MRS. BOTFIELD.

On the 26th of October last, Mrs. Botfield, of Norton-hall, in the county of Northampton, (relict of Beriah Botfield, Esq. and only daughter of the late William Withering, M.D. F.R.S.) Justly, though briefly, has it been recorded, that "while she conciliated the esteem and regard of all who had an opportunity of observing the exemplary manner in which she performed the duties and the charities of life, she peculiarly endeared herself to her nearer connexions, by an unremitting affectionate attention, and by the magnanimity with which she supported herself under circumstances of the most trying nature."

In contemplating a character so worthy of imitation, it may, perhaps, be allowed to indulge in a more extended reminiscence; not, indeed, to expatiate on accomplishments generally prevalent in the present age, nor even cursorily to allude to the reputed skill of this lady in managing the favourite steed, or to the delicate art with which she was wont to delineate subjects of natural history. Her education was conducted immediately under the eye of her parents, and for a season confided to a judicious preceptress. In minds of more than ordinary vigour, the peculiar characteristics are early developed, and the surviving companions of her youth have not forgotten the frankness of manner and independent spirit, which obtained for her the appellation of "honest Charlotte." In the buoyant spring of her existence, she enjoyed the advantage of accompanying her highly gifted father to Lisbon, where each novel and interesting object was rendered subservient to the acquisition of knowledge. Neither when advanced to a more responsible station by her marriage, (July 26, 1806,) were the most favourable anticipations disappointed. She was familiar with the details of domestic economy, and early accustomed to think as well as to act; experience of the world and life's vicissitudes, chastened an exuberant vivacity; and she was a strict attendant to the public ordinances of religion. Her philanthropy was co-extensive with every occasion; and her benevolent exertion was to reduce the sum of human misery, and to promote the happiness of all within her sphere. Nor was the monotony of a country life unenlivened, at stated periods, by incidents, which, though trivial in themselves, were counted as events in the simple annals of the village. Even the March.-VOL. XVIII. NO. LXIII.

young and thoughtless will long remember the giddy raptures of the May-day morn, when, in festive groups, proud to challenge the admiration of their generous patrons, they presented their choicest garlands; or with what delight they annually sat down to the extended tables of the rural fête. The life of her partner was terminated in a few fleeting years. After this melancholy privation, Norton, endeared by many fond associations, became still more decidedly the place of predilection to the widowed mourner; whose partiality to its inhabitants increased with more intimate acquaintance; and whose interest in the family-seat prompted her, not merely to preserve the order of the pleasure-grounds with assiduous care, but to occupy herself in various little embellishments, and in raising a succession of forest and fruit trees, for the benefit of posterity. Her best energies continued to the last to be uninterruptedly devoted to those with whom she was fain to dwell as "among her own people." To them her bounty proved an ever-flowing fountain of relief; an inexhaustible spring, in which the cruse and the pitcher were never dipped in vain. And if it be more particularly enquired, who cheered the drooping spirit; who poured the balm of consolation into the wounded mind; who provided food and raiment for the destitute; who dispensed medicine to the sick; who raised the decent record over the grave of long and faithful domestic service; who caused the widow's heart to sing for joy, and trained the orphan in the paths of peace; who stood the dauntless advocate of him that had none to help him, and, as need might be, with more than female resolution, rescued the poor man from the oppressor's wrong?-none can be at a loss. When the season for the active virtues was prematurely closed, and the shadows of this visionary scene were fast fading away, not less instructively beamed forth in the subject of this memoir, the passive graces of resignation and conformity to the divine will. Then indeed did religion become a reviving cordial: an oasis in the desert to the weary pilgrim.

Conformably with the respect due to such a character, rarely has been witnessed a more impressive spectacle than that presented by a community of mourners, on depositing the remains of their benefactress in the cemetery constructed under the personal superintendence of her late husband and herself. Never were obse

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quies attended with more unfeigned sorrow; while every external symbol, the funeral draperies within the sanctuary, the solemn tolling of the muffled bell, and the emphatic delivery of the ritual, but too well accorded with the predominant sentiment.

