had his health continued. He has sufficiently established his character by his notes to Porson's Aristophanica, published at the expense of Trinity College in 1820. At the request of the same liberal Society, he edited and corrected, in 1822, the Lexicon of Photius. He was the author of several valuable articles in the Classical Journal. He had likewise collected materials for a new edition of Demosthenes, which would have made a copious accession to the fund of Greek literature. He was no less distinguished for the qualities of the heart than for those of the head. His liberality

and his beneficence were displayed on every occasion in full proportion to his ability. His conversation was lively, in teresting, and instructive. Although he was said by some to be occasionally fastidious in his criticisms, he was admired by the best and most candid scholars at home and abroad: among the latter of whom may be mentioned, Schweighauser, Schleusner, and Hermann in Germany, and Boissonade, Gail, and Hase in France.

MR. ROBERT GRAVES.

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Lately at his house in the Hampsteadroad, aged 56, Mr. Robert Graves, well known for his intelligence in subjects connected with the Fine Arts. He was the son of Mr. Robert Graves, of Catharinestreet in the Strand. The subject of the present memoir entered into the Navy in early life, and during several years' actual service he visited various parts of the globe; but the bias of his mind inclining to the Arts, he withdrew from the Navy, and commenced a close application to Chalcography. At the sale of his father's extensive collection he commenced the forming of a Series of Engravings, which he continued for several years, and rendered it nearly complete in the finest works of the different schools. This Mr. Graves sold in 1812 to Mr. Woodburn; and they have since been dispersed among the different great collections. having disposed of this, which had been the labour of many years, he persevered in his favourite pursuit, and until within a few days of his death he continued to add to his stores. But his principal amusement was a work, which at present remains unpublished, a Biographical Catalogue of all those illustrious Foreigners who have visited England, or are materially connected with English History, extracted from almost all possible sources of information. It was begun by the late Joseph Gulston, esq. who employed continually a number of persons to extract from works in all languages the names of those connected with this object, and since his death continued first by Mr. Graves's father, and then by himself. It contains also a description of all the engraved portraits (in the manner of Bromley) known to exist of such distinguished characters. He has likewise left many other MSS. relative to this interesting study. Few ever equalled the deceased for acuteness of judgment, good taste, and deep historical knowledge; his opinion was so universally allowed in regard to engravings, that almost all the celebrated collections sold of late years by public auction were submitted to him for arrangement; amongst many others, the

Catalogues of Ibbot, Townley, Bindley, Dowdeswell, and Sir Mark Sykes, attest his superior intelligence, which contributed greatly to the high prices obtained in these sales. His great attention to portraits led his eye with certainty to determine the resemblance, and many hundred such original pictures have been ascertained by his diligence and study. His death is much regretted by his numerous family and friends.

LIEUT. EVERARD, R. N.

Lieut. James Everard, lately lost off the coast of Ireland, was in the 29th year of his age, only son of James Everard, Esq. of Lowestoft, and Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late H. P. Blencowe, Esq. of Thoby Priory, Essex. This officer was second lieutenant of his majesty's ship Nimrod. In the endeavour to afford assistance to a Swedish ship of war in distress, the boat upset, and unhappily himself and three seamen perished. Lieut. Everard was born at Brome Place, in the county of Suffolk, in the year 1796. Scarcely was the schoolboy converted into the midshipman, than a naval action initiated him in his honourable calling.H. M. S. Tribune, commanded by his gallant friend Capt. George Reynolds, engaged three Danish sloops of war, covered or supported by large gun-boats, in a calm; nine men were killed and thirteen wounded. The youngster escaped unhurt, although covered with the blood of a seaman, who was struck by a cannon shot, and fell by his side. He next embarked on board the Nymphen frigate, where his good conduct and amiable disposition secured to him a friend and an example in Capt. John Hanock—a man, of all others, well formed to train a youth to honour. Under this commander, his duties on the Dutch coast were arduous, and fraught with danger. The Nymphen passed in front of, and beyond, the tremendous batteries of Flushing, entering the Scheldt in triumph. His next ship was the Leander; he fought in her at Algiers. On his return to England he was promoted by Lord Melville to the rank of lieutenant. Lastly, he was appointed to the Nimrod, commanded the first year by Capt. Nelson, the latter three years by Capt. Rochfort, who unfeignedly laments in him a friend whom he loved, and an officer to whose honour and ability he bears the very highest testimony. The remaining lieutenant of the ship, Shairp, deplores his loss with the feelings of a brother; and as a proof of the more than common attachment of his comrades and the whole crew, they have unanimously resolved to erect a monument to his memory, in the church of Carrickfergus.