tles of his heart, had endeared him to the discerning and distinguished Resident at Delhi, who in common with the Government which he served, will deplore the loss of an able, zealous, and faithful servant of the state; and society will mourn over one of its most honourable and brightest members." If any apology is necessary to our readers for the length of this article, we have to say, that we have given it insertion, not merely as a tribute to departed merit, but still more as containing matter interesting to humanity, and creditable to the British character, which has been so much vilified in what regards our Indian policy. JAMES PERRY, ESQ. Dec.4.At his house at Brighton, aged 65, James Perry, Esq. Editor and Proprietor of "The Morning Chronicle." Although far advanced in years, his constitution promised a greater length of days; but it had been for some time gradually yielding to a severe internal disease, which baffled all human skill. Mr. James Perry was a native of Aberdeen. He was born on the 30th of October, 1756, and received the first rudiments of education at the Chapel of Garioch, of which parish the Rev. W. Farquhar, father of Sir Walter Farquhar, was Minister. From this Mr. Perry was removed to the High School of Aberdeen. In the year 1771, he was entered of Mareschal College, in the University of Aberdeen, and was afterwards placed under Dr. Arthur Dingwall Fordyce, Advocate, to qualify him for the profession of the Scots law; but his father, who was an eminent builder, having engaged in some unsuccessful speculations of his business, the young man left Aberdeen in 1774, and proceeded to Edinburgh, in the hope of obtaining a situation in some professional gentleman's chambers, where he might at once pursue his studies and obtain a livelihood. But after long and ineffectual attempts to gain employment, he came to England, and was, for two years, engaged in Manchester, as clerk to Mr. Dinwiddie, a respectable manufacturer. In this situation he cultivated his mind by the study of the best authors, and gained the friendship and protection of the principal gentlemen of the town, by the talents he displayed in a society which was then established by them for philosophical and moral discussions, and by several literary essays, which obtained their approbation. In the beginning of 1777, * Sir David Octherlony, G. C. B. Resident Commander-in-Chief of all the forces in the Upper Provinces. 565 he brought with him recommendations from all the principal manufacturers to their correspondents, but they all failed of procuring him any suitable introduction; it was, however, the accidental effect of one of them that threw him into the line of life which, from that period, he persevered in with such invariable constancy. There was at that time an opposition journal published, under the title of "The General Advertiser;" and being a new concern, it was the practice of the proprietors to exhibit the whole contents of it upon boards at different shop-windows and doors, in the same manner as we now see the theatrical placards displayed. Mr. Perry, being unemployed, amused himself with writing essays and scraps of poetry for this paper, which he flung into the letter-box of the printinghouse, and which were always inserted. Calling one day at the shop of Messrs. Richardson and Urquhart, booksellers, to whom he had letters of recommendation, he found the latter busily engaged in reading, and apparently enjoying, an article in "The General Advertiser." After Mr. Urquhart had finished the perusal, Mr. Perry put the usual question to him, whether he had heard of any situation that would suit him? to which he replied in the negative-at the same time holding out the paper, he said—“ If you could write such articles as this I could give you immediate employment.” It happened to be a humourous essay, written by Mr. Perry himself. This he instantly intimated to Mr. Urquhart, and gave him another article in the same hand-writing, which he had proposed to drop into the letter-box.—Mr. Urquhart expressed great satisfaction at the discovery, and informed him that he was one of the principal proprietors of the paper; that they wanted just such a person; and as there was to be a meeting of the proprietors that same evening, he would propose Mr. Perry as a writer. He did so; and the next day he was engaged at a salary of one guinea per week, and an additional half-guinea for assistance to "The London Evening Post," then printed by the same person. Such was the incident that threw Mr. Perry into the profession of a Journalist. He was most assiduous in his exertions for "The General Advertiser ;" and, during the memorable trials of Admirals Keppell and Palmer, he, for six weeks together, by his individual efforts, sent up daily from Portsmouth eight columns of the trials, taken by him in Court; which, from the interest they excited, raised the paper to a sale of several thousands per day. At this time Mr. Perry wrote and published several politi cal cal pamphlets and poems; and in 1782 