the statutes of the Order of Maria Theresa forbad its cross being conferred on foreigners, and requesting him to receive, for himself and the other officers engaged, the only impressions which had been struck of a medal commemorating that brilliant action, except one which had been deposited in the Imperial Cabinet at Vienna. On the 30th of May, 1801, he received the royal licence to accept the Order of Maria Theresa, which, we presume, had then been extended to foreigners. Since that date he has borne the title of Sir William. In 1798 he attained the brevet of Lieut.-Colonel. On the 14th of May, 1804, he exchanged to the 19th foot, from which he was placed on the half-pay of the sixth garrison battalion.

He obtained the brevet of Colonel, 1808; Major-General, 1811; and Lieut.-General, 1821. He served for some time on the Irish staff. Gentleman's Magazine.

B.

BANNATYNE, Sir William Mac leod, one of the retired senators of the College of Justice; Nov. 30. 1833; at Whiteford House, co. Ayr, aged 90.

This venerable man was descended from an ancient and honourable family, and born Jan 26. 1743, O. S. Having enjoyed and profited by the advantage of a liberal education, he gave carly in dications of future eminence. He was admitted Advocate Jan. 22. 1765, and at the bar he deservedly acquired the character of a sound and able lawyer. He was the intimate friend and companion of Blair, Mackenzie, Cullen, Erskine, Abercromby, and Craig; and one of the contributors to the Mirror and Lounger. His accomplishments as a gentleman, and his attainments in general knowledge and belles lettres, were such as to excite an opinion that, had he devoted his talents exclusively to literary pursuits, he would have arrived at no ordinary degree of eminence. He was the last survivor of that phalanx of genius which shed so brilliant a lustre on the periodical literature of Scotland half a century ago.

He was also one of the original founders and promoters of the High land Society of Scotland, a national institution which has eminently and essentially contributed to the internal improvement of the country.

He was promoted to the Bench on the death of Lord Swinton, and took his seat as Lord Bannatyne, May 16. 1799; and his judicial career for twenty-four years reflects high honour on his memory. He resigned in the year 1823, and was succeeded by the late Lord Eldin. Gentleman's Mag.

BARNE, the Rev. Thomas, M. A., of the Manor-house, Crayford, county of Kent, one of the Chaplains in ordinary to their Majesties George III., George IV., and William IV., and sometime Rector of Sotterley; July 22. 1834; suddenly of apoplexy, at the seat of his brother, Sotterley Hall, co. Suffolk; aged 68.

He received his education at Westminster School and at Oriel College, in Oxford, where he took the degrees of B. A. in 1783, and M. A. in 1786.

Mr. Barne was the youngest son of Miles Barne, of Sotterley, Esq. M.P., by Elizabeth, daughter of George Thornhill, of Diddington, co. Huntingdon, Esq., and was twice married; first to Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Wyatt, of Wilton Place, Egham, Esq., who died in 1812, without issue; and secondly, in 1815, to Sarah, only daughter of the Hon. and Rev. St. Andrew St. John, D. D., sometime Dean of Worcester, who survives him.

His attainments as a classical scholar and divine were of the highest class,' nor were they more conspicuous than the mildness and urbanity of his disposition. He had "the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit," and has endeared his memory to his friends by his unwearied kindness and benevolence, and to the poor by his frequent and ready acts of charity. Private Com-~ munication.

mas Barrett, Esq. in January 1803,
when a minor at Harrow School. His
great-grandfather was that Thomas
Barrett, Esq. (who is noticed in Ni-
chols's Illustrations," vol. vi. pp. 788-
790, and in Dibdin's "Decameron,"
who has given his portrait,) a great
collector and virtuoso; and who was
grandson of Sir Paul Barrett, Serjeant
at Law, and recorder of Canterbury,
&c. &c. Colonel Barrett was also
great-great-great-great-grandson of the
celebrated physician Sir George Ent,
the pupil and biographer of William
Harvey.

