siciáns about the same period as Dr. Vaughan (now sir Henry Halford). These two gentlemen soon came into great practice, and perhaps there is no instance of two men in the medical profession rising so young to so great an eminence. To Dr. Baillie the medical world is indebted for a work of great merit, intituled "The Morbid Anatomy of the Human Body," 1793; to which he added an Appendix in 1798; and which reached the fourth edition in 1807. In 1799 he published "a Series of Engravings to illustrate the Morbid Anatomy," ," which reached a second edition in 1812. He likewise published "Anatomical Description of the Gravid Uterus." These works, and the high character he bore in his profession, brought him into great practice, and enabled him to accumulate a good fortune." A fortune (as his biographer in the Public Characters says) which was gained with much reputation, and to the entire satisfaction of those who employed him." He had been physician to the late king, and might have been so to the present. He was brother to the celebrated Miss Joanna Baillie. He married, early in life, Miss Denman, daughter of the late Dr. Denman, and sister to the barrister of that name. Besides the above works, Dr. B. wrote several papers in the "Transactions of the Society for Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge." To this short biographical sketch of Dr. Baillie, we add, as a supplement, an eloquent eloge to his memory, which was deli vered to the students of anatomy and surgery in Great Windmill-street, by his eminent successor in that school, Charles Bell, esq., a man whose professional knowledge is known over all Europe, and whose works, translated into all the modern European languages, have raised the scientific reputation of England. Mr. Bell had been previously speaking of the Hunters, and, having mentioned Dr. Baillie, he continued.

"Gentlemen,-I have been led unavoidably to mention that name. But I shall not venture to give myself up to the feelings, which at this moment it could not fail to excite. Indeed, the reflections, which arise on the contemplation of a loss so recent and so great, would carry me beyond the terms of praise, with which you are as yet prepared to sympathise. You, who are just entering on your studies, cannot be

aware of the importance of one man to the character of a profession, the members of which extend over the civilized world. You cannot yet estimate the thousand chances there are against a man rising to the degree of eminence which Dr. Baillie attained; nor know how slender the hope of seeing his place supplied in our day. The father of Dr. Baillie was the Rev. James Baillie, sometime minister of the kirk of Shotts (one of the most barren and wild parts of the low country of Scotland), and afterwards Professor of Divinity in the University of Glasgow. His mother was the sister of Dr. William Hunter and of Mr. John Hunter. In the earlier part of his education, he enjoyed great advantages; and, indeed, he was in the whole course of it peculiarly happy. From the College of Glasgow, in 1780, he went to Baliol College, Oxford, where he took his de. grees; and came finally under the superintendence of his uncle, Dr. William Hunter, with whom he lived. By him he was brought forward into life; and through the influence of his uncle's friends, he was made physician to St. George's Hospital, in 1787. The merest chance made me acquainted with a circumstance very honourable to Dr. Baillie. While still a young man, and not affluent, his uncle William, dying, left him the small family estate of Longcalderwood. We all know of the unhappy misunderstanding, that existed between Dr. Hunter and his brother John. Dr. Baillie felt that he owed this bequest to the partiality of his uncle, and made it over to John Hunter. The latter long refused; but in the end, the family-estate remained the property of the brother, and not of the nephew, of Dr. Hunter. It was Dr. Hunter's wish to see his nephew succeed him, and take his place in these rooms as a lecturer. To effect this, he united with him his assistant, Mr. Cruickshanks; and, at his death, assigned to him the use of his collection of anatomical preparations during thirty years. It was under this roof that Dr. Baillie formed himself, and here the profession learned to appreciate him. He began to give regular lectures here in 1785, and continued to lecture in conjunction with Mr. Cruickshanks till 1799. He had no desire to

get rid of the national peculiarities of language; or, if he had, he did not

perfectly succeed. Not only did the language of his native land linger on his tongue, but its recollections clung to his heart; and to the last, amidst the splendor of his professional life, and the seductions of a court, he took a hearty interest in the happiness and the eminence of his original country. But there was a native sense and strength of mind, which more than compensated for the want of the polish and purity of English pronunciation. He possessed the valuable talent of making an abstruse and difficult subject plain: his prelections were remarkable for that lucid order and clearness of expression which proceed from a perfect conception of the subject; and he never permitted any vanity of display to turn him from his great object of conveying information in the simplest and most intelligible way, and so as to be most useful to his pupils. It is to be regretted, that his associate in the lectureship made his duties here unpleasant to him: and I have his own authority for saying that, but for this, he would have continued to lecture for some years longer. That Dr. Baillie ceased to lecture at a time when his opinions became every day more valuable, is the less to be regretted, when we consider how he continued afterwards to occupy himself. His first work, on Mor. bid Anatomy, was, like every thing he did, modest and unpretending; but it was not on that account the less valued. A perfect knowledge of his subject, acquired in the midst of the fullest opportunities, enabled him to compress into a small volume more accurate and more useful information, than will be found in the works of Bonetus, Morgagni, and Lieutaud. This work consisted at first of a plain statement of facts-the description of the appearances presented on dissection, or what could be preserved and exhibited; and he afterwards added the narration of symptoms corresponding with the morbid appearances. This was an attempt of greater difficulty, which will require the experience of successive lives to perfect. His next work was the Illustration of Morbid Anatomy, by a series of splendid engravings; creditable at once to his own taste and liberality, and to the state of the arts in this country. He thus laid a solid foundation for pathology, and did for his profession what no physician had done before his time. Besides his great work, he gave a descrip