he formed the plan, and was the first Editor, of the "European Magazine,' upon the design of combining, in one monthly publication, the usual miscellaneous contents of such a work, with a review of new books. He conducted it, however, only for the first twelve months; as on the death of a Mr. Wall, he was chosen by the proprietors of "The Gazetteer" to be the Editor of that paper, the proprietors of which consisted of the principal Booksellers in the City of London, Mr. T. Payne, Mr. P. Vaillant, Mr. L. Davies, Mr. B. White, Mr. W. Owen, Mr. G. Nicol, &c. Mr. Perry took the Editorship of the paper at a salary of four guineas per week, or, as has been stated, ten guineas per month, on the express condition that he was to be left to the free exercise of his political opinions, which were those asserted by Mr. Fox-opinions which, from their liberality in the cause of freedom, justice, and humanity, had made, on his first entering the gallery of the House of Commons, an impression that could not be effaced from his mind. On his commencing Editor of "The Gazetteer," he suggested to the proprietors the plan of employing several Reporters to facilitate the publication of the Debates in Parliament. Up to that time each paper had but one Reporter in each House of Parliament; and the predecessor of Mr. Perry in "The Gazetteer" had been in the habit of spinning out the Reports of Debates for weeks, and even months, after the Session had closed; while Mr. Woodfall, in "The Morning Chronicle," used to bring out his hasty sketch of the Debate in the evening of the following day; Mr. Perry's plan was adopted; and by a succession of Reporters, "The Gazetteer" was published in the morning with as long a Debate as Mr. Woodfall brought out in the evening, and sometimes at midnight. It happened that, in the years 1780, 1781, and 1782, there were numerous Debating Societies in every part of the metropolis, where many persons that have since been conspicuous in Parliament, in the Pulpit, and on the Bench, distinguished themselves as public speakers. Mr. Perry was a speaker in these societies, and is mentioned with great praise in "The History of the Westminster Forum." Mr. Pitt used to attend these societies, although he never spoke at any of them; and it is not perhaps generally known, that the Lyceum was fitted up, and received that title, expressly for a superior school of oratory, by John Sheridan, esq. a barrister, with the view of enabling such young gentlemen as were destined for the Senate [Dec. and the Bar to practise public speaking before a genteel auditory. It was opened for a few nights at 58. the price of admittance. Mr. Pitt and several of his friends frequented it; but the enterprise fell to the ground. It is positively stated that, afterwards, when Mr. Pitt came to be Chancellor of the Exchequer, having had frequent opportunities of witnessing Mr. Perry's talents in public speaking, and particularly in reply, caused a proposal to be made to him of coming into Parliament, which would have probably led on to high fortune. Mr. Perry, however, thought proper to reject it, as he did afterwards an offer of the same kind from the Earl of Shelburne ; and he uniformly maintained the principles with which he first set out in his political course. Mr. Perry was for several years Editor of "Debrett's Parliamentary Debates," to the exclusion of advertisements and other extraneous matter. This work had fallen into disrepute, and the proprietors set it up for public sale. In the meanwhile Mr. Woodfall undertook another paper, under the title of "The Diary," and Mr. Perry bought "The Morning Chronicle." He announced himself, in conjunction with his friend Mr. Gray (who soon afterwards died), as Joint Proprietor and Editor,and declared he would be responsible for its contents. From that time to the present day, it has continued to be the organ of Whig principles. Twice, in the course of his long career, Mr. Perry was prosecuted by ex officio informations. The first time for the Resolutions of the Derby Meeting; the second time for a paragraph copied from "The Examiner," the substance of which was, that his present Majesty (then Prince of Wales) would have a noble opportunity to be popular. On the first occasion, he was defended by Lord Erskine, and was acquitted in consequence of the strenuous stand of one of the Jurymen. On the second occasion, he defended himself with great skill, and so successfully, that the late Lord Ellenbo rough, the Judge, charged the Jury in his favour. Though he never was condemned by a Jury of his countrymen, he was committed for some months to Newgate, together with Mr. Lambert, the printer of "The Morning Chronicle," by the House of Lords, for some paragraph which that illustrious Assembly pronounced a breach of its privileges. Mr. Perry's declining health had long prevented him from taking an active part in the business of his paper, and for the four last months of his life he had resided entirely at a distance from London. As As Editor of a Newspaper, the