He entered the army as an ensign in
the grenadier guards in 1807. During
his twenty years' service, he was engaged
in some of the severest dangers and
hardships of the peninsular war, and
was distinguished as soldier for his
bravery, his skill, his endurance of all
privations and all fatigues. He was in
the retreat with Moore, which ended in
the battle of Corunna; he was at Wal-
cheren; he was at the siege of Bayonne,
and various other engagements.
loved his profession, and understood it
scientifically. He was, by the universal

He

Prince William Henry, in whose house-
hold he filled successively the offices
of secretary and treasurer, until his
Majesty ascended the throne, when he
was appointed treasurer to her Majesty
Queen Adelaide. In conjunction with
the above-mentioned offices he held, for
many years, an appointment in the
Board of Privy Council for Trade; and,
subsequently, the office of Comptroller
of the Mint, until his Majesty's acces-
sion.

Of the high and deserved esteem in
which the late Sir John Barton was
held by their Majesties, the following
transcript of an inscription on a tablet
erected by the King's command over
his remains in the cloisters adjoining
St. George's Chapel, in Windsor Castle,
is a full and sufficient testimony, re-
flecting, by its truth and simplicity, as
much honour on the sovereign, as on
the subject whose virtues he is pleased
to commemorate.

Sacred

TO THE MEMORY OF

SIR JOHN BARTON, KNT.
WHO DURING A PERIOD OF FORTY-SIX YEARS
FILLED THE SITUATIONS OF SECRETARY.

AND TREASURER

the most benevolent, amiable, and vir-
tuous of human characters. His probity,
his self-denial, his generosity, his utter
disregard of all worldly vanity and
show; his resolute avoidance of all
selfish luxuries; his devoted affection
for his family; his kindness to every
human being, were, by general admis-
sion, such as had no parallel. He had
great talents, and was an excellent clas-
sical scholar. He was buried at Bou-
logne, on Tuesday June 3d.

The Barrett estate, being strictly en-
tailed, goes to his next brother, John
William Egerton Brydges, formerly a
lieutenant in the 14th dragoons, with
which he served in the Peninsula,
where in 1812, at the battle of Fuentes
d'Honor, he received a coup de soleil
from which his health has never reco-
vered; though he rejoined his regiment,
and was taken prisoner at New Orleans;
but on his return was so ill as to be put
on half-pay, Lee Priory will now
therefore be to let.
Magazine.

Gentleman's

BARTON, Sir John, Knt. at Wind-
sor Castle, on the 25th August 1834;
of a paralytic attack, in the 64th year of

his age.

In early youth he was honoured by
the notice of the present King, then

AND, FROM THE DATE OF HIS ROYAL
HIGHNESS'S ACCESSION TO THE THRONE, held
THE SAME OFFICES IN THE
HOUSEHOLD OF

HER MAJESTY QUEEN ADELAIDE,

KING WILLIAM THE FOURTH
HAS RAISED THIS TABLET TO RECORD THE SINCERE
REGARD ENTERTAINED BY THEIR MAJESTIES
FOR A TRULY VALUABLE AND ATTACHED SERVANT,
AND THEIR GRATEFUL SENSE OF
THE EXEMPLARY ZEAL, FIDELITY, AND STRICT
INTEGRITY WITH WHICH HE DISCHARGED
THE DUTIES OF HIS OFFICE.
Sir John Barton was born at Plymouth, Au
gust 25. 1771; and died within the precincts
of Windsor Castle, August 25. 1834.
His remains are deposited beneath this spot.

The official career of Sir John was
ever distinguished by unremitting zeal
and sound discretion; the honour of
his royal patrons and a spirit of per-
sonal independence were the leading
principles of his conduct. He spurned
the opportunities of office to consult
these he con-
his own emolument,
sidered a snare in his path, tending to
evil; and so determined was he to pre-
serve a consciousness of pure and dis-
interested integrity, that no persuasion,
no artifice, although dictated by grati-
tude, could induce him to accept that
which in his own conviction would
leave him less a free agent than before,
To him the suggestions of an applaud-
ing conscience were all the wealth

which he sought, all the honours to
which he aspired; to these, amidst his
family circle, he was wont to refer as a
subject of honourable congratulation;
and what may appear matter of wonder
to the mere worldling, though it was in
his power to have died rich, it was his
pride to have discharged the duties of
his office with fidelity, without having
made any addition to his patrimony.