The tenantry, the representatives of the neighbouring families, relatives, and dependants, were prompt to testify their sense of the real loss all had sustained. Nor least affecting was the sable line of fifty children of the schools, which closed the sad procession. The entire demeanour of the assembled villagers, evinced that grief supplanted gratitude.

COUNT ROMANZOF.

Count Nicholas Romanzof, who was Chancellor of Russia from 1807 to 1814, and held the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs, died at St. Petersburgh, in January. He was the son of Field Marshal Peter Romanzof, whose victories over the Turks added lustre to the reign of Catherine II. He commenced his public career about 40 years ago, as Russian Minister at Frankfort. At a subsequent period, in the post of Minister of Commerce, he actively promoted the success of Alexander's plans for the improvement of the trade of Russia, particularly with respect to Odessa. During the campaign of 1814, he resigned his office of Chancellor, and assigned the rich presents he had received from foreign consuls to the fund for the benefit of the invalids, in favour of which he likewise renounced the salary of his office, which the Emperor had continued to him as a pension for life. No Russian nobleman ever made a better use of riches. Several patriotic and scientific undertakings were supported by him. It was at his expense that Otto Von Kotzebue performed his voyage round the world; and history is indebted to him for a Russian Codex Diplomaticus, published at Moscow since 1813. His estate of Homel, in the Ukraine, was a model worthy of the attention of agriculturists, for the activity and judgment with which every branch of rural economy was carried on. In 1817, Canova sculptured for him a colossal statue of Peace, holding in one hand an olive branch, and resting the other on a column, which bears the following inscription:

Peace of Abo, 1743. Peace of Rudschuk-Kainardy, 1774. Peace of Friedenchscham, 1809. A monument, which records the memorable fact, that three of the most remarkable treaties of peace in the Russian history were concluded by the grandfather, father, and son! Count Romanzof left no children, and was never married. He

was a benefactor to all those who had the good fortune to be connected with him. The important services which he rendered to the state, were recompensed by the highest honours and distinctions.

DANIEL PARKER COKE, ESQ.

Lately, at his house, the College, in Derby, aged 80, Daniel Parker Coke, Esq. descended from an ancient family at Trusley, in that county. He was the only son of Thomas Coke, Esq. barrister-atlaw, and Dorothy, daughter and heiress of Thomas Goodwin, Esq. of the same place, who were married at All Saints' Church, in Derby, in the year 1736. Daniel Parker, their only son, was born July 17, 1745, and was educated under the Reverend Thomas Manlove, whom he afterwards presented with the living of Saint Alkmund, in Derby. In the year 1762, he was admitted of All Souls' College, Oxford, and during his residence there, attended the Lectures of Doctors Blackstone and Beever, whose discourses (as then delivered) he committed to writing in several quarto volumes, Dr. Beever's Lectures being valuable, the introductory one only having been published. Mr. Coke was afterwards called to the bar, and for many years attended the Midland Circuit. In 1775 he stood a contested election for his native town, against John Gisborne, Esq. Mr. Gisborne being elected by a majority of fourteen votes; but in consequence of a petition to the House of Commons, Feb. 8, 1776, Mr. Coke was by the Committee declared to have been duly elected. In 1780 he was returned for the town of Nottingham, jointly with Robert Smith, Esq. now Lord Carrington, and continued to represent that place for seven successive parliaments, and retired from the representation in 1812, having held his seat in the House for thirty-eight years. Mr. Coke has frequently taken an active part in the House of Commons, particularly during the administration of Lord North. At the close of the American War, he was appointed one of the Commissioners for settling the American claims, but which employment he shortly resigned.

CHEVALIER G. M. LINQUITI.