public press is greatly indebted to him for the support which it derived, in character 1 and respectability, from his liberal, uni=form, and independent conduct. He was a man of a strong, discriminating mind, and in the private relations of life highly esteemed as a father and a friend. On Dec. 12th the remains of Mr. Perry were interred in his family-vault at Wim= bledon Church. According to the in=junction of his will, the funeral was private. WILLIAM SADLER, ESQ. Lately, at Burcote in Worfield, co. Salop, in the 94th year of his age, after a short illness, from the gradual decay of nature, William Sadler, Esq. the last of an ancient family, who had resided at that place in uninterrupted succession during a period of 238 years. For the last fifteen years of his life, he was become of a very spare habit of body, and for some time previous to his decease, the loss of his flesh had nearly reduced him to a shadow, yet his spirits were excellent, and his health good. The faculty of memory was strongly preserved in him almost to his latest breath, but his sight and hearing were much impaired. The traditions of the neighbourhood in respect to occurrences, though registered, yet unnoticed by the prying eye of curiosity, and where he had no access, but handed down in his family, through so many generations, he would repeat with the greatest accuracy, particularly two, which happened in the first year of Cromwell's power, and upon the eve of the Glorious Revolution. He was the ninth in descent from Nicholas Sadelar and Margery his wife, who were resident in Sonde near to Burcote in 24 Hen. VI. from whence the family removed to an estate at the latter place, belonging to the very ancient and respectable Shropshire family of Hord, of Hords Park, near Bridgnorth, in 1583, which they purchased from Thomas Hord on 23 Nov. 35 Eliz. (1592.) Of this old plebeian family was the Rev. John Sadjer, Minister of Ringmer, in Sussex, the eldest son of the first of the family of the same names living at Burcote, who died 1st Oct. 1663 seised of lands at Sonde and Hilton in Worfield. These estates descended to his only son John Sadler, of Warmwell, co. Dorset, who was born 18 Aug. 1615, and educated at Emanuel College, Cambridge, where he acquired a full knowledge of the Hebrew, and other Oriental languages, took his degrees, and became Fellow of that College. From this University he removed to Lincoln's inn, where he acquitted himself for the Bar, and became Cromwell's Town-clerk of London, to whom he is said to have 567 been related, probably through his own mother. In 1644 he was admitted one of the Masters of the Court of Chancery, which situation he held under the special warrant of Cromwell in 1655, when their number was reduced to six. On Thursday 26 June 1645, the Rump Parliament resolved that he and Henry Parker should be secretaries for preparing the declarations on the breach of the treaty of Uxbridge, in order to set forth to the people the justness of the cause of religion and liberty, defended by the Parliament, and for preparing such other declarations, or other matters, as should be intrusted to their care by that House, and that a salary of 2001. per annum should be allowed to each of them for their trouble, during their lives, out of the King's, Queen's, and Princes' revenue, payable quarterly, upon which occasion they were to make use of the letters taken at Naseby- field. He was also one of the two Masters of Requests, and highly respected by Cromwell, on whose account he took up his pen against the unfortunate King in 1649, and wrote that extraordinary work intituled "The Rights of the Kingdom, or Customs of our Ancestors, touching the Duty, Power, Election, and Succession of our Kings and Parliaments, our true Liberty, due Allegiance, three Estates, their Legislative Power, original, judicial, and executive, with the Militia freely discussed, through the British, Saxon, and Norman Laws and Histories," to which he thought it prudent not to affix his name. In this year he was appointed Town Clerk of London, and through his interference the Jews procured the privilege of erecting a synagogue in that city. Cromwell, in a letter from Cork, dated 1st December in this year, would have preferred him to the office of Chief Justice of Munster in Ireland, with a stipend of 1000l. per annum, which he refused. On 31 Aug. 1650 he was appointed Master of Magdalen College, Cambridge, on the removal of Dr. Rainbow, who again succeeded him after the Restoration. He was chosen M. P. for Cambridge in that held by Cromwell in 1653, and for Yarmouth in that of 1658, which was stigmatized by the appellation of Barebone's Parliament. In the following year he was made First Commissioner, with Mr. Taylor, Mr. Whitlock, and others, under the Great Seal, for the probate of wills. In 1660 he published his "Olbia, the new Island lately discovered, with its Religion, Rites of Worship, Laws, Customs, Government, Characters, and Language, with the Education of their Children in their Sciences, Arts, and Manufactures, with other Things remarkable, by a Christian Pilgrim, driven by Tempest from 568 William Sadler, Esq.