It was this single-mindedness and
purity of intention which diffused a
charm over his social hours, and which
expanded into unreserved and habitual
cheerfulness. In the midst, however,
of his mirthful enjoyments, it was re-
markable with what self-possession he
passed from gay to grave, from the
lighter subjects of anecdote or humour
to the instructive and higher paths of
natural and experimental philosophy-
a striking peculiarity and characteristic
of an active and a well-poised mind.

The minutest insect upon earth, the
brightest ornaments of heaven, were
alike the objects of his attentive investi-
gation; and, in the spirit of true
philosophy, the farther he penetrated
into the mysteries of nature, or the
glories of the celestial hemisphere, the
deeper became his adoration of the
Supreme Author of the universe.

Sir John, indeed, was gifted with a
powerful understanding; it was this
which obtained for him the rank he
held in the scientific world, rather than
his profound acquirements in mathe-
matical science, his occupation in
early life having been incompatible
with deep and systematic study. He
was the author of several inventions:
to preserve to him the merit to which
he is entitled, the following brief enu-
meration is annexed: -

1. A floating compass, by which an
indefinite number of centres is ob-
tained.

2. An instrument he called an ato-
meter, with which so minute a quantity
as the millionth part of an inch is ren-
dered a sensible measure to the eye.

3. A machine, called a drawbench,
constructed by him while he filled the
office of Comptroller of his Majesty's
Mint; from the use of which the public
derive a considerable pecuniary ad-
vantage, in addition to the accuracy
and beauty of the coin being much in-
creased, as well as the progress of coin-
age greatly facilitated.

4. He was the patentee for what he
very appropriately termed the iris orna-

ment, the effect being produced by the
decomposition of the rays of light re-
flected from polished metallic surfaces,
covered with a series of very minute
lines or grooves, ruled upon them by a
diamond-point, in a beautiful engine
constructed for the purpose.

5. A hydrostatic floating lamp, for
which he was patentee.

6. A method for producing a perfect
cube in the lathe, which he applied to
a scheme for the prevention of the for-
gery of the Bank of England notes,
by engraving upon these cubes, and
printing from them an interpolated co-
loured line.

7. He constructed a hydrostatic ba-
lance, upon a large scale, which is in
use at the Royal Mint and the Bank
of England, well known for its stabi-
lity and accuracy of its weighings.

He had been for many years engaged
in perfecting a machine for producing
specula for reflecting telescopes with
facility in the lathe; and, although he
had perfectly convinced himself of the
correctness of the data upon which it
was constructed, the onerous nature of
the official duties which he had to per-
form of late years prevented his de-
voting that leisure which is required
to determine the practicability of his
theory.

As a token of grateful remembrance
of the zealous fidelity with which he
had ever served her Majesty, he was
recently invested, by his Serene High-
ness the Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, the
Queen's brother, with the commander's
cross of the ancient Order of the House
of Saxony; receiving, at the same time,
the honour of knighthood from the
hands of our gracious sovereign.

Sir John was twice married, leaving,
by his first wife, a daughter; and, by
the second, who survives him, a son and
two daughters.-Literary Gazette.

BATHURST, the Right Hon.
Henry Bathurst, third Earl, of Ba-
thurst in Sussex (1792), and Baron
Bathurst of Battlesdon, county of
Bedford (1711), second Baron Apsley,
of Apsley, in Sussex (1771); K. G. a
Teller of the Exchequer, Clerk of the
Crown, an Elder Brother of the Tri-
nity House, D. C.L. F. R.S. F.S. A.
&c. &c.; July 26th, 1884; in Arling-
ton Street; aged 72.

He was born May 22. 1762, the elder
son of Henry second Earl Bathurst, and
Lord Chancellor of England, by Try-
phena, daughter of Thomas Scawen, of

Maidwell, in Northamptonshire, Esq.
On his coming of age, a seat in Parlia-
ment was provided for him, in the family
borough of Cirencester, by the retire-
ment of his uncle, James Whitshed,
Esq., July 9. 1783; and before the
close of the same year Lord Apsley was
appointed a Commissioner of the Ad-
miralty. In July, 1789, he removed
to the Treasury, at which board he sat
until June, 1791.