Lately, aged 51, the celebrated Chevalier Giovanni Maria Linquiti, Director of the Royal Asylum for the Insane at Aversa, whose name is so honourably known in Europe. He was born at Mulfitta, in 1774; was very early distinguished by his learning, and at first studied the law, but soon left it for a monastic life, in the convent of the Serviti. Being afterwards obliged, by political events, to lay aside his religious habit, and assume that of a secular priest, he was received

as a friend in the house of the illustrious Berio, Marquis of Galsa, in whose library he had an opportunity of extending the sphere of his knowledge, especially in what relates to the physical and moral nature of man, of which an irrefragable proof was given by the first volume of his Recherche sull' Alsenzeone Mentale." But the origin of his great reputation is to be dated from the time of his being appointed to direct the Royal Asylum at Aversa. Linquiti was one of the first who perceived that insanity, a disease peculiar to the reasoning animal, man, having its origin in reason, never entirely departs from that origin; that the insane are not so in every thing, or at all times; that we can and ought to try to restore their reason by reason, and that the chief, if not the only medicine in an hospital for the insane, is the luminous intelligence of the person who directs it. The principle which guided Linquiti in the treatment of lunatics was founded on their education; he began by considering them as sane, took care that every one should follow the usual exercises of his heart and condition, and established his new system of cure on the basis of occupation and amusement; occupation for the versatility of the ideas of the maniac, and amusement against the fixed ideas of the melancholy. The results of this method was so successful, that the new establishments of this description soon became celebrated throughout Europe. The health of Chevalier Linquiti had been on the decline from 1815 to his death in 1825.

JOHN MATTHEWS, ESQ.

On the 15th of January, after a protracted malady of intense suffering, borne with Christian fortitude and pious resignation, at his seat at Belmont, Hereford, in the 71st year of his age, John Matthews, Esq., whose death has excited a greater degree of public regret in that county than had been ever before witnessed. "This distinguished individual," says the Hereford Journal, "filled the Chair of the Quarter Sessions for a space of twenty years, during which time he was invited to represent his native county in Parliament. He was senior Alderman, and one of the Magistrates of Hereford; one of the senior members of the Royal College of Physicians, and Colonel of the first regiment of Local Militia in this county. He was gifted with intellectual faculties seldom found united in the same person; combining the utmost playfulness of fancy with the strongest and most discriminating powers of mind. His genius embraced every department of classical literature. In all the different relations of husband, father, friend, the prominent

feature of his character was a generous disregard of his own ease to promote that of others. He was the best of landlords and of masters. How entirely he was beloved, how devoutly he was reverenced, by the domestic circle for which he lived, no language can describe. All the alleviation through a long course of painful disease, to be derived from filial piety and angelic tenderness, he received, and most feelingly recorded. The exalted qualities of his mind were hallowed by those of his heart, and his religious and moral conduct shone equally conspicuous."

R. L. PRICE, ESQ.

After a few days severe illness, on the 16th of January, in Ireland, Rose Lambart Price, Esq. the eldest son of Sir Rose Price, Bart. and nephew of the late Countess Talbot. About two years ago Mr. Price intermarried with the Countess of Desart, to whom his many virtues have rendered his loss irreparable. It is but due to his memory to add, that his talents, which were of the highest order, presented to Ireland, the country of his adoption, a pledge for his well-directed exertions in her cause, which his characteristic zeal, and fearless energy, could not have failed to redeem. The county in which he resided since his marriage, has to deplore the loss of a powerful champion; and those who were happy in the knowledge of his many excellencies, cannot easily forget how fondly they had anticipated the reward of them. Mr. Price had entered into the field of literature; and, amongst the early productions of his pen, a poem, entitled "Ireland," abounds with spirited description and well-pointed satire. He died at the age of 26.

ADMIRAL MACNAMARA.

Lately, at Clifton, James Macnamara, Esq. Senior Rear-Admiral of the Red. He entered the service 44 years since, and was made post-captain of his Majesty's ship Southampton, in 1795, in which he frequently signalized himself, under the orders of the then Sir John Jervis and Commodore Nelson. In the battle of Cape St. Vincent, Feb. 14, 1797, the Southampton was one of the repeating frigates to the centre division of Sir John Jervis's fleet. He was afterwards appointed to the Cerberus, and served in the West Indies. On the 6th April, 1803, Captain Macnamara being in Hyde Park with his Newfoundland dog, the latter began to fight with one belonging to Colonel Montgomery. High words ensued, and led to a duel, in which the parties were both wounded, the Colonel mortally. Captain Macnamara was taken into custody, and on the 22d tried at the Old Bailey, and acquitted.