-Rev. John Malham. from Civita Veccia, or some other Parts about Rome, through the Straits into the Atlantic Ocean." He lost all his preferments at the Restoration, by an Act of Parliament of 13 Charles II. for the well governing and regulating corporations, not chusing to subscribe to the oath and declaration therein required, though he had not been seriously culpable against the late Monarch. He was a considerable sufferer in the fire of London in 1666, which compelled him to seek retirement upon his manor and estate at Warmwell. These possessions he had obtained with his wife Jane, the third daughter and coheiress of John Trenchard, esq. of that place, by Jane his wife, daughter of Sir John Rodney by Jane his wife, daughter of Sir Henry Seymour (third brother of Henry the Eighth's third Queen, Jane), and Barbara his wife, daughter of Thomas Morgan, esq. This Barrister by his lady had two sons, John and Thomas, and took up his residence at Warmwell, in great privacy, till April 1674, when he died, near 60 years of age, seised of his hereditary possessions in the parish of Worfield, which descended to his eldest son John. This last gentleman was also a Barrister of Lincoln's-inn, and sold his family property in Sonde and Hilton to his second cousin John Sadler, of Wyken, gent. in 1679, when all intercourse between these families seems almost to have subsided. Thomas, the second son, was also designed for the Law, but the science of Painting, which engaged much of his attention in his early years, he was from unavoidable misfortune obliged to follow in his more advanced age. A proficiency in this science he acquired through his intimacy with Sir Peter Lely, from whom he derived his instruction. In his youth, his fort appears to have been miniature drawing, which he seems to have given up towards the decline of life, and took to that of portrait-painting, from whence he derived that emolument which was his only support. He was a skilful collector of many rare and valuable curiosities, and had the credit for possessing general information in many sciences. He also with great care and exactness made out a long and laborious genealogy of his ancestors, in the maternal line, and deduced their several descendants through a detail of extensive narrative. He was in all the secret councils of the Duke of Monmouth, and Lord Russell, the great assertor of British liberties, a connexion very natural, as Mr. Sadler's mother was descended from the ancient and public spirited family of Trenchard. His son Thomas had also a taste for painting, of which he left many specimens be [Dee. hind. He resided in Cecil-street, Strand, in 1738, and was Deputy Clerk of the Pells to Lord Walpole in 1737, and till 1751, when he is noticed as one of the Chief Clerks of the Annuity Pell Office. He possessed a fine collection of drawings of churches at Rome, and had many altars and insides of churches in that city, washed by John Talman in their proper colours, and very well executed, as well as a comprehensive collection of medals, which afterwards formed a part of Dr. Hunter's Museum. The contributor of the above detail will feel obliged, if any of Mr. Urbau's correspondents can inform him what relation Mr. Seymour Sadler was to the above artists, and if they have left any descendants now living, and where they reside. Rev. JOHN MALHAM. Sept. 19. In the neighbourhood of London, in his 75th year, the Rev. John Malham, vicar of Helton, co. Dorset. He was a native of Craven, in Yorkshire, and was educated at the grammar-school there. In 1768 he corresponded on mathematical subjects in the Leeds Mercury, at which time he also conducted a school; but soon after, entering into holy orders, he served a curacy in Northamptonshire. In 1781 he resumed the office of school-master; and after several changes, he settled at Salisbury, where, in addition to his other employments, he became a corrector of the press. In April 1801 Bishop Douglas presented him to the vicarage of Helton, in Dorsetshire; but he latterly resided in London, and was chiefly employed by those booksellers who are engaged in periodical works, such as Bibles and other publications, in weekly numbers. He published the following works: "The Schoolmaster's Complete Companion, and Scholar's Universal Guide to Arithmetic," 12mo, 1782. "Navigation made easy and familiar," 12mo. "The Naval Gazetteer, or Seaman's Complete Guide," 2 vols. 8vo, 1793. "Sixteen Sermons on the most interesting Subjects to Seamen," 8vo, 1793. “A Word for the Bible, being a serious Reply to the Declarations and Assertions of the speculative Deists and practical Atheists of modern Times, particularly the Age of Reason, by Thomas Paine," 8vo, 1796. "Two Sermons on National Gratitude," 8vo. 1796. "Dictionary of the Common Prayer," 12mo, 1796. "Infant Baptism defended," 12mo. "The Curate's Act examined," 8vo. 1797. "Twenty-two Sermons on Doctrinal