tion of the Gravid Uterus, and many important contributions to the Transactions and medical collections of his time. Dr. Baillie presented his collection of morbid specimens to the College of Physicians, with a sum of money to be expended in keeping them in order; and it is rather remarkable that Dr. Hunter, his brother, and his nephew, should have left to their country such noble memorials as these. In the College of Glasgow may be seen the princely collection of Dr. Hunter; the College of Surgeons have assumed new dignity, surrounded by the collection of Mr. Hunter-more like the successive works of many men enjoying royal patronage or national support, than the work of a private surgeon; and lastly, Dr. Baillie has given to the College of Physicians, at least, that foundation for a museum of morbid anatomy, which we hope to see completed by the activity of the members of that body. When a physi cian rises suddenly into eminence, owing to fortuitous circumstances, connexions, or address, though we cannot condemn that person, nothing can be less interesting than his life or fortunes: but D. Baillie's success was creditable to the time. It may be said of him, as it was said of his uncle John, every time I hear of his increasing eminence, it appears to me like the fulfilling of poetical justice, so well as he deserved success by his labours for the advantage of humanity.'-Yet I cannot say that there was not in his manner sufficient reason for his popularity. Those who have introduced him to families from the country must have observed in them a degree of surprise on first meeting the physician of the court. There was no assumption of character, or warmth of interest exhibited; he appeared what he really was-one come to be a dispassionate observer, and to do that duty for which he was called. But, then, when he had to deliver his opinion, and more especially when he had to communicate with the family, there was a clearness in his statement, a reasonableness in all he said, and a convincing simplicity in his manner, that had the most soothing and happy influence on minds, exalted and almost irritated by suffering and the apprehension of im pending misfortune. When you remember also his upright and liberal conduct to the members of his profes sion, there appears sufficient reason for

a certain local influence; but it was to his professional character, in a wider sense, that he owed his eminence. We cannot estimate too highly the influence of Dr. Baillie's character on the profession to which he belonged. I ought not, perhaps, to mention his mild virtues and domestic charities; yet the recol lection of these must give a deeper tone to our regret, and will be interwoven with his public character, embellishing what seemed to want no addition. Af ter so many years spent in the cultiva tion of the most severe science, for surely anatomy and pathology may be so considered, and in the performance of professional duties on the largest scale, for he was consulted not only by those who personally knew him, but by individuals of all nations, he had, of late years, betaken himself to other studies, as a pastime and recreation. He attended more to the general progress of science. He took particular pleasure in mineralogy; and, even from the natural history of the articles of the Pharmacopoeia, he appears to have derived a new source of gratification. By a certain difficulty which he put in the way of those who wished to consult him, and by seeing them only in company with other medical attendants, he procured for himself, in the latter part of his life, that leisure which his health required, and which suited the maturity of his reputation; while he intentionally left the field of practice open to new aspirants. When you add to what I have said of the celebrity of the uncles, William and John Hunter, the example of Dr. Baillie, and farther consider the eminence of his sister, Joanna Baillie, excelled by none.of her sex in any age, you must conclude with me, that the family has exhibited a singular extent and variety of talent. When I last saw him (the day before he left town for Tunbridge), I enjoyed a long and interesting conversation with him. He was aware of his condition and his danger. His friends believed that he was suffer. ing from a general decay of strength a sort of climacteric disease. To me, he appeared like a man who had some local source of irritation, or visceral affection, which was preying on his constitution. Every body hoped, that his state of health was to be ascribed to the fatigue of business, and that retirement would afford him relief; but in this we were disappointed: He sensibly and

rapidly sunk, and, by the calmness and resignation of his last days, summed up the virtues of his life. Dr. Baillie's age was not great, if measured by length of years: he had not completed his sixty-third year; but his life was long in usefulness. He lived long enough to complete the model of a professional life. In the studies of youth,-in the serious and manly occupations of the middle period of life-in the upright, humane, and honourable character of a physician-and above all, in that dignified conduct which became a man ma ture in years and honours, he has left a finished example to his profession."