In

In May, 1790, he succeeded the Earl
of Hardwicke as one of the Tellers of
the Exchequer, of which office he had
previously obtained the reversion.
1793 he was appointed a Commissioner
for the affairs of India, and sworn of
the Privy Council. He sat at that board
until the change of ministry in 1802.
He continued to sit for Cirencester
until his -accession to the peerage,
on the death of his father, August 6.
1794.

On the meeting of the new parlia-
ment in 1796, Earl Bathurst moved
the Address to the King. In 1804
he was appointed Master Worker of
the Mint; in 1807 he became Pre-
sident of the Board of Trade, and in
1809 his Lordship was Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, which he
held only from the 11th of October to
the 6th of December. On the 11th of
June, 1812, he was appointed Secretary
of State for the Colonial Department,
and he discharged the duties of that
office for a period of nearly sixteen
years. In 1828 he was appointed Pre-
sident of the Council, which high office
he retained till the resignation of the
Wellington Administration in 1830,
after which time he took no very promi.
nent part in public affairs.

His Lordship was elected a Knight
of the Garter in 1817.

In his various public employments,
Earl Bathurst was attentive to business,
and much esteemed by his party. His
talents, though not brilliant, were use-
ful, and he had a competent knowledge
of diplomacy; his manners were con-
ciliating, and as a political adversary he
conducted himself without asperity.
His Lordship was in office when the
battle of Waterloo was fought, and
was the only civilian invited annually to
the military festivals given by the Duke
of Wellington in commemoration of
that great event.

In the "Biographical Peerage," 1806,
Sir Egerton Brydges made the follow-
ing remarks on his character: "He

seems too much to have indulged in ́a
life of indolence, for his friends speak
of him as a man of very superior ta-
lents; of which, however, he has not
given the world much opportunity to
form a judgment. He is said to be sa-
gacious and sarcastic: full of acute sense
and cutting humour."

His health had been gradually de-
clining for some months. His death
was unaccompanied by pain; he ex-
pired in the bosom of his family, and
was perfectly sensible of his approach-
ing dissolution.

His Lordship married April 1. 1789,
Georgiana, youngest daughter of Lord
George Lennox, and aunt to the present
Duke of Richmond. By her Lady-
ship, who survives him, he had issue five
sons and two daughters: 1. the Right
Hon. Henry George, now Earl Ba-
thurst, D. C. L. and M. P. for Ciren-
cester from 1812 to the present time;
his Lordship was born in 1790, and is
unmarried; 2. the Hon. William Len-
nox Bathurst, Clerk to the Privy
Council, and Secretary to the Board
of Trade, also unmarried; 3. Lady
Louisa Georgiana; 4. the Hon. Sey-
mour Thomas, a Colonel in the army,
who died on the 10th of April last,
leaving a son; 6. Lady Emily Char-
lotte, marriedin 1825 to Major-General
the Hon. Sir F. C. Ponsonby, K.C.B.
second son of the Earl of Besborough,
and has issue; 7. the Hon. and Rev.
Charles Bathurst, Vicar of Limber,
Lincolnshire; he was born in 1802,
and married in 1830, Lady Emily Ca-
roline Bertie, youngest daughter of the
Earl of Abingdon.

The body of Earl Bathurst was re-
moved on Saturday, August 2. from
Arlington Street to Cirencester, where
the funeral took place on the Tuesday
following. The solemn ceremony was
rendered the more affecting and im-
pressive through the circumstance of
the body of his Lordship's late son,
Colonel the Hon. Seymour Bathurst,
who died in London in April last, hav-
ing been disinterred from the vault in
which it was deposited in the new ceme-
tery on the Harrow Road, and borne to
be interred in company with that of his
honoured and much-lamented parent.
The utmost respect was paid to the
memory of his Lordship by the inhabit-
ants of Cirencester.

The remains of the noble Earl, and
those of his son, lay in state during six
hours on Monday, in the hall of the