and Practical Subjects," 2 vols. 8vo, 1799. "The Scarcity of Wheat considered," 8vo. 1800. "The Mischief 1821.] Mrs. Jane Collins. Mischief of Forestalling considered," 8vo. 1800. "An Historical View of the unavoidable Causes of the Non-residence of the parochial Clergy on their Livings," 8vo. 1801. "Lowndes's History of England, revised and brought down to the year 1812," 12mo. "A New Introduction to Book-keeping, after the Italian Manner, by the Rev. R. Turner," the 5th edition, with corrections, 12mo. MRS. JANE COLLINS. was On Sunday morning, Nov. 18, died Mrs. Jane Collins, atManaccan-vicarage, near Helston. Mr. Polwhele, on his collation to the vicarage of St. Newlyn, had vacated Manaccan: and it is remarkable that the new vicar, Mr. Comyn, had arrived at Manacean but a few hours before the death of Mrs. Jane Collins. This venerable lady had come to more than "fourscore years;" for she was verging upon ninety: and her "strength for some time, "but labour and sorrow." But we had seen her almost at eighty, in full possession of her "mind:" and a more sensible, intelligent, and well-informed woman has scarcely ever met our observation. Mrs. Collins was a daughter of that learned divine, the Rev. Edward Collins, vicar of St. Erth, near Marazion, and of Breage, near Helston, whose younger brother, the Rev. John Collins, of Penhellick, near Truro, married Miss Basset, great-aunt to the right hon. Lord De Dunstanville, of Tehidypark, and whose sister, Mary Collins, was married to Richard Polwhele, of Polwhele, esq. grandfather to the Rev. Richard Polwhele. To the sagacity and researches of Mrs. Jane Collins's father (the vicar of St. Erth) Dr. Borlase was unquestionably indebted for the most luminous passages in his "Antiquities of Cornwall." That she was, very early in life, her father's librarian, she often mentioned with pleasure and with pride. It is to that circumstance we are to ascribe her various knowledge, particularly in theology; insomuch as that Mrs. Jane Collins was almost a counterpart of Lady Jane Gray. Yet she was a daughter of mother Eve. Her father had given her free scope in the perusal of his books-with the exception, it seems, of Paradise Lost; which, for a contemplative mind, like hers, for sensibility,--for energy of feeling seldom discoverable in so young a person, he thought (for the present at least) too deep and metaphysical. But she had no rest till she had tasted the forbidden fruit. In her affectionate attention, however, to her excellent father, she was a pattern GENT. MAG. December, 1821. 569 of filial piety. And, during his last illness, one of the most painful offices she had to perform, was, by his order, to commit to the flames all his theological MSS.-a treatise on the Psalms which he had, for many years, been engaged in composing-and his MS sermons of various description. Related as she was to the Polwhele family, some part of her youthful days were spent at their seat near Truro; where, in teaching the present representative of that family to read poetry, she used to repeat selections from the English Poets, with an emphasis, once heard, never to be forgotten. In after-life, she resided for a considerable time, at Ledbury, in Herefordshire, with her brother, the Rev. John Collins, the Etonian friend of Judge Hardinge, and the Editor of Capel's Shakspeare. In the characters of brother and sister, there was never, perhaps, a more striking resemblance Quick in apprehension, decisive in judging, and impassioned in expression, she, like her brother, spoke of men and things, in a tone which could not but affect and interest her hearers. Like his, too, her memory was uncommonly retentive: And, stored with historical and family anecdotes,, like him, she had the power to entertain the social circle, however miscellaneous. She had not, perhaps, equal vivacity or humour. Her sense, indeed, of female propriety would preclude those lighter sallies of conversation, so amusing in her classical brother. To state, particularly, where or in what manner, she distributed the remaining years of her life, from the time when her brother quitted his vicarage of Ledbury to the day of her death, would throw little or no additional light on her character. We have reserved one feature for the last, because the most important-a feature equally distinguishable wherever she conversed or livedwe mean her strong sense of religion, her devotional spirit, her active charity. Accustomed to "rise with the lark," she had been in the habit of visiting the dwellings of the poor, about the time of their going out to their daily work: and if she detected sloth or slovenliness in the cottage or in the farm-house, she spared not her reproofs, but administered what she deemed a wholesome medicine, however unpalatable to her patients. She had, in truth, no respect of persons; but when she perceived errors or indiscretions, even in the rich, was and always prompt in correcting them; her feelings were on such occasions acute, sometimes to a degree of painful irrita tion. |