Lately, At Teddington, Mr. sergeant Marshall, one of the Justices of the Chester Circuit.

25. At Bath, Mrs. Baldwin, daughter of the late Charles Coxe, esq. of Kemble, Gloucestershire. She has bequeathed 3001. to the Casualty Hospi tal, at Bath; 500. to the Gloucester Infirmary; 7007. to the Poor of the parish of Kemble; and 500l. to the Poor of the parish of Minchinhampton.

Lately, At Rome, in his 83rd year, his holiness Pope Pius VII.

At Rumpenheim, the Landgravine of Hesse Rumpenheim, mother to the duchess of Cambridge.

At Sierra Leone, Edward Fitzgerald, chief-justice and judge of the ViceAdmiralty Court, in that Colony, and assessor to the mixed Commission established there for the more effectual abolition of the Slave Trade.

OCTOBER.

1. At Dacre-lodge, Middlesex, Francis lord Napier, of Merchistoun, N.B. lord lieutenant of the county of Selkirk, and one of the Sixteen representative peers for Scotland.

4. At Ingestrie, near Stafford, the seat of her father, the right hon. Frances Charlotte Talbot, countess of Dartmouth, eldest daughter of the earl of Talbot, and niece to the bishop of Oxford. Her ladyship was born May 17, 1801, and was married April 5, 1821. And on the 11th died in his second year, George viscount Lewisham, her ladyship's eldest son.

5. Joseph Dawson, esq. of Royd'shall, near Bradford.

Aged 50, Mr. Myers, jeweller, of Worcester, who suddenly fell back, while playing at cards, and instantly expired.

7. At Somers Town, in his 75th year, lieutenant-colonel Robert Pratt, late of the 5th regiment of foot.

8. At his seat in Dorsetshire, after a long illness, the right hon. Nathaniel Bond, one of his majesty's privy council, and a Bencher of the Inner Temple. He was for many years one of the leading counsel on the Western Circuit, and M.P. for Corfe Castle. During lord Sidmouth's administration he had a seat at the Board of Treasury, and was subsequently appointed Judge Advocate of the army.

9. At Cheltenham, Mrs. Pares, of Hopwell-hall, in the county of Derby.

At Walton, near Peterborough, aged 25, William King, jun. A.M. Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

12. Of an apoplectic fit, at the house of his brother, Dr. W. Wollaston, the rev. F. J. H. Wollaston, archdeacon of Essex, and vicar of South Weald, and rector of Cold Norton, in the same county.

13. At Harewood-house, Yorkshire, after an illness of only three days, the hon. Frederic Lascelles, fifth son of the earl and countess of Harewood; aged 20. His remains were interred in the family vault at Harewood, on the 15th.

Suddenly, at Windsor, in his 67th year, Samuel Wharton, esq. Clerk Comptroller of his majesty's kitchen.

At Bungay, Norfolk, major general Kelso.

14. At Kensington, Mrs. Catherine Peyton, eldest daughter of the late admiral Peyton.

At Bath, W. Cade Key, esq. of Hampstead.

15. Aged 22, Eleanor Jane, wife of Captain Maitland, and daughter-in-law of general Maitland, after being suddenly seized with a spasmodic affection. She had been confined in child-bed about three weeks previously.

16. Lady Hamilton Dalrymple, wife of lieut.-gen. sir J. Hamilton Dalrymple, bart.

17. At Grey's-court, Henley-onThames, the seat of lady Stapleton, the hon. Mrs. Stapleton, wife of the hon. Thomas Stapleton, and daughter of Henry Bankes, esq. of Kingstonhall, in the county of Dorset.

18. Henry James Leigh, esq. of Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire. He was only son of lady Caroline Leigh, sister to James, last duke of Chandos; VOL. LXV.

and sat once in parliament for the city of Westminster. His estates descend to his son Chandos Leigh, esq.

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At his seat Ashridge-park, Herts, the right hon. John William Egerton, 7th earl of Bridgewater. This nobleman, who was the eldest son of the late Dr. John Egerton, bishop of Durham, and grandson of the hon. Henry Egerton, bishop of Hereford, succeeded his cousin, Francis, third duke of Bridgewater in 1803. He has munificently bequeathed 6,0007. per annum for ever, for the employment and improvement of the poor of the parish of Ashridge. His chief estates are left to his countess, deducting 18,000l. per annum for his brother the hon. and rev. Francis Egerton, the present earl, after whose decease and that of the countess, they devolve on the hon. Mr. Cust, eldest son of lord Brownlow.

- At Hastings, in his 81st year, the rev. Edmund Cartwright, D.D. F.R.S.of Hollenden-House, Kent, Prebendary of Lincoln, &c.

19. At Sandgate, Frances Leigh, relict of the late general Leigh, and daughter of the late hon. admiral Byron.

Lately, at Willesley-hall, Derbyshire, general sir Charles Hastings, bart. lieutenant-colonel of the 12th regiment

of foot.

10. At Brighton, aged 81, Wm. Mitchell, esq. of Upper Harley-street.

11. After an illness of 24 hours, the rev. Benjamin Wainewright, M.A. of East Bergholt, Suffolk.

At his house in Great Ormondstreet, aged 71, sir Richard Richards, Lord Chief Baron, His lordship had been suffering from spasmodic attacks for a considerable period, and was so seriously indisposed during the last Circuit, that on one occasion he was compelled to leave the Court. He had long enjoyed the friendship and confidence of the lord Chancellor, for whom on several occasions he presided, under special commissions, as Speaker of the House of Lords. He was appointed on the 4th of May 1813 Chief Justice of Chester; one of the barons of the Exchequer, in 1814; and in April 1817, on the death of sir A. Thompson, sir R. Richards succeeded him in that high office.

12 At Brighton, Elizabeth Helena, only child of the late hon. John Perceval.

13. At Clifton, lady Sullivan, relict of sir B. Sullivan.

In Hatton-garden, in his 68th year, Mr. Charles Taylor, author of the improved edition of Calmet's History of the Bible, and editor of Dr. Wells' Scripture Geography, and other works on the subject of Biblical Literature.

14. George Augustus Bouverie, esq. Auditor of the Excise.

15. In Beaumont-street, aged 78, the right hon. the earl of Portmore.

16. At Smeaton, lady Buchan Hepburn, relict of sir George Buchan Hepburn, one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland.

17. At Port Elliot, the right hon. John Craggs Elliot, earl of St. Germains. His lordship succeeded his father in 1804; he was twice married, but not having any issue, the title devolves upon his brother, the hon. Wm. Elliot.

21. At Blackwell, near Darlington, in the county of Durham, in his 75th year, captain Ralph Milbanke, R.N. first cousin to sir Ralph Noel, late Milbanke.

22. In Old Palace-yard, in her 63rd year, Frances, wife of Henry Bankes, esq. M.P. of Corfe-castle.

24. At Hoddesdon, Herts, aged 77, Wm. Hodgson, esq. F.R.S.

27. At his house, in Brunswick

square, aged 83, Harden Burnley, esq. father-in-law of Joseph Hume, esq. M.P.

28. At his seat, Picton-castle, after a long illness, in his 85th year, the right hon. Richard Phillips, lord Milford, lord lieutenant for Pembrokeshire, and late member for that county. His lordship was a lineal descendant from sir John Picton, the second baronet of the family, who garrisoned the castle of Picton for Charles 1st in 1647; he was raised to the Irish peerage, in 1776, by the title of baron Milford, which is now extinct, his lordship having died without issue.

30. At Chiswick, at lieut.-colonel Cavendish's, Villiers Frederick Francis, youngest son of the hon. Henry Howard, aged 8 years.

Lately, at Edinburgh, David Robertson, esq.

At his seat at Candie, in his 73rd year, Matthew Ross, dean of the faculty of advocates in Scotland.

At Dundee, in her 21st year, Anne, eldest daughter of the rev. н. Horsley, and grand-daughter of the late lord bishop of St. Asaph.

At Almondale, near Edinburgh, in his 76th year, Thomas lord Erskine, of an inflammation of the chest.

At Carderan, near Bourdeaux, lady Sophia Pierrepoint, wife of the right hon Henry Pierrepoint.

At the Hague, the right hon. Reinard Deiderick Jacob baron de Reede Ginckell, count of the Holy Roman Empire, lord of Ameronger Ginckell, Elst, and Livendael, earl of Athlone, viscount Aughrim, baron of Ballemore, and late a colonel in the army. He is succeeded in his estates by his only son George Godart Henry lord Augh

rim.

At Jersey, in his 43rd year, J. Dumaresque, esq. his majesty's attorney-general, and colonel of the first regiment of Militia of that island. His death was occasioned by an attack of apoplexy, while in the Assembly of the States.

At Borden Town, New Jersey, in his 49th year, general Lallemand, of a discase in the stomach, under which he had laboured for some time. He was a general of Artillery under Napoleon, and member of the Chamber of Peers.

DECEMBER.

2. In consequence of a wound received